Everyone, welcome to the withering effect episode 122. Today's date is November 21st 2021 and I am Duds are duds versus known to the rest of the interwebs and I'm Jimbo you may know me as Jimbo slice 23. So what have you been up to this week Duds? Not a lot, I had a lot of actual work go on this this week so I didn't get a lot of playing
time. I've done a little bit of fun stuff on my own Survival. So I've had this ship that was buried in the desert right next to my base and I've always wanted to do something with it and I wasn't sure what to do. So on stream Friday I decided you know what? Let's dig it out. Let's see what this thing looks like as is so dug it out. Found out. It's made by every single would type possible in a shipwreck Normally you're only supposed to have two wood types in a
shipwreck. Yeah this one has like 40. Yeah, didn't realize that turns out half the ship is on a chunk border. So it ended up rendering two different ships and slap them together. Wow, could you tell the difference between the ships when, you know? Yeah, as soon as you uncover, everything I would looked at it I go. What the heck? And sure enough, I hit F3 + G + where The ship changes is a chunk border.
Yeah I didn't know that was a thing you're like that's what happened and there was a chunk issue but to me that makes the ship even more special. So now I have to figure out what to do to save it and I'm not really sure what I know you should do was a wish. I could have told you when you're on the stream but I would say, I went to sleep at like 7:00. I've been falling asleep, very early and getting up very early because of that, but ship in a bottle. Right.
Everyone suggested that already. Okay. I was thinking me and it seems like an obvious. Yeah. A lot of people suggest that and that's why I'm not doing it. Is it is the obvious pick. Okay. So I didn't want to do that. I'm thinking right now maybe making like a crane type thing that holds it up or something like that maybe like an excavation site. Don't know I did a lot of looking at museums how they display. A old ships. So I'm going to take a lot of
inspiration from that. Okay, other than that, I have started working on a copper farm for my own Survival. Not one of the giant ones or anything like that. I'm taking I found one of my old zombie spawner Grinders from early in the season and I'm just going to revamp it to do copper okay, since it essentially doesn't get used anymore for me, it's faster to travel to the end and get XP that way.
Is to use that. So at least I can get some use out of it. I could see a lot of people doing that with zombie spawner, 's coming up. Hmm. Just because it's why wouldn't you, you know, to get egg right copper and could you imagine if you could get two of them near each other? Yeah, that'd be crazy. Mmm. Well worth the converting process. Yeah, other than that, real-life stuff. Buying car parts again, which is always 59.
Also. Hesitant because of the pounding on the wallet and then I bought an Xbox. Hey, as I just talked about being worried about spending money, I bought the cheap Xbox the digital version were mainly because I want to start playing Battlefield again. I know a lot of people would like but this new battle feels broken but it's like guys every Battlefield comes out in a broken State. Give it a month or two and it'll
be fine. Yeah, I might have Battlefield streams unless people are just like yet. No, we really don't. One on, watch you play Battlefield and then it'll be just a game. I play on the side for fun. It depends how good you are actually. If you're not very good at probably be more entertaining. Yeah, I was really good at Battlefield 4, but that was before, I was playing Minecraft
or anything like that. So, all I did was play Battlefield 4. Yeah, I don't know if I'll be any good at the new one, but if I play with my roommate as some people know, he likes to scream at the TV when he dies. So we might have a rage Squad which might be hilarious. At least it will be for me, I don't think I'll be able to stop laughing at it. A raid squad or rage School, rage, okay, I thought you said rage, my nose is just so stopped
up literally all day yesterday. Perfectly, fine, I wake up this morning and I can't breathe like it. Goes from 70 degrees yesterday to 25 degrees this morning in North Carolina. It did. That is so stupid. Tis the season. Hmm. Yeah, I woke up Saturday morning. Them. I jump on the computer and I'm like, huh wonder if Duds is going to stream today. You know, sometimes he's stream Saturday morning that lately. Yeah, you stink Friday night.
Yeah, I had moved it to Friday night because with with the covid restrictions, relaxing, I found people are doing more on Saturday mornings and plus if I need to do housework and stuff Saturday, morning's is usually a good time to do it. I don't like waiting to do housework. I'd rather do it first thing in the morning, so I don't have to think about it. Anymore. I can actually enjoy my weekend so it was easier just to move it
to Friday nights. Yeah. Weekend mornings is the best time for me to do anything around the house. Yeah, especially play Minecraft because that's what I did this week. Yeah, I did a little bit of Minecraft and I'm working on my final video once again, before I had a few minutes in my video, just like the opening scene, then I went through and I was like, you know what? Seasons done. 118 is coming out real soon. I know a lot of people are looking forward to my final episode.
So I've been watching a little bit more Minecraft, which got me more? I don't know. Inside. Yeah, you said it inspired to go back in there. Start playing and I'm actually got the week off from work it's hunting season and I do work outside like in the middle of nowhere. So it's not safe to be out there. You know people Ooh, you know, shooting it dear whatever. So I I'm going to get this week off. It's Thanksgiving week though. So I should have enough time to
finish up a good bit of stuff. I'm going to do as much as I can on the base. Yeah, much as I can but I mean you did a little segment in the video. There's a lot of fun. Didn't it last night? Hmm, I can vouch Jimbo did play Jimbo did real part of his video. I got proof. I am in the opening scene and the first three minutes. The video is absolutely hilarious and it's been my favorite Minecraft content. Oh, nice. I loved it. Yeah, yeah.
Wanted to share it with you. You do have a couple things or ideas for me to put in there and I'm going to go ahead and do that, but I don't want to spoil anything. But yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. Besides like building and finishing up my base. I do want to have a lot of like, editing involved. It's going to be one of those types of deals in. I feel like with this whole week off me. Not really having much plans besides Thanksgiving, I should be able to get all that accomplished.
The first three minutes of your video is filled with so many edits, like people should be prepared for that. Yeah. Yeah. It took it took a good bit of time but I'm pretty happy with it. Hope everyone is happy with it and hope everyone's happy that I'm actually pushing to get this thing done because I kind of fell off the wagon again. I'm like, you know, it's just not into it. But get inspired again so you didn't fall off the wagon, it backed over you and then drove over you again.
Yeah. Yeah, like broke bones and everything, you know, kind of couched. But yeah, I feel a lot better. I feel better about, you know, going in and editing just download overall, actually been, I've been going back to the gym to so maybe I was just like in a rut, you know, in a slump. Yeah. But again. Yeah, feel better. And I hope everyone. Joy's, the new episode should be out later this month. I don't want to give a date because, you know, I want to take my time and get it done.
Yeah, yeah, that's it for miweek. All right, let's have hop into the news because we've had like five pre-releases since the last time we talked. Or for pre-releases, there might be a couple more but I'm this comes out. There might be a couple more that being said, they're not big pre-releases. There's not a huge change in a lot of them.
A lot of them are small. Bug fixes, The devs have been tweeting this out, that their average day, literally goes to the bug tracker, picking out a bug seeing if they can fix it. If they can, they put it in the pre-release. That's yeah. Mainly, what the pre-releases have? There's been a lot of little texture updates. Fixing pixels and stuff I think dark oak, like stripped dark. Oak is getting darker. Yeah, because the Java version strip dark oak.
Looks like Spruce just without the green tent. And the Bedrock versions than actual darker color. So that'll be a change in textures for us. Java players Minecraft. Now, using Java 17, that's going to be kind of a big thing for OptiFine and performance mods. I think that's why we got the new launcher to. Well, the new launcher has been out for a little bit. I finally, finally updated to use the new launcher quite literally. 10 minutes before we started recording the show.
No, I had continued using the old launcher because when you download the new launcher it doesn't bring any of your profiles over which I felt was ridiculous. Yeah. But there's a way to do it. Like if you go into your app data file, you know where your screenshots and you add your mods and everything in there, there's a Json file called Minecraft profiles or something like that. And Minecraft profiles, Microsoft store. All you do is copy.
Your Minecraft profiles. Rename the copy to Minecraft profiles by Microsoft Store. Delete the original Microsoft Store one and then through throw your copy in and it'll move all your profiles over for you automatically. Oh nice. It literally takes 15 seconds. Yeah, exhume avoid did a video on it on his second channel for anyone wondering and that's what I did. And sure enough it works, he's having issues signing in or giving the game to play That and he said his version takes longer
to load. My version is actually faster to load than the old one. Yeah. Might just be differences in computers and stuff. Mine takes a little bit of time, probably, similar starting to think. If I even got the new launcher, I thought I did. Maybe I didn't, you'll know if you have the new launcher because it if you don't, it just keeps giving you pop ups over time.
You maybe I don't because if you open the old launcher and You have the new launcher, it'll pop up that say, you understand, you have the new launcher stop using this old launcher. It is bad. Go back to the new launcher. We just gave you have to pay attention more. I do have a pop up, when I open my Minecraft, but I just exited you probably have the new launcher. Don't realize it. Yeah, that's probably. It is the only other significant update from the pre-releases.
Is that if the Bedrock at height 0 and a chunk was, it has any None are wait. Hang on. This is I'm going to read it exactly how its worded, okay? If there is any bedrock at height zero in a chunk new world generation, will happen under any. Non are block at height, zero in the chunk. Now, this is explained, I know, to me, it sounds, it sounds difficult to understand. It was, it's worded in a way that it's hard to have maneuver these words to make it it.
