You’re a totally underrated channel. The editing is smooth, the script flows really well, the jokes are on points, and it provokes thought! I hope you blow up soon!
Minecraft’s crafting is weird. I’ve only just started playing it for the first time a couple days ago and it’s really strange. Having to make the specific image in the crafting menu is unique but sometimes doesn’t feel like it makes sense. I guess playing it years ago would be more of a trial and error system, which could be more enjoyable. I like how there aren’t recipes you need to learn or milestones you need to pass before you’re allowed to make stuff. As long as you have the ingredients, you can make it. Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. It’s something tangible like a building or a minecart highway or a huge farm instead of just seeing stats incrementally increase.
The King of Antarctica I know, it’s much more rewarding to see your base gradually grow and expand according to your needs rather than see arbitrary stats increase. It’s more fun to spend hours designing and building a specific farm or project then spending hours grinding to see a number go up
>Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. Holy cow that explains why I'm drawn to these two games. That way of progression system is great, and you can really feel the outcome of the effort you've done after hours and hours of gameplay.
S-someone changed their mind on the internet!!! In all seriousness though I appreciate the time and effort that was put into the the analysis even though the last video came out months ago. I watch all of your videos and I have to say that you make some of the more entertaining videos out there. Keep up the good work my guy :) P.S. I appreciate you putting my comment in your vid it was very surprising
If Merakl Came back to TH-cam and did frequent uploads. even if the videos are just lets plays. I would watch him when ever I can. He's young. He's fresh, He's new. and he could honestly become very successful. there's just something but his personality that's down to earth and "vibey". I can see a lot of people can connect with that. his content is relaxing and entertaining. Hope he comes back.
I'm posting this when I'm ~2 minutes into the video. I've been playing since Beta 1.7, and my biggest critique is probably of the "recipe book." Back when Minecraft was one of those forum-based games (before the wiki), people would post asking "how do I craft a piston?" This community learning was a novel feature of survival crafting systems. Then, in 1.12, to widen the game's appeal, they added the recipe book. It was apparently implemented to guide players through the game. For some reason, the book would guide you through making a furnace, but not making a hopper. For some reason, the book shows you some recipes from the moment you have the ingredients, but only others after you've already crafted them. This gives players a half-baked idea of what the game has to offer, only to be met with frustration when they needed to figure out how to craft certain items (or learn that these items exist at all). In 1.14, the Village and Pillage update added a ton of functional blocks that players would benefit from knowing how to craft and use. Did the book show you these? No. If you didn't read the patch notes, you would have no idea they even existed, ruining the whole point of their alleged convenience and ease of crafting. I am still getting used to using these new blocks, as I have to unlock (and therefore Google or remember their recipes) in every new world. My second main critique is one of options, and this is why I tend to avoid survival in general. For such an open ended game, it really forces you down some annoying paths to be able to interact with some of its mechanics. Do you want to make literally any advanced redstone system? That's going to require a steady source of slime balls. But how do you get slime balls? Theoretically, slimes spawn in swamps, but that's at a rate too slow to be of any use to even a casual player. If you want slime without using third party tools, you need to dig out massive areas near the bottom of the world. Why would you ever do this without someone telling you to? We're already at a giant gameplay non sequitur, but it only gets worse. Slimes spawn low in the world, but only in specific chunks, or 16x16 areas. If you see a slime spawn in your giant dug-out area, you know it spawned in a slime chunk and that's where you should dig out more area and make a slime farm. But does the game tell you what the borders of this spawning area are? Not normally, no. You have to know to press F3+G (I think) to show chunk borders. If you're going to use a debug feature to find where one of the game's necessarily farmable mobs spawn, then you might as well use a third party tool to find your slime chunks in the first place. And if you like playing in peaceful, you're just fucked, because slimes don't spawn at all. For some reason they implemented honey, a way to farm a sticky substance without needing to make a mob farm, then did fuck all with it. Yes you can make some neat looking blocks and a new version of slime blocks that sticks to itself but not slime blocks (which is actually super useful), but it can never serve as an actual replacement for that bullshit gameplay path for getting slime balls. Why? Because you cannot make sticky pistons with honey. You cannot use the game's only other sticky substance to make sticky pistons. Watching Mojang implement alternative ways to get certain items, only to make these systems entirely separate, removing player agency, has been incredibly frustrating. My final critique is of what systems Minecraft actually let's you bypass. If you know what new features *are* exploitable, you can bypass half the game. Forget mining for cobble, then iron, then diamond, then obsidian to make diamond tools and an enchantment table. Forget killing endermen to access the end. Forget gaining 30 levels of experience and killing tons of cows so you can actually enchant your gear. All I need is a wooden axe and a couple villagers. There's a type of villager that you can change any other villager into which can give you emeralds from sticks. Because I know of this mechanic, I now have infinite emeralds. I can use my infinite emeralds and knowledge of easy profession switching to get an infinite amount of maximally enchanted tools (including mending, the single rarest enchantment in the game. It doesn't even show up in the normal enchanting system), armor, ender pearls, rare blocks, name tags, and an assortment of other things. This completely broken mechanic ensures I never have to even dig through stone to get diamonds. Yet for some fucking reason, no matter how knowledgable you are about villager trading, you'll still need to dig out a 16x16x39 area determined by some random slime chunk finding website just to make a sticky piston.
