minecraft feature bloat - an open discussion

unfortunately, as games add more and more content, eventually already existing content becomes less valuable to gameplay. this is not a good thing, so what do you think should be done about it? let's consider the topic! comment what you think below!
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[@bumblebeebowties]

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[@cultofmel]

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[@Mai.Calico]

I'm just gonna reply then reply with my thoughts (when I re-visit watch it again)

[@bumblebeebowties]

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[@thing2be]

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[@bumblebeebowties]

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[@James2210]

It used to be in their official guidelines that features needed to have multiple uses. Don't know what happened with that.

[@Providence83]

Jeb must have misread out of his stupid green book that "one block at a time" rule and gotten the two confused.

[@foxybohv7732]

It being sold?

[@Dankboi68]

No guys you see copper DOES have multiple uses! Building blocks, building blocks, building blocks, building blocks

[@yektaagra741]

*counts one crafting recipe* *counts two crafting recipes* "Alright, that should be enough"

[@Blunthammer]

DEI. They are incapable of doing more.

[@quantumphysics7008]

all i can think of every single time i see a glow squid ink recipe is "this should have been glowstone dust"

[@fractalgem]

Or should be able to synthesize with glowstone. Or let glowsquids be a more easily accessed renewable glowstone source than witches. Or....something.

[@Sunshoop]

Liquid glowstone?

[@fractalgem]

@@Sunshoop suddenly thermal expansion materials

[@Sunshoop]

@@fractalgem never played around too much with that mod lol. But liquid glowstone kinda is the only way I'd somehow mske glowstone replace glow ink sacs make sense- but i think it'd require some weird process maybe involving the cauldron or brewing station and glowstone dust. Unless there's a item that gets applied to the things beforehand and then the glowstone can be plopped on with a more glittery look cause i feel like glowstone would have that sort of look- glittery glow on stuff sounds fun

[@mangledfoxy2052]

That’s what I’ve been saying

[@genericusername5671]

I've heard modern Minecraft called "as wide as an ocean, but as deep as a puddle" They add new features, but they refuse to give older ones new uses. They focus on implementing new items for the sake of adding more content, even if it isn't good content. Stuff like dog armour could just as readily be made with metal or leather. They just needed to give armadillos a purpose. The brush uses copper. Any metal could be used instead. They just needed to give copper a use, same with the spyglass. They add more and more one-use items to draw players back in because "new item!!"

[@EmeraldCrowz]

I can forgive the armadillo, as the wolf armor was buffed enough to make it valuable. It adds value to finding these mobs in generally unexplored terrain like savannahs and mesas. But the copper and amethyst examples are very egregious. Copper should have uses that matter. If copper was useful, people wouldn't mind that it's used in the brush exclusively anyways because they would have gathered plenty. The clocks an age old example of this. Gold being used for it is arbitrary, it was to give gold more purpose. But gold is fairly useful nowadays. Copper just doesn't have that same factor outside of decoration and a few cheap uses.

[@pourplecat]

Armadillos could have been added, if they had more than one use. If they made dog armor craftable with leather and iron, it would be lame and uninteresting obtaining it as people already have an abundance of those two resources. If armadillos/armadillo scutes were given more useful uses, it would be a good feature. Same reason why I love the addition of bees, they have so many small but occasionally very useful applications that makes the bees great. It sucks how little mojang cares about quality updates, and instead only releases these low effort updates to attract more players to the game. Not because they want to make the game better.

[@EmeraldCrowz]

@@pourplecat Maybe Studded Armor that ricochets Projectiles sometimes? Would need to be a cooldown on brushing armadillos though since there wouldn't be much incentive just to brush an armadillo for like a stack and never interacting with them again

[@pourplecat]

@EmeraldCrowz Yeah, there are many cool ideas that people would also love, just making it used in useful crafting recipes can make an item better aswell

[@marshallthedalmatian2439]

I like copper blocks because they look good in builds and since this game is like canvas more colours means more capacity to be creative

[@ichimiustin8390]

Have you noticed how Mojang didn't add a new food type dropped by mobs in the last 10 years? It's like they believe goats and frogs are unedible

[@steveminecraft5887]

They know very well that they SHOULD have drops but will never give any real life mobs a useful drop ever since around microsoft bought it out. Notice how goats dont actually drop goat horns on death despite it making sense, same with armadillos? It's a policy at this point to never make killing animals useful anymore. Which i personally find kind of stupid when killing animals could have a use but it could just be more useful to not kill them.. the sheep already did this, but microsoft is scared that people will carve armadillo skin for real life dog armor i guess

[@benedekkoleszar1299]

Damn i had to look that up to believe it. But yeah it's true! On top of that, they haven't added any non-vegetarian food item drops either since rabbits and changing sheep so that they drop mutton a little less than 10 years ago other than making fish actually spawn as entities (which were already a thing with fishing, they just made it more realistic), hoglins dropping porkchops and some new zombie variants dropping rotten flesh (which don't really count because they are hostile so i guess killing them is morally justified)

[@enn1924]

They think they are PETA lmao

[@runkelpokk9]

wait goats dont drop mutton?

[@benedekkoleszar1299]

@@runkelpokk9 nope

[@corvusnocturne]

Minecraft nowadays feels like you added like 30 different vanilla+ mods that don't interact with eachother and the modpack creator just swapped some stuff around in recipes for the sake of fucking with you without actually making them properly interact, except without any of the cool shit added to any vanilla+ mod ever and stuff everyone's wanted for years.

[@fractalgem]

And a vanilla.plus pack like that would prolly at least have decent backpacks rather than just crappy bundles.

[@BigMastah79]

This is just flat out wrong lmfao.

[@OnePoundBird]

ngl agree 1.21: added the breeze kill for breeze rod breeze rod is used only to make new weapon, a new mobility item, and a new potion almost entirely useless except for the trial chambers to make them harder

[@BigMastah79]

@@OnePoundBird Ugh the Breeze Rod is only used for a unique weapon, a versatile mobility item, and a kinda niche effect, SOOOO USELESSSS

[@Spark_Here]

@@BigMastah79your talking about one specific good mob from the update that has some good uses drops with uses let’s look at some other updates. How about the sniffer, this mob can only be obtained in a super specific way and once the player has acquired it, it’s only use is to give 2 flowers.

[@Sapphireeyes104]

Rabbits being a little over 10 years old hit me for waaaaaaay more psychic damage than I was ready for.

[@Content_Deleted]

Same

[@longiusaescius2537]

Its over

[@chocov1233]

I'm assuming you aren't a bug, ghost, or dark/meam person.

[@arijeanz]

yeah like i saw elytras as "new" before i realized that they've been in the game longer than they haven't been. really messed w my head

[@Sapphireeyes104]

@arijeanz Oh no, here we go again ^^;

[@analogbunny]

The autocrafter was a rare moment when they added something that integrates overall.

[@flamingtoaster8707]

Redstone I feel is the simplest and most straightforward way to making multi-purpose things. The ability for automating things tends to be that way in games. It annoys the crap out of me how long they took to release it

[@tomaszpawlik5091]

then they nerfed it

[@midnightlycanfox6280]

​@@tomaszpawlik5091 How'd they nerf it?

[@tamnker8465]

Adding advanced or block-based components would make everyone go CRAZY. Literally any new redstone component would be nice. Instead they fix the (harmless) bugs that redstone depends on.

[@michaelbowman6684]

And then they made the crafting recipe use Iron instead of Copper, it's absurd.

[@robertkicks]

Bro this is so true they literally add stuff for one specific purpose nowadays same with mobs its like they need to have one purpose

[@randyortonsbulge]

I’m cool with things having single uses, but I feel like there are to many items with one use now.

[@mosshivenetwork117]

It's dumb.

[@FellowInconsistent]

It’s like they have a set formula for the new mobs: What do they drop, what ‘interesting’ feature do they show, and where do they spawn. Nothing else. One of my favorite updates is(here me out) the bee update. They just fit so well with everything else. The bees have complex rather than flashy behavior. It comes with a vehicle that spawns on pre-existing trees rather than a new structure. It also gave a new function to the fireplace and flowers.

[@HitTheFan16]

The sniffer has two purposes Sniffing up useless plant 1 and sniffing up useless plant 2

[@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87]

Some things dont even have a purpose

[@SnrubSource]

Another thing that bothers me is how mojang acts like they're PETA, if Pigs and Cows were added now Mojang would make it so killing them drops nothing, and you'd need to read them a bedtime story for them to give you meat edit: people in the replies are fighting lmao, it’s not that deep, it’s a block game

[@BigMastah79]

It’s much more complicated than that. Every single interaction you have with mobs shouldn’t be killing them. It’s far more interesting to have mobs that the player interacts with in unique ways, such as making an enclosure for them and breeding them, or taking them along as a companion, or hatching their eggs and collecting the seeds they dig up.

[@huntish3760]

I think they did it pretty well with sheep. If you go out of your way to interact with the systems you get upwards of triple the reward, but if you feel like just doing the easy thing and killing the animal you get less wool​@@BigMastah79

[@IamPotion]

@@BigMastah79there are ways to do that. You could make it where there’s manure when you breed cattle that then acts as a lesser version of bone meal. It’s an early game bone meal alternative and gives new purpose for animal breeding. Another example would sheering feathers off of chickens, chickens and ducks naturally shed their feathers over time. You could make colored feathers from parrots. For a cool cosmetic item or even better a functional item. Another cool thing would be shaving polar bear hair for their hair. Then craft it into its own kind of armor that could also be combined with iron to make it reinforced. Add snails so you can then cook them. Add new food items to feed specific animals. Adding complex mechanics will make the game more long lasting. I can just breed sheep and cattle with wheat which I can make a farm for, use the seeds for breeding chickens, craft hay bales for llamas. That’s breeding 4 animals with just one plant. Adding more uses to animals will give us more incentive to not kill them. But most players kill cows anyways so why not give more crafting recipes to leather. They aren’t scared of innovative animals, they are scared how a specific small niche group of activists will react to their updates

[@BigMastah79]

@@IamPotion Horrible ideas btw. (This part is an edit: Yes I was rude for saying this. I provide context and explanation of my criticism later on in the thread.)

