#AND THEY ADDED FROGS TO MINECRAFT SINCE THEN.

[lwieserce]

I had a vision. I think i know how i want to build the roof of my house. Also my house is right next to a tiny gravel biome (worst thing about my surroundings) and i just decided. . . . .i think i am going to get rid of alllll that gravel, terraform the area and build a huge skeleton of sorts that i'll try to wrap around the mountain range behind my home? with a blood red tumor seeping out of it (dragonspine style)

[claitea]

had a bad shift and was mad at everything and everyone but then i was told we finally got froglights in my friends' minecraft realm and i was Immediately better. point of this post is i Love froglights

[thelunarsystemwrites]

anyways Minecraft OC time

So, the story behind them is a witch was in the lush caves, doing magic stuff, and accidently turned an axolotl humanoid. Which as you can probably tell, Witchlet isn't happy about, they liked being an axolotl. 🤷‍♂️

The reason I picked this combo, is because Witch huts live in the swamp. So do frogs (or atleast in mangrove ones) and frogs and axolotls are amphibians. So since the watch and axolotl are my favourite mobs, I decided to combine them!

Their hat is moss, with some glow lichen. And a spore blossom!

They have some glow berries and glow lichen wrapped around their waist, which holds their regen potions. Their "wand" is a trident! Though the first image was an amethyst rod, because I thought the breeze rod was an amethyst rod ^^"

They're a mix between a witch and axolotl. So their powers are regeneration, and they can brew potions by using their crafting bar instead of a brewing stand. They can breathe under water and land, but have slowness and fatigue on land. They have fourteen hearts, (from what I looked up. Witches have 13 and Axolotls have seven, so I took one from the axolotl and added it to a witches health to decide.) Take extra fire damage. Can't sleep at night but can at day.

And yeah, their name is Witchlet! They're they/them because uhh all my ocs are /j

I feel like they'd live in an amethyst geo, and it's opened to a small lush cave. They prefer dark and wet areas, they have a ehh relationship with drowned, and mostly eat fish and mushroom stews!

Also they have an Alley named Fae, based off my own Minecraft pet! And Fae helps Witchlet do witchy stuff lol. I feel like they'd also have a skeleton horse, since it can go under water.

Uhhh other thing about themmm....

Their trident has loyalty and channeling, they also carry a fully enchanted fishing rod. They prefer colder biomes, their "mother" is the witch that transformed them. The witch tries, she really does, but they dislike her alot.

They'd be a neutral mob, and attack the player if they're attacked first. They're neutral to drowned and guardians mostly, but randomly attack them sometimes.

Their favourite potions to use are weaknesses and slowness on people.

And uh... yeah. I think that they can't talk, but squeak/chirp alot like an axolotl to chat!

Hey tend to lurk in very deep, dark parts of oceans if they aren't home.

Would drop glow berries, bottles, amethyst, and even their trident or fishing rod if killed!

[by-foolish-design]

So me and my friend @golubayasoyka have started building the magnus institute in Minecraft. We are using this map from reddit with a few deviations

From there we decided to build the bottom floor first with these amazing computers (built by me)

But here's a tour I did while it was mostly done. Missing a few details the trapdoor by the entrance, and the stairs weren't finished but those come later

We then added stairs "to the next floor" we are making this all separate as it's easier to build complex things that way.

At this point soyka had to come off and I did the second floor, the entrance, mostly by myself with help from a couple friends with pallets and the like. This is where I deviated from the floorplan above have the reception at the beginning while leaving places like the librarians office and admin/hr.

I then worked to the walls and the smaller rooms. Such as the librarians office pictured below

Then as the last thing for now I started the roof and lighting, since this is to be built in survival I used frog lights which I can just make a farm for.

That's all for now we will keep you all updated and maybe release a world download if people want it

[ursaspecter]

Mojang: We're adding frogs to minecraft! And look we even added fireflies to the swamps for ambience and frogs can even eat them too!

Players: Cool! We like this!

Frog Experts: Actually fireflies are very bad for frogs. Since in recent years you want to be more responsible with how you add mob interactions in game, please reconsider this.

Mojang: Thank you for the feedback! After careful consideration and reflection, we have decided to remove fireflies. We are always continuing to grow and take steps to-

Players: Why not just program it so frogs don't eat fireflies so that we can keep them in the game?

Mojang: That's literally impossible. Die.

