I think this a great example of 'there is no one true Minecraft player'. People speak on behalf of the Minecraft community assuming all players want what they want. The reality is, the game is very broad and has a huge number of play styles that need to be carefully considered with every update. What one player really wants, might make another player quit entirely, so it makes development for Minecraft uniquely challenging. SPOILER BELOW: My controversial opinion is that Mojang are actually doing really quite well at a fairly impossible job.

About the mob vote (and I can’t remember if I’m paraphrasing someone’s idea or was just inspired by a video I saw about it), I think it would be much better received by the community if mojang approached it as “what mechanic do we want to introduce.” The largest issue is that, on top of losing out on two mobs, you lose out on two mechanics. Imagine if the glow squid lost, yea the squid would be gone but so would glowing signs. If all three of the mobs did the same thing, people wouldn’t feel fomo about the lost mechanics which would placate a lot of people. Imagine if , for the next mob vote, mojang wanted to introduce a way to farm sand. They suggest three mobs, the mummy, the shrew, and the sand golem. All three of these mobs give the player sand in some way. Now, no matter how the people vote, farmable sand will be added to the game. People are mad because they are voting for mechanics, not mobs. They are given a say in the way the game develops and then often stripped of it. Approaching the mob vote mechanic-first would eliminate this negativity.

This man knows a lot about internet discourse for someone with 1 minute of internet access per day

I’m so old that ocean monuments and horses still feel like new updates

I think the reason the community blew up about the firefly’s is because it would be easy to add them, just a simple particle effect in the swamps, and they didn’t because of a stupid reason.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="548">9:08</a> Actually, poison would be a great reason why frogs should spit a glowing block of gunk after eating fireflies.

As someone who actually lives in a birch forest, they need to make them taller and add underbrush. Personally, I'd base it off of some of the Scandinavian or northern minnesotan forests

maybe we should be voting for the theme of the next update instead of a mob or biome.... bc that way mojang still has a lot of creative wiggle room since there aren't any precise expectations

My biggest issue with new mobs is that they clearly don’t want you to kill them. Most of the new mobs don’t drop anything. Not even exp.

Honestly, I think the game should have more ambience. In a single player world the game feels so lonely and you're alone in this vast world. Having some birds going through the sky and at night fire flies and nature sounds would make the game more immersive.

My biggest complaint is that the game is a mile long and an inch deep. They need to expand on the features they’ve already added, like look at archaeology, they added the trail ruins and suspicious gravel, like cool, pots and sniffers, now you never need to touch them again. (Although relic is an amazing music disc). The baseline is there, they need to expand rather than adding something new then completely forgetting about it

If minecarts could get a bit more advanced, like linking 2-3 together or a hopper cart that could lay tracks, an engine cart rework since smelter cart is basically useless at this point. I would be happy with any additional functionality.

Catching fireflies in a jar and using it for lighting would be so cool

I want more birds. Crows for forrests, Ravens in mountains, seagulls for beaches and oceans, Ducks in rivers. Im sure there's more possibilities

I love that the moment he grabs the spyglass he goes "Aha"

