Minecraft's Missed Potential

[@ResoluteGryphon]

I want Mojang to stop adding endangered animals to the game. I know it's to raise awareness, but they give you no reward for killing them. I think more generic creatures/monsters are the way to go. It adds to the sandbox "make up your own story" concept, something to project upon. As for the polar bears, I wish they'd just retexture them for different biomes: black bears, brown bears, grisly bears, etc.

[@lydia6477]

the way i want to kill and eat axolotls and the devs said nooo they're cuteee dont do thaat LET ME BE EVIL I HAVE DREAMS

[@FailedHispanic]

Same, i dont hate the polar bears since im not good at fishing so theyre a great way for to get fish, but i wish we had other bears in other biomes. I wouldnt have an issue with pandas not doing anything if we had other bears because pandas are useless irl

[@C9LD]

@@ResoluteGryphon fr, more supernatural, unheard-of concepts like creepers, striders, blazes, and ghasts would be better mob additions. the warden was a good addition, the creaking was kinda generic and seemed rushed, since the concept of something only moving when you look away is already very copied in so much other media. the creaking feels like a mod rather than a vanilla mob, and it feels like their excuse to add white wood (something that was VERY asked for) into the game and giving it some type of new, separate biome, rather than just adding dyed wood to the game. (also something that is still very asked for but mojang would rather have 4,000 different biomes with each one having different colored trees in the game)

[@JuDabod06]

What i really dislike about mojangs position on this matter is that they say: "the players will craft their own experience and enjoyment" but they recently have just been actively trying to take down the modding community in bedrock removing parts of how the game functions, making it increasingly difficult for mods to be made. And i get the point of: "well, they have addons which are practicaly mods so you shouldn't complain" but they are fucking pay walled, so like, you can't customize the game to your own enjoyment without paying more.

[@lightedtwice]

i have not heard about this... can I get some sources bcs it seems interesting...

[@JuDabod06]

@@lightedtwice it's specifically bedrock modding, and a good video going over it that's pretty easy to understand is phoenixsc's one titled: "Minecraft modding on bedrock is being suppressed by a recent update, and it's bad." If you don't like his content just look up minecraft pdb files, which is what they removed.

[@lightedtwice]

@@JuDabod06 okay

[@Kozmodius]

i've been so confused about the marketplace bc making money off your mods goes against mojang's TOS or something, so why is it allowed there? or is it specific to the version?

[@JuDabod06]

@Kozmodius The thing is, making money from modifications to the game without permission from the company is ilegal, because the people that make those mods are basically profiting off the game itself. But the thing about the marketplace and addons is that they are practically parterns with minecraft, and they allow it because they get a cut of everything that's uploaded on there. Idk if i explained myself correctly but it's basically because it's like making illegal merchandise of a character, you don't have permission to sell things using someones elses ip.

[@Paul-jo1it]

the echo shard example is the most egregious and speaks to the games biggest development issue imo. developers will add so many things that don’t interact with the rest of the game, making the additions feel like theyre stuck in a vacuum instead of part of a larger world

[@caracol764]

I like to say that it lacks a "purpose" There is a reason: to update the game, attract more players and make money. But it seems that certain things don't have a "purpose" within the game, they only exist because the players can interact with them.

[@xillitharclight]

​@@caracol764it reminds me of the times I tried writing stuff. Added too many characters into the story, and then… "Emm… what do I do with them now?"

[@SSSandier1]

A couple of things here. 1. Polar bears were never supposed to be in the game and the only reason they are is because Jens’ wife thought they were cute. 2. The sniffer was supposed to have at least 3 different plant drops, but they got cancelled because someone leaked them :( 3. Modern mobs feel useless because mojang is too scared to give them drops. Goats were supposed to drop wool and mutton, and sniffers moss blocks. Ever found it strange you can just brush off armadillo scales? That’s the reason why. Speaking of the armadillo, why keep add the scales when you could just use turtle scutes instead?

[@C9LD]

@SSSandier1 it does seem like mojang is getting too scared to just let players kill the new animals like we do the old ones, and they're trying to stop the "violence" against innocent animals by making them drop absolutely nothing, so that there's no incentive to kill, farm, or domesticate them in any way. minecraft is kinda lowkey going woke, just not in the conventional sense of woke. they're kinda turning into peta with the subliminal anti violence against the new mobs.

[@azharsaeed4240]

Echo shards should be used as armour trim colours just like resin

[@JustJamesNotJerry]

One of the biggest failures in my opinion is they make non useful stuff hard to get, and they make useful stuff easy to get. You literally could get diamonds from exploring shipwrecks right from the beginning of the game, but i have to go on this massive adventure to get brown dye.

[@braintrain4310]

I still can't believe that the echo shards don't make anything other than a compass, the challenge of the ancient city is amazing and the warden is one of my favorite additions to the game, and yet the echo shards do nothing when they clearly should!

[@PulpiSuper3246]

The death compass should be crafted at the beginning of the game, because when you go to an ancient city, you are already experienced and you never die XD

[@braintrain4310]

@@PulpiSuper3246 Death happens all the time, it's very hard to say you'll "never die" and I'm not saying the recovery compass isn't useful when you get, it's just that you shouldn't need to go to the ancient city to get the compass

[@djmace9029]

The echo shard could easily be used for some other stuff like armour trims but it just isn’t which is very frustrating.

[@kolkagaming1234]

@@PulpiSuper3246In fact that’s exactly what I did in my Survival world where I spawned in an ancient city.

[@PulpiSuper3246]

@kolkagaming1234 Yes, but you most likely won't spawn in one.

[@draggofroot9023]

5:54 they used to have goats be able to drop mutton which is better than nothing at least but they removed it for no apparant reason

[@MeloniestNeon]

Mojang refuses to make any mobs based on real animals drop anything upon death anymore, because they're afraid of hurting PETA's feelings or something "Ooooh noooo!!! If we make da real life animals dwop exp or loot then it encourages people to go kill them noooo!!!" Meanwhile POLAR BEARS of all mobs drop a useful item, that being fish.

[@daklr2501]

They don't want to promote hurting animals by making them drop meat...

[@Karthik-pn2yj]

​​@@daklr2501just a bad excuse. it's a game. it's not real. it's fictional

[@QUBIQUBED]

Mojang's been paranoid ever since they let parrots eat chocolate chip cookies in an update leading to tons of kids feeding their parrots cookies IRL leading to thousands of parrots dying Thats why they removed fireflies. They're fucking terrified

[@MeloniestNeon]

@@QUBIQUBED That never happened though?? They removed it because minecraft cookies are chocolate chip, and someone pointed that out. They even made it so that you can feed cookies to parrots and they die, and if I recall it was all during the snapshot phase. No real life parrots were ever put in danger by feeding a blocky bird a chocolate chip cookie, it was just a funny "polly want a cracker?" Joke that turned into a different easter egg. If someone has easy access to, or owns, a pet bird, or hell literally any type of pet, they'll know not to feed it chocolate.

[@EmberOldAccount]

Here's an idea for the pitcher pot. When it gets rained on, It fills with water like a cauldron would, however, if you feed it potion materials, instead of filling with water, it will fill with that potion instead, meaning you'd have slow but infinite potion generation.