I absolutely love the quality of each of the videos you put out! So smooth and everything seems to fit together perfectly. The shaders, of course, really help that as well. I'm assuming it is SEUS?
The Sweden remix isn't up on TH-cam yet, I was working on a video to go with it but then I got busy. Here is my channel though th-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html Remix will be up soon.
I only see two real flaws with Minecraft's crafting system: 1) over-reliance on the crafting table. There are a few offshoots (like with enchanting, and brewing) but the vast majority of recipes are all in the same place. If there was a little bit more variation there, and they made better use of what they have. (The cartography table and smithing table are so niche, like cm'on just move more recipes to them) (why is the stonecutter not required/only gives buff for stairs. Why no woodcutter?) Going back to the same block every time can feel a bit repetitive. 2) lack of customization for armour and tools. I feel like minecraft needs way more customizability to armour and tools. When I hop on a new server, and grind out a full set of perfect gear, the only reasons it feels "mine" is because of the names I happened to give them in an anvil. My efficiency 5, unbreaking 3, mending, silk touch netherrite pickaxe is indistingiushable from any other one, except that *I* name it "Silky & Smooth" while my friend names it "Work pick." Especially armor, which I can't even be bothered to name, just feels like "a set of armour" not "a thing I built". Perhaps expanding the vexillography mechanics beyond shields by expanding loom's functionality could do this. Similar visual tweaks to tools and weapons could be possible. What if it was possible to cover perfect tools in another metal, and change the visual appearance? (Like netherrite, but with multiple options) Swords and axes help, but I feel like it's not enough. I even tried intentionally keeping a diamond sword for world building, but it still felt a bit short of how much expression I wanted. If I can see an item in my hotbar, and go "that's my item" it feels much more like there's a story there. Anyways, those are my thoughts, have a good day random internet denizen.
I don’t understand how this channel is still this small. Clean cut and modern editing, paired with actual intelligent content is getting harder to find. But I guess the size is also wha makes this channel special. Idk all I know is this is some of the most thought out Minecraft content I’ve ever watched
I mean the crafting system could do with one major change. That is more special recipes that aren't just blocks. Netherite is one, but that is all. I'm talking about new items that can enhance the player experience, while also not breaking the game from it's roots. Terraria does this well, as you mentioned that their is materials that link into a crafting system that is entirely optional. There is enough blocks in the game. Adding more will make the already bad creative menu worse. If you have ever played modded minecraft and seen how many unique crafts there are, it becomes exciting to see what you can craft. Another example is with 'Tinkers' Construct'. Where you need to make many different items and place them in a certain formation to make a fancy furnace, giving a guide book so the player understands. Just to clarify I like modded just as much as vanilla. I do not want to see the lines blur, but modded does things that make the game more exciting and a process. Lets say they add a new step in the cycle: Calculate. A step that will be entirely optional, but a more enjoyable system to use instead of the old. People that make auto smelters and item sorters fit into this category. Another benefit will be more self driven goals, Once an item has entered a crafting table, it will come out in it's final form, not a part of something bigger.
holy fuck, just the sheer amount of work and love you have put in these videos just explodes my mind. i never really liked high quality videos, but you took the format and made it feel homemade, comfortable. loved it, will be something to look back at and take inspiration from, because this is literally the thing i was looking to make myself. o7
@@merakimerakimeraki OH! A recent comment too. Okay that's cool. Thank you for your amazing content and I can't wait to see you again on TH-cam. As another commenter said, I believe you can make it big on TH-cam. Get some tips from the algorithm or even without them I believe you can grow big. But always remember me when you grow :)
Hey Meraki, I'm nervous because you haven't done anything since July 2020, you weren't available on any social media, and I'm worried, I found your channel 4/5 months ago thanks to the algorithm because I explicitly went to Wii Sports Resort I was looking for. I hope that you are well in your health please give us a sign of life so that we can take our fear away, I hope we haven't seen your last video, please come back and you don't have to do one of these fantastic videos and it's enough if you (doing a vlog through your living room saying that you are fine) just please give us a sign of life. I think your videos stand out from the crowd and like many others I would look forward to more and I bet I'm not the only one who is so worried about your life, and if someone has really trustworthy information about him, how his health is, please answer me. with this you help me and many others on the Internet who are also wondering where Meraki is. Meraki, if you see this, I am also known by the name (Danu).