It is absolutely possible to have "vertical progression" that isn't exclusionary. Access to netherite tools is vertical progression. It doesn't prevent anyone else from participating in the same activities - you never need netherite tools. Access to elytra is vertical progression. It doesn't prevent anyone else from getting anywhere: anywhere you can get with elytra, you can get without elytra. This idea that we can't have vertical progression because it would hurt accessibility is one of the worst aspects of the game, and it's really dragging down the design. There is enormous opportunity in Minecraft for vertical progression that just eliminates tedium. Just like as you progress, you can unlock faster, more efficient tools, beacons, faster movement through the nether, etc. The game barely scratches the surface of the opportunities here though. There are an absolute ton of possibilities. There could be more vertical progression that helps bridge the gap between playing with and without mob farms - not as efficient as mob farms, but letting you be more efficient so you don't feel like you absolutely NEED mob farms. Some of it is already almost in the game - iron veins make cheesy iron farms a much less essential thing...except that there's no way to find them without a ton of tedium that would be better spent just making an iron farm. If you could earn a way to find them through progression, that would change the game (while still leaving iron farms useful). A lot of simple world-edit features could absolutely be part of vertical progression: a way to place a wall faster, flood-fill, making spheres, etc. It'd still be a lot less powerful than worldedit, there's nothing you couldn't build without them, you'd have to earn them, but they'd be fitting rewards. Inventory management is just begging for it. Things like toolbelts to swap inventory rows, ways to organize inventory, etc. Again, none of these things are exclusionary: if I've unlocked a way to sort my inventory and you haven't, you can still do all the same things as me. If I've unlocked toolbelts that swap the items in hotbar more conveniently, you can still do basically all the things I can do. What if you could unlock a successor to scaffolding - same purpose, but more convenient (like imagine a platform you could punch to move it sideways or down)? What if you could unlock a way to blueprint and ghost a building? You stick some glasses on your head slot and a schematic in your off-hand and you see ghostly outlines of where blocks go to help you build something. Imagine what that could do for build tutorials too! What about a way to control/influence weather? There are so many possibilities it's crazy. Some of the existing vertical progression just needs to be reworked. Enchanting is balanced around a decade-old idea that tools should be disposable, to prevent making uber-tools...but that's what everyone aims for now, just with a bunch of clunky extra complexity. A simple mod that removes the prior work penalty for combining enchantments makes a huge positive difference to the feel of progression. There is also very little sense of progression outside of combat. Even without cheesey mob farms, I can build fantastic contraptions with automated farms that feed automated smelters that feed automated crafters that feed automatic sorters. But why? It makes for a cool youtube video, but there's no point to any of that in the game. Even for megabuilds, which are not a normal activity for normal players, you only need a fraction of that. What if there was some progression there? Like some useful power you could achieve by being able to pump a ton of fuel into smelters - maybe a magic furnace that takes a ton of fuel to transmute blocks or something. On the whole, I think the updates have been fine, just very, very conservative. They are clearly very, very afraid of messing with the formula, which makes sense given how much money is involved. I'm sure there are twenty layers of bureaucracy around every addition to the game, and the default answer is "no". Mods have also had kind of a negative effect here too - things that probably would have been put in the game end up relegated to modding, and even when those things do get added to vanilla, it's very begrudgingly, after years and years, like the really obvious addition of the autocrafter.

I don't think I've EVER beaten the ender dragon in survival, and I've been playing the game for 12 years. I just never felt the need to.

In game design, absolutely everything comes down to "why do players want to play my game?" Bartle's Taxonomy defines 4 types of players and their reason for playing video games. - Killers (who want to win over other players) - Achievers (who want to win over the game itself) - Socializers (who want to interact with other players) - Explorers (who want to interact with the game itself) Most games are made with one or two types in mind. and can gain a few more through emerging communities they didn't expect. For example, it could be said that dark souls was probably made for achievers. and then thanks to the invasion system, the community of killers began to really grow and prosper long after the game's release, making them the new primary community. Minecraft found itself in a weird place. Because they made the game a blank slate. One where all 4 types of communities (and many communities that are combinations of multiple types) were able to carve their own little spot. And now they have to KEEP the game as a blank slate. Because if they pander to one type of player, they lose 75% of their player base.

Vertical progression isn't limited to harder mobs or enemies. It's player against environment, not player against enemies. It's about unlocking new tools as you master your existing ones. In tech mods, vertical progression often takes the form of automation. What was once a challenging task that requires your full attention eventually becomes just another cog in the tapestry of a much larger mechanism. This is the appeal of games like Factorio. Other mods have a more open-ended approach to it. I personally think Witchery was a fantastic mod for this reason. Vertical progression is about providing motivation for the player to engage with the game's systems and push the limits of what they can achieve. The idea that vertical progression is just Terraria (also a fantastic game) style unlocking gear to beat stronger enemies is severely stifling the discussion. Building an iron farm from iron golems is also vertical progression. It's just bad vertical progression because it's unintended, unintuitive and offers a disproportionate reward-effort ratio that completely kills all alternatives once you know how to make one.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="498">8:18</a> we have higher expectations for all the mobs. For example we thought that the sniffer seeds were gonna have new functionality.

I actually found that mention of the creeper really funny. If the creeper hadn't been added till recently, and say, won a mob vote, I feel like people would actually hate it. Just randomly getting blown up after hearing a slight hissing sound. Which is interesting to think about, is the creeper not hated just because it's been around for so long and is kind of the mascot for the game?

