OffHand-On-Bedrock

Java-style offhand for Minecraft Bedrock. Use your offhand to eat, throw, place, drink and more, with a custom OffHand HUD. Over 1,400 items are supported.

Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50 or later.

The download includes 3 packs. Make sure the Assets Pack is also activated.

Installation

1. Download OffHand-On-Bedrock.mcaddon and open it. It imports 3 packs: Behavior Pack, Resource Pack and Assets Pack.
2. Create or edit a world.
3. Under Behavior Packs, activate the OffHand Behavior Pack.
4. Under Resource Packs, activate the OffHand Resource Pack and the Assets Pack.
5. Put a supported item in your OffHand and use it.

Make sure all 3 packs are activated, or the HUD icons and visuals will not work.

Features

• Usable OffHand slot with one-tap Main Hand / OffHand swap
• Custom OffHand HUD: item icon, stack count, durability, cooldowns
• Scripted cooldowns for items without a native cooldown
• Custom first-person and third-person OffHand visuals
• Dynamic lighting for supported light-emitting items
• Localization support

Swap items with the OffHand slot

Tap the OffHand slot while playing to swap your Main Hand and OffHand items.

When the OffHand is empty

The OffHand slot is hidden when empty, but the invisible swap button is still there. Hold an item in your Main Hand and tap the spot to the left of hotbar slot 1 to move it into the OffHand.

Block rendering in first person

Blocks in your OffHand are rendered in first person. Vanilla vs OffHand-On-Bedrock:

Vanilla

With Addon

Foods

Eat from your OffHand while your main hand stays ready.

IMPORTANT: Hold a Sword, Axe or Pickaxe in your Main Hand to eat from the OffHand. With other items in hand, you can't eat from the OffHand.

Projectiles

Wind Charge, Ender Pearl, Snowball, Egg, Firework Rocket, XP Bottle and more.

Splash Potions

47 vanilla splash potion variants. The exact potion effect is kept when you swap back to your main hand.

Potions

Drink supported potions from the OffHand.

Supported items (1,400+)

• Consumables: foods, potions, splash potions
• Throwables: projectiles
• Utility: flint and steel, torches, lanterns, cobwebs
• Blocks and buckets: placeable blocks, buckets
• Gear: tools and weapons (including maces), armor and elytra
• Other: spawn eggs, boats, rafts, minecarts, and more

Not added yet (WIP)

• Spears, Bow, Crossbow, Trident, Spyglass
• Goat Horn, Harness, Nautilus Armor
• Clock, Compass, Shield, Fishing Rod, Shears
• Arrows, Banners, Maps, Books and more

See Not-Added-Yet.md inside the addon packs for the full list.

Notes

• Some rare vanilla interactions may be limited by Bedrock or the Script API.
• Spawn eggs use their own handling instead of the generic projectile animation.

Credits

• Created by BrineFlashYT
• Food use inspired by BlurryFace (Blurry Java PVP)
• Assets Pack textures derived from McIcons by ccLeaf (ccvaults.com)

Independent community project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang Studios or Microsoft.