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I think the best thing Minecraft can do is to remove their "realism" mentality entirely. Go back to a fantasy adventure game style.

Minecraft isn’t becoming complicated, it’s becoming bloated with items and features that do not interact with each other and make other items/features obsolete.

Honestly, Mojang has NO excuse in my opinion. How is it that the Terraria team, which are a smaller dev group, can pump out way better quality updates that seemingly always benefit that game in a decent timeframe? Keep in mind, they also have the same crutch of having to properly update multiple platforms as well, so that can’t be a viable excuse for Mojang, especially for a company their size.

Armor Trims: Do nothing Ancient Pots: Do absolutely nothing Sniffer: Do the bare minimum

The one thing that drives me nuts about Minecraft is how much they base updates on real-life situations. The only reason why fireflies - a fantastic and high potential mob - was not added into the game, was the discovery that they were poisonous to frogs, and they didn't want to promote that in the game. A game with skeletons, zombies, cows with mushrooms growing out of their backs, and literal demon spawns from the pits of hell. Sharks weren't added into the game because Mojang was afraid that kids would want to go to the ocean in the real world and swim with actual sharks. In fact, all hostile mobs are fictional *for this very reason.* AND YET, Mojang is still trying to keep things realistic in a game full of magic and dimension hopping. Stick to something, Mojang, please. I'm definitely not planning on making a giant floating structure in the sky capable of comitting mass genocide on a variety of animals any time soon, so stop acting like adding an update to a fictional game is going to influence the mentality people have in the real world.

Honestly I think that the ultimate strategy is: 1. Stop trying so hard to make things "realistic" (fireflies 2. Rework old bits to actually hone in on the whole adventure aspect of minecraft. Give a reason for jungles, savhannas, and ice biomes to exist. 3. Extend the line of beginning to end slowly with updates. no need to go crazy, maybe something to collect post dragon.

Counter point: Adding more decorative items for making pretty things doesn’t complicate the progression path. It just lets you build with a different colored wood, or stone. So those things shouldn’t be considered in the “cant make too much cause it’d fill the box”argument, since those are parallel to the box.

My biggest issue is the unfinished ideas. Like the new sniffer plants do nothing. Copper does nothing. The archer table does nothing. Revisit the old items and make them useful. Add more arrows enchants etc isn’t that hard and they should add different stats to the ores and maybe combine them. The game needs to also take back the old mob votes and just add in the mobs.

To me, the biggest problem has been ignoring older features and just adding new ones rather than refining older content. Trails and tails did good on this by revamping a lot of structures and adding new loot to them but copper still only has a few uses. I'm really glad they added the brush to make copper a resource that you would need to make an item that breaks but considering how much you get from mining one compared to the one to three you will use on blocks (Outside of building) you end up having a surplus of an ore you only need a little of.

Additional point - Mojang is no longer the tiny indie studio it once was, and as such decisions that affect the state of the game have to go through a lot more deliberation and iteration than before. Notch could add a new feature in an afternoon back in 2011 if he felt like it, but now that same feature would have to be refined through weeks of meetings and playtesting.

not adding sharks because they're endangered while pandas exist is inexcusable

I have two major issues with the way Minecraft has been doing their updates 1) everything added feels so disconnected with everything in the game already. It feels like they have just been adding and adding without ever connecting back. There are so many old features that could be touched on but instead we can make a raft. 2) minecraft feels like theyre focusing too much on builders. Yes they have a lot for every other player type and are always bringing stuff in for those player types, but i feel like most updates consist of mostly just new building blocks that only serve as decoration. We have like twenty variations for diorite now which is great for builders... but whats everyone else supposed to do with it.

This video is very well edited, I really enjoyed it. Clearly you took fewer breaks making this than a Mojang employee during their weekly 15-minute shift!

My main criticism with this update is the Sniffer. The Sniffer itself is really well designed, it's a great addition to the game (although it kinda feels like I'm playing a well polished mod), and I like the new plants that comes from it. The problem is: ONLY 2 PLANTS?!?! SERIOUSLY?! They couldn't add more than 2 plants?! I was expecting quite a few, at least 5, because the idea of "ancient plants" sounds cool af. These new plants are the whole point of the Sniffer, and there's only 2... What. I imagine it cannot be that hard to make new plants... The lack of plants was so disappointing.

