Migration for me was very buggy and Microsoft clearly messed up there, but I eventually migrated the account.
What I have not migrated yet is the launcher. As typical of Microsoft they are big on publicity but far too lean on details and consequences.
And a good thing it was, after viewing a few reviews of the new launcher it became clear that I has compatibility issues with mods.
Another thing I learned from being forced to look at migration is why Bedrock edition always felt inferior to me. First it was the lack of mod support (and I would never waste much time without mods, as the game is by far too grindy and not good enough in the automation side when played vanilla). And second, there seem to be a lot of core design choices that interfere with full automation designs... so it will likely be at least another decade before bedrock Bedrock catches up to Java for technical gameplay.
In the end, being forced to migrate the account made me learn a lot, and taught me that if they kill the Java version anytime soon, that is when I should look for a new game in this genre.
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Mumbo jumbo has a ton of YouTube videos that are good for beginners
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Old fart here. Depending on life demands sometimes I Minecraft a little and sometimes a lot.
My main interests are technical designs and recently started writing mods to fill needs not yet addressed.
Let me know here if you setup something.
For a server, I strongly recommend using Famcraft. It is a family oriented server I found when looking for a server for my grandson (so as adults we need to behave when playing there) and fell in love with it. It is managed better than any server I played on since early Beta. Combined with Discord and setting a team base in a nice and little occupied area would suit any team very well.
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Agreed on iron sword. It is the very first thing I make once I find iron.
Also, it is not hard to make an iron farm reasonably early in a world. From that point on stone no longer makes sense, even if you don't mine for diamonds.
As a matter of fact, other than a diamond pickaxe early on, I don't bother with diamond tools until I can make decent enchanted ones and I have an XP farm to repair them on. Even a simple skelly farm will do for that purpose.
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I learned that knowledge is king. know what you are doing and it is a cakewalk.
And to spend that first night setting up an "in the hill" starter base and mining after having spent the day getting food and wood.
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The above are all good.
Also, if you need to move fast between the same locations you can use a teleportation mod, there are many of them. Even minimap moda like Xaero Minimap tend to have teleportation. Others look like portals.
Finally, for fast up/down movement I really like Quartz Elevators.
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Thank you, I had not noticed the player's dot and did not realize how far those treasure locations could be. You were not kidding about "setting sail" in the appropriate direction.
For location and direction I use Xaero's minimap. I also configure what I want it to show me in the info lines, like current position, biome and time of day.
For chunk positions (and much more) I find miniHud very useful. Once I told it to show the chunk border overlay it was trivial to find the center of the chunk and dig down to the treasure.
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That seems like a cool method once I find the right chunk.
But how do I find the right chunk?
I found the map in a shipreck and none of the nearby lands looks like what is shown on the map.
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I made a block that needs to be notified when content of the container (barrel, chest, hopper, etc) that it is attached to changes.
When I attached to a barrel I was able to use neighborUpdate() so that I *ONLY* checked when the content changed.
But neighborUpdate() does not get called for chests or hoppers (and probably others).
I could check every tick but that would cause lag since it would check even when there is no changed in a chest and I plan to attach these blocks to every chest in my vault.
How can I get notified when the attached container changes, similar to neighborUpdate()'s behavior?
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TBH treasure maps confound me. I never - and I mean absolutely never - found any place near the location where I found it that looks anything like what the map shows.
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I kind of agree with OP. When in 1.18 I noticed that the same few biomes kept repeating over and over for a looking distance my immediate reaction was "this is as boring as watching grass grow and I am finally going to need a world generation mod".
More importantly, the lack of biome variability prompted me to stop caring about cheats when it comes to getting biome-specific resources. I virtually never used /give before this, and now I use it in almost every world.
Mojang used to keep things interesting, but I got the impression that Microsoft seems to think that "pointless grind/repetitive tasks" add something to the game. WRONG!!!
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You read the screen before getting to your world?
You are definitely a better person than me. I pay absolutely no attention to what goes on before I am in game, and consider it worthless spam. I prefer to check my messages while that goes on
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It depends. Does the chat reporting system report to Microsoft or the server owner?
Reporting to the server owner is perfectly valid, as they are the ones that set the rules.II would totally support it. As a matter of fact most family friendly servers already use mods for this purpose.
Reporting to Microsoft on servers that are not run and managed by them is just plain stupid, as this is a sandbox game and not just a kiddie game. If someone is running an adults only server then they might choose to go for total freedom of speech and allow any kind of language.
Of course... I suspect that most people won't care one way or the other and it is likely that a boycott would only have a minor impact.
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I need to copy (and modify as I do it) designs from an old 1.18 *single-player* world to a new 1.19 world. I know I could use a tool to copy the design and drop it in the new one, or that I could run the old one in my laptop while I work the new one in my desktop. But both solutions are a bit clunky.
I was going to ask if it is possible to launch Minecraft twice on the same desktop (different monitors) and then decided to just try it. This is what I found:
So, I decided to share the info as others might have the same need.
And remember... launch the world you are NOT going to change first.
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The minecraft design model always has a server and a client... even in single-player. And I noticed that I could use some mods advertised as server mods in single player.
Does that mean that we should usually (or possibly always) be able to use server mods in single player, so long as they match our mod infrastructure?
(for example Fabric server mods being usable in single player if I use Fabric, but of course not Spigot mods since I would not have Spigot in a single-player Fabric world)
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bump... no answers after a week.
I hope there is a mod this in 1.19. If not... mod writers might want to consider it a hint. It is quite common for the first mod to release in a version to win. Best of luck.