Ive said it before and ill say it again, we need a ships and sails update with buildible ships and maybe the occasional wondering trader ship pillager ships and forts would be epic too
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS MAYBE YEARS NOW! Alright everyone, buckle in, here’s my rant for why the Ocean sucks and how it is antithetical to Minecraft’s very nature.
Minecraft is a game that blends the fantastical with the realistic, we traverse across real biomes like the Forest and the Snowy Plains facing animals like camels and sheep along the way. Minecraft also features magical other worlds like the nether, giant fossils and ruins to be uncovered, ancient temples full of traps, monsters in the night, and countless other things that betray the realism of Minecraft.
Minecraft’s use of fantasy reflects how a child would perceive the existence of fantasy in the real world. Deep underground, in the dead of night, in other dimensions, everywhere a child might expect the fantastical to exist there is fantasy. The ocean in our real world has been a banquet of fear and imagination for millennia. For thousands of years, our civilizations have imagined monsters, worlds, gods, and more hidden just beneath the waves. Even today, the ocean stands as the part of our world that we know the least about, it is our greatest source of the unknown, second only to space.
Minecraft’s ocean fails to capture both the imagination and reality of the ocean. The familiar reality is limited to squids and fish, a poor imitation of the teeming life of our world. The fantastical lacks just as much, being exclusively drowned zombies and wimpy ruins. The blend of fantasy and reality fails in the ocean because neither is all that prevalent.
Here is how I would fix Minecraft’s ocean.
The surface levels of the ocean would remain realistic. Sharks, sea slugs, eels, and manatee would preside over the waters closest to the surface, as this is the part of the ocean familiar to a child. Resting on the surface, you could find islands with palm trees and coconut crabs, ghost ships with skeletal pirates, and other things that a child might expect a pirate crew to encounter.
Deeper below the waves, around the point where you’d want some water breathing potions, you’d find the blending of fantasy and reality. Frightening angler fish and drowned make their homes here where the water turns dark. These depths wouldn’t be exclusively terrifying, with majestic underwater volcanoes and bioluminescent critters making the darkness a sight to behold. Resources and adventures would be plentiful down here, should you have the means and skill to acquire them.
Far, far below the surface, where the light of the sun has never once touched the sea floor, you find the Abyssal Zone. In the twilight of the black waters, horrifying shadows and distant flickering lights are all you can see past your dim sea lanterns. Without the proper equipment, the pressure alone is enough to kill you, though it’s not much safer even with proper protection. As you wade through the Abyssal Zone, carefully scrounging for any resources you can gleam while fighting off a fear that rivals that of the Deep Dark, eventually you find dim lights illuminating the darkness. Drawing closer, you discover it, the lost city of Abyssis. Teeming with mer-villagers offering high level loot for the rarest finds from the depths, the city is a pleasant respite from the fear that borders its walls.
Course, that’s just my idea, there’s an infinite wealth of myth and majesty to pull from when revamping the bland ocean of today. In our world, the ocean is the most expansive corner of Earth in terms of reality and fantasy. I’d personally love to see a reworked ocean that lives up to the wonder that that endless blue horizon has incited in so many of us. If you read this much, thanks! Happy sailing
Those hard workers are resting from adding a mob and a reskin of a diamond sword in the game you should be more thankful maybe next year we'll get a chance to vote on something preferably not hostile or endangered to put into Minecraft
No the real reason is they don’t want real animals to be fully hostile and if they do add a real creature they want to throw the realism factor out the window like making it giant or making it only neutral or it can’t attack if so and so are true. So recap no fully hostile real life animals, only fantasy creatures
I bought the naturalist add-on because i couldnt stand the emptiness of the world and the ocean! Mind you it only adds some things to the oceans but i also just nearly died to some piranha's in a jungle river😅
It's simple. If your worried about either not being afraid of sharks or wanting to kill them. Make it to where it's neutral unless you take damage near them or hit them. Then it's kinda accurate to their smelling blood in the water
I would like: Great white Tiger Hammerhead Whale(shark) (Regular) whale Squid Octopus. Sting ray Those are the main ones, but I have a couple of extra fun ones.
Parrot fish Trigger fish Blue spotted ray Angel fish An eel (maybe electric) Lion fish Stone fish Box fish Clown fish Star fish Nudibranch
I swear a deep sea update would be the perfect excuse to update the ocean. I mean, people can go deeper since the caves and cliffs, it's not like they would have to change that again.
Although, I think it would matter most to add bigger creatures than smaller ones (lookin at you 2700 small fish variations), like a sun fish, those big crabs, maybe even fictional ones (not like creepers, ender creatures or guardians actually exist)
facial?
I think technicly the phantom is a shark.
mojang add a sea dragon
Ive said it before and ill say it again, we need a ships and sails update with buildible ships and maybe the occasional wondering trader ship pillager ships and forts would be epic too
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS MAYBE YEARS NOW!
Alright everyone, buckle in, here’s my rant for why the Ocean sucks and how it is antithetical to Minecraft’s very nature.
Minecraft is a game that blends the fantastical with the realistic, we traverse across real biomes like the Forest and the Snowy Plains facing animals like camels and sheep along the way. Minecraft also features magical other worlds like the nether, giant fossils and ruins to be uncovered, ancient temples full of traps, monsters in the night, and countless other things that betray the realism of Minecraft.
