Things I Would Change in Minecraft

I’ve been playing Minecraft longer than some of you have been alive. Oh god, I’m old. And Minecraft has changed a lot over those ten years and mostly it’s been a very positive change. However there are some things that have perhaps been left behind.

And that’s what I would like to talk about in this video. Things that I would change in Minecraft. Now this video is not a complaint video at all. This comes from the heart of someone that’s been playing and loving this game for many, many years. So you know that any alternatives

That I propose for changes in Minecraft they come from the heart and I’ve really thought quite hard about them. So strap in, there’s a lot to cover and I want to preempt this video by saying that I know that Mojang probably know about most of these issues and this is simply my opinion.

It holds absolutely no weight whatsoever but it’s a fun discussion to have and Minecraft is going through a metamorphosis at the moment. So I thought I’d share my thoughts on things that I encounter as a more hardcore player of Minecraft. I play every single day for many, many hours

And there are just some things I gotta get off my chest. So strap in, let’s start the video. Now, the first thing that I want to talk about is villages, villagers and trading halls. Now they’ve been an established mechanic in Minecraft for quite some time. And they’ve been through quite a dramatic evolution

From just NPC’s that are walking around and doing nothing in empty villages. In fact, there were only two villages per world at the time. To a fully functional village with multiple occupations. So, what’s the problem? Well, the issue is with the end goal which is a trading hall.

Unlike other farms which mostly give you access to just a few items. The trading hall gives you access to most items in the game. Crucially it gives you access to diamond gear and armour which completely undermines the value of diamonds. Two: although unfun and extremely frustrating

The barrier to entry to making a trading hall is actually quite low. To the point where you can have one up and running fairly quickly. Three: You can infinitely trade emeralds around in a loop and have infinite items. The only barrier is time. And it doesn’t really feel great

To treat villagers this way. Staying in a one by two box is no way to live. So why do people make trading halls? Well, it’s because of the ease and the access to so many items. Those of us that play Minecraft every day,

This is the most efficient way to get lots of items quickly even though it’s less fun. So how do we change this? What would I like to see instead? Well, I would like villages become what they were intended to be in the first place. A village. I want to see the player

Have to defend a village manually. Maybe they need to create some barriers against mobs but also grant the villagers access. Perhaps wandering traders go from village to village. But it’s important for the health of the village that those wandering traders are able to get from place to place.

I would like to see the player provide the village with resources such as logs. The villagers then take those resources whatever they may be, emeralds etcetera. Refine them within the village and then give the player a worthy investment back. Now there’s obviously a balance to be struck here.

It has to be worth it. But to see the player actively help the villagers to improve their houses. Maybe make their pathways a little easier for them to get around and create a proper village environment. Rather than locking them away, provide them with different resources and have a proper progression of tiers

And timeline with these villages. So I basically want to see them foster an entire eco system and work with the village in its entirety rather than just taking all of these individuals and endlessly trading emeralds with them. It’s a different approach, it’s very complicated and even more difficult to make worth while.

That’s the bit that worries me the most. At the moment it’s too worth while to make a villager trading hall. But in the past, villages have been pointless because it wasn’t worth trading the emeralds which were hard to get. So there’s a balance to be struck here

But I think they can do it with a little bit more broad thinking and trying to think of the village as a whole as an eco system. A similar concept was proposed by Tango many years ago who made a mod on much better villages. Now while I don’t think that the modded approach

Is perhaps Minecrafty enough, I think Tango was onto a winner. He had exactly the same idea of trying to create a proper functioning village. And it’s definitely worth checking out those videos as well as a proof of concept if you like. Okay, so that was quite a big one,

Let’s do a couple of smaller things that I’d change in the game. Let’s do a quick demonstration. Here I have a netherite pickaxe with efficiency V. Let’s mine some stone, it’s pretty quick. Pretty quick. Now let’s mine some glass. It’s slower than stone. Now let’s power up the beacon

And give ourselves haste II. And you might be able to tell where I’m going with this. Let’s do the same exercise again with the stone. Instant! Instantly gone. Now let’s do the same with the glass. It’s a little bit faster but it’s still painfully slow. This is glass. It should break easily!

