I know I know you’ve clicked on this and I can hear you typing just hold on a second everyone wants to defend the hoe even the diamond hoe thing has been memed for Generations but what is this what is it I would sooner scrounge ancient cities and perform autopsies on Wardens with my toothbrush to extract the Arsenic from their Unholy corpses to mix into my morning Minecraft caffeinated splash potion than ever use Ancient debris on this holy unnecessary cursed addition to Minecraft I don’t know why I’m using the word rather I’ve done both of these things I’m not hating The hoes are fine I love hoes but I’m kind of dead serious with my title here and in order to show you what I mean we have to go back in time a time when Minecraft was still mostly only talked about in message boards back in 2009. what would happen in the next few years would change the world forever adding an extra plastic case to the Bookshelf next to the TV of every gaming basement but the question remains why did it happen I can’t answer that in full but there’s a critical component of That answer that very often goes unseen so art in general is claimed to be subjective but that seems to be only partially true since there are identifiable paintings that human beings collectively rate as Superior to others one general rule that can be followed in striving to find successfully repeatable Pleasing Aesthetics to human beings is to navigate the borders between the two bimodal phenomenons if something is so patternistic and orderly to the point where it’s entirely predictable it just doesn’t pique the interest of a human psyche the other side of this coin chaos is a little different there’s Expressions of it that can reach levels of disinterest of the previously outlined obnoxiously predictable orderliness but with the exact representation of Chaos in terms of types of noise maps that elicit the lowest Collective interest among humans is probably Up For Debate what seems to be a repeatably reliable way to Peak Interest in people visually are combinations of these two Bedrock principles when Chaos and Order are linked in a harmonious way that radiates a deeper meaning in terms of the larger themes that are meant to breathe through what is visually seen this harmony seems to transcend the idea of Art and Echoes The same success principles across the various domains of human Endeavors the reasoning behind it may stem from the trial and error of humans in the last million years surviving an extremely harsh environment with factors contributing to illness or death which needed to be met with an equal force of Action to attempt to survive or perish not just individually but collectively through eons of human Generations the correct long-term strategy for human survival was likely navigating the line between between Order and Chaos which might actually point to a deeper truth about the ultimate nature of the universe itself and why Universal Constants like the laws of physics are tuned to seemingly completely random variables thinking about it enough almost makes you feel like you’re about to come to a conclusion about it like it’s on the very tip of your tongue yet always escapes you but whatever the secrets about the ultimate fate of the Universe are Notch probably knew them because he totally got this right navigating the line between Order and Chaos in the representation of Minecraft the mobs the items the game mechanics and last but not least all of these contingencies of the world pointing you towards the various conclusions about The in-universe lore of Minecraft had this beautiful and meaningful balance to it because Minecraft is an extremely symmetrical game comprised of squares cubes straight lines and the like the total mechanics and in-universe lore of Minecraft seemed to lean towards chaos like a strange lopsided paint thing that Made you turn your head with its unexpected and rather fascinating brush Strokes of Randomness that cultivated into a mosaic of awe wonder and deeper meaning matched by its post-apocalyptic feel the game itself had no instructions whatsoever that heretical crafting book crap that’s in the game now we had Nothing like that back in 2012. you were plopped into the world having no idea how to do anything with no tutorial but Google it’s as if the game itself was an artifact that was transported here from Another Universe through Quantum Shenanigans and we all were so curious And just tinkered with it to figure it out all of this serves to pique your curiosity and the deeper balance of Minecraft through its visuals mechanics and apocalyptic loneliness served to be an irresistibly curious sight that couldn’t be ignored this in my mind serves as a large part as to why Minecraft took over the world but Notch was an artist a Visionary he wasn’t a CEO and he never expected himself to be and never wanted to so he took a check from Microsoft so big you couldn’t deplete it even if he went out and had a Thousand kids to go live the rest of his life as he saw fit the artist forever free to wander the real Minecraft real life so we have notch Minecraft but Minecraft historically is in a tug of war between two states the other being Microsoft Minecraft to be fair Minecraft Especially Java Minecraft has been under the trajectory of a very similar developer team with many of the