Yeah, Doug the Bedrock out. So you go straight to avoid when the new terrain gets generated, it still goes straight to voice mail. E. That's what it is. They're not going to fill your hole. That wasn't too hard to explain. That was so much easier to say it. They're not going to fill the hole for you didn't list words than the original statement so well it's technical mumbo-jumbo to cover what they're trying to say. But In general, is if you made a hole to the void, the whole will
stay. It should generate around it all the Bedrock, right? That's around it, at least, that's what I am understanding from this, and all the snapshot videos. I've watched. Yep, that's what I get out of it. Which makes sense. I mean, I guess if you want to reset the whole thing, you just reset the Chunk in general. I'm guessing if you wanted to take that whole out.
I did couldn't remember if we mentioned this in the last episode, or if this came out after the last episode, But caves and cliffs part 2 is releasing November 30th, which is awesome. Carl was kind of hoping it would come out earlier. Normally, we take, like, two weeks off for Christmas. I think Carlos wanted to take a bit of an extended break for Christmas so he can get caught up. Carl does a lot of work for us
guys. Yeah, and he's, he's becoming behind because he's obviously going back to work with covid. Getting more likes and stuff. So he's a little bit overwhelmed. So we definitely want to give Carl a little bit of a break and he Works too. Even though we might take a bit of an extended Christmas break, it's not going to be super long that we're going to try to hop in and do some live streams as a group.
Maybe decoy will be able to join us in there and stuff and we'll post that on the weathering Effect YouTube channel as a standalone. So you're at least still getting us hanging out and talking Minecraft. Hmm. Maybe experienced a new 118 before. Yeah. You know, we start RS. SP yeah.
For those of you guys who stick around and love ripple effect, we are updating for the new release but we're waiting for OptiFine because a lot of the new stuff we want to do next season needs OptiFine. So once there's a good stable, OptiFine, release. You'll see a start earning season. Yes, hopefully replay mod is out. By that time, it's hard to tell, hopefully replay mods. The part that usually takes the longest, I dunno I've defines already 20% Ready?
Yeah, board. The next update in the update isn't even out so. Good job. Mmm, really. Happy about that. Pretty excited for the new release. I know we didn't we're not getting as much as we thought, you know. This is part 2 of the two-part caves and cliffs series you know. But now part three. Yeah. I've kind of you kind of get it. We're getting a part 3 now. But uh, yeah so pretty excited, you know, the the caves of great generation looks great seems like a lot of Buzz Bugs.
They fixed mattered. It's not just too many little things but I hope to Performance is good. Especially on servers. Yep. Yeah. With all the people running around exploring the World opening up chunks. Yeah. I've got my fingers crossed for that. Sure. Go ahead and move on to some listener comments. Yeah, this first listener comment is from MK doug-man. They asked. Hey, guys, would you want horses to get a revamp if so, what would it be and why?
This is a huge issue in Minecraft is once you get the Electra all other travel is bit. Hmm. And we're actually going to be talking about this a bit in the main topic as kind of like a little sidebar but Reef, I don't know how you could revamp horses to compete with an Electra if that makes sense. Obviously speed is a big thing but flying will always be faster. That's just how nature of travel works. The other significance of the horses.
You know, having that companion, that friend, you know, that travels with you, it'd be nice to have some kind of storage on the horse. That's what that's exactly what I was going to say. It needs saddlebags. I mean, we get that with donkeys. Yeah. Yeah, I mean horses are just kind of net. Yeah, if you want any kind of usefulness, you get a donkey with some storage. You get the water obstacle. You know, he can't go across the
waters, that's annoying. I mean, they've made that a little bit easier with they'll follow, I think, hey, Bells and apples and stuff maybe golden apples. But yeah, yeah. That's still an obstacle. You have to get around that. You don't have to get around if you're flying, right. The easiest thing would be to make horses fly, but to me, that's too much. If you're going to do something like that, you need like a dragon creature or just another fantasy creature to add into the
game that not revamp horses. That way. You know that that's the change. It's too much. Yeah. Or I don't know evolve the horse into like a pegasus type of Of mob, you know, maybe, maybe a completely separate mob than a horse. I mean what about like stagecoaches where you could strap, like four horses in have a cart that now holds storage for me. Yeah, that'd be cool. I could see a stagecoach being something, but now you have to bring in round Wheels to Minecraft.
Oh no. I don't think it was too long ago. They re textured the horse. Yeah, that A bad thing. Yeah. I mean it wasn't too great. I wasn't like oh look at the horse now you know this is awesome type of deal. Yeah, I think everyone kind of agreed that the new horse model was like that's a step back. Yeah yeah we do have armor for the horse so anything you would do with the armor I feel like it could be enchanted you know maybe yeah I mean a speed and
chant meant for the horse armor. Yeah would be a good fix a leaping and It meant would be a good fix depth Strider bras Walker or Frost Frost Walker might actually be better than depth Strider because of the mechanic of kicking you off the horse. When you go too deep in water. Mmm. So having a frost Walker mechanic might be a lot nicer. Yeah, you think it would be like, a horseshoe thing? Yeah, we don't have horseshoes yet but maybe if we had horseshoes. Yeah. That would be cool.
We know there's a lot of love for horses in the YouTube Minecraft world. Now with hermitcraft and all that stuff. But honestly, in all honesty in the way I play the game, they're useless. Yeah, at least with Minecarts, you can you can set it up once and you just jump in hit a button and you can go to La La Land for as long as the ride takes, there's no thought process involved. Yeah. Yeah. Horses are good for like scenery. You know, some kind of
liveliness to the world. Yeah, it's good for immersion but usefulness in game. Is relatively no low when you get an Electra or heck any kind of iron and gold Farm because in Minecarts take over yeah and it's not bashing horse gameplay. If that makes sense. Is me personally. Once I have analyte sure I'm not taking the darn thing. Yeah the main thing we're trying to say is horses got revamped when he likes your came out. That's the new horse.
Yeah that's the new travel. I was wondering where you're going. But yeah, essentially, let's upgrade the horse with giving you an Electra. Yeah, I chanted armor. You were right. I think that's the best way. It still won't beat an Electra but it's, it'll push the horse further forward. That makes sense. Yeah, it won't be such a bad option at that point, mix things up a little bit, you know, change the gameplay. Plus it gives you a chance to have a horse. Villager or whatever is Stables
men or something like that. That could be cool or if I guess if you just want to use a blacksmith that could work too or armor? Yeah. So move on to the next question. Yeah, I hope we cover that for you MK dog, mate. Hmm, next question we have is from lock on for he asks hey Duds and Jimbo? How did you get your names now we've covered this before but it's been a while. Yeah, my name Jimbo Slice 23. It's kind of, a knockoff of Kimbo Slice.
Kimbo Slice was a YouTuber. I was at work one day and, you know, some of the guys are call me Jimbo slice and kind of stuck. You know, I've got called at for a little while. You know, some people do some people don't Jimbo is always been a nickname of mine because my real name is Jimmy, you know, people call me Jimmy where I'm at, but Jimbo you know, I get called that frequently especially nowadays. But the 23 is I'm I'm I was
born, June 23rd. So the the number 23 is always been like one of my favorite numbers and then I was a Michael Jordan fan. Hmm, so yeah, 23 is always been around. It's always been one of my favorite numbers so that's where I come up with the 23 and Jimbo slices already taken apparently on the who he is, who they are. But it was already taken. What's up with the 23 on there? Yep. Nope. I have the kind of the same issue with my name but the, the Duds part comes from the candy Milk Duds.
I just so happen to be on a trip with some friends and stuff, and we stopped at a convenience store. And for some odd reason, I grabbed a box of Milk Duds, not anyone's first choice of candy. It was just that day. I was craving Milk Duds, and the word dud in American is obviously, Not a term of endearment, that makes sense. Right? So the they thought my candy Choice was a dud and it just so happened to be Milk Duds.
So Duds kind of stuck around for a good bit and the versus part came because my channel originally was going to be me playing several different games. So it would be Duds versus Minecraft Duds versus Battlefield Duds versus Mario party or something like that. That was the original Names for every channel segment. I was going to have and it turns out Minecraft just stuck. So I didn't really go and do any other games, and let's get the channel.
Duds was already taken so, and I think of some months often people confuse Duds with dudes. I noticed. Yes, it's not dudes. Yeah, I think when I saw your name first, I was thinking is it does or dude. I was like, who would name himself Duds at first? That was my first thought when I saw your name. Yeah. That's like it's not KP Duds, right? Hmm. That's like, that's how it would be pronounced, but, yep, that's versus. There are people who use the
phrase Duds as like clothing. So, that's also a bit confusing, because there's some clothing channels named Duds. Mmm. And it's like, now we don't do that here. I thought you were thinking, hey, dudes for a second, no, no shoes. See and If I would have the name dudes, I would spell it D uu d as okay. So that's even more confusing. Mmm, Yeah, that's how I got my name. Yeah, didn't go with the versus part.
Mentioned Kimbo, Slice versus. Well, a lot of people read the vs as vs. They don't realize it's versus and I thought about changing it to spell out the phrase versus but then I also have people who see the phrase versus because it's not a very common Owen word, you see? And they have trouble reading that too. Okay, so this is a calf whatever. Yeah, yeah, the versus is pretty unique, never. Never seen that on a title, right? Yeah. I enjoyed my name.
I like it. I was actually known as Duds is a wall for a long time. When I first started mainly because like I said, I was a battlefield player. And a lot of the time, I would just kind of like disappear. I'd go off of my own little adventures. The game and people like, well, where's does, it's not guys AWOL
again? Hmm, I'm just out doing some crazy flanking, maneuver that will probably get me killed and I ended up changing it because I didn't think it was a well perceived name, because going AWOL is not necessarily a good thing. And I didn't want to kind of have that imagery with my name. So, I went with verses and it stuck? Yeah. I think we've answered those questions, right? Yep. He gets all all I got for my name. Well, thank you for that in.
