About the whole "uploading the mod for free" thing, turns out somebody else already did it.

this guy has clearly never gone on an epic mission to get cactus for green dye just for house improvement

enchanted golden apples are useless because the warden one shots you is such a weird statement as if they arent meant for anything else

So glad we are in the era where pretentious video essays are battling other pretentious video essays

"Where's the loot?" "It's with the swift sneak." "There's no loot here." "It's with the swift sneak." "I'm an explorer, this is hurting me." "It's actual exploration." "It's just diamond leggings." "There's also swift sneak." "That's not enough loot!" "There's swift sneak." "IT'S NOT ENOUGH!" "THERE'S SWIFT SNEAK!"

JetStarfish's next video: "Minecraft's Trading Problem" At the end of the video, he announces a new paid mod that replaces villagers with migrant workers, and half of their trades are locked until you defeat the Wither.

11:56 why tf am I getting level locked in a sandbox game 💀

"Who would want to get dripstone" Is everyone forgetting the inifinite lava source you get from dripstones?

(This is off topic but it's something I've thought about a lot) Casual Minecraft players (me and everyone I know included) are the biggest group of players. Serious players talk about Minecraft more online, despite being a minority, so when Mojang makes additions, people forget that Mojang has to think about casual players. Most won't kill the ender dragon and a lot have never even played survival. My point is that I just think online opinions about the game are wildly different than the average player, and the internet misrepresents how players view Minecraft. But hey, that's just a theory, a Minecraft theory.

*complains about the woodland mansion* *turns the ancient city into the woodland mansion*

Minecraft "critics" when they forget that play styles other than pvp and speedrunning exist:

WHAT? This guy is honestly saying making End ships LESS frequent is a good thing? A SOLUTION? On two worlds now I had to bridge for over 10000 blocks to find ONE. It took me hours and the whole thing was more and more stressful the more tired and frustrated I became, because the margin for error is non-existent. This guy is out of his mind.

I'm amazed that neither JetStarfish nor Hayze mention the big problem with exploration-inventory management. I recently started a new world, and after a while, I wanted to get some blocks I didn't have access to before. Problem is, within 1000 blocks, I passed 3 new biomes and completely filled my inventory. This puts a major blocker in any sort of long term exploration if 2-day's treck is the most you can go before running out of space. Having 2 bases that are more than a day's journey away also is troublesome as you can't easily transport goods between them, so if you have multiple bases they all have to be self-sustaining. I do think this is solvable: - changing stack sizes and making backpacks/bundles actually work would help in early exploration. - minecart trains that can go out of loaded chunks and operate on a schedule - ability to "employ" wandering traders to transport items between set locations Though I'm sure they all come with many downsides and there are probably better solutions. Either way, exploration won't be fixed by making it more tideous to find structures and made more rewarding by locking off certain blocks/items arbitrarily. It will only be fixed by making the actual movement from A-2-B more engaging.

Halfway through his video I realized it's basically somebody who doesn't like sandbox games complaining about sandbox games.

"Man I don't like the way woodland mansions are generated because they're rare and usually need a map to find. Anyhow lets make the ancient city so much more rare and need a map, which is locked behind an ender dragon defeat, just to drop an item that saves xp. Also it's 8 dollars now."

that guy has no idea that, actually, the majority of people who play minecraft dont care to do things efficiently and/or "in the right order"

Breaking a EULA is a civil matter, not a criminal concern.

When he said he studied plate tectonics to find where coal would be deposited that’s not even plate tectonics that’s sedimentation rate and oceanography since we’re talking about ocean basins so he wasn’t even right about the topic of geology he apparently “studied”

I'm 90% sure that the people who make these types of videos, are just genuinely uncreative people, who either don't build, don't do redstone, and will kill the ender dragon and get bored because they can't set goals for themselves

This guy kinda feels like a DM in a DnD game that is super rules heavy and refuses to let puzzles be solved in any way that isn't the intended way.

