Bundles are making a comeback

Bundles are making a comeback! Like bucket hats and other Minecraft-adjacent clothing items, bundles were first in fashion in 2020 when we put a very early iteration into testing. However, we quickly found that even though crafting them was very simple (only two ingredients required!), implementing them was a little trickier. But we still loved the idea of filling our inventories with bundles – especially as they make it easier to collect more blocks and items as you explore your Minecraft worlds. That’s why we’re working hard to get them implemented later this year – and why we’ve brought them back into testing.

Please help us make bundles a 2024 fashion statement by testing the newest iteration of this item – available for testing now in Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot and for the first time in Bedrock Edition beta and preview. And if you’ve tested bundles before, read on to discover what we’ve changed! 

Crafting bundles just became easier

Bundles are also a lot easier to craft than IRL rucksacks. I’ve never tried to make my own rucksack, but I imagine it would take more than two ingredients. And possibly some skill? Luckily crafting a bundle is much more accessible – as the crafting recipe now only requires leather and string! Good news for rabbit lovers (but possibly bad news for cows, donkeys, horses, mooshrooms, llamas, and mules...)

Oh, and if you’re more of a “throw everything on the floor” than a “carefully extract the item I need” kind of person, then you’ll also be happy to hear you can eject items directly out of your bundle by using the right-click function, so they hover on the ground in front of you! Eager to finish the competition of bundles vs. rucksacks that no-one asked me to do, I immediately put this to the test – and tipped everything in my rucksack out onto the floor in the Mojang kitchens! Right in front of the kettle. At prime tea-making time.