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Minecraft Useful Update

Minecraft has a lot of forgotten/unused items that have been added to the game and then they just became or were useless in the first place. There should be an update in the future that revisits some of these features and improves on them. Few examples:
Sniffer (they can dig up only 2 plants, both are kinda useless, and are slow)
Minecarts and their variants (too slow, and cant use more than 1 or they get stuck easily),
Echo shards (1 crafting recipe and its rarely used).
Bats (yes you can hear nerby caves but thats it)
Rabbit hide (can be crafted into leather... but then its just easier to just farm cows, also the leather worker villager trade of it is worst than the leather trade.)
Rabbit foot. (Leaping potions are just not used, and the item itself is very rare aswell)
Clock (dont need to explain)
Ocelot (Just a cat you can't tame)
The Poisonous Potato is perfect and doesn't need any change!

And I Think there are others aswell we could revisit, or Its possible that some of these reasons are not justified...
I could give examples like: Echo shards to record entity sounds and play them when added to noteblocks, or sniffers to have more and useful flowers but I won't, Thats the job of game designers. I just want the old and useless stuff to get some purpose.

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• October 20, 2025 16:28
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  • October 21, 2025 00:05
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  This post seemed off to me at first, but I now agree with you, except for the last two things on your list (you can, in fact, tame ocelots, and poisonous potatoes are useless, so they should be given a function).

  I would also suggest including:

  • Snow Golem (Golems with low health and no purpose besides throwing snowballs)
  • Allay (Only picks up dropped items, which players can probably already easily grab)
  • Squid and Glow Squid (Only exists to provide ink sacs)
  • Skeleton and Zombie Horse (Not very distinguished from living horses)
  • Frog (Only eats the smallest versions of mobs that aren't a threat or that it would almost never encounter)
  • Fox (This may sound odd, as everyone is very aware of them, but they serve little purpose in gameplay)
  • Panda (Serves no purpose whatsoever)
  • Pufferfish Mob (Everyone just fishes instead)
  • Zoglin (They're barely different from hoglins, and there's no point in bringing them to the Overworld)
  • Archaeology (People briefly looked into it after the release of Trails and Tales, but it has since got little attention)
  • Igloos (They exist, but it isn't something discussed much in the community)
  • Swamp Hut (These haven't been updated in forever, and everything in them is fairly easy to get in other areas of the Minecraft world)
  • Oceans Ruins (Another thing that exists but is barely discussed)
  • Goat Horn (Useless and barely discussed)
  • Conduit (Useful, but hard to get set up)