As much as I want to believe that mojang is not lazy. I simply can't imagine a world that development is that slow

My biggest problem, and I think the problem that other people actually have but don’t realize, is not that Mojang isn’t adding enough, but that they aren’t delivering on their promises. The biggest thing that made me resent monang was them promising all that stuff for the cave update and then only adding amethyst and copper + new generation in that update. And taking years upon years to add anything else.

I really wish they were more more experimental with their updates. I don't really care if they're bad. I want updates to make me FEEL something

MY biggest complaint is that 90% of the tree most recent updates were all supposed to be part of caves and cliffs, but they split it so many times what was originally was gonna be another 1.16 instead became multiple 1.15s in a row instead, and we still don't have access to bundles

another issue which was not mentioned in the video is that once they add a feature into the game it becomes really hard to remove it in the future. That's why they need to make good decisions on how the game should evolve. There are a lot of features in minecraft which feel pointless after a while. They are only interesting when they come out because they are new, but then you either never touch them again or they become annoying.

I yearn so much for an end revamp Mods like Better End look so fucking good and actually make the End cool to explore, build in and so on. I always thought that the updates (Except for big ones like the Nether update for example) feel kinda unfinished : Back then, When they added outer End islands, they could have gone all in and add End biomes, new mobs, new loot, maybe ores and so on, just like for the Nether update. Instead of that, they went half measure and added one useless plant, and one structure (Elytras and shulker are amazing tho, but there is no point in exploring the End other than to restock on these two things) Mangroves are nice, but there isnt really any point in finding one. Imo it lacks some unique structures, hostile mobs, special ressources The Ancient cities are a whole vibe, very unsettling and nice, but there isnt really any point in exploring them other than getting skulk for redstone purposes. They put a big ass portal in the middle, without ever teasing where it might lead. Everytime I reach endgame, I just dont bother exploring them. They are afraid to add interesting stuff, fearing that it might change the game too much but that's the goal of updates. If you only add inconsequential stuff, everyone will just forget the additions and straight up not use them, like we do with the mob votes mobs. Back then, when minecraft got alchemy and enchanting, lots of people complained that it changed the game too much, but today they are essential parts of the gameplay and nobody would want them to go away. They refrain from adding stuff because they dont want to give kids bad examples (Fireflies being poisonous to frogs, sharks and other community wanted mobs...) They act like minecraft is only a kids game but forget that the games mechanics litterally encourage you to enslave villagers, hoard passive mobs in small enclosures, mine the whole land for your personnal profit. They are just disaligned with the player base and with what actually makes the game fun to play

One thing that I really enjyed was when the updates were focused on ONE thing intead of A LOT of things. Nether update, village and pillage update, were AMAZING because the EXPANDED something in particular. The updates NOW expand A LOT of things.

I think something as simple as ambient sound for each biome would make the game do much better because it the over world almost feels dull at times when it’s literally silent. Oh and also bedrock needs support for shaders.

"Minecraft will become overcomplicated" Meanwhile lots of people playing terraria with the most complicated crafting and progression systems and enjoying it

I think one of the biggest problems is intergration. So many of the changes made affect very little outside of the one thing they're used for. Copper, for example, can be made into exactly 4 items. It's absurdly common, yet almost useless. Compare that to iron or gold or even redstone. It's absurd. Instead of continuously making new features with little affect, they should focus on tying together what they already have.

I just wanna thanks the modders of Minecraft for making these mods and making minecraft fun. You guys are heroes.

I feel like part of the problem is that updates like 1.15 or 1.20 are advertised as if they are equally big updates as updates like 1.16

i think they should get WAAAAYYY more experimental with their updates like creating a testers group, where they give a testing version for youtubers and listen to the youtuber and their comunnity opnion if they think is shit, they just rework it, i don't care if they take longer to update the game, if it is a awesome update, it's good enough

If crowding the box is a hard to solve problem and expanding past the End isn't a viable solution, why don't we add alternative boxes? So far, the Nether and Overworld are basically just steppingstones in order to reach the End to conclude in watching the credits (everything past that is post-game.) What is stopping them from adding a new dimension isolated from that progression path, which offers its own rewards and milestones to complete, which is not _required_ in order to reach the credits? I know these are mods, but things like the Aether and Twilight Forest are good reference points for making alternate pathways that have their own endgames, though it might be better to have these alternate paths still offer useful features to help in ultimately reaching the credits rather than being _completely_ isolated adventures.

