Hey everyone. Welcome to the weathering effect episode 41. Today's date is for 2020 and I am Duds or Duds versus known to the rest of the interwebs and I'm Jimbo also known as Jimbo slice, 23 pounds, your week been so far Duds. My week's been pretty awesome. I want to start with saying that I hit the affiliate goal for twitch. Yeah, that's not a huge goal but because considering I, Eight years on mixer and finally moved to Twitch it's kind of big for me.
I got my first a moat done which I'm probably going to change. I'm probably gonna hire an artist on Fiverr or something. You hook me up with something better. Because I stink at the emotes though that was a lot of work for something that it looks bad. It's only gonna be like so many pixels or something like that. Well you have to have like three sizes so it's like I 72-56 and 20-something pics.
Wow. So I was like oh geez so yeah, probably gonna do it, especially considering wink wink intent, my Skin's changing for ripple season 3 like normal. But along with my skin, my logo and stuff, basically, it's going to be a be big rebranding. I shouldn't say big because it's not going to be a big rebranding, but a little way did the same. Yeah, you've done the same. Yeah, but congratulations. Thank you Philly. Yeah, it's awesome. I didn't take it too long.
And you kind of cruise the right to it. Yeah, that's awesome. It was nice. I've been having a lot of great Saturday morning streams, so that really helped. I've got two subscribers all there now, too. So sweet. It's very cool but getting it to what we did on Minecraft. I moved my cow Farm wink, wink. Nice. Tush, the solicitors are going, like, what is he thinking about? It's because I typed moved Mo, ve D, and It's, I didn't even know why you're winking at me. I can't even see you.
Jim is like Nike touch, my note. Okay. That's yeah. That's a good one, don't understand? But, but I've done that, and that, that took most of the episode for the most part, I built the cow shop per se and then in like, 3/4 away through the time lapse, I decided it. Ugly and I really hated it. So I tore it down and that wasn't even the. First time I had built it. That was like the third time I had built it and just decided Well my time lapse it.
I have to build good and then I turns out no I do not not the case. Yeah. So the fourth time I didn't time lapse it. I just put on a good movie and was like, hey just play Minecraft. Let it let it happened and I think the final building turned out really good. So yeah, it's definitely being a job of putting it in. If and doing it in survival for the time lapses.
Definitely helps. Yeah. So I did that. And then we had the first affiliate stream and that was a lot of prepping for the dragon fight, which we're going to talk about a little bit later in our main topic, but I over prepped for, but had a lot of fun. My roommates been in and out of my office of lately. So I've been putting him to work working, the camera count. So he ended up recording the dragon fight for me and the Third person time-lapse that's cool.
Yeah it didn't really turn out good for say in time-lapse form but it turned out really good. If I use the footage, he shot as a montage. So this yeah I mean yeah you said you hadn't got to that part yet. Yeah I haven't got to that part yet. So throw that out there. Well, no more spoilers but the Montage turned out really good. I was really happy with it. Oh yeah, yeah. And if you see my dragon drops in a light wrap because I ain't got time to go pillar and out
and walking to find an entity. So nobody got time for. That ain't nobody got time for that. So I got my lighter and I've been flying around my little Peninsula like crazy. Going on. I put something here and put some here and once now I've got an aerial view, I'm like, oh, this is good. No one is good. But yeah, that's kind of all I've done. I built a bridge last night. That was kind of fun, but that's not going to be anything till the next week's episode. Yeah.
But what about you Jimbo? What are you doing? Working on this week. Well, I the new snapshot came out about the cover that. So I went inside the nether to check it out, didn't do any survival but I was looking around for the new Pekin bastions and they're they're probably they're not as big as the Nether fortresses but they're a good size and I found a good bit of them. I found probably three different types, maybe five different ones total. This is just going in a creative
world and just Looking around. And yeah, I did want to mention that. It's not as they're not as rare as you think they're probably just as rare as a fortress. Yeah, as in nether fortress. So, Dad looking definitely get around a fine in those. Yeah, like the other major nether things, I haven't done it in person. I just watched the videos, got the information for the show because I'm trying to save it for seeing a person, the music, and the ambience. It as I call it, I died.
I couldn't not indulge in that because that was so cool. That's probably one of the things. I'm so excited for the particle effects and the backlighting it's going to be so awesome. Yeah, keep going. Hmm. And I noticed that they could spawn in any any biome in the nether. This I might want to mention this, you know, during the features, but figured I tell you now, but this is just something I was checking out. I see new snapshot and Was I'm
curious enough to go in there. Look at him kind of like you. I want to kind of experience it in survival for myself but there's some things where you just got to see what I saw that. The video, the bastions I was like, man, I I got to go check this out and Yeah besides that I was able to get my hands on the r-tx Bedrock version because I do have a 2060 graphics card.
Yep. And I was able to play around with that a little bit but I want to hold off on my thoughts because That is also in our feature news besides that, that's about all, I got awesome. Well, speaking of the news, let's just jump in that because I really want to talk r-tx with you. So we'll get to the snapshot first. This is Snapshot 20w 16, a, the features are added. The Bastion remnants added.
