Giving Useless Minecraft Features Uses 

Finally The wandering trader gets a reason to live

How it goes: *new useless feature is added in snapshot* "It's just a snapshot, I'm sure this isn't the final implementation." *release comes out* "Oh, it was the final implementation. I guess we have this thing now."

I was shocked when they added polar bears and they didn't even have a unique drop or use

According to Mojang, "Poisonous Potatoes were made as an annoyance and will and should always be, Useless.

Literally every time I see a Wandering Trader spawn: Yes! More leads and leather!

Ok... who's making the Sarc's Improved Minecraft Experience mod?

I always thought it would be cool if wither skeletons dropped “charred bones” or something that you could make into a bone meal, but instead of increasing the plant’s growth speed, it would freeze it, so then you could have hay fields with different levels of wheat around it without having to go and replace it all the time.

Adding to the bat idea, it could be that when you feed it the spider eye, it starts flying towards the nearest way out to surface, so you could just follow it

It would be nice if the wandering trader traded uncraftable items, like saddles

I literally only see the wandering trader as a lead and leather delivery.

‘Bats are just part of the scenery, we don’t interact with them’ Bold words for 2021, Sarc.

one of the core design philosophies at mojang, and a rule in Jeb's game design book for mojang devs is: -the poisonous potato must never have a use

So here’s the problem with the poisonous potato: the point of it is to be pointless. I’m pretty sure Jeb even confirmed that.

Poisonous Potatoes could be used to make "Potion of Nausea" however considering Vodka is made using Potatoes and is alcoholic it is safe to say Mojang won't be adding that anytime soon

When it comes to bats, i'd say much like how Dolphins provide faster swimming Bats should provide better vision. Think like the potion of night vision, but only when around that bat. They're rare so it wouldn't happen often, and they wouldn't follow you so it's pretty balanced. Also you would then have reason to keep a bat as a pet* you could place them around your base, or keep them in mines so you always have night-vision. *like put a name-tag on them and keep them in a cage/pen

Sarc : *gives poisonous potatoes a use* Jeb : "We don't do that here"

About the potatoes: They could also stop growth, essentially locking crops in a growth stage and preventing bamboo, cacti etc from growing higher. I'm sure a lot of builders wuild appreciate something like that

1:03 I feel like an anti-bone meal would be made out of wither skeletons in some way

One thing that I still can't believe isn't a feature: Dispensers should have the ability to plant crops

Bats do have a use: They only spawn in caves. If you're strip mining for a cave and happen to hear one, you know where to go.

Sarc: gives proposer to poisonous potato Everyone at mojang: *Laughs at him*

I love the poisonous potato idea but Mojang have said they don’t want to give it a use

The bats could just guide you outside just like dolphins guide you to treasure instead of the unmincrafty way of teleportation or the major echo location power that serves a small purpose

I love the pressure plate idea - you could literally make an inventory scanner to check if someone is bringing stuff to your base secretly. For example you could make an entrance and all items you want to bring in have to be put in a chest. If the player still weighs more than a player normally weighs you could see if they have an item in their inventory.

I like the idea of the wandering trader grabbing your stuff. I've always thought they should have exclusive items you can't get elsewhere. Even if they're just decorative. Like a fountain, or a special banner pattern, or a ship in a bottle, or a bust of a villager, etc. Just fun little extras for extra high emerald costs.

What if the wandering trader had something more like an insurance system, where you could pay in advance for two or three valuable items you want to preserve, and if you loose them, he’ll show up to give you those items back

about the glided blackstone: players could do what they do with gravel for flint; mine it over and over until you get the gold block. an idea for it could be that when mined without silk touch it would drop a scrap of gold which could be used in a smithing table with armor to get gilded armor, which will act like golden armor in the sense that piglins wouldn't get angry at you

Jeb has stated that poisonous potatoes will never get a use.

The wandering trader actually saved my world one time, so I'll always hold him in high regards. Me and my friends were doing a group SMP, but we spawned in a desert with no habitable areas in sight. However, there was an oasis with a sunken ship and a buried treasure nearby that gave us some emeralds. The trader eventually came and sold us a spruce sapling for a few emeralds. As overpriced as it was, it ended up making that terrible spawn habitable.

One of my favorite additions to the Quark mod has been a new use to poisonous potatoes. Although a bit dark, if you feed a baby animal a poisonous potato its growth will be stunted and it will remain a baby forever. Like I said, it's dark... but for people who want their pets to be small and cute, it's very useful.

