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.