Minecraft

[novel mica]

i'll look at it

[elfin heart]

It's just those long jumps where there's ample space and jumping towards the end of the block is not needed, risky, and slows you down

[novel mica]

and if it cannot be proven that dream is cheating
then he is innocent

that is how justice works

but anyway continue on

[elfin heart]

it sounds like you're asking me to go over everything and convince you to change your mind when frankly I am not here for that

[novel mica]

good
so the final conclusion is dream is probably innocent

[elfin heart]

I do think the focus on statistical analysis of timing is silly, because many of the claims are about the way dream goes about doing jumps

not whether it's humanly possible to do X number of perfect jumps in a row

[novel mica]

honestly if there's something we can agree on its that

[elfin heart]

https://youtu.be/jXfJpIQEIIg?t=211 this is also a big red flag for me

assuming he wasn't using a macro, he was holding or pressed spacebar when he landed on the slime, which in that version of the game cancels all the bounce of landing on the slimeblock

I don't think it's a common mistake to make at his skill level or mine

[novel mica]

according to dream he accidentally pressed jump too early

he was trying to do a headhitter jump and climb up a ladder faster

[elfin heart]

he was extremely early, so early that it'd be more believable if he said he accidentally held down the jump key

it'd be almost whole second before he even touched the ground again

overall I don't think Jobst was right to discredit SandwichLord and Kaelan. The parkour community has developed a lot since 2020 and that's why multiple big names can watch Dream's MCC11 video and realise that with what we know now, it would be strange to tackle the course the same way Dream did without a macro

however, Jobst then goes on to highlight some parkour footage from Dream in 2023 where he appears to show macro-like behaviour on a particular set of jumps on the same Parkour Warrior course https://youtu.be/6RGqs-Nyhq8?t=2400

He also highlights two other, different types of cheats Dream may have been caught using. At 31:15 he brings up an MCC elytra race where Dream flew faster than even the current world-record times, which use a run-up Dream did not have. At 35:02 he looks at accusations Dream has been aimbotting in recent PvP fights, finding Dream's aim to be inhumanly fast and tracking in these fights when compared to the best aimers in the aiming community

Good work to Jobst for looking into those three things, overall the video is quite interesting

[grave ravine]

there's a line between healthy skepticism and "everyone is guilty until proven innocent"

[elfin heart]

The context of Dream's speedrun cheating is really important when looking at these other claims, because it shows that he's likely to be dishonest and find excuses or explanations instead of admitting wrongdoing.

[dapper lake]

especially because he used it as a way to get popular

[novel mica]

i dont think dream was dishonest about accidentally cheating

even i sometimes forget what mods i have on when im playing

[elfin heart]

In December 2020 the allegations that his blaze rod & ender pearl drops were increased were made public. Over the months after that Dream put out multiple responses and self-defenses trying to disprove the maths or deny the accusation in various ways
It took Dream until July 2021 to say that he had a mod that he used for manhunt videos that increased blaze rod & ender pearl drop rates and that it may have been in his mod folder by accident. All this time, the speedrun.com moderators had requested he show his mod folder and basically insinuated Dream was using a mod to cheat. Why on earth would Dream hide the mod, or not hear about it from whoever was responsible for it, when the allegations were actively destroying his reputation? Lying that a modification was used by accident let Dream admit his runs were cheated, without admitting HE cheated

[novel mica]

we should end this

discussion

re-opening resolved cases without new evidence directly relating to the case is one of the cardinal sins of justice

[novel mica]

and btw if you mention dream's 2020-2021 speedrun cheating drama or the mcc11 parkour cheating claims again i will block you

that goes for any of you but especially bin200

[slate parrot]

😭

[flat geode]

Interesting... They changed the librarian master trades to include a book, but only for the trade rebalance experiment...

[grizzled needle]

Thanks to Sync's Disguise and Disguise_As actions (Origins expansion mod), I can now make Changelings change in Pony Origins.

Might be a bit, I have to define powers for every disguise, both npcs and players, and make up an overly-complicated radial menu system that categorizes all the disguises.

Did you know that there are almost 100 mob types in Minecraft, not including all the color variants and baby versions?

[flat geode]

That sounds like it's going to be awesome!

[flat geode]

Huh... The Minecraft Live teasers are interesting

There's a secret seend and cords on one of the passes that lead to a ruined portal under a village, but only on Bedrock

Which means that Bedrock is getting an End Update while Java isn't /j

Tho, I wonder what it really means...

[dusty thunder]

Can you share them in a DM please?

[flat geode]

Oh sure, they are public tho

[novel mica]

Theres a secret code to crack from what i heard

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzErG4zkGuM

Oooo, A real life Minecraft thing is to be announced

Maybe it's that theme part project

Plus another even more secret thing

[grave ravine]

Super Seecret Friday

[rich cove]

tadc episode 8 on the 20th, and then this the next day. noice

[rich cove]

Fantastic Facade Friday

[flat geode]

Yup I know, hope I can catch both. I'm going to be at Megacon

[dusty thunder]

"Some super secret reveals from the wider world of Minecraft"

Okay, yup, Dungeons 2 is getting revealed.

"From the wider world of Minecraft" is how they spoke about the first game and Legends.

[flat geode]

Where's the Netflix show?

[dusty thunder]

Honestly I completely forgot about that until you just mentioned it

[mint cypress]

[elfin heart]

Steve’s Lava Chicken chain of restaurants

[novel mica]

probably some kind of theme park

[flat geode]

Interesting...

[novel mica]

Slimes

Maybe theyll be introducing something new slime related

Also extreme speculation
But maybe theyre adding the tropical slime from minecraft earth

[flat geode]

https://youtube.com/shorts/NBLbTZjO7Hs?si=-AGPs2h3gGVGRla_

Another one, yet another slime sound

[novel mica]

this arguably makes my theory stronger

[flat geode]

The blocks mean something too

Ignore the video

The read more says that we'll find out at Minecraft Live

[novel mica]

unless im a termite blue ice is the only logical option

[flat geode]

Maybe we feed a slime something

[dusty thunder]

That's a brand new slime sound

[dusty thunder]

Also, something to note here: the jumps are waaaaay too fast.

Normally a slime jump is jump.........jump..........jump. Here it's jump, jump, jump

[stuck goblet]

The contrast between the Bedrock and Java withers are so funny

On Java it’s kind of a pushover. On bedrock it’s an absolute menace

Why does it have a 1x1 hitbox

[novel mica]

on java just trap it underground and you win easily

[stuck goblet]

Yeah, but on Bedrock it’s an absolute nightmare

[novel mica]

does the trapping it in bedrock trick work

[stuck goblet]

Yes but that’s definitely not intended

It just baffles me why the two versions are so different

[novel mica]

majority parity issue

[stuck goblet]

This is something they had to intentionally code in

[novel mica]

yeah and they should fix it

also a lot of the reasons why bedrock sucks(excluding bugs) are the result of it having to be compatible with smartphones

[rich cove]

Slimes are getting regional variants /hj

[flat geode]

They have several more teasers. One on TikTok featuring all the community guests. Kurtjmac is going to be there.

They also have a slime and magma cube looking at eachother on Twitter

They also had one on TikTok, sorta like the Creaking whiteboard, but my TikTok seems to be broken

[dusty thunder]

I figured Kurt would be there, he reached the Farlands last year

And not just that, he decided to keep going. He's now building outposts within the Farlands and I think he's gonna try to reach the Corner Lands

[novel mica]

To my knowledge only like 2 people have ever done that figonometry and someone who i cant remember the name of

https://youtu.be/p-oVoJWDDw8?si=q9hVtb9SJiSCVCKx

The corner farlands are also notoriously really laggy and frequently crash your game

So if kurt is gonna reach the corner farlands i hope he does so before 2040

[dusty thunder]

Idk if he's actually doing the Corner Lands or not, all I know is that he's venturing into the Far Lands themselves and is still pressing F3 for something, but it looks like he's continuing to move somewhere.

I haven't kept up

[novel mica]

Im very curious why they having kurt at minecraft live tho are they gonna be changing the world size limit

[dusty thunder]

I guess we'll see in a couple days

[mint cypress]

Farlands 2

[flat geode]

They also have camman

[novel mica]

they're finally adding the minecart expirements properly

[flat geode]

RC1 is out!

Wait a minute... it's just the last pre release repackaged.

