__Mine__

I don't really agree about some of your points, @__Mine__.
Yes, the Warden's damage and health are insane, but remember you can literally sneak past it and it won't even realize you're there and you'll leave unscathed. It's pretty much just a challenge for the players who purposefully seek it, and it might drop some legendary-tier item as a reward. Also, remember that we're like... at least 8 months away from release, there'll be ample time to tweak its stats if need be. Boss fights are supposed to be drawn-out events in multiple stages, this is just like fighting a Lynel in Breath of the Wild. It'll kill you faster than Calamity Ganon, but the event in itself is much less elaborate. LadyAgnes confirmed on Twitter there'll be a way to "freeze" the copper blocks into their current state. The archaeology loot is almost certainly placeholder stuff, there's no way they'd make it so that you can literally grab full diamond blocks from the soil. It's just for demonstration purposes. Again, nothing we've seen is final, there's still a long way to go.

Honestly, I really want to be happy for this update. But I just can't help but feel like it's only going to trivialise more aspects of the game and make "Survival" mode even more of a joke than it already is.
Probably because most of the features are unbalanced as hell, which is exactly the kind of problem most mods almost always have, hence the understandable "feels too mod-like" mentality.
I love the design of the Warden (intimidating, but oddly also rather cute), but the fact it deals 7 hearts of damage to full Netherite armour is ridiculous.
When you have an underground Overworld mob dealing more damage than all of the game's so-called "bosses" and requires end-game armour just to be able to tank a single hit, there's a big balance problem.
I like the addition of Copper, solely on the fact it's the first Overworld ore since Emeralds in 1.3, over eight years ago. The fact the block slowly fades to a green colour over time is a nice touch of realism, but unless there's a way to prevent it from changing colour, I don't see it being that useful for building.
I absolutely despise the addition of the Lightning Rod though, as it allows for Charged Creeper farms to be made completely automatic near-effortlessly, totally trivialising the mechanics and acquisition of Charged Creepers (turning what used to be an extremely rare, genuine threat into nothing more than a mob-head slave that no-one takes seriously or even gives a second thought to), and making the most exploitable mob in the entire game even more exploitable.
Seriously Mojang, stop it.
I really don't like the Archaeology feature. It just doesn't fit in at all and seems useless, as you said. Something people will look at for five minutes and then promptly forget exists.
And then there's this:

Imagine adding a feature in a caving/mining update that invalidates caving/mining almost entirely.
I mean, it was pretty blatant enough with Mojang's reluctance to update caves and mining given they'd ignored the cries for the past 4-5 years, but the features they're adding really feels like they're actively trying to discourage players from mining in the first place, especially considering how easy it is to get Diamonds etc. anywhere else.
Honestly, in my (unpopular) opinion this game has been going downhill for years. Mojang just seem to enjoy trivialising Survival mode, to the point that it's basically become "Creative mode with extra steps".
...but yeah, those are my thoughts on the update. I cannot stress enough that I really want this update to succeed in what it's designed for, but given Mojang's track record, as well as the features we've seen so far, I'm really not holding my breath...
...yet.
Damn that was long, fully expecting downvotes for this tbh.

"Inventory" is the name of the design language that Modelbench currently uses, and that Mine-imator will use in 1.3.0.
In other words, Mine-imator will stay Mine-imator, just like how Modelbench has stayed Modelbench.

Y'know, he may have beat the virus (or so he says,) but that was with the absolute best care they could give him, whereas most normal Americans can't get nearly the same treatment. And why wouldn't he want people to ignore the virus? That's what he and other Republicans have been telling people to do for the past several months, and that's the reason we've had so many cases and deaths compared to the rest of the world. He's not trying to uplift people, he just wants you to go back to work no matter how much of a danger it is to you. He pushed to stop the lockdown even though he knew people would die. He pushed to open schools even though he knew people would die. He doesn't even support masks, which are the absolute least anyone can do to not spread the virus. He. Doesn't. Care. About. You. If you think he cares about anyone who isn't rich and powerful, you're sorely mistaken.

That's literally what they're referring to, yeah.
Basically people thinking "glow" means they'll emit light like with Optifine's "Dynamic Lights" feature, when in reality it'll have an emissive texture (that is, certain pixels being fully bright regardless of the surrounding lighting).
Which imo will still look great in the Deep Oceans. It'll add a good amount of ambience and make the place so much more visually appealing.

