Minecraft Rants

1.18 is coming TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!! But for those of you who play the snapshots avidly, the majority of this update is nothing new. In fact, we've essentially been playtesting these features since July. It's taken months of iteration after iteration to get this update right. And as this update changes basically the fabric of the world we play in entirely, no update was more important to get right than this one. In an update with zero new blocks, zero new mobs, and zero new items, it can be quite hard to define what counts as a feature in this update. At first, this was going to be a top 10, but I realised if you count all the main features of the update, it only comes to 19 by my count. Therefore, I'll be ranking ALL of the features from worst to best! 19 - Snowy Slopes Biome I don't dislike the Snowy Slopes Biome, but of all the new biomes in the world, the Snowy Slopes is by far the blandest biome. It's exactly what it says on the tin. Snowy slopes. These form the s...

It's been more than a month since 1.19's features were revealed. Well, hopefully only a small percentage of them, given how painfully brief the 1.19 reveal was in Minecraft Live. I said I would wait a while for the hype cloud to settle before writing opinions on individual items. I feel enough time has passed now that I can talk about each feature that was revealed at MCL 2021. However, I figured a tier list would be a good way to convey how hyped I am for each feature, and how good I think this feature will be in terms of benefiting the game. Features will be ranked on how awesome I think they are, how hyped I am for them, how much fun I think they will be, and how much they will add to the game. In this tier list, I will not be discussing anything that has not been confirmed for the Wild Update. This means that anything shown in concept art only will not be included. So, here goes! S-TIER These are the features of 1.19 I am the MOST hyped for! Deep Dark Cities Okay this one s...

Minecraft is a game that is ever-evolving. From the days where there were 2 blocks to now, an eighth of a century has passed. That's a lot of time. That's a lot of Minecraft history. And as we are still seeing new features being added now, we are in a position where we can say "Minecraft existed for 12.5 years without X feature". Pretty mind-boggling. But some features even coming now, have me scratching my head thinking "how did it take this feature this long to be added?" There are some features that have come in the recent few years that to me, seem so obvious that they should've been added in Beta, but they only recently were added. Or, they're not even added yet but confirmed! Today, I thought I would go through these to my one reader. Now, some features that seem really obvious, took years to come, but required a HUGE amount of effort, such as bigger caves and taller mountains, don't really qualify. It's understandable why these feature...