How to Open Portable Workbenches Hands-Free with Curios

Keeping a Crafting Table on a Stick on your hotbar saves time, capability-wise, over placing blocks, but it still takes up a slot next to your weapons, food, and torches. If your modpack or client also includes Curios, you can free up that hotbar space completely and open your favorite station with a single keystroke.

Equipping a Station in the Curios Slot

1. Craft any of the seven portable workbenches by combining a wooden stick and the matching vanilla block.

2. Open your survival inventory (E by default) and click the Curios icon next to your character's armor slots to expand your accessory panel.

3. Drag your preferred workbench on a stick—such as a Crafting Table on a Stick—into its dedicated Curios slot.

Using and Changing the Keybind

With a station equipped in your Curios slot, close your inventory and press V at any time during gameplay. The equipped station's menu will open instantly, regardless of what tool or block you are currently holding in your main hand.

If V conflicts with another mod in your setup, pause the game and go to Options > Controls > Key Binds. Scroll down or search for the keybind assigned to V and rebind it to an unused key so both mods work cleanly.