Hey everyone. Welcome to the withering effect. Episode 107. Today's date is August 8, 20, 21, and I am Duds are duds versus known to the rest of the interwebs and I'm Jimbo you may know me as Kimbo Slice 23. So what have you been up to this week Duds? Well, I think I'm getting pretty good at reading out the date and not trying to rely on remembering what you said in the pre-show because I forgot to look at the data. I just look down and what? Oh, bam!
Yeah. You just got to know where it's at, on your Computer. Exactly. It's all you need to know. Yeah. This week has been a busy but not busy week. If that makes sense. So, I've been doing some home renovations as we all know, I found a snake in my kitchen. No bueno, don't do that, hate snakes, got that sucker out of my house, but in doing so that meant I replaced. All the weather stripping in threshold, seals on every door in the house, so there No way. Anything else is getting in my
house anymore. That's hilarious. You got it. I will all snake proofed. I hate snakes snakes are my not cool. Yeah. I'm not a huge. I'm not scared of them but I'm not a huge fan of snakes. I'm probably more scared of bees that I am of snakes and no Bees mice, all that stuff, and that bees snakes mice, that don't, I don't do, I don't do critters. That being said, like, putting stuff In the yard that would keep things from coming into the yard. I don't like doing.
So we have rabbits and deer and stuff that come into the yard. And I like that. That's cool. But snakes and rats. Hmm. Yeah. I hear ya. You don't want to get infested. Exactly. It's nice to have a visitor, every once a while, but infestation can get out of hand and see when we first moved in the Attic was just covered in Mouse feces. Like that's one of the things we went where holy cow. They've got a mouse problem. Yeah. It was there since before you started before you moved it,
right? And well, as we're cleaning up, the all the mouse extra mint. We found a bunch of snake skin to. Oh my God. So obviously the snakes, followed the mice into the attic. And we realized we didn't have a mouse problem anymore because all the snakes had eaten them. You got a snake problem. We didn't find any snakes up there, and we ended up moving a dryer vent that we thought could
have been the the access. Point into the side of the house, we tore down a couple trees in the backyard, not because of animals and stuff. We had to really dead trees that were just kind of standing in the home inspectors. Like you had those things could fall like at any point. So we were able to get a couple thousand dollars off the house price to be like, hey we got to cut those trees out soon as we move in. So all that helps. Yeah. That helped, we got that done
and stuff. Maybe the snake never never left broke into your house. Maybe it's an offspring from Snake that's been there forever. It just got big enough to Slither its way out into the open, I don't know, but it freaked me out. Need to say. My house is sealed up tight. I don't think a bug get in can get inside this house right now. Nice. It's a lot of work so I'm pretty happy with that but in some Minecraft news I worked on my waterfall on my Mountain.
It's a little waterfall, little tiny waterfall but I think it's pretty the worst part is so my storage room the behind-the-scenes, Action to spawn perfect. Because I didn't want to have a bunch of light back there. I wanted a dark. I just like carpeted, everything behind all the machines while building this waterfall. The amount of times I broke into the storage room. You just don't water on all of this carpet was. Yeah, by the time I was done, I was like, oh, thank the Lord.
I don't have to do this anymore. Yeah. Trying to maneuver water. And once you get water in place, at least, it's it's good enough to kind of stay, but trying to get it in the correct space or place. In flow. You want was a little pain. Yeah, but there are also been working on lighthouse on the opposite side. I'm pretty sure I mentioned both the waterfall and Lighthouse last week, but both of them are like, I don't know how to build that. Well, this week I do, the lighthouse is complete.
All I need to do is the base structure. It sits on and, and it turns on and off at night. Yeah, on automatically, don't have to do anything. Which I was pretty excited about and it's rather large all the lighthouses I built will call the quote unquote red stone. Lamp screen was like a 3X3 on all four sides. Yeah this one is a five by four on all four sides. Okay it's a lot bigger than the other ones I've done before but it works. It looks good.
I'm super excited about it. Do you think because it being functioning? It's got to be a little Larger fit that Redstone in there. Could you have done it with if it was smaller? Yeah. The Redstone I used was a bunch of observers. Oh, so what's cool is I have a track of observers like I just a bit of a but it's a track of observers as did it again. It's because it's early in the morning. I literally just woke up 30 minutes ago, you'll learn to
speak eventually. Yeah, so all of Of The Observers are, looking at each other in a circle pattern. And then I have the same, the same observers looking down at the track pointing up and into the Redstone lamps. So, once the circle pattern starts going, the vertical ones are powering to Redstone lamps at a time. So I had to basically do the same track on the top and bottom, and then I used a daylight sensor to push and pull 3 Pistons. One piston for the top track one
piston to activate. Another pulse first Observer down, below to activate, another piston, am basically just pulling observers out of the track and it'll cycle through and then it can't continue, so it just shuts off, okay? And then Moonlight comes and it shoves those guys back in the tracks and it starts again. That's neat. Pretty neat. Super easy.
