Hey everyone, welcome to The Withering Effect episode 176. Today's date is November 25th, 2023 and I am Duds or duds versus known to the rest of the interwebs. And I'm Carl. You may know me as Carl rides. What have you been up to recently, Duds? Coughing. Coughing. He's been ill. He's been ill and coughing for the first time in years. Yeah, the last time I was sick was like when I was 23, which is well over a decade ago.
Been a minute. Yeah, I'm used to allergies and stuff that that was something that happened when I hit my 30s. But yeah, hang on. So yeah, this might be a shorter episode today. Probably you guys can see the time codes because obviously DUDS is not feeling particularly well. We tried to record this last week and I wasn't feeling well, so we pushed it to this week and I haven't gotten any better. Part of the reason is I haven't been able to go to a doctor because, you know, it was
Thanksgiving week. Yeah. Which means my doctor's like, Nah, I'm taking the week off. Health never sleeps, guys. Health never sleeps. Yeah, the sad thing is, I feel better than I did. So yay, yay. If you guys go watch Arrington's latest video, there's a role in there. You can hear how I was at the beginning of the week. Yeah, he had me record like a 30 second thing. He was a lot worse. Yeah. He's still not better, but he was a lot less. What else have you been doing then?
I played some project Moss or my own survival depending on. I know I throw both names around, but just some single player stuff, not doing a whole lot. Trying to get some automated fuel for my furnaces and stuff, I went the kelp block route in hopes of using the autocrafter. The problem is getting fuel for the smelter to smelt the kelp. I didn't want to use kelp blocks in there because it's very inefficient. Yeah, because of timing wise.
So with the Blaze rods, you've got to go down that route. Always love a good Blaze farm. I've done very little in my nether, so I don't have a blaze farm and I have some lava buckets or whatever, and that makes it super inefficient. So I went and I I did a bamboo farm. So it's a 32 slice kelp farm, and then I did a 32 slice bamboo farm, forgetting that it takes four pieces of bamboo to smelt one item. Bamboo is not the best. No. Now now we can't do zero tick as
well. When we used to have those farms, they were, they were. They managed to keep up with smelting when we had those farms, but not anymore on those ones unfortunately. And bamboo is not the most resource light way of fueling things, unfortunately. Yeah. So it's just this in the cycle of observers and Pistons and minecarts.
And now I'm like, well now this area in my base is starting to get a bit framey and it's like I'm thinking about tearing it all down and just like moving it to an unloaded area. Yeah. Again, this is all just to smelt things every once in a while. I don't smelt things consistently and I wanted things to be able to auto fill up and it feels like the games. Just so I don't I should not be getting frame problems with my computer on this game.
I know they have in the past they've done work on optimization, but I think there's still more they could squeeze out of it. I guess it's one of those games where it's so like open world and stuff that you can play stuff anywhere and it has to be able to accommodate all of that. I mean we've we've seen City Skylines come out recently and have horrible performance on beefy computers once you get to
a certain size city. So I think it's it's one of those kind of problems that is probably very difficult to fix. I would assume developers have only got so much time to squash bugs and de performance and stuff because they're yeah, marketing are always looking for the next thing to make a plushie out of so. Yeah, and like I've always wanted to do a create world, just create. No other mods. No other mods interest me, just create because of the automation.
And I've always gone to, well, my computer can hardly handle vanilla Minecraft. Can it handle create? Especially when I start getting into the size that I like to build it. I don't know. And I don't have a slack computer. I've got a slack GPU because those things won't come down on price. I mean, I can buy almost an entire computer for the price of a GPU. Might be the way to go these days.
No kidding. We're doing some price comparisons on like rebuilds versus building them yourself and it's like you can probably just buy a new computer with a better GPU in it for the same price as a good GPU. Yeah, Black Friday this year was really disappointing. I got nothing that I wanted on Black Friday. Dude like for like 2 weeks leading up to Black Friday, I've been keeping my eye on certain items. Same couple of those items being graphics cards.
Three of them went on sale Friday and I got really excited. I went yes, finally, I'm going to go ahead and purchase one now for me to purchase a graphics card. Like there's other concepts, I have older monitors and I don't want to upgrade my monitors. My monitors are fine. I don't need 144 Hertz, 32 inch ultra ride, anything like that, but they use older components they're not using. They use HDMI in another thing, but they're not using a display
display port. Yeah, yeah, well every new graphics card is only HDMI, one slot, and everything else is display port. So I'd have to buy adapters for my monitors. So I go looking at these graphics cards, see they're on sale, look at the sale. It's the exact same price. They were priced 2 weeks ago when they weren't on sale, but they marked them up before Black Friday to put them on sale. Yep. And I'm just like. Classic. You guys understand we're not dumb.
I mean. Well, some people are probably dumb and probably bought it. Some people fall for that. But it's just like. I see that all the time. Like when there's a there's a sale coming up and you see them skyrocket a price before and then mark it down to the same price it was he just like, come on. Yeah. I was just like, wow, yeah, that's the world we live in now. So for my week I've been playing Minecraft. Oh. Oh Oh yeah, I've been on the withering effects server.
I built a nice little bridge over there that I can probably put in chat actually on our live chat. If you didn't know guys, if you're a milk level patron, you can listen to the show being recorded live and there's now a picture of that in our live chat. So we've got a nice portal there. We've got a nice bridge and some Withers as well, leading from the meme bugs area down to the community area, because meme bug is between the community area and spawn. So we had some little bridges there.
So that's what I've been doing this week. Jamin showed that off on his stream. Did he? I didn't get to see that. That's awesome. Yeah, He streams really late at night for you. Yes. I think it's like 2:00 AM for me or something. Yeah, it's like 10:00 PM for me. Probably actually at 3:00 AM then it's late for me. Yeah, that's what I've been doing. It's quite an intricate bridge
as well. It's got all like trap doors and signs and deep slate walls and slabs and stairs and everything, which might not seem like a lot, but I have nothing on that server, so all that had to be got as well. So yeah, and trapdoors are so expensive. I know I've probably said that, and lots of people have said that before, but trapdoors are too expensive. Channel 64, We've got the recipe that gives you basically double trapdoors because we feel it's unjust how expensive trapdoors
are. It's so is it's ridiculous fix that Mojo. Yes, I've been doing that and we've also on the 17th of November after six years brought ripple effect to an end as well for now. Sad times. We don't have any plans for Season 5, but for now that's the end and all the world downloads are on ripple effect. smp.com. There's I put up a new gallery there of season four as well. There's some good stuff on that
server. There's some good stuff on all of our worlds and you know it's life gets in the way of playing and you know you have certain lifespan with the game for sure. You know, I haven't played Minecraft in like. Well, a couple days, well. Before, yeah, but before that, like before Cube Con, it's probably like a year. It's the last Cube gone, you know, it's one of them things that you have kind of highs and lows with.
Life gets in the way. And we just didn't have the people playing like we used to, though. We just kind of like ended it there for now and see what the future holds. Yeah, And that has been my month, basically. We did two episodes last month, so we did. That was a busy month. So yeah, this one's been a little quieter, which is nice. But you know, work as always. Yeah, I mean, this may be a quieter month, but personally, this is now the busy part of the
year for everyone. Yeah, yeah, It's quiet on the old Minecraft front and but busy on the old work front. Nearly at Christmas. They started playing the Christmas music at work today and I'm just like, it's November, like, yeah, but it's a month to go. I'm like, it's November stop. Yeah, my rule is Thanksgiving has to end before Christmas can start. I'm, I'm, I'm the December 1st guy. Yeah, Well, you guys don't have American Thanksgiving, so.
No, I don't want to hear about it until December 1st. Yeah. Before that, leave me alone. Should we move on to the recent interesting news? I think we've had some pre releases, haven't we? Oh. Lord, don't say that. I have not seen anything. We have. We've had pre release one and pre release 2 of 1.20 dot free. So they had changes. Breeze win charges now break decorative pots, Boris flowers and pointed drip stone upon collision. Isn't the Breeze that one that's
in the trial chambers? Yeah so I don't know why it's getting an update on a pre release that doesn't contain. I think it's because it's got data packs for for the trial chambers because you can now check them out in 23 W, 45 A. And that was another one of those data pack things as well, though I haven't had a chance to look at the trial spawners or the chambers and stuff. They were all added in a in a
data pack there. You know, like like like they did last time, way after create a new world and then enable the data pack for those, just like they did for the last update. In my eyes there's a more complicated way of doing it, but there you go. For sure. And the trial chambers look really cool. I'm assuming the procedurally generated like the bastions are.
They are, yeah. I've not had a chance to check them out yet or have a go of the the new mob there, but they're certainly working on on it. So if you guys have checked them out, let us know what you think in our Spotify Q&A 'cause I'll leave a question up there about what you think of the trial chambers and the new breeds and stuff if you've had a chance to play with it. And we'll publish those those comments on our Spotify page. I haven't in person checked any
of it out. Again, I'm going to bring this up to it's complicated to create one of these worlds, to see it, but I did watch some some live streams of people doing it. Some of the things I heard were it's hard to just stumble across these things. There's that, like with Deep Dark, we kind of learned if if there's a tall mountain, look below, because there's probably Deep Dark down there. Yeah. But yeah, they were.