@@merakimerakimeraki hey man it's great to hear from you and I'm glad you are fine, looking forward you will get it! I believe in you! And dont forget: There is no pressure on you to make videos
One issue I have with crafting nowadays is that it basically doesn't exist, because of the recipe book you're never going to have to manually craft anything which takes out something I think was a lot of the fun of the game, the mystery. You never knew what you might find deep in the caves or out exploring the endless landscape in old Minecraft and that applied to the crafting, you had to figure out how to make everything, and while this could be annoying, it was sort of fun just trying out differing things and seeing what you might be able to make, or knowing about and item and trying different combinations of items until you figure out how to craft it, idk I just think it was something special about old MC
PLEASE upload more. I just started watching your videos and I subbed immediately. Your schedule may not match 1,000,000 subscribers but your video quality sure as hell does. 👌
One of the reasons this game was so interesting to me back in 2012 was coz of the crafting , you had to guess or look up recipes and U enjoyed that It made it more full filling and in my opinion added to the experience.
Man, I discovered your channel not long ago and the content you're putting out is really freaking good. I'm sure the channel is going to blow up shortly. Keep up the good work!
Hey man, wherever you are out there. Please come back. I'm sure you've read this a thousand times already but man. I do miss you alot. You're Videos were absolutely amazing.
You just gave me one of the biggest jump scares of my life with the creeper sound at 6:26! I was playing while listening to the video in the background, almost threw my mouse at the wall...🤣
I'm sure other people have said it, but I'll say it too. Crafting also contributes to world building. The recipe of an item lets us see how it's made, how it functions. How does a dispenser shoot? It has a bow in its crafting recipe. Stuff like that. I do think that crafting could be more engaging in some ways, but going too far into that would make it tedious. Think of "Crafting" concrete. You need to preform an outside step, you need to get it wet. A bit annoying, but arguably a step in the right direction, and it is a new challenge that inspires new creative solutions like concrete blast chambers to solve. If minecraft were to update or expand on their crafting system, I would think they would do so by using new methods other than the crafting table. That's what they've been doing already after all. You can craft gold into enderpearls, you just gotta use this fancy new crafting table called a piglin and also roll the dice a bit. Perhaps minecraft could borrow a little from the various magic mods that exist? Pretty much all of them involve some sort of ritualized crafting for more powerful items that you don't make in bulk. Being slow adds dramatic tension and it wont be too repeated. The fact that these mods are so popular implies a demand for that type of crafting to supplement the normal crafting system.
love your videos, this one and especially the "unexpected turn of minecraft" vid, editing and the commentary is amazing :) also youre very beautiful lol i might simp
every week, I discover and subscribe to about 3 youtube channels. I am currently subbed to 165 channels, though there used to be many more before TH-cam removed about 50 of them due to me not watching their videos. This channel in particular stands out in that sea of channels; it's somewhat unique, interesting to watch, and is very high quality. (Plus, it will help me design my minecraft "improvement" that I might be working on in the next few years)
dude you are so under appreciated, you make such quality great videos that only a few people see. I wish this channel could blow up so more people see your amazing content!
I love minecraft. It is a game i like to play for fun and when I am bored and have nonething else to do. I usualy play older versions like 1.7.2 witch is a version I played the most because of my crappy pc. Nice video btw. Keep up the good work ;)
Your channel is seriously underrated. Your editing and just the way the videos are put together Is just great And just great content in general. Great video as always.
I just discovered your channel and let me tell you that I absolutely love the way you make your content. I really enjoyed watching both this and the "Crafting in Video Games SUCKS" one (since they're related lol) and really hope you keep making awesome content like this (Take your time tho)
just want you to know your honestly my favorite youtuber. I hear so many people say that to so many people but you are just special your content, commentaries, and amazing video about minecrafts music. Meraki i want you to know that i never want you to stop content
Crafting in Minecraft is a tool. Simple as that, it allows you to have a lot of cool stuff that wouldn't make sense to find in the world. It also makes it so if you want something that does spawn in the world like rails, you don't have to go out of your way to find those in the world, you can just craft them from common materials. It also is a mission in itself, you go on an adventure to find diamonds to craft a diamond pickaxe. Now, everything is limited to 3x3 menu, so you probably won't need an assenite amount of 7-9 different materials (because the materials in crafting are repeated most of the time, you never need a lot of unique items to craft something, unless you craft a thing to craft a thing, but I don't remember ever doing much of that other than stripping wood logs into planks). Also the controls are fluid with how you can grab 1 of, stack of or half of a thing. It feels fast. And because crafting exists and often requires common materials, it gives greater purpose to what you carry around. You might be carrying wood around to be able to make more torches and tools, but decide that you wanna make a bed, a door or maybe just wall yourself off. In a way it allows for a huge expansion of inventory size, because a stack of unstripped logs should last you for 32 stacks of torches (!). If you're in a cave, coal is easy to come by, wood is not. Anyways, there is a purpose to the system and there is depth to the system as well. On top of that it's not boring. It doesn't have to be especially engaging. It's fast and snappy. It gives you options you would otherwise miss out on.
