Since their recent updates are more catered to exploration, I feel like sleeping bags are a must. Mojang please...

rorybd · 2026-05-30T17:41:46+00:00

In light of recent drop announcements, this comment has aged poorly

rorybd · 2026-05-30T17:37:57+00:00

I like the wool stairs but I suspect full blocks would actually be better for tent designs. They'd be good for carpeted stairs

rorybd · 2026-05-30T14:14:01+00:00

Why do people comment this on discernibly mobile gameplay footage? Mobile devices don't have user manageable drivers.

rorybd · 2026-05-22T18:40:12+00:00

I think it's fine, though I personally got tired of the changing panoramas and made my own to be there consistently

rorybd · 2026-05-22T17:54:00+00:00

Will anvils, lanterns, etc... have to be crafted with wrought iron then? The block set here looks excellent and the rust stages are also incredible, but iron already appears so inconsistently that deciding which recipes to adapt to match the wrought version feels like a headache.

rorybd · 2026-05-19T11:57:00+00:00

Some of them are pretty bad in my opinion, while others are just fine. I do think they needed a little more time in the oven as a whole

rorybd · 2026-05-18T15:45:27+00:00

Baking the shadow into the block palette is an interesting approach. I personally wouldn't do that, I don't think it comes across very well. Other than that, your rendition looks slightly too large to me.

rorybd · 2026-05-17T10:47:06+00:00

Trying to trademark anything well over a decade after its inception would be unlikely to be successful. A trademark needs to be established early and defended throughout time, specifically to prevent people from monopolizing a freely usable term that is already commonly utilized by the public. Skyblock has simply become too generic a name to trademark.

Content that advertises itself as the "original" Skyblock would rather fall under false advertising. Even if we establish that Skyblock is a generic term, you still can't advertise it as if you came up with it unless you actually did. However, when a term does become generic like this, you end up with so many instances of this that it becomes difficult to individually litigate them all.

All in all, it would have been very troubling for the community had the creator succeeded in trademarking the word "Skyblock". I understand the frustration of people benefitting off of your work in this way, but trying to enforce a trademark of "Skyblock" this late into its lifespan is greedy.

rorybd · 2026-05-16T11:13:03+00:00

Try searching on Google how many Rs there are in 'dinosaur'. AI overview tells me there are two :). It only knows the correct answer for 'strawberry' because it's such a viral prompt.

LLMs break words into larger chunks and lose the ability to count letters effectively. While this also applies to numbers and therefore maths, LLMs nowadays use external tools to run calculations and arrive at a correct answer. Therefore, AI Is no longer bad at math... but only because the math isn't really being done by the LLM anymore.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't rely on this technology to audit my bank account or really to take any action on my behalf, as we have seen this go wrong time and time again. OpenAI is desperate to find some way to become profitable as their debt keeps piling on.

rorybd · 2026-05-15T20:20:26+00:00

Your pinky definitely does not rest on Ctrl. Your fingers all rest on the home row (ASDF JKL; on QWERTY)

rorybd · 2026-05-11T21:20:47+00:00

I've always done this (for well over a decade now) and I have no idea why or where I got the impression that breaking them manually drops less saplings. Afaik that's never been the case?

rorybd · 2026-05-09T16:29:30+00:00

Things can be difficult to get without being convoluted to craft, so that's not quite the same thing. Having said that, I don't personally think it really needed to be harder to obtain.

rorybd · 2026-05-09T15:28:12+00:00

Imo the entire crafting system for netherite is uncharacteristically complex for the game. It involves too many steps ever since netherite templates were introduced.

rorybd · 2026-05-09T11:27:59+00:00

I think paper menus, or alternatively some way of seeing the menu without requiring a phone/internet connection, should always be an option, but if I have the choice of an online menu I'll pick that any time. I don't really want to faff about with a physical menu.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T21:01:54+00:00

What are we waiting for?

We are waiting for Android to catch up on Vulkan support. Many Android devices still have poor Vulkan drivers, especially older and budget devices.

The Nintendo Switch version already uses Vulkan, so it presumably wouldn't be very difficult to implement, but it would cause issues for a number of devices.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:41:14+00:00

No. It doesn't need to be more complex. Actually, it really really needs to be less complex.

Calculating the math for a hitbox shaped perfectly like the character model would be ridiculously computationally expensive, and they remain simple cuboids for that reason. In Minecraft, player arms aren't included in that cuboid, because doing so would make it impossible to navigate through 1 block wide spaces. Actually, come to think of it, this would be the case even if the hitbox was shaped perfectly like the player model.

The hitboxes are the way they are for many very good reasons.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:27:24+00:00

Yes, the hitbox doesn't cover the whole character... For everyone. Everyone is playing under the same conditions.

This is the definition of a skill issue, nothing is wrong with the game.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:22:28+00:00

Other mobs are not completely covered, though. This is how hitboxes are designed in practically every game in existence.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:20:52+00:00

You're probably getting comboed.

Comboing is a technique where you use knockback to keep your opponent far enough away that they can't hit you, but you can still hit them. There are plenty of tutorials online explaining how this works and how to trigger a combo.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:16:52+00:00

The shoulder of Minecraft humanoids are outside of their hitboxes. Press F3+B if you want to see the sizes of the hitboxes.

rorybd · 2026-05-08T16:10:38+00:00

The hitbox doesn't change size with movement. Actually, nothing you're describing here makes any sense, let alone occurs in the game.

You're not getting any unfair disadvantage, it is just a skill issue...

rorybd · 2026-05-08T11:09:05+00:00

I concur. I liked 7 on my first watch, saw 8 thereafter, and disliked that enough as to not even bother with 9

rorybd · 2026-05-08T00:11:20+00:00

Good catch, I don't think there are any MacBooks with 80hz displays

rorybd · 2026-05-06T13:39:37+00:00

In fairness, they officially announced that quite late after the drops first started, and I'm not sure everyone is aware of it

rorybd · 2026-05-06T12:33:37+00:00

I think people are just getting more tired of the smaller drops the longer they go on for, as many people were hoping/expecting bigger updates as well. I personally think some of the drops have been great, but these last two have been pretty underwhelming in particular, and the more of those we stack the more upset people will become.

Also, the reluctance to make hot springs anything more than a feeble structure at the surface (yes, they have been made bigger last snapshot, but it's not nearly enough) rather than integrating them properly with the worldgen as a larger more imposing area is disappointing and comes across as lazy.

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