How Minecraft bundle will fix inventory problem

The bundle is inarguably one of the most controversial items in Minecraft's long and storied development. Originally announced back in Minecraft Live 2020, bundles were supposed to solve the early-game inventory problem before players could collect obsidian or shulker shells. However, the bundle aims to solve the issue differently than anything else in the game.

Below, we have detailed everything about how the bundle aims to fix inventory issues, along with the other solutions Mojang has implemented over the years.

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How Minecraft's bundle will solve the inventory problem

A bundle filled with random early-game items (Image via Mojang)

Minecraft's upcoming bundles have a unique take on solving the inventory issue. Rather than giving players a huge new storage space, similar to shulker boxes, bundles act as catch-all items, filtering all of the random one-off resources a player gathers into a single slot. This makes it much easier to collect large amounts of the materials and resources that matter.

Every bundle has an item capacity of 64. Items placed within a bundle will take up capacity, depending on how much of a stack the item represents. For example, Minecraft armor pieces don't stack and therefore would take up an entire bundle each. Items like ender pearls that stack up to 16 consume four capacity and regularly stacking items use up a single capacity.

On the surface, this might seem considerably less handy than other solutions, but there are so many items in the game now that it's almost impossible to have an entirely uncluttered inventory.

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The other solutions for the inventory issues

Ender chests and shulker boxes are the other inventory solutions (Images via Mojang)

While the bundle is by far the longest-awaited solution to the inventory issue that Mojang has implemented, it's not the first. Two completely revolutionary Minecraft features came long before bundles.

The first of these was the ender chest, back in 1.3.1. Crafted using obsidian and an eye of ender, these chests act as private universal storage, allowing players to access anything placed within through other ender chests. Interestingly, they must be broken with the silk touch enchantment to be picked up properly.

The other inventory solution that Mojang has added over the years is Minecraft's shulker boxes. These items are made using shulker shells and chests. Their unique ability is that they function identically to chests but can contain items even when broken into item form. Shulker boxes can also be dyed, making them easy to differentiate. Dyed bundles would be incredibly handy for this same reason.