Minecraft is AWESOME, but you’re doing it WRONG

Minecraft has lost its identity the creeper didn’t already exist modern Mojang wouldn’t even consider adding it to the game true every new mob that they’re introducing right now first of all it doesn’t drop any item and second of all it’s mostly not going to be harmful I

Think the last harmful mob like I was into was the is oler and then they just put him in a mob vote I assumed he was also going to drop like a sick item like totem of undying but it was going to be like something like that but for the

Chillager Minecraft has lost its identity what made it truly special and it’s not because they’ve kept updating the game in fact it was entirely possible for them to continue adding features to the game and still keep its original charm what the issue is as time has gone on Mojang has changed paths on

How they approach adding new content and the type of content they add in a way that has slowly but drastically made them lose sight of what made the game unique in the first place I brought up the creeper just before so let’s take a look at it if you didn’t know the

Creeper was created by accident Notch was trying to code the pig model but he accidentally messed up the dimensions slopping the length and height creating the now distinct uh phallic silhouette of the creeper he liked it so much that he decided to use the shape somehow coming up with the concept of them

Sneaking up to the player and exploding bringing the creeper into existence back during the early stages of the game it seems like it was updated on the premise of this idea seems cool let’s add it the ghast Enderman Nether and End all seem to follow this line of thinking a cool

Idea was conceptualized and implemented if it worked it made it into the game which which is a starkly different vibe to how the game gets updated Now new updates seem to follow the line of thinking what can we add that will have the most gameplay benefit without drastically modifying the base

Experience which is fine and I can see why they would approach the game this way but it leads to changes that withdraw from The Game’s original appeal the reason why I don’t think the creeper would get added to the game now if it didn’t already exist is because modern

Mojang would deem it too extreme the fact that it is a common spawn is hard to hear and can be detrimental to the player all while not having a useful enough drop to Warrant its capabilities would make them turn the concept down that’s true they also keep making the

Game like a lot safer like adding totem of undying and adding like a bunch of stuff that just makes the game way too easy and they also used to have like this thing called The Nightmare where if you went to bed then you could get woken

Up by by like a zombie that just immediately starts attacking you in the middle of the night and you actually have to end up like attacking it back and defending yourself so they definitely do make the game a lot easier which kind of pisses me off because there’s like peaceful mode already so

Like I don’t understand why they would make the game so much easier forcibly on players that want to play like hardcore or the game on like Mega High difficulty a modern creeper would probably only spawn in a specific biome under specific surf circumstances wouldn’t be as brutal

To the player and would drop something that has a hyp specific use only applicable to one circumstance look no further than the sniffer to see this type of addition in play the eggs only findable inside suspicious sand that spawns in warm ocean ruins and once hatched spawn a mob that gives you

Access to two pointless plants that work only as decorations to be fair on Mojang’s part like a mob like that is supposed to be like an ancient mob and I think they also have to like put it in while justifying why why people haven’t seen that mob before and that’s why you

Have to discover it in like suspicious sand it’s not just like a random addition to a biome it’s like the game is almost like going through time chronologically and someone discovered the sniffer and I think they have to justify why the sniffer wasn’t here before but like the whole plant thing I

Think that’s stupid they should definitely have made it like have the ability to like almost bone meal a lot of your crops or not even bone meal but like a weaker version of bone meal that’s like more consistent or something along those those lines on top of being

Able to find these different flowers I’d guess 95% of players won’t ever interact with the sniffer it’s too much of a hassle to get for a payoff that isn’t worth the effort which is a shame because the concept of the sniffer was great the idea of a prehistoric mob

Being able to locate ancient seeds is cool sadly Mojang was too scared to make the mob stand out too much too scared to make these seeds actually useful after all they wouldn’t want to add anything that would detract from the base experience too much Mojang is scared to

Update the game in a way that’ll have huge implications to its style but that reservation has caused it to slowly change into something different anyway and change in a way that the players are seemingly getting sick of Mojang I think most negative content around Mojang is just like people already having negative

Feelings about Mojang and then they click on these videos so these videos are popular so any new change they try to make is viewed in the most negative way possible it’s like a lot of people dealing with like dream they realize that tweets about him being a weirdo pop

