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
I agree, I just wanted to highlight them anyways as the moment you get an elytra, horses become pretty irrelevant. But yeah they are definitely useful if you play at a slower pace, which I tend to do.
In all honesty horses used to be really useful in bedrock edition they used to take no fall damage while riding them and they obviously autojump so they used to be really useful to traverse hills but they changed them so now they take fall damage so they are pretty pointless on hills...
@@RJ_200 I wish they didn't nerf them, but if it was really necessary, a softer nerf would have been nice (like having them fall farther than 3 blocks before taking fall damage) and not removing them from fitting in boats. Leads/slime are hard to get early game so transporting horses over water without a boat or lead is hard /: I also wish llamas were more practical. They can do a bunch of things but none of them very well because people just use mules if they want the chest space. And mob pathing is rough, so nobody uses that feature. Losing a llama from a caravan when it's full of items would suck so nobody uses them. Mid game/before shulkers, just have an ender chest and/or a mule. No risk of a llama getting stuck on a block and losing the stuff furnace minecarts badly need a boost since they're pretty obsolete ): If they were used in conjunction with powered rails to make whatever they push go ridiculously fast it would be so much fun. Minecarts are great for transporting mobs, especially ones that are obnoxious like guardians. Mojang already removed the ability to break chest minecarts apart so changing furnace minecarts wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility I hope 😭
The difference is that iron armor doesn't prevent you from crossing rivers or going through trees. The issue with horses isn't that they are useless... Its that using them is inconvenient.
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*
My main 'issue' with the sniffer is that it only has 2 plants. The plants being decoration only isn't necessarily bad, but when the mob only gives you 2 of them, and those 2 have a sorta unique style that doesn't fit with the other plants, it becomes a bit useless. Give it more plants in that stile to sniff and make its egg a bit more common to find, 'problem' solved
shoutout to the tropical fishes who have like literally thousands of possible combinations of physical traits so most of them that you will see are unique
@@HungryWardenReally? Because I see them almost all the time, if you want to find them, I usually see them connected to deserts, then again, I play on bedrock 🤷
Sea pickles and sea cucumbers are completely different animals. Sea pickles were many added as a substitute for not being able to use torches underwater. Torch flowers are based off real life torch lilies, which get their name because they look like torches, not because they light up, similarly to how silverfish are neither made of silver, or are fish.
@@pepearown4968Gosh, the need to make things realistic to real world, in vdo game world made of pixelated block and magic is ridiculous and anti-fun. It's a game why not make it fun.
I forget what this thing was running against, and while I do wish that the icologer won or we had new crops, the new plants we get do look VERY cool. I know that we wanted something different, but I find it best to still enjoy what we get.
@@plaidhatter1674 the 2022 vote was against the Tuff Golem which was an Item frame with legs, the Rascal witch gave you Enchanted Iron & Gold pics if you played a minigame with it, & the Sniffer dug up "seeds" the Icologer was designed to win since it was a Miniboss going agasnt the Moobloom & the Glow Squid, you can thank Dream for changing it
@RaisinHook I don't think it was "designed to win". I didn't care for any of those 3 but I especially didn't want iceologer to win because it sounded really really annoying. And even with the push for the glowsquid, the votes between all 3 were actually fairly close. There was still 28% of voters who picked the moobloom compared to the 35% iceologer and 37% glowsquid. I don't think any mob vote mob is "designed to win" or even really to be in the game tbh. They all kind of feel like brainstormed ideas that got scrapped because they didn't find them important enough to dedicate resources to, but then gave the community the opportunity to have one brought back and put in the game anyway. It's why they're so clunky and out of place compared to other mobs that are more integrated into more aspects of the game.
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.
@@wingbeltcreations5455 tbh it's easily missable: post-1.13, the breath bar doesn't instantly refill when you reach air anymore, instead refilling gradually. But since the turtle shell grants you water breathing everytime you dive back in water, you don't have to wait to catch your breath!
@@Supershadow301 Dude, I was writing some tweaks I'd make to items, and I said the Turtle Helmet should have double the water breathing time, but I hadn't considered this!
@@Supershadow301 This makes torch snorkeling still usable on current patch (one of the most OP means of underwater exploration, not that there was anything to explore underwater before)
Yeah horses are for sure the least useless feature on the list. I love em, they're fun, but I just don't think getting a max horse is worth it when you can just put the time towards getting an elytra, which really doesn't take that long to get.
@@locko5895depends on now common/wide the rivers are. Our world we weren’t in a rush for elytra so we built bridges and such in the majority of the areas we went. Honestly it doesn’t take that long to make a bridge for horses either. Just one block will do the trick
I really, really wish you could ride the Sniffer. It just looks so much like a fantastical domesticated beast that when I saw it, I kinda just... assumed it would be a mount.
Yup, looks like a funny-colored Bantha from Star Wars, or that equally shaggy "mastidge" from StarGate. Size is, ... about right to be a baby of either.
I feel like a big part of Minecraft’s player base has shifted a lot. I’ve been playing since 2012 and I grew up with just chilling and playing with friends and building stuff. A lot of newer players have been focused more on progression and automation which is cool and I’m glad they enjoy that but I think that’s why these “useless” features are hated so much. We had so many useless features in the early game, it’s all just meant to be fun, not functional.
@coolcrazyguyer which is stupid that people complain about that. They only feel that way because of the way THEY play the game, not because the game has changed to make the old way impossible. You can literally just play minecraft the old way. The game is fine, it's the players that are idiots but blame the game for their own idiocy
How useful! Witches can still slam potions into your face, creepers can blow you sky high, and skeletons can still lob arrows into your dome but those heckin' zombies can't hit you anymore so the camel is Le good!
Which is useless because you can outrun a majority of the melees with any mount in the game In fact camels are worse than just pillaring up because you can't sweep attack.
(PATCHED) In Bedrock, there's a feature (?) that's basically selective breeding on steroids. If two parents have specific potion effects, the offspring will be born with those boosts permanently. This can lead to godly mounts. When you splash four pigs with Speed II and breed them, you'll have two babies with Speed II stats. Splash then with another Speed II, breed them, and then you have a sportspig! Funny thing happened while I was pig breeding: the parents were too fast. When they tried to breed they ended up just running in circles, trying to catch each other. This works with most mobs with standard breeding (rocket jump goat)
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 agree. The biggest reason why people feel feature bloat is because they're peer pressured to explore these new features. But in a regular playthrough, the last few minecraft updates have just been the monecraft equivalent to sidequests. You can do them if you want, and you're not gatekept from progression if you don't want to do any of them. But if you feel burnt put from minecraft amd are craving a new experience, uncovering a lost archeology site or doing a trial chamber can get you out of the slump and have you keep exploring your world.
@@humourlessjester3584it really can’t. Archaeology is boring because it’s slow and unrewarding. At least add the feature where you have a chance to lose the item if you wiggle your cursor too much while brushing, I want actual tension even if only a little, not slow, boring gameplay! That was planned but cut because… well I don’t know, maybe Mojang hates actual stakes.
@@HungryWarden well, archeology irl is also slow and vastly unrewarding. However, the slow pace is pretty relaxing. Not everything needs stakes. Want stakes? We have ancient cities and trial chambers. Let there be some world building in the game with such a large world. Besides, it may be boring to some, but a lot of us like it!
@HungryWarden A baby game. Like Minecraft. A chill sandbox game primarily marketed at children 10 and under and with a playerbase that mostly consists of children.
Man you really hit the nail on the head with this one. Minecraft players now a days are just so obsessed with efficiency, farms and industrialization. I honestly miss the days of just hopping on with the boys and having a great time.
the problem is even when just trying to have fun, many of these features just suck, nothing like starting a little turtle farm, waiting for them to grow, collecting their shells, and making a helmet, only to discover you get less water breathing than if you just put a pufferfish in a bottle.
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.
Foxes are super cute and some of the only auto farms I ever make use foxes. I made an auto chicken farm that was fox powered because it can hold a looting 3 fire aspect sword so you get increased drops compared to the lava based design. I also really like auto fox berry farms. They just print money if you have a fully leveled butcher villager while being super cute to watch them all run around in their glass greenhouse.
@isloths Yeah if you give them a weapon to hold, their attack uses the weapon's stats, including the enchantment. The only issue is they can only hold one item at a time and prioritize holding food. So if a food item is accessible to them, they will drop the weapon and pick up the food item instead and then your weapon risks despawning. If you make some sort of system that uses a fox with a weapon, you have to make sure they can't pick up anything edible. Also a second funny thing with foxes is they can eat golden apples and gain their buff effect. I've been paranoid bringing my foxes through the nether before and would feed them a golden apple and splash them with fire resist too lol
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.
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.
I mean those who complain MC is getting boring and such doesn't see a better picture. Minecraft is an open world after all, not your RPG or Boss Rush. It's filled with ton of ton of ton of side quests, from being the most useful to useless impractical stuff, there's a lot to play around, like you who criticized the ruins and turns out to be fun as a side quest
This is honestly exactly what I feel about minecraft. It is the players game. If the player wants to run around doing everything as efficient and grand as possible, have fun. If the player wants to take it slow and not even get armor, just build some bases and explore around, enjoy. If the player wants to fill their days with side quests and mini projects, thats lovely. There is no "useless" feature. Because somebody out there loves that feature!
@@utsurobune3530the only people I see crying are soy ridden chuddies strawmanning dedicated players older than 5yo who are, rightly so, criticising Mojang's incompetence and continous infantisation of the game
You can say that about most game. Not really a good arguments. You can even say the same thing to "play looking at paint dry" Game design matters, it does guide players towards a certain playstyle. The same reason why nobody uses minecart anymore for traversing.
@@kiattim2100 Late reply but same. Even on other things it manages to barely keep up. As of now the pale forest is a weak exploration addition because it has little depth and isn't atmospheric and as of now it is very little rewarding for exploring this biome. If it has to depend on multiplayer just to gain some sort of strengths then it's entirely dependant on UGC rather than what it could build off.
@kiattim2100 sure, but those "other games" aren't sandboxes. other games benefit from clear direction because they are linear games. sandbox games are different, they are quite literally meant to be a "sandbox"; a place for the player to just play around in. minecraft would, in fact, NOT benefit from having a clear play style set, because then it would no longer be a sandbox.
The only problem about sniffer is only giving two types of flower for decoration purpose. I think it would be better if they give us more type of plants with different purpose beside decoration. If we can get another food source from a type of seed would be better.
Well, there’s that and how ridiculously slow and boring getting one is. You wait for the egg to hatch, you wait for the Sniffer to grow up, you wait for it to find a seed (very slowly), you wait for the seed to grow. How is that fun exactly?
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).
Underbaked is definitely the right word. I genuinely don't mind that the sniffer only gives you decorative plants as they look cool, but why the hell they only give you 2 new plants? Is it really hard for a big game company who's been doing this for 15 years to add at the very least 5 new decorative plants? Or the glow squid (which I was one of the people who voted for it) being slightly glowy. Is it really that hard to make them bright to make the water in caves brighter and add more functionality to the glow inc sac such as glow blocks? Even structures such as the ancient city are a victim. A really huge and cool place that's guarded by a formidable creature where you have to carefully sneak around it to avoid them, only for you to get the same loots that you can get on the other 100 different structures, candles, and 3 new items where only 2 of them are truly useful. It's so weird how they have amazing ideas and yet they're not fully cooking them.