[@IamPotion]

@@BigMastah79 okay? I was thinking on the spot so don’t expect anything I guess? Weird how you say it’s bad without elaborating anything. Shows a lack of critical thinking.

[@lasercraft32]

The worst part is, there's so much room to expand older features, but they never do ANYTHING with it. The number of single-use items/mobs in the game is staggering. :/

[@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683]

and wolves are still basically just a novelty. Minecraft wolves are probably older than like half this comment section

[@Designed1]

there'll still be significant community backlash everytime they do so though, keep in mind that there was a huge number of players who claimed that 1.14 "ruined villages" or that 1.16's nether "didn't feel minecraft enough"

[@lasercraft32]

@@Designed1 Yes, this is true. But meanwhile nobody was disappointed when they gave more uses for copper and tuff in 1.21. Adding more uses for items is easy and most people would be fine with it. And even with bigger changes, imo Mojang should stop trying to please everyone. Them being too worried about changing things is what leaves features unchanged for over 10 years since they were first added. If you try to please everyone, you please no one. The number of people who loved 1.14 and 1.16 greatly outnumbered the people who disliked it (as far as I can tell). And people with complain no matter what they do, so why worry about it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@sympleton7439]

​@lasercraft32 they can't stop worrying about pleasing everyone though. They answer to one of the largest tech corporations in the world and possess the rights to the best-selling game of all time. If they make a change that drives a buncha players away from Minecraft, Microsoft will likely get pissy at them.

[@Groxcima]

You can say things about the occasional useless item and underexplored mob, but literally every single update from 1.13-1.19 was expanding older features like the oceans, the Nether, world generation, caves, villages etc. People need to learn to see that they got exactly what they wanted and be happy about it.

[@whyiwakeup6460]

I love the hypocrisy in “we can’t figure out how to make bundles work on console” despite the fact that the added emotes are useless and waste a button and that the pick block function isn’t even binded to anything by default

[@DustyStarrz]

Even worse, they cant get them to work on MOBILE Afaik, due to the nature of mobile controls Which makes sense, but that literally didnt stop previous features from making it to the other versions (like the nether for instance, pocket edition had its whole own other system for that!)

[@aperson558]

i don't disagree on emotes not having a gameplay use, but these are two unrelated issues. not hypocrisy.

[@BigMastah79]

@@aperson558a voice of reason ❤️

[@theanimatronicgamerreturn7785]

Imagine being a multimillion company with lots of employees and not being able to fix one design problem lol

[@BigMastah79]

@@theanimatronicgamerreturn7785 ??? Bundles have many issues aside from getting them to work on Bedrock, and it’s not like they’ve only been working on Bundles lol, they’ve done work on a lot of other features.

[@gabagoo_grimbo]

Iron is quite literally used for everything it’s a perfect example for what to do with shit

[@juiceereal]

yes i feel like minecraft has so much potential to expand on what’s already in the game however whenever they spend so long for minor additions that barely interact with the game im left disappointed

[@m0fn668]

Modern Minecraft feels more like modded Minecraft, than modded Minecraft - as in how disconnected and overall pointless everything feels.

[@marshallthedalmatian2439]

​@@m0fn668you're indirectly saying that minecraft isn't minecrafty anymore which is bs

[@t00nedd00d]

There should be additions to core elements like adding extra rooms to structures, adding ambience, changing combat, etc What they add is cool to play around with for a bit, but never makes a meaningful impact (however 1.21 was a good update, more so talking 1.20/1.19)

[@sboy2044]

@@t00nedd00dThey literally changed pre-existing structures in 1.20 for archaeology

[@t00nedd00d]

@@sboy2044 Yeah but they could've went further with it y'know

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

Minecraft was originally inspired by Dwarf Fortress, and I feel Mojang should take a leaf from that game's update strategies. Specifically, they need a clear vision to work towards. Dwarf Fortress's objective is to create a fully-simulated world, and so every update builds off what's already there and is guided by clear purpose. Minecraft needs something similar. Do they want to make a world that feels truly endless? Do they want to create a massive Terraria-style player progression path? Do they want to create a game with so many optional objectives, the player can make their own fun? Right now, they bounce from objective to objective without settling, and it's creating this problem of interesting ideas that never go anywhere.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

What they want is "Money", and they have only three means of getting: Bedrock microtransactions New game purchases Merchandise sales.

[@sharkastic2633]

That point about randomly generated "structure biomes" not needing to have some unique purpose is actually really refreshing. Having more of a reason to build outpost structures and maybe even connecting transportation would vastly improve the game without needing several niche mechanics to also be added.

[@HaartieeTRUE]

They added craftable chains, and STILL didn't bother to make chainmail craftable

[@micahfurlow2624]

Dang it, i just realized how arbitrary chainmail not being craftable is It really should be craftable with *something* at the very least

[@justindishaw3219]

Would anybody even USE chainmail though when iron is right there along with diamond? Perhaps they could make it special like gold and just give it high enchantability, but then enchanting books and villagers exsist so even that's not really useful.

[@HaartieeTRUE]

@@justindishaw3219 a) just having yhe ability is enough. b) i think that's already the case, but not sure

[@RugnirSvenstarr]

I mean, it used to be craftable. You just had to use unobtainable fire blocks lol

[@jc_art_]

I mean, in game, chainmail is worse than iron armor protection wise, and chains require an iron ingot and two iron nuggets to make, meaning to make a chestplate youd need 8 iron ingots and 16 iron nuggets, which is more expensive than the iron armor, for something thats objectively worse. I will say, not everything has to be for stats, it does have some cosmetic value, and its unique interactions with armor trims can make it some of the most visually interesting armor in the game, up there with dyed leather armor, but if youre willing to get rare armor trims and put them on chainmail for the sake of pure stylishness, having to explore to find the chainmail makes it all the more stylish since you know someone had to go looking for it to find it. If there was a crafting recipe, wearing it would seem less like a fahsion statement, and more like youre being wasteful of your iron lol. I personally feel like chainmail *should* be better than iron armor, at the very least for certain types of damage, since its uncraftable. If it was better than iron armor, then it would make chainmail another step in the games armor progression, instead of a junk item. The player would finally make iron armor, and feel confident enough to go into the deeper caves to start looking for diamonds and structures, along the way slowly finding chainmail in chests to replace their iron gear, help them go further. Leather armor has unique uses and interactions, gold armor has unique uses and interactions, both are *otherwise* worse options than iron, so maybe if chainmail gets a recipe it should have a specific niche use, that makes it suited for a specific playstyle, like how leather is intended to be someones armor of choice for mountain living, and gold is intended to be someones armor of choice for nether living. Maybe chainmail is best for cave living somehow, idk. Just brainstormin ideas

[@TrueReshiram]

An Item I have issues with personally is glow ink sacs. We had glowstone dust for a really long time that could do anything they could. why not make "Glow Paste" Made from glowstone dust and slime balls OR just let us put ink sacs and glowstone dust in a crafting grid to make the current glow ink sac? That way we have an alternative way for people who either put a base in/near a swamp or for those who do redstone could get it that way without having to needlessly make a new farm or to sit for hours killing so you have enough for the foreseeable future. Their habit of making things have one use is also why I'm upset with how the sniffer turned out, sure it has more than one plant but I thought it would add a ton of nice plants and that the torch flower would act as a more visually appealing torch for mob proofing the surface not just an expensive way to get orange dye. -_-

[@bobbob1876]

Whoa whoa whoa, lemme get this straight, you want MineCRAFT to add new items that are obtained by cleverly combining existing items via CRAFTING? That's just crazy-talk! /s

[@mangledfoxy2052]

@@bobbob1876I was so disappointed with the Sniffer. That’s actually the mob I wanted, I thought it’d be really useful. Id have loved if it would give new prehistoric seeds and crops, that would only grow under certain circumstances that simulated the way they’d have grown in the past. In return, the crops give cool effects when crafted and brewed because they’re from a different time

[@TerraKnight27]

glowstone emits light, glow ink sacs seem to be more of a glow-in-the-dark sort of thing i do think the "glow paste" is a good idea though, slimeballs SEVERELY need a new use for non-redstoners

[@bobbob1876]

​@@mangledfoxy2052 Discover ancient seeds and brand-new plants with the Sniffer! Nobody in their right mind is going to go, "Wow! They are clearly saying the plants will be very useless!" unless they already have no hope in Mojang. False advertising. You just get dyes from them, and you can't even clone the 2-block high ones with bonemeal like you can with other 2-block flowers!

[@pomelo9518]

Slime balls + ink sac + glowstone is cool too, where the slime balls act as a binder.

