Minecraft FEATURES nobody uses 

Mushroom Island is far from useless. It's perfect for an endgame base: mobs don't spawn on it, it's easy to terraform and the grass is bright green, perfect for building.

The clock is mandatory for me, I never feel comfortable in a new Minecraft world until I've made a clock and stuck it in the corner of my hotbar. The reason? I hate the night and I hate hostile mobs. If I've been toiling away in the mines for hours the last thing that I want to do when I come up for air is to get attacked by a creeper topside. This is multiplied by 100 if I'm fiddling around near a town that I haven't lit up every square inch of and walled up - while I'm fooling around indoors or underground the whole village could be getting massacred. Truly the secret to a healthy (Minecraft) life is a rock solid sleep routine.

charcoal is definitely not even close to un-used. coal can be hard to find in the latest updates for the first while.

I actually like that charcoal feature. It's a good way to optimize furnaces sense you can just grow trees.

I feel like chainmail would be immediately more useful if you were able to combine it with other armor sets to give a further boost in durability, kinda like how chainmail IRL was more of a layer you would wear instead of your sole armor set.

I always use the charcoal feature because it means I can get torches within the first 2 minutes of playing. It means I don’t have to waste time looking for coal when I should be spawnproofing the area and building a shack for the night

They should make Desert Wells only generate in deserts where there’s no water for like 100 200 or 300 blocks

for some redstone machines, poisonous potatoes are actually handy as item clogs for hoppers so you can siphon materials without having to let the hopper fill up first

I have a theory that desert wells serve as a tutorial of such to new players, showing them how to make infinite water sources, like how jungle temples show off basic Redstone and traps or how ruined portals give a hint on what a nether portal looks like

Potion of Turtle master is actually really helpful if you wanna try to kill the Warden. Still pretty niche use but definitely useful if you wanna take on that challenge.

Alternate title: VirtualAct knows one way to play minecraft, assumes that’s how everyone else plays

It’s funny that you mentioned the clock because any time I go mining I have a clock on me so I know if it’s daytime up at the surface. If it isn’t, I’ll mine until morning.

Charcoal is actually SUPER useful especially after the caves and cliffs update, as coal is a bit weird to find now edit: why the fuck are you guys arguing about farms and shit

I feel like the mushroom islands are a great place to build a base, as they have a very lush grass colour (as well as water). Also, the mushroom cows are a great renewable food source early game.

For the spectral arrow, Piglins can trade it to you in bulk, making them useful earlier game.

9:15 i remember in early versions when the only structures on the surface were villagers, temples and villages and the world felt emptier, stumblimg across one was cool, i used to think those meant a desert village was nearby

I personally use the furnance minecart, It's actually really helpful to move villagers or mobs, instead of using powered rails just use a cheap furnance minecart and one coal.

Charcoal is actually pretty useful. It’s great for the early game when you haven’t done a lot of mining yet, especially if you plan to build using stone bricks or smooth stone.

I love how both of the mobs we got in the recent mob votes (glow squid, sniffer, armadillo) and the frog would make their way here cuz all they do is add niche decor or a tiny change

the Chain Armor would be nice to equip above the normal armor to even further increase the shield points. This would even encourage to go find chain armors in chests like going to find a notch apple

Spectral arrows are crafted with one arrow (annoying to get) and glowstone (easy and plentiful) and give you two arrows in return. They let you double your arrow count and give you a spectral bonus to see targets. They are a must and even give you a neat bonus!

The poisonous potato does have one use, unlike the thick potion (made when you put glowstone into a water bottle in a brewing stand). You need to eat it if you want to complete the "A Balanced Diet" advancement.

„Painting leather armors has no use” Bedwars: am I a joke to you?

For the spectral arrows, if you encounter the Warden, you can shoot it to see it through the blindness effect

Poisoned potatoes are VERY useful as currency in servers as it has no other use and it’s pretty hard to get so it has a use.