@gdottothegamer1001 On the glowsquid, the reason they do not actually glow is because it would make the game extremely laggy. Minecraft is poorly optimized in many ways and lighting updates really slow the game down if you have a bunch of them happening rapidly. Since glow squids move around a lot, they would constantly be causing lighting updates in the spot they spawned in, and since they spawn in groups, that would cause insane lag spikes.
@@IceFireofVoid that's actually fair. But I do still wish that they are slightly brighter. And maybe when attacked, instead of vomiting black cloud ink like normal squids, make them vomit bright cloud ink that'd flash bang any players who swim through it.
@gdottothegamer1001 Honestly the part that disappoints me the most with the glowsquid is that there isn't more stuff like it to accompany it. I really like exploring flooded caves. And occasionally when the glowsquids spawn it makes it really atmospheric. It's just that they don't spawn that often and it's kind of barren down there otherwise. It would be cool if they came with a whole bunch of other bioluminescent fish and glowing corals and there could be an aquatic cave biome like an underground version of the coral reef.
I’m actually a very old-school + aesthetic based type of player when playing Minecraft. Would rather have a small 3x5 of each crops farm for looks rather than to have a mega auto farm. Or rather have an actual fenced farm land for animal to roam rather than a cow/chicken 3x3 torture chamber. Having different base in different biome, adding my own lore in the world like having a random villager living in a hut inside the forest or something like exclusively using only dirt as terrain exploring block in the over-world to not ruin the landscape etc. So I was always happy to see they add those stuff, maybe a bit disappointed on Sniffer on its potential, but at least I like the exploration part to acquire it.
I feel like the Pitcher plant was the most missed opportunity to add new insects and new potions. The Pitcher Plant could be used to kill insects, and drop the remains that you could use for new potions, also feel like it would have been a good time to Re-add the fire flies and use them for a potion of sorts. Maybe like a potion of illumination or potion of flaming, and the bees could be used for a potion of stinging or a potion of pollinating.
I think instead it should fill up slowly every time it kills an insect before it gives you a random potion that you can harvest. Like a composter. But you have to fuel it with Blaze Powder for it to work.
The Elytra rush is just about the worst thing you could do for your Minecraft run, my friends do it, and it genuinely ruins the game. 3 days in on the server and they’re already wanting to fight the dragon. It’s like, how do you enjoy a game, when the majority of the game is enjoyed from the ground. The world is so much bigger when you don’t know what’s over that next hill. exploring is half the battle, and when you literally conquer the sky in less time than it takes to find netherite, it’s a major issue. :(
This is why even after getting Elytra I prefer to explore on foot. You miss so much when you're up there. You really don't appreciate the world at all. I mainly use the Elytra to travel between two established bases or farms that I have already crossed the distance between on foot before. Usually only if a friend wants me to go there quickly. If not most of the time I still get around on foot, by boat or by horse. It's just more fun.
it seems odd to rag on transportation features like minecarts and horses because "the elytra is better", cause yeah obviously a post-ender dragon endgame item like the elytra will be better than transportation features that are intended for early-game. though i do agree that minecarts could definitely use a buff, seeing as they're one of the more expensive transportation methods and they're hardly faster than sprinting
The thing is it's so easy to get an elytra that from a usefulness perspective, there's really no reason to spend time building a minecart rail or getting a good horse when you can spend 2 hours and get an elytra. Not saying I don't like these mechanics, I think they're all cool. The elytra is simply very strong.
Horses are actually really good, I still use mine in my 400+ day world even though I have the elytra. It's just more convenient to reach the surrounding areas around my house, and also you don't need to put mending on your horse lmao
Honestly I'm so sad they removed the green axolotl. It would be so fun to have them especially because gene experimenting has produced green fluorescent axolotls in real life!! Perhaps when they finally add the functionality for the glow squid to actually glow they can add it back in and give it the same function. I think that would be cool.
@@Koguri3108 I've been keeping axolotls in real life for 8 years and I am so sad that I can't get a GFP axolotl since I moved to the UK because genetically modified organisms in this way are illegal to be sold here.
It’s nice to see someone who also likes to chill out and make use of the “useless” things. I never could understand the compex stuff like farms and red stone.
Not everything in game needs a lot of uses but the sheer number of nearly useless things in Minecraft is a problem, especially because the devs almost never revisit old elements and add to them unlike many other game devs, like the odds of Sniffers, Turtles, Armadillos or Glow Squids gaining new functionality is practically zero, Like imo along side the turtle helmet there should be a turtle chest piece that gives a different underwater buff, Sniffers could dig up a new ancient tree seed that has green wood (based on prehistoric "trees" that were more like giant ferns), Glow ink should be useable on beds, banners and leather armour, like imagine banners with parts that "glow" or armour stands with "glowing" armour. not saying to make everything super important and essential but just adding more neat features to make them more engaging for longer.
Mojang is a multi billion dollar company, owned by an even bigger multi billion dollar company, that struggles to keep up with the development pace of Notch, a single person.
@@islothsbut these are actually useful because they decrease the range a mob can see you from, and you can put ‘em on top of a Note Block to prank your friends.
Imagine if you could make a shield out of scutes too, I think that'd be a neat way to increase the value of investing in a turtle farm, since normally you won't need to maintain it past your first helm
They should replace gold in powered rails with copper and make a unique golden rails which give you a big speed bonus. This will not only not screw-up old builds, but also adds something really needed. Imagine how cool of a rollercoaster you can build with those speed pads
For me, I use the wisdom of Zorba for minecraft. "Why does a man always need a reason for something. Why cant he just do it for the hell of it?". That is why I have made a farm that takes about 10 minecraft days to harvest and replant. And I have nothing to do with the produce. In that world, I do have a goal of making it a kingdom, with cities, and villages. Will that give me OP stuff? No. But it will be fun and I'm doing that for the hell of it.
Creepers have such weird fun niche mechanics, im always wondering what the first people to discover them must have thought. Like, why can we get discs by killing a mob with another mob? Why does striking that same mob with lightning cause other mobs to drop their heads when he blows up? And the fact the creeper was originally a mistake while trying to assemble a pig, is the cherry on top.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Polar bear it has one mechanic and it goes away after like 20 minutes. After that it just walks around and does nothing. It can't even get into boats as an adult, can't breed, and drops 4 fish total.
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
"were designed so that they could be added upon and given more depth in the future" In other words "Add a bunch of useless unfleshed out features instead of actually making them good the first time" They have a long track record of features that are effectively abandoned. "Copper continues to get more and more functionality with each update" It took them four years to give them a good functional use.
@EmperorPenguin1217 This isn't new and exclusive to recent additions. It's been a thing with pretty much everything in the game. Emeralds and lapis didn't originally have their functionality when they got added to the game. Gold armour and leather armour didn't have additional functionality until fairly recent updates when they added the ability to pacify piglins by wearing gold or powdered snow being added that you don't sink in if you have leather boots. Bees had their functionality expanded on with the addition of copper. Archeology was a form of expansion to both copper and several past existing structures. Boats got updated in significant ways years after their original addition. Twice. New potions got added with a lot of updates and most of the updates that were added post 1.0 were primarily focused on expanding existing features. We recently got dogs having new skins and spawning in new biomes as well as dog armour. Dogs were first added to the game in beta 1.4, over 13 years ago. They have been virtually completely untouched since. They are always adding to previous features and there is very little in the game that has never been touched on since their original addition.
@voidghost8360 Unironically these free updates add more to the game in one go than some 20$ DLCs I've seen for some other games I play. And those games cost more than twice as much as Minecraft. FPS games are so bad for it like you'll pay 20$ for a singular character skin you never even get to see because the game is first person. I've also seen multiple games that have paid cosmetics that are SINGLEPLAYER GAMES
@@IceFireofVoid "It's been a thing with pretty much everything in the game." Not true, up until recently a majority of the features at least held up on their own at the time of their addition and had proper functions "Emeralds and lapis didn't originally have their functionality when they got added to the game." From addition to gaining proper functionality: Emeralds - Nine months - Extremely important mechanic Lapis - 3 years, a few months - Gold/leather armor - Several years, only one piece of either kind is useful, source materials still managed to hold up on their own Honey comb - 1 year seven months, changes a block from one state to another. Decent but not much, not an "expansion" Boats - Last major change, 8 years ago and leading which is a parity feature that existed years prior. Archaeology - 2 years after announcement, not an "expansion" either. It barely even changed the structures either Wolf skins - 13 years, literally just skins and spawn adjustments. "They are always adding to previous features" Not true, there's still a ton of dead on arrival or abandoned features and even when they do add to a previous feature lately it's usually beyond overdue and/or bare minimum/unimportant at best.
Some many years ago a bunch of friends and I made a survival multiplayer server, and we had some delightful projects, my favorite of which was the Nether Metro. It's exactly what it sounds like, a metro subway system in the nether made with minecart rails. The goal wasnt efficiency in travel or anything, it was just to make something kind of messy and fun to visit each others bases at different, distant parts of the world. Roller coasters are more fun than gliders.
@@isloths hmm what do you think of emperorpenguin1217? He comes to every video stating usless features and has thw same negativity even with yours trying to be nicer. And he hates armor trims
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!
@@vencedor1774 that's what I meant. Like, sure, it can be useless for progression. But if it doesn't add to the overall experience, then it is kind of "pointless". That's what I meant. Like, putting an example from the video: the panda brown recessive genome. Like, sure, you could go all the way with the breeding and stuff. Or you could just find a brown panda spawning naturally. That kind of stuff.
Minecarts got to be my favorite from this list. Even though they're awful compared to elytra, I still put in the effort to build underwater glass tunnels for minecarts starting from my ocean base and going to different farms around the world. Even though I use them once a month just to enjoy the view through the glass, I still love it because it's a nice experience that you can't get by just quickly flying with the elytra.
Yeah I totally agree. Flying around with the elytra is cool at first then it just becomes lame. I've always loved building rollercoasters and stuff. Super cool that you saw this vid.
Gold tools are NOT better than iron... They mine faster and have stronger enchants, but that's it. It can't mine the majority of the ores in the game, it gives less protection, and it does less damage (it literally can't even mine itself... You need at least iron tools to mine gold ore). So having Gold Horse Armor give more protection than iron DOES NOT make sense, as its not even consistent with how every other gold tool/armor works.
@@lasercraft32 why are they so abundant in the nether? their fast-mining property. nether blocks aren't really that tough, and using your diamond pick can be a waste, and if you dont have a thousand beds gold picks are definitely a lifesaver
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.
I agree with you, not everything is for everyone. Some people like combat, some like building, others like exploring and so on. And I think that's fine, Minecraft is mostly a sandbox - play it the way you like it
I guess the Sniffer is a super useful mob that’s great and amazing. Come on though, there are useless features or at least near useless features. I need to start using the word niche more often, because that more accurately describes what I’m trying to get across.
@@HungryWarden I personally think niche things are fine. When something has a niche, it has the opportunity to be the best at that niche. When everything is a generalist, inevitably, one or a few will become the best at it and then everything else will THEN be useless because it will just be a worse version of something else. People misunderstand the sniffer. It does exactly what the mob vote trailer said it would. "sniffs up seeds. We will get some new plants" and "it was thought to be extinct but now it can live in the overworld again". The point of the sniffer is to be a cute rare drop from suspicious sand in warm ocean water ruins. The sniffer isn't a stepping stone to a reward. The sniffer IS the reward. It's like getting a shiny Pokemon or unlocking a golden gun in Overwatch. I'm not sure why people expected it to do much. Even with the plants it gives. Most of the plants in the game are cosmetic. And it's pretty obvious it will give more different plants in the future.