The logic doesn’t follow! One of the small changes I’d make to Minecraft is please make glass a bit easier to break and definitely make it instant mine with a beacon. Now another small change that I’d love to see in the game is regarding music discs.

This is such a tiny change that I would love to see but it’s still one of those things that you could have a lot of fun with. At the moment the only way to play a music disc is to place it in the jukebox by hand. and you can enjoy some “otherside” bops.

Now there’s nothing wrong with this mechanic so what would I change? Well the issue is once the music is actually finished the only way to turn it back on is to right click it and re enter the music disc. So what I would love to see

Is the ability to activate it with redstone. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The ability to play music with redstone would be an awful lot of fun for us on SMP’s but also it’d be fun to create little contraptions to play your collection of music discs remotely and create something

That’s a little less manual. Now let’s move on to the real reason that I made this video. And I’m trying really hard to not make this just a complaint video but I’ve got to get this one off my chest. This one leads me to be incredibly frustrated multiple times

And I have had to disconnect from the server because of it. And it is the inventory. Now this is the amount of space that Minecraft has always had in over ten years of being developed. But let’s do a quick comparison. Here is all of the blocks in a creative menu

From a very early version of Minecraft. As you can see, there’s about less than a hundred items and blocks and there was more than enough space in the inventory to deal with all of these items. Let’s take a look at the items today. It just keeps going and going and going

And going and going. There are over 600 items now. That’s over six times what it used to be. Yet, the inventory has stayed the same. Now shulker boxes have been an addition that have improved things ever so slightly. But there is issues with this.

One is that you actively have to place down the shulker box and they occupy one of your very precious spots. And there are also so many items now that this game has become mostly about inventory management and so many hours can be wasted clicking items here and there. So the inventory.

This one is not an easy fix but hear me out I’ve got quite a few suggestions on how to improve it. Now I think there’s been a certain degree of over-thinking when it comes to the inventory. This is the same amount of space we’ve always had but I don’t see any problem

With just as a core, just as a baseline increasing this. This is what it would look like. So hear me out, this is a little bit rough around the edges but it’s just to give you an idea. This is what it would look like with 17 added slots.

That is two on either side and one more row. And keeping the nine original inventory spots. So it only really matters when you’ve got your inventory open. This would go a long way to remedying some of the issues with the inventory.

Now obviously, you’d probably rescale this a little bit and tweak it around. You may have also noticed, I’ve got two buttons here. What are these buttons and what do they do? Well, I’m going to point ourselves over to a completely different game for an example of how to deal with inventory issues.

And that is Stardew Valley. Take a look at this. They’ve got two buttons in their inventory. One is organize. You click this button and it consolidates all of the items of the same into the same stack. And they’ve got another one called transfer which is the arrow. You hit that arrow

And everything that can go into the chest goes into the chest, into that stack. Those two buttons, these two buttons would be a life saver for Minecraft. Hit the organize button and your inventory instantly fixes itself. Or organizes itself in a sensible way. Maybe it will take a little bit of

Finessing to make sure that it organizes itself in the best way possible but it’s so much quicker than having to manually click item to item to item and definitely the arrow for moving all the items out of your inventory instantly. This would save many hours and so much frustration for players.

Now this is just one idea. There is a creeper coming up behind me. While I’m- Noooo- There are a few more things that we can do to improve the inventory but for me this is the biggest one. Just make more slots available. Yes, it may just be a bandage

On a much larger issue but I’ve got a few more suggestions in conjunction with this and I must stress this enough, we need more slots. There are other things that could be added. So we mentioned about shulker boxes. Well, why not be able to right click

A shulker box while it’s in your inventory to open it up and shift things around. That would go a long way to stop the endless dragging in your inventory, dragging something out, it would just give you a lot more access. Don’t like that one? Okay, there’s more.

Now this may not be a popular idea but it’s still an option. Minecraft has iconically had stacks of 64 its entire life. And there’s probably a really, really good reason why but maybe it’s time to revisit that. We have a lot more items in the game things like Terraria

Have stackable up to thousand I believe. You can have way more items in one slot. Having the ability to save yourself spending multiple slots on the same block. I realise that one may not be ideal the 64 item thing is totally iconic and there’s probably gamerules behind the scenes

In the code that means that this is not a favourable idea. But I thought I’d just put it out there nonetheless. And the third idea is a backpack of some kind. There’s been multiple mods of this, another item that you can get. Now I have got a third idea.