Ruined, portals added chain blocks, whoo-hoo, added a new music discs called, pick step by Linna. I must say Ray, I mean I'm probably saying that wrong and if I am guys, let me know because obviously deserves really good credit because that song is awesome. Yes you doing a really good job with the music so far. I think it's Lenna rain, I think your letter right? Right. Okay, well let's go ahead and get into what the Bastion remnants are.
There are four separate Remnant types, A Bridge haugland stable housing, units and treasure room. You can find these sizable structures in all biomes, in the nether, it Except the treacherous Ash dusted, towers of Basalt Deltas. Hmm, latter words, explore, Luke, and Conquer a Bastion rehmat to call your home. But beware a pig lens, don't take kindly to Intruder those.
Intruders steering stealing their things, well words, so it sounds like if you kill all the piglets into the passion, they don't respawn. So I don't think you could like Farm them there. Yeah, it doesn't look like that, but I know a few Were to just run in there with your gold and you be safe and everything. This is you getting that chest? Yeah. And they're around, they will attack. So you might want to might want to clear it out a little bit, at least around the loot area.
I saw a guy on Reddit, I wish I could remember his name, he goes, this is how you loot chest without having Pig loans tacky. And he just broke the block under the chest, and put a hopper because they can't tell if you look into a hopper. Yeah, so you just steal stuff out of the house. Operator. Then you're good. Oh my God. That's how you do it. That's it. If you don't if you don't want to kill the pigment and don't plan on building anything here
then yeah yeah that's perfect. The only complaint I had is that they're really ruined structures. Mmm. So there's a little bit of parkouring and I stink at parkour. So I can only imagine, I'm just going to follow a lot, but at some point, yeah, there's a little, like, ruiny tunnels throughout the whole building. It's kind of hard to navigate. That's another thing. Yeah, that's one thing. I didn't I didn't like too much but I guess it's it's definitely different. You know.
Definitely is like, it looks nothing like anything else in Minecraft and I think it's a great-looking build. It's just I know. I'm gonna die out at some point. Yeah, let's get to pretty good odds. The ruined portals because that's another kind of cool feature, but something I kind of have a little bit of a problem with lure wise makes perfect sense. To have ruined portals and the game. Functionality-wise makes perfect sense to have ruined portals in
the game. It's a great way to let someone who's new to Minecraft. Go, hey, look, there's another dimension here. Finish this Square, light it up, and you can get somewhere. So it's a great. I don't want a tutorial level but like hint at, there's something more in the game. My only problem is that when these things spawn like in the middle of a planes, I am they look weird. Yeah do the other side too. You'll find them in these Lava Lakes.
Yeah you like probably not gonna want to go there. Let alone go there. Oh my own but they do have loot with them. I did see a lot of gold. Mmm. Yeah. You won't find any books at the nether right or they chanted Breeze like you would in the Bastion Remnant. You will find those in the pickling bastions. I'm not in The portal chess. I think that's going to be how I'm getting a lot of money. That's right. Yeah, I'm gonna go like 10,000 blocks out.
So when I'm on the ripple effect server, I'm not messing with anybody else and I'm just going to raid all of those things for another. I yes, curious, if you can make a base out of it thought, that'd be pretty neat. That would be pretty cool. I've a feeling someone someone's already thought about it and it's prepping for it. But yeah, piglet base, man. I'd like to see one of those. I might even take it. Yeah, I mean it's mostly Black
Stone, right? So you could actually dig up more Blackstone and complete the structure so it's not all ruined. Yeah. Change it up a little bit. Mmm. Could look really cool. Hmm. Now, for a another thing I'm excited for chain blocks. Yeah. Oh, They'll cool chains. Finally. And they go perfect with your lanterns, they really do. It's kind of like they just took the little bit of chain with the Lantern and made. A full block out of it but I think.
Yeah. I think a specifically made them for the lantern, that's what it looks like. I mean, it goes best with it. Now my question is, I haven't played with them obviously and the people I've seen using them. I have only been using a vertically. Can they be placed horizontally? I don't know. Alright, think I've tried it. That would be way better. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Kind of like the, what is it? The The end light o in Rod. The End Rod and light cheese?
Yes, yeah, you can place the sideways or vertically. Yeah, be cool. If it had that feature but I'm really not sure does. The first thing I thought of was a drawbridge with a moat and you have like the 45° sagging chain and like, oh, that'd be really cool, but you can't really do that with this block. Yeah, yeah. As far as I know, it's just for a tackle. Yeah. But that also brings me to are we going to be able to make chain mail in survival? Finally, I was just about to say that.
Gotcha, yeah, I feel like they're kind of leaning towards that way. It's a great idea. It's kind of practical, you know. Uh-huh. Use for it. So I expect to see it very much. I'm trying to other things for chain block. So does this mean we're finally get rope blocks? Also, really. I don't even want roadblocks. Like, Leave leads, but allow me to connect one end of a lead to a fence post and the other end of the lead to a fence post. Yeah.
