Why 1.20 WON’T Have A Name

1.20.0 is an upcoming major update to Minecraft Bedrock Edition set to release sometime in 2023 the update was announced at Minecraft live 2022 on October the 15th currently Mojang has not given any known name to it therefore the title is 1.20 the unnamed update this is highly unusual the last update

To be announced without a name was the Buzzy Bees update but this went through just four months of villain before being released and having it named by then and it certainly didn’t go through nearly a year of public facing development and snapshots and feature reveals and so

What is the deal with 1.20 not having a name as it turns out this entire video is very easy to skip because the official reason is to allow creative freedom and to come up with the name later so that people don’t constantly try to tie features into whatever the

Theme actually is there is a real theme and it’s just well hidden however taking a look at the update will make this seem incredibly confusing because if we start with the desert you can see we’ve got a camel we’ve got the brand new archeology mechanic with its Buffs to Desert Wells

And desert temples and it kind of makes sense to like oh yeah this is a kind of deserty update except then you take a look at the sniffer which is definitely not just a walking block of nilium it’s definitely something else altogether and you realize oh okay so there’s like two

Separate parts of this update two very big mobs but then you look at the hanging signs from all the types of words and you see whoa okay that’s something else all together plus there’s the obviously the Brand’s new chisel bookshelves which are fun and allow you

To do all sorts of new things then we’ve got the two brand new wood types which are from the bamboo the jungle if you will as well as from the Cherry Grove biome a brand new biome which is unrelated to the desert or the jungle

Because a Cherry Grove is kind of like a mountain blam by the way here is the cherry blossom blam we have at home as you can see looks exactly like a normal one if you are uh maybe uh being a little bit judgmental and uh you know

You or you look at a biome for is the Leafs and the wood but still you can see like okay that’s something right and then you go and you look at the armor trims and you’re like yeah this is all from all over the world there is a lot

Of different themes coming together in this update in previous updates it would focus on a biome and then have a few things outside of that but this update has no particular major error focus I mean the desert temple with its brand new loot structure the desert temple uh

You know the desert well with its brand new suspicious stand the brand new sniffer and the new wood types which are unrelated as well as a new biome which is beautiful but you seemingly doesn’t tie into the rest of this it’s just a bunch of separate features which don’t

Tie in together in any real way this is effectively 1.20 the random stuff update and you know that is me being a little bit harsh if you really try you can see a way that all of this does tie in right I mean uh they did say one of the major

Goals for this update was personalization being able to put your own books and bookshelves that’s personalization being able to get brand new hanging signs which as you can see they’re useful in like three separate ways they can go like this or like this or like that and you they have like very

Different looks and appearances and you can put different text on them which is Beautiful You you can make jokes about biomes or do you know there’s all sorts of brand new options for customization having new boats and new wood types is customization if you really make a

Stretch you could argue new flowers and suspicious sand allow you to customize things more but even that definition which by the way Falls flat when you look at archeology or the sniffer is actually the loosest and broadest definition you can imagine I mean think about it every single Minecraft update

Is all about personalization the brand new never brought with it new blocks which you could use to personalize your world the brand new villager trading mechanic from 1.14 allows you to customize your villagers in ways that you never could before let’s not even mention the new campfire blocks and

Everything else that came along every single Minecraft update can be categorized as a customization and personalization update and so saying that tells you nothing more about it in the same way that we wouldn’t be surprised to learn that yes this is an update coming out for Minecraft Java and

Minecraft Bedrock whoa two games of the same name like this isn’t new information this is something we probably should have all been expecting all along and so really the fun comes and what do you think the update should actually be called I mean we could have

The explore and Decor update if you just ignore the terrible rhyming we could have the Discover and find cover because of the Cherry Grove by him or customize and disguise trim and Prim or Mary and Sherry although at that point we’re really stretching things I think that honestly although there is some internal

Name for this update based on the fact that most internal names for things are pretty loose and rough and based on the fact that even Mojang aren’t necessarily sure where archeology ends up as a feature or where the Cherry Grove is intended to be Niche wise or even when

