It adds zero value to the survival experience or the game's progression. While I understand that much of Minecraft's identity is built on creativity, it is still a 'Survival' game, not just a sandbox and I think Mojang has lost sight of that. I appreciate new biomes and blocks, but they need to have meaning. We didn't even get a new material or craftable item just a 'Stupid Slime' to hit around. Even with its Redstone applications, it offers nothing for the average survival player.
by Ryuu_kun
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While Minecraft is a sandbox-survival/adventure game, the sandbox aspect is and has always been the primary focus of the game.
And while you complain about the slime having no uses, I’ve already seen 2 posts theorizing about ways to make ball games out of them.
Why do you think it adds zero value to the survival experience? You are getting two new block sets to build with.
OH MY GOD WE GET IT
When will people realize vanilla minecraft is a sandbox game with survival flavor rather than an actual survival game?
Edit: Like genuinely I don’t think the devs really care about “the survival experience” when the game’s focus now is creation/expression
We got ketchup and mustard blocks with the possibility of making mini golf in full vanilla. I don’t care about the condiments but mini golf will be a lot of fun to make and play
Why is there so much negativity in this sub? It’s getting really annoying. The updates are fine. Last few drops people were complaining we only got items and mobs and no blocks and now that we get blocks you are complaining that we don’t have any items?
I don’t give a fuck because now I can make soccer with a squishy little guy
What is even the use for these new resources?
Honestly I haven’t updated since 1.20.1
Bro. You paid for the game ONCE. It is still being updated. It’s amazing. They don’t demand a subscription from us, or to pay for DLC. Be grateful its still being developed and updated.
Finally, now when people joking tell someone to build a McDonald’s, we can actually do it
nothing motivates me to explore this biome, the mob is useless, the new blocks are too vibrant and feel out of place compared to the rest of the game palette, and we already have red and yellow blocks that fit game better, also i doubt the new blocks can be farmed, which make them even more useless. I really hope this turns out to be an april foos update.
its not really low effort
you can not like something thats added but a new mob that acts like this hasnt existed before
wait that weird tall slime is actually a real thing? dude i saw it on twitter and i thought it was a meme
I’m just downvoting these out of annoyance now.
We get it, yall are never happy.
We don’t need 15 quintillion karma farming posts about it
I’m going to be real, I stopped playing survival Minecraft a long time ago. Looking forward to make some cool contraptions and games with the new Slime.
It might add to survival if it can be can be used as a physics switch
Nothing looks bad to me, but there isn’t much for singleplayer besides the building sets.
theres probably still plenty to come out soon though
Oh fuck off
tbh i am not vanilla player but these new updates seems like mojang finally decided to lock in to development of this game, since 1.20.1 they are updating and rewriting the old code and rendering system, switching from opengl to vulcan and basically polishing and optimizing the game
Tiny Takeover and Chaos Cubed might be small because they are working on a Major update in the background. Minecraft movie 2 is coming and they are going to the end, possible timing for a big end update.
“Were announcing something everyone was asking for”
*proceeds to announce a theme park literally nobody was asking for*
It’s not hard to update the end just add like 3 new block types, one new entity and a new structure, that’s all I think most people want. Instead were getting MC Dungeons 2, another game that will lose support in 6 months once they realize nobody is playing it, when if they used that development team, they could have the ability to release bigger and better updates.
At the end of the day, their main demographic is children and new pretty blocks to build castles out of and a cute new slime they can play with is exactly what children find appealing. They never have and never will cater to these weirdo neckbeards with thousands of hours complaining about the core gameplay loop not being fun to them anymore.
To be fair people have said this about every update since 1.13
I think the community has lost sight of the fact that survival is a small part of the game, and the creative aspect is what makes it so replayable
This has convinced me that they are working on something big for the end of this year, due to the past drop being cosmetic and tweaks and this basically being that as well, just a little more exciting
My thing is that these past few drop/updates feel to much like gimmicks. Gimmicks are cool for the people that support these bad/ low effort updates. But it should be equal, people like me want more function, and we haven’t been getting catered to at all.
There have been major drops for survival players the last few ones (spears, maps, mounts, etc.). Maybe not every drop needs to be survival-oriented 🙂
The block colors are a bit loud.
Minecraft players when their 16 year old game is still being updated (it wasn’t exactly what they wanted)
Minecraft fans when Minecraft gets updated
Normally I try to see SOMETHING to like about an update
But come on…
you people won’t ever be satisfied with fucking anything
I want actual meaningful content. Not all this lame filler.
We need:
END UPDATE
COMBAT UPDATE
ANCIENT CITY PORTAL UPDATE
You didn’t need to make a new post about this. It’s already been said multiple times now.
The progression of the game has been updated like a million times before, why do we need more? The game’s fine as it is. I’d rather them add more variety to the world with new biomes and mobs. Not everything needs to be connected.
I’m just happy a drop finally has new blocks. It is getting boring though, we need a full update next.
To show that the Minecraft community accepts crumbs and thinks it’s a lot
Starting to feel like bloat. Obligations rather than art.
Yeah, the updates we been getting are pretty lacking, but they’re free so im not gonna complain.
I haven’t been able to watch this stuff yet, but yeah, none of it looks particularly appealing to me besides the red blocks
so 2 new brick types mean nothing to you? Boowomp 👎. You know you can go play Sons of The Forest, Valheim, Hytale, Vintage Story, or any of the many many survival themed modpacks, right?
This definitely isn’t the entirety of the update. They always hold stuff back for the snapshots. Wouldn’t be surprised if we get somthing new with frogs and froglights, or somthing to do with those concentrated sulfur blocks.
1st off, don’t make me tap the sign, the update is FREE CONTENT we don’t really get to say that it’s not enough, because most of us are not contributing to Minecraft, since we spent 25$ once, a decade ago
2nd the actual survival aspect is a small part of the experience, always has been, what keeps all of us coming back is not the pleasure of getting through the night, is the sheer freedom and creativity that Minecraft gives you access this update doesn’t contribute much to that either, but I believe we should still keep this in mind
3rd Mojang has been making a LOT of changes behind the scenes, everything is slowly been converted into being data based, the lightning system is basically being rewritten from scratch, and there are still a lot of bugs and optimization issues to address, we just don’t see them, because Minecraft Live is a commercial event first and foremost aimed at boosting sales, and in sales, you don’t show how you’re fixing a product if the client doesn’t know that the product needs fixing
Tldr; chill out people, they’re only showing us the fancy bits, survival was never the point, and most of all, none of us are going to pay for this update.
If you want to compare Mojang with other dev teams and say they’re lazy, fine, but you can’t do it while criticizing the fact that the 30th free update you received isn’t big enough.
man maybe you just don’t like the game any more
SHUT THE FUCK UP
It’s funny how the one content drop that actually looks good is now pissing off all of the chuds who bitch about people getting mad about how low-effort and crap the drops have been