Soul Speed is useful because it’s… well, speed. Before Soul Speed was introduced, players faced a rather inconvenient debuff whenever walking over that blasted Soul Sand. Now, players can use boots with one of the three levels of Soul Speed enchantment to increase their speed pretty drastically when moving over Soul Sand and  Soul Soil.

What makes it an especially timely, and far from coincidental, addition is the way the new Nether Update has been implemented. While the update brings a waterfall of new features like an array of new blocks, biomes, and mobs, all of the good stuff is only accessible in newly generated chunks of Nether.

Yes, that means you must cross to the very outermost reaches of your explored Nether to start seeing the newer goodies.

So Soul Speed is more than just a movement speed buff that’s good for maneuvering around the Nether without using boats and ice; It’s a subtle band-aid Mojang has given to the players, alongside the Respawn Anchor released earlier this year, to help expedite their journey to the new Nether content.

Sure, Mojang had good reason to roll the update out this way; it preserves whatever you’ve built thus far. But it’s annoying to walk all the way to the very edge of Nether as you know it just to start seeing the new features on offer. That is, of course, if you don’t know how to reset the Nether.