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I still build railways in my worlds. Personally, it's more of an aesthetic thing because my world and build pallet is kept to beta. My subway system makes my minecraft world really feel a bit more realistic and alive which is something I like.

The game definitely has a MASSIVE pacing issue. There's no sense at any time that you're making the same amount of progress in the same unit of time. Some basic things are super grindy while other high tier things are easy to get. It's all scrambled and senseless.

Along with that minecart stuff, they should also get incredible speeds from going downhill on normal rails. Like you will just keep accelerating until you reach the max falling speed in Minecraft. This will not only make transport downhill way faster with minecarts, but will also make it extremely fun to ride. It could also create motion blur and increase your FOV so it feels even faster.

The slight nerf Mojang was thinking of adding in the early 1.18 snapshots was actually a really cool idea imo, the Elytra would only lose durability from fireworks, incentivising ppl to glide and think of momentum and stuff

I remember building a big rail system back on Minecraft PS4 Edition. Elytras came to Legacy Console in TU46, and I remember being so excited because it brought the 1.9 features from java to legacy console. It released on December 21st, 2016, and my rail system was never expanded again.

I think my issue with your proposed buff to horses is that they would make donkeys even more obsolete. Horses don't have storage because donkeys were supposed to fill that role, and as a consequence they move slower. Then again, we have llamas now, who are limited to your walking speed but, when hooked on leads, can form trains that can carry more materials. So donkeys now fill a strange middle ground between horses and llamas and can't really fill either role exceedingly well.

Minecraft has a track record of not accounting for the whole gamut when adding features. Sprinting made minecarts less worthwhile. But it also broke spiders. Before you could sprint spiders could keep up with you, now they are the weakest of the default mobs and people don't even know that their speed was what made them dangerous. Then came horses making minecarts more obsolete. Now think about the new combats fast heart regeneration when eating. While slow regeneration is horrible, think of how many things it probably broke not related to combat. Minecarts, Sprinting, Horses, Elytra, Totems, New Villagers, New 3 level enchantments costs. The list goes on. All these features changes are, on their own, great changes. I am not saying that the were better before, no, they improved the things they set out to do, but they are only worth it when you do not weight then against the rest of the game that synergized with the old mechanic. What I mean by that is mojang fucked up not by those features being intrinsically flawed, but rather that they did not take into consideration the old feature holistically. If you change a feature you likely break mechanics that you were not aware of in the first place. Some of the se have been addressed and band-aided in later updates, but a lot of them haven't. Sprinting is a great feature for example but they should have adjusted the speed of spider or how they move a bit. Making them as challenging as before. There is stuff that "has been this way" for years that most players don't even know that it was not intended that way when it was added, and there was never an intention to change it. It was just broken by other features related to it in a non obvious way.

Almost no one likes nerfs. Making the end harder could be interesting but would cater to a select few. (myself included) But buffing other modes of transportation would make almost everyone happy. Also rails one benefit over other modes of transportation is you don't actively need to be there for it. You can start it and go afk and when you're back you're 1000s of blocks away. I would however buff the crafting recipe to make it more beneficial for the amount of iron given up.

IMO the Elytra has been a boon for other aspects of the game. Long-term exploring is much smoother with elytra. Mega builds have always been a thing, but with the added perspective of flying, players think in much larger scales. IMO the Caves & Cliffs update might not have happened without this change in perspective.

A few things I thought about: -turns out your idea of buffing minecarts actually _was_ implemented on Legacy Console Edition (as they were twice as fast on that version) -they actually nerfed elytras in the 1.18 experimental snapshots, I believe firework boosting was 20% slower and damaged the elytra, though in exchange just gliding normally did not affect durability (so that it was more usable without enchants) but this wasn't added in because they wanted more time for feedback -a common idea of making powered rails craftable with copper ingots (giving more of a use to copper and making them cheaper, also makes sense cause copper is used for wiring) -also just make the furnace minecart more useful and add it to bedrock (like why are there still entire items missing from one version of the game you'd think they'd have gotten past this point for vanilla parity)

I stilll do something in my mc worlds that a lot of my other friends playing minecraft dont agree with, and say its stupid. I always build these long, terraformed roads for my horses. They say I could just use the elytra, but I would much rather travel through these beautiful valleys and take in the view while on my trusty steed. There`s no fun in just going somewhere immediately, hundreds of blocks in the air, not being able to enjoy yourself. I miss using minecarts. I miss when me and my friends would fight for the fastest horse. Elytras... they just dont feel the same.

