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What does your inventory/hotbar look like generally? Post a screenshot below and explain the reason behind the decision to organize your items in your inventory in such a way.
For a very long time, I had so much stuff in my inventory that I would almost always ran out of space really quickly when mining or doing other things. I always had so much unnecessary stuff in my inventory. Recently, I tried to organize my stuff neatly through efficient use of shulker boxes and the endee chest. This leads me to being curious about how other players organize their inventory and their hotbar.
Here's mine:
797 levels
Hotbar slots:
1. Sword - always had a sword in this slot for as long as I can remember, never know when you'll encounter mobs.
2. Pick - primary tool, most used tool
3. Shovel - this was a choice between shovel and axe, I chose shovel because you typically encounrer gravel and dirr when mining, no reason to always carry an axe around unless I need wood but when I need wood, I'll just chop down four 2x2 trees and keep the axe away
4. Torch - useful for caving and for lighting up your builds so mobs don't spawn during the night
5. Stone - building blocks are always nice, pillaring up, scaffolding, etc, I used to have cobblestone here before but since I switch to a silk touch pick as my main tool, I have stone here instead now
6. Fireworks - fast travel with elytra
7. Water Bucket - this is actually a very useful item to have around, cross over lava lakes, put yourself out of fire, fend off that enderman you accidentally looked at, quickly place water down before you hit the ground and avoid a potentially death fall (I don't do this anymore since we have elytras now anyway)
8. Food - need to eat, I recently switched to golden carrots 'cause they have high saturation value so I don't have to keep eating constantly
9. Bed - have to skip the night, I can't risk creepers spawning and blowing my chests up
Six empty shulker boxes for additional inventory space so I don't have to keep returning back to base when I'm mining/gathering stuff somewhere. I also use those to store all the materials I need if I need to build something.
Ender chest:
I have 8 extra shulker boxes color coded to organize more stuff. With these, I'm pretty much all set without having to go back to base when I need something.
Red: redstone stuff, dusts and blocks, repeaters, comparators, pistons and even slime blocks and some more redstone related stuff
Purple (should be dyed brown but I haven't found coco beans yet): wood
White: minecarts and rails
Blue: ender pearls, fireworks and boats
Light Gray: stone, stone slabs and cobblestone
Gray: all the ores, coal, iron, gold, lapis, diamonds, I don't know what color to use for this to be honest
Light Blue: extra tools and armor (diamonds are light blue in color) and I decided to include some other stuff like my bow (+ a single piece of arrow), flint and steel, extra wood, extra food, etc
Purple: shulker box full of shulker shells if I ever need extra shulker boxes for other stuff
For a long time, this is how my inventory looks like before I reorganized it.
I am really thankful for the addition of shulker boxes that I managed to clean up my inventory space like this and yet still have so much stuff in it at the same time
This is mine, as well as my Ender chest (which is normally in the empty slot in my inventory, and food is in slot 9. Shears and maps are interchangeable depending on if I need them, such as clearing away a cave spider spawner. The Ender chest starts out as empty except for the last three slots (crafting table, furnaces, anvil), a stack of 16 baked potatoes (this just ensures I never run out of food as I rarely need more than one stack of 64 per caving trip), and any tools/armor I may need for repairs, always at least one pickaxe):
This shows what it looks like when my inventory is "empty"; I don't actually leave any empty slots so I don't pick up stuff that I don't want and when I collect resources I don't normally have slots for, such as diamonds, I'll free spot for them. Here is a screenshot of my inventory when it is nearly full; I substitute slots filled with coal for other resources as needed:
Also, while a single Ender chest may not seem like much storage I can cave for 6-8 hours nonstop until it is full since by crafting resources into blocks I can store 576 per stack; the Ender chest shown above contains 4,564 resources and other items and if I entirely filled all 24 available slots with mineral blocks I could store as many as 13,824 resources, in practice the amount depends on how much chest loot I find (the two blocks in the lower left are mod blocks I use to compact rails and cobwebs, 9 per rail block and 4 per cobweb block).
With shulker boxes this seems fairly standard, immediate use items out and the rest split by function to be swapped out as needed.
