Minecraft:Saved Hotbars

File:Saved Hotbars.png

The saved hotbars tab, with five different rows of items

The Saved Hotbars<ref>Translation key from default Minecraft:language file en_us.json: "itemGroup.hotbar": "Saved Hotbars" (as of 1.21).</ref> menu is a feature Template:In that allows the Minecraft:Creative mode Minecraft:player to save selectable Minecraft:hotbar slots.

Usage

Up to 9 hotbars can be saved.

The player can save their current row using (by default) Template:Key + a number Template:Key through Template:Key corresponding to which row in the inventory menu the hotbar row should be saved into. For instance, putting items in the hotbar and pressing Template:Key saves the player's current hotbar into row 1 of the Saved Hotbars inventory menu. This row can then be loaded into the hotbar using (by default) Template:Key. Note: the inventory must be closed in order to save or load hotbars.

By default, the 9 slots are marked with an informational Minecraft:paper item with instructions on how to save slots as its custom name. If an empty hotbar is saved, it clears the bookmarked hotbar and puts back the paper into the respective slot.

The Saved Hotbar menu is common between all worlds the player loads – it is not saved locally to any individual world.

Controls

Template:Main The Saved Hotbar controls can be found in the "Creative Mode" section of the "Key Binds" Minecraft:options menu. The two options are:

• Load Toolbar Activator (default key: Template:Key)
• Save Toolbar Activator (default key: Template:Key)

File format

Hotbars are saved into the hotbar.nbt file, an uncompressed Minecraft:NBT file found in root of the Minecraft:.minecraft folder, that is created the first time a hotbar is saved.

• Template:Nbt The root tag.
  • Template:Nbt: List of nine tags, one for each hotbar slot. This is an ordered list, with the first child tag corresponding to the first slot in the hotbar.
    • Template:Nbt An item in the inventory. For slots containing no items, this is minecraft:air with a Count of zero.
      • See item format/before 1.20.5 for versions below 1.20.5. For versions above 1.20.5 see Data Component Format.
    • Template:Nbt See above.
  • Template:Nbt: See above.
  • Template:Nbt: The Minecraft:data version.

Note that nine Template:Nbt tags, 0–8, are created regardless of how many hotbars have been saved.

Trivia

• Saved hotbars are sometimes used to grief unprotected creative mode servers when players use saved hotbars to obtain banned items.