This update is coming out there are lots and lots of big questions and I think that honestly uh trying to come up with the end update name is one that is very hard but I think the simpler way to categorize this update in the meantime is the update where Mojang finally gets

Their mojo back honestly this is something you can spot from the community reaction to 1.20 1.19 seem to disappoint a lot of people and although 1.17 and 1.18 together probably made a great update the split between the two of them made the whole thing very incomprehensible plus the controversies

Of adding the Deep State below people’s existing worlds uh it led to a lot of controversy over the last three updates combined and honestly there was a giant Global pandemic have you guys heard about that by the way uh it’s kind of fun that everyone is just kind of

Missing two years of their life I think we’ll be able to categorize so many parts of the world based on which two years of your life went missing I think for some people you might be lucky and just spent a lot more time at home and

Maybe working from home uh but if you were younger you missed out on some formative years for socialization and there’s gonna be a whole bunch of fun ramifications for that over the world as a whole but this video doesn’t focus on the world as a whole instead it’s

Focusing on Minecraft and how the Developers for the game honestly not only had to go through all of their own personal things about wow isn’t it crazy that I can’t do uh the things that I expected to do and the two years of my life missing but also it means that all

Sorts of things are that usually would be done over the office conversations uh can’t be done anymore you know people from different departments who previously could be like oh yeah I’m thinking of adding a mob that does this and then the art guide could go well that’d be really tricky unless he did

This as well those conversations can’t happen naturally over lunch or something like that anymore and so all sorts of processes had to change not just the ones that would change anyway I mean if you look at japa who’s the art director for Minecraft now uh there is someone

Who is just in charge of art for the game who previously uh wasn’t there who was making different decisions but also the team has to integrate in an entirely different way and this is leading to all sorts of different content decisions a lot of these can be quite good but a lot

Of these are controversial with the community do you think was there a controversial Minecraft update that came out for Java a while ago I don’t think there was I feel like we would have heard about it if there was somewhere but you know we did we didn’t hear about

Any controversial updates so they’re doing real good in terms of the update release process and so maybe if you take the totality of the last few updates really 1.20 is about getting back on track and honestly when you look at the community reaction you can see that

That’s true I’ve said this point before and even though 1.20 is the random stuff combined update every single one of the ways they’ve announced features uh has resulted in a lot of Praise maybe not the initial Minecraft live presentation although the only criticism people had was it wasn’t enough content but every

Feature we’ve seen that’s been fresh since then has been accompanied by a wave of excitement even though you look at all of these features together in this handy little screenshot here and you can see that like oh gosh none of it makes any sense together ultimately that

Isn’t the important part of this update is it would you rather have a really well named update that comes out in two parts and has serious performance issues and honestly results in a lot of controversy around everything about it or would you rather have an update that

Doesn’t fit neatly into a box regarding a name uh but is a much better one that is I think the question which Mojang has correctly identified as well yeah obviously people want the second thing and so even though there isn’t this necessarily A Defined and fixed update

Name yet I think this is a clever way for them to work on an update that they know people will like and to announce that update in ways people will like and then to work on the rest of that later and if I would take a step further in

This speculation I would even go as far as to say that actually not announcing the update name yet is a much better received way of doing things and uh even though that seems a bit weird as a hardcore fan you’re like well I just like knowing everything that’s happening

The truth is there are really three sets of Minecraft players there are the most hardcore players who are following every little change within an update you know that is honestly uh what we mostly cater to on this channel every single time there’s a new feature in a snapshot I am

Excited and I want to see exactly what they’re doing before the next update comes out I may not be downloading the update in my survival world but I am very aware of exactly what I’m going to be needing to do when 1.20 comes out to truly take advantage of it in fact

That’s a thing that I’ve been mentally working on like what do you need to do to prepare for this update but that is the most hardcore set of players right you argue even more hardcore are the people deep in the change logs and the discords but you you know that is the

First set and we mostly refer to any update as one point and then whatever it is we refer to 1.19 as 1.19 rather than the Wild update then there is the second set of players who are no doubt playing Minecraft some decent amount of the time uh but they’re not focused on updates