I'm getting a saxophone soon and I'm definitely going to try and learn Sweden on it. Hope to make a passionate cover with that jazzy funky growling in it. That being said, that is getting ahead of myself by many months at the least.
4:33 that enderman appeared in the most cinematic way possible; it was mysterious; coordinated; elegant; it was perfect. but yes, it also kinda looks like it teleported the wrong way around.
The quality and the amount of thought and effort that goes into these videos make me question the amount of subscribers you have. Get him to 1 Million subs already please.
fun fact: i look at my script 1726389228 times during this video!
If thats true thats sad
Make that first number a 2 and I'll believe ya 👀...
Haha that was big funny
It's nice that you care enough to put the effort in to writing one
You deserves more subs dude, your videos are great and it’s clear you put a lot of effort in
*kills sheep. Sheep drops shears.*
Yeah, I see why we need the crafting system now.
It'sElle lol 😂
whoever made that sweden remix at the title card is a god
That’s Dr. Keyz! Check him out! He also made the end remix
@@merakimerakimeraki I searched it up and couldn't find any of his remixes/music. Where can I find it?
Eazikai Pretty sure it’s SoundCloud. I could be wrong.
@@rationxl2922 Wish I saw this earlier. Here's a link - soundcloud.com/thedrkeys
@@Saiegg Soundcloud, and TH-cam! :) th-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html
"every single block is gatherable for use"
*Looks at bedrock*
*looks ar air*
*looks at barrier block*
well if you play bedrock, anything is possible
@@PresidentNathan exept having fun
@@PresidentNathan yes, even unstable releases with plenty of bugs
bro, where you at? we haven't seen you in 5 months
You’re a totally underrated channel. The editing is smooth, the script flows really well, the jokes are on points, and it provokes thought! I hope you blow up soon!
Wow he wants him to die!
@@ignzyriq lol
thanks so much :)
Minecraft’s crafting is weird. I’ve only just started playing it for the first time a couple days ago and it’s really strange.
Having to make the specific image in the crafting menu is unique but sometimes doesn’t feel like it makes sense. I guess playing it years ago would be more of a trial and error system, which could be more enjoyable.
I like how there aren’t recipes you need to learn or milestones you need to pass before you’re allowed to make stuff. As long as you have the ingredients, you can make it.
Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. It’s something tangible like a building or a minecart highway or a huge farm instead of just seeing stats incrementally increase.
The King of Antarctica I know, it’s much more rewarding to see your base gradually grow and expand according to your needs rather than see arbitrary stats increase. It’s more fun to spend hours designing and building a specific farm or project then spending hours grinding to see a number go up
>Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little.
Holy cow that explains why I'm drawn to these two games. That way of progression system is great, and you can really feel the outcome of the effort you've done after hours and hours of gameplay.
You played terraria first didn’t ya
Bro you need to start uploading again, I miss you so much! Much love, one of your loyal fans!
S-someone changed their mind on the internet!!! In all seriousness though I appreciate the time and effort that was put into the the analysis even though the last video came out months ago. I watch all of your videos and I have to say that you make some of the more entertaining videos out there. Keep up the good work my guy :)
P.S. I appreciate you putting my comment in your vid it was very surprising
Dude what shaders does he use they’re beautiful
BSL! They’re my favorite
@@merakimerakimeraki you should give rtx a shot!
It feels like it's gonna set something important on fire...
Hmmm, I wonder what it would be🤔
@@danielawesome36 *HIS PC!?* 🤯
@@pancake5830 rtx is only on bedrock
If Merakl Came back to TH-cam and did frequent uploads. even if the videos are just lets plays. I would watch him when ever I can. He's young. He's fresh, He's new. and he could honestly become very successful. there's just something but his personality that's down to earth and "vibey". I can see a lot of people can connect with that. his content is relaxing and entertaining. Hope he comes back.
I keep thinking about it. If Meraki comes back it will be awesome I hope.
Looks like he forgot his youtube password
It looks to me like you liked your own video. I'm pretty sure that is a cardinal sin.
silence! dont let the others hear you!
gotta algo the rhythm lol
Please upload again if you’re still out there. Please.
I'm posting this when I'm ~2 minutes into the video. I've been playing since Beta 1.7, and my biggest critique is probably of the "recipe book."
Back when Minecraft was one of those forum-based games (before the wiki), people would post asking "how do I craft a piston?" This community learning was a novel feature of survival crafting systems.
