Confirmed: No Aether – New 1.19.50 Update THIS WEEK

A brand new Minecraft update 1.19.3 officially pre-released this last week which is why it might be so confusing to learn that 1.19.50 is not only a real update but it’s also likely coming out very soon in fact next Tuesday is expected and so what happened to the 47

Updates between these two well the simple answer is that 1.19 is on its third minor update for the Java Edition uh this is going to include the new creative inventory whereas Minecraft Bedrock is on its fifth minor update which is going to include spectator mode and uh the reason we know it’s coming

Out very shortly is because 1.19.60 has already started development so if it’s only the fifth minor update why is it called Point 50 and the answer is that when an update is for all Bedrock platforms they put a zero at the end and so it’s really

1.19.50 I’m excited for it by the way it’s coming out probably on Tuesday it might take another week after that but we know it’s coming out within the next couple of weeks and that’ll be pretty great speaking of pretty great Mr T deposits that Mojang Dev said they won’t

Add a new dimension or something like the afar until they finish updating the current dimensions and this is true however the last record we had of someone saying that was Jeb in like 2016 or so it’s been five years since someone referenced another dimension in any capacity and regarding the current

Updated Dimensions however we got a really interesting interview of King B dogs this last week where he actually confirms two things one is this regarding the Aether I would much rather have the opportunity to you know do something entirely different if we were to add a new dimension at some point I

Would want it to be different than the either because then otherwise we’re just doing the same thing again and he makes a really interesting point there that because the Aether has already existed as a separate mod for Minecraft if they were to add it as a future update they

Would just be taking a mod and making it part of Minecraft and that is not as exciting as something brand new and fresh so if there is going to be a dimension it’s not going to be the Aether it’s going to be something we’ve not seen before which is much more

Exciting he also spoke a little bit about how the Overworld is great and how the never is kind of cavernous and has a very different feel but then he says this about at the end um you got the end which is floating island but you know it doesn’t have in

My opinion enough niches yet to really clarify it’s it’s true different from other dimensions because it’s just not filled out enough um and adding a new dimension if we ever did that I think we need to really think about what what is the purpose of a

Dimension like why why would we add a dimension versus just adding new areas to the Overworld that look really really different or behave really really different or the gameplay is really different I think a really good example of that last point would be the deep

Dark it is part of the Overworld but it feels like an entirely different place this is something I think they could definitely play around with more for updates and uh yeah I look forward to seeing what they do of that in the future will we just see more updates for

The existing Dimension because you can make the end feel like a different place by making part of it into different biomes you can make the never feel like different places if you have like a bigger Oasis in the middle of it there are all the sorts of different ways you

Can change the three dimensions we have do we really need a fourth one or is that just a fun idea that is a question being directly asked by Mojang right now by the way before we move into the next question because this is q a Saturday the weekly series will answer your

Questions did you know you can subscribe and go to the 99 of house fires ham to people who aren’t subscribed to the channel you also might know that brick stunson asks they should make the never roof a proper feature instead of just leaving it as a bug they’re afraid to

Fix and that is definitely one of my pet peeves personally the fact that there are so many Java bugs air quote that aren’t being fixed there but also they aren’t being added to bedrock because they’re technically bugs I mean we could just call every cool feature the new

Combat is just a bug really if you think about it faster regeneration which is so handy it makes Minecraft better it’s just a bug when you think about it but we did actually hear in that same interview about uh you know their take on uh bugs as a team and I thought it

Was really interesting so let me play it to you this is basically a meeting where we for half an hour go through all the latest bugs that have come in through uh jira and we assign a priority to them you know sometimes we’ll find I don’t

Know a parody bug of like and the perspective we have to bring is like okay which there’s obviously history to why it works one way or the other on the different editions you know you have to first of all dig up the history of like okay how did it get introduced into the

Game in general um you need to find the intent uh either talking to team members who are still around like Jens um or you have to go through the change logs and figure out okay this is what they intended um and through that you kind of have to

Figure out okay this is this is what it’s meant to be so first of all like a really interesting meeting trying to work out which bugs are most important and need to be solved earliest uh but second of all you’ll notice how he said that some bugs that are parity

Differences they have to go back and ask someone who was working on Minecraft back then specifically naming jet because he’s the longest still running Minecraft employee uh but you have to go and ask someone and see if they know and if they don’t know you have to go back

Into the changelogs and try and work it out from that and that is one of the really interesting things about Minecraft drawing the team so much ninety percent of people working on Minecraft were not there for some of these early decisions that they’re now tasked with building on top of this

Makes getting to the bottom of bugs like the nether roof or you know crazy connectivity or whatever other uh really divisive issues we have really tricky by itself but it also means uh take the end for example it was added in 2011 and so most Minecraft developers weren’t around

For that and so if there are weird quirks with how the terrain generates it generates different on bedrock and Java even though it looks the same uh you know like working out which one is the intentional and which one is better it’s something that could take up a lot of

