Mojang's Biggest Mistake (It's Not Nerfing Mending) 

If Mojang wants to nerf mending it first needs to change the anvil use system so that repairing an item at an anvil can be done infinitely

mojang needs to learn that making items grindier to get is not making the game harder , like netherite for example . its not harder to get its just more tedious . now with villagers , the game isn't made harder , its just made more tedious . these are very hard turn offs that make me wanna stop playing minecraft

Mending is THE only way to actually repair your items without an unnecessary and tedious grind to get the gear you wanted and already had. I lost my enchanted Diamond pants to a blaze when I dropped them on accident. I thought, “Oh that sucks, I made a mistake and now I need to fix it” with tools breaking after spending hours to get them because you haven’t found mending feels like I’m being punished for playing and enjoying the game, not for something I’ve done.

Personally, I say why nerf mending? Why not just fix the anvil? Make it so that items are infinitely repairable in the anvil so long as you have the experience for it.

Why they neefed horses TWICE is beyond me... Nerfed their ability to be in boats. Nerfed their ability to be bred to super saiyan speeds.

They should buff repairing tools. Get rid of the "times worked" stat and make the lvl cost be determined by the output. Also, make enchanted tools unbreakable, but useless at 0 durability. I would never use mending if I literally didn't have to in order to keep my favorite tools from breaking.

Mojang should not nerf mending. In my experience with gaming, it rarely goes over well to nerf popular mechanics like that, especially when you've left it in the game for that long. The answer instead is to add more enchantments that are mutually exclusive with mending but still offer valuable bonuses. Most people prefer mending to infinity on their bows, but there is still value in picking infinity that you can't get from mending and there will always be players that go that route. What we need are viable alternatives to mending that give players a reason not to use it on every piece of armor and equipment.

I disagree on the Mending being OP. Im so happy that i dont have to spend lots of time to replace/repair my tools while i rather be building or farming the blocks i want/need

Mojang inadvertently struck gold when it came to getting elytra. The first one takes a ton of work to get but once you have one the next one is orders of magnitude easier. They seemed to copy this format with the templates and people seem ok with how hard is it to find them. Even though some are extremely difficult. All they need to do is replicate this with enchanting books. That way you can lock really good enchantments inside long side quest or rare structures but once you have one you can make more. You could just copy the duplication method with templates or a better solution would be to allow players to teach max level villagers how to create more of an item you already have (relative to their profession).

While i agree that mending has some balancing issues, I belive the adding of this enchantment and the wide availability of it has allowed increasing size and scale of minecraft projects. It allows players to skip the boring bits and just build what they want

I don’t see the issue with mending. Some games don’t even have item durability

If we look at the bow you have the choice between mending or infinity. Maybe you can nerf mending by offering enchantments that are enough of a trade off to give up mending.

I honestly don’t see mending as a problem. It’s pointless in the early game for any tools that are worse then diamond, and whilst its basically a necessity in post game massive builds, its a necessity simply because you need the best tools to complete massive projects in a half decent amount of time

I agree with almost every point you make here except for i do believe there needs to be some "overpowered" mechanics and items to make beating the game worthwhile, when youve beaten the game multiple times i believe being able to fly around the world or not having to repair your tools every couple hundred blocks is a fair trade off. I personally dont use an elytra so i cant comment on that but i think mending is a fair trade off to do more fun creative and interesting build projects in survival

I'm sure many people still remember when they nerfed boats by making them harder to use, and they broke on impact with blocks.

The problem with nerfing the availability of Mending is that Mending isn't a problem, nor is it overpowered. It's the only solution people have for the problem of endgame gear wearing out, and wearing out far too quickly if you're gathering materials for large-scale building projects or trying to excavate a large area underground. And I use the word "large" very generously; a netherite pick with Unbreaking III is going to wear out long before you finish excavating even a single chunk from surface level down to bedrock, even on a 1.16 world where bedrock is still at y=0. Trying to carve out a nether highway? HA! No, Mending is a basic requirement for any piece of gear which you want to last. What's worse, they tried to sell the nerf to us as making it _easier_ to get your needed enchantments. And then instead, they took all the enchantments that people actually need to use Librarians for in the first place and intentionally buried them behind the most extreme tedium and pain in the ass that they possibly could. They advertised one thing while actually doing the opposite. If they feel the need to do that, then they have no excuse. They _know_ what's wrong with what they're doing. They _know_ the players won't like it, and they're doing it anyways. Why? To what benefit? Who knows, but it's not to ours.

