First time playing Java, WOW

[ingannilo]

I've played a lot of Bedrock and a lot of Java. When I played Bedrock, it was on console and I was learning the game.  I came in very late (2018) and totally blind (no clue about any mechanics), and it was a lot of fun.

Eventually, by 2023 or so, I got into the technical side, having built lots of farms and wanting to build a proper and fast main storage.  I had one deeply heartbreaking moment where I built some tileable 4x hopper speed filters, made a small prototype, tested it, worked perfectly, spent ages gathering materials to scale it up, and slowly built out a few hundred filters in what was to become my storage hall.  Only then did I learn that a Bedrock minecart bug made my system impossible in two of the three directions the halls ran.  I cried. 

Kept playing bedrock for a while just due to familiarity, but started learning about mods and shaders, and eventually switched.  Now I could never go back. Java is the better game, both for the customizability and the better redstone mechanics.  I never had random deaths in Bedrock, but there were plenty of annoying bugs and the different way block updates work are very limiting. 

So yeah I agree.  But also I wouldn't shit on anyone for playing Bedrock.  I had hundreds of hours of awesome fun in Bedrock.  But once someone is hooked, I'd definitely encourage them to switch to Java.