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Made me say that. Thank you for the Discord, add C-3PO, and speaking of the discourse, the only place you can get involved in our mending Minecraft boat. This week, we asked you to choose between one of three, biomes for us to discuss and improve your choices were flower Forest, Tyga and Ice spikes in the winner of many Minecraft. This week is Ice spikes. Yeah, the ice spikes had 27 votes, which isn't a lot many voters this week. Yeah and votes were down this week.
Second place was a flower force and then tiger with nine understandably, the Taiga did just get updated. Few things on the ice bikes. Ice spikes biome is a rare version of the tundra biome released in the Seven update, its most distinguished feature is a massive spikes of packed, ice called ice spikes, mostly small. But some enormous that dot, the landscape mob spawns are similar to other Frozen biomes, which provide the Stray mob and the
polar bear mob. The ice spikes, biome has an abundant Supply packed ice and snow block resources. And the biome can also be referred to as the ice plane spikes. Biome came across, that didn't know that. Sounds weird saying it like that, to be honest. But yeah, that's all I got for
the ice spikes biome. So I spikes is exactly what it says, it is. And like, most of the time, we do mending Minecraft, I try to look for real-world examples to pull from and Mojang. Does this also except for, when it comes to ice spikes? Biomes, it's not like a real biome in the world. You can find relatively tall ice
spikes in the The real world. But for the most part, the rather small, like one to two feet maximum, which already goes against Minecraft because of block is like three meters or something like that. It was it was hard to come up with ways to improve it so I decided to kind of go Fantastical as I'm going to say it. One ice bikes generally aren't straight up and then world, they're very angular, they're like at a 45 to 60 degree angle. So let's have Angular ice spikes.
That would be kind of cool. I also like the idea of bringing in some blue ice to these areas. Yeah. Mainly just to let people know there are around. I think we're getting that in icebergs and Glaciers and stuff like that. I think there's blue ice. Yes, you can get it in the glacier biome. Think it's frozen ocean. Okay, so we have it there let's let's bring that over to this area. One of the other ideas. I thought that could be kind of cool since I was working on a ship.
Breck all week is like what have you could see shipwrecks Frozen in the ice? I think that would be really cool so I want that. Yeah. The other thing was and I'm not, I don't know how much this would mess the game up, but have you seen the pictures where people walk across a frozen lake and like it's glass? You can see all the way down to the bottom. Like Crystal Clear. Yes.
There's a very cool. Now in Minecraft, that's a little bit of an issue because technically water blocks have like Pixlr to Gap of error between the block that's on top of them. You can get the same effect. If you have glass on the side of water, you'll get that clear effect. So I was thinking like would it
be an issue to drop ice? Just the bottom section of ice down a Pixlr to. So it sits in the water to maybe give that kind of cool effect where you don't have an air gap messing with the your visuals and maybe that can create this. Clean. Clear View down? Yeah, I don't know how much that would mess up the game so that that might be a bit of a riche, a reach. I know a nice for water freezes. It does expand. Yes. Do you think it would be a
little bigger, right? I get were making an expand sideways and vertically might be an issue, but going down, since we already have the thing where like if a player crouches, if you look Don't necessarily just shrink from the top up. They sink into the ground a tiny bit. So I was wondering if an ice block could technically do the same thing where it has those extra pixels, but it doesn't really interact with anything except for water, okay?
And then, my final thing was, is in the fourth grade. I did a report on, I think it was, was it Neptune? And I found out they have Ice volcanoes. There is just spewing Frozen ice all over the place. And it's like, I want ice fall case in point craft. Yeah, I didn't know that. I think it was Neptune, maybe it's one of the moons. No, I think it's straight up on the planet on the planet. Okay. I'm going to try to Google so, fill the void with speak.
Yeah, there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of unique moons that have volcanic activity. I didn't know of any Like icy ones. I know, you know the further you are away from the Sun, the colder, the plane could get though, you know, the inner core of the planet it normally is what heats it up. Yeah. Didn't know about any ice volcanoes. I thought you meant by reading the notes ice volcano.
I'm thinking you have lava coming out but yeah that's yeah, that's one of the things are trying to patch. Actually, it looks like you're correct in that. It's a Neptune's moon. Mmm. Triton or treatin. You want to say it. I think it is Triton but yet it has a straight-up ice volcano, okay? Or they call it cryovolcanoes, okay, and it kind of goes spews into space, then it. Yep. Okay. I've seen pictures, I didn't know. It was like a nice they're shooting out.
