Has Minecraft Gotten Too Easy???

[@TheMisterEpic]

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[@kelooo]

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[@InfamousJRP]

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[@user-tz5bv3yi7n]

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[@evannnk]

what is ur favorite cheese myine is mozzeralle

[@ellie_bells4988]

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[@jawwwp428]

This is like how humans at first were getting destroyed by the other animals until they learned to make tools and created civilisations

[@gerryeuw]

And the Roman's shields were just as op as MC shields

[@flicker6741]

waiting to see the video about "has earth gone too easy?"

[@gerryeuw]

@@flicker6741 Nah cuz unlike irl humans who know what they fuck they're doing can't get enchanted gear and oneshot lions in half an hour

[@boslyporshy6553]

@@gerryeuw Guns and nukes 1 shot

[@uncomfortablyclose8481]

@@gerryeuw What is a gun if not an enchanted bow, and Jeff Bezos has got the enchanted armor covered apparently

[@trick7024]

"Surviving the first minecraft nights are just considered an inconvenience" Speedrunners: What's the first night?

[@TheMisterEpic]

Hahaha

[@aelrindel1668]

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[@thehatmanallegedly]

Huhuhu

[@dontletmememandie6506]

Hehehe

[@gtc239]

Hihihi

[@richardsainz4762]

Its obviously easier since mojang has been so kind to remove herobrine every update

[@kokogojira8269]

Umm not exactly they didn't remove herobrine in minecraft update 1.16

[@somuchtocook9159]

@@kokogojira8269 a possible hint to a future boss

[@FrostyRacecar]

? Confused?

[@tronikin3025]

Kristian Rogel he was too powerful they just gave up

[@somuchtocook9159]

@@tronikin3025 it would be a reason why hints of him coming have been implemented in game, he is returning

[@tonberrykid02]

I just picked up Minecraft for the first time two weeks ago. Had never played it and knew next to nothing about it. Everything you described about the experience of “the old days” of Minecraft is how I’ve felt playing it. When you have ZERO knowledge of the game, it is absolutely still hard. I’ve been getting wrecked. People have just been playing it for a decade and don’t realize how good they’ve gotten at it.

[@theglobalwarming6081]

Good insight. Algebra was hard, until we got used to it. A highschool student can seem like a god for an elementary student just for knowing the quadratic formula

[@Anyting9OnTopGrrr]

Bro just asking how the hell have u never played minecraft before or even know nothing about it lol

[@tonberrykid02]

I had just written it off as a kids game. My 8 year old nephew plays it so I never gave it any serious regard.

[@Anyting9OnTopGrrr]

@@tonberrykid02 its technically a kid's game, being rated a 7. But a kid could never do accomplish the feats that have been done in minecraft over the years. Still, im very surprised at how u never heard about how much more minecraft is than a kids game

[@tonberrykid02]

@@Anyting9OnTopGrrr I spent most of the last ten years in grad school or working fulltime. Had other things going on.

[@Eth0B]

Back in my day a pickaxe was the only tool you needed

[@TheMisterEpic]

Hahaha

[@Eth0B]

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[@MahaboobBasha0616]

Yeah lol

[@MahaboobBasha0616]

Here before this comment blows up xD

[@coolyellowskeleton]

frick off grandpa you couldn't even fly

[@novahelixable6685]

"When sprinting there are no other mobs besides bosses that can catch you." *Java edition baby zombie:*

[@Cishsun]

Baby zombies are nightmares, but in some mods, some twisted mind decided to add *baby skeletons*. Those things are the worst.

[@litio9759]

Baby zombies are the same fast as normal sprinting, jump sprinting is faster than them.

[@flicker6741]

@@litio9759 sure sure, just keep sprint jumping until your hunger goes to 3

[@litio9759]

@@flicker6741 Actually, i think walking is just as speed of a baby zombie.

[@flicker6741]

@@litio9759 ye

[@benbovard9579]

Anyone who's ever tried to move villagers from one place to another knows the game is more difficult than ever.

[@bayek8377]

ikr just let us use leads already ffs

[@freezingfire1800]

Leash a boat they are in or use minecarts. That's the most efficient way. If not, zombie villagers are viable

[@shadowwsk3507]

Oh man they are a pain, i went through two villages just to get two villagers near my base, I dont even know if they can survive if i move them into my farm

[@dwnturn]

fr bruh there isn't a single village within 1K blocks of my base in my hardcore world and it's a nightmare

[@djpoopper6928]

And thats why i live near a village then when I get the villagers I'll destroy the whole village as if it was not there

[@TheSecretman82]

Some features were implemented easier, like the bed, sprinting, and enchantments, but arguably, the biggest thing that’s made it easier is experience and information. It became common knowledge how to survive, where to find iron, Diamond, etc. even 1.18, which changed a lot of established things, the community has already broken down the new “Meta”, meaning anyone who looks for it can find all the info they need to practically become a survival pro. Already.

[@kamikazesenpai21]

Yeah, everybody basically always builds the average house, suoersentler, trading hall, iron farm, mob spawners farm, cacti farm, squid game farms, and netherite bed mines, huge quarries, random tree clumps, no uniqueness

[@yershani3281]

@@kamikazesenpai21 ain’t no way squid game farms exist

[@kamikazesenpai21]

@@yershani3281 typo

[@beans8804]

@@kamikazesenpai21 yeah im so sick of that! Every single youtube player is making the same farms and base setup

[@cleverman383]

@@kamikazesenpai21 the problem is that that's currently the best way to play minecraft, doing anything else feels like you're just grinding for no reason. Older versions of minecraft were more like a sandbox that you approached however you liked. But current Minecraft requires you to quickly acquire fully enchanted diamond or netherite gear, shulkers, and elytra, and there are obvious optimal ways to do that. People used to complain that Minecraft had no point and no goals aside from the ones you make for yourself, but now we have the opposite issue. It's become far too linear. Same stuff every time.

[@pacho640]

The NOSTALGY hits when you see an old minecraft survival video. I remember being afraid to go to caves because of herobrine and how the creepers were super scary.

[@nickyboy2004]

I started playing mc in 1.14 on my smartphone. And when I heard the cave noises while being in an eerie dark cave and by getting jumpscared by the guardian for the first time scared the s**t out of me

[@abc-ze2es]

Man, playing Minecraft I wouldn't go mining and everytime I went I would have a fear of some scary thing showing up, we sure are weird as kids

[@ReinSouls]

I remember when I first played Minecraft back in Alpha, for the longest time I wouldn't even look outside at night I was so terrified.

[@ThePC007]

I remember putting away all my items and making a bunch of wooden tools so that I could explore a cave without risk of losing my items to the monsters inside it and I was still too scared of the darkness to go in there lol.

[@trentglasgow7114]

Oh my God, those really where the days man

[@deltalord6969]

Honestly i wouldnt even call most changes lowering the difficulty but rather quality of life changes that simply had the side effect of making the game easier.

[@perlinfall]

Some of the changes were quality of life yes, such as the brightness settings. But the added overpowered enchants, and how easy they are to get, has undoubtedly made the game easier.

[@kystersweats8465]

now a days (comparing to 1.15 with auto fish farms) enchants are late mid game to mid late game, you need to either have your stuff together or get lucky to have enchantments on tools. not to mention people have also just gotten better at minecraft. the best comparison i can make is classic world of warcraft in 2004 to classic world of warcraft in 2020

[@perlinfall]

@@kystersweats8465 If late mid game to mid late game means the first few hours or less of a minecraft world, then sure that's true. Enchants can easily be obtained by setting up a villager farm, or mining quartz in the nether for easy EXP, or setting up one of the multitude of EXP farms that you can find on KZbin, I could go on. Sure a brand new player won't know about this stuff, but it just takes a little research and then they're good.

[@hieatus1039]

@@perlinfall honestly it's more like progression not really that it's easier.

[@hieatus1039]

@@perlinfall not a few hours for a regular player

[@pineconesacramento8802]

Players in new versons of the game: Man Minecraft is so difficult, I only found 5 diamonds after an hour of mining. Players in Minecraft Alpha/Beta: Some guys get all the luck. I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs and every night I break my arms. At night, I awake in agony until my heart attacks put me back to sleep.

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

You got the line wrong.

