2026-01-31T17:30:43.691Z
Notably, the book also includes command blocks and barrier blocks, but they're in the "Mechanisms" redstone section
I guess that's reasonable for command blocks, but for barriers?
But also, mob heads were available in survival by the time this was published!
2026-01-31T17:33:55.189Z
Admittedly the timing would have been tight. 1.8 released only a few months earlier, and it doesn't look like any 1.8 content made it into the book. But it was in snapshots for like a year, which should have been enough time for some of the features to make it in
2026-01-31T17:44:06.436Z
wait, sorry, there's a section called "liquids and gases", but air isn't in it. Air can instead be found in the "naturally generated" section
"liquids and gases" instead contains water, lava, and fire
2026-01-31T17:49:37.787Z
Okay, actually, the prismarine blocks are in here, and they even mention by name that they're introduced in 1.8! But the only 1.7 blocks I see mentioned are red sand and the flowers (some of which they're missing, and they say there's 13 flowers when there were 14 as of 1.7)
2026-01-31T17:50:43.558Z
they do mention the cyan flower from pocket edition - did they take the 12 flowers added in 1.7, add the cyan flower, and forget about dandelions and poppies (even though they're mentioned in the text and illustration)?
But not making any mention of being able to make stained glass is surprising
2026-02-01T17:13:34.840Z
well, someone did it https://x.com/BlendiByl/status/2017876696662478998
2026-02-02T04:07:59.590Z
disappointed that the German closed caption translation of We Are Charlie Kirk is literal rather than poetic
2026-02-02T04:15:19.125Z
okay it's not even a good literal translation they translate "conviction" in "a man of conviction" as "Verurteilungen", which means convictions, plural, in the legal sense
2026-02-02T04:43:07.912Z
yeah I'm doing the only reasonably thing one could in such a situation

2026-02-02T04:44:20.899Z
the rhyme scheme mostly matches the original so far except for the end of refrain 1 (lines 6 and 8 should rhyme)
line 13 is also kinda bad
2026-02-02T19:00:12.356Z
Okay so this one isn't a question, right? sneaking around on magma blocks is way more convient than trying to move through a cobweb floor

Also, Alex, I feel like killing the spider is against the spirit of the challenge
And "step too near the walls"? It's not the sides of magma blocks that hurt you!
2026-02-02T19:03:42.056Z
Maybe the shift key doesn't exist in the lore of these books if Steve is worried about falling off

2026-02-02T19:09:52.016Z
This really has nothing to do with Minecraft but I am curious what each option would sound like now

2026-02-02T19:11:05.531Z
This one's kinda interesting

Pretty sure the mooshroom is the easier one though
2026-02-02T19:13:42.295Z
You know it would be interesting to implement (at least some of) these as 23w13a_or_b vote options
Like free villager trades would be easy

Ah wrong file

2026-02-02T19:17:16.993Z
According to all known laws of aviation, an ender dragon with a bee's wings should not be able to fly

2026-02-02T19:20:23.768Z
Seems like this one probably has a pretty objective answer, but I'm not sure what it is

2026-02-02T19:23:33.411Z
Wait, are we still talking about in Minecraft here?

2026-02-02T19:25:57.485Z
Fish wearing tutus resource pack

2026-02-02T19:30:56.346Z
Would you rather: play the game or play the game?

2026-02-02T19:34:49.990Z
You're in the end, you have unlimited ender pearls

Well holding a lightning rod doesn't do anything so

2026-02-02T19:45:40.560Z
This is a two-part book, the other half is a joke book. I won't spoil the jokes just yet, but I want to highlight this heading

2026-02-02T21:30:41.990Z

Sorry MINECRAFT SEXUAL HARASSMENT JOKE?????