That's pretty cool. Thought it was actually on Neptune. But remember, I did this report in like, fourth grade, how am I supposed to remember that photo back? You never thought about changing things in Minecraft like Similar to other places in our solar system. Not just Earth. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's the great thing about Minecraft. It doesn't have to represent
Earth all the time. Mmm. Yeah. There's a lot of different things in Minecraft that aren't similar to the Earth who live in. For example, I spikes by. Oh yeah, there is no ice spikes biome, which makes it harder to change, especially with many Minecraft. Yeah, to look Beyond this planet. There's probably ice bikes biomes on Triton when I I want to put it out there guys. There are ice spikes like that's
a real thing. But you don't see massive Fields with ice bikes that are 150 feet tall, right? You just don't see that you can see broken part of glaciers that have come ashore and they poke up and stuff like that. You see a lot of smaller ice bikes. It's a thing but it's not a Minecraft thing. Like it's not the same kind of but because there will be people who will jump Can't blame you. This is a nice big smile and say yes but not same, it's not one-to-one.
Like if you pull a plains biome in Minecraft and up plains biome in North America yet they look identical. Yeah I think what they're the other ice spikes people? Think of what we see in real life or icicles. Yeah yeah I have some on my roof in the wintertime but completely different comes that comes from above I know when water continuously Drips on the ground and freeze it and it can make a
spike like formation. But yeah, there's there's not Mountain High spikes out there like there are in Minecraft, it was nice, finding those biomes. So they are really rare. It's hard to find. Yeah, but because we have the new Frozen ocean with the glaciers. There's no real reason to go after a spikes by or ice bikes biome because that's where originally you would get your packed ice, that's where it was. Remember playing on ice or ice.
Pike on Xbox and I found it. I spikes by owners like, oh, great. You know, we could use this packed ice to move items because it's hmm, you just didn't get it. I don't even think you can convert ice in the packed ice at the time. But I, you know, I went there and I started farming, the ice bikes and they're like, you can't destroy the ice, spikes biome. That's got to stay there, you know? I'm thinking well, we need ice resources here, you need the packed ice resource.
Actually, if you want to use Redstone and move items, this is what you do and it was an issue at the time but I kind of convinced them. Let me, let me take a little bit of the ice out. You know, we'd be nice to get this packed ice from this bio but now you don't have to you can kind of leave the ice spikes alone and go for the glaciers well in you can craft it now. Yeah. And like Carl bildt a nice Farm towards the end of ripple effect that I love. It's a cool little farm.
And I will be forcing him to build relatively early on Deck season, because packed ice was a bit of an issue for me, but halfway through the season and I had to go out to a glacier and I mind to Glaciers all the way down and that kind of held me out for two seasons. And I don't like doing that. I don't like going and tearing up terrain and stuff when I don't have to. Yeah, depends, how far it is away. That to how goat are Glacier down. If by noon is going to be there
and I could get it right now. Instead of waiting for the ice to freeze, you know and then crafting it all. So it does help and it saves the Ice Bike biome. Greer's it is you don't you don't see too many builds their at the ice spikes now. I don't think you see a lot of built-in any of the snowy areas, right? Because no is kind of a hassle one builds, right? Yeah. I'm not a big fan of the snowy areas either. Sorry Carla moving in my chair.
For those you don't 40-something minutes sitting in the exact same spot in the exact same distance away from the microphone to make sure you don't have sound and volume issues starts, make your but go a little numb yet. You gotta wiggle around every once in a while. Yeah. I'm like all over the place. Yeah. Sometimes I don't even look at them like it's when Carl, hey Timbo. Can't hear you. You're getting further away that, that is one thing I want to do with our extended break.
As I've learned where my mic placement is now, and it's not supposed to be where it is not needs to be closer to my face. But my settings are so far off because I'm trying to get rid of like those sounds and breathing sounds. So I need to tweak them a little bit so I can get the mic a little bit closer and you guys don't hear me breathing all the time. So, yeah. But that's it for mending Minecraft. Should we get into our main topic today? Sure, our main topic is a mechanic in the game.
You feel should be Advised. And this came about because I was thinking last night about the whole villager system got revamped, right? They changed almost every aspect of villager trading, and then we hear combat update is also getting this kind of revamp. So I was thinking, is there another game mechanic, actually? I see you already have combat in your notes. Yeah, pretty vague. But uh, we can expand on that a little bit. They are looking at Combat. Hmm, I didn't have all night to
think of things. You know, I do have another thing I would like to see revised but I figured I put combat in there. We could talk about it but you got quite a few. Well my big thing is all my stuff is one mechanic and that kamek is like, that mainly words, man, that hammock give me a hammock. The mechanic of you have to Travel somewhere to use something and this goes to spawners amethyst and I threw an
in Portal frames. I threw that in there not for the same reason as spawners and Amethyst. But amethyst is where this is really kind of got my goat, mmm, put it in. Minecraft terms, the fact that you cannot pick these up and place them in a way to one efficient or to make it. Far more efficient is about ridiculous to me at. So I went ahead and threw spotters in there too. Honestly, I do not see picking up spawners and moving them as overpowered brutally.
