Hey everyone. Welcome to the weathering effect
episode 76. Today's date is January 3rd,
2021 and I am Duds are duds versus known around to the
interwebs and I'm Jimbo you may know me as Jimbo slice 23 were
back in 2021. So, How has your break been
Duds? It really hasn't felt much like
a break. Yeah, obviously.
We weren't doing the show, but in the time we do the show, I
filled that with making more episodes trying to push those
out. I noticed that a lot of the
Minecraft YouTube Community took time off.
Yeah. And they're still kind of taking
time off. I was like, so I want to see if
I can't skerton my episodes into this time off, get some more
viewership or whatever, and it didn't happen.
But I'm pretty happy with the episodes I put out that time so
at least I got that going for me.
Yeah I did miss the podcast a lot.
I found myself sitting at my desk on Sunday mornings going
on. Oh wait a minute.
This don't feel right. I'm gonna put some notes down
just just because the first week we had off I actually started
typing stuff up on the sheet and I was just like wait I didn't
record anything this week. Yeah, other than that, outside
of Minecraft and stuff, I spent time working in my office,
constantly touring around in here, getting things hung up on
the walls. I found some old pissed posters
and pictures and stuff hung those up.
I got my 2020, Stanley Cup Championship picture for the 10,
Bay Lightning hung up in my office, feels complete.
I'm really happy with it. Oh, I broke my office chair over
the break. So I had to fix that.
Got that fixed. My wife stole mine.
I got her chance. She's got mine.
Yeah, but that's kind of it for my break.
What about you what are you been working on?
Well, I was doing a lot of recording during the Christmas
time holiday season kind of gets you in the mood to do something
Christmasy holiday-ish. So I know I did a lot on the
server. Put out a couple episodes.
Hmm, right after Christmas, I did a big.
Big time lapse at my base. This will be in the video
upcoming. I'm like 13 minutes and to my
video that hitting and I slow down cut.
It took a break. As I did a pretty big time
lapse. So yeah, I just I just got to
finish up that episode that should be out next week.
I was willing to do it this week but things came up to where
wasn't able to finish it? Mmm, spend a lot of time with
the family and playing games with the kids.
The kids had a good Christmas. We got the It's a three-in-one
pool table. Hmm.
Boots has pool Billiards. If you're not familiar with
pool, we call pull here, I guess.
But Billiards air hockey and foosball nice.
We've been playing with that a lot and I am not very good.
Yeah. Foosball.
I think it is. Yeah.
Foosballs to what? I'm pretty bad at.
My wife's a pro like playing her.
She beats me pretty bad. Yeah, I'm not good at any of
that. So don't worry pool.
Like and I'm good at pool, but it's a little table, so it's
definitely different. Mmm, and trying to put my New
Year's resolutions in, you know, trying to do some things
different than a done last year. We're going to talk about
resolutions in the post show em, but I guess I could tell you one
of mine. Now.
It's it's to try to do at least a 15 minute meditation every
day. Every single day.
That's cool. Yeah.
Just trying to get my mind right.
And start the day off on the good side, right?
And sometimes you wake up on the bad side and the whole day just
goes to crap. Hmm, I want to wake up, have a
coffee. Probably, do you like a
50-minute sit there? You know, breathe watch your
breathing, things, come in and out of your mind, all your
thoughts, and then just 15 minutes.
It really calms you down and get you going for some reason.
Yeah, I've done it many times, but I've kind of lost it and I
want to get that. Back.
That's one of my resolutions. But yeah, the brakes, the brakes
been great to be I missed the podcast.
Also. Yeah, I'm looking from time to
time. What day is it when we start in
back, you know? Yeah, yeah.
Now we're here glad to be back. Yeah, it is good to be back.
If Feels Like Home Without Ya, back into this feel just as
comfortable time. We are, when we stop.
Yeah. But talking about podcast and
Milestones and stuff, we hit Thousand listens right before we
went on break. Yeah, right before the break.
Now here there is one problem with that.
Yeah, I made a deal that if we could hit 50,000 listens, I
would play one of the like Hypixel minigame things.
Those with you on that will come up with a day or a time and
we'll probably do it in a live stream or at least I will just
to make sure people can watch and they know how to Join us and
play. We need to know how to play.
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna like, rent out any kind of
servers or anything, but it will be a, hey, the weathering effect
Community is playing this game here.
Join in. I'm not sure how it's going to
work. We need to talk to some people
who actually play the minigames and stuff.
Yeah, there are there are some patrons patrons of ours that
wanted us that kind of made the deal the bet with us.
So we're going to see what it is.
They want us to play probably And see how to go about doing
that. Yeah, but I'm curious too.
Like there's Bed Wars Manhunt. I think, is one eye.
There's a bunch of new games out that are becoming really popular
besides survival and stuff like that.
