Mojang is turning on KeepInventory for lower difficulties. And it's controversial. 

What they should have done is make it so Keep inventory is no longer addressed as a cheat, just an option to turn on and off

I CANNOT be the only one who'd think It Would be WAYYY Eeasier to just add a "Keep Inventory" toggle right Next to the "Create World" button so that new people can see it lmfao

Just remove keep inventory from the cheats tab and move it to the normal game settings when creating a world and its fixed.

Put keep inventory where the bonus chest setting is.

The obvious answer to this is to move keepInventory to *not* be a cheat. Make it optional as it always has been, but make it not disable achievements.

I've always wanted them to implement something like a gravestone mod - you lose everything when you die but it doesn't despawn and is easier to find.

I like subnautica's system, where you lose everything you acquired since the last time you were in a base. You don't lose your equipment, but you can't use death as a fast travel.

One important thing I want to note is for some people, keep inventory is an accessibility feature. For me it is. I have very limited hand mobility, and playing games in general is hard, but I especially can’t do quick actions. I like the actual hunger element of easy, but die to mobs very easily, then I can’t get back to my stuff before it despawns and that’s no longer a fun challenge, it just sucks. Keep inventory eases the sort of unfair stress of “I physically can’t hit the buttons fast enough” from me.

Honestly the way dying impacts your inventory should be updated. Something so that you can have the punishment of having to find your items without them going away forever, something similar to how a lot of mods will stop your items from despawning by storing them at the location of your death.

I think the solution is just make KeepInventory more noticeable in the options. Idk how it is for Bedrock, but in Java you have to go down a rabbit hole to toggle it.

Minecraft needs to have an in-between setting for losing items on death. Have it work pretty much exactly like the way Core Keeper does it. When you die in Core Keeper you drop all of your items besides what is in your hotbar and the equipment you are wearing. This lets you actually make it back to wherever you died to get your stuff if you die somewhere really far or dangerous.

Saying that "keep inventory" destroys the essence of Minecraft is pretty dumb. It's less drastic a deviation than peaceful mode. If you want to experience the essence of the game just play normal mode, it's right there in the name smh. It's not like the difficulty difference between easy and normal was that big in the first place.

It makes alot more sense for it to be in peaceful mode

They literally should have put keep inventory as a thing you can select when making the world, like a little toggle that you could ignore if you wanted.

It’s a pretty good way to destigmatize keepinventory for casual players. Just make sure players can toggle it in world settings and there you go

keep inventory is not " no risk" you still move back to spawn and might have lost where you were before, theres other reasons too that i cant think of rn

In Terraria softcore difficulty, when you die, you keep your items but lose half your coins. I think Minecraft should take a page out of this: In peaceful and easy, if you die, you keep your items, but lose your XP. I think that’s a good middle ground.

Honestly it should've always been enabled on peaceful. Nothing less peaceful than a small kid losing all their items permanently.

Honestly I play with keepinventory now simply because I don't have the time to deal with the massive setback that is dying anymore. The thing with keep inventory though is that it's not just making dying a little more forgiving. It's an easy way to get back home, and to fill your hunger bar. Death should be less forgiving I reckon, but not like this

3:28 Wow, you didn't drown! Congrats!

making keepinventory just a toggle in the world creation menu instead of a "cheat" would be great, but i would also love to see gravestones become a vanilla thing because i don't mind going and getting my stuff after dying but i do mind my stuff going flying in every direction and also despawning

I sometimes put the "keep inventory on" because I don't want to lose everything because I was some mines where it's just not feasible to find my stuff within default 5 min timer. But the keep xp setting feels wrong. I think very least they should separate these two in the settings for more nuanced options. Or preferably some sort of gravestone-like feature where your items don't clutter server and don't de-spawn within 5min of someone loading the chunk despite actual range to the stuff. And then put timeout for that grave with easily adjustable timer. And maybe even put rules if these graves can be destroyed by players, creepers, TNT traps etc. And play with the defaults in those difficulty settings.