[heyheyitsjae]

Alright so a new trailer for A Minecraft Movie came out (and a few behind the scenes videos in the interim). It’s a massive improvement over the previous teaser and I have a lot more positive things to say, but it still hasn’t really swayed me on seeing it in theaters. My overall thoughts are the same as they have been. The environment/sets are very pretty and nice, the Mobs have an uncanny and freaky vibe to them that doesn’t sit well, and while not AS poorly green screened the actors don’t mesh with the world and their dialogue feels cheesy and poorly delivered. However, with the presentation of this trailer I’m starting to get the visual identity the film is going for and appreciate it a bit more. I still would’ve preferred either an animation, or if it had to be live action ditching the cube aesthetic, but its style is starting to grow on me. That said, a better trailer doesn’t necessarily mean a better movie. 

The Bee has been leaked before, and as before I think it’s decently cute. 

I am so torn on the “as a child I yearned for the mines” line. On the one hand it is really funny, on the other hand it’s only funny because it’s a pre established meme and this is a massive “hello fellow kids” moment. Minecraft has had a nasty habit of cashing in on community memes long after the time has passed. They added Screaming Goats to the game a decent bit after the screaming goat meme had already died, and now that Mob is incredibly dated. They made this hilarious walk and dance tune for Frogs for Minecraft Live a few years back, and have been dragging that dead horse out of the mud to beat it with a stick for just about every community event since then even though it’s no longer funny. As hilarious as they are, just about every Narrator and MARILLA episode has some sort of dig at the Phantom yet THEY STILL HAVEN’T TRIED TO FIX THE FUCKING PHANTOMS!!! THEY KNOW PEOPLE HATE THEM AND ARE DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT, JUST RUBBING IT IN! We’re laughing at how stupid and ridiculous the line is now, but I’m sure by the time the film actually comes out it will have been so saturated in the marketing it’s no longer funny. 

The zoom out as Steve enters the Overworld is weird. It took me a while to realize it lines up with the music. Speaking of, It's so cool they’re actually using C418 for the trailer!... only to fade it out for another fucking radio song that doesn’t really fit. Come on guys, Otherside would’ve fit the vibe of this trailer perfectly! 

When Steve’s placing dirt the sounds of the dirt placing don’t line up with his actions. I’m guessing they originally showed more of him building and forgot to edit the trailer’s music since that’s what the sounds DO line up with. 

The Wolf was one of the better looking designs from the teaser and I’ll admit it is pretty cute here. The animation of the collar popping up with the hearts is really slick and I love it. It is weird that he’s taming an angry Wolf, but maybe the Wolf was just mad at the Sheep nearby and not Steve? Idk. 

Maybe it’s just the lighting but uh… why is there no gold along the edges of those Powered Rails? They look more like Activator Rails. That feels like a very major thing to miss. 

One of the dumber complaints I saw going around with the previous teaser was people going “‘Steve’s Lava Chicken,’ the fuck’s that mean?” The second I saw that sign my assumption was Steve set up a lava-based Chicken auto-cooker, those are pretty common! And sure enough, he did! One thing is though, I’m not sure the design shown off here would actually work? My first thought was you’d have to get the timing of the Pistons opening and closing pretty precise in order to have the Flowing Lava touch the Chicken and set it on fire while also letting it dissipate before the Chicken actually burned to death so it wouldn’t destroy the items. 

But I saw a couple of explanations floating about for it. The first was that the Chicken was standing on a slab, as it didn’t line up with the glass in the window, in which case this design would 100% work. The second was the Chicken was on a trapdoor that dropped it just as it got set on fire… and sure enough someone managed to build a working version of it in-game! 

The Chicken itself is decent, I mostly like it. My one issue is its eyes. That brown iris and black pupil makes its eyes SUPER beady. And like, their eyes are pretty beady in the base game, but this lad is staring into your soul and I hate it. That said, the Cooked Chicken does look pretty good… 

We see Villagers in the background a lot during these scenes (even old Wandy T my beloved.) I think it’s cool that they’ve got a variety of Biome outfits, not just their professions, which really adds a lot of extra variety to the town. They’re in the background and blurred a lot so you can’t really make out their faces that much… but they are usually a bit cursed. There are a handful of shots (usually when you see them head on) where they’re actually kind of cute! But they’re undoubtedly weird lookin’.  