The firefly situation is an interesting one to me. It seemed clear to me that the fireflies were just the answer to the question "what do the frogs eat?", and so when Mojang found out that they're actually poisonous to frogs they changed the food source. Fireflies were never intended to exist on their own and were always secondary, but people fell in love with the idea of fireflies in the swamps. I think it's more interesting as an examination in how much of early prototyping do you show off? If people fall in love with an idea that gets scrapped it can be difficult to handle

Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle has been the Minecraft design philosophy for the past 10 odd years Plenty of new features, but almost every single one is so self contained you probably wouldn’t run into them unless you were actively seeking them out. It’s as if they’re afraid to inconvenience players with a new thing to do in the core gameplay loop.

Totally agree with your point of how Mojang’s reasoning for removing the firefly was weak, they added the feature of parrots dying when you give them a cookie so….. why can’t we have frogs die from fireflies whether they’re not given to the player or not?.?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="385">6:25</a> Mumbo literally zoomed in on the "acient city" bravo Mumbo

If mojang added 1. Vertical slabs 2. Light sources that could emit different colors of light 3. A way to make dark areas without worrying about mob spawns 4. A Redstone component that acts as a pulse-extender without being so bulky I'd loose my mind

My biggest problem with new Minecraft updates is how they only had features, mobs and items you just almost never see in your playthrough. Armadillos are rare, Allays are rare, I'm not even gonna talk about the Sniffer... Trials Chambers are rare as well, I miss the time they would either add an entire new biome, revamp either a common biome or a dimension like the ocean and nether update or add new everyday features that serves you from the very first moment you start a world. And it's not like it's impossible. The end dimension is almost begging for an overhaul update, same for those good old cubic dungeons, and the general entire world (overworld/nether/end) lacks life ; it needs more structures, like way more, even if it's nothing and don't give loot, but like, ruins, random old houses, abandonned campfires, random farms, old barns, fish huts, old statues, even things as simple as fallen trees or big rocks, for the love of god this game needs more diversity because for a 8 years + player, a new ultra-rare structure won't make his game more special, it will just stays the boring, life-lacking game that it was before the update.

When I want to fight mobs, I play 7 Days to Die. I spend as little time as possible with hostile mobs in Minecraft.

Now I need Grain's dishonest opinion on recent Minecraft updates 🤔

I don't mind the idea that villager trading needs an update, but I think the way they are going about it doesn't address the root problem. The issue, as I see it, is that you have to find the exact villager you want to trade with, which means we start locking them in place so we know where to find them. If we had centralized locations, think a merchant desk, where we could access trades from a group of villagers, then we'd be free to build a more open range village where they can run free, rather then being caged as they are now.

vets know the real “zoom in” is low FOV and drawing the bow

"acient ruins" and "stop the bob moat" os so funny to me 😭😭

The fact that Mumbo did A-ha when using the spyglass is 10/10

The trouble with movable tile entities is that there's lots of redstone out there right now that relies on them not being movable, and would break very badly if they did become movable. So if Mojang doesn't want to face an angry mob of redstoners, they have to add a bunch of equivalent blocks to the game all at the same time that can fulfill all the roles of the previous tile entities

I love the reference to the aha! Spy glass thing in grain’s life series. Funniest part

Ancient cities looting is quite unique, because better gear gives very little benefit. Which means that if you raid them fully geared up you will get very little reward while being in higher risk then looting any other structure. But, if you luck to spawn on a mountain with a cave straight down to ancient city (This happened in my current hardcore world) you could do a heist withing first two hours of playing. And if you all your possessions are 12 iron and a stack of wool rewards are quite great. So I think rewards of ancient cities work greatly towards design goal of diversifying early game by providing very different beginning through structures you encounter.

Love the little "aha" when you used the spy glass, great callback to one of my favorite jokes in the life series.

I am quite suprised by how Mumbo didn't cover how Mojang removed the previously implemented coolest feature of the copper bulbs. RIP one tick delay

One point that mumbo made is incredibly thought provoking... the double standard when it comes to mojang and the players. The "modern mojang wouldn't add the creeper" stance is very valid, what more valid is the the modern player would HATE the creeper

I'd rather have no say in the mob vote, than hear about 2 options that may never see the light of day. rip icologer, penguin, crab, copper golem, and many more :(

Surprised Mumbo didn't mention the changes to light and mob spawning mechanic, which is imo one of the bigger "recent" changes.