You even have to add a new block, just allow that to happen and function and I will be so excited. I did notice. I think it was on Nash Crafters where she buried a chicken that was on a lead and put the other side of the lead on to her build. And it looked like the build is being held down by the lead. Yes, as the Rope is Add the ground.
That's the only way. I know you could get something similar to a roadblock and one of the data packs that are going out, there is so you can silence mobs, which is real nice. I've got that on my single player world. You just name a name tag silence. And then you name the animal that the animal no longer makes any sounds. So it's great for that kind of stuff. Mmm, I do want to go back.
I want to mention that the portals that are generated aren't necessarily the three by twos that you're used to. They used to It's not 3 by 2 is 5 by 4 I believe originally. But yeah, they're they're bunch of different sizes. Mainly they're bigger and the normal portal size, but that's how you'll find them. Just throw that out there. Gotcha, the last feature added was the new nether music disc titled Pig step. Oh, and it's a great listen, hmm. Oh, I was jamming out.
I love it again. If you want to hear more about this music disc, go to our Musical. Ears YouTube page he does the entire thing on Pig step. Yep very good watch. He's got all Linda Reigns music on their it plays all the way through to where you don't have to stop it. There's no talking or anything. Just play the song. Listen to it. He also has a note block version of the song already. That's right. Yeah. I almost forgot about that. That's amazing.
I did that. It's kind of a short snapshot this week. There were a lot of technical changes that we didn't really do. Notes for because a lot of it was just over our heads and you guys know how we are. We're not super technical and we don't like talking about stuff. We don't know because we don't want to lead you down the wrong path. So if you want to read some of those changes in the show notes, like always, yeah, let's move on to other news.
You got some Jimbo. Yes, the, what I mentioned earlier, the Bedrock released an RT, X beta. Now like I said before, Or you need a graphics card. This is for the PC though, you might have bedrock and you play on your Xbox or Playstation? Is it on Playstation? Yeah. Sometimes thinking is that PlayStation finally upgraded to bedrock? Yeah, but you're not going to be able to play the r-tx without that graphics card, which is pretty much PC.
Only now, you know, from r-tx 2060 or an RT x 2080, 2070 also, you know, anywhere between those, I have a 2060. It's Super, it's not a TI and everything works fine. They give you six different worlds to explore. There's an amazing. What is it like a coral reef type of Palace? Can't remember who built that but it looks amazing. The graphics are unreal. They are one of those was pearlescent Moon. Yeah, she she made the neon City. Okay. Yeah, I know Jim and I tape
built the castle. There's a castle build that looks amazing too. But yeah, just It's just the lighting in there is. It's so realistic. Every room you go into it. You need to have to go into a room under water. I will say every week me and I'm about to talk about Bedrock or whatever on the show and we both kind of give it the good ribbing because both of us are Java try-hards and will probably always stick to Java.
But watching this r-tx demo. I went, if there is anything to pull me away from java to play Bedrock, it's those Yeah, and you notice a lot of YouTubers that do do Java Minecraft were making videos about this because it was so amazing to them and the same thing with the feel like I played it for a little bit. I didn't really, I played a little bit in survival just to get the feel for it. But most of it was creative. These maps are all done for you
that are in the beta. So I kind of went out there and just looked around. Like I said, the lighting, Is amazing through the trees. It reflects through the trees colors. Like it will reflect through the colors. I really like the colored lighting that was in. Yeah, it's like oh why don't we have that in the game already? I want it but I think those were like, terracotta blocks that were just modded.
Yeah, so I mean if you could get those with that r-tx Graphics, yeah, that would be pretty awesome. But I did do, you know I went Around a little bit. And like I said, after so long, you don't even know you're on Bedrock. I didn't even feel like I was on Java. I felt like I was playing a different game. If you press F5 and look at yourself, you're your character looks different. He's more in-depth. It's more 3D. It was just, it was just unreal. You see the videos?
And how man don't be telling me this, I'm going to have to move to bed. Yeah, yeah. You have to get a graphics card. Well yeah. That's the other thing. I have a 1070. A witch for at the time, was a pretty good card? Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, now I'm kind of like and if I get a new graphics card, I'm just going to buy a whole nother PC, or build a whole nother PC, because I have had My Mind Set On building one of those mini, ITX PCS.
The real small form-factor ones and this Bedrock r-tx, man. It just looks so good. Yeah, I've never been one to draw over Graphics. Heck, my favorite game is Minecraft. So mmm, I don't drool over Graphics but this r-tx ah come on yet and with the 2060 I was running it just fine. You don't need a 20 80 t.i. to run this program. It did crash a couple times but it is beta. They said that would happen. Yeah. So I'm not worried about the graphics card in that sense. Pretty sure.
It's, you know, the game side where, yeah, the 20s. Keep up with your frames at all. Yeah, I actually do. In have my frame rate up, I might have to look at that, but everything looks real smooth. I was gonna say all the videos doesn't show any kind of jittering or whatever.
But basically, everyone who did a video had a 20 80 t.i., which in the PC World, for you guys who don't know, is kind of like the top tier graphics card right now, which is really weird because Minecraft in general, doesn't really use a graphics card like it that's not its main source of graphical power.