So pretty curious, I think the only minigames I know of where
Spleef and missile wars that was it.
See, I don't even know this isn't so we'll get some stuff
together. I'm sure Carl's going to want to
come up with a pretty Pretty picture advertisement thing
saying when we're going to do it so nobody misses it and
everything, put a picture beyond their dead arrow in the back of
the head. We're both slate on the ground.
Exactly? Because we stink, at many games,
we stink at PVP, just trying to give you a real-life picture.
Yeah. It's going to be a, it's going
to be hard, but other like, good Minecraft news like this is good
year for Minecraft. Yeah.
Minecraft was the most Watch game on YouTube, with 201
billion views to lat and to put that into perspective.
Number two was Roblox at 75 billion views.
Okay? That's not even half of my craft
these Grand Theft Auto 5. Don't know how that game is.
Still around had 70 billion views and Fortnight, sixty seven
billion views. I guess we can call for night
dead and everything, right? No, I'm joking.
I may not like Fortnight from Not calling Fortnight and dead?
Yeah. You think Among Us?
Yeah. You think Among Us would be up
there yet. It did.
Come on a little late but you think it would be up there?
It's got to be in the billions I imagined.
But Mmm, Yeah, not top five. Yeah.
And what about you? You have some Minecraft news.
Yeah, we actually weren't able to cover the Axolotl snapshot so
we're I was going to cover it a little bit.
All right. This is Snapshot 20w 51 a.m.
with the axolotls Axl. Those currently love tropical
fish. The this may change tropical
fish and tropical or tropical fish, buckets can be used to
make axolotls. Axolotls will swim around with
you if you're holding a tropical tropical fish or tropical fish
bucket in one of your hands. When a player kills a mob that
acts, a lot of was attacked that the Axolotl was attacking or
being attacked by the Axolotl will show.
It's appreciation by granting the player temporary
regeneration and removing any mining fatigue.
Effects. Now that I've watched exhume has
a video on that he wasn't able to show that part wasn't able to
figure that out but it's in there.
Hmm. You can pick up your Axolotl and
a water bucket and carry it around just like a salmon or
Cod. Axolotls will always chase after
squids and other types of fish. I've only seen it chase after
squids. Yeah, at this moment axolotls
are skittish, but they will attack drowned and Guardians.
If you tip them with their favorite food, tropical fish, So
we all know they eat tropical fish said, City Times.
Yes. Axl's did not like it out of
water. It will dry up and begin to take
damage if they are out of water for longer than five minutes.
Hmm, Axolotl will not dry up as long as they are in water or
rain. That's cool to know.
Sometimes in an axial takes damage, it will pretend to be
dead so that it stops being attacked.
I like that animation. Yeah, there are four common
varieties at one rare. Variety of Acts.
Gelato and axles do not spawn in the world.
Wait, axolotls do not spawn in the world in the world yet.
Yeah, but you can find spawn. Okay.
Okay, for Creative in the snapshots.
Yes, just just snapshot thing. Just like the caves don't
generate yet, but you can still see parts of the case and all
that good jazz. A couple skulk descents or
changes. I like to throw in there.
The vibrations won't be heard if you're walking on.
Whoa It's not a thing anymore. So You can silence them by water
logging them, good to know. Mmm, but the axolotls you have
anything on that other, they're going to be the most favorite
pet of every Minecrafter from now on to the end of time.
No. Yeah, I agree.
They are adorable. They are adorable, not really.
So my next episode, I was trying to work on coming up with food
farm. My Carl porkchop bucket is
running. I'm a little low.
So I was like, I need to come up with my own food source and I
thought about doing cooked salmon because I wanted to do
something different. I didn't want to eat the same
food source that like every year it's golden carrots.
Once there's a gold for made I was like well I did stake in my
own Survival, everyone's doing pork chops now.
So I was like, how hard is it? Make a salmon farm real hard but
I was like, I wonder if the Axolotl would attack a salmon
and kind of make it a little bit.
Your to build one of these Farms but I'm not waiting 2117 to MMM,
make a farm. But that could be interesting
mechanic. If axolotls would Tak random
fish? Yeah, it says it, you know, Tech
squid and other fish. I've seen it, attacked the
squid. Hmm.
But not anything else. If you do have the fish in your
hand, it will attack other Hostile Mobs but yeah, not not
salmon. So, I don't know if you can, of
course, there's always changes to be made.
It'd be Especially considering they basically got rid of AFK.
Fishers. So using those as a food source
doesn't work anymore, right? It'd be nice to have another way
to farm fish and stuff. Like I was Googling this for
hours trying to figure out. Well, how do you build an AFK
Fisher? 116?
Everyone's like, here's how you get it with more loot.
It's like I really don't care about the loot.
I really just want the fish. Yeah.
