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Creative inventory

The Creative inventory is an interface in Creative mode that contains unlimited amounts of all blocks and items in the game, some of which are not…

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Contents (20)
  1. Java Edition
  2. Exclusive features in Java Edition
  3. Bedrock Edition
  4. Exclusive items
  5. Unavailable blocks and items
  6. Creative inventory exclusives
  7. Data values
  8. History
  9. Java Edition
  10. Bedrock Edition
  11. Legacy Console Edition
  12. New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  13. Issues
  14. Trivia
  15. Gallery
  16. Java Edition
  17. Java Edition 1.19.3 developer screenshots
  18. Bedrock Edition
  19. See also
  20. References

The Creative inventory is an interface in Creative mode that contains unlimited amounts of all blocks and items in the game, some of which are not available in Survival mode. Players can search for the items they want to use with the search bar at the top or in several tabs.

Java Edition

Creative mode item selection screen in Java Edition (opened to the search tab)

A single item can be grabbed using left-click, increasing with continued left-clicks on that item. Left or right-clicking with an item or stack of items while hovering over any item other than the one held gets rid of the held item. Right-clicking an item also picks up one item, but the second click then puts it back down as opposed to picking up more. Shift-clicking an item grabs a full stack of items. Pressing a number key while hovering over an item instantly places one full stack of that item into the hotbar slot that corresponds with the number.

The Creative inventory screen is sorted into 11 sections: Building Blocks, Colored Blocks, Natural Blocks, Functional Blocks, Redstone Blocks, Tools & Utilities, Combat, Food & Drinks, Ingredients, Spawn Eggs, and Operator Utilities. The latter tab is available only if cheats are enabled and the "Operator Items Tab" option in the controls menu is turned on. Blocks are grouped by material and the same item can appear in multiple tabs, which the latter are indicated with an asterisk (*) below. In the case of the search tab, those that appear in multiple tabs are listed only once in the first section. There are also Invicon Compass.png: Sprite image for Compass in Minecraft Search Items, Invicon Bookshelf.png: Sprite image for Bookshelf in Minecraft Saved Hotbars and Invicon Chest.png: Sprite image for Chest in Minecraft Survival Inventory tabs. Wither and ender dragon spawn eggs, petrified oak slab, knowledge book, uncraftable potions and uncraftable tipped arrow are not obtainable in the Creative inventory.

Using the search tab, one can access enchanted books of any level, whereas only books of the maximum levels can be found in the Ingredients section.

Exclusive features in Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Creative mode item selection screen with Classic UI Profile
Creative mode item selection screen with Pocket UI Profile
"Nature" redirects here. For some of the features associated with nature, see Plant.
"Construction" redirects here. For naturally generated buildings, see Structure. For the guide on building, see Tutorial:Construction.

The Creative inventory screen in Bedrock Edition includes three buttons at the top of the screen (along the left with Pocket UI enabled) that can be used to show the regular Creative inventory, the regular Survival inventory, or both, with the Survival inventory on the right and the Creative inventory on the left. The Survival inventory contains the same features as the regular inventory in Survival, with the armor slots, crafting grid, and player doll. The recipe book is absent in Creative mode.

Taking items from the Creative inventory will always take a stack of items. Shift-clicking an item or tapping an item on mobile devices will send a stack of items to the first free slot in the hotbar or the Survival inventory when it is opened. Right-clicking an item will take only one item. Pressing a hotbar key while hovering over an item sends a stack to the respective hotbar slot, replacing any items inside.

When using a controller, all items in the hotbar can be instantly cleared by pressing X button/Triangle button in the Creative inventory. This feature can be disabled in the "Controller" settings tab.

The Creative inventory screen is sorted into 4 sections: Construction, Equipment, Items, and Nature. These 4 tabs appear along the top right of the inventory (along the right side with Pocket UI enabled).

There is also an All tab, which shows all of the items and blocks in the game and an input box that allows filtering them. Sorted items added through add-ons are always listed at the end of the page, they're also available as well at the end of the All tab.

Some items in the Creative inventory are grouped together in sub-sections with other similar items. These sub-sections can be opened by selecting the item with a + icon next to it. Selecting the sub-section with a - icon closes the subsection. These sub-sections exclusively appear in the individual 4 categories and do not appear in the All tab.