I encountered this recently on Reddit with someone saying stews were useless, even though they were one of the best food items in the game. They just didn't understand its utility because they didn't use it, and therefore, is useless.
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.
100% agreed. When I hear someone say "I killed the dragon, I beat the game" I want to invent new ways to perform lobotomy. Dude this is a sandbox game, there is no beating it. That is the main reason I hate and despise speedrunners. As for the farms, yeah remove them completely, not my fault people refuse to walk 20 block away from their base. What's funny is that the same people later whine how minecraft is boring.
@@a_balloonthe convenience of an iron farm is a big part of what allows me to have fun in this game. a big reason why i constantly dumped old minecraft worlds was the slight inconvience of having to go mine whenever i needed iron (which is a lot, because iron is everpresent in all crafting recipes.) i find it much more fun to get my iron from a farm and then do what i want than to go mining just for that purpose before i can achieve my goals i have no problem for doing this with lapis/redstone/copper/coal, but i genuinely feel like iron is now harder to find than ever. put that together with the fact it needs to be smelted and i suddenly spent 1 hour getting and smelting my iron before i get to work on my project
Easy iron farms are necessary though, survival redstone and complex farming can't be done without them. They don't break the balance, they open up the tech tree.
No? Entirely generalizing and factually incorrect. If you're being told that you have landed yourself in a try-hard group and that's your own fault. As for youtubers, majority of them just do that because that's what they like doing and they don't tell people to do that. Say it again with me folks: "Generalising entire communities is not only factually incorrect but morally wrong as well!"
The thing I don’t like about newer updates isn’t the “usefulness” it’s the fact that they make a new biome with a new mob or something and then make it a 0.000001% chance to find the biome in you world.
What a great video! I like it being mostly talking about the positive side of these often considered "useless" items and mobs, but also you being willing to criticise some aspects of them. And also covering more features considered to be "useless" than just the "new" stuff. As for my favorite useless feature, I love the turtles. For all the things you said, but also for letting me live underwater in Minecraft. The oceans are some of my favorite places in Minecraft and turtle helmet is one of the main reasons I can even attempt to set a base in thous places and explore them thoroughly.(Turtles are also cute!) Also awesome choises of music! Loved the Kirby songs you used here and the NSMB ocean stage theme(?), idk where it actually comes from, but it worked really well for this video!
Llamas also have different stats, it determines how much they can carry in a chest on their back. It’s strength from 1-5, and the amount of stacks they can carry is their strength times 3.
@@sjfs231 actually, I was really pleasantly surprised by how good llama caravan pathfinding was when I tried it a bit ago. I wouldn’t use it for super long distances, but it’s a cool little feature
Disc 5 actually has *massive* implications for an end update... the first monster sound about 35 seconds in is the idle sound of the Endersent miniboss from the Echoing Void DLC of Minecraft Dungeons 🤯
my favorite thing to do in mc is make a temporary home in some random hole. speedrun the game so i get the best netherite armor i can get, take out the ender dragon and get mending on all my tools and elytra… so i can start to play the game! all that takes a few hours but my hundreds of hours come out of exploring and building. there’s so much more to this game than just the false progression that players complain about even though they’re the ones who invented it.
I think horses, donkeys, mules and camels are good for pre-elytra game, which for some players is a big part of their playthru because itll take a while to get to the end. Plus, Elytra can be damaged
you know what i expected this video to be a bunch of opnionated fixes but actually made me look at a whole new perspective treating these as side quests,thanks
There is so much to do in the game. So many little "side-quests". It's fun and interesting. I think the problem is, a lot of these small features are super specific and not fleshed out enough to keep the player motivated to seek them out and keep using them in the long-term. Many of them also feel very distant from the main progression of the game and I wish everything felt more integrated / connected.
Nah lol I still plan on doing more terraria stuff. I just wanna mix it up a bit. I still plan on doing more terraria challenges, especially when the new update drops.
This issue of calling things "useless" bothers me a lot, especially when it comes to some mobs. Brothers, just because the panda doesn't drop a panda costume when he dies doesn't mean he's useless. This isn't Terraria for you to go around killing everything you see.
I feel like people don't know that the vast majority of people who play Minecraft don't even beat the ender dragon. It can seem like a lot of people do, because every streamer or TH-camr does, but most people never go through the effort of beating the ender dragon to get the glider.
@@utsurobune3530people like you will be the ones to allow the fall of western civilization and an emergence of a dystopisn technocracy. How are people supposed to fight for their rights if they think critising a multi billion dollar corporation developing the biggest game of all times is "complaining about everything". You'll live in a pod, eat bugs and own nothing while critising people who want to keep onto their dignity and freedom
I'm choosing to play survival and basically never even visit the nether because I don't mind the grindy building and gathering. When you build a farm for resource, it really kills the mood the game can bring. I need a lot of iron for my current build, but I'm not building a farm, I'm looking for it myself.
Going to the end in Minecraft is like finishing the last page of a great book, I should do it, but I don't want it to be over and even though I know I can just read the middle parts again and notice new thins, the idea of actually being done with the book is too scary
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
If the music discs where added today there would be 2 of them, shoehorned into an otherwise redundant and useless "fun, chill ambient" mob, and contained generic pop music
I loved to see you actually compliment the game's pointless features rather than bash them or trying to """fix them""", your opinions here really show how these can give life to the game if you don't try to minmax like an engineer, and this comment comes from someone who loves redstone farming and dislikes the abundance of pointless mobs so you know it's sincere
Mobs aren't supposed to all be inherently useful, I'd argue. Axolotls and pandas were mostly included to be cute and appealing(supporting their real world environmental issues aside), and they do the job great. Just look at how popular and well-rated the Naturalist mod is on the official Marketplace, that one adds tons of animals to the game which are mostly useless when it comes to their own features. Sometimes just having an animal give you company is enough. I don't get why people argue otherwise for passive mobs, I can see why it alters your opinion but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have been added. If that were the case, even pigs would be obsolete since cows and horses provide superior uses in comparison, and I don't see anyone arguing about them being a bad feature.
Great video, I love all these features especially the rare ones. Like sure people can zoom in on any specific feature and critique it for not having use/ "depth" but arent they part of what gives depth to the game as a whole? i want more silly side quests with fun rewards!!
I am very surprised lots of people watching this agree with what I had to say. I love exploring this game, never been a fan of the super mega bases and stuff.
@@isloths I honestly think some playstyles are just louder than others and its actually so impressive that Mojang manages to create something so holisitc.
Half the things in the thumbnail are cosmetic focused, they're not supposed to have a specific use beyond flexing rarities in your world or collecting decorations for your builds, while the other half are technically useful, but are pretty niche due to the existence of alternatives that are either easier to get, are more effective for the time it takes to get them, or will save you more time and in more dangerous situations
absolutly love to fill my singleplayer world with minecart systems. I swear atleast 70% of my time is spent just digging tunnels and laying out my minecart tunnel system. every time I get bored of my minecraft base and world, I dig a tunnel to a new spot, store all my items and tools in my old base, and just start over. having years of minecraft bases connected by an elaborate minecart system is so satisfying. sure, I could get from place to place faster by putting it in the nether, but there's no fun in that. I also love turtle helmets. not much to say there. they are my go-to helmet.
Honestly, thank you for making this video. I feel the majority of the minecraft community has forgotten that this is a sandbox game and not the "kill the dragon and get the best shit" game, and sometimes I wonder if the game would be better off without bosses so people would once again understand the point of the game. People complain so much about "useless" features or "useless" decoration blocks even though that's how this genre is supposed to work. Not everything needs a reason to exist or a function just to be stuck into an ugly farm. I never see the Terraria community complaining when they get useless features even though it isn't much different from the useless features added to Minecraft. People forgot what made Minecraft so special, and some people seemingly can't admit that they just don't like sandboxes anymore. They blame everything and everyone except themselves for their own dissatisfaction and it ultimately has made the Minecraft community unbearable for me personally.
Actually, Minecraft is the odd duck in the Sandbox genre. It's like the game can't decide on an identity so it's no surprise the community is so divided. If you want a "build what you want" experience - there's Creative mode. Survival mode implies, well survival. And survival is usually followed up by thriving. I like that we have mechanics for redstone and farms, even if its for "useless" blocks - building is half the game and having "useless" decorative features like blocks or mobs is a good thing. But like I said, Sanbox genre usually implies heavy progression. Terraria does this right because it satisfies both player types. It's hard to complain about the addition of a seemingly useless flower being added when there's so many things you can do to progress. Minecraft's progression hasn't been touched for years whilst the side of the playerbase that doesn't care about progression has been given a lot of care.
Play a few hours of Minecraft beta1.7.3, the last version of the game before they added objectives, enchantments, hunger, ender dragon, etc. to the game, and you'll suddenly understand what the experience was intended to be. It's genuinely eye opening. There's still some active beta1.7.3 servers out there and everyone is super chill on them. The "best shit" you can get is just unenchanted diamond armor, and after you get that, you just play however you want and make your own goals. And it's very fun because of that.
7:56 this is exactly what I’m about when I play Minecraft. Me and my buddies are all in our late 20’s now, and we just started a new world after years away from the game. There is so much new stuff, and I’m sure there are many advanced strats tied to all of them. I simply do not care to find out. I play the game the way I like. I wander on my horse, mapping out the region. I use railcars to move materials, and I build with the old school techniques. The day there is a right way to play this game is the day I stop playing.
I thought it would have been super cool if on top of more seeds in the overworld, what if the Sniffer could dig up new seeds in the nether and end dimension? Perhaps in the nether piglins will attack Sniffers.
It was the perfect opportunity to bring back roses and blue roses! Especially considering one of the developers made a Twitter post talking about them shortly before Sniffers came into the game.
@@islothsit is a really good vid a few things though, you have to mention that all these useless things are quite funny and worth it just for comedic effect.
The way I explain Turtle Helmets to my friends: If you try to do a lot of underwater stuff, Going from regular helmet to Turtle Shell, is roughly the same difference on gameplay than switching your food from Bread to Steak. Might not seem like a huge difference on the spot. But in the long run it saves a TON of time you just aren't aware you were wasting.
the difference is steak cant be invalidated by a stack of doors, a turtle helm can, not to mention how much easier it is to make multiple water breathing potions that last 8 minutes vs a single helmet that lasts 10 seconds.
@@sjfs231 Your Stack of doors doesn't invalidate the Turtle Shell helmet. The Turtle shell helmet have 2 notable effects: 1) it adds 10 seconds to how long you last without needing to go back for air. So unenchanted goes from 15 seconds to 25, and enchanted with Respiration 3 goes from 60 to 70 seconds between every time you need to breathe. 2) You don't have to wait 5 seconds for your air bar to fill back up. Just one tick and you can go back to work, your 5 seconds of air filling up will get fully swallowed up in the 10 seconds of the Turtle Shell's water breathing effect. So in other words, you end up saving 15 seconds every time you need to go back to your door to breathe. Tons of wasted time you spare yourself. Use your door if you want, doesn't change the fact you would need to use them less often with a turtle Shell. And as for the Potions, they require inventory management. and Conduits are better, but only work in a relatively small area and can be a pain to set up.
