Minecraft Just Redeemed 1.20

Everyone hates Minecraft 1.20 or at least that’s what we thought I have a feeling that’s not actually the case anymore let’s do a quick recap of how this update cycle is going October 15th 2022. Minecraft live was hosted and they announced that they’d be doing things a little bit differently this year the

Update was going to be revealed over time and they weren’t going to tell us the name for the update until we were way down the road in the future Agnes said that they were going to learn from their mistakes we have announced the features that we didn’t manage to

Deliver and it’s important that we learn from that and that would take action from that they decided to only show the features that were much further along in the development process and because of that the features they showed during the live stream were pretty underwhelming so

This year we think we will have time to really like iterate on the features together with the community of course and also to add features that we haven’t showed yet like let me have a show today and so it began here’s what was shown off during the stream new default skins

Hanging signs bamboo wood with the raft chiseled bookshelves and cam animals that was pretty much it four new in-game features and some skins needless to say the community was a little bit disappointed however October 19th 2022. the first snapshot goes live it had only been four days since Minecraft live and

There were already new things in the game this is pretty different from the multiple months between the wild updates announcement in October 2021 and the first snapshot in March of 2022 months after the announcement so yeah that was pretty cool that they were already adding features in the game but it’s not

Like they’re going to do much more with this during this year right snapshot on the 26th bam snapshot on November 2nd I have Snapchat on November 9th snapshot on November 16th and then 1.19.3 is released throughout all of these snapshots there were changes made based on the community

Suggestions and new features were added that make a lot of people happy maybe they are doing some cool things but there still aren’t really a lot of features snapshot on January 18th oh wait this one isn’t actually all that interesting huh it feels like they’re slowing going down a little bit just

Kidding bam snapshot on January 24th with a new feature we’d never seen before called armor trims now you can add these cool extra details to your armor and then on February 1st they made more changes based on community feedback and made the trims even better and then

We had another random snapshot on the 8th that had a couple wild command things happening with display entities but then February 10th archeology February 13th the sniffer February 14th a surprise feature cherry blossoms and then the snapshot drops on the 15th with all these features ready to go oh

There’s a camel down there hey man how’s it going over the course of just five days Minecraft basically doubled the amount of snapshot content in game and now the people are kind of loving it of course the updates aren’t without their flaws and Minecraft themself say that the features are unfinished for example

Finding and hatching the sniffer egg and now here we are three minutes after I said quick recap and with about 82 percent of you is still not subscribed both of these things are very confusing so first let’s talk about the new features and then we’ll dive into why I

Think the player base hated the update originally also I’d like to mention why I feel like this update is possibly the best update for Minecraft we’ve ever had and it’s not necessarily just because of the new features uh but I’ll dive into that in a bit stick around the first

Edition we’ve got here is an addition they announced way back in 2020 during the caves and cliffs update this is the long-awaited archeology system the way it was originally intended was that you could use a brush to dig away layers of blocks to get to the treasures inside

Pots were also added but they were a little more complex requiring the pot to be cooked over a fire with the shards the system was pretty cool but they postponed it indefinitely the version as it was added in 23w07a is quite a bit different from the original idea this

Time you still have a brush but the artifacts revolve around a new block called suspicious sand this new type of sand can be found in desert Wells finally giving them a use and also in desert pyramids in a new treasure room when you dig out all these new sand

Blocks when you find these new sandblocks you’ll want to be pretty careful as they’re quite fragile but if you use the brush you can right click on it and extract the hidden artifacts within wow what a cool artifact uh explosives after digging through a few of them you’ll likely happen upon

These Pottery shards with different designs you can combine four of them in a crafting table or substitute out any of them for bricks to create a clay pot that you can place around your world and decorate with you can either break them normally to get the pot back or you can

Break them with a pickaxe to get all of your pieces back this is all still subject to change so there’s plenty more that they could do with this system so we’ll just have to keep an eye on the future snapshots and see how this feature progresses as always they’re

Taking Community feedback on this implementation into account as they iterate so there’s plenty of possibilities next up we have the sniffer this is the mob vote mod from this past Minecraft live and it’s starting to take shape really nicely as it stands right now the only way to get

The sniffers through creative mode but the survival implementation will come in a future snapshot in the form of sniffer eggs once spawned in you can see the sniffer is pretty large I mean check them out compared to me it’s he’s pretty he’s pretty tall the design is pretty

