Personally, i think this update is great! The problem here is communication not content IMO! :-)

The person who suggested to remove fireflies because of their irl toxicity to frogs, is the same person who reminds the teacher about homework

The firefly excuse they came up with doesn’t even make sense, just because frogs don’t eat it, they didn’t have to completely shaft the idea itself.

For an update called the “wild update”.

What destroyed my excitement for this update was the elimination of fireflies, I love building and creating cozy enviroments and this was a massive positive point for me, and aince they scrapped it, it just made me completely uninterested on the update since as a builder and decorator, that was the biggest point I was hyped about besides the Allay.

Some fireflies are toxic to some frogs, so clearly they must eat cubes of magma instead.

I agree. Personally I like a lot of the 1.19 features like mud, chest boats, allays and some of the sculk mechanics. As always there's stuff that I'm not that excited about like the warden and the sculk sensor. Mojang really shot themselves in the foot with overpromising and not delivering fireflies and birch forest. I can't see why this update is called the wild update at this point. Apart from that the update isn't worse than other updates imo.

The big problem is that Minecraft should arguably have a lot of momentum behind it in the development team. It's literally the best sold game of all time, having made billions of billions of dollars in sales in just a decade. It'd be one thing if some stuff slipped the update, I guess that's fine. But this many times in a row? This should be the most well funded development team of any current game considering how many copies are in customer hands.

I dont like the way this company is moving. They show all these features and when they dont deliver they blame us for thinking the features were actually going to be implemented. Its always delayed, or they give up on features.

It's kinda weird that they cut the fireflies because of their toxicity to frogs, but they let them eat magma cubes instead? I can't imagine it's a good thing for a small terrestrial creature to swallow a cube of living magma from another dimension either.

Your firefly thing is on point. This "but frogs eat them" argument is taking their binding principles too far. It read like a copout rather than a reason and it would have finally added some life to biomes.

Me and my friend found our first mangrove swamp and it was honestly disappointing, it felt nothing like that screen shot... frogs look modded too lol... they should've added dynamic fog, like in swamps it could be thicker when you enter them to make them more emersive

A simple performance update is long overdue honestly, every update gives you lower fps and more lagspikes and you have to use mods to make the game playable at all in some cases. Better light engine, better entity culling, better multicore support, improved Server efficiency, things like that would go a long way

Biggest thing for me was that it’s called the “wild update”. If they just called it “caves and cliffs pt 3” and said it would be smaller (ie bee update). It’s like they were sneakily trying to hide the fact this update is smaller, as if that’s somehow a bad thing

It’s only because there’s not enough “wild” in the wild update. With a name like that I expect more passive mobs/animals. The update is alright but there’s more to be desired

I really, REALLY think they should take an update "break" and do a housekeeping update for 1.20, fixing bugs and providing better use to things already in the game, as well as some parity changes. After that, I think a different approach like what you mentioned closer to the end would be fantastic. Bedrock really needs some big fixes though (random deaths, falling through the world, other weird ones that have granted it the name "bugrock" lmao) and there are some parity things that would be great additions, like movable chests and potion cauldrons in Java and a mix of things in Bedrock (sorry can't think of big ones right now).

Fireflys, even if they didnt make them be eaten by frogs, they could still be in the game. I dont think litteral cubes of freaking fire is much better.

That's a really good point about how ambiguous they left 1.19 back at Minecraft Live. They made it seem like swamps and birch forests were just a portion of what was coming. Instead, we just got swamps and a biome that was meant to be in the last update.

Can't believe a game with zombies, dragons, and an eldritch sea monster that frogs eating fireflies were too unrealistic

My issue with Mojang has always been how little they actually do. Modders make significantly larger and more complex updates with basically no resources (unlike Bethesda that releases a full dev kit for modders). So why does Mojang take so long to add so little?