They were going through. It was a group of like 7 or 8 people and they were going through and none of them had really enchanted gear or anything. Some were using diamond gear, some netherite, some iron. Most of them had Shields and things, and there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Honestly. Like I'm assuming a lot of it's a placeholder. Yeah, probably. I think the Breeze now has new attacks. There's one thing I overheard, but I have not seen it reported or anything.
But the Breeze has new attacks because during this live stream, they were already cheesing the breeze. I mean, it was 20 minutes into it. And they're like, well, this is how you defeat it. Yeah. And I get it's not a it's not a big boss mob, so it's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's supposed to be just summer you have a bit of fun with for an hour in it with some friends. Yeah, it's not really supposed to be majorly challenging. Yeah, but again, I'm not a combat player.
I I've never gone and sought out fighting things. Yeah. But I mean, I guess it's interesting. I'd like to see what the the key does. Yeah, everyone was tweeting Tango going. Tango is decked outgoing in the vanilla game, and that's the key for it. Yeah. That would be interesting. Honestly, that might be the only thing that saves this update. Yeah. Yeah, I'm already talking like that. I don't know.
I like the new blocks in the trial chambers, the greats and everything and the new versions of copper and stuff and the new lamps and all that kind of stuff. I I think they look really cool. So I'm on board with the with the new blocks in this update. I think they're they're really good for me. Like that's the big thing with this update. I Mobs never really they're they're not the big thing that draws me to an update in any
update new mobs. Well you you spend more time mob proofing the place you want to play at, so why would you want more mobs? Yeah, I can do with like dolphins and turtles. Are they turtles? What are they called? Turtles. Do you want sea turtles? Are they called turtles? Yeah. OK You know, they're kind of like ambient mobs and the sort of like mobs you can like get stuff from, but not ones that are going to fight you.
Yeah, peaceful mobs. My kind of new editions, just things that give ambience and some animation to the game basically, where these kind of like PvP mops have never really been my thing anyway, so I'm more excited for the blocks in this update than anything else. Same, but like other than the armadillo That's everything from live. Yeah, probably going to be like last time where they showed some off and there's more to come, Yeah.
So we'll have to see what the New year brings because I think Mojang take December off. They do, yeah. We're not going to see anything new till after the New Year. Well, I say that they might show one or two things, but I highly suspect we won't see anything to the beginning of New Year. Well, even that, because sometimes they don't come back till late January. Yeah, we're looking at maybe even the start of February before we see anything
meaningful. We might see some more pre releases if 1.20.3 isn't released by the end of the year. It might be, it might be though, we don't know. But yeah, it could be before we see anything meaningful. It could be February, March area, so we'll have to just keep an eye out and hopefully they surprise us with some cool stuff, you know, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt, see what they bring to the table before saying the
updates one finger another. But yeah, some of the block's pretty cool, so I'm happy enough if I'm not getting my end update, OK? It's all I want in life. Our last episode poll, we asked you what feature you're looking forward to the most. Our Spotify poll was very close. Most people said trial chambers with the autocrafter like one vote behind. And on our YouTube poll, the majority of people overwhelmingly said the autocrafter same. Yeah, the autocrafter is the
obviously the big one. Red Stony wise decoration blocks people like 10 percent, 14% on YouTube for those. So not as height as child trainers. That's one of the things I forgot to mention is everyone was so high over the autocrafter and the the copper bowl and then Mojang went and made changes to it and now everyone's upset. Yeah, they decided to make their ticks closer to other Redstone items. And I'm like, why? Why can't they just be their own thing? Exactly. Why do they have to follow
everything else? Because then they they become pointless. Yeah, well, not pointless, but very degraded in their usability. Yeah, you know, people are making really cool things with the art of crafter and the copper bulb. They're going, the copper bulb can now do things faster than these other Redstone items. So that was their unique selling point. That was AUSP. And now Mojang's like, no, it must be the same as the others.
I'm just like, well, why? Yeah, it was not a feature requested by Red Stoners, which kind of surprised me. It's like Mojang finally got overwhelming support on an implementation of something when they've been hearing gripe a long time now and they get overwhelming support on something and then they changed it. Believe it was because of a bug report that got accepted. Right. And I'm just like, well, it's not a bug, is it? No. Yeah, they need to change that back.
