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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The poisonous potatos finally have a use now lol

You’re right, poisonous potato needs a buff

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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 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 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.

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

I think some of this stuff, like dyed leather armor and potions of leaping/turtle master give a lot of options and creativity to multiplayer, parkour maps, and story adventure maps.

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

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.

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

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.

Some of these really come down to play style and game settings. Clocks are absolutely clutch for me when I'm doing shift work while setting up a base - mining at night and building out the base during the day. The clock lets me know when it's time to go back outside to continue building. It's also useful for when I've had to make the world's worst hidey hole when caught traveling at night (like digging straight down a few blocks and popping a block on top because I'm being assaulted lol). Clock lets me know when it's time to leave, in case for some reason I can't hear mobs dying in the morning. And charcoal is great. I pretty often play the game just by roaming around instead of actually mining and charcoal gives me that option more easily. (It's also saving my life in the One Chunk At A Time mod that I'm playing now. My spawn chunk does not have a reasonable amount of coal.) I found the dead bushes and rabbits to be useful when I set a world to large biomes and spawned in the dead center of a massive desert. The sticks from the dead bushes weren't objectively useful but it made me feel better to have something to swing around (and offset my wood use when I finally did find a tree), and the only food source was rabbit, although I think I spent more in hunger running around trying to catch them than I got from eating them.

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.

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

I always use clocks for survival games. If i want to build something but know its getting late though not sun set yet it lets me plan accordingly on what i can realistically build in time. Or if i am going on shortish trip gives me an idea if a bed is needed or not.

Potion of the Turtle Master is actually quite useful, for example, As Camman18 pointed out in his video, it can make you tank a charged creeper at point blank without the help of any armor, for reference, a God Apple can’t even do that. Another thing pointed out about it is that the slowness effect can mostly be minimized by jumping. This is why it was commonly used by Technoblade, rest in peace, in most of his 1v1s.

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.

It is very ironic that I use at least half these features regularly, or know uses for them that'd actually be somewhat worthwhile. For example, dessert wells can contain suspicious sand, spectral arrows are useful when fighting the warden, and I personally like using a clock whenever it's raining just because it's easier to tell when nightfall begins. There's plenty of uses for pretty much all those things. Personally, I like throwing a poisonous potato on an armor stand because it's fun, and dyeing leather armor is a neat decoration. Mooshroom islands have one of the best food sources in the game, as well as just a natural immunity to mob spawns (though I agree they should give it another feature, which I think they might be, I'm not sure though). Rabbits may not be the most useful mob, but they're adorable. Also, I really wish they did something for Beetroot, it's always been the most pointless crop in the game, even the soup isn't all that great. But yeah, a lot of those features I do actually use, and I think it's funny that they're listed. Especially something like charcoal which is a fairly important tool in the early game. And chainmail is nice armor to get early game too.

i made a tree farm early on in my minecraft world, and one day once i realized i cleaned out the cave systems and would have to start strip mining to find new caves i turned my tree farm into a charcoal farm too. i use clocks when im underground and want to know when its safe to come out since mob drops are lower underground when its night above. i have a riding pig from early on before horses were added, i even set up secret pig only entrance to part of my base. and i often use furnace carts to move chest carts around when i dont want to babysit my rail system and need to move things around, normally up in elevation or around tight corners where powered rails dont work as well without a ton of them or extra space. make the golden hoe as a joke on occasion too, most if not all the farms i need are built already but if a crop gets stepped on i dont like wasting diamonds on hoes and iron would work but wheres the fun in that.

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.

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.

I utilised the furnace Minecart ALOT in the early stages of building my nether highway See the way ive setup my realms highway is so that it not only connects the places but can also be used as a means of transporting large amounts of material to different areas. Ive setup a redstone connection that allows you to choose where its going and who to, there's activator rails at each end that are connected to lamps to allow someone to know if there is a train currently or if the line is free, all lamps are connected so everyone can see. It was very ambitious but since then ive replaced it with normal powered rails (i didnt have nearly enough gold at the start) The highway design isn't clunky either as the rails and redstone are all under & inside the structure. Unfortunately after putting so much effort into connecting my realm players bases, its not used much anymore. I did all that within a week or two, definitely fun having the drive but i know the surge will come back.

