Making useless items useful in Minecraft

Mumbo forgetting how to craft an arrow because he's always relied on skeleton farms is like a multi-billionaire not knowing the price of the average loaf of bread

There is a use for chest boats! In Bedrock, you can put leads on them (you might also be able to in Java, but I don’t know) & pull multiple around. On land you have to go really slow so as to not break the leads, but on water the chest boats travel at the same speed as the boat dragging them so you can take lots of inventory with you on overseas journeys.

I've always imagined that the reason you cannot retrieve a saddle from a strider is because the nether is so hot, that the saddle melts and fuses into the striders skin.

I love chest boats in early exploration. I often spend a lot of time in a new world just finding the place I want to live and I tend to pick up a lot of stuff while I'm doing that. Before the chestboat, I'd have to leave a chest of stuff somewhere and go back for it later. Mind you, I'm not a packrat, I'm just picky about where I want to live lol

The fletching table that gives 1/4 of the amount of arrows you'd get from a normal crafting recipe feels like such a Zedaph thing to build and I love it!

Still more useful than my fine arts degree

I think, of all the possible boats there have been in the game's history (without mods/addons), the chest boat is by far the best and most useful. Being able to store more stuff than only fits in your inventory when you explore across open waters is amazing. Think of all the loot you won't be leaving behind due to a lack of inventory space. I have also seen redstone builds that incorporate the hitbox of chest boats along with hoppers, so as to reduce the amount of iron you need for hoppers, which I think you covered pretty well. I'm sure someone (you, of course, being so brilliant at redstone builds) could also come up with some sort of compact storage system utilizing chest boats in which they pop up similarly to armor stand switchers.

The chest boat is useful on SMPs. When being chased down by other players, a chest boat is a 1 player boat, so nobody else can get into it, meaning it's easier to escape.

I use chest boats all the time in early game! Pre elytra and shulker boxes, it is a good way of travelling decent distances (doesn't make you hungry to row a boat) and effectively doubles your inventory. As someone that takes the early game pretty slow, they are awesome.

This is such a zedaphy style mumbo video, and I love it. Can't wait to see more of this, perhaps even on Hermitcraft with Zedaph together!

"Let's chuck something stupid in the system"
*Proceeds to chuck one of the most useful redstone items in the game into the system.*

I've used chestboats. But I'm also a caveman. I much prefer to make my bases in caves. 40% of the base is done for you. Block some stuff off then make it look civilized and you're good to go. My current cave is on a river, and part of the river naturally breaks into the cave to give me a little inside-lake. I use the lake for kelp and crops, but also have a dock where I keep my chestboat for expeditions out of the cave.

I've actually used a chest boat for it's intended purpose, I was gathering vast amounts of Kelp. After I would break a lot of Kelp, I'd swim up and get in the chest boat, ride around on the water collecting the Kelp because it seems to also increase the area you can collect items. I'd then put the Kelp in the chest and use a bubble elevator to get up to my floating island. :)

I love how he called the chest boats useless and then stated one of the most popular uses for chest boats, besides their intended purpose... certified spoon moment lol

Loved the "giant" mob farm. Hilariously useful!

I mostly play mid-game minecraft (having everything except what's in the end dimension) and I've been having fun with chest boats. I would often travel to a cardinal direction I've never been to yet and because of the bigger and longer rivers it's now possible to travel so far without leaving your boat.

What I've been using the chest boat for is my mining machine. I made a docking station that will empty out a chest boat in about 6 seconds. Two different mining machines one at layer 19 the other one layer negative 56 and my sorting/shulker packing system at negative 20. I just extend my ice path as I get further along. I fill up two chest boots Tie a lead to one and take them both to the docking station

You have natural talent for videos, this kind of video put out by anyone else might get ten views….. don’t something big, a new solo series or a modded series (vault hunters is amazing) and really give us something to look forward to and follow, you are a natural - please give us more content we get invested in mate

I've used a chestboat while crossing oceans, because that way I can loot more ruins/shipwrecks/buried treasures before I have to go home and empty out my inventory. The fact that you think their intended purpose is useless says a lot about your playstyle: Mainly, that you've gotten WAY too used to having Shulker Boxes ASAP due to the other Hermits taking out the Ender Dragon during the first few episodes of each season. You need to do a singleplayer survival series sometime, so you can see how hard us regular folk have it.

This guy is pretty cool. It seems like he would fit really well in Hermitcraft

the chest boat actually came in handy when i started a realm with my friends and we wanted to move from one location to another but i had too many stuff to carry and we didn’t have any ended chests or shulker boxes yet. it works as an extra storage space for transportation but i can’t imagine using it in late game

I find chestboats useful in early game. I see lots of comments saying the same thing. I will use one while exploring and collecting biome specific items and while searching for a good base location, gives you extra inventory space.