It does all of its graphing through numbers and Cutes through the CPU so you could have a, that's why I like an Intel I9. CPU is very good for running Minecraft because it's a single thread CPU and Minecraft's a
single Thread game. It doesn't use multi thread with graphics card to make up for it. And that's why you see a lot of these YouTubers, who do Minecraft use that CPU and get incredibly High frame rate even with straight shaders on, but me and Jim both Chose AMD because it's a better multi processing chip. Which means it renders videos better. We could live stream cream a PC. Yeah. So it's a lot better for
streaming? Yeah. If you're just playing Minecraft, and you're really wanting to do this Bedrock thing, whatever course it looks like, this Bedrock update is using your GPU more than you are CPU. So if that's what you're looking for, you don't have to worry about anything. I just said yeah, one more thing I want to mention Chin. Is you actually have a reflection? Yeah, the mirror checked. Yeah. That was awesome though. Looking in the mirror, you just see an arm, huh. A floating.
Right arm. I mean I'm right handed. So mines is the right arm but yeah, that's kind of strange. If you go into another Viewpoint you get to see your old self in the mirror but it's just cool. Not just seeing yourself but other builds reflecting through the mirror and everything. It just it puts you right there, man. It's a totally different. Feel having feels great.
Eight. How many times have you seen someone do like the mirrored floor effect where they're just building the entire build upside down? Oh my God, you wouldn't have to do that with r-tx? Yeah, looks great. But yeah, what a ton of work. Uh-huh. That's something. I just couldn't commit to know. I'm Tony.
Like I went and got my Bedrock copy, because I think today, by the time you guys hear this, the free giveaway is over for people who Had Java since like 2018. So sorry, I put a little notice of Discord. Hey, time is running out. Get your free copy. I went and got my free copy of the Bedrock just because of this r-tx in case I were to get in
RTX graphics card at some point. Hmm, looks actually I'm actually thinking about doing like a series on it if it were to come out so just depends, I don't know. It would be a single player, I imagine maybe not. Yeah. Yeah, rub it in my face. I can't do it. Can't you think of what's in store? I'm sure it's you know you get to do everything you've done before except with just amazing Graphics, just rubbing it, just rub it in one more time. Of course. Now with this, I want to see.
Where does this put Shader makers or Java? Yeah, obviously they're not going to be able to do everything. The r-tx can do because I mean it's a lot of mathematical prowess that goes into these graphics card. That's why they're so Advanced and everything. But if somebody could figure out a way to do that for shaders in Java, that would be really cool and to know that they're having all these calculations going on
in the background would be nuts. As far as I know, there are like Java r-tx Graphics but you have to pay a good bit to get ahold of those. Like it's not like a free Shader. As you can just get to get that r-tx Graphics because soon as I got the card I wanted to go check it out and see what it was about all the YouTube videos of Graphics are amazing. Just like the ones I was looking at Bedrock but I try to look for it and you'd have to pay for it
yet to be a patreon. You have to pay for this much a month for those type of graphic. So for Bedrock to just release it, that that's pretty cool. All right. Well, let's go ahead and jump into our listener comments. Okay. Member like always Our listener comments cuz usually come from the Discord. So if you'd like to leave us a comment or something join the Discord link, show notes all the good jazz but this week's comment comes from Dev and Dev says, or asks, what is the most
recognizable block in Minecraft? Also, what Block in your opinion with no context? Someone could see in go, oh, that's for Minecraft. I'll let you go first, you boo. Well, the first thing that comes to mind is Is the grass block? Yep. It is the logo of the game and soon as I see that, boom Minecraft I think immediately. Yeah, I mean I could go really cheating with this and say creeper head because that's in vanilla game, you can get a
creeper head and vanilla. Yeah, with no data facts are no nothing. So to me, the creeper head is the most recognizable block from Minecraft other than the grass walk. I totally agree with Jimbo. My first pick would have been grass block if he did say it, that's why Write it down so fast, I better get this in there before he steals it again, stealer. Exactly. But yeah, the creeper, I can understand that it's probably the most recognizable mob over
sure's, but yeah, it is a block. It is a block. There's other areas. Other blocks I could see, I've been playing Minecraft for a long time that I could be able to tell, hey, that's for Minecraft. But yeah I mean the items are so easy like a diamond pickaxe or diamond sword. Yeah, those are so rare. Cognizable. But Dev said, block that item since we dip HP deaf. I agree with Jimbo. I'd put grass block is number one but I would put a creeper head as a number to cool with that.
Go with that, that's about right. Alright, let's go ahead and move into this week's Discord head and this week's ad is from me Jason. Hey friends, it's me. Jason and I'm a member of the withering effect Discord. It's a great place. To talk to your fellow listeners and give your input into the show. You might even get your question or comment, read out on a future episode. Join the Discord today, link is in the show notes and I'll see you there Duds. 100 percents this message.
Hi. Thanks for Jason for doing the add member you guys can record Discord ads. If you want just hit us up on the disk or let us know that. Hey you're wanting to record and we'll hook you up with the script and tell you all the little things you got to do. It's not very hard. Takes a couple seconds and it really helps us out. Hmm, I'm sorry, I'm looking at my audacity and the little background noise is larger than it usually is, and I'm over here going, man.
