The shield/off-hand wont work. Only it will work with a totem. With this i hope this bug can be fixed so we can put swords and blocks in there too. Thanks!
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The exact intended, full limited list of items a player can hold in their off-hand normally in Bedrock includes:
Totems of undying (as mentioned by the reporter)
All Sparkler colors (Education exclusive)
Filled Maps / All Explorer Maps / Treasure Maps (as you would normally hold them in the Legacy Console Editions)
Arrows / All Tipped Arrows
All Firework Rockets (Usable, because they are used with the crossbow. They cannot be used for elytra purposes unlike in Java Edition.)
Nautilus Shell (Because the drowned hold it as well, one of the few aesthetic items holdable in the off-hand slot)
All Shields (as mentioned before)
Any custom item with the minecraft:allow_off_hand component set to true in their item json, but that doesn’t allow use of the custom item while in that slot.
Any other items not listed can only go into the off-hand slot via the /replaceitem command only or NBT editors, but most items are unusable if forced into that slot.
It should also be noted that the “F” keybind control that exists in Java doesn’t exist in Bedrock to swap off-hand slots, not even to swap between 2 valid off-hand items or to even swap between an off-hand item an empty slot and vice versa.
These intentional limitations apply even if a Bedrock player was to join a GeyserMC Java server, as their Bedrock Edition client-side inventory still prevents full off-hand capabilities. (Please note GeyserMC is a Java server-side modification and not supported by Mojang.)
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Works As Intended.
The offhand slot currently has limited functionality (only works for arrows & the Totem of Undying) (Changelog)
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