Minecraft

[flat geode]

Are you using the new update?

[inner tiger]

Uh....I think yes

[rich cove]

@summer scaffold A fnaf song writer covering a Minecraft Parody song. We are eating soon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU23lGzJKLg

With animation too!

[flat geode]

Back to building some MC stuffs, here's a tree

[flat geode]

More trees

[flat geode]

Maritime Harbour - A town that is a mix of Maretime Bay, Maine, and a little bit of my unique style.

As you can see from the back, it's still a bit of a work in progess

[flat geode]

It's going to house a bunch of masons so I can get quartz for another bigger project that some of you may know.

[flat geode]

It has two main inspirations: Mane and Maine

finally used that joke

[mint cypress]

[dusty thunder]

Looks nice, though I gotta ask, are you not using smooth lighting? Because everything looks oddly bright and saturated, even for the daytime.

[flat geode]

I think I messed with something in Axiom, but I'll double-check. My settings get messy with all the instances and different mod keybinds

[onyx crow]

no that's smooth lighting

Because the lighting

is smooth! Easier to tell on the stone blocks to the left

Shadow-y wherever there's inside-corners and inside-edges

[grave ravine]

smooth lighting is on but brightness is maxed out, I guess

[flat geode]

Yeah, Axiom has full bright

[zinc epoch]

Whats better

Java or Bedrock

Cause Minecraft gave me both

[flat geode]

Depends on what you are looking for

[zinc epoch]

Uhh

[worldly basin]

Java allows modding, Bedrock does not (unless something changed recently).

[zinc epoch]

Java it is

[flat geode]

Ok lol

[harsh blaze]

Bedrock is better for playing with friends but Java allows you so much more control over what you want to do

bedrock is almost never my choice

I only downloaded it so I could play with my friend on her worlds

[zinc epoch]

Time to scroll through curseforge

[flat geode]

I got it so I can get cool capes

[harsh blaze]

you’ll need a mod loader

Unless you already know about that

[zinc epoch]

Damn

[flat geode]

Curse should able to do that

[harsh blaze]

Get Forge

if you wanna do it manually

[flat geode]

Fabric is pretty good for client side stuffs

[harsh blaze]

But a mod loader like Modrinth will make it stupid easy

[harsh blaze]

Forge is way better for modpacks but I’ll agree Fabric is better client mods

[flat geode]

With the town being a sorta more darker build, I was thinking about changing the lighthouse to fit in better with the town

[dusty thunder]

Distant horizons?

[flat geode]

Bobby

[dusty thunder]

Ah

[flat geode]

Tho it was just at normal 32 chunks

[zinc epoch]

After..several. Several hours..i still cannot play mods for some unspoken reason

Can someone help me tomorrow 😭

Oh wait its christmas

Nvm

[flat geode]

What have you tried so far?

[zinc epoch]

Forge,fabric, cursed forced, youtube videos, fabric again, neo forge, o something, crying

[flat geode]

I could help tomorrow maybe

[harsh blaze]

do you have Java installed

not the game, I mean Java the program

someone get them a link to the latest version of Java

[grave ravine]

does modding Minecraft still need a separate JRE install if you use something like PrismLauncher?

it comes with presets for Modrinth and other mod stores too, so you just click 3 things and get modded Minecraft going

it's how I play Fabulously Optimized

Rarity's favorite modpack

[elfin heart]

Prism Launcher would probably be good to check out. It's a bit easier to check what you have and don't have, why things aren't working

[zinc epoch]

Man this is so confusing why can’t it be easy😭

[harsh blaze]

Just watch a tutorial on how to use Curseforge launcher or Modrinth launcher

[zinc epoch]

And now my tv won’t work awesome

[flat geode]

Do you want me to help?

[zinc epoch]

Its youtube and it keeps pausing and unpausing, i reset the wifi and the tv, cleared the cache and its still doing it

[zinc epoch]

Whats its website called

[flat geode]

java.com

[zinc epoch]

Is it the one with the coffee logo

[flat geode]

yes

[zinc epoch]

So i downloaded java how do i connect it to minecraft, because all i am seeing is the java installer not the actual java after i installed it

[flat geode]

Minecraft should find the files if Java is installed properly

Have you tried launching Vanilla Minecraft?

[zinc epoch]

No cause minecraft is so laggy without sodium

[flat geode]

I mean just to check that Java is installed

[zinc epoch]

How do i know its installed

Does it say something

[flat geode]

Did you use the installer?

[zinc epoch]

Yes

I installed it like 6 times

[flat geode]

"java -version" in command prompt

[zinc epoch]

K its showing me it

Where do i go from there

[flat geode]

Well if it's installed you could try doing the mod stuff again

What mods are you trying to get?

[zinc epoch]

I think i figured it out

[zinc epoch]

FIGIURED IY OUT😭

My dads so proud of me

[grave ravine]

I remember when my father helped me download tracks for Trackmania Nations

[zinc epoch]

I have come across another problem..

So i was able to download the mods to Minecraft through forge but now its saying some mods need to be above 1. Something and below 1.21 but they are all different so i cant just cchoose a version

[flat geode]

Could you explain further?

[zinc epoch]

It says 7 mods are incompatible because it needs to be above 1.19 but below 1.21

[flat geode]

What version are you using?

[zinc epoch]

The newest version of Minecraft

And its not like i can’t change it either cause some mods are like above 1.19 and below 1.20

[flat geode]

Can you send some links to the mods?

[zinc epoch]

I can send you what it says

[flat geode]

The mod is out of date or unsupported for 1.21.4

[zinc epoch]

So should i just move them until later

[flat geode]

wdym?

[zinc epoch]

Like should i just move them out of the folder until they get fixed?

[dusty thunder]

I would suggest you use Fabric instead of Forge. A lot of the mods in this list are already updated to 1.21.4 for Fabric.

And Fabric is better-supported

[zinc epoch]

Ill try that

[flat geode]

Yeah, that works. Make sure the mods support the version you are playing

[zinc epoch]

Yeah i think fab is gonna work i just gotta update some nods

[dusty thunder]

Also, use this site for looking up Fabric mods: https://modrinth.com/

It's waaaaaay better than CurseForge

[zinc epoch]

I tried that but it would over run forge

[dusty thunder]

You have to delete Forge first

If you want Fabric to work properly you need to delete all of the Forge files and the Forge mods.

And you need to replace it with Fabric's files and Fabric mods.

[harsh blaze]

it’ll run forge mods as well

thank god

[zinc epoch]

Yeah thats what im doing

Can i keep curseforge

I use it for other mods

[dusty thunder]

I mean, if you use it just to find mods, sure. But if you're using Fabric as a mod launcher, you need to find Fabric-only mods, or mods that support both Fabric and Forge. You can't use Forge-exclusive mods on Fabric.

[zinc epoch]

How do you guys organize your mods on modrinth

[flat geode]

You make collections and favorite

[zinc epoch]

Ik but HOW like, alphabetical?

Biggest to smallest

[flat geode]

Honestly up to you, I just do them in order of when I find them

Alphabetical sounds good tho

[wheat kindle]

Fabric? What is it? /j

[zinc epoch]

Ugh fabric is working, which is fine i guess but the mods i want are only for forge

[dusty thunder]

What mods are you looking for?

Because Fabric might have something similar

[zinc epoch]

Twilight forest and mca reborn the main 2 i REALLY want

[zinc epoch]

Okay i figured everything out, everything is compatible EXCEPT the controller mod and it says it will soon come out to support ps4 and idk if i can wait that long..

[elfin heart]

noooo the pain of setting up mods but times 10

this is too relatable

[flat geode]

It also sucks be some mods just don't get support anymore

[elfin heart]

it's a good idea to settle on a version of Minecraft that a lot of mods use. Right now 1.20.1 is very popular, so if you're building a modpack to end all modpacks that might be best

[flat geode]

I think 1.20.1 was another one of those mod support jump off points

[elfin heart]

and as long as you're not using the original minecraft launcher to launch and store the mods because that is a moment. Curseforge has its own annoying launcher, Modrinth has its own probably decent launcher, and I recommend Prism Launcher if you're still open to doing more setup (very fair if you just wanna play now it works lol)

[flat geode]

I use the vanilla launcher...

[elfin heart]

😭

when you want to change mods... how do you

[flat geode]

I only use Curse for modpacks, and I can't get modrinth rn

[flat geode]

Go to modrinth and download all the new mods, or put the old one in folders

The mods don't load if you put it into a folder actually

[elfin heart]

ah fun

[elfin heart]

I used to do it like that as well

yeppp I definitely still have folders like that sitting around

[flat geode]

Oh wow, old versions

[elfin heart]

but it's so much nicer when I can just doubleclick on any icon to load it up, via MultiMC

[flat geode]

I would have MultiMC if the Windows update didn't delete it

[elfin heart]

ouchh

[flat geode]

It's just gone now

[elfin heart]

targeted assassination

[flat geode]

Microsoft...

