Joel

Twitch | YouTubeVODs | The Citadel Cafe | Twitter | JoelDuggan.com

• The Citadel | Westhill
  • The Citadel is now on Spring To Life, Minecraft 1.21.5… Just in time for 1.21.6 do likely drop in a few weeks. 😛
  • Spent some time exploring to pick up the new bush, firefly bush, dry grass, wild flowers, and leaf litter, and return to Westhill to make a temporary micro farms, and stock up on each.
    • Mini Tour Updating The Citadel To Spring To Life Minecraft 1.21.5 | The Citadel (YouTube.com/@JoelDugganVODs)
  • Lit the dim streets of the West Quarter with soul lanterns, and bits of glow lichen, and adjusted some foliage to include the new bush.
    • Lighting The West Quarter | The Citadel (YouTube.com/@JoelDugganVODs)
  • Staying organized while decorating more of the inside of the Westhill keep by using a new quality of life mod for inventory management.
    • Labelled Shulker Boxes. (Modrinth.com)
      • Allows you to stick an item, or block texture on the top of a shulker box as a label representing the shulker contents.
      • Each label costs one level of experience.
    • Decorating The Keep – Part 4 | The Citadel (YouTube.com/@JoelDugganVODs)

Jonny

YouTube | Twitch | Bluesky | Hermitcraft Recap

• Misadventures
  • Skeleton Wolf attempts are now at 830. Will probably hit 900 on the next stream.
    • We’re in it now!
  • This Will Never End | Misadventures Minecraft (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
  • Skelly Dog & Pix The Human | Misadventures Minecraft (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
• CraftMine
  • The April Fools snapshot continues to pitch curveballs!
    • Finally completed the challenge mine that requires you to defeat waves of skeletons. 
    • A second challenge mine required you to defeat… A single Enderman. CraftMine continues to troll.
  • Unlocked two more rooms of the labyrinth, one of which had invisible walls!
    • Still unsure where any of this may be headed.
  • The amount of unlocked items means inventory management has started to get unwieldy.
    • Especially when one of the ‘mine ingredients’ spawns lit TNT near you every so often.

FROM: Zing
SUBJECT: Vibrant Visuals Incremental Or Revolutionary?

Good day!

Now that Vibrant Visuals is released as a stable experiment in game, I turned it on on my server, and our first impressions are that it’s an incremental update overall – and that’s a good thing.

Rather than being a revolutionary experience, this feels like how I always saw Minecraft in my mind, and how my friends did too. This also means that 16×16 custom textures which haven’t yet been updated for Vibrant Visuals’ shine can still be used quite smoothly.

That said, I can’t help but wonder what a more dramatic change would have looked like. What do you think? Is a more tame update the right move for the future?

Zing was blinded by the sun and could no longer write this letter.

Jonny, and Joel expand on Zing’s email to discuss where they think Vibrant Visuals will focus in order to appeal to a broad spectrum of Minecraft players, while also remaining accessible from both a user, and hardware perspective. Where do we want Vibrant Visuals to take Minecraft? What level of control may still be left up to players? How far can be too far when it comes to rendering light, and texture in Minecraft?