[@exxpo7870]

I honestly dont know why mojang is so reluctant to give us backpacks to help the clutter crisis. Just a chest with leather for the recipie. It trades off the ability to wear chest armor (Similar to elytra) for more inventory. No backpackception or shulker stacking, just a simple item that is super easy to get that enables early adventure while getting resources for your final base spot that you are travelling to! I am playing a steampunk modpack with upgradable backpacks, and its super awesome to go on a 4 hour journey in 1 direction, clearing out all the dungeons and structures, ores, etc. To come back to base with a massive haul and sort it. They even allow shulkers to be put in them in the mod, because at that late point in the game its mega project time and you'll need the space anyways!

[@nati0598]

I actually think that a good vanilla-style backpack would be literally a chest strapped with leather on your back. Just simply a chest model on your back, like donkeys or llamas have, although looking like an actual chest.

[@Octahedran]

If they implemented it correctly, bundles would be exactly that. If you could take only specific items out of instead of items in order, the clutter problem would be helped a lot.

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

Because shulker boxes, llamas, donkeys and now bundles already act as backpacks

[@SoshJam]

What modpack

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

​@@EmperorPenguin1217 - End Required - Need to find tame and ride around with plus can die - Not properly implemented thus far - See prior point

[@Vexcenot]

All my gameplay with everyone ever always goes like like: Friend: "cool what's this can I bring it back? " Me: "Oh that's [itemname] it's useless, leave it." Literally could not afford bringing back junk with the cartoonishly small inventory space Mojang forces us to play with. All the adventuring were doing is looking for all the gameplay progressing stuff that Notch added all so long ago. Jeb just doesn't know how to advance Minecraft in a meaningful and rewarding way. If anything the new updates punishes you for exploring. There I used Minecraft for "venting"

[@lemonscentedgames3641]

The last really fun time i had playing minecraft was like 2019. Im a casual who played a ton when it first came to console in like 2012. Everytime i go back these days i dont care to learn the new features because it all feels pointless, and its been like 5 years of basically every update feels pointless. I tried to go back to the caves update but tbf that kinda just felt like smoke in mirrors... most of the rocks they added were pointless. Cool for building ig. The new biomes are cool but part of the exploring should be looting and it feels like you still primarily loot the same materials from 2012(like you said notch added so long ago)

[@tj-co9go]

exploration only becomes fun again after you beat the Ender Dragon, get to End City and find shulkers. which I don't care about, because I am more of an explorer or builder than a progresser. thus I just cheat command myself some shulkers.

[@miimiiandco]

This is why they're adding Bundles.

[@helohelohelo-rr7ig]

youre so right, minecarts are useless, horses are useless, boat are useless, because they added the elytra instead of expanding it. Redstone is one of the only systems in the game that was ever expanded on

[@sboy2044]

Elytra is endgame tho

[@g5b479]

@@sboy2044i can understand this argument for horses and boats, but minecarts should be expanded to match the speed of an elytra to give them some use. minecarts should be used for the same distances you need to travel constantly, while elytra should be used for exploration/basic movement.

[@sejt23]

here’s my suggestion: horses/boats are early game minecarts are speed elytras are manouverability/not being on the ground

[@runkelpokk9]

@@sboy2044 you can reach the endgame in less than 1h which defeats the point of doing anything with horses, boats or minecarts

[@ЭрнестХимич-ь5э]

I think of minecarts as the only automated way to travel long distances enabling you to do something IRL instead of constantly doing angle adjustments and launching fireworks, which gets boring when you have to travel between same locations over and over again. Boats are great for early game travel and elytras are endgame for most of the players. In my opinion the only way of transportation that needs buffing is by horses as they are to big for comfortable travel in the forest, they can't traverse water quickly, saddle cannot be crafted and they are simply to slow for the effort

[@inexistentenouniverso9230]

To me the funniest part about all of this is when they addressed the people saying that all 3 mobs should be added, they basically said: oh, it's so hard, they need to have a use, they need to fit the ecosystem, we need to make sure they offer something unique and interesting. That's funny to me because the things they add don't really do any of that. They have a useless use. They're so small they don't make a difference in the ecosystem of the game. They don't offer anything interesting to the game. And finally, they're not hard to put in the game. i feel like the last few updates should have taken just 1 year to make all of them, the community adds every ideia they have before them, and although they need to have the ideia from the ground, it really doesn't take that much time, i saw mods improving the game in so many ways mojang should, and none of them took years of development. Idk, maybe there's something wrong with mojang, maybe there's someone forcing them to do these minimal effort updates, someone like Microsoft.

[@loafofbread9400]

Minecraft defenders bring shit up like the devs have to think about balance and bugs, as if every single dev ever doesnt have to do the same thing

[@Wallbeige]

​@@loafofbread9400 It's funny because most of these mod makers are solo devs or a small team. Doing it for free because they love the game. Yet the company can't figure it out? The one filled with people being paid to come up with this?.. really? They can't figure out this stuff?

[@andylaugel4241]

Sounds like the usual grasping for relevance you see in multiplayer games and even tabletop RPGs. Developers add a bloat of new stuff to keep players interested, until it becomes an unweildy mess--then it is time for the new replacement/version/edition.

[@computernoise2209]

Old School Minecraft

[@maxwellli7057]

It arguably isn't even working. Half of the community thinks there aren't enough features each update and the other half flirts with beta 1.7.3

[@amogu_]

I have a suspicion that Microsoft is requiring these updates and forcing Mojang's hand behind the scenes. Explains why everything since 1.19 has been really unsatisfying.

[@tj-co9go]

ah. The World of Minecraft begins to resemble the World of Warcraft

[@MapleZer0]

i think the spyglass being made with copper is fine tbh, but i never really questioned why glass just wasnt part of the recipe until now. what the hell were they thinking

[@SpectroliteDS]

Because they needed to justify Amethyst existing some more.

[@MapleZer0]

@@SpectroliteDS I mean the recipe could just use copper, amethyst, AND glass but for some reason they didn't wanna

[@i2eptilian]

If they won't let a spyGLASS be made with glass, then they should at least call it a spyamethyst instead

[@SoshJam]

i actually stand by that decision, maybe the amethyst crystals in minecraft have a natural lens-like structure

[@ShyGuyXXL]

Last time I started a new Playthrough I didn't even know armadillos were in the game, but when I stumbled across them on a whim, I didn't even get off my horse to check them out, because I already knew they weren't going to do anything cool. Killing them wouldn't drop any cool items, since Mojang doesn't want there to be an incentive to kill cute and exotic creatures. So I just sort of kept going. It gets pretty predictable. Why not surprise us by making armadillos aggressive assholes that roll at you like sonic the hedgehog? And killing them drops something cool. At least that would be unexpected.

[@BonziBUDDY]

they're too afraid to make hostile mobs that are real life animals

[@ShyGuyXXL]

@@BonziBUDDYBecause we all know animals in real life are all super friendly as well. 😅 I bet if they ever added scorpions or snakes to the game, they would be friendly and cuddly too. 😂 Also, what about the spiders? Those are real animals, except they are huge in minecraft. Maybe they can make the armadillos huge too. :P

[@computernoise2209]

First time I saw an in-game armadillo it freaked me out and I had to stare at the mysterious moving block for a second. Crazy how quick the hype died for me.

[@Puggers22]

I mean goats already do that

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

Like the armadillos in Donkey Kong Country? That would be sick

[@VeneficusCubes]

Agreed. Just straight up agreed. Mojang feels like they dont have a goal in mind with new updates and just "adds it because its cool" I understand minecraft is a game and not a story, but Brandon Sanderson: "go deeper before you go wide" Not to mention they could just rebalance old features to fit better in new progression. Gold tools could be buffed. We got golden armour "buff" in form of piglin trade. And we could have more. I personally would for example make polar bears much more dangerous (they are after all biggest land predator on earth) But in doing so they could also be made territorial, attacking both players and monster. Having polar bears like that could give them use in grinders or just as local area denial. This feature requires no new items, drops or mechanics. Everything is already in game. Just make them stronger, and make them hunt Everything thats alive. And thats just a single idea

[@miimiiandco]

"Add it because it's cool" is an even bigger component to early updates, like the Beta ones.

[@certified_freak]

I love this video. Mojang never adds more features to build on top of previously existing content. They would simply rather add a whole new concept to their game that has only one use and one use only to appease the audience like it’s a pair of shiny keys that do nothing. The leather example you gave is perfect. Instead of building on top of leather and giving it more recipes, Mojang adds 3 other variations that genuinely do jackshit.

[@ZarHakkar]

Mojang lacks overarching design direction. Increasingly many things in updates past Notch leaving just feel kind of random.

[@lasercraft32]

"past Notch leaving" as if Notch didn't also add random stuff all the time too... 😅

[@BigMastah79]

Minecraft as a game lacks design direction inherently. Too many people with too many different playstyles all play the game and it is impossible to please all of them.

[@ZarHakkar]

@@BigMastah79 It being impossible to please all is exactly why it needs design direction.

[@BigMastah79]

@@ZarHakkar what direction could possibly cover all playstyles other than something like the current one?

[@ZarHakkar]

@@BigMastah79 The point isn't to cater to all playstyles, but to pick a direction and stick to it instead of spinning around adding features willy-nilly.

