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The problems with bundles

While playing, I loved using bundles, but there's a few recurring problems with them that I need to talk about.

  • First-in First-out:
    Getting a specific item out of the bundle can get extremely tedious when it's at the end of the queue. The bundle array should be inversed; when added, items should go to the back of the queue, not the front of it. Right-clicking an empty inventory slot with a bundle would spit out the oldest item, meaning you could cycle through items using only 1 empty slot. Otherwise, to get X item out of the bundle, you'd need to clear out your inventory slots or drop everything, which defeats the entire purpose.
  • Item Stacks:
    The bundle really highlights problems with stack sizes in Minecraft. There's so many items you need to carry around that can't benefit from bundling. The problem isn't with the bundle persay, it's also that basic items clog up too many slots. Please consider taking a look at increasing the stack sizes of things like empty buckets, boats, minecarts, cakes, stews, bottled potions.
  • Rabbit Accessibility:
    We need to have rabbits in more biomes. It's not a stretch for players to sometimes never encounter a snow or desert biome in the early to mid game. Rabbits should spawn in forest biomes, and maybe it could be interesting for Phantoms to drop some kind of "Phantom hide" that could craft a blue bundle as well.

Those are my biggest points of contention with them. There's a lot to like about bundles, so I really hope these get adressed somehow.

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    I feel like you should be able to take any one item out of the bundle instead of the most recent one that was put inside the bundle.

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    I appreciate a fellow community member trying to improve the bundle, but I disagree with these points. Here's my reasons why:

    • The idea behind bundles is to store items that are the least useful for your current plans, (inventory junk), so the least useful items would get stored first. First-in first-out will cause you to pull out junk before you can get to stuff that you do need. You could fix this by storing your most useful items first, but that wont make sense because now only your junk is out and ready for use, while your useful items aren't.
    • Most lower stack items are more useful and would be the last thing you'd store. I know Minecraft inventory is impossibly large in real life, but having a stack of 64 boats in your inventory seems too unrealistic. Shulker Boxes + Ender Chest fixes this problem. A better solution is a way to open an inventory GUI for Shulker Box, Ender Chest, and Bundles while they're in your inventory. Most lower stack size items are probably the last thing you'd store in a bundle anyway.
    • This was made before Meadows and the new world gen change, but I think rabbits were common enough before that. I've seen YouTube videos of people getting enough Rabbit Hide for 1 bundle before night, and 1 is very handy on its own early game.