Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years

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• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only they would revamp The End, but The Sift is nice too...

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do anything cool when they can spend 6 months adding 1 feature from a mod?

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At this point is there anything for them to add that isn’t part of a mod?

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hi. I make fun of this too but it’s worth pointing out that Mojang does 100x the work to the game’s internals for speed, stability, modability, etc. It’s effectively a completely different codebase from version 1.0

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  • Solrac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At this point, I’m sincerely considering moving everthing to Luanti. But i’m uncertain between VoxeLibre or Mineclonia.

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    • cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can download both and see which one tickles your fancy more, but I prefer Mineclonia. There WILL be differences as Luanti is a fundamentally different engine from Minecraft, but generally you’ll feel right at home.

      Currently the biggest differences for me are that lapis lazuli is stupidly rare compared to Minecraft, and there are no unique stepping sounds for other mobs so it’s like Alpha and Beta where a creeper’s footsteps can blend in with chickens, cows, and pigs. Dual wielding is also currently primitive, and Nether portals tend to put you in the middle of lava seas. Caves are stupidly dark but that might get improved on.

      But I did manage to build myself a nice big house with an inner courtyard, and get myself to the End and come back with an elytra and shulker boxes.

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    • LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm, good question as I haven't really engaged with Luanti recently! Been playing Vintage Story if a block game is on the menu...However, sometimes just flipping a coin and going with the first one is a good idea. Also, there is nothing stopping you from trying both out and finding the one that works better!

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just gave it a go a week or two ago and it’s been so fun. Caves are basically infinitely deep, and the cave gen produces a lot of cool things. We just found a MASSIVE opening in a cave, we’ve been exploring a single room for hours and still haven’t found it all, we’re probably going to build a base in the cave cuz it takes 15 minutes just to get down there. Not everything feels finished, like the mobs are way less interesting, and the surface is generally less dense, but some things like mining are just so much cooler.

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  • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They made those annoying amazing light flares. What more do you want?? (/s)

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe they are just working on it while doing the other stuff; remember they have to do something very big, the community has very high expectations unlike when they made the nether update

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    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isnt the sift the thing they were working on in the background?

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• madmantis24@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still no Aether in vanilla… 😞

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would be nice to get Minecraft in Steam too

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  • LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Games independent of Steam are good, so that way if Steam even collapses for whatever reason...Not all games are lost! Not every game needs to be on Steam.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      God damnit! How am I going to play RuneScape now that it’s on steam! It’s on steam so it can’t possibly be available anywhere else!(I’m just taking the piss. I agree with where you’re coming from)

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    • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but a game can be on multiple platforms at once…

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  • mschae@discuss.mschae23.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Minecraft in Steam would be a downgrade in every way (Minecraft already has no DRM, lets you freely download and play old versions, doesn’t require the official launcher to start, is easily modded, and so on).

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t see how Steam would make any difference.

      • Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer’s prerogative.
      • Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer’s convenience.
      • No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)
      • Steam Workshop (because fuck Forge)

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    • GunValkyrie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They could still do all that on steam.

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  • cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft account DRM isn’t enough for you?

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah yes, the famous DRM.

      Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you’ve authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: it is stored in a boolean value in a JSON file.

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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not just add it as a non Steam game?

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    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Prism launcher. S-tier Mc launcher

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  • cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The unofficial Minecraft Pocket Edition Launcher you seem to have alluded to in your edit is pretty nice, and feels almost as if it’s a native port of Bedrock to Linux. All the Google and Android stuff is abstracted away.

    Minecraft already has too much big tech influence on it with Microsoft, let’s not add Valve’s grubby fingers into the pie now, shall we?

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• davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WITHOUT SPOILERS PLS;

  I like to play minecraft without the wiki or looking up game mechanics. Is there any reasonable way I could organically encounter this dimension within normal gameplay? Or should I look up how it works?

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  • lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’ll show up in Minecraft Dungeons 2. The dimension itself won’t come out in Minecraft until next year.

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  • Sas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel the advancement tab is decent for finding stuff without leaving the game. It’s still looking up hints, just ingame. I’d love for them to add readable books in ancient ruins to give you hints instead. Idk how they’ll give hints for this tho

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    • 1D10@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dunno, my 35 year old sister in law just started playing she still hasn’t discovered that the nether exists, and hasn’t done any enchanting after 3 weeks. Some lore or even a handbook would probably help a lot.

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  • I_Jedi@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That appears to just be a mod. The actual dimension has yet to be shown off outside of the promo artwork, and it’s not present in the most recent snapshot.

      Mod source: modrinth.com/mod/mielons-the-sift

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This seems overly convoluted and probably a mod, unless dude’s uncle works in Mojang.

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  • Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No way to tell until the update drops I imagine, but the nether and the wither can be organically encountered/spawned (ruined portals and a specific painting) so I think there’s a pretty good chance

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• MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m old

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