A counterargument to the modders are faster point is that tons of the new features were very simple like the new wood types. They are just reskins of other wood types. I don't see how 1.20 was such a challenging update to code for the bedrock team. They have done this before.

something that people seem to forget is that kingbdogz did say why updates like the nether update are getting rarer. he explained that they were actually crunching themselves hard during that time and it ended up with a bigger update but a much more stressed out dev team.

Something people also forget that when it comes to studios making games and not just individual people is a big reason things take so long is because all the work HAS to go through a pipeline. Theres also a lot of rewrites, changes of ideas and sending things back to the start of the pipeline. They also work with more strict quality rules and overseerers who tell them what can and cannot pass. Meanwhile most typically with modders there is not this issue where they usually are one person or very small teams that arent constantly redoing ideas instead sending things directly through and just putting almost all their ideas in without deep consideration or needing to check it with another person. Which can vastly speed up the process

THIS is what i needed. The game's types of players is the most important thing that people miss. The Tales & Trails update was huge for Datapack programmers like me. They added /return, interaction & display entities, /ride, new damage types, /execute summon and a lot more.

Honestly I think the biggest problem with minecraft right now is the fact that the content given to us already isn’t really incentivized to be explored. Several biomes that have been added really don't have any use for actually exploring them. For instance, ice biomes were updated to be given polar bear, which really don't serve any purpose to the player other than being cool to look at and somewhat own. Jungles/bamboo forest for the longest still have zero purpose of exploration other than maybe cocoa beans or pandas, both of which still serve no real survival use to players. I think a good direction for mojang to take this in is to really just rework a lot of aspects of the game that feel lackluster. For example, jungle temples right now have some of the worst loot and most boring gameplay as the traps are easily able to be countered by breaking string, so why not rework the temples to randomly generate different rooms with traps like mazes, dungeons, etc. Animals could also be reworked as well, polar bears when tamed maybe could be ridden and able to fight mobs while not being affected by ice slipping or powdered snow, parrots when on your shoulder could sing a tune to alert you of nearby mobs, foxes could be equipped with bundles and could recover a few of your items when dying, etc. Entire items could be reworked aswell, copper as of now still serves little purpose when gathered (spyglasses and brushes use copper but still is very little use of copper). I haven't even explored most of the structures/items that could be reworked such as, oasis wells being signs of nearby villages, players beign able to paint their own paintings, weapon trims giving small buffs, more biome specific villages (cherry blossom village, coastal village, jungle village, etc), villager missions that could grant players rewards for taking out certain ammounts of mobs or trading with specific villagers, making new weapons with different advantages (rapiers have a faster attack speed but less damage, a spear has more range but no real multimob mob attack, etc).

1.Even if we multiply the time that modders need by 6 for PC, phone, Xbox, playstation, switch and Java PC, it would still be faster than mojang 2.When people say Microsoft can do more, they aren't saying that Microsoft can please more people, no they are saying that it can do MORE as in quantity. And that point is usually connected with the fact that mojangs team is very small, I don't remember the exact number but it was about 15 or less, and yes you risk to lose tge "spirit" of tge game when more devs come, but minecrafts spirit is already lost and it was the most played game ever at one point, they surely can find fans which can code and want to and can revive the spirit with them, they tried that with tge guy from the ather mod, but its one guy and the team is still very small because not everyone in the team is a coder. 3. Like nearly every second person on Twitter said, they want mojang to remove the mob vote because by design it will lead to unsatisfying feelings to many. So the community is awear that mob votes aren't able to please all and that's why they want them removed. It's 3for Twitter and 0for Mojang

I think one thing Mojang needs to revisit is the idea they started a few updates ago of having 2 annual updates. A big summer update and a smaller winter one. That way they can add their bamboo, cherry trees, etc.. shortly after they are annouced in Minecraft Live and have a full Caves & Cliffs, Aquatic, Village and Pillage style updates and not make the players feel as underwhelmed. Maybe even have 2 Minecraft Lives, for example, a second one 4 months before the summer update that way the hype for new features is kept up.

