Split bags from Unified Inventory?

[Wuzzy]

Hi! After a discussion with VanessaE I decided to start a little poll aimed to users of the Unified Inventory by VanessaE.

The question is:
Should the bags from Unified Inventory [unified_inventory] be released as a separate mod?

The idea is, the bags will be removed from the Unified Inventory mod itself, and instead a separate mod is released which depends on Unified Inventory in order to extend it with bags.

[Wuzzy]

(Please answer the poll before reading.)

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My answer to my own question is “Yes”.
Rationale:

Bags are a gameplay feature, and a pretty heavy one, too. They add up to 96 inventory slots, which is a lot compared to the original 32 slots you have at the beginning.
I see Unified Inventory as a convenience mod which is supposed to enhance usability, and I see bags as a heavyweight gameplay change. Therefore, Unified Inventory conflates both gameplay with convenience feature, you get two features at the price of one (even if you only wanted the inventory) if you install Unified Inventory.

If the bags are instead in a separate mod, it is easily possible to only get the “pure” inventory enhancement without any gameplay changes, and those who want the bags can of course still get them.

I have nothing against bags themselves, I just don't think they should be conflated with an inventory mod. To me, adding bags in the Unified Inventory mod is like all players get healed every second because you have a crafting guide mod installed. It just feels off. ;-)

[Krock]

Now that the mod "sfinv" is part of Minetest Game, it would be easy to make the bags compatible with the regular inventory too, without additional mods.

[Fixerol]

We already have https://github.com/cornernote/minetest-bags as separate bags on actual servers. I would like to see option to at least disable bags in unified inventory for use in survival servers.

[mahmutelmas06]

and also waypoints should be seperated.

[saavedra29]

We already have https://github.com/cornernote/minetest-bags as separate bags on actual servers. I would like to see option to at least disable bags in unified inventory for use in survival servers.

I just saw that it can be configured with "unified_inventory_bags = false" at the minetest.conf and i'm very happy about it.

[texmex]

Now that the mod "sfinv" is part of Minetest Game, it would be easy to make the bags compatible with the regular inventory too, without additional mods.

Yes and actually the bags themselves could be made into new sfinv tabs, (With the tab layout Crafting, Bag, Bag, Bag and so on). The bag items themselves would then sit in the main inventory.

It would reduce clicks needed to manage items, provided that items can be moved between tabs.