[@ChromaNyan]

if mojang is going to keep adding items with little use, the _least_ they could do is give us some kind of way to have a bigger inventory without having to go to the end. shulker boxes should not be the "singular solution to the storage problem" that they currently are, and while bundles are nice they certainly have their flaws (such as _not being obtainable,_ to name one)

[@ijneb1248]

Totally, the game is trying to encourage exploration right now but the only ways to upgrade your inventory are all locked away in the late game, and at that point theres really no incentive to explore when the best you're gonna get are some iron tools and blast protection I books

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

That's what donkeys and llamas are for, among the other storage units

[@ChromaNyan]

@@EmperorPenguin1217 while donkeys are at least usable, llamas have the problem that leads aren't the most reliable, and mob AI is _really_ unreliable (this is why i hate wolves, i've lost more wolves due to them getting unloaded because they didn't know how to pathfind or teleport to me, rather than them actually dying). you can at least control donkeys yourself but even then donkeys are difficult to get across certain types of terrain such as water making them not the most practical for longer explorations

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

@@ChromaNyan Eh as long as you have a boat and lead donkeys still work mostly fine

[@the_phantom_cat7912]

straight up, I think the should substantially increase inventory size, much better than adding something like the bundle with it's annoying UI

[@Digital_Rust]

Facts. They keep adding new items to craft stuff that could just be crafted with already existing items and your inventory cant keep up with the bloated additions. Armadillo scutes and turtle scutes is the perfect example.

[@BigMastah79]

Turtle Scutes are not a good example of this. They are the PINNACLE of an item you need to go out of your way to get

[@vxzcvz]

@@BigMastah79 i think he means the fact that TWO DIFFERENT scutes exist, and have TWO DIFFERENT purposes (its so fucking annoying)

[@fugcat]

​@@vxzcvzop didn't even MENTION how easy they were to get there's just this one contrarian trying to defend the billion dollar corporation

[@WriggleNightbug]

@@BigMastah79They should have been consolidated regardless, not unlike saddles and horse saddles were.

[@vasilyd8578]

@@BigMastah79 they could've make dog armor more durable and require less turtle scutes to repair it.

[@that1gameguy]

This is why I really don't like the mob votes. Not only is it responsible for many bloat features, but it also has the player base WANTING these bloat features in the form of "just add all 3". Imagine if the Great Hunger won the original mob vote, and instead of using a grind stone to disenchant items, you had to run all the way to where this one mob spawns and pray it doesn't eat your item. As for a solution for the bloat problem, there just needs to be a culling of these features. There is never going to be a world where having two unique scutes, needing to use glow ink sacs instead of glow stone to light up signs, or needing a rabbit hide to make a bundle would make any sense. (it would also go hand in hand with a rebalancing update, which the game desperately needs) It would most definitely be an unpopular update, but a necessary one for the health of the game.

[@splatspen]

im sure it would receive a lot of backlash from the larger community, but i honestly feel like they should have at least a mini update focusing only on improving or fixing features currently in game.

[@magoleo-pr7if]

An update like that would be very easy to make, given there are tons of mods out there that fix decade-old bugs that are still in the game today, and all that while modifying the game's code meaning mojang could easily implement these changes if they wanted to

[@a-bird-lover]

what I also don't like about the new item bloat and something that it seems like mojang would _want_ to have an interest for, is that it makes crafting recipes so much more confusing for beginners! At least now they've added the recipe book but it still is just good game design to make recipes intuitive, and the new items and crafting recipes are so desperate for their one trick pony item that it really hurts the crafting. Most of the older items are pretty intuitive enough that you could mess around for a second and take some guesses and probably get it or at least know the materials to get, where the modern recipes are downright silly with niche items you'd never think to use. Who on earth decided that a helmet that helps you breathe underwater was NOT going to be a scuba/diving helmet or anything, but would instead be made of turtle scales (???) that you do not obtain by killing or brushing turtles, but instead by breeding them and protecting their eggs for several real life days and waiting for the baby turtles to grow up. They're the only animal that drops items in this way. Wtf

[@cara-seyun]

Yeah, a ton of peoples finest memories of minecraft are messing around and finding things out, and there’s still largely true, but so many new features are opaque if you don’t watch some demo video or read a guide, which is probably the intention

[@spacesandwich5593]

Something that could kinda fix some of this stuff without removing things from the game would be to make some new and old items be interchangeable. For example, the cow hyde and the rabbit hyde being two versions of the same item with the same crafting recipes. Or the glow quid ink and glowstone being two ways of crafting anything that glows. instead of being "one trick ponies", they would feel more like different methods of obtaining things that have the same purpose

[@CjJello]

I do really wish they would take a step back and do some refactoring for the systems that already exist, instead of this focus on what new things they can add. I do think, however, some of the new things are big steps in the right direction and feel very positive about them (trial chambers and the new omen effects are very good). If just a little work went into better tying all the systems together, I think it would go a long way! I wanna mention that sometimes when creators go to voice these concerns, they go about it in an overly negative or antagonistic way. It's nice that this video avoids that pitfall.

[@legitnub]

this is a good idea but, i dont think it'll ever happen. everything that mojang adds is inconsequential to the main core or the way that the average player plays the game. the trial chambers or whatever theure called are cool but it doesnt affect anything unless you go looking for them

[@bowtiefrenchfry800]

@@legitnubtrial chambers made more sense to me when i was trading with a cartographer and i saw the monument map, mansion map, and then a trial chamber map. all 3 of those dont affect the gameplay of the average player but are still major structures that people seek out for their unique loot

[@pankek5431]

Rabbit hide? Then how come I can see it?

[@Ajryen]

I’ve 100% noticed this in recent years. There is a lot of potential for improvement but they simply aren’t doing that. The worst offenders are the armor trims. People like them, sure, but the problem is they are actually locked to only being an armor trim. There could never be another use for them because that simply is not what they are for. They take up inventory space as they can’t stack, and you usually won’t need more than a few. A better idea might be to make armor trims function similar to how banner patterns are made. Maybe with a new workbench that required specific, already existing items, in order to put a new look on your armor. Mojang also just needs to make everything more interconnected

[@arthurdefreitaseprecht2648]

Imagine if the trims changed the stats of the armours, how cool would be that (maybe increase toughness but reduce agility, give more speed or swimming but reducing armor points, increase fire resistance but lower resistance to other damages and so on and so on)

[@cecilrhodes2153]

The old problem Warframe suffered from and still does.

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

And more importantly they're so stupidly expensive you'll never want to use them more than four times initially which ironically enough discourages customization

[@ryotoiii7945]

I actually don’t think armor trims are an offender here in the way that was mentioned. They give smithing tables a third use (netherite and villager profession being the others that I can think of) and the fact that they don’t have another use other than cosmetics is in line with what music discs have always been, so complaining about how hard they are to get is a non-factor unless you also think music discs are a bad addition to the game. Furthermore, the fact that they can’t stack is just untrue. I don’t know if historically they couldn’t, but now they can stack to 64. Even if they couldn’t stack, the fact that you do only need a few of them offsets the problem of inventory clutter; unless you are a collector, you never are incentivized to carry more than four ever, so your inventory shouldn’t fill with them The solution proposed of adding a new workbench just adds to the problem in my opinion. We already have anvils, fletching tables, looms, smithing tables, and others. I severely doubt that the problem at hand is a lack of workbench alternatives. In fact, armor trims make full use of the functionality of the smithing table, allowing for three slots to be used where the anvil would fail at its maximum of two, showcasing a nice level of interconnectivity instead of adding “armor trim station”

[@Ajryen]

@@ryotoiii7945 you’re right that we don’t need another workbench and that they give smithing tables another use. A better way to word my idea would be to overhaul the system to work somehow similar to banner patterns, so the actual item of armor trims won’t need to exist any more, reducing clutter even slightly. Also, when it comes to music discs, they are somewhat “exempt” because at first it was just a few items that took up a whole slot. But armor trims basically doubled the number of items in the game that took up whole slots while not being very common and not adding that much value. It’s the equivalent to having 3 wheat seeds in your inventory when you are starting to fill up. Music discs were more understandable because of their rarity and perceived value. Things stop being valuable when everything starts to act like 3 wheat seeds in your inventory, (armor trims-> one trick ponies).

[@TrueHey]

dont diss on my goat chorus fruit and honey bottle 😤 one can save you from a deadly fall or from the void/a lava pit, and the other gives insane saturation

[@chewy99.]

They add stuff that is cool, then they feel bad about it not being special or useful enough just by being there, then they make it drop or craft something that other stuff could’ve, like needing copper and amethyst for a spyglass instead of gold or iron and glass, or making dog armor out of only armadillo scutes and not turtle scutes, or how they changed elytra repair to needing phantom membrane instead of how it used to require leather, or when they just made it so you need lapis for some reason when enchanting even though you didn’t need it before and it was originally just added as a cool building/decoration block you could make.

[@auraguard0212]

I mean, the elytra is essentially magic and SHOULD be difficult to repair, so needing phantom membrane (a bit of a challenge to acquire) makes sense. I just wish phantoms were done differently, and/or that the membranes had more uses.

[@SoshJam]

i think lapis was actually a good decision though, it’s abundant enough that i’ve never had problems. and lapis lazuli in real life used to be believed to have magical properties

[@awesome-dp1oo]

Ngl, I haven't genuinely interacted with any new mobs added since the piglins (1.16)

[@Greymerk]

The problem with the exploration theory is that the premier feature of the last update, the trial chamber, is absolutely everywhere, meaning that it's just a pain for people on older worlds who need to "explore" new chunks so they can find one of these. I don't understand Mojang. I think you're right, they just want players to generate new chunks.

[@BigMastah79]

That’s just a byproduct of having older worlds. It’s not their fault. You want them to not add new biomes or structures or something?

[@OnePoundBird]

wanting old players to generate new chunks is entirely illogical personally, when new structures and biomes arent added, you get something like 1.17, caves and cliffs part 1. you just find all the new stuff close to spawn or just make it at base, and then you have a handful of new kind of meaningless stuff

[@derevianne1108]

​@@OnePoundBirdthe hell you want mojang to do? to spawn new features in the old chunks so that it would ruin existing builds?

