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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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!!!

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.

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!!

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!

A video can be as scummy as it wants, but as long as there is good editing, many won’t care.

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.

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

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???

The reason I stopped watching JetStarfish's video about minecraft exploration is the abundance of cringe jokes he put in the video.

He "solved" the ancient city in the most hypocritical way too. First complaining that the woodland mansion is bad because its too rare and you can only find it by buying a map. So then he goes on to fix the ancient city by making it rarer and locking it behind buying a map. Also the elytra "fix" is terrible, it would just lead to people wasting even more time in the end looking for the event rarer ships, especially as they and the end cities also contain the best loot

Bro is literally creating an exploration problem

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?

I am SO glad other people agree with me on this, because I was SO frustrated with this video when I watched it. Two more extremely annoying issues with his ideas: 1.) If ores are more common in the undergrounds of certain biomes, you might go there to mine, yes, but he hasn't solved his original issue of the player focusing on the underground instead of the biome itself. With Dripstone Caves, Mesas and Mountains, their unique ore generation pushes the player to engage with the terrain of the landscape. If diamonds are more common below a jungle, then the only difference is that you will now be spending time hacking at the same stone in a jungle instead of a forest. He mistakes the time spent in the biomes on a technical level with time spent actually engaging with it. 2.) Less complicated to explain: Since crops only grow when you are near them, this forces you to temporarily move to a biome every time you want to benefit from their growth rates. Since farming is very passive in Minecraft, it would be rather grating.

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.

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)

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.

I'm sure Jet knew his mostly child audience wouldn't do research to see if he was right about all his claims about how the game works. It's sad because a lot of kids probably fell for it.

He genuinely misses the point of playing minecraft The game doesn't make you meet the game's expectations, it's up to you to make them. It's a sandbox game after all

Dude wants this game to be an RPG so bad...

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.

One of the main reason to explore Jungles is to find bamboo that is useful for scaffolding and with the new update is a new wood type. Not just wood and food. Oh.. and watermelon for potion of healing and panda, don't forget the pandas.

Glowberries are awesome because if you have no food and you find a lush cave now you have food

> 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

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

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

"why the hell anyone will go and find a drip stone cave?" to get dripstone for a infant lava farm duh.

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

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 whole tangent about transport was just wild, building a ice highway system is mind numbing enough already, but at least it has a great payoff, can you imagine spending hours laying down a railroad in the nether or the overworld having to power it, build a casing around it so you don't get blown up in your slow ass minecart just to get to your ocean mob grinder, desert coal mine, 5 different villager work camps and god knows what else. You encourage the player to build a network of outposts and bases then kneecap the only transport option that would make such a system bearable late game

JetStarfish would definitely be the type to build their personality around hating the glow squid when that was a ‘controversy.’

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

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

JetStarfish when not every single feature in the game has a use towards progression

so youre telling me without any other tools this guy wants me to pay $8 to have a worse time playing a game? $8 TO HAVE A WORSE TIME THATS LIKE (to a far lesser extent), paying $100 to get put in prison for 5 years

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!

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?

Jet's argument about biomes is rendered functionally meaningless when you look at the superflat preset ans how much playing on it prevents or fundamentally changes ur ability to collect & use certain items/blocks, which can change drastically depending on what newer updates contain (i.e the trail ruins giving superflat players access to tons of new blocks they couldn't acquire for years)

Jetstarfish has seen this video! In his discord, he tries to justify the Patreon paywall: “the thing hayze doesn't understand I think is that the mods that are posted for free are made out of sheer passion. the people making them add WHAT they want, WHEN they want. it's very different when I come to someone with an exact features list and ask them to code it specifically to my liking. I need to pay them for stuff like that, I can't just ask for volunteers.” 1. You…can? You’re a KZfaqr, surely some fan would code 12 lines of code for you instead of some guy scamming you 2. This doesn’t really excuse the fact that it’s still ILLEGAL to charge for mods AT ALL 3. Even if you need to pay the mod makers that doesn’t mean we have to pay for it But man, being on his discord is crazy…so many bootlickers in their own little echo chamber. And Jetstarfish and the moderators are definitely FUMING about all the criticism being thrown at them. Don’t stop, Hayze, people like you are needed in this community. PS: He’s starting a minecraft server, ofc for Patreons only. Just got the announcement ping from the discord. When will the EULA violations end?