[rich cove]

https://youtube.com/shorts/SEF_ffgrnC8?si=sYzrGF-Ch0cEH1Pm

[novel mica]

Camman18 acting like a conspiracy theorist again xD

[dusty thunder]

In fairness, the sulphur thing is interesting

And Mojang has used the table of elements to hint at new features before, that's how we figured out the theme of the Copper Age drop before it was officially revealed

Given that they've dropped a hint with a Nether portal, and that sulphur is often in hot volcanic areas, I think we're gonna see some Nether stuff for this drop

As for the new slime or whatever it is, we'll see

Not sure about the blocks though

[novel mica]

Or we are getting a volcano biome /j

[dusty thunder]

It'd be interesting if they did add sulphur and also give it a "scent", so that it interacts with the Warden in a unique way and allows you to manipulate it through scent rather than through sound, since that's the secondary method it has for tracking players.

[novel mica]

Thatd be cool

[dusty thunder]

Sulphur is infamously stinky, it's one of its most well-known features

[flat geode]

What predictions do we have for Minecraft Live today?

[fleet marlin]

Sulfur seems like a safe bet

[mint cypress]

I'll never lose hope for Enderite /s

[novel mica]

same

[novel mica]

Spoiler alert: ||alright so new mob is the sulfur cube||

||also minecraft dungeons is getting a sequel||

[dusty thunder]

Love the new blocks, but the sulfur cube is........not great. I don't like the texture and I don't like its purpose. It's extremely niche and isn't something I'll be seeing myself use.

But the cinnabar blocks...hooooooooo BOY I will be using those a lot. I've been wanting more red blocks for a long time, especially for roofing and accents.

The sulfur blocks are great too, and I love the potent sulfur block's interaction with water.

I can see myself using that a lot too

About the only usage I can see for the sulfur cube is minigames like golf or volleyball. Otherwise it's kinda...meh.

...Wow, people are NOT happy.

Usually Reddit is pretty positive about the drops. They are very negative about this one.

[mint cypress]

what are their complaints

[dusty thunder]

• Useless/gimmicky mob that barely 10% of the players will use
• More block inventory clutter when mining
• Blocks are decorative only with no other uses
• The new biome is ugly
• Overhyped features
• Not listening to the community (the community wanted more purple and blue blocks)
• Nothing to actually do in the new caves
• New mob is locked to a rare(?) biome yet again
• Entire event was too short and had very little substance

Those seem to be all the main ones.

[flat geode]

Time to finally make my Buckball minigame

[dusty thunder]

As a builder I do not mind the blocks not having a use beyond decoration, but I can understand why people would be disappointed.

I 100% agree with all the other complaints for this drop, though. The blocks individually look nice but the new cave biome is kind of an eyesore, and the mob is very gimmicky and absolutely worthless for me. And the inventory management issue is still a major problem that bundles did not fix whatsoever.

Very much a C or D-tier drop.

Mojang needs to get their act together again, they started strong with Spring to Life and Garden Awakens, and had another small peak with the Copper Age, but all the other drops aside from those three have been mediocre at best.

Granted, the drops do allow the devs to work on major code reworks behind the scenes, and that's great, but we could really use a major update the size of 1.16 again.

The game's popularity hasn't been this low since 1.12.

People are more hyped for Dungeons 2 than the main game, because at least with Dungeons people will be seeing something new and exciting, and that's not a good look.

[novel mica]

if i had to rank the gamedrops from best to worst
it would go
1- the garden awakens
2- the copper age
3- mounts of mayhem
4- chase the skies
5- chaos cubed
6- spring to life
7- armoured paws
8- tiny takeover

below 5 i do not like them

[dusty thunder]

You didn't like Spring To Life?

[novel mica]

it added very little that was actually worth while all the blocks it added were purely decorative and the regional mob variants were a pretty meaningless texture change also it added leaf litter which i personally hate

[dusty thunder]

Fair enough. For me, it's my favorite of the bunch.

[flat geode]

My favorite is probably Mounts of Mayhem followed by Spring to Life.

[dusty thunder]

I think my list would be:

Best:

1. Spring to Life
2. The Copper Age
3. The Garden Awakens

Mediocre:
4. Chase the Skies
5. Armored Paws
6. Chaos Cubed

Not good:
7. Mounts of Mayhem

Terrible:
8. Tiny Takeover
9. Bundles of Bravery

[flat geode]

Aww... now I have to do a list...

[summer scaffold]

i havent really kept up with Minecraft lately idk why

my obsession with it kind of ebbs and flows

[flat geode]

1. Mounts of Mayhem
2. Spring to Life
3. The Copper Age
4. Chase the Skies
5. The Garden Awakens
6. Bundles of Bravery
7. Chaos Cubed (There's probably more)
8. Tiny Takeover
9. Armored Paws
10. Bats and Pots

I don't see any as bad though. I guess the only bad thing i see is not using the development time for something better.

[summer scaffold]

Minecraft Dungeons 2 is definitely something i gotta check out, i love the first one

[dusty thunder]

Bats & Pots I don't count, since it's more of a 1.X.x update than a proper game drop.

[flat geode]

Fair, it'd also be the smallest, but if Mojang wants to say then I shall hold it to thy standards.

I think I did the new bat textures for L&T, can't remember exactly tho...

I need to work on that more with them

They are so out of date

[dusty thunder]

I've just learned a new phrase that is perfect for describing the content in most of the game drops:

"Wide as a lake, deep as a puddle."

Although some of them are frankly just puddles.

[mint cypress]

the dark ages was rough
though I dont think Minecraft would reach that kind of low again
but it still isnt looking good

[little rampart]

I am somewhat excited because this adds the possibility for adding mercury and processing mercury later

I love adding more ores

[dusty thunder]

Very highly doubt it, Mojang doesn't go into that much depth with the game. The closest they have to that is Education Edition.

It could happen, but it very likely won't

[little rampart]

One can hope

But also this is kinda why I've been playing so much vintage story lately

[dusty thunder]

I'm with you, trust me, I want expansions to these features and for them to not just be left as-is.

Copper got an expansion, so there's hope

It's just that it should've gotten all of its expansion stuff right out of the gate, imo.

[little rampart]

Maybe they'll add cobalt, chrome, lead, zinc, tin, etc. And their alloys

Very unlikely they'll add alloys

I loved the mods that added all those ores

[dusty thunder]

Mojang's problem, from what I can tell, is that they have great foundational ideas but then don't build on those foundations. It's like laying down a pristine floor but not adding the walls or the roof or the furniture within, yet calling the house complete anyway.

[little rampart]

I liked that they added diorite, andesite, and granite, i think they should add more stone types and build some actual strata into the world generation

Imagine minecraft with dwarf fortress's terrain generator

[dusty thunder]

I do too, but before they do that I want them to update the inventory system so that the new blocks don't just keep adding more clutter. The inventory hasn't been properly updated since the very earliest beginnings of the game. That is not good.

[novel mica]

imagine if they added dwarves to minecraft

[dusty thunder]

No, bundles don't count.

[little rampart]

Yeah, similar item types should form bundles on their own

[mint cypress]

we really need another row in the inventory menu

[little rampart]

Like, cobble, diorite, andesite, and granite just climp together into one slot

[dusty thunder]

Bundles didn't solve the issue, it was a cheap band-aid that only has a niche use, and if you can't actually use it in that niche use, then it's useless.

[little rampart]

I'm gonna make climp a word

[dusty thunder]

Lol

[little rampart]

It wasn't a typo

[dusty thunder]

[mint cypress]

its worthless bc unstackable items dont work with it

[dusty thunder]

Also, increase the 64 stack size to 200 already, and the 16 stack size to 64. That'll compress a lot of space.

On top of this, add inventory tabs that have specific materials sorted into them, increase the size of the inventory itself, add a sorting button, and maybe add some kind of upgrade that allows you to pull items from various chest inventories into your own through proximity like in Hytale.

There are sooooooo many things Mojang could do to improve inventory management and make the game so much easier to play, stuff that the community has already solved for them for over a decade, but they just...don't.

It's infuriating and disappointing.

Especially since it's one of the biggest bottlenecks in gameplay right now

Once they fix the inventory, clutter will become a thing of the past, and they could add a plethora of new blocks without worrying about clutter. They could even add more decorative blocks without worrying about players complaining.

Instead they keep adding gimmicks.

