My Problems with Modern Minecraft & Why I Play Beta

A bit of a more professional video here. I've wanted to make a short video essay type thing since last year on this topic and I finally had the motivation to do so lol. This is an opinionated video on my personal issues I have with Minecraft and why I PERSONALLY play beta Minecraft. I tried not beating a dead horse here since there's already a million videos like this one.
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- Part 1: 1:05
- Part 2: 7:53
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[@BonusCrook]

Minecraft is dead and Bill Gates' DNA is all over the crime scene.

[@D0cSpot]

LMAO

[@blu9700]

ok boomer

[@Myne1001]

And Phil Spencer's

[@BonusCrook]

@@user-zc1cs7po6j bro they're not going to give you a minecon cape for defending them in youtube comments 🤓

[@Myne1001]

@@user-zc1cs7po6j literally schizophrenic off-your-meds levels of cope. Mojang in 2013 had made so much money from the success of Minecraft, CEO Carl Manneh said if they stopped gaining profit they could survive off of savings alone for almost a decade.

[@Lolks]

The biggest problem I have with removing fireflies because they kill frogs - They then made the frogs eat LITTERAL MOLTEN ROCK CUBES! When frogs eat magma cubes - they poop out a light block. How in the hell is that *better* than fireflies???

[@TheOriginalManTrust]

Its not!

[@joaquinlaroca2886]

I can understand that, because those are fictional things, specially that light block. And I don't think a kid would have an easy way to get magma. and I think Mojang believes that children are, even a little, intelligent. Because otherwise they would have removed things like golden carrots or potions based on spider eyes.

[@ryuined]

they couldve just added fireflies and make it so frogs DONT eat them loll, id still much rather that than not having them

[@karlo-lol5935]

"very long yapping session" lenght: 11 minutes. That is not long.

[@xXRealXx]

yea, usually it's 30+ minutes

[@eloqi]

Seeing Back to Beta buildings with modern textures is very confusing.

[@D0cSpot]

hah yeah i forgot to switch my textures when filming and didnt even notice 😭

[@TheBoyRyansChannel]

@@D0cSpot Everyone go sub to theboyryans channel if you also find this annoying :)))))

[@masterdef2209]

The bloating of the game was so onpoint. Too many mobs and too many one-time specific items that will be forgotten or never even used. What also annoys me is structure generation. Structures used to be very very rare to come across in earlier versions, it made you feel alone and on your own. But now you find a village or any other structure from just exploring for a few minutes which removes the rewarding feeling of finding one like it did back then.

[@varuhash50]

For someone like me the structures can help create lore for a world, make it feel more special. Im happy more things are getting added, because its showing Minecrafts world isnt dead and youre alone, its progressing towards the player finding more life to make the world feel more alive, at least at some point before the player spawned in. It probably gets the “youre the last of your kind” done well, but alone you are not

[@JoaoPedro-ox6sf]

And people want EVEN more features lol

[@Ocelot1211]

@@JoaoPedro-ox6sf yea, because for the last 4 years mojang added basically nothing, like said above adding one specific action/item to use once and never again, it feels like they added something but in reality they did not

[@rag.animations]

The part about the complexity and "meta" of modern minecraft really resonates with me. I remember playing 1.16 or 1.17 with my friend and at one point he said "ok let's mine netherrite, I'll craft some beds" and I was just confused. I'm really out of touch with all of these new mechanics like villager trading posts and it really doesn't feel rewarding to learn them just to play a block game. I currently play on 1.5.2 with my brother since it was the version of our childhoods. Yes, some things are annoying, like placing buttons or trapdoors, but the whole experience is just simpler and more welcoming, which is the exact thing that I loved about minecraft.

[@joaquinlaroca2886]

To be fair, that bed explosion mechanic is as old as the nether itself

[@rag.animations]

@@joaquinlaroca2886 that I know, everything else was a mystery

[@Khorshel]

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH HAIL BIG MICROSOFT BROTHER

[@samcraft3]

ALL HAIL MICROSOFT ITS HEART IS TRUE AND GLORIOUS ALL HAIL MICROSOFT ITS DEVS ARE VICTORIOUS

[@SpoonSputnik]

Big Brother!

[@SpoonSputnik]

1984 smh

[@carinaslima]

Microsoft isn’t even that involved in modern Minecraft, plus changing versions is still the same game.

[@carinaslima]

The devs work hard and need respect, look at the Nether Update for example,

[@Vallee152]

The Mob Vote I believe is, yes, for getting people to talk about the game, but I think behind the scenes, all the options are mobs that someone at mojang pitched and then most of the team is like "no, we don't like that." So they then take the three closest to getting the thumbs up from QA and leave it up to the community which one is not scrapped.