Honestly I think we should buff the dragon. For a final boss you’d expect it to be much more difficult than it is.

It's not that the Elytra is "too good". It's that the other options suck. Rails suck because you need at least an iron golem farm and a zombie pigmen farm for them. Boats, for the longest time, sucked because they had all the mobility of a blimp, broke if you breathed on them, and reverted into less resources than it took to cross them. Horses suck because you need a noncraftable item to ride them, their stats vary widely, and they can die from running off a cliff. Out of all of these, only the boats have improved. Meanwhile, all you need for an Elytra is the item itself and a bog standard mob grinder.

Railways are completely obsolete, Boats on ice go faster and can carry 2 people at once. I would like to see some kind of Rail system overhaul now that we have copper in the game, make some really nice industrial type upgrade to them.

Putting leads on minecarts and using them to hook carts together would be a game changer

I remember seeing a datapack where it increases the difficulty to get elytras by adding a boss fight in the ship. When killed, it drops the elytra.

I think the end city's should be made harder to explore, with a new mob or something. And I think that when riding a minecart you should be able to boost yourself with a rocket just like with the elytra.

I've said it once and I'll say it a million times - Elytra are a quite perfectly made and not overpowered item, its just that literally every other form of transportation in the game is horribly _underpowered._ Elytra have been my favorite item in the game (along with rockets once those were given a purpose) since their inception and they do their job well. But I mean seriously, horses, minecarts, and boats have absolutely *no* right to be so slow and simple. Pretty sure that even the IRL counterparts of horses go faster, which is absolutely ridiculous considering how most things in the game are either realistic in scope or more powerful than their real counterparts. And of course, don't even get me started on how wimpy minecarts are. The game desperately needs a transportation update, to make other options even remotely viable.

One item I think would be a really cool late-game item, perhaps as loot form the Ancient or End Cities, is a Warp Whistle. It would function like the Ancient Saddle from Breath of the Wild, and when right-clicked will summon your horse directly to your location from any distance.

8:07 There was an attempt to have their speed increased in the early to mid 1.8 snapshots, but this ultimately got reverted since it broke existing machinery.

Honestly this is just a product of Minecraft's progression being so short. The whole "the player went through all this effort and progressed so far, let's give he/she an item that makes it worth his/her while" does not work when so little stands between you and the endgame. The End should be pushed back much farther in progression. If we don't want to add new bosses, we can instead lock the eyes of ender behind different steps in progression. There should be 12 different types of eyes of ender, and one of each must be placed in the portal to activate it. We can make these different eyes available in different structures, for example one could be found in mansions, one in ocean monuments or dropped by Elder Guardians, one could be found in jungle temples, one in igloos, one in desert temples, one in witch huts, the list goes on and on. One might even be obtained by killing the Wither. Of course we'd need to buff the Dragon as well, and the Savage Ender Dragon mod shows how to do it right.

I like the feature (probably at least initially a bug) on bedrock edition as a buff for horses. If you breed two horses that both have the speed effect, the bred horse will be slightly faster, permanently. If you repeat this over several generations, you can breed horses that can go very fast. We need this on Java, as a few speedy horses would make building a nether hub a lot less tedious since you don’t need ice, providing you are willing to invest a lot of time breeding horses.

8:52 I think the amount of rails you get is just fine, considering how easy iron is to get

This is why I was really happy with seeing the "portal" in the ancient cities because if they add another dimension to the game could have an item required to enter the end and then might make the end game farther

2:35 Old boats were able to float up from underwater, but they removed the ability to do that when they added the paddles (1.9).

Other transportation methods clearly need a boost.