@@neetscholar4149 you don't have to go back to the door smart stuff, you bring it with you and place it when you need it, and 70 seconds is not much of an improvement over 60 given how much work goes into the turtle helm.
@@sjfs231 It's not just 15 seconds, silly. It's 15 seconds PER CYCLE. If you spend 60 minutes completely underwater, this 15 seconds per cycle ends up becoming 12 minutes. Every hour spent totally underwater, you either spend 48 minutes doing stuff, and 12 minutes watching your air bubbles fill back up, without Turtle Shell helmet, OR you spend 58 minutes getting stuff done, and barely 2 minutes going back for air for one tick per cycle with it. It's like trying to dig a whole mountain, but with stone shovels because you don't want to waste iron, or bother making an enchanted diamond one. It's about all the little things that add up over time. Also, once you build a proper farm, making Turtle Helmets ain't that much work. Getting Turtle Eggs to start is the toughest part, after that you just need sand, a way to pick up items below, And a loaded chunk. But hey, if you feel it's a waste of time to make one, just don't make any. And stay stuck in your door watching your air bubbles fill up while all the other kids are having fun over there >.>
I actually got another rare mob that could be cool to find. Left handed skeleton. Since it could easily despawn you would have to nametag it while also trying not to get killed by it. As well as trying to keep it contained.
The Sniffer is even worse because we were SERIOUSLY oversold on what this thing could do. Genuinely the worst Mob Vote inclusion. (Phantoms don't count because that technically wasn't a mob vote.)
Minecarts are cool to connect settlements on server, even if people use teleport to players commands, it's just symbolically connecting the places and fun for railway fans to play with station design.
Omg I didn't know camels could carry two players. Now I wish you could chain minecarts to make a locomotive. We already have furnace carts for power, regular carts for passangers, chest carts for storage, just add a chain to connect them and we could have modular trains vanilla!
A thing about the horses everyone forgets,is that if you have a max stats horse and go to the top of the nether with it,you can go to the far lands,since horses doesnt have durability or hurger bar
These opinions are so refreshing! I have been playing this game for over a decade and my play style has changed over the years but not that much! I have never used and elytra or shuckers, purely because I think you should earn it. And since they’ve been added all I’ve done is explore and build like an old dude lol. TLDR : slow and steady is always fun, enjoy the weird stuff
the thing that makes resistance so powerful is that it isnt just some flat buff to your resistance to damage, its blocking a percentage of ALL incoming damage with each level, it gets to a point eventually where you will take no damage, it can even get to a point where it blocks the /kill command.
Actually (yes, I know), you missed something with horses: mules are only _generally_ worse stat-wise, because of a weird choice Mojang made with donkeys: they have the exact same stat system as horses, but always spawn with the same base stats for speed and jump. Through intensive selective breeding, you can make donkeys that have similarly high stats as top-end horses, and they'll be just as blisteringly fast while still retaining the chests. No armor though, which is the only downside past the work required.
Camels are only bad at navigating terrain because they're built for exploring deserts. This is why they have a dash instead of a jump, which is also compensated with the 2 block step hieght.
I don't mind them adding in features that are fun, I just want updates that add a little bit more to the game or fix more issues the game has. Minecarts being faster, vertical slabs, more furniture, more mob drops, 1 or 2 more uses for amethyst (potion of jingling, added to arrows for more damage), candles on cake, more colors, more crops, more uses for newer mobs (I want drops from them), matching wood for chests, torches, etc, more animal heads, and dyeable tools and weapons, to name a few.
Brown panda’s and purple axolotl’s arent rlly useless, they make the game more exciting bc it gives you a reason to play more to get them, THAT is what entertains me atleast
Oh yeah for sure. That's the whole idea of the video. Stuff that doesn't technically add to progression, but still adds to the experience. I love the blue axolotl especially.
i wrote this comment before getting to the sniffer section, sorry if i’m saying things already said: honestly i think the sniffer is just wasted potential. the concept of an ancient mob that can sniff out other old stuff like ancient plants is great! the fact that the stuff you get from it is purely cosmetic is less great. i figure they could’ve made them do something, especially seeing as all the plants seem to be only very loosely based on real life ones. heck, even something as simple as making them a new crop/food, or allowing them to be brewed into potions would help potential feel less wasted
It’s also not helped by how long it actually takes to get, you have to go through several stages of unskippable waiting such as the egg stage, the baby stage, waiting for it to look for seeds, etc. Also, it’s odd that the Warden, a mob who doesn’t have a nose, is far better at sniffing than a mob named for its ability to sniff. How is it so incredibly horrible at its one job that a mob that lacks the physical organ required to do its job does it better?
I feel like people are obsessing too much abt stuff actually being "useful" And that's kinda sad like, I love Minecraft because it's just a chill sandbox game, Yes, I wanna collect the 2 sniffer flowers, Yes I wanna spend gazzilion years of my life trying to get the blue axolotl(biggest accomplishment of my life btw), Yes, I wanna collect every wolf variant that exists, Yes, I wanna collect every goat horn, Yes I wanna collect resin, yes I wanna explore a trail ruins and leave with 20 blue glass panes. All these, aren't useful activities and they're not meant to be. they are just chill and fun little side quests that the game has to offer you, always keeping you busy by giving you more and more goals and mechanics to have and try out. Without the "useless" stuff in the game, what's the point of playing if you even get the elytra? People seem to expect every Minecraft update to add something life changing like a new weapon that can one shot the Warden!! Or a new ore that's better than Netherite!!!!!! Or I don't even know what else they want. And that's really upsetting cause that is not the point of Minecraft.
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
I agree, I just wanted to highlight them anyways as the moment you get an elytra, horses become pretty irrelevant. But yeah they are definitely useful if you play at a slower pace, which I tend to do.
In all honesty horses used to be really useful in bedrock edition they used to take no fall damage while riding them and they obviously autojump so they used to be really useful to traverse hills but they changed them so now they take fall damage so they are pretty pointless on hills...
@@RJ_200 I wish they didn't nerf them, but if it was really necessary, a softer nerf would have been nice (like having them fall farther than 3 blocks before taking fall damage) and not removing them from fitting in boats. Leads/slime are hard to get early game so transporting horses over water without a boat or lead is hard /:
I also wish llamas were more practical. They can do a bunch of things but none of them very well because people just use mules if they want the chest space. And mob pathing is rough, so nobody uses that feature. Losing a llama from a caravan when it's full of items would suck so nobody uses them. Mid game/before shulkers, just have an ender chest and/or a mule. No risk of a llama getting stuck on a block and losing the stuff
furnace minecarts badly need a boost since they're pretty obsolete ):
If they were used in conjunction with powered rails to make whatever they push go ridiculously fast it would be so much fun. Minecarts are great for transporting mobs, especially ones that are obnoxious like guardians. Mojang already removed the ability to break chest minecarts apart so changing furnace minecarts wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility I hope 😭
@@islothsI’ve had a realm for around 3 years and we have not gone to the end yet. Horses are treated like gods.
The difference is that iron armor doesn't prevent you from crossing rivers or going through trees. The issue with horses isn't that they are useless... Its that using them is inconvenient.
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*
Penguins need HUGS
And frogs eat literal magma cubes too
And parrots die after eating cookies, because chocolate is poisonous to them in real life
by the looks of it, bees are so big for pitcher plants to eat
The game probably lagged alot when they added fireflies to tests so they probably just used it as an excuse.
My main 'issue' with the sniffer is that it only has 2 plants. The plants being decoration only isn't necessarily bad, but when the mob only gives you 2 of them, and those 2 have a sorta unique style that doesn't fit with the other plants, it becomes a bit useless.
Give it more plants in that stile to sniff and make its egg a bit more common to find, 'problem' solved
He should sniff poo
That would be nice. New flowers for it to dig up would be very handy
i really hope that mojang gets back to the sniffer the way they got back to the goat and gave it more uses
@@iveedoodlestill doesnt.drop mutton to help you survive and build with the horns
Or just remove it and add the penguin 🐧
shoutout to the tropical fishes who have like literally thousands of possible combinations of physical traits so most of them that you will see are unique
Yeah that I'd a really cool thing, I'm glad they did that. Makes the reefs feel very lively
@@islothslike you ever see that biome anyway. Oh please.
@@HungryWardenChill down dude
@@HungryWardendont know what your talking abouy my world is like 60% water and over half of the ocean ive expplored is warm coral ocean
@@HungryWardenReally? Because I see them almost all the time, if you want to find them, I usually see them connected to deserts, then again, I play on bedrock 🤷
11:01 Thorch flower dosen't give off light but guess what does a god dam sea cucumber.
😂
Sea pickles and sea cucumbers are completely different animals. Sea pickles were many added as a substitute for not being able to use torches underwater.
Torch flowers are based off real life torch lilies, which get their name because they look like torches, not because they light up, similarly to how silverfish are neither made of silver, or are fish.
@@pepearown4968Gosh, the need to make things realistic to real world, in vdo game world made of pixelated block and magic is ridiculous and anti-fun.
It's a game why not make it fun.
@@kiattim2100 Not how it works
@@pepearown4968 Do Sea Pickles emit light in real life? Also lanterns can be placed underwater
the Sniffer was advertised to dig up "seeds" which implies new crops which is why it won, not 2 Flowers that inexplicably function as crops
I think the sniffer for the most part one cuz he's cute. He's a funny dude. I do wish he could get some crop or something though
@@isloths Very true. My fiance and I were sniffer voters and our reasoning for voting for it was literally "he is big and has a funny name"
I forget what this thing was running against, and while I do wish that the icologer won or we had new crops, the new plants we get do look VERY cool. I know that we wanted something different, but I find it best to still enjoy what we get.
@@plaidhatter1674 the 2022 vote was against the Tuff Golem which was an Item frame with legs, the Rascal witch gave you Enchanted Iron & Gold pics if you played a minigame with it, & the Sniffer dug up "seeds"
the Icologer was designed to win since it was a Miniboss going agasnt the Moobloom & the Glow Squid, you can thank Dream for changing it
@RaisinHook I don't think it was "designed to win". I didn't care for any of those 3 but I especially didn't want iceologer to win because it sounded really really annoying. And even with the push for the glowsquid, the votes between all 3 were actually fairly close. There was still 28% of voters who picked the moobloom compared to the 35% iceologer and 37% glowsquid.
I don't think any mob vote mob is "designed to win" or even really to be in the game tbh. They all kind of feel like brainstormed ideas that got scrapped because they didn't find them important enough to dedicate resources to, but then gave the community the opportunity to have one brought back and put in the game anyway. It's why they're so clunky and out of place compared to other mobs that are more integrated into more aspects of the game.
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.
Dude, I didn't know that drowning mechanics changed, that's really neat!
@@wingbeltcreations5455 tbh it's easily missable: post-1.13, the breath bar doesn't instantly refill when you reach air anymore, instead refilling gradually.
But since the turtle shell grants you water breathing everytime you dive back in water, you don't have to wait to catch your breath!
@@Supershadow301 Dude, I was writing some tweaks I'd make to items, and I said the Turtle Helmet should have double the water breathing time, but I hadn't considered this!