[@SweetShawn999]

I literally hadn't found a single diamond until I'd been playing for at least a year. No one told me that diamonds didn't spawn above y:16, because only "advanced players" even knew that shit. 2011 was a different time and my heart attacks didnt even make me feel better

[@snipesjuanr7762]

u know, people even dont know diamond where mainly generate while alpha and beta , they are digging a vertical big hole

[@baconboy486]

@@snipesjuanr7762 yeah

[@snipesjuanr7762]

and like armor , only increase durability, they why dont just use iron, same protection, but just less durability, that's why need make diamond armor having better protection

[@MsHans221]

I think Minecraft was much more arcade back in the day. You know, easy to learn hard to master. Nowadays it's much more complicated with enchantments, trades, new bioms etc, but when you understand how those mechanics work it becomes rather simple

[@Subject_Keter]

Oh god I remember playing Modded Minecraft and having to look up how to build a infinite fish collector was a nightmare trying to find it but once you understand it, it was nice.

[@collegepark301]

Its not that every game will be too easy for you if you understood all of its mechanics

[@Demo12345]

@@collegepark301 Yeah but if you understand it's mechanics and the mechanics lend themselves to making the game easier, it doesn't help.

[@cleverman383]

@@Subject_Keter Try playing an expert pack.

[@calebbradbury7166]

Well it’s definitely got less scary I used to be terrified playing alpha

[@TheMisterEpic]

Definetley can relate

[@buttonyfriend8odomingo767]

With a headset on full volume I get heart attacks just mining😂😂

[@thehighspeedchicken]

Maybe because you were younger

[@omagkabacan2109]

@@thehighspeedchicken i thinkc its about the cave sounds or the lighting at night

[@Lumine7350]

Tru i use to be scared to play survival not i starting plahing agaij is not go scary looking at a. Enderman

[@Kentucky_Caveman]

As a Minecraft boomer who played since nearly the beginning: In a lot of ways yes, in some ways no.

[@NoMustang273]

With the Warden in 1.17 who can easily 2 shot you even with full netherite, they may be trying to make it difficult again. At least for the late game

[@raeebner1482]

@@NoMustang273 I don't think the warden will make the game any harder

[@zyroberk]

@@NoMustang273 nah, people will cheese him easily

[@kadonkaflonk9498]

@Mr. R The Warden will probably not make the game more difficult. Although yes the Warden will be a hard enemy. Defeating it is probably going to be an optional task that isn't getting in the way of the player progressing through the main game. Just like the wither and the elder guardian. Therefore not making the main game more difficult. also one of the reasons the warden is so hard hitting so that it evens out against netherite so not everything has got to be imo a boring cakewalk. and also just because one thing that spawns in one place that isn´t even above ground (so not everywhere) is difficult doesn´t mean the entire game became more difficult.

[@NoMustang273]

@@zyroberk Yeah all mobs are cheesable but it's threatening at least. I hope they make it so you can't just build up and crit it

[@Inspirator_AG112]

I remember when unenchanted Diamond Swords were OP, and they would two-shot every hostile mob.

[@edenli6421]

I don’t think that ever was a time...

[@duck4156]

@@edenli6421 are you 3 years old?

[@exdrill]

They still do with crits. Atleast with mobs on 20 health

[@oftipox]

@@edenli6421 How long have you been playing that you don't even know that that used to be a thing?

[@punitiveloki]

And passive mobs (cows, sheep, pigs) would get 1 hit

[@tykeandjonsieshow3595]

I'm surprised that the increase in available food wasn't also mentioned. For example, he mentioned that the addition of the hunger bar made things harder, but alongside that, so many more mobs also became able to drop food, such as lamb, rabbit, cows, chickens etc. So acquiring food also became much easier compared to alpha.

[@gorilaogorila835]

fruits.

[@normalman7617]

I feel like caves are gonna become harder in the caves and cliffs update Edit: this comment was made 5 months ago, back when the snapshots were still releasing. stop arguing

[@helix1499]

yep they will, mobs will spawn more frequently and you have to watch out for the warden :D

[@beanface7408]

I think so too. Especially with the Deep Dark and a foreshadowed other threat, not the Warden though

[@normalman7617]

Yeah, with the warden u just have to be quiet and he won’t hurt u

[@thebatman.]

I hope so

[@jeppy4021]

@@normalman7617 not gonna happen when zombie and skeleton hoards coming for you at the same time

[@mrcolz9373]

The only thing that made it easier, was people like MumboJumbo and his buddies inventing crazy farms. Also, we just got better at the game as we grew

[@misterdoggo1380]

I agree, the let's play example in x's adventures it was focused on survival because nobody knew how to do it, its the evolution of youtube, not Minecraft

[@JadeMythriil]

Redstone has certainly made Minecraft more automated; sometimes too easy. Personally I avoid learning about and using redstone just to keep my experience as "vanilla" as i can make it.

[@mrcolz9373]

@@JadeMythriil yeah, and you can do that. Minecraft was built with seemingly unlimited replayability. Sometimes I want mega farms, other times I'm going classic.

[@mrcolz9373]

@TrainerblueTube Again, you don't have to play like that. Like I said in another reply somewhere, the thing about Minecraft is that you don't have to play the way you're supposed to. You can play a no-beds, no-enchantment survival world. Or you could just revert back to when those weren't even in the game.

[@rennoruutli5267]

Building big farms is nott that bad actually. I mean. Would you rather waste your time on mining iron or being afk so you could start building?

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

To begin, we should define "easy" as easiness has 2 forms, complexity and difficulty. Over the years, minecraft has traded difficulty for complexity, making the game easier to clear, and making it easier to do massive builds, but in doing so it has become a more complex web of mechanics and understanding everything takes much longer.

[@ultimate9056]

You also have to take grinding into account. There is a fine line between whether a feature is simply quality of life or whether it makes the game easier

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

@@ultimate9056 i consider the time to do things not a difficulty factor. For example, building a giant stone arena is not more or less difficult or complex with or without a stone generator, however, the difference will be felt in the form of scope, for many making it only feasable when the supply chain is in place.

[@likearushshotthroughyou]

yesss! Redstone for example, it's so complex and has so many possibilites, I've been playing this game for almost a decade and I still can't get the hang of it, it's embarrasing :P

[@teclinsoro4523]

honestly i think it’s fine. after a decade of knowledge and experience with the game your skills will certainly evolve and you’ll find the game far easier

[@XxWarmancxX]

Yeah. It's remarkably difficult for me who's not familiar with the majority of the new updates of the last 7-8 years. To me having a set of iron armor is an accomplishment in of itself! I think the community just underestimates how familiar they are with every aspect of Minecraft.

[@5finger4head53]

I don’t feel like Minecraft was ever meant to be difficult, I feel like the game does better to foster creativity. Large scale SMPs on KZbin also help most players learn effective play strategies.

[@mohammad6608]

Yes

[@nicken8r]

Ideally I think both preferences should have a place in the game

[@lotgc]

I see what you mean, but from a historical perspective, before notch left, it seems he had a rather big emphasis on difficulty and overcoming the odds. Survival in its original form was meant to be a sort of "last as long as possible" kind of mode. A remnant of this still remains (unless they removed it, and I haven't noticed) with the score reading when you die. To me survival still carries a bit of this spirit today, but it seems when MC was sold to Microsoft, it has steadily been losing this feeling through the years. With every update, it seems some process is streamlined with the addition of another, and the value of specific blocks keeps falling because they get some new way to get obtained. In short, every update, a bit of the essence of "surviving" is lost for the sake of streamlining creativity. To me, in survival, the player is intended to be as creative as they can in an environment with limited resources and active opposing forces, and creative is where you can truly shine, but nowadays survival is just a more time consuming creative mode, which can be OK, but right now I'm craving a challenge, and hardcore just isn't a good enough fit for me. This is why I'm currently hooked on java 1.2.5; it's not too primitive, and is more challenging than modern versions.

[@oklol7799]

@@lotgc This isn’t meant to be offensive but I think you are one of those people with limited creativity when it comes to Minecraft and once “you have everything” you feel like there’s nothing else you want to do

[@trime547]

@@oklol7799 Not enjoying building =/= not being creative.

[@HyperKR027]

6:13 this reminded me of what Grian said earlier in his latest vid when Bdubs blew up: "It's been a while since someone died to a Creeper"

[@noddlelebowski1074]

Yeah now a days I am worried of creepers just blowing up my house or farm. Back in the day I ran for my life when I saw one of em.

[@parkour_tnt1331]

That's mostly because of their playstyle, but you can see them dying multiple times from different things anyway. The game might have become easier in some parts, but it has many ways to die that you can easily get caught by one of them. Btw, by "playstyle" I mean someone who immediately goes to enchanted diamond armor in the first few episodes and doesn't have much problem with them anymore especially because they're in a community which makes it a lot easier. Because of that most of the time, they're immune to surprise creepers which is why they die less from them (but you can still find them dying from other things). If you're playing more casually you wouldn't have an infinite supply of armor (especially if you're playing alone and not in the endgame) so you can find you're self without good enough armor that won't defend you from surprise creepers.