The chest boat is a great early game way to trap single entities. No iron required. No capturing a zombie villager for curing only to have a creeper jump in the boat with them.

Chest boats are useful if you for some reason lack a bunch of iron (vanilla skyblock for example) to afford a lot of hoppers. You can feed up to 12 chests with a single hopper by just stacking them and placing a few fences to keep em seperated and in place.

Mumbo's way of thinking will forever be an interesting phenomenon. Enough said.

Yes, I had a situation when I had to transport a bunch of items down the river in early game, so of course no elytras, shulkers etc. I have used boats with chests and it worked perfectly.

Mumbo already showed a use for a Pig Saddle in the first version of this video. Second Boat with chest is very useful early game especially in 1.20 when you want to go after a Jungle Biome.

I love chest boats for initial exploration of a new world. I no longer have to skip all the sunken ships, etc. due to inventory limits. Also, in Skyblock when I can't afford a lot of hoppers i can run a single hopper into 4 chest boats and even stack them to have one hopper going into 12 chest boats. Ilmango taught me that.

Actually when I'm traveling on my early gameplay in survival I usually use the chest boats to store the loot I got from temple,village and outpost

That chest boat thing is EXTREMELY useful. I'd love to see examples of that being used in farms somehow.

I used a chestboat to move my items to a new base. It wasnt so far away and it would probably be faster to just to that by hand but i still used it. Also i had just started the world so it was just five double chests

i use a chest boat all the time early game, its great for stashing loot while you're still looking for a place to settle down

Well, if we are talking about pink useless mobs, I actually find them helpful in the start of a survival game. Almost in a peace, love, and plants way….not really, but they are the one mob I can reliably use for food right away without worrying that I am going to need them for my farms later. 😂

2:29, it’s been 4 years since they added the fletching table and it still doesn’t have a GUI yet, they promised both that and the smithing table in 1.15: didn’t happen, then in 1.16, the smithing table was used to upgrade from diamond to netherite, 1.19 is out and 1.20 was announced 2 months ago

I used the chestboat a lot. Had a garage where I would park it and it would unload my shulkers in it. It was essentially my enderchest but on a boat. It was a fun challenge run, where I had to use the chest boat for any exploring via water, and couldn't break it.

My friends and I have a slightly modded server, just with REI and some basic block and biome additions. The feature mod is Create, which adds multiblock structures for mining, processing blocks, generating power, etc. We actually did use chest boats to transport sand from the desert which was across the ocean when we needed a bunch of glass. So we had 4 inventories worth of sand, in 2 boats. They're like an early game shulker box, an extra inventory that you can travel with (assuming flat ground or open waters). They actually are quite useful!

Imagine a base that is themed around what people thought the future was gonna be in the 80s filled with revolutionary contraptions that seem awesome but in reality aren't the future.

I’ve been using the chest boat for the first exploration of a new world like before I get shulkers. The first time you go out you want to get as many things not near you and the chest boat helps

Technically glowsquids do glow. It’s just the “glow in the dark” kind of glow where the light it emits isn’t enough to illuminate its surroundings, only enough to make it visible without a light source.

i’ve used the chestboat to transport my stuff when moving bases, before i went to the end. so theyre like the phase between regular chests and shulker boxes

The chest boat has been a time saver for me, i had the dream to convert a ocean monument into a actually ocean mansion with a viewing area to look out in the endless ocean, but the problem was that it was too far away and my only elytra was broken and i didn't want to in the end and get a shaulker box, so i waited for the chest boat to be added and then BOOM!!! I was back in business, i could transfer thousands of block by puting a few chickens on a lead in a chest boat, it was so efficient and effective

I'm no redstone genius, but do you think if you added an extra space in front of the garage for the strider to walk on so that it's in front of/out of the way of the observer before you get off, then when you get back on the strider it would reset the observer and you wouldn't have it left open when you leave?

I don't think glow squids are useless. They are mobs to be farmed for glow ink sacs (useful for signs and glowing item frames) if not interesting "pets" to have in ponds, likely in a cave base.

Chest boats might be useful while building a farm in the ocean. If you're just starting your world, it basically doubles the space where you can store the materials

I use chest-boats quite frequently, I travel a lot in my minecraft worlds because I have the incredible luck of nothing ever being nearby and having to travel thousands of blocks to find wood(no this is not an exaggerating it has happened) so I have used chest boats to carry as much food possible as well as resources to craft armor, tools, or a quick shelter

I was so excited to use a chest boat when building a raid farm before going to the end. I was able to collect all my resources and do the entire build in one trip with a full chest boat and a full inventory. The only thing I needed a second trip for was the villager.
I even built a canal to the bottom of my mountain top base that would drain my chest boats and drop the items into a water stream that went to my storage system. It was a great way to unload resources after exploring.