We eventually got a cave update, so I hope we'll also get an infrastructure upgrade someday. Horses doing poorly in forests seems like a good downside, but they should be quite desirable to traverse open spaces. That said, given that we are talking about living creatures, I don't think we can buff them to the point where they can contend with elytra without having absurdly fast horses. Rails on the other hand should allow for extremely fast transportation over long distances once setup, with only relatively long stretches being able to fully utilize the top speeds. Once established, it would require no upkeep unlike the Elytra (rockets), and if we allow chaining minecarts, it could also be a good way to transport large amounts of items, as you mentioned (although shulker boxes mitigate that aspect a bit). At the end of the day though, I still don't think that we'll see much more in terms of infrastructure in the overworld if we can go 8x faster in the Nether. Whether it's boats on ice, roads of soul soil or simply a minecart network, all of these would be greatly amplified in the Nether, even ignoring the Nether roof. In practice, the closest thing I build in terms of infrastructure is nether roads and having beacons in important places. Which is a shame because infrastructure would be a way of slowly conquering a world and making it more hospitable.

I’m making an effort to have my world connected through railways both in the over world and the nether. I feel that rails are such an elegant way to travel, and it would be nice if they got a speed boost or perhaps even a two passenger feature similar to boats.

Making the dragon fight harder would be cool, but Mojang rarely makes things harder. There are only a few cases like removing spam clicking, varying ore heights, and the warden.

TheMIsterEpic: When was the last time you used rails? The entire survival technical community: *Breathes*

3:11 yes bro, also congrats on 400k!

Regarding your question on the last time we used minecarts, I actually use them quite often, and setting up rail networks is one of my favorite things to build. While I agree that minecarts could use a big overhaul, as they really haven't been touched since Beta 1.5, I think one of the advantages they have is the ability to just let the minecart run without any input from you. It may not be as fast as an elytra, but traveling without having to actually do anything I think is really nice. It's also really useful for Nether travel since it can be hard to navigate the Nether with an elytra sometimes.

The elytra is just something that's so OP and useful that even though it might break the difficulty of survival, I just could not go back to playing the game without it.

I really like the solutions presented here. Personally, I think other movement needs to be buffed. especially rails. Maybe an item that amplifies redstone power, and causes minecarts to go that much faster when applied to a powered rail? That would be cool imo.

one idea i've had for horses and donkeys is to make them semi-automatic. with minecarts and even with elytras if you have enough height, you can travel basically afk. it would be nice if you could make horses hold a direction and just go. ofc they would need an AI buff to not just fall into a ravine, run into fire/cacti or stop at a wall though.

I think it would be cool to have a bonding mechanic that requires a nether star, where you would have to combine that and the elytra to make it able to be bonded to a player and then only they could use it (once activated like a map) that way they have to kill the wither as well which requires good gear unless you use the fountain trick but that can be patched. I feel like this is the best option.

Elytra might be strong but the thing is that if they made it too bad or removed it, a lot of people would be angry.

Elytra I think isn't necessarily the issue itself, the older methods of transport just isn't viable as much. Minecarts used to be what I would at least consider "end game". I remember back in 2012 when I wanted to go from my base to other places in the world, I would spend quite sometime building a railroad, which I only do now if I want to relive the old days. Boats are still relatively good, but the most common use I see is in the nether, which building a nether tunnel isn't something everyone will do, especially in single player. With the introduction of horses, it really became the main way I would travel, but today, would I ride a horse up a mountain and have to be careful of fall damage, or just put on an elytra and fly over the mountain in seconds? Last year I hosted a server with a few players, in 3 days everyone had an elytra, no one really used any other form of travel. I quite like the idea of increasing the rails speed. A SMP some years ago SMP Earth had those type of rails, it actually made the players interested in building rails. Last thing I would personally like to mention, elytra might be fast, but elytra with a trident in rain = thousands of blocks in just a few seconds, I really don't think anything would beat that. I would definetly prefer if Mojang could make other form of travel more interesting, than making the elytra weaker, it's just such a great QOL improvement to the game.

Last time I made a railway was probably 2018-2019? It was for the "On The Rail" Achievement on Bedrock. You have the travel 500 blocks on a rail. It was quite fun and reminded me of the olden days. We did have an iron farm, so it wasn't too bad, and raided a few abandoned mineshafts.

Personally, I have always built railways in my creative worlds to find some of my builds or to get to important places (kind of like a tour of the world). They do take a long time to make, but creative helps a lot in shortening that.

Mojang looks at this video: lets make faster elytras!