Now there's not a good way yet. Might have to look into that.
Yeah, they're pretty. Secret when they're made the new
fish farms. There's so much involved.
So many the different mechanics you have to take in.
Yeah, to build one of those things and that's for the loot.
Hmm. Oh yeah.
I know why they did it. And I'm not fully against.
Why did the loot from AFK fishing?
Was a bit o p. Yeah, I agree.
It's like but I don't want to fit or dilute I just want to
fish. I've watched some Exuma he's
building Fish Farms that That are obviously just for fish
because he needs was it Blowfish for his potion creation machine.
It's like, man just swim around my base.
I get like nine Blowfish, just above my Dome every time I look
up if only he could well to me, My Graph in general, they've got
a food problem. They should really look into it
because basically it's golden carrots steak cooked pork.
UPS or cooked mutton. Those are really the only
quality food? Yes, Omni.
I'm gonna jump in now. If you guys all know patrons.
Get to listen live. We know Abney has a solution for
food. So we're going to tap his video
somewhere in the comments. You want to go check that out
but I would I would really like Mojang to take a look at food
and maybe not so much create a new food source but maybe a
combination. Let me make advanced Foods.
I just Um, of the lower tier Foods.
I think that would be kind of cool.
Yeah, I mean, as of right now, if you don't have a cook food
then kind of pointless. Yeah, I was Eve, I, I was eating
chicken at the beginning of the Season, even that didn't seem to
keep me saturated. Keep my Hunger from not dipping.
Hmm, I go to cook pork chops now.
Yes, there are a lot easier to get because of the nether Farms.
The new nether brought us a buncha.
Easy forms that were able to take advantage of.
So yeah cooked porkchop seems like the easiest way to go in
the most efficient. Yeah, it is definitely the most
abundant food source now. Yeah, for someone like me who
wants to I want to be a little different and I even got to the
point where I was considering all like bread how good is bread
as a food source? It's not it's garbage.
Yeah, it's not bad early game. Yeah, well I even considered
making golden apples Us as a food source.
Hmm. And now it takes way too much
gold and apples are a little bit harder to get.
Plus it gives you the saturation that saturation but the
absorption of fact or something. So it's like, you know.
But let's move on to listener comments and we don't have any
but we figured we would ask you guys.
We want to know what you enjoyed the most about Minecraft in
2020. So anything that happened And
between January 1st 2020 and December 31st 2020.
That was Minecraft related. We would like to know we'll be
covering our favorite things to come from Minecraft in 2020
here. Later on.
Yes, yes, we will. Before we do that, we got to go
to the disk or dad disk or dad is from YT YT.
Thank you again. Why do you take it away?
Hey everyone. I'm Whitey Whitey and I'm a
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It's a great place to hang out with fellow listeners, like me
and the people who work on the show strong today, and let's
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If you guys all know the Discord is where you can get in touch
with us. The easiest, we're on there all
the time and is the only place you can vote for block of the
week which is going to be extremely hard because Carl
erase the script for block of the week as I move around in my
chair. Yeah.
So no script basically block of the week this week is the final
block of the week. We're going to have for a long
time. We're moving on to something
new. I I will let Carl's save that
and do his reveal of what we're doing next, because it is pretty
cool. I'm pretty happy with what we're
going to be doing next. I think you guys will be too.
Yeah, but as a way to wrap it up, we now have to go through
every block that didn't win. Block Malik.
Yeah, it looks like there's 10 of them.
Yes. Wow, that's why we couldn't
continue this. There's only 10 to choose from.
So we didn't want to do you know the What's what's your favorite
block? Yellow, terracotta or blue
terracotta. You know, it's not we're not
going to vote on those, you know, something with some kind
of function is nice. So yeah, we got ten left.
Yeah. And we'll go ahead word.
You that we don't have fixes or improvements for all of these
matter. Of fact, a lot of them are going
to be texture improvements and that's it.
Yeah, because Mojang really has a lot about everything when it
comes to some of these blocks either.
Oh it's funny right after this usually.
Usually we do the drum roll, no, drum roll and then I explain
some things about these that I don't even have right now.
So I'm just kind of going to go off the cuff.
Yeah. And explain some of these
things. Nothing, like coming back from a
month-long break to Just Wing an episode.
Mmm. I never really thought about
that. I was like, oh block of the
week. I'm, I don't have my part in
there. Yeah, yeah, let's get started
with the tripwire hook. You can craft a tripwire hook
with a wooden plank. A stick in an iron ingot do
that. I knew that no can be used with
conjunction of another tripwire hook and string to create a
redstone signal and getting there.
Yeah, looks really cool when you hang it up on a wall and that's
where I kind of got to my Improvement.
If you guys have seen the armor stand mod book, Look, that's
been going around Java. You have the ability to hang
tools from a tripwire hook. And I just want that in vanilla.
