Minecraft Update 2024: The Craziest Changes!

New Year’s resolution for Mojang don’t piss off your games Community for a whole year difficulty impossible and this certainly seems true the sentiment has turned against Mojang this year to the point where even when they shut down their support account on Twitter many people say stuff like the support sucks

So much I’m glad they’re getting shut down or joking that Minecraft never really had a support team to begin with this is a level of negativity where people are just starting to hate things for the sake of it and this isn’t very fun it’s very 2023 of you and something

That I think is worth reviewing as this year comes to an end is a comment which comes in from one lot and it’s something I really agree with which is that if you’re not giving constructive feedback you’re not really giving any feedback if you’re negative about everything your

Opinion isn’t worth considering and they say I really like that you’re being brutally honest about Minecraft and Mojang unlike the majority of Minecraft youtubers we must show valid criticism to make this game better and that is something I totally agree with and to show you some things that are already

Getting better Mojang finally listened to the community and although the community are confused and screaming a great example of this is the armad where they put out a version of it here’s what it looked like originally and the game art director defended it by saying the

Eyes of the armadillo are in the front because when they are on the side you’re looking at an empty forehead it’s difficult to create a connection with it considering this is a mob you’ll interact with possibly quite often I felt like this was important genuinely came out saying I disagree with the

Community but then despite that said actually if enough people who want to interact with this mob want it on the side then they will change it and so here is the old version again here is the new one which is coming in 2024 and making a big difference for those

Players presumably also in that first snapshot uh we have a question from Michael Chavez 6467 are they going to add anything besides the stuff they showed at Minecraft live theyve said there’s more to come but they haven’t added anything and December is halfway done well bad news December and 2023 are

Almost all the way done and we’re not going to be seeing any new things exactly right now but they are working on brand new features and this is the best thing about 1.21 all of the features so far make for a semic cohesive update you could say uh with

Fitting within the theme of tinkering and combat Adventures but now we’ve got months until this thing releases and they’re working on other features that will tie into the existing ones or to The Wider theme and the name of the update we’ve yet to see and those will

Be able to release over the coming weeks and months based on last year we are just you know four to six weeks away from getting an announcement as to what we should expect for the second half of 1.21 and maybe even that all important name and I know it sounds dumb but a

Name really is so important for a Minecraft update it helps us Define our expectations and see if they’re being met and they’re going to be working on the features that will tie this theme and update name together over the course of the next few weeks something which is

Very exciting and one of the big things you might ask is what’s up with the fact that all the new hosle Mobs have no mob drop/ loot like the warden has no unique drop and the breeze doesn’t drop anything and I would edit this comment and say the breeze doesn’t drop anything

Yet because interestingly enough we do have a whole second half of of 1.21 it could be the same size as the first half it could have more features fewer features but one of the big questions that I think has to be answered is what’s going on with the trial key this

Is a brand new item you get for defeating the trial spawners it’s the big reward in this update for the content that you’ve got however right now it does precisely nothing and so it’s very important they give it some use and make it valuable enough that

You’ll want to do such a hard challenge to get it once they have a use for the trial key I’m sure it’ll be worth considering whether a Bree should drop something I’m very much in the camp of yeah it totally should it is very much a mob for the sake of being challenging

But I also think Minecraft having a lot of challenging mobs that just exist for the sake of it isn’t a fun Arc for the game to take and ideally they could do something else and an interesting point from gamma Master 1894 is that well when was the last passive mob that Mojang

Added which actually dropped something when killed fish question mark I understand that’s their whole anti-animal cruelty stuff but I also think these systems to obtain various items from various mobs just makes things too complicated and I really agree with this Mojang is going down a you shouldn’t have to kill mobs route

But by doing so they’re meaning you have to learn so many new ways to interact with various mobs there are two very famous items that come from two different mobs the turtle Scoot and the Goat horn and unlike with basically every other famous mob drop where you

Kill the mob get it even if only sometimes uh with those two mobs you need to wait for a baby to grow into an adult or wait for a goat to bash a piece of wood that is nearby these two new mechanics by themselves might make some

Sense uh but overall if they’re trying to make every single mob have its own unique way of obtaining things like brushing with the armadillo it starts to raise questions like why can you brush skute of an armadillo but not of a turtle I think the only valid answer to

This question is that if the brush had existed when they originally added the turtle they would have probably let you brush the turtle off to get some would have saved a lot of effort for a lot of runs I’ve done whenever I need a turtle helmet it’s always so painful and so in

As a result of that is it really that they should change the skew method for the turtle or should they have both of these Mobs with both of the skuts be obtained in very different ways ultimately it’s a very big Challenge and this is one of the big flaws in the idea