The planets sure have been aligning a lot lately.

I will tell you, the poisonous potato, will NEVER have a use. Seriously, Jeb wants the poisonous potato to be useless

I just wanna be able to feed baby mobs poisonous potatoes to stunt their growth and have an army of baby sheep :(

I'd want to ride on a bear but you had to be wearing like, a new furskin armour or something, with a unique saddle, and it could attack mobs

I honestly think bats should fly in and out of caves with the day/night cycle, this would help add to the situation you disccussed.

Going back to the polar bear idea, I would love to see more ambient interactions that make the world seem alive even without the player. Had the iceologer been added, my hopes and dreams were that they would have a special interaction with goats. The mobs could have different relationships: one where they were hostile to each other where goats and iceologers could have mountaintop battles, another where they are neutral, and a final version where goats are more or less domesticated by the iceologer. That way, the two of them could team up and attack other entities. Encountering this duo would be a formidable fight. It's changes like these that I would love to see in Minecraft.

One of mojang's primary guide lines is there will never be a use for poisonous potatoes sadly.

"The Cat Dimension where normal laws of physics don't apply"

Next video: how to fix the enchanting mechanics. Personally I feel the enchanting feature is very broken. when I want good enchantments, I just build a trading hall. and to me that doesn’t feel right. I would love if you could learn them have to find enchantments by exploring and finding those enchantments on amour. Another cool idea is that you would have to use your xp to upgrade {example: to sharpness 2} to get more powerful enchantments. Over time, you would have learnt different enchantments and higher levels for them. This way you can get all the enchantments you want as long as you have mastered your enchanting skills. If you are interested in this sarc please make this video Id love to see it :) (And if anyone else likes this idea like it so he can see this. 😊)

Sarc: _shooting arrows at a fletching table's bullseye_ Target Block: "Am I a joke to you?"

Feeding the bat should make it fly through the cave using the shortest route to the surface, and you can follow it! :D

The wandering trader thing makes sense, it could also prioritize better items as the trader would want to salvage more valuable things

i really like the wandering trader one. like maybe he collects them and then sells it.

I've finally found a video, where I could share my idea. It's extremely simple, but will decently improve gameplay. So since 1.14 we have a new super-useful block called scaffolding, which requires bamboo to craft. Mojang devs even sad that they've added it to prevent players using dirt as scaffolding. But the problem is, that it is really hardly obtainable at the earlygame-midgame, when your base is being built. You need to travel vast distances to find a jungle cus it's the only way to obtain Bamboo. So players don't have any other way, than just using dirt instead. Solution is very simple. Just make the wandering trader sell bamboo, for example, for 10 emeralds. Now trader won't be completely useless and acquiring bamboo still will be challenging due to its price.

It's funny how Mojang still insists on not adding useless features or features that don't give much value to the game when they decline community suggestions but they turn around and add things like the glow squid... glow squid ink... They should really take their own advice TBH.

The wandering trader one was actually good as frick

For the guided block: if you could craft it by surrounding black stone with 4 golden nuggets in the crafting table because honestly it’s a really cool looking block

we should be able to ride polar bears like horses and attack with them while we're on it. Also, the bat thing would be OP to find bases

This video just shows how SimplySarc is one of the most quality uploaders of Minecraft content currently. I can't think of anyone else who has this consistent quality in their videos, at least for Minecraft. Definitely one of my favorite RU-vid channels, keep up the fantastic work Sarc!

I like everything in this, and would love to see all of these features added (although I'm a bit iffy on the potato based herbicide), another, I think "cleaner" way for the bats to help you to the surface would just be for them to pathfind to the nearest block with direct access to sky, waiting for the player if they get too far behind, and maybe glowing to make sure they don't lose track of the bat

Jeb actually wants the poisonous potato to remain useless forever.

Here's an idea I had a couple days ago: *Trophy Items* Killing Bosses (Ender dragon and Wither) or Sub-Bosses (Elder Guardian and Warden) will drop new ‘Trophy Items’. These trophies won’t impact you game in any literal way, all they do is act as trophies or proof that you killed one of these creatures. You would be able to either display these items on a new trophy stand block or you could attach them to your armour to show all who dare oppose you just what you’re capable of. (Note: they won’t affect your armour stats) *How to get them:* once you've killed one of the these powerful enemies they will have a chance to drop 1-3 trophy items that are different depending on the boss. I.e. dragon scales for the Ender Dragon, guardian eye for the Elder Guardian, cursed dust from the Wither, ancient horns from the Warden. *How to use them:* trophy items can be used in multiple ways, you could display them in the new trophy stand block which resembles a display case or you could attach them to your armour/equipment via a crafting table or maybe an anvil. Some examples to what your armour would look like are below: *Ender Dragon:* Dragon scale which makes your armour have a black, scaly appearance and adds white spines and spikes to it. They could also make your Elytra look like Dragon wings. *Wither:* makes your helmet look like a Wither head, gives your armour a black, decayed look *Elder Guardian:* Adds orange fins to parts of your armour and a big yellow eye to your helmet *Warden:* similar to the Wither armour but with a different colour pallet and adds the Wardens horns to the sides of your helmet.