Remember how we just talked about a bigger inventory? Well, why not make it so that you can earn that inventory. So what if some of the slots, some of the new slots, are blocked on your Minecraft world and you have to earn them through doing something.

Maybe it’s something to do with the deep dark, maybe it’s big things like killing the ender dragon or the wither and they unlock these slots. So imagine you’ve just gone into the deep dark, you’ve found some magic thing or enchanting something rather and it unlocks these things.

That would give the deep dark an amazing purpose and it would encourage the player to explore. Something that isn’t always necessary in Minecraft if you get a good enough seed with everything around you. But if you spread out the reasons to unlock the inventory. Maybe various different things in the world

Like a woodland mansion, some of the temples, all of those things they could all unlock part of your inventory making the game easier as you progress. So anyway, these are the ideas the issue is: inventory too small. The quick answer is: make it bigger. The bigger answer is: make it bigger,

Plus some extra steps. I feel like there are lots of things that you’re able to do but please add an organize button, add a transfer button. Those two things in Stardew Valley save hours, they would fit really well in Minecraft. Now for this next one, I’m on the Hermitcraft server

Because there are some really great ways to demonstrate my point on this server. So the big one that I would want to talk about is connected textures. Minecraft for the longest time has had these big old square boxes particularly around glass but there are other blocks as well. Now for the longest time

I’ve been using mods to connect these textures up to make the world more appealing. Now there is a lot to be learned from the mods that people keep picking up time and time again. And I would like to demonstrate why I think connected textures in general should be implemented into the game.

Now there’s nothing wrong with this, it’s the way it’s always been. It’s just one of those visual things that’s a preference. But I would just like to demonstrate why it works so well. So this is the villager storm that we built on Hermitcraft and in particular, Scar did all this hard work.

Now this is all made out of glass as you can see. This is without connected textures. Big old grid patterns of glass. Now watch what happens when I turn connected textures on. We have ourselves a much much better looking storm. Everything flows wonderfully and I’ll be honest is more accurate.

Glass doesn’t have a grid pattern on it unless it’s got actual, you know, metal in the middle. Most pains of glass don’t have a grid pattern on it. And it’s one of the big visual changes I would love to see in Minecraft. Now on a similar vein of thinking,

There’s another feature that we’ve had on the Hermitcraft server for quite some time. I’m lost. That I genuinely didn’t know wasn’t in vanilla. I didn’t realise that we’d altered the game a little bit and once I’m on vanilla Minecraft I’m like “Oh” “That’s frustrating” and it’s such a quick fix.

So what is it? Well, it’s the simple ability to be able to re-dye things like glass, terracotta, wool etcetera. In the normal Minecraft game you can’t re-dye something that’s already been dyed. or re-craft it or even mixing them up. Obviously this is just in Java,

I honestly don’t know what it’s like in Bedrock but this is such an amazing feature that I’ve become so accustomed to that I think it’s a genuine shame that it’s not in the real game. Obviously this doesn’t effect me because we have these changes in Hermitcraft

But I thought I’d share that this is a feature that was so ingrained in me- Ha! Grain. – that I didn’t even realise it wasn’t a real feature. So I really would love to see that implemented in the real game. Now for this next one it’s all about building.

Now you guys know, I’m a builder in Minecraft it’s the main thing that I do. Now in Minecraft we have plenty of options for building in three dimensions. We can go outwards, we can go across and we can go upwards but when it comes to trying to build something underneath

When we’re building something floating in the air or a build in general, getting access to the block underneath is only possible in one of two ways. You can jump off and try and place a block and then have to fly back up or you can go down to the bottom,

Scaffold up to the top and painfully make your way up with scaffolding. The scaffolding one is more appropriate for things that are going to be a bit bigger but if you just need access, the flying ones are your best bet for just getting that one block underneath

And then you can access it like so. So, this is a little bit of a problem for builders a minor frustration. So what can we do about it? Well, why not use vines or something similar to scaffolding where you can place the vine like this, imagine you can place it again and again,

And then once you’ve got a couple of blocks underneath just by placing some vines you can then go under, crouch, without falling and you’d be able to build properly. So it might look a little something like this. You go down the vines, it’s still pretty dangerous and easy to fall and mess up

But you can then place underneath, go down a little bit, place underneath, go down a bit and you would have access to more blocks than ever before. And of course if you run out oh dear, you fall down. Now this is just a suggestion on one way to do it.

