What is a bundle in Minecraft? Explained
Minecraft recently got the very useful and long-awaited bundles in the Bravery of Bundles update. Players have waited for this item for over four years and one can understand why. Bundles are useful in-game items that help with storage, combat, exploration, and even inventory management.
In this article, we explain what a bundle is, how you can make one, and how to use this item to get the most out of it.
What are bundles in Minecraft?
Bundles are a recently added item in Minecraft used for storage. They can store up to 64 items and be kept in your inventory so you can carry them anywhere. Think of bundles as a better version of the shulker box in terms of functionality and availability. While the shulker box can carry only 27 items, bundles nearly double that amount.
What items are required to make a bundle in Minecraft?
What makes bundles so useful is that they are cheap and easy to craft. All you need is to gather some leather and strings. That’s all the ingredients needed to make them in Minecraft. Note that bundles cannot be made using rabbit hide, as shown during the experimental release.
Leather can be obtained easily by killing cows, while strings are also common in the game. You can get the latter by breaking down cobwebs, trading with villagers, and even killing spiders to get cobwebs and then crafting strings from them.
How to make bundles in Minecraft: Crafting recipe explained
To make a bundle, you need one piece of leather and one string. Then, go to the crafting table and follow these steps:
- Place one string on the top-middle grid of the crafting table.
- Place one leather piece right under the string, in the middle of the grid.
- Take out the bundle from the output box.
Benefits of bundles in Minecraft
Bundles are much better than shulker boxes. Not only are they more spacious to make for item storage, but they are also easily available. A shulker box can only be obtained later in the game when you visit the End dimension and explore it.
Bundles can be made right after you have survived the first night in your new world, or even sooner. It is cheap to make, so you can craft many without much effort.
Having an extra inventory slot also allows you to carry more weapons, tools that can be thrown or discarded, and more food in case you want to explore and set up bases along the way. This is one of the major benefits of bundles.
Bundles can also be dyed. This makes them extremely useful for inventory management. You can color-code these pouches and store items accordingly. For example, in the food chest, you can keep all the beef in red bundles while all the bread is in brown bundles.
FAQs about bundles in Minecraft
How many items can you put in a bundle?
A bundle can store a maximum of 64 items. However, this does not mean that there are 64 slots available in it.
Are bundles stackable?
Bundles are not stackable and hence, you cannot carry more than one in a single inventory slot.
Are bundles in the Bedrock Edition?
Yes, bundles have been added to both Java and Bedrock editions of Minecraft in the Bundles of Bravery update.