Early to mid game (pre shulker boxes as I don't find ender chests that much of a game changer)
My hot bar looks different mainly in ordering:
1) Sword {Unbreaking3/Mending/Looting3/Sharpness5/Sweeping Edge3} swapping Sharpness for Smite or Bane of Arthropods for special purposes
2) temporary blocks (usually dirt, sometimes slime blocks if I'm doing a build where there is a lot of short term scaffolding)
3) Pick {Unbreaking3/Mending/Silk Touch/Efficiency5} & a stone backup in case I need cobble. Swapping to {Unbreaking3/Mending/Silk Touch/Efficiency0} in the Nether with {Unbreaking3/Mending/Fortune3/Efficiency5} kept at base for getting ore drops
4) Axe {Unbreaking3/Mending/Fortune3/Efficiency5/Smite5} this is my primary weapon if there are pigmen about since I generally have Sweeping Edge on my swords
5) Bow {Unbreaking3/Infinity/Punch2/Power5} (I'm not a fan of Knockback, but Punch is generally more useful than not…) 1/2 a stack of arrows occupies no more space than one, I just try to keep under a stack so they don't occupy a second inventory slot. Infinity instead of Mending (these days ) in order not to have to count my shots.
6) Shovel {Unbreaking3/Mending/Silk Touch/Efficiency5} good for gravel to avoid collecting flint but without Silk Touch for landscaping so grass and dirt don't stack seperately
7) Signs when mining to block potential lava/water otherwise a water bucket
8) Food Apples when logging/farming as they still accumulate faster than I use them, Steak otherwise as it's an untradable high value food.
9) Torches Cheap and fast to place/remove, generally substituting Jack O Lanterns/Sea Lamps/Glowstone in builds
Invetory includes: the aforementioned arrows, wood, cobble or stone, charcoal (or sometimes coal), water bucket / signs (which ever is not in the hotbar), empty bucket, ladders, ender chest & shulker boxes if mid and/or late game, often leads if I'm still looking for some animal type found in the local biome. (Also sometimes back-up tools.)
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1) Bow - For some reason I always have bow before sword with arrows above it, not sure why but it's just easier for me to go to 2 for the latter. Only an Unbreaking III, Power IV bow currently.
2) Sword - Main one currently knockback II, sharpness III, I also carry a separate Bane of Anthropods sword in the slot above to one shot those spiders.
3) Diamond picks 1 & 2 - Always on third before axe as it just seems more natural to me, these alternate in the slot above with a regular one unbreaking III one (Also fortune II unfortunetly) with the one above with has fortune III - my specialist one for coal. redstone and diamonds etc.
4) Regualr pick - I will use a regular stone or iron pick for regualr picking for slot #4. Interchangeable in the slot above with my silk touch pic. I'm funny in liking to conserve my diamond picks so do mass mining & digging with a separate rgular one.
5) axe first
6) then Shovel. Other utilitiy tools always above this - shears, hoe & fishing rod etc.
7) Torches - always follow shovel with the coal in the slot above.
8) whatever is needed/block
9) whatever is needed/block
Above my hot bar I always have my wood planks in the upper most left followed to the right by iron ingots with sticks ands the all important ender chest (Or shulker box if you have one) directly below them - always. Similarly only some times do I carry wheat but it's always in the most upper top right corner if I do. The 2nd row from the right always has my mushrooms and the third row from the right next to it always has the food overflow of potatoes, carrots and melons. The mushrooms are force of habit, even though it's the other three that fufil my main Minecraft diet.
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What does your inventory/hotbar look like generally? Post a screenshot below and explain the reason behind the decision to organize your items in your inventory in such a way.
For a very long time, I had so much stuff in my inventory that I would almost always ran out of space really quickly when mining or doing other things. I always had so much unnecessary stuff in my inventory. Recently, I tried to organize my stuff neatly through efficient use of shulker boxes and the endee chest. This leads me to being curious about how other players organize their inventory and their hotbar.
Here's mine:
797 levels
Hotbar slots:
1. Sword - always had a sword in this slot for as long as I can remember, never know when you'll encounter mobs.
2. Pick - primary tool, most used tool
3. Shovel - this was a choice between shovel and axe, I chose shovel because you typically encounrer gravel and dirr when mining, no reason to always carry an axe around unless I need wood but when I need wood, I'll just chop down four 2x2 trees and keep the axe away
4. Torch - useful for caving and for lighting up your builds so mobs don't spawn during the night
5. Stone - building blocks are always nice, pillaring up, scaffolding, etc, I used to have cobblestone here before but since I switch to a silk touch pick as my main tool, I have stone here instead now
6. Fireworks - fast travel with elytra
7. Water Bucket - this is actually a very useful item to have around, cross over lava lakes, put yourself out of fire, fend off that enderman you accidentally looked at, quickly place water down before you hit the ground and avoid a potentially death fall (I don't do this anymore since we have elytras now anyway)
8. Food - need to eat, I recently switched to golden carrots 'cause they have high saturation value so I don't have to keep eating constantly
9. Bed - have to skip the night, I can't risk creepers spawning and blowing my chests up
Six empty shulker boxes for additional inventory space so I don't have to keep returning back to base when I'm mining/gathering stuff somewhere. I also use those to store all the materials I need if I need to build something.