[@D0cSpot]

honestly probably lol, i can definitely see that being the case. i do hope some of the losers from previous ones arent lost forever and get revisited someday

[@carinaslima]

@@D0cSpotRespectable

[@EmileAnimation]

i feel like one reason that i like old minecraft that no one talks about, is that it has more frames

[@Blahalel]

SO TRUE! i hate having 15 fps in newer versions T_T

[@mimifurwalker]

the newer versions are so unoptimized

[@sanneoi6323]

What I hate most about moderm Minecraft is that they add all these mobs and NO meat types. We should have camel meat, goat, calamari, horse, all that. Literally give me those and I will never complain again. Need more village types and terracotta tiles and stairs too.

[@pantherausf.d6914]

Yeah, dog meat for the Chinese community.

[@Wheeler07]

Minecraft could use a food/cooking update. There's a reason why mods like Farmer's Delight are so popular

[@ham8426]

"we didn't want to poison frogs" meanwhile several flowers in the game are toxic to cats but i don't see those pollen-y bitches getting removed. "also have this ugly ass pokemon camel thing that just sniffs up entirely decorative plants" while i agree the weird narrative focus that minecraft took after Jeb took the reigns was odd and set at odds with the more personal nature of the experience, especially in the latest few updates, I can't help but love the 1.16 update personally just for how much more interesting it made exploring the nether in a way that didn't feel too out of place but I obviously missed some updates from hermiting in 1.7.10 for so long (largely due to modding)

[@dimanarinull9122]

as a software engineer I can say you are completely valid in criticizing mojang for the delivery of Caves and Cliffs. it was NOT because programming is hard and is 100% because corporate bloat and red tape. I abandoned the game completely because of the management of those updates, moving on to VintageStory and other games. I only play Minecraft if I boot up a large modpack which I only do with friends and they would rather play other games most of the time either. "Minecraft is for the kids now, they don't want or need you anymore" is the message they chose with the 1.19 censorship update - remember that.

[@clobzz]

your mention of bloat in the game is definitely one my biggest problems with it too, there is SO many items, mobs, features, etc in this game that have like 1 purpose (IF ANY, BTW) and most of the time that purpose is for something that has…no purpose, like something i saw someone mention recently is how we should get a cooking update, and they said this specific thing “we already have all the ingredients” and this, THIS was a prime example of the games bloat, like what fucking purpose do sweet berries and cocoa beans serve, why tf can we only make cookies with cocoa beans, this is just one example of the many situations this occurs in minecraft and i just wish everything served a meaningful purpose rather than just existing for no reason

[@skullcat324]

I do mostly agree (although coca beans are the exception because they can make brown dye.) One thing to point out how it's different from terraria, which has 3.3 times more items than minecraft, is that terraria has groups of items, and if it's not in a group, then its used for a lot of things. you have tools of each metal, furniture for each building block, specific loot for each boss. it's all very organized and you can find a use for everything. want this item that increases the amount of summons you have? guess what, you can upgrade it not once, but twice. what about that sword forged from hell? you can upgrade that into a really cool weapon, which can be upgraded again, and then again into the best weapon in the game. don't even get me started on base materials. in minecraft, you have these turtle shells that can be used for a potion and a helmet that gives you 5 seconds of water breathing. thats it. what about the sniffer? it gives you flowers? what do they do? oh nothing. all these cool new (passive) mobs they added to this game. i wonder what they drop. Absolutley nothing. what about phantom membranes? Its been more than TEN updates since their introduction, surely they have another use? No? just the potion and elytra repairing that nobody uses because the level cost on anvils is broken and everybody has mending anyway? ok.

[@carinaslima]

@@skullcat324Delusional, you are forgetting creative mode exists. There are no useful features, all of them have uses including poisonous potatoes and clocks. Minecraft is a sandbox with survival aspects, we shouldn’t ignore the sandbox part. Survival isn’t the only game mode,

[@skullcat324]

@@carinaslima creative isn't the only gamemode, you are right, when it comes to decoration and building is the only thing. but in SURVIVAL, they're hard to get and serve no purpose to the gameplay. clocks can be useful to see what time it is when underground, but poisonous potatoes??? can you tell me what use they have?

[@CBMX_GAMING]

Cocoa beans and sweet berries are a pretty bad example. Cocoa beans are used for brown dye, and a decoration block. Berry bushes are also used for decoration, food, can be farmed with foxes, etc.

[@mr.monkey354]

it's not a fucking rpg, not everything needs a fucking "useful purpose" in a sandbox game.

