

Better Offhand
Better Offhand adds practical offhand functionality using normal vanilla items, quick hand swapping, and mobile-friendly controls.
Features
- Vanilla Items Only: No custom items or crafting recipes.
- Double Crouch: Quickly move items between your main hand and offhand.
- Offhand Utility: Supports torches, lanterns, blocks, buckets, compasses, clocks, and more.
- Offhand Placement: Place supported blocks and light sources from your offhand.
- Smooth Visibility: Offhand torches and lanterns improve cave visibility without effect flashing.
- Mobile-Friendly: Designed for Android, iOS, and Windows controls.
How to Use
- Hold a normal vanilla item in your main hand.
- Crouch twice quickly to move it into your offhand.
- Double crouch again to move the item back.
- Crouch and press the use button to place or activate supported offhand items.
Installation
- Download the
.mcpackfile. - Open the file with Minecraft and wait for the import to finish.
- Create a new world or edit an existing world.
- Open Behavior Packs → My Packs.
- Select Better Offhand and press Activate.
- Remove older versions of Better Offhand to prevent conflicts.
- Enter the world and double crouch while holding an item.
Enable experimental features only if required by your Minecraft version.
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Compatibility
Designed for Minecraft Bedrock 26.x on Windows, Android, and iOS. Some items may have limited functionality because Bedrock does not provide complete Java-style dual wielding.
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Terms of Use
You may use the pack in personal worlds and compatible multiplayer servers. You may also showcase it in videos or streams with proper credit and share the official project page.
Re-uploading, redistributing, selling, publicly sharing edited versions, using monetized download links, claiming the project as your own, or reusing its logo and assets without permission is not allowed.
- Edition: Minecraft Bedrock
- File type: .mcpack or .mcaddon
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.40, 1.21.30, 1.21.50
- How to install: Download the .mcpack or .mcaddon file. → Open it — Minecraft imports it. → In your world: Behavior Packs → Available → Activate, then the same under Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Bedrock addons & mods walks through it step by step.
- Pack type: .mcpack — a single pack
- Manifest requires Minecraft 1.26.0 or newer
- Complete pack — everything it depends on is inside the file
- Download size: 103 KB
- Download link checked 16 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.