Minecraft

[dusty thunder]

It's considered a glitch, but because the community has used it for so long in Java, they don't want to fix it on Java even though a fix exists.

But because Bedrock was built from the ground up, they made it from the start that the Nether roof was inaccessible except through even more bizarre hacks, and you're unable to build on it.

[little rampart]

i was inspired by the tower in the game Chants of Sennaar

and kind of the deserty area in Journey too

but we'll see what that turns into in-game

i was inspired by 30's art deco new york skyscrapers to make my office building and that turned out quite differently

[summer path]

ooh that's cool Dr Rom! hope it works out nicely

[fleet marlin]

Will just be posting these occasionally

[dusty thunder]

So, last night I was doing some thinking before bed, and I made a decision.

If I'm gonna be making a singleplayer forever world, and make it large biomes, why settle for anything less than making it a pseudo- vanilla fantasy setting?

To this end, I will be throwing in the Dungeons & Taverns datapack, which adds a ton of vanilla-based mega dungeons to the game and some smaller structures to help fill up a world (and it'll help make the large biomes setting feel more lived-in). And, because I just love to make my life harder with this game, I will also be adding a datapack that enhances the difficulty by buffing every single hostile mob (including bosses) by making them faster and hit like tanks. Finally, I'll also be adding a datapack that changes the Ender Dragon boss fight into something more epic with more attacks, smarter AI, and buffed health. This, combined with hard difficulty and no natural health regen should make a significant and worthy challenge. Come 1.21.6, I shall begin a truly grand adventure (don't worry, I'll still be playing in the server, I have no intention of abandoning my Drezen megabase project).

Here are the datapacks if any of you guys are interested: https://modrinth.com/datapack/dungeons-and-taverns
https://modrinth.com/datapack/true-ending
https://modrinth.com/datapack/hard-deluxe

Oh, and I'll be using Distant Horizons as well.

Screw it, I think I'll throw in a yellow birch leaves texture pack too, if I can find a good one.

Might as well go all-out with the fantasy aesthetic while still keeping it vanilla.

[summer path]

ooh that's cool! hope you have fun

[elfin heart]

I've never played Astrocraft because it was taking too long to update to 1.21.4 🙃

[elfin heart]

vibrant visuals has some of the best water & shadows I've seen from any shader

...not that I have the option to use it myself

Mojang is dumb for saying the system requirement for PCs is DirectX 12 if there are cases like mine where I have that (I checked) but there's still some other minimum my device doesn't meet

[harsh blaze]

It updated to 1.21.5

[grave ravine]

It's likely DirectX 12_1 feature level, i.e. DirectX 12 Ultimate

old GPUs like GCN only support 12_0

[elfin heart]

you'd think that the dxdiag screen showing Feature Levels including 12_1 would qualify me though

[flat geode]

The Florida Archers grow more powerful with each day (Bedrock Preview)

Also some VV changes

Plus some parity stuffs

OMG End Update! /j

[novel mica]

i really hate how rain makes everything look misty and have a grey haze now

not a very good example

oops

[flat geode]

Yeah, I think it looks nice in some cases

but I wish there was a slider or something in video settings or accessibility

I'm actually surprised they didn't add one

and it technically is a VV change from the Vibrant Vanguard server

Oh

I forgot to tell y'all

There's a new painting

But only for Bedrock

It is Dennis from A Minecraft Movie and it's 3x3

[flat geode]

No clue why it's only bedrock tho

I want silly Dennis

[summer scaffold]

omg Dennis

[novel mica]

very nice

[flat geode]

Thanks! I had to port it to Bedrock, which was quite a process lol

[novel mica]

ok now which of these 2 looks better

[flat geode]

Second one

[novel mica]

ok thanks i was worried because the old granite texture doesnt blend as well with bricks

[flat geode]

I think it still works

[inner tiger]

1 chapter done
28 to go (would be 29 if you consider chapter 30 too, but that chapter is just 2 quests that are tedious and unlocked after you reach the end of the modpack, which is after you craft the infinity key in chapter 29)

[elfin heart]

fr, they'll make 2384 parity changes to add Java things to Bedrock, but not add any new things from Bedrock

[little rampart]

started my ziggurat

starting from the top and spiraling down and out. eventually it'll be black terracotta

with red sandstone walls maybe

[summer path]

oh wow, that's huge

[little rampart]

almost to the build limit

i don't want the base to be too wide so i think i'll keep the same spiral pitch all the way down

but we'll see once i get there

[dusty thunder]

Did you finish your office building already?

[flat geode]

They have been adding more Bedrock things to Java lately, like the fallen trees and the Bedrock capes so hopefully. Honestly, I could add it with a simple datapack myself lol

[timid oyster]

They want people to move to bedrock

They'd shut down java if it wasn't for the dedicated playerbase

[flat geode]

Yeah, that survey recently and other means of knowledge, they want Java stuffs on Bedrock now

[harsh blaze]

Bedrock has so many bugs and random nuances

like how healing is awful, or how mobs spawn super weirdly

[dusty thunder]

Don't forget sleeping in a bed and then dying after waking up from "falling from a high place".

[whole python]

Watch that first step, it's a doozy!
(Who knew waking up was so dangerous?)

[novel mica]

i learned today DO NOT fly happy ghasts ridiculously high they do not fall naturally and thus it is a pain to get them back down

[dusty thunder]

Always gotta be one that tests the limit

[flat geode]

They say Sky is the Limit

[elfin heart]

doesn't that mean you could fly up tens of thousands of blocks into the air with alt accounts on an anarchy server, and then store items in a skybase up there somehow?

perhaps if you leash a boat to the happy ghast, and put a zombie holding a shulker box in the boat, then take the happy ghast up to some crazy Y level, then it'd be a true unfindable storage box without using alts

[elfin heart]

tried it out, the zombies burn under the happy ghast in the daylight, duh. Husks or foxes would probably work

[whole python]

Zombie with helmet?

[elfin heart]

the helmets wear out with durability over time

there's no point if you could just use a Husk instead really

[whole python]

Ah, true.

[elfin heart]

would put you on a time limit although I have no idea how long that is for Netherite Unbreaking III

also, happy ghasts would also be a fantastic way to traverse the void once you have broken enough bedrock to fit through

[elfin heart]

ok, fully tested in Creative now - happy ghasts DO fall naturally, but it's slow

so if you spent a few hours taking a happy ghast up a jillion blocks then unless someone settled down to make a base in that location then the chunks wouldn't be loaded for long enough for it to reach the surface

even when the happy ghast is so high up it's not being rendered on the screen, the game is still keeping track of it while the chunks are loaded

[elfin heart]

it took about 50 seconds for a happy ghast to descend 100 blocks

overall, seem that flying sky-high isn't a good time investment unless the chunks will always be unloaded for some reason

[little rampart]

Absolutely not!

But i did just finish digging out the basement where the train station will go

That's where all the cobble for the ziggurat came from actually

[novel mica]

that means it would take around 7 minutes for it to descend from Y:1000

the way i got mine down was by slowly flying down with a lead

[dusty thunder]

You mean it didn't come from the massive hole in the mountain you dug? :P

[little rampart]

Not yet, I'll need more cobble and eventually I'll run out of the basement stuff

[dusty thunder]

I'd help if I could, but I silk-touched all the stone parts of my mountain and am still using the rest for my cliff faces (which I still need to finish).

[little rampart]

i do not need more cobble

i still have like 4 more big stores of it here and there

[elfin heart]

I tried out Blockfront for the first time today, which is a mod that turns Java Edition 1.21.1 into a WW2 First Person Shooter game with online matchmaking. I'd seen one or two videos of it, and it was really fun once I got the hang of things (I've never played a traditional FPS game)

[harsh blaze]

not me taking half of it

[little rampart]

half? lol

i have so much more elsewhere

also the temple is only half excavated so there's plenty more if i need it

[harsh blaze]

I already have like a chestful of shulkers of stone now, hoping it’s enough

[grave ravine]

reminds me of a mix between BattleBit and Day of Defeat

(Bit of Defeat? :P)

[novel mica]

finished another build

[dusty thunder]

[dusty thunder]

As of today, half of the mods I use have been updated to 1.21.6. We are still missing some big ones though, like Mine Little Pony.

[rich cove]

Just saw a minecraft movie ad that clarified to not bring a live chicken to the theater......i hate that that had to be clarified

[summer path]

oh gosh

[grave ravine]

it's not bring-your-own-chicken

[dusty thunder]

An excellent post for fans of GoodTimesWithScar (member of Hermitcraft): https://www.reddit.com/r/HermitCraft/comments/1l6edvo/i_dont_just_see_a_jokester_anymore/

[dusty thunder]

I just realized something. The floatato (floater?) block from the poison potato April Fools update may have been a pseudo-prototype for the happy ghast. They both share similar traits: smooth-moving platforms for the player to stand on in the air and place blocks on while moving. Granted, the floater block was more limited in direction and couldn't be very precise, but the core concept was there.

Interesting...