[@jackodiamonds21]

Something you forgot to mention was that in the early versions of the game there was no tutorial or instructions, you simply had to figure out how to play on your own. Now there are guides, forums, videos, and in game tutorials to teach people how to play the game. So in a way Minecrafts rise to popularity and the more content released for it made it much easier just within the fact that people could find out how to play before buying or investing many hours into the game.

[@davidgumazon]

*Imagine playing Minecraft mods and found that there was no tutorial for those mods...* Older Mods and Older Versions of Mods: *_sad noises_*

[@shadowbonboi8784]

For some reason I knew exactly how to play no tutorial back then

[@lucasmorgan6856]

I feel like this applies to most games nowadays thanks to the internet...wait 2 days a guide has been put up on how to solo and platinum dthe game

[@leonardocouto3109]

Plus, we as players got more experienced; I think it was not very fair of this video to compare a new player playing the Beta version to Mumbo Jumbo playing the 7th Season of Hermitcraft, when the latter has confirmed to have been playing Minecraft SINCE THE BETAS.

[@davidgumazon]

@@leonardocouto3109 I'm player since Beta 1.7, Idk Hermitcraft until I discover the Grian was the Hermitcraft, lol ngl funny4me

[@realbrickbread]

It's pretty OP that food could instantly heal you back then, but it also wasn't stackable which meant that you had to use your food as effective as possible

[@cleverman383]

Plus deciding how many inventory spots to dedicate to food items!

[@realbrickbread]

@@cleverman383 exactly

[@whateverguy9204]

"The difference between rare armor such as diamond and easier to get armor, *such as leather"* What do you mean? Leather is obviously harder to get

[@amberhawksong]

Animal spawning was different back then. It was like how squids spawn today.

[@shadowbonboi8784]

@@amberhawksong leather is still hard for me to get

[@shadowbonboi8784]

@Toch Stuff no I eat large amounts of meat and drink more milk then I weigh ask my doctor

[@shadowbonboi8784]

@Toch Stuff I never even would want to be vegan because then I would have to stop drinking milk and stop eating fried chicken;-;

[@manrajgill9898]

Tbh iron armor is much easier to get than leather

[@YoruchiMMD]

I think there’s also the fact that everyone knows how to play Minecraft now. Back in the day, no one knew anything. But as time went by, more people knew what to do.

[@rats5608]

the games difficulty never got to easy, we just became more advanced

[@australium7374]

@@rats5608 I think as a player who hasn’t played for a long time, that it’s very easy to know. Hard mode is the only mode that is hard hard but there’s ways around it. Even noobs know how to gather food and make a house. Clearly the MC population has become a lot better at survival

[@cookie.2118]

back then, I went into the game completely blind and it's really hard. Now days, I can start world and have no problems

[@valderon3692]

@@rats5608 Go back and play the early alpha/beta versions again. It isn't nearly as easy as you would think. I've been playing Minecraft for more than 10 years and going back to the early versions I struggled to stay alive. You can't play them nearly the same way you can now. There are also a few series where long time Minecraft KZbinrs go back to old versions and they also very quickly realize how much time and effort it takes to accomplish anything significant.

[@rats5608]

@@valderon3692 im talking more about the game in tis entirety not just specificallt betas and alphas, but yea they are kinda hard (edit: grammar bad)

[@rickfire7471]

I think another variable that should be address is "information access". When i used to play beta with my friends, there was little to no info on where the diamonds (level) could be found. There was no in game recipe book/charts so you had to figure out or look on some distant internet page. Guides were basics and repetitive and most of the strategies we know today weren't properly developped or known. I could not just look for a super efficient " something" farm that can be build in a minute. It was about figuring it yourself.

[@Kirby9373]

As someone who played a lot back then that is simply not true. Everyone knew that diamonds were found below y=16. It was common knowledge even back in Alpha. Also you did not need a distant internet page. There were popular minecraft wikis.

[@IAmGameAddicted]

@@Kirby9373 what you said isnt true, back in beta 1.7.3 most players had no idea the diamond level, and if you played multiplayer the admins always used the item codes/item huds like pre creative, game was different if you didnt powergame like alot of players these days

[@Kirby9373]

@@IAmGameAddicted that's so not true. Survival servers did not do that. I played on many survival and pvp servers back then

[@PhoenixsWorldVideos]

Haha yeah I had to get my mum to print me out a list of the controls to even MOVE. I'd never played games tho

[@GlobstersMessenger]

One thing I would compare minecraft survival to is a game like Project Zomboid. Not to shill for it but I will say the most recent update version of the game is a particularly harsh survival game that can brutally punish minor mistakes and finding safety and shelter in the first day of the game can be extremely difficult. It does not have a kind learning curve to a new player and the dev has intentionally made game mechanics obsfucated and unclear to lessen how easily people can parse the data and come up with optimal play. That being said, after a few deaths (some painful, most likely) you eventually can figure out the best way to play the first few hours, then the first few days, then the first week, then month. Once you've survived a full month ingame, that extreme difficulty from the first day seems trivial. However it is possible to skip a lot of the learning by researching online - there's so many youtubers who do detailed videos on the intracacies of the game and near-optimal picks.

[@democorn6619]

I pretty heavily disagree with a lot said in this video. I will admit, hunger and sprinting have somewhat made the game easier, but overall I think the main thing making the game easier is the general increase in skill within the community. What you're talking about is an increase in knowledge, ability and a fundamental change in what it means to be "late game". Gold farms today are pretty good. I don't think anyone will argue with that, but oddly, farming zombie pigmen was a lot better pre beta 1.8 (update that added hunger) as they dropped cooked porkchops which by todays standard would be like a mob always dropping splash potions of instant healing. Along with this pigmen never calmed down meaning you don't need to worry about running a farm overnight and spawn conditions being just right to ensure you don't get enough pigmen to continue the agro chain. So why was nobody building big pigman farms in beta? because they didn't know how. A really good video to illustrate this on a smaller scale is one Mumbo Jumbo did a while back where he went back to beta and made redstone contraptions. He was able to make way smaller piston doors then anyone had made in beta before because he was bringing years of experience. Speaking of mumbo, you mention him getting a full diamond way really fast when X couldn't over an entire lets play, but fail to point out the primary difference between how those two are playing. At what point did X mine a staircase down to y = 9 and strip mine for a couple hours off camera? I haven't seen his lets play but I'm guessing he didn't, yet now thanks to so many people having played minecraft and shared their knowledge strip mining is one of the most common practices in minecraft. You also mention enchantments quite a lot. While I will admit enchantments make the game way easier, you gloss over how you get them. It requires 5 diamonds to start getting even basic enchantments, and you then you need a way to get xp to actually get enchanted items. I imagine if enchantments had been in the game in alpha or beta, very few people would have used them due to not having enough know how to get diamonds. You can kind of see this with minecraft content that came out a year or two after 1.0. It took people a while to actually start using and abusing enchantments like we see today because they still didn't have the knowledge of how to effectively get diamonds and xp. You also mention structures and villager trades. In terms of the structure argument, how is a golden apple any different from betas insta heals? Other then the fact you can't easily amass god apples. In terms of villager trades, where did you learn to amass emeralds? Where did you learn which was the best way to do so? How did you learn that the best way to get the enchanted book you wanted was to break and place the job site over and over? Where did you learn to make the iron farm for the anvils you need to put enchanted books to use? For almost everyone, they didn't figure out villagers, someone else did and they shared it with the community. All of this culminates into a change within minecraft because of its community. Building a pigman farm to get infinite porkchops in beta was not considered late game, it was unheard of. Now building a piglin farm to achieve the same goal (the reward being much weaker due to game changes) is considered a feat accomplished by someone dipping their toes into late game. Having a full set of diamond armor in beta was deep into late game, now it's the middle or end of early game. The closest comparison I can make to this is people saying running has gotten easier because the records keep getting lower. The new rubber tracks didn't make it easier, our knowledge has just pushed the sport to new heights. The game didn't change, we did.

[@Alex-xv2yk]

Although you made some okay points, I don't agree with you in most

[@manavshah8335]

true ig, but shouldn't , as we change, the game should too?

[@Kronos_LordofTitans]

@@manavshah8335 no, keep in mind that there are still new players coming into the game. For instance children that were born after Minecraft launched. If you increase the difficulty to give veterans a challenge the game is going to become completely impossible for any new players. I already see that with my younger niece.

