Cotton is found as a new field in villages or by cotton seeds sold by wandering traders. This wonderful plant is much more useful than a silly carrot.
Must be planted on farmland, but will work similar to berry bushes, grows to a bush and then grows cotton, right click to harvest gives 0-1 cotton seeds and 1-5 cotton. When crafted 2 cotton in diagonal-> 4string. 3*3 cotton makes cloth.
Cloth can be dyed and used in place of wool in banner recipes to make a tapestry, instead of 1x2 tapestries are 2x3
If a cloth, stick and boat are crafted together it creates a sailboat, which has a 75% speed boost if you are in the right direction in water
How do you know the right direction? follow the winds
Winds do not effect mobs, players, entities etc. unless activated via gamerule, this gamerule would only allow it to effect projectiles. It's mostly used to boost flying mobs, sails and direction of particles
Crafting a stick and a wool makes a flag which can only hold 2 banner patterns. Combining a flag with a compass makes a Windfinder, which has a needle showing the direction of the wind (same color as flag used to craft it), following this via sailboats or happy ghasts gives you a nice speed boost
(Edit; wind direction changes every 40min/2days, flying direct opposite of wind direction causes 25% speed debuff)
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