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Quote from Sharpe103»

Why are the fields so big, though? I mean, wouldn't you rather have more small fields with more farmers? I don't know much about villager trading. I have a single breeder, but I haven't paid much attention to it since I was just looking for one with Mending.

Most recent version of our server's villager trading center: fully automated, with a breeder, villager sorter, 6 potato and carrot farms, 8 wheat farms and a pumpkin/melon smasher farm. All storage is via shulker loaders and the boxes are pumped up to the trading center.

There are good ones out there, for sure. We run a fully vanilla survival server in hard mode. Many of us are 'obsessed' with the game, and many of us have become very good friends and we chat daily even if we aren't in the game. We prefer to focus on the true multiplayer experience- folks participating in team work gathering resources and helping to build the really awesome farms in our world that benefits everyone as a whole. We are 18 + right now and really would rather not have more people doing the 'single player' experience on our server, but if anyone fits the bill and would love to learn, is enthusiastic and takes pride in their work, please PM me.

Our server is 18 + but the majority of our players are in our 30s, with two who are 50+. We're friendly, love to have adventures, are looking for dedicated (obsessesd?) players who love to build and design. PM me and I can share more about us and get to know you if interested.

Yep. Black clay is absolutely not black at all.

Let's not even talk about white clay. Which is pink. Or maybe we should. Clay colors are awful.

Quote from Rosebine»

Well at least, you can always find a better one, though the new green guys...besides being that guy who's thrown in with a pack of doors, telling his friends it's time to breed..his only purpose would be to clutter your Villager trading system.

I am a huge fan of this new rocket thing with the elytra. Fantastic. Though I have become adept with a punch II bow for it, it can be fiddly and sometimes just glitch out and stop working. Two thumbs up.

My daughters were playing around with the snapshot tonight and discovered that altitude can be gained at a much, much faster rate with the rockets as well, whereas at times it takes a while to gain large amounts of altitude with a bow.

Kamikaasi, she did bridge out there! And found the city and ship within just a few hundred blocks of our single end gateway, which is why I'm so surprised, considering the number that one of our members has acquired by flying around. I wonder if he left the close ones for others to get the traditional way, haha. She said it was intense and she's not sure she wants to do that again, but is proud of herself.

EpicAura I hope we don't have that problem. We'll go and summon the dragon again to see if we can actually get a portal we can find. If not I guess we'll have to cheat, which I really don't want to do, but it definitely won't feel fair if we don't get our due reward!

On the contrary; running an infinite breeder and IMO they are produced far too often- they reduce the potential for useful librarians.

Man I hope it's something that can be fixed. An immense amount of time has had to be used to just get 5 librarians.

I imagine many people would prefer to have fully enchanted armor and weapons before they go to the mansions, and I know I do when I raid an ocean monument to build a guardian farm. Without those librarians offering enchantments...and ocean monuments are so easy to find. Not really seeing the use of the maps to them.

So, so many cartographers. It continues like that today, too. Feeling quite bummed, because it was always so fun to have a steady stream of librarians to pick and choose which to keep for a great stock. So many greens now, so many cartographers. A librarian once in a while. Useless.

quote=Jeb q.v. java devs talk update aquatic

“The Phantom spawns around players who haven't slept for five in-game days, so it's about an hour of gameplay,” explained Jens.

First think, I expected better: five (5) "in-game days" is 100 minutes so "about an hour of gameplay” is hardly accurate…

RE: Who doesn't sleep for 5 days?

Add me to the list, I use beds (basically^_*1) only to reset spawn. I see an advantage to "time-porting" through the night only if one sleeps early enough to prevent spawns – which means always needing to keep one eye on the 'clock'. [Clock-watching is not something I consider an improvement to my play experience.]

Rain is just a good time to fish and – unless you want interrupt your game to run home and huddle under the covers (despite being twenty meters underground) every time it thunders – you need to slap roofs over anything lightning can damage anyway.