[rich cove]

As a person that doesn't really play Minecraft, I love the Sulphur Cube. I can make bookball (reference)

It's so stupid. I love him.

[elfin heart]

I didn’t either

I am extremely hopeful for Chaos Cubed, I think we’ve needed a “ball” mob dearly for years and this will make for way more modless minigames

Plus sulphur will hopefully fill in the gaps around bamboo for the sparse yellow block palette

Not sure why we have what appears to be an identical shade of red to mangrove though

Because yeah a non-purpur deep purple or pink is sorely needed

[elfin heart]

I think they’re to scared to change what people know and instead add far away optional adventures and small tweaks for the most part

[novel mica]

they're never increasing the stack size

imo

the best we can hope for is things like ore blocks

or that they only increase the stack size for certain items

most of my storage issues are already solved because of shulker boxes and ender chests

bundles are alright

i mainly use them for storing loot

and mob drops

oh yeah and the inventory tabs feature you asked for thats basically what shulker boxes do

although i do thjnk the size of the inventory should be increased

like add an extra row

[summer scaffold]

i think in the next update they should add Master Chief to the game

[novel mica]

i was about to say they cant do that but microsoft owns halo so they probably can

anyway what i was gonna say was

something i've learned about diplomacy is do not ask radical big changes immedately you first gotta start with small changes

and incromentally get the changes you want

[flat geode]

I thought they did. Tis called Legacy Console Edition.

[rapid bluff]

People really need to know all this drops are just a massive cover up

All this recent updates are pretty much pure technical updates, they are pretty much re-writing minecraft and cleaning up the code under the hood

All this small new stuff is just to not release blank updates

Once the cleaning up is done, we for sure will get what people are wanting, new dimension, end update, inventory update, even prob a pvp update

They did the caves and cliffs and update and realize “holy fuck we fucked up, minecraft code is shit” hence why the update was split in 3

[flat geode]

New dimension seems like it might happen with Dungeons II

[summer scaffold]

ye i noticed that one too

[rapid bluff]

If anything they will release with dungeons 2 and regular mine at same time

it will be in fall

End of the year with a big mine update makes sense

if they have finished cleaning up the game

[dusty thunder]

Soooo, something real shitty here.

That new outdoors Minecraft Experience they're making, Moonlight Trail? Apparently it's gonna be built on a nature preserve. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1s0fjat/the_new_minecraft_experience_is_going_to_be_built/

[mint cypress]

[dusty thunder]

Huh, a thought just crossed my mind: what if you gave the sulfur cube the dragon egg?

Would it even accept that?

[rich cove]

Seems it only accepts the four blocks teased

Maybe?

They were pretty adamant about only those four in the teasers

[harsh blaze]

i swear they had the sulfur cubes taking other blocks too

[dusty thunder]

I thought maybe it'd be a "four categories of blocks" thing, but no, wool and iron blocks do not count as wood, gravity blocks, stone, or movement enhancement/inhibition blocks.

So clearly it's something else

[summer scaffold]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/minecraftseeds/s/kMmMpbV8kS

[dusty thunder]

Oh hey, an actual village village.

[elfin heart]

I thought maybe a few cases (Ice) would have specific properties, but otherwise it'd have a generic behaviour tweaked based on variables like block hardness. That way it works with all future blocks too

If a functionality is especially useful, it'd be good to apply it to dyable blocks rather than a single block. That way you could have your game of golf with everyone using a unique ball colour

I'm very interested to play around with the first snapshot we get

[rapid bluff]

[flat geode]

I didn't know four could spawn so close together!

[harsh blaze]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comments/1s1hgzs/images_in_minecraft_live_were_ai_generated/

oh

[novel mica]

damn thats really obvious

[harsh blaze]

it's so bad

[novel mica]

i guess this is what happens when microslop makes the head of xbox a former AI director

im not suprised microslop has not managed mojang well

[harsh blaze]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comments/1s0fj7a/the_new_minecraft_experience_is_going_to_be_built/
also

microslop activities

[novel mica]

i already heard about this

[harsh blaze]

ah right I see that now

[novel mica]

i remember when people joked that they must've "vibe coded" one of the updates to bedrock edition because of how buggy it was

[wraith zodiac]

Or PVP boss

[summer scaffold]

i love this video

[wraith zodiac]

its sooo good

[dusty thunder]

For this, I think the people were drawn but the Minecraft bits were AI.

[rapid bluff]

I honestly dont think is AI, just upscaled and shitty placed

just looks crunchy as fuck

I could be wrong tho

[sleek bane]

There's a tragic irony in Minecraft using AI to promote itself

[novel mica]

look at it the alignment and perspective makes no sense

and the blocks on the right tent are inconsistently sized

[dusty thunder]

If they had asked this about any other drop I would've given a different answer

But not Tiny Takeover

[mint cypress]

shot

[dusty thunder]

Yeah, that typo was in the last one too

[mint cypress]

...who is Tony?

[summer scaffold]

why are there so many typos 😭

[mint cypress]

proofreading is dead

[dusty thunder]

My review of this Live event was scathing. Easily the worst one they've done in a long time.

[mint cypress]

I didnt even watch it tbh

[summer scaffold]

i didn't either

i think it's the first one i wasn't super excited for

[dusty thunder]

You didn't miss much. They spent a lot of time talking about how nametags were craftable now.

You know, nametags, the item we could already get hundreds of just by trading or fishing. It's craftable now, didn't you know? So exciting that they had to spend like 10% of the video talking about it.

[summer scaffold]

ok that is actually kind of exciting as someone who doesn't trade very often

how do you craft them

[summer scaffold]

ooh

[mint cypress]

iron/gold/copper nugget

[dusty thunder]

I don't even remember, most of the ones I use I get by fishing. They're a dime a dozen, a crafting recipe for them was long overdue and not exciting in the slightest. It should've been done years ago.

[summer scaffold]

they should make diamond nuggets for no reason other than it would amuse me

[novel mica]

im gonna use copper because i have way too much copper

i have almost a full double chest of copper blocks

[mint cypress]

I'd still welcome the QoL change
but if they spent too long talking about this in the live, it kinda shows there is not a whole lot of other new stuff...

[mint cypress]

it gets to the point where I just ignore copper ore now

[dusty thunder]

They also spent waaaaaay too long talking about how cute the baby animals were. Like, I get it, that's the point of Tiny Takeover, but there's only so many times you can say "look how cute these are!" before it gets ear-grating and sounding like a broken record. They didn't even mention the new trumpet noises for noteblocks or the new tech changes, they're only appealing to the kids.

That was like 25% of the video

And then another 30% was Minecraft World, another 20% was the Minecraft Experience segment, and then whatever was left was Chaos Cubed and Minecraft Dungeons 2. Dungeons 2 was like 2%.

[summer scaffold]

i am excited for Dungeons 2

[dusty thunder]

So am I, it's about the only thing aside from the new blocks that I was excited for.

Would've liked to see some gameplay though

[wraith zodiac]

My Little Tony

[flat geode]

They need to fix the fishing loot table, Saddles and Name Tags are craftable. They fixed other loot tables, but not fishing. As a chronic fisher, this is a great disappointment to me.

[dusty thunder]

-# "Fuck you, Tony!"

[little rampart]

Holy crap that changelog

Very few features but a fuckload of backend work

[flat geode]

Yay, I'm going to love reading that...

[novel mica]

yeah they are switching the rendering engine from OpenGL to Vulkan

[rapid bluff]

Yep, that why is drops are so small

is pure backend work

with some small features just to call it an update

[novel mica]

some drops have been bigger than some updates

remember how little 1.10,1.11 and 1.12 added to the game

the garden awakens added a whole new biome a new type of wood and resin

i wanna see more drops like it

[flat geode]

1.9 and 1.10 had development tools added such as more command blocks and structure blocks. I feel like 1.11 was decent on its own and 1.12 prob had things getting ready for datapacks and The Flattening in the next update. I think they had data driven advancements then too.

[novel mica]

i dont think i've ever used structure blocks

[flat geode]

Still useful and plugs into data driven things like worldgen

[flat geode]

https://youtu.be/Rzxp49dJRjg

[little rampart]

Moon phase go brrrr

[glad gale]

Don't worry
It's just a phase

[novel mica]

have you guys noticed the new easter eggs in the launcher

[flat geode]

No, what are they?

