Mojang: The Bedrock Community Would Like A Word…

Mojang if you’re listening please stop taking features away from Bedrock of course that’s an easy thing for me to say but there is a much more complex message to convey I’m not here to pretend developing the world’s most loved game is easy it’s a hard job and I’m really impressed and honestly

Appreciative of the people doing it but there is one key area that the Bedrock Community wishes you could improve on and it relates to parity I know your time is valuable so I’ll make this as succinct as possible there have been four features removed in just the last

Year from Bedrock Edition that the community at large did not want these are full changes so small the average player probably doesn’t see them as an improvement and probably doesn’t notice them at all but the hardcore the most dedicated Bedrock players are the ones who will seriously notice that they are

Missing the first example is the cobweb to string recipe being removed in the 1.20.10 beta I’m bringing this up now because it’s technically still a beta and so I really want anyone who’s listening to consider just undoing this change it is one that has no benefit fit

To any players it will just stop people who would go into a mine shaft to get string from being able to do that Nerfs to weaken certain features and encourage others is a really important thing but the cobwebs were never the major source of string and ultimately it’s just

Taking one more option of getting them out of the game so that more players have to go to a string Farm or worse yet a Strider or cat Farm the only thing worse than a cat Farm is the second example of boats no longer being able to

Fit horses in this is a key part of the Overworld progression before you get an elytra being able to get around your world relies on having a horse for the land a boat for the ocean and being able to combine the two gives you the third place solution for best way to travel

Around your Minecraft world right after elytra and blue ice boat I guess maybe also after the uh never portal but my point here is to say that this was a fourth best transport method third best maybe at best and this is something that Minecraft removed because I quote horses

Are larger than boats and should not fit despite that same update adding Turtles into the boats then we’ve course got the campfire damage campfires used to light mobs on fire and damage them and they removed that in an update because uh you know we’ll dive into the reason why it’s

The exact same white reason that the fourth feature of the shattered Savannah also had its cue changed this is what the shattered Savannah used to look like and this is what the shattered Savannah looks like now what have they done to you why did they take one of the

Prettiest biomes in the game that people would actively seek out and remove the color well I’ll give you the reason why it’s parody which is a really important thing for Minecraft parody is taking the two editions of the game that exist Java and bedrock and trying to smooth out all

Sorts of weird differences that exist between the two of them the same is true for the beetroot that you can see over here beetroot is not just a very questionable crop but it started its life as an exclusive for the Bedrock edition of the game it started on one

Edition and then they moved it to the other one so that if you were playing either game you knew that beetroots would exist the same as Trooper bridges in villages Iron Golem spawn and the way that all of these Mechanics Work training used to be wildly different between platforms and all of these

Issues have been fixed which is a real big win if you’re a Minecraft developer really big thank you for all of these things this is an important part of Minecraft and we can’t pretend parity is a bad word because it’s what’s made so much of the game so unique and

Interesting and indeed possible to begin with but the issue comes when that same Mantra is applied the other way around to features like the horse boat in the shattered Savannah or the cobweb or indeed the campfire these are all features which had a positive uh you know they had an existence on one

Platform and then Mojang decided that they would remove it from one so it matched the other you know imagine if beetroot instead of being added to javlishment was removed from Bedrock you would technically still get parity from doing that but you would end up with a Minecraft with less crop diversity in

The same way removing boat horses from Minecraft Bedrock technically reached parity between the two of them but you have less diversity and less gameplay options for Bedrock or Java players than if you just simply allow people to ride their horses and put them in boats if

They want to on either Edition this is an issue that I don’t think Minecraft themselves really like being stuck with I mean even when they updated the world generation algorithm so it would be the same on both versions they didn’t make it so it was just perfectly one or the

Other they rewrote the engine from scratch altogether to Make a Better World gent for both additions but imagine if instead of doing that they use the world gen from the better Edition on the worst Edition that might be better in some ways but imagine if they’d done the thing where they took

The worst version of Minecraft and made that the default World gen um I think a good example of this might be that a lot of people really like the way skins work on Bedrock you can have 3D elements on them you can have all sorts of character customization things

On here imagine if they took the Java customization and put it on Bedrock that would be ludicrous it would be throwing away a lot of work but that’s something they did with regards to the players for reasons that aren’t even immediately clear in fact I’m sure Mojang has many

Voices in their team from people playing Java because it’s the addition to introduce many to this beautiful world filled with air grass and lava however I think it might be missed that many players didn’t and the Xbox 360 or an iPad are the locations of their formative memories even someone who

Started playing Bedrock two years ago doesn’t deserve to have some of their favorite things about the game removed and I think that’s something we should all be able to get behind it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been playing this game if it is one of your favorites and