@@Supershadow301 This makes torch snorkeling still usable on current patch (one of the most OP means of underwater exploration, not that there was anything to explore underwater before)
hmm very interesting, now I will show this to the "experts"
I love how people say horses are useless, even though it’s the best way of travel before you “BEAT THE GAME”
Yeah horses are for sure the least useless feature on the list. I love em, they're fun, but I just don't think getting a max horse is worth it when you can just put the time towards getting an elytra, which really doesn't take that long to get.
They can't even run through forest or rivers
How is that good for travelling lmao
@@locko5895get good
@@locko5895depends on now common/wide the rivers are.
Our world we weren’t in a rush for elytra so we built bridges and such in the majority of the areas we went.
Honestly it doesn’t take that long to make a bridge for horses either. Just one block will do the trick
@@locko5895right like what worlds are they getting Valleys and Prairies?
I really, really wish you could ride the Sniffer. It just looks so much like a fantastical domesticated beast that when I saw it, I kinda just... assumed it would be a mount.
Yup, looks like a funny-colored Bantha from Star Wars, or that equally shaggy "mastidge" from StarGate.
Size is, ... about right to be a baby of either.
Right? You can ride pigs, why not sniffers?
It would be cool if you could make a "torchflower on a stick" to guide it around while it sniffs out more plants.
I feel like a big part of Minecraft’s player base has shifted a lot. I’ve been playing since 2012 and I grew up with just chilling and playing with friends and building stuff. A lot of newer players have been focused more on progression and automation which is cool and I’m glad they enjoy that but I think that’s why these “useless” features are hated so much. We had so many useless features in the early game, it’s all just meant to be fun, not functional.
But this is also why people say "old minecraft was better" its because of memories and them always grinding and not enjoying the game
@coolcrazyguyer which is stupid that people complain about that. They only feel that way because of the way THEY play the game, not because the game has changed to make the old way impossible. You can literally just play minecraft the old way. The game is fine, it's the players that are idiots but blame the game for their own idiocy
Can agree with this statement, but the Sniffer is hated because of the biased Mojang had for it and that it came at the cost of what we COULD have had
dont forget, zombies cant reach you on the camel!
same with endermen
WOW HOW USEFUL!
Same with iron golem ...
How useful! Witches can still slam potions into your face, creepers can blow you sky high, and skeletons can still lob arrows into your dome but those heckin' zombies can't hit you anymore so the camel is Le good!
Which is useless because you can outrun a majority of the melees with any mount in the game
In fact camels are worse than just pillaring up because you can't sweep attack.
(PATCHED) In Bedrock, there's a feature (?) that's basically selective breeding on steroids. If two parents have specific potion effects, the offspring will be born with those boosts permanently. This can lead to godly mounts.
When you splash four pigs with Speed II and breed them, you'll have two babies with Speed II stats. Splash then with another Speed II, breed them, and then you have a sportspig!
Funny thing happened while I was pig breeding: the parents were too fast. When they tried to breed they ended up just running in circles, trying to catch each other.
This works with most mobs with standard breeding (rocket jump goat)
wasnt this patched?
I wish this stayed as an actual feature with a limit to it
It was patched
This was removed some time ago
Lamarckism time!
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 agree. The biggest reason why people feel feature bloat is because they're peer pressured to explore these new features. But in a regular playthrough, the last few minecraft updates have just been the monecraft equivalent to sidequests. You can do them if you want, and you're not gatekept from progression if you don't want to do any of them. But if you feel burnt put from minecraft amd are craving a new experience, uncovering a lost archeology site or doing a trial chamber can get you out of the slump and have you keep exploring your world.
@@humourlessjester3584it really can’t.
Archaeology is boring because it’s slow and unrewarding. At least add the feature where you have a chance to lose the item if you wiggle your cursor too much while brushing, I want actual tension even if only a little, not slow, boring gameplay! That was planned but cut because… well I don’t know, maybe Mojang hates actual stakes.
@@HungryWarden well, archeology irl is also slow and vastly unrewarding. However, the slow pace is pretty relaxing. Not everything needs stakes. Want stakes? We have ancient cities and trial chambers. Let there be some world building in the game with such a large world. Besides, it may be boring to some, but a lot of us like it!
@@plaidhatter1674 go play your baby game if you don’t want stakes.
@HungryWarden A baby game. Like Minecraft. A chill sandbox game primarily marketed at children 10 and under and with a playerbase that mostly consists of children.
Man you really hit the nail on the head with this one. Minecraft players now a days are just so obsessed with efficiency, farms and industrialization. I honestly miss the days of just hopping on with the boys and having a great time.
@@hoovyonlifesupport1129 It's funny how I didn't ask.
the problem is even when just trying to have fun, many of these features just suck, nothing like starting a little turtle farm, waiting for them to grow, collecting their shells, and making a helmet, only to discover you get less water breathing than if you just put a pufferfish in a bottle.
@@NoCallerID70457and you still gave your opinion 🤓
@@morganraymo6959 There is no opinion within my comment. Me not asking is a fact - I literally didn't ask.
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, try joining servers not owened by streamers.
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.
Foxes are super cute and some of the only auto farms I ever make use foxes. I made an auto chicken farm that was fox powered because it can hold a looting 3 fire aspect sword so you get increased drops compared to the lava based design. I also really like auto fox berry farms. They just print money if you have a fully leveled butcher villager while being super cute to watch them all run around in their glass greenhouse.
I didn't know you could give foxes enchanted swords. That's sounds sick, I might talk about these guys in the future.
@isloths Yeah if you give them a weapon to hold, their attack uses the weapon's stats, including the enchantment. The only issue is they can only hold one item at a time and prioritize holding food. So if a food item is accessible to them, they will drop the weapon and pick up the food item instead and then your weapon risks despawning. If you make some sort of system that uses a fox with a weapon, you have to make sure they can't pick up anything edible.
Also a second funny thing with foxes is they can eat golden apples and gain their buff effect. I've been paranoid bringing my foxes through the nether before and would feed them a golden apple and splash them with fire resist too lol
They are useful though, they can fight for you, farm chickens, and also steal your stuff.
@@HungryWarden Hence the quotations around "useless." To me they're one of the best features in the game.
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.
I mean the end is mostly empty, you can make some good stuff there without digging so much dirt
But that's where the basic movement item and basic inventory management items are
@@slowfreq TRUE
@@slowfreq ye
But elytras are big epic🧍🏽♂️
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.
Fax, fun doing random stuff in this game. Love stuff like that.
I mean those who complain MC is getting boring and such doesn't see a better picture. Minecraft is an open world after all, not your RPG or Boss Rush. It's filled with ton of ton of ton of side quests, from being the most useful to useless impractical stuff, there's a lot to play around, like you who criticized the ruins and turns out to be fun as a side quest
NAPPEY? QUE HACES AQUÍ!?
@@flatkat7781 OMGG!! hola flatkat que hace mi español favorito por estos lares?? XD
@@6Unknown_Source9 I criticized them mainly for being ugly but they've grown on me
This is honestly exactly what I feel about minecraft. It is the players game.
If the player wants to run around doing everything as efficient and grand as possible, have fun. If the player wants to take it slow and not even get armor, just build some bases and explore around, enjoy. If the player wants to fill their days with side quests and mini projects, thats lovely.
There is no "useless" feature. Because somebody out there loves that feature!
Exactly. There's too many players who just complain and cry about things they think should be added or changed
@@utsurobune3530the only people I see crying are soy ridden chuddies strawmanning dedicated players older than 5yo who are, rightly so, criticising Mojang's incompetence and continous infantisation of the game
You can say that about most game. Not really a good arguments. You can even say the same thing to "play looking at paint dry"
Game design matters, it does guide players towards a certain playstyle. The same reason why nobody uses minecart anymore for traversing.
@@kiattim2100 Late reply but same. Even on other things it manages to barely keep up. As of now the pale forest is a weak exploration addition because it has little depth and isn't atmospheric and as of now it is very little rewarding for exploring this biome. If it has to depend on multiplayer just to gain some sort of strengths then it's entirely dependant on UGC rather than what it could build off.
@kiattim2100 sure, but those "other games" aren't sandboxes. other games benefit from clear direction because they are linear games. sandbox games are different, they are quite literally meant to be a "sandbox"; a place for the player to just play around in. minecraft would, in fact, NOT benefit from having a clear play style set, because then it would no longer be a sandbox.
Mojang when they discover that frogs die if they eat magma:
The only problem about sniffer is only giving two types of flower for decoration purpose. I think it would be better if they give us more type of plants with different purpose beside decoration. If we can get another food source from a type of seed would be better.
Well, there’s that and how ridiculously slow and boring getting one is. You wait for the egg to hatch, you wait for the Sniffer to grow up, you wait for it to find a seed (very slowly), you wait for the seed to grow.
How is that fun exactly?
@@HungryWardenIt is a process. Once you get the flowers, it is much easier to plant them en mass.
@@plaidhatter1674 there is no excuse for it to take this long.
Or generally just more of those
It feels like they did the bare minumum, the flowers can't even be placed on pots
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).
Sometimes that’s good to have “useless” stuff.
Underbaked is definitely the right word. I genuinely don't mind that the sniffer only gives you decorative plants as they look cool, but why the hell they only give you 2 new plants? Is it really hard for a big game company who's been doing this for 15 years to add at the very least 5 new decorative plants?
Or the glow squid (which I was one of the people who voted for it) being slightly glowy. Is it really that hard to make them bright to make the water in caves brighter and add more functionality to the glow inc sac such as glow blocks?
Even structures such as the ancient city are a victim. A really huge and cool place that's guarded by a formidable creature where you have to carefully sneak around it to avoid them, only for you to get the same loots that you can get on the other 100 different structures, candles, and 3 new items where only 2 of them are truly useful.
It's so weird how they have amazing ideas and yet they're not fully cooking them.
@gdottothegamer1001 On the glowsquid, the reason they do not actually glow is because it would make the game extremely laggy. Minecraft is poorly optimized in many ways and lighting updates really slow the game down if you have a bunch of them happening rapidly. Since glow squids move around a lot, they would constantly be causing lighting updates in the spot they spawned in, and since they spawn in groups, that would cause insane lag spikes.
@@IceFireofVoid that's actually fair. But I do still wish that they are slightly brighter. And maybe when attacked, instead of vomiting black cloud ink like normal squids, make them vomit bright cloud ink that'd flash bang any players who swim through it.
@gdottothegamer1001 Honestly the part that disappoints me the most with the glowsquid is that there isn't more stuff like it to accompany it. I really like exploring flooded caves. And occasionally when the glowsquids spawn it makes it really atmospheric. It's just that they don't spawn that often and it's kind of barren down there otherwise. It would be cool if they came with a whole bunch of other bioluminescent fish and glowing corals and there could be an aquatic cave biome like an underground version of the coral reef.
I’m actually a very old-school + aesthetic based type of player when playing Minecraft. Would rather have a small 3x5 of each crops farm for looks rather than to have a mega auto farm. Or rather have an actual fenced farm land for animal to roam rather than a cow/chicken 3x3 torture chamber. Having different base in different biome, adding my own lore in the world like having a random villager living in a hut inside the forest or something like exclusively using only dirt as terrain exploring block in the over-world to not ruin the landscape etc. So I was always happy to see they add those stuff, maybe a bit disappointed on Sniffer on its potential, but at least I like the exploration part to acquire it.