[@Sunshoop]

@@OnePoundBirdcurious- do you have a better solution?

[@dave7474]

​@@OnePoundBird Caves and cliffs was unique because it went below the old world height, your idea here only works if its altering a part of the world that was previously unalterable. Like a sky dungeon 2000 blocks in the air! - example

[@popakontas328]

It honestly bothers me how every item in a new update most of the time uses exclusively the new implementations in their crafting recipes

[@Air21Man]

Weirdly enough, I actually wish they changed the jukebox crafting recipe to use amethyst instead of diamond. Diamond has plenty of uses already, and amethyst works better for jukeboxes as an idea due to its music associations in-game.

[@Sapsche]

The needle of a phonograph/turntable contains diamond irl, so there's that.

[@miimiiandco]

Diamond really doesn't have a good sink. You never use it after you get the gear, unless you need to make new gear.

[@Air21Man]

@@miimiiandco Armor trims.

[@FierceDIO]

Amethyst: Spyglass and tinted glass. *Could have used glass.* Turtle: Turtle helmet. *Potions of water breathing are easier and better.* Armadillo: Dog armor. *Could have used any material.* Sniffer: 2 plants. *Literally useless.* Glow squid: Glowing text and item frames. *Only useful for map makers and SMP players.* Phantoms: Repair Elytra and slow falling. *Mending and water buckets: allow us to introduce ourselves.*

[@EmeraldCrowz]

Sniffer could've had the plants emit light. There's no reason the Torchflower doesn't. Or even had unique particles for the Moonflower thingy. Sure it's "useless" but you have to seek out sniffers anyways so I could live with it. Phantoms is it's own issue. Membrane could stand to have more uses though I agree.

[@vinsplayer2634]

Glowing signs and item frames could also just use glowstone dust.

[@EmeraldCrowz]

@@vinsplayer2634 Very true. But I don't feel like Glowstone is that useless so at least it justifies the glow squids I guess.

[@lasercraft32]

Tinted Glass DOES use glass though...

[@lasercraft32]

@@EmeraldCrowz They could easily implement more Sniffer plants in future updates, but knowing Mojang, I don't think they will. :(

[@FUM0]

i really like the point of having multiple ways to access an item, thats something i really love about minecraft modpacks there are more ways to get iron dust forexample wich have their own benefits and disadvantages like tinkers smeltery garantueeing getting 2 ingots out of a ore but it consumes lava and isnt really cheap or thermals macerators wich also can give you 2 ingots plus a chance for byproduct but its much more expensive and requires a supply of rf

[@dancallan7907]

You have to go to all that trouble to get sniffler eggs, and then all they do is dig up 2 types of plant that do nothing themselves. If the pitcher plant was a mob that ate things fine but its just a flower. Let me put a saddle on the Sniffler. Let me build a howdah for it and ride it like they do elephants. With chests and stuff for moving stuff on mass.

[@jonaw.2153]

I feel like Terraria handles this pretty well. Nearly every item has more than one use, be it functionally, aesthetically, or as a resource. Few items feel unnecessary. Players are incentivized to build in various places due to NPC needs and consequent resource availability.

[@auraguard0212]

Hard disagree. The only metal that retains any use through progression is Iron. Weapons, armor, and accessories become completely obsolete at the drop of a hat, and either clog your inventory while you wait for their one crafting upgrade or get sold. Multiple bases was shoehorned in in a very late update. Is it interesting? Sure. Don't forget the years and years of minimum viable structures and space stations, though. Terraria's various building materials are roughly on par with Minecraft's.

[@benismann]

@@auraguard0212 i dont think it's as bad as in minecraft. Terraria is more about "0.2% weapon drop from a very specific mob that becomes obsolete after like the first boss or the first hardmode boss" problem

[@miimiiandco]

Literally every mineral bar becomes useless by the time you get the better materials, except maybe Iron. The first 2 hardmode ores are basically useless because you could just skip to Titanium and Adamantite, which then become useless after you get Hallowed bars. Basically anything can a good building block. Copper being a good building block in Minecraft doesn't stop people from bashing it constantly. And building is even less of a focus in Terraria.

[@SupervillainCabal]

It's because Notch wanted a survival game, so he added tons of features that complimented that. What does mojang want? I don't even know, but it's definitely not a survival game.

[@bumblebeebowties]

i don't really know either, which is why i try to get into their head space in the video. i still can't really figure out what their overall game plan is, though.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

​@@bumblebeebowtiesWhat they want is Money. They don't, in fact, want to make a video game. Minecraft is a means to an end, and nothing else.

[@miimiiandco]

I think more than anything they want to make features that everyone can enjoy. Trial Chambers are for adventurers, and it's Copper blocks are for builders, with a Crafter for Redstoners.

[@derflerp538]

My personal boiling down of the issue is this: Minecraft was a game, and now it is a product. Corporations make money, not art, and Mojang is a far cry from a small studio whose profits depend on innovation and creativity. They do not have a development philosophy, they have a business strategy. They don't need to make the game better, they just need to push it to more people. They release a new update and people keep playing whether it's good or not.

[@DustyStarrz]

Tbh the gaps in features that, as far as i can see, we shouldve already had in the game (like apple pie, berry pie, different types of cakes, etc!) are the reasons modders like me make Vanilla+ mods We SHOULD HAVE HAD apple pie by now. It shouldve been added alongside pumpkin pie imo So far, ive mostly focused on food for my vanilla+ mod, but im sure there are plenty ofhers; maybe we could make leather armor for our dogs, but it has lower durability than scute armor! Maybe we can upgrade scute armor into iron armor! Who knows, there are so many posibilities in a game like Minecraft And why cant the player make scute armor for themselves? Itd be easier to get than iron or chainmail, assuming you start in a relatively warm biome at least Could call it something cool like Scutemail or just Plate armor or something And copper minecart rails! Cheaper than gold ones, maybe they dont need power but dont go quite as fast or something idk Theres plenty of cool stuff they could add to bridge recipe gaps, but idk if they even think about making new uses for old feattures anymore

[@BigMastah79]

They give old features uses all the time. Amethyst, Copper, and Tuff have all been revisited with new features and items. In 1.16 Glowstone received new functionality with Respawn Anchors. You can also look at how items are given more functionality in less indirect ways. Trial Chambers provide areas to use your equipment in the midgame. The Deep Dark makes Hoes a useful tool for harvesting experience. Wool is a vital part of city exploration. Features may be unrelated, but they can synthesize together to accomplish new things. Sculk Sensors and Amethyst Resonance can combine with various other redstone components in order to create new types of machinery, Lush Cave plants can be used in tandem with other plants to create new scenery and landscaping. Look at the synergy that blocks enable in addition to their raw, basic usage. And let’s be real, what’s Apple Pie doing for the game? If Mojang added it you’d just call it useless.

[@littlehorn0063]

Each of these new updates added 1-2 new uses for some undesirable item. There is a lot of undesirable items, with more being added each update. At the rate each update is being made, there will be more of these items anyway. Systems should interconnect well with each other, not just "ehhh, letsa just slap it 'er, it' ll do fiiiine now"

[@BigMastah79]

@@littlehorn0063 do you have examples of what you’re talking about?

[@nati0598]

I would go further and say that copper should replace the iron in the rail recipe entirely. Although the minecarts are a whole different story, I would have copper make like 6 rails and if you use iron you would get 32. That's what I would do, many options with the same effect.

[@thehylian6984]

I think that so many novelty items have been added that this is too late to fix

[@nati0598]

Nah, some of these things are literally recipe changes, an amateur can change that with a datapack. And some modder already took it upon themselves to change behaviors of certain mobs. It's really not that hard.

[@BrekekeReal]

I agree with this. My main issue with the mob votes, unlike most people, is that the mobs have one sole purpose and are added for the sake of it. For example, sniffers' only purpose is to sniff flowers. The torchflower was a perfect opportunity to be used as the recipe for spectral arrows, instead of expanding on already existing features, all we got was two flowers. Glow squids could have been expanded too, but their only purpose is is to make glowing text on signs and glowing item frames. Why not just add a recipe that mixes ink with glowstone dust? The problem I see with the mobs is that they are too one-dimensional and have no link to the already existing game, while also being a tad bit inconvenient and filled with missed oportunities. They are just kind of there because Mojang has to add a new mob, not because they are a solution to a problem, neither because they add features that the player would repeatedly. Once the player finds an armadillo, he'll just brush it until he has a sufficient amount of scutes to last him a long time, and then the mob is forgotten.

[@PokemonTrainerChris303]

They need to add a water pipe update using bamboo. Make the piping a red stone component. Then add the heaven/actual sky island biomes. Maybe make boomerangs a weapon that you can make outta just wood so you have an early projectile weapon.

[@maycontainnuts3127]

it feels like theyre afraid of changing anything about the core experience that was created back in 1.0 but still want to create hype and interest around it so release a new update every once in a while to spike player counts

[@Kawi31]

its also amazing how unintuitive some of this shit is, how would i ever figure out how sniffers work without outside resources? you could say that about a lot of minecraft to be fair, but the fact you have to go through all that trouble to get TWO DECORATIVE ITEMS is insane.

