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Usual warnings…

Note that the announcement references a "1.14.2 to address further issues" but gives no time frame…

Despite the title, the lower part of the page makes clear that MS/Mj considers this a snapshot and appropriate warnings re world corruption etc apply…

Re#74

If that's the result of world gen, I'd call it an argument for rapid deployment of 1.14.1…

Otherwise, could be used as bait for a zombie shooting gallery.

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People complaining about "bad updates" when Mojang improves features that had unintended behaviors remind me of Super Smash Brothers Melee fanatics having a fit when they can't abuse glitches to their advantage in the new games. Nothing's wrong with an iron farm or anything like that, but with a game that's constantly changing, you can't seriously expect something that ridiculous and obtuse to stick around when villages finally got revamped. The changes made are pretty good if your goal isn't to lock all your villagers in a box for their whole lives. On my realm, there's a master farmer that gives me mysterious stews of saturation for a single emerald, which heal about 7 hearts in just a couple seconds. Love that guy. Also, due to the behavior changes, operating inside of villages and improving them is finally intuitive and worthwhile. They don't just wander aimlessly and get themselves killed anymore.

The distinction between exploiting a bug and clever use of the intersection of various mechanics is essentially a matter of individual perception.

Changing long standing mechanics such that older builds are bricked is the issue…

(Doing so becomes more offensive when the changes seem to push a particular OneTrueWay™ to play.)

As for "expect[ing] something that ridiculous and obtuse to stick around", surely this applies more to floating trees, stone, etc. and infinite cantilevers than the generation conditions for an interprectation of a fictional critter…

It's really too bad MS/Mj seems intent on forcing a particular playstyle as many of the additions made (see second para. reply #22) could have expanded the game without discommoding a major faction of players…

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Where's Worldsshrugged to tell me how bad this game is since it updated?

No worries, always a few of us insightful types about to help with that… [/sarky]

"Frankly, if we'd known how much work putting together the biggest Minecraft update yet was going to be, we'd have probably taken the easy option and tried to raise that child instead."

Given the poison pills included in 1.14 that break all prior worlds and greatly inhibit endgame play, a strong case can be made for that option having been preferrable…

Adding all the decorative blocks, bamboo, berries, new flowers/dyes, text editing in books, accessibility, the various technical changes, villager work stations (without messing with village recognition/golem spawning and trading), would have been a nice update that didn't grief a large section of the community. [Even including some of the cruft (foxes, pandas, stews, crossbows, noteblock sounds, etc) would have been fine… provided "Performance Improvements" is in comparison to 1.12 (not 1.14 snapshots).]

As is Minecraft seems well on its way to becoming MineCruft

Uh-Oh! sombody let the marketing department out of the padded room again…

THX for the fun read…

I gather we have another convert to wondering who slipped the hallucinogens into the MS/Mj watercoolers.

Pardon my inner grammarian, but

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… sippy collection cup…

Yes, blocks broken by a TNT explosion now have a 100% drop rate ie. no blocks are lost to the explosion.

Items, however, can still be destroyed by TNT so any items created by a first explosion are likely to be destroyed if not picked up before a second.

Have not been able to find anything that specifically mentions mob drops, but a number of indications that they also have a 100% drop rate from the first explosion [only in the sense that the TNT destroys no drops] but are subject to destruction by subsequent explosions.

TNT mining of diamonds would noy be something I'd recommend as it breaks the ore block without the benfit of Fortune, but it is otherwise possible.

I can see the impetous to make TNT more viable for mining, but agree that preserving a small chance of destroyed blocks (or – better still – further reduced blocks eg stone types to gravel or sand / wood to sticks) would be more realistic [for whatever weight the realism argument can be said to have].

"it's bug fixing from here on out and we're

hoping for a release quite soon!"

This does NOT bode well…

Particularly as code optimiation needs to follow bug fixing…

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Is this another new form of absurd virtue-signalling after the animal cruelty thingy? Personally i can see the feature do more good for the game.

I'd call that a very kind and gentle way of explaining the situation…

[Others might see it as an exercise in proper and responsible corporate protection of "the children" :BLETCH: ]

From the Grindstone section [Emphasis added]:

"Has the ability to remove all non-curse enchantments from an item; for each enchant removed some XP is reimbursed"

Probably not of great utility given the new furnace/XP behavior, but a this would seem to make the enchanted armor drops from various mob farms another source of XP.

18w47b has issued. [same link]


More changes

• Numerous worldgen performance improvements
• Adjusted mob spawning behavior to be closer to that of 1.13.2
• More Jappa texture changes
• Fixed strongholds not generating properly
• Reduced the cluster size of Pillager spawning so Outposts aren't flooded by Pillagers

More fixed bugs
MC-139764 - World generation logs warning "Empty or none existent pool : minecraft:empty"
MC-139693 - Blocks appear elsewhere in the world when they update
MC-139497 - Can't place rails, redstone, and other blocks that need a solid block below on Soulsand
MC-139401 - Pistons are no longer (redstone) transparent
MC-138566 - Barrels facing south have a rotated front texture

These announcements would be of greater utility if they included (or at least linked to) actual descriptions of what is being done/attempted:
"Adjusted mob spawning behavior to be closer to that of 1.13.2" could stand some expansion as to how and what mechanics were reverted.

As it stands attempting to eveluate how this is working [the presumptive purpose of snapshots] is greatly impeded by there being no clear indication of what is intended…

This "Added support for directional opacity of blocks (used by slabs, stairs, snow layers, non-full-block dirt-related blocks and extended piston base blocks)"

could do with some explanation....

The inclusion of "extended piston base blocks" suggests a repeat of the lag monster that occured the last time piston opacity was messed with may be in the offing :sigh: