https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-23w35a
New 1.20.2 snapshot- looks like they're slowing down development on this one, just some bug fixes and library updates.
See the current snapshot cycle here. I think the villager changes are pretty cool, but I wish they added a better way to transport them before they required us to set up villages all over the world.
Now we have to dig a bunch of long human trafficking tunnels like the ones under the US-Mexico border
I think that that's on purpose, don't make it so easy to get all enhancements? Getting mending on your tools is a project or if you play on a server: something you can set up a shop for and earn diamonds once you've done it.
I really like that they're creating incentive to build more structures! I've always missed that from Terraria, how you have to populate the world with cool houses to get all the good trades.
What I don't like is that they've asked us to do it without giving us a better solution for moving villagers. Minecarts and boats are so tedious, and the villager AI feels like it is designed to be frustrating. It would be so simple to just have them follow emeralds (like how sheep follow wheat).
they don’t follow emeralds bc that’s an easily misconstrued caricature and mojang doesn’t want to deal with the possible (& somewhat justified) shit they’d get for it. seriously. big noses? an aptitude for trading and banking? speaking an incomprehensible language? it’s already a little “questionable” how the villagers are portrayed now, making them straight up follow emeralds to the point of their own potential deaths would 101% push it over the edge for a lot of people. i’m not trying to say mojang is necessarily designing the villagers to be antisemitic, in fact i think it’s quite the opposite and mojang is actively, and might i say diligently, working against what bigotry and antisemitism did make it’s way into minecraft’s game design in the early days. but still. i would appreciate if villagers didn’t also follow emeralds to the point of them plummeting to their doom, the neonazis in minecraft are already too many, and unwelcome, and shit like this is just going to embolden their communities
If they slow development down any further they will go backwards. College students bang out more content-filled mods on spring break than these guys release in a year.