Personally, i think this update is great! The problem here is communication not content IMO! :-)

The person who suggested to remove fireflies because of their irl toxicity to frogs, is the same person who reminds the teacher about homework

It's kinda weird that they cut the fireflies because of their toxicity to frogs, but they let them eat magma cubes instead? I can't imagine it's a good thing for a small terrestrial creature to swallow a cube of living magma from another dimension either.

For an update called the “wild update”. There sure is barely anything “wild” about it. When I thought of the “wild update” I thought more biome revisions, a bunch of new mobs for those biomes, and so much more.

What destroyed my excitement for this update was the elimination of fireflies, I love building and creating cozy enviroments and this was a massive positive point for me, and aince they scrapped it, it just made me completely uninterested on the update since as a builder and decorator, that was the biggest point I was hyped about besides the Allay.

Some fireflies are toxic to some frogs, so clearly they must eat cubes of magma instead.

Your firefly thing is on point. This "but frogs eat them" argument is taking their binding principles too far. It read like a copout rather than a reason and it would have finally added some life to biomes.

The big problem is that Minecraft should arguably have a lot of momentum behind it in the development team. It's literally the best sold game of all time, having made billions of billions of dollars in sales in just a decade. It'd be one thing if some stuff slipped the update, I guess that's fine. But this many times in a row? This should be the most well funded development team of any current game considering how many copies are in customer hands. We've seen quicker, more polished content delivery from people making mods out of their bedroom with 3 other people on discord.

I dont like the way this company is moving. They show all these features and when they dont deliver they blame us for thinking the features were actually going to be implemented. Its always delayed, or they give up on features.

The firefly excuse they came up with doesn’t even make sense, just because frogs don’t eat it, they didn’t have to completely shaft the idea itself.

It’s only because there’s not enough “wild” in the wild update. With a name like that I expect more passive mobs/animals. The update is alright but there’s more to be desired

Me and my friend found our first mangrove swamp and it was honestly disappointing, it felt nothing like that screen shot... frogs look modded too lol... they should've added dynamic fog, like in swamps it could be thicker when you enter them to make them more emersive

A simple performance update is long overdue honestly, every update gives you lower fps and more lagspikes and you have to use mods to make the game playable at all in some cases. Better light engine, better entity culling, better multicore support, improved Server efficiency, things like that would go a long way

Biggest thing for me was that it’s called the “wild update”. If they just called it “caves and cliffs pt 3” and said it would be smaller (ie bee update). It’s like they were sneakily trying to hide the fact this update is smaller, as if that’s somehow a bad thing

That's a really good point about how ambiguous they left 1.19 back at Minecraft Live. They made it seem like swamps and birch forests were just a portion of what was coming. Instead, we just got swamps and a biome that was meant to be in the last update.

Can't believe a game with zombies, dragons, and an eldritch sea monster that frogs eating fireflies were too unrealistic

I really, REALLY think they should take an update "break" and do a housekeeping update for 1.20, fixing bugs and providing better use to things already in the game, as well as some parity changes. After that, I think a different approach like what you mentioned closer to the end would be fantastic. Bedrock really needs some big fixes though (random deaths, falling through the world, other weird ones that have granted it the name "bugrock" lmao) and there are some parity things that would be great additions, like movable chests and potion cauldrons in Java and a mix of things in Bedrock (sorry can't think of big ones right now).

I don't mind Monjang over promising a little without being able to deliver. That happens sometimes. The problem is that this is the THIRD time IN A ROW that they cut content. I'm scared their team is falling apart behind the scenes

It’s an interesting juxtaposition to compare this update with what Mojang was able to accomplish with the Nether Update, which Mojang delivered on 110% of its promises, completely revamping the entire nether world generation, introducing a variety of brand new biomes, and even adding an extra biome just because the community asked for one. Somehow now they’re struggling to pull off far less in the Wild Update, and treating the community in a rather condescending, backhanded way. I wonder what is going on internally at Mojang.

Fireflys, even if they didnt make them be eaten by frogs, they could still be in the game. I dont think litteral cubes of freaking fire is much better. Mojang needs to say few things that they KNOW they can do, then keep adding and adding more.

