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Quote from Missingno_26

Well, with the time, I kinda accepted enchanting and other stuff ...
The problem isn't that they're adding useless/unfitting stuff. The problem is that they're adding it while leaving aside the real problems of the game.
I mean, come on ! Terrain generation is blank, Nether is Laggy, Ender Dragon is stupid and too easy, etc ... These are major problems and currently nothing is planned to fix it !
Don't tell me it's impossible to fix these problems ! Mods improving terrain generation do exist, same for optimisation.

I think one of the main problems with the game is that they aren't really being original anymore, from just a game standpoint. The adventure update was welcome because it added a lot of cool things that people were interested in, and it also added a lot of cool mechanics. Everything since the Halloween update had been relatively minor. It seems to me that everything after the adventure update has been pretty generic, bland, and overall useless. Everything from mob heads which literally can't be obtained in survival to all the new terrain "features" are pretty bad. I wish they would just scrape all these updates together and release a minecraft: trilogy update or something that not only added all the stupid guff for the idiots, but also the actual stuff we should be getting, such as optimization, better terrain, better mechanics, and ect. Maybe if these updates came along with some actually interesting material they would be passable, but from where i'm looking now minecraft's future is basically the old story of "it becomes cluttered and dies of suffocation."

Quote from MinecraftSiegeEngineer

Minecraft is Minecraft, not survival. Minecraft means craft/biuld ANYTHING. You have wide(but still narrow) selection here what you can do. Participate in team battles with Iron Golems, slay spiders, heal mobs, trade, build... And finally there is creative mode. It just IS NOT possible to stand for sandbox survival.

Minecraft was originally a survival sandbox, it's why people enjoyed the game. If people wanted to play a generic build-your-own-X game i could point out about ten different games that have been around years before minecraft was ever even an idea. Minecraft is the common day example of a survival sandbox, it became big because of it's niche appeal and ease of use. Saying minecraft isn't a survival sandbox is like saying a pencil isn't a writing utensil. All the crap you mentioned are all aspects of the "survival" part of "survival sandbox" and you deny that like an illiterate child.

Quote from StealthLava

Thats cool. Hey! Horses and Carpets. (Pun intended. lol)

Questian:
Is Mojang ever going to add an easy to craft Stone Lantern to the game? (I give Mojang permission to add my mod to the game. It uses a Vanilla Texture & a much needed Simple Crafting lantern recipe. :3)

We already have lanterns, glowstone, and pumpkins. These blocks emit more light than a torch but cost more and include the downside of being an actual block. What you're suggesting is basically a cobblestone lamp, which makes everything else useless. Your model is broken and unbalanced, not in a game breaking way but certainly in a noticeable.

Quote from cf451

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT AGAINST TEH WONDERFUL HORSES?!?!?... or anything else they're adding. Seriously, if Enchanting and Potions belong in minecraft, Horses/carpets/hay bales/etc. definitely do.

Go horses.

*Bows down and worships the Horses*

Enchanting and potions don't belong in minecraft. The devs lost touch with what made the game fun and popular and are just cluttering the game with crap. I mean seriously, carpets? We don't need crappy mo' creature's horses everywhere. There's a reason mo' creatures is a horrendous mod, it's because it clutters the game with a tonne of mobs that don't fit with the world. They're ignoring the actual problems with the game such as its terrible optimization, terrain, and combat system and just pandering to idiots too stupid to improvise a carpet or too lazy to install a mod for their hundreds of horse types. Minecraft isn't a survival sandbox anymore, it's a sub-par RPG with the ability to build.

Maybe next they can make terrain not ­ and add something actually interesting to the game.

The ponies look pretty ­ IMO, seems too complicated to fit in with the other mobs.

Quote from Djjoe666

On our server, when we find a village it's nerdgasms all-round, screaming, crying, skipping, pats on the back, teabagging villagers, friendly banter boxing, a firework or two ... Then we burn it down... ._. After stealing their crops of course

Last time i played i found five villages within like 30 chunks. the rest of that area was gross plains and a boring mountain range.

IMO what we need is better terrain. The old beaches and mountains from beta have been overrun by samey boring flatness or turquoise hills. When you explore in current minecraft it's very rare to find anything worth noting, it's all "oh hey, a village. oh hey, an other mountain biome. oh hey, a forest." I remember i once found a clearing in a massive forest, and in the middle of this clearing was a large stone that was shaped like an egg on a thin pedestal. The diversity is gone, and there's really no reason to add a horse mob if all you're going to be doing with it is going from one samey boring landscape to the next samey boring landscape.

Quote from TheSojourner

So much rage about horses. Damn, calm down kids.