I was getting really scared of having to craft as many of Zuri As I was going to get, I think I needed a hundred and something I was like, this is gonna be expensive, but then I went to duck chicken ducks, Redstone shop, but 18 Stacks were oh, wow. It's like yeah, they're 18 for diamond. Sure. Here you go. Here's the steak. Yeah, Yeah. Super happy with the waterfall.
Super happy with the lighthouse especially now that it's functioning and I can look up, oh, and I did your little texture fade like the bottom of the White House. Die. Right? The middle portion is calcite and then the top is smooth chords. That's a good. Yeah, that's a good fade right there. Mmm. So it's a whitish. Did you give it to the pirate theme? It's not really a pirate themed. Okay, I have thought about sticking a ship on it, like just like a ship fell on top of it.
During a storm wherever I see that was the problem. I was trying to theme it with the base. Yeah. And then trying to make it functional at the same time. I said look just build a lighthouse and then make everything else around it themed, there you go. That's what I did or put some some of your pirate banners up there. I'm sure there's a little things you could do. Yeah. Make it look a little more priority. Just right pirate lighthouse on the side of it. Yeah.
But I'm gonna give a shout-out to object because he gave me like 17 stacks of calcite because I only had about six. I think man, I need a lot of calcite to do this. Yeah. And then he was like, yeah. Here you have it and I ended up tossing him some diamonds and basically make the project happen. The worst part is when it was all said and done the amount of
diorite in court. I used I only ended up using like four stacks of calcite but because of the way I build, I think I've discovered I'm not a quote unquote Builder. I'm a sculptor. Okay? Basically, build the entire thing out of one block and then just go back and slowly chop pieces out and add detail. Well and stuff. Yes. Sometimes I find that the easiest way that I do that. Sometimes it just get my walls in place and then we'll go back and detail them. Yeah, I'm not good enough.
I don't know how these guys can add the detail as the go Bravo to you. I can't do it. It's definitely extra work going back through the second or even third time to detail something. Hmm, it does help. If you got a mental block just just build it, you know, just put it up there and then go back.
It yeah, just the best way for me if you guys want to see how I do it is my last episode where I did the, I think it was called palm tree plateaus I did a time-lapse of me doing a plateau in my storage room and you can see me carve out the wireframe, build a big kind of flat surface and then slowly go through and chop and chop and chop until it's officially sculpted to how I liked it. Mmm, that's probably an easier way than you guys listening to me because I probably don't
explain it very well. So how was your week? No, mine crap. Once again, you probably have an episode coming out soon, seems like with the all the stuff you've been doing, it should be out before this episode comes out. Ya know, episode for me. I, you know, like I said with my computer messing up, I lost all the footage that I had, had me a little unmotivated. Hmm. But I have the episodes in my head ready to go, but I need to figure out my intro because I
lost everything. So I have To somehow explain at the beginning of my video of what happened, you know? Yeah, all this stuff that I had recorded is now gone. So I go be like, oh now we're here in. This is why type of deal. But again, the idea I want to make it a little more fun, put a storyline behind it. Not so much, tell you that I messed up in that sense. Yeah, but besides that, I can't get on the server because I've
been working so much lately. I've been Working seven days a week as of right now but we I got today off. Thank goodness. We were going to record this last night after I got done with work. So I was like, okay, Saturday night should be our slowest day. We should be able to get out at a decent time. So Saturday night would be the best for recording and you agreed, you know, Saturday would be best for you. Also know that was the longest day. I've had this week. I didn't get off till like
10:15. Then I end up leaving the worksite. Hmm. And when I got home at 11, I was like, dude, I'm so beat there's no way I'm going to be able to function during this podcast. We don't want to, we don't want to, you know, give out crappy content where I'm mumbling stumbling through, even though I do it half the time, let's say, even though we already can't read scripts, right? Yeah but yeah, yeah I did least want to be semi focused during the show. Show. Hmm, I got home last night from
working 16 hours. My feet had like blisters on them. Hmm, because For one, when I got back to work, I had to get some new boots. Other boots are kind of old. So I got some new boots and you have to wear your boots in especially if you're running around. Like I was doing. And yeah just feet were so sore by the end of the day to wear, when I got home, I like blisters on them. It's never happened to me before and I was just, yeah.
Is no way or I could have recorded and there's just it's hard to find time now because I'm back to work. Hmm. And we're working so much. This is like we're in the middle of summer work is at its peak. At this point it will slow down eventually and I plan on getting some kind of recording in today because I am off. But then again you know because I've been working so much haven't spent much time with the family. So I do want to take advantage of that as As well.
So kind of trying to prioritize myself. Yeah get back on a schedule. I still go to the gym. Still been working out, I went yesterday morning at 5 a.m. and then did that 16-hour shift. So I probably should have just took that day off but I don't know. I'm Still Still maintaining the workout schedule GE GE. Yeah. I mean people were like, are you went to the gym again? I'm like, yeah, I don't know. I wake up early and I just that's my schedule.