My issue with Mojang has always been how little they actually do. Modders make significantly larger and more complex updates with basically no resources (unlike Bethesda that releases a full dev kit for modders). So why does Mojang take so long to add so little?

I agree. Personally I like a lot of the 1.19 features like mud, chest boats, allays and some of the sculk mechanics. As always there's stuff that I'm not that excited about like the warden and the sculk sensor. Mojang really shot themselves in the foot with overpromising and not delivering fireflies and birch forest. I can't see why this update is called the wild update at this point. Apart from that the update isn't worse than other updates imo.

The “wild” update should have been catch up on all the past biome and mob votes that they promised would be added eventually. It was literally the perfect opportunity to do that

I think that ever since Village and Pillage, Mojang has been trying to one-up themselves with each update (aside from small updates like Buzzy Bees). The Nether Update gave them confidence that they could do this within a reasonable timeframe, but almost a little too much confidence. They lost that streak of one-upping updates when Caves and Cliffs took much longer to make than they originally anticipated and became much larger than they had planned, forcing them to split the update into two parts and push back other features such as archeology and the Deep Dark. Now, they’re struggling to retain the trust of the player base by promising great updates in a short time, but they simply can’t do that. I think they should focus on figuring out what they can do in an update before they release any information or snapshots about such update so they don’t have to cancel anything. Either that, or they can give a small amount of info at a time, but show more and more as snapshots go on. I think that was their strategy for the Nether Update for the most part, and it worked out incredibly well for them.

Rather than adding the chorus of disappointment here, can we take a moment to recognise how well articulated and presented this video is? Very humble as always, not claiming to represent the view of the entire community, X you nailed this.

You’re right. Mojang saying ‘concept art doesn’t count as commitment’ feels really backhanded. It’s kind of like they’re having a go at the player base for expecting something they’ve been promised. It would have been much better for Mojang to be transparent about it as they usually are - making this feel very out of character for them.

I'm still sad about the fireflies, especially since, in general, slime seems more toxic to frogs than fireflies. And don't even get me started on magma cubes!

Its not that the updates are disappointing, i just feel like the devs aren't giving what the community deserves. There are probably more mod developers that are much more dedicated to actually making minecraft a worthy game for the community

"hey bro we still gotta code the portal into the for--" "JUST RUSH OUT THE UPDATE AND PUT A COUPLE BONES IN THE LOOT CHESTS THE PLAYERS NEED TO FEEL LIKE THEY'RE DISCOVERING SOMETHING"

I think the fact that the Deep Dark and the Warden was the biggest part of this update is one of the biggest reasons why, especially since it should’ve been released in 1.18

1.19 really does just feel like the final installment of caves and cliffs with a bit of extra fun stuff in top, and I feel that people of would be less disappointed if that’s what it was made out to be by mojang. With that being said, the last three updates combined have made massive changes to the game, so I hope they take their time with the next update and deliver something more complete and focused. It seems that more players are really interested in biome overhauls, so it would be really great to see 2 or 3 of the older biomes reworked.

I feel like 1.17-19 are the end of the "golden age of updates". I'm not disappointed about the content of the update, it was just split 3 times and then half of 1.19 was cut. I get that they have to stay realistic, I just hope in the future they learn their lesson and don't bite off more than they can chew. We've also still got the rest of the biome vote biomes coming. I say they don't bother with a mob or biome vote next year to remove an extra thing so dev resources can go to promises they've still got on their plate. They need to recalibrate and work on the promise backlog they already have, like all of the new biomes, and now, the birch forest (the community will not forget that).

The mob votes almost feel like a betrayal. I remember being a little bit younger, staying up at night and voting for my favourite mob, the Phantom (I think thats its name, right?) and I thought it would be really cool to like have a flying mob in the overworld that you could like fly against or with using an Elytra, but no. The mob turned out to just be annoying in game, and punishes you for not sleeping, which was stupid. Same goes for next mob votes, all of the mobs in the next mob votes are pretty much useless, it just feels like "why cant you just add them all in?" at this point.

