But i need MORE DECORATIVE BLOCKS for my ENTRANCES AND REDSTONE DOORS

Minecraft take itself too seriously now. It use to be so much wackier, with additions like the rainbow sheep, Dinnerbone, Toast the bunny...it feels like once Microsoft bought it, everything feels so stiff and "aesthetic" instead of the carefree slightly funny vibe the development had before. We couldn't even have fireflies because frogs don't eat them. And cookies kill parrots. All for what?

I wish they’d do something like the mushroom island again. Crystal forest, petrified trees underground, some sort of unique biome…

It really is incredible when you realise how the Creeper is probably the most universally recognised gaming icon. An accidental creation that has made its way into countless items of merchandise and essentially being the first thing that comes to mind when you think Minecraft or when you look at Minecraft promotional material.

They should keep a good balance between realistic mobs, and fantasy mobs.

You should’ve named this “I SPENT 100 DAYS EXAMINING MINECRAFT’S LOST IDENTITY”, and the algorithm would’ve treated you better. Edit because I keep getting the same comment: I made this when there were only a couple thousand views on the video and it was out for a few days. I’m very glad I turned out wrong!

2:38 THIS! THIS is the problem I've had with recent updates the past few years, this legitimately pisses me off. They have these features they hype up and then decide to push it to hard to find spots like locking them to specific biomes/structures, like the frogs, allays, and sniffers. They're too scared to add something actually common to spawn/find, and is why players usually don't even find anything relating to the update when they play it unless they actively go looking for it or just happen to find it.

95% of players never interacting with the Sniffer is actually far lower than the real number. According to the Minecraft achievements on Xbox, only 0.17% of players have planted a sniffer seed, meaning that 99.83% of players have never interacted with the Sniffer

You've made me realize how much the mob designs have shifted over the years. When even WAS the last hostile mob that spawns anywhere in the overworld?

man they aint even remove herobrine no more

Before you use to travel out to find things like the end portal, woodland mansions, nether fortress, or a mushroom biome, and all of these things had valuable resources worth finding that could change your game. But now, you need to travel to so many new places and find so many structures, all while being such rare things to find, all for limited and restrictive rewards. A lot of these new updates dont feel fun, they feel like a fetch quests

I think they should just add 37 more flower types, that'd do it

You are 100% right on the feature filter thing. Ibxtoycat made a video with a tweet from someone who knows Mojang devs. They said that some Microsoft/Mojang execs know that Minecraft is lightning in a bottle and they are terrified of the game becoming "bloated", so they have an overbearing bureaucracy that needs to approve of every little feature that the devs want to add.

This video perfectly articulates how I feel as an old player returning to Minecraft today. There’s such a mass of differing block types (many with only slight changes between them) that I simply won’t use half of them. The new mobs are cool and all but they don’t seem to reach their fullest potential, I remember when horses were added and they completely changed the game.

as much I love both Terraria and Minecraft. Terraria succeeded where Minecraft failed. despite Terraria also getting massive updates back in the days. the game was not scared to add new things as also effecting the sense of progression. in every level of progression. not only you got more things to do. the way you play the game changes too as also introducing new gameplay elements in term of combat exploration and building. when Terraria used to get major updates back in the days. they felt exciting and unique and easily can be part of your world (minecraft lost that charm in time sadly)

I think I see some clips of my castle in there… ;) Good video, you actually covered some points about the old versions that I’ve thought about a lot

Genuinely thought ancient plants brought by sniffers would be some sort of cool brewing ingredients or food choices. But nope, just flowers.