I have actually never beaten the Ender Dragon. I have also only ever found one stronghold legitimately. Part of this is bedrock’s strangely rare Nether Fortresses.

i have a world with some friends and we decided to ban elytra and it’s the longest going active world we’ve ever done simply because there’s still a certain level of challenge with finding new ways of transport. one of the most valuable items on that server is tridents because riptide is generally the fastest way of transport that doesn’t require any pre built infrastructure and it’s so interesting to see how modern late game minecraft is without elytra

I still find minecarts useful as it’s easy to travel and is also very useful for carrying cargo, hopefully someday they become faster. There can also be a special minecart that’s harder to craft but can go much faster and possibly rival elytras

I’ve always had the fantasy that horses could be buffed by being fed an egapple and becoming a sort of Pegasus. In my mind, they would be a bit slower than elytra, but could fly infinitely, and would not have to glide and could hover to an extent. That and enchanted and netherite horse armor is always a good one, though I disagree that it should be craftable. Horse armor I feel should be a rare thing. If we are to buff horses though, skeleton horses should become far more interesting. Maybe some unique movement things added to em, like instead of the egapp making em fly, they can now walk on water, or move incredibly fast? I’m rambling, but all cool things I feel.

The ultimate issue is twofold 1. Other forms of transportation are unbelievably underpowered 2. Minecraft has late game items, but not much of an actual late game. The first is somewhat easily solved with buffs. The latter is more of a complex issue. You will fight the same mobs in the overworld and nether of the same variety and usually about the same health and damage. The only way to make the elytra better endgame content, is to make more content in the game in general. I mean look at twilight forest, for all of its flaws (and there's plenty) it at least has you run through the wringer to get to its final endgame content. What does minecraft have? Go through a portal, get some crafting ingredients, find the other portal, fight a medicore boss. The ultimate problem here is that there just isn't much progression content in the game

I like railways because I can get onboard, go AFK for a while, and then get back to playing once I've arrived at the destination. Ironically or not, this is the same benefit that real trains offer - you don't have actively drive the vehicle in order to get somewhere.

Its ironic because I've been playing on the same survival world for 10 years straight now and I just recently beat the ender dragon last year for my very first time and finally got Elytra, when I say it was such a satisfying experience to finally fly around my world I've played on for so long, that would be an understatement

Honestly this reminds me of a terraria situation. Terraria has wings and minecarts as well, but each one has their own thing they excel at. Minecarts are cheap to mass produce and are RIDICULOUSLY fast, like, we are talking more than 200% player speed. Imagine 1 rail recipe providing 2 stacks of powered rails and moving you at 1.5x elytra speed with firework rockets That's the closes comparison I can make. In terraria, rails don't need to be above any block, they have a smart cursor feature which automatically places rails for you in the general direction your mouse is facing, and you can adjust your minecart speed with the arrow keys. Minecarts also don't accelerate or decelerate without player input. Wings, however, let you freely fly for a set number of seconds, in any direction, using wd or space. Holding space(or jump button) will decrease the flight time left and make you go up. Naturally, releasing space will make you fall and not use flight time. When you run out of flight time, holding space will make you fall more slowly instead. Touching the floor will reset the flight time. Wing speed depends on which wing it is but mostly you can think of it as being roughly equal or slightly faster than player speed (terraria doesn't have running, although there is an accessory called Hermes boots that makes you walk much faster and that is what I am talking about when I say "player speed", around 34 mph). That, however, is only the begging for minecarts. There's a minecart equip slot for your player, and there are 3 tiers of minecarts. The wooden minecart, used when you don't have a minecart equipped(51 mph). An iron cart, crafted with wood and iron, ~30% faster than the regular cart(66 mph), and the mechanical minecart, acquired much later in the game(midgame), being *100%* faster than the wooden minecart (102 mph). That's right. It's 3x faster than player speed. That is how minecarts in terraria are useful. They are accessible, very powerful and you upgrade it throughout the game, making sure that it's not irrelevant