[@Respectable_Username]

And this is the reason so many folks are preferring modded Minecraft to the main game. Because mod developers try and give a _purpose_ to their blocks. Are the blocks always better than what Mojang could come up with? No. But there's usually at least _some_ purpose to adding the feature, or else why would somebody download your mod?

[@toastcrunch3728]

I'd argue that every block has a purpose. Minecraft is a sandbox game so anything that can be used creatively has a purpose

[@AlphaKnight-hg2jq]

modern Minecraft just feels like old Minecraft with a bunch of bad, half baked mods

[@PulpiSuper3246]

Minecraft It is more enjoyable when you set your own goals, because there are no good incentives to do x mission.

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

@@toastcrunch3728 No. Pure decorative blocks are useless. And items without functions, or redundant items like anything armadillo related

[@toastcrunch3728]

@EmperorPenguin1217 How are decorative blocks useless tho? The foundation of the game is building cool things. Decorative blocks are specifically for that purpose

[@mahirashid7801]

17:38 the chomper fits well thematically with the pitcher plant as they're both carnivorous, I'd like that side of the pitcher plant to be explored.

[@MattDoesNothing]

The rotten meat for exp aspect sounds really good. When I first discovered about the sniffer and those plants, I thought Mojang would drop a whole new lore and aspect to the game. At first I thought the pitcher was the corpse plant or something and thinking that Mojang might try to find another use for rotten meat for using it to feed to the corpse plant and in turn gives us free exp or something. As well as the Torch plant being luminous and Sniffer being able to find runic or maybe its fragments with small chances. There are a lot of missed opportunity really.

[@AzureTD_]

would be cool if the sniffer plants could interact with one another, like the chomper plants would eat enemies while the pitcher plant would store the exp, even make the torch flower able to burn items dropped in them as a sort of easy trash sorting system for farms and boom

[@sejsuper4660]

I heard an idea somewhere that the 2 sniffer flowers should give unique dye and omg that is such a good idea. Instantly worth finding them

[@AzureTD_]

@sejsuper4660 yea i saw a comment somewhere here saying bring back the old saturation but as new dyes given from the ancient sniffer flowers, so you could get all the old wool colours

[@mahirashid7801]

@@AzureTD_ I also saw that, that would have been very nice and add more reason to get these flowers? Who knows? They could add a potion? Maybe a levation potion?

[@shmoopy4265]

The goat horn should cause your tamed dogs to stand or sit. If pillagers get to assemble an army at the sound of a horn we should be able to too

[@B5Scheuert]

Fuck yeah, especially when you have a lot of dogs, it get's really annoying trying to get every one to sit cos they're running around like the little fuckbrains they are I love your idea!

[@KefkeWren]

You know, I've talked about this with people before. Minecraft gets a lot of cool ideas, but then fumbles the execution. The loot in the Deep Dark is probably the least egregious, because Swift Sneak is cool, and the redstone components are at least _something,_ but the rest? Especially when it comes to the old mob votes, it feels like a lot of the time - not always, but a lot of the time - Mojang comes up with a cool idea, gives it the most basic implementation, and then moves on, never to revisit it again. And while it's great that Minecraft gets a lot of new content, it's not so great that very little of that content ever ends up living up to its potential. The Pale Garden is a _really_ cool idea, leaning into the old feelings of horror in Minecraft...except that there wasn't even a reason to engage with the biome's main mechanic until players got hold of the snapshot and pointed out that you could just not go there at night and miss out on nothing, and even now it just nets you some more building blocks.

[@MeloniestNeon]

@@KefkeWren I saw the Allay and thought "Oh wow, a portable second inventory for common items, as well as a flying hopper minecart! It has so many uses!" Only for it to have to be annoyingly and repeatedly dinged by a noteblock for it to stay in any given area, and it can't even hold more than a stack of an item, AND it just randomly chucks out items onto the ground with 0 precision. It should be so simple to interface with, just make some new amethyst item that allows you to tether it to a container or hopper and precisely place the items in, but no, annoying noteblock noise machine. That was pretty much my final straw for the mob vote, and I voted FOR the Allay, because it sounded so fun. Which sucks, because all of the other mobs from that vote also sounded fun to me, and might have at least added something to the game.

[@BigMastah79]

I don’t think it’s fair to say that they didn’t implement Resin until players pointed it out? That’s such a strange thing to say when it’s a pretty complex and large component of the Pale Garden. It was obviously in development and wasn’t ready for the first few snapshots.

[@parrotproductions5373]

The lead developer behind the echo shards said they were originally intended to keep items from despawning. They didn’t end up giving them that functionality because they don’t like how chunk-loaded despawning works right now.

[@whothefrickareyou8106]

12:17 here is an idea. Don't make them glow, but instead, repel monster spawning without Light. That could allow players to make night time builds without filling the place with monsters.

[@C9LD]

@whothefrickareyou8106 lightless mob-prevention is a goated idea

[@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel]

And also that makes much more sense than a random, unrelated to other glowing plants, glowing! If I was a Mojang dev, I'd do what you said

[@eliasthesarcastic8707]

The Sniffer mob no joke, can be the best way to reintroduce the older Minecraft colors that got axed. That singlehandedly gives the Sniffer a niche, that being said, they would have to tweak everything a bit to make them a renewable source of those older colors. And besides the older plants could have their own functions, like a large plant like the spore blossom that traps medium and small sized mobs that walk over it.

[@gingersolacemusic7590]

I actually love that idea, could even throw in legacy plants like the rose and cyan rose. I understand they were removed cause "roses are bushes actually", but MC isn't *supposed* to be a realistic game, y'know?

[@vibe6223]

I like that since the whole point of the sniffer is to dig up "ancient flowers" it would also be digging up "ancient colours" with it, neat idea!

[@PulpiSuper3246]

I thought that the climbing plant that leaked and never made it to the game, you could extract its blue berries and they could be used to make random potions, which can have up to 3 random potion effects in a glass jar.

[@olivers.7821]

They will simply not do it because they don't want to add more than the already existing 16 colours and all the blocks that can be those colours.

[@reesespeeses_]

BROOO awesome ideas like this make me so sad cuz i know it would never be added into vanilla minecraft

[@oshawott5308]

this has YTP DNA sewn into it. I can smell it.

[@Itskaidaorangeguy2017]

FR LIKE 7:13 😭😭

[@coolthefool1]

youtube poop…. ahhh i’ve not heard that name in a long time

[@DogsRNice]

@@coolthefool1 KZbin poop! Because you tube, is where the poop is *musical wheezing*

[@Taffles-hh9cu]

smells like sh t

[@midnightartist43]

Bro def did watch MLG vids when he was a kid, lmao

[@JohnTK]

5:28 actually mountain biomes have a third big use, as they are the biome that iron ore generates the most commonly in (as well as emerald but villagers are better for that). You can easily go up to a mountain and mine up three stacks of iron in a few minutes.

[@EsaAbiyyu]

true but it doesn't spark your extrinsic interest tho. If you want iron you'll get enough by mining in -20 and if you need a bunch of them, you can make an iron golem farm. No one ever said "hmm i need iron. I'll go look for a mountain then."

