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Add option to toggle clear hotbar button

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No matter how careful I try to be, when I'm playing in creative mode I will always inevitably press the button to clear my hotbar by accident. 9/10 times I am carrying my map in my hotbar, with no backup available. There is no option to turn the Clear Hotbar function off, so until this happens i will just have to concede to remaking my maps roughly every three hours because I get my controller buttons mixed up.

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    Hi! Marking this as "released" now. For those who are having trouble removing items from the hotbar, you can clear it by heading to Minecraft > Settings > Controller > Clear Hotbar.

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    I second the heck out of this. I have tourettes so I happen to press many buttons repeatedly all the time. I only ever play in creative to test out redstone ideas so I always have the same components on my hotbar and it's getting really annoying to replace them.

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    My 5 year old loves Minecraft to death, and creative is his favorite mode, and we have been hitting this a lot too.

    He has now on about a half dozen or more occasions (that I witnessed at least) accidentally cleared his hotbar while in this menu in creative mode, and this last time he totally melted down and called the game the worstest and started sobbing uncontrollably. Minecraft is definitely his favorite game right now, so to get him to swing that hard on it I think shows how brutal this can be on a kiddo.

    Also both my wife and I have also accidentally cleared his hotbar with trying to help him, so I don't think it's limited to just kids. I would also love to totally unbind that hotbar clear option in creative as Joel suggested.

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    Minecraft is my sons favorite game but he’s almost 6 and still not a great reader. He loves playing in creative and is turning out to be quite the builder. It takes a long time for him to find all the items he needs for his builds because he can’t read yet. On many occasions, we have accidentally wiped his bar while trying to help him but it’s the worst when he does it to himself or loses a map which can never be recovered. Yesterday, he was deep into building and cleared his bar by accident. He cried so hard, he wanted to delete the game and just lay with me whimpering for a long time. We just wish we could clear the binding at the least but even clearing the Y bind doesn’t do it. This seems to only to be an issue on Switch in creative mode.

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    I agree with this. There have been times where I have thought I selected an item e.g. a stack of coal and I want to say take 10 coal from that stack but I haven't selected it and instead of pressing X to take one I press X and it clears my hotbar so an option to toggle this would be great.

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    YES! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
    add something to help us avoid losing so much time due to this "clear hotbar" button.
    It is very easy to do, and there is not even a confirmation warning, which would be absolutely great. It would also be easy to do, just a simple "are you sure?"
    I wanted to put four maps on the wall using item frames in order to make a big map on the wall. I flew around filling up the maps which took hours, only to have them wiped with a single button press. This just doesn't make any sense, it shouldn't be that easy to lose hours of work. Another way around this would be to add a way to "favorite" items in your inventory or hotbar, which locks them in your inventory and prevents favorited items from being dropped or cleared.
    It is very frustrating to have spent time doing something and having it undone in 1 second. No "undo" button. No trash bin where you can find recently deleted items. NOTHING.
    Possibly the worst thing about this, is the choice of button, above all! (On ps4) Square is what we use to enter the crafting menu, its a very common button to push while in creative mode especially. There have been times where I lost an entire hotbar of tools and armor which were each enchanted a few times. Takes a very long time gathering all the enchanted books i will need. Putting each item through an anvil with each book. One wrong button press and all gone. I absolutely hate the feature, and I cannot think of a single time it was useful!

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    Why did you guys vote for this. now that they have done it, I can't clear my hot bar at all. I have to individually go and remove items which takes so much longer and it's so annoying. Please add it back Mojang