[elfin heart]

it's very common for the big April Fools' updates to contain new features that are in some way tied to stuff deep in development

such as 20w14infinite containing custom dimensions and custom world generation added in 20w21a and 20w28a respectively

23w13a_or_b had copper spleaves which now seem very similar to copper grates, and the ability to change the size of the player which is now editable data

24w14potato had amber, which is especially similar in concept to the resin blocks that were added in 1.21.4

and finally 25w14craftmine had an "Angry Ghast" boss which is named quite similarly to the Happy Ghast

[flat geode]

I know one of the old ones had Coal Blocks

Minecraft 2.0 I think

[elfin heart]

yep, half the features of 2013's april fools update are actual features now

[flat geode]

Horse too

[elfin heart]

coal blocks, tinted glass, horses were added in the next update

[flat geode]

Didn't get ponies tho :(

[inner tiger]

Forgot to put this, I finished chapter 2 after defeating this boss (Now Im currently trying to beat Chapters 3,4 and 5)

[flat geode]

They really really really want Java stuff on Bedrock

[timid oyster]

But they don't want bedrock stuff on java

[dusty thunder]

...They literally just added Bedrock leads to Java.

And fallen trees.

In fact, if you look at all the recent updates, there's always at least one or two things ported from Bedrock to Java and vice versa in each one.

[flat geode]

I was more talking about mods and things like that

[dusty thunder]

Ah

[timid oyster]

And I'm on the idea that they'd rather discontinue java and only work on bedrock

But that probably would cause lots of anger among the players lol

[glad gale]

I hope that never happens, tbs

[dusty thunder]

Both Mojang and Microsoft have confirmed multiple times over the last decade that this will never happen.

They emphasized it even: never.

[timid oyster]

thank god

[dusty thunder]

And you want to know why it'll never happen? Because if it did, the modding scene would collapse, and overnight Minecraft would lose millions of players (and thus hundreds of millions in revenue) and thousands of Minecraft creators, it would be a PR nightmare that the game would never recover from, and every ounce of good will that Mojang would have built up would be gone. It would pretty much kill off a massive chunk of the IP and it would be a very difficult uphill fight to get it all back. Not only that, but Mojang and Microsoft have invested billions into the Java side of the game.

It just isn't worth it to kill it off, no matter which way you look at it. Killing the Java game would just be a net negative no matter how it was presented.

[timid oyster]

oh yeah i definitely know it's not worth it

[flat geode]

Yeah, they won't do that, they just want what Java has in custom content on Bedrock

[dusty thunder]

The problem is, Java's custom content is entirely incompatible with Bedrock, not because Bedrock can't handle the mods, but because Bedrock has to turn it into microtransactions, and most modders will NOT accept that out of principle.

[flat geode]

Yeah, I feel like there is a balance though as creators should still get compensated for their work

I've been approached to join marketplace because of my work in Java Realms

But from what I've heard is a long and complicated process

[dusty thunder]

In your case it's different because you made a map specifically for Bedrock. I'm talking about modders who started off on Java and made massive, free modpacks who are then approached by Mojang to sell their mod on Marketplace. I don't think the modpack makers will go for it out of moral obligation to their players.

[flat geode]

The map only works on Java right now, I'd have to make a Bedrock port of it and while I've thought about it. I haven't had the time to learn and develop a port

[dusty thunder]

Ah, okay. I thought you made it on Bedrock.

Even so, getting it on Marketplace was your ultimate goal in the end, right?

[flat geode]

I might go the Xisuma route and have the map be on both platforms. Free on Java and it being on Marketplace as well

[flat geode]

Realms was, Marketplace would be a bonus

[dusty thunder]

Ah

[flat geode]

Keeping in mind that I currently earn nothing from the map as it is. No platform gives ad rev and Modrinth still doesn't support maps.

[flat geode]

They can't be serious

1.21.7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7tGfxa58E

It is an experience

Many unexpected twists and turns

[timid oyster]

I haven't even heard that song

[flat geode]

From Bedrock Preview 1.21.100.22

[harsh blaze]

Welcome back Minecraft 1.7

Just update the fucking game instead of these damn drops. Give us a real update

[flat geode]

They will, just not yet

This isn't a drop tho

Mainly a bug fixing update with those two extra features

It's already in Pre-Releases

[summer scaffold]

i love this lmaoooo

[elfin heart]

glad this was announced so now we can all stop debating over what the best update is

[flat geode]

So true

This is also what the update is fixing. This happens on certain graphic devices

[timid oyster]

that's kinda cool

[grave ravine]

funny, I wonder if it's because moon phases are stored in a texture atlas and UV coordinates are wrong, so you see all of them at once

[flat geode]

Might be it, the wiki list atlas changes on there

[flat geode]

1.21.7-rc2 is out! Yey!

[dusty thunder]

Jesus...was about to go to bed, and then I saw this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM3TnZf7YWs

[elfin heart]

my cousin has a decent enough gaming PC, and one time I set up a Distant Horizons + Tectonic + Iris profile on it to show the kind of awesome stuff now possible

I knew you could add Terralith but didn’t realise how much cooler it looks

[dusty thunder]

It's actually a specific mod called Terratonic that allows for this functionality. You use that one alongside Terralith instead of Tectonic in order for the two to work properly, and then you use the Chunky mod to pregenerate a ton of chunks in every direction while in-game and while using Distant Horizons. Apparently the radius for this showcase was 10500 blocks, or 21000 across. To get that much pregenerated you'd need like 4 IRL days spent in Minecraft as Chunky does its thing, and you'd need multiple gigabytes of storage.

[dusty thunder]

I think if I ever make a fully modded world, I'll be using custom terrain like this. For now though, I'm content with dungeon datapacks and vanilla large biome worlds.

[grave ravine]

the camera angle and motion almost makes it look like Terminal Velocity if it was next-gen

[elfin heart]

yup!

I’ve used chunky on my sucky laptop thinking it could help improve performance but nah lol

[dusty thunder]

Okay...so I knew about the zombie stuff and most of the sculk stuff, but the Illager stuff is news to me.

Minecraft lore is actually very dark when you actually look for it. And this is all fact, not really theorizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYspNThD9mg

[summer scaffold]

ooh

will watch this later

[dusty thunder]

This guy has a whole bunch of lore videos like this, and it's...very scary how well so many of them line up perfectly as if it was planned by Mojang from the start.

He cross-references everything, including canon novels.

[summer scaffold]

ive read the Mobestiary

it's a really quality book especially for how cheap it is

[dusty thunder]

Like, ultimately it is quite literally a GAAAAME THEORY thanks for watching, but it's startling just how well everything flows.

[summer scaffold]

it's a little outdated (came out in 2017) but it's still really great

[dusty thunder]

Hmmm...I'm torn.

What should I do, folks? I'm planning for my singleplayer forever world, and I have a default vanilla large biomes seed ready to go that's ideal for pretty much everything. Alternatively, I could go the route of this video above and do a Tectonic/Terratonic + Terralith world and make it more fantasy-based, but I'd lose out on the large biomes (I also will not be going the route of the video and be pre-generating anything with Chunky either way, I do not want to deal with that). Also, the seed would have to be chosen again, as Terralith and Tectonic both change the terrain.

I'm...honestly not sure. Terralith adds a ton of new biomes and colors without adding any new blocks, but the block placement can be a bit messier and the biomes can be pretty small overall, though the addition of Tectonic into the mix makes the more mountainous biomes a lot taller at the cost of taking up more space to build. The vanilla large biomes generation, on the other hand, gives a lot more room to build in and the biomes are HUGE, but I'd also see less of them because they're all super massive, and there would only be the vanilla biomes, none of the fantasy style.

So, vote I guess? for vanilla large biomes, for Terratonic/Terralith (either way I will be using Distant Horizons but no pre-generating chunks like in the video, because that takes up waaaay too much storage and requires a lot more RAM).

[summer path]

i voted for vanilla large biomes, because you already have the seed ready to go

[summer scaffold]

https://bsky.app/profile/buvanybu.bsky.social/post/3lsqzag2oys2p

BuvanyBu (@buvanybu.bsky.social)

Long way to the cake!
#mlp #pony #PinkiePie #Minecraft

Bluesky · Jun 29, 2025, 3:45 PM

[summer scaffold]

i need help finding a mod i used like, a yearish ago ? it made Minecraft look and sound like the older beta versions and it had dungeons and stuff. i can't for the life of me remember the name

[dusty thunder]

Better Than Wolves?

[novel mica]

how tf did those chickens get there

[summer path]

They took a left turn at Alberquerqy

They don't know how they got here

[summer scaffold]

Albuquerque my beloved

[mint cypress]

most likely chicken jockeys that went under a 1 block roof, which would suffocate the baby zombie and kill them

[dusty thunder]

Vanilla large biomes generation it is. Thanks guys!

Probably for the best anyway, Tectonic might've disrupted all the structure datapacks I was gonna add too, and Terralith would've made the specific biomes needed for some of those structures to spawn rather rare.

[novel mica]

im pretty sure its the result of me throwing eggs at that wall because the light level there is too high

i spawned a new one

[mint cypress]

Mystery solved

[novel mica]

all a part of my Giant Underground Sphere Project

[rich cove]

Minecraft photo used as an example in my Microsoft Windows Lab

@dusty thunder You should build this lol

[dusty thunder]

No thank you, I have enough projects on my mind.

[rich cove]

booooo. fine lol

[dusty thunder]

Not my style anyway.