It's so nice. And it's, it's a great way to
show off certain stuff. We have item frames, we have
pictures or paintings, and I would really like the tripwire
hook to have the use of hanging stuff from it because when like,
when you look at redstone traps to tripwire hooks, one of
Straps, you can set nowadays. Hmm, because everyone can see it
from a mile away. If you have any, if you want to
get sneaky, you put a redstone ore block underneath a piece of
carpet with a Observer looking at the redstone ore block,
right? That's how you hide a trap
nowadays then we get skulks answers coming out.
So tripwire hooks are kind of going to be yeah non-existent
yeah so I think it'd be really cool to allow it to become more
of a aesthetic. Block yeah, I'm okay with that.
One thing to mention it can be found naturally in jungle
temples. Yo, that was one of my parts I
usually did, I figured I'd throw that in there.
I did see on the Discord a while ago to maybe make them smaller
or invisible somehow to where they don't stand out as much.
I don't know how you would do that, but maybe if you were to
use them as tripwire hooks, make them Bit smaller.
See, I don't know. That's what I like to see.
I'd be okay with it to me. If you're using them as tripwire
hooks, you would want them smaller because you're trying to
hide them. Hmm.
But if you're trying to hide tripwire hook, like I said,
you're not using a tripwire hook anymore, there's better traps
out there and like you said, the skulk sensors right around the
corner. There's no point in using a
tripwire hook anymore. It's now going to become a
useless tool except for some redstone contraptions.
Yeah, make it an aesthetic thing.
Let us do some Native stuff with it.
Yeah. And then to me that kind of
comes back to when we've talked about concrete stairs and slab.
Mojang's always don't know what we want you to be more creative.
So we hold you back now, let our creativity Flow by giving us
more tools. That's what we want.
Yeah, the armor stand book is a good tool right now, but if you
could do it in vanilla, that'd be even awesomer an awesome or
is a word. Yeah, that would be way more
awesome or mmm. So, our talents second Block,
it's like a block second block. We got the dropper that is
crafted with eight stone and one Redstone Dust Cobblestone.
Yes, it's a say call the I don't know if you had cut out when you
said cobbler or not but yeah it comes down one or so dust.
Yes. And I guess it could be found
naturally. No, no, they can't be found
naturally and they drop an item as an item.
And Redstone signal is activated.
It's activated by written not dispensing.
An item not dispensing dropping it as an item seen that too many
times. Yeah, I don't know how many
times I have mixed up my dispenser and drop her.
It's like I was watching a stream in this guy made a he was
getting rid of his items by putting them in lava but he was
dispensing them into lava instead of dropping them.
I was like you you're going to need to change it to a dropper.
Hmm. And he was, you know, just
shooting the arrows, the lava. It was, I think it was like a
some kind of mob farm. Yeah, and yeah, he's shooting
dispensing errors in the lava I'm like the only only thing is
is those are going to build up mmm.
And they could cause lack but whatever he didn't want to take
my advice, she was like, take my advice, I'm on a podcast, not a
lot of people do. So that's okay for the patients
coming. The only thing I would really
change about the dropper. Other than maybe make the whole
a better indicator right now. It's got that like triangle
shape hold let you know that it's different than a dispenser.
But this works for a dispenser at the same time.
I would like a little indicator on it just to let you know that
there are items inside of it. Not so much how many items are
inside of it because you can do that with a comparator so I
don't want that but maybe like have a little red dot show up
when an item is inside of a dropper because every once while
droppers and stuff get full and they kind of break they they
will no longer push items out. If you do the circuit, it's I
don't know if it's a server tick lag thing or whatnot, but I
found that just pulling an item out giving it some air to
breathe. We'll start the system again.
So I would like a little indicator that kind of shows you
hey, there's items in here, even though it's not pushing items
out. That'd be kind of cool.
Yeah. There's a there's a face on the
dropper. Maybe, you know, the eyebrows
can raise when there's an item in there and then it's It out
maybe. I don't like the faces on those
things. I was going to mention are to
maybe retexture to where there's not a phase the face things kind
of. Yeah I agree with that.
It's kind of weird. They're being a face on it.
Like it made sense in a jungle temple because it kind of looks
like a statute and stuff but I'm over it.
I'm over the faces on stuff. I think I constantly changed my
Observer texture to the Red Square texture, that it
originally came out in Java with Just because I like that texture
better. Yeah I'm warmer faces.
Stop staring at me. Drop her as of right now it's
like a thing in Minecraft. You got the dispenser dropper
Observer. They all have faces on it so
maybe that's just a thing that they want to keep.
Yeah yeah. I'm moving on from dropper.
It is like one of my favorite redstone things though.
Use it all the time. The dropper yeah to move items.
I can see that it is a very useful Redstone component.