Time time just in research before you work on the game which you’re currently working on and that’s one of the weird technical debts that you have with a team that expands so fast about enough documentation and now you know one of the weird things of that speaking of

Weird things by the way Lloyd Che for a more light-hearted question if you’re crafting bamboo blocks which look like this with nine bamboo why is there 16 bamboo in the bamboo block texture and this is a really good point that I you know that the only way to fix it is

Clearly to have to use 16 bamboo which means we need a 4×4 crafting table or we could use this as the lore explanation you use your nine bamboo and you snap them in half and that’s why there’s 16 there how exactly if they’re snapped in half can they fill up an entire block

Let’s not answer that question and let’s move into the next one from Caleb White because this is my favorite comment of the week they say in response to my complaints about uh you know Minecart speeds rather than speeding up Minecarts there should be a warp rail that is

Crafted with Echo shots and triples the speed of the minecart yes this is a much better idea than my idea of just speeding up regular Minecarts because if you do that you’ll technically break people’s existing uh you know Minecart speed stuff which is actually a big

Problem like in the same way they will never change the Redstone bugs on Java because people build of them they can’t change existing Minecarts but what if they built a new type of rail and this sounds like a good idea too because it would finally give us another use for

The echo Shard something that I would love to see them expand on in future Updates this is you know game design favorite comment of the week by far however I get a lot of comments like this one from Eric Hamilton saying I’d love more World Generation options super

Flat options worldside options Etc and of course hardcore mode and I think this is an important thing to note uh too is that a lot of people say I want a mob but you don’t really want it that badly like when you see a brand new turtle

Doesn’t change your world but if we had more World Generation options or super flat or World size or hardcore that would actually massively expand the capability and value of existing features because now people want to start a hardcore World they want to start a world with differently sized

Biomes or whatever else and I totally agree with you Eric Hamilton I think that is something that should be prioritized in 1.20 if they’re trying to work on quality over quantity new game mode type stuff is the easiest way to expand that by the way speaking of

Expanding things badison by the way I’m guessing your name is Madison but you’re real bad uh I think horses and donkeys should be able to go faster on pop blocks so you can make your own trails and Roads and it allows them to go faster this is also a really good idea

This is my favorite suggestion to make horses and donkeys more malleable because now you’ll actually be building paths around your world it adds theme to The World it adds a little bit of story you might say you know could help you do some storytelling wow 1.20 idea is great

I also think I’ll never mentioned to this one from neat scholar who says the horse breeding mechanic needs to be totally fixed because the way it works right now is if you want to get a horse of the ultimate stats you’re better off just trying to tame every single wild

Horse that you cross path with and test their stats and that is basically true you just have to tame a bunch of horses which is why I had the fun idea should we do a stream where I just run around the world taming horses to try and get

The ultra horse rather than doing the whole breeding thing which I’ve been playing off the years I’m just gonna go around and tame horses in the wild do you think that’s a good idea I think I’m gonna do it anyway speaking of ideas I wanted to address two small

Controversies from the last week this first one is regarding the challenge I did Bedrock versus Java and they said that yeah it’s obviously biased against Java and this is a real big problem with Java versus Bedrock servers you’re always going to actually have Bedrock players joining a Java server you can’t

Have Java players join a Bedrock server which is a weird inequality that can’t really be fixed and also because of that most Bedrock players if they’re playing on consoles cannot access a server and so there’ll be more Java players it’s something that’s really really hard to

Balance but I do want to do better with that so thank you for it’s fun for the suggestion there but the other one was regarding a raid Channel Legend sponsorship I’ve had a comment being like Oh toy cat you said you wouldn’t take their sponsorship years ago and so

Why are you doing it now and I said I wouldn’t take a sponsorship from any company if they tell me what to say I even got one from established titles recently for a lot of money but they said I had to tell people they could become a Lord this way and it’s like

Well that’s not actually how that works is it also you don’t really own the land etc etc I did I didn’t want to go for that whole thing and so I didn’t do the amp read uh the raid Shadow thing was just play the game for an hour we reckon

When people see you playing it some of them might want to check it out themselves all I had to do was play the game I didn’t have to say I liked it I didn’t have to say it was the number one MMO in the universe with great graphics

Etc etc and under those conditions and also because it was a bonus stream where people got to watch an hour of me organizing chess like they apparently wanted I think that I think that’s a win-win personally maybe you disagree and if you do you can always choose not

To watch it that is a perfectly fine option because again the sponsorship is only the second half of that video and So speaking of second half of the video Dylan G Tech says I disagree with King B dogs I think he’s shifting blame onto those he made promises to I’m a pretty

New software engineer but a very experienced one uh but whose first project was a long abandoned Minecraft mod about nine years ago there’s no reason why making an inferior update should take this long and then he uses a bunch of estimates to say that yeah the

Thing that can be done in a mod within a month should be doable by 24 professionals working for 40 hours a week to get it done in about 14 days and you know honestly I want to say first of all yeah there is a really good point