[@gengarjuice96]

poggin out rn, beta slaps harder than my father

[@BazingaIRanOutOfIdeas]

*than his belt

[@jimmydore5136]

I really think a big part of why people dont enjoy modern minecraft is the modern meta. I agree, the trendy way to play this game is all about automating everything and making everything as big and as fancy as possible. I find fun in playing this game like I used to back in the day, in my current survival world in the latest version I've really just been doing what I want to do, when I want to do it. I spent a whole evening designing a bathroom in my castle, completely pointless but thats the whole fun of the game to me I guess, just building and doing what I want in my own way.

[@ajdude9]

I really think Minecraft could use an update similar to what the developer of Mosa Lina did - an update that *removes* a lot of the bloat, with some option to re-add them as an extra feature/datapack. Just as described, it could remove Glow Ink Sacs and replace their functionality with Glowstone - it could remove Sniffers which don't fit the artstyle and do literally nothing but dig up cosmetic flowers, and add them somewhere else as a rare drop. Cut the ruined portals that stain the landscape, make structures rarer so getting full diamond gear isn't a matter of walking 50 blocks from spawn into a village, cut the armadillos, the camels, the goats, even the pandas and dolphins that serve either 1 purpose or none at all. Even turtles feel ill-fitting to the Minecraft experience, because they scream of using the game as a platform to virtue signal for endangered animals instead of actually serving a purpose in the world (which is why killing them gives you nothing, you need to breed turtles and grow a baby to get scutes). The model of infinite expansion has been Minecraft's downfall, but not because of the flaws of the model, but because they instead have been throwing purposeless additions onto it instead of adding to Minecraft's core - Mining and Crafting. What use does taking a brush and brushing sand and gravel for some cosmetic pottery sherds have when you could just find a broken pot deep in the world to get the sherds, adding to the experience of Mining and exploring the world? Minecraft becomes unrecognisable because Mojang keeps throwing temporary additions and saying "LOOK! LOOK! WE ADDED X AND Y! HYPE, RIGHT? WE'RE STILL RELEVANT! BUY OUR PRODUCTS!" instead of making a better sandbox experience; they're not pouring more sand in the box, they're just throwing us different shells to put on our castles.

[@capyslaymc]

Fixed Timestamps (they don't appear in the video): 0:00 Intro 1:05 Part 1 7:53 Part 2 10:46 Closing Thoughts 11:12 Outro

[@D0cSpot]

haha thank you; i did put the timestamps for parts one and two in the description though :)

[@jadesprite]

The desolateness of old minecraft was absolutely artistic.

[@another_coffee_cat]

I never understood why people couldn't just choose not to interact with those mechanics they do not like. In the end, Minecraft is whatever you want it to be, but this video helped me realize that self-imposing yourself with such limitations by playing a beta is in itself the act of shaping the game the way you just like and want it to be. Thanks for your video, your ideas are super well exposed.

[@aiden-cz3ss]

started playing beta again 😭😭😭 THE NOSTALGIA

[@ProfessorChickon]

I personally think Minecraft was perfect (legacy) up until 1.14 but I still see why people would play beta.

[@D0cSpot]

i did love the legacy/console/pre-1.14 editions, i think its much more recent that the games been having a few issues

[@carinaslima]

There is no perfect thing, there never was, however I think that Minecraft improved a lot since 1.13.

[@DonkeyFilms]

My issue with the mob votes is they could easily include every mob and they probably already made them but choose to only pick one out of three cause people vote (mostly sided) when modders make new mobs they add in a plethora of mobs like Alexmobs.

[@flareonguy7922]

I started playing beta again when the chat report update was being pushed and haven't played modern since. The instance I booted up 1.7.3 I felt like I was 9 years old all over again, I have since revisited classic non-beta versions and playing old school modpacks like tekkit.

[@janno288]

I used to play on beta servers before they have become popular. back in 2018 - 2022 when the last beta server i played shut down permanently, i made a lot of memories on those servers (betalands. Oldhaven and Beyta)

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

I love modern Minecraft, and I also love beta, but it makes sense that some people would prefer one or the other, Minecraft's game design is fundamentally different now than it was before full release, it's basically a different game.

[@ItsJustGianluca]

Unpopular opinion but the glow squid is better than the sniffer

[@ItsJustGianluca]

wait your so right about using glowstone for the glowing signs 😭😭😭😭😭

[@carinaslima]

I’ve never seen this before but it’s true. The Sniffer doesn’t do anything for survival players, only for builders. Mobs should try to appease everyone.

[@Cyberrjey001]

100%

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

Few things. First off, this video is great. Second, just making sure you know that the armadillo and wolf varients are part of their own update (1.20.5 armored paws update) Third, there is a setting to disable structures.

[@D0cSpot]

thank you! and yeah, that was an oversight on my behalf. completely forgot. i usually assume they add the mob vote winner into the whole big update haha, want expecting them to add them so quickly!

[@carinaslima]

@@D0cSpotQuestion, do you sometimes play modern?