I think this is a big reason why older fans dislike the new gameplay. When we were kids, it didn't matter if your build kinda sucked because there wasn't really that much to work with anyway. Instead the focus was on making interesting builds, at least for me, cool hidden passage ways, fun statues, just unique and fun concepts. Now when I play as an adult, I am much more concerned with aesthetics than I used to be, and while I don't think the new gameplay is bad, I get a bit overwhelmed looking at 5 stone block families that are all basically the same value, wondering which one will work better lol. As a kid I really appreciated the limited block palette available and I think it put the focus on other things, like being creative and not just copying structures 1 to 1 how they are in real life. I also think it allowed creators to be more silly and inventive with their builds, because it was already so blocky and abstract to start with. I feel like if I made a Mcdonalds with a giant M made out of glowstone these days, with a secret disco room in the basement my post would probably get shit on by my friends (was a big hit in 2013 though)

As someone who hasn't played minecraft for the exact reasons you mentioned here for a long time, i really appreciate how well you covered this perspective. Im definitely going to send this to my friends when they ask me why i never play with them, because it clearly summarizes everything i took issue with as well as some other things i didn't like but could never really put my finger on why.

my biggest issue is definitely how overwhelming the game feels with how much they've added, particularly with decoration and structure design. choice paralysis absolutely killed the game for me. it was so much more fun trying to make something cool looking with the very limited block set of old

another one of the things that i think changes the vibe is the mobs are over animated. if you look at old mobs, like skeletons, zombies and stuff, they are very simple. but if you look at the sniffer, panda, camel, they are all very animated, which makes them feel disconnected from everything else.

I am so surprised about your low numbers contrasting with your huge efforts! Cheers to that, and let's hope we can make Minecraft be true again.

Well, You tend to lose sight of the goal when the lead developer is GONE

Thata why i play BTA Better Than Adventure A unique minecraft version, with cool updates and a nostalgic enviroment

We need overworld biomes that are weird and wacky too, we have dry biomes, wet biomes, cold biomes, mountain biomes, but what about magic biomes, things that are out of the ordinary with dark blue leaves, cyan grass, and maybe a wacky weird mob as well? I'd love to see a new 'magic biome' category (not like wizards but just unrealistic)

I liked the floating islands that generated in old versions, they added a mystic aura to the world and made it more immersive EDIT: I don't want this to change the rest of the coment so here it is, I didn't expect any of my comments in any video to get more than 2 likes

2:13 - this isn't true. TNT & fireworks are very sought after on 2b2t and other various survival mc servers

Everything Minecraft has put in the past few years doesn’t feel like Minecraft to me, it just feels like modpacks

I feel like Terraria is one of the greatest examples of a successful game that doesn't make its creators lose sight of what made it great. They kept treating the game just as they did at the start, and I wish Minecraft had that same luck. In the old days, Notch actually added cake to the game just because of a joke. Imagine if Minecraft still had that vibe to this day!

Genuinely great effort video with loads of points I personally agree with The phrase "If the creeper wasn't already in the game already, Mojang would not add it." is so impactful and detrimental to what Minecraft is now. If the creeper was removed from the game, people would go full ape too. But the thing with the creeper is that it was made on accident, its this funny little thing that doesn't even exist. Most minecraft mobs except from animals, zombies and skeletons and the like, are fantasy creatures that have their own charm and appeal, that aren't really based on anything. Like you can say the Endermen are based on Slendermen, but what the hell is a ghast, a blaze or a zombie pigman? That kind of creativity in mobs is just so unique that we don't really have it anymore, now all we have is mobs that are just animals from real life or the occasional Strider / Warden / Sniffer, that can only be found in certain areas of the game. Do you remember when Copper was first released and it was useless and still kind of is? I remember watching SimplySarc's video and theres overall just a trend of people having way better ideas than Mojang does when it comes to new features. They've gone too far into realism that they cannot even add 2 pixels because "muh poison will hurt teh vidya game frogs"

What they should have done with the sniffer and ancient seeds was add new potions and potion ingredients to either make potions faster to brew, make them more accessible to brew, and add new potions that you can only make with ancient extinct plants

I've seen this before. I started playing Minecraft in Beta 1.8, and people have been claiming the game's been losing its identity ever since full release. People said this when Villagers started trading. People said this when horses were added (And I stopped playing the game). People said this when the Nether got its recent overhaul. People said this when the Cave update happened. I don't understand why it's any different this time around.