[@dijital4801]

Tbf this is hardly mc exclusive theres plenty of "Games that require a wiki" around

[@IamPotion]

This is spot on. The only thing that has multiple uses (probably a hundred different uses) is the crafter that auto crafts. And the bundles were going to add a new way to play and have storage management. The polar bear? What use? Nothing. Literally nothing. What about llamas? Practically nothing. What about foxes? Automatic sweet berry farm maybe? Other than that nothing. Glow squid? Again no use. Animals/mobs only get added if they are cute or seem cool and expansive. (They usually aren’t cool or expansive). You have mojang literally making new games that have more in depth mobs than base game minecraft. What I think should happen is they should narrow their focus with what they add/change and broaden the effects it may have. I always thought it would be cool if you could add glow ink to your armor to make it glow and sparkle and give off a light level of atleast 6-7. Or make polar bears be a mount that is slower but can attack and swim with you on its back. And add snow armor when you kill polar bears. There’s so much they could expand with. Or make a trap update that makes tons of traps in the games. It would improve efficiency with mob farms and animal farms. Or add animal auto breeders (feed troughs).

[@the_phantom_cat7912]

Foxes have a use! getting emeralds in a few extremely niche challenges! Oh, you meant a use that'll ever come up in normal gameplay? yeah I got nothing.

[@WeepingSkull]

I dont like the amount of features that require knowledge from outside the game to be aware of. How is someone expected to figure out that a brush made from copper and feathers is supposed to be used on a seemingly worthless savannah mob to get an item whose only purpose is to make armor for the only tamable combat mob that is from a completely unrelated and distant biome? How are you supposed to figure out that these loud flying night time mobs only exist because you havent slept in a couple days and that the item they drop is used for repairing the game's final piece of equipment? How is someone supposed to find out that the final boss can be respawned by crafting and placing 4 crystals in a specific pattern? How is someone supposed to figure out how to brew potions at all? I just wish there were more subtle indications of features like the painting showing how to build the wither, something like a villager house with a brush in an item frame and both a single suspicious sand and glazed terracotta for example

[@vaskoz3700]

billions must watch

[@imaniiatdemonhead]

ew

[@Freytana]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video, I enjoyed hearing your views. Well worded too! The exploration stuff resonates with me, whenever I clear out my inventory and am ready to go explore a new cave, my inventory is full of items that I either have to stop and remove from my inventory (string, spider eyes, bones, stone variants like diorite, rotten flesh, leather, 2 random mutton and 3 colors of wool. It gives me the feeling that I have to stop and do chores instead of spending time doing what I wanted to do in the first place - explore. This issue is massively compounded if I happen to find a structure or a lot of treasure ore (Redstone, Nether Quartz, Iron/Gold/Copper Ore each taking up one or more inventory slots) that I also want to bring home with me. I end up having to carry several shulker boxes with me and/or an ender chest and then doing the tedious task of condensing my inventory instead of exploring T.T I think Mojang has developed themselves into a box (or perhaps a block in this case) where there are solutions that make a lot of sense but they can't implement them now because it would disrupt the game balance they have worked towards; Solutions like being able to use a stone cutter or perhaps a new crafting block to convert stone and variants between each other - in the current state of the game this would turn stone generators into a grocery store of building blocks which I think in Mojang's eyes is a bad thing. But then this could allow for a single inventory slot to be 'stone' in a condensing-style of inventory like you described or like the bundle was trying to achieve.

[@gunnaryoung]

We're due for a _Spring Cleaning_ update where they finish all their unfinished and underwhelming features.

[@MattMarkYT]

This is irrelevant, but I haven't really got into a vanilla world since 1.19. It's kinda sad because this used to be my favorite game since I was a child. I'm tired of the updates being spoiled in their entirety months before they come out. They are literally stealing their own thunder. Then there's nothing to explore imo. I'd rather have maybe vague teasers with the big picture, not in-depth explanations. Then when the update releases, they could make release in-depth explanations.

[@nati0598]

Yup, now I only ever play modded, not even those QoL mods like yung's X or jei, I need something extreme like gregtech or thaumcraft.

[@pircachupi4771]

Bees. They're an interesting mob that add a lot of ambience to the world as you walk around, bringing life to forests and flowery areas. You see them flying around, sometimes you see them flying to flowers and getting covered in pollen and taking that pollen back to a hive, like bees do. That's neat! You want to take some home with you, but you need to get their hive. You can pick it up with the bees inside of it with silk touch, which helps you transport them! But they get angry if you break their hive without putting them to sleep first. So you put a campfire under it, a block that sees a sparse amount of use, and this gives it some more functionality. Now you've got bees wherever you want, and also an interesting decoration block. But they do more than just look nice. If you let them get pollen from flowers, they bring it back to their hive and it fills up with honey, and if you put them to sleep first, you can harvest that honey with a bottle. New food item, and one with a unique, if minor effect. Neat! And even beyond that, you can turn honey bottles directly into sugar as an alternative way to get that resource. Pretty cool. But wait, you can also craft it into honey blocks, a block with its own sticky properties with players, one that looks good, and one that has a LOT of functionality with redstone due to how it sticks to other blocks, but not slime blocks. A fantastic block all around, plus it has niche uses with with the fact that entities can sink into it. Awesome! But wait, you could also instead use shears on the beehive and get honeycombs instead. You can craft those into honeycomb blocks, which are just decorative, but have an interesting and unique texture to them. But beyond that, you can make them into beehives, separate from the naturally spawning bee nests, with their own texture, but the same functionality. Easier to breed more bees and give them homes that way, than trying to get more hives naturally or from growing specific trees near flowers, but neat that you can still do that to get the hives if you want! But there's more! You can use them to make candles, an interesting light source that you can light and snuff out, stack up to four in one space for different amounts of light and aesthetic effects, you can color them, you can put them on cakes, a really great and unique tool for building. And then there's copper. Copper is a very unique and cool building block because of all of the different weathering states it can be in, creating different aesthetics, different colors, different patterns, all kinds of things you can do with copper, but it would be a shame if it always weathered over time and you had to keep shaving it with an axe. Thankfully, you can use honeycomb to stop it from changing to a different type of copper naturally, and always stay the same. That's so cool and useful! And that's STILL not it. Bees that have pollen on them can pollinate crops that they fly over, automatically acting as bonemeal on them. You can design farms around using this to speed up growth rates, which is so cool! That's like 11 different things that bees can do, depending on how you count it, all in one mob, all without having to kill them (which Mojang seems really reluctant to encourage nowadays in their game heavily about killing things), all interacting with tons of different systems in the game, branching out like a web. What an amazing new addition to minecraft! ... Armadillos. When you use a brush on them, they drop scute. This adds a new use for the underused copper brush, and this new resource can be used to make wolf armor, something that people have wanted for a long time. They add some life to biomes that aren't very lively, and have a few cute interactions. That's about it. Camels. They add some life to a mostly dead biome, two people can ride them at once, and they can do a silly long jump rather than the horse's high jump. I think that's all. Frogs. They add some life to a pretty dead biome, they add an admittedly unique way to farm slimes and magma cubes if you design it well, they have unique breeding mechanics with frogspawn and tadpoles, and they offer 3 unique colored light blocks based on the type of frog you use to kill a magma cube, and the player has to work a bit for all the colors. Admittedly not too bad, i like frogs a fair amount, but still less. Goats. They can do something funny by knocking you off of a mountain or screaming, and you can take their horns to make some unique and silly sounds when they ram into blocks. But not when you kill them. You can also milk them, but it's the same as milking a cow, and cows are much more common and easily accessible. Technically another way to get milk, though. Axolotls. They attack drowned and guardians, and they can give you regeneration and remove mining fatigue when they do so, but you can't actually tame them, just carry them around in buckets. Glow Squids. They drop glow ink sacs, which can be used to make glowing item frames and make sign text more visible. They don't even glow. ... It just kinda feels like they add new mobs for two reasons - there's a biome they're making or updating that doesn't have an animal in it so it gets one, and just generally for the sake of adding a new passive mob every update. The functionality is an afterthought, and sometimes the mobs are shoehorned into a feature that was already planned just for the sake of giving the mob a reason to exist. It's not about adding more fun to the game, it's about the game needing more animals for the sake of having more animals in places. Minecraft is an aesthetic, not a game, and we're not playing it the way they want us to, so they keep trying to push people into walking around looking at the pretty stuff they made instead, and then they add more pretty, meaningless stuff to look at. I know bees didn't have all of that functionality when they were first added, but they had a lot, and the fact that they keep going back to add more just makes the addition of bees more and more worthwhile the longer they've been in the game. I doubt we'll be seeing goats get more and more functionality the longer the game is out. I doubt we'll ever see anything useful from glow squids. They exist to be looked at when you open minecraft again and build a base in the new biome they made, and then you stop playing once you finish building that house because the further into the game you get, the less fun it becomes, and every update makes the late/end game more frustrating. It's an exploration and nostalgic game. Go to the new area if you want the new stuff. See how pretty it is. We put work into this dungeon so it's the only place you can find the new enchantment, nobody uses enchantment tables anyways and we hate that you use villagers, so you can only get it from chests. We put work into making mountains prettier so now there's goats there. We added a passive mob to lush caves and it technically does something so it's not just ambient and pretty. But the new update is out, stop thinking about old stuff, play the game again, build a new base in our new biome, stop thinking about long-term, people only play the game for 5 hours and move on anyways. I dunno. Every update since 1.16 has felt less like an actual attempt to freshen up and improve the game, and more of an attempt to desperately get people to keep playing after the massive spike in players it got during 1.16. Don't leave yet, you can play a little longer to see the new biome. We didn't have time to add the new biome but the wandering trader sells the pretty blocks we made. Don't leave, come back, there's a new cute silly frog to look at. Surface level features that fall flat as soon as you try to interact with them beyond the surface level. Glow squids are boring and useless. There's no reason to bother with axolotl. Goats don't do anything unique beyond a few aesthetics. Redstoners don't care about camels, builders don't care about camels, farmers don't care about camels, and explorers have better options than camels. They're just... here to look neat when you walk through a desert sometimes. Anyways, that's my dissertation, hope I got an A, I'm absolutely a professional game designer who's been doing this job for years and knows better than the company that owns and makes the most popular game of all time, you can trust me bro, my uncle works at nintendo.