The only thing that you're doing by moving, spawners is getting rid of the difficulty of building a farm. If that makes sense. Okay, because like, if you're building, a blaze spawner Farm, there is a small chance of Dying. But any player who's been playing the game for a year will understand how to one disable the spawner, because does it take a lot of resources in? It's not super hard and to how to keep other things from spawning and killing you at the same time.
Yeah. Could you imagine bringing a little, a blaze spawner to the Overworld done that all you would you've done and common Craft season two? We played on a custom map and the custom map had custom spawners and because it was a custom map. We didn't want to tear the train up to create farms for these spawners. So we turn silk touch spotters on where you could physically pick them up and we had the rule of. If you have a spawner Farm one, it has to be able to have an on-off switch to you.
Couldn't run more than two spotters and a farm at a time because if playing on a public server, you had people who like to take advantage of things and they go and they collect 12 spawners Right? They call me put 12. Spotters in one Farms. Like, no, you're going to kill the server stop. You don't need that you live in a dirt Hut literally. And you just have a spotter farm and that's the first thing. People think about the issue being is just people massively taking advantage of.
Yeah, moving the spawners, and I'm not saying there's not a downside to what I'm suggesting. There is picking up, spawners is a huge thing that would have to be thought about. Out and not because of players like me or you who understand, you should not have that many spiders running at one time that you're crashing, the game. You're going to hurt the fun for other people and everything like that.
I just kind of included in there as one of these objects that people really would like to move but can't the big thing is amethyst one. I don't see the point and not being able to pick it up and to I kind of like the idea of being Autumn mine in Portal frames and not to necessarily move the in Portal. I would be okay if you mind the in portal frame and you cannot recreate the in Portal somewhere else, like it just wouldn't work, I'd be okay with that.
But it's such a cool block that you can't use anywhere. Yep. Yeah. Get a kind of go to it. All three of those examples. Exactly. I said the main one was amethyst but I threw in Spa nerds because as someone Who has moved sparse before? It actually is really useful to be able to build one spawner grinder and just be able to change out the spawner for the thing.
You need, that was really cool and I'd like to build within portal blocks to me. It's the best end block way better than / /, and I, and you can't build with it. Yeah. Dammit building an amethyst Farm seems, or the was amethyst Crystal Farm, I guess you could say. Yeah, it's like a Each puzzle. You know I guess some might get enjoyment out of it. I could see that, you know, just to challenge the puzzle.
You got to put together but man it's so like inconsistent and I don't know I feel like would be such a grind. Yeah, to knock this thing out and there's no, you're not going to get it tutorial. You know, there's no way to make a tutorial because they're all different one. The other big thing is because of how long they take Take to grow, you have to basically AFK these things the entire time.
Alright so now you're loading chunks of the world that could be taking mob resources from somebody else and doing and messing with what they're trying to do. Maybe they're trying to get a squid Farm going, but your amethyst Farm is next to an ocean. So now they can't use their thing because you have to waste all this time. Loading you're saying because you couldn't pick these blocks up and move them to a better
location. Shin to make a more efficient version of your farm and they're pretty blocks. Yeah, but is not worth all the AFK time. Yeah. I never thought about that. Like, most of them you find or in the ocean, that's easiest way to find your take it up. A lot of mob spawns. Sam thing anymore, it's not going to be exposed. They're not going to be as exposed as they were before it. You're still going to find a few exposed. Okay? But nowadays.
Nope, not a thing. That makes sense, because As the world is so much deeper easier to tuck them in that way, but it's also going to make them harder to find. Yeah. Now they've limited the Resort's even more. I guess we can go on with my mechanic. Yeah, what? You got one thing I was thinking about leads? I think there could be so much more with leads for one. I feel like they break way too easy. Yeah. I mean, if you got a lead on On
an animal. It's really hard to break 41, 42. It would just be broken, you know, there wouldn't be a lead left, you know, it's a broken lead. It wouldn't even work in that case. So why I don't know it's very annoying annoying losing animals on a lead. Like what's the point happened to lead if you just gonna does it work half the time? Yeah, and I feel like they say, you know, there's you should be able to use them without the animals, you know, we mentioned before.
Maybe tying them on different fence, posts to have this. God, if you could do that, that would be such a game changer. I would love to be able to lead a lead to another fence post. Yes, you could do that with a animals, you know, time up on the fence post but that's the only other side there is, you know, you can't put a fence post to a fence post. The best thing to do now is to get a chicken buried in the ground and then attach the lead. A post somewhere else and it
doesn't look that great. Yeah, it does move a little bit still in that sense that gives you the effect of it. Something being tied down. Yeah. And that's what we're looking for. With, if we can get this mechanic. Yeah, it'd be tough to implement. But yeah, it's so good. Yeah, wonder if it would cause lag. Probably everything comes the slam. Yeah. Yeah, no. Be used to good bit. If you could do that, What was your other thing or you still have more? Leeteuk?