[grave ravine]

there are resource packs that make modern Minecraft look/sound like beta versions but I don't remember their name

https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/classic-craft for instance

[flat geode]

Minecraft Movie Update is out now lol

[flat geode]

I am quite annoyed at depth strider tho

[timid oyster]

why's that

[flat geode]

There is a bug with Depth Strider and Riptide

If you have Depth Strider, you go slower with Riptide

[timid oyster]

what's riptide

i barely know modern minecraft

[mint cypress]

Riptide is an enchantment for the Trident. when holding the trident it allows you to slingshot yourself far up in the air, provided you do this when its raining, or if youre in water

[timid oyster]

oh that's neat

but yeah i'd rather depth strider

[timid oyster]

what do they mean by that

[flat geode]

I have no clue

It's in the announcements channel for the game

I'm scared

Or it's just them saying that they are going on summer break

[summer scaffold]

what's in it ?

is it just the music disc ?

[mint cypress]

And the Dennis painting!

[summer scaffold]

right !

[mint cypress]

Everything is an ARG these days this is Mojang jumping in the band wagon /s

[dusty thunder]

https://derpibooru.org/images/3632759

[flat geode]

Apparently more than just the discord did this. On Twitter there was a pic with the caption "C U in the mines"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ynfjkH93ly0

There's also this short where Agnes says "C u later"

[harsh blaze]

I wonder if “C U” is a hint

[flat geode]

Instagram

I feel like it might be a hint

Just a hunch

[mint cypress]

CU stands for Cave Update

WE'RE FINALLY GETTING THE CAVE UPDATE /s

[flat geode]

This is what the community has been asking for forever!

[mint cypress]

It's actually real, I can't believe it

Maybe they will add Diamond 2

[flat geode]

CU is the element of copper. So I think Copper is going to be in the cave update!

[timid oyster]

I mean

everything C U is in the caves

and the last pic is literally CU2

maybe i suck at sarcasm

[flat geode]

What about the 9? I don't think that's a natural formation

[timid oyster]

oh wait

2 9

coordinates are x29

[summer scaffold]

CU29

Cave Update 29

finally

[timid oyster]

28th was weak

[summer scaffold]

from reddit

[mint cypress]

copper rly needed more uses

[timid oyster]

ah well

[summer scaffold]

so yeah seems to be a copper update

maybe we will get copper tools and they're more powerful than netherite /j

[mint cypress]

maybe not for new tools/armor, but stuff like rails/redstone etc

[timid oyster]

they're teasing so hard for a COPPER UPDATE???

it better be some banging ass additions

[mint cypress]

yeah, right now, copper is kinda underwhelming

[flat geode]

I wonder where the mines part comes in tho, they didn't fly Agnes out to one for nothing

[dusty thunder]

Jesus, this is some Sherlock Holmes shit

[mint cypress]

this could be a good time for the copper golem to redebut

[dusty thunder]

Like, seriously, that entire post reminds me of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4Q9bdE_BY

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1loduku/minecraft_just_posted_this_in_addition_to_their/

It's a series of pictures

Something hidden under the ground

[flat geode]

This comment is funny

[dusty thunder]

I hate going through all my 1.21.5 mods to find the mods that I'm still missing for 1.21.6 so that I know the complete list that needs to be updated to 1.21.7 before I can play Minecraft the way I want to again...

And I have to do the same for shaders and resource packs too.

It is a painstaking, very draining process

[summer path]

what's the difference between 1.21.5-->.7?

[dusty thunder]

Loooooots of technical changes, for one

And some new in-game content.

[flat geode]

1.21.6 added the Happy Ghast, Locator Bar, and some other changes as part of the Chase the Skies drop. 1.21.7 was mainly a hotfix which also added some Minecraft Movie content in the form of a painting and music disc

[dusty thunder]

.7 was mostly a hotfix to fix a bunch of bugs, but it also added a couple small features like a new painting and a new disc. 1.21.6 was a game drop--yeah, what Clearr said.

The problem is that none of these updates are compatible with each other.

[summer path]

Why not just play in 1.21.5 for while you wait for the mods to update?

[dusty thunder]

Some mods are still being updated to 1.21.5, let alone .6 or .7, and now .8 is on the horizon.

[little rampart]

PonyCraft is still on 1.21.4

[summer path]

Same question, at an earlier version where all your mods are available? Mods are always going to lag behind the newest updates.

[dusty thunder]

Literally all of this stuff in the game drops could've been in a major update. The Kitchen Sink Update.

And we'd all have much more stability

[little rampart]

Well, i was going to update ponycraft to 1 21.6 this week

[flat geode]

This is really lagging behind tho. 1.21.4 released about 6 months ago

[little rampart]

But now there's a .7 that's important

[dusty thunder]

Mods are always going to lag behind the newest updates.

The problem with this thinking is that modders can't keep up with Mojang's pace. It's killing them.

They NEED the big updates so that they actually have time to update.

[summer path]

huh? no I mean, Play an older version, wait till whatever features you want are covered by the mods you need, then transfer progress over.

[dusty thunder]

1.21.6 just released, and now 1.21.7 is out as of today, and people still haven't updated to 1.21.5.

And 1.21.8 is coming in a matter of weeks.

[summer path]

Like, it's a shame to miss out on new techinical features/content drops but better to be playing some version than no version right?

[dusty thunder]

It doesn't work like that. The players want the mods now. Modpacks need the mods to be updated.

[flat geode]

Snapshots at least. I don't think they'll release anything next month, or the month after

[dusty thunder]

Something has to give, modders can't keep up. Some are outright quitting because they have lives to get to but now they're stuck in a constant loop.

[summer path]

I'm not talking about the general player base, I mean, so that you get to play GT

[dusty thunder]

Because if I stick with one version I miss out on everything else.

And I hate having to constantly switch versions to play with my friends

[mint cypress]

We're already doing that
Ponycraft isn't gonna update til the usual mods also update

[flat geode]

Have you tried ViaFabricPlus? It might work

[little rampart]

The important thing is the world we've built together anyway

[dusty thunder]

Hmmm...might consider this.

[summer path]

I must be missing some context... is GT playing on Ponycraft and a planned solo instance?

[dusty thunder]

Yes to both

[flat geode]

The only issue I find is server-side resource packs, they break.

[dusty thunder]

And I'd prefer it if both were on the same update. The reason why is because I also have a private creative world that I use for project planning. For example, if Ponycraft is on 1.21.4 but my singleplayer worlds are on 1.21.7, I would have to constantly exit the game, switch updates, and then get back in the game again. But if both the server and the SP worlds are on 1.21.7, I can then freely switch between them.

Also, I can't just start my singleplayer world on 1.21.4, because then I miss out on all the 1.21.5 features (Spring To Life, adding a TON of flowers and foliage to biomes).

[summer path]

Maybe I'm too used to just, switching instances for MP vs SP modes. Most of the time if I modded SP I couldn't join MP even on the same version anyway due to mod incompatibilities.

Hence, needing one instance setup with the mods, and one "server compatible" instance for MP of whatever flavour of server it was

[dusty thunder]

You see all of these? These are the mods that have to each individually load every single time I get into the game. It takes quite a bit of time. And this isn't even the full list, these are just the ones that have updated to 1.21.6. I am waiting on close to 30 more mods still. And now I have to wait on all of them to update to 1.21.7 again.

Just for proper vanilla gameplay the way I like it.

Switching instances would mean having to see this entire list of mods individually load up again and again and again and again and again just so I can switch between a singleplayer creative world and a server that are on incompatible versions. I've done it. It's misery. Never again.

[summer path]

Well, I hope it works at some point.

[summer scaffold]

let me listen to the new music disc

this is flames

HYPER POTIONS MADE THIS ???? 😭

amazing

[shut bridge]

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

[flat geode]

I'm happy they did, I love their music

[mint cypress]

It rly had no right to go this hard wtf

[summer scaffold]

wait that was unironically good wtf lmao

[mint cypress]

The part where villager started singing is peak ngl

[summer scaffold]

oh man the new happy ghast song is really great too

https://youtu.be/MLCJ86wD6-w?feature=shared

[dusty thunder]

I have no idea why people hate this disc so much. Like, I get it, memes and all that, but it's not like you're hearing Jack Black sing it. This is a far more "Minecraft-y" version of the song and fits super well.

[shut bridge]

and the only way you're gonna get it is by killing a chicken jockey

[summer scaffold]

any new music they add people are gonna say it isn't Minecrafty enough lol

[flat geode]

It gets a bit much in one part, but it's mostly alr

[dusty thunder]

Although I do prefer Tears as a song, it's just so much better overall.

Overworld discs are either downright creepy or super chill, and Nether dics are RAVES, baby.

[summer scaffold]

i do really like how many musicians are involved in MC now

[shut bridge]

the pigs know how to party

[dusty thunder]

Ghasts too

Goth party

[flat geode]

Hyper Potions splash when?

[summer scaffold]

how do you get the Tears disc btw ?

[flat geode]

Killing a Ghast in the style of Return to Sender

[dusty thunder]

You kill a ghast with its own fireball

[summer scaffold]

ooooh

im glad most of these new discs are fairly easier to get im ridiculously bad at doing the skeleton killing a creeper method lol

which means i never have gotten Chirp (my fave) legit

[mint cypress]

Music discs have always been expiremental

Seen ppl complain about Creator bc gasp electric guitar or smthn

[dusty thunder]

Those people are dumb and stoopid and make no cents.

