Minecraft Rants

For many many years, the pre-teen population was fiercely divided. Middle schools were split down the... well... middle, into two teams vehemently at war with each other. Classmates turning on classmates. Friends turning on friends. If any two kids fell onto opposite sides of the dividing line, they could never simply agree to disagree. Kids on one side of the line had to constantly hurl insults at kids on the other, and if you were on one side of the dividing line, you did not DARE engage with the hobby of the kids on the other side of the line. You could never fall on both. You had to pick a side and fight by that side to the death. An everlasting battle of Team Minecraft vs Team Roblox, clashing in the world's biggest pissing contest as to whose beloved game was better. I thought the Minecraft vs Roblox battle was a thing of the past. It had been years since I saw people going at it over which game was better. Especially with the rise of other games that could compete with Minec...

If you've been living under Deepslate, 1.19 is going to be Minecraft's "Wild Update". Some (hopefully some, not all!) of its features were shown off at Minecraft Live in October, and essentially this update's theme is nature and adding more biodiversity to the Overworld. Presumably, this update will add more terrain features such as new trees, new mobs, and new plants. They have said that the scope of the update is to bring diversity to each and every biome in the game, including biomes such as the Birch Forest. Now, so far, we know only of features the Swamp will be getting. We were briefly flashed some concept art of the Birch Forest, but nothing of it was said before the event all-too-hastily wrapped up. So, in this rant, I am going to discuss why I think this theme should have been saved for a later update. This IS A Theme I Have Always Wanted To See... Before I get into the main bulk of this rant, let me just say that I have wanted to see a nature-themed upda...