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.

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

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.

I personally always make villager trading halls underground where you can’t see what time of day it is, so I always put a clock on the wall so I know when villagers have restocked and I can start trading again

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

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.

Idk man I always use charcoal early on in my worlds, its really good if night hits and you havent found any coal yet, its also a really good way of getting iron equipment if you havent found coal or *enough* coal, for example you can turn 2 pieces of coal you find by into about 6 or so charcoal which you can use for torches or smelting iron if you find any. in my most recent world i got really unlucky and didnt find any coal until the 2nd-3rd night, but I had 2 iron pickaxes and a shield + sword before I had 20 units of coal

Furnace minecarts used to work as intended. I remember back before powered rails I had group of them running up and down out of my mineshaft pushing minecarts. Once mojang added powered rails however I stopped using them, but I have no clue at what point the furnace minecarts broke the way they are now.

And I wanna take the title personally: -Supersecret features are both to entertain curious players and to give lore of how mobs see -Charcoal is a way to make coal even if you're stranded on an island with no caves, so coal is not extrictly necessary -Rabbit food is good i guess -Mushroom Island are great to live in since no mobs spawn, and it's nice to find rare biomes -Nitwits at least aport lore and bed density to a village -Leaping potions help on survival games or for construction if you don't have a beacon (In Bedrock, getting a beacon is not as easy as Java) -Chain armor is more like a trophy than a protection, but it can be useful if you find it before iron. -Dead bushes are the easiest way to get lot of sticks if you're spawning on a big desert -Beetroot stew gives more uses to the bowl. -Redstone repeaters block is used for complicated contraptions we probably never use but redstone nerds like it -Turtle Master might be hard as heck to get but it's a great way to fight heavy, tough enemies as an entire raid of vindicators or even a Warden -With the new 1.20 armor trims plus leather boots being a way to avoid powder snow, you can make really nice designs with it. -The clock is useful for miners or to have another way to know the time -I didn't even know Minekart Spawner existed :0 -Pigs is fun and necessary to win an achievement -Furnace Minekart was used to impulse minekarts before powered rails existed, and can be used to automatize rails track if you're poor. -Golden hoe is just the Homonymous golden version of the rest, it simply must exist -Glowing arrows or whatever are used to mark players even if they hide or sneak and can be great to see the Warden while in darkness effect, allowing you to know where to walk away -Desert wells are a way to get water in the new deserts since they now generate less water lakes. Also is part of the lore, and in the 1.20 is one of the few places where archeology can be used -Poisonous potato is a way to troll your noob friend I agree most of this items or mechanics are barely used, I just wanted to give a point on their advantage for fun. Great 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...

Spectral arrows are actually great when you get them from bartering in the nether. I got a stack during my expedition for a bastion, and that's 64 whole extra arrows to snipe every nether mob you find that would otherwise be dangerous up close

Charcoal is still quite useful for super-smelters, you can make a tree farm and funnel the logs into furnaces then from those furnaces distribute the charcoal to the rest of your smelting setup, since 1 Coal/Charcoal will smelt 8 items, you can fuel 1 wood-smelting furnace and 7 additional furnaces perpetually as long as you have 1 to start the process and keep feeding the first furnace logs. Scale this up as much as you please for large-scale, fast, automatic smelting. Spectral Arrows are useful for doubling your arrows if you don't have Infinity on your Bow (some people prefer Mending since arrows can be cheaply farmed) or if you're using a Crossbow. One regular arrow plus 4 Glowstone Dust makes TWO spectral arrows, and since Glowstone can easily be mined in large quantities in the Nether, obtained via trading with a Cleric Villager or by farming Witches. And the ability to mark enemies hit is useful in dark caves, fighting the Ender Dragon or just generally alerting your friends to where enemies are.

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!