IMO, the Elytra highlights the issues with other modes of transport in the game. In fact, 'mid game' transportation as a whole is incredibly sluggish, has built in flaws that don't make any sense other than some weird attempt at balance, and require a lot of setup Rails, like you said, are overpriced and painfully slow and require a tonne of setup, with their main draws being mob transportation and automation at this point. The only times you really see rails used for player transportation in modern versions is in the Nether, and even then that's becoming less and less common. Boats, while they did get a huge buff with the ice drifting, which is one of the main things causing rails to be not used as much in the Nether, also have a huge flaw. Horses, which suffer from being unable to swim, cannot ride boats. This means you can ride your Horse (slowly) across land, but in a lot of cases can't even take it back with you on the boat. One other method of transport not mentioned in the video is portal travel, which is time consuming gathing Obsidian for, requires knowledge of portal synchronisation to set up, and in reality, due to the way they work, can themselves be used as a conduit to make all transport methods faster..including the Elytra

This is a great video. I think one way they could make the Elytra harder to get would be to have it found in parts that must be assembled. This would at least require more exploration in the end. Or you could even have those parts locked behind other bosses like the wither or that new boss that I don't really pay any attention to at the moment.

i really really want 1.20 to either be the transportation update, the end update, or both honestly. 1.20 is a milestone and they gotta do something big, so im mostly hoping for the end update. also, when you were talking about improving minecarts all i was thinking was "THEME PARKS!!!"

Flight in any game is always going to be over powered, but it definitely changed the scale people are willing to build at as we aren't limited by y level anymore

The elytra itself isnt a problem. The problem is that travel by minecarts and horses are too underpowered. If I were to buff them, it would be: Minecarts: - minecarts can now go 20 blocks per seconds after touching a boost pad - minecarts now have momentum physics. If a cart is going down a hill, it gains speed. The speed cap being 50 BPS. - Players can now jump while riding minecarts. Donkey Kong will love this! - players now get more rails from crafting Horses: - Horses can now hold chests and armor at the same time. - Road blocks now increases a horse's speed.

9:15 also allowing players to turn independetly from the Horses direction would be very helpfull, so you could actually fight with them or explore without having to slow down

I made a 3,000 block long minecart track that went over an ocean and monument in a 1.19 smp server, it took hours upon hours to build because I also built a 3 wide stone brick bridge with walls on the side, but I still just use elytra to get around because it takes 10+ minutes of minecart riding, so it’s much more of a novelty than an actual necessity

1:20 "when was the last time you built a rail in minecraft?" meanwhile me making a whole rail system to get to and from my ender portal stronghold

I dunno, you are right, we all can reach the end relatively easy, I did that today with my friend, but the fight with the dragon was hard as hell since we were so underprepared, iron gear is not enough for it, being low on arrows doesn't help either So I don't think anyone can really reach the end with only a few hours, at least not sucessfully, we both died several times before gathering the eyes of Ender And even if you manage to beat the dragon and explore the end islands, you might run low on resources to keep going, and most importanly, it's almost guaranteed that your first city Will not have an end ship

Depth strider horse armour is such a great idea! Needs to be a thing for sure

You deserve 500k man, your minecraft content is really good and the commentry i really like it and we all do that's why we watch you, keep going man :D

Weird take in my opinion. Minecraft doesn't need to be super balanced and/or a certain difficulty to get to different levels. It's a sandbox game after all. Let people get to the end game fast if they want so that they can so that they can work on giant projects and have fun. I know I start having alot more fun when I'm able to start moving around my world faster, and tend to stay on that world longer

10:43 You couldn’t actually use it ANYWHERE or ANYTIME at the beginning. You couldn’t boost with rockets till 1.10 or 1.11 I think. And you couldn’t take off from a standing position until the elytra change in 1.13 or 1.14 I think. Before then, you needed to climb up a block or two to take off.

Speaking about how easy it is to kill the dragon, I think the end might receive a overhaul soon as the nether changed and then the overworld. Think either a new dimesion soon or an end overhaul is probably next. Which is thrilling. Also trident and water traveling is my personal favorite which I'm sad wasn't event given an honourable mention

One of the most neglected features in Minecraft is the furnace minecarts, they are added in Alpha and quickly replaced by powered rails in Beta, and haven't improved much since. They didn't even add furnace minecarts into Bedrock Edition. Furnace minecarts push other minecarts in front of it, but the problem is, the pushed minecarts go much faster than the furnace minecart and the furnace minecart is left behind. The pushed minecarts eventually come to a stop after losing their energy and wait for the furnace minecart to arrive. Sometimes the furnace minecart gets left behind so much that it stays out of your simulation distance. If they fix furnace minecarts, making railways would be much easier (because it doesn't need powered rail) and if they make it faster, there would be a much more fun alternative to elytra. (Furnace minecart also has a pulling function, just like a real locomotive, but it will come apart if it turns a corner, so it's mostly useless. I hope we can connect minecarts with chains in the future.)