I can't say I'm a Red Stoner and I can do Redstone, but not in the way some of these other people are able to do it. There are truly brilliant people doing things with Minecraft Redstone that I have no clue what's going on. But when I hear like well over half of a community just step out and say, hey, no, we didn't want that change. Yeah, you. Probably shouldn't have messed with it. And the problem is, once it gets committed to an update, they ain't going to change it back,
so it needs to be done now. Right. They could still revert it back. Yeah, hopefully they will. Like you say, I'm not the best Red Stoner either. I can build stuff, I can do a little bit of logic and make things work, but you know, I'm on no level like some of them. But to me, having blocks that can do things at different speeds to me would be would seem like a plus because then it gives you options. Yes, everything being the same is just the same block with a different texture on it.
That's how it looks to me. And maybe someone will correct me in the comments about how they need to be the same for this reason or whatever. But my understanding is that, like, just give us what you already gave us and think everyone except that one person who submitted that bug report would be happy. I don't really get it. We'll see what happens with that one. Yeah, Auto crafter sounds good. I like that. I don't know how useful it's actually going to be.
I get it, like we've talked before about Nuggets into ingots, ingots into blocks. That's the obvious. I don't know whether crafting a pickaxe on demand is particularly useful. No. Or something like that. Or crafting a comparator on demand is very useful. I think it could be very useful for things that are annoying, like dispensers. They are the most annoying to craft, but outside of that I
mean. I've seen a few videos on people using them in contraptions and there are some cool users out there, but I don't know whether the average player will use them that much. Correct. Yeah, again, Mojang seems to be going after the kind of a niche. I mean it's it's one that's welcome. We've been asking for, well, people have been asking for auto crafting in the game for years, and now there's something for
them to use. I guess you could make a shot that sort of has like a honey wall, and you select an item from a panel. Like you press a button and it drops each of the items down the honeywall into an autocrafter and then throws out your item to you that you've just bought. I guess that'd be cool once or twice, but if you just want to run into a shop on your SNP and just grab a pickaxe and go, it's going to be really annoying to watch these things go down a
wall. Like, it's a cool idea and it's like, it's a cool sort of visual for the first couple of times, but then after that it's just like, just give me the pickaxe. Yeah, no, I think it's going to be more useful behind the scenes doing stuff. Yeah. Plus, who's crafting pickaxes nowadays? Go trade with your villagers. Yeah, that's true. I just using pickaxe as an example. But yeah, it's a good point though.
It's a good point. Yeah, no. I could see people setting up like storage rooms around them to craft certain things. Again, I'm not a red Stoner. I don't have a deep knowledge. So some of the things that I've seen, I'm like, I would never build that, but somebody out there will. My plan is just to attach it to the end of every farm and either craft like kelp blocks for my furnaces or it'd be great at Bris marine farms or iron farms. Bris marine farms would be very useful.
Yeah. I mean, it's a great way to combine inventory space. Yeah. Yeah. I can see that working well in there actually. Yeah, there's use as far and I think it is probably the most useful of the update so far, although our Spotify listeners think that it's the trial chambers. So we'll have to see how that changes over time. You can see this is where we differ from our audience because a lot, a lot of people love PvP and they love exploring. And I am the complete opposite.
I'm a home buddy. I just want to build, I want to create cool things like that. There are some people who never build a base, who never design fancy rooms or houses. They live in a dirt Hut, their entire Minecraft playtime, but they explore the world like crazy. That's the way they like it and there ain't nothing wrong like that. Yeah, some people take like mushrooms and bone meal or like make little mushroom houses across the world, right as they're exploring.
That's really cool. I do like that though. Not really EVP or explorey kind of people, but a lot of people are. So it's good that they have things that they can go and go and check out. But yeah, we'll see. See what else they add in the future should we move on to listener comments. Yeah, we have J Man with the first comment and they say what are your thoughts on alternate furnaces such as the Smoker and Blast Furnace having unique recipes that regular furnaces
don't have? I feel like the extra speed buff of the all furnaces aren't compelling enough to use over the regular Furnace, which has the convenience of being able to do everything. Yep, definitely. I don't really use them at all. Nope. If one of them we've. We've said this in the past. If one of them could smell sand quicker, the glass sure, but
even the speed, it's like meh. I have a smoker for my kelp, and I do have a smoker in my cow farm that does steaks, but every auto furnace I've ever made uses regular furnaces.
