Mumbo forgetting how to craft an arrow because he's always relied on skeleton farms is like a multi-billionaire not knowing the price of the average loaf of bread
Chest boats are super useful in the earlygame, in my experience. Starting the game and almost instantly sailing away in search of villages, shipwrecks, and buried treasure is significantly less annoying than it used to be. As soon as you get set up a long-term base to store your loot, they get significantly less useful, and once you get shulkers, unfortunately, they’re basically obsolete.
Came here to say the same thing, basically. For thems of us who don't go to the End very often, it's a great way to explore, and safely store things that you don't want to lose when you're out on an adventure.
I find they're quite useful for gathering a lot of sand, especially in the mid-game. Sail across the sea to some beaches/deserts, fill it up, head home.
The fletching table that gives 1/4 of the amount of arrows you'd get from a normal crafting recipe feels like such a Zedaph thing to build and I love it!
There is a use for chest boats! In Bedrock, you can put leads on them (you might also be able to in Java, but I don’t know) & pull multiple around. On land you have to go really slow so as to not break the leads, but on water the chest boats travel at the same speed as the boat dragging them so you can take lots of inventory with you on overseas journeys.
Chest boats are useful in 2 situations. 1: as a container bigger than 1 block, that's also an entity so you can push it. 2: in really early game, it's a nice bonus for your inventory while exploring.
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I love chest boats in early exploration. I often spend a lot of time in a new world just finding the place I want to live and I tend to pick up a lot of stuff while I'm doing that. Before the chestboat, I'd have to leave a chest of stuff somewhere and go back for it later. Mind you, I'm not a packrat, I'm just picky about where I want to live lol
I've always imagined that the reason you cannot retrieve a saddle from a strider is because the nether is so hot, that the saddle melts and fuses into the striders skin.
You can kill striders for saddles and the exact same same problem is about pigs, when you put a saddle on one you can't take it off and it just walks away.
I have used chest boats many times, its surprisingly useful for hauling items before you make a permanent base. It's basically extra inventory space. Also I've heard that minecarts with saddled pigs in them go crazy fast.
@@Lucci136Apart from the application in the video chest boats can be filled/emptied very fast, as it has 40 potential in-/outputs. It can also be used to transport items via flying machines and can be more useful than chest minecarts in some cases, due to its large pick up range.
The chest boat HAS been used massively in collection system because they can have 30 inputs in total due to their hitbox. That's 60 times hopper speed filling maybe even more. That makes for unbelievable item transport
Me and a friend have actually managed to use the chest boat for its intended purpose. We had managed to collect 5 different treasure maps that we had found as we explored our world and went on a mega treasure hunt. We both went in chest boats and it was so useful early game having portable storage pre Shulker boxes. Loved the video mumbo. It's great seeing a new video that's jam packed with useull unuseful things.
The chest boat is useful on SMPs. When being chased down by other players, a chest boat is a 1 player boat, so nobody else can get into it, meaning it's easier to escape.
I use chest boats all the time in early game! Pre elytra and shulker boxes, it is a good way of travelling decent distances (doesn't make you hungry to row a boat) and effectively doubles your inventory. As someone that takes the early game pretty slow, they are awesome.
I usually use a mule with a chest and just put them in a boat when I need to go in water, but they are sometimes hard to find so the chest boat is a good substitute imo
I have, in fact, used the chest boat for its intended purpose. When you don't have shulkers or an enderchest, (Or even if you have an ender chest but no shulkers), the chest boat is a godsend when doing any sort of exploration over water. I think that speaks more to the issues with Minecraft's inventory system than it does to the usefulness of the chest boat though.
8:52 For chest boats (and striders for that matter), I don't think they're going to be very useful for any late-game players, but for early game they can be nice. Pre-elytra and shulker box, chest boats could be useful if someone wants to start a build project in the ocean and needs to transport a bunch of items to the spot. Striders can be useful for someone with limited potions (and though ugly, you can just use blocks to trap it so you don't lose the saddle)
Not just for ocean building projects. "Early" game (well, more like mid game for me, since I don't usually focus much on getting to the end and nether), I often find myself using a (chest) boat to travel the long distances to remote map features/biomes (for example to mine some ice). Even if the route by water is a bit longer and the boat is a bit slower, it's just a LOT easier to travel by boat instead of horse because you don't have to pay constant attention to things like holes in the ground.
I've actually used a chest boat for it's intended purpose, I was gathering vast amounts of Kelp. After I would break a lot of Kelp, I'd swim up and get in the chest boat, ride around on the water collecting the Kelp because it seems to also increase the area you can collect items. I'd then put the Kelp in the chest and use a bubble elevator to get up to my floating island. :)
Chest boats might be useful while building a farm in the ocean. If you're just starting your world, it basically doubles the space where you can store the materials
@@acorn8773 But then you have to run back to where the chests are much more frequently, instead of using the chest boat as portable storage. And I'm not even much of a builder. I can see it being incredibly useful for building something in the ocean where you have one central storage for the build, and then use the chest boat to extend inventory space so you don't need to go back and forth as frequently.
I’ve haven’t used a chest boat yet, but trying to move stuff before you get shulker boxes is a pain. Chest boats seem like a game changer for trying to move stuff early on.