Cobwebs should absolutely be used to obtain string in both versions of the game. They went the wrong way with that pairty

Red Nether Brick is zero fun to make. I made the mistake of wanting to build my latest mega-build (life-size Temple of Artemis) out of Quartz with a Red Nether Brick tile roof, and the resource gathering for both was a huge grind. I ended up making a Nether Wart farm next to my project so that I could grow it as I was building due to just how much that I needed. On the topic of Game Balance, I think that the biggest issue is that the Minecraft technical community is so good at dissecting game mechanics, reducing them down to their essential parts, then making farms that use those mechanics in the most efficient way independent of how Mojang intended for the mechanic to be used. This efficiency gain completely breaks the overall game in some instances, so Mojang has to look at how people are abusing mechanics and then either decide that there is sufficient work involved in creating the farm that the efficiency increase is warranted (such as Iron Farms, Raid Farms, Mob Farms, etc.) or they change the mechanics to nerf that efficiency increase or blow up the farm concept entirely (zero-tick farms, AFK Fishing, etc) or make the farm much more difficult to build in order to make it more late-game and/or make the reward commensurate with the work involved (which is where Villager Trading seems to be heading). What Mojang needs to realize is that it is really easy to push a mechanic to be as good as possible when it is released because game designers want their mechanics to be used, but it is also really easy to nerf things too hard in order to make players play "as intended". Players are never going to play 100% "as intended" and players will always be able to go to any length to get the best armor, weapons, tools, etc. or to gather resources in the most efficient way. I think that the tipping point is that once the hoops necessary to jump through to use a mechanic are no longer worth jumping through because the end result is not worth it, the nerf is too much. I think that this is where the experimental Villager Trading currently stands. They either need to make the current rewards require more effort OR making you get less for the current effort, they can't do both (especially to the degree that that are currently proposing with Villager Trading).

Tbh nether villagers should stay random, so that players have a choice instead of being forced into the new system of trading

something i love about terraria is that its still able to just have the devs just post on twitter about what theyre working on, it drives engagement and hype for the update and the last 2 major updates to terraria the main dev(redigit) was just straight up asking ppl to give him ideas directly for what to add to the game

The ladder thing was not well received. There was just such a small community and things were still so new, that no one really knew or cared.

I actually grew to love the combat update. I think it’s unfair for the player to be able to spam attacks while a mob can only hit once in a while. Also, the use of the shield mechanic adds more of a cinematic feel to combat as a whole. Though I can see how PvP is a bit on the iffy side (overusing the shield), for the single player experience, it’s perfect. In my opinion, it actually makes you think on how to approach certain mobs with fast or projectile based attacks.

I like mending because of how ridiculously expensive repairing stuff is, and with it being harder to get certain enchantments it would be even harder to make a new pair of armour. Maybe make reapairs less expensive or just have them use something other than exp.

The scaffolding thing in the trailer never seemed off to me, because they're all touching blocks on the side. That should make it not fall like it would when you're bridging out

The ladder change importantly came with a buff to how many ladders the recipe made, 3 instead of 1

Honestly getting high expectations based on the most minor of details is something the Minecraft community excels at... The mob votes are a good example of this.

For me, it just underlines the reality that Mojang don't really have a good grasp on what people like about the game or how they play it anymore. They want people to play in a particular, fairly niche, way and seem to despise efforts to play differently. They seem to have convinced themselves that 'balance' is an important aspect of their game but for the vast majority of the people playing, it's irrelevant to how they play.

If Mojang is wanting more community feedback, why don't they ask the community about most known parity features and whether they should be added or removed? I didn't use the cobweb recipe all that much, but it at least gave the cobweb more use than a niche mlg.