If you're making an auto furnace, you want to be able to throw anything in there, Yep. And the fact that it can't do the smoker can't do certain things or the blast furnace can't do certain things is basically a no no. Yeah, you would have to literally put filters on The Hoppers going into the furnaces to split them up. Or you'd have to build 3 separate arrays of furnaces or you know, decide which one you want to put it in manually or
something like that. It's like make them all be able to smell everything, but make them be able to smell certain things quicker if you want to go down that road. So for the smoker, make it so it can smell anything but only food items it does quicker. That would be a way of making it work. I mean, if you look at furnaces, they already know what they can and cannot smell. Yeah, like you can drop certain blocks in them. Like I discovered this when I was setting up my smoker with
bamboo drops and stuff. Stone would fall in the hopper. It would not go into the furnace. So it already knows what it can and can't do. It It's it reminds me of the crossbow. The crossbow can do everything an arrow can do or the bow can do, but the bow does it faster. Yeah, so no one uses a crossbow. They're cool for mini games. Specifically my mini game season three, Those firework rockets are very cool in crossbows. But yeah, for normal everyday PvP, probably not worth it.
But for special events and special games and stuff, they're quite cool. But yeah, yeah, for an everyday carry, it's the bow all the way. Yeah. And I'm sure there's some people who are very manual. They don't do a lot of automation, so they physically put items in furnaces and stuff, which is, which is fine. I've learned to do a little bit of that on my own survival world. But if I want a furnace to be faster, I just add more furnaces to my auto furnace.
Yeah, yeah. That's how they become faster. Yeah, I don't even know if I've had them. I think I had a smoker and a blast furnace in my starter House of Season 4, but I never used them. I've never used a blast furnace, I only craft it to use it as a decoration block. Yeah. I'll use it in floors, I'll use it in walls, but I will never use a blast furnace and the smoker is really just 'cause I'm impatient. Aren't they Villager POI?
Yeah, that's true. I think that's why they were added, yeah, so they could be a point of interest for a villager more than being actually useful. Probably. Probably. Rip the Fletcher block. Yeah, I was just thinking that everyone's going to bring that up. And so, Mojang, it's been a few years. What does the Fletcher table actually do? Yeah. Nothing. But I would love furnaces to
have alt recipes and stuff. Yeah, maybe like inputting items on certain sides will auto craft it in the smelting process, but we're already getting that now with the auto crafter. So I don't know. I'm too hopped up on medicine to be thinking hard. We're gonna keep this episode short, yeah, So Jessie W asked a question. So with the addition of the armadillo, the dog armour is a big new thing that I'm excited for and I hope that if it is dieable and if it is also possibly enchantable.
Will horse armour possibly go through the same thing? Also trim possibilities? If so that would be cool. Jesse W Dino Phonetic was slain mid sentence due to the great armadillo. Axolotl. Axolotl with a baseball bat on top of a stolen ice cream truck. Reading's hard, yes? I don't think they're going to touch house armour. No. See, this is. I hate to be cynical. I really do. But we know them too well.
Moojing in the last couple updates has shown me, or have not shown me that they're willing to go further than they already stated. So the fact that the armadillo is giving you wolf armor, I would take it as that's it. It's not going to be enchanted. It's not going to be dieable. It's not going to have armor trims. It should 100%, yeah, horse armor should have armor trims. Horse armor should have netherride upgrades, yeah, but
they don't. So I very, very much think it it's just going to be wolf armor and that's it. It'll probably add a little bit of a buff to your dog, and that'll be that. This is what we were talking about when they announced this mob. Yes. And we said for you specifically, that's all you're getting. People love to take the mob, though, and run with it and take it to its best possible outcome. And it never happens like that. No, it's always the bare minimum.
And that's why I wasn't a fan of the Armadillo, because I don't really do pets in Minecraft anyway. And I knew that they were just going to make make dog armour and that was it. I would love to tell you that you're going to get enchantments, you're going to get diable, you're going to get all of these things, but I know that's probably the answer you're you want, but I just don't see it. Well, let's take out the one. It's the answer that should be getting.
Oh yeah, definitely. And you know what? It might happen. Mojang might be surprising us. And first thing January, the next update is, hey, this is your wolf armor. And we've updated horse armor because this is now a combat update. So we're making all these changes better for you. And we might be in our words. Gladly, I would love it. I'd be like, yes, finally, let's go.