[elfin heart]

yeah I haven't used those folders in a long time

and I've used this laptop for over 8 years

[flat geode]

That's even before I started playing

[elfin heart]

what was the update you started on?

[flat geode]

1.12.2

[elfin heart]

oo nice

it was a long time between 1.12.2 and 1.13

plus 1.13 was so slow 😭

[flat geode]

They added quite a lot

It was going to be two separate updates

[elfin heart]

yeah, there were a lot of technical changes

just glad they made it run a little better in the updates that followed

the time between 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9 was pretty huge. Microsoft bought mojang after 1.8 and we didn't know whether things were going to continue the same

[flat geode]

Data pack changes were cool tho

[elfin heart]

mmm I never think about a time before datapacks, true

there used to be extremely long commands that you could copy from the internet and paste into a command block, which would then spawn more command blocks in a little machine

and they'd program some item or furniture into your world that kinda worked

pretty sure datapacks have taken over that role now lol

[flat geode]

Mhm

If I ever used them for command stuffs

My entire map (except for the map load system due to a bug) uses command blocks

[elfin heart]

oooh, nice

what kind of map is it?

[flat geode]

Did find this art for the original 1.13, love the name Technically Updated

[flat geode]

It's a pvp map

Each team spawns in a tower and the tower have better loot the further down you go

[elfin heart]

ahh the debug stick

[flat geode]

There's also some trial spawns and such

[elfin heart]

nice, nice

I've barely played with those at all

since 1.19 I haven't gone out of my way to try all the new things really

and I don't tend to stumble across the new update stuff much lol

[flat geode]

They try to keep it less intrusive I think

[elfin heart]

yeah, I guess that's cool of them

1.21.3 messed up two things that are important to me tho :(

I can't update my superflat world to that version or higher because it moves the sea level of the superflat world to the bottom of the world

and that update also adds the ability to bounce on a slimeblock while holding spacebar, which launches you further horizontally. That messes with a lot of parkour maps that now have to be redone if they are on latest-version servers

[flat geode]

Really?

I thought it was just pressing shift to not fall damage

[elfin heart]

go on java edition (idk if they added it to bedrock) and test it out

you bounce surprisingly far by holding jump

the bounce height is the same as if you weren't holding jump, it's not cancelled anymore

[flat geode]

It looks the same

is that the problem?

[elfin heart]

try going from a 2 block high pillar onto a slime block in the ground

do it without holding jump the first time and then compare

oh, and you should sprint-jump. That's where the added velocity is quite obvious

[flat geode]

Stil looks the same

Am I doing it right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoh0Ks85U5o

[elfin heart]

4 jumps without holding jump, then 3 jumps with holding jump

[flat geode]

Ah, distance

I see

[elfin heart]

it increases the distance you can bounce on every slime block parkour jump ever made by a little bit

[little rampart]

Now that Christmas is over i should have time this week and weekend to update the server and actually play some more

[flat geode]

Oh, server is getting updated?

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbStk8OBcl8

This is a pretty cool video, quite useful if you want to check on Hermits you don't watch

It also works if you want to watch just the individual segments

[glad gale]

Imagine how long it took just to upload that, and then for youtube to process the file.......

[flat geode]

Don't scare me right when I'm about to render and upload things... (It's not that long, I'll be fine)

[grave ravine]

YouTube takes days to fully process any 8K60 upload in my experience

[onyx crow]

Who even is uploading at 8K? More importantly, who even has a high enough resolution display?

[flat geode]

Gotta support the people at NASA

[grave ravine]

you can do so since 2016

I do it occasionally because it preserves the bitrate in the best way YouTube allows

4K60 quality is OK but we can do better 🙂

[flat geode]

I think the highest I've gone was 4k, it was my swamp project showcase

[grave ravine]

1080p is pretty bad now that there is 1080p Premium

it actually became worse over time

[sleek bane]

What is 1080p premium?

[onyx crow]

Higher bitrate

which means less video compression artifacts basically

1080p but less scrungly in a lot of cases

[sleek bane]

I see

I don't really know much about video stuff

[onyx crow]

It's like how some software gives you a Quality slider when saving as jpeg. Like that but for videos

[flat geode]

Isn't there a Tom Scott video that explains bitrate?

[sleek bane]

If it's anything above 720 I can't really tell the difference

[elfin heart]

the ads on the timeline 😭

[little rampart]

jesus christ is that what youtube is like without adblockers

oh wait it's SEVEN FUCKIN HOURS??

who even has time for that!?

[mint cypress]

but I wanna see the hermitcraft bases tour

[elfin heart]

I first thought it was my SponsorBlock plugin somehow working on YouTube, yellow marks Self Promotion so it checked out

[elfin heart]

this is actually a bad thing for parkour, apparently

I just found out about a technique that gives you crazy vertical height that relies on taking damage while landing on a slimeblock https://youtu.be/jnrlPcVjWoU

explanation for how do/practice it is 2:00-4:00. It's actually not that hard to do at all

[elfin heart]

and it still works in the latest version as long as you take fall damage some other way, so for example by landing partly on red you can make this bounce from 5 blocks to 7 blocks high

[flat geode]

me

I have watched most of the episode

I skipped Skiz and Doc. Doc because I want him to stay this mysterious man who just launches anvils to anywhere. Skizz, because I was kinda tired...

Only took me 2 sittings!

It's quite a good showcase of the entire server

I didn't know what some people like Jevin, Beef, and some others were doing at all

So many cool builds in so many different styles

[glad gale]

I skipped the Grian vid. Love em... just gotta use that time for other things

[rapid bluff]

new ui coming soonish, still wip

https://x.com/xKingDarkYT/status/1873038637899890855

xKingDark (@xKingDarkYT) on X

OreUI versions of the container screens

Twitter · Dec 28, 2024, 4:09 PM

https://x.com/xKingDarkYT/status/1873038723509829786

xKingDark (@xKingDarkYT) on X

So far the HUD only has the hotbar.

Twitter · Dec 28, 2024, 4:10 PM

add some transparency and will look perfect

I love it

seems to be just bedrock so far, unknown if will be on java

[grave ravine]

it's way too distracting with that bright background 😦

if anything, the default hotbar ought to be even more discreet than the one we have now

the best HUD is the one that gets out of the way as much as possible

[dusty thunder]

Definitely needs tweaks, but I'm liking the unique UIs containers have

[grave ravine]

the unique UI for fullscreen UIs is cool, yeah

no more confusion between various chest types 🙂

[dusty thunder]

I hope this means that they may be looking into the inventory management problem a bit more. Unlikely, but maybe.

[mint cypress]

pls mojang add another row of 9 slots im begging you im on my knees

[dusty thunder]

Oh we need way more than that.

We also need stack size increases (snowballs shouldn't stack only to 16, that's nonsense), sorting buttons, tabs, and more.

I also would love it if building blocks (stone brick, wood, etc) stacked to 256 instead of 64.

That would solve a good chunk of issues builders have.

[grave ravine]

I remember we had mods to quicksort the inventory 14 years ago... Some of them also had middle click to move 10 items around

I think the 16 stack size for snowballs is to discourage spamming, therefore causing lag on multiplayer servers

but I would rather have a throw delay similar to what was done for arrows

[grave ravine]

this issue could be lessened if the current block slot was replaced when you ran out of blocks in the current stack, so you wouldn't need to fiddle around in the inventory anymore. There are also mods for this

[mint cypress]

probably a gamerule that allows the stack size to be increased
theyre already adding a fair amount of customizations with the commands/gamerules

[dusty thunder]

Yesssss, this is also needed. So many very simple and elegant solutions that already exist in mods and are super easy to implement. There's no reason why the vanilla game shouldn't have them.

[grave ravine]

I'm kind of split on the hotbar issue, I would like it to have a 10th slot at least (perhaps even 11 or 12), but the inventory is 36 items

so it would need to be rearranged or have its size changed for it to make sure

3x12 would allow for 12 items in the hotbar

this will break everyone's chests though, people who organized them in a fancy way will find them making no sense at all

[dusty thunder]

I think you mean ender pearl, but yeah, a stack size increase and a throwing time delay would be ideal, imo.

[dusty thunder]

I think what could work for this is making a "custom sorting" button, which allows players to design their own custom sort blueprint that can be applied to any chest that they themselves place. A new tag, something like "PlayerPlacedChest:GTthe4th" (Idk how tags look or work, lol), may be needed to make this possible so that griefing doesn't occur.

This way, that specific sorting blueprint can be applied to that player's chest and only their chest, so that if sort griefing occurs, it's just one button click away from being fixed.