Personally, i'm more upset that jeb is just adding crap that the MC reddit audience screams for rather than the things that are actually required to make the game interesting, like better terrain and ect.

Quote from sebastiankit

whiny 10 years olds? im really sorry but you are really wrong! Ofcoruse there are some "whiny 10 years" olds who also want this but why not? you did not explain why is this bad. You just sayd we already have something we can ride but its not an excuse and i just cant understand what you mean by "I'm all up for having another mount in the game, but couldn't we have something that's not so cliché and over-used?" i try to translate it to chinese and back to english and now its clearer for me...

You're one of those people who was brought up with horses and got riding lessons, so you think every game must have horses. Hopefully, you will hate how the horses work. I hope you hate how the horses work because that would mean they wouldn't be terrible and won't turn the game into a "take care of your basically useless pet" simulator. We already have ridable pigs, the only people who want horses are the people who spam like idiots for them, mainly because they are idiots and can't come up with a good reason the game should have horses other than "horses are so cool i love them so much also let's add kitties and bunnies cuz theyr cute!1!1"

Quote from Random_Guy_32

For example?

the bloody pigs that are already in the game, de-nerf the pigs.

Think about it for more than two seconds from a different perspective. Instead of following your MCredditor instinct and switching straight into idiot mode, imagine for a second what minecraft felt like a long time ago. Now, i know what you're going to say "but that was beta and this is full release the game changes blah blah blah." but the game didn't get popular for nothing, it was innovative, interesting and had a great game feel. Now, with all random crap current mojang team has pinned onto the game, minecraft feels more like a sad attempt at an RPG rather than a creative survival game. The interesting terrain has been flattened, we have two useless bosses, combat is a stunlock fiesta, fishing is still a terrible minigame that doesn't work during slight lag, and farming is bland. We don't need horses added to the game, mainly because we already have a mountable mob that works on land, but also because the same thing that happened with wolves and cats will happen. The mob will be mainly useless, having a use that is mainly outweighed by the problems plaguing its use. If that doesn't happen, the horses might be really useful, but it still doesn't change the fact that jeb messed up one mob simply to add an other to do its job. it's like if we added a creeper with more blast radius or a zombie who runs slightly faster.

Quote from Lapis_Lupus

http://bamthand.deviantart.com/art/It-s-A-Pony-Applejack-332807088?q=gallery%3Abamthand%2F35748213&qo=34 That is all sir. Now feel free to target any of the other dozens of pony fans commenting here with your trollery. Good job, singling one person out just because your annoyed over the addition of horses to Minecraft.

Go pull your victem crap elsewhere, you crack one joke and it's like i threatened to murder your family. Learn to take a joke, kid.

Quote from Lapis_Lupus

This makes me wonder how the mlp mods are going to function after this, namely Mine Little Pony. It'll be useful for putting more characters into your world via texture packs, but a pony riding a horse now...hm...

It would be like that time i searched my little pony on devianart.

Quote from Otterman

It's so nice to see poeple who actually thank Mojang for the game rather than complain and whine about it like half the community.

if minecraft was free, i wouldn't complain, but it's not and mojang is filthy rich. I see no reason why i should feel like i can't complain about something that i don't like, especially when i payed for it.

Mod API will never happen because jeb is implementing 30 styles of decorative cobble.

It's because addind random crap doesn't make the game better, all wolves have ever done are kill wild sheep and attack your friends if they accidently punch you. They are terribly unhelpful and incredibly stupid, they are always liable to get killed by walking into fire, off a cliff, or into lava. Horses, something completely foreign to the game, will litterally serve no purpose other than to be your stupid car, sonething saddled pigs would do if they hadn't made those horrible to steer. When there's so much else to be desired, adding borderline useless mobs is the last thing the game needs.

Seriously, horses? Instead of working with the already implemented mechanic of riding pigs you turn that into a silly novelty and add a completely foreign, new mob? Of all the things you could have done, you add horses. The terrain is bland, the game is still unoptimised, combat is still terrible, farming is boring, and instead you just add random stuff to the game. The game is already cluttered with things no real survivor player actually uses, such as the wither, the end, ect. Potion making is deffinately a stretch for single player survival, even on hard mode. We have anvils and enchanting so we can be EVEN MORE op at stunlocking everything in heart pounding click fests, and now we have horses. Maybe next you'll add a diamond overworked boss who, when killed, drops a diamond sees, which can be then turned into a potion of diamond skin, making you invincible forever in every circumstance, because seriously, who cares about silly things like survival and exploration? Now adays all the cool reddit kids want ponies and l33t bosses so they can brag on their let's plays in their 280p jerry-rigged recording setup.