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Adjustable Spyglass Zoom

Sometimes I feel like you're zoomed too far in when looking at objects with the Spyglass. It's mildly annoying and breaks immersion. I think it should have an adjustable zoom.

This would be done by scrolling in/out on the scroll wheel while holding right-click. Plus, it's easily portable to Bedrock by instead using the directional up/down buttons on a controller or pinch-zoom on mobile.

I think that this would make the Spyglass much more useful!

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    This is an awesome idea, I was about to post this mysell until I noticed this. This would add so much more flexability to the Spyglass and I'd also see myself probably using it more if there was an adjustable zoom feature.

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    I want this so much, also the fact that the zoom is so powerful makes that players with shorter render distance can't use it properly. I hope this improvement will be applied at some point.

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    Thank you for adding variations for mobile and controllers

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    Not to mention this would make the process of taking pretty screenshots while using the F1 key much more inviting! Using the spyglass as a camera is so much fun!

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    I'm all for this idea. For one, it would be great for custom camera items in mapmaking. I think it would also be nice if the spyglass could remember its zoom level (perhaps as NBT) and displayed it somewhere in the item lore.

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    I really love this idea and I think it would be super useful to have in Minecraft but it would be very difficult to use on mac because the trackpad can't easily scroll and hold right-click at the same time, maybe a way to avoid this problem for mac users could be to use key binds (default: + to zoom in and - to zoom out) for Java, that way users will be able to change what the key binds are and if people who have a mouse want the scroll to zoom function, there could be a setting to toggle between using the scroll wheel and using the key binds.