I’m honestly okay with this if they ONLY roll this out for Peaceful. Peaceful is kind of like “baby mode” as is, and adding this to Peaceful wouldn’t make much of a difference in my mind, since a lot of other risks are already turned off. If they roll this out on Easy Mode as well though I’ll have issues because that difficulty doesn’t disable any features, it only nerfs them. Taking away a risk so big from Easy is too much of a difference.

i think someone has said this before. dying and losing your items after failing to find them within 5 minutes is so unbalanced but because it's been like that since day 1 we've just gotten so used to it that mojang never did anything about it without calling it cheat. kinda like how you're used to getting beat by your parents

honestly keepInventory being allowed is great, but make OPTIONAL. (and also not disable achievements as it does right now)

Honestly a good compromise would be to *suggest* enabling that rule if you're on easy and peaceful (like a popup saying "You've selected this difficulty, do you want to enable that rule?"). It could also say that enabling keep inventory disable achievements as it's not how minecraft was designed or whatever. But give the player a choice instead of forcing it? EDIT: I know they want to make keep inventory not considered as a cheat for the achievements but it was just an example of what the popup could say

As someone who does in fact use KeepInventory religiously, I am begging Mojang to keep it an option😭 Edit: Had no idea I would spark a war. Keep battling, peasants

I personally think "when u die, all your items spill on the ground and despawn after a few minutes hurry up" is bad game design, especially if you want to encourage the player traveling very far. I always hated it and always asked for Keep Inventory. I'm not a fan of Keep Inventory being forced off, but I'm also not a fan of it being forced on. most of all, I think it's a crime that Keep Inventory is considered a "Cheat" in Bedrock edition. I think the entire difficulty system should be reworked, so instead of being a single option there's a bunch of separate options, and the current "Difficulty" options are presets. for example you can customize a difficulty starting with the Easy preset but without natural mob spawns*, and a special Death Bundle appears as a block on the ground where you die instead of the default of Keep Inventory, etc * Natural Mob Spawns would be different from Allow Hostile Mobs because mob spawners would still work and structures with mobs would still include them

The fuck is with games removing options from the player?! This is the Minecraft equivalent of pokemon forcing the EXP share. Yes it should be an option to have keep inventory on but it SHOULD NOT BE MANDATORY

0:14 PHOENIX PLAYS SURVIVAL MODE

In java I play with a Gravestone mod, which instead of losing everything it puts it in a gravestone block that when opened will retrieve all inventory back. What they could do is implement something like this for lower difficulties so you still have to go back to your death spot, but you won't lose your items in 5 mins after they dropped.

I’m willing to have this change as long as they don’t make it so that peaceful and easy are considered a cheat. Because on bedrock I can’t play in normal or hard because of the difficulty curve, it takes away from my enjoyment, but I also don’t want to be punished by losing achievements. I think instead of keeping inventory they need to have parity with Java for healing. Java is easier because when the player gets their hunger bar full their health goes up within a second or so. While in bedrock health goes back up at a speed similar to drowning.

I think this is a good idea; when I tried to get my friend into Minecraft (who isn't new to videogames in general, and who is overall smart and competent) his two biggest complaints were 1) there is SO MUCh to learn for people who haven't been playing for years and learning updates as they come, which makes the game somewhat dense and unapproachable in the modern era, especially in terms of learning where the fun can actually be found/how to progress to get to cool stuff; and 2) so many things are pretty deadly to the new player, especially stuff that doesn't really have a warning (hello Powder Snow), which is exacerbated by number one (i.e. you don't know everything that can kill you and how to avoid it, even stuff like how to best fight/survive groups of monsters) AND then when you DO die you lose basically all your progress (particularly early game) if you aren't able to get back to your stuff quickly. You could argue that learning to navigate back to your death location AND keeping a bunch of resources safe at home for emergencies are both ways to counter this, and I'd agree, BUT those are both things you learn how to do effectively and efficiently only once you are a somewhat experienced player! If you're a new player, you now have to navigate however many blocks far back to where you died, using no or less resources (since you may not have stashed any at home) and possibly without the danger of what you died to actually being gone! And of course, new players are more likely to be playing on lower difficulties anyway. HOWEVER, that being said, I agree with everyone who says it should be a prominent world option rather than an optional cheat; I would just add it should be on by default when you select a lower difficulty, and off by default when you choose a higher one, and then you can toggle it at your leisure from there.

Peenix playing Survival!

