title: Minecraft Shared Inventory Between Players in a LAN World
body: <p>The problem I am trying to solve is allowing all players to share the same inventory in a Minecraft LAN world. This means that if someone chops down a tree and gets wood, everyone will get that wood. If someone drops an item, the item will be removed from everyone's inventory. If someone is mining with a pick that's in slot 1 on the hotbar, it should be losing durability for everyone else. If someone rearranges items in the inventory, it should be rearranged for everyone else. Basically, I'm wondering if there is a way to set everyone's inventory to the same object so that any modifications to the inventory is the same for everyone.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried using NBTExplorer to copy inventories but that doesn't sync between players in realtime. I am also aware that there are server plugins that can have inventories synced to a database like MySQL, but I am almost certain there is an easier way to do this other than hosting a server and trying to set up a plugin and DB for this.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a value I can modify that will cause all inventories to have the same seed? Can I use some command to generate a world with all player inventories pointing to one location?</p>