I have a question about play style: How do you folks like to select items on your hotbar?
Do you like to use your mouse wheel or the number keys? Does it depend on the slot you want to select? (For example, using the mouse wheel to select slots near the one you currently have selected.) Does it depend on your situation? (For example, using the scroll wheel when you need to select things quickly.)
For me, it depends mostly on the slot that I want to select. For slots 1-5, I mostly use the number keys since they are near my left hand. For other slots, I usually use the scroll wheel.
However, I sometimes find myself using the scroll wheel when I'm switching between slots that are near each other, such as switching between my pickaxe (slot 2) and shovel (slot 4) while digging and occasionally my torches (slot 9) to light things. These slots are all near each other (slots 4 and 9 are two scroll wheel clicks away from slot 2), so I will often just use the scroll wheel so that the fingers I have on the keyboard aren't moving as much.
So... how about you? How do you like to select things on your hotbar? How does this affect the way that you organize your hotbar?
EDIT: Whoops, looks like it adds the "POLL" prefix automatically without having to add it as a tag! Removed the "poll" tag so that it doesn't look derpy.
If I'm playing on a laptop, is there a way to turn the "mouse wheel" method off? It can still be done by scrolling with the trackpad, but I always accidentally trigger it, and it seems to cause more harm than good.
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I do pretty much exactly the same as the way described in the OP. Number keys for 1-5, scroll wheel for the others, and scroll wheel if it's 1 or 2 slots away. I organize my bar so the 1 is Sword, 2 Torches, 3 Bow, 4 Pick, 5 Shovel since 1 and 3 are the easiest ones to hit in panic mode and I like to have my torches between my sword and bow since when caving torches is the thing you have out the most and need to be prepared to switch to a weapon.
Something weird I do is since I keep my food in the 0 slot, whenever I need to eat I'll hit 1 and then scroll up
Do you like to use your mouse wheel or the number keys? Does it depend on the slot you want to select? (For example, using the mouse wheel to select slots near the one you currently have selected.) Does it depend on your situation? (For example, using the scroll wheel when you need to select things quickly.)
For me, it depends mostly on the slot that I want to select. For slots 1-5, I mostly use the number keys since they are near my left hand. For other slots, I usually use the scroll wheel.
However, I sometimes find myself using the scroll wheel when I'm switching between slots that are near each other, such as switching between my pickaxe (slot 2) and shovel (slot 4) while digging and occasionally my torches (slot 9) to light things. These slots are all near each other (slots 4 and 9 are two scroll wheel clicks away from slot 2), so I will often just use the scroll wheel so that the fingers I have on the keyboard aren't moving as much.
So... how about you? How do you like to select things on your hotbar? How does this affect the way that you organize your hotbar?
EDIT: Whoops, looks like it adds the "POLL" prefix automatically without having to add it as a tag! Removed the "poll" tag so that it doesn't look derpy.
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Everything else I use the mousewheel.
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Something weird I do is since I keep my food in the 0 slot, whenever I need to eat I'll hit 1 and then scroll up
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