What this does #

It increases the size of the hotbar, that row of item displayed at the bottom of your HUD for items you can switch to.

This mod attempts to be a little more compatible with Mineclonia and tries to reuse the same textures. Should be compatible with mineclone2 but is untested.

Usage/Features #

Instead of specifying an arbitrary number of slots, you will need to specify the number of rows of inventory to display. In other words, a multiple of the inventory width.

Typically, the hotbar is equal to the the first row of your inventory.

See k_wider_hotbar.number_of_rows in game settings. Defaults to 4

The reason for using multiples of the inventory width is mostly aesthetics - to be able to reuse the same UI textures as the game this mod is running on. It's easier (just a little bit) to stitch multiples of the same row along the edge than try to overlap cells nicely.

Limitations #

There is an engine limitation where maximum number of hotbar slots is 32. This may eventually be addressed by https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/14321

default game will have 32 inventory slots with hotbar = 8 slots. So max number of rows you can display here is 4

mineclonia and other minecraft clones will have 36 inventory slots with hotbar = 9 slots. But since trying to display everything would exceed the limit of 32, we only display 3 rows or 27 items, meaning you'll still one last inaccessible row.

Can get weird on lower resolutions as minetest will try to stack your hotbar into 2 rows, and may not work well on mobile.

License #

Everything GPL 3.0 or Later.