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Please return to the previous way Java's creative inventory was organized, or at least rework it in a way that still keeps legacy players in mind and how everything has been organized in the past

With the newest release there has been a major creative inventory rework, and in all honesty I can't stand it. There have always been plenty of new blocks and items added to the game, and they have always found there places within the already established system. Now, the entire creative inventory has been reworked to the point where everything feels like it's in the wrong place. There are even blocks and items that appear in the inventory in multiple tabs when they really shouldn't be (Examples: the entire collection of shulkers, beds, candles, and banners appearing in both "Colored Blocks" and "Functional Blocks")

With the way the creative inventory has been organized in the past, everything feels out of place when selecting a creative tab. For example, the first tab, labelled "Building Blocks" with a brick block icon in both cases, was always filled solely with full blocks, slabs, and stairs no matter how far down you scroll. Now, the player is immediately subjected to fences, doors, buttons, etc. These throw off the overall feel of the tab, and it's an unwelcome change at that

I have ideas for how the creative menu could have been reworked, but I've run out of room to post. Quick version is: condensing, and re-ordering. Please don't completely mix every block and item into a new tab

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• January 11, 2023 11:44
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  For additional ideas:

  Keep the general look and feel of the inventory system the same as before, with some minor tweaks to include room for new additions as well as clean up what's been already established.

  The most important part of a creative inventory system is being able to find things easily, which is especially easy when things are grouped together sensibly. Examples of this being done well are all the plank variants, ore variants, and log variants (all within the uppermost section of the "Building Blocks" tab) are kept together and organized. This makes it easier to find that one ore block you need: just look for the section with a bunch of ores! Some times when this isn't used well, are glass and tinted glass, ice variants, and off-shot blocks such as bookshelves, emerald blocks, and lapis blocks. Each of these examples are strewn across the "Building Blocks" tab, with no semblance of organization other than the version they were added in (if that). Having all variants of ice within a group would be more organized, as well as placing the regular glass and tinted glass along side the colored glass variants. Bookshelves could be placed alongside other naturally-generated-structures blocks in the "Decoration Blocks" tab, as well as the emerald blocks and lapis blocks being placed alongside the other solid ore blocks such as iron, gold, and diamond.

  Again, I've run out of room for more suggestions but will continue later with another comment on this post