• Sorting your hotbar with 'F'

Pressing 'F' switches the item in your main hand and your off hand. If you have a sword in your hotbar slot 1 and a pick in slot 2, you can use the 'F' key to move them around without opening your inventory. Select the sword, press F, scroll to the second slot of your hotbar, and press 'F' again. You've now switched the position of the sword and the pick.

• Shift click all of one item type at once

Want to dump an inventory of cobblestone into a chest but don't want to shift click for each and every stack? Click an item so you're moving it around, hold shift and double click on the stone. It will move as many stacks of stone as possible into the chest.

• Using the 1-9 keys

If you hover your mouse over a slot and press '1', it will swap whatever is there with the item in the first slot of your hotbar. For example, let's say you want to craft a stack of chests. Fill the first eight slots of your hotbar with a stack of planks. Hover your mouse over the top left slot in the crafting bench, press '1'. Move left, press '2'. Repeat until you have moved all eight stacks, and now you've made a stack of chests.

• Using the 1-9 keys for bulk crafting

Ever come back to your automatic melon farm and find you have ten double chests of melon slices? Fill up every slot except the first slot in your hotbar with melon blocks, then dump a bunch of melon slices at your feet. Open a crafting bench, and press '1' to move a stack of melons to the crafting grid. You'll pick up another stack of melons instantly. Repeat for the other eight slots, shift click the melon blocks into your inventory. Rinse, wash, repeat.

This also works with dispensers and cakes. Curse you non-stackable items. Also, for a cheap white block, combining this with a snowman in a box can give you enormous amounts of snow blocks pretty quickly.

• Inventory math

This isn't quite inventory management, but it's a nice tip so I'll include it anyway. You can use items to do basic math in the inventory. Grab 10 item in one pile and 5 in another, and combine them to do simple addition. Hold shift and drag a stack of items to divide them into three piles to divide 64 by 3. You get the idea. It's a nice time saver for when you don't want to pull up Microsoft Calculator but you also don't want to do math in your head.

Some other convenient numbers:

• 7 blocks will get you 63 ingots. One more ingot gives you a stack. That also means a 63 cobblestone will craft 7 dispensers.

• A stack of blocks will make an 8 by 8 square. Keep this in mind when trying to figure out how many stacks of blocks that house really needs.

• 18 brewing stands will brew a double chest of potions