The problem with the villager nerfs is that it invalidates various play styles and challenge maps as well as missing the point as to why people spend the time and effort investing in a trading hall in the first place: 1) The basic enchanting system is not fun, the randomness of the system, the xp costs and the fact that treasure enchantments still require players to trade/fish/get lucky looting, actively pushes players to trade with librarians which give access to every enchantment, are slow to setup but quick for future enchantments and provide experience are objectively better. The Librarian nerf does not make the enchanting system better, it just highlights the flaws. 2) For some players, going diamond mining in deepslate is not fun either, deepslate is frustratingly slow to mine (even with haste 2 and efficiency 5) and caves are now large enough the the danger they present is a turn off. Armorer, tool smiths and weapon smiths all provided an alternative way to get the equipment. 3) Forcing players to travel further to engage with villagers is problematic for multiple reasons - moving large distances is not enjoyable, horses are too random in their stats (and breeding difficult to understand and engage with) as well as stoped by large changes in elevation, rivers and oceans, boats are great on water but useless on land, camels require a specific biome and are fairly slow and minecarts require too many resources and are not fast enough. Travel also has technical issues, travelling can quickly lead to excessive world file sizes, lag on servers, and may be inpossible with worlds with a smaller world border. It also makes transporting items a bigger issue given the limited inventory size. Fundamentally, villagers are very powerful and impact many other minecraft game systems but Mojang really need to address the other systems first before they nerf villagers. •Overhaul the enchanting system entirely with an emphasis on rewarding players for taking the time to setup and make randomness less of factor and make anvil repairing a viable alternative to mending. I personally like the idea of adding enchanted book to the chiseled bookshelves - a lightning rod could channel lightning into an enchanting table to enable treasure enchantments too. •Fix the inventory system and make storage systems easier for the average player to build and maintain. •Make transortation alternatives to the elytra viable, horse breeding could be one avenue to explore in this regard and minecarts could be focused on fun rollercoaster type builds. Ultimately, I feel the reason I and many others are upset about the experimental changes is that Mojang are doing everything they can to avoid calling it a nerf, are missing the reason why many players choose to use villagers over other systems and are closing the door to various play styles and experiences. I appreciate that a game as large as Minecraft is hard to update and balance but for a game that has always been about creative freedom of expression, these changes do a lot to shut that down, not celebrate it.

Ya know what sucks …spending a few weeks building a trading hall just for them to nerf the trading with villagers

I disagree mending should be overpowered.. what I agree with is that to obtaining mending should be a challenge. I'm all for "creative" mode in survival if you earn it.. in otherwords it should be something to achieve

I agree with almost everything here, except the whole "overpowered" thing. The absolute best balance is giving players options on a power scale that they can choose. If I want to challenge myself, I can use the least powerful items. If I want to forget a hard day of work and just feel rewarded, I can use the most powerful items (or, just more powerful items). The exact reason why after 9 years of release I decided to buy and play Minecraft was because I watched a streamer use the Elytra with a rocket. Walking, sprinting, minecarts, etc. made sense when the game was 256x256. It never took long to get to where you wanted to go. After the worlds became infinite, and there was good reason to go explore 10k-100k blocks from home, even the Elytra seems slow. But hey, if you want to nerf the only (currently) viable method of travel to unexplored areas, you're entitled to your terrible opinion.

To approach part of this from a different direction: Does the durability system even need to exist? What does it add to the game? Is going and repairing things *fun* for anybody? If durability were just removed from the game entirely, or if end game options allowed you to reach a point where you could get unbreakable gear, would anything meaningful be lost? There is an unbreakable tag in the game, but it's really only useful for map makers. What if that were a thing people could get after they got mending and max unbreaking? Add in some new thing that would merge the enchants and make the item unbreakable. Would the game be less fun if you didn't have to occasionally go and repair things?