I feel like the Pitcher plant was the most missed opportunity to add new insects and new potions. The Pitcher Plant could be used to kill insects, and drop the remains that you could use for new potions, also feel like it would have been a good time to Re-add the fire flies and use them for a potion of sorts. Maybe like a potion of illumination or potion of flaming, and the bees could be used for a potion of stinging or a potion of pollinating.
I think instead it should fill up slowly every time it kills an insect before it gives you a random potion that you can harvest. Like a composter. But you have to fuel it with Blaze Powder for it to work.
imagine potion of pollinating! You could just throw potions on your crops to make them grow faster and feel like a dryad. That would be so cool!
@@LibraryofAcousticMagic3240Bonemeal:
The turtle potion is so powerful that even Technoblade used to use it to destroy his enemies
Rest In Peace Legend
The Elytra rush is just about the worst thing you could do for your Minecraft run, my friends do it, and it genuinely ruins the game. 3 days in on the server and they’re already wanting to fight the dragon. It’s like, how do you enjoy a game, when the majority of the game is enjoyed from the ground. The world is so much bigger when you don’t know what’s over that next hill. exploring is half the battle, and when you literally conquer the sky in less time than it takes to find netherite, it’s a major issue. :(
This is why even after getting Elytra I prefer to explore on foot. You miss so much when you're up there. You really don't appreciate the world at all. I mainly use the Elytra to travel between two established bases or farms that I have already crossed the distance between on foot before. Usually only if a friend wants me to go there quickly. If not most of the time I still get around on foot, by boat or by horse. It's just more fun.
I personally rush the elytra because the utilities it gives along with the shulker box is just too much for me to ignore.
i do love a good dragon egg rush at the start bragging right after that wil take forever to get elytra
Play beta.
Fair. Me and all my friends do have elytra, but that is because we all live very far apart. We mainly use boat highways.
it seems odd to rag on transportation features like minecarts and horses because "the elytra is better", cause yeah obviously a post-ender dragon endgame item like the elytra will be better than transportation features that are intended for early-game.
though i do agree that minecarts could definitely use a buff, seeing as they're one of the more expensive transportation methods and they're hardly faster than sprinting
The thing is it's so easy to get an elytra that from a usefulness perspective, there's really no reason to spend time building a minecart rail or getting a good horse when you can spend 2 hours and get an elytra. Not saying I don't like these mechanics, I think they're all cool. The elytra is simply very strong.
yeah the risk/effort to reward ratio isn’t very balanced
@@islothsi dont care because making a rail line is fun. plus i have an iron farm
Minecarts still suck without elytras. Running beats them and boats are faster than them and have more options on where they can go.
@@em-823jesus ppl here really don’t understand how preferences work
Horses are actually really good, I still use mine in my 400+ day world even though I have the elytra. It's just more convenient to reach the surrounding areas around my house, and also you don't need to put mending on your horse lmao
Good point lol
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
oh also the axolotl concept art stuff would be nice i think
having just more variants in general, or some like combination of variants
Honestly I'm so sad they removed the green axolotl. It would be so fun to have them especially because gene experimenting has produced green fluorescent axolotls in real life!! Perhaps when they finally add the functionality for the glow squid to actually glow they can add it back in and give it the same function. I think that would be cool.
Yeah, It would be cool, specially considering we already have MULES
@@Koguri3108 I've been keeping axolotls in real life for 8 years and I am so sad that I can't get a GFP axolotl since I moved to the UK because genetically modified organisms in this way are illegal to be sold here.
It’s nice to see someone who also likes to chill out and make use of the “useless” things. I never could understand the compex stuff like farms and red stone.
Not everything in game needs a lot of uses but the sheer number of nearly useless things in Minecraft is a problem, especially because the devs almost never revisit old elements and add to them unlike many other game devs, like the odds of Sniffers, Turtles, Armadillos or Glow Squids gaining new functionality is practically zero,
Like imo along side the turtle helmet there should be a turtle chest piece that gives a different underwater buff, Sniffers could dig up a new ancient tree seed that has green wood (based on prehistoric "trees" that were more like giant ferns), Glow ink should be useable on beds, banners and leather armour, like imagine banners with parts that "glow" or armour stands with "glowing" armour. not saying to make everything super important and essential but just adding more neat features to make them more engaging for longer.
Mojang is a multi billion dollar company, owned by an even bigger multi billion dollar company, that struggles to keep up with the development pace of Notch, a single person.
the mob heads are so hard to get, especially in java, and ESPECIALLY the piglin head
Yes I was considering talking about these as well. Super cool concept to get them, and channeling made the process a lot more fair
@@islothsbut these are actually useful because they decrease the range a mob can see you from, and you can put ‘em on top of a Note Block to prank your friends.
I didn't wanna just cheat them in but I also gave up getting them legit. I just use commands to spawn a charged creeper
@@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771 you can get a skull from an Ancient City. I would know, I live there after all.
@@HungryWardenThey can also be used for fireworks or banners.
You should be able to chain minecarts together
That'd be cool
GIVE US TRAINS MOJANG YOU COWARDS (on a smaller note, you can simulate this with furnace minecarts, but they’re super slow)
Imagine if you could make a shield out of scutes too, I think that'd be a neat way to increase the value of investing in a turtle farm, since normally you won't need to maintain it past your first helm
Yeah a big turtle shell that acts as a shield. Cool idea lol
They should replace gold in powered rails with copper and make a unique golden rails which give you a big speed bonus. This will not only not screw-up old builds, but also adds something really needed. Imagine how cool of a rollercoaster you can build with those speed pads
this would be amazing, minecarts are completely useless because of how slow they are currently.
For me, I use the wisdom of Zorba for minecraft. "Why does a man always need a reason for something. Why cant he just do it for the hell of it?". That is why I have made a farm that takes about 10 minecraft days to harvest and replant. And I have nothing to do with the produce. In that world, I do have a goal of making it a kingdom, with cities, and villages. Will that give me OP stuff? No. But it will be fun and I'm doing that for the hell of it.
Creepers have such weird fun niche mechanics, im always wondering what the first people to discover them must have thought. Like, why can we get discs by killing a mob with another mob? Why does striking that same mob with lightning cause other mobs to drop their heads when he blows up? And the fact the creeper was originally a mistake while trying to assemble a pig, is the cherry on top.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the
Polar bear it has one mechanic and it goes away after like 20 minutes. After that it just walks around and does nothing. It can't even get into boats as an adult, can't breed, and drops 4 fish total.
At least it drops SOMETHING lmao
polar bears are just ripped straight out of the mo creatures mod, they even drop fish like in mo creatures, it's lazy.
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
"were designed so that they could be added upon and given more depth in the future"
In other words "Add a bunch of useless unfleshed out features instead of actually making them good the first time"
They have a long track record of features that are effectively abandoned.
"Copper continues to get more and more functionality with each update"
It took them four years to give them a good functional use.
@EmperorPenguin1217 This isn't new and exclusive to recent additions. It's been a thing with pretty much everything in the game. Emeralds and lapis didn't originally have their functionality when they got added to the game. Gold armour and leather armour didn't have additional functionality until fairly recent updates when they added the ability to pacify piglins by wearing gold or powdered snow being added that you don't sink in if you have leather boots. Bees had their functionality expanded on with the addition of copper. Archeology was a form of expansion to both copper and several past existing structures. Boats got updated in significant ways years after their original addition. Twice. New potions got added with a lot of updates and most of the updates that were added post 1.0 were primarily focused on expanding existing features. We recently got dogs having new skins and spawning in new biomes as well as dog armour. Dogs were first added to the game in beta 1.4, over 13 years ago. They have been virtually completely untouched since. They are always adding to previous features and there is very little in the game that has never been touched on since their original addition.
I can't believe it takes time for the free updates for my decade old game to be more functional unbelievable give me a refund for my free update
@voidghost8360 Unironically these free updates add more to the game in one go than some 20$ DLCs I've seen for some other games I play. And those games cost more than twice as much as Minecraft. FPS games are so bad for it like you'll pay 20$ for a singular character skin you never even get to see because the game is first person. I've also seen multiple games that have paid cosmetics that are SINGLEPLAYER GAMES
@@IceFireofVoid
"It's been a thing with pretty much everything in the game."
Not true, up until recently a majority of the features at least held up on their own at the time of their addition and had proper functions
"Emeralds and lapis didn't originally have their functionality when they got added to the game."
From addition to gaining proper functionality:
Emeralds - Nine months - Extremely important mechanic
Lapis - 3 years, a few months -
Gold/leather armor - Several years, only one piece of either kind is useful, source materials still managed to hold up on their own
Honey comb - 1 year seven months, changes a block from one state to another. Decent but not much, not an "expansion"
Boats - Last major change, 8 years ago and leading which is a parity feature that existed years prior.
Archaeology - 2 years after announcement, not an "expansion" either. It barely even changed the structures either
Wolf skins - 13 years, literally just skins and spawn adjustments.
"They are always adding to previous features"
Not true, there's still a ton of dead on arrival or abandoned features and even when they do add to a previous feature lately it's usually beyond overdue and/or bare minimum/unimportant at best.
I love shader that doesn't cranks up saturation and just adds really nice shadows
Yeah, it's called sildurs enhanced default, I specifically used it for these vids just cause it keeps that default feel.
Some many years ago a bunch of friends and I made a survival multiplayer server, and we had some delightful projects, my favorite of which was the Nether Metro. It's exactly what it sounds like, a metro subway system in the nether made with minecart rails. The goal wasnt efficiency in travel or anything, it was just to make something kind of messy and fun to visit each others bases at different, distant parts of the world. Roller coasters are more fun than gliders.
collecting trims and sherds are certified joy in my experience :D
Yeah I like the addition of new collectibles like that.
Don't forget music discs and banner patterns!
@@isloths hmm what do you think of emperorpenguin1217? He comes to every video stating usless features and has thw same negativity even with yours trying to be nicer. And he hates armor trims
yeah archaeology was so much fun!
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!
Pointless for progression, he means.
@@vencedor1774 that's what I meant. Like, sure, it can be useless for progression. But if it doesn't add to the overall experience, then it is kind of "pointless". That's what I meant. Like, putting an example from the video: the panda brown recessive genome. Like, sure, you could go all the way with the breeding and stuff. Or you could just find a brown panda spawning naturally. That kind of stuff.
Minecarts got to be my favorite from this list. Even though they're awful compared to elytra, I still put in the effort to build underwater glass tunnels for minecarts starting from my ocean base and going to different farms around the world. Even though I use them once a month just to enjoy the view through the glass, I still love it because it's a nice experience that you can't get by just quickly flying with the elytra.
Yeah I totally agree. Flying around with the elytra is cool at first then it just becomes lame. I've always loved building rollercoasters and stuff. Super cool that you saw this vid.
I always like horses because I get so attached to them. I always use my nametags on them, and am devastated when one of them dies.
Lol I think everyone gets attached to their pets.
These ''useless'' features is what makes Minecraft good to me, Going around and collecting every disk, armor trim and mob variants is so much fun imo.
Same, I love it
Gold horse armor being better than iron makes sense. Gold tools, weapons and armor are better than iron too, they just break faster
Gold tools are NOT better than iron... They mine faster and have stronger enchants, but that's it. It can't mine the majority of the ores in the game, it gives less protection, and it does less damage (it literally can't even mine itself... You need at least iron tools to mine gold ore).