There are multiple ways of solving this particular issue and there may even be a custom block or new block that could be added that solves this particular building issue. Scaffolding did a good job in some ways, but it still limits that access from below. Now, while we’re in creative mode

There’s another little thing that I would like to add as something I’d like to see be able to change and that’s the ability to change your speed as you fly. If you’re in creative sometimes you want to be able to move a little faster than the default or maybe even a little slower.

Now in spectator mode we can speed that up by scrolling faster and faster and faster and we can get through things a lot quicker. Or if we wanna go really slow we can really get that down to the point where you can’t move at all. Having this in creative mode

Would be a really, really nice addition and you could do it by holding control and scroll. Now I don’t even think spectator mode is available in Bedrock so Bedrock versus Java is another issue entirely. We’re not gonna get into that today. I have vanished. A short video I thought this was gonna be.

Turns out there’s quite a few things I’d like to see changed including these things right here. Now I’m partially responsible for these but if you’ve played Minecraft you know that these things are pretty awful to the game play experience. And I’m guilty for voting for these mobs all the way back in 2017

But did you know that the addition of these mobs was determined by just over 2000 votes. That’s not a lot of people. But now that they’re in the game, yeah I have to admit I would like to see them changed. I just don’t think it’s good for game play. They feel disruptive.

If you’re playing the game and these guys spawn in their masses and they swoop down on you and interfere with things. So do I want to get rid of them? What would I change? No, I don’t want to get rid of them. They are content, they do have a use.

They drop phantom membrane. I just think they’re in the wrong place. I would like to see the phantoms moved here. An end city. So imagine, you’re in the end which is a very challenging place to be and with each end city there’s a finite amount of phantoms. Now these would force the player

To tackle these things very differently because if you were hit by a shulker box with these things flying around, you’ve got to take these out first. They are so dangerous. These may even prevent people going straight for the ship at the start. It does make it a far more challenging thing

And it fits in a bit more thematically. Although I must admit I’m just not a massive fan of the phantoms and I deeply apologize for playing my part in voting for them. Moving on, we are in spectator mode because we’re looking for the next thing I would like to change.

And they are absolutely everywhere except when I need to find them. And here’s what I would like to change: the good old dungeon spawner. These have not changed, again like the inventory, since the birth of Minecraft. And although iconic I’m not sure anyone would be upset to see a big overhaul

Of the explorable content that poses a threat. They are very useful and I don’t think the spawner in general should be removed. They are very, very good for xp and items. But I do think they should be slightly more challenging to get to. I even made a video ages ago

On how these could be changed. Although I would definitely do something completely different for their design. But that’s another thing I’d like to see changed or adapted or improved. Now the next thing I want to talk about is kind of a double whammy. So we’re gonna talk about beacons and netherite items.

So at the moment beacons do exactly the same thing no matter what they’re made out of. Although I think I know which one I’m going to choose to make it out of because these two are exceptionally expensive. Well, what if these beacons offered something that they don’t.

So maybe these can give you a haste II and all the things there but maybe if you went as crazy as to make a diamond or a netherite beacon it could give you a little something extra for those of us extra hardcore players. Now at the same time

I want to talk about deepslate and the diamond economy. Because at the moment with haste II you can insta-mine stone but you can’t do that with deepslate. It’s still painfully slow to mine even with haste II and you know as well as I do while you’re mining for diamonds

You’d really hope that this would be a little bit faster. The addition of deepslate has essentially removed using a beacon as an effective method of mining. Meaning that you’re only left with strip mining down at bedrock. Whereas before we used to have the option of using

Lots of beacons and then just mining out in a big sort of dome type shape but now the best way is the most mundane way and I’ve got to say: it’s a lot less fun and therapeutic compared to what stone mining was. So I think there’s an opportunity here

