GOOD morning I am yearning for old 2010-2015 minecraft and how things were simpler (sometimes better but shh) in this game
Like, we were having little funny updates every month that added cookies and wolves (and bug fixes) and nothing else and it was the good life y'know?
Also hot take but the pre-1.14 texture AND artstyle were better, bite me
And also I feel like mods were just, more unique and interesting back then? Nowadays we have Create, which is amazing, but that's kind of it tbh?
Maybe it's just rose tainted glasses
i feel like a lot of the stuff bolted on to modern minecraft, to me, ends up detracting from the experience because it never iterates on what currently exists, just adds onto the pile of Stuff There Is. and personally i think that's bad, because the potion system fucking BLOWS!!! like there is no reason it needs to be as complicated as it is and use such particular items that have no other purpose! can you believe pufferfish makes WATERBREATHING POTIONS, when EATING THEM POISONS YOU? it's bad design full stop
also speaking of mods: i feel it was much more wild west because of distribution platforms. like a lot of the time mod usage was word of mouth, you found an interesting mod and shared it with friends or on social media (or a youtuber did a review and it was usually pretty varied), but now bc distro platforms prioritise showing you the most popular with a focus on modpacks, there appears to be less choice, when i can tell you with certainty that there are hundreds of mods you've never heard of if you just set your search settings to most recently updated on Curseforge.
in short: current minecraft imo is bad because its systems are vapid and were never iterated upon post-implementation, minecraft modding scene seems empty bc distribution platforms like Curseforge prioritise most-seen and most-subscribed over unique and new mods
...also use Fabric it's far more user-friendly than Forge. lots of the unique and weird stuff comes out of Fabric nowadays
