Very useful. Especially now that we know how
to silence dropper elevators. So they do not cause I click
click, click, click, click, click, click and I know how they
work, so it helps that helps the next block, which I'm surprised.
Never one was the lectern. Yeah.
And I don't have many fixes with the lecture and so Jimbo I'm
gonna let you do your like you craft it this way.
It is crafted with a A bookshelf and some wood, it can be read
and give out a signal. I don't know.
I'm just making your kind of getting the gist.
Maybe I should have had some notes up for these things.
Well, I'll let you go ahead and pull up the target block.
Why describe how I would fix the lectern?
Good idea to do that. So I really like the lectern,
there's not much to change with the lectern other than the
texture. I think the Redstone signal for
the lectern. Is very cool and was a great
idea by Mojang. The we don't want to create
stuff without giving it multiple abilities, thought process.
They've been having lately is very, very good and the lectern,
the lectern is kinda up there are next block, the target
blocks to me is the Pinnacle of that, thought process, but yeah,
lectern one, I know, you craft it with the bookshelf and that
explains the bookshelf texture in the middle of it.
Get rid of it. I'm not a fan of the bookshelf
texture in the lectern, kind of gives a false premise is if I
guess it lets, you know how to craft it.
But yeah. And then obviously if you craft
it with certain types of wood I think you should get that color
lectern, the only problem with that is now you can't use
different types of wood to craft one lectern like you can't use
three jungle and one dark oak to craft it which I think everyone
would be okay with to get Different color, lecterns.
I think that'd be cool. Yeah, I wouldn't mind of texture
change. I don't mind the whole bookshelf
thing being in there. Kind of like it.
I don't use it as much. It is nice to, you know, put a
bunch of information out there and one spot.
You know, a lot of people wouldn't put signs upon signs
upon signs and orth were write a book to put in there.
I know books aren't easy to write on Bedrock.
I guess that. Could help ya with the bookshelf
texture. I was just thinking of the
people who are using lecterns as guardrails on Terraces and
things. That's a very, very cool look.
But to me the bookshelf, part of it kind of ruins at.
Yeah, I was more thinking about those people.
But then, when I was saying, and I realized, oh, well, seeing the
bookshelves in a lecture and let, you know, how to craft a
lectern, but do lectern, spawn in the wild.
I don't think I've ever seen one.
They do, they can be found in villages.
I've never seen one in the Village Library and job site.
Yeah, the only things I found in villages are a brewing stand and
a cartography table. Those are like the only two like
I even have trouble finding blacksmith stuff in a village
just because I've never lucky enough.
Find a lot of grindstones. Okay.
Yeah. I found a grindstone, once the
lectern can also be mined with an X, that's all Good.
All right. Well let's move on to the Target
block. Okay Target block, it is made
with 4, Redstone Dust with one hay bale, hmm, Target block,
that provides a temporary Redstone charge when hit with
the projectile. It's also utility and Redstone
circuitry, or redirecting, Redstone Dust.
Making it useful though, uncommon Redstone component.
It is very useful in Redstone. Yes, I've seen many people, He
was it. Mmm, which gives it so much
function as it is. Like, I don't know how you can
change it to make it better because as a Target Block, it's
cool. But it's better because you can
use it so many unique ways and that's just, I have no notes to
make a Target block, better even the texture.
I really wouldn't change. But like you said to me, it's
more useful as a redstone component that it is a target.
Hmm. So they It is a mind with a hoe
fastest way to break it. Yeah, that's that's the new
Mojang way everything gets mind with a hoe.
Yes especially if it's made with a hay bale.
But yeah, I love the target block.
I think it's is one of the future of redstone components.
We all thought the Observer was going to do that and it does
that a little bit, but nothing does it as good as the target
block. So, Gigi's Target block, yes
it's made a lot of different games.
Came up with a lot of different games with the target block.
Next block is another one of those blocks like, how do you
change it? And it's the crafting table.
Yeah, actually I actually have a fix for the crafting table but I
didn't write it down. The notes I got for crafting
table. Of course, it can be made with
for wood planks. Any for wood planks will.
Do it allows a player to craft a variety of blocks and items.
It's pretty much it mind. The annex also.
Yeah, can be found naturally in many different places igloos,
which Huts Villages fix. This is to crafting table.
We obviously have the most obvious.
I know I said obvious, why sir the texture different Woods?
Should create different colored crafting tables but I'm going to
go a step further and I would like one a more 3D crafting
table at least on the top. So the little sections The nine
spaces where you put blocks and items into craft.
I'd like that section to be a bit 3D and I would also like it
to save items left in the crafting table.
Okay. So if you put stuff in a
crafting table and arrange it, and then walk away from the
crafting table, those items you can then see on top of the
crafting table just out and about, all right.
Yeah, I think that would be super cool.
