ManaUser
Brain of Cthulhu
I know some people have an almost religious objection to using the social slots as storage for alternate accessories (despite the fact that everyone does it). But this thread isn't about that. This is about another way to solve the problem.
First: The problem. When you right-click an accessory to equip it, you can't control which accessory it replaces. It replaces them in a predetermined order, top-to-bottom, except it seems to reset when you log out. So except for the special case of replacing all five accessories at once this will inevitably result in everything getting jumbled up if used repeatedly.
So here's my idea: Unless you have a free accessory slot, when you right-click an accessory it replaces the accessory matching the row in your inventory that it came from. Row 1 of the inventory is the hotbar, so you probably won't be storing accessories there, but that's okay because chances are there's at least one accessory you keep equipped almost all the time—shield, horseshoe, wings, whatever you consider most important—so just put that in your top slot. The remaining four slots would also correspond to the rows in containers, in case you like to keep special-purpose accessories in your safe or pig. And 6th slot from expert mode would also be inaccessibly this way, but again you can just keep something you won't often replace there.
Here's a quick illustration:
I'm sure some people will dislike that this imposes an arbitrary restriction on how you organize your inventory. But as I see it, if you choose not to use it you'd be no worse off since the the current behavior is almost totally useless.
First: The problem. When you right-click an accessory to equip it, you can't control which accessory it replaces. It replaces them in a predetermined order, top-to-bottom, except it seems to reset when you log out. So except for the special case of replacing all five accessories at once this will inevitably result in everything getting jumbled up if used repeatedly.
So here's my idea: Unless you have a free accessory slot, when you right-click an accessory it replaces the accessory matching the row in your inventory that it came from. Row 1 of the inventory is the hotbar, so you probably won't be storing accessories there, but that's okay because chances are there's at least one accessory you keep equipped almost all the time—shield, horseshoe, wings, whatever you consider most important—so just put that in your top slot. The remaining four slots would also correspond to the rows in containers, in case you like to keep special-purpose accessories in your safe or pig. And 6th slot from expert mode would also be inaccessibly this way, but again you can just keep something you won't often replace there.
Here's a quick illustration:
I'm sure some people will dislike that this imposes an arbitrary restriction on how you organize your inventory. But as I see it, if you choose not to use it you'd be no worse off since the the current behavior is almost totally useless.