What’s your favorite mode of Transport in Minecraft is it the classic Railway is it the horse or is it the nether Hub the only method that requires a mathematics formula there are several methods of getting from point A to point B in your world and all of them have Their own ups and downs but if you’ve been playing the game for a long enough time you’ve punch your first tree you’ve explored the Nether and you went far enough into the game to defeat the Ender Dragon there’s a really high chance that you’ve experienced what it’s like to travel with an electron For most of you it is your favorite way of traveling the world but for some of you it may be your least favorite I know and that’s what this video is about welcome back to Minecraft’s most controversials in episode 2 we’ll be covering the elytra the equipment that Either ruined Minecraft forever or made it better depending on who you ask as usual before we discuss why DLI try is so controversial let’s first talk about this history the elytra was released in update 1.9 the combat update just like mending from the first episode I’m sensing a potential pattern here However despite being released in the same update the light show wasn’t released under the same popularity you see mending was released as a rare enchantment but it was released overpowered as hell and quickly skyrocketed to be the best enchantment it was so good it remained pretty much unchanged throughout most of his Lifetime the Elijah was also released as a rare item only attainable after defeating the Ender Dragon since mending was a rather new feature and Phantoms weren’t in the game yet I wish they kept it that way the elytra was mostly repaired with leather on an anvil it received generally positive reception by the community on release but eventually the elytra would obtain the opposite status the community will start to believe that it was underpowered instead players thought That it wasn’t really worth the effort you go through so much and for what just a few seconds of gliding for an item that you get after beating the game it was very underwhelming and it wasn’t even going to last the Elijah had a pretty weak durability and players felt Like they broke far too quickly to be useful at worst the light show was a complete waste of time for something you will never use and at best the Elijah was a glorified feather falling boots preventing you from ever taking fall damage Most of the time ladies you see moyang released the elytra primarily for us to collide to safety they didn’t really release it with the intention of letting the player fly per se to propel or keep yourself in the air with an elytra you had to do a weak attack from a ball with A punch to enchantment by doing a light tap on your bow you shoot the arrow as close to you as possible the light trust wider hitbox will make you travel past the arrow slightly just enough for the game to let the arrow hit you you are using the knockback from being hit by Your own arrows to give yourself a boost hurting yourself just to travel a few extra distances but this all seems like a simple feature with a simple history right it made you Glide safely to the ground but you could make yourself fly if you had the skill and patience for it So how did it become so controversial over the game’s lifespan well let’s explore the arguments for and against the light try as a feature foreign rough start it would eventually end up in a similar fashion to mending anti-electra argument one it’s overpowered or rather it became overpowered in update 1.11.1 the light Show was buffed you could now Propel yourself to the skies and continue flying with firework Rockets rather than shooting yourself with arrows firework Rockets were an easier and much more reliable method of traveling with an elytra and you didn’t need to calculate the velocities and vectors and angles of Trajectories of how to shoot yourself with arrows to continue flying fly flying with an elytra was as easy as double clicking your spacebar and then pressing the right click in the direction you wanted to go this skyrocketed the popularity of elytra to say that it became one of the most Useful items in Minecraft would be a massive understatement and just like mending you kind of just used it for everything do you need to look for a swamp biome because you need to kill some slime for sticky piston Contraptions the light works best do you need to build a house but the building Materials are over there in that chest the light truck gets the job done do you have a lot of farms that are all far from each other and you need the best method to travel quickly between them you can just get an elytra before the Buffs it was a calculated risk to pick Your elytra over a chest plate and now it was a no-brainer the lytra all the way it’s good a bit too good in fact we use it for too many things kinda like the like button it’s so good because it very reliably tells me if you’re enjoying the video so far However the argument for the people on the pro elytra side is that the elytra is an end game equipment to obtain the elytra you first have to play through hours of the game to obtain ender pearls and place rods to create eyes offender then spend another hour finding the end Portal in the Overworld after that you have to end racism I mean defeat the Ender Dragon and then only then can you spend another hour finding an end City by the way you have to find an entity that has an end shape if you find an End City without an end ship you get to spend more time finding more entities after fighting your way through the shulkers and passing through a parkour course that literally everyone just levitates through you finally after everything get one elytra but wait my friend did you remember to make firework Rockets before you got here no well-ish then my friend now you have to do an escape mission there are plenty of ways you can lose the elytra on the way back you could throw a bat and the pole and end up falling into the void you could lose Your bearings forget the way back and then succumbing to despair you could say the n-word by accident and make an Enderman cancel you well worst of all you could have this happening to you He got secondhand pain just from watching that all of this every single effort this whole painstaking Journey for one end game equipment and this isn’t even factoring in maintenance mending is practically mandatory for the elytra you could use Phantom membranes to repair your light trust but let’s be Honest you’re not going to do that I would rather stop my toe be forced to tell everyone in public that I’m A League of Legends player and forever call Guns as Rudy Tutti point and shooty if it means I get to remove Phantoms from the game permanently Pro election People feel like an equipment you obtain this late into the game requiring this much effort and then requiring even more effort to maintain should be overpowered by default if you get one you’ve earned it if the light show wasn’t as useful as