[@manavshah8335]

@@Kronos_LordofTitans i want mc ,

[@Kronos_LordofTitans]

@@manavshah8335 how do you mean

[@birb9041]

I feel like the gane itself got easier, and the players increased there standards to make it harder.

[@xwalsh0]

Finally someone who doesn’t say the players got better

[@incog0956]

wdym we increased out standards?

[@teiull9388]

@@incog0956 he means main objective. objective:survive then objective: kill badly desingned boss then objective:kill the same boss but remade and finally objective:create a fucking city with skyscrapers, create a x16 bit computer ingame, and make playing trivial, as you get resources just by existing

[@incog0956]

@@teiull9388 but that's been the goal since the first time we played

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

@@incog0956 If you don't have mods that is, because with mods you have something to do other than trying to hack the game without hacks.

[@CyberBoy8799]

Back in my days, shovels mined wood just as quick as axes.

[@theakiwar9118]

Back In ma day food healed you

[@srikar1726]

And arrows were light machine guns

[@eatershep6280]

And the zombies were able to spawn next to you when you wake up

[@artursgaming706]

@@eatershep6280 that was so annoying lol

[@iguy6571]

Back in my days, swords were still weapons.

[@kevinkane1405]

If Minecraft didn’t change it would’ve died out. Im thankful for the changes because it has allowed me to have countless memories over the course of 10 years

[@pumkin610]

The updates are usually controversial but I'm glad they add new features, minecraft is a creative game and shouldn't limit itself to bare minimum survival. And if it does limit itself then at least we have mods.

[@localfoolthecreature]

I haven’t watched yet but I just wanna leave my thoughts here really quick. It’s become easier in the sense of going through the loops of the early game because villages trivialize progression, ruined portals have good loot, ores are gonna be real easy to find in 1.18, etc but with that comes the new challenge of creating more. How much more can we build and find? Everything can be automated but when you have so much at your fingertips, it becomes harder to find joy in things. Kinda depressing but that’s how I see this question. It’s also why I try to avoid huge farms for stone or wood or huge super smelters, and why I only really travel through the nether when I absolutely must so that I have things to do and so that I can see the beautiful world generation.

[@Pixelcraftian]

Imagine a *Hardest* difficulty, which brought back some of the difficult parts of old minecraft, as well as some new additions: - No sprinting - Night is slightly longer - Beds exist, but they don't skip the night. - Brightness is locked on Moody - Enchantments function, but are slightly less effective - Potions also ^ - Armor is slightly worse - You have less luck in finding good loot in structure chests - Mobs do slightly more damage - Trading/Bartering won't help you journey to the end. Hard/Normal would still be the default gamemode, obviously, but Hardest is for those who want more challenge.

[@firanam7316]

All except the brightness.

[@Kentucky_Caveman]

@@firanam7316 na dude it needs to be dark

[@GelecekOyuncu]

​@@firanam7316 no no no brightness really hurts survival experience

[@dylanwatts4564]

I think this is stuff that could make hardcore harder.

[@GoobyDev]

Ye all except brightness because that's an accessibility feature that's really important. Sure it makes the game easier for some people but without it the game can actually be unplayable for others

[@jaye3]

the addition of enchantments made the game "easier" and I say easier in quotation marks because all it means is that in late-game, grinding takes less time and mobs aren't as annoying

[@leonardocouto3109]

In other words, you have to go through a lot of pain and waste a lot of resources to get to that level, both directly, by using wood, diamonds, lapiz-lazuli, levels and books to create such high level items, but stone, iron, food and also time to make the things which can ease your way to that level or even enable your progress.

[@jaye3]

@@leonardocouto3109 that used to be the case before villager trading became viable Since 1.14, you can easily get librarian and tool-/weaponsmith/armourer villagers by giving them workstations. Then you can buy any enchantments (besides soul speed) as well as enchanted diamond tools/weapons/armour for emeralds. It may take a while to get the trades you want from them, though. You'll also need to farm emeralds. The easiest way to do this in early game is by selling pumpkins and carrots/potatoes to farmers, stone and its variants to masons or paper to librarians. If you already have an iron or guardian farm, you could also sell the iron to smiths or cod to fishermen.

[@neilthellama6363]

I think he said that because in alpha and beta dying to mobs late game, or the fuck around and build stuff stage, was still mildly possible but with enchants you are an idiot if you do

[@SenneCools]

you can get a lvl 30 enchantment table within the first hour or so two it's not "late-game" and definitly now that it only takes 3 levels instead of the full 30 it did in older versions it's pretty easy

[@jaye3]

@@SenneCools Unless you get really lucky, you will have to go through quite a few iron pickaxes by branch mining

[@hutao7917]

First time playing Minecraft 6 years ago: couldn’t see and unknowingly attracted 30 zombies and skelebones. I rarely play survival because of the trauma 8 year old me experienced that day

[@hutao7917]

@AidanPlayzMC - Minecraft & Autism & Aspergers I was smol kid and it terrified me to turn around and see 20 zombies and 5 skeletons. I didn’t even have planks yet

[@hutao7917]

@CAIRAN GORE I’m better now.

[@-._Radixerus_.-]

trauma? you have trauma? from minecraft? ...

[@hutao7917]

@@-._Radixerus_.- hey! 8 year old me was terrified!

[@januzairamli4426]

Me too, I rarely went outside my house and I built a wall of fense outside my house, 2 blocks high. When I did go outside, I would be so scared that I turned on peaceful mode and then get disappointed in myself

[@jakezepeda1267]

Ironically the game is less about surviving or mining now. Villagers and structures can get you most of the materials you need. Everyone seems to be thinking of simply fighting or building a farm when talking about difficulty when in reality there is just no early or mid game like there used to be. We now start at the end of mid-game basically. Resources are much more abundant even without farms and netherite, while a fun addition, is kind of unnecessary.

[@DiamondDepthYT]

My answer: yes but actually no

[@TheMisterEpic]

Accurate

[@c00kiec18]

@@TheMisterEpic I think it’s easy but time consuming

[@ungefeiert]

@@c00kiec18 Establishing yourself is easier than before, but becoming the best of the best, like endgame for itself, takes way longer and is in most scenarios harder than before.

[@mohammad6608]

@@TheMisterEpic ye

[@imbatman3959]

@@TheMisterEpic Yesn't

[@adimc4732]

enchanted golden apples had a recipe back then, now it is changed to be uncraftable and you can only find it in loot chests

[@shadelightss]

They just made it less time consuming(short term) and more time consuming(long term) to obtain enchanted golden apples. What I mean is at the start of your world you can go around structures getting them, but late game you'd have to search everywhere for them while you could have stacks of gold from a zombified piglin farm or just mining

[@adimc4732]

@@shadelightss perfectly balanced as all things should be

[@twirlyst.]

With the new nether, god apples would be so easy to make

[@trinity_null]

No, you've just gotten better at it. This is very evident when you watch people play modern MC for first time.

[@nnn9695]

shmoobalizer facts, recently started a mc server, most of my friends have been playing for years but there is one noob and it’s extremely apparent

[@TheMisterEpic]

Great point

[@Tristan-rv9qb]

I think there should be a totally different mode to the game where it is actually "hard". For ex. mobs are faster, food is harder to get and the hunger bar is larger ect.

[@chezzy1908]

also as the game gets older the community gets smarter and spreads new better strategies

[@Helio_Asou]

Take Piropito's first episodes for example. He doesn't know anything about the game and his gameplay looks very similar to something you can find from Beta versions. Then he discovers more and more things and you can see the progression. Another example (in the opposite way) was a short-serie called "Survival Histórico" (Historical Survival) from the spanish youtuber ElRichMC. He played since the first Beta versions of the game and kept updating versions every episode. On his first episode he got some diamond tools and barely lost health, something that was considered very hard long time ago

[@tymak_cz]

You forgot to mention that one time item, that makes fighting mobs basically non chalenging - shield.

[@klinxium8627]

it’s still hard??

[@PalThePalm]

@@klinxium8627 Honestly, i would say that shields make things way easier; when 1.9 dropped i remember seeing the changes, looking at the shield and honestly, within 5 minutes of learning you have basically made most of the mobs a complete joke, (unless it changed [don't know; haven't played in a while]) you can even block explosions by just standing ever so slighly further, not to mention arrows and regular attacks with very little effort.