[grave ravine]

I've gotten Chirp legit once, but not 13

I think it was even by accident, which makes it all the more interesting to see happen

[flat geode]

I love the LittleBigPlanet song

Prob my favorite C418 disc

[little rampart]

I haven't listened to Minecraft music in-game for like 10 years now

I listen to it on Spotify tho

The in-game music just doesn't (or didn't) play often enough for me

[flat geode]

I kinda want to turn it on sometimes, in certain situations. I might do it when I build a new seafloor for my base on Saphy

The aquatic tracks are pretty nice

[summer scaffold]

13 is so creepy

or is it 11 im thinking of

the cracked one

[flat geode]

11 is the cracked one

they are both eerie tho

[summer scaffold]

oh 13 is the creepy bells isn't it

[grave ravine]

13 is creepy, 11 is creepier

13 has been around since 2010, 11 since 2011

[summer scaffold]

is there a reason my game just like

starts lagging like crazy for no reason randomly

on Java

[dusty thunder]

Java.

That's the reason.

[shut bridge]

java is a bad program

[dusty thunder]

There's a reason why most Java players prefer to use Sodium or...eugh...Optifine these days, instead of playing the base Java game.

[shut bridge]

Java's single-threaded nature really hurts performance

[harsh blaze]

Could Java Minecraft even be re-coded to work on multiple threads

[dusty thunder]

Oh definitely. I think the problem is that it would exclude a lot of players who can't afford computers that use more threads/cores (or at least that's the reason Mojang has used before).

[grave ravine]

Java programs can definitely be parallel, but Minecraft Java Edition was programmed at a time where it was not very common in games

most games in 2010-2012 only took profit of 2 cores, sometimes 4

[timid oyster]

Wait so my minecraft server VM only needs a single thread ?

That's pretty cool

I gave it 4 lmao

[dusty thunder]

It's better to give it more anyway

Afaik

[grave ravine]

even in 2025, it's still considered an exception that Cyberpunk benefits from having more than 8 cores. Most games top out between 6 and 8 cores

[dusty thunder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97hOYCpTnk

This is super cute

[elfin heart]

yes, there can be a specific reason

have you built something that may be putting stress on the game, such as a cow farm where many cows are constantly pushing against each other, at the world spawn / in your loaded chunks? There's so many things that could be a contributing factor, but there are optimisation mods for everything.

[flat geode]

Oh

That was quick

[little rampart]

Oh neat

Now i can make office workers

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=542rY0DQHIM

[flat geode]

My friend pointed out this bit at the end of the video

They think they might add the Glare too maybe

[mint cypress]

[dusty thunder]

This picture indicates that they're adding more besides copper stuff in 1.21.8, so perhaps the Glare is coming too.

Oh man, what if the Rascal comes too?

This may be worth updating the server to after all.

[mint cypress]

im eagerly awaiting the chillager

[dusty thunder]

I want them all. Gimme all the fantasy mobs!

[rapid bluff]

Mojang is cooking

LESGO

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=268H1Pk8q5c

Oh damn, this is awesome!

[elfin heart]

just tried out vibrant visuals on a friend's PS4! I love the coloured lighting but I think in the sunlight can make the game look overly saturated and too bright

[harsh blaze]

Vibrant visuals turns deserts into Breaking Bad Mexico

[flat geode]

I had eye drops do that once

It was funny lol

[dusty thunder]

Just FYI, there's two versions of Vibrant Visuals. There's the RTX version and then there's the normal version. The colored lighting is only in the RTX version

[flat geode]

RTX version? I thought it was on a beta brach of creator features or smth like that

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, might've been, forgot what it was called.

Just reminded me of the old "RTX on, RTX off" thing

Also, I'm watching Xisuma's video on the copper golems now and his experiments with them, and is it just me, or am I now thinking of using these guys to sort through all the mob loot from mob farms and put each type of loot into its respective chests? Granted, you'd need a lot of golems to do this quickly, but they can each hold 16 items in a 64-stack (or one item if unstackable, or a full stack if it's a 16-stack), so four golems can move a stack of items at a time. Way faster than a hopper (though not faster than a stationary hopper minecart).

Also, any copper golem can take any item out of any copper chest.

They are not limited to the chest they come with.

They can also interact with trapped chests.

Meaning we now have actual test dummies in Minecraft to check for traps remotely, lol.

[mint cypress]

Yeah I was wondering what the copper chests did

If u think about it they're like a counterpart to the Allay, they sort items on the ground and the golems sort items inside chests

[dusty thunder]

In a way, the Allays and copper golems work splendidly together. The allays can pick items off the ground to deposit them in hoppers using note blocks, and then the hoppers distribute the items into a copper chest, and the copper golems then sort the items.

[mint cypress]

I like the synergy

[dusty thunder]

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iER8P7wn-9E

[flat geode]

and then the Glare being annoyed at the mob farm, for it is not lit

[flat geode]

Btw, I don't think colored lighting is coming to Java at all

[elfin heart]

oh I was thinking of the green magma blocks in underwater caves lol

[harsh blaze]

[flat geode]

Green?

[harsh blaze]

Java doesn’t get SHIT

[flat geode]

Technically it's not a part of bedrock either... It is only in preview and behind an experimental toggle

[harsh blaze]

ah

I’m gonna be real
If mod developers can implement dynamic lighting and colored lighting without special shader packs, why is mojang unable to do this or doesn’t seem to want to do this

native colored lighting would be insane

[flat geode]

Because they don't want to lag lower end devices I assume, they want this to be able to run on a majority of things

Prob also why we don't have point block lighting

[harsh blaze]

we have graphics toggles though

[flat geode]

Ah, fair point

[harsh blaze]

lock it behind Fancy or a completely separate toggle like how smooth lighting is

mojang teased us all with the glow squid but then didn’t make it emit any light

[grave ravine]

this isn't RTX, just a modern renderer that can render PBR materials (i.e. modern rasterization)

the RTX version remains separate (and a PC exclusive)

[flat geode]

Me who has a 3060 and still can't turn it on...

huh....?

[flat geode]

Uhm... actually... in fact, it looks like I can't turn VV off... or change it from fancy to something else when joining a server. It's like locked for me...

I booted up a new world without changing anything and it's not world based... (spawned me 20 blocks underwater btw lol)

[harsh blaze]

I have a 2060 SUPER and I can run RTX, don’t know about render dragon or VV yet

[grave ravine]

I have yet to try RTX, I should do that one day

I did try Vibrant Visuals at least, it looks pretty nice but some things look a bit off to me

like the color of shadows on sand, which are almost white for some reason (instead of dark gray like you'd expect)

also, holy banding batman

(it's worse in motion as the sun moves around)

still, the addition of TAA alone makes it worth using 😛

[grave ravine]

96 render distance is perfectly playable on this PC too

[little rampart]

i want 96 render distance

i forget what mine is set to

[grave ravine]

is it counted differently in Bedrock and Java? If I set it to 12, it looks lower than it would on Java

the recommendation on this PC is 50

that said, the raytraced option is grayed out in the menu... but if I enable in-game graphics mode switching and load into the RTX world, Vibrant Visuals is grayed out but not Ray Traced

[flat geode]

I don't even have the option to open that menu for whatever reason...

[grave ravine]

raytracing + native 4K + 24 chunks, around 47 FPS here

[flat geode]

What's with the Mesa of Darkness?

[grave ravine]

...wow, the screenshot it took doesn't look at all like what I was seeing. Pressing F2 appears to take a screenshot of the BVH (what the renderer traces against for GI, reflections, etc)

[flat geode]

I made sure my glasses were there first

[grave ravine]

this is more like it

[flat geode]

OH, there we are

[grave ravine]

believe it or not, I am 100% CPU-bottlenecked here. The GPU isn't even 50% utilized

at 8 chunks, I have around 100 FPS and 70% GPU utilization

interesting poll on exit

[mint cypress]

Never forget The Slow Mo Guys did the flint & steel meme 13 years before the Minecraft Movie

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9g1_BTz0o

[elfin heart]

this forwarded message is why no coloured lighting in Java ^

[rich cove]

The golems are so cute! And intuitive!

[dusty thunder]

From Killersimoo (not sure about their socials but that's their name according to the signature):

[flat geode]

Ah ok, thx

[dusty thunder]

It's not completely off the table, they just aren't ready to commit to a full rewrite of the lighting engine yet, and that's understandable. The last time they rewrote a massive part of the code like that (terrain gen) it took them multiple years, and they are already working on the shaders code which is gonna take a while too.

[flat geode]

I finally got a mending book from fishing. It only took 4777 fish

[dusty thunder]

Somewhere, out in the wilderness, a Grian is screaming.

[flat geode]

He might've gotten it before me? I don't remember. From what I last heards, he's around 6-7k fish

[fleet marlin]

My buried treasure was in the middle of the ocean

Under 5 layers of stone

What kinda fucking pirates...

[mint cypress]

uh, thats not supposed to happen

[summer path]

These pirates must be Dwarves! Rock and Stone

[novel mica]

riding a zombie pigman

[flat geode]

I was going to ask if it was in survival until after 10 seconds I saw the command

[novel mica]

yes i did use commands but only to change the weather

cause waiting for a storm would take forever but this is possible in survival if you're very patient which i am not

[flat geode]

hmmm, alr

Ahhhh, I see

Damn lol

[novel mica]

i mean as long im spawning in items for myself i never really seen an issue with using commands in survival to do things like change the weather im not a total purist

[glad gale]

I did that in a realm I had, because the world would spam thunderstorms constantly

[mint cypress]

How'd you ride it?