Then, in 1.12, to widen the game's appeal, they added the recipe book. It was apparently implemented to guide players through the game. For some reason, the book would guide you through making a furnace, but not making a hopper. For some reason, the book shows you some recipes from the moment you have the ingredients, but only others after you've already crafted them. This gives players a half-baked idea of what the game has to offer, only to be met with frustration when they needed to figure out how to craft certain items (or learn that these items exist at all).
In 1.14, the Village and Pillage update added a ton of functional blocks that players would benefit from knowing how to craft and use. Did the book show you these? No. If you didn't read the patch notes, you would have no idea they even existed, ruining the whole point of their alleged convenience and ease of crafting. I am still getting used to using these new blocks, as I have to unlock (and therefore Google or remember their recipes) in every new world.
My second main critique is one of options, and this is why I tend to avoid survival in general.
For such an open ended game, it really forces you down some annoying paths to be able to interact with some of its mechanics. Do you want to make literally any advanced redstone system? That's going to require a steady source of slime balls. But how do you get slime balls? Theoretically, slimes spawn in swamps, but that's at a rate too slow to be of any use to even a casual player. If you want slime without using third party tools, you need to dig out massive areas near the bottom of the world. Why would you ever do this without someone telling you to? We're already at a giant gameplay non sequitur, but it only gets worse. Slimes spawn low in the world, but only in specific chunks, or 16x16 areas. If you see a slime spawn in your giant dug-out area, you know it spawned in a slime chunk and that's where you should dig out more area and make a slime farm. But does the game tell you what the borders of this spawning area are? Not normally, no. You have to know to press F3+G (I think) to show chunk borders. If you're going to use a debug feature to find where one of the game's necessarily farmable mobs spawn, then you might as well use a third party tool to find your slime chunks in the first place.
And if you like playing in peaceful, you're just fucked, because slimes don't spawn at all.
For some reason they implemented honey, a way to farm a sticky substance without needing to make a mob farm, then did fuck all with it. Yes you can make some neat looking blocks and a new version of slime blocks that sticks to itself but not slime blocks (which is actually super useful), but it can never serve as an actual replacement for that bullshit gameplay path for getting slime balls. Why? Because you cannot make sticky pistons with honey. You cannot use the game's only other sticky substance to make sticky pistons.
Watching Mojang implement alternative ways to get certain items, only to make these systems entirely separate, removing player agency, has been incredibly frustrating.
My final critique is of what systems Minecraft actually let's you bypass. If you know what new features *are* exploitable, you can bypass half the game. Forget mining for cobble, then iron, then diamond, then obsidian to make diamond tools and an enchantment table. Forget killing endermen to access the end. Forget gaining 30 levels of experience and killing tons of cows so you can actually enchant your gear. All I need is a wooden axe and a couple villagers. There's a type of villager that you can change any other villager into which can give you emeralds from sticks. Because I know of this mechanic, I now have infinite emeralds. I can use my infinite emeralds and knowledge of easy profession switching to get an infinite amount of maximally enchanted tools (including mending, the single rarest enchantment in the game. It doesn't even show up in the normal enchanting system), armor, ender pearls, rare blocks, name tags, and an assortment of other things. This completely broken mechanic ensures I never have to even dig through stone to get diamonds.
Yet for some fucking reason, no matter how knowledgable you are about villager trading, you'll still need to dig out a 16x16x39 area determined by some random slime chunk finding website just to make a sticky piston.
you can give feedback on their website
its on the minecraft menu, right at the front
i agree :)
Swamps are actually really common, and when you go there during full moon, ohohoh boy that's afuck ton o' slimes
Wow, your comment is bigger than my pp
Stas Goitz so is my comment
bro where you at we need you back ;((((((((
Hope your doing good man
Damn I can't believe you don't have 1M subs yet
The return! Thanks for using my Sweden remix!
I couldn’t not! It’s too good!!
Woah, I just liked 5 of your songs 3 hours ago because of this video
I feel like I am responding to celebrities
@@stasgoitz1632 I saw that! Thanks for the support. I appreciate it.
I absolutely love the quality of each of the videos you put out! So smooth and everything seems to fit together perfectly. The shaders, of course, really help that as well. I'm assuming it is SEUS?
I’ll have to check when I get home!
But thank you so much for the kind words!
@@merakimerakimeraki
They're actually BSL shaders!
@@merakimerakimeraki Thank you! They just looked too good not to download haha!
I know that the upload schedule is a mess but Jesus 6 months already past
bro i miss meraki 🥲🥲🥲
If anyone is looking for that Sweden remix from the title sequence, it's on Dr. Keyz's Soundcloud. Doesn't appear to be on TH-cam.
soundcloud.com/thedrkeys/sweden-minecraft-lofi-hip-hop !
