Saved Hotbars

The Saved Hotbars menu, with hotbars saved into rows 1, 3 and 4.

The Saved Hotbars menu is a feature in Java Edition that allows the Creative mode player to save selectable hotbar slots.

Use

Up to 9 hotbars can be saved.

The player can save their current row using (by default) C + a number 1 through 9 corresponding to which row in the inventory menu the hotbar row should be saved into. For instance, putting items in the hotbar and pressing C + 1 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) X + 1. Note: the inventory must be closed in order to save or load hotbars.

By default, the 9 slots are marked with an informational 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

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

• Load Toolbar Activator (default key: X)
• Save Toolbar Activator (default key: C)

File format

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

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] The root tag.
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] 0: 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.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] 0 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.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] 1–8 See above.
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] 1–8: See above.
  • [Int] DataVersion: The data version.

Note that nine [NBT List / JSON Array] List tags, 0–8, are created regardless of how many hotbars have been saved.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.12			17w06a				Added hotbar saving under the name "Saved Toolbars".
			17w16a				Added key binding options for Creative mode toolbar saving.
1.16			20w06a				Changed name to "Saved Hotbars".

Issues

Issues relating to "Saved hotbar" or "Saved toolbar" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.