Minecraft Versions Tier List w/ Iskall85

Today we rank Minecraft updates with ‪@iskall85‬ but keep in mind every update is good in its own way and the effort put into each is commendable. This tier list does not reflect the opinions of CaptainSparklez Inc. or its affiliates.
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[@iskall85]

This was great fun! Next one should be a VH update tier list

[@logi_berra_44]

Vault Hunters 1.18 as a whole would be S tier the amount of great changes that vastly improved gameplay was insane although the best update within 1.18 VH has to be update 9 it was the best update for the 3.0 mod pack.

[@pomidorus9]

You forgot about armor stands in 1.8. They are the best thing in Minecraft.

[@EpicMuttonChops]

get over diorite, child! bdubs has proved you wrong multiple times!

[@walterp1028]

I see that you didn't watch early Etho. No one understood comparators? Etho certainly did. That's when his redstone projects skyrocketed in complexity.

[@skogen5357]

Ey yo it's icecold85

[@analysissel]

What mending is, it's a band-aid for the outdated level system. That's why Iskal had the perspective shift; 'cuz he realized that without it, we're stuck with something even worse.

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

Yeah, i kept wondering why the anvils sucked so much, and what was so bad about the enchanting table. People dislike them quite a bit. But at it’s core, the problem is the level system itself. I have no idea how Mojang could fix it, it’s so ingrained into the game. Would just rebalancing adress it? I don’t think so. No matter what Mojang do, I can’t think of a good backwards compatible way of making a reasonable exp/level system.

[@analysissel]

@@WhatIsMyPorpoise they're already halfway there. Enchanting tables only take 1, 2, or 3 experience, with the higher numbers only being prerequisites rather than the actual price. So while earning the EXP is still burdensome, it's way more valuable than it used to be. They just need to remove the "TOO EXPENSIVE" thing from anvils and not make repairing the same item scale endlessly.

[@impjbtw]

@@analysisseljust make me get either half or the same amount of xp when i grindstone the enchant off. boom problem solved

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

@@analysissel nah, the perpetual scaling up works. Players of different levels can effectively make their tools last longer. With an enderman exp farm, even 64 levels isn't out of reach for repairs. It really is the Too Expensive! that is completely out of wack. Why is the game deciding for players what is "Too Expensive!", cost is relative.

[@ldezzer3950]

You mine diamonds, then enchant tools/armor, then mine even more diamonds with enchanted tools, to enchant even more - sounds like a fair system to me. But thanks to Mending and modern Villager Overhaul, you don't even need to mine or craft to beat the game... in a game called Minecraft. Yea, i think i just convinced myself to go all the way back to 1.2.5

[@BeeTeeKayMSM]

I think something important to note about 1.8 is the inclusion of Armor Stands, which essentially revolutionized the technical side of the game.

[@Sledg0matic]

As Sethbling can attest.

[@JeskidoYT]

The imported wand tool from gmod? Of course

[@haeilsey]

1.4 had command blocks too. sad they rated big tech updates so low because they don't really know or interact with them that much

[@literatemax]

What did armor stands make possible that wasn't before? Or do you just mean using custom commands to pose and invis-ify the armor stand and stuff?

[@Vinaco1]

I fully expect Iskall to put 1.8 on E tier purely because of diorite

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Yeah. That is the worst and ugly block added in 1.8.

[@PurplePhoenix5]

"put it on F"

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Yeah.@@PurplePhoenix5

[@crossiscool6681]

Iskall: How about F!

[@trendisty6160]

@@kate_isawesome1207 If you think this, you just aren't a good builder!

[@kluevo]

As much as 1.13's phantoms sucked, I think it's arguably the most important of the modern style updates. The changes were absolutely vital for the minecraft revival back around 2019

[@Bethylee]

Agreed

[@apollo4950]

The technical changes 1.13 brought paved the way for a bunch of stuff in updates after it, definitely the most important of the modern updates

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Yeah. Phantoms are the worst! I don't who is an idiot who voted it!

[@8cladgamer210]

I never really understood the Phantom hate. They’re certainly annoying at times, but since we’re supposed to sleep ANYWAY, what’s the harm? Hordes of them can suck but it isn’t like they’re the worst. I kinda see them like drowned, just sorta..meh.

[@dogsteeves1]

I voted for phantom and haven't reget it since

[@GilWanderley]

About Beta 1.4, being disappointed with wolves is more common than you think. Remember a mod called "Better than wolves"?

[@kate_isawesome1207]

No. I didn't know that mod exist. But I do know the Aether, JEI and Minecraft Comes Alive mods exists.

[@brundle_fly_3895]

@@kate_isawesome1207ok?

[@JeskidoYT]

First animal mod pack too

[@geekjokes8458]

one of the biggest mods of the time, all those "hard mode" survival packs only exist because of it

[@Raygun9000]

Wolves need excessive numbers to be effective. If they had variable stats like horses... speed, health, damage.

[@JoshAbellSmith]

1.13 is S+ tier without a doubt, because it was "the flattening". The new command system, along with data packs, is such a monumental change that completely reshaped the ability to make custom content. I cannot express just how revolutionary it was. No update can match its significance, in my opinion.

[@Wolfman9623_]

Yeah, hadn’t thought about datapacks, those were a HUGE addition for map making

[@JoshAbellSmith]

@@Wolfman9623_ Yes, map making, but also for normal Survival or custom game modes.

[@anakinlowground5515]

Agreed. The Phantoms don’t detract from this, as you can just turn them off, making it so you never have to worry about them. What I mainly care about though, is the massive upgrade to the oceans.

[@TerraKnight27]

worst part about 1.13 was the horrible lag

[@drunkenmongoose]

People forget that 1.17 and by extension 1.18 had a lot of their development time during the worst parts of the pandemic, it definitely screwed with how the Deep Dark and related features were unevenly released.

[@benjackson8731]

They even had the apology video asking for more time.

[@16m49x3]

Meh, a flu doesn't make it difficult to make video games.

[@terminatora1249]

Yup, also the deep dark and the archeology we were shown back then are nothing in comparison to the ones we have today

[@skogen5357]

​@@16m49x3I hope your joking

[@MUI_Noam12]

@@16m49x31. Covid is much more dangerous than a flu. 2. Yes it absolutely does. Due to everyone working from home synergy was nearly impossible at the time.

[@gravysauce3434]

"wolves should have armour" boy that aged well

[@lightning_11]

I feel like mending in 1.9 was fine because it was extremely late-game. Mending books were super hard to get. 1.14 was the problem, because they trivialized the what should have been a hyper-lategame accomplishment.

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Villagers in 1.14 are the worst. Because they now raise the prizes of their trades when hit! Even hit by accident!

[@Killerbee4712]

@@kate_isawesome1207 Dont hit your villagers then

[@kate_isawesome1207]

While I'm fighting the mobs. Even zombies that are attacking them. It would be nice if they will stay inside the house and close the door when they are being chased. Since when they are being chased, they comes out of the house again. They are so dumb. When I'm being chased, I always stay in the house, close the door and sleep in a bed to skip the night.@@Killerbee4712

[@dennisbogaarts]

​@Killerbee4712 as of 1.16 villagers raise the prices even without hitting them. But it's gonna get worse soon

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Yeah. So annoying. They should revert that. Since it's annoying and unfair. Also doesn't makes sense.@@dennisbogaarts

[@marloesvaneck9948]

Iskall and jordan together!!!! Best duo ever!

[@Piggles64099]

7:35 wow this aged really well seeing that wolves now CAN wear armor if the armadillo wins the mob vote 😂

[@fallpetals]

their AI is still really basic though- I don’t think they’ve touched it in years. Sure, wolves won’t die as quickly, but bad AI is the bane of any NPC or pet.

[@Cabaro7]

This aged even better now that they actually won

[@anakinlowground5515]

Still, barely anything has changed about the wolves. One thing, ONE thing is changing about wolves, and that’s the fact they’re getting armor. Nothing else is even remotely different

[@Cas-Se78.97]

1.8 definitely needs more love. People have already commented on armor stands and command changes, but people forget those times when every door was an oak door and every fence was an oak fence.

[@barbar3137]

A few key things that I would like to point out for some updates, and this is a bit of a read: - *1.12* introduced a LOT of advancements, most notably How Did We Get Here (have every Survival mode effect on you at the same time). This was rough because either roses were not introduced until 1.14 by having a mob die to the Wither, so you would have to get hit by a Wither Skeleton. - *1.14* introduced wither roses, which made HDWGH easier to perform. In addition, the player’s hit box went down to 1.5 blocks when sneaking and the “hydraulic press,” which allowed players to crawl through 1x1 tunnels. The press could be a 1.13 thing, but I remember Jordan covering that in a 1.14 video. - *1.17* also had the infamous mob vote where we would’ve had the Iceologer (Chillager), but thanks to Dream (I say this as a joke bc I know think he wasn’t the prime reason), we ended up getting glow squids, which I’m surprised Jordan did NOT call that out and put that as F tier and put 1.8 in E or D. - *1.20* made the ability to collect diamonds more viable because of ONE thing: smithing templates. These have the ability to design our armor, but more importantly, if you wanted to go from Diamond to netherite, you needed a netherite upgrade template, and duplicating those required 7 diamonds. Same can be said with the armor trims. So this kind of helps Iskall’s point of “searching for more diamonds,” but the only problem was diamond generation from 1.18 to present is poor compared to before. I’ll note that in 1.16 and 1.17, people found guaranteed methods of finding diamonds and I think that’s what Mojang and Microsoft were trying to move away from. With the new experimental update (1.20.2), they made finding exposed diamond ores more rewarding, and I’m happy with that. The *ONE* addition that they made, and I feel like I have a strong feeling about this, was Smithing With Style. This, right here and in my opinion, is the new hardest advancement because of the RNG aspect of finding certain trims. I have a bit of a strong passion about this because of HDWGH, which takes preparation and proper timing and attention to what effects you have, so to see it get replaced as the hardest advancement just stinks, but those are my two cents. Sorry for the long read, but I needed to point out some key things that were not discussed.

[@DvirMC]

25:03 The 1.8 update made sheep drop their meat, and made sponges obtainable in survival finally!! So it has to be at least A tear!

[@jsw973]

Diorite spotted, assessment invalidated

[@vee24]

You guys have a fun dynamic. It's always nice to see the collab.

[@MrTheQuestioner]

This is one of the best tier list videos I’ve ever seen. I just love the banter and discussions these two og minecrafters have

[@Maria_Miciano_5]

I was not expecting a tier list from Cap and Iskall! Very cool!

[@finnbach2632]

1.8 also added /execute which is pretty much the most important command of all time for map makers. 1.13 did end up reworking it to make it even more useful.

[@emmdeekaysays173]

Elytra flight is easily the best feeling flight mechanic in gaming, the first time I was in there air is when I fell in love with the game.

[@isaiahmayle4706]

Griffins in Ark Survival Evolved handle just about the same but if you hit the ground at full speed you can badly damage or kill enemies within range of the dive bomb. Aim down to go fast flight is amazing.

[@geekjokes8458]

and the wind sound is so good sound design is not something people generally talk about, but minecraft nails it every time

[@kazrielkazoo]

Agreed. I remember being pretty young at the time, and there was a period where all I would do was fly around. I’d put on my favourite song and just glide everywhere and it was so much fun.

[@atharwanavyam5315]

I agree about everything except the 1.18 ranking. The absolute awe when you see the new caves and world generation and how the world expanded into something so magnificent was amazing. Worth the wait I would say

[@coagulated]

Seeing jordon with the sickest fade is something i never knew i needed.

[@forkrunner2208]

Wouldn’t call it “sick” or a “fade” lol (love you jordan)

[@Zack_Zander]

He made a mistake and some of us love it

[@coagulated]

@@forkrunner2208 I still love it tho

[@westbrooksburner]

i can’t tell if this is a joke or not but that is not a fade brother 💀

[@DeadHawk23]

I've never used a horse in minecraft because they can't swim... Like if they could cross a river easily I'd use them.

[@le__birb]

1.13 is S tier for me just because it took swimming from the worst form of movement in the game to one of the best. It and ori showed me that water in games can actually be fun and enjoyable

[@jaredschneider9662]

Surprised Iskall didnt mention as a modder that the primary reasons mods stayed on 1.7 and 1.12 for so long was because 1.8 and 1.13 were technical rewrites to the game. Thus Forge and other mod loaders had to be entirely rewritten for each one. It took years for Forge to do this and then get people to effectively recode their mods for 1.8/1.13, hence the time drought.

[@TheKazragore]

Also the fact that even to this day we're *still* trying to reclaim lost performance from the 1.12 -> 1.13 update.

[@IDKisReal2401]

1.12 is an underrated version Colors where nice but the performance was so good while still having almost all of the important features

[@ShonicBurn]

This video actually brought out a lot of feelings on features that I forget weren't just in the game. I've been playing since 1.3 so I was shocked when I remembered that enchanting wasn't just always a thing.

[@Van-dq4sw]

The additional discussion of history that gets injected into this conversation is, for me (a relative newbie who started in 1.16), fascinating to hear about.

[@taytaythehufflepuff8532]

Same (as someone who played around maybe update 1.12 in elementary school, maybe a few updates earlier, most of my time spent in flat creative worlds until post 1.13)

[@chiefflamehead6626]

Watching a youtuber from my childhood, and a middle-aged Swedish man I found a couple years ago argue over my all-time favorite update... 1.8... Never thought this day would come.

[@erastal]

1:20 Alpha 1.2 The Nether 3:06 Beta 1.2 Noteblock + Cake 4:57 Beta 1.3 Bed + Repeater 6:09 Beta 1.4 Wolves 8:17 Beta 1.7 Pistons 9:45 Beta 1.8 The End 12:04 1.1 Spawn eggs 13:13 1.2 Jungle + Iron golem 14:54 1.3 Trading + Temples 16:00 1.4 Wither + Anvil 18:33 1.5 Redstone 20:12 1.6 Horses 21:27 1.7 Biomes 23:00 1.8 Ocean Monument + Slime Block 26:10 1.9 Combat Update + End City 30:00 1.10 Polar Bears + Magma Block 31:25 1.11 Woodland Mansions + Llamas 32:23 1.12 Terracotta + Birb 34:00 1.13 Ocean Overhaul + Phantom 36:14 1.14 Village Overhaul + Panda, Foxes 38:33 1.15 Bee 40:14 1.16 Nether Overhaul 41:25 1.17 New Caves + Axolatl, Goats 44:14 1.18 New World generation + Biome 46:05 1.19 Deep Dark 48:15 1.20 Modern

[@scotthayes5386]

The auto clicker take was the most based game I’ve ever heard😂

[@vintagedoctor7128]

cap u should do more tierlists w iskall or other people too, like ur map series. this is actually a great podcast and just hearing thoughts from minecraft veterans is really interesting. i was very young when minecraft was still in beta and wasnt really aware of minecraft updates until 1.12. hearing your thoughts on updates i missed out on or was just too young to remember is really cool

[@Hyorinmaruice]

I personally would put 1.16 and CavenCliff part 2 in S tier just because they changed the game SO fundamentally and so wonderfully. But then I'd drop part 1 of CnC into C tier. It had nice stuff but it was... lacking in terms of the way it made me feel and how mojang handled the announcement.

[@waterierStone]

Yeah, adding the building blocks for the biomes in 1.18 is not the same as adding the biomes themselves. CnC part 1 was the first minecraft update i remember skipping after following all the news. none of the stuff was really implemented in survival, so it meant nothing to me.

[@toastr1255]

Honestly, I'm glad that Iskall overruled Jardon for 1.17. The caves and cliffs idea was overly ambitious from the very beginning, that much was obvious. Personally I was skeptical of it, so I didn't have super high expectations for it. As it was, I do quite like a lot of the stuff it added. Deepslate is one of my favorite building blocks, I collected so much of it in 1.17 and made some nice builds. Honestly I think I like it better than 1.18 because the worldgen changes make it more annoying to navigate. You have to be going up and down all the time now when travelling. I can respect putting 1.18 up in A tier though, it's still undeniably a massive update as far as changing the game goes. Also, I'm amazed they put 1.19 in A. Talk about high expectations with little payoff. The warden and the ancient cities were cool, yes, but do you remember how they marketed the update? Remember that birch forest redesign that got swept under the rug and the fireflies with the stupid excuse? At least with 1.17 they made it clear that they still intended to get to the other parts, and as of 1.20 it has all been delivered. 1.19 was supposed to make the biomes more interesting, that's why it was called the wild update, but in reality it was more like the warden update. But as for 1.16, I completely agree that it deserved S tier. It was everything the nether needed and then some.

[@captaindanger13]

@@toastr1255 literally all they had to do was not make the frogs eat the fireflies and their excuse goes out the window.

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

The image was misleading, as the birch forest image was a concept image, kind of a snapshot of what they want their incoming changes to biomes to look like. People looked at the image instead of listening to the words. The fact Mojang didn’t consider the impact an image can have was definitely a fumble, for sure. And now with the mangrove swamp and the cherry grove, in fact, even in the lush and dripstone caves. We can see how they have that extra layer of detail previous biomes lacked, the kind of detail similar to the birch forest concept image. They wanted to show what their design philosophy for new biomes would look like and it backfired on them really badly.

[@qwerty222999]

Nether update did the same for the Nether as Aquatic Update did for the overworld. I do not believe it's not in S tier along with 1.18.

[@TeenyLogic]

Seriously love when you guys do videos together

[@mysterytruck]

hearing you both have your thoughts on every version is ( chef kiss ). thank you guys.

[@day3ric]

I love the change to lights in the caves and cliffs. Probably one of my favorite changes

[@blueskyhigh1426]

I think a key feature in 1.14 was the texture changes, changing all the textures in the game gave it a new feel and brought a lot of attention to the game, sparking a Minecraft revival like with PewDiePie’s series and the Dream SMP

[@fiveoneecho]

The two comparator modes: *Light Off:* _Compare Mode_ If the input into either side is greater than the input into the back, the output will turn off. Otherwise the output strength will be set to the input at the back. output = rear × [left ≤ rear AND right ≤ rear] *Light On:* _Subtract Mode_ Whatever side input is greatest will be subtracted from the back input. This is constrained to not go negative (obviously). output = max(rear − max(left, right), 0) Edit: use light off to do a "greater than or equal" check. Use light on to subtract one signal strength from another.

[@RipMeGaming]

Wow, this went faster than I thought. That 51 minutes and 39 seconds really feels like 15 minutes!

[@syystomu]

I remember loving 1.15 at the time because I was playing on a really old laptop and 1.14 had made the game nearly unplayable for me. The small performance updates in 1.15 saved me. It wasn't much but it made all the difference

[@LiEnby]

I'm happy to be one of the 3 people who understood comparators at launch lol

[@bartender_billy6229]

I’m so glad to see iskall is collab’ing with Jardon!

[@maggieskr5299]

I agree with Jordan on pets dying easily. Maybe they can stand a few hostile mobs, but bringing them along as you progress is just way too risky. A mod that he showcased years ago, allowing you to upgrade pets, give them more health or special abilities was a good idea on how to solve the problem.

[@katsandall3673]

I remember the 1.7 update comming out like it was yesturday because xbox 360 was a few versions behind so we ended with 3 people sharing one laptop to play the update. I also remember features from an april fools update being added for real in 1.7 like the stained glass because greenhouses were a big deal for me back then.

[@tunder4054]

This video took my memories back aswell. Thinking about the first night just punching a hole in dirt and hide until sunrise. Or fiddling around with redstone and need to invert the signal every X blocks because repeaters didnt exist. Love the reminder ❤

[@Scudge0]

I’m on the same side, I prefer shields and the new combat (I really wish for the newer combat snapshots to be updated to the latest version and be toggleable for the time being at least). Also the game sorely needs a Quiver so you can have say 5 stacks of arrows in one device that bows and crossbows can pull from to make mending bows and crossbows more viable more of the time.

[@anthonynguyen1289]

What if they utilize the bundle idea into a quiver recipe. Like you can still make bundles for whatever use people think they have, but a quiver utilizes five bundles. You can insert whatever arrow types you want up to the 5 stacks so like how bundles let you insert random items up to one stack. You could have 32 harming arrows, 32 slowness, 32 spectral, 64 normal, 32 healing, 32 leaping, 32 weakness, 64 poison. If there is no way to cycle I guess it would go by the arrow type you put in first, but if it were to allow you to cycle maybe you would have to right click the quiver. Now bundles have slightly more use which in turn makes rabbits more useful.

[@ldezzer3950]

Isn't Quiver just a Shulker box with few extra steps, tho?

[@Scudge0]

​@@ldezzer3950 I guess, but a bow/crossbow doesn't auto pull arrows from it unless I'm mistaken. Also as Anthony said, being able to toggle through arrow types with say a CTRL and L arrow/R arrow would be soo much better than cluttering your hotbar or needing to unequip your shield to fire them. I also like the idea of having a quiver/backpack slot on your character to put it in (which has been sorely missing since before offhand was made a thing. all of that would make the seldom used tipped arrow more viable and get players to engage in making lingering potions more often in the process imo as I never see tipped arrows used other than in the likes of maps or MCCI style servers etc..

[@everythingisscience658]

I love iskall, its always great watching both my favourite Minecrafters collab!

[@TheMinecraftAvatar]

1.8 added a TON of commands as well as armor stands. 1.8 revolutionized mapmaking and command block creations, without it I probably would've stopped playing years ago. adding /execute and @e was INCREDIBLE.

[@TorvaMessorRecluse]

I would say as a potion user phantoms are cool for their membranes due to slow falling. Which can't be converted by fermented spider eyes by the way but potion of leaping can and it gives slowness 4

[@Flow_Plays_Minecraft]

When 1.6 came up, I swear I could hear Bdubs scream “S-tier!”

[@obviosspiral9950]

I remember my first minecraft update that I was part of since the beginning being the horse update and how amazing they were then

[@SeaOfPixels]

1.18 not being in S is insane. The difference between a world in 1.17 and 1.18 is absolutely massive, a bigger difference then any other release.

[@badyfatycaty7522]

35:58 You can also disable wandering villagers so there is also that.

[@marljusweety]

Paul Soarez Jr.'s "How to survive your first night in Minecraft" video was my introduction to the game. Trying to help my kid figure out gameplay in a bad fake version, I saw potential in the original game and bought it for us both. It has been one of my favorite games ever since. We even met Jordan at Minecon in London. He is just as nice and sweet irl as he seems in his videos. 😊

[@ryan20028]

I expected release 1.3 to be near the bottom. That update was just a mess... They merged multiplayer into singleplayer making it extremely laggy and introduced every multiplayer bug into singleplayer in the process. Many of these bugs are still unfixed.

[@martinshoosterman]

Yes but that also gave us the ability to get command blocks in survival

[@Jamiscus]

people always trash on 1.11 for no reason, it is imo one of the best updates of all time, definitely s tier: - shulker boxels - observers - FIREWORK ROCKET working with ELYTRA - totems of undying - laid the groundwork for illagers and raids

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Raids are for 1.14.

[@thehotwheelsreviews]

LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR@@kate_isawesome1207

[@willydonka1041]

@@kate_isawesome1207 It laid the groundwork, they didnt say it added raids, no Illagers = no pillagers = no 1.14

[@kate_isawesome1207]

Oh ok.@@willydonka1041

[@johnwest6690]

@@kate_isawesome1207Do zoomers literally just not fkning read nowadays?!

[@DvirMC]

33:33 The 1.12 update added the recipe book that we all love and use 'till this day!! It has to be in the S tear!!

[@DarkFart420]

This video is bringing back so many memories, s-tier

[@Fewshin]

I think that while copper is super useless it's pretty good for all the tech mods to just use the same copper resource without any weirdness or without needing modpack makers to tweak the mods as much

[@outplayedmk]

let's go, iskall and captain hype

[@Slackbot]

I don't necessarily agree with a lot of these ratings, but that's fine; I have a different perspective on the game because I'm a more recent player, and a Bedrocker at that. I find it more interesting to see why you rated things the way you did, since you two have been playing the game almost as long it has existed and have seen it change over the years. Good stuff! As for the Bedrock wither--yeah, it's pretty gnarly, but with proper prep it's not *that* bad a fight.

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Spookles and Iskall together is always fun. I pretty much agree with this list, but my favorite updates were the Aquatic, the Nether Update and 1.20. I love everything about 1.20 except for the Sniffer. I'm just finishing up a treasure bastion remnant and prepping it to be a frog light farm. Love the cherry logs, the trail ruins and appreciate how useful honeycomb blocks have become for sealing signs. Everything is the best it's ever been.

[@zwatotem]

Pretty funny to hear CapitanSparklez demand armour for wolves now, when there's actual chance for it to become the reality.

[@prons_gaming5083]

35:12 i love making potions, and i believe you can use phantom membranes to make slow fall potions. So i like not having to use them on my elytra, so i can save it for potions

[@RogueCarrot]

I started playing the game about a few weeks before the Halloween update with the Nether. I remember building my first portal in my first world too. Noteblocks were huge back then. But I remember a lot of discourse about what's the point? Noteblocks are awesome. Hermitcraft proves that. When repeaters came out, people were like "can't you just use a torch?" I agree about the wolves. Wolves need a real AI. They need to learn where "home" is and wander around freely patrolling the area like a Golem. And you should have an in game way of changing their "home". If you just let them follow you around, they do die very easily. Permanently sitting them down is the only way to keep them safe. Pistons were another block people were iffy about. Some people thought they were making the game no longer Minecraft. Bats are definitely annoying. Elytra totally changed the game. The ocean overhaul was much needed. So was the Nether overhaul. And while we're at it, caves too as well as the world generation in regards to more realistic mountains.

[@wChris_]

I had a great idea at revamping the armor system to balance mending. Basically you introduce a new wear&tear system that makes mending less effective or more expensive the higher it becomes. Once the waer&tear is to high for you to repair you item with mending, you could repair them the traditional way in an anvil, this will reduce it by a significant amount. Traditional repairs would also become more expensive the more you do them. And most importantly: the "Too expensive!" barrier gets removed. This lets the player decide at every step when its to expensive to repair their armor using mending or or the anvil. It would also force the player to make new armor once its to expensive to repair for them.

[@nanotyrannusisnotvalid4820]

I remember when I first played Minecraft, around 1.8.7 (early to mid 2015) those were the good old days

[@stoney9351]

I remember when beta 1.4 came out and then the mod "better than wolves" was made by the community.

[@The_WW_Wizard]

the first time I ever heard of CaptainSparlez was in one of the original minecraft handbooks

[@Seb3rus]

Great video. There is one small mistake by iskall. 1.9 combat update was minecon 2015 in London not Anaheim. 26:31 . Other than that, I completely agree with the tier list. Also the Bird Poop update is in the right spot. 😂

[@geekjokes8458]

i like that jordan refused to use that one website that everyone uses the one that auto-adjusts the size and has customizable tiers... both things he needed

[@jemima438]

6:08 The wolves were the first update I remember. I started playing only a few months earlier. I was scared of wolves, I thought they would eat me lol

[@Skruunch]

Listening to this in the background has heightened my need for a Jardonk podcast

[@Vladek16]

1.20 also added armor customisation ! For me that's a big deal because I remember being disapointed when the first armor customisation update was limited to leather armor. Now we can customise "real" armor and they look freaking amazing.