15:32 - one word: trading. I personally don't go out into the wild that often prefering to build and I still want to enchant my stuff. However, aside from smelting and occasional villager trade I don't get XP. Meanwhile my friend often leaves for hour and a half and gets back with a bunch of levels. We play in our little group basically in co-op so he gladly enchant all the things that I ask him. However, imagine you are in SMP. If you have a good farm, you can make a business out of it Edit: Finished watching the video and it made me think. The thing is, since I first started playing Minecraft back in 2011 I never built or explored that much. I always was "a sweaty gamer" on a constant grind for resources - huge mines, huge farms, everything must be maxed-out, everything needed a purpose, usefulness above prettiness and so on. That drastically changed when I re-introduced my girlfriend to Minecraft. It was pretty recently, already on 1.20. She played it a while ago, back in 1.3, but quickly moved on, so she had a decent grasp of the game, but knew nothing about new stuff. When she first time fell into powdered snow she was genuinely scared. Or when she went travelling on her own to look for villagers after unsuccessful raid and then the whole process of me explaining her how to transport entities on a boat began. She was struggling to get back home (went quite far away) and almost died to a skeletons on the beach. Yet when she came back home she was so, so proud of herself, because what would be for me just a trip was quite an adventure for her. And then it hit me. She was *enjoying the game way more than I had been in years.* Or maybe ever. Like, for someone like me, who knows game through and through and who was always goal-focused it was just a simple day-to-day occasions which had no impact on "gameplay" but for her it was an absolutely fresh and exciting experience. We stumbled upon cherry forest on top of circle-shaped mountains and she was in absolute awe. I looked at her and suddenly realised that I was playing the game wrong this whole time. I sucked all the fun of it. All the enjoyment and creativity which it ignites in people I exchanged for the over-optimisation. Don't get me wrong, to each it's own, but I genuinely had such a blast when I consciously decided to *not* make a trading hall. To *not* create an iron farm. To *not* min-max every inch of our base's space and to focus on building and exploration. Again, my "sweaty gamer" skillset was quite useful in places like Nether, but when we ventured into these places together, my mentality was not "Let's take this, this and this and then skiddadle" but "Let's just enjoy the trip and have an adventure" and I had infinitely more fun with the game. I started to focus more and more on gathering wide array of blocks, mostly decorative, to share them with her and realised that I like building much more than fighting. Gradually I moved on to be mostly builder, occasionally dwelling deep into caves/venturing into Nether to get some more deepslate/blackstone for builds and I absolutely adore this. Moreover, I found that those building tutorials from guys like Grian weren't in vain and I retained some of this knowledge, and when I heard that she liked our little japanese-esque "town hall" I felt like I was in heavens, because I created something and this something was pleasing to somebody else. So, in short - not everything must have a purpose. Goats don't have a purpose (horns are fun, but they have next to zero gameplay impact). Powdered snow doesn't have a purpose (again, technically incorrect, but it's highly limited in day-to-day life). Pandas don't have a purpose. Parrots, rabbits, music disks, note blocks, spyglass and like 80% of blocks in the game barely have a use. They just... Are. This is their purpose. To just be. For you to have fun. Hearing JetStarfish to say that Desert Well is useless for me is like looking into the mirror. And I feel pity for him. For myself. Because instead of wasting his time he could have enjoyed the game to it's fullest.

I love how he argues that diamond pants are a useless drop before proceeding to say the entire city should be arbitrarily locked until you already likely have diamond pants

The solution to JetStarfish's issue with Minecraft: just play Terraria.

Bro DID NOT need to nerf Ice Boats, its already hard enough to make an ice highway in the nether, even underground.

The mansion doesn't need loot. The mansion isn't about loot. It's about the structure itself. The mansion is huge. It is basically a sideways appartment. Minecraft is a game for kids. The mind of a child will be blown up when they see such a structure. They will immediately think how to make that their new home. It's not about the loot, it's about the building.

10:04 “Minecraft is too easy! Mojang needs to give us a challenge” Mojang: “Okay, here is ancient city” “No! Ancient city is too hard! Too much risk and terrible loot! Who even needs enchanted golden apples and exclusive enchantments anyway?”

I'm so fucking tired of people not understanding the ancient city. There's wool in them for a reason. You're meant to NOT fight the warden. The loot is REALLY valuable if you are actually being stealthy and don't die constantly. The ancient city is way less dangerous than bastions, at least in my experience.

Funniest shit about his video is that he has an extremely close minded view of how things ought to be, completely ignoring 99% of other playstyles. He doesn't explore much He doesn't build more than 1 base. He doesn't care about a variety of building blocks. He doesn't care about building in a variety of styles. He doesn't care about the drive to actually explore for the sake of exploring, instead of for the sake of items. It's like he's playing the wrong game.