I don't think that is that the elytra is over powered, I think it's that other methods of transport are underpowered

These are all good suggestions for balancing transportation in the game, but considering how mojang has been over the past couple of years, it’s unlikely we’ll see any of these changes implemented.

Flying is real fun, and gives you a different view of builds. I think the killer feature is for how many biomes are around though. Elytra take the grind out of walking everywhere. Other methods of transport need less investment to build them. having boats be able to beach onto land would be incredible for ice boating

Rushing to the End in the first few hours is the complete antithesis to how I play. When I start a new world I just focus on building a nice base with lots of farms, mining, and getting fully enchanted armor. Only then do I go to the End and get the elytra, but by then I've usually already done everything I wanted to do so I just start a new world and do it all over again. I never really stay on the same world for more than a month lol. And because I never delete old worlds I probably have about 40 different worlds from over the years and across various different platforms. I went from PS3 to PS4 to PS5 and just recently to PC.

The Elytra may be overpowered but i have yet to see a flying mechanic in any other game that could come even close in terms of fun and freedom. Legit, i was never a maaassive fan of Minecrafts gameplay, i always felt it was just kinda restricting and slow but once i got an Elytra for the first time every single issue i ever had just vanished, combat was more fun with dive bombing or sweeping, getting around became easier and far more interesting and as already said, flying around so freely is just super fun :D

Elytras are fine in my opinion because you really don't have to do much in terms of real game progression after the Ender Dragon. Elytra just gives you more freedom in terms of exploring and building stuff.

As soon as you mentioned rails I instantly remembered of grians Evo smp and a huge wave of nostalgia hit me:)

I have owned multiple survival smp's with my friends, and in every single one of them, elytras have been banned in the main city, if not the whole server. This really makes it more fun, and adds tons of more projects to make in a smp, as our server, had in the first month, already accuired 500+ blocks of long distance rail, and 200 of metro system in our "city" the changes you suggest I think are really great, and should definetly get added into the game. I very much enjoyed watching this video.

Congrats on 500k and love the video, but about the “late game being late game”, the point of the elytra is to allow that manoeuvrability for a more creative late game, because other than travel which can be done easily anyway, elytra are super useful for larger scale projects and being able to reach those quickly isn’t a bad thing

the elytra being in the endgame is good, but the end dimension should be another 2-3 hours of gameplay out. maybe add more dimensions, bosses, and required "quest items" that can only be gotten in places like jungles and oceans, also make minecarts go like 64 blocks per second, ya know, like a train. yeah im repeating most of what he said arent i?

As someone who grew up playing before beds lol, I love building rail systems it’s in the games name “Mine” I have been enjoying building massive minecart systems, especially with new 1.18 caves. It is so much fun with mods, having to come up with designs on how to bring up ores from the depths! Maybe that’s just me but I’m having a blast with out flying :)

This goes into one of my biggest issues with the end-game: Everyone does the same thing. Every single KZfaqr I watch ends up setting up multiple mob farms which aren't anything unique or original, typical villager trading hall, wither farm, has 300 totems which defeats the purpose of hardcore, etc. Very little do I see people do things that are just nice aesthetically. It's like they have to grind out and do everything asap. Then they say their series got boring. Yeah, no shit!

Elytra: OP Item, Unbalanced for other transpoetation such as minecarts, horses, .etc My idea to improve the outdated transportation: - Minecarts: Double / Triple the speed, Make rails less expensive (Change crafting recipe), Make powered rails can turn to right or left, fix the other rails bug. - Horses: Make average speed more higher than it should be, make horses armor craftable than only leather.

I recently challanged myself to get Adventuring Time (find every biome) on foot. No Elytra or other forms of transport, just walking. It was a really fun experience, especially with all the new world generation, and I would definitely recommend giving it a try! I'm still continuing on that world without the Elytra, and have begun building my mega base, although it isn't as big as some of my others. This is coming from a person who use Elytra, a lot, but I feel like sometimes not using an Elytra and exploring without it is extremely fun and nostalgic.

I love the mine cart changes u proposed!

