Minecraft Rants

(This was an unfinished rant from November 2021 that I only got round to finishing now.) When I was thinking about possibly updating my update rankings to include Caves and Cliffs, I realised I may be slightly biased towards it because it is so new. Caves & Cliffs has only been out for a few weeks now, it is still a very new and novel update. This got me thinking to myself, "How old does an update have to be before I can write an honest review on it? Before ALL the novelty has worn off?" At first I thought a year. Maybe two years. Three. Five. FIVE years?! I then thought back as to what updates actually ARE five years old, and how do I think of them now? What update is actually around about 5 years old NOW? I looked into my encyclopaedic knowledge of Minecraft updates, and realised that the update that is closest to the 5 year mark was actually a very interesting one. 1.11, the "Exploration Update" hasn't exactly gone down in history as being one of the best...

I have awoken. A sculk shrieker finally summoned me out of bed.  Hello everyONE (because I have one reader). Now that there is stuff to rant about again (more than enough I may add!) I have returned. This time to discuss something that has EVERYONE stoked. Something that has gotten everyone talking lately. The ancient cities sure are a doozy - although I have yet to play them in survival - but there is one central aspect that EVERYBODY is talking about. For those who don't know, in the centre of Ancient Cities, there is a very large statue that looks like the head of a Warden in shape. Where the mouth is, there is a very mysterious new block - Reinforced Deepslate. This block is SUPER mysterious and unlike any other block in Minecraft. It exists ONLY to line the "mouth" of this Warden statue. But what is even more peculiar, if broken it can't be obtained in survival . Even with Silk Touch. Very few blocks have this property. Monster Spawners and Budding Amethyst come ...