Minecraft Bedrock – How To Use The Offhand Slot (Mobile/Xbox/PS4/Windows 10/Switch)

Hello everybody welcome back to another video in this video i’m gonna be showing you how to use the offhand in minecraft bedrock edition now as you can see i’m in the minecraft bedrock beta right now so this is the latest version of this game but it also works for the normal version

For 1.16 as well so in better condition we have this slot right over here is green highlighted it is the offhand slot and in this thought you can put a couple of items yourself and if you want to put other items in there then you’ll need to use an

Inventory editor so this is unlike in java edition where you can put any item in there but in better condition you can only put a couple of items in there and you might have guessed which ones those are already by my inventory so yes you can put a

Shield in there that’s of course the most logical as the icon is also a shield and here you see me holding a shield in my offhand and an arrow or something else in my main hand and so you can use this shield by pressing shift as you can see i’m immediately blocking

I’m not right clicking or doing anything i’m just immediately blocking my whole shift so same thing when you don’t hold anything in your hand and you can not activate the shield by right-clicking like in java edition you have to shift to activate it then you can also put arrows in there

So let’s put some arrows in there and let’s grab a bow and let’s see what happens here so if i load up this bow and then shoot it it uses the arrow in my off hand and i can show you this by for example putting these harming arrows in my

Offense you can also put tipped arrows in there that’s also fine it also works completely like normal and now if i load this crossbow and shoot as you can see it’s the harming arrow so we’ll always use the arrow in your off hand first before any other arrow in your inventory

Which is very helpful if you want to just choose one type of arrow i also love this animation for the crossbow in better condition so also unlike in java edition you can’t see the offhand slot here on your hotbar you can only see it when you’re inside of your inventory

And if you use the pocket edition ui it will look something like this i don’t like this but here is the offhand slot down here same thing just this shield icon now you can put your items let’s move on to the next item which is a fireworks you can also put

Fireworks in here and if you just have an empty hand you can’t actually ignite them so right clicking the ground nothing is happening so normally if you just have some fireworks in your hand you can right click and it activates and there we go very beautiful

So this isn’t possible if it’s in your offhand trying to right click nothing is happening but what you can do is load up a crossbow with the firework as you can see that also works and now i can shoot it with the firework inside of it so you

Can still use fireworks but only with crossbows if they are in your offhand so it’s very sad that this offhand feature is so underused in battery condition because in java edition almost everybody uses it all the time and it’s very helpful but in better condition it’s a bit less

Sadly but let’s move on to the next one one of the best things to put in your offhand is of course a totem off on dying because for example if we were to fall from a great height and would normally have died here we go oh no

It saves us from dying so it gives you 40 seconds of regeneration 2. it also removes all the status effects you have and it also gives 5 seconds of absorption 2 and 40 seconds of fire resistance that’s only in the bedrock beta the fire resistance and as you just saw and i’ll show

Once more you see this beautiful animation of the totem offline on your screen also appears when you press f1 so it’s still there then and so since it’s a passive item it’s very helpful to put it in your offhand so you don’t have to switch to it

When you’re almost about to die and so i would really recommend putting the total dying in your offhand next up you can also put maps in your offhand and that’s only field maps so here are some empty maps i try to put them in there but that’s not possible so here’s a normal

Minecraft map and as you can see you can put it in your offhand just like that along with any other item it actually shows up as a beautiful little map so normally when you have a map in your hand like this you have to look down on it and then you

Can see what’s on it so if you look forward you can’t really see what’s on the map but when you put it in your offhand it actually displays it very nicely like this if you combine it with another map then both of them show up like this which i think is very nice

And is a nice view of these maps so the only difference between these two maps is that one has a cursor on it and the other doesn’t but they both can be put in either a slot as you can see right there can switch them around as well

So you can also do this with both the ocean explorer map and the woodland explorer map you can get from the cartographer over here so he can give you these ocean explorer maps and woodland explorer maps and so we can also put these in our offhand if we want to

And that’s of course very helpful if you need to find an ocean monument and just want to have room in your screen as well and maybe a sword in your hand or something else or want to eat at the same time as well it’s very helpful to

Just put your map in your offhand that time and so this works with the woodland explorer map as well there we go you can also put that in your offhand too and then there’s one last thing you can put in your offhand which i think is super super random i don’t really know

Why but yes you can put nautilus shells in your offhand very strange i know but it’s possible and so this is the only thing i would recommend if you have like not enough room in your inventory and for some reason you have not the shells in your

Inventory you can put them in here to store them in the offhand slot but otherwise that’s almost never a good option because it’s almost never possible and so those are all the items you can put in your offhand by just playing the game but if you want

To put other items in your offense that’s also possible but you need to use an inventory editor for this so i’m playing on minecraft windows 10 edition and so for me the easiest mpt editor is the universal minecraft editor which i’ve shown off before of course will be a link to download

That as well in the description if you play on pocket edition i think block to graph is one of the better mvt editors but just make sure you know what you’re doing with mpt editors before you do something like this of course and so if you want to know how to do that

Then i would suggest just looking up some other videos there’s lots of videos in youtube that explain how to use an inventory editor but i’ll just go into there and show you how to change your offhand item okay here we are in the universal minecraft editor and

If you play windows 10 you can just go to windows 10 right here and pick out your world and otherwise you’ll need to plug in a usb stick with your world on it so we’re playing on this world right here right now and so if we go into here and then go to

Players there will be the local player so just click on them and there we go you’ll see all of this and now the one we are interested in right here is of course the offhand so we can press that one and press this arrow as well and right here we can see

What is in the off hand currently so that’s the noiseless shell and there’s 64 of them so we can change this to whatever we want let’s say we want a netherride shovel in our offhand we can do that of course make sure you press enter after you’ve typed it in

And of course 64 i don’t think that will work we’ll see what happens after you’ve done this click the save button up here and then it saves and then the world has been saved you can press ok and go back into minecraft now let’s see if this worked i’m

Not too sure if this will work because you put 64 now the right shells in there bit and of course you can’t stacks well there we go it it worked either way we have a network shovel in our offhand right now it it’s very quick so it just takes like

Half a minute or something but of course it’s cheating right it’s not like you can do this in vanilla or in survival or anything like that sadly so let’s see here we go yes we have 64 netherride shovels in our offhand right here so it’s definitely possible

But it won’t be of any use because as you can see i’m not using the shovel when i’m breaking blocks here even if you hold shift or something like that i’m not using the shovel for anything so sadly it’s only for cosmetic options so if you want to put something there

That’s awesome like a beacon or something i don’t know put something in there that makes you show off that you’re very rich who cares so that’s how to put any other item in your offensive minecraft better condition and so i hope you enjoyed this video on how to use the

Minecraft better condition offhand and if you did then please make sure to leave a like and subscribe to the channel and i will see you in the next videos until then bye bye