@@merakimerakimeraki ^ ^ ^
The Sweden remix isn't up on TH-cam yet, I was working on a video to go with it but then
I got busy. Here is my channel though th-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html Remix will be up soon.
And when the world needed him most, he disappeared,
( much like Sam O’nella)
I only see two real flaws with Minecraft's crafting system:
1) over-reliance on the crafting table.
There are a few offshoots (like with enchanting, and brewing) but the vast majority of recipes are all in the same place. If there was a little bit more variation there, and they made better use of what they have. (The cartography table and smithing table are so niche, like cm'on just move more recipes to them) (why is the stonecutter not required/only gives buff for stairs. Why no woodcutter?)
Going back to the same block every time can feel a bit repetitive.
2) lack of customization for armour and tools.
I feel like minecraft needs way more customizability to armour and tools. When I hop on a new server, and grind out a full set of perfect gear, the only reasons it feels "mine" is because of the names I happened to give them in an anvil. My efficiency 5, unbreaking 3, mending, silk touch netherrite pickaxe is indistingiushable from any other one, except that *I* name it "Silky & Smooth" while my friend names it "Work pick." Especially armor, which I can't even be bothered to name, just feels like "a set of armour" not "a thing I built". Perhaps expanding the vexillography mechanics beyond shields by expanding loom's functionality could do this. Similar visual tweaks to tools and weapons could be possible. What if it was possible to cover perfect tools in another metal, and change the visual appearance? (Like netherrite, but with multiple options) Swords and axes help, but I feel like it's not enough. I even tried intentionally keeping a diamond sword for world building, but it still felt a bit short of how much expression I wanted.
If I can see an item in my hotbar, and go "that's my item" it feels much more like there's a story there.
Anyways, those are my thoughts, have a good day random internet denizen.
I don’t understand how this channel is still this small. Clean cut and modern editing, paired with actual intelligent content is getting harder to find. But I guess the size is also wha makes this channel special. Idk all I know is this is some of the most thought out Minecraft content I’ve ever watched
Dude thanks so much! I appreciate it so much- honestly, it’s worth it as long as people watch and enjoy, I don’t care how many!
Miss your uploads man, hope you are well and safe!
i miss him too, i just hope he's doing okay
6:25 i was playing hardcore and when i herd that sound i almost crapped myself
HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBS! I mean this video is so well made like always
Where have you gone, dude?
sir, we need your uploads.
ur way around words is so mesmerizing i could literally fall asleep to this video lmao
MERAKI WE NEED MORE UPLOADS
I mean the crafting system could do with one major change. That is more special recipes that aren't just blocks.
Netherite is one, but that is all. I'm talking about new items that can enhance the player experience, while also not breaking the game from it's roots. Terraria does this well, as you mentioned that their is materials that link into a crafting system that is entirely optional. There is enough blocks in the game. Adding more will make the already bad creative menu worse.
If you have ever played modded minecraft and seen how many unique crafts there are, it becomes exciting to see what you can craft.
Another example is with 'Tinkers' Construct'. Where you need to make many different items and place them in a certain formation to make a fancy furnace, giving a guide book so the player understands.
Just to clarify I like modded just as much as vanilla. I do not want to see the lines blur, but modded does things that make the game more exciting and a process. Lets say they add a new step in the cycle: Calculate. A step that will be entirely optional, but a more enjoyable system to use instead of the old. People that make auto smelters and item sorters fit into this category.
Another benefit will be more self driven goals, Once an item has entered a crafting table, it will come out in it's final form, not a part of something bigger.
modding minecraft enough to use shaders but not enough to add basic quality of life (like inventory sorting) should be considered a sin imo
merakiiii where did you go :(
I miss him
holy fuck, just the sheer amount of work and love you have put in these videos just explodes my mind. i never really liked high quality videos, but you took the format and made it feel homemade, comfortable. loved it, will be something to look back at and take inspiration from, because this is literally the thing i was looking to make myself. o7
i know, i just love it
He commented recently that he should come back soon
Honestly, you're videos are so well put together. I don't know how you don't have one million subscribers.
Man I wish he would upload more
i have been waiting for so long but from what i know he is still finnishing school and that he is currently takin a long break from youtube
i’m coming back big time :) thanks for your patience
I'm excited for meraki to finish college good luck!
Hey man. You've been missing. I just wanted to let you know that your name, "Meraki" means "soft and passionate love" in my home laungage, Greek.
Guess he wasn't kidding when he said inconsistent upload schedule.
guess life happenned. hope you're doing great outside, mate.
i’ve been alright :) but i’m coming back, stay tuned
@@merakimerakimeraki OH! A recent comment too. Okay that's cool. Thank you for your amazing content and I can't wait to see you again on TH-cam. As another commenter said, I believe you can make it big on TH-cam. Get some tips from the algorithm or even without them I believe you can grow big. But always remember me when you grow :)
@@merakimerakimeraki Do you have a channel discord server?