[novel mica]

if you click the chick that pops up it'll follow your cursor

[flat geode]

Oh, that's cool!

[elfin heart]

counterpoint: from first snapshot to release, 1.10 took less than a month

[flat geode]

Oh damn, no wonder.

[elfin heart]

1.11 added observers, woodland mansion, three new hostile mobs, llamas, shulker boxes, curse of binding & vanishing, the doWeatherCycle gamerule and 1.11.2 added the ability to actually fly with elytra with the help of rockets

[novel mica]

1.11 is the odd one out and besides that is not much compared to like 1.13 or 1.7
1.12 added concrete dyeable shulker boxes and parrots

[elfin heart]

1.11 added dyeable shulker boxes

[flat geode]

Woah, chill

[novel mica]

Sorry guess i was wrong

[elfin heart]

1.10 is ridiculously small compared to almost all pre-game drop updates

[novel mica]

Yes

[elfin heart]

1.1 added superflat and spawn eggs and that was about it lol

[novel mica]

Also 1.12 came out 7 months after 1.11

1.11 came out 6 months after 1.10

Thats a longer gap than any of the drops

[elfin heart]

yep

the wait for 1.9 was roughest

the future of the game was uncertain

[novel mica]

18 months iirc

[flat geode]

In 1.12 they were also gearing up to a data driven update with advancements and functions and I assume The Flattening as well

[elfin heart]

yes I’ve been reading

[novel mica]

1.12 introduced datapacks

[elfin heart]

I loved 1.12 for the blocks so it’s sad to see it get ignored

but the forgotten feature is Advancements

[flat geode]

Technically no, but the building blocks, yes.

[elfin heart]

1.12 was also the update where closing out of a crafting table didn’t throw your items in front of you lol

the other new blocks aside from concrete/powder were new bed colours and glazed terracotta

I still think glazed terracotta is slightly underused because they aren’t always intuitive to use in a build

[mint cypress]

Minecraft's own Dark Ages

[elfin heart]

can you imagine if Microsoft had quickly ruined the game instead of doing it slowly?! /s

[grave ravine]

I remember that, I lost interest in the game shortly after 1.7 back then

I only restarted playing it around 1.12

[little rampart]

i was absent between 1.8 and 1.13 (whichever one was update aquatic)

[flat geode]

Si, 1.13

[elfin heart]

actually speaking of updates I almost forgot

Java Edition 20w14∞
Java Edition 22w13oneBlockAtATime
Java Edition 23w13a_or_b
Java Edition 24w14potato
Java Edition 25w14craftmine

Mojang has not been missing with their April Fools' snapshots lately

do we get our hopes up?

[novel mica]

April fools day is in less than a week i wonder what mojang is cooking up this time

[elfin heart]

exactly

and they usually have one or two features related to something actually coming to the game

[summer scaffold]

that Infinity Update is still my favorite April Fools update

[grave ravine]

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_3D_Shareware_v1.34 is my favorite april fools

it's so... creative

[elfin heart]

2013 had youtubers in on the joke, revealing the new version "2.0" before anyone could play it

[grave ravine]

this predicted Steve from the movie, except he didn't skip leg day

[rich cove]

Baby Herobrine was removed with Tiny Takeover. IM DEAD

They did it...they made it better

[elfin heart]

2014's april fools was perfect because multiplayer (minigame) servers were all the rage, so changing every player's skin to a villager had a way crazier effect than a singleplayer snapshot. Also, this resource pack was applied to everyone https://youtu.be/yG_Y52bK6Ec

[summer scaffold]

LOL this one is amazing i had forgotten about it

[mint cypress]

this is April fools is gonna be the Drops Update
every block in the game is affected by gravity

[stuck goblet]

Wait there’s a 2nd hidden room in the desert temple???

[novel mica]

its been in the game for nearly 3 years

[summer scaffold]

where ???

[novel mica]

look for the sand area in the corner

[stuck goblet]

HOW

[flat geode]

Yeah, it has suspicious sand with some unique sherds inside

Desert wells and ocean ruins also have it now

[stuck goblet]

Make up your mind

[flat geode]

Oh, I know those. Love that template for minigame making

Didn't know it had such a silly history

[rapid bluff]

21.5702479338x better

[mint cypress]

smh
I am still adamant in that I will never use the term "drop"

[dusty thunder]

It's an update, plain and simple

[elfin heart]

I heard Mojang was dropping Minecraft? 😟

[woeful cedar]

big if true

[flat geode]

Also Minecraft

[flat geode]

Bedrock:

[novel mica]

Guys my cousin tom knows someone with a lifesize creeper statue

Also tom once worked at rovio you know the guys who made angry birds

[novel mica]

i found my first ever full diamond armour mob

i've been playing the game for nearly 10 years and i've never seen one of these guys spawn naturally

[rich cove]

He's got a bone to pick with you about his armor's extended warranty

[novel mica]

weird magic tower thingy i made

[elfin heart]

full set is more likely than a partial set, although diamond at all is rare

it took me ~200 ingame days in a world of running around at night amongst hostile mobs before I saw one

[novel mica]

Well thats interesting cause i also found a zombie with a partial set much earlier

Also my world is like 5000 ingame days old so im convinced youre just lucky

[elfin heart]

well, it wasn't a normal playthrough. I spent the entirety of most nights running between wide open spaces to cycle through mob spawns (and never slept)

[novel mica]

Oh ok

[elfin heart]

what difficulty do you play on, actually?

[novel mica]

Hard

[elfin heart]

ah yep that's the same as me

[elfin heart]

how often mobs with equipment spawn is also decided by regional difficulty. That's determined by the total time the chunk has been loaded, the total time the world has been around for, and the phase of the moon. I kept to one area so that would've increased my regional difficulty

[novel mica]

i just discovered a really annoying problem with the latest update

baby animals can now occassionally get pushed over fences and walls when in a crowed pen

[stuck goblet]

In more Minecraft features you defintely didn't know existed: erosions

[novel mica]

I knew these existed

[stuck goblet]

they've also been broken on Java on all biomes except frozen oceans and deep frozen oceans since 1.18.

[grave ravine]

oh, I thought these were just failed cave generations

like tiny caves that stop very early on

(circular caves are a thing too, and they're impossible to miss once you spot them... they can generate on the surface, rarely)

[grizzled needle]

Getting closer to finishing my Pony Origins 3.0 Beta... almost done making the Changeling Disguise power. It's ... a massive undertaking to nest all the radial menus, just to have it where you not only change into a mob, you also get an emulated featureset of that mob... or player.

[flat geode]

https://youtube.com/shorts/t34Efp3wul8?si=stCRkew2cPAOHUBF

[novel mica]

floating vines

never seen these before

and i know its not the result of chunk borders

because its not on one

[dusty thunder]

Eh, it happens. It's a glitch with tree generation, iirc

Happens in jungles a lot

[novel mica]

im pretty sure its a tree decay bug

cause i cut down a ton of jungle trees in that area

[dusty thunder]

It could also be a biome thing, maybe two different trees tried to generate at the same time and it caused an error, deleting both but keeping the vines.

Encase it!

[novel mica]

its pretty cool illegal block formation not matter what so im keeping it

[dusty thunder]

Fence it off and give it lore :P

"The Anomaly"

[novel mica]

anyway i need to come with an idea for my next build

[novel mica]

and i think something around this will work

and im also gonna build an engine shed

since this area is very close to my railway

[novel mica]

apparently this is nothing special and just a common bug when cutting down jungle trees cause i just created another one on accident

[dusty thunder]

Awww, oh well

[novel mica]

since its probably gonna get fixed eventually im keeping the original

[summer scaffold]

ive been watching old Yogscast all day

[novel mica]

also i typically play in vanilla but the lack of good railway items in minecraft making me wanna install create mod

ill have to consider it

[summer scaffold]

gonna try and install Mine Little Pony today

[novel mica]

would require me to pretty much redo my entire world's railway system but im ok with that

and i can keep any standard vanilla minecraft lines as narrow gauge areas

also it looks like it wont be possible for a while because the create isnt upgraded to anywhere close to the latest version

[summer scaffold]

installing Mine Little Pony was insanely easy on Prism

[flat geode]

Think Mojang will accept this as a proper map?

[novel mica]

something i dont like about drops is how its a nightmare if you're a modder

cause the game updates so much more often now

[elfin heart]

it’s a problem when people ask “what are the best mods for the new update?” because they want all the 16 new additions to vanilla but also a whole (stable) modpack

[flat geode]

As long as they don't change the command format, I'm safe...

