Auto-best-tool

When you swing at a block, the server checks your inventory for the best tool for that block and uses it automatically — without you manually switching.

Mine a stone block holding a sword? The server uses your pickaxe (if you have one). Punch a tree holding a pickaxe? The server uses your axe. Attack a zombie? Server uses your sword.

You stay focused on the play. The tool-swap happens silently.

How it works

The plugin tracks your full inventory (hotbar + main inventory + sometimes pack). When you click to break a block or attack a mob, it picks the most appropriate tool from your inventory and applies its breaking/attack stats — without actually moving the tool to your hotbar.

Result: you see vanilla swing, but the underlying calculation uses the optimal tool.

Toggle on/off

You can toggle the feature per-player. Default: on.

If you prefer manual tool selection (some PvP players or competitive miners do), turn it off.

Hotbar-only mode

If "hotbar only" is enabled, the auto-best logic only swaps among hotbar tools — leaves your main inventory tools out. Useful if you carry "spare" tools you don't want to wear out automatically.

Personal blacklist

You can blacklist specific items from being auto-selected.

Common use case: Mothra has a fancy enchanted in her pack that she doesn't want auto-equipped on every zombie. Add it to the blacklist and the auto-best system ignores it.

What this pairs well with

Hammers (multi-block mining)

Your daily hammer auto-swaps to your daily pickaxe when you switch to a different block type. Your daily axe takes over when you start chopping a tree.

Tool enchantments

A Telekinesis pickaxe, a Lumberjack axe, a Lifesteal sword — auto-best picks the right one for the right action. You always benefit from the right enchant.

Tree felling

When you start chopping a tree, auto-best gets your axe in hand for the felling. Your hands are still on whatever you were holding visually, but the swing comes from the axe.

Auto-pickup

The combination is: auto-best-tool decides what to swing with → the swing breaks the block → drops auto-pickup straight to inventory. You see one click, you get a stack.

Refill from inventory

A separate but related feature: auto-refill. When your hotbar slot empties (you ran out of , for example), the next stack from your main inventory auto-fills the slot.

Especially useful for builders pillar-up-and-bridging.

Limitations

• Damage/durability still applies normally — the tool actually used loses durability
• Enchanted books from books are not "tools" — they don't trigger
• Items the server doesn't recognize as tools are skipped — usually fine, edge cases possible
• Bedrock vs Java — both editions support the auto-best system; same UX

When to turn it off

A few cases where manual control matters:

• You want to use a specific tool for durability management — let the cheap tool wear out before swapping to the expensive one
• You're competitive PvPing — some players prefer full muscle-memory control
• You're doing tool-experiments — testing what an enchant does at level X requires holding that exact tool

Why this is QoL not cheating

Auto-best-tool doesn't add stats — it just removes the manual swap step. The same tools, the same enchants, the same outcomes. You're just not pausing every 5 seconds to scroll your hotbar.

Vanilla itself has the "tool affinity" mechanic where wrong tool = penalty. Auto-best just always picks the right one.

See also

• Hammers — multi-block mining tools the auto-best system loves
• Tool enchantments — what auto-best is selecting on your behalf
• Auto-smelt & auto-pickup — the natural pairing
• Quality of life — full QoL list