[@1337o-m7c]

@@klinxium8627 i dont play Minecraft as much anymore, im on mobile and it aint fun, but as someone who has played since 2013 shields are a big deal, it literally made the game so much easier after you used the shield more, only thing bad is the durability, making it is easy as you need one iron and you could get two or more from iron golems from villages, or finding iron in general, it was sooooo useful for creepers, they cant kill me because as soon as i see them about to explode i just use my shield and i wont die at close range, skeletons too i just use the shield and move towards them and i kill them easily. back then it was more challenging to kill mobs, certain tactics, moves etc to kill mobs and not to take damage.

[@X_Mysterium]

Honestly its not easier in 1.9 they added weapon delay and it made the game harder, also the sheild could break

[@guyjuprod]

@@klinxium8627 no

[@datonedood3791]

you forgot ONE teeny tiny thing... *SHIELDS ARE A THING NOW*

[@teiull9388]

top 3 most powerfull items 3:shield 2:ender pearl 1:water bucket.

[@dustinjames1268]

@@MaticJ29 Warped forest is the rarest biome in the nether but ok keep going on about how easy it is lmaoooo

[@adamtheprop6959]

@@dustinjames1268 f in the chat for your seed

[@sorin_ea6]

@@MaticJ29 you literally just need a shield and a stone axe, and then you can easily just crit an enderman a few times and boom

[@Kemmy1945]

I dont use shields they're too "op"

[@thegamingplaguedoctor]

A more fitting name for "Survival" mode should be "Conquest"

[@pyroparagon8945]

Ay, that's a texture pack

[@leggotheeggodemon1323]

@@pyroparagon8945 one of the best damn texture packs. honestly I could not play minecraft without it at this point XD.

[@enderman5423]

@@leggotheeggodemon1323 I play minecraft at 6 render distance to get 30 frames per second.

[@GoldenStreak9k]

@@enderman5423 mobile player moment

[@enderman5423]

@@GoldenStreak9k you mean Shotty pc moment

[@padmavathi4169]

This guy: Minecraft is becoming too easy Me: dying in in my hardcore world *The thumbs-up cat crying*

[@griffin1182]

@@teacoffee42 not really, i dont remember ever dying to as many things now as back then, you could literally sit in lava and eat food and you'll be fine, also mob AI was terrible, it was hard to die, the thing that killed me the most was fall damage because shifting/crouching wasnt in the game.

[@ronin2387]

Same

[@liloLOL3421]

skill issue on ur part

[@Blakbox92]

I think people who find it "too easy" now have their sights set low in terms of goals - no offence. Yeah, you can just run away from enemies or skip the night with a bed. Maybe if you know exactly what you're doing, set up a quick farm for endless wheat, and slog through a couple hours of single minded mining, you can get full diamond easily... then it's just a matter of finding a nether fortress and then getting to the End... but is that really all there is to the game? MC used to be a harder, but not better. It's much more fun, complex, and open-ended to what you can do with it now - if it was the same game as it was in 2011, most people still wouldn't be playing it today.

[@orbyfied]

Exactly

[@valcormoore1113]

Well said.

[@nottucks]

This is a delusional statement. Current Minecraft has 6x the years of refinement that Alpha did. When people compare the two, it’s not about “goals” or being “better”, it’s analyzing gameplay mechanics and showing preferences. Also, saying that Minecraft is more fun now is an objective statement, other people may enjoy the genuine challenges brought up by Alpha. To compare the years of content built upon itself to a game still in it’s alpha stage of development is delusional. Also, Minecraft is not complex, besides circuitry most things, especially farms are simple and easy, and basically serve to make farming anything in the game quicker. It’s no longer a survival, it’s a thrival, which is less focused than a survival.

[@Subject_Keter]

OP be crazy.

[@thomasmccann3679]

its not as fun

[@talhaoztunca1833]

Also users knowledge cumulatively increased like efficiently mining, putting torch only right side to be able to backtrack etc, which also made game easier

[@frankpujo8073]

I remember playing MCPE as a chikd and I could never craft a bed so I spent the first night in a hole waiting and waiting

[@rassel5384]

SAME 😂

[@ggwpez6781]

Same lol

[@Chia_Mochia]

I STILL do that to this day lmao I definitely need a better method of surviving the first night instead of waiting it out lol

[@mrpickles1245]

Damn same here but I dug out a tree

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

Same until the bedrock update came which my device couldn't handle

[@CuppoJoe_]

"Has minecraft gotten easier?" Soulsand valleys: *n o*

[@Hadex01]

Basalt deltas too

[@Hadex01]

@HK - 08PA 757589 Thomas Street MS ikr

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

Cave update

[@Xnoob545]

basalt deltas made me give up on my survival multiplayer I spawned in one and lost a full set of enchanted diamond armor and another diamond chestplate

[@sirius6738]

elytra and the soul speed enchant made it easy

[@ahuman2533]

4:10 having no beds in minecraft didnt force you to face dangers it forced you to afk untill the night was done

[@ebraheem6025]

I would like a new difficulty even tho I keep dying with maxed out gear

[@TheMisterEpic]

This would be an interesting change

[@srikar1726]

@@TheMisterEpic maybe a giant difficulty

[@dakotamoffatt4953]

Like a nightmare mode where you go outside at night and it's just sardine-packed with mobs

[@Tristan-rv9qb]

I totally agree with this idea

[@cebolimhagameplays6740]

i'd like a mode where some monsters (zombies, spiders, maybe skeletons) can also sprint, it think it would be a fun challenge (besides creepers, if creepers could sprint i wouldn't touch that mode with a 10 foot pole lol)

[@Chloroxite]

"it made the game easier by making it less grindy." I hate it when people say shit like this for anything. Required time spent is NOT difficulty. It doesn't take skill to do the same thing over and over to collect resources.

[@defendmoon6813]

but it gives meaning for what you are doing. if you can get a full diamond set and tools in half an hour you dont care to lose it because you can get another one easily. And that makes Survival Games so special.

[@Pro.Gamer10]

Well it’s not easy as in now i don’t have to go try really hard it’s more like now it’s easy to get iron and gold and I can sit back and afk. So it’s easy in that less time grinding not difficulty.

[@user-dl3vn8ze9n]

It takes skill for me. I suck at grinding. It's boring to my ADHD brain.

[@endieloe8972]

Sorry dude, I get your opinion but you sound like a reddit gamer lmfao.

[@FdPros]

I kind of disagree. The time you have to spend is imo part of the difficulty. Its hard cause you have to spend so much time on it.

[@K1ngHoward]

Fun fact: It wasn't just that Minecraft didn't have a "brightness slider" back in the day that made the nights so dark, in an update notch actually made nights a blue shade of darkness rather than black. It really made the nights easier to see even when the brightness slider was set to "moody".

[@StephanieOrta]

I think we find it “easy” because we’ve been playing it for years and the survival aspect of it is second nature to us, but for someone who has never played it, it’s actually quite a difficult game. I watched jackfilms’ stream where he played Minecraft for the first and it was so interesting to see how little got done throughout the whole thing. Also I never realized how little guidance the game gives you as a new player

[@callmenick4992]

Yes. This.

[@StrayFei]

You forgot about the new combat, now can block almost everything with a shield, as long as you have a single piece of iron. And the stone axe is one of the best weapons in the game since it does as much damage as a diamond sword. You can kill a cow in 1 (critical) hit with a stone axe. So in my opinion it became a lot easier because of this reason.

[@noahs.627]

Axes are stupidly op

[@amiruliman5]

Actually,wooden axe is the one that have the same damage as sword

[@AddinRoyale]

@@noahs.627 yeah. Hopefully they remove the ability to enchant them with sharpness and lower their damage

[@AM-uk3vm]

@@AddinRoyale why?

[@axeify8470]

Back in my days of playing Minecraft getting diamonds is basically end of the game

[@lasercraft32]

My viewpoint on this discussion can be summed up by a single quote from Wall-E: "I don't want to survive, I want to LIVE." Minecraft is more fun when you aren't just dying and losing your stuff every five minutes, and when you don't have to grind for hours just to get diamond gear.

[@kirbwarriork3371]

I wrote a long paragraph explaining my thoughts on difficulty in Minecraft while listening to the video and you mostly said it all by the end. Further, the more types of things they add the more types of goals you make and the more types of effort you need for them. However, I can't get over the introduction of Charcoal. Being able to make a light source from renewable materials was great, but being able to make a light source from literally the first things you'll grab (wood and cobblestone for charcoal and furnace) meant there was no longer a first night issue.