[elfin heart]

otherwise, it’s not too bad. 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 have tons of mod support by now so as long as people can handle going back a few versions

although I guess that means mods which build off of the content introduced in the game drops are less likely to be made…

[grizzled needle]

Origins is still 1.20.1, and the upgrade to 1.21.1 is still ongoing.

[novel mica]

do you think sandstone bricks would be a good addition

[flat geode]

I think so, it would be nice to have

[novel mica]

and also giving other blocks brick variants like dripstone

its so weird that dripstone just has no variants its been in the game for nearly 6 years

[flat geode]

Yeah, sure. It's weird some blocks are like that

Building drop would be so nice

[novel mica]

yeah

[novel mica]

you know if they're gonna do an end i think they should take inspiration from planets and moons

like imagine an end biome themed after jupiter's moon Io

[flat geode]

Yeah, I think that would be a good direction. Still barren, but with flavor of space

[novel mica]

and then a heavily cratered area themed after callisto or mercury

impact craters are one of the few major geographical features minecraft doesnt have

[flat geode]

A spacy field sorta like the jovian rings would be cool

Or more like the asteroid belt

[elfin heart]

I think roofing tiles would be more useful than further brick variants, or perhaps some more blocks that function like glazed terracotta where they can be rotated to form larger multi-block patterns

currently we use layers of slabs, stairs, trapdoors, etc to form complex shapes, and the colour of a block is often prioritised over its texture

[dusty thunder]

So, apparently, there was a hidden QR code in the Minecraft Dungeons 2 trailer, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot during the cave sequence where it's moving down towards the Ancient City. Scanning the QR code leads to this unlisted video posted by Mojang: https://youtu.be/O6-wpA9L0T4?si=xIggb99kzQ2moCly

The title is in code. When decoded, it says "UNL OCK THE PATH"

I wonder if all the technical stuff Mojang has been doing lately in the game drops is set up for a massive Deep Dark expansion in the main game to coincide with the release of Dungeons 2, possibly with the opening of the portal in the Ancient Cities and leading to a new dimension?

After all, 1.14 was basically the same thing with the first Dungeons game, being a massive overhaul to Illagers and Villagers to coincide with the game's launch.

Hell, even the announcement trailer for Dungeons 2 shows how to open the huge portal: note blocks arranged in a very specific manner. And the video above uses notes from noteblocks as well, and the Deep Dark relies heavily on sound and vibrations.

[flat geode]

I heard people reply to some End Update people that the 4th dimension was first

[dusty thunder]

Who and where?

[flat geode]

I think it was a wiki mod?

[dusty thunder]

Also, apparently Ixbtoycat heard something about a "Wellspring dimension" and talked about it. I haven't looked into that yet though.

[flat geode]

Might've been it

Yeah, it was from harristic

[dusty thunder]

Another thing that's been going around is that the chiseled cinnabar block seems to have a completely new mob on it. People thought it was a spider at first, but a spider has eight legs. The mob depicted on the block has six.

Incidentally, there is a red beetle IRL named after cinnabar, with properties similar to the sulfur cube (the sulfur cube changes form with whatever block it's given, and the larvae of the beetle consume and reshape their surroundings under tree bark).

Mojang might have some more stuff planned with this drop than at first glance

Alternatively, some people think it might be termite-related

And termites are confirmed to come to game at some point

[dusty thunder]

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/test-the-first-features-from-our-next-drop

Is it just me, or is the water looking different?

Ooooo, there's gonna be sulfur springs above-ground, marking the location of the caves

Similar to azaleas

The screenshots seem to have been taken before the changes

[novel mica]

yes

it does

you guys are clearly still living in 2016

because biomes have been able to affect water colour since 1.13

water in a pale oak forest

[rich cove]

A singing warden....Alan Becker fucking called this shit two years ago in his series

[dusty thunder]

No, I mean the texture of the water itself, not the colors. I know the color is different.

[novel mica]

oh damn you're right

[flat geode]

Oh thank goodness we get to test these. I was worried there was going to be nothing because Java had a bug fix update

[dusty thunder]

Ah, never mind, it seems that the chiseled cinnabar block has been changed to 8 legs. It's a spider, no beetle mob for us

Strangely enough though, spiders have two segments, but the new design on the block has 3.

Sooooo...still weird, lol

[novel mica]

I wonder how long itll take before we see these in snapshots

[dusty thunder]

Probably not long

[novel mica]

Cause iirc we got to test 1.21.5 less than a week after minecraft live

But since theyre adding a new biome it may take longer

Also i wonder if that glitch where cave biomes generate on the surface will happen

Also will the sulfur caves have a relationship to other biomes like how deep dark is found under mountains

[dusty thunder]

These seem to be the sulfur pools above ground that you can follow to lead you to a sulfur cave. Ngl, I don't like the look of it. I hope it's just temporary and that they make it look much better later.

It's too small and out of place

[novel mica]

Where is this screenshot from

[dusty thunder]

Bedrock

It's out on Bedrock right now, I found this on Reddit

[novel mica]

Damn bedrock getting features before java

[dusty thunder]

I feel like it could use a better design

[flat geode]

Prob because of the patch update being prioritized

[rich cove]

Can't wait to make Sulphur Hexafloride

Or Sulphiric Acid

[flat geode]

Wait a minute...

Tomorrow?

What kind of background is that???

[dusty thunder]

Alex be doing a mischief

[harsh blaze]

what about the fact that the baby zombie doesnt wear armor correctly in 26.1

[flat geode]

Uhm... I don't know... I don't work at Mojang... They should probably fix that...

[flat geode]

Fun list of blocks that go in the cube

And the resistances

Tho it might change on Java

[novel mica]

Alright so what doesnt work

[flat geode]

Blocks with data in them, like shulkers or beacons. operator blocks too

Non full blocks too it seems like

[novel mica]

Ok so any form of container plus command blocks

Beacons

Structure blocks

We'll have to see when it enters snapshots on java

[flat geode]

Essentially anything that isn't listed there

Oh, and TNT

No TNT

[novel mica]

Aw man

So we cant make traps with it then

[flat geode]

I honestly don't think Mojang was at all intending that to be added

But honestly, with a data pack, it shouldn't be too hard to impliment

[novel mica]

It might be because of tnt's secret setting that makes it explode when broken

[flat geode]

That's still in the game?

[novel mica]

Yeah serious use a debug stick on tnt

[flat geode]

Oh damn, that's cool

unstable

It's on Bedrock too

[novel mica]

Yeah i believe its been in the game since i think beta 1.7

[dusty thunder]

There goes the "using happy ghasts to transport nuclear bombs" plan, up in ashes.

[novel mica]

Although youd have to use the block transmutation bug to get it before 1.3 due to the lack of commands in singleplayer

[rich cove]

April Fools Update tomorrow?

[flat geode]

Most likely

[novel mica]

im gonna be messing about with the create mod cause i wanna make some fucking awesome trains

[elfin heart]

the minecraft wiki has an AI chatbot now.....

[novel mica]

the fandom one?

or the .wiki one

[elfin heart]

minecraft.wiki

[novel mica]

oh no

oh god no

look how they massacred my boy

[elfin heart]

yeah I was devastated

I'm so tired of AI features that I forgot to check the date XD

[flat geode]

From the Java 26.1.1 Release page
This has to be some kind of teaser...

[flat geode]

They did lol

[dusty thunder]

Congrats!

[flat geode]

It's just an April Fools release, but it's quite funny

[elfin heart]

Bedrock Edition bugs that could be mistaken for April Fools' content

ironically this is the exact shade of hot pink that I wish Mojang added to the game

[dusty thunder]

They...they massacred the blocks. They're sooooo desaturated now. It's basically just sandstone and mangrove now instead of being bright and vibrant.

I was looking forward to using the sulfur blocks as "gold blocks"

Terrible, terrible change

They were the only things I was looking forward to in this drop

[fathom ember]

[elfin heart]

the question is, which of these shades do we need?