So having Gold Horse Armor give more protection than iron DOES NOT make sense, as its not even consistent with how every other gold tool/armor works.
@@lasercraft32maybe he has not played the game in a while, since gold was nerfed to wood tier. Dont be so harsh on him
@@Averageuscitizen3GOLD WAS NERFED FROM STONE TIER?????
LITERALLY, WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???
@@Averageuscitizen3wait, gold was nerfed to wood tier? what? Like, i don't really use Gold tools much, but damn, that's stupid
@@lasercraft32 why are they so abundant in the nether? their fast-mining property. nether blocks aren't really that tough, and using your diamond pick can be a waste, and if you dont have a thousand beds gold picks are definitely a lifesaver
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.
I agree with you, not everything is for everyone. Some people like combat, some like building, others like exploring and so on. And I think that's fine, Minecraft is mostly a sandbox - play it the way you like it
I guess the Sniffer is a super useful mob that’s great and amazing.
Come on though, there are useless features or at least near useless features.
I need to start using the word niche more often, because that more accurately describes what I’m trying to get across.
@@HungryWarden I personally think niche things are fine. When something has a niche, it has the opportunity to be the best at that niche. When everything is a generalist, inevitably, one or a few will become the best at it and then everything else will THEN be useless because it will just be a worse version of something else.
People misunderstand the sniffer. It does exactly what the mob vote trailer said it would. "sniffs up seeds. We will get some new plants" and "it was thought to be extinct but now it can live in the overworld again". The point of the sniffer is to be a cute rare drop from suspicious sand in warm ocean water ruins. The sniffer isn't a stepping stone to a reward. The sniffer IS the reward. It's like getting a shiny Pokemon or unlocking a golden gun in Overwatch. I'm not sure why people expected it to do much. Even with the plants it gives. Most of the plants in the game are cosmetic. And it's pretty obvious it will give more different plants in the future.
@@HungryWarden The problem with that is that a lot of the niche mobs fail at their intended niches
I encountered this recently on Reddit with someone saying stews were useless, even though they were one of the best food items in the game. They just didn't understand its utility because they didn't use it, and therefore, is useless.
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.
100% agreed. When I hear someone say "I killed the dragon, I beat the game" I want to invent new ways to perform lobotomy. Dude this is a sandbox game, there is no beating it. That is the main reason I hate and despise speedrunners.
As for the farms, yeah remove them completely, not my fault people refuse to walk 20 block away from their base. What's funny is that the same people later whine how minecraft is boring.
@@a_balloonthe convenience of an iron farm is a big part of what allows me to have fun in this game. a big reason why i constantly dumped old minecraft worlds was the slight inconvience of having to go mine whenever i needed iron (which is a lot, because iron is everpresent in all crafting recipes.) i find it much more fun to get my iron from a farm and then do what i want than to go mining just for that purpose before i can achieve my goals
i have no problem for doing this with lapis/redstone/copper/coal, but i genuinely feel like iron is now harder to find than ever. put that together with the fact it needs to be smelted and i suddenly spent 1 hour getting and smelting my iron before i get to work on my project
Easy iron farms are necessary though, survival redstone and complex farming can't be done without them. They don't break the balance, they open up the tech tree.
@@tzootzoo802 isn't the point of *mine* craft to go mining?
No? Entirely generalizing and factually incorrect. If you're being told that you have landed yourself in a try-hard group and that's your own fault.
As for youtubers, majority of them just do that because that's what they like doing and they don't tell people to do that.
Say it again with me folks:
"Generalising entire communities is not only factually incorrect but morally wrong as well!"
The thing I don’t like about newer updates isn’t the “usefulness” it’s the fact that they make a new biome with a new mob or something and then make it a 0.000001% chance to find the biome in you world.
"It's a game I've played over *half* my *life* ..."
*Hazardous Environments starts playing*
What a great video!
I like it being mostly talking about the positive side of these often considered "useless" items and mobs, but also you being willing to criticise some aspects of them.
And also covering more features considered to be "useless" than just the "new" stuff.
As for my favorite useless feature, I love the turtles.
For all the things you said, but also for letting me live underwater in Minecraft.
The oceans are some of my favorite places in Minecraft and turtle helmet is one of the main reasons I can even attempt to set a base in thous places and explore them thoroughly.(Turtles are also cute!)
Also awesome choises of music!
Loved the Kirby songs you used here and the NSMB ocean stage theme(?), idk where it actually comes from, but it worked really well for this video!
Thx g, I've always loved the kirby music. The beach theme is from nsmb wii, I believe just one of the world 4 level themes.
Turtle Helmet is overshadowed by other water breathing items.
Llamas also have different stats, it determines how much they can carry in a chest on their back. It’s strength from 1-5, and the amount of stacks they can carry is their strength times 3.
Yes, I forgot about Llamas. These guys are pretty cool I might bring them up in the future. I love the carpet designs you can put on them.
Most people also seem to forget about llama caravans; leashing one llama causes other nearby llamas to follow the leashed llama.
@@KabalFromMK9 until you run into the smallest obstacle, then they get stuck and you lose them
even the strongest llama cant hold as much as a donkey
@@sjfs231 actually, I was really pleasantly surprised by how good llama caravan pathfinding was when I tried it a bit ago. I wouldn’t use it for super long distances, but it’s a cool little feature
Disc 5 actually has *massive* implications for an end update... the first monster sound about 35 seconds in is the idle sound of the Endersent miniboss from the Echoing Void DLC of Minecraft Dungeons 🤯
Man, I wish they added the Endersent, it’d be so cool.
my favorite thing to do in mc is make a temporary home in some random hole. speedrun the game so i get the best netherite armor i can get, take out the ender dragon and get mending on all my tools and elytra… so i can start to play the game! all that takes a few hours but my hundreds of hours come out of exploring and building. there’s so much more to this game than just the false progression that players complain about even though they’re the ones who invented it.
I think horses, donkeys, mules and camels are good for pre-elytra game, which for some players is a big part of their playthru because itll take a while to get to the end. Plus, Elytra can be damaged
you know what i expected this video to be a bunch of opnionated fixes but actually made me look at a whole new perspective treating these as side quests,thanks
Np g
There is so much to do in the game. So many little "side-quests". It's fun and interesting. I think the problem is, a lot of these small features are super specific and not fleshed out enough to keep the player motivated to seek them out and keep using them in the long-term. Many of them also feel very distant from the main progression of the game and I wish everything felt more integrated / connected.
Bro went insane from the Terraria challenges he has to switch to Minecraft
Wouldn't blame him for that
Nah lol I still plan on doing more terraria stuff. I just wanna mix it up a bit. I still plan on doing more terraria challenges, especially when the new update drops.
@@islothsOh alright, Btw I liked the video it's informative and actually made me laugh at some clips
This issue of calling things "useless" bothers me a lot, especially when it comes to some mobs.
Brothers, just because the panda doesn't drop a panda costume when he dies doesn't mean he's useless.
This isn't Terraria for you to go around killing everything you see.
I feel like people don't know that the vast majority of people who play Minecraft don't even beat the ender dragon. It can seem like a lot of people do, because every streamer or TH-camr does, but most people never go through the effort of beating the ender dragon to get the glider.
Yeah, I'm very surprised by how many people in this comment section share the same opinions as me.
real ive been playing minecraft for 10 years never beaten the ender dragon, i usually dont even go to the nether bc i get scared lol
Yes tons of people enjoy the game rather than complaining about everything
@@utsurobune3530people like you will be the ones to allow the fall of western civilization and an emergence of a dystopisn technocracy. How are people supposed to fight for their rights if they think critising a multi billion dollar corporation developing the biggest game of all times is "complaining about everything". You'll live in a pod, eat bugs and own nothing while critising people who want to keep onto their dignity and freedom
I'm choosing to play survival and basically never even visit the nether because I don't mind the grindy building and gathering. When you build a farm for resource, it really kills the mood the game can bring. I need a lot of iron for my current build, but I'm not building a farm, I'm looking for it myself.
I had no idea you could make a punnett square to breed pandas 😅
I think the problem isn't that they are useless, is that they are shallow.
Sniffer is "actually" more useful than all the other mob vote winners to me, because I can spend hours grinding for it and have a new challenge 🤓
Going to the end in Minecraft is like finishing the last page of a great book, I should do it, but I don't want it to be over and even though I know I can just read the middle parts again and notice new thins, the idea of actually being done with the book is too scary
Once I explore the end, instead of making farms I just explore these features and make hidden bases that I won’t even use again
I think that the vanilla way to get mob heads might be more random than getting music discs. That's also a useless feature I love
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
Yeah I've always thought they were great too
collecting music discs is BY FAR one of my favourite things to do, I remember having almost two double chests full of music discs on one server
If the music discs where added today there would be 2 of them, shoehorned into an otherwise redundant and useless "fun, chill ambient" mob, and contained generic pop music
I loved to see you actually compliment the game's pointless features rather than bash them or trying to """fix them""", your opinions here really show how these can give life to the game if you don't try to minmax like an engineer, and this comment comes from someone who loves redstone farming and dislikes the abundance of pointless mobs so you know it's sincere
Mobs aren't supposed to all be inherently useful, I'd argue. Axolotls and pandas were mostly included to be cute and appealing(supporting their real world environmental issues aside), and they do the job great. Just look at how popular and well-rated the Naturalist mod is on the official Marketplace, that one adds tons of animals to the game which are mostly useless when it comes to their own features. Sometimes just having an animal give you company is enough. I don't get why people argue otherwise for passive mobs, I can see why it alters your opinion but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have been added. If that were the case, even pigs would be obsolete since cows and horses provide superior uses in comparison, and I don't see anyone arguing about them being a bad feature.
Great video, I love all these features especially the rare ones. Like sure people can zoom in on any specific feature and critique it for not having use/ "depth" but arent they part of what gives depth to the game as a whole? i want more silly side quests with fun rewards!!
I am very surprised lots of people watching this agree with what I had to say. I love exploring this game, never been a fan of the super mega bases and stuff.
@@isloths I honestly think some playstyles are just louder than others and its actually so impressive that Mojang manages to create something so holisitc.
Half the things in the thumbnail are cosmetic focused, they're not supposed to have a specific use beyond flexing rarities in your world or collecting decorations for your builds, while the other half are technically useful, but are pretty niche due to the existence of alternatives that are either easier to get, are more effective for the time it takes to get them, or will save you more time and in more dangerous situations
Yeah pretty much. Just cool things that don't get used much. Easy to put them all under the broad category of "useless".
absolutly love to fill my singleplayer world with minecart systems. I swear atleast 70% of my time is spent just digging tunnels and laying out my minecart tunnel system. every time I get bored of my minecraft base and world, I dig a tunnel to a new spot, store all my items and tools in my old base, and just start over. having years of minecraft bases connected by an elaborate minecart system is so satisfying. sure, I could get from place to place faster by putting it in the nether, but there's no fun in that.
I also love turtle helmets. not much to say there. they are my go-to helmet.
Honestly, thank you for making this video. I feel the majority of the minecraft community has forgotten that this is a sandbox game and not the "kill the dragon and get the best shit" game, and sometimes I wonder if the game would be better off without bosses so people would once again understand the point of the game.