Its not that mojang is scared to add certain things. Its that they do not care to. They are focusing more and more on their in game store in order to gain more and more money. Mojang has adopted the same idea every game has adopted recently. Thats adding minimal features to the base game but heavily encouraging you to spend money on the store to play something "different."

3:02 Now THAT is the reason why mobs that win the vote suck. It isn’t because they were bad by design. It was because Mojang is too lazy to finish them. The sniffer can still be a good mob if Mojang adds more plants, make the way the sniffer finds the plants less tedious, and have the sniffer egg be less of a pain to get.

thanks for the well spoken, brief, clear and high quality video! No fluff, just straight to the point with great opinions AND great suggestions for solutions!

i think this might be why 1.7.10 was my favourite version and i continued playing it for ages after newer updates came out - something felt 'off' about 1.8 onwards. Now I know that this is where microsoft started being in charge, and their different design philosophy felt incredibly weird to me at the time, and i didn't really like it. Nowadays there are certainly things I like about modern minecraft (especially cherry wood trees lol) but still, I always wonder what could have happened if microsoft were less controlling of the content and followed the original design philosophy. So much of modern minecraft to me feels entirely pointless or too much of a hassle, like amethyst caves, copper, some of the new crafting stations, gathering netherite... or maybe i'm just stuck in the past 😅

This video is so spot on. When Mojang DOES add things like new wood types, they feel so corporate, uncreative, and careful, it's like "here is a new wood type that's slightly different" or when they add a new mob from the vote it's like "here is a new mob that is so well hidden you'll probably never find it unless you go looking for it." It feels like they are trying to do the bare minimum so that they do not upset the community, and while doing so, are upsetting the community. For me, really the only way I find minecraft fun nowadays is through playing with modpacks with my friends. Great video! :D

6:17 I'd also add that players have been learning how to build for over a decade. The old style was partly due to block limitations but also experience.

How does this channel only have 3 videos and 6k subs (6k subs already being very impressive for 3 videos) but just.. wow! This felt so professional, was extremely entertaining and I guess I just assumed you were around the millions.. seriously keep this sort of content up! You've earned my sub!👏👏

I am a firm believer in the idea that "limitations breed creativity and positive thinking". When you have a limited way to a goal, you make your way there however you can. My favourite example of this is pixel art: The 80s to early 2000s (and recently with indie games) where pixel art was common in games because that's all you had access to and subsequently they evolved. Despite some developers being limited to a set number of colours, a set number of sprites, a limited budget, a limited amount of time, a limited amount of file space, limited physical size on some displays, they would pull through. Despite all those obstacles, we got iconic and memorable designs. Pixel art is compared to many digital media forms, timeless. When minecraft had such design limitations in regard to decorative blocks, players innovated to make cool looking things and I think the building community was better for it. Sure now things look nicer, but as you said, they kinda lost that iconic sense of "this is minecraft. In all its muted colours, we still make things that look amazing"

I think the Nether Update was the greatest of the modern updates. Caves and Cliffs was incredible, but it was where things started to feel... off. The Wild Update cemented this. It just doesn't look Minecrafty anymore. The new UI, the new biomes and the new mobs feel like the work of modders.

10:40 REALLY made me realize that if older versions weren't available to freely download & play, there's no way Minecraft would be ANYWHERE near as big as it is. It would just be another "that one nostalgic game I used to play" and everyone would move on. It just makes total sense to me.

Nostalgia is a helluva thing. The old vibe cant really be matched. I know what you mean since i started minecraft in 2011. But the feeling of OG minecraft is still something i chase.