"Wandering trader is useless" I will disagree. Yes, his tradable items are pretty situational, but the merchant was very helpful to me. When I survived in the snowy tundra biome there were thousands of blocks to the nearest deserts, and I desperately needed green dye. (I also needed different kinds of flowers that I could only dream of) And the merchant helped me out, since I lived in the village and had no problems with emeralds. Therefore, I think that the merchant is a useful feature, but due to the fact that he sells items from different biomes, and not something special, he becomes useless for players in the later stages of the game, since advanced players have the opportunity to get these materials yourself. It may be worth changing the items sold by the merchant in accordance with the stage of the game. For example, after you have opened a portal to the Nether, you can buy various rare items from the Nether, such as Warped and Crimson Nylium, Warped and Crimson Fungus, Soulsoil, and very rarely Nether Wart. And if you open a portal in The End, then it will sell Purple blocks, Chorus flowers, and very rarely Shulker Shell.This does not negate the exploration of the world, as these items are sold in small quantities, but they will be enough to make progress in the game.

I think something that would be interesting would be to breed and crossbreed plants and flowers. And maybe be able to make simple "drawings" in books, to record things. Just a single pixel black brush. I think it would seem more like being in a foreign land, and discovering things. It would also be cool to add specimens to books, like pressing and drying plants, or making animal mounts. It would be interesting to make clothing with unique pelts from animals as well. Insects would also be an interesting sort of thing, and could be an alternate way to make dye.

“If you could make, like, a bear skin rug or somethin,” *I liked that*

Also, in Minecraft Dungeons, in the redstone mines, they're allies that damages enemies like zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, and illagers.

Wandering Villager concept: Similar To how Cartographers Can trade for maps That can lead to Shipwrecks, Buried treasure, Ocean Monument, and Jungle temples. What if Wandering traders can get a rare chance to trade for a map that will lead to a certain biome? I for one Would find this extremely helpful, the ability to locate biomes easier early game, especially If you want to build a base in a certain biome.

Wandering traders are actually pretty useful for endgame purposes if you are a builder. Cause I'm in my friend's server, he lags very easily if new chunks are loaded and we couldn't find a single jungle so we couldn't get brown wool or jungle wood. Luckily there was a wandering trader to trade with us.

The new concept for the bat sounds really good! I would say the way it work is that it guides you towards the surface like the dolphin guides you towards the closest shipwreck. It would necessitate making a proper pathfinding AI so I don't think it will happen before a while but it seems to me like the best way to do it.

“Every update ads tons of new features” The bee update: allow me to introduce myself

Petition to make the wandering trader useful for something other than easy leads

Sarc may not upload much, but when he does it’s straight quality. quality > quantity

Weighing the literal entities would make it incredibly hard to actually count entities. Weighted pressure plates are currently the ONLY way to count entities.

You can smelt gilded blackstone for a full ingot. Silk Touch is in fact useful with it.

Ok so , thick potions and bats . Everything has a purpose in minecraft other than these two things . My idea is for a bat to drop a bat wing and when you combine it with a thick potion , it becomes the potion devibration . The warden cant detect you , skulk censors cant detec you , pressure plates cant detec you . I would love it if this made it to the game

And what about the minecart with furnace? Probably the less known item in the game. The thing that were not that useful when introduced and that become totally useless when powered rails got introduced. Also, poisonus potatoes are supposed to ne useless.

The Wandering Trader and bats have such cool ideas! Being able to get out of caves and get your stuff back with some helpful mobs would be great.

Shield enchants Give shields cool enchants like maybe thorns or a wider radius, possibly a weak force field around the player or maybe make mobs ignore you.

Mojang has gone on record as saying they will never make poisonous potatoes useful, so far as I can tell.

