How to Prevent Accidentally Dropping or Moving Essential Tools

Pressing your drop key right next to W while mining near lava or fighting mobs is an easy way to lose enchanted tools forever. Favorita Mod prevents accidental discards and misclicks by keeping your essential tools and supplies locked inside their slots.

Protecting Your Hotbar Loadout

Before heading out on a mining trip or boss fight, set up your standard hotbar layout and lock your core gear:

1. Arrange your pickaxe, sword, bow, food, and blocks in your preferred hotbar slots.

2. Open your inventory so your mouse cursor is active.

3. Hover over each important hotbar slot one by one and press B to lock the item inside.

4. Close your inventory and play normally.

Because locked items cannot be discarded from their slots, accidentally hitting your drop key (Q by default in vanilla Minecraft) while holding a locked tool will no longer throw it onto the ground.

Keeping Supplies Fixed During Inventory Cleanup

Locking slots is also helpful in your main inventory grid for items you always carry, such as arrows, crafting tables, or spare food:

1. Place those permanent supplies into a dedicated row or corner of your inventory.

2. Hover over each slot and press B to lock them.

3. When clearing junk blocks out of your inventory or reorganizing loot, your locked items will refuse to be moved or thrown away while you freely clear out every unlocked slot around them.