The problem that Minecraft has is that it is impossible to satisfy every part of the community. Explorers want more biomes and incentives to look for them. Builders want new blocks and sometimes texture revamps. Redstoners want groundbreaking new blocks that improve contraptions. It's impossible to make an update that satisfies every playstyle.

The funniest thing is Jet claims he paid "hundreds of dollars" for the mod to be made. Right, a mod that mostly changes structure rarity, some crafting recipes, and a few numbers. All of those things could be made with data packs and ran in VANILLA with no modloader needed and could be made in roughly 2 hours. I went to the Discord to tell him he was scammed big time and the mod developer proceeded to barge in and insist his pricing methods are no one's business but him and Jet's and the moderators desperately tried to shut down the entire topic.

Locking the ancient city behind the dragon is basically taking horizontal progression and forcing it to be vertical. As far as "Minecraft needs more progression," this doesn't add anything more, it just removes the player's choice. And since so few players even beat the ender dragon, there'd also be less players exploring ancient cities. You could argue the nether is a set of biomes with more gold ore. Similarly, fossils only generate in deserts and swamps, and the deep dark generates more often underneath mountains. Diamonds generate more often with reduced air exposure, which includes aquifers and underneath a layer of sculk / moss. And buffing iron and copper generation won't even matter much since they can already generate in giant ore veins.

also it struck me as very strange that he's got so much heat for the woodland mansions being hard to get to and then essentially presents the exact mechanic he said he hates to improve the ancient cities

The thing is that he's focusing on "the grindset", where you make iron, sand, coal , gold, copper farms, and never needs to mine. You never need to explore for any project. And do you make a problem by making it too easy for you. The solution? Don't do that.

The funniest thing about this whole concept, is that he's essentially just going "Vanilla Minecraft has problems and you should solve them with modding!" and like, at that point if we're gonna mod the game anyways, why would I pay 8 dollars to play his specific mod when I could download a modpack that does a million more things like adding a hundred new biomes and more resources spread out across more areas and more things to build with everything in the game and so on. Hell if you want a specific vanilla friendly mod to improve exploration I would recommend the Yung Structure mods that turn things like mineshafts and desert temples and whatnot into actually interesting dungeons with things to explore and puzzles to solve in them that are really cool and have tons of fun rewards, and those mods do plenty on their own to already make me wanna explore the world a ton more without any of the other changes he brought up. Also yeah I 100% agree that if he paid hundreds of dollars for this mod to be made he was scammed lol. I haven't gotten into Minecraft Modding just yet, (I really should tho tbh) but even I know that changing a few values and adding one or two new recipes is really not a big ask

"I think it's bad that the Ancient City is late in the game's progression", he says, right before suggesting it be locked to late in the game's progression

I am so tired of these minecraft hate videos. Every time a new update drops a million of these release and for some reason youtube loves pushing them in the algorithm. They don't need to say anything new or even true, just regurgitate the same "it doesn't feel the same anymore" shit because that's what the people watching who are bored with minecraft want to hear. Here's a crazy idea: if you're bored with a game, go play something else.

the people who complain about modern minecraft are the same ones who miss playing it when they were a kid - the game “feels” different because you’re different

I think the main reason the “How to FIX Minecraft videos” doesn’t work half the time, it’s because they only tend to focus on a type of play style, so if you aren’t one of those people it just makes the video awfull

I think its hilarious that he "gives players a reason to explore every biome" and **COMPLETELY IGNORES THE MUSHROOM ISLAND**. You can't claim to "fix" exploration and ignore a biome that needs arguably the MOST exploration!!