And I think a lot of Builders would have fun with that.
And I would like to see. I've seen it, it's theirs mods
for but like a new GUI for the crafting table, make it look
like you're actually looking at it.
A lot of times when you're using a craft table, it's kind of like
a transparent image and it'd be cool if you were, like, looking
down at the crafting table while you're crafting things.
Yeah, and I've seen it a couple times.
It was really cool when I noticed it has like me, why
don't we have those? I think the crackling table,
it's a good example to use their.
Yeah, I think a lot of the guis need a bit of an update.
Not a whole redo, but just kind of a quality of life update and
that might be a cool one for the crafting table.
Yeah. No big.
Big change. Just a nude look.
Next item. Can't fire if our yep that also
didn't make the cut. I was pretty surprised.
It has a 1. Hmm it is made with what's that?
At four, no, three logs, three sticks and a, either a cold or a
charcoal. That's for a ring of the one.
You can exchange the coal or charcoal for Soul, Sand or so
soil, to make the blue campfire, but you'll still need the three
logs three sticks. Also campfire block can be used
to cook food or act as a light source or smoke signal similar
to Beacon. And so the so far or so
campfire. Same thing except it's got the
cyan colored Flames. Pretty cool looking.
Yeah. And I can't remember, can you
cook food on the Soul Sand campfire?
I don't know. I imagine yeah, I would imagine
you can I've just never have seen it but then again I rarely
see people cook food on a campfire.
Anyways, the I like seeing that used is a lot of people use it
for like bridging I really like when people use it for that and
chimney stocks, yeah, use it in the chimney for to get the smoke
for sure. Can't fire fixes again.
I kind of goes with if you're using a certain kind of log, I'd
like the texture to reflect that, I know I'm like putting in
hundreds of new blocks just based on Textures and stuff and
that's a little ridiculous. But there's a reason these last
couple blocks of the week didn't get picked and that's because
mode Did their due diligence when creating these things, they
gave them multiple uses. The, like you said can't fire
can be used as a kind of Beacon. If you put a haystack underneath
it, it gives you a higher smoke signal, right?
That's another thing. Yeah.
Cooking food early game, you can do that, it takes a little bit
longer but you don't need a fuel source.
Once you have a camp fire lit. Its lit.
Right, so that's nice. Good point.
So, coming up with a fix for the campfire, there's Not a ton
except for so they allow you to use a shovel to put the campfire
out, right? Yeah.
I would like that to either give you a piece of charcoal or maybe
chance for piece of flint or something.
Hmm, kind of useless. I know.
But I feel that would be kind of cool.
Yeah, makes sense I would like for this soulfire, you don't get
much light from it and I feel like because of that, maybe you
don't take as much damage now. If you Upon the campfire you do
take damage maybe you know with the blue soulfire if you have
another right boots you could possibly walk over that.
Yeah, I'm not sure I've always liked the idea of maybe the blue
fire rejecting your health to like if you're within three
blocks of the fire. You get a good region going?
Yeah. I don't know.
Yeah, that I would like more of a difference.
Besides the light level be between those two fires, you
know, maybe the blue fire does something a little different now
than the other fire. But as of right now, the kind of
the same, I just felt like with the nether, right?
It's fire-resistant. Maybe you can walk across, maybe
you can. I don't know.
I've never really tried it, but I know you do take damage on top
of the campfire. Anyways, moving on because we're
actually getting long time. Now.
Mmm, lot of blocks. Lot of blocks we have all loser.
Loser blocks God said the loser block week.
Smoker, what do you got for smoker smoker is made with a
furnace with four logs around it take to make the smoker.
It is a block that cooks food item similar to a furnace but
twice as fast. Also serves as a butcher's work,
block worksite block and can be found in any Village mind with a
pickaxe. Not much changes to Smoker.
I don't. I've was a not a fan of the
blast. Furnace smoker coming out, I
felt Out that a furnace array already, does the job of these
blocks and we didn't need them. And I kind of still stand by
that. I get the smoker Cooks twice as
fast, but it still uses the same amount of fuel so about want it
to cook twice as fast. I just make twice as many
furnaces, they're a lot easier to make, they're a lot.
Cheaper to make you need logs to make a smoker.
Hmm. Which doesn't An expensive,
especially late in game, but if you're late and game, you
already have large furnace. Array.
That can cook everything. So you don't have to worry about
smoker to me. The only time I found smokers
useful was when I had a kelp farm and I could cook the kelp
through the smokers because it was faster.
Hmm. And I wasn't really relying on
anything else. But yeah, yes, sometimes with
those kind of farms, you kind of get to Building to the farm.
You feed it through a furnace, I guess.
Yeah, a smoker would be good. Instead of a furnace to feed
through instead of getting kelp, you're getting cooked kelp to
the farm. Right?
