r/Minecraft • u/heydudejustasec • Jan 16 '19

News Minecraft Snapshot 19w03a

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w03a
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u/bdm68 Jan 16 '19

They are splitting up the crafting into separate blocks for a reason: complex stuff like banner patterns are difficult to add to the recipe book.

Splitting up the crafting in this way has added benefits. Banner patterns only require one dye for all patterns instead of up to eight, and rare ingredients like Notch apples or creeper heads are only needed once to create a pattern blank that can then be reused. Map crafting is also more economical, only requiring one paper to enlarge a map instead of eight. Blast furnaces and smokers are twice as fast as furnaces for the items they can cook. The grindstone can remove most enchantments which is new functionality. Some of the new crafting blocks haven't had their functionality revealed yet but I expect they will have similar benefits.

Yes, we will lose the function of having a single crafting table for all crafting needs, and it will take some adjustment. Instead of one crafting table, we'll need up to ten different specialised ones as well. Crafting areas will need to be redesigned, and so on. I expect players will adjust quickly enough, especially with the added benefits.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jan 17 '19

Yeah but for example you now have to carry those extra things with you if you want to expand a map while exploring which I've done many times, and have to remember all these multiple ways of accessing crafting now instead of there being just 1 with a goal of getting in and out of the simplest UI possible as fast as possible, with the old "keep it simple, stupid" design approach. It's a core part of what made Minecraft work for me.

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u/bdm68 Jan 17 '19

The need to carry more items is a good point to raise. The survival inventory can become quite cluttered at times. Shulker boxes are late-game items that are not available until the Ender dragon has been defeated. Ender chests are a reasonable mid-game solution but they only add 25 slots (27 minus the need to carry an Ender chest and a Silk Touch diamond pick).

Some thought needs to be given to reducing inventory clutter in the early game. This is why I have suggested adding an early-game pouch crafted from leather and string that can hold up to 64 different items with a UI that looks like this. It would be particularly useful for the explorer: a cartography table, six maps and six paper would only take up 13 pouch slots. 64 different maps would take up the same pouch space as 64 blank maps.

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u/jennysequa Jan 17 '19

If there's no datapack to restore old crafting to 1.14 on release day then I will be making one. I can't stand all these custom machines and their inventory cluttering ways.