Which I usually really like from DPE 180 if a new feature you don’t like gets added to the game guess what it’s a Sandbox game you don’t have to use the new feature this is usually generally true but it also can feel a bit frustrating when you’re like oh I found

An armadillo let me kill him to get the armadillo meat and you get precisely nothing I think that in gam should have forgiving design for when you don’t know about stuff especially Minecraft where they know that there is no in-game tutorial at least anymore rest in peace Minecraft console but there’s no in-game

Tutorial anymore and so lots of people in fact every single person that doesn’t watch YouTube videos or read up about the game is going to have to discover things inside of it and so they should have forgiving design uh in the same way that when you kill a sheep you will

Still get some wool it’s just later you realize the shears are much more effective I think that that’s what should happen with the AR armadillo if you want to go around a Savannah and kill seven armadillos it’s actually six if you want to get some armadillo arm

Armor then you should be able to do that in my opinion and I know people will say animal cruelty but actually that’s an argument Against Animal Cruelty whereas not being able to is just an argument of you can’t be trusted in your sandbox game speaking of sandbox games maybe

Crabs will come in the next update something which is a great idea how best to deal with the divisions between armadillo voters and crab voters then just to say why don’t we add the second one in the end anyway however I think this is coming from the Java Edition

Adding the extended block reach where you can attack entities from forever away but also place blocks from much further away using commands and it makes this person think uh that maybe they’ll be adding the crab because that is the crab CLA ability personally though I see this as either a constellation prize of

Like saying well a lot of people wanted the crab solely for its extended reach so here’s the ability to do that have fun with it in pure vanilla Minecraft but I also think there’s a possibility that yeah Mojang do look at the second and third place option and unlike last

Year where the sniffer was so dominant that clearly people didn’t care that much about the rasal by comparison maybe they could look at this year and say well people clearly wanted the armad deprit wolf armor and people wanted the craits crap claw so whichever one was to

Come second why don’t they just add the benefit of the second place mob even if you don’t get the mob itself this would be a fair constellation prize in my opinion and so you could add the Crab Claw to the game without a crab except obviously it wouldn’t be dropped by

Crabs and it probably wouldn’t be called a crab claw maybe it could come from The Trial Chambers in fact that’s a fun idea I would have um again I I really don’t know for sure what they’re going to do but that’s my best and most fun idea

Speaking of my best and most fun idea uh do you remember the video I spoke about earlier where Mojang’s support was shutting down I got this interesting comment on it saying this is the natural progression of capitalism make more money hire fewer employees and robotic operators for you and it was an

Interesting type of cnism I hadn’t seen in my videos for a while which is that bojang is trying to go the faceless capitalism route and I wanted to just make an interesting point here which I think a lot lot of people forget about when they’re raising their points is

Like either you know capitalism is either uh hiring people and stealing the value of their work you know it’s stealing from employees by I guess uh extracting Surplus values the word you’d use or uh it is that companies are hiring people out of the generosity of their own heart and when those people

Are fired it is those people losing a valuable Lifeline it can’t be that they’re stealing money from people and then letting them go is also evil because then they’d be giving them back the money in that weird way but anyway I just think it’s an interesting thing

That is worth uh you know consuling with in your own worldview which is to say when you employ someone are you doing them a favor or are they doing you a favor by working for you it’s a interesting point that should underly whatever theory of the world you use but

Another interesting theory of the world comes from Adam Lawson 9824 uh when I spoke about the worst maps of the Year this year which by the way I got a lot of very veiled uh Finly veiled threats uh regarding because I have my own Marketplace team other Marketplace

Partners are like how dare you say bad things about anything on the marketplace even that people people feel like they’re literally getting scammed how dare you stand up for them and I thought that was the weirdest me most messed up thing that there are some people not the majority majority think the marketplace

Should be improved but some people are like no yeah we should be allowed to sell to these people and it’s their problem if they buy it I think is a weird thing but they also said I get his criticism of people who use x-ray in vanilla but you have to remember there

Are plenty of Anarchy servers that allow the use of cheats and I do think this is a really uh cool comment to go into as kind of another uh discussion of society via Anarchy servers because think of about it anak servers only exist and allow you to use x-ray because of the

Fact that there are vanilla servers which allow which don’t allow any cheats but it’s so easy to cheat there it’s nearly impossible to prove that you didn’t and basically the only way you can be sure is by following son’s behavior and seeing if it looks suspicious and so when you get to a

Point in the way that we all have to decide the rules we’re going to live our various lives by you have to work out at some point not just what is right and what is wrong and how should we enforce that on others but also can you enforce

It if there’s no way of enforcing x-ray packs or the ridiculous God Apple things then you don’t say you can’t do those things even though that’s more optimal you say well we’re just going to allow people to do everything because if people can do anything then there are no