I remember when i used to play, I used rails everywhere in my world( even in my minecraft house)like from my table to fridge and tv and back

Yeah, the ability to get late game gear quickly is a problem... or it would be if Minecraft wasn't an entirely unique game. At it's core, Minecraft is a sandbox. Progression is completely subjective when it comes to this game. While yes, the game has bosses, those bosses don't act as a way to impede progression. Rather they act as a side challenge for the player to overcome.

"Imagine making the minecart, minecart hopper,and chest speed faster" Another op way to transport items,mobs,and no more annoying villager going down the track when you're transporting them up a staircase.

3:59 Once in one of my survival worlds, i found i horse i really liked. My goal in the world was just to go north though, so when i hit an ocean i couldn't take my horse across it, or that's what you would think. I single-handedly ride my horse across the ocean, while stopping a a few structures.

Some smps ban elytras so I use railways but other than that I use the elytra but I still love building rails, especially on earth smps to connect countries or just parts of cities, I also do the same thing with water canals and stuff. It’s fun.

Honestly while I feel like it is op, you have to really know what you’re doing to actually reach that point. Not nearly as many people as you’d think actually reach the end in vanilla survival(I think like ~15-20%) and then there’s the added difficulty of getting to an end city and getting the elytra. Then in order to actually “fly” you need a sustainable source of sugarcane and gunpowder. After all that you need either a mending book and an xp farm or phantom membranes to repair it. While once you have all of this it does feel overpowered, the process to get there is too difficult for so many people that I would argue it’s not really overpowered once you account for everything.

Boats are still popular especially for long distance travel and thru the nether, and maybe minecarts for a subway build? i see why the elytra is op and needs to be tweaked but i also think some people still use rails, horses / donkeys / mules and boats.

I've been toying with the idea of buffing Minecrafts transportation myself recently and do like the ideas for Rails, Horses and Boats. Minecarts should definitely get a Speed upgrade, in my opinion instead of 8b/s they should travel at least 16b/s. 24b/s seemed a bit too fast for Minecarts alone, so maybe they could cap out at around 20b/s themselves, however if they are chained/linked to a Furnace Minecart then they should be able to go even faster and reach those 24 and beyond b/s, maybe even 30b/s. If you can chain several Minecarts together I think it would be fine to say a maximum of 9 minecarts can be chained together (as an example: 1 Furnace Minecart at the front and 8 Chest Minecarts behind it), allowing for easier transportation of mobs like Villagers or your chests if you move bases, instead of running back and forth. If we already buff all of that, the Furnace Minecart should also get a UI where you can place fuel into its "inventory" and fuel itself when it runs out. 9 slots would seem like a good amount, tho every fuel would give the Furnace Minecart the same speed (no matter if it's Coal, Lava Buckets or Blaze Rods). I'm not so sure about the idea of Powered Rails being able to turn corners and the normal Rails to curve and go up a block (8:23). Yeah it's annoying, but I don't really see it as a problem with Rails. How would the model for the Rail turning and going up look like? I think it's more so a thing about "if the Rail did look like this, the Minecart wouldn't be able to drive along it". It wouldn't make sense for the Minecart to be able to drive along such weird paths, it would realistically just derail. I hate the fact that if you ride on a horse you take up so much space and get constantly stuck on things because you aren't used to having such a big hitbox. So instead, what if when the player in on a horse their hitbox will allow transparent blocks to pass through them (like leaves). I don't know if it would have any complicaions with the coding of the hitboxes, like your hitbox just disappearing and making you "unkillable". Probably would be a lot of bugs or glitches involved with it. I haven't used horses much, but giving them an inventory like donkeys would be cool, or add something like a cart or wagon which you can let your horse pull along as you ride. not something like a big wagon from the Wild West but rather similar to the Chest Boat just a small little wooden wagon with 1 or 2 chests on it to pull. For boats I don't have anything myself cuz I haven't given them much thought. They are the king for transport in the Nether with Ice Highways, give you some neat chest managment with Chest Boats, and are the go to transport over water if you don't have an Elytra. I'd love to see changes to some of the more forgotten or ignored parts of Minecraft. There's still potential in these and there's so much cool stuff you could make.

yayy congrats on 400k finally!