[@opdollar]

omg jordoon predicted wolf armor no way, so crazy, and defiantly connected

[@capy9846]

7:37 WOW this is very relevant now with the mob vote

[@FlySmooth]

I was just thinking that lol

[@raysandrarexxia941]

Imagine if this was made *after* the mob vote

[@NoInternetDinosaur]

The bats, witches and stone wall update going to E hurts me because it was the first update I distinctly remember

[@zestyorangez]

This is such an interesting distribution.

[@manas7372]

I see iskall, i click

[@emilymay3669]

realizing through this vid that i have not fully interacted with any minecraft update since 1.8. i miss how simple the game used to be

[@OBIKaToby]

So much nostalgia. Bring me back ;-;

[@n0anime342]

You should do something like this with Etho, id love to see his views from a technical standpoint

[@ankhayratv]

27:00 Before mending, I had 4 picks, 4 shovels, 4 axes and 4 swords in my inventory, at all time, because when they broke, you needed a new one.

[@Daniel-rd6st]

7:42 There was armor for wardogs in the past, the Romans used it for example. So there is precendence.

[@sircastillo1300]

It's crazy they were just talking about how wolves are useless and Minecraft immediately announces armadillos that will let you craft wolf armor

[@jonathantuinier1370]

Now we know who's gonna vote armadillo!

[@THRichGaming]

You forget that archaeology was also supposed to be in 1.17 so that was one update that got stretched into 4 updates

[@NeedForMotivationn]

He needs to do a similar video on enchantments too. I am curious about his thoughts...

[@jiggyjig231]

Id like there to be some more features to make wolves better. It would be cool if they would flee when low health and letting them eat dropped food to heal would be great too. Armor would be very cool even if it was only limited to leather and maybe chainmail.

[@TheSkyShaft]

16:00 Notch Apples have been in the game as long as i can remember, but normal golden Apples probably came around this time

[@thepigeon5849]

1.12 is high for me because I remember its betas had a controversy where one of the glazed terracotta blocks that has a creeper face was able to make a swastika when positioned in the right way. Good times, good times.

[@valoeghese]

Minecraft release 1.2 also doubled the world height. That was pretty cool

[@JuicyBlueWill]

This is the first CaptainSparklez video I've watched since Among Us and his lack of hair astounds me.

[@CliffCardi]

Jordan should try speed running every version of Minecraft from 1.0 onwards

[@Cut3Sku11]

for bats we need the devs to add bat feces, and add the ability to craft gunpowder from bat feces, this will give the bats a great purpose (they were used in the past for gun powder synthesis). bat feces can be used as a fertilizer too, so maybe also make it usuable the same way as bone meal.

[@user-ec6vf7zq9j]

Mojang could hire a full team JUST to Collab with the normal Minecraft Dev team, and this new full team JUST focuses on Performance updates that come between the major ones (like 1.XX.1, or 1.XX.4)

[@user-hw7vy3cd5n]

honestly if they made it a group boss mob and made it harder but make the membranes able to be used to make a weaker version of the elytra that has some unique mechanic id like phantoms more

[@theblackthorn4605]

I was watching OG minecraft survival and then the modded versions that followed when a lot of these updates came out. It's kinda weird to be able to recall some of them, albeit vaguely.

[@Beektron]

I got an idea for the horses so that are actually useful. Make it so you can merge elytra with a saddle so that the horse becomes a pegasus. Then you could use a full set of armor and still fly across the map.

[@BigLesbian]

I think why I struggle to rate the newer updates so highly is that they don't really add big things to the game anymore. So much of the updates are side things you don't interact much with, I think it's why 1.18 felt so great is that it did change things but then the hueght changes and big caves still haven't been capitalised on beyond looking cool

[@ldezzer3950]

Most of content Mojang adds basically competes with the entirety of the modding scene. I think most older player like us are just not interested in content they might've already seen in the mods

[@taytaythehufflepuff8532]

I’m not an older player, and even I prefer the 1.13 + 1.14 updates more. But I was also far more into the game during that “era”, probably due to my age and the time I had to play the game. My nostalgia is much higher towards those updates. And 1.16 was also a really good one, especially after the forgettable 1.15.