[mint cypress]

10 may be the max, seeing how the slots are tied to the keyboard
for example, press 1 and you switch to the 1st slot in the hotbar, press 8 and it goes to the 8th slot, etc
0 could be for the 10th slot, but idk what others would be for 11/12
then again i dont know many ppl that use the number keys instead of scrolling with the mouse

[grave ravine]

you have two keys next to the 1-0 number keys (on AZERTY, it's ) and =). Minecraft currently doesn't use those for anything

games that have 11 or 12 weapons usually use those

[mint cypress]

I see, that would make sense
hopefully mojang does something, the inventory issue would only get worse as they add more stuff

[elfin heart]

they could always just make blocks able to stack to 128

if they were to do something like expand the inventory they'd need to do it in an extremely clever way that does not interfere with updating from any previous version and doesn't mess with multiplayer servers that allow a variety of versions

[rapid bluff]

We need heccin backpacks

[halcyon drift]

I'm working on a fabric 1.21.1 Modpack for some friends of mine, and wondering if you guys know any mods for that you'd highly recommend?

I've already got a modlist going, just want to know if I've missed anything great

[rich cove]

Orespawn..../j

Uhh, vein miner and hunger saturation are good ones to have. They let you mine a chunk of the same material at once but takes a bunch of hunger to compensate, and the other adds new foods and a visible saturation bar over the hunger bar

I dont know the exact name of the latter, but the former should just be called veinminer

[halcyon drift]

ah i think i have veinminer already! but im not familiar with hunger saturation, so ill take a look thanks

[rich cove]

Adding new foods might be a different mod actually...

[rich cove]

Glad i could be of service

[halcyon drift]

could be AppleSkin combined with Farmer's Delight Refabricated?

i know AppleSkin adds some hunger info to food items but idk if it adds a saturation bar

[rich cove]

Again, i dont know mod names. I just know i've seen A LOT of Ssundee. Lol

[halcyon drift]

lol

[rich cove]

I still watch him today

[rich cove]

So you know how base game has a hidden saturation meter? This mod just shows a visible indicator by covering your hunger points in a yellow glow proportional to how much saturation the food gives. So it get's eaten up first before your real hunger like the normal game

[halcyon drift]

ah i know what saturation is, just not familiar with any mods that add it

sounds like a nice indicator to have tho

[elfin heart]

These are a few. Unfortunately 1.21.1 doesn't have as much support as 1.20.1 otherwise I'd have some hidden gems to recommend; these are mostly small things.
3D Skin Layers - 3D Skin Layers
Chat Heads - See the head of a player next to their chat message
Farmer's Delight Refabricated - My cooking mod of choice
Nature's Compass - Points to the nearest biome of any chosen type. Can lessen the fun of exploration a little, up to how you & your friends play.
Paper Doll - The lil player model up in the corner that you see in Bedrock Edition while sprinting and stuff. I think it's really cute.
True Ending: Ender Dragon Overhaul - If you've all fought the Ender Dragon many times before, this can be fun

Chipped - Block variants, but I have a hard time picking which to use
Handcrafted - Decor
Supplementaries - Just a whole lot of little things that fit well and work well into vanilla+
YUNG's Better <Insert list of structures of your choice> - New designs for vanilla structures

[halcyon drift]

ooh cheers!

[zinc epoch]

Does anyone have any Minecraft servers i can join

[dusty thunder]

whistles innocently and points to the pinned messages

[zinc epoch]

I cant look at them

[flat geode]

.

That should take you there

[elfin heart]

What kind are you looking for? Survival?

[zinc epoch]

Anything really, i cant play Minecraft on my computer until the controlify mod updates so im stuck being on my phone and im bored

[flat geode]

oh, well Ponycraft is a Java only server

Maybe you could find one that has Geyser so you can play on both platforms

[dusty thunder]

Why do you need a controller? Don't you have a mouse and keyboard?

[flat geode]

Some people are more used to using controllers I assume

[flat geode]

How do y'all feel about these powerlines?

Also a update that all the buildings are in place, I just need to do detailing all around

[mint cypress]

power lines looking neat

[glad gale]

Is this creative planning, or is it on your island, already?

[flat geode]

Just creative planning for now

Probably will split it up over the next three episodes

[elfin heart]

Why not play on a lower version on Java? Most big servers support many versions (hypixel.net allows all versions that are 1.8.9+)

and, Controlify has a version for 1.21.4 if you use Fabric instead of Forge

[sleek bane]

Why am I seeing stuff about Minecraft 2

[flat geode]

Notch is finally working on another game

Legally it can't be Minecraft 2

But apparently spiritually it will be

The project is called Chest and Levers

[sleek bane]

lol

Isn't he transphobic

[mint cypress]

he fell into the alt-right pipeline, yea

[sleek bane]

I hope his project fails spectacularly

I just started playing MC I don't need a sequel

[flat geode]

It's going to be more of a cozy dungeon crawler I think

[sleek bane]

Why are people calling it Minecraft 2 then

[mint cypress]

notch isnt involved with Mojang, so he rly cant make a Minecraft 2
but it looks like a spiritual successor sorta deal, the Minecraft 2 label just seems like a way to capture attention, worked from the looks of it
otherwise Ive no idea what hes up to these days

[flat geode]

Notch made a poll that said Minecraft 2

It's probably a good buzz word

[mint cypress]

he called it that
https://fixupx.com/notch/status/1875230756437479658

[sleek bane]

I don't particularly care about the opinions or thoughts of a transphobe

I really need to get back into MC but creating stuff is daunting

[mint cypress]

what have you built/been building from last time?

[sleek bane]

The Golden Oak library

[flat geode]

Maybe instead of making another building

You could decorate around the place

[sleek bane]

Well it's not finished

[flat geode]

Well, good luck anyhow

[sleek bane]

I've also forgotten a lot about how to play

[flat geode]

Maybe decorating could actually help, take your mind off of the library for a while

[sleek bane]

Well, it's not finished so I can't exactly decorate it much

[flat geode]

You don't have to decorate the library, you could make some smaller structures around there, like maybe a little wagon

[sleek bane]

Aaaaand there goes my mood

I hate people IRL sometimes all the time

[flat geode]

Was it my fault?

I'm sorry

[sleek bane]

No

You didn't do anything?

[mint cypress]

whats your process? like do you just go in without much of a plan and just improvise as you go, or do you think of what you want to do ahead of time and plan accordingly

[sleek bane]

Well, I haven't played in a few months so I dunno how to really answer that

I just look at screenshots of the library and try to figure it out from there

[mint cypress]

If you havent tried yet, I could suggest messing around in a single-player creative mode world, you can mess around til you get a design that works well, then use that as a blueprint

[sleek bane]

I suppose

But then I'd have to build it twice

[dusty thunder]

....................

[flat geode]

Supposedly we're supposed to get something tomorrow according to some leaks, it is a wednesday

[grave ravine]

this looks like a stone from Palworld for some reason

[dusty thunder]

Funny, but it's actually a real picture of a real stone, just with the background cut away.

[inner tiger]

Enigmatica 2 Expert is quite awesome (first time playing It, this was a pic from like a few days ago)

[flat geode]

I have finally finished Maritime Harbour

Wrong side

And shots from around town

[dusty thunder]

[rich cove]

@summer scaffold The Yogcast predicted Jack 10 years ago.

[dusty thunder]

...They don't even remotely look alike though.

[mint cypress]

maybe if you squint your eyes?

[dusty thunder]

Not even then

[summer scaffold]

i see it flameon

they have the same vibes

[rich cove]

thank you. At least one person plays along for the bit instead of being a buzzkill

[dusty thunder]

I'm not trying to be a buzzkill, I just genuinely don't see the resemblance besides the beard.

[flat geode]

There was another teaser

Caption is "Just thinking about what's coming soon"

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-25w02a

Oh wait

It's here y'all

Lodestones don't require netherite anymore!

The other stuff is cool too ig...

Creakings can be named and live during the day now

Hold up, did they just kill piglin farms?

[flat geode]

Much easier to find too

Nothing seasons yet, but I wonder if this is a build-up to that, or just a smaller game drop

Leaves

Flowers

A step in the right direction

World has def changed

Very ambient

[flat geode]

Ok, it is a game drop, not an update

Not even a time frame, just year and number

[mint cypress]

im still calling it an update smh

ALSO CHEAPER LODESTONES

[dusty thunder]

Only some designs. Most designs are still viable.

But yes, this does make gold farms a little more annoying now, since you can't completely automate them. Interestingly enough, Mojang has tried this before, and it got HUGE backlash. I wonder if this will see a reversal again?

[grave ravine]

does this impact speedrunning (if they were to be using the latest version, which I don't think is the case anyway)?