But other than that. Yeah.
I don't have much of a use for a smoker.
Give me a use. Yeah.
Maybe if I cook food through a smoker, it gives me a bit more
saturation. Yeah.
Maybe I smoked salmon instead of giving me, was it two and a
half? Your bars.
It gives me three and a half. Yeah, this goes back to what I
was talking to earlier where food needs a bit of a rework and
I don't necessarily mean give me more food, give me better ways
to use the food that's already in the game and I think the
smoker has the ability to do that.
Now that thinking about it. Yeah, I mean the only time I use
it pretty much as for the butcher's job site but then
again you don't really see too many butchers.
No out there. So it's you do.
Don't see it much at all the smoker, right?
So yeah, next block, yes. Composter, what you got
composters made with seven slabs.
Any variant oak wood, slabs wood slabs almost blew that this he
walked converts food and plant material into bone meal.
It also serves as a farmer villagers job site block and is
mind with an axe could be found naturally in villages also other
than the Now every block thing. Wood texture dependent wood and
everything like that. No, I'm not even going to use
that for the composter because I actually like the composter
texture, I think they know the right.
It really does look like it's own wood thing and it looks like
his aged would like it's been filled with junk its entire
life, which is great. I love it.
I love the fact that it gives you bone meal.
I love the fact that when you put more stuff in it, the
texture changes inside of the composter to the point where you
can Use it as a potted plant base, that's really nice.
My big complaint though, is, when you hook a hopper to it,
not necessary to pull stuff out the bottom, but to put stuff
into it, I don't think you can put a hopper in the side of it.
Like you can other blocks you have to do it from the top down?
I don't know. And I don't like that.
You can't I didn't know that. I think that's the way it is
because I tried it at my base. I think I had to have the hopper
coming in from the top. I could be wrong and The I just
wasn't thinking when I did that but that's what I'm thinking.
If that's the case make it. So you can put the hopper and
decide like everything else. Yeah, I mean most time if I'm
going to use it I haven't used it yet.
I do want to convert some things in the bone meal eventually, so
I haven't, I haven't even got to use it yet but yeah, I'd
probably take it from the top anyway.
I could see there being times where maybe it can't go there.
You know, you got to take it to the side but I'll probably just
run. On a hopper line right through
it if I were to do it. Yeah, not much on the composter.
I mean, it was a really cool addition.
Yeah, I love the composter. I'm kind of surprised it didn't
it didn't win any of those blocks of the week.
Well, I think we found block of the week winners where stuff
that were older, that a lot of people weren't using anymore or
they were like the smoker which people just didn't use period
because there are better ways. Yeah, grindstone Ryan.
So was one that didn't make it. It is made with two of any wood,
planks to sticks and one stone slab.
Now this slab can't be a but is it a polished?
Stone slab, smooth, smooth. Stone slab.
That's right. It's got to be just a stone
slab. I've been confused about that
because it looks like a smooth Stone.
Yes and that's my only fix for the grindstone is change.
The crafting recipe? Yeah.
I'm on the same page.
Grindstone is a Smith job site used to repair items and tools
and remove enchantments from that.
That was pretty big addition. Yeah, I use them all the time
for that. It can be found in natural
naturally in villages. Also I love the functionality of
the grindstone. I think it's amazing.
I think it's extremely useful. I love the texture of the
grindstone again. I think it has more purpose than
just a toolbox. If you look at my wandering
Trader store I used it for a pillar.
Hmm, yeah, which is really cool. My only complaint is the texture
doesn't make any sense that you use Stone when it looks like
Smooth Stone. It's when you go back to the
lectern, you have what looks like a bookshelf in the middle
of it so you know, to craft it using a bookshelf.
Well, when you look at a grindstone that doesn't make any
sense. Yep, I've had that issue first
time I crafted it, like what? Yeah, don't change the texture.
I love the texture. Change the recipe.
Getting smooth stone is not that hard.
So I'm for changing that recipe, right?
Think we're moving on to the main topic.
Now, we got one more, don't you? Don't you try to pass this one.
There's one more. The Biggest Loser one.
Yeah. Oh, you want me to say it?
Then I'm going to make you say it.
I saw what you were doing there. The Beehive did not make it.
Thanks guys, by the way, for not being for the beehive, But we
got to talk about it anyway or not.
I could just end I can just shut us down right now.
No is made with any 6, wood planks, and three, honeycomb in
the middle beehive or naturally generated blocks that house.
Bees and are beehives are crafted.
Versions of the bees nest. Bees nest are found naturally in
trees. Hmm.
And you must Have a campfire underneath of it to be able to
mine it and silk touch, or else, the bees will get upset.
Yeah. So not much and ways to improve
the Beehive. I really like the Beehive
texture, especially when I'm used to seeing people use it in
floors. It looks so good.