I use chest boats in early world Minecraft games a bit. Mainly use it in redstone. Usefully in many types of contraptions but mainly for increased items dumping speed. Got 4x speed depending on how many hoppers it's on. By the way found out droppers are a really interesting tool for redstone because of the item transfer mechanic that sends items through multiple droppers at once allowing to make cool machines like working slot machines and arcade mini games.
I used it once when I got killed by a trident drown early game. I keot getting killed when I'd go back to get my stuff, so I brought a chest boat which was a convenient way to collect stuff and nit lose it when I died.
I used the chest boat quite recently, as a matter of fact. I moved my base from one island to another. I had a double chest of stuff, and so I used the chest boat to move it all across the ocean. Pretty usefully, albeit, extremely circumstantial little tool to have.
I've used chestboats. But I'm also a caveman. I much prefer to make my bases in caves. 40% of the base is done for you. Block some stuff off then make it look civilized and you're good to go. My current cave is on a river, and part of the river naturally breaks into the cave to give me a little inside-lake. I use the lake for kelp and crops, but also have a dock where I keep my chestboat for expeditions out of the cave.
Technically glowsquids do glow. It’s just the “glow in the dark” kind of glow where the light it emits isn’t enough to illuminate its surroundings, only enough to make it visible without a light source.
Chest boats are definitely useful before you get shulkers and ender chests. Pigs can be used to pull a friend while flying(a bit janky) as demonstrated by ianxofour. You don’t even need a contraption to make a parking space for striders, you can just dig a few blocks and the flowing lava will keep them in place.
Think about going to a desert far away to get sand. By yourself, you can only carry so many shulkers. But with a chest boat, you can put shulker boxes in the chest, and in your inventory, and carry like twice as much sand back per trip.
I have actually used the chest boat for it's actual purpose, I overfilled my inventory while on a trip away from my base early on in a survival world so I crafted a chest boat and rowed over to a river to take it home.... I have inventory management problems. In other news if you place a chest boat above hoppers it can overlap over 4 hopper to unload / load it quicker and is much easier to place than a hopper minecart, though It loses the speed bonus for unloading.
I think, of all the possible boats there have been in the game's history (without mods/addons), the chest boat is by far the best and most useful. Being able to store more stuff than only fits in your inventory when you explore across open waters is amazing. Think of all the loot you won't be leaving behind due to a lack of inventory space. I have also seen redstone builds that incorporate the hitbox of chest boats along with hoppers, so as to reduce the amount of iron you need for hoppers, which I think you covered pretty well. I'm sure someone (you, of course, being so brilliant at redstone builds) could also come up with some sort of compact storage system utilizing chest boats in which they pop up similarly to armor stand switchers.
i genuinely use the chest boat in early game especially when moving bases or large amounts of resources its much faster than going back and forth with a full inventory... of course this only works if there is water
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I have actually used a chest boat before. It was super early game, and I didn't have shulker boxes, but I had a giant ocean. I used the chest boat to store things like all the saplings, wood types, cacti, sugar cane, bamboo, and other growable biome-specific things. It was nice to have a doubled inventory for my boating adventure.
I have been using the choat quite a bit in the early game. I am very peculiar about where I set up my base and I often travel by water to find a location because it is the fastest early game travel time, so the choat essentially lets me have two inventories when I have no permanent storage location, meaning I go twice as long without feeling pressured to settle in a suboptimal location because of storage issues.
I honestly use chest boats. They are great, if you wanna explore early game or want to move many items. Also, random mobs can‘t get in the boat since it only has one seat.
You have natural talent for videos, this kind of video put out by anyone else might get ten views….. don’t something big, a new solo series or a modded series (vault hunters is amazing) and really give us something to look forward to and follow, you are a natural - please give us more content we get invested in mate
I've used the chest boat and they're actually really nice. My friends lived across a lake from me so I usually drove my "car" back and forth in the early game. Super useful when they gave me stuff and my inventory was already full so I just stored it in the trunk.
10:00 Lets you AFK travel to places you've never been, minecarts require rails and other transports require player interaction to go to unexplored places.
For the chest-boat, I guess I kinda am the target demographic since I like to use rivers and oceans as early to mid-game transportation tools, so I enjoy them quite a lot during that part of the game!
I mostly play mid-game minecraft (having everything except what's in the end dimension) and I've been having fun with chest boats. I would often travel to a cardinal direction I've never been to yet and because of the bigger and longer rivers it's now possible to travel so far without leaving your boat.
I know this is nearly two years late, but... Chest boats are the MVP of early game. I always do a ton of exploring before settling down. But you know how minecraft is. Always just one more cave to explore, dungeon to loot, resource to gather. Having that portable storage to kinda double your inventory before you've settled down is amazing. Bundles are similarly useful for early game adventuring, but could definitely use a buff storing maybe 2 or 3 (or 4 for the powers of 2 fans out there) stacks total.
Chest boats are actually lifesavers if you play on a server that has a locked end, because they work pretty much like a shulker, especially if you have a base next to (or in my case, above) an ocean. I've actually managed to make a floating, transportable chest monster in the sea 😂
Hear me out, fletching table update. When arrows are picked up they are broken and deal half damage, use fletching tables and sticks to fix them. Also maybe make it the way of creating arrows with effects(withering, poison, slow falling etc)
I used the chestboat a lot. Had a garage where I would park it and it would unload my shulkers in it. It was essentially my enderchest but on a boat. It was a fun challenge run, where I had to use the chest boat for any exploring via water, and couldn't break it.
