SHOCKING Review: Minecraft 1.21 Update!

Every revealed feature in Minecraft 1.21 is now available in snapshots and betas these features are still able to change but at this point those changes are much less likely and so the question is how good are the 1.21 features and by virtue the entire update I’ll rate every single

Individual feature out of five and then by the end of the video that will give us an overall update score and in the meantime you can learn about every feature found inside of 1.21 so far starting with the breeze which is a fresh new hostile mob design breaking

The trend of Minecraft update having far more friends than foes being a hostile mob is not what makes the breeze unique though instead its Air Blast attacks and inability to be hit by arrows is what leads to a interesting and unique combat scenario before even considering that it will activate Redstone with these

Attacks meaning that the Rune design is specifically set up around making it a very Dynamic fight I do have to say the breeze is a breath of fresh air as far as Minecraft mobs are concern and you would think being a mob rather than a block would inhibit potential creativity

From this as part of the update but but you would be wrong and I bet you haven’t seen the breeze launcher from gyt at first you wonder why all of the breeze attacks going into one place make sense but then the button is hit and all of a

Sudden you go flying into the air and you realize this is a great alternative to a TNT launcher that requires much fewer resources and so this is a great example of just one of the many things that people have used the breeze attack for being useful for Redstone alongside

Being an interesting fight should already be great characteristics by themselves but the breeze adds in a wonderful way to Minecraft’s law and well building because the breeze is suspiciously like the blaze one is air and one is fire they are both magical creatures that attack with their

Respective element and so it leaves the door open for a potential Earth Elemental and water Elemental in the future something which is great on a LW level but also wonderful because it adds to the world of Minecraft and so now it’s time to give it a score but first I

Want to be clear on exactly how I’m going to come up with an arbitrary number out of five obviously until a full update is complete You could argue that every feature in the update either works with or doesn’t work with the rest of the update and Minecraft as a whole

But I will be trying to look at each individual feature to say would the game be the same without it would anyone really care if it was removed that would be a b bad marking uh does the actual feature add to the creativity without being unnecessarily unfair or removing

Something from you and most importantly does it fit Minecraft in a realistic way they could add a dolphin assault rifle to the game tomorrow and although it might objectively be fun to shoot enemies with it wouldn’t feel like Minecraft when you’re doing so and so that is an important part of the scoring

Pro alongside how well the feature is actually developed and so with those characteristics in mind I think the breeze fits Minecraft while still expanding on the game it gives you something new which is a challenge but without being annoyingly so and most importantly gives creative potential to

How you solve the challenge of fighting him in his rooms but also in how you make fun redstone contraptions that makes him a five out of five as far as I am concerned which seems like High Praise but it’s the first of two mobs in this update let’s not talk about that

Other guy just yet instead let’s mention the trial spawner because the first true fear I had in Minecraft was when I encountered a spider spawner for the first time it was 2010 my friend had just gotten me into Minecraft and he’d fallen asleep and I was playing and I

Slowly found these creepy spider noises and eventually found a block which was spawning more and more of them nowadays the dungeon and its spawner are aging relics of a Minecraft which came out before the Nintendo 3DS and so Tri spawners attempt to recreate that challenge of a monster spawner but for a

Multiplayer EXP they succeed and even alone the variety you’ll find in one room of the trial Chambers leads to scary and sometimes overwhelming situations the perfect fit for something like this and unlike a monster spawner they don’t infinitely spawn mobs but instead pop out a reward after you’re done meaning that you

Actually feel like you’re clearing something and the rewards are entirely worth it this is a great addition and if you’re multiplayer focused this is a five out of five however in my personal experience I would say that variety does seem to be lacking because in a given

Tri spawner you always have the same three types of spawners one ranged one small one big and even across all of the ones in your world there’s only 10 different mobs that can spawn here and every ranged mob is just a skeleton variant and so ultimately I think there

Is a bit lacking on that and also when the tri spawner is done there is a cooldown timer until it starts again but it’s not entirely clear when that’s going to be I think for some people they’re going to assume it’s going to be uh you know done forever and they’re

Going to be tricked by this and for some others they’re going to be waiting around for far too long not knowing when they can fight this and get its great rewards again and so to me that is what limits the TR spawner and makes it a

Four out of five a great feature one of the best but still in need of some improvements on the subject of a block that needs Improvement the crafter is a great example of an idea that changes the world and blows redster minds and opens up all possibilities when it’s

Announced and revealed but right now I’ve yet to see a really compelling reason to use it besides fun sure there are all sorts of great ways that people have implemented it and I would keep one stocked in my world to keep valueless drops like nuggets turned into bars but

