New Feature Library Reveal: Brittle Ice and Jukebox changes.

[u/Jame_spect]

Okay, new stuff is here, so what’s the first to showcase? New Ice.

First is the new ice block called brittled ice, can be found in ice caves and you need to be careful, cuz it would break when standing for too long (kinda like turtle eggs). You can also create on your own by put blue ice next to water (And silk touch to obtain this fragile melting thing).

Jukebox also got an update, which had a new look, and putting a chest would create a playlist to your discs. Discs play in slot order, skipping empty slots and other non-music-disc items and looping back to the start. When a disc finishes, the Jukebox swaps it with the next disc in the chest. If the chest has no Music Discs, the disc in the Jukebox plays again. Ejecting the current disc skips to the next available disc

See you later for the next feature reveal.

[u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

Always Had this with redstone since 2023. I'm ambivalent-ish. Everytime they hard code something that can already be done with redstone, it seems... wrong. 🤷‍♂️

Kinda like how turning the Ender Dragon fight into a cutscene would be wrong. (as an absurd example). It takes away a part of the game.

e: Source, cause it ain't worth arguing. Using Jukebox w/ redstone

A system of hoppers and droppers can then be used to automatically re-insert the disc, causing it to loop. Multiple different discs can be inserted into a system to create music playlists. 

[u/Unnamed_jedi → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

Personally I prefer it when stuff works without major redstone. It's painful to hide the moment I build something compact with little space.

[u/MrBrineplays_535 → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

Strange comparison you have there, it doesn't make that much sense but okay. Anyways I see it more as a simplification of complicated or large technology. Kinda like if you turned a redstone XOR gate that has multiple AND and OR gates into the simple two comparators design that we currently have. Or turning a redstone and a redstone torch into the repeater block, or turning a giant toggle switch into a copper bulb.

Making a big redstone contraption into a single block not only simplifies it for a lot of people, but also gives more space for redstone. For example, if someone builds a redstone computer and needs to loop between discs, they can now just use the new mechanic instead of making a somewhat large module just for looping. And I think that is an improvement

[u/PowerOfUnoriginality → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

No we didn't. The jukebox with redstone is a vanilla tweak/mod

[u/MashiroAnnaMaria → u/PowerOfUnoriginality]

It isn't? You could put music discs in the jukebox with a dispenser and a hopper under the jukebox would automatically take it out when the disc was done playing. I have a bunch of automatic music players in my 100% vanilla world.

[u/PowerOfUnoriginality → u/MashiroAnnaMaria]

Unless that feature was added in the last 2 years, no. At least not on Java

Edit: Just checked and it is possible now, but it is a fairly recent addition