But between the last couple updates, and this is one thing we're going to talk about on the main topic, the last couple updates are very stale and I'll go into detail more. That's why I voted Penguin. I didn't care about the Penguin making the boat faster, which I feel that the vote was quote UN quote rigged. Not like oh they they put hidden votes. Mojang always has a way of not explaining to full effect what things will be and kind of push
for one of the mobs. And you'll tell because they'll describe more in detail what that one mob can do. I noticed it when the Allays happened. Like that, kind of really had a push. And it's like, oh, and then when the Sniffer happened, I was like, oh, I mean, this sniffer made sense. It's an archaeology update. So now you have an ancient mob. Oh, they work great together. Now we have an update with combat and, oh, the armadillo is going to give your wolf armor.
Huh, Fancy that? They know which one they want you to vote for and they try and push you in that direction. Gently push, I'll say gently. Gently, yeah. If another mob wins, I fully suspect that mob won. But. Yeah, I'm not saying it's rigged in any way. Yeah, I'm just using rigged as a quotation word. Yeah, I don't think the glow squid was one they wanted to win. No. I love the glow squid though. I do too. People who hate on the Glow squid like why? What is wrong with you?
It's cute. Do you hate glowing signs? Right. Well, I mean, some people do. It did 'cause lag for the longest time. But they're so nice. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, I hate being disappointed and cynical and all that stuff. No, I don't think it's coming, but secretly I'm really hoping it does. Yeah, it'd be great if we did. Uh huh. Wink wink nun Dudge. Just tape your expectations. That's, yeah. So you're not too disappointed if you expect the lease and you get more than you'll be happier.
Yes, put it that way. It's such a bad way to look at the world. I hate it. True that. I know that's advice from 2 old people. Yeah, that's what that is. Thank you guys for those comments. Before we move on to create a clash, here's Jimbo, the reminder of how you can get a discount on your own Minecraft server from Bitect Hosting. You can get a discount on your own Minecraft server through our partnership with Bisect Hosting, offering our community 25% off any game server for their first
month. This is for new clients only. Visit bisecthosting.com/TWE and use the code TWE at checkout to receive the discount. It's time for Crate A Clash. This time your choices were the visual block collisions, coupons, flowers, cabans, flowers, maybe, or piglins in balloons in brackets, gassed retexture, basically. And the winner of Crate A Clash is Piglins in Balloons. Yay. I was just thinking we should really read and re notarize things.
Like I should put notes that suggest what each one are. I know we do it in the discord. When people are voting, they go through and they can see what everything is. But people who don't go to our Discord or anything like that have no clue what we're talking about in this segment. That's very true. I always try to do like a useful resource or data pack, a pretty resource or data pack and then a just for fun resource data pack on all my choices.
A lot of the times you guys choose the pretty this is 1 where you chose the fun one, which is cool, but the visual block collisions, it just basically allows you to see the hitbox better. You don't have to do the F3 screen which I thought was very useful especially if you're doing Redstone and water, just water currents or whatever to move items. So I thought that could be very
useful for some farms. The flowers is what I kind of thought might win because it does a 3D texture for your flowers and it really, it really made everything pop. Like I went ahead and put it on my single player world where I live in a flower Biome and stark difference, but I kind of secretly wanted piglins and balloons to win.
So what it does is it retextures the ghast to put a piglet in a hot air balloon and fire cannons at you, which I thought themed the Nether perfectly because the gas was always like a weird mob to me. I'm excited to put that texture pack in and see what happens. I think it's an Optifine texture pack. I've come to grips with any of the OR texture pack, resource pack, any of the cool resource packs. I find it's just going to be Optifine. Yeah.
Super excited for that. You still use the vanilla launcher, don't you? Yep. So I use one called Prism and it's really good because you can like set up profiles with like texture packs, mods and resource packs all built into it. So if you wanted to do like an opt to find one for create a class, you could just set that up once and then run it every time. Yeah, I need to look into that. Yeah, it's really good. I've been using it for about 3 months or so now.
I had tried multi MC at one point. That seemed to be the big one everyone was using. It crashed my computer every time. Wow. I spent hours trying to figure it out. I had people on discord calls trying to help me figure it out. It just never worked. So I stopped trying. But yeah, it might be worth looking into that last episode. You guys chose banner bedsheets. Extremely, extremely simple. It it is what it is. I did a a stream replay of that. It was like, was it like 8
minutes or something? Yeah, when you cut the intro out, I think the intro was longer than the actual. It was. That actually took me a while to get set up. It was very specific. It only worked on a certain version. I think it was like only 120. If you had 120.01 or whatever, it didn't work. Interesting. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on the stream replay. But yeah, yeah, I mean, it just stretched the model of a banner to fit over top of a bed.
