It's probably been said before as all good ideas and fairly obvious ideas have. I feel it has to be said. Don't ***** at me for mentioning this.
They need to let us remap the 1 through 9 keys. For those who don't know, these select slots in the hotbar when you press them. It is an inconvenience that I am not allowed to change these keys to my liking. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to map keys to tools without having to deal with the default layout of the number keys.
If I want a hotbar slot to be my sword key I can map an easy to hit key that will always go to my sword. I would probably make this my E button. R would be my torches. V could be my pickaxe slot.
Scrolling can be unreliable and the num keys aren't the most accessible from a WASD setup, especially when you are running from something. I mean I can't tell you how annoying it is to try to light up a place with torches while having to prepare yourself to switch to your sword hotbar slot at the slightest sign of danger. It's a clumsy system that could be made a lot more accesible with custom mapped hotbar slot keys.
Do it Mojang. Most decent games that map slots allow you to change them. There is no reason why Minecraft shouldn't.
Some mice with scroll wheels let you move the wheel left and right... minecraft detects these as hotbar scroll movements. I'm using a Logitech MX something, the laptop version with the hyper-scroll wheel. Lol that probably won't help you, but it's something...
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THe only problem when your running away from something is pressing w
Keep your 2nd finger on w and thumb just over spacebar in case of obstacles
place bows, swords, tnt and levers on the first few slots
that should solve the problem
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So you wake up on a beach one day, and remember NOTHING. (Except your degree teachings in Engineering, Wilderness Survival, Metal work, Physics, Tech, Psychology, History, Dynamics, and Blocks.) You mine and build and survive for years and years.
THe only problem when your running away from something is pressing w
Keep your 2nd finger on w and thumb just over spacebar in case of obstacles
place bows, swords, tnt and levers on the first few slots
that should solve the problem
(This is a semi rant. You have been warned.)
This doesn't solve anything. The problem is that I want to remap the num keys to something else. I have a good scroll wheel, but I don't want to focus on looking where my swords are while im running away.
It's a good thing to have and not including it is just laziness. I mean oh god I'll need to add 9 more GUI options to the control panel. That's too much work for them.
This mentality is why Mojang's additions to the game are often underwhelming. They don't even try to improve upon them once they are released into the game. They haven't improved iron,diamond,gold blocks at all. They added wolves and have done nothing with them. Added trapdoors and done nothing with them. They've just settled with the fact that they can't have different colored beds.
We are only now starting to see polish to the game. Lets see them give us some new controls to go with the new gameplay. It's functionality that people want. People want a place to put a sword in the inventory screen. We want to be able to shift click crafted items singularly or all at once. We want these things, because they make the game better and easier to play.
They need to let us remap the 1 through 9 keys. For those who don't know, these select slots in the hotbar when you press them. It is an inconvenience that I am not allowed to change these keys to my liking. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to map keys to tools without having to deal with the default layout of the number keys.
If I want a hotbar slot to be my sword key I can map an easy to hit key that will always go to my sword. I would probably make this my E button. R would be my torches. V could be my pickaxe slot.
Scrolling can be unreliable and the num keys aren't the most accessible from a WASD setup, especially when you are running from something. I mean I can't tell you how annoying it is to try to light up a place with torches while having to prepare yourself to switch to your sword hotbar slot at the slightest sign of danger. It's a clumsy system that could be made a lot more accesible with custom mapped hotbar slot keys.
Do it Mojang. Most decent games that map slots allow you to change them. There is no reason why Minecraft shouldn't.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=155932
Crates
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=239467
Item Scrolling
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174539
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Curse PremiumKeep your 2nd finger on w and thumb just over spacebar in case of obstacles
place bows, swords, tnt and levers on the first few slots
that should solve the problem
So you wake up on a beach one day, and remember NOTHING. (Except your degree teachings in Engineering, Wilderness Survival, Metal work, Physics, Tech, Psychology, History, Dynamics, and Blocks.) You mine and build and survive for years and years.
(This is a semi rant. You have been warned.)
This doesn't solve anything. The problem is that I want to remap the num keys to something else. I have a good scroll wheel, but I don't want to focus on looking where my swords are while im running away.
It's a good thing to have and not including it is just laziness. I mean oh god I'll need to add 9 more GUI options to the control panel. That's too much work for them.
This mentality is why Mojang's additions to the game are often underwhelming. They don't even try to improve upon them once they are released into the game. They haven't improved iron,diamond,gold blocks at all. They added wolves and have done nothing with them. Added trapdoors and done nothing with them. They've just settled with the fact that they can't have different colored beds.
We are only now starting to see polish to the game. Lets see them give us some new controls to go with the new gameplay. It's functionality that people want. People want a place to put a sword in the inventory screen. We want to be able to shift click crafted items singularly or all at once. We want these things, because they make the game better and easier to play.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=155932
Crates
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=239467
Item Scrolling
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174539