There's a saying in customer service, "Underpromise and Overdeliver" I think many game developers can learn from this, especially when it comes to announcing to releasing time frames. How long ago was Elder Scrolls 6 announced? Can you imagine how hype it would be if a game was announced and then released like less than a month later? Anyway I think people have much too high expectations after Caves and Cliffs. I dont think mojang could have released anything after that that would get a good reception. Its also easy to forget how small minecraft updates used to be. I still love that we're consistently getting new content

The fireflies were going to be such a cool and important part of the swamp atmosphere, removing them really hurts the swamps' vibe. The reason just felt like a lame excuse as well.

I was so excited for the wild update, though my excitement has since dimmed, I was understanding of having to split caves and cliffs. Though it seems like so many featured have just been removed without any notice. I was excited for paleontology part I was hoping for dinosaur statues of bone and other cool bones and pots, but no, none of it was in the mild update. I was excited for bundles and fireflies, and the birch forest. Now it just seems as though I can never take for granted what the company showing me. I hope they learn from this. Also I can't find any damn swamp or mangrove biomes. All I want is some froggy boys 🐸.

I get this big knot in my stomach whenever I hear about the wilds update. It has two features and one of them was already promised in the original caves and cliffs. Minecraft thrived for years without these super expansive crazy updates. I am so put off by the new update that it doesn't seem interesting at all to play. And frogs are one of my favorite animals. Pre aquatic update mods are still better than most of the new updates. swimming and village minus the pillage are the only thing i actually miss! I actually like minecraft less than I did before the wilds update, it just feels like it's never going to go anywhere but downhill.

It's definitely a problem in communication considering the fact that 1.15 had the least amount of features in the current era of Minecraft updates yet the community didn't complain too much because it was communicated early on that it was meant to be a bug fix update and there wasn't much of a fuss about it. Also some people have decided to very vocally complain about the update towards the public accounts of the developers of the game which is very much unfair since the developers don't have much say what the higher ups in Mojang decide to promote in the promotional material that might change or be dropped during development.

I was kinda surprised Mojang didn't outline a Buzzy Bees-scope Warden/catch-up update for 1.19. Coming off of Caves and Cliffs, I feel that we were due for a smaller update. Committing to an entire update revamping "the wild" so soon after a pair of massive revamps always felt kinda shaky.

Honestly in recent years for some reason I haven't been as excited about these updates as before. It feels like for the size of the company (Mojang) they're really don't update to their fullest potential. I don't think it's impossible to have a pretty well polished updates in which every biome has been overhauled. In addition I feel like an overhaul update is much more needed than a bit of new content.

When you call your update the "wild" update I would espect it to have something to do with wilderness.

This update should have been named “Deep Dark Update” since that is the main highlight of this entire wild update. In my opinion I really don’t buy seeing this update being named the wild update from adding just the mangrove swamps and frogs…

They could've added fireflies sooooo easily by simply making them a biome particle like how the nether biomes have particles... they don't have to interact with frogs or even give off actual light at all

Wild update might've been somewhat near being the bee update in satisfying the players part But the thing is, i think the reason they threw deep dark this far into 1.19 from 1.17, is because they wanted it as a bigger plan, if 1.20 turns out to be something related to the deep dark (city center) then it would make sense I feel like the wild update is the calm before the storm

it's kind of amazing the resources this developer has at their hands but cant release a content patch that would take another studio 1-2 months to make in a year.

For example, when they first mentioned ancient cities, they said you'll have to figure out what to do with the structure in the center. And that's the biggest reason I was excited, to figure out what the structure does. But it does nothing, absolutely nothing. I will obviously be disappointed.

1.19 wasn't a bad update in a vacuum, it's just what the wild update meant vs what we got that pisses people off. For the longest time, all the biomes in minecraft have felt samey, dull, uninspired and tedious. When the wild update was announced, with the overhauls to swamps, concept art for birch forest changes, and the tease for potentially more changes, it felt like a step in the right direction. Biomes were finally getting the love and diversity they'd need and exploring the overworld would become atmospheric and enchanting again. But then as the devlog went on, more and more of what was suggested and implied was cut out, to the point that the whole theme of the update being about the "wild" became strenuous at best. People aren't upset at what we got, but rather what we were promised and ultimately didn't get, especially considering it's one of the aspects that needs improving the most.

chat reporting is what fully killed the update, as i was super excited for 1.19, waited for months to update my survival world now i refuse to play it for fear of getting false banned on realms/servers

i haven't played mc for a couple of months and realized there was an update when I opened the launcher. yeah there could definitely be more content but I didn't expect it so I'm glad there's new things

I think the "frogs can't eat fireflies" was just an excuse because they might have realized that having hundreds of entities just for ambiance was a bad idea performance wise. a simple solution to this would just be to make them particle effects, since frogs wont eat them anyways.

