DropGuard

DropGuard 2.9.4

• Exact-variant rules now serialize actual item components, including nested shulker contents, instead of relying on potentially ambiguous debug strings. Component order no longer changes protection; durability and stack count remain excluded.
• Protected items are now guarded against Creative hotbar throws and outside cursor drops.
• User-initiated inventory closing is blocked when a protected cursor item cannot fit back into the inventory. Both screen closing and the player close-container path are checked. The existing bypass chord still applies.
• Fixed duplicate drops when the bypass chord includes the normal drop key, and nested menus caused by queued menu events.
• Preserved corrupt configuration files before recovery, retained existing protection/migration behavior, and avoided redundant settings writes.
• Invalid bindings display as Unbound. Missing modded items retain their saved name or registry ID instead of appearing as Air.
• Component identities use a bounded cache cleared on disconnect or registry changes.

Compatibility notes

Existing v2 and older rules remain supported. Ambiguous old v2 shulker rules cannot be reconstructed from data that was never stored; remove and reselect an affected exact-variant rule to create a precise v3 rule. Existing rules are not silently discarded.

The new close check covers the cursor item. Overflow from automatically returned crafting or anvil input items is not covered. Server-forced closure and server-driven item removal are not guaranteed to be prevented. Third-party components whose codecs fail retain legacy identity behavior.

Requires Fabric Loader and Fabric API. Client-side mod.

Validation for this Minecraft 26.1 build: 185 checks passed in an isolated client and integrated server, including respawn and reconnect. Test code is excluded from the release jar.