[flat geode]

You ride a pig on a saddle then strike it with lightning

[mint cypress]

Ohhh

Can't believe that hasn't been patched lmao

[flat geode]

I mean, why would it need to be? It's just some harmless fun

[elfin heart]

everyone who uses /weather clear command should know that unless you specify a time for the weather to stay clear for (/weather clear 100000 or /weather clear 7d) then it will default to a random value

java sets between 10-150 minutes, bedrock sets between 5-15 minutes

[flat geode]

there's a time field?

[elfin heart]

also it took me about six years to notice they added a doWeatherCycle game rule 😭 I used to be a weather clearer

[flat geode]

damn, that I didn't know

[mint cypress]

Not saying it needs to be, just surprised Mojang let it slide

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ml7lgoFxRao

Xilefian said it's just artists practicing the style of Minecraft

[dusty thunder]

[novel mica]

strike a pig with lightning while riding it

[dusty thunder]

I've known Xilefian since he first joined the team, even talked with him on Discord. He's a bit of a troll. It's possible he's lying, and it's possible he's telling the truth.

It's also possible that he's telling the truth but still hiding the fact that blue berries are confirmed, or some kind of new cave vine. The artists don't just "practice" making a new decorative block while using an already finished block as a base for no reason.

They can easily just add a test block in a modeling app

[flat geode]

I mean, he did leave the bowtie in the files when working on the Locator Bar

[dusty thunder]

Bowtie?

First I've heard of this

[flat geode]

Yeah, when working on the styles

[dusty thunder]

Okay, but that was a brand new feature, accidentally leaving in test textures can happen. But having new test textures for blocks that have already been added years ago?

Suspicious either way.

[novel mica]

guess whats in the books on these shelves

[dusty thunder]

Enchanted books?

[novel mica]

nope

[dusty thunder]

Written books/journals?

[novel mica]

the sign on the right is a clue

[novel mica]

yes

[novel mica]

each one logging a down day like a diary there's 223 of them and i've been making them since November 21st 2024

[whole python]

Cool!

[novel mica]

do you wanna see the latest one

[flat geode]

He has his fun either way lol
https://bsky.app/profile/xilefian.retrodev.social/post/3lnfe5qxjfqo2

Felix "Xilefian" (@xilefian.retrodev.social)

"Code looks great Felix, but can you remove the check that gives 26 netherite ingots to any player spawning with the name 'Xilefian'?"

Bluesky · Apr 22, 2025, 9:22 AM

One of the devs I've talked with too

[flat geode]

Sure! I kinda want to do a thing like that for my DND campaign I'm in

[novel mica]

they are very literal

[flat geode]

ah

irl deal there

Cool still tho

[dusty thunder]

Oh yeah, like I said, he's an absolute troll. Kingbdogz as well, the two of them are little chaos gremlins.

Kingbdogz once trolled people by saying that the Red Dragon was already hidden within Minecraft.

...By hitting the Ender Dragon so she turns red from damage.

[flat geode]

Wow! I learned 2 new Minecraft things today!

[mint cypress]

Oh he's the Mojang employee with the anime pfp I recognize him now

[summer scaffold]

there should be a mod or something that puts public domain books in books and you can read them

[mint cypress]

That's amazing

Also +1 for not misgendering the Ender Dragon

[dusty thunder]

Always respect the big lady who reigns over the space cheese blocks.

[harsh blaze]

kinda crazy how few actually know the dragon is named Jean

[rich cove]

Doesn't the Wither have a name too?

[harsh blaze]

Simmons

That’s his name

[rich cove]

Start's with an L doesn't it or....

Oh

Neat

[harsh blaze]

They should’ve named the Warden and the Elder Guardians too

[rich cove]

Frank and Jim

[harsh blaze]

there’s three elder guardians

[rich cove]

Billy, Bob, Jones

[summer scaffold]

huh, TIL

[mint cypress]

I knew of Jean, but Simmons is news to me

[harsh blaze]

I’ll have to find where it says that

But I’m very certain his name is Simmons

[summer scaffold]

from mc wiki

[rich cove]

Not just Simmons, but Simmons?

And Jean?

Gotta have the ?

[mint cypress]

"I...am Steve?"

[dusty thunder]

No, it's "I...am Steve?."

The question mark is silent. It alters how the name is pronounced, but it doesn't make it a question. It's just how it's spelled.

Canon says so

(/jk just so you know)

[harsh blaze]

Maybe “I…am Steve?” is really not referring to Jack Black’s character, rather a person off camera called “Amsteve” and Jack Black just happened to see Amsteve

[dusty thunder]

[whole python]

The 'human name' used by the Ender Dragon in my Minecraft/D&D/BattleTech crossover story references the Jean? bit with it being Jean Drake (she's not one for subtly, even shape changed into a human).

Her proper full name is Empress Pieldri the Magnificent, of the Ender Empire.

She's also gained a lot of epithets and feared nicknames over the mind-bogglingly long time she has been a proud conquerer in the name of Endian power and prosperity, a devoted leader to her adopted home.

[summer path]

sorry, Minecraft DnD Battletech? how did you cross those all over?

[whole python]

Pretty much took the world of Minecraft, added some of the history and gods of D&D, seasoned with bits from a few other canons, and dropped the resulting world into the Deep Periphery of *BattleTech'*s 31st century.

In my canon, Empress Pieldri was banished into the void from her early spaceflight era civilization of dragons for being a necromancer, and subsequently became the cause of many of the Minecraft world's lost civilizations after overthrowing the mad Endian king and eventually finding her way back to her world--only to discover there'd been a devastating thermonuclear civil war in her multi-millennium absence that reduced the dragon race to the scattered isolated cave dwellers we see in D&D, while new arrivals from elsewhere had dared to take dominion of her homeworld.

[summer path]

wild, that's so cool a concept

[novel mica]

i figure i could make old school noise makers even more evil by adding sculk sensors and shriekers but it didnt really work

[elfin heart]

in a 1.14 update trailer we got blue powder/dust and people speculated on a rendering mistake

[novel mica]

WIP im wondering whether or not i should add a 4th floor

and yes i am using spectator mode

[elfin heart]

me trying to work out what version that's on

if you add a 4th floor, you could make it a smaller area than the 3rd floor so you get a nice partial roof under the main one

[dusty thunder]

It's 1.21.4 at the very least, since it has the amber blocks.

But with the programmer art texture pack

[elfin heart]

it's not 1.21.6 because of the clouds & fog, and if it were 1.21.5 mayyybe we'd see some leaf particles falling from the spruce tree?

.4 or .5

[novel mica]

its 1.21.7

[flat geode]

What if the Blueberries are artists testing, but it's them testing on how to eventually make the Glare texture?

[dusty thunder]

Maybe, yeah. Apparently Mojang did clarify that the texture was a genuine mistake and not indicative of anything glowberry-related, but I'm still a bit suspicious.

[onyx crow]

Also, is 1.21 going to be updated forever now? lol

[dusty thunder]

Especially since in their clarification they said "we aren't retexturing glowberries" and I'm here thinking, "that's not what anyone was thinking".

[dusty thunder]

I would hope not.

[flat geode]

It will eventually

Be updated I mean to 1.22

[dusty thunder]

Tbh, at this point, I hope 1.22 is gonna be massive. Like Nether Update huge.

[flat geode]

It has to be good, otherwise everyone will whine

It probably might have to be the End Update

[dusty thunder]

It's probably cope, but I do wonder if these game drops are just Mojang knocking out all their smaller ideas that they really wanted to do before the inevitable End Update but couldn't actually fit into any specific update or couldn't make a full-sized update for, so that when they do eventually update the End the content can be far more focused and wider-reaching?

[rich cove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8McFZfVnE

Yes

[flat geode]

The vine parts are also different in the picture, that video was what got me thinking about that

[harsh blaze]

1.21 should’ve just been called the “everything under the fucking sun” update

[dusty thunder]

1.21: Tricky Trials + The Kitchen Sink

[rich cove]

Copper Calamity

[dusty thunder]

Actually yeah, this is the very first game drop that feels like it fits the theme of 1.21, lol

[mint cypress]

Theres been so many drops that i forgot 1.21 is still the tricky trials

[flat geode]

I wonder what the drop system would be like for other updates. Village and Pillage had a bunch of stuff in it. Wonder how that'd pan out... Glances at Bedrock Edition

[fleet marlin]

Anyone know why I can't turn on vibrant visuals?

For context I can use them on other worlds, just not this adventure map, I already turned off texture packs so there's no conflict

[grave ravine]

some worlds lock it, use BetterRenderDragon

https://github.com/QYCottage/BetterRenderDragon

(I found this while trying out Minecraft with RTX)

I suppose VV will eventually be less locked, if not completely unlocked in the future, but for now it's restricted to worlds you've created (mostly)

Mojang probably doesn't want certain maps to look bad and result in ugly screenshots on social media

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, it's still in "beta-testing" right now. There's lots of work left on it that they still need to do, especially in regards to water, shadows, and directional lighting. But it's getting there.

Once it's fully complete I have no doubt they'll unlock it everywhere so that more people can use it.