The biggest problem with making big changes to stuff in vanilla is that the game was created without a fulll plan in mind (updates are still filling in the gaps today) and is more focused on building/exploring stuff rather than having progression or being challenging for the more experienced. It's more of a total mix of various features and additions rather than something super cohesive, and it feels kinda late by this point to expect lots of change to modify progression when everyone's become used to it. 1.20 could prove me wrong but I have no idea

Hey epic! Elytra is pretty insane with traveling. Especially because it can safe you from the void if you have fireworks

back when mine carts first came out, you could make two run next to eachother in a really easy to setup way which would boost them insanely fast. I remember setting up elaborate rail systems based on those boosters....

listening to your suggestions for improvements to the other transport methods, I couldn't help but comment that a lot of them can be addressed by just having a 'trailer' maybe made from a boat? that way the boat, which carries two mobs/players, or one mob and one chest, could be attached to minecarts to travel along rails, or to horses which usually pull along a trailer in fantasy-fiction anyway, to give them a storage that goes well beyond a donkey's or lama's sadddlebags. but you could go one step further with these 'trailers' and attach wool to them to make a carriage. imagine being protected from arrows/ranged attacks while travelling?

I have been saying this for ages. The last time I have seen a proper Railway on a server or made one myself was before the Elytra was able to use firework rockets. Especially on large SMPs with Dynmaps its so sad to see that many towns aren't even connected via Roads anymore. Nowdays most builds are just for the sake of building something. Back in the day you would often build infrastructure useful to the world. Land closer to spawn was also more valuable. I think the only fast form of transport other that the Elytra is the Soulspeed water highways.

I think that the elytras are perfect. If I had to choose between raid farms or elytras I would choose elytras.

Really good ideas. At first I though it would just be a meaningless, contentless video but I got pleasently surprised! I would love to see Mojang show rails some love. Or even add a new transport like transport tubes similar to Satisfactory. Or maybe even teleportation in the same way as the respawn anchor but you have to fuel it will nether stars or something expensive.

You missed soul soil roads with soul speed boots, especially through the nether. Not as fast as nether ice boat roads but much faster to construct and don't require any additional item. I often upgrade my nether roads to soil soil to make travel faster, though will use ice boats for longer distances if needed. I feel these methods are still viable competitors to elytra that allow one to not have to switch gear or be less armored. Also rails have gone mainly to redstone contraptions so their use has changed but still very useful. I would like to see that expanded.

rails are extremely inconvenient, expensive to craft, takes time to set up, istn even fast... horses are just pain in butt, elytra is only reason why I gave playing survival a chance, elytra is one of best things minecraft added.

i always said to myself and friends, and will repeat it here: if minecarts were linkable, (and furnace carts were added back into bedrock), furnace carts could be the best transport for long distance, especially if you could feed it a coal block so it could drive you or your whole train 2,000+ blocks or something it'd also be great for long distance item transportation, if something like (player-made) chest minecarts acted as chunk loaders when moving additionally i think powered rails should be tweaked so they act more as accelerators for short distance, or back and forth tracks, like the tracks for hopper minecarts and just making rails way cheaper overall, like maybe they give 32 instead of 16 could seriously put minecarts back on the map as for horses, i think what you said works perfectly, but i have an idea for 3 horse exclusive enchantments: -Trampling: When a Horse hits a mob, the mob takes damage, damage scales with level -Trail Blazer: When a Horse runs over a dirt (or any variant) block, theres a small chance the dirt is converted to grass path, chance increases with level -Ravenger: Leaves, grass, and crops that come into contact with the Horse are destroyed (this does NOT causing leaf decay, it also disables any drops to avoid entity lag) as for boats, i think they're completely fine and balanced as for sprinting, i think simply having a stamina meter, where you run out of stamina after 20 seconds, could work quite nice, as most time sprinting is only used for short bursts, and the time for stamina could refill in-between bursts as for striders, well i find them cute and they're fairly awesome for getting around, due to the difficulty of setting up any form of nether highway (i.e. ice boat, rail, horse, or even soul speed) and yea thats about it i like striders and minecarts thatdms my ted talk

I still use railways to get to my farms, from slime farm to my end portal, it was made easier to get the rail materials with my iron. I got the elytra and only wear it to get to my ocean farms but need to build a railway there for a nice scenic route.