Also I hate when people don’t mention that the ancient city actually exposes a bunch of diamonds gold iron and sometimes emerald, It just shows them on the walls

The fact he skims over EVERYTHING that makes ancient cities worth visiting (Silence & Ward Armor Trims, Swift Sneak) then complains they have no loot and aren’t worth visiting is fucking insane.

the whole video is just " How to fix exploration, written by someone who doesn't explore"

Honestly I think the worse part of woodland mansions is just the fact that half the time you find one the entire structure just spontaneously combusts due to some random lava pool nearby or something

The fact he doesn't know about higher amounts of iron generation in mountains actually reflects how little he explores in the game

Something I wanna note about Ancient Cities: The reason that specifically leggings are found there and not any other type of armor is because guess what friggin Swift Sneak is applied to? *Your leggings*

A violation in the Minecraft EULA isn't equal to a crime, it's not illegal, it's just not allowed by Microsoft

I think the main issue with JetStarfish's critiques is that they're motivated purely from a progression standpoint, and in trying to "fix" the game he wants to simplify progression into a vertical line. The player choice present in Minecraft's horizontal progression is apparently a problem (like when he says players having one central storage area is bad) that must be solved by restricting playstyles until everyone is progressing through the game in the same most optimal way (like blocking off ancient cities until you defeat the ender dragon to give them a single spot in progression, ignoring the some people might just like alternative transportation methods to elytra even if not "optimal," ignoring ways to get enchantments other than villager trade grinding) If you're speedrunning the game, the aesthetic uniqueness of biomes and building block variation doesn't matter to you. If you're grinding for max gear, all trees look the same because they all give you wood, and desert wells and other flavor features seem useless. If all you care about is progress and striving for efficiency, you miss half of the game, and any feature that isn't part of that progression looks useless (like spyglasses and lightning rods, building blocks, archeology)

I think that he is holding swift sneak a little too high, it is not that good of an enchantment since it is only good for building and bridging but also it’s not like builders need it, it just makes things a little more convenient

Ancient cities are one of the best structures in the game. 1. Swift sneak 2. Free diamond leggings (sometimes with max enchants if you are lucky) 3. Free diamond hoes (sometimes with max enchants if you are lucky) 4. Enchanted Golden Apples. 5. Random enchanted books. 6. There are no mob spawns in the deep dark so the structure is relatively mob free. The warden isn't that dangerous, you can very easily avoid them even if you spawn more than one in. Even if you do spawn wardens in, the structure is so large you could just go somewhere else within it without any time loss. Its free loot. He has this belief that the purpose of the warden is to be killed by an end game player, but its really just a balancing change made to the structure to keep people on their toes; you can avoid the warden with no armor perfectly fine. 7. I've found enough books in an ancient city to make a max enchanting table, combine this with the fact that sculk is a really fast way of getting lots of levels and the fact that there will be many diamonds hidden beneath the sculk, you could get a max enchanted diamond armor and tool set (minus mending probably) solely by mining diamonds in the city itself. I have done this before. How anyone could think that this is the worst structure in the entire game is beyond me. I'm editing this comment as I watch the video: The abyss explorer map is functionally useless to someone who knows how ancient city generation works. They only ever spawn underneath mountainous areas. Their spawn positions are extremely predictable to the point that no one really needs a map to find them, and I would certainly sequence break this. They're really easy to find. Also you don't need to fight the dragon to get full netherite armor, like he clearly wants you to have before finding the city. Again, blocking the ancient city until someone gets a certain gear set makes 0 sense because the warden is not meant to be fought but avoided.

that one line in jet's outro section where he called builders pussies really, really struck me. because i think that casual little joke, with the context of the sentence before it, just lays bare his entire philosophy about this game in one stroke. and, no surprise, that apparent philosophy is top-to-bottom hot trash. he acknowledges that minecraft is a game with many different playstyles, seems to make a token nod to the fact that the core of minecraft's design is about openness and lack of restriction - and then he says 'yeah anyone who's taking this gameplay route is a little bitch ngl'. which also kind of explains why he completely omits mentioning swift sneak - outside of his 'disingenuously trying to sell you something' angle i really just don't think he gives a shit about it, and he thinks it's useless. this all pretty openly establishes that he values certain playstyles above others in a game where that hierarchy does not naturally exist. but more specifically, it makes a clear statement about what his hierarchy looks like. this asserts it as the typical 'pro gamer bro' lean that prioritizes doing the cool, 'action-y' shit. (and honestly, this is pretty obvious from other little things - mostly the way he only describes the process of looting an ancient city as a fight, an action segment you have to survive hits from, when a more tactful and slow-paced approach can negate the action aspects entirely. you can turn it into more of a stealth puzzle!) which, hey, that's a fine way to play minecraft on its own! be aggressive! go apeshit, have fun! but then he designs his mod in a way that will railroad other players towards doing those things. he portends that he's thinking of builders, but then under his system a builder who wants to use sculk is going to have to go fight the fucking ender dragon to find it reliably. his mod has decided it's his way or the highway in a game where the entire point is 'hey do whatever you want however you want'. and like, i know you don't have to use his mod. you can just play vanilla. but the base design vision of the mod is bad from the word go. he's not just 'solving' problems that don't exist, not only creating new problems, he is actively designing for the antithesis of the game he's purporting to fix and ending up with a mess. and he's making you pay Eight Dollars for it. maddening. an absolutely maddening, brazen lack of self awareness. though i guess using the same dull ass racist joke 6-7 times in a row made that pretty obvious already?