[mint cypress]

oh yeah, I think Ive seen complaints about water in shallow holes are straight up invisible

[grave ravine]

water is mostly visible according to depth, which makes physical sense but it's not ideal for game purposes

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, it's not just an issue with VV, but also with other shaders too. Not sure what exactly about it needs tweaking, but something needs to be tweaked.

[fleet marlin]

I'm on console

[dusty thunder]

I decided to change my non-Pony skin to something new, since it's been a generic guard skin for long enough. I did a bit of searching, and found a very suitable replacement. Quite possibly the best skin I've ever come across: the Bearer of the Curse from Dark Souls II.

That waist cape is a 3D layer.

This was actually a spot of luck for me, because I think the main character from Dark Souls II is one of the coolest-looking knights in all of fiction. There's just something about that armor and waistcape that's awesome.

[harsh blaze]

every time I look at my nightmare moon skin I find new issues with it

[dusty thunder]

Didn't you make that one on your own?

[harsh blaze]

I adapted one I found years ago on some skin website

I wasn’t satisfied with the Mine Little Pony one’s colors and overall design so I just used it as a base and swapped it for what I have now

I think now my issue is that the purple blotches spilled over to the underside of the skin

I also completely separated the armor from the skin’s base layer because the original didn’t have that

[grave ravine]

sorry, nothing you can do then 😦

[flat geode]

If they were to add the Glare, what would it do? They did change what the Copper Golem did and I don't know if the light level thing is that useful

[harsh blaze]

the glare should just glare at other mobs

[flat geode]

ooo, a mob detector might be interesting

[timid oyster]

Sets off a tnt each time a mob approaches your base

[harsh blaze]

If you put a glare near you, it should make some noise and look in the direction of the mob if it spots a mob

like within 16 blocks

[flat geode]

What would also be nice is making that noise have it's own calibrated sculk resonance

[harsh blaze]

YES

that would be cool

[mint cypress]

iirc, it was part of the mob vote that was in the same update where mob spawning was tweaked, needing less light to spawn

[dusty thunder]

I just realized that cave ambience #6 through #9 sound like Myst linking book noises.

You can check them here: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Ambience#Cave_ambience

[elfin heart]

I still don’t see many people using (calibrated) sculk sensors for things

1 person had a noise-activated slimeblock launcher in their house and that’s about it

[flat geode]

Just because most people won't use it doesn't mean it shouldn't get added. It's not fair to the tech peoples

[dusty thunder]

It's meant for a specific purpose and those who want it now have it. Plus, it makes for an excellent decorative block.

[harsh blaze]

people who say “well nobody will use X” to a useful feature like this completely miss the point

[dusty thunder]

Remember, the whole reason why a single piece of redstone dust on the floor can be toggled between an X and a dot is because builders use the dot form as "blood spatters" for detailing.

It is otherwise a "pointless feature".

But it's not pointless for builders.

That's the whole point of Minecraft as a sandbox: everybody has a different way of playing and a different way of utelizing new features. People look at the sniffer and say, "Oh, what a useless mob!" I look at the sniffer and think, "Holy shit, two new flowers and a new fantasy mob to add life to my builds!"

Same thing with the Allay

And the polar bear

[harsh blaze]

the sniffer should’ve had more flowers though

and the torch flower should be a light source

but yeah

[dusty thunder]

Agreed, but my point stands

[harsh blaze]

agreed

[flat geode]

Actually it does have redstone use, it doesn't power anything to the sides, but it does power the block it's on. It's how the ilmango mud farm works

Also a fun fact for realms stuffs: You can't use redstone as blood, or have blood at all.

[dusty thunder]

Huh, TIL

[dusty thunder]

Laaaaame

[sterile willow]

In the end of the copper golem video, Agnes asks if they placed any torches. Maybe the glare can make light?

[mint cypress]

Would make it significantly more useful than it's original concept

[dusty thunder]

She didn't just ask if they placed torches. She looked back in two different directions into darkness that then lit up, and each time light came it was followed by a Glare-like grumble.

[elfin heart]

I don't see it being widely used by the redstone and tech community, is what I mean. I think the sculk mechanics should be re-examined because it feels like there's lost potential

most impressive thing I've seen is WhiteStoneJazz's sculk sensor computer

[dusty thunder]

Again, they have a very specific use that most redstoners aren't going to need, but those who do need it are very thankful to have.

A calibrated sensor fulfills the same purpose as a regular sensor, but a regular sensor cannot fulfill the purpose of a calibrated sensor.

Calibrated sensors look for very specific sounds/vibration strengths, while regular sensors pick up all of them. It's a very big difference that makes the calibrated sensor useful in specific circumstances, such as a noisier contraption where it needs to pick out one vibration over several others.

[elfin heart]

yes, and I feel like there's a lot of lost potential

[elfin heart]

https://youtu.be/qLFwsne--b8 interesting bug works in latest version

tutorial is at 10:03

[grave ravine]

the era of Minecraft KZ is upon us

[dusty thunder]

So, something strange happens at the end of this short. The video itself just covers the copper golem and other copper stuff, but at the very end, on the very last second, the video inexplicably moves the focus away from the copper stuff and onto two dandelions side-by-side. Like, full focus. https://youtube.com/shorts/WOckz9JHcVM?feature=shared

Mooblooms? They had dandelions on their backs.

[summer path]

huh, that is interesting

[dusty thunder]

People on Reddit are dismissing it as "cope"...but I'm starting to wonder. Why would they deliberately full-focus on two dandelions that look hand-placed?

[summer path]

It's something we'll only know if it's relevant in hindsight

[dusty thunder]

Yeah

But like, this is an even more solid tease than the possible Glare teaser.

Like, full focus tease. In your face. Right in front.

[mint cypress]

i feel like its def intentional

[flat geode]

You see, the end of the video is a hint at the end update /j

[elfin heart]

https://youtu.be/76gsvK33Sa

[dusty thunder]

"Video unavailable"

[flat geode]

What is it?

Or was

[elfin heart]

https://youtu.be/76gsvK33SaI

my mistake

[novel mica]

interesting video about the old textures of the game and how almost every texture is in some derivative of another texture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6BvcLnESIM

[grave ravine]

Swords and armor are based on Legend of the Chambered too

(a game Notch made before Minecraft)

[flat geode]

Oh, this is on the Home Page for the Movie side of the wiki lol

[flat geode]

This took a small amount of time...

Some color fixing later...

[harsh blaze]

are they supposed to mimic pegasus wings?

[flat geode]

Yes

Elytra texture is quite small

But they are dyeable at least

The implementation was slightly janky because every elytra can be dyed now, even if it doesn't do anything the model doesn't support it. I think it's fine tho, otherwise I'd have to create a specific texture for each color I wanted

[flat geode]

Do they look a bit off?

[harsh blaze]

Nah, just curious

And I did not know elytra could be dyed

wondering if a nightmare moon-style wing would be possible (and bat wings too!)

[flat geode]

They can't, but I forced them to be

[flat geode]

I could release a pony wing pack in the future maybe

Tho for dyable wings, that requires a datapack to change the tags

[dusty thunder]

Holy shit.

We have fully automated mortar teams in Minecraft. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1lvij33/it_has_been_4_days_bro/

Though you do need a regen beacon up and running so they don't die

[mint cypress]

Next up, drone strikes in Minecraft

"War doesn't change"

[elfin heart]

Do copper golems get status effects from beacons?

[glad gale]

I doubt it? I don't think other mobs do

[elfin heart]

Open question: If you were in the Nether without access to f3 or other tools like coordinates, what's one way you could work out the cardinal direction you are facing?

[sterile willow]

Top texture of blocks without texture rotations, like cobblestone.

[flat geode]

Oooo, a map also works

[mint cypress]

map dont work in the nether iirc

[dusty thunder]

...What...the f*ck?

[mint cypress]

i imagine it constantly changes the crafting recipes at random

[summer scaffold]

Binding of Isaac core

[flat geode]

It's not useful, but it does work and display your location and by moving around you can figure out the directions from there.

[summer scaffold]

i still don't really understand how the new maps work

[flat geode]

That's crazy, I played a map that was called Dementia Parkour. I love testing maps lol

[flat geode]

New maps?

[summer scaffold]

cause like, on legacy console edition it was a zoomed out version of the whole world. but now since world's are infinite it doesn't work like that anymore

[flat geode]

Ah, I see

Yeah, they are much more zoomed in, but you can expand them a little

[summer scaffold]

with the cartography table right ?

[flat geode]

Yeah

[grave ravine]

I believe Minecraft wiki has a list of all possible ways, including identifiable patterns on textures

I can't find it anymore though

[flat geode]

Are ya now?

[elfin heart]

yeah I was looking for a page like that since I was interested, couldn’t find it which is why I asked lol

[elfin heart]

this is the best answer, but I didn’t even think of it when I asked the question

[grave ravine]

you can figure out 50% of the direction by using something that follows the south-east rule: https://minecraft.wiki/w/South-east_rule

and by placing planks, you should be able to figure out the other 50%

[dusty thunder]

I remember when Dinnerbone said that they were discussing how to give the fletching table functionality and even the possibility of using it to make firework arrows.