I agree with something Stampy said about the new Minecraft. A lot of new blocks/additions really only have a single purpose when building, whereas back then the resources given to you allowed you to be more creative

4:52 the other interesting thing about all of these blocks was that they were all manmade objects. The idea of creating things in the game that wasn't a 1-1 ratio was only manmade objects, so it a) added to the vast empty atmosphere of the game, and b) made coming across villages or mineshafts so much more eery and fascinating

Minecraft is straying away from the block shape, and they don't even realize it. Take the ores for example, they updated the texture to make the ores look more clumpy and less small and blocky. Mobs like the goat are also good examples. Goats have lots of parts that aren't square shape. Dripstone also, isn't very cubic. they're more triangular. For me, the biggest thing taking away from the old Minecraft feel is the huge difference between how old and new mobs/blocks look. All the old mobs (pigs, cows, creepers, zombies) have flat looking textures, and are completely made up of cubes. If you look at new mobs, they have horns, fur layers etc. If the cow was made recently I guarantee you it would have ears that stick out or something. (btw, the Grib sounds super cool but would add some crazy jump scares to the game)

the quality is insane bro the animations are fire 🔥

Amazing video man. This exactly explains my struggle with Minecraft at the moment. You gained a subscriber for this one. Keep it up, seriously.

The algorythm was not kind to you with this one

I agree with pretty much everything outside of the whole decorative and style section, I really like their focus on more blocktypes and textures and prefer the less vibrant style and frankly I think some newe blocks are just as iconic as that old stone in some sense. Idk I think the extreme amount of decoration just adds options for those who want it while not taking anything away from those that aee fine with simple 1 block flat walls

Last time mojang experimented everyone hated it aka the combat update

Everyone's perception of graphics is subjective. Personally, I find the newer ones more visually appealing. It ultimately comes down to which version of the game we initially became attached to when we started playing.

My problem is that despite all the content they've added NONE of it is necessary to interact with, and the core of the game to this day remains unchanged. Punch tree, build crafting table, build a pickaxe, get iron, get diamonds, get diamond pickaxe, go to the nether, get blaze rods, get ender eyes, go to the end, kill the dragon... How is it that after SO many years and SO many updates, this has not changed at all? What's the point in adding all these mobs and all these features if all of them can be safely skipped and ignored?

I agree with the title, the biggest problem is that developers are scared to add anything because they don't want to ruin their biggest bread maker and then we get smallest updates without purpose, useless mobs and blocks and mechanics. I'm really sad that Notch sold Minecraft, It was clear what Minecraft was in his vision and it had a special and finite soul that everybody feels. That's why so many players play beta versions and older versions in general. There was something so special about them, they had a soul, atmosphere and it was well put together.

i miss my naturally spawning floating islands and i miss making bases on them

Fantastic video. Grew up with this game, I’m 24 now and minecraft doesn’t even feel the same anymore. Please continue making your content!

"If the Creeper was suggested today, Mojang wouldn't add it" is an angle I haven't heard before, but I couldn't agree more. I don't have much else to say, since my thoughts about Minecraft's current direction wouldn't fit in a reasonable comment, but this video deserves more engagement.

4:00 I can't really explain it, but the old minecraft graphics always gave me such a sense of mystery and adventure. When I first came across Minecraft, I think it was back somewhere in 2011? I was about 7 or 8 then, and I played a ton of World of Warcraft and a tiny bit of Diablo 2. I watched a video of someone playing on a server and turning every block to sponge, then I watched a video of someone recreating Bikini Bottom in Minecraft (I was obsessed with Spongebob at that age), and then watched a video of a Minecraft WoW server, and it filled my brain with so much wonder. There were so many old minecraft youtube series that were a total gem back in the day. It's something about the old saturation and lighting that gave me the vibe of some kind of RPG Exploration Adventure game. I love it so much. I love the image on the right too, but you're completely right. It's identity, feel, and look of the game has drastically shifted. They're both Minecraft, but one is able to look so much more alive with only a fraction of the "content" and block variety.

3:24 In the timeless words of Rush, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

I personally think the Mob Votes were one of the stupidest ideas Mojang ever came up with. Their logic is that by doing it, it 'gives the community more impact' but in reality; it divides the community, and becomes "we could add 3 new enemies, but instead we want you to select 1 and throw the others in the garbage." It's an excuse to do less work; and is even more embarrassing considering fans have done custom mobs and way more creative ones.