Exclusive items

There are 40 items exclusive to the Bedrock Edition Creative inventory, as follows:

Unavailable blocks and items

There are several blocks and a couple of items that do not appear in the Creative inventory. They can be obtained with the /give command and can be manually placed using /setblock command, using the IDs provided in the table below. Additionally, using pick block on these blocks also gives them, except where noted. Technical blocks, such as portals and off-state redstone torches, do not have corresponding inventory items at all in Java Edition and cannot be obtained without external help in Bedrock Edition, and thus cannot be legitimately obtained.

Name Can be obtained with Pick Block? Inventory availability Identifier
Java Edition Bedrock Edition
Agent Spawn Egg Yes (entity) N/A No agent_spawn_egg
Allow Yes N/A No allow
Barrier Yes Yes[note 1] No barrier
Border Yes N/A No border_block
Chiseled Purpur Yes N/A No deprecated_purpur_block_1
Command Block Yes Yes[note 1] No command_block
repeating_command_block
chain_command_block
Debug Stick Not a block Yes[note 1] N/A debug_stick
Deny Yes N/A No deny
Deprecated Anvil Yes N/A No deprecated_anvil
deprecated_purpur_block_2 Yes N/A No deprecated_purpur_block_2
Ender Dragon Spawn Egg Yes (entity) No No ender_dragon_spawn_egg
Minecart with Command Block Yes (entity) Yes[note 1] No command_block_minecart
Filled map Not a block No No filled_map
Firework Star[note 2] Not a block Yes No firework_star
Firework Rocket[note 2] No (entity) No No firework_rocket
Frosted Ice No[note 3] No item form No frosted_ice
Inverted Daylight Detector Yes‌[BE only] No item form No daylight_detector_inverted
Lodestone Compass Not a block N/A No lodestone_compass
NPC Spawn Egg Yes (entity) N/A No npc_spawn_egg
Painting[note 4] No (not the same painting) Yes[note 1] No painting
Petrified Oak Slab Yes No No petrified_oak_slab
Spawn Egg[note 5] Not a block N/A No spawn_egg
Structure Block Yes Yes[note 1] No structure_block
Structure Void Yes Yes[note 1] No structure_void
Test Block Yes Yes[note 1] N/A test_block
Test Instance Block Yes Yes[note 1] N/A test_instance_block
Knowledge Book Not a block No N/A knowledge_book
Jigsaw Block Yes Yes[note 1] No jigsaw
Light (block) Yes‌[JE only] Yes[note 1] No light‌[JE only]
light_block_<number>‌[BE only]
Piston Head No[note 3] No item form No piston_head‌[JE only]
piston_arm_collision‌[BE only]
Sticky Piston Head No[note 3] N/A No sticky_piston_arm_collision
Uncraftable Potion[note 2] Not a block No N/A potion
Uncraftable Lingering Potion[note 2] Not a block No N/A lingering_potion
Uncraftable Splash Potion[note 2] Not a block No N/A splash_potion
Uncraftable Tipped Arrow[note 2] Not a block No N/A tipped_arrow
Wither Spawn Egg Yes (entity) No No wither_spawn_egg
  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Only if cheats are enabled and the "Operator Items Tab" option is turned on.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Only applies to the "empty" versions of the item without tags. Otherwise, it is available in Survival.
  3. ↑ a b c Only can be obtained though /give.
  4. ↑ Only applies to the paintings "Earth", "Fire", "Water" and "Wind".
  5. ↑ Generic spawn egg with no functionality

Creative inventory exclusives

Several blocks and items found in the Creative inventory are not normally available as items through vanilla Survival gameplay.

Some of these, however, were obtainable using glitches or by exploiting quirks in certain historical versions; more information can be found in the Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki.

Data values

Java Edition:

Name ID
Invicon Bricks.png: Sprite image for Bricks in MinecraftBuilding Blocks minecraft:building_blocks
Invicon Cyan Wool.png: Sprite image for Cyan Wool in MinecraftColored Blocks minecraft:colored_blocks
Invicon Grass Block.png: Sprite image for Grass Block in MinecraftNatural Blocks minecraft:natural_blocks
Invicon Oak Sign.png: Sprite image for Oak Sign in MinecraftFunctional Blocks minecraft:functional_blocks
Invicon Redstone Dust.png: Sprite image for Redstone Dust in MinecraftRedstone Blocks minecraft:redstone_blocks
Invicon Diamond Pickaxe.png: Sprite image for Diamond Pickaxe in MinecraftTools & Utilities minecraft:tools_and_utilities
Invicon Netherite Sword.png: Sprite image for Netherite Sword in MinecraftCombat minecraft:combat
Invicon Golden Apple.png: Sprite image for Golden Apple in MinecraftFood and Drinks minecraft:food_and_drinks
Invicon Iron Ingot.png: Sprite image for Iron Ingot in MinecraftIngredients minecraft:ingredients
Invicon Creeper Spawn Egg.png: Sprite image for Creeper Spawn Egg in MinecraftSpawn Eggs minecraft:spawn_eggs
Invicon Command Block.png: Sprite image for Command Block in MinecraftOperator Utilities minecraft:op_blocks
Invicon Compass.png: Sprite image for Compass in MinecraftSearch Items minecraft:search
Invicon Bookshelf.png: Sprite image for Bookshelf in MinecraftSaved Hotbars minecraft:hotbar
Invicon Chest.png: Sprite image for Chest in MinecraftSurvival Inventory minecraft:inventory

History

This section is about general changes to the Creative inventory. For changes about the specific layout/availability of items in Creative, see Creative inventory/history. For general inventory changes that also affect Survival, see Inventory § History.

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a Added Creative inventory. It can be accessed by pressing B
Includes all available blocks listed.
Java Edition Indev
0.3120091231-2033 Removed Creative inventory.
Java Edition Beta
1.8Pre-release The Creative inventory has been readded.
Picking up an item with a full hotbar puts it in an inventory like Survival, but is hidden when viewing the Creative inventory. The only way to access the items is to use a block with its own inventory.
Java Edition
1.3.112w21b The inventory button no longer closes the inventory and instead opens search tab, so the player now must press ⎋ Escape instead.
The Survival mode inventory is now accessible.
Added a search tab and search function in Creative, allowing players to search for items in the Creative inventory.
12w22a Armor slots, crafting grid, and a delete item feature are added to the Survival inventory.
The Search tab no longer opens automatically, unless the player presses the chat key (Default: T), allowing the inventory to be closed with the normal inventory key again.
12w30c The 2×2 crafting grid was removed from the Survival inventory tab.
1.4.212w32a Added the game rule keepInventory, allowing for the retention of player inventory upon death when set to true.
12w40a Improves inventory management.
  • Pick block now works on blocks represented as items in the inventory (e.g. repeater, redstone dust, tripwire, etc).
  • Pressing keys 1-9 while hovering over an item transfers it into the corresponding hotbar slot.
    • if there is already an item in the assigned hotbar slot, the hotbar item and the selected item swap position.
    • while in Creative item selection screen, a stack of that item is transferred to the assigned hotbar slot.
  • In Creative mode, items can now be ⇧ Shift+clicked between the hotbar and the Survival inventory.
    • pick block on an item clones and picks up a stack of that item.
1.6.113w17a Added extra tooltip info in the search tab.
1.7.213w36a The displayed item for the 'Decoration Blocks' tab in the Creative menu has been changed from a rose to a peony flower.
1.915w31a The Survival inventory has been rearranged to accommodate the new off-hand slot.
1.1217w06a Added Saved Toolbars.
17w13a Added recipe book button to the Survival inventory.
17w14a Changed the icon on the trigger button from a standard book to a knowledge book.
pre6 Optimized Creative inventory searching; namespaces (e.g minecraft:stone) are no longer considered when searching (putting "minecraft:" in the search bar still searches namespaces).
1.19.322w42a Major overhaul to Creative inventory, see Creative inventory/history for changes.
1.21.525w08a The displayed item for the 'Spawn Eggs' tab in the Creative menu has been changed from a Pig Spawn Egg to a Creeper Spawn Egg.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0 Unlimited blocks can now be placed from the player's inventory.
v0.2.0 The previous inventory is now used in Creative mode.
v0.14.0build 1 Added the Survival inventory tab.
v0.16.0build 1 Added the search tab to the Creative inventory (Windows 10 only).
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0 Off-hand slot added.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0beta 1.2.0.2 Changed the general look and layout of the Inventory, in regards of the recipe book.

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

Issues relating to "Creative inventory" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

Java Edition

Java Edition 1.19.3 developer screenshots

Bedrock Edition

See also

References

  1. ↑ MCPE-10482
  2. ↑ a b MC-260073 – resolved as "Won't Fix".
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