[@PotedePepes]

Although I disagree with some views I agree with a lot of the points mentioned, this video is a great one. I would also add that with the scutes, it made sense one the best helmet being made difficult to acquire because turtle scutes are a pain to get and you only get it on the late game but wolf armour is something we should havea access as soon as possible and making it come from only a specific biome using a specific mob having only one use makes is just a random item you don't throw away because it has a use but don't have where to put because it doesn't do much.

[@RandomPerson964]

My ideal Minecraft version would be one with the quality of life improvements of relatively recent updates. Say, about the time offhanding an item became a thing. And the block and gameplay variety of just before they added pillagers and phantoms. I started playing a little after they added sprinting and hunger. Basically every update back then was QoL, new toys to play with, and genuinely good additions like being able to place stairs upside down. Also not being owned by Microsoft or any other big company that will just bloat the game and add macrotransactions.

[@tiffyfemboy]

*The villager update was the breakin point for me. No more modern, gonna stick with 1.7.10 now.* Why? Well, cause at least in the older versions, Emeralds ARE ACTUALLY RARE!!! Now??? Hah, just grab 32 sticks, and done. Emerald... Like, you can cheese the new villagers so, so much now.... Its so bad...

[@RocoPwnage]

I hate my dilemma between beta and modern Minecraft, because in every new update I absolutely LOVE half the features they add, and DESPISE the other half. I love the simplicity and peacefulness of going back to beta, but I feel like I'm sacrificing a lot of features I like from modern. I love the breadth and quality of life improvements of modern, but I feel like I'm putting up with a lot of bullshit bloat to have the good parts. Probably the only way I could truly enjoy Minecraft again without burning out within 2 weeks is to learn to code and mod my own custom version of the game, but even that is a sacrifice because what fun is a world I can't share with anyone if I wanted to, and have to constantly update just for myself? Sometimes I wonder what Minecraft would be like if Notch had never sold it...

[@scalie]

I frequently walk and not sprint, even in modern versions, simply because I am used to it from having played the game from the very beginning.

[@Ally.-]

This is a very good video. I agree that many blocks, mobs, and items are such a bloat, and I've learned to limit myself on what types of blocks I use. For example I'm trying to make a redesign of Minecraft villages and mostly using the block pallet that is used in the villages, and sparingly using "new" blocks to tie everything together. Less is more and it really shows. I've changed my mind set from "I need some shulkers" to "I can make a house to store my items with chests and barrels" as well as "I need an Elytra" to "I can make a horse pathway/railline". I really am enjoying putting boundaries on what I do in the game because it sets me up for nice and natural progression rather than grabbing villagers and stuffing them into a shack.

[@cosllie]

the thing with splitting the updates, is they were gonna do it all in one update. but a global pandemic somewhat stunted development

[@BazingaIRanOutOfIdeas]

But the nether update was released in the summer of 2020. The cave update was split in two but that was 2021/2022

[@carinaslima]

A giant mistake but not enough to play beta they should’ve made all of that different updates and not announce it all for one

[@depressedtoaster887]

@@BazingaIRanOutOfIdeasupdates take a very long time to make and how the development cycle works, 1.16 was probably mostly complete by the time the pandemic hit

[@BazingaIRanOutOfIdeas]

@@depressedtoaster887 right. But i still think mojang could do better given that they develop the most sold game of all time and have the most monthly active players than any other game.

[@hajagameznstuff6956]

dont forget about the chat reporting feature

[@Delfite]

I've got the same issues with Modern. Burnout is ever-present and multiplayer is just way too hard to get working in a manner that doesn't require I have 64GB of RAM. So, combine the difficulty in trying to get modded multiplayer working on Java, the metas that have arisen in the game, and the fact you basically need to become a technical player just to get a renewable source of anything that's not wood or charcoal, and you get what I call: A very lonely, boring, and paralyzing experience.

[@olivves]

The legend that is DocSpot with a legendary DocSpot video on the legendarily... channel DocSpot.

[@D0cSpot]

who the fuck is docspot?

[@olivves]

Why the fuck is DocSpot?

[@TheBoyRyansChannel]

What the fuck is docspot!!!

[@samcraft3]

How is DocSpot 😥?

[@BigAssBalls]

@@samcraft3true question is, how THE FUCK is docspot?

[@miguelbat27]

the bloat of features that come with the new mobs is pretty much because a vast majority of the community would just whine about how they're useless. To the defense of Mojang here, it really has become a situation of damned if you do, damned if you don't and you can notice things are starting to get petty and it's not like it's uncalled for.

