I hate when modders make things useless. Better to not even include them in the first place. ESPECIALLY when it's unconfigurable. Drama is no excuse
Time to test out the Toolbox, then. I'd love it as a quality-of-life mod if it works well with most tools.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2356711
That toolbox mod?
Useful, but totally not what I'm looking for. TOO "smart". I need/want something that makes it easy for ME to select what tool I'm using occasionally. Like I'm using my Bedrock Pickaxe 99% of the time, but maybe I want to manual quarry right now and so I pull out my Terra Shatterer SS, when going back over the massive tunnel I just made, I see some special mod ore that when harvested using that mod's pick can give me something I'm currently looking for. When that's done maybe I want to grab an auto-smelting TiCo pick and get some graphite from the coal vein in the wall. Maybe I want to stick all 500 wrenches into one slot, and have the ability to choose from them at will.
The key concepts are full usage (right click and everything. If I'm not pressing the keybind to activate selection mode? It should be as if the mod is not installed) , no auto-detection, user configurability IN GAME!!! (If I want this slot to switch between a sword, shovel, wand, and three kinds of "marital aid", it should be able to; I should not have to go into configs to have to do this. I don't care if it's ghost inventory, real inventory, whatever.), and hopefully a spare inventory... because with VANILLA we're running out of space. Back in alpha? 36 slots was a decent number. Now? It gets cramped... and then you add mods. I'm tempted to add InfiniteInvo to every single pack ever and backport it to every version of MC ever simply because severely limited inventory is... well honestly I think it's dumb tedium with the techniques we now have.
As for WHY "no auto-detection"?
I've had nothing but problems with well-intentioned something-or-others "balancing" n one side or other of the equation causing me to waste inordinate amounts of time, curse the inability to turn this "feature" off, and just generally make my day hell. Auto-detection for tool use is NEVER smart enough except for the very beginning of the game, and only if there's a clear progression and EVERY better tool is ALWAYS better in EVERY way.