Know, maybe different colored leads. I could throw that out there. Yeah, it's not technically a mechanic for the lead, you know, just retexture but combat. Let's talk a little bit about the combat. We know jobs, working on it. Hmm. One of my favorite things we've talked about. This might have been the last episode was the bows. I know. I mentioned, you know, let's get different type of bows. Yeah, a little. Why does everyone get the same? Look on Bo, Let's Make a Move.
More unique but besides that the mechanics of the bow, how to use it. I mentioned we have this new Target block and you have to shoot right in the middle of this target. Block to get like the full Redstone output. Most of the time you can't. It's a random shot when you shoot a bow. So I feel like if you hold it at a certain spot, maybe let go at the right time. It should go where you're pointing at. Yeah.
Now you're going to get that. You know, the little drop The further you are, the more it's going to drop type of deal but it should be more accurate. Well and I was thinking about this too and what could be a good way to give an indicator is? You know, how when you use your sword, you do the swipe. You get that little bar that goes across to let you know when you can do a full swipe. Again, I know where you're going with this.
Yeah, when you draw back the bow, maybe have that little bar start filling up and you have to as Pulling it back that bar fills up and then the longer you hold it, that bar goes back down. So you want to get it when the bar goes all the way full when it's all the way full release. And that gives you the most accurate shot possible. And then when you're holding too long, you see the bar. Go down in your at your shop becomes less accurate, that's what you're talking about, right?
And then it goes like all the way down and doesn't come back up. Yes. Once you're holding it too long because yep, You've Got to Now release the arrow. Andre knock it, right. I mentioned before, you know, I shoot. A traditional bow in real life and you can't hold that. You're holding a lot of weight back. When you put ya Arrow back and you get more inaccurate the longer, you hold it. It's just it's harder to hold is
wears on your shoulder though. Some people recommend, you know, when you pull back, take your time, look at your Target and then release, but sometimes you don't have that much time. You only have a few seconds or I mean, And it depends how long you can hold it, I guess, but it definitely, it's definitely not as easy. It is, as it is in the game, we just hold it back forever and get the same results.
Well, I think, when people think of bows and stuff, you think of compound bows, which are a lot easier on the shoulders. Yep. And you can hold those very decent amount of time. You still can't hold them forever. Yeah, they kind of let up a little bit. Once you get past a certain point. It's a lot easier to hold back with the compounds. Yeah. But my my second combat thing was Shields pillocks. Shields should be looked at as of right now.
They're all the same, but you can put in breaking on it and mending. Yes, you can. Yeah, maybe give him a little bit more than that. I don't know if that helps the mechanics but I don't know. Maybe it could be used for melee. Maybe if you have a round one, there could be a throwable one and maybe the have different uses for these shields. I've always wanted knock back on the shield. Mmm. Yeah, that's a big one. Maybe Thorns Thorns would be a good one and like you said,
different shield shapes. Would be cool. But we say that about all mine. Craft armor weapons and tools. Yeah. He's getting them to look a little bit different would be awesome. Yeah. Everyone's got the same stuff. Yeah, I guess you could like put texture packs and stuff. Yeah, and that's always been Mojang's thing is like well, if you want custom looking stuff, The texture packs are easy enough. Hmm. And they're not wrong. I'll say that.
Yeah, I mean you have on a Shields come in, all kinds of different shapes. I know Minecraft is square. You know everything square. And this Shield is square, it's gonna probably be difficult to have a standard shield shape in Minecraft. The circle, you know, there's a bunch of circles Shields like, what's his name? Captain America. One thing you could do is because we can have Banner Banner patterns added to Shields and stuff. Maybe have the banner pattern
affect the texture. Yeah. So I don't know how you would do it. Like this kind of an analysis, their thing. But it might be a way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. You make it with iron and wood you know maybe a different resource and would could make it look a little different. Yeah that'd be cool. I'd be okay with just that maybe a diamond Shield gives you the ability to put thorns on it. Maybe another I gives you the Ability to put knock back on it. Yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah, be okay with that.
I feel like knock-back and the warrant should be a shield only thing not. Yeah. Or or allow me to put the shield on my back on top of the elytra like where the shield on the back. So if I get attacked from the back, I'm always covered. But I'm not getting the same effect as if I'm wearing a chest plate, okay, I like that. The light, you could still
technically work. It's The Shield's not blocking the wings from expanding into anything and you're covered a little bit on your back, not a lot. But I mean the thing is almost the size of the player itself. Yeah. And he kind of just puts it in his pocket. That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't really make sense to toss that in your pocket. So yeah, there's your there's just some mechanics that was looking at but we're over on time before I have Jimbo, read
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