You know what I wish they'd add? Ambient sound, better looking trees and better looking structures, especially villages.

A friend of mine who is an artists told me, in a very loose quotation but I think she's right, "Minecraft was Notch's vision, even if he had poor artisitic abilities, the weirdness that notch had is barely there nowadays, anything that is weird today is kinda adorable, even the villagers used to be even uglier than they are now, animals had flat faces now they had ears and adorable snouts. She hasn't played a modern version of minecraft unlike me, she keeps herself to an old world, and funny she finds the limited block counts far more creative than the vast selection specially considering she is an artist, but I don't blame her, the storage and UI system is quite crap and takes too long to find anything, at best she joins me in creative mode and gets bored easily. Yet they mojang seems unable to fully get rid of Notch's original skeleton, blocks still stack up too 64, the grass relatively looks the same, so do some original mobs, the world more or less ahs worked out the same for a ver long time they just keep adding things and even the texture work, the music starts to sound like someone else idea. Think whatever you want about notch for just having an opinion on twitter, but without that man we have no minecraft. It does feel a bit like star wars, for as many flaws george lucas had, he was the heart of the franchise, nowadays it's a weird hybrid of disney and whomever is in charge. Well it's not the end of the world, new games from new unfiltered minds are out there and sometimes it's just good to play something new! even if minecraft ain't the same.

This reminds of b.s.hagaman’s video on why Minecraft is hard to play now, he explains how Minecraft before being bought by Microsoft feels like a different game from the one we have today. My favorite quote from his video regarding block variation is that for older Minecraft we asked “what will I build with these blocks,” while with newer Minecraft we ask “what blocks will I use for a build.”

Minecraft never had an "identity" don't you see!?!?! The real problem was that mojang and Microsoft tried to give it one

You basically said everything I've been thinking about modern Minecraft but couldn't piece together. A few major updates have passed now and I just haven't touched the game. But the "Better Than Adventure" mod looks so genuinely good I am planning on trying it out soon. Back in the day, when I started to realize I dislike new Minecraft, I conceptualized a mod that would add on to classic Minecraft and that's exactly what the mod does, so cool!

I have to say the other big thing adding to the decline of minecraft is the community. People treat their worlds as if it’s a factory, build the most efficient machines that do all the resource hunting for you so you can just sit there and collect it. We are basically seeing end stage capitalism in minecraft now. Also the glorification of speedrunning, gone are the days of people actually taking their time to complete the game and enjoying it in the early stages.

I was really exited when 1.13 introduced new blocks. So many decorative possibilities. Yet forward to today and I have a choice paralysis when deciding on floor pattern

I don't mind the idea that they added newer textures however I am annoyed that the programmer arts resource pack is no longer the original textures because it was changed.

To me, the idea of Minecraft losing its identity is a problem of design language, in a sense. You were right to point out that textures in earlier game versions were very _consistent._ I think the problem now is that Mojang tried to move on to a high resolution, more varied design language, but didn't make a clean break. It seems like they attempted to do that by updating the old textures, but many of them still retain some of that quintessential "old Minecraft" feel. Old Minecraft was a game that was rough around the edges, and now Mojang is trying to smooth them over.

3:56 Ngl, when I saw the image on the left, It made me shed a tear. Brought me back to when I started playing the game around 2010/2011. It was truly a different vibe and a different experience as a whole back then. I will never forget this amazing time and I wish every new Minecraft player today could experience what new players experienced back then.

To me, the Nether Update was Minecraft’s last “proper” update if that makes sense? It brought in so much new content, reworked old, outdated stuff and completely changed a part of the game that almost all players experience, and it was universally loved!

i was also thinking of "if mojang added a classic mob in the current day, what would it look like?" type of idea

Wow, this video really mines my craft.