[flat geode]

It doesn't affect piglin trading, just the massive afk gold farms

I think the only thing so far might be the lodestone pushing ruined portal loot, tho I haven't check if it does replace other loot

Compared the JSON files for the loot table, it looks like it just adds to the loot pool

[zinc epoch]

Im playing Minecraft for the first time on my new tv and its beautiful

[summer scaffold]

do you guys know any cool Bedrock seeds

[grave ravine]

if in doubt, try Rarity is best pony

[flat geode]

It's kinda plain

[flat geode]

Maybe try Ibxtoycat

[mint cypress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFAmOj5Vcs

[flat geode]

Wonderful update, I wonder what they'll add next

[summer scaffold]

piggies

[onyx crow]

This is weird timing for me because I learned today that IRL pigs are not the gentle, docile creatures that a lot of media would have you believe

Never step into a pig pen

[summer scaffold]

they're fairly docile i thought, just if they haven't been neutered they can have aggressive behavior

at least iirc

they're also very intelligent

[onyx crow]

Intelligent, yes. Either way, I can't claim to have first-hand experience, just that, apparently, pigs on a farm are not your friends

Pigs in Minecraft are fine though. Unless they come from the nether!

[flat geode]

Oh, they also patched mushrooms breaking end portal frames

[flat geode]

Good ol' SmokeyStack has confirmed the drop for Spring in the code of Bedrock

[inner tiger]

Finally Tier 1 of the Main Questline

[mint cypress]

5x5 crafting

[wheat kindle]

Don't worry, at least it is crafting table

This is 5 gazillion times worse

[inner tiger]

Is that Nomifactory or GT: NH?

[wheat kindle]

GTNH

[inner tiger]

Oh okay cool, I did play It and things get really complicated when you need to make items that take up hundreds of steps

I dont even know why did I leave mt GT:NH world (I was at the Steam Age and I left cuz I think I sucked a lot with pipes and stuff like that)

[rich cove]

laughs at the crafting table that's like 20 by 20 and makes the sword of the cosmos

[wheat kindle]

You know, this is still crafting table and doesn't require from you PhD in electronics

[summer scaffold]

the trees and path reminds me of Braithwaite Manor, great work

[elfin heart]

universities should accept entrance applications in the form of GregTech: New Horizons world files

[inner tiger]

so true

(I would get rejected If Ive sent this lol :P)

[elfin heart]

I think I got a bed

after many hours of painfully laggy gameplay

and then never played GTNH ever again. It was the second modpack I ever played and I was 12 years old 🙃

[inner tiger]

well they are still updating the modpack

and they made the ores slightly harder to procress, because now It's 1 extra step, now you get them in a "Raw" state (this includes coal too), at least Fortune should actually affect the drops or idk

[elfin heart]

sounds like gregtech

if I get into that side of modding, it will be with Nomifactory. Because jumping into New Horizons seems like a death wish

[inner tiger]

Nomifactory is easier than New Horizons, and that modpack is beatable on peaceful mode, so no need to worry about food

[elfin heart]

yeah, I've taken a look at it before

[inner tiger]

You could also try Gregtech community edition modpack too, It is focused on guiding you through the main things of Gregtech and through every single tier

[zinc epoch]

Server i joined had a kfc

Playing mc on mobile changed sm it used to be so easy now im struggling

[flat geode]

There are 3 different control schemes on mobile

maybe it switched from one of those

[summer scaffold]

have you guys heard of the mod Re Console

[flat geode]

I don't think so

[grave ravine]

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/re-console

oh by the way: https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1hy7e3d/windurango_the_first_xbox_one_compatibility_later/

the PS3 version already runs in RPCS3 (including online play and unlocked FPS patches), but this is still a big milestone

[summer scaffold]

it's so cool

[flat geode]

Oh

I have

I thought it was called something else

[flat geode]

Supplies are mostly gathered up to build in survival

[inner tiger]

Ive built the smeltery (3x3x2 size) and got the lava tank of It filled (GregTech: New Horizons)

[mint cypress]

technology

[wheat kindle]

👏

[zinc epoch]

The oak sapling and cherry grew and wrapped around eachother

[mint cypress]

also happy bday 🍰

[zinc epoch]

Thank you:)

[inner tiger]

Happy bday 💜

[flat geode]

New snapshot is here! Leaf Litters can be composted!

They also added the Game Test feature for mod devs, which I think has been a dev tool they've been using for a while. Glad to see it open to the public now

[sleek bane]

When are we going to have to update mods again?

[flat geode]

We don't know when 1.21.5 will be released yet, but it does look exciting

[sleek bane]

Damn

I hate updates because updating all the mods is a pain in the ass

That's partly one reason I stopped playing for a while

[flat geode]

From leaks, it appears this one will come in the spring

[flat geode]

I think updates have always been like this even before the Game Drops system. But it is harder for mods to update with the new changes of the Game Drops system

but hopefully this snapshot with the game test stuffs will help ease that a little

and so far, I don't think we've seen any major technical changes yet

[sleek bane]

Game Drops?

[flat geode]

Yeah the more smaller update they've been droping

Like the Creaking update or the armadillo update

They happen in between major updates

Like how The Garden Awakens was 1.21.4 and not 1.22

[sleek bane]

I haven't really been following any MC updates so all of it is unknown to me

[little rampart]

When DynMap updates for 1.21.4, i will update ponycraft

Last we heard was "soon™️"

[sleek bane]

I see

[little rampart]

Don't worry, i will ping all whitelisted folks in the server when it's time

[mint cypress]

Game Drops are just smaller updates, I'll still refer to them as updates no matter what Mojang says

[dusty thunder]

Don't worry, I'll be updating my mods to 1.21.4 (the latest version) soon, and I can repost your own list too.

[little rampart]

The PonyCraft server has been updated to 1.21.4!

[dusty thunder]

The Ents are here! :D

[sleek bane]

Heck

I was in the mood to play

[sleek bane]

Hopefully updating mods won't be too difficult

[dusty thunder]

It shouldn't be difficult, all the ones not crossed out in the list I gave you should be updated to 1.21.4 already, so it's simply a matter of going into your game's mod folder (%appdata% -> .minecraft -> mods) and then replacing all the ones currently in there with the updated files (Fabric or Fabric/Quilt versions, and all 1.21.4, just remember that).

Then you need to go to the launcher, switch the game profile to vanilla 1.21.4, download the update by launching the game, and then exit the game again (this allows for the next step). Once you've done that, you can redownload the Fabric installer (or use the same one you used before if it's version 1.0.1) and then simply make a new Fabric profile with the version numbers in the picture below.

And then you'll be done! Let me know if there are any issues or if you're confused with something, and I'll do what I can to help. :)

[sleek bane]

Sure, thanks<3

I really appreciate all the help

[dusty thunder]

No problem! <3

[sleek bane]

I don't know if I actually have fabric installer or not

[dusty thunder]

You likely do, buried within your downloads folder somewhere.

Unless you deleted it afterwards

It's easy to check, just go to your downloads folder and search for "Fabric".

[sleek bane]

It doesn't sound or look familiar

[dusty thunder]

If you have the Fabric modded profile in the launcher, then you've had the Fabric installer before

And if you don't, then don't worry! You can get the installer from here: https://fabricmc.net/

[sleek bane]

Thanks! I'll check it out tonight

[little rampart]

You need fabric to use mine little pony, so it's likely there already

[sleek bane]

Ah I see. It's been a while so it didn't look familiar

[dusty thunder]

Apparently Mojang changed how fast players can move in certain circumstances, it seems: https://youtu.be/N5VLG_Wv5V0?t=127

[mint cypress]

oh yea, ppl in speedrun/parkour circles arent too happy

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, and Mojang didn't say anything about it in the changelogs, yet Slicedlime, who iirc is the tech lead for the dev team, confirmed that they were intentional.

And like...come on Mojang, we've been over this many times. Don't do this. You've just started to regain some trust from the community again and then you pull this.

[onyx crow]

They probably saw it as a simple bug fix. It just makes the movement speed uniform regardless of which direction you move

When implementing movement in a naive way, it's easy to accidentally make diagonal movement slightly faster. This was the case in a lot of old school first person games like Doom

That being said, there's not much of a reason to "fix" it at this point

[vocal eagle]

it's considered a feature, not a bug, in Descent.

it's basically a question of whether you want normalized speed, or whether you want each type of control to be independent (and therefore be able to add vectors together). The positive to having normalized speed is that, well, you have normalized speed. If your movement speed is 10.0 units/second, that's what it is no matter what you do. The positive to having non-normalized speed is that each control has the same impact no matter what other controls are being used. If you mash your "left" button, you go left at the same speed regardless of how fast you're going forward or backward or up or down.

if you go from a non-normalized vector-independent movement scheme to a normalized one, it'll feel sluggish, like you can't sidestep things the way you used to. Even if you have no idea why, that's the effect you'll be feeling. Like sometimes mashing your "left" control just doesn't work as well. On the other hand, if you go from a normalized movement scheme into a vector-independent one it can feel herky jerky, like "why are my diagonal movements too fast."