I’m not convinced that I would use one outside of those specific Farms or furnace situations because how often do you need to automate crafting compared to smelting or anything else which we currently can part of this is down to Mojang and the way that they implemented

It in terms of tick delays they could make it a valuable redstone block even outside of its direct functionality and they could work with the community to see exactly what’s needed from it but personally I look at this and I see a slightly awkward crafting experience which is done automatically despite that

Rarely being all to needed and so again I would say this is a fre out of five this is not a bad block I am excited to see it I think it’s fun and it might lead to that killer functionality but the fact is I’ve seen more interesting

Things done with the Breeze by the way that wasn’t the only design I’ve seen someone use it to make Randomness and the fact is to say the breeze seems to have just as much creativity as the crafter which is a bad sign in an update which is meant to be about tinkering

Which only has one block which does so so three out of five is the official ranking I’m giving here however when it comes to the tough bricks I think I have something more positive to say because the tough blocks were added to Minecraft as one big set and so I review them as

One big set because I don’t think it makes sense to review a polished tough block and then say tough brick stairs but then tough brick walls are entirely separate no there is a big variety of tough blocks that were all added in this update because prior to 1.21 the only

Type of tough that you can find is tough that generates by itself in the wall I that is to say regular old tough very boring very Bland and almost an obstacle that you would find in the ground with no other redeeming features this was added in the caves and cliffs update and

At the time it was an exception to Minecraft’s rule about making sure that every single uh block that was a crafted Stone material could have stairs and indeed could have slabs and walls and so this was odd because looking at all of these other types of blocks they all

Actually have this exact same thing however they finally decided to Unbreak that role in this update and what we’re left with are a beautiful block Block Set I mean they made this block set specifically so they could make a trail chamber here is my off-brand version

Hope you like it but and honestly they work so so well I am going to want to use tough bricks in my world and that’s before considering the fact that they make great stairs and walls you can use polish tough bricks is just something to

Build a house out of which would be very unique but even better than all of these things are the chiseled tough bricks this is chiseled tough it looks kind of fun in my opinion and this is the chiseled regular sorry that was the chiseled tough bricks this is chisel

Tough and honestly they are both incredible blocks I love the fact that the breeze is alluded to with the chiseled tough I think the fact that the regular uh you know tough bricks are alluding to something else entirely is something kind of fun what is it referencing the trail Chambers more

Broadly or what is it every chisel block has something referenced on there and so what is what is this is it the trail Chambers you tell me your theories uh but I love the fact that they give a little bit of theory crafting while also just giving a really good Block Set

There is only a few blocks here a dozen or so but tough bricks will work really well when making gradients between Black Stone deep slate and regular Stone uh I think the tough chiseled stuff will make really fun floorings these are the two ideas that I built but I’m sure there

Are trillions of ways that you can tile this and ultimately I think this is a great feature and I think that it’s an easy five out of five because you can never hate tough bricks being able to get that all that tough that you’re Gathering anyway and turning it into

Something valuable is great and the fact that it looks really nice and creates a new set of blocks means that even the least artistic Builder can do something great with it and the only question this raises is why wasn’t this in the game to begin with if anything this looks like a

Lazy holdover from 1.18 that they probably should have added at the time but couldn’t for some reason tough bricks made sense within the logic of the game and so why don’t we have them and so also why don’t we have cite bricks and Polished cite and all of

These other blocks which exist in the game right now if Minecraft is working on making sure that all of their features are quality and consistent then missing out on the quality consistency is something which feels very odd anyway I’ll talk to you more about quality and consistency uh after we talk about the

Armadillo because let me tell you the eyes on my guy might enrage but personally I don’t engage because I think the design is more than fine and keep in mind that it’s obviously going to change this is an important thing to say about the armadillo it is a really

Interesting new passive mob that is going to enrage the community almost by default because it wasn’t the one they voted for this was the closest mob vote we’ve had in a very long time with about 60% of players voting for something other than the most popular option

Because they didn’t do a multiple round system many people feel as though they got the worst option because of some other group of players and so I think there is a very valid reason for feeling a bit of resentment but I don’t think we should take it out on the cute little

Armadillo even though the design is the most likely to change out of any mob because it is its separate category it might not even be included in 1.21 if things get bad enough I think that if you look at this and judge it by the standards of Minecraft’s passive mob

Which we get in every single update I think he’s exactly fine that could be a a case of lowering your expectations uh but in terms of the two mobs in this update he’s not the better of the two that’s for sure but I think if you actually look at how it’s implemented

