Still no Aether in vanilla… 😞
I’m old
Minecraft is such a weird one. My son was playing it with his friends and invited me onto the server to show me around. I was pretty impressed with all the new items and biomes and stuff as it got updated god knows how many times since I was last on it.
Told his pals “sorry my dad doesnt know anything about Minecraft”. It temporarily broke me. On the one hand he’s right. On the other hand I had about 600 hours on it before he was even born.
I explained this to my kid too. When I played like a decade ago there was like 1/3rd of what there is in the game now. I played Minecraft, but it’s basically like a sequel now.
If only they would revamp The End, but The Sift is nice too…
At this point, I’m sincerely considering moving everthing to Luanti. But i’m uncertain between VoxeLibre or Mineclonia.
I just gave it a go a week or two ago and it’s been so fun. Caves are basically infinitely deep, and the cave gen produces a lot of cool things. We just found a MASSIVE opening in a cave, we’ve been exploring a single room for hours and still haven’t found it all, we’re probably going to build a base in the cave cuz it takes 15 minutes just to get down there. Not everything feels finished, like the mobs are way less interesting, and the surface is generally less dense, but some things like mining are just so much cooler.
You can download both and see which one tickles your fancy more, but I prefer Mineclonia. There WILL be differences as Luanti is a fundamentally different engine from Minecraft, but generally you’ll feel right at home.
Currently the biggest differences for me are that lapis lazuli is stupidly rare compared to Minecraft, and there are no unique stepping sounds for other mobs so it’s like Alpha and Beta where a creeper’s footsteps can blend in with chickens, cows, and pigs. Dual wielding is also currently primitive, and Nether portals tend to put you in the middle of lava seas. Caves are stupidly dark but that might get improved on.
But I did manage to build myself a nice big house with an inner courtyard, and get myself to the End and come back with an elytra and shulker boxes.
Hmm, good question as I haven’t really engaged with Luanti recently! Been playing Vintage Story if a block game is on the menu…However, sometimes just flipping a coin and going with the first one is a good idea. Also, there is nothing stopping you from trying both out and finding the one that works better!
Why do anything cool when they can spend 6 months adding 1 feature from a mod?
At this point is there anything for them to add that isn’t part of a mod?
Publish it on Steam, add controller support and splitscreen and no MS account needed. That’s all I want. I want my kids to be able to play it on the living room TV without anyone having to do anything in order for it to happen.
Steam and independent accounts are never gonna happen unless they sell the ip unfortunately. Unless you download the cracked prism launcher but absolutely do not download that from the github repo, its illegal!
They could add another fictional animal in a vote (while a mod adds all the options before the vote finishes instead of just the winner).
The game has limitless untapped potential.
They could make whole new dimensions that are essentially a new game plus. With new, harder mobs, bosses with actual mechanics, new gear, resources, etc.
The creative sandbox aspect of the game is fantastic, I love creating things and seeing what other people make, but the survival aspect has had no real expansion. Their horrible balancing and failed combat update leaves no wiggle room for new weapons. The wooden axe does the same damage as a diamond sword.
Sounds like you just want to play modded
I have a lot. I want to see an official twist on it. Something that everyone can discuss and doesnt become irrelevant.
Hi. I make fun of this too but it’s worth pointing out that Mojang does 100x the work to the game’s internals for speed, stability, modability, etc. It’s effectively a completely different codebase from version 1.0
Well, they decided to make a new version and bottled it, so now have a lot of tech debt to catch up on. The Java version has had work for sure, but unpaid modders still do more for optimisation.
I’m not sure on who the developers are anymore, but I sure hope the people working on the backend are not the ones relied on for new content either.
This isnt tiny little Mojang and Minecraft anymore, this is the best selling game of all time.
Maybe they are just working on it while doing the other stuff; remember they have to do something very big, the community has very high expectations unlike when they made the nether update
Also, their are working on the codebase right now
Isnt the sift the thing they were working on in the background?
I mean, they could’ve been working on both
#coping
They made those
annoyingamazing light flares. What more do you want?? (/s)
WITHOUT SPOILERS PLS;
I like to play minecraft without the wiki or looking up game mechanics. Is there any reasonable way I could organically encounter this dimension within normal gameplay? Or should I look up how it works?
No way to tell until the update drops I imagine, but the nether and the wither can be organically encountered/spawned (ruined portals and a specific painting) so I think there’s a pretty good chance
I feel the advancement tab is decent for finding stuff without leaving the game. It’s still looking up hints, just ingame. I’d love for them to add readable books in ancient ruins to give you hints instead. Idk how they’ll give hints for this tho
I dunno, my 35 year old sister in law just started playing she still hasn’t discovered that the nether exists, and hasn’t done any enchanting after 3 weeks. Some lore or even a handbook would probably help a lot.
I played it for even longer and still don’t know how to enter the nether. I want to find it out by myself but there don’t seem to be a lot of clues
I don’t want to spoil this rare quest you elected to take on. But you should’ve seen those obsidian structures surrounded by lava and magma. I would inspect those.
The game gives you no hints. It expects you to know, just like games don’t really instruct on how to use the joystick.
I will check it out! Good thing I have heaps of diamond items because I was basically just mining, building houses and trying to map the world haha
You might need three diamonds (or, if you’re feeling adventurous, two buckets) to do something and make these structures operational :)
And after you learn it, you can make yours.
It’ll show up in Minecraft Dungeons 2. The dimension itself won’t come out in Minecraft until next year.
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That appears to just be a mod. The actual dimension has yet to be shown off outside of the promo artwork, and it’s not present in the most recent snapshot.
Mod source: https://modrinth.com/mod/mielons-the-sift
This seems overly convoluted and probably a mod, unless dude’s uncle works in Mojang.