Off in the algorithm so everybody was incentivized to make those types of tweets and anything he does was like viewed in a negative lens and I think the same thing is happening to Mojang sure they made a lot of mistakes and they kept saying like We’ll add a lot of

The mobs that lost in the mob vote while also never adding those mobs will add fireflies while also realizing that fireflies are toxic to frogs and then they just decided to remove them for no reason whatsoever it’s not like they had to make like fireflies have like a

Extremely specific drop or anything so Mojang criticism is kind of valid but it’s also sometimes blown out of proportion for no reason wants the game to still feel like Minecraft but Minecraft without experimentation stops feeling like Minecraft eventually regardless mobs are only a part of the issue though the game’s aesthetic has

Veered away from what it used to be as well putting a picture of old Minecraft and new Minecraft side by side they both read as Minecraft but old Minecraft looks how I and I think most people visualize Minecraft it exudes the game’s fundamental aesthetic new Minecraft still that’s not

Fair that’s not fair I think Minecraft people just quit and then they come back in like three four months make a new world for two weeks so obviously it’s going to look different it’s going to have different blocks but like I don’t think this criticism is fair and if you

Really liked old Minecraft you can still play it to this day there’s a lot of servers that are active to this day that you can play so like in terms of like what’s new I like the fact that they do lot of stuff that doesn’t really change

The game by a lot I hate mob votes though is very obviously Minecraft but it’s lacking a quality that the old game had an obvious one is saturation old Minecraft used to be extremely saturated I personally love that look though I could see a lot of people getting put

Off by it what I truly think is the biggest change though is how the game approaches decorative blocks old Minecraft rarely expanded on the variety of block designs instead opting to increase the pool of color varieties the player has this causes a visual consistency regardless of the color a

Wool block looks like a wool block there was also a smaller pool of blocks that weren’t one to one block size you had stairs slabs fences and I suppose doors and pressure plates that weren’t the size of a full block and that was essentially it these additional blocks

Had a distinct silhouette with a limited place ability meaning they would always stand out at midst a build the limited designs along with the smaller pool of block variety made earlier builds in Minecraft have a consistency to them Mojang has since shifted in how they approach decorative blocks opposed to

Having an expanded array of colors they instead have a larger variety of block types just look at the sheer volume of stone blocks you can create in the game these are all great additions and I’m not against them in theory but due to the excess detail the game’s core

Aesthetic gets diluted slowly lo I I don’t think so I don’t think so it actually looks better now most servers look a lot better now the only problem I have is they didn’t increase inventory size and they keep talking about bundles but like what the hell is the point of

Bundles like you have to have unique blocks inside of them it’s a stupid concept just increase the inventory Space by two extra rows and then change the UI I don’t understand why they wouldn’t do something so fun mentally simple using its charm there was a point in time when Minecraft’s textures were

Iconic because of how limited the texture pool was since they started increasing the degree of available textures that iconography has faded today there’s not a single new texture block that is as iconic as grass or Cobblestone increasing the block variety and removing limitations on how certain

Blocks can be placed has also had a negative side effect of whittling away Minecraft’s original visual appeal the level of detail you can achieve in a build now makes the game not readers Minecraft anymore at least not in the same way the original thick blocky look of older builds is lost in modern

Creations and I’m not saying these new block types and removal of placement limitations is a bad thing in fact I think in theory it’s a good choice and I can see why they’ve done it I just think that as the game has gotten bigger and more content has been added this

Expansion has negatively impacted the aesthetic a great example of how Minecraft could have continued adding new features all while keeping its unique appeal is the better than Adventure mod a mod from Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 that works as a whatif update that adds a plethora of new features while still keeping that authentic Minecraft

Feel this is mainly apparent in the decorative blocks adding a tree of every color something that players have been asking for since the beta and Mojang seems very reluctant to do I mean that’s what they’re doing right now with like the cherry tree and Mangrove also like they’re definitely adding a ton of

Different colors for no reason except other than decoration so I I wouldn’t accept this criticism of Mojang necessarily new tree type per year almost and also increasing the variety of stone types without cluttering the visual style simply changing the default Stone texture to keep visual consistency a like these is what retains that

Original Minecraft aesthetic players have more creative options that once utilized still look fundamentally Minecraft there’s a lot more this mod adds and I genuinely recommend you give it a go especially if you aren’t too happy with the current state of the game this guy’s criticism is kind of weird

