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Thank you, you are right!

Here is a console command that may be useful to you for large scale terraforming.
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Commands/fill

I appreciate your perspective as a newer player. I’m glad to see folks like you getting into it.

I don’t think I implied that Minecraft was better before Microsoft. Having that big money and wide audience has kept the game relevant and it’s great that they’re continuing to develop it. I was primarily pointing out that they used to do more with less, and they didn’t tease us with unattainable content.

Yes, of course Minecraft is held to a higher standard than modders. They have Microsoft money and professional programmers, and they’ve been coding this game for the past one and a half decades which is an amazing length of time.

Look, I’ve been playing long enough to remember when dogs showed up. When jungles were added just a year after Beta concluded, we were all in awe. New huge trees with different wood! Vines all over everything! Melons! Sunsets! Three new mobs! There was tons of new content, mechanics, and features to explore. And they kept releasing new biomes, mechanics, and features, creating what we all recognize as Minecraft today.

However, at some point during their acquisition, this really slowed down. Instead of getting whole new biomes and mechanics, they started teasing us with a handful of features modders had been doing for years. We already had Ender Chests, and they could be shared across the server with a three-digit code, and they could store liquids or be made into backpacks. We already had rabbits, and squirrels, and songbirds in the Twilight Forest. We already had integrated redstone and kids were learning how to make complex circuits with it. Teasing us with three mobs we might see one of in a year or two is a real letdown.

My point is, Mojang has more resources than they’ve ever had, more subscribers than any other game ever, and yet they act like they’re God’s gift to gamers when they actually perform more poorly than they did 12 years ago. As a player from the very beginning, I know better, and I find this behavior pedantic and insulting. The only reason I still play at all is because college students are still making featureful content over spring break that makes it a whole new adventure again.

I love those videos where people are caught trying to have a private conversation by someone who speaks an unexpected language! Also it’s shocking to me how many people loudly speak common dialects of Chinese and don’t expect anyone to follow… literally over a billion humans can understand Mandarin, someone is listening.

I miss Dynmap, I used to host it on a subdomain for my friends to play and explore.

What about allowing mobs to spawn in another dimension? Either the Nether and End or a second Overworld? It should be straightforward to get some code that lets you set difficulty per-dimension.

I identify with your sentiment so much. Forced to spend the first quarter of my life absorbing questionable curriculum that ultimately didn’t prepare me for adulthood, then agree to unforgivable debt, for what?

For many students, Hess said, the point of an expensive college education is not to gain practical job skills. “It’s just a really expensive toll that lets you jump the queue and get the good jobs.”

The current status of college in America is a scam. It’s designed to uplift the upper class and ruin lives of the lower classes to discourage future generations from trying.

Chetty and Friedman and Deming — all of whom work at Ivy League universities — put it starkly: “We conclude that highly selective private colleges currently amplify the persistence of privilege across generations.”

It’s gatekeeping.

You could put some collectors in there for the loot when they inevitably drown, so they have to swim to get their loot back too!

If they slow development down any further they will go backwards. College students bang out more content-filled mods on spring break than these guys release in a year.

It looks teal and purple to me, which is probably for color blindness accessibility, but I understand what you mean.

That looks amazing. Love the chunky veg.

The current world is Medieval Minecraft for Forge, running on a dedicated homebrew server. Previously we were playing All the Mods 8. Our household has been playing modded since Beta, so we’ve tried many, many mods and packs.

We have run Bedrock once or twice, but nothing beats modded Java for new and interesting content. I also really can’t do without Journeymap.

He really likes to acquire things and then turn them into (e)Xes.

I rode in a coastal city for over a decade as my primary vehicle. My bike looked weird for starters, so less likely to blend in on marketplaces for resale. Then I bought a weird lock and locked it on poles out front like people do dogs. Make sure the pole is not something you can just lift the bike up and off. My thought process for the weird lock is we were told most bike thieves come prepared to defeat U-locks and chains, but they won’t bother with other kinds.

You can also put a tracking device on your frame in an obscure location to give you peace of mind and help getting it back if stolen. And be sure to write your bike’s unique id down in case you need it for a police report.

We absolutely need a points system in this country. Dui, lose your license AND your car for a month. Hit a pedestrian, come see us in 5 years.

I know these harsh consequences can be even harder in the US than Europe, but as someone who has never been able to drive I know it’s not a life ender to lose the privilege for a short time. It’s worth the grief to get people taking it more seriously.

when this happened to me the heat exchanger inside was all iced up, turned out it was a valve in the circulation. Couldn’t fix it myself due to compressed coolant.

“We were throttled because we use too much data. They said this happens when people stream videos a lot.”

I just block everything that isn’t in my phone book. I use an app that sends it to voice mail without showing on my screen, so it doesn’t disturb me. I can turn it off anytime via the windowshade if I’m expecting a call.

If it’s someone who actually has business with me, they’ll leave a message, which my voicemail will transcribe and send to me quietly as a text notification. 90% of the time it’s a scammer or solicitor I don’t care about. Most of the rest are robo appointment reminders.

Do yourself a favor and don’t answer any calls you’re not expecting. You’re just putting yourself on scammers’ lists.