Idk. People are saying glow squids won't actually glow.
Maybe they're talking about how it won't emit light

If you have a bad PC, Get it. It's boosts the performance.
If you have a good PC, get it. It makes the performance even better and supports good stuff like shaders

@Ian_The_One He's 21.

That's beside the point. There was no need to bring this up again.
Shame people can't have their own opinions without getting attacked for having them...

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It's funny how blatantly Mojang wanted the Iceologer to win lol

@__Mine__ agreed. Same with the Iceologer, the execution wouldn't be nearly as good as it seems.

Same.. I have so much stuff made but am too embarrassed to post it publicly..
 

Still better than politics.

Still better than politics.

Probably the glow squid. I really don't like any of them though, seeing as they're just resprites of existing mobs. I'm just hoping that they add some cool functionality to the squid, like some kind of glowing dye or something. I'd be significantly happier if they just added all of them and stopped this stupid voting stuff, though.

I'm leaning more towards the glow squid because someone pointed out that it could drop something interesting. Glowing ink sacs, anyone? I guess we'll just have to see. Definitely not voting for the cow though.

Because they're not actually debates. they're just a chance for people in power to speak their minds and insult each other. It's just not worth watching.

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You mean we should stop complaining and work to improve the forums?
I agree but its not as easy as it sounds. People don't wanna change.

The thing is, a few dozen people in a sea of millions is far too small of a minority to change anything.
For example, the amount of people like me who want Survival mode to not be a complete cakewalk 10-15 minutes after starting a new world is vastly outnumbered by the amount of people who want the game to be even easier, going by the fact Mojang seems to enjoy trivialising Survival mode more and more with every update.

I actually prefer the Iceologer out of all three, because it actually feels a bit more interesting than a Mooshroom variant and a squid with an emissive texture that won't even do anything.
If they have it so that it only spawns rarely and/or only appears inside a rare structure like witches in huts, it could be a good hostile addition without ending up like the phantom where so many people despise it that the devs need to add an actual setting to remove them.
Honestly I'm just annoyed because there's no reason for it to be a vote. The first one had actual fleshed out mobs with unique designs and interesting behaviors. Here we just have a retextured mooshroom that'll probably just do something underwhelming, an illager that throws ice at you, and a squid that glows. All of which use recycled assets. But we gotta make players think they'll leave their mark so we'll make a vote even though these are so lazy we could add them all together...

The thing is, a few dozen people in a sea of millions is far too small of a minority to change anything.
For example, the amount of people like me who want Survival mode to not be a complete cakewalk 10-15 minutes after starting a new world is vastly outnumbered by the amount of people who want the game to be even easier, going by the fact Mojang seems to enjoy trivialising Survival mode more and more with every update.

What I really don't understand is why Mojang are so against adding the other three mobs from the previous Mob Vote, especially given that 99% of the people who voted Phantoms massively regret it. Those mobs were completely unique.
Not to mention given how lazy the concepts for these three mobs are, Mojang could definitely add all three of them very easily, especially since they already have the models and the textures for all of them due to them already existing in their other games.
This whole vote is completely unnecessary and is causing avoidable arguments between players for no reason whatsoever.
Honestly, given the 1.9 combat update, 1.14 texture overhaul, Biome Votes, upcoming combat tests and now this, it's like Mojang are deliberately trying to divide the community as much as possible under the facade of "We're listening to the community" while blatantly ignoring cries for a cave update, or fixing Survival mode's massive Power Creep problem.

What I really don't understand is why Mojang are so against adding the other three mobs from the previous Mob Vote, especially given that 99% of the people who voted Phantoms massively regret it. Those mobs were completely unique.
Not to mention given how lazy the concepts for these three mobs are, Mojang could definitely add all three of them very easily, especially since they already have the models and the textures for all of them due to them already existing in their other games.
This whole vote is completely unnecessary and is causing avoidable arguments between players for no reason whatsoever.
Honestly, given the 1.9 combat update, 1.14 texture overhaul, Biome Votes, upcoming combat tests and now this, it's like Mojang are deliberately trying to divide the community as much as possible under the facade of "We're listening to the community" while blatantly ignoring cries for a cave update, or fixing Survival mode's massive Power Creep problem.