Can we go back to when the developers would just release cryptic images of things they were working on? The community would get to try and dissect it, but not really have any expectations. New versions had a fresh feel because we hadn't seen it all already. We get so much detail now that it gets hard to remember what is currently in the game. There's also a point to be made about focus. In 1.19 we have deep dark, swamp, chest boats, and allay - the focus seems to be all over. The deep dark is so different from swamps and other biomes that it might have fit better into its own update. Maybe the wild update could have delivered on its name a bit more by focusing on updating and fleshing out biomes plus adding the swamp.

Really good video, perfectly summarized what's been going on and even gave some great advice! I 100% agree with your takes, I think having a snapshot come out of the blue would be really fun and would definitely generate some hype

You made a lot of great points here. Some of it I hadn’t even connected until someone else said it for me, so thanks for helping us get a better picture! I see what you’re saying and I definitely agree

Honestly this could be fixed easily with an update that could be called "The Missing Update" in which they add a lot of the unfinished or showed mobs, mechanics, biomes and more, obviusly that's too much because of how much they kinda promised but at least it is cool to imagine

This feels like a management/direction issue. The sheer scope of the features being added in the past few updates has been amazing, but Mojang has developed a small habit of showing/promising features too early

we need something like cat-tails in the swamps, riverside plants are something the swamps are missing that would improve the looks.

Ngl, a Desert Update would be a neat addition since tge desert wasn't touched for quite some time. However, looking at how things are going, this could also bring less positive results

I think you've perfectly captured community sentiment. Being promised something and then told you shouldn't have expected the promise to be fulfilled was far more disappointing than the lack of fireflies and birch forests. I'm especially glad you didn't misattribute the disappointment to a lack of features in and of itself.

One of the big problems is also the difference between the updates: We had the aquatic update, where they overhauled water bodies, which cover a substantial part of the whole world. Then, there was the village & pillage update, which made villagers more relevant and refurbished some of the most interesting structures in the game: the villages. Soon after, the buzzy bees update came, and although it wasn't too flattering, the things were still fresh and new enough to not make people let down by them. Then, one of the bigger updates came along, which was the Nether update, giving us literal dozens of new blocks as well as several new biomes, making the Nether dimension a lot more fun to explore. Then, essentially the most significant and most expected and important update came out: the caves & cliffs, which gave us many new blocks to build with, including a new metal, copper, together with its new ageing mechanic. The second part of caves & cliffs brought us an increased height limit and a complete rework of the world generation engine. And then, after all this, here comes the "wild" 1.19: most people lost interest in the Warden boss and the Deep Dark over the two years since it was first teased, not even mentioning the lack of motivation for players to go explore the lost cities. Yeah, a music disc is cool, and so is the Echo compass, but why have the boss then? Every boss is supposed to be guarding something important and/or valuable, be it the abstract idea of finishing the game protected by the Ender Dragon or the ability to mine faster using a beacon, access to which the player can get only by defeating the Wither. Yet here is the Warden, the most difficult of them all, protecting some not too astounding loot in the chests around him and dropping... a sculk catalyst?! Why did they even bother giving him a loot table? Then there are the swamps, which are too rare for everyone to appreciate them enough, and let down by the first truly ambient mob to be added to the game being dropped out of it (and no, I don't consider bats atmospheric), supporting it by a weak excuse about them being poisonous to frogs, which they could've simply omitted. After degrading the swamps, they decided to exclude the overhaul of other biomes, including those of which we have been shown sketches and concept arts. To be honest, I would probably appreciate the retouch of birch forests, plains and other widespread biomes more than the new mangrove wood type and the swamp update. All of this arrogantly called off by saying that "players should not take concept arts as promises of content", which we until recently could've. Lastly, we have the Allays, which aren't the easiest to get your hands on in survival, and even if you do decide to get them, their mechanic isn't actually that useful (my personal opinion, to which I have resorted after mulling it over for quite a while). Yes, they can pick up items, but so can hoppers and hopper minecarts, and if a player is capable enough to get themselves some allays from the rare and well-guarded woodland mansions, they are probably skilled enough to build an undoubtedly more reliable pickup system with the use of these redstone components, either all by themselves, or with the help of a tutorial. Yes, they can pick up non-stackable items, but who other than a technical player is going to appreciate this small feature? TL;DR: Trying to be as objective as possible while ranting about why I think the update received so much hate.

