With the increase in tools that are potentially useful(lanterns, pots, dragon treats, creature capture net guns, pickaxe, fishing pole, grinder, J for Jester[totally useful!], Narwhal horns and such…), it might be nice to have an easier way to swap between them. My suggestion is this: while holding a tool-item in your hand, holding the “b” button with that hand will open a radial menu around your wrist that allows you to hot-swap to a different equipped tool. Moving your hand over to a wedge on the radial menu and releasing the “b” button will swap the tool on your belt with that other equipped tool in the wedge. As long as you are holding grip still, the new item will appear in your hand.
You’d have 2 items on your belt/hips, as is now. Then perhaps up to 8 tools (maybe that’s too much for today) available to equip. So 10 total, pretty generous. Could even be a tinker-crafted belt that gives you upgraded belt sizes. So you start with the basic 2, then upgrade to 3…4…etc. Maybe early upgrade tinker ingredients can be NPC purchased, followed by salvaging ingredients, followed by dungeon/shard/raid drop ingredients.
Similarish to class equips, the gui would need slight rework to have a longer horizontal tool-bar for this belt, possibly. Or something else that you could think of.
There could be some advanced configuration options, such as always showing all slots (including empty slots) or only show equipped slots. Releasing an item into an empty slot would unequip the item into that slot.