Minecraft’s use of fantasy reflects how a child would perceive the existence of fantasy in the real world. Deep underground, in the dead of night, in other dimensions, everywhere a child might expect the fantastical to exist there is fantasy. The ocean in our real world has been a banquet of fear and imagination for millennia. For thousands of years, our civilizations have imagined monsters, worlds, gods, and more hidden just beneath the waves. Even today, the ocean stands as the part of our world that we know the least about, it is our greatest source of the unknown, second only to space.
Minecraft’s ocean fails to capture both the imagination and reality of the ocean. The familiar reality is limited to squids and fish, a poor imitation of the teeming life of our world. The fantastical lacks just as much, being exclusively drowned zombies and wimpy ruins. The blend of fantasy and reality fails in the ocean because neither is all that prevalent.
Here is how I would fix Minecraft’s ocean.
The surface levels of the ocean would remain realistic. Sharks, sea slugs, eels, and manatee would preside over the waters closest to the surface, as this is the part of the ocean familiar to a child. Resting on the surface, you could find islands with palm trees and coconut crabs, ghost ships with skeletal pirates, and other things that a child might expect a pirate crew to encounter.
Deeper below the waves, around the point where you’d want some water breathing potions, you’d find the blending of fantasy and reality. Frightening angler fish and drowned make their homes here where the water turns dark. These depths wouldn’t be exclusively terrifying, with majestic underwater volcanoes and bioluminescent critters making the darkness a sight to behold. Resources and adventures would be plentiful down here, should you have the means and skill to acquire them.
Far, far below the surface, where the light of the sun has never once touched the sea floor, you find the Abyssal Zone. In the twilight of the black waters, horrifying shadows and distant flickering lights are all you can see past your dim sea lanterns. Without the proper equipment, the pressure alone is enough to kill you, though it’s not much safer even with proper protection. As you wade through the Abyssal Zone, carefully scrounging for any resources you can gleam while fighting off a fear that rivals that of the Deep Dark, eventually you find dim lights illuminating the darkness. Drawing closer, you discover it, the lost city of Abyssis. Teeming with mer-villagers offering high level loot for the rarest finds from the depths, the city is a pleasant respite from the fear that borders its walls.
Course, that’s just my idea, there’s an infinite wealth of myth and majesty to pull from when revamping the bland ocean of today. In our world, the ocean is the most expansive corner of Earth in terms of reality and fantasy. I’d personally love to see a reworked ocean that lives up to the wonder that that endless blue horizon has incited in so many of us. If you read this much, thanks! Happy sailing
Maybe a whale
I dont play minecraft but what about whales? Doesnt even have to be blue whales. There are orcas. What about dolpins?
Bro definitely hasn’t played minecraft before the aquatic update if he thinks the oceans look bland
But sharks aren’t even dangerous 😭
I heard they thought of sharks but then were like "nooo, those are endangered, lets not"
wouldn't sharks be neutral mobs anyways?
PLEASE UPDATE SOME BIOMES THE SAVANNAH, MUSHROOM, AND THE DESERT LITERALLY HAVE NO UPDATES OMG
Nah just play terreria
they’ve gone on record
Sharks are never being added
I'd rather see a reaper leviathan in the minecraft ocean than nothing.
with the decrease in y level of bedrock, oceans have the potential to be deeper and scarier
Can’t cuz it would change their rating on stores, because if there was dangers that it exist irl, including sharks
Those hard workers are resting from adding a mob and a reskin of a diamond sword in the game you should be more thankful maybe next year we'll get a chance to vote on something preferably not hostile or endangered to put into Minecraft
Ngl you just wasted some time
No the real reason is they don’t want real animals to be fully hostile and if they do add a real creature they want to throw the realism factor out the window like making it giant or making it only neutral or it can’t attack if so and so are true. So recap no fully hostile real life animals, only fantasy creatures
I bought the naturalist add-on because i couldnt stand the emptiness of the world and the ocean! Mind you it only adds some things to the oceans but i also just nearly died to some piranha's in a jungle river😅
I want an entire update dedicated to sharks. Only sharks. Always sharks.
They should go full subnautica and add a deep-dark for the ocean.
We need more ocean things
It's good enough man
You clearly didn't experience the days where the only thing in the ocean was gravel and squids with the occasional ocean monument.
Add Basking Shark. Imagine seeing that in your minecraft world.
It's simple. If your worried about either not being afraid of sharks or wanting to kill them. Make it to where it's neutral unless you take damage near them or hit them. Then it's kinda accurate to their smelling blood in the water
I've never seen a man that looks so feminine, so handsome yet so beautiful
I would like:
Great white
Tiger
Hammerhead
Whale(shark)
(Regular) whale
Squid
Octopus.
Sting ray
Those are the main ones, but I have a couple of extra fun ones.
Parrot fish
Trigger fish
Blue spotted ray
Angel fish
An eel (maybe electric)
Lion fish
Stone fish
Box fish
Clown fish
Star fish
Nudibranch
Give us the barnacle.
I swear a deep sea update would be the perfect excuse to update the ocean. I mean, people can go deeper since the caves and cliffs, it's not like they would have to change that again.
Although, I think it would matter most to add bigger creatures than smaller ones (lookin at you 2700 small fish variations), like a sun fish, those big crabs, maybe even fictional ones (not like creepers, ender creatures or guardians actually exist)
we can have all Sharks! HELL WE COULD HAVE MEGALODONS smh
Apparently Dolphins are added but not sharks >:'(
idk how people see trident drowneds and think "hmm, i wish there were most hostile ocean mobs"