Ender chest:
I have 8 extra shulker boxes color coded to organize more stuff. With these, I'm pretty much all set without having to go back to base when I need something.
Red: redstone stuff, dusts and blocks, repeaters, comparators, pistons and even slime blocks and some more redstone related stuff
Purple (should be dyed brown but I haven't found coco beans yet): wood
White: minecarts and rails
Blue: ender pearls, fireworks and boats
Light Gray: stone, stone slabs and cobblestone
Gray: all the ores, coal, iron, gold, lapis, diamonds, I don't know what color to use for this to be honest
Light Blue: extra tools and armor (diamonds are light blue in color) and I decided to include some other stuff like my bow (+ a single piece of arrow), flint and steel, extra wood, extra food, etc
Purple: shulker box full of shulker shells if I ever need extra shulker boxes for other stuff
For a long time, this is how my inventory looks like before I reorganized it.
I am really thankful for the addition of shulker boxes that I managed to clean up my inventory space like this and yet still have so much stuff in it at the same time
That post got longer than I expected
This is mine, as well as my Ender chest (which is normally in the empty slot in my inventory, and food is in slot 9. Shears and maps are interchangeable depending on if I need them, such as clearing away a cave spider spawner. The Ender chest starts out as empty except for the last three slots (crafting table, furnaces, anvil), a stack of 16 baked potatoes (this just ensures I never run out of food as I rarely need more than one stack of 64 per caving trip), and any tools/armor I may need for repairs, always at least one pickaxe):
This shows what it looks like when my inventory is "empty"; I don't actually leave any empty slots so I don't pick up stuff that I don't want and when I collect resources I don't normally have slots for, such as diamonds, I'll free spot for them. Here is a screenshot of my inventory when it is nearly full; I substitute slots filled with coal for other resources as needed:
Also, while a single Ender chest may not seem like much storage I can cave for 6-8 hours nonstop until it is full since by crafting resources into blocks I can store 576 per stack; the Ender chest shown above contains 4,564 resources and other items and if I entirely filled all 24 available slots with mineral blocks I could store as many as 13,824 resources, in practice the amount depends on how much chest loot I find (the two blocks in the lower left are mod blocks I use to compact rails and cobwebs, 9 per rail block and 4 per cobweb block).
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With shulker boxes this seems fairly standard, immediate use items out and the rest split by function to be swapped out as needed.
Early to mid game (pre shulker boxes as I don't find ender chests that much of a game changer)
My hot bar looks different mainly in ordering:
Invetory includes: the aforementioned arrows, wood, cobble or stone, charcoal (or sometimes coal), water bucket / signs (which ever is not in the hotbar), empty bucket, ladders, ender chest & shulker boxes if mid and/or late game, often leads if I'm still looking for some animal type found in the local biome. (Also sometimes back-up tools.)
Pictures:
Not very exciting ender chest:
Explanation:
1) Bow - For some reason I always have bow before sword with arrows above it, not sure why but it's just easier for me to go to 2 for the latter. Only an Unbreaking III, Power IV bow currently.
2) Sword - Main one currently knockback II, sharpness III, I also carry a separate Bane of Anthropods sword in the slot above to one shot those spiders.
3) Diamond picks 1 & 2 - Always on third before axe as it just seems more natural to me, these alternate in the slot above with a regular one unbreaking III one (Also fortune II unfortunetly) with the one above with has fortune III - my specialist one for coal. redstone and diamonds etc.
4) Regualr pick - I will use a regular stone or iron pick for regualr picking for slot #4. Interchangeable in the slot above with my silk touch pic. I'm funny in liking to conserve my diamond picks so do mass mining & digging with a separate rgular one.
5) axe first
6) then Shovel. Other utilitiy tools always above this - shears, hoe & fishing rod etc.
7) Torches - always follow shovel with the coal in the slot above.
8) whatever is needed/block
9) whatever is needed/block
Above my hot bar I always have my wood planks in the upper most left followed to the right by iron ingots with sticks ands the all important ender chest (Or shulker box if you have one) directly below them - always. Similarly only some times do I carry wheat but it's always in the most upper top right corner if I do. The 2nd row from the right always has my mushrooms and the third row from the right next to it always has the food overflow of potatoes, carrots and melons. The mushrooms are force of habit, even though it's the other three that fufil my main Minecraft diet.
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Mines is below. I've been using this layout for quite a long time.
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