Several improvements were made toMinecraftBedrock Edition’s 1.21.30 patch, including bug fixes, parity changes, and more. When hanging around villages at night, villagers will no longer make idle sounds while they’re sleeping in beds to better indicate these mobs are actually asleep. The Stone Mason villagers additionally had their name changed to just Mason to better align withMinecraftJava Edition. Foxes in Bedrock Edition received a health update, decreasing their 10 heart total to five hearts to match Java Edition. On top of all of these improvements was a new experimental feature to help refine inventory management: bundles.
Minecraft’s New Experimental Bundles
When creating a new world inMinecraft, players can turn on the bundle experiment in order to access the bundle in-game. The bundle will not appear in common or pre-existing Survival, Creative, or Realm worlds asbundles are still in their preview and beta stagesand are subject to changes that may appear at any time. Once inside a new world with the bundle experiment toggled, players can craft a bundle using one piece of string above one piece of leather in the crafting menu. From here, players can experiment with stacking multiple different items together into the same stack.
Bundles can fit into one inventory slotbut cannot be stacked on top of one another once filled with items. Players can deposit 64 types of different items within a bundle even if they’re not the same kind of block. For example, one bundle could be filled with 32 gold ingots, 12 arrows, 10 sticks, six cooked steaks, and four torches. Players can open a bundle to remove individual items and once an item is selected, the bundle icon will show that item poking out of the bundle. If players are holding bundles in hand, they can empty the entire bag onto the ground to quickly remove items for use and storage.
Known Issues with Minecraft’s Bundle
Since bundles are still in their preview and beta stages, the item already has some bugs and issues players may run into. For instance, whilemultiple stackable items can fit in a bundle, items that usually take up a whole slot on their own will fill a bundle by themselves, such as a weapon or a piece of armor. When players attempt to move items in bundles on touch devices, the wrong item icon may appear briefly. Likewise, when bundles are put in decorated pots, given to allays, or moved through hoppers and droppers, they may lose their contents.
Minecraft’s Bundles Potential Benefits
For most ofMinecraft’s history, only items that are the same could be stacked together in one inventory slot, such as 64 blocks of wood, 16 eggs, and 16 honey bottles. While this system was easy to understand, players' inventories quickly became filled while mining or simply exploring, forcing players to make multiple trips back and forth to their base or abandon some items for more desirable ones. To help improve inventory management,bundles were first tested and added toMinecraftin 2020with theMinecraftJava Snapshot 20w45a but weren’t reintroduced until 2024. While bundles are still designated as an experiment, bundles could forever change howMinecraftis played once properly implemented.
Since bundles currently benefit resource blocks over tools and weapons, bundles could help players mine more efficiently. Instead of having multiple stacks of cobblestone or deepslate when mining, players could use a bunch of bundles to only carry a few stone blocks and dedicate most of their extra inventory to being filled withvaluable metals, ores, and minerals.
Bundles could allow players to better prepare for dangerous scenarios, such as having a bundle filled with honey bottles, buckets of milk, and various types of food. These improvements could help players mine inMinecraftfor longer stretches of time without having to travel back to base so often.
Bundles were first revealed inMinecraftLive 2020 alongside the glow squid which won that year’s Mob Vote.
