When you have items in your hotbar (1-9) you can drop items with Q without having to open the inventory, however if the item is in the off-hand slot and the main-hand is empty you can't drop it unless you press F to swap it to main-hand and then press Q.
Expected behavior would be that, if you have an item in your main-hand and in your off-hand slot, pressing Q would first drop the item in your selected slot and then pressing it again would drop the off-hand item.
How to reproduce
Have any item in your off-hand slot and in your main-hand.
Press the drop item key (Q).
✔ Main-hand item drops.
Press it again.
❌ Off-hand item can't be dropped.
Linked issues
relates to 4
MC-197156
Saddles held in the offhand cannot be equipped onto horses by right-clicking them
Resolved
MC-83620
Placing items on armor stand from off-hand impossible
Open
MC-84771
Items and blocks can't be put in an item frame with the off-hand
Resolved
MC-121023
Unable to name certain mobs with off-hand
Open
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Comments 9
I hope this will be closed as WAI. Implementing such behavior would be extremely inconvenient in many cases.
Thank you for your report!
After consideration, the issue is being closed as Working as Intended.
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Can confirm, but this may be intended or a feature request. Relates to MC-197156, MC-83620, MC-121023 and MC-84771.