Great insights as always! I think Mojang (and the community) has just gotten a bit too excited about the direction Minecraft has been going with these big updates, and bitten off more than they can chew.

Also a thing I think people have problems with is that we already had something similar to the wild update with the nether update (adding biome, mob, enchantement that have to be obtained via different means) so I think people also hope that the wild update would have been an overhaul for older biome like it was in the nether update but it just hadded 2 biome without bringing any changes to the older ones

I want a deep sea! from sea level at 62 down to bedrock at -64. It should totally dark and with glowing angler fish. The deep sea creatures should only spawn with at least 100 blocks of water above. And you should have special equipment to be able to dive that deep - and bring light under water. Imagine only having a small cone of light in from of you and then see the mouth of an angler! The really big treasures/shipwrecks could be in the deep sea. So maybe more search than mining biome. Subnautica is by far the most scary game I've ever player!

Honestly my biggest issue is with the Ancient Cities. There’s just no real incentive to explore them, a couple items were added but nothing game changing like with 1.9. For example it could have been a good source for new items that would help with inventory management

I feel like the problem for me was that the first part of the caves and cliffs added these new crazy caves, but there was nothing to do in them, and by the time there was something to do in them with the deep dark being added, now the whole hype over new caves is gone.

This update had so much potential. The fire flies, a possibly new brich biome. I would have love those new things. I get about fireflies, but they could have changed that to be different.

I feel like the birch forests wouldn’t be that hard to do… even the mushrooms on the trees, basically re skin cocoa beans and when you break them you just get normal mushrooms. And also, frogs are still allowed to eat magma cubes…

I'd add two problems that may have frustrated more than one person: - the skulk sensor doesn't looks like a finished product and the way you can distinct different sounds is a bit painful to work with, communication wise, they said the same when it came out and said they would work on it, but didn't - the ancient cities don't have a real appeal yet, there is no real reward in it and the one of the only interesting things that is the warden is just meant to be avoided. I hope some of its content just got delayed EDIT: small update, I tested the ancient cities yesterday, raided 2 without dying and even got to kill two wardens. Ancient cities are way too easy with elytras, you just don't care about the noise you make and target all the shriekers you see, when a warden spawn you just zoom away in another part of the city, when there is near zero shrieker left, do the same with the loot chests and you're done. The warden take too long to be angry enough to be a problem and you have all the time you need to break the shrieker, open a chest and take off while it spawns next to you. I would advise you to try to explore at least one on foot to not ruin your fun. Enjoy!

This was well made and said! Thanks for the video!

The major issue here is that we all want to go back in time when Minecraft came out and exploring the map in any given direction would fill us with awe and enjoyment, because everything was new and unexpected. Adding a couple blocks and small changes in biomes can keep you entertained for a while but then the old routines of dig - gather - dig - gather get back. The only real moment the game requires you to explore is when you got to go to the Nether for blaze rods, or to the End to get elithras and shulker boxes (and shulker boxes are useful for gathering anyway). No real new mechanics have been added and everything looks boring after the first 5 minutes because all objectives are still the exact same in our minds, and we know how to get there fast and effectively, while in the beginning even DARING to visit the nether was an achievement per se - now it is just a 30 mins stroll to find what I need and get back. I get why these updates, so scarce and far away from each others, are leave us players so underwhelmed.