You put hours into it every day I think your opinion is worth listening to but it does seem as a Bedrock player that the overwhelming majority of voices that are heard are Java Edition ones when there is a bug spotted on Java that breaks some Redstone or Farm Contraption

It ends up being fixed near immediately even if the feature that they were working on was intended because they do believe on having a very healthy Community when it comes to bedrock it feels like there will be a big feature and many people might say that they

Don’t want it but that doesn’t stop off it from just being removed it feels as though the Java development is an active engagement with the community whereas the Bedrock you know process is just telling the community what they like and they’re going to have to deal with it

This actually does have some benefits of development but I think it’s not the way that most people want the game to be developed and that’s why this open letter is here it’s because I think there are all sorts of issues with the idea of removing things in the name of

Parity in fact if you think removing things just because they’re not on one edition and they are on the other is a good idea remove emotes from the game or the funky Marketplace button because it’s only on one edition and not the other or remove hardcore from the Java

Edition If instead Minecraft is two good games and there’s a lot of great features that are on one but not the other I think there should be a rule that something shouldn’t ever be removed from one edition for the sake of it even if there is absolutely no way it can be

Added to the other Edition and so it’s absolutely required that it be removed at some point I think there is zero way this should take priority over the actual parity issues an example of this that Mojang has been very pragmatic about is the differing Redstone between bedrock and Jabba the Bedrock Redstone

Is the way they intend it to be but they’re leaving the Java Community with their air quotes broken Redstone because that’s what the players on that Edition want maybe when they fixed every other parity issue that exists in the game they can come back and deal with

Redstone but I think until then it should definitely take priority and in fact if I was going to give my open letter a short enough format that it could fit in just four bullet points maybe something that could be easily shared on social media here is what I

Think the community would put in them one is that parity should be a priority only when it adds new features not when it removes them removing features for parity is just wasting everybody’s time and that’s because adding features to the Edition which don’t have the feature is better than removing them from the

Version with I don’t think you can take any exclusive feature from Bedrock or Java and say that it would be better to remove it from one than add it to the other the only way this makes sense is if your idea of equity or equality is seeing one person who has five dollars

One person who has one dollar and saying the only way for them to be equal is to take four dollars away from the guy with five and it’s like no there’s a there’s a much better solution to that you could you could give both you could get the

Them both down to three or you could take the guy at one up to five there is that is much better everyone would rather be richer I’m pretty sure at least anyway the third point is that the community can’t decide everything in the game this is something I think it’s

Important for us to admit however I think that maybe we should be the voice on a parity cool is Something parody or a bug or is it something that needs to be removed or added please ask the community ask the people playing the game uh pouring Our Lives into it rather

Than just assuming yeah I bet we should just do it and see what happens later and if the plan is to do it and see what happens later please listen when people say by and large even the person who creates the bug report that this is not

A thing that’s wanted now is the time supposedly for 1.20.10 uh to go through the community process says please just listen to what we think that can include people who believe the recipe is bad but also it can include people who think the other way listen to both sides and have

Some form of community engagement um you know some form of uh you know like listening to people if you’re going to do something that is actively removing also please fix the horse boat the Windswept Savannah and the cobweb crafting recipe um you know you might argue that if you

Added these features it would be an exclusive and so a parity issue but in that case ask the Java players if they want it because they can have it too maybe give them a you know like an experimental snapshot with it and see what they think I think these are all

No-brainers that I’ve yet to see a single person say oh yeah Minecraft be so much better if we didn’t have them because again unlike say uh you know if they made a change to iron golems that made them double or strong that would be beneficial to some people and worse for

Others if they made a change to the combat system then that would change the way people play the game in positive and negative ways but there are some features that just seem like no-brainers so with that said I hope that anyone from Mojang has at least given this a

Listen if you disagree that is actually something I would love to hear too I do not mind the idea of just floating ideas but what I don’t like is when the entire Community has one opinion and there’s no explanation as to what happens there so any amount of communication on this one

Any amount of explaining that actually this would really break something big planned in the future uh whatever it is I would love to hear it but for now if any of these four things were taken to heart this video would have felt entirely worthwhile to me my channel is

Clearly dedicated to doing weird wacky things in the Bedrock edition of the game but also informing people about it and one of the weird side roles we’ve taken on is fighting to make it better I think that Bedrock is a great version of the game it’s not the weird mobile

Spin-off but actually one of the really valid ways to play and spoke Please Subscribe if you want support more of this happening uh it is something that I think is important and if you do too I’d appreciate any form of support or sharing of this video because if I could

Just get one person from Mojang to listen to this I would feel as though we’d done something good for the Bedrock version of the game anyway to keep this short I’m going to end now thank you for watching and let’s listen to some Relic again actually Foreign