Offhand Freedom

Offhand Freedom adds functional Java-style offhand gameplay using normal vanilla items, quick controls, block placement, buckets, projectiles, and dynamic lighting.

Features

Vanilla Items Only: No custom items or crafting recipes.
Quick Hand Swapping: Double crouch to move an item between your main hand and offhand.
Block Placement: Place many supported blocks directly from your offhand.
Dynamic Lighting: Supported glowing items produce light while held.
Bucket Support: Use water, lava, powder snow, fish buckets, and empty buckets.
Farming Support: Plant crops while keeping a tool in your main hand.
Projectile Support: Use eggs, snowballs, wind charges, ender pearls, XP bottles, and fireworks.
Main-Hand Priority: Tools remain usable for mining, tilling, stripping logs, and other actions.

How to Use

Hold a normal vanilla item in your main hand.
Quickly crouch twice to move it into your offhand.
Double crouch again to swap it back.
Keep your main hand empty or hold a tool, then press the use button to use the offhand item.
Sneak while interacting when you need to prioritize the offhand item.

Installation

Download the .mcpack file.
Open it with Minecraft and wait for the import to finish.
Create a new world or edit an existing world.
Open Behavior Packs → My Packs.
Select Offhand Freedom and press Activate.
Remove older test versions to prevent conflicts.
Enter the world and double crouch while holding an item.

No custom items, textures, or crafting recipes are required.

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Known Limitations

Food cannot currently be eaten directly from the offhand.
Some enchanted, named, durable, or data-containing items may have limited support.
Some directional, technical, or two-block items may not place correctly.
Functionality may vary between game versions, devices, and multiplayer servers.

This project is experimental and will continue receiving compatibility, stability, and item-support improvements.

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Terms of Use

You may use the pack in personal worlds and compatible multiplayer servers. You may showcase it in videos or livestreams with proper credit and share the official project-page link.

Re-uploading, redistributing, selling, publicly sharing edited versions, using monetized download links, claiming the project as your own, or reusing its logo and assets without permission is not allowed.