Minecrafters when you want to build a pretty base instead of speed running the game within an hour:

I personally disagree with your opinion on lapis and copper. You say that copper has more uses than lapis, which is true, but you’re missing the point. I use lapis ALL THE TIME for enchanting; on the other hand, I never use copper because it doesn’t have a vital use functionally like lapis does. Quality over quantity.

I hate videos like this because they point at "problems" that don't exist while not even mentioning the biggest problem with the game - optimization.

I think the reason people shit on copper rather than lapis is the fact that majority of copper's uses are only aesthetic, while lapis is used for enchanting, a function incredibly helpful for survival. Copper has more creative use but no survival use. Lapis has more survival use but (almost) no creative use. Ultimately, most of the players complaining about copper are much more survival-focused and aren't interested in the creative uses that copper has to offer, generally.

Two things that get me: 1. The assumption that the Warden is meant to be fought, and as such locking it behind the Dragon. The Warden is an *obstacle*, it's meant to be the *warden* that keeps you away if you mess up. The whole point of the mob isn't as a boss entity, it's a constant threat. Sure you can fight it, but it's intentionally overpowered. 2. In a video that wants to encourage you to explore, he removed some of the incentives the game *already has*. By making Biome locked Villager trades just more common instead of *actually locked*, you can just keep all your villagers in one place and roll the slot machine over and over until the villager gives you the enchant you want, because they're no longer locked to the biome! You know, like how it was up until 1.21? That's actively discouraging exploration and encouraging mindless grinding! Also it's a little thing, but one of the reasons I don't think ice boat highways should be nerfed is they're exclusive to the tryhards. No average player is going to put a boat on some ice and learn how fast it goes. Minecarts, Horses and even the Elytra are all obvious transportation methods. But ice boat highways are just... not. The only people who use those are people that already know they exist!

33:55 copper gets hated more than lapis because it's way too common. Lapis is more rare which is good for its limited use, meanwhile the average player probably won't need 5000 copper only for decoration

Not only is charging for a Minecraft mod against the terms of service, $8 for a patreon is quite expensive

People often forget that Minecraft is NOT an RPG. It's a SANDBOX game with RPG ELEMENTS. The game never tells you what order to do things in, nor does it restrict you from trying! That's why Minecraft is such a popular game to Speedrun!

Wait I just realized... He complains about Woodland Mansions being hard to find and requiring an explorer map to find... And then he goes and makes Ancient Cities do the same thing???

Though I feel like this video contains valid criticisms, at the same time I found it somewhat lazy. Like, you wouldn't even let the guy finish an idea and you were already reacting to it. Example the biomes part, you were already criticizing him for not mentioning the mountains and badlands ore distribution before he got the chance to talk about it seconds later. I think you should've watched the video first before just recording yourself whilst watching it for the first time. Another time was when he was talking about the underground ruins too, even if hemade them rarer, the chance of encountering one at random is still there, just lower, yet you talked about the whole thing as if he made them completely unaccesible. I still agree with most of what you said tho.

"You're having fun wrong, here's a mod that'll punish you for having fun wrong, and make you pay 8 dollars for it"

Jet seems to forget that Minecraft is a sandbox game where aesthetics have just as much value as objective use

> Talks about how dangerous the warden is and how it can one-shot you > Criticizes the recovery compass that can be obtained in the ancient city

16:03 That idea is actually so stupidly amazing. I want it, now.

