Hey, you're welcome to the withering effect. Episode 129. Today's date is January 30th, 2022 and I am Duds or does versus known to the rest of your webs. 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 think people will notice my episode which will be out before this episode is Is definitely late. Hmm, it is and it's strange because I was actually early on the episode. I was almost done with the episode within three days of the
previous episode release. But work. It's been just absolutely hectic this past week and I'd come home so drained, I couldn't do anything, but just sit on the couch and watch TV with your supervisor now, right? Yeah. Kind of kind of gross. So, A lot of the responsibilities without the title meant. But yeah, there were several days. I got well over eight or nine miles of walking in at work, just going back and forth.
And we're constantly lifting things that's 100 pounds and it's just you physically just drain. So, I couldn't, couldn't do anything. Like, I'm supposed to be streaming this weekend. I'm still recovering from Friday. Wow. Friday was just such a Like I don't think I logged into the server at all yesterday. And if I did it was maybe for a couple minutes just to check on some stuff. What's funny?
Is you say that? And I was on there like almost all day and I almost have like, like, like you were saying you had an episode almost done in three days. I'm almost done with mine. Yeah, like my next one. I just put one out yesterday. So yeah, I've been doing a lot. Lat, I have big things going on right now. Yeah, my episode will be finished. Basically whenever we get off this recording.
All I have to do is edit two more clips and then record an outro and edit that, okay, it's not too big, but I worked on a nether portal entrance. Finally got my nether portal out of the random position X of my wheat farm. Yeah. There's a nice way in and out. It looks cool. My only regret. Is the shape of the room started out as a half circle? And by the time I ended it turned into an octagon. Yeah, I remember stopping over. You had a half circle.
I know it's now half octagon. You just keep putting stuff on putting stuff on putting stuff on, and if you're working with circles in that circle, is not big enough. The shape drastically changes. Yeah. You haven't seen it yet. It's still about bad. The only Seems I had was the nether portal.
Entrance was also supposed to be an entrance to my amethyst rooms where I'm mining, all of that stuff, and it turns out, if I were to dig down to my amethyst room levels, I'd have to dig through the middle of the iron farm. So I couldn't do my amethyst room entrances without doing, like, some weird zigzag about halfway down, which I'm not about that life. I am not doing that honestly, I guess. Probably can. It wouldn't have been too bad because I could do, I want to do
a storage system. I get so many amethyst shirt. I mean almost an entire double chests when I mine those two geodes. Hmm. So I'd like to set up a one. I want to do a, what is it a like informed on there? Because we can create the light blocks using the shards and lichen, right. The other thing is I need a moss farm. So that would also be kind of a good area to put it in down there since I I need the bone meal for like and farm kind of makes sense. And then yeah, say I done lost
all training track. I was choking on my own breath. You're on, you're talking about lichens bone meal, you need bone meal, the fact that we can make light blocks that time lighting up my entire area. So I need to manufacture a good amount of them. That's why I was excited when I found multiple geodes. Yeah. It's pretty big dad. Come on, I got one and it's not it's not close enough for me to really you know for it to produce while I'm working. Yeah, I kind of have to go ways
but good thing. I have a member of the server based near it. So every time I go there, it's constantly loaded. Yeah. So I yeah, I can actually go there and harvest it. Yeah, that's the good thing about - that are always loaded too because they're right underneath my base. Nice. Yeah, and I still have a third geode in that area that I have. I'm not even hooked up to. It's funny because I found that first geode and then I kept digging and I found the other two and then I completely just
stopped using the first geode. Hmm. Mainly because that one was really close to the art farm and I didn't want to risk digging it out and iron golem start spawning now. Yeah, yes, bonds are weird. Yeah, Iron Golem spawns, man. They can do some of the weirdest things. I had them all over place. I knew I'd have to like control it. Yeah. Because I have this tree. So path blocks, they don't, they don't spawn on path box.
That was good. I had to use a lot of slabs and then Carpeting and eventually I got them all to where they don't spawn and I noticed just above where the platform is, where I have them controlled spawn at. I had these logs up there and they weren't it's spawnable in. They're not spawning up there. So I guess so high from The Villages or villagers. Usually, it's eight blocks away from the villagers.
Yeah, that's where They'll spawn but above I think it's a little bit shorter than eight blocks that counted there. They're definitely closer than eight. Never knew Golems up there. The whole time. I was trying to detail my tree. Maybe their heads also have to be within the eight blocks and maybe where they were spawned their feet would be within a blocks, but their heads would be out of the eight blocks. So it's not working took a five block range type of deal. Could be could be right.
Yeah. I was going to talk about my week. I didn't know if your Go ahead, finish dear. The only other thing I did was another War farm and it's all kind of manual stuff. So yeah, those are always I mean, it's nice to have the Nether wart, but the fact that it's a manual, you know, and I wish there was a way to automate that somehow I did mine. So it looks like a crop field like, you know, how I had the wheat? Yeah, the little we Farm next to the cow harvesting section. Okay.
I basically did that with another word does no automatic function hidden. Behind a wall somewhere. Like the wheat farm. Yeah. It's just a manual, another word form, but I decorated it up. I made it look pretty. I put some dead bushes inside of it. I left one of the mossy cobblestone Boulders in place sprinkled a few mushrooms in there with it. I think it looks really good. Okay, the you kind of build it within your bill. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's a part of it. Exactly. Nice.