[@kingalex105x7]

also under mountains ancient cities are more likely to spawn

[@Bunny_Bill]

Yeah but you could also make a basic iron farm within the third day that makes more iron that you could ever want😔

[@JinxeBlaq]

OH MY GOD, you’re one of the first KZbinrs I’ve seen who actually understand the Extrinsic/Intrinsic issue- Almost all KZbinrs pick a side, saying Minecraft is ONLY supposed to have Intrinsic motivations because it’s a “sandbox game” and it relies on you just feeling like doing something 2000000 times, and MOST of them take this side. Though there are those who go too far with Extrinsic value as well, but it is FAR less common and those who say it usually get bullied for it, because let’s not be ridiculous, Minecraft isn’t Skyrim- But you’re completely balanced, and understand that there should be MORE Extrinsic value, because Minecraft has veeeerry little. Goodness it’s so hard to find someone who isn’t just babying Minecraft and letting it not work on the aspects it’s lacking. And don’t get me wrong i LOVE Minecraft, but goodness gracious, do I get tired of “picking pretty flowers” for weeks while I fumble with the horrible progression and enchantment systems.

[@Stayser]

👏👏👏

[@youplayzz7922]

🔥

[@potatocraft952]

Never have a seen someone lying so much lol, everythung i see with big minecraft youtubers is how the game should not be a sandbox and be an RPG, and that everything should only be added if it has an porpuse that inst building our anything that isnt related to an RPG element, there is little to none actual people defending anything im minecraft, its actually the contrary because if you even dare to like anything nowadays you are an horrible creature that is licking mojangs balls, if there are people who actually like the game like you said these days they are really small and arent part of the bigger picture at all, yall are not opressed you are the majority

[@daklr2501]

B-b-but if we added more tools below diamond tier the game would be incredibly bloated!

[@RePorpoised]

yeah. I see this as Mojang trying to maintain interest for modders. A complete game is nice, but once done, you don't often feel much need to return to it. An incomplete one keeps you up at night with all the possible ways you could have made it better. It keeps players searching through mods for cool gameplay, and inspires modders and gives them room to let their ideas breathe. Also it may be just me, but perhaps because vanilla lacks so much extrinsic sources of motivation, mods seem to quite frequently add entire bucketlists of objectives for the player to complete. I'm not saying they're definitely making incomplete updates on purpose.... Actually i guess i am.

[@Igaffu_official]

don't care about anyone's opinion, this man spittin' straight facts, i play minecraft for 9 years already and i always thought that something was off about this game but i couldn't point out what it was exactly, but this man right here COOKED on this one. make this man a CEO of mojang

[@zerozone5848]

bro is a 5 michelin star chef fr on godwyn

[@insidiousfate5154]

It all went downhill the moment microsoft bought (legally stole) MC and Mojang from Notch

[@NUttLEN0LItE]

Ikr

[@Igaffu_official]

@@insidiousfate5154 notch was indie dev with his cool ideas and he actually listened to his community, mojang on the other hand is a big company who needs money, that's all i think, mojang just wants money.

[@insidiousfate5154]

@@Igaffu_official It isn't Mojang, original Mojang is the true Minecraft team, the people who ruined it are microsoft and their ilk. Mojang needs money to make minecraft what it is, microsoft needs money to subvert and annoy everyone while getting away with it.

[@gbjsyzftbcacjyfubjygkgcjae3182]

personally, i think why the community is so divided on which features are good or bad is because minecraft has to cater to builders, redstoners, fighters and casuals simultaneously. like i think the sniffer is great! i wish they did more with what types of flowers you get, but a difficult-to-obtain block being desirable only for building is great for me. and i like the aesthetics of mountains even if goats aren't that useful (even tho mojang SHOULD have made them drop mutton, but i digress). like, i think it's just...they try to cater to everyone, but because they have to go one group at a time, someone is always upset. tho i definitely agree that so many concepts minecraft already has need serious fleshing out

[@saltybacon206]

They have basically infinite money from Microsoft, soooooo.... I don't think it's THAT hard, imo. But, I ain't a game dev so, yeah.

[@holmanthehorror6127]

No man. I gotta be honest, them having to cater to multiple playstyles isn’t the issue, and all it is is a cope. The core issues I would say are that Mojang almost always does the most bare minimum execution possible and a refusal to improve upon the aspects of the game that need improvement. Like, loot across the board would be better if, instead of copy pasting normal tools, weapons, armor, etc everywhere, they gave structures their own unique loot, even if it’s just a reskin. Sniffer should offer way more plants than just two purely cosmetic plants. Torchplant should at least light up, and as the video said, it would be a great way to include plants and dyes from older versions of the game, maybe even give it the rare chance of digging up the OG neon grass. Glow squid’s ink sacs should make wool glow. Archaeology should have at least been a way to get complete skeletons of all the mobs in game, and should, frankly, have had a whole slew of new items/blocks made, like ancient pickaxes/armor, an alternate style of glass, etc. Instead, everytime Mojang adds something new, it’s almost always the bare minimum. As for the specifics of the demographics, the only ones that are going to be an issue are redstoners, PvE/adventurer players, and PvP players as their wants would actually have an effect on game balance, and PvE/Adventurers haven’t eaten well until recently with Tricky Trials, as the Underdark, while fun, doesn’t have proper loot.

[@ArGon-5]

Maybe for polar bears, add extreme cold weather to mountains and snow biomes and only way to transverse these biomes is by attaching a fur suit (obtained from polar bear fur or something) to the armor, otherwise you will die from extreme cold.

[@starnemi6825]

what if you spawn in a snow biome tho

[@ArGon-5]

@starnemi6825 you use torches or other fire sources to keep you warm. I believe there is a mod like that.

[@flavsdepadua8516]

the annoying thing about minecraft is that they release the absolute most vanilla and soulless version of something and pretend it's some ground breaking stuff, while that one mod developer rewrites the whole code and ad 200+ new features fully detail from his garage

[@VladdyDaddy45]

im not against intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, but as a naturally and unchangeably extrinsically motivated person, i would like for minecraft to use extrinsic motivation to spark intrinsic. for example: horde nights. if they adding horde nights, then the player would be incentivized to build creatively and use their environment to their advantage, but nobody wants a flat, plain wood wall, that shit ugly. so the player is more likely than not to have been sparked to make the wall pretty. thats what i mean by extrinsic sparking intrinsic. also 1000% subbed. i really like this despite disagreeing with a lot

[@I2Privet21]

I've been playing a scape and run modpack for this exact reason

[@spongebobislyfe5906]

The problem with ideas like that is that it punishes and disrupts the intrinsically rewarded individuals. They just want to build, and hordes of mobs to fight that disrupt their building will alienate that crowd. Rewards rather than punishments would be better for them.

[@VladdyDaddy45]

@@spongebobislyfe5906 the extrinsically motivated players vastly outnumber the intrinsically motivated. why do you think “the two week cycle”. is such a popular phrase? and i really dont like the argument of “if you dont like it just dont use it”, but for people who only want to build, and thats it, why are they playing survival?