As a general rule, once a game has a movement scheme that people learn on and rely on, don't change it either way.

[onyx crow]

A more drawn-out technical explanation for those curious:

Say that you have two variables to store the player's movement, horizontal speed and forward/back speed. If you strafe left or right, it sets horizontal speed to a maximum constant speed. Similarly, moving forward will set it to a maximum constant speed. So when you move diagonally in this case, both horizontal and forward speed are maxed.

But, this is a little bit wrong. Imagine yourself moving diagonally in real life. If you picked apart the horizontal and forward components of your speed, would they both be max? What if, say, you imagined your movement in terms of a unit circle (trig alert)? If you make the angle diagonal, the sine and cosine are not 1!

So, the technically correct thing to do is implement movement in terms of a circle. But sometimes, as mentioned, you can purposely not do that to get a certain type of gameplay.

[vocal eagle]

If you actually measure movement speed forward, backward, sideways, and diagonal for real humans (or other bipedal creatures) there are some directions that are faster than others. People even tend to move and turn faster and more accurately in one direction than the other because our bodies/brains don't operate perfectly symmetrically.

Modeling movement speed as a perfect circle is a simplification. It's more correct than a square, but it's still not correct, it's just chosen because it generates certain gameplay results. (And, in the case of a ship with independent thrusters, a cube may actually be a better model than a sphere.)

[onyx crow]

Imagine a perfectly spherical human being

[dusty thunder]

As a general rule, once a game has a movement scheme that people learn on and rely on, don't change it either way.

And definitely, DEFINITELY DO NOT change it without telling anyone, without putting it into a changelog, or without even marking it as a bug that was fixed.

Seriously, that is scummy and underhanded. They know that there are entire communities that revolve around these mechanics, and they didn't consult a single one.

[vocal eagle]

even a perfectly left-right symmetrical human being isn't going to have circular movement speed. Your stride/thrust/balance straight forward is different from your stride/thrust/balance at an angle.

[onyx crow]

Not the point of the analogy in any case

[vocal eagle]

yeah, that's super wrong for any game people play seriously. Making a functional gameplay change without even telling people means they'll suddenly just find the game doesn't work right, entire levels/builds/tactics are invalidated, and so on.

[dusty thunder]

Some of these players even rely on these mechanics staying the same in order to maintain or surpass world records for speedrunning, or keep up their career as professional esport gamers (paid millions). This isn't even just for Minecraft, it's for any game that involves a lot of player movement. If movement changes completely under the hood with nobody informing them first, they'll have to relearn the entire system all over again, effectively resetting them all back to zero.

It's devastating to those communities.

[onyx crow]

I'd characterize it as ignorant and/or neglectful rather than scummy, if only because the latter implies some kind of deliberate malice

I doubt there's anyone at Mojang who was like "I'm specifically going to make the life of speed runners hell"

[dusty thunder]

Except that Mojang has done this before. Again and again and again, and each time the community goes to war because they were all changes that were ultimately hated and negatively impacted the player experience.

[dusty thunder]

No, but there are executives that do not care about the player experience and simply see "oh, a slight difference in speed, change it, we have to have everything perfect"

[sleek bane]

What exactly changed? Diagnol movement speed I'm inferring from context?

[shut bridge]

yes

[dusty thunder]

Yes, used by speedrunners, parkour players, and builders such as myself.

Builders aren't as displeased as the other two communities, but they are still quite annoyed.

[flat geode]

still anger mode

[sleek bane]

It probably won't impact me it seems

[dusty thunder]

Nah, you should be fine

[little rampart]

This is manechat so i can't make a "yo momma" joke, but you better believe I'm thinking of a good one

[grave ravine]

sneaking is so slow in Minecraft I basically never moved straight while sneaking

I have no idea why it's originally this slow, it should just be changed to use the diagonal movement speed in all directions. ~141% of very slow movement speed is still very slow in my book, but it's workable

[grave ravine]

there are precedents of this though, all Half-Life games went through this at some point (and derivatives like TF2 and CS)

however, it's very rare for Minecraft movement to change - Beta 1.8 physics are pretty close to what we have nowadays

I think speedrunners (and competitive PvP players) already boycott the latest Minecraft versions anyway?

[mint cypress]

Some Minecraft servers stay to pre-1.9 combat mechanics

This is the first im hearing of speedrunners sticking to older versions

[flat geode]

Yes, some speedrunners do, but how the leaderboard is set to per version, most don't

[flat geode]

Nothing about cows or chickens yet...

[flat geode]

Farmland has 8 moisture levels? but only uses 0 and 7? I wonder why this is a thing if it goes unused

Even bedrock has it too

[dusty thunder]

It doesn't only use 0 and 7. The other values are still used, they're just in the background to calculate the time necessary to get to wetness level 7. It's similar to the age values for saplings.

It's just that you can only see the default of 0 and the result of 7.

[flat geode]

oh, how interesting

[grave ravine]

it only counts down too, not up

[flat geode]

Oh I see

They added the slabs and stairs before the planks?

nope same one

wiki being wrong

[grave ravine]

we got stairs for some block types before slabs IIRC

maybe it was only a matter of snapshots though

for birch/spruce planks specifically, I recall

[sleek bane]

uh

[summer scaffold]

holy hell

[elfin heart]

I had a crazy corruption years back

[sleek bane]

Okay relogging fixed it

[elfin heart]

just logged into the game on a sucky laptop, did not try to do this at all

[flat geode]

I've had this recently

[elfin heart]

yes! this is a recent bug

I got that one too

[flat geode]

won a game of Pillars of Fortune too

[elfin heart]

lol

[summer scaffold]

creepypasta screenshot

[flat geode]

so it is a vanilla bug? not my mods?

[flat geode]

No, this is it

Another nether shot and Sunny's Lighthouse

[sleek bane]

Oh GOD FUCK WHAT HOW DID AN ENDERMAN get in my house

[mint cypress]

it probably teleported inside

[sleek bane]

THey can do that!?

[summer scaffold]

yeah

[flat geode]

yup

that's why they drop ender pearls

they teleport the player where ever they land

[sleek bane]

What weapons are good against them?

[flat geode]

Sword is good, but water also damages them

[summer scaffold]

sword with fire aspect coukd be good

[mint cypress]

just do not use bows or such bc they can never get hit by projectiles they will just teleport if one is headed their way

[sleek bane]

I was able to kill it with a sword

[dusty thunder]

...Huh. Not sure what could cause this. Might be some bugs in the code of some of the mods. Don't worry, it'll get fixed soon.

As for the Enderman, yes, they can teleport anywhere as long as it's a 3-block height in space (which is why having a wide area of 2-block space is recommended if you want to kill an Enderman so that they can't get to you). Remember, they only attack if you look at their upper chest and head, so as long as you don't look at them you'll be fine.

If you have to kill one, use a sword. Bows won't work on them. You can also place some water on the ground to make a pool of water that they can't get past. They hate the water and rain, since it damages them.

[sleek bane]

Oh, how long do saplings take to grow?

[dusty thunder]

Randomized time

[mint cypress]

its random but usually around a minecraft day (~20 minutes)

[sleek bane]

Oh good

I decided to plant a few Oak trees by my library so it'll be easier to harvest wood for myself

[dusty thunder]

Can take seconds, sometimes takes minutes. You can speed it up with bone meal (you get bones from killing skeleton mobs, and then putting that in a crafting table gives you bone meal). You right click the sapling with the bone meal and it can speed up the growth by a random amount. Sometimes it'll grow instantly after the first one, sometimes it takes a few bone meal clicks.

[sleek bane]

[dusty thunder]

You can use bone meal on crops too, like wheat, carrots, and potatoes.

And some two-block-tall flowers to get more of them

You can also use bone meal on grass to get little flowers and grass plants (or ferns, if you're in a colder biome).

It's a very useful item, and it's good to have plenty on hand.

[grave ravine]

bone meal is OP in the early game to get rid of hunger problems

[grave ravine]

keep a water bucket, deploy the water bucket at its feet - it won't fight back unless you hit it, but it will teleport away after getting a bit of damage

if you do want to fight head-on, try getting under a small opening (2 blocks high) as they won't be able to get to you

oh, it was said above already

[dusty thunder]

Yeah :P

[sleek bane]

I found out I can gather oak leaves so I gathered a bunch of those too

[dusty thunder]

Mhm! Shears are great.

And what's good about leaves that you place is that they won't decay. They'll stick around forever.

[sleek bane]

Wonderful

A big tree library needs leaves!

Next I am making this central thing sticking out of the top with the telescope

Wow that got chunked

Is there anything that would work for a telescope decoration?