it is today then what reason do we even Have to try and get it which leads us to the second Point against elytrust Minecraft has a wide array of methods to travel some automatic some semi-automatic and some fully manual the elytra is so useful and so easy that it beats every single one of them first of All it required absolutely no setup past 1.11.1 no Excavating and laying down tracks for a railway no leads required for a stupid horse no ice harvesting required for an ice board track the most difficult thing about traveling with an elytra is getting the gunpowder needed for the firework Rockets which is Pretty easy the elytra also works anywhere and with a few exceptions the light trial was just better faster and stronger than all of the matters listed is there any point in building a railway a stable or other modes of Transport for any reasons other than it looks good why bother with any Alternative when the Elijah was objectively the best way of traveling there is little incentive to build roads Bridges infrastructure you never see stuff from the ground anymore elytra inhibits creativity since it gives you free quick movement anywhere without having to do any changes to the terrain you’re supposed to build in this game And the game mechanic should encourage that not discourage it for them the elytra took away a majority of the structures you usually build in the game ever get the feeling that you’ve just done everything in the world and you’re starting to get bored well the elytra Was a speed lane into being done with the game the counter for this for the pro Electro site is the fact that what exactly did the Elijah ruin to begin with some would argue that they didn’t really ruin anything or hinder any creativity to begin with people need to Travel vast distances and I definitely argue that the nether Highway isn’t exactly creative just more grinding some would go even further with that and argue that the elytra isn’t overpowered everything else is underpowered Minecarts always sucked they were replaced by boats which sucked less then both were replaced by horses because Horses sucked even less but then both teleported behind horses nothing personal kid and boats replace the horses who replace boats in the form of ice boats when they stop breaking like the fragile mental stability of a college student on finals and then finally the lychar replace boats because It sucked the least it’s not a light trust fault that Minecraft requires so much resources just to be slightly faster than sprinting it’s not the elytra’s fault that horses can’t pass through water it’s not the Electro’s fault that boats can’t go upwards all the did was highlight just how bad every Other transport was and players are just picking the most efficient form of Transport currently available the elytra isn’t a problem it does not need a Nerf we should just buff every other transport instead however the counter argument for this counter argument is power Creep by buffing everything else We may end up back to where we started if the other transfers become too good the elyters are just not worth the effort anymore back to their status in update 1.9 then we have to buff the electrons again so they’re worth the trip to the end going full circle Everything just gets more and more powerful over time to the point where the game is completely changed we solve no problems by buffing other transports all we do is make another problem to replace the one we have do you want Minecraft to be another Yu-Gi-Oh which leads us to the final and ultimate Pro-electric argument those that don’t like it currently can just don’t use it let’s be here what’s the solution to the elytra the only other option is to Nerf the elytra itself but that’s a dangerous move we’ve seen what happens when moyang Nerfs iron farms and goat farms they Don’t end well to give you a sense as to how bad these changes will be let’s just say if they Nerf the elytra I will have to make a mica’s most controversial episode for the Nerf to the elytra but funnily enough Mojang almost went through with that in an experimental Snapshot in 1.18 Mojang considered making the elytra only decrease in durability by rocket boost they also considered nerfing rocket boost and making the Elijah break permanently like the rest of our equipment whether they reverted those changes due to community backlash or because the nerves didn’t have any meaningful impact what matters Is that moying has shown that the elytra is here to stay where the people like it or not and for those that don’t they unfortunately have to set their own rules and voluntarily exclude themselves from using it personally I’m Pro elytra I really like using it and I absolutely can’t imagine Myself not using it in the game today if I had to Nerf it I’d probably give an enchantment to bows and crossbows that disables the elytra much like how access disable Shields this open rooms for counters against the elytra and it makes a light trust vulnerable to skeletons And pillagers while also opening room for skill expression in PvP those that are good with their aim can reliably defeat other players with an elytra I also think that the problem isn’t the elytra itself it’s the fact that the Anvil repair system sucks and were forced to use mending by default we’re Forced to have permanent unbreakable light trust because the Anvil repair system is complete garbage it’s not even controversial where something is good and something is bad it’s just bad mending shares some of the blame if you are going to criticize the light trial for what it is which is why you should Check out the previous episode of Minecraft’s most controversials where I discuss why men name be controversial feature of Minecraft you’ll see the reasons as to why so many people like Madding and why so many people hate it instead that will give you an idea as to why mending may actually be the root Cause for all of Electra’s controversies I’ll see you there Video Information
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How did this the Elytra split the Minecraft community in half? What made it so controversial?
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[Favourite] Minecraft: How to Build an Elytra Course [Tutorial] https://youtu.be/ego-effgq_g (By Wizpl)
[Favourite] Minecraft infinite elytra flight plugin + Shaders https://youtu.be/wh-3fWtClvo (By ⭐ Mulciber ⭐)
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[Most of the time that is] Friend uses elytra for the first time, helped cure my depression (By SgtMiniman) https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/pk8el2/friend_uses_elytra_for_the_first_time_helped_cure/
[Elytra Arrow trick] Minecraft 1.9 Trick: Use a Bow With Elytra For Infinite Flight! https://youtu.be/atTFZ1h8pa0 (By Logdotzip)
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[Look good] The Elytra – Minecrafts Most PROBLEMATIC Item… https://youtu.be/7crmEYG3y3o (By TheMisterEpic)
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