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I would not call this a useless mob; it seems quite well designed to ghettoize a community of players MS/Mj thinks are having BadWrongFun™

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Combined with an attack pattern (as shown in some of the early snapshot reviews) that makes MobB largely unkillable without a top end bow (or possibly trident), this reinforces my opinion that MobB is designed to coerce a certain "approved" style of game play.

This "approved" style requires:

As to why anyone voted for MobB:

I suspect most looked at it and went "Cool!" [which it could be, IF it were implemented without attempting to coerce one "approved" style of play],

but didn't think through the consequences of the announced intended behaviors.

[Given that Mojang doesn't appear to know the length of a MC day, much less recognize the chilling effect this mob will have on both exploration and large, complex builds; I think the typical player (younger and younger these days) may be forgiven the oversite.]

From the comments about the [now hopefully abandoned] plans to grief sticky pistons and water physics, it would also not surpise me if there were a small minority of votes for MobB from players who would be all too happy to see redstone and auto-anything removed from the game…

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^_*1sleeping during the early development/hardening of a village is the main exception

Quote from Ganman3»

I have no idea why people are upset about the water physics. Sign elevators broken? Sure. But building underwater has always looked god-awful, and I always defended how slabs and such behave by saying that it really wasn't possible to code otherwise without completely changing how blocks work. The fact that they were able to do this amazes me. I'm guessing they changed something in their base code in 1.13 to make this possible in 1.14? The two seem like they're being developed in concert.

It is not that water physics (the interaction of water with various 'blocks') is being changed but how that occasions my ire. [As well, I think, that of many others.]

1.13 is slated to remove the limit on block IDs [q.v. https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/17w47a#Blocks_2 ].
This means that the new "bubble-free" fences, signs, etc. could have simply been ADDED.
The old style fences, signs, etc. could have been left alone.
[I suggested this as an everyone wins solution here ].


Instead, Mojang has deliberately chosen to break any build relying on the long standing functioning of many blocks.

If the block IDs are to be reworked and the command structures changed [and removing the limit on block IDs has been used as justification for both], why are we not seeing 1.14 take advantage of this new unlimited availablity to add WITHOUT removing?


In response to the [now rescinded after massive player pushback] change to sticky-piston-physics, a player under the name ilmango offers a quite reasonable analysis for why Mojang's actions lead to "… it happens nearly every update, that the technical community is outraged by changes."
[q.v. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEnND6nPMnQ]

[Paraphasing to a short version: technical players greatly outnumber the developers and those players have a deeper and more all encompassing understanding of the fine points of coded behaviors.]

However, this explanation will only "hold water" if the 1.14 team is working on the assumuption that the 1.13 team will fail to remove the Block ID limit.

Since the 1.14 team must be working with the slated 1.13 block names and command structures, this seems far fetched.

[The old style blocks have already been coded, deployed, and time-tested; therefore the cost of retaining them while adding new blocks is zero to negligible.]

It remains, therefore, most likely that certain types of builds are being deliberately broken by conscious decision to devalue certain styles of play as BadWrongFun™ and to attempt to change the game rules to coerce ApprovedFunOnly™. [Early evidence also suggests the new 'Nightflyer' mob may serve this purpose as well.]

What remains is to attempt to "read the tea leaves" to discern why Mojang thinks an action guaranteed to alienate at least a fraction of a significant section of their player base will improve the bottom line. [Improved profitability is the only rational reason I am able to imagine for a corporation to alienate deliberately an important faction amongst their base. ]

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They aren't adding sharks because they couldn't figure out how to attach the "laser beams" to their heads.

We now have a Bouncy Castle that everyone can enjoy including the zombies.

I love the terracotta for easy floor mosaics. My favorite part, however, has got to be in Captainsparklez's video when he noticed the cyan "pattern" and immediately destroyed it. I guess he did nazi that coming. I'll see myself out.

Quote from IronMagus»

Binding seems like it would only really be used in adventure maps...