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Thank you, you are right!

Here is a console command that may be useful to you for large scale terraforming.
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Commands/fill

I appreciate your perspective as a newer player. I’m glad to see folks like you getting into it.

I don’t think I implied that Minecraft was better before Microsoft. Having that big money and wide audience has kept the game relevant and it’s great that they’re continuing to develop it. I was primarily pointing out that they used to do more with less, and they didn’t tease us with unattainable content.

Yes, of course Minecraft is held to a higher standard than modders. They have Microsoft money and professional programmers, and they’ve been coding this game for the past one and a half decades which is an amazing length of time.

Look, I’ve been playing long enough to remember when dogs showed up. When jungles were added just a year after Beta concluded, we were all in awe. New huge trees with different wood! Vines all over everything! Melons! Sunsets! Three new mobs! There was tons of new content, mechanics, and features to explore. And they kept releasing new biomes, mechanics, and features, creating what we all recognize as Minecraft today.

However, at some point during their acquisition, this really slowed down. Instead of getting whole new biomes and mechanics, they started teasing us with a handful of features modders had been doing for years. We already had Ender Chests, and they could be shared across the server with a three-digit code, and they could store liquids or be made into backpacks. We already had rabbits, and squirrels, and songbirds in the Twilight Forest. We already had integrated redstone and kids were learning how to make complex circuits with it. Teasing us with three mobs we might see one of in a year or two is a real letdown.

My point is, Mojang has more resources than they’ve ever had, more subscribers than any other game ever, and yet they act like they’re God’s gift to gamers when they actually perform more poorly than they did 12 years ago. As a player from the very beginning, I know better, and I find this behavior pedantic and insulting. The only reason I still play at all is because college students are still making featureful content over spring break that makes it a whole new adventure again.

That is a great simulator, thanks for the tip!

I’m something of a caving expert in Minecraft…

I love those videos where people are caught trying to have a private conversation by someone who speaks an unexpected language! Also it’s shocking to me how many people loudly speak common dialects of Chinese and don’t expect anyone to follow… literally over a billion humans can understand Mandarin, someone is listening.

I miss Dynmap, I used to host it on a subdomain for my friends to play and explore.

What about allowing mobs to spawn in another dimension? Either the Nether and End or a second Overworld? It should be straightforward to get some code that lets you set difficulty per-dimension.

The worst offenders are the ones who make their mobile site impossible to use so you will download the app. Unmovable banners, incorrectly sized floating menus, and features unnecessarily locked out unless you switch to Desktop mode or use the app. Guess what, I’m definitely not installing it now!

I am willing to accept the absolute worst of humanity on the internet, because we can also have so many amazing things that weren’t previously possible.

Accessibility of information to the masses is incredibly important. Isolated populations can learn about the bigger world, get help, and share their experiences. Friends and families can stay connected. People can work together from anywhere, and create value as a team in ways that weren’t previously possible. When I was a kid it was just a dream, and now we are living it.

Maybe I’m a curmudgeon, but I hate using “apps” on my desktop machine. They’re always designed to be friendly for touch interface and smaller screen size, and are terrible to use on my 30" monitor with a 1/8" cursor. I just want my menu bar, toolbar on the left, and status on the bottom, please and thank you.

You could put some collectors in there for the loot when they inevitably drown, so they have to swim to get their loot back too!

If they slow development down any further they will go backwards. College students bang out more content-filled mods on spring break than these guys release in a year.

It looks teal and purple to me, which is probably for color blindness accessibility, but I understand what you mean.

That looks amazing. Love the chunky veg.

Well written. It’s just cosplay.

As someone suffering with an illness similar to Long Covid, I too am pleased with all the medical innovations coming.

I went to the emergency room when I was 19 because I couldn’t swallow it hurt so much (they were not very sympathetic).

The current world is Medieval Minecraft for Forge, running on a dedicated homebrew server. Previously we were playing All the Mods 8. Our household has been playing modded since Beta, so we’ve tried many, many mods and packs.

We have run Bedrock once or twice, but nothing beats modded Java for new and interesting content. I also really can’t do without Journeymap.