same people who were around at the time of Notch but whether through the absence of notch or the now looming Overlord of Microsoft it seems that Minecraft’s Soul has been undergoing changes for the last 10 years let me show you what I mean Iron a good place to start for a long time until recently for some oars you would have to mine them the actual block would just pop out and you’d have to smelt it in a furnace other ores such as coal or Redstone yielded experience Points and lumps of coal or the Redstone item but in Minecraft 1.17 raw iron was added which was now yielded instead of getting the iron ore block itself making its process symmetrical to the coal and Redstone ores the gold ore iron block was Sim similarly made congruent to this Pattern with the addition of raw gold the bookshelf I absolutely agree that this beautiful block has needed companions for some time but we finally get one and what is its name chiseled bookshelf this is because chiseled was originally selected as the word furthermore finer ornate further crafted blocks in Minecraft because all these Blocks were exclusively some form of stone or Crystal but a bookshelf the word chiseled just doesn’t apply but because it has to reflect the pattern this is the name that was chosen but it might seem like I’m taking pod shots at random and insignificant things well how About the nether itself most of us can remember our reaction when we first learned that there was another dimension in Minecraft and trying to figure out how to get there with Google you make your obsidian portal frame you light it up you go through and you see it a fire Ridden hellscape with lava ocean so huge they seem to be artistic tributes to Satan himself and the Netherrack block an ugly vomit colored random noise pattern completely filling the entire Dimension The Haunting noises of Ghasts everything about this place was meant to unsettle you even the scant smatterings Of order that dotted the dimension the fortresses indicating that something was surviving here and building something vaguely resembling civilization something malevolent but of course leave it to a corporate monolith to determine that a block whose very existence and purpose was to unnerve the player is simply too unnerving and unsightly so They killed the old Netherrack texture for something much cleaner and now the plain nether biomes look like something out of Runescape or World of Warcraft chaos erased order restored but it gets a lot worse with the nether update in 1.16 there’s absolutely some biomes that are amazing as hell and in general I’m Happy with the update but instead of being the true photo negative of reality the nether now is just a mirror the the world with different colors it it’s got its own wood its own villagers we’ve moved in more Overworld mobs even the wood itself is identical in terms of the Items it can produce the crafting processes every single aspect of it is completely symmetrical no mystery no weirdness no strange unexpected shapes to the technology and progression trees just eye-wateringly predictable congruence with every single other material in Minecraft if you look at the version change locks you can see a lot more Examples of this things like perfectly dispersing specific armor trims in the loot chests of the various ruins or perfectly varied Enchanted villager book trades in all of the different biomes they’ve even assigned specific exclusive book trades to the biomes that don’t have Village generation so that you would have to create Villages there Yourself to get them I’m not saying that’s not a cool feature it would be if this ceaseless pattern of increasing order wasn’t so overwhelming the villagers are supposed to be nitwits the only surviving race resembling civilization that endured whatever happened in the past that wiped out the conscious inhabitants of Minecraft They’re supposed to be practically neanderthalic and that was represented in the strange and random items you could trade them for and your inability to communicate over time the villager trading menu became more comprehensive complete and corporate fully stocked for all your Minecraft needs and so it seems Across the aisle the further we get into Microsoft Minecraft with every update the more that curious fascinating lonely post-apocalyptic fever dream that was notch Minecraft is erased for perfect and unceasing symmetrical geometric patterns of unsurprising perfection when it comes to all that Minecraft can be there’s a lot that players have to say Everyone thinks that they know best I myself know how much people overestimate the importance value and object effectiveness of their own opinions and that definitely goes for me too adding more noise to the cacophony of player input by making this video but if the Allure of this dreamy Strange World Contributed to its rise then I think it’s worth something to point out that the soul of Minecraft should be protected the omnipresence of chaos within the feel of the game absolutely being one of the central components of that Soul a huge thanks to the top tier patrons Matthew scarberry the balt Tollette and Solly you navigated the line between Order and Chaos that goes down my heart and feeds symmetry into my soul man that was deep Video Information
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