DIMM015: NEVERMIND WE'RE STILL IN THE DESERT
So... Minecraft Live happened.
You'll know from the previous blog that I was pretty excited about Minecraft Live this year. I watched it with a few of my friends live, and was waiting for them to drop something big that we didn't see in the leaks.
And nothing.
We saw some stuff about the Minecraft Movie, they talked about adding hardcore mode to bedrock (I have no idea why it took them so long to add that), they talked about bundles, a feature they announced 4 years ago, then a new mob and a new biome, which I discussed in the previous blog before the event even happened.
As expected, the new biome was called the Pale Garden. It appears to be a retextured roofed forest biome. It has Pale Oak wood which is honestly a really nice texture, I especially like the stripped wood texture. There's a new kind of moss, as well as a moss carpet that can climb up walls. The people who I watched it with are really mad about the textures, because a lot of them are actual texture artists, but I think they look good.
And this biome contains The Creaking, which is an ent looking mob that behaves like a weeping angel: if you look away it moves toward you. You cannot kill it, instead you have to break it's creaking heart that generates in the trees. It generates this interesting balance between holding eye contact with the creaking, while trying to find it's heart, trying to parkour, and trying not to be killed by all of the other mobs in the night. It's pretty cool.
Overall, I like it, but like what is there to say about it. Cool new mobs and biomes and stuff, ok great but it's not really out there. It's really just as par for the course as you could get, and that's just not really interesting. I'm obviously biassed since I want video topics that are engaging, and I really don't see anything about these features as they were presented that is different enough or cool enough that it's worth discussing. And that's just kinda sad...
Thankfully I've been working on a script anyways, because I don't know what I would have done if I was relying on MCLive to give me more things to talk about.