What The New Firefly Leak Means For The Future of Minecraft

Well EDS I wasn’t gonna make this video no let alone drop it but there we are recently a new and hopefully final glimpse of the Firefly came out today we’re going to talk all about that Glimpse take a look at it and talk about what it could mean for Minecraft 1.20

And Beyond this will be the final Firefly video so we’ll talk some background too one last time let’s get the Firefly the proper send-off it deserves with its most favorite thing in the world a lot of likes on this video right here I think we could do it foreign Minecraft’s most upcoming feature and so after this video right here I’ll be putting a lid on this one and tightening it’s super super tight putting a cap on it and forgetting about it this will be the final update in the Firefly Saga taking it back to where this Saga

Officially began Minecraft live 2021 the Firefly was of course then announced to Minecraft 1.19 feature shortly after the addition of the frog leg block and the Minecraft Bedrock betas for 1.19 last year speculation began to run wild I mean there’s a pretty straightforward look at the Frog Light block and tell me

How that literally uh you look at this thing and tell me how it’s not a firefly personified inside of a wait a second the Firefly is here speculation ran wild I mean after all it made perfect sense almost too much sense the Firefly would be eaten by the Frog

And then boom you get this brand new block fast forward a little bit and obviously uh times have changed things didn’t end up exactly working like that instead we had this cool frog Magma Cube mechanic that is definitely way more difficult to pull off than the Firefly

Making the Frog Light way more rare that Minecraft live video when these two pixel creatures were shown off this is what they said and you’re adding another little little tiny creature in this update yes the fireflies so you can see them roaming around adding a lot of Ambience to the swamp

Making it feel just nice and cozy at night but really my favorite part of them is just making the world come to life like feeling like there is life going on all around you and oh yeah also they’re frog food yeah I forgot to mention that they’re frog food

Fireflies yeah but look how happy that frog is yeah and they’re beautiful frog food so you can both enjoy them in the atmosphere and the frogs get to eat so that’s you know and that’s like basically it in hindsight I never realized how short of a section fireflies actually got in the

Grand scheme of Minecraft live 2021 which was a pretty big show the Firefly has as you can see there like 30 seconds with a little bit more talk about the name afterwards but the fast forward like six months or so to the 1.19 snapshots as we probably all remember

1.19 snapshots kept coming and coming and coming or at least for like a couple weeks very different from Modern Times snapshots did their thing and kept being released as the snapshots went on the Firefly continued and continued to be missing the community started raising concerns about it and then the devs said

Like they said like nothing they were Asylum for a long time on it fast forward to the most tragic moment of all time ask a Mojang last year firefights was originally part of the plan for the wild updates we wanted them to be a food

Source for the new Frogs but then we got great feedback from you guys in a lovely community and you taught us that a lot of species of fireflies and fire bugs that are out there are poisonous to toads and frogs and of course we didn’t

Want to add that into our game so we provided the frogs with a safer food source the tiny slimes and fireflies are sadly no longer part of the plans for the Wild update a perfectly put gem at the time it was actually like a gigantic disappointment to add even more disappointment in

Context of the mixture there that video dropped like about almost exactly a month before the actual update released so it was a pretty last minute announcement of a feature cancellation combine the Firefly disappointment with the Birch Forest disappointment with a lot of the communities other just general disappointment with the Wild update and

Hey yikes 2022 was controversial to wrap up my favorite the history portion of this video and to start to close the Firefly Saga for good that’s where we’re at that ask emojang video was essentially the last bit of information we got on the Firefly the devs went silent on the Firefly after

That fast forward about a month or so and the update drops and sure enough no Firefly except there is um look at the Frog’s height it’s been here all along how romantic from that terribly gloomy backstory let’s move on moving on to actually development to the wildlife thing during

The official development of the Wild update over on Minecraft Bedrock Edition something pretty intriguing happened during one of the betas that dropped I would say maybe about halfway through the update cycle the Firefly was actually accidentally found inside of the game code ah now this is intriguing

To say the least if the Firefly was canceled from the update the devs likely knew that for a while how this code would have made it into the game I mean I guess unless this was a last minute cancellation or something this is intriguing because about development goes on Minecraft Bedrock

Edition we can no longer access this old version but I didn’t find a video uh showcasing the old command I’m gonna go ahead and Link this video down in the description below for you just check it out if you want first things first we’ve got the player running an ally come in I

Believe at this time the alley wasn’t in the game either then after that we had the player running a firefly command when they run the command we get an error message nothing actually works but the fact that the Firefly is a selectable option is very significant that Firefly command would be the