[@RePorpoised]

see, here's the thing. in the earliest versions, skeletons were actually incredible motivators for building. Since sprinting wasn't a thing and shield didn't exist, escape was difficult. As such, you built. You built passages and escape routes and all sorts of things to avoid having a group of skeletons destroy you. But now, the shield is kind of overtuned. You get it, and although you can get surprised, you 're pretty much safe from everything within your field of vision. It cuts off some of the motivation to keep making walls, because you carry one everywhere. At the same time though, this makes the game accessible to new players. Giving people some kind of opt out option is necessary for people who lack the confidence or skills to survive combat from just quitting an never returning. It's what the bed is.

[@RossLemon]

@@VladdyDaddy45 "I don't like the argument. "If you don't like it just don't use it"." Except it's a perfectly valid argument and you have no counter point to it.

[@microshlink]

modern vanilla minecraft is like being the only person in the world to collect yu gi oh cards, while everyone else collects pokemon cards, u just can’t do anything with what u have

[@PulpiSuper3246]

I have an idea: -You take two nautilus shells and one goat horn. -You place them on a crafting table like a Sandwich and you get a conch. -With that item, you can play several different random sounds like with the goat horns, but with a marine theme. -Every time you play a sound, you will attract the drowned so that it will be easier for you to find them and you can obtain the trifen faster.

[@darkrising8280]

How about making it a throwable item whare it can lure mobs to which ever direction it's thrown at. It could be helpful in the neather to lure swarms of mobs away for 2 seconds but at the cost of them agroing more. It's crazy how easy it is to think of ideas for this game. I just want to know why the higher ups prevent this type of innovation

[@PulpiSuper3246]

​@@darkrising8280They want to make Minecraft last for many more years, but I think these little ideas could be added more consistently.

[@basilbugs]

ive been thinking about a crazy idea recently where like. instead of trying to kill the warden or run away you have to sneak up behind it and like. "deactivate" it? wit a special item? and maybe if you do it right it drops something like a nether star but you can craft it into wind chimes with echo shards and it prevents mod spawns in an area. that way youre engaging with the sneaking thing AND respecting the warden as a tougher enemy than usual instead of thinking about it like its a wither or something, AND you get something fun and useful out of it ANd you use the echo shards.

[@bunchiralOfficial]

Love it! Calming and respecting the protector of an ancient city lost to time sounds awesome!

[@HobGobbity]

The Warden is meant to be feared and avoided, if you’re stealthy for long enough it goes away and stops protecting the sculk. The entire goal is to make something that the player doesn’t want to meet, that’s why it doesn’t drop anything valuable. That’s why there’s no achievement for killing it.

[@glschrauben]

​@HobGobbity Stop posting this argument. There's precisely nobody in the Minecraft community who hasn't heard it before, and it never becomes more true no matter how many times it's reposted. You can have an enemy that's primarily meant to be avoided without making it give zero reward for encountering it. People didn't stop avoiding the Dungeon Guardian from Terraria after _it_ was given a drop. It's irrational to expect that even a small reward would make players instantly loose all self-preservation instincts. Edit: Additionally, it's not like even the Warden as it is doesn't still get killed by players anyways. If not recording videos of fighting them for bragging rights, people build entire Warden *farms* for renewable Sculk Catalysts. Mojang have already failed in making players not want to engage with them, there's no reason not to give something unique for people to look forward to.

[@localkate]

It could be like a traditional golem with a core! The core could only be accessible from the back and you could choose to replant it or not if you successfully sneak up and take it out to explore the ancient city.

[@HobGobbity]

@ I get the feeling you’ve never been to an Ancient City before because you pretty much just explained it minus the item to deactivate it. The Warden can smell the player so it’s always coming closer.

[@edenengland1883]

honestly, my personal opinion on the sniffer is adding: a new mushroom, a new Rainbow Eucalyptus sapling, and 2 new flowers that are crafted into the retired rosé-pink and sea-green wools

[@grohlishere]

youre so funny please dont die from a gunshot to the back of the chest on the 26th of august 2071 at 17:52 EST

[@der-gus]

i checked, he doesn't

[@adidascxnt]

I’m gonna steal this joke

[@geekjokes8458]

why would someone shoot a 70 year old on the back what the hell

[@spencerjohnson3141]

@@geekjokes8458 He runs for president in 2072...? Did you not check all elections throughout all time? That's the first thing I did.

[@milandavid7223]

bro has 47 years left to live

[@orune995]

The baubles mod is one of my favorites, there's so much potential with an accessory system like Terraria. Also the sniffer should have been able to dig up the old rose or even the cyan flower from pocket edition, the whole aesthetic is digging up ancient plants, and the torchflower should glow, this is a fantasy game with zombies and dragons, who cares if the real-life counterpart doesn't glow?

[@cheesyparadise7675]

THIS. 12:08 The flower part is so real. I had to travel 3000 blocks diagonally to find 16 white tulips on a non-elytra server. Then when I finished using them, I realized I needed pink tulips too 😭 (I have yet to get my pink tulips)

[@2pedroandrade]

If it is a server this could be solved with an Economy. I don't think any flower is that rare in singleplayer tho

[@cheesyparadise7675]

⁠yeah it’s a server. We have a small economy but we just started. There’s like eight of us. I’m just the neighborhood tryhard and wanted flowers lol (my pain is mostly self inflicted, but still the flower concept benefits my play style at the very least)

[@QUBIQUBED]

@@cheesyparadise7675 Fool Make a minecart trach

[@cheesyparadise7675]

@@QUBIQUBED honestly that’s the plan, but the server is very young rn (only a few days in). I think tracks are more fun than elytra on servers tbh. Connecting bases is classic

[@iTrapa]

Remember, goats used to have copper horns. A tune-able instrument that also incorporates copper in its recipie. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, they removed it.

[@MaxGuides]

Should have kept the Killer Bunny in the game but it could only have a tiny chance to spawn on April Fools day, like the glowing jack-o-lantern mobs on Halloween.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

I think it's a really bold choice for Mojang to alienate one of the most creative and passionate communities in the history of gaming. Most companies would be too scared to ruin their reputation.

[@ordinarydork2515]

Your ideas are honestly great. My only caveat is that most of your suggestions have something to do with “slap it into a smithing table”. Some items like the Panda Charm should just work by being on your off hand for example

[@8bekfast]

true

[@spencerjohnson3141]

i agree, i think some of them were just quickly thought up examples though, not real suggestions.

[@BigMastah79]

Offhand items kind of don’t work that well in terms of design, but yeah the ideas were rather uninspired.

[@Orangecatenergy]

Maybe they can try updating the jungle temples with better mechanics (that are actually challenging) and better loot. Then, when you craft the panda charm (or whatever) jungle animals can lead you near a jungle temple, similar to how dolphins lead you to treasures

[@hudson3934]

i do really like his ideas about customizable affects on ur armor, maybe only 1 can be added per set of armor? so you have to choose yknow,

[@yellowcatgirl]

The torchflower hurts. All they had to do was make it emit some light. IT WAS SO SIMPLE. AND THEN THERE WOULD BE USE

[@gboi116]

the editing and art style are so so good i want to eat it

[@aviescovel6806]

The torch flower would be really interesting candidate to not only give off light but have crops in its zone of light grow like 15-20% faster or give more food when harvested. It takes a ton of work to get torch flowers, I think they should have an ample and powerful reward

[@venomsabre2696]

People always seem to think that Minecraft is either a building game or they treat it like Terraria. Why can't it be both? Why can't we have better progression to Minecraft or make the game longer optionally more difficult? They might not be the main focus of the game but at the very least they should be good enough or improved upon, especially for a game with a survival mode. Minecraft will always be a sandbox game but why not give more function to things? Copper is fine as an ore because is function is as a building block, that's why there's so many variants of it. That doesn't mean Mojang can't add some more use for it outside of a lightning rod and vanilla zoom. Most of the ideas in this video are cool at the surface but might not make it past major scrutiny or game balance and that's ok because they are just that; ideas. ideas that only add to the game and provide more depth than "two decorative flowers that take 2 hours to obtain" or "no they shouldn't add that because you just want Minecraft to be Terraria". Minecraft should have some progression too, it has a survival mode. Hopefully they go back to some old features and improve on them now they are updating more frequently.