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.

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.

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

I dont get why so many people hate elytras, like yeah they are a bit too easy to get for how useful they are, but they are also just a really cool thing in the game. going to different places in my minecraft world would be so much more boring, monotonous, and slower without elytras.

there is a new class of youtubers whose entire livelihood is being a professional block game hater lmao

tbh calling enchanted golden apples “useless” just because you can’t use it against the warden is such a bad take. PvP anyone? Having 8 extra hearts makes pvp trivial.

17:40 Yeah that's when I checked out as well. There was a lot of straight BS, but asking 8$ for this ego-trip of a mod is comedy gold

I'm so tired of everything regarding the "Mojang is lazy" "Minecraft sucks now" argument. This video felt like the culmination of how Twitter views Minecraft/Mojang - Cherry picking very specific parts of the game to criticize for not fitting their playstyle while completely missing the point/fun of Minecraft. I've literally heard so many of the lines in his video spoken word for word on twitter before, like that infuriating "Try working for more than 30 minutes a day Mojang!" Everyone always masks this 'criticism' as a joke and I despise it - they're too embarrassed to directly say it because they know how idiotic it is, so they play it off as a 'joke' since they don't have anything to actually back their argument with. But that still spreads this toxic idea to others in the form of a joke, and because it's a joke, nobody actually dissects how dumb the whole thing is. I think that's how we go to this point in the first place, people have actually begun believing the whole "Mojang is lazy, Minecraft sucks now" because they've internalized the idea/joke so much, they begin applying it as a reason for why Minecraft isn't exactly the way they want it to be. That's exactly what Jet is doing in his video, Minecraft isn't exactly how he thinks it should be, and he just chalks it up to "It must be because Mojang is lazy." Everyone is so desperate to mold Minecraft into what their perfect vision is that they lose sight of what the actual point of the game is

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.

21:54 I was already skeptical when he put a price tag on it, and especially a monthly payment for too. That part confused me because idk if you had to keep subscribing for the mod or it was just a 1 time thing.

Plus pointed dripstone Can make infinite lava

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.

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.

It's weird that KZfaq recommeded his video as well as yours at the same time

Lapis is used for enchanting, it is arguably pretty useful due to this.

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 braincells hurt Also smth's telling me he doesn't know that deep dark and ancient cities can be found under mountain biomes, explorer maps aren't even that neccessary Oh also, locking the mod behind patreon might pass EULA on technicalities, I'm not sure. But also this mod is not sodium, better minecraft, or create. I wouldn't buy it, cause unlike them... it's shit. Also it could have been a datapack lol, no need to make it incompatible with other versions of the game.

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!

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.

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.

as some one who plays with mods that basically add xp vials, I actually have some concerns with it; it makes enchanting practically free. Since levels scale exponentially in amount of xp required, the ability to lower your level without cost on the fly allows you to always be at exactly level 30 when doing so, allowing you to efficiently micromanage the incredible amount of xp that would otherwise be wasted in those upper levels. If you beat the dragon and use an xp vial to limit your level, you practically have infinite enchants, doubly so with an xp farm.

47:12 "A builder doesn't want to be forced to fight the warden. They just want to build their house (and be a little pussy)." That line actually made me so unironically angry. He says it like as if building isn't a major part of Minecraft. Mine*CRAFT*. It's meant to be a joke, but it's a slap to the face of people who enjoy the sandbox aspect of Minecraft, subtly hinting that Minecraft is a PvP game considering the direction the community has been taking the game, and not meant for "builder pussies."

I love how often people forget that Minecraft is, at its core, a sandbox game. Putting linear progression in a SANDBOX defeats the whole point and actively goes against what Minecraft is. It is recommended that you visit an Ancient City in mid- to late-game but that's *just a suggestion*. You can enter an Ancient City on day one. It's *your choice*. THAT'S THE POINT OF A SANDBOX.

Bro when you have to mine in the game titled Minecraft:

There's a noticable pattern of JetStarfish not taking builders into account at all. I feel silly for not noticing it the first time I watched his video, while being a builder, who explores for blocks myself.

