

These changes are shown in the image below.įor an easier shortcut, you can press the F key (if you haven’t changed this in your settings) to equip an item that is in your hot-bar to your off-hand. The hot-bar will also have a new slot (on the left-hand side) for the off-hand item. When you close the inventory you will see your off-hand carrying the item.

Equip anything into the slot in your inventory by left-clicking the item, and then dragging it into the slot. Since the 1.9 update (the “Combat Update”), there is a shield icon in everyone’s inventory, which is the ‘off-hand’ slot. The Fundamentals of Minecraft Dual Wielding After all, two hands are better than one! Dual wielding tremendously improves all of those gameplay aspects while holding on to the same Minecraft play-style that we know and love. This post will teach you about three categories of usage: fighting, mining, and building. However, once you acquire some knowledge of how it works and key combinations to use, you can become even more efficient when conquering the world of Minecraft. The Minecraft dual wielding feature is often confusing to casual gamers, while beginner gamers sometimes avoid the feature entirely.