[@benismann]

minecraft has literal SURVIVAL MODE. Can SURVIVAL MODE mean actual survival? They can rename current ""survival"" mode to freeplay or smth idk. Or just remove it, we already have creative. Why does survival have to mean "creative with extra steps and grind"?

[@GekkoGeemu]

I agree that they often fall a little short of the mark, almost expecting modders to complete unfinished ideas. Still a GOAT game.

[@deletedaccount7]

While i do think the torch flower should provide light, i personally don't like the idea of involving it in making armor glow. I think the plants the sniffer digs up are fine as just decoration. My issue with it are that the sniffer doesn't dig up enough plants and the two plants it does dig up provide no atmospheric benefits other than how they look. The sniffer needs more plants, and each plant needs to have some kind of atmospheric effect be it being a light source or some kind of animation or particle effects (like how those flowers on the ceilings of lush caves give off falling plant particles). The sniffer has the chance to be literally the BEST source of nature decorations from making gardens to mystical caves or forests. . . But instead all we got were two plants with not much to make them better than the plants we already have aside from looking unique which isn't much

[@NertNeverlander]

Yes! Antient tree type, antient crop with some minor boosts and so much more was possible, but all we got is puny two flowers...

[@Stayser]

HEAR ME OUT: Ancient grass blocks and trees so you could make an entire sniffer biome

[@SSSandier1]

@@deletedaccount7 there was supposed to be a 3th plant type that kinda looked like vines with flowers. It got leaked and mojang never added it after. Such a shame because It was the most interesting one of the plants, even if it was just decoration.

[@MattDoesNothing]

Imagine a being with the name “Sniffer” specialize on Sniffing but able to Sniff up only 2 kinds of plants.

[@Van4eus]

@@Stayser check out "Species" mod, it literaly has a mob that you get same way as a sniffer and it has a cool way he turns nearby blocks into like ancient versions with the whole sniffer aestetic going on

[@gbjsyzftbcacjyfubjygkgcjae3182]

personally i think the sniffer's mechanics should be less about the flowers and more about what flowers you can get. idc if none of the flowers do anything, i just wish there were more and that sniffer wrangling was more interesting - maybe have some flowers be biome-dependent. i'd be perfectly fine if the flowers never get a function other than looking good, provided the sniffer was made interesting

[@Cptn_Candy]

When you were explaining the entire process to get the 2 stupid useless flowers I was constantly thinking about froglights. step 1 find a mangrove swamp and frogs, step two build a nether portal step 3 spend at least an hour finding one specific biome step four build another portal this one in the nether, step 5 find out where the flying f**k you are in the overworlds now. Step 6 get the frogs all the way to this specific portal at this specific location, step 7 yaaaay froglights aren't they pretty enough to wanna loose hours of your life over despite all the other lighting sorices avalable?

[@FungIsSquish]

The thing about “Good loot” at this point in the games development is that it’s been so desaturated that there is no possible way to make “Good loot”. Even enchanted diamond tools and armor feel like cheap throwaway items once a world is more than a few hours old, what used to be a rare and exciting reward is now a paperweight on par with rotten flesh. Why do anything when all you need is two villagers and some beds to get everything you need?

[@RePorpoised]

yeah, the erosion of value has been deeply felt by the community. And it's really hard to fix, because often, things are valuable to us if they fix a discomfort. But mojang has smoothed out sources of discomfort by giving them easy solutions. PvE is hard? Run away or use a shield to block all damage. Enchantments are hard to get? Villagers are your answer. Making use of elytra is hard? Boost with rockets. Low on health? Eat good food and recover most of your health. Mojang added too many catch-all solutions, and they're stuck in design debt, cause any new additions they make needs to survive being useful when these solutions address so many players's existing challenges. Difficulty and challenge define what is valuable, and by seeking to avoid struggle, people often erase the core experiences that define something. Every time an attempt is made to handle these things, there is also the crowd who has learned to be comfortable with the existing mechanics who would then be uncomfortable with the changes. Mojang have to please them, since many simply will quit if something they've worked hard on is now meaningless. But I'd also like to thing that mojang DO have plans to try to improve their situation. Like, I think now, a lot less people would complain if rocket boosting got nerfed and elytra got changed to lose durability from rocket use as was seen in experimental snapshots during caves and cliffs, since wind charges would then serve as a more situational upgrade to rockets that gives players a tremendous vertical boost that rockets could struggle to do. And it's REALLY clear that they're working on the villagers, as well as bringing transportation options closer to being on par with the elytra. And if they ever get the chance to implement even some of the combat snapshot changes, the balance of the game would be massively improved and more systems would get their chances to shine. that's not even touching on the likely incurable problem of mob farms. between the mob drops or the XP, Mojang always struggles to handle how they can afford to maintain game balance. Enchanting, mending and repairing are cursed problems because of this. No matter what they do to any of those systems, they all need to balance around XP, since they are the main users of it. And if there's any extra reason why the warden doesn't have some super powerful loot, it's cuz it's incredibly easy to exploit shriekers into spawning wardens to fall into killing chambers.

[@jettiz3703]

@@RePorpoised The sad thing is that the actual solution to fix it all is to nerf villager trading but everytime Mojang even thinks about it, the whole bloody community throws a whole stink about it for "making the game more grindy" You don't even have to hard nerf it, you could do something more interesting and make villager trading more involved and resource-intensive to persuade people to actually explore to gather materials. Anything that isn't "trade 1000 wooden sticks for emeralds to trade for diamond tools and armour" would be better.

[@filenotfound_2416]

So while I’m firmly in the camp of “Minecraft has wasted potential” and agree with the majority of this video and many others like it, your comment brings up an entirely different issue. A LOT of people, myself included, have been playing Minecraft for over 10 years and have thousands of hours in the game. At what point (and this is a genuine, sincere question) have we played enough of the game to move on? Because I’m like you, finding diamonds and using diamond tools isn’t the huge deal it used to be, especially with Netherite being a thing now. And there’s a bunch of other tools like Elytras and fireworks that make a ton of the game trivial. Is it fair to ask Mojang to make drastic changes to the game by adding ANOTHER tier of equipment? And this question can be applied to a ton of other aspects of the game as well. Is it fair to ask Mojang to drastically alter the game for the veteran players? And that’s not a question in defense of Mojang, because again, I’m very much on the side who wants more change in Minecraft. I actually very much dislike modern Mojang and hate their philosophy about the game but that’s a separate conversation for another day. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Minecraft just isn’t for me anymore, and I think it’s that way for a lot of people, and either no one recognizes it or no one accepts it, or they know it but don’t WANT to accept it. Mojang clearly isn’t going to make the changes a lot of veteran players want them to make so why stick around? I got my 4000+ hours of enjoyment over the last 12 years, I feel confident in putting my time with the game to rest. I think there are better survival/sandbox games out there with devs that LISTEN and make worthwhile changes to the game. Project Zomboid, Grounded, Abiotic Factor, just to name a few.

