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New 24w33a Bundle UI Should Show All Items

The new Bundle UI is a step in the right direction; allowing players to pull different items off the top of the bundle (up to 8) from the sub-menu. However, I think the previous functionality of the bundle should be preserved, while you can only remove up to 8 of the top items of the bundle, I should be allowed to "see" all items in a bundle as smaller icons.

The use case I'm trying to preserve is for my tool bundle; I would have a bundle in my inventory that at the top would have items like Crafting Table, Ender Chest, Stone Cutter, Anvil, etc. But at the bottom of the bundle would be a Clock, Recovery Compass, Regular Compass, Lodestone Compass paired with my Home Base, etc.. In the old system, I could hover my mouse over the bundle to see what time it was, the direction I last died at, where spawn is, and where my base is at a glance. If I were actively trying to find those locations, I could always pop them out of the bundle and hold them in my hand, but the bundle peek method was a nice option for doing a quick glance without unpacking the whole bundle.

So I suggest a hybrid system; the top 8 slots of the bundle use the new UI while bellow that you can see all the items in the bundle similar to the old UI (just not able to interact with them). That way we gain the new UI functionality without loosing the old UI clarity.

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    I thought of an alternative solution that is a compromise between readability and being able to view all of the bundle's contents:

    • As implemented now the way you access a bundle's contents is using the scroll wheel or number keys 1 - 8 to select the top 8 or so items from the bundle to pull out
    • I propose that if you keep scrolling, the tool tip window should update to show the next 8 items in the bundle. This keeps the tooltip window the same UI size but allows us to view the whole bundle in 8 item snippets
    • For number keys, you can use the 9 and 0 keys to advanced to the next or previous 8 item panes
    • If you scroll up at the beginning of the bundle or hit 9, you'll loop immediately to the bottom of the bundle

    This system requires no UI changes from the new UI system while allow players to view a bundle's entire contents without having to unload it into another bundle or empty inventory. It would also allow me to keep using my tool bundle system where I can scroll up to peek at my clock/compasses at the bottom of the bundle.