[@VladdyDaddy45]

one thing that shouldve been mentioned is the recent updates themselves, with most opting for neither quality or quantity. No cool thing to explore just for the sake of it or a cool item to craft just for the sake of it (quantity) and no items or blocks that have huge interconnected systems (quantity). Sometimes it feels like the updates are trying to be as boring as possible with the nerfs to the mace which really didnt need nerfing, and the changes to the copper bulb and crafter taking 4 ticks instead of one, removing a simple function that couldve had a HUGE impact (in a good way). now the content is here just to be here, trying not to offend nor impress anyone. They nerf farms as a means of making sure the player is "balanced" while saying nor doing anything about the elytra. That's an entire other thing on its own, balance. It seems to be such a huge thing for mojang that everything NEEDS to be balanced, but thats just not how game balance works. the fun comes from differences, nowadays all new mobs are just trying to be so overpowered there is no reason to interact with them (cough cough warden cough), or so underpowered there is no reason to interact with them (cough cough bogged cough). Mojang refuses to add features because they would "stunt creativity" while keeping extremely overpowered things in the game like elytras. And I do feel its mostly agnes larrson to blame for this. She's out here, living in her own biased world, yapping about how signs that hang need to be balanced while doing absolutely nothing about the elytra. Im just sick of it, i just want some GOOD content untouched by lets be real, tiny children who just repeat "bigger number = less balance", and result in the mace, an overpowered depending on the situation PLAYSTYLE (ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MINECRAFT) weapon that actually is not very powerful when you remember how often youre able to just fall 43 blocks and make sure you hit the frame perfect click otherwise you die. Conclusion: Mojang is hypocritical, and Agnes sucks.

[@eggfing]

Banging video. I agree with almost 100% of the video i just have a few more nitpicks but we are basically on the same wavelength

[@feyqel]

456th subscriber! Really enjoy this video and I look forwards to see what other videos you have made after I finish watching this one!

[@elrennot]

And that's why we have only 2 ways to play. Beta or modded the hell out. I personally choose modpacks where people REALLY love what they are doing, have a vision of playstyle and give you the option try it, or something else, if you don't like it. I'm a fun of automated farms, but not in the way it works in Vanilla, cause redstone is really tricky and hard to understand, so most people just watch tutorials and that's all. But mods like Create, for example, give you sooo much room for experimentation, trials and errors, easy and hard stuff to wok with. I spent so much time in Create, so many playthroughs, and every time I build differently, there's no stagnation of idea. Thank you for video and good luck in your Minecraft journey! New or old, it's always ours to feel and enjoy.

[@JustAnotherYouTubeCommenter]

The biggest problem with modern Minecraft is the feature:mechanic ratio. There are far few many THINGS and far too few *things to do* in Minecraft. How many "systems" are there in Minecraft? 1. Trading (a mechanic which literally turns Hard difficulty into a difficulty easier than peaceful) 2. Brewing (which is a terrible system as potions are ridiculously underpowered for unstackable items) 3. Bartering (not really a system because there is only one way to interact with this mechanic and that is by giving a piglin gold), 4. Enchanting (extremely boring and grindy and made unnecessarily hard by the pointless "too expensive!" mechanic which Mojang have refused to remove or at least come up with a method to circumnavigate it. You HAVE to start enchanting a new item from scratch if you run into this) 5. Redstone 6. Breeding (can be used on llamas, horses, donkeys and mules to get better traits but the process is agonisingly boring and grindy) 7. Archeology (not really a system as there is only one way to interact with it; by brushing blocks) Everything. Sucks. Everything is lackluster and boring. And yet, Mojang continue to focus their efforts on adding new THINGS. New structures (most of which are painfully rare due to biome-dependency and which are looted and raided the same boring way as the last one), new items that have 1 use, new mobs that don't drop anything and new decorative blocks. But the functionality always sucks.

[@Cyberrjey001]

Redstone????

[@aerosma5021]

@@Cyberrjey001 I think redstone's a great mechanic, but everything else could definitely be fleshed out and expanded upon.

[@Cyberrjey001]

@@aerosma5021 Redstone is the best mechanic; no other game offers such depth and possibilities. You can play for months just because of it. I agree with all other points, but they are only 1% of what redstone offers. To be completely fair, the mods RedPower2 and ComputerCraft elevated redstone's power to a cosmic level, but we won't get that anymore. We have to be content with a single crafter, and locked slime blocks and pistons.

[@Silver_skill]

Watching this video made me realize and myself how Minecraft is now and then and then made me come to the conclusion, but I’m gonna give data a try but still play the newer releases.

