Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks PSA - you can create shortcuts in the hotbar

Peaking from my self imposed forum ban, just to let you folks now that hotbar has key shortcuts now (or maybe it had them for a while, and they are obtuse enough that I missed them).

Do you know the odd "custom" tab of your hotbar - the one you never uses. Put your skill in there, and you will see that they get shortcuts assigned. Those work regardless if the tab is selected or not. Have fun.

I've not played around with this yet, but I will! The function was there in EA but was buggy, at least in patch 9 which was when I experimented with it, and you had to actually swap to that toolbar before pressing the key which kind of defeated the object. Plus there was some really weird behaviour if you tried to map multiple weapons to it.

Fingers crossed this has all now been fixed as I agree this absolutely could and should be a useful feature!

(Also, moving the thread to Help, Tips and Tricks where I think it fits better.)

Thanks RQ. I didn’t play around with it much yet, beyond mapping commonly used cantrips. Works perfectly well so far! A bit unintuitive to find, and I wish there was a way to do it on default view, so I don’t have to remember exact shortcuts for each character - I think that will prevent me from using more than 3 or 4 shortcuts per character - but otherwise it’s good. Definitely accelerates those boring turns