[@jamesw3413]

4:55 It's extremely generous to assume Mojang has thought about this, or is adding the features for any reason other than their belief that players want *more stuff*

[@vasilyd8578]

I've never seen anyone talking about that, but I find it very funny that they thought about biome-dependent spawn of the salmon, cod, puffer and tropical fish mobs, but fishing mechanic has just two loot tables: one for jungle biomes with bamboo and one for all the other. First of all I think that adding two edible fishes was pointless, but okay... Adding more loot tables would improve exploration just as they so desire. We should be able to catch salmon only in rivers and cod in cold oceans, tropical and puffer fishes - only in warm ones. Also they could've decrease the chances for treasure items and increase it only in the deep oceans which AFAIK never generate near the shores making players to either build fishing sites there or fish from the boat.

[@vasilyd8578]

Farming pigs and rabbits for meat is pointless when you have cows which also give you leather. I thought about "balancing" that by increasing the maturity time for cows to 40 min (from 20 now) and make it so that you can milk them only while at least one calf is nearby (we already have the similar code for adult polar bears changing their behavior when a baby is near). Also make them eat short grass and grass blocks like sheep do speeding up the growth. That should make awful "cow crushers" way less effective than traditional farming (though people would just change the farm design with grass spreading). Pigs should have current 20 min maturity timer, but give 1-3 piglets, making pork easier source for food. Rabbits should have 10 min maturity timer and be able to breed every 5 min instead of 10 like every animal and maybe also give 1-3 baby rabbits. This, of course, would require some balancing with trading.

[@vasilyd8578]

I also thought about the "overkill" mechanic when you kill a mob in one hit (which probably can be coded like: mob health = full, received damage >= health which gives the "overkill"). "Overkill" would increase the EXP and mob drops, which should be combined with the overall slight decrease for mob drops (more for animals), which should further encourage humane slaughtering for animals. Again, some aspects like trading and Looting enchantment should be balanced a bit.

[@vasilyd8578]

I understand that such changes would cause a havoc, but if they want the humane approach to animals, they should think about livestock too. And it would also make these old mobs more unique.

[@Heyheyhey0475]

The vote stuff feels like an illusion of players getting what they want. Who actually asked for the majority of the features Mojang introduce nowadays?

[@silvertheelf]

Minecraft used to feel as deep as an ocean but as wide as a puddle. Now Minecraft feels as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle. I’m feeling unwelcome by the world I play in, not because it’s too dangerous or too big or too anything, but rather because there’s not enough where it needs to be and too much where it need not be. Or as you put it “Stalls your interest in the game.” I play minecraft commonly as a YT Streamer, but yeah, I notice Minecraft’s flaws up and center whenever I get certain items and have to ask myself “Why is it so lame?”

[@Sjabfkeheb]

Glow ink sac, glowstone dust, glowberries. 3 entirely seperate items and mechanics with no connection between them that all do the same thing. I hate to be negative but the problem is just bad ideas combined with the fear of doing anything too different.

[@vinnypag]

Love the video, I just started playing again recently on bedrock with friends on a realm, my biggest complaint is first that porting to mobile means that the mob limit has to be within like 2 chunks so on PC you can watch mobs despawn and theres always so many of them. Then the problem i see is the complete lack of direction for the game- i played java 1.6.4 to 1.8 as a kid and at that point the game was pretty much didnt need much changed, if i wanted more indepth gameplay i'd get mods which provided super detailed progression that vanilla isnt meant to provide. minecraft isn't really meant to be a boss fighting game, an exploring game, a survival game or a building game it supposed to be all of those if the player wants and mojang adding meaningless things really doesn't make any of those better,, like the deep snow bullshit is so utterly pointless when they could add more biomes or a rare boss or even another dimension, id like to see a big change,, I love the rare geological structure idea

[@SkyTalksGames]

I think one of the biggest issues is that explorarion and new biomes / structures have just lost their intrinsic value. There always seems to have to be a resultant as to why you should bother exploring, rather than an inherent want to just see what's out there being the main drive to go looking for stuff.

[@ohhadivist]

I think they might feel pressured, that they /have/ to add flashy new things, even if they're actually small and useless in the long run, just for the initial hype surrounding new updates.

[@donutstudios6353]

bro you never filled in some gaps in your bamboo plantation in the end (you didn't place on a few blocks while you were sprinting)

[@bumblebeebowties]

don't worry, i went back and filled them. i know that if i hadn't said that you'd be up all night thinking about how i didn't fill in those gaps, so i hope you rest easy.

[@donutstudios6353]

@@bumblebeebowties good lol

[@turzilla]

i think one good thing is the world feels more alive with all the new mobs which many people dont agree with. sure they dont do anything but its cool to see a panda or a polar bear. they dont subtract from the game experience at all. the problem comes when they have specific drops like rabbit hide and it subtracts from the game experience

[@TooFewSecrets]

Strangest thing about new-Minecraft's lack of cohesion is that it's unironically worse than many kitchen sink modpacks. Probably because a lot of mod devs already use vanilla items to ensure better compatibility and not needing to bother with new sprites. Leather is a huge example of this; something shared across many mobs and crafts in many mods while, like you pointed out, it's basically a dead material in vanilla because Mojang seems to want to torture themselves for worse results, with every single new item they make. Mods also improve the "food is pointless" bit. That one mod I forget the name of that Gregtech uses gives you stacking max health for variety. And Lycanites (which I genuinely despise the design of in other ways) offers challenging mobs to hunt or breed in exchange for strong buffs, sometimes even stronger than potions can reach - meat that exists to solely be cooked and eaten is one of the few times it makes sense to have one-purpose materials, but Mojang seems to hate the idea of adding more meat-based food items. Even then - again borrowing from several mods, imagine a garden salad or some other complete meal letting you cram five food types into a luxury item with less efficiency but much better combat healing than the individual parts. The only thing close to this is rabbit stew, which doesn't stack, and even if it did it wouldn't be better than gold carrots. Instead, everyone gets a porkchop or carrot vendor and ignores the entire concept of food outside of using gapples as buff potions. Food being a dead feature in a survival game honestly could have its own video.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

I haven't really interacted with any of the update cover features since... Horses, probably. You can still play and beat the game the exact same way you could 10 years ago without ever seeing most of the things that got added in the meantime.

[@paulnamesa]

I agree with the central point here. No item/mob/structure/whatever should have a single use. It should either have no purpose and just be decorative/ambiance/realism (polar bears, desert wells, rotten flesh, dragon egg) or should have a bunch of uses. Like would anyone have been mad if armadillos had no item drop? people don't hate polar pears, pandas, bats, axolotl. (and yes I know pandas can produce slime) people want these creatures because they are cute. that's it. If an item only has one use it should be something transformative like elytra, sculk sensors, shulker shells, netherite (I count because of the fireproof property on items). The only single use items which make sense are like, nether stars and hearts of the seas, and even then adding some more uses would be cool.

[@paulnamesa]

List of what I consider single use items ignoring just food items, purely decorative items, or items who's single use is crafting something else which is multi-functional, a food item or purely decorative (kelp only makes dried kelp but dried kelp is both a food and a smelting resource and a decorative block) List: Spider eyes - food source does not count as a second use. Armadillo Scute - as discussed Rabbit Hide - making leather doesn't count because of how much easier it is to get leather other ways, kill one cow and you have more leather than killing 8 rabbits. Rabbit Feet - I think like how scute makes a combo-effect potion, rabbits feet should make jump boost and luck potions which might actually be interesting enough to be worth it. Dragon's Breath - this really needs a meaningful use, lingering potions are just a downgrade on splash potions, nobody uses tipped arrows either. Echo Shard - lets be honest, by the time you raid a deep dark, the deep dark itself is the only place you will ever die. Nautilus Shells - boarder-line as conduits could be considered to have multiple uses. Phantom Membrane - boarder-line as although slow falling is a unique potion which can have cool uses, repairing elytra is an end game activity at which point you almost certainly have mending which is just a superior option in every way.