3:45 Although giants have no AI, if you summon one with another mob riding it, the passenger mob can control the giant. Of course, it wont damage you, but a command blocks/datapacks can turn this concept into an epic boss battle.
I use chest boats constantly! They're a great way to move stuff across the ocean (I loot a lot of shipwrecks, for the conduits for my underwater base) Plus, put it on a iceboat highway..
"and sounds quite painful for the glow squid" Sounds like even more reason to do it I used the choat for its intended purpose pretty much straight away. It's genuinely good for exploration before you have shulker boxes.
RE Chest boats: I don't usually travel in the Nether for exploration. I usually travel in the Overworld and build Nether portals at interesting sites I find. But sometimes, it's not an interesting site. Instead, sometimes it's just something I want to loot. A double village. A mansion. A very distant mine shaft. And in those cases, instead of trying to find my way to one of my Nether highways from wherever I am, I just truck the loot overland to the nearest highway entrance. Since Minecraft oceans are very interconnected and usually quite large, a chest boat helps me to carry even more interesting stuff back without multiple trips. Or with fewer multiple trips.
I actually do use chest boats legitimately. For one, if something is chasing you it can't hop in the boat. It's also good if you're traveling on a long distance journey and you find loot and your inventory is full but you still haven't finished your journey yet. It's a slightly OP early game item honestly
I love the chest boat actually. I have a bunch of small bases through my survival world so I always have somewhere safe to sleep and craft. I use them to transport items when I'm super far away from my main base, mostly building materials and things I can't necessarily get easily.
Chest boats are useful if you for some reason lack a bunch of iron (vanilla skyblock for example) to afford a lot of hoppers. You can feed up to 12 chests with a single hopper by just stacking them and placing a few fences to keep em seperated and in place.
Hey mumbo, I have actually used chest boats before. I put it in the middle of 4 hoppers, and made a semi-super smelter, because I afk at my gold farm a lot. (8:44)
The chest boat has come in use for me many times. When I have an old base and a new base over seas, and I have a lot of items to transport, I will use the chest boat as an extra inventory.
My wife and I did a lot of exploring using chest boats. Even when there’s no river or ocean, dropping and bucketing up a water source is an awesome way to boat around
Ive used chest boats in early game to go on ocean treasure hunts, its very lucrative and the chest boat makes it so you can get more loot. it is the best way to get early resources if you don’t like mining or even if you di you can get easy diamonds from it
Not a redstone person. In fact, I hate it, but Mumbo's videos are so entertaining that I'd willingly sit through hours of redstone videos without a complaint. There's just something about him that's so lovable.
I use a chest boat in my primary survival world. I’m basically surrounded by ocean so they’re incredibly useful for early game exploration/resource gathering.
Chest boats are super useful due to its hitbox and when placed correctly, it can be used by 9 hoppers at the same time, it can also prevent players from getting into your boat
Glow squid just had it as decoration and if you are allowed to use it for deccoration then all of these things are usefull for decoration. If decoration does not count (as how it works in my books), glowsquid is still useless, fletching table has a use in that its usefull for trading so its not useless, giants and stridors you did a great job at making them usefull, chest boat is usefull early game when you dont have a base/storage system, pig can be used to go though a 1x1 corridor
6:23 S9 slime farm flashbacks "Is it the most efficient mob farm in the world? Definitely not but have i gave Doc a laugh everytime he sees it? Yes I have!"
I've used a number of chest boats for their normal purpose. I'll find an ocean near where my base is and tend to take a check boat and essentially load all my treasure in them, especially because if I manage to die on a lil expedition, all the stuff in the boat is still save and doesn't have a time limit. I've also used it in a server for tadpole selling since i can store all the unstackable tadpoles there instead of my inventory. edit: also hopefully this isn't taken as rude, but with the thing right at the end, I could have sworn Mumbo(/You if this is Mumbo reading this) did another video where he found a use for pigs for going through mazes you couldn't see the maze itself. Maybe that's a lil different because of the swimming/crawling feature, but I thought it was a lovely idea and have used it before and made a maze of my own for friends to try because I saw that idea.
So I was in a Large Biomes survival world and spawned in a Mesa biome. Which is not really ideal to settle in, so I follow the river (with a regular boat) until I would find a biome that was more suitable to settle in (there was, about 6000 blocks from spawn, a point with a desert, a forest, and a sparse jungle. A desert village _really_ close, and a plains with plains village relatively close as well). Anyway, somewhere on my journey, my inventory filled up too much, so I turned my boat into a chest boat and continued. That's probably the intended use, very early-game item transport. In my case, before I found a location to build a base.
Chance is that Mumbo has been busy on Hermitcraft while the other hermits were in Empires. Mumbo might even be mayor on Hermitcraft now which were Grumbots intension from the beginning.
My cousin and I do expeditions to far off biomes when we need specific materials, so if said biome is on the other side of a huge ocean a chest boat is pretty handy so we can gather more of said material to bring back.
Yes, I had a situation when I had to transport a bunch of items down the river in early game, so of course no elytras, shulkers etc. I have used boats with chests and it worked perfectly.
8:46 chest boats are actually quite useful if you want to transport your stuff across the sea. I used it to move my stuff to my new mushroom island home
Best line from mumbo “I could just stick an end rod inside of it but that’s not very interesting and sound quite painful for the glow squid” if only they knew what he means xD
Chest boats do have a use in super smelters. They interact with hoppers, so with good positioning, you can get one to dump resources into 9 hoppers at once. Great for compact smelting!