Now, go to the gym when I go to the gym I'm kind of upbeat and ready and I feel good to go to work. Yeah. Eventually I don't know. Probably around 3:00 or so we start work around 7:00. But around 3:00, I'll start to like, crash a little bit, but you get out of there at 5:00. So normally you get out of there five. Yeah, late nights though but yeah. I'm feeling all right. Besides the whole, you know, sore feet type of deal. But yeah, that's about it for miweek.
Just a lot of work work. Work work. A lot of work. Yeah. All right. Well, let's move on to the news. We don't have a lot of news this week. We've got a little bit of news. This one comes from Heinrich on Twitter and Minecraft developer. He posted a tweet. Talking about connected Water Systems. So if you see like an aquifer on the surface, that aquifer, you can swim down it. And it should lead to underground aquifers also, which is really cool.
Hmm. Yeah. To have everything kind of connected like that is one thing we talked about wanting having more surface level heading, one called points of interests that can lead to underground once of Interest. Yeah. I think get to see that tweet am actually looking at it right now. He's got a video. Yeah, it's a video. It's about it like a minute and a half or something like that. That's pretty interesting.
Yeah, that's how out of the loop I've been It looks really cool and Mojang has slowly been pulling me into the getting excited for the caves and cliffs update. We all remember when it first came out I was just like I really didn't care at all for it. Mmm seeing all the work they're putting into it. I'm getting a little bit more excited. I think the mob spawning light level change is the Big Fix for
me though? Yeah mainly because that was the thing I was most worried about I'm really excited. For the whole generation, the New World Generation period. Like, like we mentioned before, they have that experimental snapshot out and it's to give a different generation to the world and I'm really liking how it looks all the different, you know, the different Hills and the mountains and how everything
just goes together. It just, it looks more natural but it looks different at the same time. Yeah, that being said, I have no interest in I'm building a house and a cave. I do that already and I feel my calves are better but that's because they're not caves, they're dead tolls, their house. Yeah. Maybe there are other people who would enjoy kind of doing some underground living, which is cool, because obviously, that's mainly what I do is underground living.
But I always prefer the nice Solid Ground because I get a lot of materials when I dig out my base. Yeah, other resources, but the underground water. Water aquifers are definitely. The thing. I'm looking forward to the most in the caves, probably even more than the deep dark right now because obviously, we don't know a lot about the deep dark so until we do underground water aquifers, you're my favorite an underground. Water. Aquifers is an easy to say.
I haven't got to watch this video yet. It does sound interesting. I'm getting, you know, I have an idea of what it is, but yeah, I can't just watch it right now mid show but look at Forward to seeing what they are and how they generate. It's not. Yeah, it's nothing crazy. It's just a water cave. That happens to connect at the surface, and then connect to a location underground. Okay? So don't go into it. Thinking, Dutch hype to stop so much. I know.
It's like, no, I get it. I get excited over little details. Mmm. Yeah. And that's a little detail that makes a lot of sense that I am looking forward to. Yeah, you mentioned. You liked it, you're more excited. Distant a deep dark. So I was like, whoa. Yeah, gotta check this out now. It's because I get excited over details. Yeah, okay. More so than flash gotcha. But yep. That's kind of it for the news.
Short News segment this week. I think Mojang will slowly start to be coming back from vacation and putting more stuff out. We have Minecon live coming soon and then September, the don't know what it is. It's like a month away I thought. Yeah it's uh I think it was late August last year so it's either. Late August, early September. Don't know where it's let's move into listener comments this week. We got an email from Galaxy Fox.
They say hello. If you could add any animal, not always an angry mob to Minecraft. What would you add really like, listen to your podcast? So I thought I'd make some fanart. Hope you like it and they have sent a picture of a podcast about Red Dragons with a dragon picture on it. Very appreciative. I save all the fan art. We get there is a folder on my phone. Able to Fan Art and that has definitely gone into the stash. So thank you very much. Yeah, really cool.
It's always nice to see people taking their time out. Yeah. Carl. Threw it up in the show notes for us. Yeah. Yeah. Have we shared it on Discord? I don't think we have, I'll wait to hear from if galaxies. Fox. Send us another email. Something lets us know, we'll throw it up on the Discord and maybe have Carl soda on the Twitter account, but I don't want to do that, unless they say it's okay, right? Yeah. All right. Question on hand, though. Good. Add any mob or any animal?
Not a mob. Any animal doesn't have to be an angry one. What would you add? Not gonna lie. I have this. I don't know. Spirit animal. Okay, a lot of a lot of my, at least my wife's side of the family, they call me the sloth, right? Hmm, because we play cards. Usually, when we have family, dinners will have will play some game of cards and I take forever to shuffle of Wait, I think I shuffle normally but they call me the sloth and whenever they start calling me, the sauce,
they start calling me names. I slow down really, really slow. Hmm, because I have this spirit animal. Technically I would like to see a sloth in the game. I wonder how it would look or what it would do, I mean of course it would be slow, you know. Yeah, wouldn't be very fast. I don't know if it would have so much of a function though. I'm trying to think of If we had a sloth what kind of function it would have maybe it can Farm things for you. Maybe it can.
It's in trees. Maybe it can break leaves for you. I don't know. Something along those lines. Not too sure. But I would like to see a sloth. A sloth could be really cool. I don't again I'm with you I don't know how they would do it and how it would look because I think you'd have to detail it too much for Minecraft. Yes lost. They're like I don't know. They're on the board. Of like animal you know I mean because they got well they got Claws and stuff. Yeah they got their legs or
arms. Hmm, I don't know. Usually you got animals. Most of them got like four legs. Let's monkeys, gorillas that type of deal. But you don't see too many with arms. And so also one of those, I'm kind of curious how it would look as a Minecraft character. Yeah, my pick would be the ostrich and I had wanted in the savanna biomes, mmm. Only to bring some life. To Savannah. Bynum's was originally thinking river otter but we've got so many new water Critters as it is.
Let's add something to a biome that doesn't have a lot of life so ostriches in Savannah's. Let you ride the ostriches. Yes. All right. I think that could be really cool, that we really fun. Hmm. Oh yeah. Another rideable mob. Mmm-hmm I was also thinking maybe like like you mentioned. We got a lot of River mobs and water mobs. Now, we don't have really any flying mobs. You got the Phantom. See it every once in a while. And yeah, that's it. Chickens parrots. They don't really fly.
It'd be nice to see some life in the sky. Yeah, for sure. I think that's the only reason the Phantom one, the mob vote was because it was a flying love. You could be right there, we keep forgetting bats. Technically are flying mobs to, but Yeah, it should that mob even be in the game. I'm just gonna throw it out there. Yeah, I key I do forget about bats to be, you know, kind of see him out in daylight out in the open. No. And the kind of useless.
Yeah, they're just in the caves getting in your way being annoying and squeaking everywhere. Don't even give proper Batman heads now, right? Team drop like it. Yeah, so I'm going ostrich in the savannah. I think that Just way too cool, but a flying mob would be great. Where would the sloth go? Sloth would have to be jungle, right? Hey, you think jungle, I mean, I'm not too sure where they populate. But, yeah, you think jungle a hawk could be really cool. Aha, yeah.
Yeah. Some kind of doesn't even have to be that big. But Hawks Hawks are good size. Hmm. Maybe they could grab fish out of the water. He's going to say and I can be a Multiple biome type mob? Yes, yeah they are pretty or everywhere. Yeah, basically any forest biome rivers, lakes stuff like that. It'd be cool. If like one of their features is if you're on a horse and you're riding a horse and there's a hawk It'll like ride beside you fly beside you. Mmm you know just that hero type
of picture. If you end up, getting attacked it Swoop down and start pecking at whatever is attacking you. Yeah maybe it could be your friend. Be like the dog is or the wolf? Mmm. Super cool down. Now I want to change my idea for a monstrous, the hawk. Yeah I would like to see some fly mobs man. Yeah. Because of what you could do maybe in an update coming soon? Yeah, hopefully but yeah thanks you for that Galaxy. Fox that comment wasn't from our Discord.
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Why do you watching? And speaking of the Discord is, the only place you can get involved in our mending Minecraft vote this week, we asked you to choose between one of three structures for us to discuss in improve your choices, were the Pillager Outpost desert. Well, and in fountain in the winner of many Minecraft, this week is Desert. Well like there was any other choice. Yeah, there's two other choices but desert well came out like very strong with 41 votes.
I don't think any other, I don't think any other option has had that many votes. Probably not. Yeah, the Pillager outputs only had nine and twelve for the end Fountain, which I completely forgot about the end found being like a structure, just because you see it all the time. Time. Mmm. So I was in the same spot I guess but few things on the
desert. Well in a very only a few things desert Wells are sand stone structures that don't generate in the desert biomes the well is considered a natural feature rather than a structure and therefore is generates with the generate structures option disabled, no desert well can generate on terrain higher than y 128 and that's it. That's all I got like I was looking for stuff to add to these notes but that's about it. That's how you're going to get with the. Well, not really my you kind of
got a blank slate here. Yeah, the, so I've talked about the desert. Well, before, I talked about changing it into an oasis instead of a well, because to me, that makes way more sense than a, well, in the desert think more. People would connect water in the desert with an oasis. So, mmm, go with that. But But our job isn't to create something new, it's to fix the thing. We have in front of us. So fixing the well like you said is kind of a blank slate.
There's not much to these things other than a single thing of watch her. That's it, that's it. Some sandstone and water. I always thought there should be treasure at a desert. Well like you should be able to look into the will find a chest. Open it up and get goodies. Yes! Of very few structures, that don't have treasure. Mmm, so that's my first pick up and it doesn't have to be every well, just randomized Wells and thinking, like, that brought me to the igloo.