But also functional. Mmm. I like it. Yeah, Nether Warts. One of those things you could do that with ya. It, but the wheat, you know, that can be automated. Yeah, I think I'm going to do a carrot potato and beet root crop Farm is a crop Farm because they're not going to be automated. They're just there to look pretty okay kind of with like the wheat. Yeah, but what about you have? What have you done this week since you're almost done with your episode that you should see
this room. I dug out. I feel I'm building a tree farm. Yeah, by the way, and I need to build the trees, I need. Need to grow, or, you know, jungle trees. Most of the two by two trees are pretty large. So, I needed a bit, dig out a pretty good-sized room if I could spit that out Jesus. Yeah. It's gigantic. That, that was actually the easy part. The hard part was putting this automated Tree Farm inside.
It grows all the one block wide trees besides the acacia and the Azalea. He's now, but it does the oak, the jungle Spruce and Birch, I can get all those and actually get a good return on saplings to. I was surprised to see that. Yeah. Yeah, I know what of army built. So, yeah, you built the same one. Actually. I was like, you mentioned it how convenient it was and it does
the four different types. So actually went to your video from last season to look up the link for the The tutorial and yeah, it's working really. Well. I got it already built. It would be my next episode. I did have a little mishap on what was going on. I was really confused. I was actually like getting upset that the server was too laggy. That it was the server. Yeah. I'm like this is not going to work because the server's too
laggy and looked at it again. I'm like these are in the wrong spot. So I moved everything still wasn't working and then I figured out the other issue. So yeah, I mentioned in my video. Yeah, if you guys watch that, you'll see how not to build a tree form but working really well.
I even made enough room to build my dark oak trees and like I said, my occasion, Azalea trees to, you know, get the lease from these two trees and the wood from all the other wood types that I can't use it. That farm. Yeah. Going really well, but with a big room becomes you get a you're going to need a big design, so I've been Placing a lot of blocks trying to get this thing the way I want. I have like it's big image in my head for one in the ground. My base least my starter base.
Is it consists around? Its what's the word look for its developed around this tree right in the root system and I want to incorporate that some way in the walls, you know, like the roots are coming through and it's pretty convenient. It's a tree farm so it shouldn't be too hard. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm actually excited. I'm motivated again to do all this stuff.
And yeah, I I kind of lost the Mojo at one point, but it's definitely back and all I want to do is play on the server and, you know, get my stuff where it needs to go, what it needs to look like. And I also had big plans for other farms and where they're even going to go. So pretty excited for that. Been doing a lot of stuff. Yeah, planning out where things are going to go before you're even close. Is to building them is the hardest part in the season, for me.
Yes. I agree as you always want to make things look good. So it's like, how can I leave room for expansion and maneuverability in case? Something doesn't work. Well, the same time, making this Feel Complete and compact. Mmm. Oh, and you'd like to have functionality everywhere. You know, I mean, yes, it's nice to have like an aesthetic looking build, you know, looks good and everything but have some functionality behind Gives it that little bit extra.
That's what I look forward to. Yeah, I feel my dome. Last season was my most complete functional base that I had ever made. Yeah. The mountain not so much the mountain. Only, how is the storage room in a furnace? And the fact that it wasn't that close to the Dome. I still had to travel by rail to get between them. Yeah, kind of hurt me a little bit there, but I keep thinking about my season and that might be happening again this season.
At one point in the season. I'm planning on basically moving out of my Tyga and doing my normal kind of nut Duds base. We're going to we're going to build underground and make a completely functional base and stuff like that, just because that's what I like doing. Yeah. It doesn't leave a great footprint on the server. People can't just look at it and go. Wow. This looks awesome. It's kind of just like nope. Here. It is. It works. It's great. I love it.
Yeah. Mmm, my main thing is get all my Made it stuff in the ground, you know, most of the time these Farms, they're not easy to build around to make it look pleasing to the eye if you build it in the ground. Yeah, it makes it a little bit easier. What? I mean, there's and there's little things you can do to make farming areas. Look, please like, you look at Carl last season. Yeah, he he built up some some walls or whatever. They, it wasn't overly decorated.
It was clean and sleek. And that was it. You don't have to hide the Redstone. You just need to build the Redstone with some good-looking blocks and you'll be. All right. Yeah, make it look clean. Yeah. Not we're not all not as clean as Carl though. The dude is meticulous. Mmm. I'm not a fan of people who just kind of plop Redstone builds around and they don't tie them together, intricate them or try to decorate them. It's just There's a farm.