Chest boats are definitely useful before you get shulkers and ender chests. Pigs can be used to pull a friend while flying(a bit janky) as demonstrated by ianxofour. You don’t even need a contraption to make a parking space for striders, you can just dig a few blocks and the flowing lava will keep them in place.

The chest boat was really useful for my cousin and I when we had to move our stuff across a lake… since it was early game there was no way to use shulkers

That Strider one might actually be worth building
Also, chest boats are sometimes useful for clearing underwater ruins

I love how the first few problems are before Mumbo starts doing any redstone

Ive used chest boats in early game to go on ocean treasure hunts, its very lucrative and the chest boat makes it so you can get more loot. it is the best way to get early resources if you don’t like mining or even if you di you can get easy diamonds from it

I actually use the chest boat all the time early on in my survival worlds. I like to explore and find all the rare goodies I can so I can make farms out of them. Like cactus, for whatever reason it's always on the other side of the universe for me.

Boats with chests are incredibly useful earlygame! It’s a mobile storage option! A very slow… single chest… that can’t go up any form of incline… but it’s great for exploring and storing that extra few slots worth of ocean temple or sunken ship loot.

This was very useful in a useless way that makes it even more useful. Great work Mojo Jojo.

I cant believe everyone begged for chest boats for years and now they're considered useless.

The chest boat is amazing! I used it as someone who has never owned a shulker box to move house. Much better than making like 5 trips

8:54. ive seen people use chest boats to prevent two mobs from entering 1 boat. I have an smp server with my friends where we each pick an island to build a civilization on (sorta like empires in a way). chest boats are the main way to trade. we pack a bunch of shulkers into the chest boat, and we travel between each others islands like that. its actually better than storing those shulkers in echest so u have more room in the echest

I’ve haven’t used a chest boat yet, but trying to move stuff before you get shulker boxes is a pain. Chest boats seem like a game changer for trying to move stuff early on.

My wife and I did a lot of exploring using chest boats. Even when there’s no river or ocean, dropping and bucketing up a water source is an awesome way to boat around

I've used a chest boat to store a pillager in my hardcore world. Definetly intentional, and in my opinion a pretty solid use for the chest boat.

Srsly. I love the chest boat. I recently started a new hardcoreworld and it's an amazing early game Item. I mean: You can travel over huge oceans to collect enough iron to instant build an ironfarm without mining once :D

I swear the GlowSquids (best mob in the game, btw) glow in-game. I've identified them from a distance based on the visible glow. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here

8:52 For chest boats (and striders for that matter), I don't think they're going to be very useful for any late-game players, but for early game they can be nice. Pre-elytra and shulker box, chest boats could be useful if someone wants to start a build project in the ocean and needs to transport a bunch of items to the spot. Striders can be useful for someone with limited potions (and though ugly, you can just use blocks to trap it so you don't lose the saddle)

I used a chest boat for it's intended purpose when building a stacking raid farm. That it was then useful for making the raid captain bank only doubled its utility

(5:47)
"And now I have...a *GIANT* mob farm"
Aha!I see what you did there...

the first 2 werent actually making the things useful, instead anything could get replaced with them. the other ones are awesome!

Cool strider garage but I have come up with a simpler design called the fence and lead, it keeps the strider in a general area around where you left it, unlike the garage keeping it completely immobile, but is a lot cheaper

Chest boats are useful in 2 situations.
1: as a container bigger than 1 block, that's also an entity so you can push it.
2: in really early game, it's a nice bonus for your inventory while exploring.

Chest boats could be useful to make sure no one get in your boat when you dont want them to

I use the chest boat to hold valuable items I just turn it side ways on a three by three then push blocks onto it using pistons make sure your chest boat is angled right so you can not see the boat but the hit box is out so make that in the corner of your house and it works

Please do a video worth watching❤️
We've been waiting for you to come back for a very long time, we understand you have lost the spark to minecraft, but these mini videos that are useless are pretty much useless, take more time if you want but give us that huge mumbo jumbo impact. Like a soldier stamping his feet on the ground, stiff and firm. Shocking his surroundings. We miss you.

I disagree with the fletching table, Why? Because, if you have villagers you can give them jobs. I think everyone knows that. Then, you can give them te job of a fletcher. you then plant trees and a lot of them. after the trees grow, chop them turn them into sticks and then sell those sticks to the fletcher. It's a really easy way to get emeralds.

I have, in fact, used the chest boat for its intended purpose. When you don't have shulkers or an enderchest, (Or even if you have an ender chest but no shulkers), the chest boat is a godsend when doing any sort of exploration over water. I think that speaks more to the issues with Minecraft's inventory system than it does to the usefulness of the chest boat though.