A lot of other people have already said this, but chestboats are really useful for exploring and travelling if you don't have access to shulkerboxes. I think the best way to look at it is that it has all the advantages and uses of a regular boat with the added bonus of having some extra storage.
While I haven’t played since chest boats introduction I can definitely see a use for them. Either when traveling the ocean before I build a base or doing underwater excursions having that extra storage seems useful.
My friends and I have a slightly modded server, just with REI and some basic block and biome additions. The feature mod is Create, which adds multiblock structures for mining, processing blocks, generating power, etc. We actually did use chest boats to transport sand from the desert which was across the ocean when we needed a bunch of glass. So we had 4 inventories worth of sand, in 2 boats. They're like an early game shulker box, an extra inventory that you can travel with (assuming flat ground or open waters). They actually are quite useful!
You can use a chest-boat for a delivery service on an ice road. Place the items you wish to deliver in the chest-boat's chest, and avoid excessive inventory clutter.
Chest boats are especially useful on bedrock edition because you can attach leads to them and tow your pets and other mobs around with you in multiple boats with lots of inventory space as you explore the oceans and easily relocate your base.
Mumbo forgetting how to craft an arrow because he's always relied on skeleton farms is like a multi-billionaire not knowing the price of the average loaf of bread
Which is all of them.
Like the time trump said that you had to show ID to buy milk at a supermarket... yknow, cuz he's never been shopping for himself
It's a banana Michael how much could it cost??
he also forgot that dismounting a pig just before landing removes all fall damage
suffering from success
Chest boats are super useful in the earlygame, in my experience. Starting the game and almost instantly sailing away in search of villages, shipwrecks, and buried treasure is significantly less annoying than it used to be. As soon as you get set up a long-term base to store your loot, they get significantly less useful, and once you get shulkers, unfortunately, they’re basically obsolete.
Same but in 1.16 I could of done I left my starter hobbit base in jungle and had to take all my 5 double chests to my village 1000 blocks away
Came here to say the same thing, basically. For thems of us who don't go to the End very often, it's a great way to explore, and safely store things that you don't want to lose when you're out on an adventure.
I find they're quite useful for gathering a lot of sand, especially in the mid-game. Sail across the sea to some beaches/deserts, fill it up, head home.
Also in technical minecraft you can make really powerful super suckers with them for farms
Agreed, I used it to move my loot from starter base to main base. Extremely useful for that purpose.
Mumbo's way of thinking will forever be an interesting phenomenon. Enough said.
It’s a mystery
His brain must be given to science, we will progress a lot
The inner machinations of his mind are an enigma
Making a Strider Garage was very helpful for future reference.
Truly a source of mystery. The things he must have seen.
The fletching table that gives 1/4 of the amount of arrows you'd get from a normal crafting recipe feels like such a Zedaph thing to build and I love it!
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I though of that as well 😂😂
@@chrisdawson1776 what, they’re a nerd for using fractions?
@@insertnamehere9718 OH NO, N U M B E R S. AAaaaaaaah! XD
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There is a use for chest boats! In Bedrock, you can put leads on them (you might also be able to in Java, but I don’t know) & pull multiple around. On land you have to go really slow so as to not break the leads, but on water the chest boats travel at the same speed as the boat dragging them so you can take lots of inventory with you on overseas journeys.
That's pretty cool
this is exactly what i was gonna say but better worded
Yo it’s you
You can also put a lead on normal boats with villagers in them to transport them much easier
Imagine if they had little fences on them, you could make a train
Still more useful than my fine arts degree
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Chest boats are useful in 2 situations.
1: as a container bigger than 1 block, that's also an entity so you can push it.
2: in really early game, it's a nice bonus for your inventory while exploring.
"Let's chuck something stupid in the system"
*Proceeds to chuck one of the most useful redstone items in the game into the system.*
congrats
@JackWrath1 Wow. Your channel links to another channel, that says, to quote, "I HATE ALL COMMENT SPAMMERS, LINK SPAMMERS, BOTS, AND PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ARE BETTER THAN OTHER TH-camRS! 🤬"
Hypocrite.
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But do you use this thing to craft arrows? No
Then it is stupid in this case
@@fluboxer FREEZE! SEMANTICS POLICE! PUT THE KEYBOARD DOWN....
I love chest boats in early exploration. I often spend a lot of time in a new world just finding the place I want to live and I tend to pick up a lot of stuff while I'm doing that. Before the chestboat, I'd have to leave a chest of stuff somewhere and go back for it later. Mind you, I'm not a packrat, I'm just picky about where I want to live lol
I do the exact same thing, looking for inspiring natural terrain and picking up building blocks in the biomes along the way
I've always imagined that the reason you cannot retrieve a saddle from a strider is because the nether is so hot, that the saddle melts and fuses into the striders skin.
Sad nobody wrote about riding the pig with a carrot in the minecart
You can kill striders for saddles and the exact same same problem is about pigs, when you put a saddle on one you can't take it off and it just walks away.
How ironic seeing as you call yourself "SpicySauce"
@@markwilson3326 thats not irony?
I have used chest boats many times, its surprisingly useful for hauling items before you make a permanent base. It's basically extra inventory space. Also I've heard that minecarts with saddled pigs in them go crazy fast.