[dusty thunder]

We need the more vibrant sulfur by far

Almost none of the blocks you just posted have block sets with them

Sulfur and bamboo do, but bamboo already covers the desaturated yellow color

We need a vibrant yellow block set. That was sulfur until they ruined it

[elfin heart]

I was inclined to agree but I do think the faded colours (for sulphur at least) may provide immeasurable aid to extremely versatile building palettes

[dusty thunder]

No they don't

We already have three desaturated yellows

Sandstone and bamboo

And endstone

We don't need more

We need vibrancy

[elfin heart]

I've tried hard to incorporate the vibrance of resin blocks in my own builds, as well as find inspiration online because I really love bright colours. I didn't see nearly as much usage as I was hoping, in part because the saturated tones didn't seem to make for a good base block to build with, better for highlights

[dusty thunder]

That's orange, not yellow. Yellow is more versatile than orange.

[elfin heart]

give me a moment to edit my message one sec

[flat geode]

It's here! Have you Herd?

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxaFw9SikeRD1EUTriuCb6HMwkKWADNlEM?si=DIhlAIUOEwEC6FlT

[elfin heart]

I've been waiting all night it's no longer even the 1st lol

[flat geode]

https://youtu.be/qpkGGA_TJ3Q?si=yhBnT1_-GHo2k6C_

They finally fixed the inventory issue!

[elfin heart]

I went into it blind (aka didn't watch the vid) and this is such a cool twist

nerfs blocking yourself in a little hole to hide from mobs because you can't do it in 2 seconds

also hostile mobs kill your pickaxe and ore if you leave the items unguarded :(

this is what OneBlockAtATime wanted to be

[dusty thunder]

I'm not really sure what Mojang is testing out with this snapshot, tbh. Most April Fools snapshots are them testing stuff out with a silly coat of paint, but this one seems out of place.

[flat geode]

Can't you be silly for silly's sake?

[mint cypress]

they're testing our patience /s

[elfin heart]

yeah it's not always been an indicator. Under the hood things being worked on right now for Java involve moving from OpenGL to Vulkan and working on Vibrant Visuals, is my understanding. If that's the case, what would they even have to show?

[dusty thunder]

I mean, you can, I'm just saying that usually Mojang's MO is two-fold with April Fools. Silly and serious.

[elfin heart]

wool blocks act like ||balloons, and massively increase your jump height when leashed to you||

[elfin heart]

this might be a result of testing the sulphur cube, actually

[dusty thunder]

Maybe

[elfin heart]

also, this survival experience is hard!!

just managing your herd can be a lot, but trying to craft or do anything during the night (without a house) is so tricky

[mint cypress]

should've been called Hardcraft

[elfin heart]

make sure your important blocks are "built" otherwise mobs will seek them out and kill them!!

you can't do that with items...

[glacial light]

Well, I'm finally installing minecarft since I got paid

[flat geode]

Oh, that's awesome. Hope you enjoy the game!

[glacial light]

If you ever heard of the underwater city in the first manechat server, also apologies for bailing like I did, Rad. I still owe you something to add to your build, haven't forgotten that.

That one... was me. And aside from a little help from Aldous, it was pretty much all me

[little rampart]

What was your username then?

[glacial light]

Floral Spring

[little rampart]

Oh you changed names again

[glacial light]

Mostly because I had drifted into the FFXIV fandom for a while and after that wasn't part of a server in general for a few years

[flat geode]

Hellllp

[novel mica]

kek

[rich cove]

https://youtube.com/shorts/vRPWp1SquSU?si=n8-BqxrFn80c5HxC

[flat geode]

Oh yeah, I've played that map before

[fleet marlin]

[Beta 1.7.3]
It's fucked up that if you want a wool farm you can't farm sheep
You gotta make a spider farm for string

Since passive mobs despawn even in a pin, and you can't breed them, and you can't lure them, and sheep don't regrow wool

But hey, spider spawner like right next to my base

[elfin heart]

people forget 1.0 added breeding

[flat geode]

Huh... There's a survey for villages https://aka.ms/Minecraft-Villager-Survey

[dusty thunder]

Most of them are negative or related to feelings of superiority over them

[fresh sedge]

those scawy villagers make me nervous

[novel mica]

pretty

[fleet marlin]

Wool and dye is such a pain in beta man

[novel mica]

how did i know this was beta

i was literally just about to say the terrain looks like beta

[fleet marlin]

Old terrain yeah

Fake cherry trees also

Plus, it's my main version, so you may have seen me post about it

I'm also working on making the trees in my other base all autumny

So I'm spending a lot of time in the spider farm

[novel mica]

something i cannot get used to when going back to beta is how much less info the f3 screen used to give you

[novel mica]

old terrain is way better than modern terrain

[fleet marlin]

Pros and cons

Old terrain is more interesting more frequently

New terrain is generally larger, more varied, and has actual mountains

I miss modern mountains, the tree variants, and biomes like swamps and mesas, but I do love the amplified like mountains you see here and there, and the forrests feel better in beta IMO

Beta is also a lot easier to modify to me
Texture maps make for significantly easier custom work compared to the new system

Biggest things I miss are biomes, sprinting, tree variants, crops, and the ability to farm animals

Honestly that's about it

[dusty thunder]

So, uuuhh, do not put bamboo mosaic blocks inside a sulfur cube.

Because the sulfur cube kinda hides the edges of any block it consumes and lets the rest see through it, the mosaic block makes a...particularly unfortunate shape inside the sulfur cube.

[flat geode]

1.12 all over again isn't it?

[dusty thunder]

Yup

Although this time it'll be harder to fix

[flat geode]

Yeah, I wonder what they come up with

They could just remove that block, I don't think it has any unique properties

[dusty thunder]

Speaking of sulfur cubes, people have discovered a use for them that was unexpected: using them as flying chariots/"pod racers". All you need is a pig with a saddle, a boat, a lead, a spear, and a sulfur cube with a wood block (I think).

You saddle the pig, load it onto the boat, give yourself enough height, attach the lead to the sulfur cube, and then get on the pig and spear the cube. The cube will launch forward into the air and pull you along. As long as you keep spearing the sulfur cube, it'll keep "jumping" forward in the air, and thus keep pulling you along at speeds comparable to an elytra.

It's a really good way to safely transport mobs.

[flat geode]

The slime and honey stick to blocks, so you could travel under the world too

[dusty thunder]

Time will tell if the flying chariots will stay like that in-game.

[dusty thunder]

That seems dangerous, and you also would need to know exactly where to go.

[flat geode]

Some people like living on the edge, the bottom edge.

That one might actually stay I think

Tho I wonder what changes it will have with the jump to Java, it is quite a complex little cube

[whole python]

Can you steer them?
I can't help but see people doing a podracing course if so, complete with even a "wacky racing" style where each racer is trying to take out their opponents with things like firecrackers.

[dusty thunder]

Kinda? If you spear them at different angles you can kinda turn, but it's finicky.

[whole python]

Interesting.
Will be cool to see how this develops.

[flat geode]

They probably still are taking feedback

[dusty thunder]

Oh, I forgot, you need a splash potion of slow falling for the cube too

[novel mica]

so my game just crashes now anytime i launch a mod loader like forge or fabric even with nothing in my mods folder

it gives me the error exit code 1

and whats stranger is the only happens when im using the official launcher

it works perfectly fine when i use multimc

honestly im conisdering just backing up all the files in my .minecraft folder i care about and fresh reinstalling the game

[fleet marlin]

Nope
It helps but you don't need it

[novel mica]

fixed it

and it was really stupid

i didnt have enough RAM allocated

anyway i made stationary steam engine

[rich cove]

👀

[flat geode]

It might not even work in Survival or on Java. Bedrock creative reach is much further than Survival and Java has a shorter range than Bedrock.

[novel mica]

i hope they add another mob vote loser

and i hope its the iceologer

he deserves his revenge on the glow squid

[flat geode]

Maybe. They did do the survey on Villages

I'd also like to see the Illusioner

[novel mica]

the iceologer would be an illager not a villager

[flat geode]

I know, but it might fit since they are evil villagers

They were also asking about the raid mechanic

[novel mica]

anyway i took the survey

personally i think raids are bit too easy and give you totems way too easily

[mint cypress]

THE CHILLAGER

i hope so too, I voted for them back then

[elfin heart]

I voted mob A in the first mob vote and I still want it

[mint cypress]

i think i voted for the Phantom
-# and I do not regret it

[elfin heart]

“The monster will attack you with its tongue-like tentacle to pull you down and drown you. It spawns in deep waters and uses its large mouth to propel itself forward.”

yeah I voted for Mob B (which became the Phantom) over Mob C

[dusty thunder]

I couldn't vote since I didn't have Twitter (which was the only way to vote back then), but I was rooting for Mob A (the Barnacle) or Mob D (the Hovering Inferno), or in lieu of both of those, Mob C (the Great Hunger). I did not want the Phantom.

