Season 9 Discussion Post: Week 85

[waterfall8484]

Not only is there a Hermitcraft Recap today, we also had this year's Minecraft Live! What did you think about it? I'm definitely looking forward to what's coming next, both the new blocks and the new mechanic. What did your Hermits think about the update?

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Comments

[strikeslip]

It is the calm before the storm... the storm of twitch con, Minecraft updates, and a very possible new life series. I hope Tango is using the time away from constant streams to get some building done on level 4!

[schneefink]

Unsurprisingly Scar is most excited about the copper trapdoors xD
I like those too. I'm a bit intimidated by the autocrafter tbh, I barely touch redstone ever, but they specifically said it should be beginner-friendly so fingers crossed.

I'm so curious who won phase 4 of DO2! My guess is Cub, and in the next few places Etho, Grian, Gem, Joe, maybe False... idk. Tango said his stream will be late today because of a Life series recording (well he didn't say that explicitly but new Life series for Friday was confirmed so) and I'm impatiently waiting.

[melannen]

Automatic crafting is going to change *everything*, I don't know what I think about it!

I hope Tango isn't pushing himself too hard, between two trips and trying desperately to rework Lvl 3 and finish Lvl 4 and also maybe add a bunch of new features to other parts at the same time! It's kind of sounding like he is. (Leaving the last finishing touches of your project for beyond the last minute and then predictably regretting it? #relatable)

[strikeslip]

It doesn't look like it'll rename things, so it won't save Tango the pain of making thousands of coins... but modders will expand functionality I bet. I've played a lot of modded with autocrafting and one of the consequences there is you get much more complicated crafting patterns, which is great for stretching content progression. Maybe vanilla will be the same?

[melannen]

I've never played modded, but one thing I've noticed watching modded series is that it tends to remove a whole lot of the grind, and I can see why people want that, but I'm someone who's in it for the grind! On the mods that are really heavy with crafting automation a huge amount of the gameplay just seems to be just climbing up the ladder of automation, until you have a huge laggy factory district and nothing left to do. Just give me a soothingly repetitive task I have to do over and over, please.

And I think on a lot of vanilla SMPs it will really change the economy, if "willingness to grind out a lot of crafted things to sell" is no longer worth diamonds.

On the other hand I can see how it would be super useful for any kind of big project that needs crafted components and for servers with a lot of minigames and adventures and things. Suddenly armor and tools are effectively stackable! And I bet you could make some really cool vending machines too. And if they finally add in some of the simple crafting recipes they were missing (like wool to string! craftable gunpowder! can you tell I'm still playing mostly Peaceful?) I would support that.

Automatic crafting is something that's really obviously missing from the current redstone capabilities, so it makes sense (although if we were going to add one new redstone thing I would have picked a component that places blocks instead.)