[@anna-flora999]

Was coal rarer in the early versions? Because I seemingly can't walk 5 minutes without getting across some

[@fitmotheyap]

@@anna-flora999 everything was rarer in old versions imo

[@IAmGameAddicted]

@@anna-flora999 i started playing around beta 1.7 or 1.7.3 ish (LONG TIME AGO) , seeing a diamond was a huge moment, and no fortune, if you wasted just one diamond you would feel it for the rest of the game, same with iron and coal. Compared to the current update 1.8.1 with caves and cliffs, fortune 3 can make a full stack of diamonds in less than an hour, i prefer it the new way

[@BeastinlosersHD]

@@IAmGameAddicted Well now they made the mid game longer by punishing you for losing iron items since they made iron more rare.

[@toasty9670]

It's definitely gotten more complex. Methods of obtaining endgame gear , food, and 'beating the game' (killing the dragon) have become easier, but that doesn't mean the game is too easy. A lot of features were just annoying, like a lack of a brightness setting or inability to sprint, and I don't think they made the game easier per se, just better.

[@RustyyMann]

For sure bro

[@TheMisterEpic]

Great point

[@perlinfall]

The game is easier. Methods of obtaining endgame gear, food, and such being easier should not be shrugged off as you have here. Those are extremely big deals, that impact the difficulty immensely. While the game has gotten more complex, the core gameplay mechanics have gotten too easy. The game is undoubtedly easier when you can take little to no damage from almost every enemy in the game with enchanted armor that doesn't take much effort to get. Sure yes, some of what made the older versions of Minecraft difficult were just annoying rather then challenging. Sprinting however, should have had more thought put into the implementation. While I agree the slow walking speed in the old versions was annoying, and sprinting should have been added at some point, the way it was added is bad. Mobs should've been rebalanced to be able to sprint too, that way the player couldn't easily run from every threat. Sprinting should have just been added to solve the annoying slow travel problem, not to allow you to run from everything no problem.

[@ShinyMew76]

@@TheMisterEpic Adorable doggo profile

[@l.lproductions3928]

yeah but this days most of the mc comunity plays in smp's so players are more likely the modern treat not the mobs any more

[@PracsoGamings]

This video was very informative, i was wondering why me and my friends could all beat the game in an hour these days compared to 2011 and 2012, ngl i like the difficulty aspect more so i tend to play on older versions now anyways

[@TheMisterEpic]

Glad you enjoyed

[@PeculiarPumpkin07]

I must say, it is much better that minecraft's objective isn't just surviving anymore

[@MNHA-youtube]

I played old mcpe and it is actually harder but... More enjoyable...

[@cleverman383]

If that's the case, then hostile mobs shouldn't spawn above ground anymore, only in caves.

[@cobbcoding]

I was just watching an old Lugwig video titled: "This is getting too easy..." And then I get this in my notifications...

[@davidgumazon]

People completing the survival game: Minecraft gets easier People trying PVP and Building skills: Minecraft gets harder

[@connorfoutz2777]

Is this a good way to say it? Back in the day, you failed more often, and today, you succeed less

[@TheMisterEpic]

Interesting

[@deus2570]

@@TheMisterEpic It wasn't never been hard nor easy, it's just people wisen up

[@Soap0]

but if you fail more often then you succeed less and if you succeed less then you fail more often

[@connorfoutz2777]

@@Soap0 What I mean is that it was harder to stay alive in the old days, but now it's harder to build cool farms, builds, etc.

[@navanithkrishnan7177]

@@connorfoutz2777 ya hear is the thing nowadays people find new thing and make game easeir so even noobs can do it but in the past there wasnt that,the new updates and people became more experinced and even new players can finish minecraft in less than 2 hour by just watching 2 or 3 speedrunning video same for redstone people became more good at it so you can recreate it let for example until the nether update only ore we can farm was iorn but after that we got gold farm and you can clearly see that in hermitcraft videos that netherite is now the only rare thing unlike the past other thing is, people even made automatic diamond mining machine so that put in prespective yes minecraft has gotten easeir like there is no one doing normal survival videos even lukes hardcore world is different than normal playthrough world heck the most poupular series isnt even an survival series it about a green blob hunted down by 4 hunter and it is really intersting to see

[@odie-wankenodie8607]

It hasn’t gotten easier; we have just discovered most of Minecraft’s secrets.

[@Volsraphel]

sprinting food can now stack beds structures the 4 horsemen of minecraft's difficulty

[@cowbatboots282]

False.

[@shlushe1050]

Yea, we know how to play, we've had experience throughout the years

[@lowflyingjets]

Nah beta was pretty fucking frustrating and difficult

[@jasonsalter1503]

I think its way to easy, even on hardmode

[@alliu6562]

I agree that it’s harder, actually. Instead of creating difficult game mechanics, I think Mojang has created another difficult challenge entirely: setting and achieving goals as a self-driven player. The original alpha and beta versions were focused entirely on living for as long as possible, like a zombie survival horror type game. But now, surviving is just a way to enable you to achieve your own goals, no matter what it is. And I think this is why Minecraft will forever be a popular game. There is a near infinite amount of replayability, and it rests on the player’s own shoulders to find new and exciting things to do using the tools that the developers have given us, and sometimes even tools that we create ourselves. Community and creativity is what makes this game difficult. And I think it’s a lesson that we can bring to real life too-you must learn how to be independent and create a life that you want to live, and you should be given the ability and freedom to do so.

[@plm-fp6nu]

What good is a ship if you can't sail it? What good is a castle if there are no enemies to attack it or gaurds to protect it, or a king to rule it? Minecraft lacks both dynamics and ecxtrinsic goals.

[@cleverman383]

@@plm-fp6nu It has goals though. Get full netherite gear, fully enchanted. Get elytra and shulker boxes. Defeat the Warden.

[@gorilaogorila835]

@@cleverman383 is the warden the hardest boss?

[@gorilaogorila835]

@@cleverman383 it's funny that minecraft became somewhat like a Shadow of the Colossus game. Where the goal is just to kill the bosses. 😂🤣😂

[@cleverman383]

@@gorilaogorila835 Pretty much!

[@ThePC007]

The hunger mechanic they added in Beta 1.8 arguably made the game easier, actually. Food wasn't stackable in Beta, so you'd have to try to avoid getting damaged as much as possible because you couldn't carry as much food with you as you do now (plus, a skilled player who can avoid damage more effectively would need to carry less food with him and therefore have more inventory space left for gathering resources). Nowadays the hunger system makes the game quite hard during the first few days, but once you've built any sort of food farm you've basically got free health regeneration at all times, making the game MUCH easier than before.

[@the_jones528]

I mean, I still build square houses in Survival.

[@ItsaMeGarbo]

AKA shoeboxes

[@Pro.Gamer10]

@@ItsaMeGarbo it hurts to look at so I don’t build them but hey it gets the job done

[@tycoonraptor7052]

It only took me like 5 years to realize I didn't have to make a house perfectly mirrored on both sides to look nice don't feel bad

[@Pro.Gamer10]

@@tycoonraptor7052 asymmetric houses can be hard to make nice

[@tycoonraptor7052]

@@Pro.Gamer10 Yes, but if they do, they look pretty amazing

[@yetaloz4621]

From experience playing since 2011 It really depends in what we're talking about. Transport? Yes Nether? No End? Yes Skeletons? *_No_*

[@olafkonny4846]

Yeah but the shield has basically rendered skeletons useless unless there are multiple of them surrounding you

[@yetaloz4621]

@@olafkonny4846 Yeah, bur skeletons are hell in early game.

[@montgomeryusa3884]

At least they don’t have machine guns now

[@cennix]

@@olafkonny4846 I feel like shields made creepers useless aswell. recently I played hardcore in 1.16 and didn't die once, when i first played hardcore back in the day I had to make multiple worlds to beat the game as i can't dying

[@Mqstodon]

@@cennix ...which means you just got better lol?