Well, 1.16 actually took way longer than around 1 year. 1.13 was originally supposed to be the nether update before they decided to move it to later so they could put more work into it. All of the updates begin development before they are announced, some earlier and some later. Also I think that 1.20 might be another sort of transition update, like 1.15, and the next update will be very big.

The thing with the "minecraft isnt the same" arguement is that these people have seen the game for such a long time, there isnt the magic of building your first house or getting your first diamond, its gone because you already did that. Edit: Ty for the likes guys! I appreciate it

You're right. You can't appeal to every player with every feature. If only the Mojang devs were able to release more than one feature per update so more people could be catered to 🤔

mojang: we want realism! Also mojang: Yes! Totems that give you another life! So real!

Using your box example, I’d love for them to simply start expanding on what already exists as they kinda’ are. Like, maybe add more to the villages or cherry villages or something. They have a good setup as is, I think they should work on refining and improving all the old features so everything can feel fresh

Another thing to think about is update overlap - Numerous updates are in development at a time, the nether update was in development for (I think) multiple years before it was announced. At the same time, Mojang was working on "tie-over" updates; Updates to keep the communities interest while Mojang works on the big-ticket features

“Is mojang getting lazy” “Always have been”

I really hope we get an huge update to the magic at some point. I wanna do more than just make potions or enchantments. I wanna be able to cast spells and do real magic.

i would like to suggest that with every update it feels like every added mechanic or item feels disconnected from the rest of the game for example copper its used for like 2 things.

my main gripe is they add things, and ignore them in every subsequent update. looking at you, fletching table. that's why 1.16 was so well received, it refined and tuned the nether, something the game sorely needed. they need to stop adding new things and just flesh out what's already in the game. they can also implement the rest of the mob vote mobs whilst they're at it. I'm still very salty about the blaze boss and kraken

They need to figure out a way to address a bunch of current features that got forgotten, and left behind in a semi-broken state. I mean, signs have been in the game for basically forever, and we've only just gotten the ability to edit them without breaking it first. I'd be okay with the next update being an End update as its the last dimension that hasn't gotten a recent update. But after that they need to take a step back and look at things that "work" as is, but not as well as it could. 1. Fletching tables need a UI. How exactly that would work idk, maybe using it is more efficient like how the stone cutter makes stairs more efficient. 2. Make Leads usable on every mob (except probably villagers for obviously unethical implications) It cant be used on any of the hostile mobs or bats. But CAN be used on zombie horses. Even though they arent really in the game. 3. Speaking of Zombie horses. They need to officially add all of the unused mobs. The Giant, Zombie horse, Illusioner, and Killer Bunny are all technically in the game, but cannot spawn at all. The Giant for eg has been "in the game" since indev. And if you look at the change logs, they did some recoding a few years back during 1.14 even adding baby and chicken jockey variants. 4. in the same vein, they should work on other features that are in the code, but are unused. Like the Luck and Unluck effects. Or some of the ambient sounds that are already coded into the game (not the cave noises we know from dark places)

I feel like another thing that you should have mentioned is game balance. While Modders can implement their own things, they normally have weapons and gear to counteract how crazy their mobs normally are.

Buzzy Bees (1.15) and the Frostburn update (1.10) aren't good examples. 1.15 did not take a year to make. It was released 8 months after Village and Pillage and 6 months before the Nether Update, so basically it was an extra update outside of the normal yearly ones. 1.10 was a pretty tiny update, but the 1.9 combat update and 1.11 Exploration update were added in the same year. Edit: Also basically updates take longer than modding, not just because of version parity. They also have to keep things designed intelligently, fix all bugs added with the new features, and fix old bugs. 1.20 improves Java's lighting engine, so it actually runs much smooth- up to 50% sometimes

The issue with Mojang's development is that everything new is tacked on to the game and never touched again. One of the ideas with the most promise in the game, The Fletching Table, still has no use years and years later. Lets just use a hypothetical, 1.20 released the same new content, but added a couple of the new Armor Trim things to the Piglin Bartering pool as rare drops, added some performance tweaks to make the game run better, added some pottery shards to the loot pool for Masonry houses in villages, maybe even have Wandering Traders in Deserts spawn with Camels instead of Llamas, and added a new Glow Torch that's just a normal torch but with a different aesthetic from using Glow Squid Ink, then I feel like the update would be a lot better received since it would feel like older mechanics are being added onto instead of left behind. These are all just ideas I came up with sitting here watching the video, and with maybe a day I could make all of these in some kind of primitive form on my own besides the performance enhancements. These aren't crazy changes, nor are they intrusive updates, but on their own I feel they'd make this update feel a lot less slapped on with no real purpose.