The first time I saw this trailer one thing that really confused me was the extended version of the Ghast-hot-air-balloon scene, cause it looked like they just kind of shot at nothing there. Going frame by frame though, you can see a white triangle kind of thing dart across the mountainside and fly out from under the fireball. I think we’re gonna get a midair combat scene of Ghast vs Elytra-player.

The Nether was the best looking part of the previous trailer, and it still looks great here. I love the sort of Legends-like combination of Bastion and Fortress leading up to a central, decorated portal. But also, the dog is there. Are the Piglins gonna kill Steve’s Wolf? Is that how this conflict starts? DOES THE DOG DIE MOJANG!?!?

The 2D visual is fun, I hope they have more creative shots like that in the final product. One thing I noticed the first time is Garret here is digging into an already established tunnel, and something someone else pointed out is there’s TNT buried in the ground next to him. It seems like they’re luring the Skeletons into some kind of pit-trap. Seems excessive to basic night-time Googlies to me, but still cool. 

Alright the punching and placing wood thing is actually badass. There was a lot of weight behind it (in both directions) that I like. 

We saw “The Stash™®©” in the previous teaser and BTS but I'll talk about it a bit anyway. I really hope we get actual shelving to store our items in the official game soon, that’s been a long time coming. While it’s definitely wishful thinking, the Boots of Swiftness from Dungeons being here makes me hope some spin-off loot is added to the main game as part of a movie-tie-in. The new Drops system would facilitate that, at least to a degree. The Golden Carrots look freakin’ weird though, and I’m not sure why Steve has two different spots for them. We get a better look at a suit of Gold Armor here and… it’s odd. Real humans have different proportions than Minecraft dudes, so in order for any sort of armor to fit the chestplate has to be a bit bigger than normal and the helmet way smaller. I’m sure it looks better being worn by someone, but it just looks doofy and dumb right now on the stand. Like you guys know the old live action Mario Movie? I’m getting Goomba vibes from this fit. 

Man… I’m so disappointed about the Elytra. You see, a long standing point of contention with Minecraft fans is that the in-game wings are called Elytra, but Elytra aren’t actually wings. They’re protective pieces of an insect's shell that open up to allow the actual wings to unfurl and let them fly. In some of the concept art for the film we saw their original plans for the Elytra. It was going to a beetle-shell-like pack on the human’s back, that would open to reveal softer wings that would fold out and let them fly, very similar to an actual bug. In the film they seem to have picked the worst of both worlds. The Elytra is just a big chunky plate that looks more like the shell than the wings, and has a very bland design, basically just copy-pasting the in-game texture for its edges. It doesn’t even look to be attached to the human’s bodies at all, just awkwardly floating behind them. (Also Jack Black doesn’t have his own Elytra, he’s riding Mamoa in the background, bet people are gonna have a field day with that.) 

Oh yeah, this is more of commentary on the full scene they released a while back than the trailer, but I love that you use the little hammer on the side of the Crafting Table to perform your crafting. One thing that I’d love is that if you are “breaking” something in a crafting recipe instead of “assembling it” (like Planks into Sticks, or Diamond Blocks into Diamond items) it would be cool if you used the saw on the side of the Crafting Table instead. If that actually happens I’ll literally cream. 

Steve wacks a Zombie with its own arm. That’s one of those things where you can’t do it in-game, but of course you could in reality, so it's fun to see, but it highlights an issue we’re gonna get to later. 

The Iron Golem looks fucking awesome!!! It’s 100% the best Mob design we’ve seen in the film yet. I think a big part of that is because it’s already an artificial thing, so there’s no distracting skin/fur texture or unnerving body shape. Either way it's cool!.

There’s a bit of a blink and you’ll miss it bit as they’re jumping off that building with Elytra  that I have… thoughts on. You see, one of the things we learned from the BTS videos is that Henry’s (the kid in the red shirt) role in the film is he’s a modder. He’s capable of altering the game’s code and adding new content into it. During this scene, he’s holding a freaking gun! He modded a gun into the game. 

And you see… this rubs me an awful way. A lot of the time when people complain about Minecraft they take jabs at “Mojang’s hypocrisy.” A lot of the time I think these arguments are a bit poorly thought out, researched, or invalid. 90% of the time people look at a stated Mojang policy and then point to a feature that either A) was developed in the Notch era and grandfathered in so Jeb had to deal with it despite having a different vision (see Spiders and Silverfish) or B) was received so poorly it’s why Mojang have the conflicting policy in the first place (see Polar Bears.) But here we’ve hit my first personal-angry-”you hypocrites”-Mojang moment. 

A year or so ago Mojang went out on a crusade banning and sending cease-and-desists toward mod-makers that… added guns into the game. It was probably the most intense take down of community content and changing of public policy they had ever done, and they were very aggressive about it. Now, here they are, making a character who’s supposed purpose is to celebrate the modding community and suddenly they’re jumping on the “guns are cool, thanks for adding guns to our game” bandwagon? So people are allowed to mod guns into Minecraft… on the condition Microsoft can make profit off of it? That’s kinda lame dude. 

And, TBF, it’s not a black-and-white betrayal of morals. The gun-mod takedowns were primarily targeted at people adding real-life weaponry into Minecraft, while the gun we see in this trailer is a comical pirate/steampunky looking one. I personally never really cared for those realistic gun mods, they broke immersion too much for me, but I did think going through such efforts to censor them was silly. After such a recent PR nightmare, expressing the exact opposite opinion without really addressing why and trying to sweep it under the rug is an odd choice and doesn’t sit right with me. To me it feels like another one of those hollow pretend-to-care-when-you-don’t things. Like they added all those new skins to the game a few years back to “add diversity’, but then in this film they don’t use any of those diverse characters and white-washed Steve. Or to pick a non-Minecraft example, Disney pumping out a shit ton of rainbow merch for Pride Month but canceling their top-performing-animation after it had a lesbian couple and not allowing a different show’s finale to air ‘cause it had a trans character. Gotta ban guns from the game to prevent shootings and violent crime, but when it’s in the comedy-action-adventure movie it’s “haha fun action, funny times, look at how cool this gun is” Maybe they’ll treat the gun with some kind of tact when the film comes out, the kid does ditch it to take flight after all, but right now it feels like corporate wanting their cake and eating it too. 

You know, I actually started writing this whole breakdown after the trailer came out, but I got busy with schoolwork and put off finishing it for a few weeks. I’m adding this new bit here now, turns out I’m not so alone in this thought. Apparently the Mojang-gun-mod controversy just started popping off again to the degree someone is planning on suing Mojang!?!? I’ve noticed other people in the comments poo-pooing the gun in the trailer too now, so that’s something. 

This might be a minor gripe but I can’t get it out of my head… WHY DOES STEVE ONLY HAVE 1 ENDER PEARL!?!? I’d say in your typical Minecraft playthrough you’re probably only going to get like 1-3 Ender Pearls before you start actually working toward The End, so only having 1 isn’t that weird of a thing. BUT Steve has been on this world for at least a decade by the looks of things, and he has TWO Elytra meaning he’s definitely opened the End Portal and killed the Ender Dragon at this point. 

From then on you could make the argument that he just doesn’t like fighting in the game, and/or he doesn’t know how to build a Mob-farm and kill a bunch of Endermen. But in The Stash™®© he has AN ENTIRE SHELF dedicated to Firework Rockets. That means he has a decent supply of Gunpowder meaning he either is a good enough fighter to kill a bunch of Creepers, or he’s managed to make a Mob-farm for it. My best explanation, as I’ll mention again later, it’s likely that Mobs in this Movie-verse don’t operate on the same spawning and AI rules, so Endermen just might not be nearly as predictable in the film as they are in-game. This does seem to be a fusion of the main game and all its spinoffs, and in Dungeons Endermen are WAY stronger than the base-game, to the point they’re classified as a miniboss, so I’m willing to buy Endermen can just fuck your shit up in this world. Until we actually get a feeling for their strength though I’m still gonna point and laugh at noob Steve here with only 1 Pearl to his name, what a loser! 

Also… it’s odd that the Ender Pearl is like, sooo round. Like it’s not a perfect sphere, it’s still made of blocks, but it’s mostly round. Like in-game the sprites for Apples and Ender Pearls are about as round as each other, but Apples are square in the movie and Pearls are not? I’m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this is just another way of selling how alien The End is, but it’s probably just more inconsistency in melding blockiness and real life.