In fairness to Jett, if in update calls itself the "exploration update" then only looking at it's exploration based features and judging it based on that isn't unreasonable He still should have put a disclaimer saying that's what he's doing, but it's unfair to say it's full on misleading

as a minecraft playyer, i had NO IDEA swift sneak EVEN EXISTED until i watched this. imagine how many other players he's tricking!

"Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it" - Hakita Ultrakill

People like this don't understand the point of a sandbox is game that you can do whatever and progression isn't straightforward, as well as the biggest reason minecraft has "useless" items and blocks is for sake of giving players who enjoy building and redstone and who enjoy playstyles other than playing purely to kill the ender dragon things to play around with too because those players exist and killing the ender dragon isn't the only point of the game, but then again since this guy really seems to want on rails progression for a SANDBOX GAME (so stupid) I think don't think he understands the concept of alternate playstyles

What I found especially funny about his argument is how he says the Ancient City is extremely late game and needs the high skilled players to be able to loot it. My man, me and my friends went into that place before we all had iron armor, as long as you take it slow the place is dangerous, but not that absurdly difficult. Especially since the main threat, the Warden, doesn't get directly fought against, you really don't need any loot beyond maybe wool to head in.

Man, I don't get it. Why do people want to _lock_ anything in this game? A huge part of the game's appeal is that you can play it any way you want and that if you're skilled enough, you can take on late/end game challenges early on. Minecraft is about freeing your experience, not limiting challenges to a particular order or relying on extrinsic motivation. Also, in regards to the abyss map, how does the game communicate to players that a new trade has been unlocked with villagers because of them killing the dragon?

Ain’t no way he wants to make end ships MORE RARE. As if it wasn’t annoying enough to find an end city without a ship!

I will never understand people who just farm features and get mad at mojang when something does not give endless loot or xp.

I feel that you’re missing the point on some of his criticisms (not defending any objective lies/scummy behavior to be clear). Like with the Recovery Compass, you mention how people do still die often at end game, which is true. However, by end game, the player would more than likely have a good enough awareness of their world to be able to locate the general location of their death without one. You give the example of dying to the dragon in The End, but the End Island is already so small and empty. Why would I need a dedicated item to find my stuff on it in time? You also mention how different biomes having different trees is enough to encourage further exploration, but that’s only the case if you’re someone who builds a lot/big. Otherwise, it’s much easier to go to said biome once, grab a sapling for that tree, and just grow them at your spawn biome as needed. Edit: ^The same logic applies to your point on copper. As someone who rarely builds, all the decorative copper blocks are useless to me (especially compared to how much copper I’d end up having) and the brush/Archaeology as a whole is too undercooked a mechanic to justify engaging with at all. Lastly, I think your suggestion of Woodland Mansions having exclusive loot from all or some other structures would (depending on how the loot tables are balanced) make those other structure types irrelevant as it would be more efficient to hunt exclusively for Woodland Mansions or do nothing to meaningfully address the root problem in the first place. Edit 2: I also get your point of Swift Sneak, but I feel you overstated the point about it. I’ve literally never used Swift Sneak. It’s a helpful enchant sure, but not one I’d raid the toughest structure in the game for in any case.

I love jet using the “muh realism” argument Always reminds me of Gabe Newel in the half life documentary “Why the fuck do you want realism when in real life I have to sit down and make a list for what I need in the grocery store, that’s not fun. I sit down and play games to have fun”

18:10 My man is absolutely correct, it is 100% illegal. Have you heard of the Minecraft Physics Mod? Yeah, the developer of that mod did the same thing. Mojang sent him a cease and desist, and he was legally forced to bring his mod, Physics Mod Pro, into the free realm or risk a court hearing, so he settled things before court was necessary, brought his Patreon page down for a while so he could change all of his posts to the free tier, and began asking people to pay him for his hard word rather than forcing them to. He still doesn't list the Pro version on CurseForge despite that, however, and forces you to download it from his Patreon instead, where none of CurseForge's JAR-based virus checkers can actually do their job, meaning that if the guy gets hacked or decides he's done playing mister nice guy, we could have another Log4J on our hands.

also, he said "spyglass is useless" but most of people dont have optifine and zoom...