Yeah, I feel like it's something you do when you play by yourself on like a single-player world. Yeah, and you're just messing around maybe, you know, if you have like a hardcore series or something, but I feel like when you're on a server, you know, and you're trying to make content you kind of expect to see a farm that's you know, well put together well, design. It has a nice look to it. Exactly. You want people to be able to look at your builds and get some
kind of entertainment. It value out of that too. Right? I think like there are some builds that are extremely hard to decorate. That's sure like the giant mob Farms, the flushing systems. I used some of that for a creeper farm and my single player world. And I struggled with like what am I gonna decorate this and still be functioning? I couldn't find a great way. So the way you do that is you do
what I call the car rides way. And you use clean aesthetically pleasing blocks like straight up concrete. All the trap doors or whatever you're going to use the same Redstone lines or and colored Pathways. You got to do that. If you place it a bunch of cobblestone down different color if you using screws and dark oak and Acacia, whatever you have. Nah, that's fine for single-player world or if you're hiding an underground, right, but I wouldn't want that in my base.
I wouldn't want it in the middle of walking around next to my house. There's his I mean I had the cobblestone. In cow farm for maybe seven hours before I went. Oh, I gotta put this somewhere else. Yeah, I guess. Should we go ahead and hop into the news? Yeah, because we actually have a tiny bit. I got this frog in my throat. You were wanting to use that segue, aren't you? Well, it's there.
I mean you can't get ya. Alright, so we're back on the beta because Java is still doesn't have any snapshots out for 119 yet. I'm just Just say, I am kind of looking forward to that. Yeah, but frogs frogs got worked on a good bit. There were some animation tweaks, to the jumping mechanics and the tongue. Mmm. They renamed frog eggs because frog eggs, I guess or a real thing. So you don't want to get them confused with Jenna. Hmm. Like, there's not going to be
frog eggs in the game. So they renamed frog eggs to frogspawn. Yeah. Like isn't everything a like cow spawn egg. Yeah, I do. Whatever floats your boat. I guess. That's where I'm at with it. You know, I mean if that's what they want to call it. Okay? Yeah, I but I thought the eggs made sense. Yeah. I don't know if this is a Bedrock thing and how they've made just named things differently, because this is a Bedrock beta, this is not a Java snapshot, right?
Mmm, me and Jimbo or an unfamiliar territory again, right? So I don't know, it just seems weird. Worry about the name. If frog eggs aren't in the game. Just name it like you would name every other spawn egg and that'll be fine. But frogs are going to jump more frequently. They're going to bounce around. Hmm.
Which I guess is cool. Yeah, I guess it was the, I don't know if there was a complaint but people worried that the frogs are just moving around, too slow, you know, and if they're jumping around more frequently than they can, actually move a little bit quicker because the they're walking animation. They're pretty slow in that sense. So, I think that's why they gave him a little bit more jumping ability the gate jump. I don't do they jump higher. I knew they'd jump more
frequently. I don't think they jump higher. I think they just jump more. Okay, like we're frequently, so I'm reading a little bit longer and now I'm seeing some stuff that's making sense. One of the changes is the time for a frog spawn to hatch into a tadpole. Has been increased. So frogs, do lay eggs in the game, is they just don't come out as 2. See, I never heard that. All I knew is that we had tadpoles to frogs. Looks like. Now we have frog spawn to tadpoles to frogs.
Mmm. Yeah, they mentioned the eggs. It was a while ago. Yeah, they didn't bring it up in the, what was it Minecon? Yeah, in my con. I don't even think I gave us tadpoles. Yeah. I knew we had tadpoles but I didn't know they had eggs. Like I knew we had like frog. Eggs was a real life thing, but it I know if that's if that was a Minecraft. Also are zombies going to stomp on frog eggs. Like they do turtle eggs.
That's never been brought up. I don't think, you know, because I'm bees they don't like them eggs. No, they're not a phantom. At least a turtle eggs. You think Turtles and frogs are both and fabian's, right? Yeah, pretty sure. I got that right? Yeah, it would make them attract zombies. Maybe they're changing the name of frog eggs because in real life frog eggs are called something else, too. I'm typing really slowly. So Carl could get my clicks out.
I noticed when they do Spawn from the eggs or whatever you want to call it, the tadpoles kind of like pop out of there. Yeah, you know, they're kind of hard to control where they're going to go. You kind of need a big area of water to keep them from actually popping off a few blocks away on the land and they're called frog eggs, huh? So yeah, there's going to because it's some confusion
around these names. I I can already tell you, but they did mention that tadpole hitboxes are going to be larger. So I guess there will be easier to scoop up with a bucket. Yeah, when they're flopping around on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. And make sure you get enough water around them to avoid that. They did change the texture on the frogspawn. Yeah, I couldn't find a picture of it though. Yeah, I didn't really notice a change in might have been a
slight thing. But then again, like it's been a while since we saw these. Yeah. Frog eggs. Frog, spawn. So yeah, that's so this update was a real pain. It's one whoever's in charge of Mojang's website, please, please, work on it. I cannot find any of the snapshot / beta news on that website, period, unless it's weeks old. I luckily follow a lot of the devs on Twitter and I can go back and check their Twitter and
find it there. It takes a bit of scrolling because Minecraft devs tweet a good bit. I can go. Go back and find it or it's generally easier for me to find a YouTuber. I follow. Yep. He's talked about the news to find it that way. The fact that I have to go to a third or fourth party to find news instead of the actual source of the noose, right? Yeah, usually have to find a video of someone. I follow to actually see the news. Not often. Do I go to the website?
