Month: December 2025

Minecraft Recovery Bundle

Yep, I’m an adult who enjoys playing Minecraft.  Now that this is out of the way…

I enjoy playing in survival mode and building farms for various resources, carving out a base into a mountain side, collecting hard to find items, building something of a fortress to house my resources and “pets.”  Sometimes my kids will join my “world” and help work with me on some project – or just want to do their own thing.  When they do, I like having enough resources so they can build whatever it is they want.  As I’m out exploring or gathering resources, sometimes I’ll end up in a bit of trouble or just be a few materials shy of accomplishing what I need.  For that reason, I have a special bundle I keep in my ender chest stocked with the kinds of things I might need to help me with some common problems or, in a pinch, get me out of a real jam.

Here’s what I keep in that bundle along with the uses for those materials:

# Item Uses
1 Hopper Helping unload, sort things
1 Arrow Using with bow enchanted with infinity
1 Crafting Table Easy access to crafting
1 Ender Chest Easy access to organized inventory
1 Chest Chest or, with the shulker shells, a shulker box
2 Shulker Shell Shulker box
1 String Making another bundle
3 Leather Bundle or ghast harness
1 Golden Apple Healing
1 Nametag Naming and preventing a mob from despawning
1 Anvil Adding enchantments to equipment or using a nametag
3 Spruce Wood Crafting many different things
2 Ice Portable water
1 Gold Block Crating gold boots to avoid piglin hassles
3 Glass Water bottles to duplicate water, ghast harness
2 Trap Door Entering end portals, crawl minding
3 Wool Bed or ghast harness
1 Respawn Anchor Creating a respawn location deep in the nether
2 Glowstone Powering the respawn anchor
1 Lodestone Marking a location for use with a compass
1 Lead Leading or trapping a mob
1 Pointed Dripstone Trap, mob farm, or duplicating water
1 Dripstone Block Duplicating water, making mud or clay
1 Redstone Block Compass
4 Iron Block Iron golem, iron tools, sheers, flint and steel, tools
1 Amethyst Cluster Spyglass, brush
2 Copper Block Brush, copper golem
1 Feather Brush
1 Pumpkin Iron golem, snow golem, copper golem, carved pumpkin, pumpkin seeds
2 Snow Block Snow golem
1 Dried Ghast Flying safely
1 Flint Flint and steel
1 Eye Of Ender Ender chest
1 Bone Block Speeding plant growth
4 Spruce Growing large spruce tree
4 Dirt Growing large spruce tree, food
1 Carrot Food, growing food
60 items total  

The most common things I’ll use this bundle for are:

  • Quickly get a hopper, ender chest, or make an extra bundle to help with inventory management
  • The crafting table for quickly crafting something
  • Using the one arrow with my “infinity bow“

A bundle lets me store items, but I have to pull out everything placed into the bundle after the desired item, which can make rooting around deep inside something of a hassle.

It’s extremely rare for me to dig any deeper into this particular bundle past the string and leather … but, if you’re stuck far away, across treacherous territory, deep in the nether, deep in a hole, underground, lost, or need to save a location or mob, this would be a very good pack to have around.

Keychron Keyboard Bluetooth Won’t Work

From dipping my toes in the mechanical keyboard subreddit, it seems some people look down on Keychron keyboards.  It was pricier than other mechanical bluetooth keyboards, but I like being able to reassign keys, I like having nifty RGB lights, and it seemed to have very good reviews.  Sure, perhaps an artisanal, grass fed, locally sourced, single origin, free range, ethically sourced mechanical keyboard would be better or cheaper… but this keyboard arrived quickly, looks good, worked immediately out of the box for a price I was willing to pay.

Anyhow, if you’re here, it’s because something went wrong.

  • Symptoms:
    • At first my Keychron K10 Pro keyboard stopped being able to use the shift keys to write capital letters or symbols using the number keys. Doing a factory reset on the keyboard worked, so I had to re-assign the special keys (screenshot, RGB changes, media keys) again. Unfortunately, now the keyboard wouldn’t work over bluetooth.
  • What I tried:
    • I tried pretty much every combination of starting/restarting the board, flipping between USB/cable and BT, re-flashing and updating the keyboard firmware, then the keyboard bluetooth firmware, turning the PC bluetooth on and off, restarting the computer several times, and reassigning the keys using the launcher.
  • What worked:
    • One of the various trouble shooting pages suggested that I try FN + J + Z to factory reset the keyboard.  Other suggested FN + 1 or FN + 2 or FN + 3.  After a little while I thought – wait a second…  why don’t I try FN + 2 or FN + 3?  In doing so, I saw the bluetooth name for the keyboard pop up on the computer!  I guess for some reason the keyboard is only recognized by FN + 2 or FN + 3.  I don’t know why this worked really, but I’m happy that the keyboard is back.

I hope this helps someone else (or perhaps… future me!)