I almost feel like the wild update was rushed. They should have polished some atmospheric stuff between all the biomes and finished promises they’ve made with the bundle and archeology. I think some small changes to many biomes would have been great to make the game feel more immersive. It’s not like Caves and Cliffs was that long ago at all…

I think honestly the main problem with this update is the false promises and the expectations by default because of previous updates.

A ton of updates in official release have been extremely lackluster over the years, and I feel this one is rather average like the others, after we got caves & cliffs everyone expected something grand like that and when the update ended up average people felt naturally disappointed. I think the only thing I can be upset about was promised content being cancelled or postponed but even then it's not something to be incredibly frustrated about

this video seems like a really good summary of what's been going on with Mojang. Great vid

It's not a problem with what they included, it's a problem that they tried to gaslight people and not be honest about the reasons they chose some decisions. If they were honest they wanted to do a smaller update, most people would be fine, but they teased alot which they didn't follow through on.

In my opinion there are only three things I don't like with the 1.19 update: 1. There are no fireflies which could just be a particle effect instead of a mob. 2. The Deep Dark Loot is underwhelming considering the danger and caution you go through. 3. It came out the day my exams started and I will be able to properly play after a month :(

Great video essay Xisuma! Well said!

Havent really dipped my feet in Minecraft over the last few years, I hope they'll eventually get to the point where the content comes close to what the mod Mo' Creatures offered. I remember played that years and years ago, trying to breed a pegasi and a wyvern (Not with each other obviously). I really loved all the creatures that mod added ^^

This update was already not gonna be huge which made the removal of two features that were meant to make the game atmospheric far worse. Mojang needs to underpromise and over deliver. I would say the last 3 updates have all been unfinished. I agree with everything xisuma said mojang almost tried to blame us for believing they would be adding something they showed us.

What I honestly, truly want Mojang to do is go back to the early days of Minecraft Updates, where everything is more or less secret until it’s released. Allow some wonder, some emergent systems that haven’t already been pregamed months ahead of release. Minecraft updates should be focused on giving players tools to interact with the world, and ways to express those tools. Not the amorphous, ethereal “content”.

As someone who stopped playing minecraft for a couple months, I am HYPED about this update. I didn't even know about it until today I went to play and saw a whole new biome. I was so hyped. And the cave system from previous updates just made her want to play more and more

The whole, play w it when its out idea, was how I played minecraft on legacy edition. It was very exeiting to open it up and see a new update! BTW, I had no social media, and wasnt allowed on youtube at the time... Or google really, so I didnt know about any updates progress until now.

IMO they should have just focused on the deep dark biome in this update, and then made the update after the Wild update. They could have added in those birch forests, new biome generations and biome overhauls, like making desert a oasis minibiome, etc.

Personally i feel like this update was mostly focused on the deep dark the mangrove made it feel unfocused. And i think it would have been more well received if it feel that if it was focused solely on that and naming it as such would have helped. Push the wild update back.

gotta love how i got an ad about the mangrove treees from minecraft and how cool they are XD

I feel like they should maybe start underselling these updates, and keep things somewhat secret. So instead of cutting things, they’ll be things we didn’t expect

I think expectations were really high too- the nether update set the bar super high for what is expected from updates after promises, but some updates just have to be smaller.

On Point. I dont think 1.19 is a bad update. BUT it isnt a wild update either. Like you said it is more of a c&c III update... Still walking through the deep dark and the acient cities feels amazing!! So yea, they screw up some things but still provide an interessting and fun expirience.

honestly, the wild update would have been the perfect opportunity to add in the biomes and mobs that lost the votes that were promised to be added in in a later update- another promise that we've been waiting on since 2018. I agree with all of your points, and think that they need a update to fufill these empty promises before they make new ones.

I think that while they did fail at adding the new updates it was a bit expected, SPECiALLY considering they changed so much in so few updates. The way I see it is that to implement so many huge changes in 1 update was way too much, but also doing it in 2 was then considering dragging it along. As well as the many features that were supposed to be implemented in the first part of the caves and cliffs that were then scrapped (archeology, revamp of old biome). After the fail of the caves and cliffs they should've gotten a new update not related at all to the caves cliffs archeology, a brand new idea and as well as that slowly add some of the features. Like maybe made the caves and cliffs add the terrain change and in the next update (an idea being a revamped structures) they could've also added the warden considering its a like a structure. And later eventually maybe come to add changes to the biomes in terms of revamping the old ones and adding maybe the cave biomes like the lush caves the stalagmite and stalactites. However it would have to be implemented right and with new ideas not only the old ones, as now they look like they have run out of ideas and the seemingly undying game might start to die down by the lack of new content. In the last 2 years we have only had recycled ideas or too much of the same.

