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Inventory Sorting for Bedrock and Java Edition

I've been playing Minecraft for the majority of the past decade, and the only mods I've used religiously to augment my play experience are those which add an activatable function button to the inventory/chest GUI that automatically sorts the contents of that container by certain customizable parameters. I find that the current UX of meticulously clicking each item into its proper place is detrimental to the core gameplay loop of Minecraft. By my ADHD standards, daylight in Minecraft is already too precious a resource to spend on boring inventory management mechanics which have not been innovated upon since the very conception of the game. 

This idea could be implemented with relative ease compared to other updates which actively add new content items. At the very least, a sort button could organize the player character's inventory by itemID, ascending from left to right, wrapping around each row. It might be nice, however, to add special parameters that dictate certain items to pool together by relevance (ex: construction blocks, food items, tools, nature drops each staying sorted next to other items in the same category exclusively).

Lastly, I do realize that inventory sorting mechanics have been proposed on other feedback threads, however, these threads are either in reference to the spin-off game Dungeons, or are years old and currently dead threads. I hope that this post is allowed to stay up, because this is honestly the only feedback I will ever have.

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    It's always the constant topic of inventory issues for survival either in carrying, filtering, and sorting, oddly it's never really taken up as a focus for the devs, even though its very common for datapacks and mods.

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    I agree 10000% with this. I rarely play bedrock because having to manually sort the inventory is so tediously painful. I always use the mouse wheelie mod or inventory tweaks mod in java edition. It should be built in. Even other games similar to Minecraft have the function to sort inventory and that creates a much more engaging and blissful gaming experience. I really hope that the developers work on an inventory sorting function like the mods I mentioned. I'd definitely play more if they did.