I've also used it a few times. It's very useful if you want to start another base
That chest boat thing is EXTREMELY useful. I'd love to see examples of that being used in farms somehow.
It isn't there is no real use for it 1. Chest Minecraft exists 2. Shulkers exist
@@Lucci136Apart from the application in the video chest boats can be filled/emptied very fast, as it has 40 potential in-/outputs. It can also be used to transport items via flying machines and can be more useful than chest minecarts in some cases, due to its large pick up range.
The chest boat HAS been used massively in collection system because they can have 30 inputs in total due to their hitbox. That's 60 times hopper speed filling maybe even more. That makes for unbelievable item transport
@@Lucci136 Unless you want to move house early in the game and have no shulker boxes..
@@martijn9568 that is how I used it I moved bases with my team and used chest boats for transport
Me and a friend have actually managed to use the chest boat for its intended purpose. We had managed to collect 5 different treasure maps that we had found as we explored our world and went on a mega treasure hunt. We both went in chest boats and it was so useful early game having portable storage pre Shulker boxes. Loved the video mumbo. It's great seeing a new video that's jam packed with useull unuseful things.
Useull unusefull things
The chest boat is useful on SMPs. When being chased down by other players, a chest boat is a 1 player boat, so nobody else can get into it, meaning it's easier to escape.
And mobs as well especially drowns
Yeah, if you want to go on a boat trip and know that a drowned won’t hop in behind you it’s good
@@Deltacarygirl I've never witnessed that.
I use chest boats all the time in early game! Pre elytra and shulker boxes, it is a good way of travelling decent distances (doesn't make you hungry to row a boat) and effectively doubles your inventory. As someone that takes the early game pretty slow, they are awesome.
I usually use a mule with a chest and just put them in a boat when I need to go in water, but they are sometimes hard to find so the chest boat is a good substitute imo
I have, in fact, used the chest boat for its intended purpose. When you don't have shulkers or an enderchest, (Or even if you have an ender chest but no shulkers), the chest boat is a godsend when doing any sort of exploration over water. I think that speaks more to the issues with Minecraft's inventory system than it does to the usefulness of the chest boat though.
That Strider one might actually be worth building
Also, chest boats are sometimes useful for clearing underwater ruins
did he realize striders can go on land?
@@infernal9698 Yeah, but then they get all chilly and sad
@@SamuraiPipotchiAnd nobody wants a chilly sad strider :(
You can also catch a strider using flowing lava and half slabs around it, works flawlessly and also looks more sleek
8:52 For chest boats (and striders for that matter), I don't think they're going to be very useful for any late-game players, but for early game they can be nice. Pre-elytra and shulker box, chest boats could be useful if someone wants to start a build project in the ocean and needs to transport a bunch of items to the spot. Striders can be useful for someone with limited potions (and though ugly, you can just use blocks to trap it so you don't lose the saddle)
Not just for ocean building projects.
"Early" game (well, more like mid game for me, since I don't usually focus much on getting to the end and nether), I often find myself using a (chest) boat to travel the long distances to remote map features/biomes (for example to mine some ice).
Even if the route by water is a bit longer and the boat is a bit slower, it's just a LOT easier to travel by boat instead of horse because you don't have to pay constant attention to things like holes in the ground.
I've actually used a chest boat for it's intended purpose, I was gathering vast amounts of Kelp. After I would break a lot of Kelp, I'd swim up and get in the chest boat, ride around on the water collecting the Kelp because it seems to also increase the area you can collect items. I'd then put the Kelp in the chest and use a bubble elevator to get up to my floating island. :)
This is such a zedaphy style mumbo video, and I love it. Can't wait to see more of this, perhaps even on Hermitcraft with Zedaph together!
I would love to see that!
Chest boats might be useful while building a farm in the ocean. If you're just starting your world, it basically doubles the space where you can store the materials
Ocean storage, ocean builders are glad
You can place chests in/under/over water...
As long as you travel on water, yes.
I feel like chest boat should have been added in 1.13
@@acorn8773 But then you have to run back to where the chests are much more frequently, instead of using the chest boat as portable storage. And I'm not even much of a builder. I can see it being incredibly useful for building something in the ocean where you have one central storage for the build, and then use the chest boat to extend inventory space so you don't need to go back and forth as frequently.
@@chicken_person who builds stuff underwater so big that a boat/s would be more comfortable than a stationary chest/s in early game?
I’ve haven’t used a chest boat yet, but trying to move stuff before you get shulker boxes is a pain. Chest boats seem like a game changer for trying to move stuff early on.
Llamas or a mule would work just as well if not even better though
@@happyhippo1043unless it’s over the water :/
I’ve used both and the chest boat is so much less hassle, it doesn’t walk off without a lead
I use chest boats in early world Minecraft games a bit. Mainly use it in redstone. Usefully in many types of contraptions but mainly for increased items dumping speed. Got 4x speed depending on how many hoppers it's on. By the way found out droppers are a really interesting tool for redstone because of the item transfer mechanic that sends items through multiple droppers at once allowing to make cool machines like working slot machines and arcade mini games.
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I used it once when I got killed by a trident drown early game. I keot getting killed when I'd go back to get my stuff, so I brought a chest boat which was a convenient way to collect stuff and nit lose it when I died.
I used the chest boat quite recently, as a matter of fact. I moved my base from one island to another. I had a double chest of stuff, and so I used the chest boat to move it all across the ocean. Pretty usefully, albeit, extremely circumstantial little tool to have.