The Zombies look fuckin’ creepy. Like I guess they’re monsters, they’re supposed to be ugly, but still it's a bit of that uncanny-nastiness we got in the previous trailer. The Skeletons look much better. Their faces are still a tad odd, but on the whole I like them. We also get to see Spider Jockeys! Hell yeah! The Spiders are only there for a few frames and are blurred, but what little we see looks good. They were one of the concept arts that stood out to me. 

One thing that is odd about the night scene is just how amped up the monsters seem to be. 10, yeah TEN freaking flaming arrows are shot at our cast at once. We then see TWO Spider Jockeys, both of whom have Enchanted Bows (presumably with Flame) but that means there’s at least 8 other Skeletons with Enchants in the area and, possibly, their own mounts. Enchanted gear on Skelly’s is decently rare, it’s even rarer to see ‘em riding Spiders, but two Mobs that beefed up in the same party!?!? Those are ridiculous odds! I’m assuming the movie is going to have some sort of plot along the lines of the monsters of the Overworld are getting stronger and our heroes have to find out who’s helping them. Also since these are film characters and not game AI… like 100% Skeletons are smart enough to gather buffed gear from their fallen comrades and mount nearby Spiders IRL right? It makes sense from, like, a movie perspective, but still feels impossible, ya know? 

Apparently they also showed off a Cow design on social media. It’s got the same derp-eye problem of the previous teaser and I don’t really care for it, feels like another step backwards.

Now that’s everything about the trailer itself, but I’ve got a few other concerns. A major one is the actors for the film and the marketing around them. So far the entirety of the films marketing has been around Jack Black as Steve and Jason Mammoa as Garret, and the rest of the cast has been left by the wayside. This is in spite of the fact that, based on what we’ve been told in the BTS content, Henry played by Sebastion Hansen is actually the main character in the movie. Despite this, I don’t know if we’ve even been given any lines of dialogue from him in the trailers. He has been completely pushed by the wayside which is very concerning, and I can think of 3 reasons why. 

1st, (and most likely IMO) is that hollywood is cashing in on star power to try and sell the film. Since Black and Mamoa are pretty well known household names they’re hammering in on them and leaving the rest of the cast to flounder. It’s a pretty annoying move as lots of movies have been doing it recently, picking big names to push tickets even if they don’t actually fit the role or play little part in the plot. 

2nd, is maybe the kid’s a really bad actor and they're trying to cover it up. Personally I find this hard to believe, as he’s been pretty well put together in interviews and it’s not like Black or Mamoa’s performances have been stellar, but there’s a lot of infamy around child actors and maybe things just didn’t pan out like the studio wigs hoped. 

3rd, and the most hopeful one, is they’re trying to protect the kid. Whenever controversial movies come out people tend to attack, berate, and bully the people in them, and young folks often get the worst of it. The world of a child actor is shitty enough, but being a child actor in a B-movie is a sure fire way for people to slap you on a crucifix. 

Speaking about bullying the actors, I’m gonna eat my own words here a bit because… I think focusing on Black and Mamoa was real bad move. 

In Black’s case I just don’t think his delivery has been very good. Just about every line they’ve shown of his has been real stilted and awkward, like he’s really hamming up and exaggerating everything he says, and it’s kind of distracting. There are definitely lines delivered better, like that intro they had in this trailer, but a lot of ‘em just feel either inhuman or like he’s talking down to a bunch of children. If he talks like that for the entire movie I’m gonna sho- (remembers not to make casual suicide jokes in order to encourage a positive mindset) turn on KeepInventory and jump into a cactus. 

And for Mamoa his actual acting has been stellar so far, but the character is a problem. While I’m sure it’s up to personal tastes, Garett the Garbage Man Garrison's presentation so far just feels so… overdone. He’s been nothing but annoying in the teasers so far. Which IS the point of his character, so that’s good, the problem is that if he’s used as much in the actual film as the trailers have so far the joke is gonna get old fast. It kinda leaves a sour taste of the entire cast in your mouth as you’re worried if everyone else is gonna act like this. 

This has created a situation where 3 members of the cast we’ve been given no details on, one isn’t playing the part well, and the other is infuriating. It doesn’t matter how much someone likes Black or Mamoa if they aren’t playing the role well it isn’t going to sell anyone on the movie. 

My next big issue with the film is it’s supposed to be a comedy but so far, honestly, it hasn’t been that funny. The only joke in either trailer to make me laugh was the “yearn for the mines one” and, as mentioned before, they stole that one from the community! Everything else hasn’t really tickled me. 

