Minecraft shelves will help players re-equip useful items much quicker

Mojang recently introduced a brand new block called a shelf for the upcoming Minecraft game drop releasing in the fall. This block arrived in the Bedrock Edition beta and preview version 1.21.110.20 and will soon arrive in Java Edition snapshots before officially releasing. The block can store items in a unique manner and also allow players to equip and unequip them differently.

Hence, there are strong chances that the shelf block can be used to re-equip useful items from the base, especially after their death. Here's how.

Ways in which shelves will help players re-equip useful items in Minecraft

Players can re-equip alternative gears and items after respawning (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

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As mentioned above, shelves are used to store items in a unique manner since they can store three stacks of any item. This means that if players have three stacks of wood, they can be fitted perfectly in one shelf. The same goes for three individual potion bottles.

Furthermore, when any shelf is activated from redstone, all three items in a shelf will be connected in a way that when players interact with them, all three will be transferred to their hotbar.

When three shelves are adjacent to one another, are activated by redstone, and have nine different items, all nine of those items will directly appear in a player's hotbar when they interact with any item.

One great use case of a shelf in Minecraft is to store emergency or backup gear for when a player dies. A player can die for multiple reasons, after which they return to their respawn anchor with nothing in their inventory. Usually, players quickly start crafting new tools, weapons, armor sets, etc., and then head out to find their main gear set that they dropped.

With shelves, however, they can already create a backup and emergency hotbar configuration and keep it ready. If they die and respawn in their base, they can quickly re-equip all the necessary items to survive and head out without the need to craft them from scratch. With one click on a shelf, players can get everything they need in their hotbar.

Shelves can also be used to keep multiple hotbar configurations (Image via Mojang Studios)

Along with helping players re-equip survival items after their death, shelves can also be used to create multiple hotbar configurations based on different activities. For example, when a player is going for a massive fight, they will need different weapons, food items, totem of undying, and some strong potions.

However, when they go mining, they will need multiple pickaxes, food items, torches, a water bucket, etc.

Instead of manually changing the hotbar configuration for different tasks, players can create multiple three-shelf sections and place specific types of items based on different activities.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra