#scafolding

So, since my last post, quite a lot has changed. Brand new features were introduced in Minecraft snapshots, and now I’m back to comment about them. At least, the ones I know about!

New Blocks

As we all know this update would introduce 40 new blocks at least, and boy oh boy is that a nice palette! I’m not listing every block here, but I think it’d be worth mentioning some of them.

Stone Slabs and Stairs are gonna make natural caves look much more, well, natural.

Granite, Andesite and Diorite variants of Stairs, Walls and Slabs - now these blocks can be used for something in their raw form.

Brick Stairs, Slabs and Walls are so nice, and with these new textures... Perfect.

New Crafting Stations and... Storage?

Well, apparently they’ve been noticing how huge silos have to be to store their precious cobblestone because they’ve introduced a new “chest” into the game. It’s the Barrel which can hold up to... 27 stacks of items? Really Mojang? Why would I even bother making one if I can just make a chest with 8 pieces of wood and a double chest with 16 that’d hold 54 stacks?!

The new crafting stations... In my opinion, that’s great. I mean, it doesn’t really make much sense to make some items in a wooden table, so separating them between dedicated tables would be great IMO.

Plus, as a programmer, I know how easy that is to implement. They could make one crafting station for each item and block of the game, and, as long as that makes some sense, I’d be okay with that.

No, I’m kidding. Don’t do that Mojang.

Pillagers

When they do stuff right you notice it. Pillagers are fun just to watch. You could spend days just looking at them trying to destroy a village.

They spawn quite far away from villages, like, 100 blocks or so, and slowly they get closer and closer to it.

They also have banners that can be collected which even have their name in a different color. Collectibles are fun.

Scaffolding

Thanks, God. I love it. Scaffolding was a genius move. Even with its current limitations (i.e. one can only place it up to 4 blocks away from a source block), it is so much better than Dirt! I'm already using it in my world.

Since bamboo is so easy to find and grows so quickly you can make tons of it as fast as your eyes can blink.

The New Textures

Finally, let’s talk about the new textures. The v3.1 ones. I’m not going to talk about every block - no one wants to read so much. xD

I’m a big fan of the new Sand and Sandstone blocks if you ask me, and also a big fan of the new Cacti. About the polemic stone block, I really do like the new texture, but not as the stone. Maybe they could add it as a new block, the Rough Stone.

The tools, the weapons, and the armors look so good! You know, those new sprites really do show more toughness. And that Golden Sword... I almost feel like I’d be able to see my face reflected in it.

I like the new Granite texture, the Diorite looks more realistic, and the Andesite looks a lot better, but I never fancied those blocks building-wise. The Obsidian texture - I’m so used to it now that it’s weird to look to the old one. The new is a really good one.

The Glass looks so much cleaner now, and I really like that. It even looks more like real glass.

Crossbow

A nice weapon, indeed. You can load it and it stays loaded no matter what, if you need to attack some mobs quickly that’s as easy as pressing 1 and right-clicking. It’s a strong and practical (and cheap) weapon. You can even machine gun with it! It has three enchantments right now, and there’s a fourth one that’ll be added soon to the game. They are:

Triple Shot - You shoot 3 arrows at once.

Piercing - Your arrows pierce enemies dealing damage to the ones behind them.

Fast Charge - The Crossbow loads faster.

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