I think of this game as having tiers of content. There is the early game, getting a starter house, getting your basic resources, ensuring a food supply. Then the midgame starts when you breach the nether. This domain is much more hostile to you. It wants you dead. This is when most players start enchanting their gear, plan out their transport paths, and start construction on their main base. Then there is late game, which i define by accessing the outer end. Now that you can fly, priorities shift, and transporting both people and items is buffed massively. I think of mounts as a tier 1 transport and elytras as tier 3. Minecarts are also tier 1. I think they need an upgrade using something from the end to bring them up to par with your wings

I talked to a friend and we came to the idea (that would definitely make people lose their minds) of nerfing mending to instead of repairing items with xp. removing the exponential cost on repairing items, making resource items more valuable and higher tier equipment more of a trade off rather than something people rush on day 1 of a server.

What minecraft development seems to be missing is a lack of coherent vision and it has felt that way since 2014 when Notch left the team. This issue where different developers make different updates that screw up mechanics like mending shouldn’t and generally don’t happen in most other studios. This more shows that the Minecraft team needs to build out a more long term plan and stick to it while also revisiting and taking into account its old features. While mending is a common complaint, I for one don’t see it as nearly as big of an issue as a general casual player. What annoys me is how did we have a village update and the villages still break the terrain generation. Why did they say they were planning on updating the birch forests and never did it. People for years have been pleading with Mojang to make structures like dessert and Jungle temples more interesting, but instead they decided to completely overhaul combat or add in things like archeology. These are the kinds of things that show me Mojang is a directionless mess and just add things as they please. Mojang shouldn’t be adding more mechanics until they make a roadmap to how they add things in a meaningful way while also updating and revamping old stuff that has been left to rot.

If they wanted to nerf mending, couldn't they keep it super common but make it mutually exclusive with unbreaking? Then if mending is still too strong (which it wouldn't) add unbreaking 4 and 5.

Tbh I think the main way they should nerf stuff is only in hardcore mode. Then all of us casual players don’t get the raw end of a deal we didn’t ask for.

My reaction to hearing that they were going to nerf mending was being upset, but I think I like the idea that some items you can only get from specific villages in specific biomes. I think for me any nerf that incentivizes more exploration makes the game more fun. I liked the nerf to netherite because it got me to explore more of the neather than just underground in tnt caves I made looking for neatherite.

For what it’s worth, I want to point out that what makes me keep coming back to Toycat’s videos is his insight into how the game is developed and updated, and has been over time. The reference to Mario and side scrolling was fascinating. I definitely don’t feel that I’m getting this from any other content creator. Sure I can watch game dev science videos on Minecraft but they seldom come with the level of fun and engagement and actual relevance to the gameplay of Minecraft that Toycat brings.

Wow, it's so cool seeing the original idea for infinite maps, and the other ideas on there that got implemented!

imagine taking days making nether tracks transporting villagers to a swamp to get the awsome mending enchantment, for it to just get nerfed the next day

removing the egapple crafting recipe was honestly one of my biggest gripes of 1.9, absolutely despised that change and I always add it back via datapack

Mending nerf? No! Fix the upgrade mechanic of the anvil! If you have an infinity bow, you can go ahead and have fun, shoot everything on sight. But it will break... However, you can fix it by using another bow and fix them at the anvil! problem is... you can only do that so many times until your bow becomes "too high" to be upgraded This makes Mending necessary instead of an optional enchantment

Personally I don’t think mending needs a nerf

Liked this video, it’s ideas are quite well fleshed out. You did a good job showing as broad a picture of development as you could.

I know I'm late, but the problem with the protection vs other protecting enchants is the fact there is rarely a situation where you primarily deal with expulsions or primarily deal with things that count as projectiles. Take the nether for example, in there you'll have to deal with fire on the ground, lava and fire from ghasts, you'll only have to deal with ghast explosions, while projectiles only defends from skeletons and piglins. But protection provides damage resist to all of those plus melee piglins, brutes, wither skeles, slime, zombies, blazes ect.... My solution? Remove protection, reduce the percentage slightly on the other enchants and allow 2 enchants simultaneously while also adding more situations where specific protections could be more useful

30:01 It took me almost a full hour of breaking and replacing a lectern in a small space with a single villager, just to get mending once. And for a shitty price too. But as far as mending itself, it's still so good that I barely even noticed the nerf, and I want it to stay that way. I don't wanna spend my time repeatedly gathering materials and xp for the same thing over and over, once I have my good armor and tools I would like to keep them (unless I die)

The balance is kinda subjective when it comes to non pvp games. Besides that, I want a quality of life update. This game has too many moments that you have to wait. For example, if Warden is summoned, you have to wait about 3 minutes. If you enchant things, you have to wait before a mob farm because it requires 30. Why does it require specific levels and is the highest 30? I was always wondering.