Because, like you said, it's not easy to navigate. Now. We have frogs got a lot of attention this week. I guess it's all right, but I couldn't find videos. I couldn't find pictures or any that stuff. So there was a video by Waddles. Okay, he covered most of what's on here. Want to say all of it? Yeah. Yeah, you covered all this. Yeah, if you guys want to see more in-depth on the frogs, go check out his video. I will have to do that because I couldn't find anything.
Yeah, normally Exuma would give these releases. Not so much. The Bedrock betas, though. So luckily. Ali. I was able to find the I actually just scrolled upon it. Now, does it go? We're going to cover frogs that a I better. Watch this actually. It's all this morning but let's hop into some listener comments. Okay. Got a couple this one's from I am Kara Danvers. Oh, I did not breathe correctly
and say the name. I am card Denver's Danvers words doesn't Jimbo now that the entirety of caves and cliffs in name? At least has been out for a few months. How would you say it ranks as an In comparison to other Minecraft updates. Oh, this is tough. Yeah, I like to start off by maybe scaling it, you know, like putting it on a tear St or 80 or beat here. I'd probably as of right now. I probably give it a be. I don't know, maybe a b-plus. Yeah, the best parts are yet to come.
Like I feel like when we had the caves and cliffs coming out earlier, you know, we had the warden and The deep dark coming with it and that is a completely different update. Now and the fact that this had two parts. You know what we got? Yo, your Azalea or Moss blocks, you got bits and pieces of it in the first part and then deep slate. He had the Deep slate. That's a big one actually. Hmm, that might, that could move it up to an A in that case. It's not the best.
It's the best update now, but yeah, there are some things that I don't like. Take, well. There's not too many things. I don't like, there's just, there's other updates that have been way more. I've been way more excited about than this one. Yes, not trying to diminish this update because technology-wise this was probably the biggest update for Mojang to do. And the fact that our recoding worlds. Yeah, right massive amounts of recoding and stuff, right?
It did bring the best update the game, which is Mom. ABS no longer spawn unless it's zero. Yeah, that to meanie had. That's a quality of life update. That was desperately needed. It was huge. Hmm. That is a huge part of this update. That being said it it's still
three updates. Yeah. I'm going to put the Wild update as part 3 because we were supposed to get the deep dark and Warden in the first update, then the second update and now we're having to wait for another update and get it keeps changing. Growing. And I'm not gonna, it's like to point. Like when you're putting it in aspects to other updates, to me, the best update. So far is 19 because we get analyte row and we get shoukry boxes to things that are daily uses in the game.
Those are huge updates, right? Then you have the 114 villager update which drastically change the way how we enchant tools and weapons and stuff that we use on a daily basis red. Stone Redstone update. That's a massive update. I don't think I'd be playing Minecraft. If there wasn't Redstone involved. Right? Just you know, the way to automate the game. Mmm. Yeah, just engineer. Different contractions was yeah,
huge. And when you look at the best things about this update, the train is absolutely stunning. Love it. Love the terrain, but it's terrain. We've seen Builders build already. So basically, this update was mainly for people who don't build that kind of terrain the biggest and best parts about this update. We're deep slate and mobs. No longer spawning on any light level. Yep. Those are the two biggest in my opinion.
Yeah, love that change. Yeah, and when you compare them to show core boxes and Electra Redstone just not high up on my list. I'm not trying to put the update down. I think it's a very good update and I've enjoyed the update. - the tons of Ravines I keep following in. I don't know why there's so many Ravines. Yeah. I mean, if you're an Explorer, this is huge. You know, I'm it. Well II like to explore in. This is definitely a huge update.
But yeah, compared to others, it's not as appealing. I mean, you kind of seen it coming. Yeah. I'm not an Explorer. No. Yeah, that's exactly no. No, I really enjoyed this update. Yeah, but it hasn't really Changed the game too much for me. I'm kind of doing the same things. I've been doing the world looks great. It'll will get me wrong, the world looks amazing, all the generation, just it's awesome. Love it. Love the mountains. Love the caves. It kind of changed in that
sense. But besides the gameplay, the gameplay still the same. Yeah, that's that's what has me worried about the Wild update. We're seeing some cool stuff. We're seeing swamps get overhauled. We're seeing the deep dark. And the warden coming. But we still know very little about this update. And I'm afraid it's going to be like the another update. The another update was a huge drastic change. Oh, yeah. Did it change how you play the
game? It did in the nether, you know, you will you wear gold armor around a lot more than usual. Don't you? Hmm, change that and the way you get around another, you know, you got to be more cautious in other areas than others. The Pitstop still not going to live in the They're not going to hang out in the nether, to get my stuff and get out. But there's more to pit stop for their there is more to pit stop but not a ton for me like warped wood. Yeah, I'll pit stop for that.
I rewrite I rarely engage in bastions. I was just going to say that. I think I've been through for bastions already and maybe five. I just went I went to get boom Blox last night for my tree farm and I found another one and I went in there. There I really enjoy the bastions. Yeah, see bastions have. No, no, hold on me. All I get, there are only good for the snout banner and pig step. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I do like those, but I like the challenge, you know, going through there, I
get, I don't know. I feel like my heart's heart, my horse. My heart is racing the whole time. I'm in a bash it soon as I go into a Bastion of like, okay, where are they, you know where those brutes at? Sir, pretty dangerous. It's I like that element of danger. Yeah, when I go to those places where it's for me, it's a complete opposite to me Minecraft's by Cho Game. If I wanted, like, heart racing pounding, I'd play Battlefield or birth of the wild, but that's the beauty of the game.