Hey! I don't who you are and haven't seen your content before but this was an amazing video! You have some great thoughts flowing through your mind - with both clever and awesome jokes. I really liked the ending where you mentioned the team. That's a really important aspect that communities need to keep in mind. Thank you!

i think the one thing i understand the least about minecraft as of right now is the lack of obvious building blocks.. they're totally out of the "is the game getting too complicated" question and yet we don't have vertical slabs, concrete stairs, etc... so many quality of life changes that should be here already too, unpathing a dirt block with the shovel, stuff like that

Okay but this doesn't explain why their updates take a year to add a wood retexture. You don't have people rioting because they added a new tree to the game.

I wonder will they'll bring in the Red Dragon and Giant into the game. Those two have been patiently waiting for their debut since forever ago.

I feel like this goes hand in hand with another video made by SalC1. A sector everyone universally complains about in Java is the abyssmal performance, and if Mojang takes an update off to optimise the game, things like this happen.

I believe what we need is for older planned features to actually come to the game such as seasons and the quiver

the java and bedrock issue is definitely an issue mojang has recognized. However, my biggest fear is that they try to force java players to switch to bedrock, that would truly be the end of minecraft

Minecraft: shows a sneak peak of some new content! Modders: perfect recreation the next day..

Another way to fix the overcrowding issue Is change the existing things Add another end game boss, where you can choose who you want to fight to beat the game (see the credits the first time) Add more things to the end like what they did to the nether An issue that a different game(s) I play faces is a lack of time Take 2-3 and make a much, bigger update

one thing I really don't like about updates is when they add something annoying -phantoms (ugh) -new diamond generation (deepslate can't be insta-mined, smaller ores) -netherite smithing template (whY? doesn't give you anything in exchange, just takes more diamonds and makes you search thru bastions)

This is the best type of videos. (Mostly) respectful, funny, and keeps re-capturing our attention. I'm neutral towards Trails & Tails honestly.

On top of "expanding the box" I'd find it interesting to add more "boxes". It might be hard not to make it complicated but some of the most popular mods are whole new game lines like twilight forests boss progression. It might actually make things less confusing because there is less random stuff you get from the main game and a whole new separate dimension or achievement line. Idk, I think mods like that got it right long ago.

It’s also plausible that they are developing multiple releases simultaneously and when a large release is coming up they may prune down the feature scope of releases leading up to the large release so resources can be diverted to the larger updates that take more time to develop and fine-tune than a year. That way no matter the size of the release there’s always some release with new features coming out every year or so to keep people interested in Minecraft.

Two words that counter any argument in favor of Mojang: Multibillionaire company

Another thing I think Mojang has to solve is to keep updates to the game’s core identity and to not cause new things they add to break other features of the game, like adding or changing a cog in a giant machine. Heck, maybe they do this on purpose to prevent players from sticking to a single version if they add too much which can split the community even more. It sucks updates nowadays are lackluster but i’d take this over no updates at all.

As a spigot developer, the only part I've cared about the update were the additions of the display and interaction entities ...okay and maybe the cherry blossoms too

to be fair the phantoms were voted because it's a flying mob and at the time, the concept of a flying mob is cool since minecraft lack those mobs

actual banger video, editing is fantastic, jokes are really funny, its interesting and flows well 👍👍👍 definitely gonna watch more of ur stuff

i laughed too much at how you said “regular stoners”💀 5:54

1:53 Java and Bedrock doesn't share any code since Bedrock is coded in C++ and Java is coded in Java. They never have to recode something if it doesn't work for the other version because they don't share code. They only have to make sure the feature works the same way across both versions. They have one team working on implementing a feature to Java and one team for Bedrock. This means that the wait between updates really shouldn't take that much longer than it used to since Mojang now has many more employees to account for the extra work on Bedrock. If Bedrock really is such a hinderense for the updates they should really think about hiring more people for that team. You were right about the fact that it takes longer to come up with the ideas than it used to and also implement them in a way so it works no matter the platform you play on. But even if we account for this, the frequency of updates shouldn't go from several content-filled updates a year to one dry update per year. That point should, unfortunetly, go to Twitter.