I'm going to have to noise filter the crap out of This and I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's finally picking up Susie snoring because she is going to town tonight that I can hear on my end. Yeah, it's fun. I can't tell either. I just see the sound wave bar. Yeah, so fun stuff. Giving you guys a little behind the scenes. It's not too fun. Yeah, not to fund your work me. But let's get into a block of the week. This week. We asked you to vote in the Discord.
There's There's a theme Happening Here guys. To vote in our Discord which of the following blocks. Me and Jimbo discuss this week you choices where the repeater the loom and a furnace. And the winner. This week is Loom way to go loom. Every time you say that I picture Pokémon, we're like it was going to the commercials and it was like just showing a shadow and it was a guess which Pokemon this is.
And then when you come back from a commercial as you like that's Pikachu, it's Pikachu. They always go ahead. The loom is generated naturally and Shepherd houses, it's crafted with two string in any any of the to or any planks used to of any planks Jesus wrapped it with her two strings and two planks of any any wood block Cheese's. Let's Okay Jimbo. This was your OneNote. This is you know it's not even big.
I wrote it gardening right? For you also get five patterns in Java and seven patterns in Bedrock. Now what the heck Bedrock, not only do you get to RTX. You get multiple patterns. Yes, and they can die with cauldrons. Oh yeah, I know that's such a great feature anyway. So going on to what I would change about the loom. The loom was a tough one because it's not that old of a block and I think it does fulfill its
purpose pretty well. Yeah, some ways I would fix it quote unquote because I don't think it's broken but unlimited layers for banners finally, you can have unlimited layers and creative. But in survival, you can't. Hmm. Yeah, you're limited like six. So I feel that obviously, if it can be done in Creative, should be done in a survival and I think the loom should give you the ability to do that. Yeah.
I mean it already really helps out with dies because it doesn't take as many dyes to do patterns anymore but I feel like unlimited layers would be extremely cool and also I'd like to the loom to act like a Chest when you have to create the custom patterns. So, like this week's episode, I try to make like a cowhide banner, and I needed the oxidase e pattern which one. I didn't know, I had to go get an oxy Daisy and create a pattern for it.
But now, I've got this random pattern in a chest or something. It would be really cool if I could store it in the loom and the loom would remember that it's there. So I don't have to costly use a pattern to make a banner. Honor. Yeah. That would be a pain just to keep getting that pattern out. Yeah I see. I attended soon. I get why that wouldn't be like top priority. I would rather have unlimited layers before a chest like block to store stuff. But yeah, kind of like an
inventory in there. Mmm. Mine. My fix were just more patterns like to see. I mean, we got, five really Mojang five patterns, I think I don't think the the pig Lynn batter or pattern was added. So there might be six. Yeah. Eight on Bedrock. I love that pig them better. It's so simple, but so cool. Yeah, yeah. But like 65 a pretty sure we can come up with more patterns. I like the fact that you can,
you know, make your own thing. That's always cool, but it would just be cool to see more patterns. I don't use it as much and I think I would, if we had a little bit more, it's just again, like you said, you have This pattern sit there. I just figured out. Why am I little bar or background noise home? Sorry. It was just stupid hard drive of IPC. Ramped up. Would you turn it down or something? I don't know why. It was ramped up. I'm not using it but it was don't worry.
Even though it's. Yes, I agree with you. But like, I say the patterns like the, you have so many more like you said, you have a pattern sitting there in a chest. I mean, how many more How many more can you put in there? I don't know. Yeah, just and see, I don't know how hard it is for them to create patterns or if it would be worth someone creating a data pack that was allow you to have more custom patterns.
Mmm. I mean you already have the Mojang logo pattern which is almost impossible to get, right? Because you need the enchanted, golden apple to make. Like, I don't think a regular Golden Apple does that. Yeah, I don't know. So it's like, well, there's One pattern nobody's ever going to use in survival because the enchanted golden apples. So hard to get nowadays because you can't craft it anymore, you have to find it.
And if I find it, I'm going to eat that sucker so I can get the all food and chant or not jamming, but advancement? Yeah, yeah. So that's it for like a week. Yeah, I'm trying to think of patterns, I'd use, but I really can't, I don't know. Like, like you said an apple, maybe an apple pattern. There's just there's so many patterns they could do. Well, I mean, I definitely think it every Bob should have a pattern. Yeah, that's that would be a lot of work.
But of course, I would want to use a mop head as the pattern maker but all the mop heads aren't in the game yet which I feel that should have been put in the game for a long time already but yeah, who knows. Anyways they know should we get into King be dogs tweet? Sure. Okay so this tweet is what was going to be the topic for last
week. For I basically had a coughing fit from, you know, where and it took everything I had to get as far into that recording as I did this week, I've only talked once during recording and it was basically to Mark, where the hard drive sped up. So I know how to noise cancel it, it's a forced 14 scoffs. Yeah, I faked it to make it easier to see and editing fake it till you, make it exactly.