That there is a huge amount of man hour going into making Minecraft and then you don’t seem to see that on the other end and I think there’s two easy explanations for this one is that obviously they can’t work 40 hours a week just on Minecraft they have to go

To various meetings to work out what they’re adding and then they have to document what they’ve done and put it on changelogs etc etc etc um I do think there is a really good point in there and you’ll see that you know they mentioned at the very bottom

Here that many uh giant corporations have uh just workers who do not work very often and it’s a damning point but it’s a very real one I mean evil whatever you think about the Twitter situation uh the guy in charge that certain billionaire he fired half the

Workforce on day one and then he fired another 77 I want to say uh within a couple of weeks of joining and Twitter still works just fine it’s rolling out the same number of new features uh that it was before um obviously there are some things that

Must have fallen with that but it hasn’t dropped productivity by 80 or 90 as you’d guess because there are a lot of employees in every organization that add not very much to the finished product they might do great things internally or in terms of meeting various uh you know

Like goals and things that make employees happy but they’re not doing great things for the company or for the end users and uh whether that’s true to Minecraft I genuinely cannot comment I think even Microsoft managers who are you know like even people who run the company might not really know what all

These employees do and just kind of assume that it’s good and ultimately yeah When Minecraft is bringing in uh billions of dollars with a B uh you can probably uh feel free to spend uh you know like dozens of millions a year on employees and just know that like well

They all get something done is that the best way for an organization to run is that the most efficient allocation of capital is a much different question that I’m far under qualified to answer in this video uh but I do have to say yeah the the the base problem though is

A real one I would uh to use my own example I make videos here and the videos they take more and more time I hope you’ve noticed the increase in quality but it means that like so as well as all the things I do for the

Video you know coming up the ideas and making the brief uh turn that into something that can be turned into an actual video uh then I need to have someone who does the editing because I just suck at editing I’m not good at it

And I hate it so I have an editor right but then if I have someone who does thumbnails and I have someone who builds the world having three separate people do all of those things is less effective at making good versions of those in a timely manner than having one person who

Can batch to all that stuff if you think about your own life right if you think about like how are you gonna make some eggs in the morning you go to the store you buy some eggs then once you get home you put the eggs in the fridge then you

Take them out of the fridge you put them into a pan and then you you know you clean up after yourself if you had someone go to the store someone take the the eggs from the the fridge to the the counter and like prepare everything for

You then you did the cooking and then someone did the dishwashing that’s gonna take far more time even though there’s four times as many of you doing the thing and then you know off the guys bought eggs at the stores what is he doing for the process after the person

Has cleaned the dishes what are they doing process sometimes it’s more effective to have fewer people because they can continuously work for all the stuff but it probably also means those people are being what the industry might call overworked right like you want to have a relaxed work-life balance and you

Want to be able to focus on other things but if you need to get these eggs done by the end of today then you need to be thinking like okay I’m going to the store then when I get to the store I’m gonna go do this and I’m gonna do that

I’m gonna do that and you’re trying to save time and do all this stuff uh it means you work uh harder and that can be overworked that can be the right amount that is the actual debate about these big tech companies right uh is should you have so many employees and have them

All be working kind of casually or should you have people that are doing grueling 18 hour weeks than no one wants to do just to make a cheaper you know better end product for the end user that’s cheaper for the owners uh the answer is well they both sound pretty

Terrible don’t they and that is the interesting world uh that we live in speaking of a terrible interesting world we live in I’ve got just one more comment today it’s from I am Jake Trimble saying fake degrees this is a hill I’ll choose to die on and I I feel

Like I must have responded this before but I want to say it’s the dumbest thing when people say 0 to 100 is really good scale for temperature zero is so cold and 100 isn’t even as hot as some people like it so no it’s not a very good scale

For temperature also you can divide degrees by you know like I If you’re really uh that picky between 23 and 24 degrees which no one is by the way uh it’s it’s it’s 17 degrees in Las Vegas right now I don’t need to know if it’s

17.3 or 17.5 even if it was 18 it wouldn’t make a difference to the fact that I’m going to wear a t-shirt like you could really do like every other degree or every fifth degree and it would give you the same amount of useful information needing to know whether it’s

65 or 66 is a useless thing for the vast majority of humans and if you think it’s true that having more granuli units work uh they use the you know example of all that back wall is 0.0037 Miles do you know miles are actually longer than kilometers therefore you should use

Kilometers because they’re a smaller unit of measurement or are you actually just liking the thing that you already know that’s probably what it is isn’t it anyway I hope you’ll enjoy this video it was recorded just before yesterday’s stream I don’t know how that went as this is going it probably went really

Well I’m guessing and so as this video goes live I’m probably going to be taking a flight home or something it’s going to be an interesting time Happy Thanksgiving weekend that’s a thing right that’s that’s how see I know American traditions you talk about how good Fahrenheit is even though it’s not

And you say Thanksgiving as if it’s a it’s a real holiday and not just an opportunity to eat a lot of food but you know I like eating a lot of food so thank you for watching and I’ll see you next time goodbye thank you foreign