See what's inside, without opening anything.
BetterPeek adds a tiny preview window that shows the contents of any chest, barrel, hopper, dropper, dispenser or shulker box. Aim at it, glance at the preview, move on. No more cracking open ten chests to find that one diamond.
What you get
World containers. Once you've opened a container, BetterPeek remembers what's inside. The next time you look at it, you see the contents floating in the corner of your screen.
Shulker boxes in your inventory. Hover a shulker box item in any GUI (your inventory, a chest, the creative menu) and the preview appears next to your cursor. Works on every server, every time — shulker contents travel with the item.
One key to toggle. Press V to turn the preview on or off. Configurable in Options → Controls → BetterPeek.
Zero server install. Fully client-side. Works on vanilla, Spigot, Paper, Fabric, Realms, anything.
Light on resources. Detectors are reused frame-to-frame, no garbage in the render path.
Requirements
Minecraft 1.21.11 · Fabric Loader 0.18.4+ · Fabric API · Java 21
Source code
MIT licensed. Source on GitHub — issues, contributions, and full changelog there. Also available on CurseForge.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as betterpeek-0.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 23 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.