But this tweeters was says, What do you think are the greatest weaknesses and strengths of Minecraft bosses from a design perspective? Now we took this a little further. Jimbo did weaknesses and strengths as him what you like and dislike for each month and I'm going to talk about the design, I guess philosophy behind the fights and so that way we should have all your bases covered. So I'm going to start with, let's start with weaknesses or dislikes first for each.
Each one, I'll do the weaknesses of the dragon fight and then you can do your what you didn't like about the dragon fight. And we'll see if anything overlaps.
Okay. So my weakness for the dragon fight since I just fought the dragon, you I would think a lot of my theories were confirmed but it wasn't like when I fought the dragon, before my biggest complaint was, if you fought, the dragon solo that thing locked onto you and it was very hard to take out the Souls while it was locked onto you the
entire time. It's easier when it can track somebody else and you're kind of free to pull her up if you need to and destroy the interest has, I didn't have that problem on this last dragon fight. It was very strange for me, because Swabbies behind me, working, the camera and everything the entire time. I'm like, he's on my back, he's on my back, and he's like, nah, your you've got a clear go? I was just like, okay, so that design has been Change.
But I may have just got lucky. The other weakness in the design idea for me is that it's a long fight with not a lot of action. Killing the end, crystals took longer than killing the dragon. Hmm. So and the fact that I'm more scared of looking at an Enderman that I am the dragon itself. I think it's a big weakness to the dragon fight. Yeah. I think I get killed by Enderman more than the Dragon. When I go in there for that but those are my weaknesses for the dragonfly jumbo.
What do you not like about dragon fight? From a design perspective? This is where I kind of put my weaknesses and strengths. From a design perspective, the weakness of the fight is the block reefing. I don't like how the dragon can just take away your blocks, though. I understand it kind of makes sense. Yeah, you know you don't want to kick cage it in but it'd be so cool if you could.
Yeah. Would I mean I'm thinking maybe you can like, give damage to the blocks or whatever, but like to just completely go through the blocks, I don't like that. Never did like that. Well, it's put it, it's not just going through the blocks. If you pillar up with any kind of block other than obsidian or in stone, it knocks it down like it's gone, it disappears. Yeah, it's obsidian. And instead are the only ones that won't grief.
So if you were to try to build something around at, those would be the blocks. You get get anything else. Obviously Enderman. You're on board with that too. Yeah, yeah, the whole Enderman thing. They're just as much of a pain as the direct probably. If not more, you know, just try not to look at the Enderman and you have to look up to get this dragon and yeah, that's that's another thing. But it makes it challenging. So yeah. My that's why my weakness was
the the block reefing. I didn't like at. All. Right, well, let's get into what I like about the design aspect and it takes part of what I do. Don't like, and that's the in crystals. I love the idea of the in crystals, so don't get me wrong there. The fact that they take longer to destroy the dragon itself is my real problem. I like having in crystals there, I like how some of them are cage. So you have to change your battle plan for say, to take those out.
And that's that's where I spent a lot of my planning for the dragon fight was like, okay. So the cage crystals, I'm going to have to pillar up. I'm not Able to pull off one of those shots that just go straight up, straight down, through the iron bars. It takes the in Crystal out. So I was like, what's a quick way to do that?
So I brought tea and tea with me because if I could just get up there Place AT&T and light, it Surefire hundred percent gonna take out the in Crystal. But then I was like, well now I'm pillar during up leaving my Excel fix posed if the dragon hits me. What happens when I fall? So I would always put a bucket of water down at the bottom of the pillar, whatever I would pull her up Up.
But then I was like, well, I've been hit by the dragon and they've hit me over the void before, so, that's not good. So I ended up AFK saying out in the open during night time to get Phantoms to spawn. So I could hunt Phantoms for membrane to make slow falling potion. So if I got hit, are you really high in the air over the void, I could take a slow falling potion and kind of work my way back to the island. None of which I needed. It helps to have feathers. Are falling but sometimes you
get hit so far. It's not going to help. Yeah, it does. I noticed having an enderpearl in my inventory. If I'm ever hit up real high, just throw it into Pearl down. Oh, that's that's another dislike. I forgot to mention. I watched hermitcraft. Do their dragon fight early on the season, right? And they just happened to get a platform that spawned way out from the island, Isaac. Oh man, that's really rare. Usually, it's right next to the island. It's not that big of a deal.
You may have to pull her out, two or three blocks, not that big of a deal. Oh, well, before I did my fight, I remember them having that problem. Anyway, I want you know what, I'm going to bring extra pearls with me just in case and sure enough. When I landed on that obsidian platform, the spot Island was like 30, 40 blocks away in the Boyd in the void.
I went, holy cow. I'm not gonna pillar Bridge across this Gap. So, luckily I had into pearls and I could toss it into Pearl to the island but that obsidian Form needs to be coded to not be so far away from that Island.
Yeah that's definitely one of the things I was just like I can't believe that happened and I was so thankful I had remembered to bring pearls with me just in case that were to happen because honestly when I saw it I went great up jumping into the void and killing myself just to start over. Yeah, I noticed that they always spawn in like a circle. Yeah, some certain pattern but yes, sometimes the the islands not very even so, So they will spawn all the way out there.
