Minecraft's "Useless" Features

just realized something minecraft got rid of the fireflies because fireflies are poisonous to frogs yet bees can pollinate pitcher plants, the carnivorous plant that eats bugs

saying horses are useless is like saying iron armor is useless, they're genuinely really useful mid game if you and your friend group aren't sweaty and play the game at a slower pace

100% certified true. Never go to the end because it's not what i like in minecraft. I like doing my own small projects like "make futuristic drilling site with robots" or "build an aztec temple in a swamp and make it a village", or, the most recent one, "build statues of cryptic creatures like bigfoot or nessy in hidden places all around the server". Never rush it, always appreciate time spent on walking around.

dont forget, zombies cant reach you on the camel!

Turtle shell is actually the most well-thought-out item in the bunch, it's mechanic is essentially pre-1.13 breathing. For comparison, imagine Mojang added dagger so spam-clickers can still fight like they used to in 1.9.

I think Minecraft ultimately benefits from having a bunch of stuff to do and find, even if not all of it is immediately 'useful' to everyone. It's why modpacks are such a big thing. The issue is that so much of that stuff feels so underbaked, with Mojang just... not doing anything with any of it before moving on to the next thing! Even with Microsoft's backing, that by all rights should have supercharged their development capabilities, almost like they're being actively held back (some of the dumber mandates, like 'no sharks', or 'no real animals as hostile mobs', or the firefly thing, definitely imply that).

I was one of those people who criticized trail ruins when they came out but when I actually dug one up, restored it and created a museum near it and its own lore it was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had in Minecraft.

0:52 the game doesn't promote this tho. All the game tells you to do is punch a tree at the start of the game. It is the community that promotes speed runing to elytra. It is the community that promotes doing nothing but beating the ender dragon. It is the community that promotes making giant gold and iron farms completely destroying the balance of the game because its is very obviously an exploit that has been left in because it may as well be item duping. Mojang has nothing to do with it.

Gold horse armor being better than iron makes sense. Gold tools, weapons and armor are better than iron too, they just break faster

Honestly the people who say certain features are completely useless probably aren’t the people who are intended to use said feature. I love seeing all the neat critters and messing around with new blocks/updates/mechanics/etc., and I don’t really think it’s fair for someone to call Mojang lazy because a feature doesn’t appeal to them specifically. That’s my two cents on it, as someone who doesn’t really play survival but just likes creative mode, though.

the mob heads are so hard to get, especially in java, and ESPECIALLY the piglin head

I love how people say horses are useless, even though it’s the best way of travel before you “BEAT THE GAME”

This video was pretty cool! I think that you found the thing with useless stuff. It can be "useless". But not pointless. If it can have something interesting going on for it. Then neat!

collecting trims and sherds are certified joy in my experience :D

i hope the green axolotl makes it into the game one day,,,, maybe as like a rare chance when breeding blue ones idk i just think it'd be neat

For me my favourite so-called "useless" feature is the fox. They can do so many things and it's hilarious how many items they can actually use, but it's all ultimately rather useless to the player. I've worked with foxes IRL and having them in game just makes me happy. I think one improvement I would make on them is instead of possibly spawning with an item in their mouths, maybe they can dig them up and you can barter snacks to them to obtain it. "Tame" foxes could give you rarer items and the items could vary on fox varient. Also could add more varients.

Minecraft players realizing these updates aren't made for the 8% of players who interact with the community but instead the casuals who are more willing to pay for mincrotranactions and realms

One thing specifically for features in 1.20 that I’ve heard said is that it feels like the features added in that update were designed so that they could be added upon and given more depth in the future, like how Copper continues to get more and more functionality with each update. So it’s completely possible that things like Archaeology and the sniffer could be expanded upon in future updates

I really like this new positive take on how the "useless features" can just be a fun random thing to do without having them be seen as just a part of minecraft's bloate

i love the music discs so much waaaa theyre like my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE collection of things in the game . all of them are unique and nice to listen to (small exception for the three number discs, those are more scary than anything) and i enjoy them a lot, thank you for putting them in here