Are the Upcoming Biomes actually Good Enough?

The time given for the voting was completely ridiculous - a grand total of 30 minutes for community interaction, limited to a specific time and requiring a twitter account. Not even 0.01% of the playerbase actually voted or was able to vote. If they were serious about community input they'd have the polls open for at LEAST an entire week, with the option to vote directly from the launcher or from the minecraft website - you know, making it accessible to as many players as possible?

maybe they should make an update called ‘The Biome Update’, where they add all the biome updates into one single update

"Minecraft Updates are like sausages, it is better not to see how they are made." -Otto Von Bismarck

My headcanon is that even now, 7 years later, the whole mojang team is just desperately trying to fix the deepseated coding issues with the java edition of the game, and every few months a siren goes off in the office and they spend a few hours coding a new update, send it out, then go back to fixing the game.

modders: 450 biomes in 5 years mojang: 20 biomes in 5 years

I would want more wacky biomes that hold the imaginative mobs, like mooshroom biomes, while they can keep simulating the real world elsewhere

"Is it a block, is it a particle, is it an entity?" No. The Tumbleweed is a peaceful mob that has knockback 12 on impact and causes levitation and slow falling for 20 seconds.

Great perspective. I enjoyed watching this. =)

Updates take ridiculously long for the amount of content in them

I totally agree, these updates aren't biome updates. They are just extra features that happend to be in a certain biome. A actual biome change would require something like the new oceans or the upcoming nether, a special fog or different colors. For me the updates sound like they finished a biome off, for the last time, but the feel for the taiga biome didn't change at all. Mojang should: Put actual work into rethinking the biomes or rename the biome vote to feature vote.

Remember when we got Mesa, mega taiga, Roofed forest and savanna in the same update?

I think they should add a “Cave and Cliffs” update

As long as the snow is snowier everything will be alright

Mojang's update philosophy is just wrong. They don't want to shock the playerbase with too many features, but that's exactly what the game needs. When you ask players about their fondest memories in Minecraft, or the strongest ones, a lot of the responses are gonna be about starting out, not knowing the game, and being scared of the dark. Now that Minecraft has settled and most of the features haven't changed in ages (ahem, cave update), MInecraft is just too familiar, too unchallenging. I love 1.14 and 1.13 especially (like you said, 1.12's oceans are basically unplayable now) but the game really does need more

At last someone said it. Most of real life mobs that have been added in recent time are useless

2:43 "We've seen polar bears, llamas, parrots, dolphins, turtles..." Fish: OH MY GOD, WHY, KILL ME ALREADY "...cats, pandas, foxes..."

love the fact that modders can basically create a new game in the time it takes the entire mojang programming team to add a new type of bush. Still waiting on foxes over here on bedrock...

It still baffles me that Mojang, a large company with incredible funding, finds a way to pump out some of the least amount of content I’ve ever seen in a game. Especially considering how easy it is to code Minecraft.

"Minecraft is the biggest game of all time" Shows earth being on fire

If they want the endangered species to be promoted as an education tool there SHOULD be positive benefits to the player for trying to make sure these creatures are around. Maybe like beacon like buff or the dolphin buff.