1:14 You could also use it to keep saplings in decorative mode, instead of them growing into trees or being stuck in pots. Or fully kill the saplings and make a dead bush instead! EDIT: 4:09 The Frostburn update (yes, IDK why I remember that)

Do another “restoring a griefed base”

Dolphins: swim boost and steal items. New bat mechanic: TELEPORT AND XRAY VISION! Seriously, maybe they just fly a bit towards the surface?

Jeb himself said he dosen't want the poisonous potato to have any use as his legacy.

5:17 SAME! Every time I die on a single player survival world, I delete it and start another

The reason why it’s so hard to move Minecraft villagers is because they aren’t meant to be relocated Minecraft has stated that their vision for the way that villages work would be for players to find a village and help improve and protect it. As the village grows you can build new houses, get better trades etc. One of the main ways that Minecraft tries to make you play this way is by limiting the accessibility of villager transportation. Relocating villagers and making villager farms isn’t an intentional design choice by mojang, it’s Just a side effect of the systems Minecraft put in place. Because let’s be real, it would look pretty bad if Minecraft started endorsing colonialism and chattel slavery

Polar bears should attack everything that is attacking a snow golem

The Wandering Trader was such a waste, it was obviously inspired by Térraria's Travelling Merchant, but it just pales horribly in comparison.

If the poisonious potatoe gets an use Jeb dies ._.

I hate nautilus shells and the heart of the sea because theyre used in a single crafting recipie and you never really end up using the condiut for anything. And if you do use it you never need more than one or two so you end up with like 5 hearts of the sea and a stack of nautilus shells in a chest somewhere.

I think the Clock is very useful, but it still gets hated on. Like everyone keeps saying “wElL jUsT lOOk oUtsIdE!” You’re not always going to be above ground, and the clock really only works when it could take a significant amount of time to surface and check the sun. Like if you’re underground or something and don’t want phantoms to spawn.

"There should be a way to get some of your items back" Keep Inventory:

bad call on the item loss. minecraft has so little difficulty left, and item loss is the only difficult part of the game left.

if i remember correctly, jeb said poisonous potato should never have an use

Love the lama idea and was amazed by the poisonous potato one. I never even knew that I would want a plant killing feature until you suggested it.

I was playing some Minecraft yesterday and had that same anti-bonemeal thought while fighting wither skeletons. I thought that they could drop Withered bones and you can do stuff like make Withered bonemeal/dust and have something to grow nether wart, and kill vegetation. For example removing grass or removing large amounts of leaves from trees like a sponge removing large amounts of water. And if you use it on nether wart when it is on nylium, you can get the nether trees

"And even in real life, bats are just kind of part of the scenery" *covid19 is typing...

YES!!! He finally uploaded!

Another excellent SimplySarc video, another day of wondering why Mojang hasn't hired this man yet.

The bat thing was good, but I think it would be even better if they had the same effect as a bell, but for all hostile mobs. It also makes sense, cause bats locate their prey by using echolocation.

What if instead of mining the gilded black stone, you had to smelt it? You can mine it normally without fear of breaking it, but smelt it down and you could get a 99% chance for gold nuggets, and a 1% chance for a gold block. Makes it sort of like a lottery ore block.

poisonous potatoes actually have uses! Since they don't poison you every time, these could be used as a mean to decide which one of your friends will do a chore(ie; mining, afking). So a group of friends will eat one and the ones who get poisoned are out!

the poisonous potato is the most useless feature in minecraft wh1plash has spoken

Polar bears along with strays are huge obstacles in the snow biome for me, so they have a purpose in my mind.

Idea: What if the poisonous potatoes were more common in slime chunks? almost as if its something in the soil that's making these slimes, and its poisoning the potatoes too

The Wandering Trader/Cat idea for lost gear is... actually really clever and straightforward. Love that.

I love how the villager just stands in the llama

"Poisoned potatoes will never have a use" -Jeb

Sarc: bats can have a better use. China: THE SOUP STORE.

I had a big discussion with some friends over useless Minecraft additions. Things like polar bears and pandas that didn't really add anything are what need to be incredibly limited in updates. Think of the parrot or bats, what do they do? Cat scare creepers, dogs protect, foxes hunt and hold items, you ride horses, dolphins give buffs while swimming, etc. It's a purely aesthetic addition. If they were the only additions like that, it wouldn't be a bad thing. It'd just be a novelty for players with nothing else to do. But now we're regularly getting additions that are just clutter without really adding anything of worth. I really like Sarc's idea of giving these things a use, especially the polar bear and poisonous potato uses.

2 sarc videos in just under 2 weeks, a miracle has come true