Okay. My only fix would be a way to
see how many beads are inside the Beehive.
Yeah, because they're can't remember how many times last
year. And when I was putting bees nest
up, I'd have to sit there and count the bees that went into
the nest to know whether or not, I had enough to go ahead and
move it. Yeah.
Or how many you have to take care of?
Ya. Never know that maze in there.
I know you can break it and do F3 and stuff, but an at a more
vanilla natural way. Would be nice.
Yeah, but that's it, that's it. Four blocks a week.
Yeah, I have nothing to say about so be it, I said enough.
Anyways, let's get into our topic which is drawn on our
pre-show topic where crock mentioned.
What were the best things to come at a 2020?
Well let's talk about the 3. Best Sega is to come at a
Minecraft 2020. All right.
I'll let you go. First Jimbo.
Yeah. My number three is all the new
games that have been implemented.
I feel like the audience has grown because of this.
You got creators like dream. Blown up this year and has
brought all these really tactical games to the table and
a lot of people are playing them nowadays.
Again we have to play some of these and you know we're going
to get our get our hands in a little bit but I feel like these
new games just brought a whole nother generation to Minecraft.
Only thing is 20. I didn't know if like these were
just a 2020 thing, some of these new games or if It's just the
popularity has grown because of them or if it's not because of
them or it's the Creator itself that, you know, plays the games.
But I figured the new games was a okay to choose.
I think it's more dependent on like you look at Among Us that
game came out like two or three years ago, but in a get, didn't
get popular till 2020. So most people considered a 2020
game, right? My number three is the great
updates. We got the ones.
Seen update, which was a massive nether overhaul.
Now, we've got 117, come in, which is a massive cave
overhaul, and I'm extremely happy for it.
I think they're great updates. I would have rather seen
something other than a cave update, but the cave update in
itself, looks great. So I'm excited to see what it's
going to be like yeah, I guess it wouldn't be the announcement
of the cave update would be a twenty20 thing but we still
don't get to get the food. Release yet to play with it.
Nope, but the announcement was, was just as great honestly, here
in about it and stuff. What are you?
What's your number two? Number two, is the growth of
Minecraft. You mentioned earlier that where
there's over 200 billion views and next up wasn't even half
that. So it's the growth of Minecraft.
A lot of people, a lot of people would say a while ago, that it
was dying. And I've never seen it that way.
I didn't think it would make this much of a grow too much
growth to be honest. But yeah, it's just consistently
growing. I I tell people about it more
nowadays. It's a lot easier to tell people
you play Minecraft because it's a lot more popular and being an
adult. It's not a conversation.
You usually bring up but it's a lot easier now.
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to switch my number
one and number two. My number two.
Now it's going to be the ambience that they've added to
the game. Yeah, you really saw it in the
Nether and I think we're going to see it in the cave update.
They've already hinted at that. There are they'll be some more
stuff in there and I think that's something that the game
was missing. So if you're not in a village,
if you're not in a place, you've been building the ambience feels
dead like you're alone. So the New sounds and new noises
new music, very good. And I really like it.
I mean, let's face it Pig. Step got huge.
Yeah, Ambience, the ambience is one of the big things for me in
the nether. The nether update that Ambience
was like the game changer. There are so many cool things
added, but that is definitely my favorite part of the nether
update. Yeah, which is my number one.
I put it as number one partly because of The ambience.
We got that, you know, that feeling that we're in a
different place that feeling of discomfort sometimes and you
don't even have to be moving, you know, just the sounds of
everything make you look around and make sure you're okay and it
feels perfect for the nether. The noises that come come off of
the ambience. Yeah yeah but the nether another
update in General changed Minecraft very very much.
Yeah, no, I agree. There's another word.
My number one has a little bit to do with that but the another
update was a big push to show. Hey, we have some great stuff in
place. It just needs a bit of a breath
of life to bring it back. We saw that with villages, we
saw with the ocean. Now we saw with another update,
we're going to see it with the cave update and they truly are
update to stuff that have already been there.
So yeah, I agree. Gree.
My number one is how 116 released not filled to the brim
with bugs. Yeah.
Ever since they did the bug update with the bees and stuff,
they've been very good on trying to get the bugs down to a
minimum before they fully release an update.
I'm not saying it's perfect. There were a few bugs but they
took care of them early and it was a great release.
We weren't running around going. Why is the server lagging all
the time? Right?
I'm here. I remember 113 coming out in the
fish, just killed the server and it's like if a Cod touches
another fish, the server just like crashes.
Yeah. That was a pretty big moment
when we started the season and everything was running good.
Yeah, that didn't happen in the second season.
But yeah, it was, is pretty cool to be able to play it without
any of that. Frustration, be able to enjoy
the nether update instead of load the Yeah, but I That's
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