As someone who's been involved with the computation redstone community, locked repeaters are EXTREMELY important. They can be extremely useful in any memory circuit in redstone.

I absolutely love the clock and consider it to be one of the most useful tools in the game. With a quick glance, I can know when it's safe to emerge from caves or if I have enough time to leave my house without fear of being surrounded by monsters.

Okay hear me out: the furnace Minecraft is actually crazy for transporting mobs long distances

Personally I always use Charcoal. Especially early on. Also something I learned recently is that spectral arrows are really good at combatting the warden since it lets you keep an eye on its location and is still visible even if it hits you with blindness. Allowing you to always track how close it is to you

I think the dead bushes look really good as decor items if you get creative enough. I have seen so many clever builds that include it.

i thought bats were gonna be at number 1 but they’re not even on the list, and they have literally NO use

I remember thinking back way in the old days of minecraft that desert wells had a chest in them. im pretty sure it was an obscure mod i saw on youtube but I used to check under every desert well and I was always thoroughly disappointed xD

As a builder I use Dead bushes all the time for pathway decoration and larger potted plant creation.

Charcoal is actually very useful since the 1.18 update. The moshroom island is very good to build your base on, once you terraform it. Dead bushes are actully really good for decorating. I use locked repeaters all the time on my redstone buildings. The furnace Minecart is actually REALLY useful if you're moving mobs around in rail lines.

spectral arrows were useful to me when i did nether survival, you essentially take an arrow and double it by crafting it into spectral. quite useful when arrows aren't plentiful

8:41 i don’t think you can locate dungeons

Furnace minecarts make great cheap railways. I used one to import a couple villagers to my villager settlement because it meant I could move the villagers faster than using a boat on land, and didn't have to spend a bunch of gold on a railway that was never going to be permanent. Also, the clock is great to gauge when you can sleep-especially when underground.

Charcoal has kinda saved my butt a few times. With the new generation it’s harder to come across coal down where diamonds are. I always bring spare wood with me for sticks etc, and sometimes charcoal. Been a few occasions I had to make some because I ran out of torches and coal. Or maybe a tool broke and I needed to smelt up a new one asap.

I love riding pigs because I can get my friends to hop on and then leash it before flying away with an elytra. Works better with slow falling.

You’re right, poisonous potato needs a buff

You need 1 arrow and 4 lightstone dust to make 4 spectral arrows, so while the effect they give is only needed in specific situations most players craft them because you just get more arrows by crafting spectral arrows

Uses for some of these features: poisonous potatoes fill more hunger than regular potatoes, and do not always poison you. They are also easy to obtain on servers. Dead bushes are useful for when you spawn in a desert with barely any resources in sight as they give access to sticks. Clocks are useful for people who live underground and have either bees or villagers because they are only awake in the day. Mushroom islands are useful if you want a place where mobs do not spawn (except mooshrooms). Charcoal is useful in skyblock or other challenges as coal is difficult or impossible to come by. For spectral arrows, you get 2 spectral arrows when crafting them, doublng the amount of arrows you have, and piglins also give you them when bartering for enderpearls.

Desert wells are finally useful with archaeology, though it’s much more efficient to just go for an underwater ruin

The poisonous potatos finally have a use now lol

spectral arrows can be useful in warden emergencies. if you hit it from a good enough distance, you risk being detected but get absolute visibility on the creature even through the darkness effect. it may be niche but it may also be a life saver

Spectral arrows are useful to keep track of the warden, since you're able to make him visible even when darkness is applied.

I use clocks in my underground bases. Helps to know if I should wait and sleep before going exploring.

spectral arrow is useful for hitting yourself while mining in multiplayer. All your friends will be able to see you through blocks and you can meet up much easier.