Yeah. I mean, you can make it a chill game. There's the chill aspect. There's that danger element. There's little bit everything. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Its, these aren't bad updates. They're just not top priority updates from me. Hmm. So for some people, this 118 update was probably the best update they've ever seen. Hmm, for me. It's like, okay, great. Thanks for changing the mob, spawn thing. That's huge.
But other than that, yeah, there's always going to be those awesome changes in every date update. So, yeah, we got a couple here and pretty About it. Yeah, just waiting on that inventory update. This sweet sweet inventory update. I'm sure it'll be coming. Yeah, we're getting a lot of block along with concrete slabs and stairs. Right? Well, we already got. We already know what's going on there. Yeah, there was another comment that we had on a disk or don't want to bring up. I wonder.
Are you hitting at this too? Yeah. I was just about to hit it. Yeah, so stand, Junior and links. Fire. We're throwing ideas off of each. Each other for a new mob and the game. And I really liked one aspect of it that I think would actually work out really well in the game and the mob was a ghost but not like a Vex ghost or anything like that. It goes that you could be friend that could then take you to your items. Once you died. Okay. Yes. All saw this thrown around in the Discord.
The first thing I think about when I hear ghosts is, is the Soul Sand. When you walk across Soul saying or so slow with your speed. So speed, you kind of get like a spirit that comes up out of the ground. Hmm. That's thinking that could be a good way to bring a mob de life. Maybe if they're killed on Soul soil or something like that. You might be able to summon a ghost. Okay. I was thinking I really like the idea.
They mentioned befriending the ghost not so much what I was thinking but But having an area were ghosts could spawn and it could be in the soul soil valleys or something like you're talking about but I really like the idea of the Mario ghost. We're like you turn your back to it. The ghost would creep up and try to attack you but if you looked at it mmm, it wouldn't I know in your mind kind of do the thing. Same thing. If you look in internment in the
face, they stop. Yeah, like they get all mad, but they stopped moving. Yeah, we would need some way to capture the ghost like Ghostbusters Style. Whether it's a magical jar or something like that, maybe we can bring in the archaeology pots and maybe if you have certain shards on said pot, that pot will allow you to capture a ghost in it. Hmm.
Are you? And I like that whenever you die, you can release The Ghost and follow the ghost and it leads you to exactly where your items are or where you've last died. Yeah, because right now, that's the worst part about dying in Minecraft is like, crap. I remember where my stuff is, right? Yeah. I like the fact that you're bringing in archaeology with the ghost. Yeah, because it does kind of Archaeology is just remnants of things that are said dead. You know, that aren't alive
anymore. So, yeah, ghost ghost would be well implemented with the archaeology, I think. So, I thought those were some great ideas. Mmm, that were thrown out and I think would fit well within Game yet. Now you mentioned, you know, the ghost showing you where your items are. I could see ghosts doing other things, you know, not so much that thing, but just I don't know. Maybe going through walls. Mmm, and I don't know, really not too sure what it would do. Showing your items would be bad.
But I'm thinking it could probably do something else. You could probably expand upon that. But yeah, I'm drawing a blank right now. Really didn't think about what they could do. Yeah. Yeah, I figured they could be like an Eye of Ender. How your throw it up and it tracks the nearest stronghold like with your with like an urn. Hmm, like the archaeology pot. Would then become an urn. Maybe? Anyways, thank you for that.
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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 items for us to discuss it and prove your choices were a light, ra crossbow, and Spyglass, in the winner of many Minecraft this week is Crossbow, I would guess the crossbow. Yeah. Be honest. I think it needs to most Improvement. Actually, I forget the crossbow existence the game. Yeah. Yeah. Same here until I come upon it and I'm like all crossbow.
Do I need one of these? Yeah, no, crossbow. Got 30 votes. No surprise. Spyglass was in second with 17 boats and it later was seven. So, You things on the crossbow. A crossbow is a range weapon similar to a bow that uses arrows or fireworks. As animation can be crafted with three sticks to string, one tripwire hook, and one iron ingot. I always forget. You can craft these things are because I never done that. You can find these naturally and Pillager outposts or Pig. Limb Bastion loot.
Also, you can it can be traded from a journeyman. This is a tongue twister here. Also, it can be traded for from a journeyman level Fletcher villagers. These weapons can also be dropped by villagers or Pig lands while loading the crossbow. The player moves at sneak speeds and once loaded their speed returns a normal. And there are three specific and champions for the crossbow. There is quickfire that goes up to level 3. This allows you to load the
crossbow faster. There is multi-shot allows you to shoot three. Is that once were three fireworks and piercing that goes up to level 4, this allows you to shoot through mobs and hit an enemy behind the enemy. That's it for the crossbow. So crossbows are garbage. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. They are so harsh. That's why I can't wait for the combat update. I feel that Mojang knows this when we saw a Jeb's quick shots of gin say, quick shot, what I saw. So Jeb's work on the combat update.