It still feels very much in the “he’s right behind me *gulp*” level of camp, which is just eye rolling at this point. A lot of the humor also just kind of boils down to “oh hey look at this WEIRD thing from Minecraft, isn’t this thing so WEIRD and STUPID” and I’m just kind of sick of that. Not only is it alienating the audience the film is trying to go for, but it’s also doing so willingly for the main reason that: this film can’t decide if it's a game or not. 

It’s using things like being live action, or the Mobs acting smarter, or being able to rip off a Zombie’s arm, or things having finer decoration/detail to sell the idea that is a real breathing world. Yet at the same time, there’s a bunch of things that only exist in Minecraft in the first place as a part of game convenience that are put into this film just to be gawked at. Everything being made of squares, trees floating, items dropping as small floating and spinning things. These are all just elements to make Minecraft as a game feel easily understandable and easy to play. Steve doesn’t literally have a giant gray box and have words appear in midair when naming something on an Anvil, that’s just how we the player engage with the game world. 

We know that the Minecraft world doesn’t LITERALLY function like this. Turtle Eggs look rounder in the inventory than when placed as blocks, so they aren’t literally square. The Orb of Dominance is called an “orb” even though it looks like a cube in-game because it’s not actually a cube. Skeletons are the only Mob to drop bones not because none of the other animals have skeletons, but to add a rewarding reason to fight them. 

In one of the music disks we hear a player plunking and pulling apart Chicken meat because they don’t ACTUALLY become a floating item when killed. But, having to go through separate actions/minigames/motions to pluck all of the chicken’s feathers, and behead the chicken, and drain most of its guts and blood, isn’t done in-game for a reason. From a gameplay perspective it would make food-prep in the game very slow and annoying, and from a marketing perspective it would make the game too gorey for children. There’s only so much code you can fit in a file and only so much time you can have a developer write that code, so if a function isn’t needed to sell the fun of a game it won’t be added, even if it’s “logical.” 

When adapting a game feature to another medium it can be tricky to determine what does or does not get adapted and how to do so. You could go simple like the Mario Movie. Mario magically gets bigger when he touches a mushroom in the games, so the movie interpreted this as him eating them, which was what most people assumed happened anyway. You could also go complicated like the Sonic Movie. In the Sonic Games, rings essentially function as Sonic’s health. If he has rings and gets hit he drops them, and if hit again he dies. The movie re-interpreted this as the rings not literally providing him with lifeforce, but that the rings are powerful relics he needs to get home and he can't let them fall into enemy hands, so losing them would be bad for him and good for anyone trying to get to his homeworld. 

So far, A Minecraft Movie seems to keep most of these mechanics “gamey” despite trying to turn it into the real world. Poking fun at Minecraft’s silly logic can be fun, even hilarious, but most works that do that stick to the game’s silly style to embrace that silliness. You can’t insist the game is closer in line to reality, not change it to match reality, and then make fun of it for not being reality. It’s not the universe’s fault that that feature is weird, it’s your fault as a writer for not adapting it to the new medium.

[nepmaxxing]

Minecraft is a game about building

i think nearly all of my "old good new bad" gripes with minecraft are tied to one central theme: the point of minecraft, the thing that separates it from other games, is the building. the control over your world. new features added should mean new things to build, and new enemies added should mean more things to build defenses for. progression should not be defined by different ores and equipment, because that has always been fucked, but in creating an increasingly secure and aesthetically pleasing base.

and i know it's easy to say i'm making shit up, that i'm talking out of my ass, but i'd like to give an example of this design philosophy in action that's been there since the game's earliest versions: the basic night mobs. by which i mean the mobs that spawn at low light levels with no other special conditions required. each of them presents a different threat that pressures the player to build in a specific way for their first shelter. zombies are the most basic pressure, all they do is walk so avoiding them doesn't require a lot of thought and effort but it does require something. skeletons have ranged attacks, ready to shoot you down if you try to just pillar up. better build walls. spiders can climb walls, so you'll want a roof or at least some kind of lip. then we circle back to zombies, because in hard mode they can break doors. this teaches the player that a box is not always secure enough and they should think about building defenses around their base as well. the game does a seamless job of teaching the player through, at worst, trial and error. not just to build, but to build outward.

