We got redstone changes, baby aquatic mobs and different size salmon.
This is evidently exiting. But if Mojang can decide to update minecarts, which arguably were fine as is, (I do agree they're better now though) why can't they do something about this:
Sky's Great Fletching Table Rant
Stupid Table: A Comprehensive History of The Stupid Table
Seriously. This block has been in the game since 1.14. 1.14 was released in 2019. That was five years ago.
Also said in 2019:
Just remember. This was five years ago. We have been waiting five years just for a table to get some actual functionality. Yes, now is technically sometime after 1.14, but it has been long overdue.
On the Minecraft official wiki, it is listed in the 'Interactable' category.
All of these have some sort of UI or have some way the player can interact with them, like you can eat cake, place liquids in a cauldron, use a conduit to breathe, or put items in pots.
This implies that there is meant to be a function for the fletching table. So where is it?
Actual Uses
There is only one actual use for the fletching table, and that's as a villager workstation.
If we look at the list of villager workstations, all the others can be interacted with the player in one way or another.
So apart from placing and breaking, why can't the fletching table have a use too? It could help balance out the variety of items we could access, instead of just being practically a decoration block. Fletchers are one of the less popular villager variants as well.
Possible uses
There are actually many possibilities for what a fletching table could be used for. It actually has a lot of potential.
Like firework rockets, arrows could be modified in the fletching table to have different distances they could fly. In real life, there are multiple kinds of arrows, and not all of them fly the same length, and wind charges show that there doesn't really have to be a limit on how projectiles could fly. A good way for making the long flying arrows less op could be to make it so that the longer the flight duration, the less power it does.
Potion effect arrows. This could make potion arrows easier to obtain, you could make one in a fletching table with an arrow and a respective potion. It could also provide a way to remove potion effects you don't want from arrows. There could be a way to add multiple effects to an arrow, but as a debuff, make the length of the effects shorter.
Conclusion
The fletching table has potential. If Mojang didn't forget about it, it could be a block people want. So, we probably won't get a fletching table update in a while. But it would be cool if we did.