I think they should absolutely hype up their next update. Like there has never been a better update. Greatest game update of all time. And on the day of unveiling.... they hit us with it: vertical slabs. Just that. Everyone would go nuts for that update. They would make minecraft great again.

Thank you for explaining that to everyone, people are really fast to judge and don't try to do more research on the matter

As a software developer I don't think that they are lazy. When you have to support a huge code base and sometimes refactor some core mechanisms to fix a bug that will have a huge impact on other part of the code, it takes a lot of time to do. So if they take more time to make the code base better, I fully understand. Adding new features is the easy part, fixing bugs related to the core of a software is so harder

I feel like they need a progression overall. The final goal is the ender dragon but the process of getting to it and fighting it has changed very little over the years despite the game having so many new mechanics and systems. Make the core objective a bit harder and require some more things that were added in all these updates

Short answer to the title - yes, yes yes yes a million times yes they are lazy. The common defense against the fact that they are lazy is that coding the game and accounting for how each new item/mob will effect everything else in the game is what is holding them back... oh you mean literally something every game team has to fucking worry about??? They are fucking MINECRAFT they are not some small indie team. This is a million, maybe billion dollar company and they cant do this shit? I was in elementary school playing minecraft and I'm now in college and I feel like they've barely scratched the surface with things they could be doing. Inventory clutter? Fuck that, why wouldn't you want your players to be bombarded with endless ways to play your game? There are hundereds of items I've probably never touched in Cyberpunk, but hey, if I wanted to go and find them and use them to my advantage I probably could because the devs that made it aren't smiling down on us on top of their pile of cash.

I really like how bouncy your voiceover is, really kept me engaged even while I was multitasking!

Fans: "We want more features in updates!" Also fans: "There are too many things and it doesn't feel vanilla!"

I feel like their latest updates weren't brought up to their potential, being 1.19 and 1.20. So much could have been done for ambience and archaeology yet they kind of left it hanging.

I still think the "better together" update is the worst one to be added to minecraft. Every time I play on console I set it to legacy edition, and since I mainly play java it seems like almost every version of minecraft has suffered because of it

Another thing with feature overlap is not just the fact that overcomplicating things might be bad for the community, its also the fact that overcomplicating things is HARD when you keep adding more and more things. When you keep adding features, you cant just keep the same pace as you used to because there is now more and more stuff that could cause bugs and problems when coding. For example there was actually a glitch with glow lichen where if you placed it in lava in the nether, it would create water. Mojang simply CANT add the same as the nether update now because of how much there is in the game, there would be endless bugs and limitations to the coding.

I think a contributing factor is how the larger updates that revamp entire dimensions may have conditioned a large amount of players to expect huge changes every update, even though the earlier days that they look so fondly of had minuscule updates, or I could just be insane.

I feel like rather than them getting lazy, they are struggling to add new things that AREN'T already in mods.

They have feelings? They're acting like tyrants with the End User License Agreement rn.

Absolutely amazing video right here, pacing was amazing and I absolutely loved the fact you used the music from the PC WALL-E game and Night in the Woods music. It all fit so well!

Also don't forget that every update has many internal changes (data packs can create entirely new dimensions)

One thing that wasn’t mentioned is that when modders add things into the game they don’t have to worry about how it interacts with the rest of the game whereas mojang have to create a fine balance between what they are adding and what’s already in the game

Having hallucinations while editing and including Night in the Woods music? Can't be a coincidence

The problem with expanding the box is that if you expand the start of the box then everyone who is in the end game can't experience it, but if you expand the end of the box then the more you expand it the less people can experience it

Another thing that makes modding and hard coding different is that with modding, the things are added on top of the based game whereas hard coding is integrated inside the game which would present tons of bugs and break pre-existing features.

The overcrowded bit you talked about sounds so accurate! I tried to get into Terraria but the amount of items and tools made it unclear what to do and how to do it. Theres just too much going on, they literally need a wiki to keep track of everything. (Of course, no hate to Terraria or it's Playerbase, Terraria is just not my thing I guess.)