What if the well was like the igloo. But, for deserts, where you can have an empty? Well, mmm. And if you climb down the well, you have the Villager laboratory as I call it. It up underneath the well, like you do the igloo so that could be cool or it could be something totally different doesn't have to necessarily be the village or lab. It could be potion brewing lab or something like that. Yeah. I think they give you that, with the igloo just to show you. Kind of give you an idea how to
convert, right? Zombie villagers. But if they did, like something different, like, I don't know. Something to give you an example of how to use another mechanic, but I'm not. Too sure. What mechanic it could be. Yeah, Mojang does a pretty good job of trying to set the game up in a way that the game explains to you itself. Mmm, what it wants you to do that? Because I don't think the only thing we've come across that we felt. They didn't do a very good job. Explaining was the nether
portals with the ruined portals? Yeah. And that's mainly because crying obsidian gets put in there. Some, for some reason. Crying obsidian doesn't activate portals. Yeah, that wasn't there. Like, I don't know. People mention that there's something at the bottom of Wells.
I think it was a troll. You know, people are trolling like hey at the bottom of a well Wells, there's this, I don't know if they mentioned Treasures, I just felt like it's something that was brought up a long time ago because every time I was at least at the beginning, I'd see it as a realm like I heard there's something underneath that these things. And I also heard that there's something underneath igloos so I think because of the igloo thing you kind of get curious.
If there is something under the well. So why not add just to be fully lit down when you go digging? Yeah yeah if you don't want to do the Villager Revival thing me and you talked about we need more above-ground structures to be markers for underground structures. We kind of have that with the azalea tree marking. Lush caves underneath. Hmm, maybe the desert. Well, could signify a lush caves under it. It because, you know, it's a desert it would make sense.
That if there's water underground then somebody's going to be building a well to get water from there to the surface. Yeah. Funny. You say that a couple couple people in the Discord mention that pretty good idea. I like that. There needs to be more signifiers between the Surface and underground. It's a lot of hope and pray while digging to hit something. Mmm and I think marker. There's like structural markers.
Could be really good, especially, like we have archaeology coming up if I go to an area and I'm finding signs of civilization, I need to see other signs of civilization of that civilizations. In a desert, obviously they're going to be living near a water source. There needs to be a well or a river nearby stuff like that. Hmm, and I get Minecraft is a a randomized game of chance.
That's not always the easiest thing to do but it's just Just a thought, that's what mending Minecraft's about was just talking about things. We'd like to see not knowing if it was ever possible. Yeah, it does say the desert will can't generate higher that y28. So because of that fact, you think it would be above some kind of cave, you know, capes aren't going to generate too often above that level. So it's kind of at the spot where you could see a cave underneath of it.
Hmm. It's not going to be high elevated. That even the marking dripstone case would be a good idea or well. I'm actually the aquifers would make the most sense, wouldn't it? Yeah. Can't believe I didn't think that but yeah honestly the structure is super boring that's kind of the way it is and I'm not even suggesting changing the structure really just give it more than just, here's something that took 5 minutes throw together and that was okay, early game.
Mmmmm but it's definitely a, it's a forgotten structure. Yeah. Doesn't serve a purpose. It's kind of just thrown around randomly you run, right? Past it. Now there's never a time where you're like, oh there's a desert. Well, no, you don't say that. No one cares, no one cares. Especially considering the way biomes are in Minecraft. Unless you're playing on, really large biomes, you're probably going to find a river in the desert.
Anyways, yeah, we're next to an ocean or next to an ocean view pundit. Yeah. I was thinking like Wells naturally or pretty deep. Mmm. Yeah. And this thing's got one water source in it. Yep. So it's like, is it even a well? Is it just like a little Pond or not a pawn but I don't know what you would call it as a bucket. Yeah, it's a bucket of water sitting in there so it's not even that deep. How cool would it be? If like you said, Wells were way
deeper? And if you jumped in a well with no armor and you sunk to the bottom, you would start to drown before being thrown into a cave system or something like that. So, like you had to take the chance, can you get to the bottom fast enough before drowning? Yeah. Give a little bit of a challenge to it. Hmm. Even though to Desert well, it could possibly have some challenge to it. Yeah, makes sense.
I mean, it Course once you get any kind of water breathing on a helmet, that's out the window but early game. Yeah, the swimming McKay. It could get you down there quicker to before you a drought but still you're taking a chance. I don't think you can swim downwards in a one-by-one space. You can't Maybe. Not maybe I never tried. Yeah, I've never tried either. There might be something to look at. Yeah, it's out. See, why you couldn't?
I know there's times where I'm in, like a little water source and not get in this swimming mechanic. And I'm like, why am I swimming right now? I'm in this. We little bit of water. Yeah, but I think your head Has to be underwater underwater already to get into the swim mechanic, right? And you were talking about standing in one thing of water? Yeah, I don't know, unless it's deeper.
So I'm saying, if it would go deeper, yeah, you could submerge yourself to hit the swimming mechanic might be swimming feature. I keep calling mechanics feature. I sat there and I was working on this Lighthouse and I keep going back and forth to this island to decide and I've been flying. And then at one point, I just get tired of flying and Jump in the water and I swim over like I haven't swam in like once keep forgetting about that.
It's so much easier just to turn the lights are on and swim around with Rockets. Oh yeah that too. That's kind of it for mending. My I'm looking at the show we're going by relatively quick today. Hmm. Mainly because there's not a lot of news going on. You guys pick desert? Well from ending Minecraft. Sure there's a lot more to Gus about it. We've had, you know, some opinions inside the Discord about it, but not much not much elaboration.
