Buckets aren't that expensive, and in fact, it is easier in general to find iron than sand since iron can be found everywhere while sand only generates in certain biomes, which can be thousands of blocks away (deserts, badlands) and in/around bodies of water (not in every biome, and in 1.18 they removed the small ponds that were common in earlier versions, which I often use as a source of sand for glass).
Buckets aren't that expensive, and in fact, it is easier in general to find iron than sand since iron can be found everywhere while sand only generates in certain biomes, which can be thousands of blocks away (deserts, badlands) and in/around bodies of water (not in every biome, and in 1.18 they removed the small ponds that were common in earlier versions, which I often use as a source of sand for glass).
Milk is milked from buckets. You want to be able to pour it in a cauldron and bottle it out, sure, but you should need a bucket to reasonably collect it.
If your buckets become part of the cake instead of being left in the crafting grid, that is a bug.
Residues and cross contamination exist
But in real life, milk isn't milked with bottles anyway. If you want it cleaned, the pasteurization process does that for you.
you should be able to just get milk with glass bottle. metal tastes bad!!
Piece of cake
Buckets aren't that expensive, and in fact, it is easier in general to find iron than sand since iron can be found everywhere while sand only generates in certain biomes, which can be thousands of blocks away (deserts, badlands) and in/around bodies of water (not in every biome, and in 1.18 they removed the small ponds that were common in earlier versions, which I often use as a source of sand for glass).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
its still hard to find iron
Piece of cake
Milk is milked from buckets. You want to be able to pour it in a cauldron and bottle it out, sure, but you should need a bucket to reasonably collect it.
If your buckets become part of the cake instead of being left in the crafting grid, that is a bug.
Residues and cross contamination exist
But in real life, milk isn't milked with bottles anyway. If you want it cleaned, the pasteurization process does that for you.