Come back what the hell did you go
Hey Meraki,
I'm nervous because you haven't done anything since July 2020,
you weren't available on any social media, and I'm worried,
I found your channel 4/5 months ago thanks to the algorithm because
I explicitly went to Wii Sports Resort I was looking for. I hope that you are well
in your health please give us a sign of life so that we can take our fear away,
I hope we haven't seen your last video, please come back and you don't have to
do one of these fantastic videos and it's enough if you (doing a vlog
through your living room saying that you are fine) just please give us a sign of life.
I think your videos stand out from the crowd and like many others
I would look forward to more and I bet I'm not the only one who is so worried about your life,
and if someone has really trustworthy information about him, how his health is, please answer me.
with this you help me and many others on the Internet who are also wondering where Meraki is.
Meraki, if you see this, I am also known by the name (Danu).
hi! i’m okay, just struggling through my last year of college and solidifying a real job! too busy for youtube at the moment, which sucks :(
@@merakimerakimeraki hey man it's great to hear from you and I'm glad you are fine, looking forward you will get it! I believe in you!
And dont forget:
There is no pressure on you to make videos
I WAS PLAYING MINECRAFT WHILE THIS VIDEO WAS IN THE BACKGROUND PLAYING AND WHEN YOU PLAYED THAT CREPER SOUND MY HEART STOPPED
One issue I have with crafting nowadays is that it basically doesn't exist, because of the recipe book you're never going to have to manually craft anything which takes out something I think was a lot of the fun of the game, the mystery. You never knew what you might find deep in the caves or out exploring the endless landscape in old Minecraft and that applied to the crafting, you had to figure out how to make everything, and while this could be annoying, it was sort of fun just trying out differing things and seeing what you might be able to make, or knowing about and item and trying different combinations of items until you figure out how to craft it, idk I just think it was something special about old MC
Maybe the recipe book would show the recipe when you craft it once
I miss him so much
PLEASE upload more. I just started watching your videos and I subbed immediately. Your schedule may not match 1,000,000 subscribers but your video quality sure as hell does. 👌
One of the reasons this game was so interesting to me back in 2012 was coz of the crafting , you had to guess or look up recipes and U enjoyed that
It made it more full filling and in my opinion added to the experience.
Might have inconsistent uploads but gosh darnit are these videos are well worth the wait
6:25 i actually had this video playing in the background and panicked for a second.
I was playing Satisfactory and it made me terrified.
Man, I discovered your channel not long ago and the content you're putting out is really freaking good. I'm sure the channel is going to blow up shortly. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words! I would be so happy if it did ☺️
Hey man, wherever you are out there. Please come back. I'm sure you've read this a thousand times already but man. I do miss you alot. You're Videos were absolutely amazing.
Hes coming back!
Why you stopped uploading videos? they are so good...
Please come back I live your videos! You’re amazing!
6:26 you fukin scared me, i was playing minecraft while the video was running and just..... i had a heart attack
I JUST discovered you channel but these videos are absolute gold. Just 10-20 minutes of c o n t e n t
He’s BACK *gasp* love the vids man, and the music and tone and everything, you inspire me to be better. Have a nice day.
I'm convinced you're that actor from NBC'S manifest
You just gave me one of the biggest jump scares of my life with the creeper sound at 6:26! I was playing while listening to the video in the background, almost threw my mouse at the wall...🤣
bro you're so underrated
yo pls come back where have you been?
Yes honestly
Why’d he quit????
@@ion7951 idk ;(
i’m coming back in the next week or so, stay tuned :)
I'm sure other people have said it, but I'll say it too. Crafting also contributes to world building. The recipe of an item lets us see how it's made, how it functions. How does a dispenser shoot? It has a bow in its crafting recipe. Stuff like that.
I do think that crafting could be more engaging in some ways, but going too far into that would make it tedious. Think of "Crafting" concrete. You need to preform an outside step, you need to get it wet. A bit annoying, but arguably a step in the right direction, and it is a new challenge that inspires new creative solutions like concrete blast chambers to solve.
If minecraft were to update or expand on their crafting system, I would think they would do so by using new methods other than the crafting table. That's what they've been doing already after all. You can craft gold into enderpearls, you just gotta use this fancy new crafting table called a piglin and also roll the dice a bit.
Perhaps minecraft could borrow a little from the various magic mods that exist? Pretty much all of them involve some sort of ritualized crafting for more powerful items that you don't make in bulk. Being slow adds dramatic tension and it wont be too repeated. The fact that these mods are so popular implies a demand for that type of crafting to supplement the normal crafting system.
love your videos, this one and especially the "unexpected turn of minecraft" vid, editing and the commentary is amazing :) also youre very beautiful lol i might simp
I'm already simping 😂
Hi meraki hope your 2021 is going well
He left as quickly as he came
What shaders are you using? Can you link it?
every week, I discover and subscribe to about 3 youtube channels.