That was when 1.14 was still new

[grave ravine]

Minecart rails are the most common example of something that follows the south-east rule for T-joints

• Rails curve south or east when they are initially placed at a "T" intersection or a "+" intersection. They also curve away from the south or east when powered.

there used to be a lot more things dependent on this rule (such as being able to collide with water on its side if it's on top of a block, which is how water ladders were built), but after beta 1.6.0, most of them are gone

haha, funny easter egg on the wiki death messages page

when you hover [Intentional Game Design], this appears like it would do in-game

[dusty thunder]

For context, this is the same death message that Joehills found on Hermitcraft when he enderpearled out of water only to die from fall damage. It stumped the entire server.

[flat geode]

Oh yeah, that's fun to confuse people

I've done it a couple times

[dusty thunder]

Joe's excuse: "I'm just trying to build a roof on a building!"

[grave ravine]

people noted it in the bug report comments, yeah

[flat geode]

It doesn't even give a player name lol

[dusty thunder]

Honestly, I hope Mojang keeps it this way. It's just too funny.

It sounds like someone out of breath trying to explain wtf just happened to them

"Death. Fell...accident...WATER!"

[grave ravine]

localization strings often use namespaces separated with periods

at least they're not SHOUTING_LIKE_THIS which is pretty common (it makes it easier to spot unlocalized strings)

however... would you like [!!! εÐiţ Þr0ģЯãm səTτıИğ§ !!!] instead? That's a thing too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolocalization

Microsoft themselves use this approach, but not on Minecraft to my knowledge, unless it's only part of internal debug builds

[flat geode]

Only thing I've seen in the lang files are just tests

[grave ravine]

printf() placeholders, my beloved

[flat geode]

death.fall.accident.water isn't even that hard to fix lol

[dusty thunder]

Like I said, I'd honestly prefer if they kept it the way it is currently just because of how bizarre it is.

[flat geode]

I wish there was a death trigger for advancements

[dusty thunder]

I thought there was? There's several advancements in the Blazeandcave Advancement Pack that require death in order to obtain (which is why there's a second BACAP version dedicated to hardcore with those advancements removed or changed to be hardcore-friendly).

[flat geode]

BACAP does things a little differently iirc, it's more than just simple advancements jsons. Let me look into it

[flat geode]

Which advancements? I am having trouble finding them. I do know about the entity_killed_player trigger, but if there's a work around for the rest of the stuff, I'd like to learn about it

[dusty thunder]

Animals tab: "Not the bees!" - get stung to death by bees
Super challenges tab: "Death By All" - get killed by every mob that can kill you

So at least two.

[flat geode]

Yeah, but that's just mobs killing the player, I was looking for something more general, there are many death messages that aren't cover via that method

[dusty thunder]

Ooooh, as in a death message that triggers an advancement, not the death itself.

As in, a specific way of dying.

[flat geode]

Yeah, like drowning or falling from a high place

[elfin heart]

you can use 12 rails and a minecart to demonstrate the south-east rule. That will tell you all the cardinal directions

rails should be all straight and placed like so

⏺️⬇️⏺️⏺️⏺️
⏺️⬇️⬅️⬅️⬅️
⏺️⬇️⏺️⬆️⏺️
➡️➡️➡️⬆️⏺️
⏺⏺⏺⬆⏺️

but yeah after testing that I found out that the majority of the textures in the game display the same rotation of the top facing texture as the sides when you are facing north

[harsh blaze]

Or just look at the sun (if you’re in the overworld)

[elfin heart]

deffo the best way is to just see which direction block top textures match their side ones

[harsh blaze]

or open your F3 menu, watch your coordinates, etc.

[elfin heart]

I started thinking along these lines because I wanted to know if a bedrock edition player could orient themselves in the nether

in order to locate nether fortresses more efficiently which apparently are easier to find if you go east/west

[harsh blaze]

on bedrock I just turn on coordinates and see which ones tick up and down

having coordinates on is a godsend

[little rampart]

Can't you just put down a sunflower

[harsh blaze]

that too lmfao

[elfin heart]

I like that answer

I thought there had to be some block which is locked to face a direction, forgot about sunflowers

[flat geode]

Hey, actually this is useful, the top of the feather always points north

[fleet marlin]

Filled one side of a chunk entirely with colossal TNT from the more TNT addon

[little rampart]

RIP

[little rampart]

https://manebooru.art/images/4040570

[elfin heart]

true true

[rich cove]

lil fwends

[elfin heart]

found an interesting somewhat-technical forum post out in the wild https://empireminecraft.com/threads/a-guide-to-lag-busting-–-the-things-you-can-do.84889/

has some great graphs about configurations that cause lag

[dusty thunder]

Huuuuge shout out to a datapack I tested last night: William Wyther's Overhauled Overworld. It's a world generation datapack, but unlike something like Terralith, Tectonic, or Geolithic, it is fully compatible with vanilla default settings and large biomes. It changes how biomes look without changing biome placement or shape. It adds no new blocks, using only vanilla blocks so it's fully compatible with vanilla, and overhauls some overlooked biomes entirely (extreme hills become volcanic basins with changing terrain shape, windswept savannas become rocky spires, etc.). There's even new biome features like large, marshy pumpkin patches, paths and ponds in cherry groves, no more random pools of lava on the surface, oases in the deserts, etc.

If anyone is starting a singleplayer world of their own, I highly recommend this datapack. You won't regret it.

https://modrinth.com/datapack/william-wythers-overhauled-overworld-(datapack)

[fleet marlin]

I wanted to make a screensaver you can walk around in

So I made a pretty little garden in my survival world

[elfin heart]

seems very cool, although it's difficult for a pack like this to stand out

looking at the screenshots, the badlands is a huge improvement

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, the maker even acknowledges that it's no longer the most popular world generation datapack put there even though it used to be (that honor now belongs to Terralith and Tectonic), but he's happy with doing his own thing, and I can respect that. To be honest, flying around a test world last night with that pack was eye-opening. It was gorgeous.

[flat geode]

Well, this is a lot of people

[flat geode]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1393593239386460282/1393661909336723497/mmpe25-main.webp?ex=6873fc4c&is=6872aacc&hm=07d4a61f2e782c9a8fe8fb28c15e07ea8022a89a0749ea40666dce9f584f9d18&

[elfin heart]

RIP the folks who stood so far back their username doesn’t render

[flat geode]

Yeah, lol. I reserved my spot 2 days before because I was semi-staff for the event

It was cool to see all the mapmakers

Also got to absolutely destroy a bunch of mapmakers in Combat Cube 2

[dusty thunder]

Was it some kind of map maker event?

[little rampart]

PonyCraft updated to 1.21.7!

[dusty thunder]

Lol, jinx

[summer scaffold]

ah

i should get back on the server

[flat geode]

It was, prob should've clarified that more. IT's the 2025 Mapmakers Picture Event

[flat geode]

Bedrock, why?

It's not even that the beta was before the Java snapshot

It was after, by a month and a half

[dusty thunder]

Not even the same color as the plant

Although tbh I would've liked kelp looking a little darker green.

[novel mica]

what is that kelp texture

reminds me of the original golden carrot texture

[novel mica]

i mean they can work if you're willing to delete massive amounts of the nether roof

[dusty thunder]

Ah yes, the, uh, "gold member". Notch had to change that one in a hurry, lol.

[grave ravine]

I remember when it looked like that for a bit

[novel mica]

ill be posting these from now on

also tomorrow officially marks one year since my world was created

[novel mica]

4th floor added

[rich cove]

Haven Tower looking ahh-

I mean no disrespect by that, if you don't get the ref

[novel mica]

what is haven tower

also the colours are made to look goofy

[rich cove]

It's a reference to a youtuber I watch. He makes these little towers in his videos that are god ugly, but in a charming way. It's a running gag. He mainly uses those colors

[novel mica]

interesting

[novel mica]

i see the resemblence now

[rich cove]

Simple, funny, and meant to be annoying whenever it's in a video of his lol

[novel mica]

also im gonna put a beach in front of that build

thats why it has stilts

[flat geode]

whelp

A second hotfix

How badly are the graphics going to be messed up?

and still no follow up to the Bedrock Copper Golem Beta :(

[elfin heart]

lol

keeping up with which 1.21.X versions are major content updates and which are one-week hotfixes is gonna be a trivia question for 2 years' time

[flat geode]

Honestly, you could do that with some previous updates too I think, tho it's much more prevalent now

[dusty thunder]

This is because the devs are mostly on break except for urgent fixes like these.

As for this hotfix...yeah, no, I don't think we'll update. We finally updated to 1.21.7, and everyone's mods finally managed to update to an acceptable level. You can ask Rom, but I vote no on updating until we get the copper golems.

[mint cypress]

agreed, this one seems unnecessary (also mojang pls slow down )

[dusty thunder]

As someone who uses an Intel Arc B580 card, I am unconcerned with this. I'll deal with it if it happens.

[little rampart]

Yeah, we're paused until 1.22 or copper golems

[flat geode]

I know, I never asked for the server to be updated

[dusty thunder]

Like, memory leaks are urgent urgent, which is why we waited until 1.21.7. Items becoming discolored or certain mobs being shaded the wrong way, or text getting a little bit weird in some small spots? You can still play normally, or simply refresh if it gets too bad. And if it crashes because of a resource pack, just don't use that resource pack for a bit. Either way, most of these fixes seem pretty minor overall. The only one that bears some slight concern is the freezing one at the top, but again, just deal with it as it happens.