[@D0cSpot]

i hope you find it enjoyable!! :)

[@mimifurwalker]

tbh this is like adding a character to your game who's unlocked by beating the game where there's nothing else to do while the character is completely useless

[@EliAnderson-rq6yw]

I just like to say any version of minecraft is regular minecraft, alpha, beta, classic, old, ect. I don’t like to call it old

[@perfectsunset]

forgoing the absolutely enrapturing sense of otherworldy mysticism that minecraft used to have in exchange for milquetoast and uninspired corporate coated animals from real life is absolutely the biggest offence to me. Minecraft used to be an alternate universe, vaguely rooted in what humans know. The most iconic creature from Minecraft is the Creeper. Who asked for polar bears, parrots, foxes etc?

[@BallsGamingHD_]

This is the reason why I play modded Minecraft, I don't really care about the main-line updates since they lack substance and impact and mostly "for me" I came from pre-classic before alpha/beta...The latest item that actually is cool is the breeze balls and the mace, that is it and it's sad... For modded I prefer mods like Mekanism for 1.12.2 and Create for 1.18.2 - 1.20.1 And not to mention the bad idea to add chat reporting to a block game...

[@BallsGamingHD_]

Anyone has any thoughts on the topic?

[@carinaslima]

Chat reporting isn’t that bad, it is bad but people hate it too much, y’all forget we’re in 2024, plus, there are many other cooler items, like the trial spawner keys, new effects, enchantments, even paintings and discs.

[@guin7440]

The industry really make interesting things meaningless, like exploring, mining. We just trade with villagers and finish the game. This situation gets more serious in server because we can get anything easily with all these machines, so why not just play creative😂

[@SimplyTexy]

enchantments, elytra and the insane amount of bloat added is ruining the game.

[@Kozmic_CL]

As a casual player that only really touches the game like once a year for the 2 weeks long server with friends, it is hilarious to me to find out how much minecraft devs suck. Like I've heard bad things but wow.

[@malamut255]

For me i found the best of both worlds with getting to explore most of the major updates. I started a world in beta 1.7 and made challenges for myself for eg: getting to the nether and full dia and a base. Then updated to 1.0 in the same world to get enchants and so on. So when you reach the newer updates you explored the older versions too and still can have mass farms later on when you did mostly everything else

[@alacritysucrose]

For a game like Minecraft to be #1 and to watch the main developers squander that success to make lower quality or bloated content just feels like a slap in the face, especially because they'll never backport newer performance features to older versions so it's either upgrade and lose out on the experience you've grown to love or play on a technically worse, more raw but less modern feature-set which might hamper performance

[@iCubely]

Hey Doc , I recently thought about getting into Beta but I don't know what version . What is the most popular / best beta version?

[@D0cSpot]

hey! i think the most popular version is beta 1.7.3, which is what most of the people i know play as well as myself :)

[@iCubely]

@@D0cSpot oh ok thanks :)

[@Green_Squid12]

2:04 we all got mad over the 2 pixels

[@vemijoev]

I only use minecraft for building, primarily, and its kinda relaxing just sitting back, enjoying the chaos that happens around the mobvote. Also they should just add all three mobs. They say its so the community can feel like a part of development but i think no one ever has voted in the mob vote and thought «I feel like im part of the development now, YIPEEE!!!»

[@snake5850]

Although i do appreciate beta and find it more enjoyable than minecraft modern, playing it more than I have ever played modern , I think alot more credit has to be given towards the full versions of the game, specifcally in the form of either legacy for consoles, or 1.8.9 Java that accomplish that simplicity without the sins of modern minecraft

[@ccmofo]

The bigger caves make it so much harder to mine IMO

[@bamismyname]

The armadillos have actually been added before 1.21 in it's own minor update, Armored Paws.

[@tinglemask2629]

personally, with a few mods and datapacks that allow the old mechancias and terrain generation of beta in newer versions, Im loving minecraft. I have a world now with over 200 hours in 1.20.1, but from some mods it has new biomes but old terrain generation. I found this the perfect mix of old and new.

[@mrseaweed88]

The main reason i think is that mojang stopped updating the game to improve it as a whole but rather decided to add a tonne of gimmick features that would get people talking. Marketing over quality.

[@goreldeen]

10:11 there's a dropped picture, nice easter egg

[@Zedorfska]

need to host a beta 1.7.3 server for my friends so bad rn

[@Amanda_Navarro]

Having a meta in a supposedly sandbox game which is singleplayer is nonsense, i stopped playing bc it became tedious. Whatever you do for yourself seems like a waste of time. I spent so much time mining, gathering netherite, enhancements and such, and it wasn't fun. Just seemed obligatory. Yes, i built around a village... Beta does sound refreshing and much needed for the ones amongst us that were there 10+ years ago. It's as if minecraft slowly transitioned from sandbox to something else. And it's sad to admit it, but that does produce more viral content, people wanna see the best min-max or farm or whatever, they don't care about that world you've dedicated so much love and care to, and while being mainstream shouldn't matter for us, this IS the metric microsoft will always use to guide future updates.