[@CreativelyJake]

im gonna say... im only a little bit into the video, but. well, im one whos against adding items that have one use from a mob... simply because then you're being told exactly how to use them like in that sense, i think the crab is worse than the sniffer, because imagine ... how annoying of a forced journey it'd be to go find a crab claw for extra reach when like okay, yes thats something id like to see in terraria, but... it just doesnt fit minecraft very well. itd make me go to crabs, then get a claw and never go see them again but my biggest thing is that... it *reduces* crabs to just being that! like, do we reduce sheeps to being beds? for a time, we almost did. but you can not only build and make beds, but make stuff like banners too, or use wool to occlude sound in deep dark ...so yeah, i can agree that i dont like when they add single use materials BUT i think i know why they do it for mobs. they're afraid of people calling the mobs useless. remember, whenever they add a mob that just does a few lil neat things like i dunno, the fox. people ignore it and call it useless. and mojang WANTS people to not only not complain about mobs being Useless to them (especially if from a vote) but they also ... really, really want to Make people interact with new content, i think. you can also look at how new content always has other smaller bits of new content Made For It specifically, so to speak i think it is a pretty big issue, but i think a lot of it nowadays comes down to 3 things 1) the aforementioned fear of adding something like a polar bear, fox, or panda, that doesnt Directly Benefit the player. 2) marketing. they want to make the cool new copper relevant, so of course its used for the new sypglass alongside the other new material you can mine for. its more marketable if its all tied together... even if thats gimmicky 3) planning for a future that will only be a thing in 20 years. they say stuff like "we want to open design space" for echo shards... so that in the future they can add more uses for these items. it is worth noting that many of the dev team wants minecraft to live for at least 50 years, if not 100. its bold, but its what they want. it might explain why they take things so carefully. they dont want to ruin a game... so they jjust keep adding side-content, so as to not ruin the core of the game. 7:54 i agree IMMENSELY on. you dont need unique Stuff All The Time just like... unique Combinations of existing stuff is good enough already; look at the Meadow biome from 1.18 it has a unique roster of mobs (rabbits and sheep) and unique feature placement in rarely spawning birch trees, but ALWAYS having bee nests in those trees. as well as flowers that you can find in flower forests already it doesnt make them into nuisance biomes of "ugh, i have to go find a darn meadow cus i need this flower / mob" its just "oh i found a meadow, nice. i wanted some sheep and i get some alliums too? sick!" but also, 8:15 "the reward is that you get to see it" see... that doesnt cut it for angry minecraft players who moan about how they hate the direction of the game, about adding useless things. what a Useless biome, they would say. theres No Reason to go there. because they yearn for extrinsic reasons

[@nati0598]

I like your sheep example and uses for wool, but I would like to remind you that leather from cows has 7 crafting recipes. Pigs are also completely useless in crafting, but I let them pass because they are an eccentric mode of transport. And if you want a mob to both not be useless and a one pump chump, just add more recipes. Integrate it in any way whatsoever. Have the rabbit leather server as replacement for the normal one, instead of forcing to search them out for a bundle.

[@RustyShackleford556]

Microsoft be like "We can't add anything cool because we're afraid of bloating the game" and then do this

[@peporgan]

Pokémon actually did the same thing in Gen 4. Started adding ridiculous single-use evolution items like the Electrizer, instead of just making Electabuzz evolve by thunderstone or something simple

[@drredherring]

We can see this is a modern minecraft issue as older items and blocks have more fleshed out uses and are core parts of the game.

[@CBMX_GAMING]

Of course old stuff has more uses, it's been around for 10+ years lol

[@donutstudios6353]

1.21 was deep and not wide but the same can't be said about other updates (and then trails and tales which was shallow _and_ narrow)

[@LunizIsGlacey]

I really like how this is not anger-driven, but a polite discussion that considers multiple perspectives!

[@art_00000]

I play minecraft mostly because of command blocks and data packs, and i am just not going to play versions 1.19 and further. At first i stopped at this version because of the chat reports, but later (when i assume that feature was removed, because i haven't heard of it ever since) i didn't want to play newer versions because the game design was just getting too inconsistent. Wardens, who are just glorified instakill traps; maces, which deal irrationally high damage, that looks like not a single game designer was even informed about their creation, but mojang executives said to keep these because of the hype it caused, not looking into details. And as a contrast, a lot of added features were so useless, that if they were a mod, no one would even bother installing them, like sniffers and their flower seeds. It all looks like a very terribly assembled mod collection. It is so bad, i wouldn't even play it for display entities, interaction entities, and new commands.

[@CreativelyJake]

also, i think in terms of places you return to like amethyst geodes, i really hope they do something like the unloaded activity mod... so i dont have to babysit everything (be within 128 blocks) and i just wanna say IVE BEEN SAYIN !! ALL OF THIS!! YOU GET ME!!! final edit: i will say, i do think i'd go for a middleground for the spyglass requriing gold and amethyst. i think it makes it feel nice when i find amethyst that its like "oh heck yea i can make a spyglass now" but it feels REALLY tacky when i have to combine it with copper. not every recipe has to be 100% literal or one to one with how it looks... or else the crafting table would need iron. plus amethyst is a quartz, which is. glass.

[@pengil3]

I think they should remove rabbit's hide from the game. Nothing else. Just rabbit's hide. Bunnies drop leather, and all rabbit's hide gets converted into leather.

[@pencilonpaper1026]

i hate how creatures or blocks only come out for like one or two purposes and thats it. i wouldn't mind as much if these systems interacted more even in useless ways but they dont.

[@pencilonpaper1026]

also these features can be rare or are only spawn in a certain location it can be kinda sad trying to find these places only for you to use it in one recipe.

[@oldbenkenobi3280]

Mojang has an inflation fetish, but exclusively for inventories

[@cobalt2675]

😃what

[@MemesSwitched]

We can argue back and forth over “necessary” new items, but I think there’s a better verdict: There is nothing wrong with adding new things/modifying old things. It’s how they actually IMPLEMENT them that causes these issues. I couldn’t care less that they added camels and armadillos, I would just ignore them if they didn’t add to my experience. This doesn’t mean that I dislike them, rather I just wished I had a purpose in finding them.

[@MemesSwitched]

As an addendum, I have seen so many mods make ACTUAL USE out of the newer mobs and materials… it’s pretty pathetic how much (practical/logical) use mod creators have found for amethysts, copper, and turtle scutes.

[@nati0598]

One of my favorite mods, HexCasting, uses amethyst as magic material. I think it's the only mod that actually encourages creating an outpost near an amethyst geode (or any structure now that I think about it).

[@bumblebeebowties]

yes, this is an issue i touch on in my latest video about lateral game design-armadillos and their scute and stuff are fine, but that's as long as they have more than one purpose. the more links/uses they have, the more vertical the design is. if a feature is sufficiently vertical, go ahead and put it in the game! but as it stands, the features they add are lateral and shallow.

[@everettrailfan]

3:08 DOCTOR WHO MENTIONED RAHHHHH

[@jenkoo]

I agree with this, a lot of people say the issue is that it’s not simple like old Minecraft anymore, which to an extent makes sense, but your view makes a lot more sense. They just need to connect stuff. It’s like every item is a branch out for its thing and that’s it. Absolutely nothing seems to link

[@gremlin8635]

the current minecraft is why I stick to playing 1.12 modpacks

[@nati0598]

You're missing out. Just because minecraft stayed the same doesn't mean that modpacks are dead too.

[@jcrimson.]

the inventory has been small for years

[@fractalgem]

The incentory has been small for years, sure. Its size was calibrated for a minecraft version so different its practically a *different game*. The game's item variety has only increased.

[@darkdruidsvale]

as someone who used to play MC a LOT back in the day, i feel like one thing thats been lost over the past few years is that, minecraft is a game, its not an educational platform, it never was, sure it can be used as such but thats not the core intention of it, there's so many things that would be amazing to have in game but arent because "oh if we add sharks then people will kill them" or "we cant have sharks hostile because then we'll have a second Jaws scenario, and we cant have them passive because then people who dont know better will go up to them IRL and risk getting hurt" at what stage did MC become the method in which we learn about the real world? last i checked there are very few "cubes" found in nature and i cant just make a 1 meter squared dirt tower all the way to the upper atmosphere we have other things such as firefly's which wherent added because "frogs cant eat firefly's or they'll die" which is only true for certain frogs and certain firefly's, and last i checked MC wasnt an indepth review of the trolly problem, if we dont want frogs to eat firefly's just make it so they cant, heck, let them get poisoned if they do, poison cant bring you beyond half a heart anyway why would it be different for a frog?

[@jichanbachan2837]

The feeling that Minecraft was just getting bloated with updates was something I had been feeling for a while now. Though in defence of the various food items, I love having lots of different food items, even if they don't necessarily do anything different. I would love for there to be more craftable foodstuffs, and the existence of major mods like Cooking for Blockheads and Pam's Harvestcraft hopefully means my sentiment is shared by others. Thank you for the video

[@hkpika9730]

Still cant believe we got so many useless junk like the turtle helmet, spyglass, sniffer and dog armor. But fletching tables STILL dont have a use.

[@firstnamelastname442]

what do you want the fletching tables to do?

[@steveminecraft5887]

@@firstnamelastname442 fletch

[@firstnamelastname442]

@@steveminecraft5887 what would that be?

[@hkpika9730]

@@firstnamelastname442 it would be a cool way to make tipped arrows without needing to trade from a villager/get dragon’s breath. They also promised it would get a feature added but they never fulfilled that promise

[@gamerdude3465]

I think it is moreso about wanting to add novelty over function. Minecraft is not primarily a game meant to be enjoyed anymore, it's a product meant to be purchased, especially with the bedrock marketplace being such a big thing.

[@MrTod1984]

7:30 You wouldn't even need to add something new just make it so the lava can regenerate that way it turns it into a giant fuel source

[@durza9692]

What do you mean 88 suscribers, really well done and right on the spot, can't wait to see more of your content, you deserve more views

[@bumblebeebowties]

thanks so much! i've got plenty more ideas!

[@dougthedonkey1805]

This is why bundles were introduced- consolidating all your one-off gimmicky inventory clutter into stacks is quite nice and helpful. Unfortunately, inventory clutter isn’t the only problem with this creative choice, so it’s more of a band-aid than a solution

[@FloofyFloofles]

Me watching modern minecraft video essays knowing damn well I'm just gonna keep playing modded 1.12.2 :trolle:

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

I like that this video doesn’t act like copper is some completely useless waste of space when it’s clearly meant to be a building block