It’s a good day when there’s a new toycat Minecraft video

They "update" this, meanwhile bedrock edition still loads dimensions before it actually loads the camera and player controls so you get ghast fireballed while you're stuck in the loading screen. Why does the seemingly main way you want people playing fundamentally suck in such a basic way? Like, how many brain cells does it take to figure out you need the player and camera loaded *before* hostile mobs? And was that decided by the same person designing the villager adjustments?

Alot of the "over powered." Things in minecraft are things you need to work for The villager trades could be made cheap, but you need multiple weakness potions and golden apples. Which means you need to either mine aton of gold. Or figure out how to farm it. Which takes alot of work to do

Nerfing is such a terrible method of balance. If you have something in the game, that's fun, why would you want to remove the fun by making it less good? If something in the game is seen as "overpowered" they should just make other things better or add new things that are more fun instead of ruining the existing things

from what I'm getting from this video, mojang don't think about ramifications and then are left with no way to fix them without angering people or breaking worlds

Mending is not overpowered. Just make an alternative enchantment that prevents the tool/item from disappearing at zero durability (call it "Enduring"). And get rid of anvil penalty all together. Allow netherite gear to be repaired with diamonds. Ask yourself if XP limit per chunk is a good idea. That is functionally equivalent to getting rid of mending. Ask yourself if old-worlds and mega-project should REQUIRE continued world generation and growing the world size. Renewability is a good feature, not a bug or exploit.

Their priorities are wrong. If they have the time to rework villagers, they could have given us the full combat update(duel-wield/sweeping slash) to be in parity with java ages ago.

i love the mending enchantment. you see, it lets you break the grind loop and focus on making builds & farms instead of wasting a couple diamonds and levels to fix your tool just so you can do it again within the next 2 days. You have to worry about your remaining diamonds/netherite, your iron, you need to waste exp, etc. with mending, you can just stand in your exp farm (assuming you have one) for like 10 minutes and it's done. even if you DON'T have an exp farm, you can just go to the nether, hit a zombie piglin, pillar up 2 blocks and you're good. mending doesn't make the game "easier" in any capacity, it just alleviates the grind.

15:00: i actually LOVE red nether bricks! I use them for a lot of things.

I mean if the ladders are thoroughly mounted you could do them like the original implementation it's just really impractical and really demanding

18:00 A great example of "perfect balance isn't fun" is the AWP in CSGO. It's a one shot kill weapon. That is in no way a balanced concept, but that huge amount of power is what makes it so fun and unique!

ibxtoycat: Nooooooo! yOu CaN’t JuSt hAvE FuN WitH (Mending/Elytra/Actually good Structures/etc)! iT’s tOo oP!!! Giga Chad Minecrafter: This is fun.

Making players do the same thing more often will never be as good as making the player do different things

I think they need to deal with the fact that the vast majority of people play Minecraft as a casual survival game either solo or cooperatively with friends. Most players are not concerned with minor game balancing tweaks or the fact that certain items are overpowered. It can feel like a slap in the face to have these updates thrust upon you that, in a solo world, do nothing but make you have to do more mindless grinding for something that from your perspective is affecting no one besides yourself. It essentially just becomes an anti-quality-of-life update. If you're playing PvP or are on a large server, sure, I can see some need for balancing. Being able to hold a stack of 64 healing potions could definitely be overpowered in a PvP match. But on the other hand, for a casual solo player, it only feels like an annoyance to have a non-stackable item cluttering your inventory while you're gathering resources.