[@miimiiandco]

I think there's a pretty easy way to make "good loot" - make something exclusive! An Armour Trim is an obvious no-brainer, maybe throw in a good way to obtain lots of a specific block (Trial Chambers and Copper), or add an exclusive new series of blocks (Deep Dark and Skulk). Trial Chambers added the Mace and Wind Charges, new Trims and new Music Discs. Why wouldn't you want to go there?

[@FungIsSquish]

@miimiiandco That creates a whole new issue that the game is already struggling greatly with, Dead end/one trick pony/gimmick items.

[@drew_xviii330]

Genuinely shocked to see you only have one video. Your editing, humor, everything is definitely my kind of video. Super entertaining and definitely sad I don’t see more to watch yet lol Looking forward to see what other topics you’ll cover in the future!

[@spacecadet4295]

diva pulled up w ONE video a month ago and now im screaming because ur the funniest person on this website wtf

[@ThymeHere]

You know what I love? Genuinely really well made videos by completely unknown content creators. Like, This guy needs 100 thousands subs. But to be fair this is his first video, but still.

[@tangerine7745]

12:50 ironically, there’s a mod that is literally called Detour (in-development) that quite literally adds purpose to stuff (or removes them if they’re just straight up useless/not fitting to the dev’s eyes) + other cool stuff

[@madison3053]

Dude this is your first video? I went looking for more you’re hilarious:)

[@AfuExistente]

What I like about new Minecraft updates is that they only add very specific hard to find useless things, so I can play modpacks on previous versions without feeling like I'm missing anything

[@Hanabesoureira]

I loved how this example of a flower is literally me, I LOVE collecting flowers in Minecraft, I always want to collect them all and make a garden, a greenhouse, decorate my house and give them to my friends.but I'm so sad that they're kind of useless

[@Hanabesoureira]

the sniffer was the perfect opportunity for them to create the biggest kind of crazy shit with flowers but they don't do anything

[@BigMastah79]

They all breed bees and craft dyes, seems like that’s all a flower should do? Torchflower should def glow tho lol

[@BobbinRobbin777]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@BigMastah79 >”Breeding bees and crafting dyes should be enough functionality for Minecraft’s flowers.” _…But that’s how noobs think._

[@BigMastah79]

@BobbinRobbin777 It’s how people who aren’t weird think, actually

[@Hanabesoureira]

@@BigMastah79 Dude we're talking about Minecraft, what do you expect me to be? Neurotypical? Pff

[@mikn999]

completely unrelated to the topic of the video but this is the kind of channel i wish others were like bro all these other channels feel like presentations for their school but this dude has actual personality

[@mikn999]

the jokes n the edits are funny as hell

[@chacharealsmooth9215]

This is Bro's first video, and he already has his style going. Keep up the good work man; I love it.

[@JGDGkot]

While watching I was constantly thinking about "Better than Wolves" mod, created because autor thought that wolves were a an extreme time sink that only provided ascetics, when game had many unfinished systems that could use some easy additions, like redstone or minecarts (at the time only useful things that redstone was able to interact with were doors, and maybe normal rail intersections, and powered rails didn't even exist yet). Though these days it is known for its progression overhaul and challenging difficulty (at some points bordering on being grindy). But at the time it tried giving utility for items unique to nether (and to go there in the first place), as most of them just existed.

[@Stayser]

We need something like "Better Than Armadillos" mod 🙏

[@Ratmuncher-bm8qb]

I think that you should be able to craft a looking glass of sorts with 4 copper and 1 echo shard, and when you look into it, maybe you could see some sort of other dimension, or some new mobs you could not see otherwise. Idk i just think thats cool :∆

[@elric1710]

I had thought of an Echo Glass block that, if powered by redstone, lets you X-Ray through any adjacent block

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

It could let you see mobs through blocks, which while not super useful, would allow you to spot creepers a little earlier.

[@Numbabu]

Wellll if we really wanna lean into the idea of intended motivation and progression, maybe it could guide you to trail ruins and other hard to spot ancient structures, since echo shards do have some connection to the past. Or maybe an entirely new structure like the stronghold, that you’re meant to find with it in particular:3

[@Ratmuncher-bm8qb]

@@Numbabu :° Ohh! New stronghold like structure you say?~ ;] I'm interested.

[@CipherionYT]

@@Numbabuwhat if it was used with cartography tables to make a certain kind of map for those things?

[@guyonline8970]

polar bears are endangered irl right? maybe when you breed them they drop fur, and when the cub grows up it drops claws, but they can only survive on snow blocks or in cold biomes so theyre a little harder to breed and transport. when you craft together the claws and fur together you can get bear claw gauntlets, a new weapon that does insane damage to underwater mobs like drowned and guardians. you can also craft bear claw boots which give you a speed boost on snow and in water

[@omichromium]

Swift sneak is NOT most useful in ancient cities tho, its so amazingly useful for building, it makes it SO much easier to make tall structures.

[@TheWickedFlower]

6:26 that was synced perfectly

[@der-gus]

i often have conversations with my friend about what they should add to minecraft and it always ends with "isn't it crazy how much better minecraft would be if we were in charge"

[@BigMastah79]

Well of course you and your friend think that, you make ideas based on your tastes?

[@KingsBard]

Pitcher plants should cause damage to Spiders, Endermites, and Silver Fish

[@OmegaJX]

A video essay that has YTP's included? Sign me the fuck up.

[@MaxonTheGoofyGoober]

If Jet Starfish was good:

[@carlosmorenoseguel7726]

Fun fact, im pretty sure that llamas already do that but only with wandering traders, ive seen llamas fight zombies to protect the wandering trader

[@cyprienramis1304]

That's what I've been saying to my friends for several years, Minecraft has been doing exclusively exploration updates for quite a few years, with rarely any other reward for exploring outside of exploration itself, which is quickly boring (or similarly they add useless mobs just too add a real life animal). Archeology was actually a good idea since it fills up the existing world with more reward, sad this new reward is completely useless.

[@Daki0082]

0:19 You know what else is massive?

[@otiswalsh8923]

😼

[@Kyinnoo]

Charizard

[@Nethaura]

Your mom

[@VeeRoxy]

LOWWWWW TAPER FADEEEEEE

[@ohlakwa]

@@VeeRoxystill massive

[@aliasfakename-mf2jh]

holy i went to look at your channel to watch more of your videos and… there were none! this is an insanely good video, especially for being your first. you might be my new favorite creator!