I've used chestboats. But I'm also a caveman. I much prefer to make my bases in caves. 40% of the base is done for you. Block some stuff off then make it look civilized and you're good to go. My current cave is on a river, and part of the river naturally breaks into the cave to give me a little inside-lake. I use the lake for kelp and crops, but also have a dock where I keep my chestboat for expeditions out of the cave.
I am so glad we have Mumbo back. Keep up the incredible work, man.
Mumbo: “Is it the most efficient mob farm in the world, No”
*The hundreds of mobs falling to their death*
There are more effective than it
Technically glowsquids do glow. It’s just the “glow in the dark” kind of glow where the light it emits isn’t enough to illuminate its surroundings, only enough to make it visible without a light source.
They don't glow as they don't emit light. They just have a texture that is unaffected by light level
@@anonymousaxolotl y-yea.. that's how the game devs make it glow..
@@anonymousaxolotl If there’s no light sources around but the squid is still bright, it has to emit light.
It doesn't emit light it just has a bright texture
@@twistypuzzle1068 Didn't look into it, but maybe it has a different shader that makes it looks brighter by default without lighting?
Chest boats are definitely useful before you get shulkers and ender chests. Pigs can be used to pull a friend while flying(a bit janky) as demonstrated by ianxofour. You don’t even need a contraption to make a parking space for striders, you can just dig a few blocks and the flowing lava will keep them in place.
Think about going to a desert far away to get sand. By yourself, you can only carry so many shulkers. But with a chest boat, you can put shulker boxes in the chest, and in your inventory, and carry like twice as much sand back per trip.
This man never ceases to impress me from useless things
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I have actually used the chest boat for it's actual purpose, I overfilled my inventory while on a trip away from my base early on in a survival world so I crafted a chest boat and rowed over to a river to take it home.... I have inventory management problems. In other news if you place a chest boat above hoppers it can overlap over 4 hopper to unload / load it quicker and is much easier to place than a hopper minecart, though It loses the speed bonus for unloading.
I think, of all the possible boats there have been in the game's history (without mods/addons), the chest boat is by far the best and most useful. Being able to store more stuff than only fits in your inventory when you explore across open waters is amazing. Think of all the loot you won't be leaving behind due to a lack of inventory space. I have also seen redstone builds that incorporate the hitbox of chest boats along with hoppers, so as to reduce the amount of iron you need for hoppers, which I think you covered pretty well. I'm sure someone (you, of course, being so brilliant at redstone builds) could also come up with some sort of compact storage system utilizing chest boats in which they pop up similarly to armor stand switchers.
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"And now I have...a *GIANT* mob farm"
Aha!I see what you did there...
I see you never left the "ahaa" thing from last life behind
Mumbo: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL??
Glow Squid: *confused screaming*
i genuinely use the chest boat in early game especially when moving bases or large amounts of resources its much faster than going back and forth with a full inventory... of course this only works if there is water
The carrot on a stick isn't useless!!! It's the datapack developer's favourite minecraft item.
I think he meant the saddled pig
@Jack Wrath Better if you have bad taste. Go peddle your adverts somewhere else.
He meant riding pigs not just the carrot on a stick
@Jack Wrath bro, your channel has a link in the about page saying: “I HATE COMMENT SPAMMERS”
yeah, sure buddy.
@@Freddie_06 the saddled pig is still very useful for datapacks.
This guy is pretty cool. It seems like he would fit really well in Hermitcraft
He only cares about making low effort videos because he needs money and youtube is his main source of income
He is in hermitcraft he just only has 6 episodes of this season then he took a break and hi ai robot he made 3 seasons ago misses him and wanted to purge an entire server
@@cc32834 maybe research a bit before speaking garbage on the internet , there's already enough of it. Oli has a job of shooting ads and videos besides yt fyi
@@cc32834 Nice bait
@@cc32834 He literally said in the description of the first video he made when he came back that he's not leaving Hermitcraft. Shut up.
Loved the "giant" mob farm. Hilariously useful!
how do you come up with these crazy ideas ??? 🤯
Yo make the reply on comments bigger please I beg you
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Hello TH-cam!
I have actually used a chest boat before. It was super early game, and I didn't have shulker boxes, but I had a giant ocean. I used the chest boat to store things like all the saplings, wood types, cacti, sugar cane, bamboo, and other growable biome-specific things. It was nice to have a doubled inventory for my boating adventure.
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Same, has happened to me once now, I like it, it might actually have been way more useful if they came out back before shulker boxes were added.
I have been using the choat quite a bit in the early game. I am very peculiar about where I set up my base and I often travel by water to find a location because it is the fastest early game travel time, so the choat essentially lets me have two inventories when I have no permanent storage location, meaning I go twice as long without feeling pressured to settle in a suboptimal location because of storage issues.
I honestly use chest boats. They are great, if you wanna explore early game or want to move many items. Also, random mobs can‘t get in the boat since it only has one seat.
0:32 Mumbo you've invoked some traumatic memories.
You have natural talent for videos, this kind of video put out by anyone else might get ten views….. don’t something big, a new solo series or a modded series (vault hunters is amazing) and really give us something to look forward to and follow, you are a natural - please give us more content we get invested in mate
I've used the chest boat and they're actually really nice. My friends lived across a lake from me so I usually drove my "car" back and forth in the early game. Super useful when they gave me stuff and my inventory was already full so I just stored it in the trunk.
