What is worthwhile for gold (Minecraft)?

I'm just getting into Minecraft and wanted to ask the following: on the third night I came across three gold ores and do not know what their fate should look like. I heard gold shouldn't be that cool compared to OTHER things because it doesn't last long or anything like that. What do you do with gold and what should you make of it? (Armor, tools, clock, etc?)

Make gold apples out of it. They make you stronger.

Apples.

In what way? Does it just give me more hunger points or do I get any additional strength or something?

You get stronger, as I wrote.

You get some effects

Gold is actually only intended for gold apples and please do not use armor or tools because they can't withstand anything

Achsoo. Cool

Gold isn't the best for tools, but it's best to spend it on gold apples.

Possibility 1: normal gold apple: You place an apple in the middle of the crafting table and make gold bars around it.

Possibility 2: Enchanted gold apple: For the enchanted gold apple, you do the same as for the normal gold apple, except that you use gold blocks instead of gold bars.

About the compass: You make the compass with iron and redstone.

The armor is also ineffective, since gold tools and gold armor generally break easily. Example: A gold pickaxe can destroy approx. 32 blocks

I did not mean compass, special watch sorry.

Not bad ;-), but I don't find a watch useful, except for decoration.

So isn't it worth it? What can she do?

The watch can show you the time. So not directly the time but when the day or night is. So it turns with the day and the night. The light / blue is day and the dark / black as you can guess at night.

Yes ok, pretty cool feature, e.g. For caves, but good, you do NOT have to craft it now, nh?