Chat Previews

Overview

Players can type special tokens in chat to show their held item or full inventory as a clickable preview. Other players can click the token to open a read-only GUI.

Tokens

Token	Shows
[item], [i]	Held item (main hand)
[inventory], [inv]	Full inventory (storage + armor + offhand)

Curly brace variants also work: {item}, {i}, {inventory}, {inv}.

How It Works

1. Player types Check out my sword [item] in chat
2. RexChat replaces [item] with a clickable component showing the item name and amount
3. Other players can hover to see item details and click to open a preview GUI
4. The GUI is read-only — items cannot be taken or moved

Inventory snapshots are stored temporarily and expire automatically. A cleanup task runs every 5 minutes.

Configuration

chat-previews:
  enabled: true
  tokens:
    item: ["[item]", "[i]"]
    inventory: ["[inventory]", "[inv]"]

Messages

messages:
  preview:
    target-not-found: "%rc_prefix%&cPlayer not found."
    item:
      title: "&6Item: &f{player}"
      none: "%rc_prefix%&7You are not holding any item."
      hover: "&7Click to view {player}'s item"
      text: "&7[&f{Item} &bx{Amount}&7]"
      singular-text: "&7[&f{Item}&7]"
      empty-label: "&7[&eHold an item to show it&7]"
      token-empty-error: "%rc_prefix%&cYou need to hold an item to show it."
      open: "%rc_prefix%&7Opening item preview for &6{player}"
    inventory:
      title: "&6Inventory: &f{player}"
      hover: "&7Click to view {player}'s inventory"
      label-template: "&7[&fInventory&7]"
      open: "%rc_prefix%&7Opening inventory preview for &6{player}"

Permissions

Permission	Description	Default
rexchat.preview	Use chat preview tokens	true
rexchat.preview.item	Open item previews	true
rexchat.preview.inv	Open inventory previews	true

Disabling

Set chat-previews.enabled: false to disable the entire feature. Tokens will be displayed as plain text and preview commands will return an error.