I am currently subbed to 165 channels, though there used to be many more before TH-cam removed about 50 of them due to me not watching their videos.
This channel in particular stands out in that sea of channels; it's somewhat unique, interesting to watch, and is very high quality.
(Plus, it will help me design my minecraft "improvement" that I might be working on in the next few years)
What shaders are you using??
All of the videos you made are incredible hope you can get back to making videos soon
this channel is underrated please upload more
8:05 “it’s like a reverse Kardashian”
Shots fired, shots fired!
Oh Brother where are ye
why did you stop making videos? we miss them!
dude you are so under appreciated, you make such quality great videos that only a few people see. I wish this channel could blow up so more people see your amazing content!
Please man, come back. We all miss you.
You should talk about console edition Minecraft! It’s been abandoned from even talked about for a year
Bro are you coming back or nahh...
Your minecraft videos are really underrated, they are really cool, i am glad i looked deeper into your channel
WHY ARENT YOU POSTING???????
Have you forgotten your password?
I love minecraft. It is a game i like to play for fun and when I am bored and have nonething else to do. I usualy play older versions like 1.7.2 witch is a version I played the most because of my crappy pc. Nice video btw. Keep up the good work ;)
Your channel is seriously underrated. Your editing and just the way the videos are put together Is just great And just great content in general. Great video as always.
Thank you so much!
Meraki no problem
my man here just disappered
i was playing mc cafting while listening to this and when you played that creeper sound... my life flashed before my eyes. just prooving your point
You know what it missing?? SOUNDS
every work station except crafting table got it own sounds. Why not crafting?
I just discovered your channel and let me tell you that I absolutely love the way you make your content. I really enjoyed watching both this and the "Crafting in Video Games SUCKS" one (since they're related lol) and really hope you keep making awesome content like this (Take your time tho)
I really wonder whats that "superkai64" kid doing today?
XD
He’s going to MIT, specializing in random access memory theory
@@merakimerakimeraki *wandom access memory
just want you to know your honestly my favorite youtuber. I hear so many people say that to so many people but you are just special your content, commentaries, and amazing video about minecrafts music. Meraki i want you to know that i never want you to stop content
love when you talk about minecraft :)
Crafting in Minecraft is a tool. Simple as that, it allows you to have a lot of cool stuff that wouldn't make sense to find in the world.
It also makes it so if you want something that does spawn in the world like rails, you don't have to go out of your way to find those in the world, you can just craft them from common materials.
It also is a mission in itself, you go on an adventure to find diamonds to craft a diamond pickaxe.
Now, everything is limited to 3x3 menu, so you probably won't need an assenite amount of 7-9 different materials (because the materials in crafting are repeated most of the time, you never need a lot of unique items to craft something, unless you craft a thing to craft a thing, but I don't remember ever doing much of that other than stripping wood logs into planks). Also the controls are fluid with how you can grab 1 of, stack of or half of a thing. It feels fast.
And because crafting exists and often requires common materials, it gives greater purpose to what you carry around. You might be carrying wood around to be able to make more torches and tools, but decide that you wanna make a bed, a door or maybe just wall yourself off.
In a way it allows for a huge expansion of inventory size, because a stack of unstripped logs should last you for 32 stacks of torches (!). If you're in a cave, coal is easy to come by, wood is not.
Anyways, there is a purpose to the system and there is depth to the system as well. On top of that it's not boring.
It doesn't have to be especially engaging. It's fast and snappy. It gives you options you would otherwise miss out on.
I'm getting a saxophone soon and I'm definitely going to try and learn Sweden on it. Hope to make a passionate cover with that jazzy funky growling in it. That being said, that is getting ahead of myself by many months at the least.
We need someone to revolutionize crafting.
I’ll be at work.
Can't believe I'm still that one noob with no brain. I really still use the recipe book 😂 😭
it’s okay i am too 😭
4:33 that enderman appeared in the most cinematic way possible; it was mysterious; coordinated; elegant; it was perfect. but yes, it also kinda looks like it teleported the wrong way around.
Yes I totally agree, the crafting system is Minecraft is great and very crucial to the game! What is your favourite tool in Minecraft? Nice video.
2:52 Yes that is why I had once played Minecraft for so long and that was to finally beat the game
also how does this guy not have 15 mil subs yet like so underrated?
What's the song that starts at 2:03
Girls lunch table: Hear about the dance tomorrow? Yea, I’m going too!
Boys lunch table:
The quality and the amount of thought and effort that goes into these videos make me question the amount of subscribers you have. Get him to 1 Million subs already please.