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I've read in many places and seen many YouTube videos where hitting F3+H will display the item durability in numbers in the tooltips. However, I can't seem to get this to work. Hitting F3 and H together doesn't do anything.

Running Windows 8 (on a desktop - no Fn key issue), I've made sure running latest version of Java. I've tried running different versions of Minecraft from 1.5.2 through 1.7.4.

Does anyone have any suggesions of things to try? Is there a file I can open and edit to force this on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Is the tool new?If its not new it will just say (tool name)
(attack damage)

Make sure that you try it a few times, i find it is a little buggy at times and its not mojangs priority to fix it, just work with it, try it every 5 mins or so...

I think that on a Windows 8, You will have to hold fn while pressing f3, and then let go of fn and press h. This should work.

This thread appears very early in the results of a Google search, so I'm posting here with the solution that worked for me when I found I could not get (Fn+)F3+H to work. I'm using Windows 7 and am currently using the latest official release, 1.8.

What worked for me was pressing F3 and H at the same time out of the inventory menu.

Pressing F3+H didn't do anything when inside the inventory menu, for me. So, I closed the inventory, pressed F3+H at the same time and then opened the inventory menu. It then showed the durability of each used item.

It's more of a mode change, not a single-use function like I thought it was.

Hope that helps someone.

Thanks! That worked for me. I spent a while clicking f3+h in inventory.

Thanks Sharpe103, F3+H outside of my inventory worked for me.