Even though the offhand is perfectly funtional as of 1.21.8, the ability to use it simultaneusly with the main hand could be a mayor gameplay improvement.
Let me clarify what I mean by "simultaneusly". You obviusly won't ever be hable to, for example, eat and place blocks at the same time, there is no way to make the same imput do two things sometimes but not always. However, if we had a pickaxe in your main hand and food in the offhand, maintaining left click and then we started to press right click, you could mine blocks and eat at the same time.
This could be done by simply checking if the first imput can "do something" with the item in our mainhand, and if there isn't or there is a second mouse imput, checking if it can with the item in our offhand. Always maintaining priority for the mainhand.
So players could, eat and mine, block (with a shield) and mine, eat and use a sword or use a sword and place blocks (this case doesn't really work unless the block can be placed through an entity, such as lava or water buckets).
It's will also be a good oportunity to fix the everlasting bug where placing blocks with your offhand resets the cooldown of any weapon in the main one.
The only aspect of the game this won't improve, will be the player vs player combat, although I dont think its a change the community cant get used to.
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