Hello Minecraft reddit! o/

My name is Rendog, proud member of Hermitcraft and long time Minecraft Youtuber! I've had an awesome idea that I'd like to share with you all today.

A 'backpack' item to store and carry more blocks in the inventory has often been proposed by players, and I've come up with a way to add a backpack option to Vanilla Minecraft without having to add a new item into the game!

With the recent (and insanely awesome) addition of Shulker Boxes to Minecraft, we now have have a way to sort and carry large amounts of items in our inventories by using Shulker Boxes as backpacks – however, there's still the slight inefficiency of having to place your Shulker Box, open it and then break it again to use it as a 'backpack'.

As the Shulker Box has organically become a backpack for players, my idea is to improve and perfect this functionality rather than adding a new item into the game.

My suggestion is for the Shulker Box itself to act as a 'backpack' item in the hotbar!

Here's how it would work:

• If a player right clicks on a Shulker Box in the hotbar, the Shulker Box is opened and becomes accessible as if it were opened when placed on the ground

Example: Imgur

Why is this awesome?

• No need for any new backpack item / recipe
• Makes use of and improves an already existing item
• Streamlines Shulker Box management ( instead of place box, use box, break box)
• We could open Shulker Boxes while Rocket Flying!
• Improved inventory Management
• Shulker Boxes become even more valuable, encouraging players to get to the end game and stay there

So that's my suggestion solution for backpacks in Vanilla Minecraft – what do you guys think?!

RD