Just...make it automatically on for lower difficulties but still possible to turn off

This gives me an idea of how they can take this idea and turn it around to be an amazing update: New difficulty option: Custom You cannot enable it through the main difficulty setting but by toggling on and off a set of new settings in the gamerules menu (including keep inventory) you can get them, along with this will be a new set of game-rules under the difficulty category, mob health percentage increases (goes up to 1000%), mob damage percentages, whether mobs can spawn with armor and up to what tier (goes up to 5), and how low hunger drops to (configurable up to 20), how low health drops to when starved, and finally whether hostile monsters and passive mobs spawn. Keep-inventory will also be moved to this setting category. Customizable difficulty settings, like for when someone wants to play normal Minecraft but without the monsters. They still wanna take hunger damage and stuff...

Wait, what about Curse of Binding??? 😭

I hope they will enable ''know what SC means in Phoenix's name'' by default on every difficulty.

I never understood why keepinventory was considered a cheat for many many years on bedrock and legacy edition and for them to fix it was to force it on peaceful mode and easy mode players 🤦‍♂️ Update: What's going on in the reply section? You guys don't understand how this is a problem for those who play on easy or peaceful but feel keepinventory is too much vice versa and rather have the option to change it.

5:07 The Twig is tweaking

Losing everything on death is why I stopped playing Minecraft as often and made terraria my go to many years ago

Mojang is aware of how fucked Bedrock is and decided to do this.

0:00 Start of the video 0:18 Pheonix breaks block in Survival Mode 5:40 End of the video

Idk maybe this is just me preferring terraria over minecraft again, but I feel like the fact that so much of minecraft's "challenge" relies on inventory management that this is actually an argument is... a little damning. Like, terraria has no durability, and keeps inventory on death by default without removing advancements for it, and it's still plenty challenging and engaging. Are some of these people trying to say that minecraft has so few engaging features going for it that it's imperative to (checks notes) make players waste time searching for their items after they die so they can't actually complete their goal for a little longer? (And it's even worse than terraria mediumcore... At least there your items dont despawn. Seriously, it's THAT important to prioritize the risk of losing your items for good??)

seems like an lazy way to "fix" the bedrock edition RNG deaths

I think it makes a lot of sense, if you're playing a difficult below normal, you don't want the game to be frustrating

Achievements in minecraft have always been more about motivating players to find new things then actually being a challenge. Minecraft in general rewards a bit of a 'work smarter not harder' approach so its really pretty trivial to avoid most hazards. Although I'd probably just have keep inventory on by default on peaceful, rather then easy.

I play on keep inventory anyways tbh cause i like my life and dont wanna go and lose all my stuff then immediately quit its fine if you think otherwise tho

I know this gonna sound like ruining the "vanilla feel" or whatever, but i think gravestones on a toggle button before creating the world would be a good idea. And they could customize as difficulty raises, for instance on the easy difficulty you respawn with a book and quill written like "dear diary, today i diead at x: 987 Y: 60 Z: 430". On the normal you have to rely on the ancient city compass. On the hard gravestones do no generate if death cause is by lava or void

Who looks at this and say “ThIs Is ChEaTiNg”. I also think they should add it into the Settings for any difficulty not just Peaceful & Easy

If you're a new player and out of your 4 options you choose Easy, you're not going to be disappointed that you kept your items after you died. Honestly this is a change I'm all for. Unless you're looking for baby mode, new players will choose Normal anyways and get the good ol' Minecraft experience.

I definitely think (and lots of others in the comments) that Keep Inventory should just be next to World Creation. Also, if a new player only plays on easy and has keep inventory forced on by default, then when they move to higher difficulties, they will probably just quit the game after losing their stuff.

3:55 no, of course not. I never played anything less than hard, but I don't want my game to get harder still. My experience doesn't at all depend on the other difficulties, they could as well be "you instantly win" or equal to hard.