Rules that need to be enforced and we’re all on a Level Playing Field and so yeah anak servers wouldn’t exist in a world without hacks but with in a in a world with hacks maybe you should have an x-ray pack um I I I think it’s an

Interesting point and maybe I think it’s also interesting to say well hopefully you got your money back from this video cuz I bought all these terrible maps to show why you shouldn’t buy them I really I just bought the worst reviewed maps and I found out that honestly like three

Out of five of them were bad and two out of five of them were just a little bit misleadingly marketed and uh so the question of whether I got my money back is something I haven’t been able to answer for most of my YouTube history but you might know one of the exciting

Things about 2023 for me in particular is that I finally took the channel independent again this year for uh when I started my YouTube channel it was way back in the days of Machinima and not being able to make your own money from YouTube unless a network basically

Vouched for you and like covered you on the copyright ground that long since went away but I’ve been in various contracts for various agent season a lot of those were very good but towards the last year things got scary and it looked as though there was a real chance of

Just like a lot of the channels money going missing with an organization um but thankfully as of right now I am independent and therefore I’m allowed to show things like my analytics and show like okay so that video actually got me 34.6 th000 views it got me 26

Subscribers and uh we’ll keep the the money blurred for just a second as I say that means that I spent I think about $26 in the video so I paid about a dollar per subscriber except then the video made $165.6 wow that’s actually surprisingly good for a video I feel like uh which

Means that after uh you know you take away uh some form of conversion Etc I believe that means I probably made my money back and then made a little bit more there’s probably a question about like well would have I made a different video would that have earned the same

Amount of money and therefore it was unnecessary but but I did earn my money back and thankfully it wasn’t that poor of a decision I do think buying the bad things on the marketplace is worth it if for every one sale I have to give them I prevent 10 people who might accidentally

Do so but you know there is a real ethical argument about it which I do want to make sure I get right speaking of getting things right I had this comment from my a YouTube shot recently and it was say it said you spent what and the answer is I spent 30 hours

Trying to get a skeleton horse in my genocide run and I wanted to show you something interesting to give again to be truly transparent I don’t think I will be talking uh too much even though I can now officially share certain things that I’ve not been able to for

Years I don’t know if necessarily it means that I should be sharing every little detail because there are some people who do find that to be like disgusting who find it to be ostentatious or almost like bragging like a lot of people oh I guess the word

Would be flexing nowadays um that is not ever the goal of these sorts of things I really like to actually provide people with information that might help you understand things like for example why do YouTube shorts now have that weird text at the bottom of them well this is

A new feature that YouTube introduced that I only found out about yesterday because I’ve just seen it on shorts and thought Oh that’s some weird text down there but it’s actually something you can select as a video maker so let me show you I took this very same short and

I picked the uh related video as the genocide run in full and so now when we go and click on that very same genocide run you’ll see that it actually recommends that video which you can then click and find from the main thing I think this is fairly handy and I think

Is one of the big points of short basically it’s hard to convince people to watch a new YouTuber in 2024 I guess we’ll now say and so I think having shorts as a like kind of Gateway into the main videos is something I’ll be doing on this channel so if you want to

Look at that very same short and learn about how I spent 30 hours doing one particular mob and genocide the rest of the run I forgot how hard it was till I watched it but it took me so long and I think it’s a shame because if the video

Is 41 minutes long then a lot of people might not decide to watch it even though they might really enjoy the concept if they just seen it somewhere else so yeah I will be doing a few more shorts for that reason they don’t earn any realistic money it is just paying you

Know CU it does take time as well as editor time which does have a real cost more so like you literally make a loss on any YouTube short if it doesn’t get tens of millions of views but I think it will be something I’ll be trying a

Little bit more in 2024 and so if you see those you know exactly what you’re getting from them I don’t know if there’s any benefit for you clicking or whatever but I do know there’s a benefit for you having watched this long this video thank you for supporting this

Channel it is something I really want to say as the year comes to an end uh that your support has been massively appreciated through 2023 and even as Minecraft goes through a current miniature dip phase there’s a lot of people talking about the end of Minecraft and going through their

Negativity phases I am going to still stay honest and say things are good when they are good rather than jumping on the oh this is so terrible hate train like the armadillo people made fun of it I really like the armadillo design it looks a tiny bit like a bat now that I

See it in comparison but I think that there are genuine positive improvements being made all across uh the year and I look forward to seeing you through all of those in 2024 have a good New Year and I look forward to seeing you for the best seeds which will be coming up

Tomorrow as well as something I will be working on I usually do the worst suggestions which I did earlier in December I will be doing the best suggestions of 2023 at some point fairly soon as a good way to bring some positivity into the New Year Goodbye