It does need to be said that vertical progression doesn't mean combat, though combat can be part of it. Vertical progression is based around unlocking progressively more complex and powerful game systems and power for the player - most mods thus massively extend vertical progression by adding ways to interact with the world either beyond diamond tools, or otherwise adding very deep and complex systems. An example of a non-combat game with immense vertical progression is Factorio.

Ik this was taken out of the game a fairly long time ago, but I still want floating islands back. Few things tickled my creativity quite like building little roads between islands and coming up with lore to each of them

Vertical progression is not about makeing it Terraria infinite and game spawning lvl 100 skeleton in your game. It's about giving a REASON to EXPLORE. After I jumped from 1.12.2 to 1.20.1 the game is great, it got really rich with stuff.....But -The reason I really enjoyed it is because of mods like Terralith, which gave me a reason to look for andesite caves for my Create mod. -I installed a mod that made villages beautiful without adding new blocks. That easy, now it's a joy to find a new unique thing. -With Waystones mod I actualy have a reason to walk around that village to tap a waystone for a fast travel. -Ice and fire, giving me a reason to explore and look around the map with the new and fresh feel of exploration of seeing new cool mobs that are dangerous and I should stay away from them early. Like Enderman when they were added. An actual threat and a challenge. I have 0 interest in copper dungeons, 0 interest in water temple, jungle temple, the warden thing because the loot is just dogshit. Did minecraft got better? Hell yeah, do I still need to slap mods like a bandaid? Yeah.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="927">15:27</a> The AHA reference absolutely made my day

'Birch leaves are ugly' BRO! Birch leaves are the perfect middle ground between spruce and oak leaves! I started mixing leaves with my flora builds and it looks so damn nice!

The potato update was hilariously buggy to. It was obvious that it was quickly put together without much worry, which some people couldn't realise.

I've been zoning out of everything minecraft for like 2 years straight, this is the summary I need and don't deserve

I like how mumbo tried to go back to redstone but still builds a lot and starts the video talking about building blocks (also where did all the channel members go)

As far as structures go, one of my biggest issues are woodland mansions. There could be SO much cool loot, functional rooms, things to look at or interact with, but they just seem very empty and uninspiring. I also agree that some ambient mobs, like a firefly, would give more life and movement to the game. It would enhance the exploring and ambience of Minecraft and it would be nice to have something in game that's just for fun or looks that doesn't have to require a functionality.

Man I love Minecraft. They cooked so well with cherry wood. Edit: fine I do wish that items were more interconnected. I think it's connected and balanced more than we think, but I want my amethyst to be for more than two recipes. I want my fresh new copper to relate to the mundane recipes. I want webs that expand AND tie back. I think it's fair.

Your summaries and tutorials are hugely useful for those of us who just dip into the game from time to time. Thanks for this!

For the villager system: The best strategy in a game should be fun. Villagers are absolutely the best way to 'get stacked' with full enchants and diamond armor and all of their things, however they are not fun at all. The justification of them being difficult so their OP-ness is justified is not good because they difficulty they pose is simply frustration.

with each update, I continue to be surprised that java still doesn't have movable tile entities. that's probably the #1 change I want for minecraft at the moment

I miss minecraft. I can't play anymore due to head injuries. I loved this video it was watchable for my damaged brain and made me feel like I was getting to experience things I've missed out on in the updates. Thanks Mumbo. Hope you're having a good day

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="925">15:25</a> omg the throwback to last life brought back do many memories

I would sell my soul for a half slab update. -let us put 2 different slabs in the same block space! -let us place things on slabs -VERTICAL SLABS PLZ IM BEGGING YOU