Locking mods behind Patreon (or as JetStarfish puts it, "rewarding") HAS been acted on in the past! The Physics Mod, a mod which actually has some insane programming and genuine effort put into it, used to have a Pro version (there was still a free version!) locked behind Patreon, but eventually they were told by Mojang or Microsoft that they can't do that, so they made it free for anyone. It is absolutely ridiculous and frankly insulting to mod developers (of which I am one) that he would put a mod he didn't even make behind a paywall, when so many of us are using what little free time we have to make mods because we want players to have a better or more unique time playing the game.

What I find funny is that he said thw recovery compass is bad because its only useful for players that die, and then proceeded to showcase his new item which is only useful for people that die.

The youtubers yearn for Terraria

As a Chinese person myself I have mixed takes on the "1200" migrant workers joke Like for one, great for you bringing up the grave injustice we suffered, but is it really something for you to make into a running joke? Another thing is like, just said "migrant" without pointing out the fact that most of them were Chinese. There's also the fact that we got rewarded for it by being banned from the country, deprived of any recognition for it and systematically discriminated against for centuries (we still are) but that's just elaborating on what's already been said.

41:47 Nether quartz in similar position to copper. If you ignore redstone, it's mainly building block.

The thing with his villager trade fix is that his ENTIRE VIDEO is based on the idea that people don't explore enough, and aren't incentivized to. His "solution" is to say that villagers should all have the same pool of enchantments, at different odds. He removed a potentially useful mechanic to get people to build multiple bases and explore more just to bloat his mod up and make it seem more "innovative".

When he said mansions are the worst structure in the game, I immediately thought of jungle temples and their useless loot

Dripstone not only cool, it's the only way to make a LAVA farm with couldrons, which is the one of the best fuel...

I love Ancient Cities because it's just so intense yet fun to transverse , also when the update came out was so fun to kill a warden with a trident from away i feel the reward is it's just kinda fun to do shit thats out of the way

24:35 "just food and wood" bro forgot villager exist 💀

i burst out laughing when he complained about woodland mansions and all the steps you have to take to find one. you mean playing the game?

The most fun i have in minecraft is randomly walking a couple thousand blocks on a multiplayer server and just seeing what i find.

at the start where he said that that they only added woodland mansions was because it was called the exploration update, and the only thing that involved exploration was the woodland mansions

I like how the premise of these videos are just "lets 'fix' Minecraft by making it a completely different game". The whole appeal of Minecraft is that its a sandbox, and you can play how you want. If you dont like an aspect of the game then try playing a different way, such as not using an elicra if you think its op. Heck you could even mod Minecraft like Jet did just dont claim that its "fixing" things because others might not find it a problem. We dont need trades locked until after beating the dragon, especially for a video claiming it has the average players wellbeing in mind, because as you said, most people dont even do that. But why are we critiquing this? You can tell by the editing and self-contradicting that this video was just made for views, and his patrion, not even worth taking seriously.

-gives ancient city map -makes it rarer -woodland mansion has map -makes it more common

Here’s the solution to making exploration better: more random shit. Genuinely. Maybe an abandoned farmhouse that spawns out in plains biomes, and has certain hard to find crops growing as well as bone meal, maybe a stone or steel hoe that may be enchanted, and a bucket for water as well as a composter. Super cool to just find that, as finding carrots and potatoes isn’t super simple depending on your world. Maybe an underground workshop, where you can see some partially built redstone stuff that shows you how to make certain neat stuff, like maybe a farm with dispensers that lets out water to break crops automatically and then uses that water to carry the crops over to a hopped and chest. 8BitRyan made that and my mind expanded fifteen square feet, cause once he showed that off I started shamelessly copying it because it’s such a cool thing to find. As well for the underground workshop, have it include some other random redstone bits, maybe stuff that’s a little harder to make. Improve the villager blacksmith building, and just include a little extra room for some more cool looking stuff. Maybe even make villager houses bigger too, cause villages feel…just so small sometimes. Maybe find what looks like a broken down western style wagon, the kind with the cloth over it in that arch shape, and in it are barrels with foodstuffs and all, maybe some smaller and less ‘valuable’ random Traveling Merchant items. I dunno…seashells and stuff? Like just do that. Literally make more random stuff, and sprinkle em around. Hell I even wonder if we could add a new villager job with a villager that can buy/sell clay, terracotta stuff, and other such stone work and other stuff like that. Maybe have the tailor have more armor trims only for leather armor so you can look fancy, have the blacksmith make a special thing that lets you put a design on your shield, like how you make banners with unique designs. Literally add more random useless shit here and there? Sure a random farmhouse isn’t useful, but early game just move in and you have a free no-effort house. Underground workshop maybe gives you access to redstone stuff you couldn’t make yet because you don’t think you’re ready for the Nether. And hell, here’s a great idea! Ghost Towns! Make Badlands spawn Ghost Towns, with abandoned houses with all sorts of stuff! Big ol’ tankards to hold twice the amount of potion so you can have two potions in one thing, gold stuff all over, add gold panning, maybe include a bunch of Archeology stuff. Nothing complete, maybe just Shards, but like…this guy’s so full of shit. ‘Buy my mod to make Minecraft better!’ and yet me, someone who isn’t good at the game, and who is an ape-brain monke, has had better ideas than he has. All Mojang *realistically* has to do is just add more random side stuff all over. Although if anyone reads this block of text and has more to add or discuss, I’d be glad! This all sounds like the potential start of an actually good Exploration mod that doesn’t add too much new stuff and turn Minecraft into one of the bigger and more well-known exploration mods, but something closer to a Vanilla+ mod that just gives you more to see and maybe more to do.