Of all the things to "Fix", nobody ever thinks of Minecarts. Trains are still broken on any track that isn't just a streight line. I'm pretty sure some people don't even know, that you can build Trains with multiple carts. But no we need to "rebalance" the things that nobody ever complained about first.

Possibly the most insightful and yet funny video of yours I've ever watched, I really hadn't thought about it this way but yo

So on some level I agree that some of these things need to be changed in some way, I don’t think it’s the way they are going about it. For instance, the elytra: me and my friends don’t really care about beating the game other than to just kill the dragon and none of us like playing on easy or peaceful. We also often base within a hundred blocks of each other and build big community areas like one mine we all share and dig together so we never use or need elytra because it’s just not worth the hassle. Another example would be super flat, of course not everyone plays super flat but the people who do would have a terrible time without the ability to get certain types of villagers or certain enchantments to make a long term game even worth it.

Mojang trying to make the game "harder" by making it less fun. Thats bad game design.

I was pretty against the villager balancing at first since I’m the person that does everything. I start the farms, build, find rare items, kill enemies and assist wherever I’m needed. But thinking about it more, the books linked to specific biome librarians means smaller trade tables, making my life a bit easier when trying to get specific books. The only thing that’ll annoy me is transferring the villagers to a single location

The string and barrel recipe change really makes me wonder if Mojang knows what is parity. Instead of adding good features to another edition, they seemed to understand parity as "changing BE so it will be the same as JE"

whit the new villager changes the game is not better or more balanced, is more grind, we were playing with friends and we got to a point were we had to grind for diamonds, enchantments, villagers and blocks all the time and we got bored

They'll never fix the balance issues. That'll never be a priority for them. You need to balance your own world/server to your own taste using mods or whatever else you can get your hands on that makes the game make sense

I think the key is the its not just about balance between similar options, its also the time, effort, and opportunity cost to picking one option over another. Like yeah, boats on ice highways are way better than horses, but it takes a ton of effort to set that up compared to horses that just work as soon as they're tamed. That's what balances it. And some potions are better than others, but using one potion doesn't negate you from using a different one. They don't compete that way. And Elytra are better than all the other options, but at least it is locked at the very end of the game, so it requires the full game's progression to get it (albeit, minecraft does have a fairly shallow progression and Elytra are waayyyy stronger that the effort to get them validates). It ties in with the overall pace of the game's progression. Even if players don't appreciate it often, a shallow progression system that burns out really quickly does hurt a game. Auto-fishing was nerfed bc you could get powerful, end-game items basically Day 0 with a cheap afk fishing setup. netherite was nerfed bc you could easily rush for Diamond, then go to the Nether and just go down and mine all the netherite you need, quickly maxing out your gear before even exploring at all, with little to no risk. Traders are nerfed bc once you find just a single village, every other village in the world becomes worthless, and you also get infinite diamond gear, any enchanting book you want, infinite supply of the best food in the game, and many other blocks/items after setting up any early game farm you can trade for emeralds. Mining for diamonds + lapis, and building an enchanting table was totally obsolete and unnecessary. They all burned the game's progression out really early and give you what's supposed to be "end-game content" within the first few days in every new world. While I don't like the idea of working more, it was always clearly ridiculous how almost all the "rare" items in a world were so worthless, bc there were always easier, faster, and more reliable ways to get it all. However, mending has somewhat of a pass imo, bc there is actually no alternative. The repair mechanic still requires that you replace you tool after too much use, it doesn't do what mending does - give a way to retain a tool forever. The repair mechanic is more like an alternative to the unbreaking mechanic. It delays the discarding of tools, but doesn't prevent it like mending does. If they overhaul the repair mechanic so it can reasonably make tools last forever, then I think it'd be understandable to nerf mending.