The feedback login button doesn't seem to work for me, but I think a good middle ground would be to show the toggle below the difficulty selection when on peaceful or easy. It will make new players aware that this isn't the "intended gameplay experience", as the toggle will only appear on lower difficulty, but putting it right below the difficulty button will make it more visible and less stigmatized. And keep the toggle in the cheats menu as well for people who want to activate it on normal/hard

Can’t believe they are making the easy difficulties easy But, fr, keep inventory should not be a command thing, it’s just a QoL

A better suggestion for keep inventory: Upon death, you don't lose your weapons, armour, named items and important misc items. So, for example when you die with a full set of armour, a bunch of tools and also some cobblestone and diamonds you mined you're only gonna lose the cobblestone and diamonds.

I like it. I like terraria a lot, and the inventory system a lot more. A big issue is when you fall into lava by accident and lose everything you have, that just causes a big downwards spiral for me where I burn out and don’t play for months on end

Ive always hated the inventory death system. You're either set up to just fly right back to your items which is just keep inventory with an extra step or you rebuild what you lost using farms in seconds both of which eliminates the risk of losing your inventory. The alternative is you lose your inventory and hours of work which personally I don't want to mindlessly slog through again. The only people it really makes a difference for is people who like punishment but at that point just play hardcore. There is no meaningful point to inventory drop on death outside of pvp

mojang... just move the keepinventory option out of the gamerules menu and into the world creation menu. the fix is so simple. if they still want to implement the "keepinventory is the new default for peaceful and easy mode" idea, they CAN, but just make it an option to toggle OFF if players really don't want it, kinda like how switching from survival to creative mode enables cheats, while the option to turn it off is still there (in java, at least).

I like how Core Keeper does it: you get to keep equipped items and hotbar, the rest is dropped. I think it'd be great to have keepinventory as a choice between keeping it fully, partially or not at all. The new default for the easier modes could then be to keep some of it to maintain some level of punishment. The mid tier option could also keep more exp, perhaps remove the 7 level cap and just keep a percentage of all exp.

cursed blinking at 3:35

Why are people on easy mode complaining about Mojang making it easier?

*Simple Solution:* Don't make keep-inventory a cheat, and have it right under the difficulty menu so that people can observe it change as they change difficulties and turn it off if they don't like it.

People arguing against this need to be cautious about two things when forming arguments: 1)this is first and fore-mostly a SANDBOX game and 2) this change was most likely intended for a younger, arguably less capable, and perhaps less experienced audience. So, if easy mode - a game mode that a seeming majority of the players doesn’t interact with, young and old included - undergoes a change that makes the game EASIER for new people, why be upset?Granted, I do believe that keep inventory should be an option in ALL difficulties. Having the rulesets be readily available to the player encourages fine tuning of the experience, which is good for player count. The point is, do NOT tack on YOUR perception of what is acceptable for each gamemode in a SANDBOX setting. Other people have no obligation to adhere to abitrary standards set by YOU if they are playing in a single player world.

The big issue is that a lot of players want to play WITHOUT keeInventory, and now they are FORCED unless they switch to Normal or Hard. But I do agree that we need to accept the game isn't made exclusively for experienced players.

This should only be a thing on peaceful, optional on easy-hard, completely disabled for Hardcore.

Imagine getting a curse of binding pumpkin on your head on lower difficulty.

Honestly I like it. Actually doing anything is impossible for beginners without cheats, and once you give yourself one cheat, it's difficult to not go all out with Protection IV Netherite armor etc

2:26 i have the bottom achievement but not the top achievement 😎

they should just do this: peaceful: keep everything on death (new) super easy: keep everything on death easy: drop some stuff on death normal: drop most of your stuff on death hard: drop everything on death but also have an optional slider that players can adjust in case you wanna play on normal but everything drops on death or something

In peaceful it makes little bit of sence, but in Easy it's not good to have keep inventory always enabled

As someone who only has ever played survival on hardmode, for my percieved “full experience”, this seems like a good change for those who don’t like a more difficult experience.

Who plays a new game and says "oh i dont lose items when i die..... Why?" Like u want to suffer?

So, let me get this straight. Peaceful and Easy, simpler modes of the game, will have the tool designed to prevent item loss? Why are we angry about this? To me it seems logical. All the fun and none of the stress. I bet that's why it was done.

I would LOVE for the game to become more challenging on higher difficulties in a smart way (I wouldn't like the idea of mobs having more health/damage with no mechanical changes in place, per se).

4:30 HEY CAMMAN!