This video does have a lot of personal perspectives that aren’t deep enough for me to agree with Like “it’s fun” or “it looks good” or ignoring the lack of use for copper and how helpful enchanting your armour is Stuff like that But I do really like the objective side of this video, the parts that bring light to lies with evidence So while this video could’ve been great… in my eyes there are some flaws that may make your points seem less true and more personal Like even about fast boats on ice Objectively they are harder than gold to get since you first have to find ice and also need an enchantment on the pickaxe that even lets you pick it up Blue ice needs a lot of ice also which is the type of ice that makes the boats move fastest While gold you just dig for them in caves for a while, less complex to do But he didn’t mention those Also slowing down that mechanic and ruining those ice in the neather would completely shit on a lot of people’s builds One update and it would be like creepers were given nuclear power against player built structures Also the liar was indirectly telling the viewers about his live channel AND incentivising them to subscribe by saying he’ll “fix stuff in the later video” 6 months for a few code tweaks And he couldn’t spend a day on ideas

I don't really understand the point of an ancient city explorers map because they almost always spawn under mountains and you just gotta find a mountain which is, in my experience, really simple

I feel as if JetStarfish’s video tries to make Minecraft more like terraria where it is focused on progression instead of the freedom that Minecraft gives you

"Minecraft's exploration problem and how to fix it" Later..."It's a problem that you can stumble on it randomally when mining"

19:50 I'd like to point out for a moment (this is not self promo i promise): I made a project for Minecraft myself, for the new 1.21 update. It uses the new Components added to the game to create new foods. The hardest part of making that project wasn't any of the code-- the code I cranked out in about a month or so, combined (not including bug fixing which I had to do as I went along). Like you said, the hardest part would be the texturing. Making over 80 new textures for all the new items was the most time consuming of the project, because I am not a pixel artist. Hell, I'm not an ARTIST artist. So I had to use a lot of references, be it from actual mods that add foods (like farmer's delight) or from the base game. That's how I managed to make my own textures. It took a lot of time, and I'm always changing them. And it's not even a mod--it's a DATA PACK, which I'd argue is easier to edit and manage than a mod. What I'm trying to say is, this guy shouldn't have needed to spend hundreds of dollars on this if it doesn't actually add that many more items and textures. The code, sure maybe that could've taken a month or two. But in that same amount of time, you could do the textures as well. ESPECIALLY if you hired a team of people, it should've taken way less time than I took. I think the guy just got ripped off and is trying to make his money back. Either that, or he's just being scummy.

Saying that unskilled players can’t get recovery compasses is so wrong. The whole point of the ancient city is to be sneaky and in experienced players might die a few times but eventually will be able to get the loot which is very helpful for both middle and earlier game

I genuinely believe jetstarfish has never played Minecraft survival mode before after watching his video

I don’t really play Minecraft much, but I’ve seen how often the community just calls stuff useless. Even if woodland mansions or ancient cities (or well the dishonest version portrayed in the video) or even biomes have barely anything in them, exploring them in of itself can be a fun experience. Not to mention things like copper, which is mostly a material used for decoration. It’s like if something doesn’t have an innate purpose it’s apparently useless and bad? It’s strange, especially for a sandbox game.

"How to fix exploration: buy my stuff"