People always say "but you can still play the older versions!" No, you can't. They are laggy (even with Optifine) and you need outdated versions of Java. It's a complete hassle of mods and downloads. Microsoft should just revive the simplicity of pre-1.8 versions, but they won't. They don't care about maintenance. Their business model is to turn the game into an easy adventure with new mobs and spoonfed resources. The moment Notch sold his brain-child is the moment the game began to decay.

watching this kinda crushed my dreams of ever getting an update like the nether update but for the end instead. That dimension is in a serious need of new content

This vid really hits the nail on the head for me. Mojang is way too focused on realism and expansion nowadays, I think Minecraft was and always is better when it’s not conforming to our real world and also when it constantly strives to add NEW things. There are so many other games that do that. Once you take away Minecraft’s identity, what is it left with to make it stand out?

I feel a big issue is the fact all the updates don't feel that big. They add biomes and blocks, sure, but typically nothing new mechanically. I still remember when dogs were introduced in Beta 1.4 and have valuable memories of my first adventures with one, but sometimes I forget bees were introduced, and I still haven't bothered with the Sniffer.

It's interesting... Minecraft has started to run into the same problem as long-running TV shows. The original vision and charm is lost as it spirals into itself.

Omg is that Dialko's Beta world I see in the middle of the video? Very cool addition my dude that guy makes great content

i feel like the textures being changed really made minecraft lose its minecrafty feel, as now everything feels more focused towards realistic and aesthetic rather than minecraft. i feel microsoft is holding mojang back and they want their game to appeal to kids and make more money for them (bedrock edition) rather than letting them have their own creative freedom and keep minecraft feeling like minecraft

This is why I love ancient cities so much, they feel like an old addition, but at the same time they do have the detriment of not offering much new content, but it defenitely is my favorite recent update

I love minecraft, its a game ive spent years playing. Ive played it on a dozen platforms, with countless people, on hundreds of servers, and enjoyed like no other game. However, soon after the Nether update I slowly came to the realisation that it was no longer the game i love. Modern minecraft is a great game, but is not what I think is and should be minecraft. Minecraft to me is a simple block game, you mine, you craft, and create your own fun whether alone or with others. You can spend between 20 minutes in a world or literal years on that one world. Now with the latest updates its not only just unnecessary over complicated mechanics stacked ontop of each other, but rigid ones that follow a rule book of what is not at all needed in the game. Minecraft to me is not a childrens game, but an everybody's game. And modern updates make it harder for that new and adventurous first time play through for a new player. Minecraft now is not bad. Just not my minecraft.

I agree with your points. Minecraft should add a little more randomness to the experience. I feel like so many games now a days limit randomness to make games more competitive or to make sure everyone has the exact same experience. But the thing is the randomness is the best part of games. Like a cone killing a player in halo 3, or a nube tube flying across the map boucing off of different walls and killing the guy defusing in S&D, or how randomly 3 creepers will gang up on you and blow you to smithereens

HOW COME YOU ONLY HAVE 800 SUBS, THIS VIDEO QUALITY IS IMPRESSIVE

I feel like the more cubic designs of generated structures also contributed to the aesthetic of old MC. It reflects the simplistic, blocky feel by scaling that up and remaining less visually noisy; I've even felt that mineshafts feel out of place in the caves and cliffs update for this reason. YUNG's Better Mineshafts, as well as their other mods for other structures, help them blend in more with the modern game.

To me they really ask themselves too many questions. Adding a swamp and jungle village might not be the easiest thing. But if it were me I would have already done it. I really can't find the downside of having those. Same for the sniffer flowers. With bother not adding that vine looking one. It's so stupid. I would have just let jappa come up with cool looking ancient flowers even if they weren't all unique. We might have used them latter. But if they didn't plan on giving them features they could have just added more. And if it would have been too hard to get a specific one in mass maybe add the ability to plant the flower on the sniffer and they would spawn that one more. You would still need to find one first, grow it. Repeat that for all of your sniffer. It seem like a good gameplay loop to me and I would have jump straight on it. It fixe the lack luster amount. The potential hardness of fining one specific one. And add cool looks to the sniffer. The devs are great at adding genuinely cool and unique feature without destroying the rest of the game. But they lack the spontaneounsity of adding something because it's cool while not touching the main gameplay loop. It's nothing crazy really. Right now I like 1.21 because we got some of that. The breeze is kinda random and come from nowhere. It's wind ability are cool and unique. The chambers have really cool and unusual designs. Secrets everywhere. The copper bulb could have just been a light. Etc. Like it's really cool what they are doing. But we don't know the full excent yet and it might just be a dungeon. But it's still cool.