Until they come out I mean why would you care about an update that’s not going for at least for nine months what’s the point in following that I really liked playing breath of the wild as an example I know that the next 3D Legend of Zelda

Game I’m gonna buy and play when it comes out anyway so why look into all these details and taunt myself before it comes out this is how most people feel about most things so there’s a huge but you know set of Minecraft players who might know there’s an update being

Worked on at any given point in time but don’t really care about it until that announcement trailer comes out or even until the game is probably available and then there is the third set of players who maybe don’t even know about the update till a few days after where they

Get recommended that YouTube trailer and they’re like oh I should get back into Minecraft or maybe get into it for the first time somehow it’s crazy to me that this is true there are sets of Minecraft players who have never heard about something and so even though all three

Groups of these players are going to play with the exact same set of features in the exact same update the first group are calling this 1.20 the second group are calling this the bleep and bleep update and the third group of players are calling this oh cool Minecraft got

An update I hear it has some pink trees in it oh you wanna do you want to play this with me buddy and uh honestly when you think about it those last two groups of players are probably the majority of human beings in the world especially of

People who play video games and so ultimately you don’t need to worry about them just yet because they don’t have the hype for this update when you want to announce this update in some major way that is intended for a mass audience then you would need to have a lockdown

Title for it so you could promote the bamboo and camel poo update so you could have the sniffer and kisser update you would need to then be a hundred percent sure of exactly how your cell telling this to people and the theme you’re trying to convey but in the meantime

It’s perfectly fine not to and that is I think the reason why 1.20 is unnamed if you think about the big list of priorities that every single Minecraft update needs to have the name is something that’s important to do but I think most people would much rather have

A disorganized set of features uh that really don’t fit together in any meaningful way than to have a fit set of features which do make perfect sense together and fit under a nice umbrella but that ultimately don’t excite and if you look at the Wild update which was

The last major update to really do this Wilde was already such a loose description for an update I mean everything’s wild right whether you mean wild like it’s crazy or wild like it exists naturally and yet still what the update Title did to people is it made

Them expect more uh and expect Wilder things than they were seeing already so by not giving an update Title they’re kind of keeping expectations down to use a phrase uh that we like to use a lot on stream keep your expectations tiny and you won’t be whiny and I think that is

What Mojang is attempting to do with the Minecraft Community here and honestly it’s something I’d love to see them work out so what is the real reason that Mojang doesn’t have a title for 1.20 yet the answer is they probably do but they don’t want to share it for expectations

Reasons or they have no clue whatsoever but they don’t really need to have one just yet and honestly this might be the way forward with future updates although it was incredible to have the update titles for the village and pillage or caves and cliffs or Buzzy Bees update ultimately uh these weren’t essential

Parts of the process they’re just ones that we assume we should have by now it could be a really fun path the reveal for the trailer if they give us the name at the same time and ultimately could help the hyper Minecraft which is the big reason they do these updates to

Begin with Minecraft is not a charity giving us uh free updates endlessly for no good reason they are ultimately trying to drive sales hype and all of the other wonderful things that make a game company run and so if this is the best way for them to do that then

Honestly power to them and I’m excited for 1.20 the unnamed update and sometimes maybe the lesson to learn here is that you don’t need to name everything you don’t need to announce everything you’re doing to the world because that can set the world of expectations on you sometimes it’s

Better to finish something and then tell people about it I think you’ll have a much higher success rate with the project you’re doing if you do it this way because subconsciously I think you feel like you’ve already gone all of the reward from telling people about your

Amazing thing and so now what is the point of them learning about it later I think that is a real possibility and I also think it’s possible uh but maybe uh we’re just not all built to finish every idea we do and you don’t want to look like someone who quits Midway through

And so that is why I’m gonna say thank you for watching this video which has now come to its end I didn’t announce this anywhere before it came out and I hope that you appreciated that subscribe if you want to see more Minecraft Update news I am very excited to see the last

Parts of this update and indeed that big update Title reveal What’s it gonna be I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below and then in a couple of months when they finally reveal it I’d love to see which of you as a psychic and or just very good at

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