Equivalent of being able to type this command and then put sniffer in here and we would be able to well I mean it would fail just like the other one but sniffer would be an option and that’s not even the case here shortly after that leak happened which

Fun fact I think I actually like completely missed that one I didn’t even make the style of video back then but I definitely don’t think I made a video on that anyways fast forward a little bit and any proof of the Firefly in game well it was actually removed from the game

And that brings us to the final Firefly leak the one from last week so last week I made this video at the very end of it I asked you guys if you were interested in the Firefly leaking I saw some comments about it I continued getting

DMS and messages about it so here we are next up Twitter now here is gameplay of the fireflies and one of Minecraft bedrock’s leaked to debug builds it’s code that could be seen in the 1.18 retail version this Suite will be dropped down in the description as well check it out if you

Want but look at this right here so it’s Steve you’re all sweet Steve he moves around he looks at the ground he uses the spawn egg and sure enough there it is we were so close we were so close but so far the Firefly in game flying around

Fire flying just like I have Minecraft live look at that for the looks of it we had almost everything all there uh other than the Firefly pausing on this Frame right here and zooming in on the inventory sure enough we can see the Firefly spawning right there

The OG tweet tied to this video claims that this is footage from a debug version of the game I would assume in other words I’m into Dev version of the game these Dev versions of Minecraft are not publicly released which means for legal reasons this entire video is a

Poem you’re watching my beautiful tribute poem over the past week or so I tried to do a little bit more digging on this video right here for you to see if I can find any more information and this is all I’ve really got here I’m not sure

If the creator of this video Simply put the code that was in game to action tying it to a spawn egg or if the literal swan egg item and all this stuff was actually there already starting again from the beginning and looking at this guys to be honest I

Always thought the Firefly was like canceled because of technical limitations or something like they just couldn’t figure it out I always assumed specifically on Bedrock Edition but from the looks of things it seems to be right here other than maybe performance issues that I could see happening with the

Firefly seems to basically be working here maybe not firing but yeah definitely flying I really hope fireflies don’t have ears for this next part but it does kind of look pointless the the Firefly actually looks pointless foreign this thing only gets even more pointless when we remove the whole Frog Light

Mechanic from the game now without the problem mechanic I mean it’s literally just a tiny flying thing I guess sure at their original revealed they did say Ambiance was a big part of it here but it’s not gonna lie it kind of look pointless it’s sad so other than maybe

Flying around up and down kind of pointlessly adding Ambiance to the world what could the Firefly have been like friends I got one final link for you down in the description today it’s an older video of mine from last year maybe like the summer or something in this

Video we’re checking out a mod called the Wilder wild mod absolutely amazing how this mod did it with the fireflies feels pretty similar to how they probably would have been done in the video of the game plus a cool coloring mechanic and the fact that you can put

These things inside of a bottle to make like essentially a firefly lantern with the fireflies being able to be colored you could have colored lanterns such an amazing opportunity so that’s it uh the final glimpse of the final mention of the Firefly you’ll ever see on this channel unless of course

They throw a curveball and add it into 1.20 or something the Firefly almost what’s that curveball Minecraft 1.20 what does this new Firefly leak mean for the future of Minecraft if anything did somebody say 1.20 will the Firefly be in 1.20 and seeing as this code is leaked

Well unlikely I see it as highly highly unlikely you see instead if the Firefly were to ever make it into the game I would see it in an update like 1.19.4 let’s get nostalgic for the best Minecraft update of all time the nether update and during the development of

Minecraft’s best update the piglet brute actually wasn’t there at first it was added like 1.16.2 or something speaking of 1.6 10.2 the devs new development method with more minor updates when they did this they they literally pointed out the piglet brood in 1.16.2 PR wise Minecraft and the dev is set up

Relatively rough year last year there’s nothing I think about quite a bit but for a couple easy dubs the small features the community wants like I mean maybe it’s a long shot but imagine a reality where the devs say hey yeah the Firefly you guys really wanted it sorry

About that well here it is in a random 1.9 2.4 snapshot and here are a couple new flowers with the Birch Forest too oh easy win personally I really feel not every Minecraft feature needs to be so over thought a couple simple ones that really don’t add much they just add

That’s nice committed will love it I guarantee it after seeing that video of the Firefly does your feelings change are you madly in love with this thing or do you just hate it let me know what you think down below and I I’m Gonna Miss You Firefly I really am

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All so much for watching this Firefly video I will see you all tomorrow goodbye everyone Thank you