The spectral arrow is really good when taking on ancient cities. it's the only counter to the darkness effect because you can still see outlines

Charcoal is a great mid game item. One of the first farms that I always construct is a tnt powered tree farm. Charcoal becomes great for fuelling your early game furnace array, especially when you bring several shulkers of sand or any other item that you smelt in mass. It is simply too tedious going out for coal when you have a surplus of logs. As you eventually construct your wither skeleton farm you will probably swap to either coal or coal blocks. (unless ur a bamboo enjoyer. Bamboo is random tick based which mean your massive furnace array would not receive additional fuel whilst being run via chunk loading. If you are going to have something like a 1m bamboo storage you are better off filling that space with coal anyways. What I'm saying is bamboo is not great as your main fuel source but can be used to run smaller arrays that are attached to other random tick/player required based farms.)

Desert Wells aren't that useless anymore, since you can find suspicious sand around it.

While ive never needed to use it, i do think the turtle master potion could have uses in small spaces like dungeons, where it might be handy to have some extra resistance but mobility isnt as important, but idk tho

The spectral arrow is pretty useful for PvP with teams, especially if each team has actually been teamed by using the /team command that changes the teams nametag color, since the glow effect color glows accordingly with the player nametag color. Also never in my life have I crafted arrows my own, so I always use spectral arrows since theres a plethora of them in bastions. And I'm too lazy to kill skeletons or make a skeleton farm.

even though some of these features might not be used a lot, it's still nice to have them. It just gives you more freedom to play the game however you want, which is quite nice.

A dumb extra thing about rabbit stew is that the edible ingredients eaten separately fill more hunger than just the one, which makes the stew so useless you really only eat it for the Balanced Diet advancement.

With the most recent update to Minecraft, desert wells spawn with suspicious sand:)

For the beetroots, beetroot stew gives you more saturation (which is different than hunger) than regular beetroots which is why it is better than six beetroots Edit: It would seem my comment sparked some controversy

I’ve always used charcoal. It’s really useful especially for the start of the game and for automatic smelting.

Half of the things in this video are useful

9:54 I liked the concept of using it to produce poison potions, shame it's a mod exclusive

furnace minecarts have a way to make "trains" of up to 4 minecarts (which break when turning) and also desert wells aren't considered structures by the game. Instead they are considered "features" which I think is also what naturally-spawning trees are considered.

The furnace minecart is a great way of moving mobs on a temporary rail without having to setup (or even make) powered rails. It's simpler, and when transporting multiple mobs, you usually care more about them actually getting there that how fast they get there. So no. They're not useless.

Charcoal is pretty useful early game tho, I always use it if either im going down a cave for the first time in the world or if I ran out of coal midgame and I cant be bothered to go mining for a while.

My redstoner brain started on fire when you said no one uses locked repeaters, that's the staple for silent toggles

I wish the Mushroom Island biome had it's own foliage. Like, if you've found the Cherry Grove biome from the recent update, there are these decorative "pink petals" all over the ground that work like Sea Pickles and Candles, where you can stack multiple on a block and it changes their appearance. Maybe having some mushrooms that can do that, or some "spores." It would also be fun if the cows munched on the spores and mushrooms, giving a sort of in-game explanation as to their appearance.

I’ve started using charcoal instead of coal with the last update. Coal now is harder for me to find and wood is plentiful and easy to get. It’s a lot easier now to have a tree farm than to scour the mines for coal.

6:25 I think it's more used as a decorative item

charcoal is extremely useful and I've actually pretty frequently used charcoal in the early game when playing hardcore. I think I've been exceptionally unlucky when it comes to finding my first coal. I actually had one hardcore game where i had several pieces of iron equipment before i found my first coal. even in the later game though, it can be good to know about in a bind.

Leather boots have become useful since the powder snow was added, because they prevent you from sinking. Rabbit hides are going to be useful very soon, I hope, once the bundle is finally added in the vanilla game. They are cute too ^^ And desert wells are also finally useful as of the latest snapshot, because they became an archaeology site!

I usually use charcoal over coal, you can always easily get a lot of it and I don't have to go to the mines to get fuel (I mostly prefer other aspects of the game). Also I didn't know about locked repeaters at all! Thank you for explaining it!