I feel like one of the largest problems with updates has been how Mojang has lost the direction they had from 1.13 to 1.18. In each of those updates, Mojang took a concept that was underuntilized and renovated it: 1.13 took the concept of Oceans, which were previously a negative space that nothing happened in besides the occasional ocean monument, and turned them into a set of biomes full of life. 1.14 revamped how villagers worked, and added a new (optional) combat feature (raids) which were very difficult compared to existing content (offering a form of vertical progression that i think can be expanded on.) 1.15 added... 1.16 completely changed the nether. The nether used to be useful for beating the game, some unique building blocks, lava, and above else, fast travel. 1.16 didn't change any of that, but expanded on what the nether already did and made it better. And thats why i think these updates really work, they take a concept and expand it, while not taking away from what that concept originally was. Oceans are still negative spaces, but they have SOME use, and also look nice so at the very least they're a good view. Villages serve the same functions as before, but now have a challenge that you can choose to partake in. And the nether still has its old applications, but it has more too it. You still use it to fast travel, but you also have bastions to raid (more vertical progression), more unique blocks, and more ways to get certain items through piglin bartering (the fact that you had to hunt endermen before 1.16 is crazy). Now, 1.17 and 1.18 aimed to renovate what many had been calling for for years: mining. And Mojang really knocked this out of the park. The mining system was completely reworked and new cave biomes were added. But due to the 3 update split, Mojang lost this idea of concept updates. 1.19 is the "wild" update, but it adds the mangrove forest, frogs, allays, and the Deep Dark. The most game changing feature is the Deep Dark, which doesn't have anything to do with the Wilds. This gets even worse with 1.20, which doesn't update any existing systems, and instead adds completely new ones. This isn't bad, but when things like the End dimension exists, its easy to feel like there are better uses of Mojang's time. Archeology, Sniffers, Trims, and the decoration blocks added in 1.20 don't change enough of the game to make it feel like an update. The biggest way to tell whether you're playing 1.19 or 1.20 is if you need a template for netherite. 1.21 doesn't do a whole lot compared to 1.20 too. Trial chambers are admittedly a bigger change than any 1.20 feature, but they also don't provide anything the game was lacking before. Combat challenges already existed in raids, bastions, idk, end cities. I think the End is the biggest thing that causes grief among Minecraft fans. Mojang said we'd get an End update when the other two dimensions were finished. But I don't see how trial chambers are required to "finish" the overworld. I don't think anyone would have wanted trial chambers before they were announced. They are really well designed, but they feel unnecessary. I think Mojang needs to go back to the concept-oriented approach to devolop Minecraft and its systems.

People who want vertical progression and the general style of Minecraft will probably really like Terraria since it has a lot of vertical progression and boss fights. It is also good for building if you like building in Minecraft but want to try it out in a 2D world, it also has a lot of variety for blocks. Minecraft and Terraria are basically sister games, they even promote each other with flavour messages.

Mumbo saying Aha again made my day

"have I forgotten to change the chapter numbers again?" that's my favorite

“…the spyglass, aha?…” Puts a tear in my eye

In my opinion, one of the best updates Mojang could do is to add in a feature similar to the tree feller mod. it would be pretty simple from a coding standpoint. You tear down a block of wood, and every block of wood and leaf originating from that block immediately dropped. Rather than the leaves taking minutes to de spawn, they instantaneously despawn and drop loot based off of an rng system.

“I guess some of the key ones are the spyglass, AHA?”

For the mob update discourse, I do agree that it's cool to have a say in things, but I would MASSIVELY prefer if it was that the other 2 mobs just get added an update later.

Fair, but my main problem is that so many people still have to rely on mods like Optifine and Sodium to play at reasonable framerates. This is not adding some crazy feature like an ME system, just vanilla optimizing the game to the level a small, volunteer mod team did is something I think every player would prefer Mojang did. While slightly different, it also blows my mind that Distant Horizons is a mod and not another vanilla feature of Minecraft. I get wanting to be careful about what features you add lest you change the core experience of Minecraft too much, but optimization and rendering improvements can't be that controversial.

The "aha" when you used the spyglass 😂😂😂 nostalgia

Hot take: I like terrain borders, they’re funny and makes my world feel old

The only issue I have with the new updates is bloat. I'm talking about all these new items that get a single use and just lead to filling up your inventory and bloat. Things such as the echo shard, for example. While the recovery compass is a useful addition, the shard could be used for a bunch of other things in addition, not just a single item. Another example. Armadillo scutes. Dog armer is great, but does it have any other uses? No. By giving these new additions more functionality, it would help reduce the issue of inventory management and would make the new items blend into the game better.