Just wanted to say that I love the pixel animations you add!

They added suspicious sand for one single mons egg. That alone validates to what I'm hearing here. I was so sad when my account got hacked and mojang didn't care at all but the more I watch ir check mew content out the more happy I am not to see it for myself. Same with Terraria kinda.

Yeah...yeah, you're right... I started playing in Beta 1.3 and man, the Notch days were full of wonder and mystical-ness. Modern Mojang's update methodology is sterile... Its also strange when you consider the Phantom. I forget when exactly it was added, but it was in the Microsoft era. The mob feels more like a Notch-era mob in the sense that it changed how Minecraft worked, sleeping is now highly encouraged due to Phantom attacks. Unfortunately, this was a bad outcome since it resulted in annoyance with no fun or real reward. What is especially interesting, is that modern Mojang is so sterile and refuses to change the fundamentals of how the game works, that they won't even go back and revamp the phantoms, I don't think anyone would be upset if they did that.

Something that bothers me a lot about the new art style is that it feels like they are bigger textures that were downscaled to 16x16, while older textures feel like they were created specifically for 16x16. New textures look like visual noise at times, while the older ones were simpler and much easier to notice what they were supposed to be.

This is a really interesting analysis on pre-microsoft Minecraft and its charms. Great video!!!

My biggest gripe being that despite all of the additions over the years, they've never developed the mining or the crafting any further than it was at the beginning. The very essence of the game has received no improvements in a very long time. Also a lot of features that have been added over the years that went no where or are obsolete.

Completly agree on the mobs part, buuut for decorations, honestly I simply LOVE the amount of block variety we have now, and it is what moves my creative juices but hey that's probably because I'm an artist so it ends up feeling like a playground (Also tip for those who are overwhelmed with the blocks, you REALLY need to filter what blocks you will use, for example cobble stone, after you made your general build, you than think of something else that might fit with it. Just like drawing you may have a 100 green pencils set, but realisticly you wont use all of them in the same project)

This was an amazing video, man!

“Losing my identity Wandering have i gone insane”

While I agree Mojang is scared of adding new, gamechanging features, isn't it kinda our fault too? Who is it, that shits on them every time they do something too big and too different from what we remeber of this game? And what's more, you do that in your own video. Not even a minute after mentioning this you say how they changed the game esthetic so that it no longer suits you. That is a big leap they decided to take, and what did we as a community do? We are the ones scaring them away from making those impactful changes. And you know what? I loved the old vibe, my best memories are deeply connected with it. But I gotta give them, the new textures and the blocks they add are gorgeous and the builds that people create these days are incomparable to anything back then. And it's okay. I still can build my cobblestone shack if I want, and if I'm feeling like it, I can even use the old textures, which they provided in the game by default, I don't even have to download anything. Is it really Mojang that is ruining the game, or are we all just creating an atmosphere of conflict that noone benefits from? I will not defend Mojang, as I have my own problems with their current politics, but maybe it's mighty time to stop for a moment, breathe, and think about what is really happening here.

Dude you turned everything I've been overthinking and confusing myself with for the past 3 years into one short and concise video that makes everything so much clearer

Honestly modern minecraft feels like modded minecraft with a new texturepack

Laughs in vintage story I bailed long ago

The grib is the most horrific creature I have ever seen, or conceptually heard of in minecraft. I am now a big boy adult, and it scares me, as a kid I would be shaken to my core. It would make a perfect addition to the game