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Hotbar-guard

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Hotbar-guard

By Chandi371

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A lightweight PvP utility that prevents accidental item drops and Shift-click transfers.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.3
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About

Description

Losing a netherite sword to a misclick mid-fight is infuriating, and it happens more than you'd like to admit — Q sits right under your ring finger while your hands are busy fighting.
Hotbar Guard blocks accidental item drops and makes you confirm them.
  • Press Q → the drop is cancelled. Nothing is thrown.
  • Press Q again within 3 seconds → it drops.
  • Don't press again → it stays in your inventory. That's it.
A countdown and draining bar show exactly how long you've got, so you know when the window is closing.

What it protects

Action Result
Q — drop one item ⛔ Confirmed
Ctrl+Q — drop whole stack ⛔ Confirmed
Shift-click — quick-move in chests/furnaces ⛔ Confirmed
Covers the accidental stack dump too, not just single items.

Clean, unobtrusive UI

The prompt sits in the bottom-right corner — out of your crosshair, away from the hotbar. Full dark panel with the item name, a live countdown, and a progress bar that drains as the window closes. It never covers what you're aiming at.
It also appears correctly inside container screens, so shift-click protection shows its countdown where it happens.

Configurable

Everything is tunable in config/hotbar-guard.json — no code editing needed:
  • Enable/disable the guard entirely
  • Confirmation window — any length from 0.5s to 10s
  • What gets protected:
    • ALL — guard everything (default)
    • NONE — guard nothing
    • LISTED — guard only the items you name, so you can throw dirt freely but your sword still asks first
  • Toggle the overlay on or off
  • Toggle shift-click protection separately, if it ever gets in the way
Your existing config file is never overwritten — it just fills in any new settings.

Requirements

  • Minecraft 26.3
  • Fabric Loader 0.19.5+
  • Fabric API