[dusty thunder]

I've been thinking about that. Still don't have much of an idea, although there is a telescope item in the game (unfortunately it's 2D, not 3D, and it can't be placed as a block).

[summer scaffold]

i think when i needed a telescope in a build i just put two fences on top of each other, then a telescope item in an item frame

[dusty thunder]

Kinda works, but it's clunky.

Then again, so is everything in the game. It's hard to detail builds with only blocks to work with.

Then again...we do have the armor stands datapack.

I could try to learn how that works and see if I can set something up.

[sleek bane]

Oh, thank you! <3

[sleek bane]

Is there an easy way to obtain moss blocks?

[dusty thunder]

Yup!

All you need is one moss block, actually

All you need to do is place a moss block on dirt or stone and then just bonemeal it. It'll transform some of the nearby blocks into moss blocks.

Of course, you'll then need to patch up the hole if you're doing it close to the library, so it's best to do this somewhere where it's not gonna make a mess around your base.

Luckily, you have a cave system under you that's lit up and safe.

[sleek bane]

ahhh okay, luckily I have two, thank you <3

WHOA THAT WAS INSTANTENOUS

[dusty thunder]

Yup, haha

[flat geode]

Well, I'm one step closer

[dusty thunder]

One step closer to what?

[little rampart]

the edge! and I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!

[flat geode]

One step closer to getting my map onto Java Realms

[dusty thunder]

[sleek bane]

I've been doing a lot on my library

[flat geode]

It has been undone!

This is also possible now

[mint cypress]

[flat geode]

It's some fancy command stuff, but it's cool to see it in game

[flat geode]

Bedrock gets 2 bug bed fixes

Still no leaves

[inner tiger]

the peace sign!! I really missed that so much 😭

[flat geode]

I have thoroughly broke Atlas

[dusty thunder]

Maybe this is them quietly setting up the stage for that second combat update down the line (especially with all the command stuff about bypassing shields)? Having the Universal Peace Sign™️ make a return would be a welcome change for everyone. I don't think there was a single person who was positive about it being removed.

[flat geode]

Honestly, with a lot of these new data-driven stuffs, somebody could implement their own combat update.

[flat geode]

Gazing over the Combat Test Snapshots, could probably add half of those things in a datapack

Yes, I spent 20 mins looking at that...

[summer scaffold]

https://youtu.be/nvJKsx98CXw?feature=shared

TLDW, 3 new minigames, and Hit the Target landmarks were added

[flat geode]

Didn't know this happened on the inside of a banner

[grave ravine]

banners use translucent rendering, that's strange considering their texture is opaque...

[flat geode]

Every time I learn more data pack stuff and get closer to mastery, they add 5 more data-driven features...

[grave ravine]

reminds me of modern Doom modding specifications with MBF21, ID24 and all that

[flat geode]

this isn't even modding, just datapacks ;-;

[onyx crow]

From a technical perspective I know that there's a distinction between a Minecraft mod and a datapack, but in a broader sense you could see a datapack as a different kind of game mod. It modifies the behavior of the vanilla game. The medium in which it does so doesn't matter other than how deeply you can modify the game

[flat geode]

Oh, yeah. That's fair

Mojang does know that this is a problem from a first hand source

[onyx crow]

Once upon a time, many moons ago, they were originally going to do an official modding API. But by now it's pretty clear that they're putting everything into fleshing out datapacks instead

More specifically, making more of the game engine data-driven

[flat geode]

I think that's pretty good system at this point, you can do so much with them

[onyx crow]

It'd be cool if they actually had datapack modding tools though. Manually writing json and command language sounds like the biggest pain in the butt

[flat geode]

Like the game test feature?

[onyx crow]

Making it so you don't have to construct datapacks manually. A more visual GUI interface thing

[flat geode]

Ah, I see

I am feeling that pain rn

I've been trying to add painting variants, banner patterns, and custom model data for about the past week for my SMP

I wish banners didn't need a translation key and I could just toss in some wording

[onyx crow]

And also, maybe an actual scripting language instead of command blocks and mcfunctions

[flat geode]

I need to learn how to use mcfunctions, my map is old school and runs off of all command blocks (except for a datapack to provide structure files because of a realms bug)

I went off of Slicedlime's 1.9 minigame tutorials which are pretty outdated, but still came in handy honestly

[flat geode]

Do I really need to specify every color?

[flat geode]

But it's all worth it when it all comes together

[sleek bane]

@little rampart denzy says hi back

[flat geode]

I think the cows are next from the teasers

This one is from their insta

There's another one that's clearer, but I don't know if I can show that one

https://www.tiktok.com/@minecraft/video/7464332924087700766

Oh, they have a full tiktok here

[flat geode]

Also take note behind the fence

[rich cove]

New flower??

[flat geode]

Some people think it looks kinda like wheat

Like a sort of wild wheat

From the teaser on that one site, it also looks like we're getting a cold variant as well, but we don't know what that looks like yet.

[dusty thunder]

Wait a second, they changed the cow model!

The udders and snout are 3D!

Mojang really cooking with this game drop

[flat geode]

It's all just the little things

[zinc epoch]

Animal sanctuary

Oh, if your ever in the Sakura Realms Mc server come check out my land

/warp CherryTreeCave

[dusty thunder]

Hmmmmmm......this video made by Mojang is suspicious. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1iclqwc/this_video_minecraft_made/

In it they're acknowledging how awful it can be that you have to constantly reroll enchantments (presumably by enchanting and then using a grindstone) and each time you check you just keep getting the same one.

The video stops before anything changes, but it's weird that they're acknowledging it randomly at all.

[mint cypress]

remove the fucking "too expensive" feature

then you have my attention mojang

[dusty thunder]

Another thing strange in the video is that the GUI for the enchanting table subtly changes on the third attempt. When he hovers over the 3rd enchantment only to see Bane of Arthropods again, the "3 enchantment levels, 3 lapis" part is inexplicably missing.

I wonder if they're planning on changing enchanting at some point in the future? 🤔

Having a "reroll enchantments" button in the UI would be great.

[mint cypress]

maybe it could consume lapis to reroll, would be a bit too easy otherwise

[dusty thunder]

Oh yeah, definitely. It has to cost something to reroll.

There's a mod that adds it, I think, and it costs 5 levels and 2 lapis.

Tbh though, I'm not sure if they will, since you can just reset the enchantment table by using up the first enchantment choice and only 1 level and 1 lapis, then use the grindstone and try again.

Also, I've been doing some checking, and now I am very curious to see what drops in the next snapshot. Mojang's been teasing new cow variations and new plants, and I've just seen some...very interesting leaks that may or may not be real, but if this next snapshot confirms a few things in those leaks, then this game drop is gonna be, ahem, wild.

[elfin heart]

Minecraft: Cows & Gauss Update, adding mob variants, flowers, and Carl Friedrich Gauss

[dusty thunder]

I don't get it...?

[elfin heart]

I wanted a word that rhymed with Cows but none were satisfying

idk I wanna see them add something really random for the april fools snapshot this year

[summer scaffold]

maos ?

[elfin heart]

Mao Zedong update would certainly be wild

[summer scaffold]

idk it was the first word that rhymed with cows that came to mind lol

[dusty thunder]

Cows and Pows: it adds boxing gloves as a weapon.

[mint cypress]

Cows and Meows
we now have cat armor

[dusty thunder]

Weak damage, but it attacks twice in the same amount of time that it takes a hoe to swing once, thus adding the "ora ora ora" meme to the game.

[mint cypress]

insert that discord emote of twilight punching at the camera

[summer scaffold]

i like this

[dusty thunder]

[mint cypress]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/979409968375676929.webp?size=96&animated=true

thank you ive always wanted to yoink this lmao

[dusty thunder]

Hehe

[grave ravine]

Too expensive! is meant to mimic a RTX 5090 buyer's experience, Mojang predicted the graphics card prices going bonkers

[elfin heart]

it’s not too expensive in levels for the anvil, it’s too expensive for Mojang to add the functionality for

[dusty thunder]

Snapshot today, hopefully

[flat geode]

I'd assume so. I wonder what the plant is

I swear they're going to release it during my meeting

[flat geode]

Fireflies are here

In a little bush

and ambient sounds for deserts and badlands

This update is going to be like when they added grass

[dusty thunder]

Oh my God, the leaks might actually be real.

Maybe

[flat geode]

which ones?

[dusty thunder]

The leaks I read did say that fireflies would be coming, but it didn't say anything about bushes.

[flat geode]

Oh yeah, that leak

[dusty thunder]

But they also mentioned chickens and sheep getting new variants, and possibly Mooblooms, shelf fungi, and the fallen trees from Bedrock edition.

[flat geode]

John

Maybe that was a different leak

Where'd you find that one?