People complain so much about "useless" features or "useless" decoration blocks even though that's how this genre is supposed to work. Not everything needs a reason to exist or a function just to be stuck into an ugly farm. I never see the Terraria community complaining when they get useless features even though it isn't much different from the useless features added to Minecraft.
People forgot what made Minecraft so special, and some people seemingly can't admit that they just don't like sandboxes anymore. They blame everything and everyone except themselves for their own dissatisfaction and it ultimately has made the Minecraft community unbearable for me personally.
Actually, Minecraft is the odd duck in the Sandbox genre. It's like the game can't decide on an identity so it's no surprise the community is so divided. If you want a "build what you want" experience - there's Creative mode. Survival mode implies, well survival. And survival is usually followed up by thriving. I like that we have mechanics for redstone and farms, even if its for "useless" blocks - building is half the game and having "useless" decorative features like blocks or mobs is a good thing.
But like I said, Sanbox genre usually implies heavy progression. Terraria does this right because it satisfies both player types. It's hard to complain about the addition of a seemingly useless flower being added when there's so many things you can do to progress. Minecraft's progression hasn't been touched for years whilst the side of the playerbase that doesn't care about progression has been given a lot of care.
Play a few hours of Minecraft beta1.7.3, the last version of the game before they added objectives, enchantments, hunger, ender dragon, etc. to the game, and you'll suddenly understand what the experience was intended to be. It's genuinely eye opening. There's still some active beta1.7.3 servers out there and everyone is super chill on them. The "best shit" you can get is just unenchanted diamond armor, and after you get that, you just play however you want and make your own goals. And it's very fun because of that.
7:56 this is exactly what I’m about when I play Minecraft. Me and my buddies are all in our late 20’s now, and we just started a new world after years away from the game. There is so much new stuff, and I’m sure there are many advanced strats tied to all of them.
I simply do not care to find out. I play the game the way I like. I wander on my horse, mapping out the region. I use railcars to move materials, and I build with the old school techniques.
The day there is a right way to play this game is the day I stop playing.
I thought it would have been super cool if on top of more seeds in the overworld, what if the Sniffer could dig up new seeds in the nether and end dimension?
Perhaps in the nether piglins will attack Sniffers.
I just wish the Sniffer had more plants to dig up (and you know... Making torchflowers emit light. That's a no-brainer).
It was the perfect opportunity to bring back roses and blue roses! Especially considering one of the developers made a Twitter post talking about them shortly before Sniffers came into the game.
Torchflowers should provide light but allow hostile spawns, and pitcher plants should prevent mob spawns without making light
Frog lights
Might cover them another time. People seem to really like this vid so I'm thinking of doing a pt 2.
@@islothsit is a really good vid a few things though, you have to mention that all these useless things are quite funny and worth it just for comedic effect.
They're really cool lighting blocks but they're so strangely difficult to acquire, most people won't even bother.
The way I explain Turtle Helmets to my friends:
If you try to do a lot of underwater stuff,
Going from regular helmet to Turtle Shell,
is roughly the same difference on gameplay than switching your food from Bread to Steak.
Might not seem like a huge difference on the spot.
But in the long run it saves a TON of time you just aren't aware you were wasting.
the difference is steak cant be invalidated by a stack of doors, a turtle helm can, not to mention how much easier it is to make multiple water breathing potions that last 8 minutes vs a single helmet that lasts 10 seconds.
@@sjfs231 Your Stack of doors doesn't invalidate the Turtle Shell helmet.
The Turtle shell helmet have 2 notable effects:
1) it adds 10 seconds to how long you last without needing to go back for air. So unenchanted goes from 15 seconds to 25, and enchanted with Respiration 3 goes from 60 to 70 seconds between every time you need to breathe.
2) You don't have to wait 5 seconds for your air bar to fill back up. Just one tick and you can go back to work, your 5 seconds of air filling up will get fully swallowed up in the 10 seconds of the Turtle Shell's water breathing effect.
So in other words, you end up saving 15 seconds every time you need to go back to your door to breathe. Tons of wasted time you spare yourself.
Use your door if you want, doesn't change the fact you would need to use them less often with a turtle Shell.
And as for the Potions, they require inventory management. and Conduits are better, but only work in a relatively small area and can be a pain to set up.
@@neetscholar4149 you don't have to go back to the door smart stuff, you bring it with you and place it when you need it, and 70 seconds is not much of an improvement over 60 given how much work goes into the turtle helm.
@ you wasted more time crafting the helmet to save 15 seconds than if you just never bothered.
@@sjfs231 It's not just 15 seconds, silly.
It's 15 seconds PER CYCLE.
If you spend 60 minutes completely underwater, this 15 seconds per cycle ends up becoming 12 minutes.
Every hour spent totally underwater,
you either spend 48 minutes doing stuff, and 12 minutes watching your air bubbles fill back up, without Turtle Shell helmet,
OR
you spend 58 minutes getting stuff done, and barely 2 minutes going back for air for one tick per cycle with it.
It's like trying to dig a whole mountain, but with stone shovels because you don't want to waste iron, or bother making an enchanted diamond one.
It's about all the little things that add up over time.
Also, once you build a proper farm, making Turtle Helmets ain't that much work.
Getting Turtle Eggs to start is the toughest part, after that you just need sand, a way to pick up items below, And a loaded chunk.
But hey, if you feel it's a waste of time to make one, just don't make any.
And stay stuck in your door watching your air bubbles fill up while all the other kids are having fun over there >.>
I actually got another rare mob that could be cool to find. Left handed skeleton. Since it could easily despawn you would have to nametag it while also trying not to get killed by it. As well as trying to keep it contained.
The Sniffer is even worse because we were SERIOUSLY oversold on what this thing could do. Genuinely the worst Mob Vote inclusion.
(Phantoms don't count because that technically wasn't a mob vote.)
Turtle master potions being useless is crazy.
you get easy warden kills with no danger
but ig the warden is useless so
Yeah lol not really supposed to kill the warden.
Minecarts are cool to connect settlements on server, even if people use teleport to players commands, it's just symbolically connecting the places and fun for railway fans to play with station design.
Fax, they are a ton of fun to build and connect things with.
@@islothsalso a good way to move mobs around. You can’t carry villagers around with an elytra.
Omg I didn't know camels could carry two players. Now I wish you could chain minecarts to make a locomotive. We already have furnace carts for power, regular carts for passangers, chest carts for storage, just add a chain to connect them and we could have modular trains vanilla!
A thing about the horses everyone forgets,is that if you have a max stats horse and go to the top of the nether with it,you can go to the far lands,since horses doesnt have durability or hurger bar
Pretty obscure use but yeah
u forgot about armor trims. the BEST useless feature ever in minecraft.
One of the few actually good ones. It massively enhances multiplayer and can be very good for those civilization experiments.
These opinions are so refreshing! I have been playing this game for over a decade and my play style has changed over the years but not that much! I have never used and elytra or shuckers, purely because I think you should earn it. And since they’ve been added all I’ve done is explore and build like an old dude lol.
TLDR : slow and steady is always fun, enjoy the weird stuff
I really like that you shared things you like about the features not just how they are "useless"
the thing that makes resistance so powerful is that it isnt just some flat buff to your resistance to damage, its blocking a percentage of ALL incoming damage with each level, it gets to a point eventually where you will take no damage, it can even get to a point where it blocks the /kill command.
Actually (yes, I know), you missed something with horses: mules are only _generally_ worse stat-wise, because of a weird choice Mojang made with donkeys: they have the exact same stat system as horses, but always spawn with the same base stats for speed and jump. Through intensive selective breeding, you can make donkeys that have similarly high stats as top-end horses, and they'll be just as blisteringly fast while still retaining the chests. No armor though, which is the only downside past the work required.
If I recall, turtles are the only reptiles in the game, and that's epic
I think you're right. We got a couple amphibians, but no other reptiles.
There's the ender dragon too
@@AchyParts Oh, you're actually right about that! HOW DID I FORGET THAT?!
Probably because I was only thinking animals 😭
Depends on what thing the Sniffer Is. It lays eggs, has a beak, has fur, 6 legs, the eggs survive underwater...
Help
If I recall, Axolotls are also reptiles, they're practically water lizards
Camels are only bad at navigating terrain because they're built for exploring deserts. This is why they have a dash instead of a jump, which is also compensated with the 2 block step hieght.
Music disks are NOT useless, the vibe is required for a good time
I don't mind them adding in features that are fun, I just want updates that add a little bit more to the game or fix more issues the game has.
Minecarts being faster, vertical slabs, more furniture, more mob drops, 1 or 2 more uses for amethyst (potion of jingling, added to arrows for more damage), candles on cake, more colors, more crops, more uses for newer mobs (I want drops from them), matching wood for chests, torches, etc, more animal heads, and dyeable tools and weapons, to name a few.
Brown panda’s and purple axolotl’s arent rlly useless, they make the game more exciting bc it gives you a reason to play more to get them, THAT is what entertains me atleast
Oh yeah for sure. That's the whole idea of the video. Stuff that doesn't technically add to progression, but still adds to the experience. I love the blue axolotl especially.
i wrote this comment before getting to the sniffer section, sorry if i’m saying things already said:
honestly i think the sniffer is just wasted potential. the concept of an ancient mob that can sniff out other old stuff like ancient plants is great! the fact that the stuff you get from it is purely cosmetic is less great. i figure they could’ve made them do something, especially seeing as all the plants seem to be only very loosely based on real life ones. heck, even something as simple as making them a new crop/food, or allowing them to be brewed into potions would help potential feel less wasted
It’s also not helped by how long it actually takes to get, you have to go through several stages of unskippable waiting such as the egg stage, the baby stage, waiting for it to look for seeds, etc.
Also, it’s odd that the Warden, a mob who doesn’t have a nose, is far better at sniffing than a mob named for its ability to sniff. How is it so incredibly horrible at its one job that a mob that lacks the physical organ required to do its job does it better?
The bits in this video have me cackling. Very funny, love it 👍
here's an idea, put explosive trapped chests in your friend's megabases and farms, and live in a wooden shack in the woods
I feel like people are obsessing too much abt stuff actually being "useful" And that's kinda sad like, I love Minecraft because it's just a chill sandbox game, Yes, I wanna collect the 2 sniffer flowers, Yes I wanna spend gazzilion years of my life trying to get the blue axolotl(biggest accomplishment of my life btw), Yes, I wanna collect every wolf variant that exists, Yes, I wanna collect every goat horn, Yes I wanna collect resin, yes I wanna explore a trail ruins and leave with 20 blue glass panes. All these, aren't useful activities and they're not meant to be. they are just chill and fun little side quests that the game has to offer you, always keeping you busy by giving you more and more goals and mechanics to have and try out. Without the "useless" stuff in the game, what's the point of playing if you even get the elytra? People seem to expect every Minecraft update to add something life changing like a new weapon that can one shot the Warden!! Or a new ore that's better than Netherite!!!!!! Or I don't even know what else they want. And that's really upsetting cause that is not the point of Minecraft.
I strongly agree, this is a very well-written comment
Should deserve more likes
useless features give you something to do. thats what makes them great.
Saying horses are useless is like saying all cooked food in Minecraft is useless because you can have golden enchanted apples
Nah, elytras are a whole lot easier to get then even like 5 enchanted golden apples. Let alone a whole stack. That's all I'm trying to say.