It did exactly what it said. It was cool, nothing crazy and special. There's not a lot to say. Does what it says. There really wasn't, but that was the pretty pick. So there we go. So. You're going to have fun with piglings this time. That means I have to go to the nether fun. Then you'll spend about 20 minutes trying to get a gas to spawn. Oh, not my single player. Another. Is it pretty instant? The portal's in the Nether Wastes. Oh, OK. Yeah. So not a lot sponsor, but gas.
That should be a fun stream, guys, so make sure you're following duds on X called Twitter guys. Oh yeah. I was like, what the heck is X? What the heck is X? So make sure you follow Duds and our Withering effect account as well and we'll let you guys know when Duds is live doing that one once he's feeling better and we'll have the stream replay up as well on YouTube. Yeah, I've been off like all week from work and like I had put in this time months ago. My plan this week was to stream
every day and record episodes. I was going to put two episodes out this week. None of that happened. This is the most I've talked all week. Yep. We hope you get well soon. I think having a decade's worth of illness in one week is probably not the best, but oh. Yeah, it's weird. It's like I'm muting my mic, so I know you guys can't hear, but if you could hear some of the noises I'm making, oh. They're listening to a beautiful edited version anyway.
Before we started recording, Carl said at least I don't have to edit you and I said why is that? He goes, Well, I can't make you sound better anyways. They end up doing far too much editing and like this doesn't need editing. I'm like, that's a big silence, right? Yeah, yeah. So for the main topic, I just had some, like, random thoughts real quick. One of them was the War on Infinity and Mending. Yeah, Owl State. I'm an Infinity user. And I'm a mending user, correct?
Is it that I'm a Mac? I'm a PC? Adverts all over again. Pretty much So my argument has always been, if you look at my single player world, which was created before the Nether update, I am still using my original bow and it does get used every time I play it because I'm constantly shooting cats from my iron farm. Oh yeah, murderer. Yeah, I don't like that feature, but. It is a weird feature like. Why? Well, I get it. It's so you could have ocelots in the game, whatever.
It's not a bad one. When I built my iron farm, that wasn't a feature, so I didn't think about the fact that cats would constantly be spawning in my builds. And it's not just like one or two and I could capture it so they stopped spawning. I'm talking I get like four or five of them now. It's kind of annoying. Anyways, so I have never repaired this bow. So for years I've been using the same bow.
That's why I've like, I don't mean mending on this bow, but I'm a bad shot, so I need Infinity. But to take that whole idea out of it, what if you could take? So we already have the chest plate, which becomes slightly irrelevant when you get wings. Mostly everyone. Once they get an Electro, put the Electra on. Don't use the chest plate much have been seeing lately that a lot of people switch back and forth depending on the
situation. And I thought, what if the situation allowed you to have a quiver that will act like Infinity? So you get a quiver, you enchant it, that's your Infinity. You don't have to have it on the bow, but you have to equip it over the chest plate in elitra to use your bow with it. So you're taking a bit of a nerf, but it's a ranged weapon nerf, like you're not doing close combat, so it might be worth not having a chest, plate or wings to quickly get away to do.
This combat and you could still have mending on your bow. It's obviously not like ohh great idea duds. But it it was just a random idea I had like hey, someone might be able to run with that and figure it out. I've been on a lot of medication, Carl. Oh. Great. I did. That's a new thing. Get off the back. Carl, if we had a soundboard, that would be on it. Oh Lord, yeah, I think that's a cool idea. I use spectral arrows because they're cool. Yeah, spectral arrows are
amazing. That's why I like mending. Yeah, that one season you had a ton of them. I was using them even though I had Infinity. Yeah, because I had season three of Ripple Effect. I had a bartering farm built into my never tunnel coming from my base which is a really cool because I had all minecarts and stuff and like storage and into shoka boxes and gold drop off system. So I could put gold in a in a barrel and it would distribute it evenly to all of my piglets.
So it's a really cool system. I really enjoyed doing that. Yeah, I think I traded you totems because I had the RAID farm that season. Yeah, So I traded you totem for Spectral arrows. Yeah, I love those spectral arrows and I love bar in farms. I think they're really cool. Again, I come back to the never update all the time. It was such a good update. It was the best update.
It was so much cool stuff. As much as I love the bugs and the bees update or whatever, for technology, technologically there we go. What it did for Minecraft. The people who know know Minecraft was. We complained about how laggy it is now. It was bad back then, and that update really did clean up a lot of. It yeah, it did. That always ranks as one of my big updates, just from because at the time I had a really low end computer.
