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Thanks for still updating Optifine. You're awesome!

Think about what you like to do, and find a job that incorporates what you enjoy. Because if you do what you enjoy, then it doesn't feel like a job (except that you're getting paid for it). For example, I enjoy staying on top of technological progress, and my job is to repair medical equipment that utilizes today's technology to advance medical care. I've been doing it for over 25 years and I still love it.

Live frugal, and don't get yourself trapped in debt. For example, you can do a lot more fun stuff when you're driving a used Focus that's paid in full, than what you can do when you're driving a new Yukon that you still owe the bank 30,000 dollars. Use one credit card, and build good credit by making small purchases and then keeping it paid. Not having any debt, or having very little debt is almost like a paycheck in itself.

Don't go to college if your career path doesn't require it. Nothing's worse than still owing 70,000 dollars in student loan debt 10 years after graduation, yet you're working at a job that has nothing to do with your education. So, unless you're going to college to become a doctor, or you have a full-ride scholarship, skip the university and the debt that comes with it. I only needed a CompTIA A+ certification for my job, and I studied for that one on my own for free, and then went to a testing facility and got the certification for less than the cost of one month of groceries.

Well, that's my two cents. Do what you like, live frugal, and stay out of college unless you absolutely need it.

You can also turn those villagers into residents that you actually want in your village...

If they're in a plain brown tunic and they shake their heads when you try to interact with them, then you can place a job block next to one of those villagers and he'll turn into the villager that you want. I like librarians, so I'll place a lectern next to an unemployed villager and he'll turn into a librarian.

He might switch back to an unemployed villager if you break the job block right after turning him into an employed villager though, so make sure to trade with him before breaking and moving the job block into a more sensible location (trading with him locks in his profession). Or, you can use that 'employed/unemployed villager' idea to your advantage and break the job block and let him go unemployed again, then place the job block again to make him employed again, and his trades change each time you do this. For example, you can do this method to get librarians who will give you 'mending' books or other really good trades.

Pretty cool idea. I'd support it.

One thing that can make a big difference in framerate is lowering the render distance:

Options -> Video Settings -> Render Distance (set it to 12 or less)

I don't know much about JVM arguments, so I'll let one of the Java pros make the Java switch recommendations.

My son's laptop performed the same way, slow, and it's spec'd about the same as your laptop. I pressed F3 to see what was going on, and Minecraft said that it was running on Intel video, not GTX 1060. Read what you see when you press F3, you might find out that Minecraft is running on integrated Intel video instead of the GTX 1050 graphics processor.

Keep in mind that Minecraft might run slow if you have OptiFine installed and are also running any shaders (if you see fancy tree and entity shadows then you have shaders running).

Looks good! My ideas were pretty big and ugly, so I'm glad you came up with something that looks better than my own experiments.

No prob, if you can't get it to work and need some pics then I can post them.

I tried a couple of ideas...

3x3 grid of hoppers works great, just put the campfire in the center hopper.

but if you're using only one hopper... put a sign, on a campfire, on a hopper, on a chest. Campfire is in a 1x1 hole in the ground, and the sign on top of the campfire blocks water flowing toward the hole with the campfire in it. The flowing water pushes the cooked meat toward the campfire, and it all falls into the hopper. Although the campfire looks pretty strange with a sign sticking out of it.

I think if a villager's inventory fills up, then they'll quit harvesting crops. So if they're harvesting a a crop with seeds (wheat, beets), then I think villagers will eventually fill their inventory with seeds and then not harvest crops anymore. Maybe use a dispenser to flood the field every now and then, and your minecart will collect the drops while the villager re-plants the empty farm land...

Hopefully I'm posting in the correct forum...

I have a Lubuntu computer with a working Java Minecraft server that I can connect to with no problems. I wanted to see if I could get a Bedrock 1.11.4.2 server running on it too. To test the Bedrock server, I shut down the Java Minecraft server so I could configure Bedrock Server to communicate through the same port as the Java Server, since I know I can connect to that port externally from my Windows 10 laptop.

I downloaded the Bedrock server and extracted it onto my Ubuntu computer with no problems. Then, I edited the server.properties file to communicate thru IPv4 port 25565 (which is the same port that I run java Minecraft through). Finally, I started the Bedrock server in a terminal window opened in the same folder where bedrock_server is located, by running this command:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./bedrock_server

The terminal window showed what I'd expect to see for a normally running server. It shows the difficulty mode, IPv4 and IPv6 ports, amongst other things, and the last line says 'Server started.'

Finally, I started Minecraft bedrock edition on my Win10 laptop and typed in what I needed to connect to the server, and it can't find it. I get the red dot of 'what server?'.

So I shut down that bedrock server by typing 'stop' (which did a safe shutdown of the Bedrock server) and closed the terminal window. Then, I started my java Minecraft server (which is on the same Linux computer). Finally, I started java Minecraft on my Win10 laptop, tried to connect to my Linux server, and got on it with absolutely no problems. It runs like a treat!

What am I doing wrong? On my Linux computer, with a java Minecraft server folder on it, and also a bedrock Minecraft server folder on it. If I run the java Minecraft server, I can connect to it with no problems. If I run the bedrock Minecraft server, I can't even see it in bedrock Minecraft.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Wow! I have two words for that: Freakin'. And, uh, what's the other word? Oh yeah, Awesome!

Thanks for all your good work!

Hope you make a website to post your shaders downloads in the future! They're pretty awesome.

I'd like to give your latest shaders (1.13.2) a go, and if you have something for 1.14 then that would be awesome too. Can you PM me a link to a download? Thanks!

The bad new is, if you already visited the village in 1.13, then the 'look' of the village won't change (they'll still look like 1.13 houses). I don't know about the villagers though, but if I had to guess then I'd say the villagers merely lost their professions (you can verify that by trying to trade with a villager, and look to see if he just shakes his head). But the good news is, you can now customize your villagers and give them the professions that you want them to have: put a lectern in a house where you want a Librarian, and the villager that lives in that house will turn into a Librarian. Put a composter in a garden, and a nearby villager will become a Farmer. Put a blast furnace in another house, and the villager that lives there will turn into a tool smith, weapon-smith, or armorer (I think).

Be sure to put beds in your 1.13 houses, because that's how villagers 'claim' their homes (and they'll sleep in their beds at night instead of wandering around and getting smacked by zombies in the night). After you get beds in the houses, you can then put in the items that will give the villagers the types of professions that you like.

If you do some more exploring and find a new village, then that village and villagers will appear with the new 1.14 enhancements.

About the nether and teleports, I'll have to let someone else answer that question because I don't really know if portal behavior has changed.