[@PelemusMcSoy]

I think each update has added something new that makes the game a little easier because of quality of life improvements, but makes it harder in different ways due to challenges added. Some examples: 1.13 The Aquatic Update - You can properly swim now, and there's now plenty of fish for easy access to food and bones...but caution is needed when swimming as Pufferfish don't like being touched, and Drowned will harass you if you stay in the water too long (or anywhere if one of them has a trident). 1.14 Village & Pillage Update - Campfires, Smelters, and Smokers have been added to make cooking/smelting faster, but at the cost of more resources and experience generated. Villages have been given a massive overhaul, and Villagers can be assigned jobs instead of praying for RNG, but Pillagers have been added in that can deal substantial melee damage or hit you from afar with crossbows, and if you're not careful you can accidentally trigger a raid on your unprotected village. 1.16 The Nether Update - "Trees", food sources, and gold nugget ores are introduced to the Nether to allow for better survivability and resource gathering, but the trees are difficult to grow (requiring certain mushrooms, blocks, and bonemeal), the food source fights back (and will push you around), and Piglins will swarm you if you dare break their precious gold. New biomes were also introduced for the new resources, but traversing them is just as (if not more) dangerous than before as one biome has more lava pits & magma blocks, and there an increased number of pissed off mobs waiting to ruin your day (Skeletons now appear, an increase in Endermen, Magma Cubes reign supreme in Basalt Deltas, etc). 1.17 & 1.18 Caves and Cliffs - So many new environments and blocks have been added to explore! But Snow Powder blocks make mountain climbing dangerous as you and your animal companions unwittingly start to sink and freeze to death, and watch out for those sharp drops! I'm sure there's more, but I hope you get what I mean!

[@beans8804]

Yeah, great point! they are well balanced! The ocean used to basically be a no-mob zone. If you were being chased you could just jump in the nearest body of water and have amuch better chance. Now trident drowneds make that way too risky. I think the game devs know how to keep it balanced well enough.

[@sajidursajid2291]

Me who took 3 hours to find a single vein of diamonds: Chuckles

[@werewolf6513]

I feel your pain.

[@RogueMonkeySeattle]

Bruh it took me a week

[@TheGodlyPineapple]

Swamp clay method is pretty op with that

[@nonexistentboi]

I feel your pain

[@SaladKnife.]

sadly it took me months to find some diamonds once

[@slygley]

I’ve thought this for awhile. Terrain used to be challenging because we had no easy travel. Terrain has not kept up with the mobility increases in this game.

[@pumkin610]

I agree, basically what minecraft generation amounts to is a few hills, some caves and ravines. Even in something like a jungle you can just build over it, most biomes don't have a lot of incentive to re-visit them. And generally people don't like difficult terrain like swamps.

[@adrianjoel873]

@@pumkin610 But fortunately caves and cliffs part 2 will closing that gap and bring new terrain and caves that would challenge us.

[@soggos732]

laughs in falling from the surface to the bottom of the world in 1.17

[@officialprincelouie]

it'll be herder to traverse in 1.18 tho for sure...

[@asuspiciousperson9648]

Minecraft players : MINECRAFT is easy Warden : I'm about to end this man's whole career

[@XD-nt3zq]

Warden is easy build up 4 or 5 block and shot him with a bow xd

[@propersod2390]

@@XD-nt3zq warden breaks blocks under you genius 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@XD-nt3zq]

@@propersod2390 no

[@XD-nt3zq]

@@propersod2390 we will see wen they gonna add the Warden

[@propersod2390]

@@XD-nt3zq mods that already add the warden make it break blocks under you and also someone asked mojang if the warden will be easy to kill by just towering above him and the lead developer for the warden mob said that they "have things planned". You really think they would make it that easy? 🤡🤡

[@ProjektTaku]

no joke, since you can trade paper (which is made from sugar cane) for emeralds, which can be traded for full diamond armor, tools and mending/unbreaking books, you could get a full set of unbreaking 3 mending diamond armor and tools just from making a fairly simple sugar can farm.

[@footballwhale7144]

I mean, people have gotten better, I don't think it's become easier, although there is much more to do than there used to be

[@TheMisterEpic]

Very observant

[@footballwhale7144]

@@TheMisterEpic Thanks

[@ofareh]

but its harder for new player

[@DreadKyller]

8:10 You couldn't have come up with the fact that mob pathfinding was vastly improved? Previously mobs would just walk straight towards you, allowing you to just dig simple pits, now mobs pathfind around intricate obstacles. Also mob AI was greatly improved, for example Skeletons now shoot faster if you get too close, and will wait to shoot almost immediately once you emerge from cover. To me that was a pretty large one.

[@TheValentineEnemy]

They also have laser accuracy..

[@smaragdchaos]

That is true, the pathfinding thing is huge, but old mobs were still more dangerous in direct combat

[@bmprimer7809]

@@TheValentineEnemy not true just juke harder

[@Malam_NightYoru]

@@TheValentineEnemy skeletons are nerfed since 1.9 bro

[@bossmangj8258]

Back in my day we used to take notes from stampys videos

[@missmoshirosey]

Ohh stampy so good and funny, I took notes from the yogacast that’s how I learnt 😋in my day hehe Do you miss old minecraft back in the day?

[@unchartedchartz]

I feel like you spent a long time talking about mid/end game features in modern minecraft to show how easy modern minecraft has become, while also trying to prove that alpha was harder by talking about how much harder early game was. I will say that sprinting and structures have probably made the early game easier, but villagers, enchants, and potions have not. One other thing, the use of the comparison between Xisuma's old survival lets play and Mumbo's first episode of Hermitcraft. For starters, 1 episode of hermitcraft most certainly takes much longer to make that 1 episode of Xisuma's letsplay way back in beta. Yes, it does show there was a bigger emphasis on survival 9 years ago, but it does not prove that minecraft was any harder. If you watch the first episode of Grian's EvoSMP, it is clear to see that people are just better at the game the now, and they spend more time making their videos. He comes away from the first episode with iron and diamond tools and a small starter house.

[@epicablaze]

I feel the true reason, is that we just got older

[@jdon6484]

Nah man. It really is actually harder when you go back to beta 1.7.3 and try it. Food is so much harder to get (only pigs and bread really), you cant run away from shit, if you die you might not get your stuff because you can’t sprint to it, you HAVE to have torches to see anything in the dark. Yeah we’ve gotten better at the game, but there is no denying it got significantly easier.

[@Jvm-iq2qe]

@@jdon6484 id say it’s still difficult in Hardcore mode. I had to restart like three times because of how hard it was. Though that might just be me being bad at games.

[@jdon6484]

@@Jvm-iq2qe yeah hardcore is definitely difficult but that’s more because you’re likely to make one stupid mistake which means you’re just done permanently

[@dahveedb7550]

I agree, when I first started playing it was hard but now im use to everything

[@djcrimsonsunbird3607]

@@jdon6484 getting food in Beta 1.7.3 is easy, if you have a grass floor in your base then animals can spawn inside without having you leave your base

[@pyroparagon8945]

Minecraft was never hard, it's always been a calm, grinding game where you work for the fruits of your labor like a miner's dream of his craft.

[@armiferafatum2459]

i see what you did there

[@theguyya]

Finally, a man of intellect.

[@picktrees4206]

i see what you did there man👍🏼

[@picktrees4206]

i should have read the other replies first😓

[@picktrees4206]

@@Sulfuriz remember op bows? spam that shit

[@mr.creeper6836]

Three sticks and some string/machine gun Old minecraft: they're the same picture

[@randgrithr7387]

The ATF considers shoe laces to be machine guns.

[@edvardpotapenko]

Early game is the most interesting and challenging part for me. I've always loved early games in different titles and fell in love with Minecraft because of survival and grinding aspects. Recently I've been watching old episodes of TerraFirmaCraft and understood why is it so good and interesting for me. Mod creator managed to drastically enlarge early game and my thoughts about this connected with your video. Now a day, in Minecraft I could get myself diamond in 30 minutes of gameplay. It SUCKS. why the hell would you even need early game items if you scrap them immediately (talking about you, wooden pick). It's that feeling, when you have nothing, when you struggle with most basic tasks, when you fear for your life - that's what keeps me going. Tfc managed to do that, even though you can respawn. I'm not that interested in building automated farms, giant castles and big goals. I want simple, but challenging life, but mojang forgot about players like me.

[@turntqble]

Make a mod so you can play new mc without sprint, easy diamonds, enchantments, etc

[@turntqble]

Mojang should add an insane difficulty with this stuff. With beds to set respawn tho, except without sleeping. Losing everything because you died once is ridiculous ngl.

[@rtysdfgh2103]

"Has minecraft gotten too easy???" The warden:

[@somegamer7268]

Imagine the warden being scared of bats like the Ravager was scared by Rabbits as a bug

[@erinkline]

@@somegamer7268 DUDE IT WWASNT A BUG it was a feture kinda

[@Lexxaro]

Probably cheeseable

[@LynxTheUnrelated]

Assuming that they aren't immune to arrows like withers are during their last phase, they can probably be cheesed with them, but be extremely challenging in melee based combat ( except if the iron golem/hoglin trick works on them)

[@ryan_765]

@@LynxTheUnrelated I imagine the warden cant be spawned with a build like the wither, probably spawns once or twice in a single deep dark biome, making it challenging to cheese since you cant make a contraption to kill it quickly in a farm

[@kremlin1900]

"But hey-" Me: That's just a game theory "-that's just my opinion really"

[@nonstick_vic]

Oh thank goodness im not the only one to think that

[@goldencomet.]