Minecraft: does literally anything Everyone: *controversial*

I think the best way to do this is to have a "custom" difficulty with a submenu listing all features and how they're altered, and when you make a new world, you're presented with a screen showing each 'preset' difficulty and its mechanics, like in BG3. That way players will have easy access to the info about the difficulties and how to change them should they want to

Make it a toggle in the same menu that "Enable Bonus Chest" is in. As far as I know, that isn't considered a cheat, even though it is free items.

I feel like if keep inventory was optional without removing achievements that is the best outcome

my stance is that if you choose to play on easy, you'll probably need keepinventory. No one who specifically wants a challenge of loosing their stuff plays on easy

This is a good change for the casual player or you know, CHILDREN who play this game. We really shouldn't be making a game too hard for the kids. Let them run wild and die. Trust me, the frustration of running back to where you died is more than enough punishment. If you have kids lose their super enchanted diamond armor or even netherite armor, that alone might make them quit the game. I've had adult friends quit modded minecraft games over enchanted equipment vanish due to it vanishing. The hours and effort they spent on it was not worth the 5mins it takes to disappear.

I think it should have a middle ground option for it where you lose XP on death but not your inventory, and also be accessible below / next to the difficulty selector

In what world is it forced on players? If you want it off turn it off. I'm sure it will still be a gamerule.

I think it would be neat to take a page out of Subnautica’s book. You drop resources and items but not tools or armor. Also xp would be a percentage of it instead of the full amount

I kinda hate how Microsoft is pushing so hard for MC to be a kids game, just so they can make more money off of bedrock microtransactions

I think peaceful should have keep inventory on by default and the button should be moved into the main menu. For normal difficulty what would be interesting is losing most of your items but having some core items like tools get heavily damaged. And if they're already somewhat damaged they would break.

The people who hate the idea of keep inventory on peaceful and easier difficulties are not people who use those difficulties... Mr. Hardcore man isnt going to be using fucking peaceful or easy mode, so it doesnt involve them. Neither does normal or just hard difficulty players. This is a pure benefitial change for the people who need it, like new players where losing your stuff can be very off putting and devastating especially when your unfamiliar with game mechanics.

For me: Peaceful: Keep Inventory Easy: Drop persistent items (no despawn). Normal: Drop items that despawn on 5 minutes. Hard: drop items with more momentum (for larger raidus of items on the ground) and maybe a spawn nearby of a mob that can pick items.

It gets harder to understand them every day.

I think adding a gravestone mechanic is a good balance, as it's really annoying when I lose absolutely everything to lava. You still have to go grab your stuff, but at least it's not burned to a crisp. This is why when I play modded I add gravestone mod, because I still want consequences when I die, I just don't want them that punishing.

Peenix

for a noob like me best change ever (wait why are u playing survival)

make it a tickable option in the main screen of world selection, along with the difficulty. it can be easily toggled, and ofc, locked for higher difficulties.

If you wanted to, you could switch your gamemode to easy and go jump in lava, then instantly switch it back to normal or hard once you teleport back to your base with all your XP and loot. This change literally just enables Keep Inventory for all difficulties, even if indirectly.

This would make more sense to me if they distinguished the achievements by mode. It's like easy mode wasn't easy enough so they added stupidly easy mode and just devalued everyone's achievements.

If they put Keep Inventory in the General tab for Bedrock Edition and in the Game tab for Java Edition, it would make it more visible. Then when a newbie comes into Minecraft for the first time to make a world, they'd see the setting automatically turned on, and they can easily then decide if they want the challenge or not.

Those gravestone mods that stop your items from despawning or falling into nearby lava are a much better middleground

5:04 That tinky Creaking zoomin on screen killed me 😂 luckily I had KeepInventory "on".

I believe that if this feature is to be implemented, whether or not advancements are made accessible with keepinventory, I say that if you have peaceful or easy mode selected, an additional simple popup appears to toggle keepinventory right there by the difficulty, along with a brief description of what it does. No complicated (for new players) menu navigation, and for more experienced players that may make new worlds often, no mild/annoying chore of going out of their way to hit a single button to toggle an option. While yes, more experienced players may not play easy difficulties as often, would it not make sense to still at least make it an easy toggle for everyone?