10:00 Lets you AFK travel to places you've never been, minecarts require rails and other transports require player interaction to go to unexplored places.
For the chest-boat, I guess I kinda am the target demographic since I like to use rivers and oceans as early to mid-game transportation tools, so I enjoy them quite a lot during that part of the game!
I mostly play mid-game minecraft (having everything except what's in the end dimension) and I've been having fun with chest boats. I would often travel to a cardinal direction I've never been to yet and because of the bigger and longer rivers it's now possible to travel so far without leaving your boat.
I know this is nearly two years late, but...
Chest boats are the MVP of early game. I always do a ton of exploring before settling down. But you know how minecraft is. Always just one more cave to explore, dungeon to loot, resource to gather. Having that portable storage to kinda double your inventory before you've settled down is amazing.
Bundles are similarly useful for early game adventuring, but could definitely use a buff storing maybe 2 or 3 (or 4 for the powers of 2 fans out there) stacks total.
8:47 ilmango be like:you will understand its importance when you have only 1 hopper for your farms
Chest boats are actually lifesavers if you play on a server that has a locked end, because they work pretty much like a shulker, especially if you have a base next to (or in my case, above) an ocean. I've actually managed to make a floating, transportable chest monster in the sea 😂
Hear me out, fletching table update.
When arrows are picked up they are broken and deal half damage, use fletching tables and sticks to fix them. Also maybe make it the way of creating arrows with effects(withering, poison, slow falling etc)
I used the chestboat a lot. Had a garage where I would park it and it would unload my shulkers in it. It was essentially my enderchest but on a boat. It was a fun challenge run, where I had to use the chest boat for any exploring via water, and couldn't break it.
lmao the Strider is something I am genuinely interested in using but then the pig, that got me, well done SIR!
Still better than Minecraft’s inventory management 💀
Skill issue
@@LolaTheGardevoir yes
@@LolaTheGardevoir Having 30 inventory slots is not a skill issue, it's a game-enforced limitation, and an ever-growing problem.
@@Naokarma Inventory skill issue
@Jack Wrath skill issue
3:45 Although giants have no AI, if you summon one with another mob riding it, the passenger mob can control the giant. Of course, it wont damage you, but a command blocks/datapacks can turn this concept into an epic boss battle.
Mysticat already did that
I use chest boats constantly! They're a great way to move stuff across the ocean (I loot a lot of shipwrecks, for the conduits for my underwater base)
Plus, put it on a iceboat highway..
"and sounds quite painful for the glow squid" Sounds like even more reason to do it
I used the choat for its intended purpose pretty much straight away. It's genuinely good for exploration before you have shulker boxes.
RE Chest boats: I don't usually travel in the Nether for exploration. I usually travel in the Overworld and build Nether portals at interesting sites I find. But sometimes, it's not an interesting site. Instead, sometimes it's just something I want to loot. A double village. A mansion. A very distant mine shaft. And in those cases, instead of trying to find my way to one of my Nether highways from wherever I am, I just truck the loot overland to the nearest highway entrance. Since Minecraft oceans are very interconnected and usually quite large, a chest boat helps me to carry even more interesting stuff back without multiple trips. Or with fewer multiple trips.
I actually do use chest boats legitimately. For one, if something is chasing you it can't hop in the boat. It's also good if you're traveling on a long distance journey and you find loot and your inventory is full but you still haven't finished your journey yet. It's a slightly OP early game item honestly
0:26 the best mumbo quote yet
I love the chest boat actually. I have a bunch of small bases through my survival world so I always have somewhere safe to sleep and craft. I use them to transport items when I'm super far away from my main base, mostly building materials and things I can't necessarily get easily.
Chest boats are useful if you for some reason lack a bunch of iron (vanilla skyblock for example) to afford a lot of hoppers. You can feed up to 12 chests with a single hopper by just stacking them and placing a few fences to keep em seperated and in place.
Hey mumbo, I have actually used chest boats before. I put it in the middle of 4 hoppers, and made a semi-super smelter, because I afk at my gold farm a lot. (8:44)
This was so, so entertaining!! I loved the humour and wittiness, I’ve been smiling throughout! Thanks Mumbo :)
The chest boat has come in use for me many times. When I have an old base and a new base over seas, and I have a lot of items to transport, I will use the chest boat as an extra inventory.
A minute and a half in, and Mumbo's recreated the Horrifying Squid Launcher that Joe made accidentally on HC
My wife and I did a lot of exploring using chest boats. Even when there’s no river or ocean, dropping and bucketing up a water source is an awesome way to boat around
Ive used chest boats in early game to go on ocean treasure hunts, its very lucrative and the chest boat makes it so you can get more loot. it is the best way to get early resources if you don’t like mining or even if you di you can get easy diamonds from it
Not a redstone person. In fact, I hate it, but Mumbo's videos are so entertaining that I'd willingly sit through hours of redstone videos without a complaint. There's just something about him that's so lovable.
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I use a chest boat in my primary survival world. I’m basically surrounded by ocean so they’re incredibly useful for early game exploration/resource gathering.
Same here. I've been mapping out the world and using a chest boat as so far the world is big islands and a lot of water.