So to see how much performance boost it gave my computer, I will never discredit that update. But in the nether update, that has to be the best for content we've had. Definitely. You know the bugs and the bees. Also added Jimbo's Nemesis So. Oh yeah, yeah. We're all happy about that. Except for Jimbo. To get a little bit on the. The Debbie Downer train talking about updates part of me noticed a lot of similarities between last update and this update.
Now there are differences and there are exceptions to rules so I will always say stuff like that. But I noticed last update had two decorative block sets with bamboo wood and cherry wood. This update has two decorative block sets and the copper blocks and tough blocks. Last update had a Redstone block with the calibrated skulk sensor. This update has a Redstone block with the autocrafter. Last update had a Redstone decorative block in the chiseled bookshelf.
This update has a decorative Redstone block in the copper bolt. Last update got a new mob in the camel. This update got a new mob in the breeze. Last update got a structure added. The trail ruins. This update got a new structure added in the trial chambers. So what you're saying is. We've exposed Minecraft date formula, yeah? Now that being said. We've seen everything in live. I think we're going to get more. Obviously. What does that stupid key unlock the portal in the? Deep dark.
No, I highly. Doubt that if Jimbo was here, that's what he'd be. Saying that's exactly what he'd be saying. And I'm on board with it. He's. Probably yelling it from his. Couch right now, but I want to say think back to last update. The only thing not shown at live that we got afterwards was the trail ruins, right? Yes, which is basically. Archaeology, yeah. So anything we get from. Now I don't think it's going to be big. I don't see it being super advanced.
And again, I can be wrong. Don't take my word as concrete law. And he is. For the time I am very wrong A lot. Of the times, but these two updates just had, I just wanted to point out, had very similar structures and I'm wondering if this is not the new formula for updates. Wow, that's it. I'm not. Saying it's a bad. Thing. I mean, I am. I'm not saying it's a good. Thing. I'm saying it's a bad thing. Right. I mean, you really look.
At the last two updates, they didn't really have good theming, no and this one. Doesn't look like it's. Having a good theme Either we don't have a name again, do we? We do not have a name yet, so I'm wondering if it's. They're not doing their updates by themes, they're doing their updates by formula and that's the formula. Again, could be wrong. I'm not against. Them picking different bits of the game and adding to them. I'm not either. It works.
It works however. I'm the kind of person that likes a big change to a certain part. Yes, like the never. Update. Right. We're not Explorers. And it seems like ever since Cave and Cliffs, every update revolves around exploring. They want you to get out and they want you to go look and find and stuff. I don't want to do that. I want to be at home and I want to build with cool stuff. Yep, I want to go live in the end. So you in the end. The one dimension nobody wants to live in.
I want to build a base in the end and I. Don't want to do it the year before an end update because I could be sad you don't want what happens. To me, happened to you exactly. There was what like 5 updates in a row where I would build a base and then the next update, what if it made my base look really cool? Yeah, basically, yeah, that's what I don't. Want. Jeez. So I'm going to. Have to go live. In the devers of it for a bit because they're not going to
change that for years, are they? So no, I'm pretty good on that. Well and they shouldn't the nether update. Was brilliant. I loved it. Yeah, it doesn't need any more. It's I don't want to use the word perfect, but I'm going to use the word perfect. I don't think it's perfect. I think. It's it's too deadly in some spots. That Crimson Biome. It's out to kill you. It is the never. I mean, that's the.
Point I mean that is true. But when Nether Wastes is like the only calm spot in the entire dimension. I ran through a load. Of Piglins the other day without anything on and they couldn't shoot me. Oh, it's because they're using crossbows. We've already discussed crossbows. Yeah, I was too fast for that. Crossbows. So you know, as long as you keep moving in that ever, you're fine When you stop that's the problem. Well, it's when you have to eat because you.
Ran out of Sprint, Yeah, let's say yeah, I. Think you've hit the formula there. We'll have to put a 122 column on this and see what happens. I'm very curious. What's going to happen in June with live? That seems to be the other formula is the updates keep happening in June. It happened in June this year, didn't it? No. When did it happen this year? Was it? September. Oh, no, that's when. That's when they released the updates. Yeah. Yeah. It's like October.
October was live. Yeah, it's the meds, I swear. It's cool. That's the formula. So are we going to leave it there so you can get some rest and get yourself? Well, yeah, let's, let's knock out this. Post show the patrons who were going to find us there. Yeah. Before I have Carl reached out, I want to say a huge thank you to all of our patrons who are supporting the show. Our milk Level patrons are Arrington, Omni, Fragile Rock, J Man, Loki, and The Meme Bug. If you two would like to get
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