Want to be the best, the best fix for the desert, well is to get rid of it and put an oasis, but that's not necessarily what mending Minecraft supposed to be about. Yeah, you've mentioned that a couple times. You'd like a Desert Oasis. I would be so cool. You want more useful? Uh-huh. I would I am not going to ever set up a base in the desert. I would set up a base in a Desert Oasis. Mmm. Okay, there's that. But let's get into the topic this week and this is one.
You came up with and that's is Minecraft getting too easy. Mmm I have a Layman's answer. I think that's what it's going to be called. I just smacked my Mike I'm so sorry but I'm going to say Minecraft is not getting easy. It's just removing the grind and I know there's gonna be a lot of people saying, well that's what makes it easy. And I'm going to go with someone who never Enjoyed the grind. No that just makes it more enjoyable.
Not necessarily easier. Yeah, obviously things nowadays are getting easier to build compared to the way they previously were right? Yeah, my kind of take on it is I don't feel like Mojang in Minecraft. In general is focused on difficulty. It's more of a venture / creativity type of game more than a difficulty. Yeah, type of deal. Exactly. I think that's the road they want to take. Yeah, and I don't think they're focusing on. This is too easy.
We need to make the level. I mean you can have there's already so many difficulty levels built in the game. You get easy medium hard and then hardcore. So it's like, yeah, I mean, there are examples of your iron Farms used to be so pain in the butt to build. Now, they're not anymore. But when you look at why they're easier. It's not because getting villagers are easier. It's not because getting the zombies and mobs in place are any easier.
It's because you don't have to grind stacking Villages anymore. If you built a single-cell iron farm, which is what I did last season and just kind of had it in an area where it was always running. And wasn't that much of a pain?
It's whenever you would build a Tango tech level iron farm that people who built that would In about the iron Farms nowadays, I think they're just getting rid of the grind for the most part and for someone like me who gets an hour or two after work and kind of relies on that to make content whenever it has opened up me being able to do more in the game that anything. So, yeah, I feel like removing that grind helps keep interest.
Mmm, you don't want people to get burnout because of yeah, this this block can be be obtainable, but you'd have to grind a lot for it. So they're trying to make things a little more obtainable with farming more and more things. Nowadays can be farmed and that gives you more resources than, you know, than you going out to have to grind for them. Like you said, this keeps your interest. Keeps you coming back? Yeah, fried Rock.
Just benjin, amethyst, get ready for the Quran and that is one of the few things that is still super grinding. Question why it was done like that all the time. But if we're talking about something definitely getting easier, it's villager breeding and trading because no more do you have to cycle through thousands of villagers to find that one villager who has a mending trade, you can get it.
Whenever you want it as long as you're willing to place down a lectern over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Yeah. So yeah. You're not breeding tons of villagers but you still gotta grind to get that lectern in the right configuration. And I guess to get The Mending book and even then you're not unlocking the other trades yet. So you're not sure what you can get there. And later on, you might get a villager because it has an Unbreaking book just to find out.
It had a cheaper mending book the entire time and it's loot table again. There are still things you got to work around, like is this workstation too far away from them? You know, is this other villager going to connect to this workstation? There's still some things. You got to figure out too.
You're trading. It's not just, you know, you put the lectern down or whatever their profession, maybe there's still some thinking and mechanics behind, it's all like that easy but it's definitely a lot easier. Yeah, that's for sure. And I've looked at yesterday, I needed the smooth Courts for my lighthouse and like, all right, I can go Fortune the quartz I have in this chest.
I could go digging to the nether, to grab some more, or I could just trade with villagers and I just traded with villagers, because that was a lot simpler.
Fleur safer less of a grind. It still took the same amount of time if not longer because I had to wait for villagers to villager trades to come back, but I was able to do stuff at the same time, like I didn't have to just focus on fortunate chords and then putting it together to turn into a block and putting in the smelter and stuff I could just go through do my trades go back. Work on the light has a little
bit. Come back when I knew this is a new day, do my trades and everything like that and I prefer that kind of work more. That makes sense because you're not burning yourself out doing one thing you're moving around and doing other things. I don't know. Maybe I'm just weird and everyone's listening to this thing going. Nah does know the old ways better. That mean people yell at me about combat like that and I'm sorry. The old combat system is not better than the new combat
system. I know, I'm going to grind a lot of Gears saying that. Yeah, I kind of enjoyed the changes. I don't think they're going to change the game to make things worse. I think they're just Expanding it. Hmm. More and people just can't, you know, relate or cope with the that much change. They do change some things, but I don't see it as too drastic. I don't know villager trading as a pretty big change and it's why
it's so much easier. Well, let's not forget, this is Minecraft. If you don't like the way something works for the most part you can generally do it another way and still get the same result. Yeah, that's the best part about mine. Right? A, you don't have to do it a set way. Now, the reason I came up with this, you know, is Minecraft Covenant becoming easier as watching Mumbo Jumbo's episode recently and he's been landscaping? And I noticed he mentioned, you
know, is it becoming easier? Because he's putting down Moss blocks and he's Landscaping with these Moss blocks and it just, it looks great. It's becoming And I don't know a lot easier to landscape in my opinion which isn't a bad thing. That's not a bad thing at all it, you know, it actually at
that. Also saves you some grind, it's actually some quality of life, you don't have to place every single block, 1 by V. 1 by 1, you can just do some bone meal down and you have some beautiful landscaping. Actually turns out really great. I have a counter argument. Okay, not saying mumbos wrong because I do the exact same thing. Landscaping now, and I watched my shopping district Landscaping thing.