Furnace minecarts are amazing. Using it means you never have to craft and set up powered rails for moving mobs like villagers around. If you’re not using it, you’re crazy.

Dead bushes can actually be used to look like the branches of a small tree! Step 1: place a pot Step 2: place a dead bush Step 3: place a leaf of your choice on top. Step 4: place another leaf of your choice on top making it two leaves tall. (Optional)

for no. 3, making spectral arrows with glowstone actually doubles the amount of arrows you have, so if you hav enough glowstone and need more arrows (say in a speedrun) it can be quite useful

About the spectral arrow: it's very nice since you get tons by trading with piglins, no need for a skeleton farm. Also it's great against the Warden since he gives you blindness, so if you shoot him you can keep track of where he is, finally just in pvp - if you shoot someone they can't hide behind a tree or hill for 10 seconds, it's more useful than you might think.

Furnace minecarts can actually be pretty helpful since they launch other minecarts at the max speed, allowing you to use less powered rails uphill and across. Plus, as long as the track is straight, you can use them to push minecarts along to clear ones that get lost or left behind.

I honestly love the furnace minecart cause when used properly really does make a train. You can actually link the furnace minecart with a regular minecart then wherever the furnace goes, you follow. It's such a cool mechanic that would be so cool if minecarts as a whole weren't so weak. I think my favorite part about the furnace minecart was that I found a way that it would essentially push my minecart and take me somewhere and would always be in front of my minecart no matter which destination I was at. It's made transportation so much funner especially since you could link it with a minecart chest and literally create easy ways of transporting items. I remember in a dmo making a coal mine that made it so you could literally call for a minecart chest and put your iron and ores in it and then use the furnace minecart to send it back to the surface to make mining so much easier since you didn't have to keep throwing away all that cobblestone. Man I really do wish Mojang didn't just forget all about minecarts and rails cause it could be so much fun if it was buffed and fleshed out some more. Who doesn't wanna create huge train systems throughout your world.

The mushroom island is pretty great, building your base without monster spawns is awesome. It's also good when making mob grinders just outside of the biome because of increased efficiency

It doesn't matter if a feature is rarely used or unnecessary. Minecraft is about possibilities and systems. The problems with modern features is that they're so incongruent with the world of Minecraft and its systems.

I wish the potion of luck had a use. They could make frogs drop frog legs which could be cooked and eaten or used to make a potion of leaping. That way, a rabbits foot could be used for a potion of luck. When consumed, would increase the likely hood of mobs dropping rare items. Zombies dropping iron and carrots, mobs wearing armour. Could also work like looting and provide more general drops. It would also increase rare and unique loot tables when finishing or opening vaults and dungeon chests

The spectral arrow is crazy useful. It costs one normal arrow to make two spectral arrows. If you don’t have infinity (or want mending on your bow), you can double your amount of arrows and given them added functionality

Charcoal used to be more useful for auto-smelters. Hook up a tree farm to an auto-smelter, and loop the charcoal back into the furnaces to make more. With the advent of bamboo, however, it lost that use, as bamboo can be used directly.

Locked repeaters are actually used in a very useful redstone circuit. The worlds smallest combination lock. Its only 1 block tall and can be extended infinitely

Locked repeaters are used all the time, you can easily use it for falling mono stable circuits

I've actually used the desert well. One time I was building something deep in the desert with concrete powder and forgot to bring water to make concrete. But then on the way to the build site I found a desert well and didn't have to go back to get water.

8:24; Speedrunners use spectral arrows that they get from piglin trades to kill the dragon. They don't care about the glowing effect.

as for the charcoal, I often use it in deeplsalte when I run out of torches as coal is relatively rare there, so it's easier to just use bonemeal on a moss block until I get a tree, then I smelt that tree into the charcoal to make torches

The minecart coming around the corner at 7:42 jumpscared me really bad, even though I knew it was coming 😂 And I'll have to disagree on the clock. I use it if I go on long mining sessions, to keep track of time and avoid phantoms appearing.