Genuinely the only thing I don’t like about your video is saying that copper is objectively usedful, it’s only useful IF you want to use it as a building block, otherwise, it’s completely useless for most players, I don’t like building with copper, the only time I did was when I was getting so god damn much of it that it was too much A good change would be making it something you can trade w/ villagers for emeralds and the rail system the other person was talking about, 2 things that would bring massive uses to copper outside of aesthetic, cause not everyone likes how it looks, it doesn’t fit so many builds, I stopped mining copper because it was just making clutter cause I didn’t want to use it cause it’s not a block I want to use, I just wish it had more uses that weren’t either decorative or in redstone, cause I don’t want to do as much redstone these days cause it makes me feel like I’m working towards nothing My problem is it being a purely decorative block that you get so god damn much of, it’s like if cobblestone is as purely decorative and had no uses outside of decoration, cause you say stone bricks, but you have to make stone bricks, you don’t just get a ton of them casually It would be fine that you get so much of it if it wasn’t purely for decoration

RocketSquid’s words make much more sense now. “It’s you. YOU’re the reason Minecraft isn’t fun anymore.” its from a div_y video go watch it

The thing that always gets me with people talking about the recovery compass is that they ALWAYS say "it's the hardest location in the game" which, is technically true, but also it is specifically designed to be a consistent level of difficulty no matter when you go there. No mobs spawn, your only threat is the warden, and as he says it kills you quick regardless of your armor. I go to these things as early as possible in my survival worlds for the diamond gear and enchanted books- as soon as I have wool it's my first structure to find.

People wanting substance in EVERY SINGLE THING is the bane of any game's existence

Desserts and swamps actually has a chance to spawn underground fossils that spawns with more coal around it, and spawning diamonds with it when its at a low y-level

If I see an ancient city early game, I go right for it. The ancient city is super easily exploited and you can just simple run away from wardens and out of their detection range. Not really a hard structure at all in my opinion but I also understand that most people don't know or don't play like this.

The only reason I personally don't complain about Lapis being useless is because I genuinely can't think of much it could be used for, at least nothing that fits Minecraft's style. Its not used for much in real life outside of dye, jewelry, and pottery, and I'm not sure what more magical related things it could be used for. Meanwhile Copper is used for _so much_ in real life, even being used for tools long before iron. Its just a missed opportunity all around not having it be used for any redstone features (outside of lightning rods of course, which are sorta niche... Though they're a GREAT building block). I would love for Lapis to have more uses though.

fun fact: In Minecraft's code, Desert Wells are in the same generation category as Trees, and not structures. Meaning they'll still show up if you turn structures off.

I do think Minecraft has an exploration problem... ...Jet does not adress any of my issues and in the case of the ancient cities, actively makes the problem worse.

I'm not gonna lie, I don't care if Mojang adds instant teleportation to travel millions of blocks at once, I WIL be making a minecart network that spans tens of hundreds of thousands of blocks connecting every structure in my world!!!

Here's some more interesting things to note about Ancient Cities: diamond ore usually generates more frequently when not exposed to air, so utilizing the enchanted hoes you can obtain from loot chests for mining all of the sculk around the deep dark can be incredibly rewarding, plus you'll get tons of experience for it. There's also the fact that in the Villager Rebalance experimental datapack, Ancient Cities have boosted odds for mending book loot. I don't think I need to explain why that's a great thing.

Although I agree with you in multiple points you made in this video, there are still problems I have with it. From skipping over sections to making him look worse, to straight up pausing the video and adding lie marks before the explanation. He mentioned swift sneak briefly, and you cut it out and complained. I don't mean to sound rude, but not everyone is a builder or specifically needs resources like different wood. Yes I do get birch and dark oak, but only once. I don't need to make more that 3 dark oak doors and birch which I can get from saplings like anything else. Sorry for sounding rude or negative here, I didn't mean to make your feelings worse. Most players in minecraft who play survival have a similar playing style and sit in one biome. Most builders are either Creative mode or hardcore players.

You failed to mention the best use of pointed dripstone: infinite lava

I do disagree with minecarts being "better for vertical travel." You can just, fall down into water faster than any other method, and a bubble collum will get you back up in seconds. Even if you doubled minecart speed, it would only be useful if you were trying to go like, diagonally a short distance (purely based on mechanics and not looks, roller coaster travel is best travel). Personally I think there should be some kind of "Icy Rails" which can get you up to speeds a bit above ice boats, but you derail if you turn while going that fast. It doesn't break existing ice boat fun and gives intensive to make new high-speed travel with them. Plus you could purposely de-rail a minecart to make like, a jump across a gap.