That's basically what I did was throw the Moss blocked out of bone meal it and move on. Hmm, and you're right, it is an improvement in landscaping. But remember, when all you had to do to landscape was just bonemeal the ground, but a tree, sapling down, bone meal and then bone marrow the ground. Now, you have grass and flowers and you're good, you move on and then Landscaping became more of a, what you need to throw in.
Some course dirt. Then it became oh you need to throw in a path block here there. Oh you need to throw in a crop. Up here there and it just gradually evolved and evolved it evolved. Now we have Moss which is a simpler version of that first evolution and I'm going to go into years, just putting Mas block down and bone meal in it. Is going to look like the easy landscaping and not good Landscaping anymore because the Landscaping is going to evolve again. Yeah. Yeah that's my thought.
It may be easy right now but and two years it's going to be the equivalent of just bone mailing, dirt and grass. And On the and Landscaping, doesn't technically mean, you know, just putting down grass, you know, and make it look good. There's a lot more involved in landscaping. You know, your height, your depth Leah, what it's going to look like how the terrain you know, you shape the terrain and everything. It's not just, you know, play CMOS box and Bone Milling them. It does look nice.
Yes, there's definitely situations where it's ideal. I guess mountain building would be Be one of those just so many blocks to try to wall. Yes. And no I can I can stay because I tried this earlier this week putting a mouse Mas Block in the mountain and Bone mailing. It does not go vertically. Yeah, so okay. Yeah. So if they're different levels. Yeah. If you have a relatively flat surface, it works out great. You have a relatively steep surface? No bueno. Right? Yeah, it's true.
So there's that, but I wouldn't bring up a couple things. That I'd noticed Bojangles specifically made harder, okay? We talked about how most everything they do, while it looks like it's being easier, it's just making it less of a grind, but I feel there are two things that stick out my head. When I go, well, have they tried to make things harder for us and the two things were Fish Farms, obviously.
Yeah, and again, I'm not sure why, it's one of those things where it's like, if you don't like fish farms, don't use fish farms. I'm over here going. I don't have a conduit at my base because I can't get Nautilus shells because I used to get knowledge held by fish farming and now I don't have the time to grind out a drowned farm and drown Nautilus shells from ground. So, no conduit. Yeah, which you think would make sense at CERN half? My base is under water.
So, really, it would be nautilus shell for me. Yeah. For the most part. Yeah, usually Fish Farms. I would use those early game. Day one. Yeah, you know, if I had the red stone, which is easily that you can obtain pretty easily. Yeah. For to get like books, you know, and upgrade your gear and your armor and you want better tools a law, that's easier with the villager trading that you mentioned. So the fish forms, really the item that's so hard to obtain. Now, is that Nautilus shells?
That could be a lot. More useful was Fish Farms. I'm okay with them taking the fish farms. You know, I've been playing without them and I'm okay with it. You know, it's actually gives it a little more challenge, but it's not like it broke the game. I don't think it broke it now. Wanted it just kind of proves the point of. It's one of those things. If you don't like it, you just not use it and still get the same solution. Except now there's really no
point using it anyways, right. The other thing was the nether update, the nether used to be hard because it was almost a mess. Memorizing. You got lost in the nether a lot. Now, the new biomes and stuff, make it less hard to get lost but everything in the nether wants to kill you now. Mmm. And I feel like it's a lot thicker. Yeah. So traversing another expecially if you build another portal and you walk in and you're stuck in the what's it called Basalt Deltas? Yeah.
You just like what the heck? Yeah. That's the hardest one to get. Round. I mean, it's I would almost prefer being spawned up in the air above a lava lake over spawning in a Basalt. Delta, it's pretty close. Mmm, there's where the magma cubes the pretty dangerous and basalt Delta's. There's so many. Yeah, and the squishiness really hurts. Mmm. Yeah, they hurt pretty bad. Yeah.
Another thing I want to mention about Minecraft getting so much easier, especially with this update is the oars now That you can get when you mine oars and they're raw, this gives you one Ingot poor / raw or so. Now that you can Fortune these there's so much more resources to where you don't have to. Mine is often. Yeah, this year, another thing
I've been doing is ocean mining. If I'm in the ocean, I was looking for the amethyst geodes, and the shipwrecks, when the new update hit and I'm swimming around. And for those, and a lot of times, you'll see these Ravines in the ocean where you see the magma, blocks at the bottom, giving the bubbles and you swim down there. That's why level 11, I think it is. That's it, that's lava level that's going to be gone eventually, but down there is Diamond level.