I got excited because obviously he understood that some weapons in the game just aren't worth using such as crossbow and Trident stuff like that. Now the cross boat the biggest problems with the crossbow. One are loading time, even with the enchantment to speed up loading an arrow. It's slower than bow and arrow. Mmm, and two, it doesn't deal the same kind of damage. Put a bow and arrow does yes, especially if your BUN. There is power 5, right? Like you're going to do way more damage.
So why would you use a crossbow over a bow? It makes no sense when you're fighting mobs in Minecraft and I go fighting mobs. Not PVP. I'm not. Looking at this from a PVP aspect, very rarely. Are you one-on-one finding a
mob. Most of the time you have a horde of two, three, four, five, even the you're trying to get rid of. So the slow loading speed of a crossbow, Negley Gates, any kind of piercing multi-shot, it just all of that goes out the window because you're having to Rapid Fire as quick as you can to put shots on because you can miss Minecraft. Arrows are a bit of orangey. You can be as good a shot as you think. You want to be put your crosshairs on a block and shoot
that block over and over again. Not moving any cursor. Any Mouse know nothing and you will see the arrows do not hit the exact same spot every single time. Right? There is a tiny bit of orangey. You can with a Target and you're playing hardcore world. Are you going to trust crossbow over a bone marrow? I don't think so. But I think you get I think it's a little bit more accurate. I'm not too sure.
I thought ice read that. Okay, I mean, maybe it It is but now you're still the accuracy Mark. But if you're not accurate enough to hit that many targets that quickly, I think it's with the firework, it goes straight. So now you have to build a farm to make fireworks. Put on arrows to put in a crossbow. I was going to mention that, like, you can get more damage out of the crossbow if you have fireworks, but, you know, it takes a lot to make fireworks and you got to keep your
distance. If you shoot someone that's kind of close to you with a firework, you're going to take damage. So it's not always ideal to use that, right? It's got to be the explodey ones, not the ones you fly with exactly more resources, right? So, yeah, you either need to increase the reloading speed or increase. The damage is the big thing to fix the crossbow.
There's no other way around it. I think it's the same with the Trident. It's like, oh, yeah, the tridents Great. And no, it's not the tridents like the coolest weapon in the game. Hmm. But it's the most useless weapon or along with the crossbow. Yeah, you have to loyalty thing. You know, it's cool. It comes back to you. Super cool. Yeah. Takes a minute to, you know, to get back to you. So why use it in that sense? Not to mention. You can throw it in the void still even with loyalty.
Mmm. Yeah. I think you can. So it's like, why is that a thing still? Yeah. I don't know. So by Other fixes that had nothing to do with reloading speed or increasing damage. I thought what are some other ways we can make the crossbow better without changing those stats. The one everyone mentioned is throwing the Spyglass on the crossbow. Yeah. You mentioned is more accurate. Might as well turn it into a sniper. Yeah. So there's that it may be getting a little more distance.
Hmm. The other thing I was thinking about was We ever could get rope in the game and be nice to turn that into a nice way to put rope in areas. So you want to climb up a wall. So you fire a crossbow with a rope attached to it. And now you can climb up the Rope like Batman like Batman and on the same aspect what if you could tie a torch to a narrow? So like you need a light up an area, that's high up. What if I could just shoot a
torch up there? Yeah, that would light the area up for me. So you're turning this weapon into like a tool, right? It's No longer considered a weapon. It's a long rage placing device is point. Yes, give it multiple uses that people use it as a weapon. It's not me. It's not very appealing. I've come across the many times. Like I've said, like, I was saying, I've been in many bastions already and there's a crossbow. Mmm, and then I close the chest at the Grab and everything else,
but the crossbow, I have one. You know, just in case I need a crossbow which is as of right now over so many seasons of playing the game. I've never really used it. Find the bow way more convenient. I gave the crossbow, a fair Shake last season. I used it for about a week and a half as my main range weapon. It was horrible. I had the best enchantments you could throw on one except for multi-shot. I've never liked multi-shot and the fact that it would take four
or five arrows to kill a mob. I was like, no. No, no, we can't have this. This is not good. I could see it being the most useful if you have Multi Shot and fireworks. Yeah. Now, like I said before this, you know, it takes a lot of resources to make all those fireworks, but you could probably clear out a pretty big area, a lot quicker with something like that. We probably could. But are you going to have it in your inventory? No, yeah, you probably right special uses in that case.
Yeah, and that actually ties in perfectly. Perfectly for what? I wanted to talk about this week. Right? Let's do before we go. I just wanted to mention how funny it is. How we can't talk about the crossbow without bringing up. The Trident is thought that was funny. It's very true. Like wait, we're not supposed to be talking about this when you think of useless items. Hmm. I can find better uses for poisonous potato. Then I can't across Broward Ridin, man, you really?
Yeah, tearing her down there. Yeah. How much vanilla game, but there can be some uses for a poisonous, potato, that are better. Anyways, so, inventory, I don't want to talk about an inventory update because I beat that horse way more than it, probably should have, but I want to talk about, like, like what stuff you keep in your inventory all the time because we mentioned, we go in the other. You need to have some kind of
gold on you now. Hmm, if you're in like, work our lives and that snowy base, you gotta keep leather boots on you now. Yeah, like let's talk about, let's start with armor. Your Basic everyday armor. What are you wearing? Helmet pants and boots. All Nether right? If you can if you can afford the nether, right? I got ya, all my enchantments on there. I'm Diamond still suitable.
