What’s New About Bundles In The Latest Minecraft Bedrock Edition Update?

The Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.21.30 patch brought several enhancements, including bug fixes and parity adjustments.

Villagers will now remain silent while sleeping in beds at night, clearly indicating they are asleep. Additionally, Stone Mason villagers have been renamed to simply Mason to align with Minecraft Java Edition. Foxes in Bedrock Edition have also received a health update, reducing their total from 10 hearts to five to match Java Edition.  Furthermore, a new experimental feature, bundles, has been introduced to improve inventory management.

New Experimental Bundles in Minecraft

When building a new world in the sandbox game, players can activate the bundle experiment to use bundles in-game. However, bundles won’t show up in regular Survival, Creative, or Realm worlds since they are still in preview and beta phases, meaning they might change at any time. In a new world with the bundle experiment enabled, players can craft a bundle by placing one piece of string above one piece of leather in the crafting menu. After that, they can experiment with combining various items into the same stack.

Bundles occupy a single inventory slot but can't be stacked once filled with items. Players can store up to 64 different types of items in a bundle, even if they're not the same kind. For instance, a bundle might contain 32 gold ingots, 12 arrows, 10 sticks, six cooked steaks, and four torches. Players can open a bundle to take out individual items, and the bundle icon will show the selected item protruding from it. If players are holding bundles, they can empty the entire contents onto the ground for quick access and storage.

Bundle Issues in Minecraft

As bundles are still in preview and beta stages, players may encounter some bugs and issues. For example, while multiple stackable items can fit in a bundle, items that typically occupy an entire slot—like weapons or armor—will fill a bundle on their own. Additionally, when moving items in bundles on touch devices, the wrong item icon may briefly appear. There are also issues when bundles are placed in decorated pots, given to allays, or transferred through hoppers and droppers, which can result in losing their contents.

Bundles Potential Benefits in Minecraft

For much of Minecraft's history, only identical items could stack in a single inventory slot—like 64 wooden blocks, 16 eggs, or 16 honey bottles. While this system was straightforward, players often found their inventories overflowing while mining or exploring, leading to multiple trips back to their base or the need to drop less desirable items. To improve inventory management, bundles were first tested in Minecraft with the Java Snapshot 20w45a in 2020, but they weren’t reintroduced until 2024. Although bundles are still classified as an experiment, their proper implementation could significantly change the way players interact with the game.

As bundles currently favor resource blocks over tools and weapons, they could enhance players' mining efficiency. Rather than juggling multiple stacks of cobblestone or deepslate, players could use several bundles to carry just a few stone blocks, freeing up most of their inventory space for valuable ores, metals, and minerals.

Bundles could enable players to better prepare for risky situations by carrying items like honey bottles, buckets of milk, and various types of food. These enhancements would allow players to mine in Minecraft for longer periods without needing to frequently return to base.

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