[@carinaslima]

Minecraft is a sandbox, the elder dragon fight is optional… it is not obligatory to mine, gather netherite. You’re forcing yourself.

[@gluester55]

what're your thoughts on beta overhaul mods? i.e BTA

[@D0cSpot]

i think theyre cool, ive played a bit of BTA myself :) i tend to stick to vanilla though just because im more comfortable and familiar with it

[@AverageKaijuGamer]

Another thing i like about beta or old minecraft in general is the textures they look so much nicer in building. back then a cobblestone oak wood and sand looked great together these days do that and it looks hideous with the new textures

[@RiskE80]

about the concept art... i honestly have no problem with them posting/showing concept art, its really nice to see really beautiful official art of "what could be" but i wish they wouldve said "heres some concept art for the update, but keep in mind, not everything you see here will be in the update" which to my memory, they didnt do... OR they couldve just posted it on Twitter when the update was way past release just to show everyone "hey look at this beautiful artwork our artists did"

[@MimproOnline]

It seems strange to me that among the reasons not to play the latest versions of Minecraft are some external circumstances. The mentioned fireflies and the updated birch forest are not directly related to the game in any way due to their absence in the game itself, which did not worsen the gaming experience. It looks more like a protest than a lack of interest in new versions of the game.

[@skullcat324]

When they released minecrat dungeons, that was the turning point. the snapping point.

[@depressedtoaster887]

while i agree to an extent with many of the criticisms in the modern Minecraft section, i feel like most of them are criticisms of Mojang's handling of updates instead of the game itself

[@MinecraftFootageX]

those takes are based af literally 90% of what i have a problem with, you pointed out

[@BerniiGames]

Summary: Just play Terraria instead.

[@D0cSpot]

TRUUEEEE

[@themadladorian4364]

Isn't Terraria much more overloaded and confusing with all the items, entities and features ?

[@BerniiGames]

@@themadladorian4364 hahahaha yes but this post is obv a joke. Terraria is a fundamentally different game than Minecraft, and I can confidently say both are awesome.

[@mikael8276]

You can turn off structures when creating a new world on mordern.

[@cromwell.is.awesome]

I always thought modern minecraft was too overstimulating and had too much stuff

[@xavierwilson9414]

Awesome vid! what’s the name of the shader you used?

[@D0cSpot]

hey thanks a ton!! its complimentary reimagined, totally recommend :)

[@xavierwilson9414]

@@D0cSpot great! tysm!

[@RConTRSMC]

beta is good for adult people who can't comprehends any bit of complexity but u know it's so boring on the long run. i gave it a try, the other main problems is how frustrating and sluggish it is with all the bugs. One Last thing to note is that creativity can be achieved only if the player is creative no matter what u have, just give the player what he want and he will likely do the job right

[@Wennsler]

After the game died for being cringe and came back around 2018-19, the community itself has never really been the same as before. It has this post irony meme 4th wall vibe nowadays. The gameplay loop is simplified to fit some narrative that the only goal for a sandbox game is to beat the suggested end of the game so you can be considered "good at the game" and any other types of play styles that dont fit the expectations of the narrative are disregarded and any features tied to them as usless and a waste of dev work. There used to be a more equal variety of content back then. it's mainly all just survival content being pushed the most in modern minecraft youtube content. I dont think there's going to be a solution from Mojang/Microsoft in a meaningful amount of time as fixing these problems are not marketable and are in the least of priorities and expectations.

[@Haikis]

4:15 Armadillo is not part of the "Tricky Trials" update; it has its own mini-themed update called "Armored Paws" (1.20.5) 4:52 Elytra was added in the 1.9 "Combat Update" (2016) and you could only repair it with leather in the anvil. Phantoms were added later in 1.13 (2018)

[@tnttale6637]

Wow. such a good video. Cant wait to watch more

[@D0cSpot]

thank you!!!

[@Real_The_Goof]

How did you get shaders in beta?

[@D0cSpot]

haha i didnt unfortunately, i loaded up the beta world in a modern version with shaders. i think other people in the beta community do know how to do it though, itd be worth joining either the golden age minecraft subreddit discord or the back to beta discord and asking around!

[@Real_The_Goof]

@@D0cSpot Cool. I honestly wasn't around for the original releases of MC at the beginning. I came in later around 1.14.

[@TheBoyRyansChannel]

Hello and welcome The Boy Docspots channel

[@D0cSpot]

im famous theboyryan noticed me

[@JanoschNr1]

Now you feel how I felt ever since 1.6.4 ... only bloatware garbage added ...

[@xrinn6]

How do you even play minecraft beta 1.7.3?