Yes diamonds are just as good. I mean nether right to step up, you know, you won't have to worry about dying and lava as much. So definitely helps to have never, right? But diamonds are great armor as well. I always make sure I have fire resistance on one of those at least one of those. You don't need blast protection as much if you have the nether, right? I think it has blast protection and Fire Resistance a little bit involved in it. So that's the beauty of having the nether right?
Also. Glad you said that because I can't remember if it does he the I know I used another right. One for the durability. Yes. And two for the if I die in lava, it'll float at the top. Yeah. Those are the main two things, but I think it's got a little bit of built-in enchantments involved. So try to get another right if I can. It looks cooler. But this season, we're trying to, you know, we have a mod that makes it invisible to where you have.
You have all the protection but you can actually see your skin. So and I don't wear a chestplate, normally I wear my lighter. Mmm. Feel like at any situation I can get away a lot faster with the elytra and with the nether right? And all the enchantments on those. I get just as just as good as protection without the chest plate. Yeah. I am much more we So I wear gold boots, which is already a downgrade, but my gold boots are decked out.
Obviously with death Strider, feather, falling protection for all the good stuff. And then I have never right pants. Again, diamonds are perfectly suitable. Literally. I only get another right when I'm like, hey, you know what? I'm bored. I have about an hour to waste on the server. What can I do? Let's go mining for another right now. I go dig. Mmm, usually within an hour I can get for ancient. Debris at least here. Yeah, that can get at least one thing suited up my hat this
season. Normally I would just wear another hat but I have these special hat from Winter which has Aqua Infiniti respiration 3 protection for but it's a pumpkin so I get no armor protection out of it. Yeah, and again, I'm gonna light your guy too. So I am significantly. Decked out. Then people. I'd never noticed in your episode. I have to look. Now, what your armor is things like for? Okay. Yeah, lighter. Without the chest plate of think it takes like three or four,
it's big the chest plates. A huge thing. Yeah, that's like your biggest protection. Mmm. It's nice to have it early game. But, you know, once you get the elytra that now you mentioned, you have gold boots. I have a pair of gold boots. I always keep in my Ender Chest. Mmm. That's one thing I always. Have in my inventory, not on my
hot bar. But in my inventory, always have an Ender Chest. Same and that expands my inventory by a ton 27. Yeah, 1:33 exact along with the Shocker boxes have spots for my shoulder boxes. It's very convenient to have at least one Ender, Chest in your inventory. And then inside my Ender Chest. I have a bunch of Ender Chest. So I need more, there's more inside there. I keep Ender Chest in my inventory. Three. I keep multiple Ender Chest in my inventory.
I don't keep in her chest in my inner chest. It probably should. That makes more sense. So not including the Hotbar in my inventory. I have a bucket of water and Ender Chest a arrow. What was his one scaffolding bed and crafting tables? This is in your inventory. All your hot bar in my inventory. Not on my hot bar. Oh, and I now carry a clock with me. Hmm. Because my base is is not lit up at all. I found a clock day.
One on ripple effect. So I keep it in the top left-hand corner of my inventory. So basically now I have a watch. Yeah be cool to just put that on your player. Uh-huh. Yeah, I usually in my inventory. There's my Ender Chest. I keep one Arrow does infinity is 0 P. Yeah, water bucket can be in my Hotbar but a lot of times it's not and ender pearls. Also, I always keep Into the side. I never need them all the time. So always keep those in my inventory. No bed. No clock.
What else did you say think? I was about it. Scaffolding. I keep Scaffolding in my inventory. No, I usually don't have scaffolding how think I made any scaffolding yet. But usually I mean if blot, you know, if I have a block on me, I'm going to use that for scaffolding. Unless there's a project. I know I'm going to be at for a little while. So for me the Fielding's, emergency hide mob. Chasing me. I throw it down. I can stack all the way up.
Get out of range. Yeah, you don't have to worry about jumping. You stir them down exactly. Good idea. Good reason to have it. But let's go to hot bar because everybody has their hotbars set up differently and specifically if you're one of those people that just put items anywhere weird. Yeah. What's in your first slot will start with your first thought first slide sword. Into my pic and normally it's my silk touch. I have my fortune three in my Ender Chest.
I keep my fortune three in my inner chest also kind of same in that aspect. But yeah, my number one spot is definitely my pick. And then they, my to is my sword. My number two, is my pick silk touch another. I pick. Okay, kind of similar. What's on your sword. Do you go, Smite or sharpness? I do sharpness as sweeping Edge. Looting three. Not. Get back. I think that's it. Same here. I don't like I don't like fire
aspect aspect at all. I like knock back because if you get overrun with Mobs with sweeping Edge, you can kind of push some of them back yet. Those two. I feel like her must, I always go sharpness because for one I do have a fire aspect that was an accident. It was not on my sword and I didn't want to get rid of all the other enchantments, just get rid of that. So I kind of stuck with it. Even my bow, you know, besides the infinity which is a must. I have flame.