[@CaiGuy64]

This video gave me the ability to do a triple midair somersault and develop a cure for cancer. That’s how much of a banger this was

[@lennoxsiwale5845]

For your first video, this is some peak content. You need to make more because I dont think ive laughed this much to a minecraft video 😂

[@kidnote1531]

They should add MORE USEFUL FARMING STUFF LIKE Farmers Delight or Pam's Harvest craft I love those 2 mods

[@IAmLotus777]

Okay this is your first video?? This is awesome! You’re supposed to have more subs with content as well made as this

[@CygnusLaboratorys2056]

The Editing and- well, your Disastrous Sense of Humor are very Entertaining, I can't believe this video had my Focus for 21 whole minutes, Definitely Subscribing

[@txotumiii8073]

I really adore his ideas with the fletching table and the craftable trident. It would really be a motivation to go out and seek elder guardians for their spikes Also all of these smithing templates like the glowing one are super ideas MOJANG, HIRE THIS MAN!!!

[@NerdStuffing]

Some other things I feel should be mentioned: Meat(pretty much every mob should have a meat drop, or at least every passive as that has been shown in the past and would help make it more interesting.) Mob interactions(there's what, like 4 or something? They help make a game much more alive and having so few makes them feel kind of... off imo.) Also something I was REALLY hoping for with the sniffer was being able to get the only two removed dyes and maybe even removed flowers. That would be such a unique thing to do imo and would add so much value.

[@Gaming_Scales]

I subscribed, this is my first time coming across your channel but I can tell how much effort went into this video, and the amazing points you made. Had a few good chuckles too

[@whydoistillexist5033]

I was not that convinced. That was at least, until I heard you mention the weird panda whisperer thing. I am fully convinced now

[@hansoohaydoo]

I know you said this wasn’t a hate video, but I hate mojang now

[@brigadeiro43]

Nice video, but I din't understand the mountain part, mountains just got better,WAY more prettier than before, more realistic, that's it's value, just being a place because they are just a place in real life and they were just so ugly and lacking verticality, diagonal forests, flowery hills, frozen slippery slopes and CROWNS OF STONE (Also the music that plays when you are there just makes me so emotional 😭). Mountains just absolutely slaps, they don't need an reason to exist! Like foxes or goats, they are there because the world would look more empty and bland without them. But I still want the Sniffer to have MORE flowers!!!

[@Van4eus]

old mounts were exactly not lacking verticality, like going from y 60 to y 90 in a couple blocks is the definition of verticality. They were lacking in cohesiveness with all the random floating islands, but just keeping them in with the new mountains I think would be better cos you just dont have crazy terrain like that anymore

[@miimiiandco]

If you really need a reason for them to exist, Deep Dark spawns beneath them, they contain Powdered Snow, Goats, good Iron spawns at high altitude, and Windswept Gravelly Hills have tons of Gravel. There's also Silverfish if you're insane and want them for some odd reason. Oh, and how could I forget Emerald Ore!?

[@insertchannelnamehere7154]

For the flowers why not have them interact with bees in some way? For example if bees get pollen from a torch flower they give you night vision honey as it will cause your body to emit light. If they take pollen from a pitcher plant it will give you fire resistance. Now there are ways to access these potion effects without getting to the nether and it gives something for bees to do other than off brand slime blocks. Hell you could add honey to food to increase its saturation. Resonance crystals could be used to increase enchantment levels. I’m sure Mojang themselves wants to implement changes like what you are suggesting, but Microsoft is probably breathing down their neck to add new features to get eyes back on the game on top of them having to make 4 different versions of the game simultaneously.

[@OrderingU]

The "or me" at the start is so cute and silly

[@eShears]

Minecraft's a great creative tool but they always want to update the *game* part of it (survival mode) but haven't been doing enough to make survival mode feel new or make me want to play it in recent years. Not even the Pale Oak wood makes me want to play despite how much I like it.

[@NotKnafo]

i dont think anyone complain about biome overhauls and specifically about mountains you can obtain emeralds and coal and iron at higher levels and exposed to the surface

[@FunSizedBag]

How is this you’re first video. This is so good

[@sophie.ghosts]

i tend to disagree on your examples that declare a lack of extrinsic motivation. the extrinsic motivation of the ancient city is swift sneak; it's a *very* useful enchantment. the ancient city also, once cleared of shriekers, does not spawn hostile mobs, and you can get tons of experience there. polar bears are a challenge to the player, given they attack; the extrinsic motivation is plainly to avoid damage. torchflowers and pitcher pods are useful ways to get dyes. if you want more data-driven features, that has been the focus of recent development.

[@scalpingsnake]

The thing that should be mentioned with minecraft is how due to it being constantly updated, useless additions can still get updated and become useful. Or just improved in general. It's not perfect (polar bears) but it means things that have been added might get changed down the line and open up so many interesting possibilities. I do hope we get a plant that can attack enemies, I definitely imagined the new plants added to do something like that.

[@Tamajyn69]

This is why I can just never go back to vanilla Minecraft. I played on a vanilla smp a few years back and it was just soo boring. Modders can do in a week what Mojang won't give us in 10 years

[@benismann]

coz modders actually play the game and understand it way better. And even if they spec too much into one field or another, it's at least made for A part of playerbase, instead of trying to please everybody

[@Thumper8544]

the game design in your solutions is pretty bad. you're gonna make torchflowers useful by crafting it into a 1 time use upgrade that renders torches/nightvision obsolete and then torchflowers are once again useless until you lose your gear. you're gonna reduce item bloat by adding 9 unique panda charms that have no specific use but to combine into a 10th charm which is actually useful. The bison fur upgrade adds more items into the game, to make your already maxed out boots more powerful stealing that functionality from leather boots llama's and PvsZ plants automate the game too much You've also failed to realise the other half of the issue, all the explorey stuff is useless cause all the powerful stuff is broken and easyily obtained. Villager trading and enchanting mainly.

[@Coreupt7118]

1 video and you already have over 2k subs, that's absolutely nuts

[@rycheesoda]

I always feel bad when there's parts of a dev team that do some genuinely amazing stuff like composers/producers but the rest of the game is just... lacking... a lot...

[@thedudewiththehair2498]

This video proves Minecraft’s needs new people in power and developers that care about the game and not just the money

[@KhyrinGD]

They should also fire a ton of developers considering they have too many employees and thus their communications for even basic ideas take ages. It is quite disappointing how the game company of one of the biggest video games in history is basically a liar, slothful, and does the bare minimum. We need to stop blaming Microsoft for everything and actually hold Mojang accountable; Mojang rarely listens to their community and they are focused on keep Minecraft the way it is, wherein they believe that Minecraft's power lies in solely intrinsic value. However, if that were the case, then Creative Mode should be their only concern and Survival Mode should be done away; Survival Mode supposedly has both extrinsic and intrinsic value, and to limit its extrinsic value from being balanced with the intrinsic is basically making not worth any challenge. Therefore, Mojang needs to change drastically to improve their renowned game Minecraft.

[@johnspence5689]

Dang, is this really your first video? I love your style!