My biggest issue is that the mobs added through the mob vote we claimed to be much better than they actually are. The sniffer only producing a single boring flower, the glow squid not actually emitting light, the phantom...

I was a huge fan of your videos when I was in 6th and 7th grade. Now I’m getting ready to apply to med schools. So happy you are still thriving on KZfaq, post ad-pocalypse!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="382">6:22</a> Acient city? Lol. Love your videos Mumbo.

The problem I feel is feature bloat. Nothing new feels particularly substantial, I could interact with trial chambers and ancient cities, but why would I? Why would I be interested in some of the new mobs? The updates feel unfocused. Instead of adding new structures, I feel like Mojang should be looking into overhauling some biomes and existing structures, especially Jungle temples Also, I really feel like villages should be less common

The biome vote was also a fun one. Though they said it was apparently about “which biome to update FIRST”… we’re still waiting on _most_ others. The only loser that’s ever been updated, I think, was the swamp.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="509">8:29</a> all three mobs added were just retexures the beheivors are almost identical to pre existing mobs breeze=blaze bog=skeleton and armadillos are just a hybride of a few but i think closest comparison is literally a sheep you craft an inexspensive farming device then right click them then they drop one useful item but atleast the sheep drops something when it dies

The spyglass "aha" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 best life series ever

One main concern people have is that there is apparently "too much" features being added which ruins the experience of players who are new to the game because of info bombing. However there are people who keeps claiming that mojang has been doing so little since the last few updates. it truly comes down to people's own opinions & set expectations. Minecraft cannot please everyone at the same time

the major criticism is that the updates before completely changed the way Minecraft was played before the updates, 1.13 overhauled the oceans, 1.14 completely changed the trading and how villagers work in general, idk about 1.15 but I heard it changed a lot of internal workings of the game, 1.16 overhauled the nether 1.17 and 1.18 overhauled the entire over world, but then 1.19, 1.20 and 1.21 just added some niche features, where people can still play the game same way they used to with like an extra biome or two

Minecraft vertical slab update would be epic.

Man, i’ve seen this game grow so much since it came out, i was only 11 when Minecraft came out and i feel like i grew alongside it, even though i virtually stopped playing and consuming it’s content about 4 years ago, i’m so glad it’s still a popular game and it still has a solid playerbase, hope kids and grown ups alike continue to enjoy this simple yet genius and beautiful game

I actually think the fact that Minecraft gets smaller updates only once or twice a year is the reason why Minecraft has been so popular and has stuck around for so long. It means that Minecrafts identity stays familiar, and is very easy for both new and long time players to jump into without feeling overwhelmed. Just as an example, I recently played on a modded minecraft server for the first time on almost 7 years. The very second I joined the server I was flooded with mod books, structures everywhere, biomes I didn't recognize, etc. If it wasn't for my friends insisting I play with them, I would have noped out of there after an hour because even the few mods I recognized from 7 years ago were completely different and everything I remembered about them was useless. And the last thing I want to do when starting a new minecraft play through is have to do 2 weeks of studying just so I know what I should be doing. If I took a 3-4 year break from playing minecraft and there was 2x more content and half the game was changed to be unrecognizable, I doubt I would want to ply it that much. But a few new biomes with new blocks to build with, a couple new mobs that only add a little ambience and drops 1 item that does 1 thing? Thats super easy to digest and most of the time needs no external explanation to understand. Which makes Minecraft a very easy game to come back to and replay.

The thing I don't like about Mojang's current game design is that they are too specific in their designs. The argument about not adding the creeper today would also be: If they did add the creeper today, you would have to go to a very specific biome to get its very specific drop so you can make a single very specific item for its very specific use. I still think TNT and Fireworks will be around if they did that, but you could no longer find it in structures or use it as a potion ingredient, and fire charges may not be a thing today. They are too narrow on their design. Edit: You have been warned about going into the replies. You may not like things we said in there.

i honestly really like the biome smoothing, they did an amazing job on it.

