Priority

Minecraft's default hotbar key handling is replaced by a priority system. Each of the nine hotbar slots gets a value from 1 to 9, and the lower value is checked first when a key is pressed. Pressing a hotbar key a second time moves on to the next slot with the same key, so a player can reach a slot that was passed over without changing the layout.

The priorities are set in the config screen, which shows sliders and input fields for slots 1 to 9. The defaults match vanilla, so slot 1 has priority 1 and slot 2 has priority 2, and the behavior is unchanged until values are edited. A warning appears at the bottom middle of the screen when the menu is closed with conflicting priorities, and the values have to be resolved before the settings apply.

The mod runs on the client alone, so only the player's game needs it. It is built for Fabric and requires Cloth Config API and Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional and provides a button on the main menu that opens the mods screen. Priority is released under the MIT License and is not open source, and it targets 26.1.2 with 1.1.0+mc26.1 as the latest Fabric file, with files published for 1.21 – 26.3.