Personally I love that we got frogs, the deep dark and the mangrove swamps, the problem I have with this update is that they foreshadowed so much more than what they added, and overstretched the time of the development. However it's not a big issue, and this update isn't big or very disappointing, but it is exaggerated. I understand why people are very mad about it though. On the other hand we got the most important stuff. I don't know why are people saying that it's the "downfall" of Minecraft, with just one disappointing update.

I think another issue is that even some of the features that were added felt unfinished or incomplete. The mangrove swamp doesn't look bad, but the concept art looked more beautiful, more dense, with more plants and little details (for example, the moss covering more of the blocks, the fireflies, a dense fog, etc.) What we got looks basic in comparison, like it could've been more, even more so seeing how dense and atmospheric they made the ancient cities. The excuse for removing fireflies didn't make any sense either, as it wasn't their only purpose to be eaten by frogs, they were also there to make the swamp look nicer. Not to mention no overhaul to the birch forest, which makes the update's title feel out of place, since there wasn't much added in the overworld, not very "wild". The only thing that truly looks "complete" and "finished" were features promised years ago: The ancient city and the Warden. The update was good, but it was way less than what was shown in Minecraft Live, didn't live up to its name and some features felt rushed.

It's always amusing yet odd to see a term one coined featured not only where one commented it but also here as well. 'The Mild Update' graphic is fantastic as well. Did you borrow it from ibxtoycat or remake it yourself? (I always wonder which content creators I follow are connected)

what you said near the end is what mojang really needs to learn how to do. In csgo for example, valve NEVER builds up hype intentionally in terms of announcements or teasers. Everything developed quitely and only when everything os read do they start messing around with people. This opens so many bait opportunities on their social media and is in a way as good as just building up hype with promises (which can potentially backfire if things don't go well).

Just a tip for new (or old) minecraft players. Do not spend your time keeping up with these new minecraft events, do not spend your time with trailers and teasers. Just wait until they launch the update, search on a wiki whats new with the update, and then try to discover all by yourself. Getting anxious and hyped up because of an update will only get you disappointed. I've been doing this since 2012, never got disappointed.

As a non-native speaker, "The Wild Update" immediately brought pictures of "Breath of the Wild" (loved that game) into my head. Coupled with that sweet concept art, I really was kinda hyped for this update. But what did we get in the end? A single new biome, froggos and the Warden which... should've been in the game a year ago.

In the future I'd like to see a backpack instead of a bundle. A backback you can place on your chest slot and which you can place down like a block to get access to then swiftly pick it back up via shift right click.

Idk why no one else mentions this. But mojang was so vague about the glow squid and it’s first reveal it sounded like it was gonna be a mind control enemy. The first reveal shows Jeb and Agnes get hypnotized. Personally I bought it was a hostile mob meant to drown you if you don’t look away or kill it. Maybe that’s why more people voted for it cuz they had no idea what the hell it is but made their own conclusions

This is what I think about the fireflies situation: 1. Bats do jack shit. Mobs don't hunt/eat them, but they still fly around and create this thing called "ambience". 2. Certain biomes, especially in the Nether, use particle system to simulate things like spores. 3. Frogs used to eat goats in one snapshot. I don't believe for a second that deleting the part where frogs eat fireflies is rocket science, even in Java. So, yes, I do believe that the frogs vs. fireflies debacle is more like a cop out than an actual reason.

6:12 “The development couldn’t keep pace with the promises” Yes! I agree with this 100%. They’re overpromising and not communicating well.

There is one thing that I would recommend for the boat with a chest I just think it would be a really cool idea if you could do the same thing for shulker box and Ender chest. Like have a boat made with both. I think it would work perfectly if implemented oh and barrels as well.