I want more updates like 1.10 the frostburn update or 1.15 the buzzy bees update to buffer between the big updates like the nether update and caves and cliffs

20% chance for mending to be a top tier librarian trade and buff the hoe crit

8:20 when he suddenly flew into the Legacy console minigame hub i had a neuron activation moment

the combat system was not a mistake but not working it out better definitely was what im saying is that the combat system is better, but still has flaws, in the same way that the old combat system changed about 5 times as well the only thing people seem to be mad about is the fact that they cant spam click anymore, because "gapping" "rodding" and "bow boosting" are still possible in the most recent version, even if they are only slightly harder to do, which is the entire thing that people hate, is that it made the skill ceiling a lot higher, and the skill floor, very very very low

Mojang is doing things backward. Instead of adding things, they are making current things less useful 🙄🤡

Don't need cringe levels of balance in a single player game

All I want is less RNG dependent ways of attaining things. It can be a challenge (difficult bosses like in terraria or some stuff from mc dungeons for example, I still want that illusioner), just like, don't make it take up several hours of ingame walking just to get one thing

39:12 "9 women can't make a baby in 1 month; You can make 9 babies in 9 months if you do your own separate thing, But working together just isn't going to solve that some things just have to happen after each other." -Ibxtoycat 2023

Bedrock has new bug villager pathfinding is creating super lag especially farmers and crops my world is so lagged out its unplayable

Actually wasting your diamonds on a hoe would probably be better than on a pickaxe in real life. Trying to break a rock would break the diamond instead but wheat and leaves aren't as hard.

when you spend money and then get a random item it is called gachapon it's the same kind of game mechanic idea that random loot boxes is based off of

I don’t doubt mojang will ruin mending (without updating the anvil usage) and the elytra. They already made upgrading tools to netherite needlessly hard because??? I totally believe they’ll ruin mending and elytra. Thankfully better Minecraft isn’t using the version of Minecraft that requires upgrade templates

It's like Minecraft has no direction since Notch left. No vision...

Just existing

The eGapple being uncraftable was NOT a well-recieved change when it happened, you're remembering VERY wrong. I remember EVERYONE being mad about that

Ive always thought that a single netherite ingot should fully repair a netherite tool.

Tbh I like the changes to librarians. Not because it’s harder. But because exploring a world over a consistent amount of time, even if it’s a long time, for an overpowered enchantment sounds more fun than pressing a button on a piston for anywhere from 2 minutes to a whole day.

i would rather they stop updating the game and leave it as-is because i think its good enough already. it doesnt need much more added its already got pretty much anything i could ask for in a game. i kid you not, any new update cannot possibly change/add anything that wouldnt take away from anything already existing in it

I disagree with you on the Elytra and Rockets. It does not need fixing at all. For regular roads, ice boats travel faster and mine-carts travel lazier. When I begin a new world I use boats and horses for exploring then when I conquered everything it transitions to me flying around, but at the end of the day it feels like a progression. This does not prevent me from building ice roads and mine tracks to connect my different areas together in more efficient ways.

"A hoe's not worth wasting a diamond on. And that's also good advice for the real world." Toycat, you're the best. Don't ever change. lol!

Hyped for the DnD stream, have played a lot of 3.5! I'll have to pause this video I think, if he's on time hehe 👀

imo mending doesn't need a nerf, but a rework: instead of it eating xp, it slowly and passively repairs the tool, like 1 durability every 5 seconds so it takes 2-3 hours to fully repair a diamond/netherite tool you can't abuse xp farms to insta-repair tools, because anvils take that function back also yes, no more repair cost for repairing (but repairing only), each option has its own use

Ever since I learned years ago that the best sugar cane farm was 4 bits of water that formed a swatstika with sugar cane around it, i've never gone back to making lame rows of sugarcane by the water's edge which always falls in.

The VERY casual way that he just snuck that in there lmao 23:22

14:00 yes I love that you have more options. I am person that hates going to End and trying to get Elytra is just super hard for me so being abled to go by strider or ender pearls is awesome.

honestly what even is the point of durability? I never thought it was a fun mechanic to make a new tool every now and then nor is going to an xp farm fun. Going to an anvil would be essentialy the same thing. Durability just stops whatever your doing to do a tedious and boring task.

Mojang could make mending incompatible with unbreaking, so, you could repair your armor, but it wouldnt last long for a big travel

9:02 NOO WRONG the sharpness nerf was not well received but it was over shadowed by the hit delay! Like sharpness is an issue but not so much too much as an issue as the hit delay