So we got the Phantom.

The Great Hunger eventually was turned into the grindstone and the Hovering Inferno made a cameo in Minecraft Dungeons, but maaan, I'm missing my precious Barnacle.

[fleet marlin]

I bet this is gonna look good when it's done

[rich cove]

Evoker's magic

[dusty thunder]

Not really, no

The Evoker was 1.11, the first mob vote was in 1.13

[mint cypress]

okay then Glow Squid /s

[rich cove]

https://youtube.com/shorts/-7TYuHAqkJM?si=uvgkLm2xey6lywJ3

[mint cypress]

I should be able to craft Sulphur Cubes now that mojang opened the pandora box with Ghastlings smh

maybe slimeballs with magma cream

[fleet marlin]

Going into a nether portal a thousand blocks away from anywhere you've done anything and seeing a torch trail you don't recognize is certainly a feeling in beta

The trail perfectly leads from the new portal I just built to my old portal in my base

Like exactly from point A to B

[fleet marlin]

Y'all ever put ascii decorations on your signs?

I'd love to see other examples

[grave ravine]

I did that back in the day

ornaments like =o=o=o=o=o=o=o= or x-=--=-x were common

no owoUwUowoUwUowo, unfortunately

[fleet marlin]

I remember people doing lower case os to make nails

o                                     o

o                                     o

Formatting is hard on mobile

[grave ravine]

Minecraft allowed some special characters back in the day already, like ¬, ×, or even — (wow they predicted AI!!1)

[fleet marlin]

I wonder why signs aren't used as a building block as much anymore

They're mostly used literally as signs

They used to be detailing on columns, boards to board up doors, chair armrests

[flat geode]

I put those in my Minecraft map. That's what I get from following a tutorial from 1.9

[fleet marlin]

Does this scan as a flower

[grave ravine]

looks like a spaceship viewed sideways to me

with a happy face inside (=

[novel mica]

that looks like a [REDACTED]

[flat geode]

Sulfer cube is pretty data driven! We can also use the attributes for other entities!

[mint cypress]

Sulfur Cube keeps making game breaking changes everytime I look

[mint cypress]

saw the pic first and I wasn't sure what I was looking at until I saw your comment

I know it's meant to be a tulip now, but I recommend using a new floral design

[novel mica]

i hope the sulfur goo actually gets added

it could be like slime blocks but slippery instead of bouncy

im not sure how useful it could be though

could have a potential interaction with pistons

[flat geode]

It might not, it's under the particles folder in assets though then again, it is a full item texture which is weird...

[elfin heart]

it took 17 years to add a ball to a sandbox game, and thematically it's the furthest thing from a ball, lol

really happy with it, though! I appreciate when Mojang adds open-ended stuff based on what players are already trying to do

[mint cypress]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1sef5k4/sulphur_cube_monorails/

damn

oh someone already posted this

https://www.rxddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1sag84s/the_sulfur_cube_is_useless/

different one

[flat geode]

It really is so creative driven, I hope people stop complaining. It's honestly a great feature

[flat geode]

I think this only works on Bedrock because of extended reach

[mint cypress]

[gusty prairie]

Hello crafters! I'm thinking of opening my mc server to this server. Is that ok?

[dusty thunder]

You'll have to ask the mods if it's okay first

[high elm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_xXZxV6tY

[novel mica]

machines very similar to this have existed to one hit ko the ender dragon for years

[high elm]

possibly, the OSC is a relatively new development though in that it's fully programmable and can be operated remotely

so the control room that runs the canon doesn't have to be anywhere near

and it can use a passcode so even if you get the control room you cannot operate it

[rich cove]

https://youtube.com/shorts/in147AxUOIA?si=7jfMehVJacZOdy27

The punchline caught me off guard

[flat geode]

Oh dear, new release candidate

26.1.2

No changelog, might be a security issue?

[mint cypress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2Y4Rm2yiM

[flat geode]

Oh yeah, that's a great video

Where changelog?

[mint cypress]

[flat geode]

It's cross compatible with 26.1 and 26.1.1

[flat geode]

https://youtube.com/shorts/5rIHciBlkTk?si=Q7EppVoI_jsHb6AO

Funny short, but also villager related

[dusty thunder]

Saw the twist coming, but still laughed

[fleet marlin]

https://youtu.be/VRpf6D_8ibM?si=DQUOVptr-YZc8aUN

People are still making maps for beta

[high elm]

I mean yeah

Minecraft 1.7 (not beta) is like one of the more popular targets for modders

gregtech maintains a shitton of backports of newer minecraft features to 1.7

[fleet marlin]

Ok sure but this is beta 1.7.3, not 1.7, there isn't even an official creative mode

[flat geode]

I wonder how far I can backport my minigame map... In a resettable state, I think the limit is Release 1.7 or 1.8. In a single mode state, prob Alpha?

[glacial light]

From the official Manechat and others server... Physics. What are those

[novel mica]

This is actually accurate to real life physics

https://youtube.com/shorts/RarWF7G1jCE?si=6HTBLYtY_vLGRcnu

[flat geode]

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx58pWBD-tb3QUlTz1xi96njdrLfb0K63E?si=g5qhU1FCwpuvX4M-

Damn Mojang... Sniffer torture

[dusty thunder]

It looks like the changed the sulfur and cinnebar colors again

They're much more vibrant

[flat geode]

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxIUHLlLf3Tk_dncJxCTRuJNSKmxuoOUmh?si=VNd3B1NEPt1In2hK
Does Mojang just want to poison us?

[elfin heart]

Today I Learned: Leader Zombies were supposed to be tankier than regular zombies, but although their maximum health was increased they mistakenly still spawned in with 20 hearts. In 26.1, this was fixed, and now Leader Zombies can spawn with health between 20 and 80 hearts

[flat geode]

Yup, fun times all around

[little rampart]

whoops, dropped my mouse on the edge of the keyboard

[mint cypress]

[little rampart]

what are leader zombies again?

[novel mica]

[mint cypress]

Leader zombies are a special type of zombie that spawns with between 20HP to 80HP extra health, and an extra 50–75% chance to spawn reinforcements. The chance of a leader spawning increases with clamped regional difficulty. On Easy, they will not spawn. On Normal and Hard mode, they have up to a 5% chance of spawning.

[little rampart]

thanks

[mint cypress]

seems they will never show up in manecraft bc of the easy mode
well not really a massive loss

[grave ravine]

I forgot about regional difficulty too

[grave ravine]

visually, can you tell apart leader zombies from regular ones?

[mint cypress]

does not seem like it

rly shouldve been another change in 26.1

[grave ravine]

that's not great from a gameplay perspective

I wouldn't be surprised if some people report this as a bug

they could probably have the enchantment glint but in red

or be slightly larger, but that can result in hitbox shenanigans

[dusty thunder]

I've never even heard of "leader zombies" before

[flat geode]

It's been in the game since 1.6 it seems

[dusty thunder]

[glacial light]

Same

Are they like... different aside HP?

[mint cypress]

more HP and much higher chance to spawn back-up zombies

but thats kinda it really

[novel mica]

i've never heard of this feature and its not on the minecraft wiki

so im gonna consider it as urban legend

[mint cypress]

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Zombie#Leader

[novel mica]

oops

didnt check

hard enough

[mint cypress]

its fine, I had to use ctrl+f to search for it

[summer scaffold]

more like ctrl freak

[novel mica]

also the snapshot(13w17a) this feature was added in doesnt seem to list the change

[mint cypress]

odd

[novel mica]

i found this 12 year old youtube video about the snapshot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLJtSsN2Pk

[mint cypress]

oh, they apparently added leader zombies before the chicken jockey

[summer scaffold]

hello Jc

[novel mica]

do u remember that guy or something

[summer scaffold]

no

[novel mica]

oh alr

i only linked that video because its the only video i could find about that snapshot from the time

of when the snapshot was released

and the link to his source is dead

unfortunately

ughhh

oh wait xisuma has a video on it

[mint cypress]

link rot my beloathed

[novel mica]

do you remember xisuma's old voice

[mint cypress]

wasnt it like deeper?