So here's another thing about him choosing deserts for coal, sure oil and natural gas forms from natural debris being buried and pressured in the ocean, but not coal. Coal forms from peat and dead plants, that tended to be in swamps not oceans. As a result coal distribution tends to be all over the place, as continents move and what was once a swamp might become almost anything else, as there is even coal in Antarctica.

What I don't like is how people are now paywalling mods like these after making their money back and then some with the ad revenue. I recently had @Whimzee show up in my recommended and they also put their "fix" behind a patreon paywall. It's sad knowing they might never get blow back from it by Mojang. EDIT: I checked and @Whimzee puts their mod behind a $15 paywall. WTF.

32:22 Geologist here 🤓👆. Oil coal and gas are usually found as part of an ancient swamp environment not desert ones. Look at the UK for example most of the coal is found in the areas where the rocks are from the carboniferous aka the time the UK was a big ass swamp and you had massive dragonflies. Now that is great because it could be implemented in Minecraft with swamp biomes having more coal. Also plate tectonics have nothing to do with the formation of oil coal and gas, they only play a role in its entrapment in a concentrated area of resource. Totally irrelevant to the big picture of the video I just wanted to put it out there because he didn't even do his 10 min googling properly In the topic of the video a much nicer and realistic way to make players explore is to have ores be more rare but in big clumps. You would have bits of the ore on the surface and then you can dig down and find the big deposit and then you have to travel to the particular deposit which could also be biome restricted. Btw what I just described is a FREE mod called Geolosys which I found to be more realistic and personally enjoyable, if that's your cup of tea.

IMO the main problem with Minecraft's exploration isn't lack of incentive or lack of reward, it's how much storage space a Minecraft world takes when you do a lot of exploring. Behind inventory management, I think file size is the number one barrier to exploration in Minecraft.

The whole ancient city thing kinda sounds like JetStarfish is assuming that you will _fight the warden_ which just, is not how the area is intended to be played? The warden is so powerful even at endgame _because it is supposed to be a penalty for failing to sneak._ The warden is not a boss you should fight, it is the fail condition of the ancient city. In fact the entire video seems to be made from the myopic viewpoint that armor, weapons, enchants, and food are the only things you will ever want. The periphery systems that enable combat are the only reasons to go anywhere or do anything. No! The game is a sandbox, designed for players to do what they find fun. Building, exploring, fighting, redstone, all are equally valid modes of play and if you look at the game from any view except maximizing your ability to fight and not die, then Jet's entire argument falls apart. I think a more useful viewpoint to see the game's balance from is that of balancing the rewards for all styles of play. Any structure, biome, or location should include at minimum some new blocks to build with, something useful if you want to get stronger, and some kind of exploration aid or unique item for those who just want to explore. It is fine if Jet personally plays like this, but assuming that all systems that don't purely feed into this playstyle are useless, broken, or irrelevant is dumb. Jet can go make mods that facilitate his method of play if he wants, but he should not assume that his view is the default.

I hate when people try to act like Minecraft is a linear game, like literally NOTHING has to be done before or after ANYTHING. I didn't beat the Ender Dragon until I had full netherite, nor was I trying to. I LOVE exploring in Minecraft, it's so fun to travel around the world and find all sorts of cool stuff. Exploration is the MAIN reason I play survival mode.

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Dude only looks at the biomes as pure resources, not even decorative ones. I like the idea of diamonds in jungles and redstone in swamp, but those biomes alr have tons of reasons to go there. Also he points out all of these bc he doesn't go away from his base so he assumes no one explores. I do also agree with him abt changing the rails to copper, even if it doesn't need more uses, it could certainly buff minecarts. The only problem is that it'll change the texture of them that might ruin some builds. Also highways are pretty balanced. You need silk touch and manual input, unlike with minecarts.

I don’t see anyone talking about how his xp vial is ALREADY a mod, the xp tome mod.. regardless of how it’s obtained the idea is not his and is behind a paywall

My exploration hot take is that donkeys should be faster and when the chests they cary should have a little mose space. I like them, they are cool. It's a fun idea to have them cary chests