Yeah. Boyee, what do you like about the dragon fight? From a design perspective. I like how you have to defeat the dragon to leave safely. You can leave anytime anytime you want. Yeah, but up into the void. Yeah. But to leave safely to beat the game. You have to beat the dragon. I like that idea. You don't go into the end unless you're ready to fight this Dragon. I really like that idea too, right? I agree or do try. If there's anything else about the dragon fight, we like or
dislike? I think I'm good. I would like my dragons to drop a light dress because it's me. Yeah, but I get why they don't, let's go into our next fight which I'm going to go ahead and combine these to kind of save time and it's going to be the Wither fight and we're going to
combine. We had wither skeletons down mainly because of me, I feel wither skeletons are the nether boss because you don't see a lot of whether fights happening in the Another one because that would be crazy with all the lava around you. Yeah so we're going to combine wither skeletons and the Wither fight into one boss. What we like don't like kind of things like the wither skeletons, I don't like the other moms have having to deal with it. Wither. Skeleton skull! Mmm!
You like if a pigman were to pick up a dropped skull. I now have to kill that Pigman to get to school. As almost friend. Yeah, that's almost more difficult than killing the Wither. Skeleton because you got a One-Shot it or his friends are coming for you. Yep. Now he's got a helmet armor with this skeleton head so it might take two shots. Yeah, but the weather fight itself. The thing I don't like in this is I didn't know about this too. I watch Korean fight.
The weather this season hermitcraft were flying with the Wither. It just keeps going up and up and up. And up and up and up and up and I was just like that. That's wrong. Like the things should be and obviously the weather was coded before a light was printed in the game so it's made to track
you at a lower level. It's not made to track you at a higher level so I can see why it's going up but I think that definitely needs to be changed into a lower like hey the weather is not going to go above 100 blocks in the air or something like that or if you get so far away, Like if you fly 40 blocks above him, he track something else. Why would he keep already track you that far away? Yeah, another thing I guess he could. That could definitely make a difference.
Yeah, but keep going. What are your some weaknesses with their skeletons and the withered fight? The wither skeletons? From a design perspective, I think are just too easy. You could throw a block up and make a to, to block High Gap and they can't touch you. Yeah, it's just, they can't. Get you like you said, you have that problem where Pigman get in the way, or there's a blaze down the hall shooting flames at you that happened.
So it can be a little tricky in that sense, but I just think if you go in there with some blocks and you just lure them into that to high block area, they cannot get you. And it's it's pretty easy to get the skeletons. If you're pretty cautious, the Wither on the Their hand. What? I don't like about that. It's just so how it's so hard to control. There's only so many things you can do to keep that wither one spot as of right now. I think it's the end Gates.
They're using to keep the Wither in one place because it's got the Bedrock around it but besides Bedrock it breaks every block and it's hard to control. I agree. I think obsidian should me more defiant to with their blasts. I know. It will do all, but the blue ones, like the blue heads. I think we'll break obsidian. But the normal blackheads won't that make sense.
So, like I've heard that yeah, like the blue heads are meant for the Wither whenever the weather feels trapped and it's trying to get away, it'll use the blue heads as a way to kind of explode the area around it, to make A New Path, whereas the blackheads are targeting an entity and trying to kill it. So it's not too worried about that. Give you the Wither the Wither of yeah, mmm. Thanks. I like about the way they fight. It is harder than the dragon fight.
I am more scared about the Wither fight than I am the dragon fight and that kind of seems a little backwards because the drag of fights the end-all-be-all fight of the game. Supposedly to me, it's the way they fight, the weather fights, the end all, be all of the game with the wither skeletons. I love how you have to do this other process before you can even unlock the ability to To fight this bad, a boss. Carl didn't have to bleep me out
there. It's very cool and it's not intuitive that you would have to do this like skeletons. Can drop head zombies, can drop heads creepers, can drop heads and a very maniacal kind of way where you have to use a Charged Creeper to do it. Whether skeleton it just drops its head to a sword randomly so finding on your looting. Yeah it stands out. You're like well I've got this head. What does that do?
And to put it on Soul Sand In A T formation to make three heads, I wouldn't think to do that unless the game tells me to or else I'm watching a behind-the-scenes video or something. So, I really like that about the weather fight, not so much the fight itself but the process leading up to the fight to me, that always seems way more fun. Yeah, I'm with you there. I like the fact that you have to build it. Yeah. - yeah. You have to create your own death.
Yeah. That's That's it's good there. I also have the same thing with the difficulty level. That's the strength that I like, about the Wither. From a perspective design perspective, is this. It's so difficult. It's a lot. It's a lot easier underground. If you have, you know, a 1x2 tunnel to lower it down. It's a lot easier that way. But out in the open, good luck. I mean, they're, they're not, they're not very easy. Yeah.