Ive not played for about a year and from the bits i see here and there theres so much new stuff i dont even know about

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="928">15:28</a> The little "aha" with the spyglass means everything to me

regarding the fireflies, it is notable to mention that frogs eat FUCKING MAGMA

The mechanic-based mob vote someone talked about is a great idea but if they don’t want to do that they could do a second vote on which of the two mobs that lost would have a reappearance next update, so if enough people really want a different mob there can be a higher chance of getting another say

The trial chamber was really fun to raid with friends. The entire place is a dungeon, tons of mobs and loot. an optional spike in difficulty that's rewarded with amazing loot. It was really fun pushing back hordes of buffed mobs and strategizing how to chase down the breeze mob.

I just now realized the Breeze has two yellow eyes under the white stripes which are apparently eyebrows, now I can't unsee it.

My take on vertical progression is that my favorite part of the game is the initial grind. I like to go mining with the goal of getting better tools. I like to enchant my way up to good gear. But once my gear is maxed and the world isn't really an issue for me, what should I do? And why? For me, if I want to build creatively, I'd rather be in creative mode. The issue with survival mode is that once you get all of your gear, you basically have solved the entire mode. The challenge gets replaced by annoyance; the annoyance of having to eat to sprint, the annoyance of dying stupidly, the annoyance of trying to build high in the sky, the annoyance of traveling, the annoyance of collecting blocks etc. And don't get me wrong, I understand the satisfaction of completing a challenging build in survival knowing you collected every block and couldn't fly, but I just struggle to be creative once the motivation of "get good gear" runs out.

Create is a bad example to use when comparing mojang to modders, no one expects mojang to add anything similar to that. They do expect mojang to optimise their game in the same way modders have been doing for years through things like sodium, add shader support, dynamic lights, LOD rendering, custom f3 menu. Essential, proven to work features that have existed for years but have failed to make their way into the game.

personally i wish the archeology structures were pieces of a massive structure. where would only find small pieces of certain sections in places, but the community would have a great time theorising how they would go together. having some very rare, but large pieces of ancient structures you could dig up would be pretty fun.

While I think the response to the Fireflies not being added was strong, we gotta remember that this was just after: 1) The Caves and Cliff update was split in two. 2) The Birch Forest was announced to not be coming into fruition. 3) The Deep Dark being moved to the next, next update. Yes, the community response was strong, but at the time, it felt like Mojang genuinely just decided to stop working on the updates they promised and give their backs to the community. Also, as a sidenote, this is a nitpick of mine but, I wish they let us have Azalea wood. Like, not oak logs, Azalea logs.

I think vertical progression bosses would be the same as we have now. If you defeat the dragon you get elytra! If you defeat the Wither you get the beacon. I feel that's what vertical progression "should be". Adding more optional bosses that benefit you but aren't required for a good experience. Although elytra are very good, you don't "need" them to progress horizontally. Edit: The bosses should give you something that massively benefit you. Not giving something like sponges from the ocean monument.

It was hard to hear Mumbai slander birch but I do really wish they would make good on that announcement <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="295">4:55</a>

In my opinion, Mojang needs to do more. You can either have a few tiny updates throughout the year, or one big update. Not one small update a year. Especially with the mob vote, they just need to add all three and add all the mobs who lost in the past. Also more bosses, i know they just added the warden but he’s not worth it in the slightest.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="386">6:26</a> "acient city" sorry mumbo we love you but gosh did it take me a second to notice that

Mumbo: *builds small town just for aesthetics* Also Mumbo: "I haven't actually gotten better at building over the past couple years."

I love how casually he said "the spyglass Aha"

I think, frankly, that the fact that the playerbase gets any say at all in what happens to the game e.g. the mob vote, and that a game from 2009 is still getting updates, is amazing. As Mumbo said, the game has to appeal to a lot of tastes, and it's very difficult to add a ton of major stuff without pushback. Honestly, the amount stuff added in the recent updates have been amazing, I remember in the 360 when we got excited for iron bars, now the game is much more fun and varied than it's ever been, I'm excited to find a Sniffler, do some archaeology and go adventuring into a gargantuan cave for iron. It's fine to be critical of Mojang, but the tone a lot of people have towards those that work on the game, because they haven't overhauled everything, is absurb. They're allowed to add silly little features. Most of Minecraft's features are silly, they are weird, but that's Minecraft. A strange but very fun game, which for better or worse, has always been an odd mish mash of features, that just work.