Samee!!

[@zoggo6096]

Same hope themisterepic watches him

[@T_R_wA]

Short answer: Yes, yes it has.

[@ghoulblade3970]

Yes

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

Not really considering you can change the difficulty anytime

[@openmilhouse5901]

So I feel like the first few nights have become easier, but we have also become a lot more knowledgeable about the game. I personally play on the moody brightness setting, so the darkness setting is kind of a moot point at least for me

[@CraftyMasterman]

Imo the overall difficulty is the same-ish the "easy" changes are quality of life things that remove annoying tedious tasks from the game.

[@TheMisterEpic]

True

[@neatoburrito8387]

And also a lot more has become known about it making it easier to farm resources

[@lolkas7430]

5x5?

[@kmatias2467]

imo they shouldnt remove annoying tasks from the game beacause that is a part of the game, for example on servers it sucks if a player speedruns the map in 2 hours but if mojang would not make the game faster to play it would take longer

[@vinits3862]

i thought that too

[@maccysundae]

what we need is those dungeons that are found in many mod packs, you get good loot, but have to work for it

[@XxInfinityxXTimer]

They should Add in some special mobs to gate keep the abandoned pirate ship, naturally generated nether portal and sand/jungle temple that can 2 shot you without armor

[@makigames6530]

Tbh Rouge like dungeons should be in the base game

[@maccysundae]

@@makigames6530 thats what I'm saying, it would bring back the working for rare resources

[@Pro.Gamer10]

@@maccysundae I agree because rn I have god Netherite armor and nothing hurts, I even jump off my tree house for fun and I take 2 hearts of damage(about 50 blocks). We need more challenges so I can actually worry and actually try to survive for once, but this should be an extra mode since some people like a small challenge but want to relax and build in survival

[@Topunito]

there should be more big and complex dungeons like the ocean monument and the bastion, and they should have incredibly good or necessary loot so that there's a reason to go through them other than just for fun or achievements.

[@kreekcreef1385]

The game hasn't gotten easier its just gotten more rewarding when you dedicate your time.

[@oX3aMeRXo]

Yes, that’s why i think the comparison between new and old minecraft is mostly not fair since a lot of things that make the game easier are there only after you work to get them

[@e_4210]

@@oX3aMeRXo Beds trivialize the first night 95% of the time Kelp trivializes island spawn challenges Sprinting requires you to press one key. Sure things like enchantments and potions are more of an endgame but the early to mid game is still significantly easier

[@tree1416]

I think Minecraft is Easier because you can spend like 5 hours max get maxed out netherite but in the older versions spend 30 levels get prot 3 then cry, plus things we're not as balanced as with the newer versions

[@Missingno_Miner]

@@e_4210 Island spawn was never really a challenge so much as unfair bullshit. The average player will see an island spawn and go made a different world. It was something that always needed to be made easier. And kelp is a shit food source, it doesn't trivialize anything.

[@e_4210]

@@Missingno_Miner I can see you're point and the chance to get an island spawn while not looking for one is pretty bullshit but I wouldn't go so far as to say that island spawns in general are unfair. When speficaly looking for a alternative ways to play survival island spawns and hardcore are usually my go to. However since I'm already going out of my way to challenge myself I can just add an extra challenge to not use kelp. I don't actually care about the kelp that much I just wanted three examples for my comment.

[@mind-of-neo]

Yeah, i love old minecraft, but i always hated how dark it was. i always play on 100% brightness, because on moody everything is too hard for me to see even during the day, i guess my eyes dont pick up the light very well because i know a lot of people play on moody just fine

[@zakzaknl]

The game hasn’t become easier, we just became older... :(

[@hollycochran5979]

A legit point actually, the community just got really good

[@zakzaknl]

@@hollycochran5979 yes it’s the same with fortnite, people just got TOO good that’s why it sucks now

[@dimi2065]

Yeah Fortnite got too repetitive, and sweatier. Minecraft still survives because it is co-op and you can get creative with the game, it's just something that makes it fun and that's probably the community

[@Redacted_Ruler]

I feel that it hasn’t gotten easier but people have gotten better

[@dean7763]

Nah it’s way harder to beat the old version than new it’s just slower

[@Mqstodon]

@@dean7763 slower doesn't mean harder. It just means it's just as easy, but more tedious

[@altacount1168]

both. like when i replay beta i die to friking zombies but hen i play new inecraft either i die form player of creepy boi

[@dean7763]

@@Mqstodon not exactly the play style is slow because it is more difficult

[@beanface7408]

My main concern in survival mode is still where my next meal is coming from.

[@deadknight1402]

I was rewatching PBG's hardcore survival videos, and something I noticed was that a bunch of times, I was asking myself why they weren't doing certain things based on what I know about Minecraft now. "Just get to y 11 to find the diamonds." "You can just place some water sources there and there and put lava there, there, there, and there to make the portal." "Get out of the desert PBG, you've gotten way too many near-deaths there for any more time there to be worth it." Then I remembered that they wouldn't have been able to know about those things. And the fact that I know about them is because I have become more familiar with the game. In short, the game isn't necessarily easier; the players have gotten better.

[@SirGellette]

I doubt most of the community played minecraft for its challenges. Its the freedom to explore, build, and just sandboxing with friends. I love the convenience features. I love that they made it easy. I can build mega structures way faster than if I were to play beta and alpha.

[@lucbjo]

With time follows knowledge. This just shows how we've gotten better with time. It's beautiful. Don't you agree?

[@lakewoodninja]

Yeah, I would agree. It's not so much things are 'easy' just we all make a mineshaft down , dig to Y-11 and make a tunnel for diamonds Even before we get a bed. Also I think ore distribution changed at some point.

[@26goles90]

Minecraft is like someone we saw as a baby and we are progresively seing grow up.

[@collegepark301]

@@lakewoodninja still, with that knowledge it would still be hard for you to survive on alpha than modern version

[@springdoge3234]

This is one of the most underrated channel I've seen. It's so entertaining watching your videos and I'm always excited when you upload a new video. The video is calming and you can sutdy while watching your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@DalekWindmill]

It definitely was harder in 2011, nights were incredibly dark, there was no running and no beds

[@areakastudios6704]

You can make the nights darker by changing the brightness settings.

[@areakastudios6704]

@@DalekWindmill I see. Even so, I still like the game nowadays.

[@Yorick257]

I might be wrong but couldn't we just change brightness setting directly in the config file, like today? I remember setting brightness to 1000 in 1.6 so that I could see better than with night vision potion

[@rubyeverred_]

I think the problem about minecraft's difficulty is the lack of challenges. Yes, the deep dark cities will be tough because you'll need to be cautious every second, but other than that, currently there isn't any challenges. Also about bastions, if you carry boats to trap brutes, it's easy. If you don't, you'll probably die because of the crammed and crumbled design making things like getting cornered by a brute, getting yeeted by a hoglin, or just falling into the lava easier

[@Shkumped]

"Desert temples are just free loot, it makes the game too easy" Me: of course, the structure with 1 trap that hasn't been updated in ever, and that trap being in the same exact spot every time, which makes it easier to counter, it is what makes the game harder, not the fact that it has remained the same, and people have learned how to counteract it.

[@123stevehead]

desert temples were updated once... the wool was replaced with terracotta...

[@thanoids9270]

It gets easier for old players as they see new additions as resources they can farm and use to their advantage, while new players will be confused by all the features

[@gargoylelamp39]

Considering the fact mobs really don’t serve a threat with shields in the game axes are OP you can get full diamond easy Oh and villager farms Desert temples should have spawners or just more challenge

[@l.lproductions3928]

yeah.. ever tried transporting villagers thier not the most easiest thing

[@gargoylelamp39]

@@l.lproductions3928 get a boat and some water or trap them in a hole easy

[@l.lproductions3928]

@@gargoylelamp39 well if you dont have a industrial district that is

[@omagkabacan2109]

How about on be and pe its swords

[@user-vy5hc9ud6l]

Spawner woud make them even more op because you coud build a mob farm and that woud make them realy op for early game xp

[@FireOfGod749]

They should make hardcore harder so people who like Minecraft currently can still play it like normal but players who want the challenge of surviving can play hardcore.