That's for sure. Let's move on to our last kind of boss fight that we have listed. And that's the Guardians Elder Guardian which I think is the weakest boss fight and the entire game. So, to defeat the Guardians quote-unquote because they just kind of slowly respawn in the temple. The only things you're defeating the Elder Guardians and they're just the bigger size Guardian, which to me, is what makes it
not a good fight? A weakness to the fight is, they don't move very well because they're bigger than the Guardians and the guardian Temple. Is a confined space and these guys are confined into rooms, so they don't move very well. Not to mention, you just got to go invisible and those things can't see. Super easy to kill the best way to do it. Same thing, I have that as a weakness is just very easy to defeat the Elder Guardian, not very difficult at all.
Especially if you have a trident, I recommend take it at, write it down there, but yeah, the other Guardians are smaller. I think they're quicker. You know, they're harder to see. And so many of them, you're getting double triple teamed all
the time. Yeah, the older Guardians are a little harder to find if you know exactly where you're going, which I don't still amazed to me to this day if you know where to go. Yeah, there there in those areas but to get through it can be a little difficult to get through the temple. But yeah, to fight the guardian man. It's really your you're fighting off the other Guardians just to get to him pretty much in the fact that it drops a one sponge chic.
Yeah, like really? Yeah, can we please craft sponges already? Like, I get the sponges being an ocean. Monument is a way to force us to go explore Ocean Monuments, but you don't get a lot of sponges from that. If any let's not forget some ocean Monument spawn with no sponge room. Hmm that but to me alright so crafting sponges would be really nice. Yeah so things I like or a Length of Guardian fights. It's the guardian Temple itself.
It's a very cool structure. It's a very unique structure. In the fact that no other boss really other than a wither, skeleton, has its own little Temple. I guess you could count the main island for the dragon fight as its own little area but I do I just see that Island as the end. I don't see it as the dragons home. Yeah the guardian Temple or ocean Monument. I see as an Elder Guardian. Or a Guardians home that I'm invading to get supplies. So hmm, that's my strength.
Not to mention the drops really cool. Yeah. My strength is the fact that they give you mining fatigue. You just can't you just can't blow through the walls and find these guys you know they make it a maze, they make it to where I mean you could take milk down there. You'd have to take a good bit because you're going to get mining fatigue over and over and over and over. You can't go near these Elder Guardians without it without getting mining. T. So, I did like that.
What else was there? Like you said, I like the fact that it's got its own like, Palace under water. In your invading, you truly do feel like a conqueror when you beat the guardian Temple. Yep. Especially when you drain it too. It's mine. Now, I don't have to drain any more though. Yeah, you tell him I'm looking forward to that because that's my next big farm is an ocean Monument. So so, so over monuments here. Yeah, I know you've built to two seasons in a row.
Yeah, I enjoy them. Like, it's fun time defeating it. But like once you're like, right in the middle of it, you're like, what am I doing? Yeah. Someone done with this instant regret. Yeah. All right. Yeah, the the drops are great. So overall, let's look at all the fights all together. Is there one? Thing that you would change about all the fights get it. Like for me I think all the fights should give you better Loot and I mentioned that the
dragon should drop in a light. Ra better loot. I think a Wither fight, should drop something better like maybe a withering enchantment for a sword so you can actually wither mobs. When you hit it something like that maybe a guardian Temple. Gives you gives you a what are those we talked about this last livestream and I Forgot the name of it, then the underwater Beacon. Okay, the conduit conduit. Thanks. I don't know why. I can't remember.
That thing's name. But yeah, I think that'd be a good drop. Yeah, maybe a garden in Temple. You can find one of those in there. Just better loot to make. You want to do these things. Yeah, what about you? Is there anything you would change on all of them? Like that? Hmm, I never really thought about this question. Mmm. That's why I'm asking it at the end of the show prizes Ack. Um I don't know.
I like a challenge you know, and I feel like I played I played it for so long that it's not it's not so much challenging for me to go in there at the beat the dragon to beat the with her Elder Guardian, as you just ramp up the difficulty level. Yeah, I'm not trying to toot my own horn but it's not as difficult as I would like it to be. Like maybe throw in the dragon fight can be difficult because the Enderman I've saw a Mod where people put in like Shockers while fighting the dragon.
Yeah, looks that looks fun to me, it'd probably be very frustrating the most but that looks fun. The withers, pretty difficult as it is. Yeah, there is ways to cheese it but I I like the fact that you can cheese, some boss fights because there are times where you just don't want to deal with fighting the boss in a normal way, like whenever I go back. We fight the dragon, I'm fighting the dragon with you later on because those in
crystals. Go from taking me, seven to eight minutes, to destroy to their down in less than 30 seconds because you just fly around with the bow. Bang, bang, bang, bang done. Yeah, there's really no point to go back and fight it. If it doesn't drop in a light ra which makes you well, the XP. But you can easily make an Enderman Farm all. I'm thinking like lingering potions so you can get dragon's breath. Yeah. That also the Dragon for that.
That's true. Oh yeah, I probably just ramp up the difficulty as feel like they're a little bit easier but then again, that could be just me. Think that's kind of it for the show. You want to read this out. Sure. If you like to show you can share it with all your friends and on social media. If you listen to Spotify follow us or if you listen, I'm Apple podcast.
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