This one had me in absolute stitches, thanks for another banger of a video mumbo!

for me, chest boats contain backup items, just in case.

The strider garage was actually pretty impressive for me. Imagine we didn't have elytra in the game, that would have been actually really useful.

My sibling loves just exploring minecraft endlessly, and almost never makes a true base.
Their favourite method of travel is the boat.
With the chest boat, now they have twice the inventory space.
It is their favourite thing Mojang has added ever, except perhaps the ocean update.

I use chest boats in early world Minecraft games a bit. Mainly use it in redstone. Usefully in many types of contraptions but mainly for increased items dumping speed. Got 4x speed depending on how many hoppers it's on. By the way found out droppers are a really interesting tool for redstone because of the item transfer mechanic that sends items through multiple droppers at once allowing to make cool machines like working slot machines and arcade mini games.

Yes I managed to use the chest boat for it's intended use and i did with 5 other friends when we sailed away to find a new home, we needed a way to take our stuff with us but we were in the early game so we used chest boats, they are very useful

I have used the chest boat for it’s intended purpose since when I start a world I usually have to travel across the ocean and I use it to carry a lot of my stuff

My dad and I went on an exploration run and ran out of space super early. Thankfully I had a spare boat and some wood (we took a boat to get there) and voila way more space for things

9:19 messenger pigeon successfully created. I hope the player you're contacting is...that way-ish

Ah the glow squid. I've got beautiful long and deep underwater caves under my base. I've added a couple of conduits so I can swim around at my leisure. I've got more glow squids than I'll ever come close to using but there is something so relaxing about swimming all around and through the caves hunting glow squid. When you leave the radius of the conduit just about the only things you can see are the glow squid and Magma Blocks. Peace out.

I’ve actually brought a chest boat with me as an early game version of portable item storage when spawn had a multitude of rivers and icy areas

Glow squid just had it as decoration and if you are allowed to use it for deccoration then all of these things are usefull for decoration. If decoration does not count (as how it works in my books), glowsquid is still useless, fletching table has a use in that its usefull for trading so its not useless, giants and stridors you did a great job at making them usefull, chest boat is usefull early game when you dont have a base/storage system, pig can be used to go though a 1x1 corridor

If you want a better chest boat then just have donkeys on a lead while driving the boat and have the donkeys wearing chests and maybe put one in the boat in single player

Chest boats are super useful in the earlygame, in my experience. Starting the game and almost instantly sailing away in search of villages, shipwrecks, and buried treasure is significantly less annoying than it used to be. As soon as you get set up a long-term base to store your loot, they get significantly less useful, and once you get shulkers, unfortunately, they’re basically obsolete.

I haven't used chest boat. YET. for not knowing it was able to do so. It's great to see you doing youtube videos again :) would be great to see you back on hermitcraft builds again in future

Mumbo having a laugh at chest boats...
Yes I have used them, a lot in fact, and they are the best thing ever! Especially early game before shulker boxes for exploring, I mean a single chest boat literally doubles your early game inventory space which is great for collecting the necessities and adventuring loots... also I have seen quote a few in the redstone community taking advantage of Chest Boats for quadrupling item movement. So they are actually useful, very useful in fact...

The strider garage actually seems good for traverseing lava!

I like to explore the ocean for map purposes and the chest boat helps to collect all the treasure I find while exploring

I am so glad we have Mumbo back. Keep up the incredible work, man.

Chestboat: yes. I have on day one on launch on a new server it was handy to take all of the bits and bobs that I gathered with me
Plus they are good for redstone you can make the boat split items into three hoppers evenly.

I have genuinely used the chest boat- I would just sail off into the ocean to explore and exploit early game and gain too many items to carry in my inventory u-u
Kinda wish i could chain them together - or put an animal in a chets boat, leash the animal, and then drag both animal and boat around

I traveled in ocean using chest boat to find the desert and filled it's chest with sand and brought it to my base when i didn't had shulker box
so chest bot definitely has a use for it

I had to use the chest boat to move 3 double chests worth of items across the ocean alone, it helped halve the time it took to go point A to point B over a 2k block distance over water

As a mostly nomadic MC player (been trying to reach the world border for awhile), boat chests are a godsend.

"It doesn't work, excellent!" Never change, Mumbo

No matter how many features one adds to it, ''Glow''squid will never become even 1% as useful as the sheer artistic genius that could have been Iceologer if not for... Yeah.
Also: *9:53* As an OG viewer of your channel... Mumbo, you have already made saddled pigs useful in one of your older videos. They have surprisingly great pathfinding and can be used to navigate through mazes that would be near-impossible to solve for a regular player. I don't know how much of a technical use this is for them, but I think it's pretty neat and can have its own niche functions.

I have a realm with my brother where we started everything in the middle of the ocean and we have multiple chest boast, very useful for us