[dusty thunder]

r/MinecraftLeaks. A lot of the time what they say is grade-A bullshit over there (kinda easy to tell who is being facetious and who might actually be right), but they were dead-on with the Creaking and the Pale Garden. They had obtained photos before anyone else.

[flat geode]

Hmmm, intresting.

[dusty thunder]

I don't think Mooblooms are happening, though it'd be the perfect time for them to be added, but I do think that Mojang knows just how badly people want the fallen trees. They're a very simple thing to add, and it would enhance the forests massively.

Now is the time for them

[flat geode]

[dusty thunder]

In any case, don't take the potential leaks that I said above as fact. Like I said, they didn't mention bushes at all, so that's already one discrepancy. It may have just been a very lucky guess with the fireflies.

But hey, fireflies! We finally have them again! :D

[sleek bane]

Fireflies?

[flat geode]

Honestly John has been spot on

[flat geode]

Right up here PK

They are particles that spawn around the bush at night

Like how the spore blossom works

[sleek bane]

Oooohh that's super neat

[dusty thunder]

Here's the entire snapshot changelog: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-25w05a

Also, the beacon changes are fantastic. Being able to see beacon beams as far as your render distance will go is HUGE.

And they go twice as high too.

Never thought I'd see the day when they actually updated beacons, even just a little bit.

[summer scaffold]

oh shit

i didn't know they didn't already

[dusty thunder]

Nope, for the longest time they were always at a fixed render distance (10 chunks, I think?), and people hated it because it effectively made them useless as a means of location-marking. Now they're actually viable again.

[flat geode]

Since it says client render distance, I wonder if it will work with Bobby

[dusty thunder]

Oh, I didn't think of that! That'll be interesting.

Man, I can't wait to use those firefly bushes. That's gonna enhance my builds sooooooo much.

I love blocks and plants that emit particles like this

[harsh blaze]

they do look REALLY good

[flat geode]

There's also normal bushes

[harsh blaze]

i wonder what kind of client lag i'll get if i put a shit ton of firefly bushes somewhere

[dusty thunder]

Oh, the firefly bush and regular bush look different!

[grave ravine]

oh, so we got fireflies in the end somehow after the firefly mob debacle

the good ending™️

[flat geode]

I added the pixel for the true fireflies

[dusty thunder]

So like, this is a moose, right? This is the cloest thing we have to a moose in the game.

[flat geode]

I oddly want to build a western ranch now

[dusty thunder]

Melody is gonna love these guys when she plays again. Her farm house is gonna be bustling.

[flat geode]

Going to have to import them

[harsh blaze]

holy shit we get longhorns in minecraft now?

texas is so back

[flat geode]

My question is: Is Bedrock ok? Like, they don't have most of this stuff yet. No leaves, no flowers, no cows, no fireflies, no bushes. They have like 2/3rds of the first snapshot and that's it. I don't even see a preview today.

[rich cove]

Beauty

[harsh blaze]

indeed

i've seen my fair share of longhorns

[rich cove]

I would hug her

[rich cove]

Give her a bear hug

[flat geode]

Minecraft Movie Cape might be coming

[mint cypress]

Idaho moment

[sleek bane]

Potato cape!

(Idaho is known for potatos)

[flat geode]

Does the movie take place in Idaho?

[sleek bane]

No idea

But I know that the quarry scenes with Steve were filmed in New Zealand!

It's the same quarry pit used for Power Rangers fight scenes

[flat geode]

That is true, but filming location doesn't always mean in-movie location. Like in Twisters, the NYC scene is actually just Oklahoma City, or the rodeo scene in Stillwater was filmed in Midwest City. I recognized those blue signs from anywhere. (Stillwater street signs are mostly white from what I saw)

I just really like Twisters and the city of Midwest City...

[elfin heart]

yes, Jack Black was spotted in my city and I totally missed him!

[flat geode]

https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/33873681034637-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-21-70-20
Bedrock finally gets the stuffs, even the new stuff too

[flat geode]

Wait... It's still an experimental toggle... Hmmm...

[dusty thunder]

It always is for Bedrock

That's not something to scrutinize

Bundles were under the experimental toggle for years

[flat geode]

Yes, but it works sorta like the Java experiments. Which means that 1.21.70 won't be the spring drop otherwise it'd be part of the preview

[harsh blaze]

why cant bedrock updates use the same naming scheme as java, why does it have to be 1.21.70 instead of 1.21.5 lmao

[flat geode]

It's because of all of the platforms is supports

Some require patches while others don't

They also have to implement more main features like an update or a drop 2 weeks in advance

[harsh blaze]

ah

at least they aren't doing whatever was going on in 2018 where update aquatic was like 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 on bedrock but 1.13 on java

[flat geode]

That was because pocket edition just came out of beta and finally caught up with the main updates

They had to play catch up

They skipped 1.3 and had about 4-5 1.14 versions

Java 1.14 was 1.6-1.13 minus 1.12 which added the camera and some mapmaking tools

Buzzy Bees was 1.14 and then they skipped 1.15 to be in parity

[zinc epoch]

WHAT IS THIS 😭

[mint cypress]

is baer

[zinc epoch]

Thats what i get for downloading mods from a suspicious app

[dusty thunder]

...Why would you download mods from a susipcious app in the first place? Use Curseforge or Modrinth, nowhere else (or the Marketplace if you're using Bedrock).

Don't be so trusting of suspicious websites and apps.

[harsh blaze]

I used to use this app called MCPE addons, which was just a big community run site of people making really neat addons for Bedrock. I don’t know if it’s available anymore

MCPEDL is usually where bedrock players go for addons these days if I recall

[dusty thunder]

Sooooo, remember that big Hermitcraft scandal that happened some months ago?

There's been a major update. Iskall has posted his side of the story, and in it he doesn't apologize for his actions, but instead paints himself as a victim of "cancel culture" (even going so far as to compare his situation with the Salem Witch Trials), and painting Hermitcraft as this shady organization that's hiding many secrets that he's threatening to spill. He also said that they gave him an hour and a half to come to an emergency meeting (accounting for time zones), and he chose to instead call his lawyer, who advised him to not go to the meeting, so he chose to resign.

The Hermits are remaining quiet about it (though Cleo posted a cheeky "never argue with someone who believes their own lies" post on Bluesky shortly after the video dropped), but are currently getting a LOT of hate from Iskall's remaining fans, and Stress has come out in support of Iskall (though that was to be expected, he's her best friend after all and friends stick together; that said, she's still not involved with the allegations).

Personally, I think Iskall is talking out of his ass here, especially with the whole "I've been cancelled!1!" angle he's taken, which was the worst possible route to go in. He doesn't apologize for his actions, he fired all of the Vault Hunter developers who didn't stand with him, and he also victim-blames the women who he talked to in his conversations. And he calls the actions the Hermits took "evil and disgusting", and specifically doesn't tell his audience not to attack them.

Oh, and he literally ends the video with an "I hate diorite" visual gag, acting as if there's no more problems for him now and he can just continue as normal with his remaining fans.

Basically, his video is perfectly summed up with this comment on Reddit:

His attitude is basically "shame on you for believing this perfectly reasonable amount of evidence".

[mint cypress]

what a shame, he just had to act like that
I automatically dismiss anyone that unironically complains about cancel culture, its a red flag at this point, and lol at the claim he is gonna spill hermit secrets, I'm guessing he hasnt yet bc he doesnt have much, unless he instead decides to give up very personal info which would be very bad, idk how far he will go, but it again sadly seems he isnt learning

[dusty thunder]

He's also straight up lying in the video, saying he has no income, when he has a Patreon that makes over $1000 USD every month, and has videos that make several hundred per. It's more emotional manipulation for his audience to paint him as the victim when he was the instigator.

He also says that the entire scandal was done to "erase him from the Internet!1!", when he was really just kicked out of one major group (and even then he resigned on his own accord!) and isn't banned from anywhere, not even Twitch. He didn't do anything illegal, since it was all between adults, just very scummy and dishonest.

He's being very dishonest and shady with this video, and I can't believe I followed him for so long.

(Edit: removed the "crybaby" bit because that felt too harsh after a second thought.)

[mint cypress]

nah he's acting like one tbh

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, but there is the chance that the situation affected his own mental health, and regardless of how scummy I think he is, it's not fair to call a guy who's possibly suffering some breakdowns as "a crybaby" either. Granted, they're breakdowns caused by his own idiocy, ego, and narcissism, but still.

Oof, he's apparently personally removing YouTube comments that criticize him or his video.

And he's outright taken over the official Vault Hunters Discord and has ordered their mod team to delete all messages critical of him and ban anyone who posts them without warning on sight.

[mint cypress]

[flat geode]

Were crickets supposed to be added as a new ambient sound?