It's called flame on the boat. Yeah, I can attest to it, you have flan, I do have Flame the and I normally have flame on my bow and not my sword. I don't like flame on a bow and I don't like punch on a bow. Always have punch to hate punch. I'll be trying to shoot something and then you hit it and now that mob has moved. So you have to realign and try to shoot it again. I noticed when I was in the Nether and I'm Trying to get with her. I see a wither skeleton. I'm like, oh, let's see.
If I can get his head. I'll hit him and knock him off the whole platform C. And I'm like, no, you know, there he went. I can't get his head. Yeah, that does hurt you in some cases. You're right, but my my number three slot is my axe. Same always keep my accent. My number 3, that is such a valuable weapon. Hmm. If you don't want to hit more than one mob, if you want to concentrate on one you can take The amount with the axe and it does a lot of damage. Not only that.
I always put Smite on my Axe and I keep sharpness on my sword. Don't have Smite, on my axe. I have soaked, touch on my ex because sometimes I'll get lazy. And don't want to get a ho or shears to get leaves. Mmm, and I'll just chop it with the X. Same here. Gets soaked, touch on my ex. If the sword didn't have sweeping Edge. I probably would have switched to an acts as the main weapon. Hmm. Just just to open up, inventory, space.
This really? Yeah, and at the beginning of a world, I never make a sword until it's Diamond. Like your acts is such a valuable and potent weapon. It does a lot of damage. So you have no reason to have a sword until you are able to get those enchantments. Yeah. I was one shot Cal was most of the time early in the game with my ex. Yeah, with a wooden axe, a wooden axe. If you do a critical hit which is a jump in Hit And then, you can kill a cow. It's crazy.
Not with a sword. But what's in your fourth slot, my fourth slot changes, so it'll either be torches or fireworks. Okay, I rotate those two in and out. I have my shovel always put my shovel in there. See, that's what I forgot to mention my third slide. Mmm. It is an axe, but I keep the shovel above it and rotate the shovel and axe. Ah, no, because I found if I'm chopping wood. I usually We don't run into the part where I need a shovel. If I'm mining somewhere. I'm not chopping wood.
So I can get rid of the X but the shovel in there. Okay? Yeah. That makes sense. You always always kept my shovel close, you know, in case I need it. There's times like for instance. Now, you have the snow you have to get the app. What is it? The powdery snow. What is that? Go powdered snow powdered snow. You said it and I missed it. Yeah. Good thing. I have my shovel there. Don't have to go after it. So I could dig my way out of that mess.
And yeah, other instances to where I feel like my shovel needs to be there. But mostly mining, you know, when you go after saying, there are some times where you, you specifically, use your shovel which in that sense your method is ideal. Yeah, my fourth slot that I just said, it's my shovel. Yeah. My fists lot is my bow. Always keep my bow in my My fists lat. I kind of, I kind of category, or categorize them as I need them. You know, like, what do I use the most?
I guess my bow would be up there more. I use my bow a lot, but get always keep it beyond my tools, tools tools. Go before my bow. Yeah, my fifth sixth and seventh Slaughter empty. Okay, those, those are my building slots. So I got nothing in them. All right? Yeah, and then might 8 slot. Is my bow and my ninth slot is food and that specifically done this way. So the food is between the two weapons.
So if I'm an obvious combat, whether I'm with sword or Arrow, I can just click once to get to my food. I don't have to scroll through the crossbar or Hotbar. Okay, and as a controller player, I don't have a mouse wheel and I can't quick punch a number key to get to an item. So I have to lay it out by the amount of clicks. If it takes me to scroll through the Hotbar and that's why it's specifically set up that food is in the middle of both, my melee
weapons. Yeah, and I'm with you on keeping the food in the last slot. Always keep my food in the last slot. But in front of that, my a slot, I always have my Rockets, always need my rockets in my inventory. I think my sixth and seventh, I try to keep them open. Sometimes I'll slide the pearls and the water bucket in there. But those are my main to I used
two slots. Usually, for building when I'm building, you know, sometimes I'll I'll move other things like my bow up and take my shovel out, but I'm not going to use it. Yeah, that's the problem with inventory. You know, there's a lot of Salat of blocks you want to build with nowadays and there's only you need, you need those other. There's your needs. You need your pic. You need all this other stuff in your Hotbar, and only leave. So many slots for building
blocks. Yeah, and that's why you're dating my inventory fix. I think I'm gonna stay in it for a year now is to have instead of one Hotbar have for hotbars. You can just swap through inventory wise, cycle through the, you have like a weapons, popbar. Then a building Hotbar, maybe a food hot bar or something like that. I think that that would be nice. Yeah, definitely change the game. Yeah. We always like that fix. Yeah. Like to hear from everyone else. See what their hot bar. Yeah.
Show us your hotbars. Yeah. Take a picture of your heart. Bars, send them in Discord. Kind of curious how much we're alike are or how weird you are. They're probably thinking we're weird. Yeah, maybe I'm sure some are similar. Yeah, but yeah, I had fun talking about that actually. Yeah, it was a nice topic is thinking about that the other day. Hmm. I think that's going to do it for today's show before I have
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