[novel mica]

which design of tree do you guys like better
the left or the right one

[flat geode]

The left one

[novel mica]

ok

also i've realised shears arent very useful when you have a silk touch axe

[flat geode]

Fair lol, tho they have plenty of other uses nowadays

[dusty thunder]

Left, yeah

[dusty thunder]

Yeah they are. You can harvest leaves EXTREMELY fast with shears, not so with silk touch axes.

[flat geode]

Hoe is the best tool for leaves I think

[harsh blaze]

one of my many creative worlds

[mint cypress]

both hoes and shears break leaves at equal amount of time

[flat geode]

Yeah, but hoes have the durability

[mint cypress]

thought u meant in terms of speed, but yea thats true

[dusty thunder]

Hoe is the best tool for breaking them and getting their drops, shears are the best for getting leaf blocks.

Unless you enchant the hoe with silk touch, but then you won't get the drops.

[novel mica]

exactly 1 year ago i started this world

[elfin heart]

1.2.1-1.2.5 are a mix of quick hotfix updates and adding spruce planks like it's no big deal

[harsh blaze]

of course 1.7 and 1.8 had their mix of versions

but I think 1.7.3 and up were all compatible with eachother and all 1.8 versions were as well

[dusty thunder]

1.8 went up to 1.8.9, iirc.

I forget what was the update with the highest amount of versions. I want to say 1.7? But I seem to remember a .11 or .12 somewhere.

[mint cypress]

highest is 1.7.10

[dusty thunder]

Odd, could've sworn there was an update that went up to .12

[flat geode]

Maybe that'd be Bedrock

Their numbers go higher

[elfin heart]

Alpha v1.0 went up to v1.0.17

[flat geode]

Bedrock 1.2 went up to 1.2.16

And Bedrock 1.16 versioning... existed

Skipped .30 like they did 1.3 and jumped from .60 to .100 then to .200

Love their sillyness here

[novel mica]

building a giant tree for my world's 1 year anniversary

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ipscV0Ni8

1.21.8 is compatible with 1.21.7. I was able to join Ponycraft on 1.21.8

[flat geode]

From the Copper Golem and Copper Set article

[novel mica]

WIP

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, I should be able to log on with all my 1.21.7 mods in 1.21.8. Hopefully.

Though I might need to update the fabric api.

[dusty thunder]

Well, managed to get a good amount of my mods working. Some of them don't though.

But be warned, Distant Horizons does not work very well right now.

[dusty thunder]

Welp, no Glare it sounds like. Oh well.

Also it sounds like they're going to continue with the game drop model. Damn it.

[mint cypress]

At least it isn't completely off the table

And yeah the game drops continuing is

[flat geode]

They snuck it in 2 days after it went live

I wish they would actually make a real annoucement about this instead of whatever that was

[dusty thunder]

Well, at least they have something there.

And the copper golem existing at all means that all of the other mobs (except maybe the three from the first vote with the Phantoms, although never say never) are now on the table again for future updates. People can finally stop screaming about them and using them as complaints against Mojang.

Frankly, I could totally see the crab, penguin, moobloom, and other "animal"-type mobs being added in one batch.

Maybe even with the other mobs from the biome votes.

[flat geode]

Yeah, I'd like for most of the Mob Vote mobs to be added

Tho, why and how did the the enchantment stealer get to the final round of 2017? Wildfire is prob the only solid mob from that year.

[mint cypress]

Grindstones weren't a thing yet, ig ppl really wanted a way to remove enchantments

[flat geode]

It hides in the ground and is evil!

Hopefully since Grindstones are in, we are safe

[dusty thunder]

This, yes. You'd be surprised how deeply analyzed the first vote was. EVERYONE and their grandmas were looking deep into the mechanics of each mob, and it was determined that Mobs A and C (the Barnacle and the Great Hunger respectively) should've be the top two contenders for winning the vote. After that, the Wildfire was considered a reasonable compromise, and nobody wanted the Phantom.

Then it all went sideways. The Barnacle was eliminated first, followed shortly by the Wildfire, and then it was down to the Great Hunger versus the Phantom, and the Twitter kids wanted the Phantom. Only a few thousand people decided for the millions of players to get the Phantom.

Genuine r/kidsarefuckingstupid moment.

[summer scaffold]

i like the phantom

[dusty thunder]

I like the Phantom's design. I hate the Phantom's function, because it has no function.

It was thoroughly wasted.

In fact, pretty sure the devs didn't like it either. They were hoping the Barnacle (Mob A) would win, and a lot of them also wanted the Wildfire.

[summer scaffold]

i remember the mob vote used the Mobestiary artstyle which was cool

the first one

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, that was unique. It was also the only vote that featured four choices instead of three.

[summer scaffold]

im gonna shill the Mobestiary real quick

it's so good

[mint cypress]

i rented that book from the library ages ago, was a fun read

[summer scaffold]

they should make an updated version

it's such a high quality book even though it's only like 8 bucks

[dusty thunder]

Speaking of Minecraft books, I'm actually interested in getting some of the novels (just the good ones though). The Island trilogy I heard was actually impressively good and doesn't treat its audience as kids, and then there's the Rise of the Arch-Illager which, based on the bits of it I've seen, is also written very well and has some surprisingly rich and dark lore for Minecraft Dungeons.

Like, genuinely dark. It has Archie (the Arch-Illager) fighting a mental war with himself about genociding and/or enslaving the Villagers, it has other Illagers plotting to assassinate him, and more.

[summer scaffold]

i also heard The Island was pretty good

[flat geode]

I read the first book in that series and I quite enjoyed it

[dusty thunder]

Lol, I was reading the reviews for the Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins novel (it's a sequel to the game), and all the 1-star reviews are from people complaining about the they/them pronouns. Meanwhile all the 4 and 5 star reviewers are people who actually read the book.

[grave ravine]

I remember when the best ways to remove enchantements were oldschool repairing (2 identical tools in crafting table), or putting an item in a chest minecart and destroying the cart while the item is inside (bug)

...am I the only one who uses oldschool repairing to minmax diamond tools' worth? 😛

you get a 5% bonus out of it after all, which is non-negligible for diamond tools and armor

from the wiki

[flat geode]

I did it for fishing rods

[grave ravine]

you do get screwed on gold tools though, wow. floor() isn't kind to them

but again, you get screwed if you crafted a gold tool in the first place. The disappointment material

[summer scaffold]

jesus christ lol

[grave ravine]

also, I noticed that table doesn't list chainmail armor, heh

[summer scaffold]

those people must just not pay attention to Mojang or Minecraft lmao

[grave ravine]

it's doubly weird because the book's name is literal foreshadowing 😛 Piglins being the gender-neutral term for what was called Pigman before

[mint cypress]

But gold tools are the easiest to enchant! /s

[harsh blaze]

but only if they align with the vision for the game

which can mean anything

[flat geode]

it's the easiest way to get fortune 3 on something and use it to break crops. Since most crops are instamine, it doesn't take dura

[elfin heart]

the blockopedia book looks cool but the shape is downright inconvenient

also hella outdated in block variety and appearance

[grave ravine]

IIRC, for wheat crops, this only increases seed drops, not wheat

and seeds are hardly in a shortage unless you just started a huge farm

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, wheat doesn't matter with fortune, but beetroot, potatoes, and carrots all do.

[elfin heart]

nether wart too !!

[novel mica]

do these tree branches look ok or do they need improvement i've never done a build like this before

[rich cove]

LOOK LIKE GUN

jk uhh...they could be slightly curvier to reflect a real tree being affected by gravity. Idk

[novel mica]

ok

building overhangs is really hard in survival

[rich cove]

You don't have to. I'm not your superior in this matter lol. It was just what I'd do

[novel mica]

i was looking for advice so im gonna take your advice

[fleet marlin]

Camping

[dusty thunder]

Interesting that you used pale moss instead of wool for the tent

[fleet marlin]

It breaks easily

So you can take down your tent in the morning in like, under a minute

[dusty thunder]

Holy shit.

Guude's back! The OG! The man who quite literally started the SMP craze! The man who we all owe so much to! :D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5w3wpWP7bs&pp=2AEAkAIB

Literally going back to his roots.

[dusty thunder]

Oh hey, look what arrived!

From what I could tell, these ones were the best ones, and also the ones I was most interested in.

[summer path]

oh whoa! enjoy

[timid oyster]

Minecraft mangas???

[dusty thunder]

Novels, actually

The bottom three are a trilogy (The Island -> The Mountain -> The Village), written by Max Brooks, the author of World War Z.

The rest are standalones

Apparently The Voyage gets surprisingly dark and The End gets very weird, though I guess I'll find out for myself how true both of these are.

[harsh blaze]

I need to get the last two, I have the Island but never got the others

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhQTU7BcHI

[timid oyster]

Please tell us if they're worth it when you've read them

My intérêt is very piqued

Interest

[flat geode]

I've gotten 2 mending books from fishing today

These are my third and fourth of this world I'm on

[dusty thunder]

Will do!

[flat geode]

Shelves

[dusty thunder]

Missing an image?

[flat geode]

Still bedrock only

[dusty thunder]

OH

What the fuck this is awesome!!!!!

[dusty thunder]

An actual way to display stuff!!

[flat geode]

Item Frames are crying now thanks to you

We also got statues

[dusty thunder]

Ngl, I forgot about item frames, lol