If I’m gonna be honest, as an Xbox 360 player in the past, I hate the better together update, simply due to losing a polished game for a Minecraft pe port. What we though was gonna happen before was the game we were already playing was gonna get cross play, not the other way around. Also in my opinion the reason they really slowed down development for Java to match bedrock is so bedrock players won’t switch for faster and better updates. In my opinion I wish Java was the main version, but for money it makes sense bedrock is.

You can't just give a point in mojang for the first argument just because there is a small counter argument. The ease mojang has are far more than mod developers have: - Mojang has 600 people working for the game, a mod has less than 5 developers. - Mojang developers are getting paid well, mod developers aren't. - Mod developers sometimes add more complicated content codewise (Animations, Models, Mechanics e.t.c.) - Mod developers have to update their mod in every version and account for compatibility with other mods. All of that said, mod developers, do not just do a little better, they do a lot better and mojang can easily surpass that and make content that applies to every one. They are just getting lazy

Tbh the update didn't give me the motivation to start a survival world with my friends which each update prior to this one did. But it's really cool for building I guess

If you don't think that Mojang is lazy, look at Terraria and the amount of content they add in each update, with a smaller dev team.

Honestly in my case I see 1.20 as a rest uptade rather then lazy. 1.20 was released after practicly 3 biggest minecraft updates, not only that but during the time they were making the updates they were also making another game and during 1.20 yet another game. I believe that the 1.21 will be bigger update and that 1.20 was small because the developers needed some rest after working so much. Oh and your video was amazing, you have extremly well done editing while also giving extremly good explenations for each reason.

Honestly this a really good video that gives pretty good insight from the other pov. Its a nice change of pace from the "mojang is lazy" videos in my feed.

I think the main reason why updates have been smaller and lacking in big changes over the past few years is because the original Caves and Cliffs update was such a massive system shock that it required four entire updates to include everything that was announced back at that fateful Minecon and Mojang is still worried about making big promises that will take years to follow up on. Perhaps now that everything that was announced has finally been delivered we'll get a bigger update next year.

I feel like simple/aesthetic new additions feel lazier when already existing systems simultaneously feel neglected. There could be a lot of life breathed into the game by refining existing game systems in interesting ways and making them usefully interplay more. Also yes Mob Votes are a marketing gimmick that just divides the playerbase.

Surprisingly, the new update has already added stuff for 3 main groups. They are adding auto-crafting, new structures to explore, and new blocks for builders. Cool.

it would be nice to add to minecraft the mysterious and magic atmosphere it had (like having firefiles), also adding some new steps or bosses for game completion would be nice, something to aim after defeating the ender dragon. like some other bosses (steps) and a final boss of end game that requires some interresting mechanic (mine craft), giving a better lenght and progression to the game, so even endgame gear like netherite armor and tools, the elytra, aren't anymore just things received for completing the game and quite worthless (by a progression standpoint) but more like struments and requiments to progress. I have quite my circle of friends with which i played minecraft during the pandemy, we did a little of building but they were more interrested in world progression and completing objectives like defeating the ender dragon, the wither, get better gear and farms to do these things, so because of that after we defeated the ender dragon they lost their interrest and i understand that. The average player needs a objective in which to focus his resources, efforts and learning/researching skills to achieve, maybe for that reason even big updates like the new nether and caves didn't get a long popularity (in activity) even if they are very appreciate. It's good to give some secondary objective for players like searching specific biomes (overlord, nether or end) or structures, maybe to get some fancy looking block for a build, but it's still something that goes around the primary objective and most of them doesn't have something to give it value, and something has value if it helps me to progress throught the game or accomplishing my objectives. Maybe if minecraft had more a costrutive growth with his progression and a more meaningful difficulty and lenght, it would make more success, especially nowadays. Mods were and are the thing that gave minecraft a reason to be played by giving you a lot of new objectives and things to aim also having fun to research, learn, play with and achieve, one thing that i loved about industrialcraft was electric energy, not only for its applications but because it was a better fuel, more pratical and renewal, interresting to play with (because of the cables, batteries nad everything, so i was required to do a build counting these things) and hard to get, i needed multiple steps to gain it and even more to achieve his full potential, but it repaied all the hard work, being also just one small objective for other bigger objectives. Minecraft will always have a special place in my heart, but in these days it feels flat and i think it could grow in a vertical/spiral way (metaphor about progression and objectives) making it a beatiful enjoyable tree to climb, and realizing all that potential makes me excited like a child.