I fondly remember using most of these, and usually in the past year. Clock is really useful in caves (I always have one on me), I have trouble finding coal early game and use charcoal instead, beetroot stew was my main food in my pocket edition world, dead bushes are a great source of sticks in the desert, and I've found a desert well in quite a few worlds and I just think they're cool.

personally i find spectral arrows very useful, they make it easier to tell where the mob you're trying to hit is if it's something far away or you're just in a dark environment. the crafting recipe isn't worth it but you can get them from bartering with piglins

The poisonous potato doesn't just poison you it completes the 2 achievements like the balanced diet

Spectral Arrows are very specific but they could be useful in Dispensers to catch intruders sneaking into your base. They alert you of potential danger and shows if they're still approaching or if the effect caused a retreat.

8:38 My brother always told me that if you go south of a desert well, you will find a desert temple. I believed it for 4-5 years.

Much of these features are long overdue for an update. I wanted *Blocks of Charcoal* since the textures for it & the Coal item became distinctive from one another, mainly as another palette for builds. Shame that the *Beetroot/Rabbit Stews* became outclassed by the more recent *Suspicious Stew,* especially the saturation boost one. Hopefully *Bundles* will be added soon, so we have a reason to farm rabbits. With the *Sniffer,* maybe it can dig up _new, rare_ *Mushroom types* only found in the Mushroom Biome. Also with _new plants/seeds that comes with the Sniffer,_ they can be used to interact with the *Mooshroom,* much like how _certain flowers_ can change which type of *Suspicious Stew* you can get by milking the cow with a *Bowl.* Not much to say about *Nitwits* other than that, when *Villagers* were 1st added to Minecraft, they all wore _green coats,_ have no gameplay function, & have no idle SFX. There's a theory I like where *Wandering Traders* used to be Nitwits, with their green undershirt. *Chainmail* should be craftable with the _actual_ *Chain items.* Otherwise, bring the *zombie to drowned* _100% gear drop with full durability_ mechanic from Bedrock Edition to Java. *Deadbushes* with *Leaf Blocks* on top can simulate small trees/bushes. There's a mod that allows you to convert *Saplings* into Deadbushes by placing them on *Sand,* which would be a nice vanilla feature. I've seen a video mentioning a GUI for the *Furnace Minecart* & *Chains* being used to _link_ *Minecarts* to form a "train," giving Furnace Minecarts a much needed upgrade, as well as another function for Chains. *Poisonous Potatoes* should be used to brew a potion of sorts. Well, at least they're good to use for item filters.

With the new Mace weapon, the Leaping Potion will be more useful.

I only use charcoal or lava in my furnaces save the coal to sell to villagers, didnt know that was considered odd, love the video!

The spectral Arrow is one of the more usefull byproduct of the bathering Farm. Mainly i use those farms for quarz, Blackstone and Obsidian, as well as some netherbricks. So i get those arrows for free, so i use them...

Cubecraft has slowfall potions in some of their skywars games. Massively underrated for attacking other islands, sneaking up on your enemies, and negating fall damage

1:10 ABUNDANT YET NEVER AVAILABLE WHEN I PLAY

The dyeing system of leather armor has, for a long time, been the only source of armor customization in the game for years. I guess it was due for a serious revamp, because apparently one of the upcoming features for 1.20 is armor patterns- obtainable from different kinds of dungeons and structures and can be used to mix and match different materials with different armor types in a variety of patterns. So i guess the armor customization system is coming back soon, baby

I used the furnace minecart once to transport a bunch of items in minecart chests. Because minecarts like to bounce on each other, I kept finding that when transporting like this, the minecarts would start moving the wrong way. But the furnace minecart wouldn't. So it can be used to make sure the minecarts consistently moves in the correct direction. This was back in 1.5.2 (so before shulker boxes), and on a custom map I was playing where the rails were already placed for me. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't use it. But I think it did have a use case back then and people just didn't realize that it could help fix this issue of minecarts bouncing back.