Another weird thing. Mooshroom had changes, but it doesn't have the new model. They made the mushrooms bigger. A little odd, potential Moobloom?

[dusty thunder]

I hope Mooblooms are coming, that would give everyone hope that all the other losing mobs will come too.

But where are you getting crickets?

[flat geode]

It was mentioned from a post on a site that I shouldn't mention

It was pointed out in a wattles video

[dusty thunder]

You can mention Twitter if it's the source of where the info is coming from

[flat geode]

oh k lol

Tho, it would be funny if we went all Voldemort

[dusty thunder]

Nah, several artists still use Twitter exclusively, so it wouldn't make sense not to be able to say the name if it's the source of their art.

[mint cypress]

"anyone remember those [SiteThatShallNotBeNamed]mites from that apple bloom episode"

[mint cypress]

ayo

thats not right

[onyx crow]

https://bsky.app/profile/joehills.net/post/3lhbnyfsw6v2q

Joehills.net (@joehills.net)

It’s been a year since HermitCraft 10 began and my fiftieth episode showcases the work still left to do at Hermit Holmdel!

Join me and special guest, @alli.gay, national LGBTQ+ legislative researcher and trans rights activist as we talk about work to do in America as well!

youtu.be/fsR8Sevmv6k

Bluesky · Feb 3, 2025, 1:37 PM

Joe Hills says trans rights. (Personally I already knew that, but it's nice to be reminded)

[flat geode]

Trying some cape ideas for no particular reason

[dusty thunder]

He has a transgender sister who sometimes joins him on streams, so trans rights are very important to him. Joehills is awesome.

[summer scaffold]

Joe Hills seemed really cool from what little ive seen of him

i should get back into hermitcraft

i love Grian i just stopped watching him for some reason

[flat geode]

Maybe it was a life series drought

[fleet marlin]

The worst part of Skyblock is waiting on that first sapling after chopping down the starting tree

[flat geode]

Thy chickens have been the teased!

(We getting chickens too)

[dusty thunder]

Yup, the leaks I read are sounding more real by the day.

Can you post a picture of the teaser?

[flat geode]

There's 2 actually

[dusty thunder]

I wonder if there's anything new in those pics

Also, that's actually a really nice chicken coop design from Mojang.

[fleet marlin]

Y'know how sometimes when you harvest wheat it only drops one seed?

Appearently it can drop zero seeds, also

Repeatedly

I'm gonna lose it.

[dusty thunder]

Use fortune 3 if you have it, that guarantees seeds.

And it doesn't use durability.

[fleet marlin]

Skyblock

[dusty thunder]

Ah

Yeah, that's a problem then

[flat geode]

Made another cape, I like this one a lot more

[dusty thunder]

Looks cool!

Almost like something Mojang would make, tbh.

[flat geode]

Well it is based off the Vanilla cape and I am trying to get it into the game

Low chances tho

[flat geode]

Little extra work

[grave ravine]

the top of the cape invites you to touch grass, while the bottom asks you to install Counter-Strike: Source

[flat geode]

Oh, that's the problem.

[flat geode]

I think this was the cricket sounds? I didn't know it had an ambient sound
minecraft:block.firefly_bush.idle

We can also place leaf litter on most things now

Chickn

Both chickens also have eggs

Wait a moment, sheep might get updated. They just added this block tag

[mint cypress]

More variety

[flat geode]

No clue how that'd work tho with the colors and the precedent that it'd be data driven

[dusty thunder]

Can you place that cactus flower on the ground? The changelog sounds like it's possible but I'm not sure, it's kinda vague.

[flat geode]

It is

[dusty thunder]

Again, the leaks are getting more real by the day.

[mint cypress]

Hmm where did these leaks come from

[flat geode]

Not me

[mint cypress]

[flat geode]

The cape leak was already done by somebody else first

[dusty thunder]

Some random guy on Reddit, but he's been correct about the chickens, cows, and half of the fireflies so far, and it looks like he's gonna be correct about the sheep too.

[flat geode]

half of the fireflies lol

[dusty thunder]

For the record, I still think most of what he said was bullshit, but it's still uncanny about how close he's come with some of this stuff.

He also guessed Mooblooms, and Mooshrooms recently got a slight texture update but did not receive the same model update that cows got, which makes me think that they're not finished yet with them.

And Mojang hasn't given any indication that they're done with this game drop yet. If anything, this one is already building up to another similarly-sized snapshot next week.

[flat geode]

True, it's still odd that Bedrock is on an experimental toggle while Java isn't

Certainly implies that development is going to go on for a while longer

[dusty thunder]

You know, now that they're updating a whole bunch of overworld biomes, now would be the perfect time to add not just the fallen trees from Bedrock, but also baobab trees and termite hills to savannas, tumbleweeds to badlands (they've pretty much added the new cactus with the flower), and palm trees to deserts. The mobs could be added later.

[mint cypress]

Guys I think clear pony is the leaker

[mint cypress]

We do still have the biome vote from way back when, if Mojang supposedly keeps their word of updating the biomes that were in the vote but lost anyway

[dusty thunder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYRjilPrPM

Confirmed, they can be placed on grass:

[mint cypress]

[flat geode]

As a mapmaker, I couldn't leak anything cool. Prob just random mapmaking bugs that Mojang have their eyes on. And the cape I guess, but that was somebody else.

[flat geode]

Cape Saga continues, I cleaned up some colors, made the grass brighter, and reduced the shading and palate count

[flat geode]

Something interesting people found is that code for a new seed template on Bedrock. They have preset seeds for some important stuffs such as the Trial Chamber or Pale Garden. So maybe there might be something new in world gen.

[elfin heart]

any guesses on the name of this? the nature & nurture drop

the world comes alive drop

[flat geode]

Those are pretty good, I would think maybe the first more

[harsh blaze]

why can’t it just be called a fucking update

What is this, a war? Are we dropping 1.21.5 off the back of a C-130?

And I would much prefer a yearly update cycle again. Gives the mojang dev team more time to work on an update, it means more features can be added, it means more hype for the game and its updates, and modders and server owners get more time to update their mods and servers. Everyone wins, except for impatient people

and then there’s this arbitrary time when “1.22” exists but 1.21.5 doesn’t. They honestly should match the “drop” update number to the year and go from there

[flat geode]

We are going to get an update, they're not stopping that

We are still on the yearly update cycle, it's just that there's now extra drops and such

[harsh blaze]

so they’re working not only on extra features to add to an update, but also a major content update at the same time?

Isn’t that a huge workload?

[flat geode]

It is quite a big team, it is the biggest game after all

[harsh blaze]

In all fairness, said team was not able to push out Caves and Cliffs in one update. Yeah, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they struggled because of covid, and I understand that

But now they can suddenly push out 4-5 drops a year AND a major update?

[flat geode]

Another fair thing is that Caves and Cliffs was a complete revamp to the entire world gen in the main dimension

[harsh blaze]

very true

It was a huge workload

But four drops a year and a big content update? Surely the drops + update equal or exceed the size of a major content update

[flat geode]

Who said 4 drops a year?

[harsh blaze]

based on the trends with how they have been going

there was one in like September, and then one in December, and then another one slated likely in March

[flat geode]

In another fair point, some drops are quite small like the bundles and Bats and Pots

[harsh blaze]

true

I mean I like having loads of content updates, it keeps the game fresh

But I can’t figure out why they’re doing it

especially considering there’s still major content updates once a year

[zinc epoch]

Build i did for a competition + its lore

[flat geode]

What would you want me to add to Minecraft? (Something that could be added in a datapack pls)

[grave ravine]

kirins

[harsh blaze]

extremely rare generation of the Canterlot castle

[flat geode]

Canterlot castle might to be too big of a structure

[zinc epoch]

Then it should be super duper rare

And can only spawn once

[flat geode]

I mean to even generate at all

[zinc epoch]

OH

have you done the tree of harmony yet

It should spawn in lush caves

[flat geode]

That could work

[zinc epoch]

R u making a mod?

[harsh blaze]

datapack

[zinc epoch]

Now im super excited

[flat geode]

What would the tree be made out of?

[zinc epoch]

I would say the roots should be amethyst, then the base is like dark glass and then the branches are a light glass

[harsh blaze]

amethyst doesn’t match the color of the tree

quartz would be better, then transition down to blue terracotta at the bottom

The branches should be white glass and taper out to glass panes near the end

[flat geode]

Oh, that might work better, I've been struggling lol

[harsh blaze]

And the hanging bits should be glow lichen or whatever they are

use barrier blocks to hold the glow lichen up and make it look like it’s coming off the tree

you could make the elements using invisible item frames holding different refined versions of ores

[flat geode]

or I could just make item models for them to use

[harsh blaze]

True

[elfin heart]

device that tracks how many blocks you stepped on, right click to reset