The only issue I have is that it uses the most durability for a single item we’ve ever had in Minecraft why would they work on a brush and then immediately give it Second Use a thing which destroys it in six single uses it seems ridiculous as especially given you

Need seven to get wolf armor it feels very contrived and I think it’s something that could be worked on but right now the armadillo is an okay passive mob in the same way that no one hates a panda no one hates a llama no one hates a dolphin or a turtle it’s

Just there and so I would be remiss to give it a five but I also think it would be ridiculous to give this a one because what more can they realistically do besides change the design slightly or allow you to kill it these would both be

Great options that could bring it up to a four but as far as I’m concerned right now the armadillo is a free it’s okay speaking of okay the wolf armor is that if you really want to protect your wolf you might say but you’d be wrong the

Wolf armor is the worst part of this update I do have to say the armadillo coming into the game is not my preferred option from the free choices we had I think that more block reach and faster boats are both objectively more useful however I am someone who tries to see

The best in things and so let me tell you the best I can see from the wolf armer oh it it’s really good because it gives value to the armadillo and the armadillo isn’t very useful without the wol farmer so the wool farmer is good because it gives

Use to the armadillo which is only useful because of the wolf armor and the Wolf armor itself might not be very good at protecting your wolves as someone who has desperately tried to be an optimist on this I’ve used wolf armor multiple times I did a whole stream where I

Specifically dedicated to trying to find the niche uses for it but any situation where things actually get scary bring them to a you know graveyard full of skeletons and you will leave with no dogs armor or not uh bring them into a situation where there’s any amount of

Water and the dogs will drown and the armor doesn’t even help them in that the same is true for uh falling into lava or fire or anything else lots of things go straight through armor and even though they brag that it’s Diamond quality truth be tell you know Diamond horse

Armor quality that is to say not true diamond armor quality uh but even though it’s diam horse armor quality that still isn’t a very big brag the wolf armor does not do much for your wolf and although it is fun that you can add it

And then later you can remove it I do think that ultimately this is a aesthetic feature it might have a functional use and in theory you might be able to make use of that functional use if you really try your best but I do not believe that this is actually a

Perfectly functional addition to the game this isn’t something that you would go out of your way to find if you found out exists it’s something you put on your wolf to show that he’s a combat wolf and so we have an aesthetic feature that was added to justify another

Aesthetic feature both of these features justify each other and I think the armadillo could get some great use out of it sko but the wolf armor is not that this is the most worthless feature they’ve added to Minecraft in a very long time and because it’s a mob vote

Option they don’t even have much room to change it I feel Mojang on this one but that doesn’t mean that I’m letting them off with this this is a one out of five if there is a one power five feature in any Minecraft update go back for a while

And it takes you a long time before you find something as absolutely worthless as wolf f armer it can’t be dyed it has no variance it looks questionable and questionable is me being nice um I don’t think there is anything I can say besides why Mojang why speaking of why

Mojang many people would ask why did Mojang add the copper back in 1.17 if it was going to take years until it was actually useful and I don’t have an answer to that but what I can say is wow new copper isn’t it great we’ll be addressing this as one big category even

Though there are so many blocks they really split into three basic sections there are the copper doors and trap doors there are the other new blocks and then there are the copper bulbs and boy are the copper bulbs controversial so instead we’ll start with the doors and

The trap doors these blocks look fine and they work like wood which is unexpected they’re made from metal so most people would have expected especially given how copper is meant to be the electricity uh you know carrying with the game that obviously copper would work like iron but no copper works

Like wood except it’s incredibly expensive the cost of making these doors and especially these trap doors is so ridiculous that I think many people won’t bother but if you did want a door and you’re willing to break down a tra chamber to get one I think they’re fine looking blocks maybe even goodlooking

Blocks as good as you could make a copper door and trapo although I’d question why they need to exist in the first place with the chiseled copper I’m a fan as for this other block I would have to say it’s absolutely great I do think there are missed

Potentials with these uh but in their current form they are brand new ways to use a block that you probably have too much of and you’re not too sure what to do so that is good use in my opinion the copper bulb is also really really genius

I will not be addressing the Redstone community’s uh concerns uh but I do think this is a classic case of Mojang delivering something the community really wants and then going back and saying nope that was an accident we swear when you liked it you were wrong

And you should have liked it the way it is now because this is the ended functionality um personally I don’t have a horse in that race I wasn’t going to use the zero tick functionality of the cober bulb I like the form which it takes right now the fact that it holds a