Chest boats are super useful due to its hitbox and when placed correctly, it can be used by 9 hoppers at the same time, it can also prevent players from getting into your boat
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A chest boat is great for travel, especially while you're finding the right spot for a permanent base/new build, and you're traveling for days
Glow squid just had it as decoration and if you are allowed to use it for deccoration then all of these things are usefull for decoration. If decoration does not count (as how it works in my books), glowsquid is still useless, fletching table has a use in that its usefull for trading so its not useless, giants and stridors you did a great job at making them usefull, chest boat is usefull early game when you dont have a base/storage system, pig can be used to go though a 1x1 corridor
6:23 S9 slime farm flashbacks
"Is it the most efficient mob farm in the world? Definitely not but have i gave Doc a laugh everytime he sees it? Yes I have!"
I've used a number of chest boats for their normal purpose. I'll find an ocean near where my base is and tend to take a check boat and essentially load all my treasure in them, especially because if I manage to die on a lil expedition, all the stuff in the boat is still save and doesn't have a time limit. I've also used it in a server for tadpole selling since i can store all the unstackable tadpoles there instead of my inventory.
edit: also hopefully this isn't taken as rude, but with the thing right at the end, I could have sworn Mumbo(/You if this is Mumbo reading this) did another video where he found a use for pigs for going through mazes you couldn't see the maze itself. Maybe that's a lil different because of the swimming/crawling feature, but I thought it was a lovely idea and have used it before and made a maze of my own for friends to try because I saw that idea.
LET'S GO A NEW VIDEO FROM OUR FAVOURITE MUMBO !!
So I was in a Large Biomes survival world and spawned in a Mesa biome. Which is not really ideal to settle in, so I follow the river (with a regular boat) until I would find a biome that was more suitable to settle in (there was, about 6000 blocks from spawn, a point with a desert, a forest, and a sparse jungle. A desert village _really_ close, and a plains with plains village relatively close as well). Anyway, somewhere on my journey, my inventory filled up too much, so I turned my boat into a chest boat and continued. That's probably the intended use, very early-game item transport. In my case, before I found a location to build a base.
"painful for the glowsquid"
or very pleasurable
Whilst mumbo is making a video about useless items in Minecraft, the other hermits are having a multiversal road trip.
Yep
Chance is that Mumbo has been busy on Hermitcraft while the other hermits were in Empires. Mumbo might even be mayor on Hermitcraft now which were Grumbots intension from the beginning.
0:32 If that's painful for the glow squid I can't imagine how painful it is for that sheep I put in my special redstone contraption.
WHAT
@@Cherno35 Shhhhhhh. Or you're next.
@@plumper303 you’ll have to catch me
@@Cherno35 That shouldn't be a problem. I'll end rod your ankles before you can get away.
@@plumper303 unfortunately I am not gay
My cousin and I do expeditions to far off biomes when we need specific materials, so if said biome is on the other side of a huge ocean a chest boat is pretty handy so we can gather more of said material to bring back.
Yes, I had a situation when I had to transport a bunch of items down the river in early game, so of course no elytras, shulkers etc. I have used boats with chests and it worked perfectly.
Amazing to see mumbo coming back and being classic mumbo again!
Good to have the legend back ❤
Mungo? I see who you mean but... [SIGH] (why autocorrect, why)
I Love Mungo, truly a legend
@@SaurianBell hahah blimmin hell sorry
7:29 "theres no way this works"
"It doesnt wor excellent"😃
3:33 Zedaph will love your base then
8:46 chest boats are actually quite useful if you want to transport your stuff across the sea. I used it to move my stuff to my new mushroom island home
Best line from mumbo “I could just stick an end rod inside of it but that’s not very interesting and sound quite painful for the glow squid” if only they knew what he means xD
I have never found so much use for information about useless things in Minecraft! Thank you!
@SnailJuices playback speed set to 40x
Yay, Mumbo!
yay :)
Yeah, you Sub count definitely agrees
0:41 YOU MISSED SAYING GOING FROM NO SQUID TO GLOW SQUID NOOOOO
Chest boats do have a use in super smelters. They interact with hoppers, so with good positioning, you can get one to dump resources into 9 hoppers at once. Great for compact smelting!
Grumbot was almost going to destroy empires because he didn’t see you, Mumbo.
3:24 it should give you four arrows it's ripping you off still though I imagine that would be a small adjustment I just thought it was kind of funny
A lot of other people have already said this, but chestboats are really useful for exploring and travelling if you don't have access to shulkerboxes. I think the best way to look at it is that it has all the advantages and uses of a regular boat with the added bonus of having some extra storage.
On bedrock u can lead boats and you can get a ton of chest boats connected to you and move a ton of stuff
While I haven’t played since chest boats introduction I can definitely see a use for them. Either when traveling the ocean before I build a base or doing underwater excursions having that extra storage seems useful.
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My friends and I have a slightly modded server, just with REI and some basic block and biome additions. The feature mod is Create, which adds multiblock structures for mining, processing blocks, generating power, etc. We actually did use chest boats to transport sand from the desert which was across the ocean when we needed a bunch of glass. So we had 4 inventories worth of sand, in 2 boats. They're like an early game shulker box, an extra inventory that you can travel with (assuming flat ground or open waters). They actually are quite useful!
You can use a chest-boat for a delivery service on an ice road. Place the items you wish to deliver in the chest-boat's chest, and avoid excessive inventory clutter.
Chest boats are especially useful on bedrock edition because you can attach leads to them and tow your pets and other mobs around with you in multiple boats with lots of inventory space as you explore the oceans and easily relocate your base.
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