[@ommontanth]

I agree, bloating is a problem within the game rn, Good Video Essay❤

[@Umuthoper]

what beta version do you use

[@D0cSpot]

beta 1.7.3 :)

[@thelastblock]

Enjoyed this video Doc LOVE SHADERS:)

[@D0cSpot]

im so glad you liked it!! and yeah shaders are so nice :D

[@KiriRose]

keep going, your videos are grate!

[@kaduhobus]

Bem, era isso q eu tinha medo na epoca que a microsoft comprou a mojang, eu tinha medo que eles comprassem só pra lucrar em cima de um jogo maravilhoso com muito potencial, pra transofrmar em uma fonte de renda engana trouxa. E infelizmente é o que estão fazendo, eles ficam fazendo hype pro publico, com propagandas legais, pra que todos continuem jogando, mas as atualizações que tão vindo, não são nada de mais, existem pessoas que fazem mods mais complexos do que as atualizações da mojang, e quando digo pessoas, é por que elas estão trabalhando sosinhas, nada de times, pessoas no singular, que atualizam seus mods comforme novas versões, e ainda colocam coisas novas, fazendo muito mais do que o time inteiro da mojang está fazendo. E não existe desculpas por eles estarem trabalhando em duas versões pra pc diferentes, e pra alguns consoles, porque o time deles é grande o suficiente pra lidar com todas essas plataformas e ainda sim entregar mais do que estão entregando atualmente.

[@user-dq8jo9ez9u]

i appreciate you talking a bit louder, in comparison with previous vids! (maybe it´s just amplified lol)

[@Harvey-the-black-goo]

Beta is good

[@bradugar]

I like the new updates for diversity it's nice that we have Mud Bricks or bamboo planks now, a lot of people can recreate their home or culture. Beta is very eurocentric not a fault of its own just mostly cause a Swedish team made it. I love Player Versus Entity but never cared for PVP even before 1.9. As a mostly survival player nowadays with 100's of hours designing in creative I see every update as a win, new copper stuff in tricky trials & tuff bricks heck yeah that'd be perfect for my skyscrapers in survival since tuff is so easy to get in bulk.

[@Myne1001]

Sugar cane is a tradition crop grown by Polynesians and Melanesians. Cacti are from the Americas and were utilized by many of the indigenous peoples of that region. Roses are believed to be originally cultivated in Central Asia more than 7,000 years ago.

[@bradugar]

@@Myne1001 plants are different from building block try making a Tory gate using beta textured netherack & tell me it looks good also in the future updates we got bamboo by it self, panda’s, parrots more tropical mobs with the fishes. Plus biomes such as cherry groves making Japanese cherry blossoms not only more possible but pretty with its falling petal particles.

[@Myne1001]

Red wool exists. I have seen many Torii Gates built out of red & black wool and they're beautiful. Also, not all Torii gates are red & black, some are stone. It's a limited block palette, but so is modern. The only difference is that you're being actively spied on by an evil mega corporation against your consent. I'm not.

[@americanoplays21]

Modern minecraft gives burnout! Plays on an archaic version which has literally nothing. The end game of Minecraft of literally building endlessly in both version, you just get to that faster in beta.

[@samuelgregr8451]

What i really miss about the old minecraft is the old texture the new one is so minimalistic too simple and boring

[@victorthevictor1976]

I agree, though I prefer 1.8 the most, probably. I have to say, the game just sort of felt like it was losing direction since 1.9. They started neglecting the community in endless pursuit of higher profit margins, and that just really made it unenjoyable to play sometimes

[@fren8899]

yo docspot i think you'd enjoy the old school minecraft server. there is a cool community that enjoy the beta minecraft. we play on 1.7.3 beta

[@katelinkikkiwaa8263]

Why did you throw away your very first Pickaxe nooooo 😭

[@rly.V4]

Collab???

[@mikeymakesmaps1849]

You're right, the meta is terrible. It's just a race to build as many ianxofour farms as you can. I guess they are "kind of" trying to fix by changing the enchantments? which of course people complained about.

[@D0cSpot]

yeah i agree, its nice theyre trying to tackle the issue with mending. i do feel bad because theyve gotten themselves into a bit of a shit situation though, because they either remove it and piss of those who use it, or keep it in and have to find work around for it. damned if you do damned if you dont kinda thing. i think if they fixed or mayve even overhauled anvils & repairing itd definitely help that bit there

[@mikeymakesmaps1849]

@@D0cSpot yeah. i think most of the problems with minecraft stem from the fact that there are, practically, two or three completely different audiences now: the farmers/redstoners, the competitive server people, and then maybe some oldschool people just playing solo. every change they make is going to really affect at least one of these groups and mojang is trying to balance across all three of them... there really just isn't a focus anymore.

[@lil-wynd-bangers]

Nice vid!

[@DaMinecraftLad]

W vid for the amount pf subs, keep going !