Redstone charge on or off makes it a new redstone block and even as a beginner you can appreciate how that works it’s kind of like the crafter in my opinion of like yeah it’s fun to play around with and so you could never say it was a

Zero out of five but to my eyes this has a lot more endgame use and even as a casual player you can appreciate the cober bulb in its current form I would have to say that the copper doors and trap doors need some work the copper great would benefit from some as well

And the copper bulb is a classic case of should Mojang listen the community or should they focus on their vision for the game I don’t have a particular horse in that race and so instead I can say these are four out of five category they

Could be a five out five if they fix all of those minor issues but even if they came into the game right now in their current form I would still say they’re great and then I would be wrong about most of the blocks because only this one’s great anyway speaking of things

Are fun the trial Chambers is the big final feature to review in this update and perhaps it is the biggest feature that Minecraft has added for a very long time I would say the closest equivalent that you can draw is the ancient city and honestly that is High Praise when

Minecraft’s biggest structure ever is comparable to something they’ve added just as part of 1.21 the variety in the chambers you’ll find in this place is incredibly fun and makes each one feel different to the last without it being like the Bastion where you learn four different main routes there are going to

Be lots of different random variables which make this a genuinely fun challenge whether you’re going in for the first time whether you’re going in for the fifth time with friends every single time you will have fun little challenges and weird loot that makes you feel like you actually discovered

Something and I really love that personally for a feature to have been available to play with in previews for a couple of months now and for me not to already say that I know everything in there perfectly is something which I think is incredibly High Praise and mix

In the tri spawners and the random mix of mobs mix in the weird ways they can generate and all of a sudden we’ve gone from a feature which is good to a feature which is great personally the trial Chambers is what gets me excited about Minecraft 1.21 and if I was to say

Uh entirely frankly this feature alone makes the update and proves the ambition of Mojang in a way that the last couple of updates have left some people questioning and I am very excited to see what happens with the rest of it I will be talking a little bit about the

Comparison to 1.20 and indeed what the name and theme of this update will be but first things first this is a five out of five and we’ll total up those scores right after I compare to 1.20 because we have the same number of mobs as that update we have a mob vote winner

And then one other as well as having a brand new mechanic and honestly when you look at that combined you might say that it’s a very similar sized update but right now I would say 1.20 and 1.21 are about comparable in quality with a Solid 5 months to go a potentially six even

For Minecraft 1. 21’s development usually they don’t announce the theme the name and some of the features of the update until early in the year in which it’s actually releasing which is what gets me incredibly excited because as you might already know we know the theme

Of 1.21 but we don’t know the name so despite revealing all of the features so far and indeed being known as the combat adventures and tinkering update that’s not the name and it hasn’t been revealed yet there’s lots left that can come and I’m excited to see it I do think that

The combat and tinkering update is a very fun name I’ve seen a lot of community sentiment around trials and tiles and I think that’s very fun uh but yeah we are going to be getting a big review on this later but all we know for now is that the next features they add

Will be themed around combat Adventures or tinkering personally I think that combat adventurers really does need to mean they work on either a brand new weapon of some form or to be more ambitious a combat overhaul Java and Bedrock have all sorts of limitations that they’ve put onto these games so

That they can be more similar to each other and yet they have such vastly different combat which means that to this day a Java player switching to bedrock will be confused as to why they can’t use their offhand and a Bedrock player switching to Java will hit mobs

And then not deal any damage because of no cool down they need to work on a better system for both games and ideally that needs to improve the combat for both that is something they have the perfect opportunity to do right now because no one knows what they’re going

To come out with if they had a big combat overhaul and they made it worthwhile this update would be the time to do it because if not now then when and so I think that new combat seems all but guaranteed but finally let’s come back to 1.21 if there were no brand new

Features if we just had the update so far what would be the overall ranking of the update well if you take the eight major features in this update as I’ve grouped them in this video you get 40 stars of potential I.E if every single feature was five stars 40 out of 40

Would be the best possibility and if we look individually at each of these scores you can see that the overall total is actually 30 out of 40 or to simplify that fraction back down to five stars 3.75 out of five that makes it a great update but it also leaves some

Room for improvement I think that the wolf farmer is obviously one of the biggest spaces for this but the armadillo uh the crafter and the CPP blocks as a whole could really do with some minor improvements and add onto that some brand new features which tie the update together which give it a

Theme and we might be on for a reversal of course in terms of Mojang slowly reducing the scope of updates something which I think would be hugely positive and could signal a final uh going away of the co era because ultimately that is what is blamed many times over for the

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