Fun and colorful and it has the feeling of a sort of ancient dinosaur of course there’s also the adorable little snifflets that you could spawn into look at him he’s so cute they’re still pretty large but there’s so much killer they’re so small sniffers are passive mobs and

They can’t be tamed or tempted by anything you can still grab them with a lead but uh yeah they’re not like any sort of farmable animal every once in a while the sniffer will plop down on the ground and dig around in the grass they’ll then dig up a torch flower seed

Also they have this adorable animation after they find something and they’ll lift their head and they’ll wiggle their ears like they’re proud of it ah so cute now that you have your torch flowers to grow it into something incredibly beautiful and useful the seed gets planted on farmland and is grown

Like any other crop into a beautiful torch flower just gonna use bone meal real quick this can then be picked up and used as decoration pretty much anywhere it can also be used for orange dye it doesn’t glow though which I I feel like it should give off some sort

Of light like that would that that feels like it would make sense feels fitting for the name torch flower this likely isn’t the only ancient plant that’s going to be added though we’re anticipating at least one or two more ancient seed options to be added just check out this image by a pretty

Reputable leaker of Minecraft’s upcoming features Roger is rarely wrong once again these features are subject to change and the team is taking Community feedback and finally a feature that came out of absolutely nowhere for me this is the Cherry Grove biome as you can see here these biomes appear at higher

Elevations like Meadows and include a full cherry wood set as well as this really nice pedal ground cover I mean look at it it’s so pretty the saplings of the trees make really good decoration blocks as well and they look even better in Little Flower Pots I like a little

Bonsai tree check it out even more great decoration potential the leaves also let off this gorgeous pink particle and uh you know any way to improve Ambience and control particles is a win in my book also let’s just take a look at the new wood set I mean just look at the

Beautiful pink palette that this is oh man oh it’s just so nice it’s so pretty I love love it I love it so much also pink boat what’s not to love about this that right there is truly amazing this Forest isn’t quite in the Bedrock beta yet but it is

Planned on coming soon uh and also same iteration and something to change things apply to these features but you already knew that so this is the current state of the 1.20 update in 2023 and this is just the 2023 features that over doubled the features from 2022. I’d say that

Puts this update in a pretty solid spot in my mind so why exactly did the player base have such a Negative reception of the 1.20 update when it was first showed at Minecraft live well here’s my theory I think it’s exactly what I just said a moment ago the additions here in 2023

Are over double what was announced during Minecraft live which means there was very little that people had to look forward to in the past Minecraft would announce essentially everything that was coming in the next update and when features like fireflies were canceled for whatever reason players were upset

This doesn’t change the fact that the players were used to seeing everything that’s being included in an update so when Mojang decided Well now we’re not gonna show you everything this time people got upset it feels pretty selfish at first glance but at the same time

That’s just how us humans are we like getting new things and when we feel like those new things are being held back from us it’s easy to be frustrated also I think there was a subgroup of people that didn’t fully understand what was going on with the new update cycle

People were thinking oh that’s it this is this is all the features we got this is this is the whole thing well that’s dumb and they didn’t realize that the team was taking their time with adding more content later on so to be completely honest I think it’s completely reasonable that people were

Frustrated in the beginning if you’re a casual player that doesn’t dig into updates it’s easy to miss the way that things change it’s easy to think oh that’s it and make your conclusions based on that but that’s no longer the case we’ve got so much more and in my

Personal opinion I honestly think this update might be one of the best Minecraft updates we’ve had in a very long time but why would I think that well it’s not necessarily because of the features and don’t get me wrong they’re fantastic but it’s much more about the

Way that they’ve been added to the game take armor finishes for example originally armor pieces could have every color of finish other than the actual material the armor was made out of so iron armor couldn’t have an iron trim netherite armor couldn’t have a netherite trim and so on plus leather

Armor didn’t have trims at all so the community gave mixed feedback on this and then sure enough in the next snapshot those changes were implemented now armor can have everything the community wanted and that is exactly why I think this update is the best update Minecraft has had in a very long time

This shift to listening to the community and making changes based on what they hear is an excellent way to do things there’s a lot of really good ideas that come from the players so because of this I have a feeling the torch flowers will end up giving off light by the end of

This update cycle that feels like exactly the type of update Mojang is willing to make and that’s why I feel like it’s the best update yet while we wait for those updates though I’m just gonna hang out here in this Cherry forest and uh just kind of just kind of

Enjoy myself you know because it’s uh it’s really pretty it’s really just Pleasant um what are those guys doing over there where’d that come from