Also so if you swim around these Ravines in the ocean there's diamonds they're easily obtainable that way. I think I found more diamonds doing that. Looking for these shipwrecks and Amethyst GE. It's and I do strip mining. Hmm. So resources is actually become a lot easier, nowadays, or maybe I'm just finding different techniques. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of, the whole game of Minecraft, right? Is, it's constantly changing and evolving and it's your job to find the new technique.
I mean, remember the whole clay in the water, Diamond hunting trick, that caught on ver, like all of two months. Yeah. Now I think I think there's a Lapis trick. You could do to find diamonds that. Yeah, yeah. The clay thing only work for me a couple times. I was probably doing it wrong. Probably. Operator are there. Probably didn't do it the right way. Hmm, I do have a couple things here to try to make things harder. One might be a little overboard. Okay.
And that is no more, infinite water sources. How dare you? Yes. What if you could not make an infinite water source? No, making pools making if you wanted to make a lake, that would take a lot of time. Then again, you do have the ice block, you know, you could place all that in with ice blocks and then, eventually melt it on trips done. Yeah, you can put dripstone down, but yeah, it's it's farmable now with dripstone in the cauldrons.
So because it's farmable. What if they took that feature away, Which is a great feature. I use it all the time. It's funny how at the beginning when you could not get the infinite water source to work. Yes. And you finally figure out how to make it infinite. You figure out the water mechanics and it's, it's so nice to use. But hmm, yeah, if they took that away from us, it would make things a lot, a lot more challenging. It might be, might not be worth
playing with water. Yeah, I was going to say it would fall. Under the making it harder just to make it harder, not expand on the game. Yeah, that's my only gripe is, I don't want to make things harder just to make it harder, or you can take out the infinite, water source, and give you something else to place up a lot of water at once. Like, maybe the sponge, a wet sponge can be squeezed and it could drop a ton of water just as much water as it gathers, like maybe there's a limit on
how much water. Water can fit in a sponge, you know, maybe you can squeeze 10 of them and fill up like a lake. Well, what if the exactly what you said, a sponge sucks up so much water? You could then break said sponge and it would drop the amount of water, it sucked of but then obviously you've now lost your sponge which means you would need to be able to craft sponges. Let's it dropped. Maybe feel like there's some thinking it's got to be some. Yeah, the easiest way I can take
this as like again. Look. Fish farm another update Fish Farms, taking those away with some, make it harder just to make it harder and I don't think it really came across correctly. The nether update, May the nether harder harder, but it gets expanded the game. Mmm, he brought more to the game than just it was hard. So I think taking away an infinite water source falls under their, we're going to make it hard just to be hard. I don't think there's a good way right now.
Replace it like you said, sponges are an idea, but I think you just Just find people going. I'm just not going to work with water anymore. Yeah. Yeah. It could be true that happened. A lot with lava remembered, lava used to have infinite sources and then they took that away and people just stopped working with lava. I didn't knows ever infinite. Mmm. That's pretty neat. Yeah, it's just a thought. I had them like, man, this would make things a lot harder, just because of the new cauldron
thing. I'm like, maybe it could be a thing, but it's probably probably a little overboard. Like I said, another, Thing is, I've noticed every mob hostile mob that comes to kill you. You can outrun every single one of them dis if you're ever in trouble you can run away like no problem. Your lot faster than any of them even the baby zombies, which are probably the quickest, you can outrun them. So what if they gave Hostile
Mobs? A little more speed, you know, to where you can still outrun them, but you're not gonna get away too fast. That was also a another thought I had, I can see that more. Especially if it's certain mobs, baby zombies already feel a bit fast so I wouldn't want them to go any faster. But yeah, skeleton being quicker than a zombie makes sense because it's lighter. Yeah. Or maybe it's actually slower because it doesn't have the muscles to move quickly. I don't know what sucks about them.
Getting faster is they can shoot you from a distance, so if they can run up on you so fast, they're still in range. You remember the bug from a couple years ago with the, had the Superfast strafing skeletons they can move side to side super quick. Yeah, those things are deadly.
I don't know if it's still a bug but I remember every time, like, I like to work with half slabs on my floors, a lot of people do it, spawned proofs it. Mmm, if a skeleton would ever come on this half slabs, they would move like five times faster. Like they could outrun you at that point, you know? I don't know. If you've ever came across that, but it's happened to me many times. I'm like, why are they so fast?
Is there a glitch? And I've noticed every time they're on these half slabs, I built this Dock and they would wander onto my Dar doc from the darkness and I couldn't hit him because they're just so fast there strafing across and they're moving around. You'd have to do hand-to-hand combat to take him out. But yeah, I don't know if that
was a bug. I'm not talking that kind of speed Don't give him that kind of speed, it'd be a little overwhelming and it had to have been a bug and it had to have been fixed by now. Because obviously my entire base is Seasons, half slab. And the amount of skeletons I've killed on that mountain, they'll fall on my Dock and walk around and they're not super fast. You two came came across that already. Hmm. Yeah, I just had this to thoughts. That could make things a little bit harder.
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