[@keeonpark5036]

I feel like the polar bear could be changed so rather than polar bears you just get a variety of bears where they stay basically the same but they might snatch up salmon or cod which can also be used to make a fishing farm to a more automated food factory. The echo canard can be used to craft the block that either attracts or chases away bats and maybe use the recovery compass crafted with a bundle to have the items out in the bundle to be kept in your inventory and the recovery bundle breaks or its use is gone until you charge it with an echo shard? Pitcherplamt could be used like a bottle to make a unique potion or the ancient plants the sniffer digs up can be used to make new potions. The rabbits foot could be used with wool to make a slipper that stops your footsteps from making sound to easily travel the deep dark. And personally I wish there were more cooking/ crafting foods and a spear that pierces an entity making you able to hit two entities at once and you could use bamboo and flint to make a simple and use the other items. Ex make a chorus fruit with an other vegetable and bowl to give a warping salad that teleports you to a certain direction. Additionally bamboo could be used to make a pipe flute that detects the y axis of where you are looking to make different notes which is a possible mechanic as the creeping might show. Lapis as it seems to have a magical enchanting property could be combined with amethyst to make a magical pendant or charm that can store or save enchantments on the enchantment table.

[@T1nyFr0gg]

It's crazy that this is your first video. Excellent work, fun editing, silly humor.

[@Somethinorother.]

Ocean monuments give sponges and exclusive blocks, and ancient cities give swift sneak and god apples. You just straight up ignore features in these structures which are useful to the player.

[@Orangecatenergy]

yea but more often than not you only find normal loot in ancient cities - and for a lot of people swift sneak isn’t that helpful as looting another ancient city seems less exciting when you’ve already been in one…

[@Orangecatenergy]

The problem also isn’t “there isn’t any useful loot in ancient cities” or “there isn’t any useful loot in ocean monuments” the problem is: most of that loot can also be found in any other structure - except for echo shells - which are almost useless (especially in hardcore). Guardians and elder guardians aren’t worth killing unless you make an exp farm… you could make mobs exciting again by giving cool drops. But seeing the newest update with the new mob, they literally didn’t add any drops to the creaking, which is the exact problem that Minecraft has these days

[@miimiiandco]

@@Orangecatenergy You get Resin and the Creaking Heart for dealing with the Creaking. It's not much, but it's something. More useful than Rotten Flesh.

[@dclphoto]

I think you have intrinsic and extrinsic reversed, as to their definitions. Example, gold has intrinsic value, as a precious metal. Stocks are extrinsic, as they are valued based on the subjectivity as to their predictive ability to increase in value. Intrinsic is objective. Everything else, thumbs up.

[@paulmarko]

Building and decorative blocks ARE extrinsically valuable if you like building! I made a whole sniffer-inspired museum in my Minecraft world that features those flowers and the sniffer. Sure I wish they did more, but I don't think they're devoid of extrinsic value, they're just a little lacking in interest and could use a bit more. I think if the sniffer found one or two more different types of flowers (as you mention in the vid) than that'd be perfectly satisfying. You act like only damage buffs and stat buffs are extrinsic, but they're potentially even more useless than decoration blocks depending on the player goals. If someone isn't going around fighting mobs all the time or has installed a mob-switch, what good are all those fancy damage-boosting or status-affecting arrows? As it is, people hardly use arrows and all those status effects sound a bit unwieldy.

[@saltybacon206]

They have catered to builders almost exclusively for YEARS I personally really enjoy the exploration part of the sandbox games and new blocks are basically a joke to me. I like finding new items, but once I find out that they have one use, out it goes from the inventory. I am begging for stat buff items or mid game movement items (April Fools proves they can do it), but Mojang has been stuck in the cycle of *add wood type #25 but less/more XYZ-color* for SO LONG. I want the far reaches of the Minecraft world to fall under my command as I explore, understand, and slowly gain power from each new part of the world that I visit, but all they add is a new pretty lookin' block. Some people want to go on an adventure and get stronger through work, but so don't discount their opinions because you don't personally like the playstyle. And why would adding useful functionality encroach on the ability to use a block as decoration(i.e. campfires)?

[@benismann]

@@saltybacon206 i just want to go on an adventure to go on an adventure, but there's like nothing to find. I still do roam around on a horse or smth just to fill the maps in minecraft but that's literally the only reason to do so, to have a pretty map. I would really love more reasons to explore outside of eyecandy. But nope, we only get wood type #25 and block of rgb X Y Z color.

[@saltybacon206]

@@benismann I hope Hytale fixes some of these issues, lol. They seem to have more intention with the environment and progression design while also looking pretty. But all we can do for now is hope, lol.

[@hudson3934]

@@saltybacon206 are we seriously still talking ab this in 2025?

[@miimiiandco]

Plus, attack boosts are literally useless most of the time, since you can one-hit a Zombie with Sharpness 5 or Power 5, and they're the tankiest normal enemy in the Overworld. I also don't like the idea of making someone even tankier, since you go from "only in danger if you get into a pickle with Elytra on" to "basically unkillable".

[@flaamingeaux]

I will say this, I've been playing Minecraft since 2012. The other day I found an old picture of 11 year old me in 2013 wearing a Minecraft shirt I distinctly remember getting from when we still had a local Books-A-Million. It was a black graphic T-shirt that said 'The Minecraft Periodic Table' and it listed all the 'elements' or blocks that Minecraft had at that time. The only blocks we had were the ores like coal, iron, gold, lapis, red stone, and diamond. Then, it lists blocks of snow, ice, sand, dirt, sandstone, gravel, clay, cobblestone, stone, obsidian, spawner block, mossy cobblestone, bedrock, and mycelium. Finally, on the right side of the table it lists blocks of glowstone, netherrack, soul sand, nether brick, endstone, water, and lava. Back then, Minecraft was still pretty much an indie game and while players waited for updates, the community pretty much made the incentives themselves. That's where the old challenges of the Sky Block and survival island came into the community. The limited resources allowed for some pretty big imagination. However, I do remember people also complaining about just the lack of things to do even with people creating map worlds and servers like the prison that people would play cops vs robbers in or the 'spooky' ones like "The Orphanage." I will say, as much as I LOVE all the stuff we have now, I don't have too much of a problem with a 'lack of stuff to do.' Even after Microsoft bought Minecraft in 2014, it's always been a game that kind of heavily depends on the server or modder community to pick up the slack. Now whether companies should depend on modders for making their game more enjoyable is a completely separate conversation, I'll say this: I wonder if players may be feeling dissatisfied with the current run of Minecraft BECAUSE the art of the community challenges like Sky Block, etc. have kind of been lost? I could be entirely wrong. I admit I haven't actually played very regularly since 2016, but that's mostly because of personal life stuff. I've still been watching from behind the scenes about updates and some KZbinrs, but not as much as I used to so I am a little out of touch with how the community actually interacts now. My teen brother has also recently discovered a love for the game and likes to show me what he and his friends build on their server. He also likes to call me 'old' when I go, "Oh wow that mechanic didn't used to work like that!" I'm 23🥲

[@by_fis8434]

Bro i loved this video, it was hilarious, keep on the great content

[@Its_Just_Ibarra_here.302]

I'm in love with this person’s editing, humor and thinking 😭😭

[@Oczka-l7l]

I making small mod in Mcretor for me and my friends, And now I relly want to make useless vanilla items usefull, so thanks for inspiration

[@Gring3]

This isn't this videos fault and it's just a catchy title but it's always really funny seeing "Minecrafts missed potential" as if it's not one of the most recognizable and beloved videos games ever made

[@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708]

14:59 The arrow outline looks like the saddest drumstick ever

[@MaxGuides]

Eating glow berries should make you glow. Would be so helpful when caving with friends & trying to stick together.