Cuz he’s talking about like mobs adding a bunch of different stuff but then he’s criticizing Mojang for not doing the same thing and Mojang is trying to do the same same thing but like they’re taking their time cuz they have to do it in like Java Bedrock Pocket Edition they

Have to do it in every single Edition so it’s going to take them like a long time to like do the same things but like that’s essentially what they’re doing most of the additions they have are very vanilla like now when it comes to how Mojang should approach mob editions

There’s a really great Twitter artist called nunun that I think is able to create unique and interesting mobs that I could genuinely see appearing in early come on game their gri concept is probably my favorite not only does it look super unique but its ability running up to the player and snatching

Whatever item they’re holding at the time to put in its face is harmless fun it’s the type of thing I would expect to see in earlier versions of the game it matches the same kind of energy as the Ender which is defitely not have been lacking Mojang should be focusing on

Adding weird and wacky mobs instead of making players vote on what real life animal they want to spawn in on one section of their world that only exists to give them a feature I they’ve been begging for for years even with all my critiques that’s not to say every recent

Update has been horrible the caves and cliffs update brought some much needed modifications to Cave generation that blows anything previously out of the water and the nether update added a multitude of features to the once sparse Dimension that it desperately needed in fact the nether update itself I think is

One of the most solid updates they’ve done and is one of the few recent updates that is in line with Minecraft I think that’s why they kind of like they can go crazy when it comes to the Nether and the end specifically because a lot of people don’t have as much Nostalgia

With these different like zones so they’re able to just go crazy and just add as many blocks as possible like they added a ton of tree types which is something he criticized mojack for with the nether update and they added so many different variations of basic blocks and

They can do this especially since it’s another dimension that’s why I’m really excited for the warden Dimension cuz like if they do make a warden Dimension using the reinforced deep slate portal they can just go crazy and just add so many biomes within that Dimension to

Give people a lot of the blocks that people already wanted for a really long time identity the new m like The Strider are weird and unique and the new biomes are visually engaging without withdrawing from the ne’s atmosphere these updates show that Mojang is perfectly capable of creating contents

That match Minecraft’s original appeal but they just aren’t at the moment and truth be told people give Mojang a lot of flak for how they handle updates and sometimes it’s valid but I think Mojang does actually want to add things that players have been asking for things that

Would have kept the game’s identity but have been hitting a roadblock that is stunting them that roadblock being Microsoft now that they own the game I’m sure they’re very strict on what gets added and probably are stopping the developers from changing things too much and I’m sure they request additions that

Mojang might be aware are detracting from the experience but can’t push back on part of the reason I think the nether update was so good is because I think Microsoft was more lenient with the dimension seeing as it doesn’t carry the same iconography like the Overworld so

Mojang was able to really Flex their creative juices and revamp the dimension in a whole bunch of unique ways that they might not be able to otherwise if they were updating the Overworld I I doubt Xbox is putting that much pressure on them I the only pressure I think Xbox

Is putting on Mojang is specifically just wanting to monetize Minecraft as much as possible Bedrock Edition makes them way more money than Java because Java allows people to use mods whereas in Bedrock Edition you just have to buy stuff from the Microsoft store that’s why they forced everybody to like

Transfer their original Minecraft accounts so I assume that’s what like they’re trying to focus on right now they’re trying to focus on making Java and Bedrock as similar as possible and then they’re going to try to like make them all into one addition and then they’re going to try to like ban every

Single mod and just force you to buy every single thing I don’t think Xbox is putting pressure in terms of like new additions to the game but they’re probably going to try to monetize the game differently it it might seem like I hate the current direction of the game

But I really don’t I’ve been on and off playing Minecraft for 13 years I just miss how it used to be how it used to look and feel luckily for me Mojang is one of the few developers that easily allow you to play any early version of

Their game so if I ever really am missing that old Vibe I can just redownload it and immerse myself in that experience and thanks to the wonderful modding Community I can also change that experience to add things if I ever get bored Minecraft won’t ever be exactly

What it was but it still has a chance to become something new that has an appeal just as enticing as it used to it just depends on if Mojang can find its footing and start engaging with the community’s critiques more willingly mhm I agree I agree with the conclusion he

Actually concluded on a positive note instead of just roasting Mojang for no reason