[novel mica]

yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHzckH_HFo

i think this is one of the first videos he talks in

[mint cypress]

[novel mica]

apparently it was because he couldnt breathe through his nose

[mint cypress]

wasnt aware of that, damn

[novel mica]

source

[mint cypress]

wonder if he had a surgery or something

[novel mica]

i should ask him directly

[dusty thunder]

Partly that, but also because he just wasn't confident in himself at the time too.

[novel mica]

ok

also he started making videos at 24

[dusty thunder]

He said so in a video where he went back over all the eras of his career and he said that over time as he gained confidence his voice became more chipper and he himself gained a more vibrant personality.

[novel mica]

ok

makes sense

[novel mica]

did you get this from his hermitcraft 1000 video?

[dusty thunder]

I think it might've been that one, yeah

[novel mica]

confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgaRMj3HaA

34:03

[surreal hearth]

Haha I listed to this before reading the above messages and was so confused why he sounded like that

[surreal hearth]

Maybe that’s why my voice has seemed to get higher as I’ve become much more extroverted

[dusty thunder]

It's been known to happen

[surreal hearth]

Anyone try out wynncraft recently? They got a new expansion and I’m thinking about picking back up with some friends after like 5 years

[dusty thunder]

@shut bridge was playing Wynncraft recently, iirc. Maybe you can ask them?

I think @reef ginkgo also has an account, but I'm less sure about that

[shut bridge]

I havent played the new update but there's been a ton of talk of it
hope you like grinding
you don't get access to Fruma until the upper end of the level and story tree

[surreal hearth]

Yes I remember the grind
But I also like looting chests like a goblin so it’s up my alley

I had a lvl 70 account iirc, but I’d start fresh with my friends

[reef ginkgo]

If I have an account it's from 1.5 decades ago and I haven't played since lmao

[dusty thunder]

Ah, I just thought that you might've still had it since you hopped onto that Wynncraft stream earlier this year and mentioned it. Oh well

[summer scaffold]

what is Wynncraft

[novel mica]

it was a minecraft server created by Grian

a long time ago

i think its like a roleplay server

[mint cypress]

like an MMORPG but in a MC server

[summer scaffold]

oh

[mint cypress]

think Warcraft or smthn like that

[summer scaffold]

yeah that's what i immediately thought of

more like world of borecraft lmaooooooooo /j

[mint cypress]

Lunar streamed it on a vc before, its how I learned iof it

[reef ginkgo]

Yeah I never actually looked into it

I'm too busy for that

[elfin heart]

wynncraft is so fun

it’s one of the most compelling “game-within-a-game”s

[ruby oar]

wynncraft has references to dofus so I'll always like it

[flat geode]

Yay speleothems!

[dusty thunder]

GUYS

[novel mica]

ok

nice design

[dusty thunder]

Not mine, I should add

[summer scaffold]

i just wanna grill for god's sake

[novel mica]

i made this

and it actually works

and i didnt use /setblock

isnt beta terrain just awesome

[dusty thunder]

let him cook

[mint cypress]

I know golden carrots are the best food source, but something about a well-made steak just hits different

[dusty thunder]

[novel mica]

i mean if you have a gold farm golden apples are probably better

particually in combat

[fleet marlin]

Ah, a crafter of culture

[little rampart]

I ain't got time for golden carrots. I use regular carrots. Or cooked fish.

[elfin heart]

golden carrots are super reliable if you go big on villager trading

I don't play the endgame in survival all that often so my most common food is usually baked potatoes, bread or cooked steak

[flat geode]

I have 15 barrels of Cooked fish on one server... I've been fed for life

[glacial light]

That and if you want potions of night vision.

[novel mica]

[novel mica]

something that really pisses me off is when certain blocks have restrictions on how they can be placed

like how cakes and lanterns cant float in mid air imo every block that has collision should be able to float in mid air

or at least be supported by string

[dusty thunder]

What about sand, gravel, concrete powder, and anvils?

[elfin heart]

levers and buttons are goated if you make them float via worldedit

so much fine detailing work for perspective builds or otherwise can use em

[flat geode]

Have you tried the debug world, everything floats there! /j

[novel mica]

so i accidentally discovered a duplication glitch

i powered off my computer while the magenta shulker box was open

and then when i turned my computer back on the shulker box was back in my inventory and duplicated

i believe this might be a variant of a well known bug

used in the TAS community

[elfin heart]

interesting...

[flat geode]

Yeah, I think the game doesn't auto-save so it duplicates

I think the world and the player save differently because of the world being a server and stuff. I could be wrong, but that makes the most sense to me

[elfin heart]

yeah 100%

the player data is its own file(s)

[flat geode]

Yay, my technical knowledge!

-# Now people expect me to know how to read crash logs...

[novel mica]

No one except maybe mojang devs and some very expirenced java devs can understand crash logs minecraft is a spaghetti code game

[dusty thunder]

I can't understand the whole log, but I've seen enough of them to know where to look to find the root cause of the crash. Usually some mod or another.

[flat geode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXx4fEql45U

[high elm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO8tpWfZjGk

[flat geode]

Amazingly impressive

[novel mica]

i think this proves how mods can often look like wizardy

[high elm]

all those physics objects

also massive airship

and working wings and control surfaces

[novel mica]

yes

indeed

[flat geode]

How the heck did Hallmark of all people leak Minecraft stuff...

[dusty thunder]

Huh?

[flat geode]

They had a catalogue of Christmas ornaments that apparently leaks something

[dusty thunder]

Oh that

[mint cypress]

oh yeah

[dusty thunder]

I saw that, but I don't think it's gonna be much

[mint cypress]

apparently it's called "A Minecraft Sequel" ?

[flat geode]

Same, it's kinda disappointing

[flat geode]

wait what? What catalogue did you get?

[mint cypress]

Just discussion of it from reddit

[flat geode]

They went there from that leak?

That's a stretch that goes around earth 3 times

[mint cypress]

huh, it's an entry in the wiki?

https://minecraft.wiki/w/A_Minecraft_Sequel

[flat geode]

Oh, the movie

I thought you meant the game

[mint cypress]

I mixed Hallmark with Cinemark

my bad

[elfin heart]

YESSSS I remember this from 3 years ago when it was the hypest thing ever

and now I have a device that can actually run it!!

[grave ravine]

I'm not used to seeing jeb_ with so much beard

[high elm]

minecraft players reinventing trebuchets from first principles inside create now, true wizardry

[novel mica]

i like trebuchets they're great example of how strong potential energy can be

[high elm]

ye

but also heck getting a phyics engine that good

[novel mica]

i presume you are using the creative interactive addon

[high elm]

it's not my video

[novel mica]

oh

[high elm]

it's from someone experimenting with create aeronautics

[whole python]

Love the failure mode it exhibited once.
Wonder if any real trebuchets in history managed to fail like that due to improper loading or bad timing.

[novel mica]

its not even compatible with create aeronautics i was just wrong

[high elm]

huh

[novel mica]

create interactive is not compatible with create aeronautics

because they run on different versions

create interactive is a fabric and forge mod for 1.20.1
while create aeronautics is a neoforge mod for 1.21.1

[high elm]

ye

it's amazing what aeronautics can do

[novel mica]

so apparently there's gonna be another new cape

[flat geode]

Might be twitch con exclusive

We'll see tomorrow

[novel mica]

that would suck if it is

but chances are it wont be

mojang hasnt done a cape exclusive to a timed in person event since 2016

and no minecraft villager expierence doesnt count

that has been going on for over a year

[flat geode]

Does the length matter?

[novel mica]

point is minecraft villager expierence is still open

in fact they literally just opened a new one in germany

[flat geode]

Most would have to travel

[novel mica]

thats how im going to get mine btw i hope

[flat geode]

It might be and I think that's cool. Everyone doesn't need to get every little cape

I just wish they'd bring back Minecraft Festival

[novel mica]

also they've already done a twitch themed cape

[flat geode]

It doesn't have to be twitch themed

[novel mica]

my guess is it will probably be like last year

where attending twitch con is one of the ways to get it

but there are other methods you can use

[flat geode]

Oh, that could be true. I forgot about that bit

[flat geode]

@novel mica

It's two capes

[novel mica]

oh wow

[flat geode]

One is IRL and one is Online

[novel mica]

source please

[flat geode]

Twitter

[novel mica]

where is this image from