To somehow between the beacon and netherite items to change up the value of diamonds and the economy of Minecraft and potentially giving netherite items a bit more oomph. What if a combination of a beacon and a netherite item such as a pickaxe gave you the speed that you used to have

While mining before. Or even without the beacon, a netherite item could mine deepslate as fast as stone used to be. Mojang clearly had their reasonings for these changes but from a user experience mining for diamonds was already pretty painful. Now it’s extra painful to the point where

I’m just gonna go straight to that villager trading hall that we talked about earlier. It used to be fun and therapeutic while it was stone but the deepslate introduction has kind of tainted that. So while we have cobblestone and cobbled deepslate in our inventory, it’s in a weird state.

You see cobbled deepslate for the most part acts a little bit like cobble in certain situations. For example I can craft a pickaxe using cobbled deepslate. However, I can’t craft a dropper using cobbled deepslate. For that I would have to go and use normal cobblestone but I can make a furnace.

I can even mix and match. This is a little confusing either cobbled deepslate should be the same as cobblestone or it’s not. So I would really love to see this changed where cobbled deepslate is used in redstone recipes and everything else that cobble is used for

I have a feeling that this was perhaps just an oversight and it wasn’t intentional otherwise I really don’t know why it would be that way. Now this video is almost finished but these two things are two things that I don’t have a suggestion for. Everything else in this video

I’ve had a really reasonable idea of how I would actually like to see these things changed. But for the last two I don’t have the answers. I just want to voice that I would like to see them changed. So the first one is bats.

There’s a couple of mobs such as bats and polar bears that serve next to no purpose in Minecraft. Now you might argue that these are atmospheric, they should add to the world and the ambiance etcetera. Except I don’t feel that they do. I don’t really feel like I come across a bat enough

And they’re just kind of there and annoying and cute and squeaky. What I would like to see them change to is very similar to the parrot. See the parrot equally doesn’t really have a use other than it’s super fun. You can tame them, they sit on your shoulde-

Oh my goodness, the first seed. It was meant to be, pesky bird. And they sit on your shoulder and they dance with you when you play music. This serves no functional purpose but they’re so fun. And this really entices people but the polar bear and the bats, not so much.

I would love to see some sort of interaction, make these mobs interactive in some way. I just don’t have the answer on what that is. Now the last one, I’m gonna go on the Hermitcraft server and we’re gonna do a little experiment because it regards PvP. So the last thing is PvP.

So I’ve asked Scar here to be a- [laughs] showing his abs off. I’ve asked Scar here to demonstrate with me. We’re doing a little bit of a- Hey hey hey-ey ey ey! We’re doing a little bit of a battle here. Now the reason I’m bringing this up

Is because this is what I would like to see changed. Now I’m pretty sure Mojang already know that PvP is a problem in Minecraft and that’s why people stick to the old combat system. But basically it’s just- It’s so, so painful to fight anyone in this game at the moment.

When you’re all geared out with proper gear it’s just kind of painful with the enchantments. Especially if you’ve got golden carrots. So let’s see how long this takes. [laughs] Okay so that took a really long time and if you’ve got elytra and other things it can take even longer. Now here’s the thing

I don’t actually have a reasonable suggestion for what it should be. But I would like to see a full re haul of the PvP system. I think Minecraft would definitely benefit from it. So that is it for some things because I didn’t include everything in this video

That I would like to change in Minecraft. Now obviously like I said at the start this is just my opinion, I don’t expect the entire game to change. I expect this to have almost no impact whatsoever. But I thought I would share these ideas nonetheless

In the hope that maybe someone will see it and agree with me and maybe it’s the first step towards reasonable change. Now I know for a fact that Mojang know about a lot of these issues and probably have their own ideas and it’s just coming down to how much time they have available

To put towards these things. And I know I don’t speak for everyone here but I definitely speak for some of my peers on the Youtube scene but a quality of life update for Minecraft would be extremely welcome. And if anything please add some more slots and an organize button.

Thank you very much for watching. Please let me know what you think or what you would actually like to be changed in Minecraft. I has to be something that benefits everyone and not just your personal experience. I’ve spoken to many of my friends who play Minecraft day in day out

And everyone really resonates it with some of these issues. So thank you very much for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video and good-bye!