now i will admit i am taking a lot of cues from whitelight's recent video, "Another Serious Critique of Minecraft". the main point he makes is that mojang has continuously added features that discourage players from building. i'd like to go a step further: even when mojang does try to add new things "for the builders", they fall flat. because it's usually decorative blocks that function the exact same way as 20 other blocks already in the game. i mean, do we really need red sand? do we need tuff? i don't give a shit whether i light my base with glowstone or shroomlights or froglights or sea lanterns, i'm probably just going to use torches anyway because they're cheap as fuck to make. having 10 different wood types is pointless when none of them differ in any meaningful way and a good half of them look worse than oak.

i do think minecraft's latest updates have added some great features, it's just that when i say that i'm not talking about piglin bartering or ancient cities or archaeology, i'm talking about tinted glass and lighting rods and scaffolding, blocks with unique functions that allow new things to be built. and goat horns, they're fun.

copper bulbs were on the cusp of greatness as a mid-game light source that the player had to actively maintain, but torches exist so what's even the point. makes me wish notch had added that feature where you need to relight them with flint and steel. would it be frustrating? yeah, but games need to give players a kick in the dick sometimes. it motivates them to find better solutions.

1.15 is unironically one of minecraft's best updates. it's a nice compact package: a new mob that does something instead of nothing(looking at you pandas/polar bears/frogs/llamas/ocelots as of 1.14), a new food, and a new honey block that is both aesthetically pleasing and has a unique function. it gives players something new to do in their world, with rewards that any player can find some sort of use for. more of this please.

this post went off the rails pretty long ago so i'm just gonna circle back to the basic night mobs because i skipped three of them. the first is witches, which i don't give a shit about. they don't relate to the point i'm making. the other two are creepers and endermen. the griefers. i don't think it's a coincidence that these are minecraft's two most iconic mobs. it's because they're original concepts in a game that mostly ports things from real life or existing fantasy. BUT ALSO as the two mobs that can manipulate blocks, they serve as the most direct adversaries to the player's goal of building. i don't have to explain creepers, but endermen used to be able to pick up almost any block, and they had a habit of nicking things right off your builds. i liked this. on some level, you had to maintain your builds. on one hand, i can see why they changed this. it's good for the survival aspect, not so much for when you just want to build something cool. but on the other hand, you can just disable mob griefing.

anyway, i didn't have much of a plan for any of this post, and i definitely don't have a plan for how to end it, but i've said everything i want to say, so. there you go.

[aquaquadrant]

You have to wonder about what tech ology and updates Hels actually has though, since arguably it would be pretty old and since it has no admin it wouldn't have been reset or updated at any point. So does Atlas even know what a frog is? How do they find out what new blocks are being added? Imagine the absolute culture shock for Tango entering a server that was up to date all the way across the world

Many thoughts about Hels and Minecraft updates

you MIGHT wonder about that, unless you’re me 😂🏃‍♂️ i uhhhh kinda sorta haven’t been taking updates into account? i knew i’d be spanning a long time with this au so i really didn’t wanna try and keep track of what updates happened when in order to see what blocks and items and mobs i could utilize. PLUS i imagine hels (and the minecraft universe in general) to have existed for much longer before the au even started (atlas himself has been building up hels tek for decades before he even found tango) so following a real-life timeline doesn’t quite work (since the game irl has only existed for 12 years).

i use the ten-year length for tango’s time on hermitcraft just cuz it fits nicely with the plot, otherwise i just sorta disregard any real life to fictional time equivalents. for example, the evo smp was technically still going when grian joined hermitcraft, but in my world he became a watcher years before he joined hermitcraft.

SO LIKE, i’m kinda cheesin it here HAH i had ihelvin in full netherite armor the day bravo got swapped 😬 i DO really like that idea tho, that worlds only get updated if they have an admin who does that manually (just like in real life) but based on how i’ve built up the world so far it sadly doesn’t fit 🎻

[the-s1lly-corner]

Obligatory it's been a minute since I've played current version minecraft and I dont keep up with updates that often but

Maybe I'm easily pleased but I do not get the people who complain that each minecraft update is small and/or doesnt add a lot

Like- I first saw it with the wild update, when they added the deep dark and mangrove swamps. Idk about you but that seems like a decent sized update. New enemy mob, frogs, lights, 2 biomes ect ect

Idk theres already so much in the game and seeing people get so heated kinda... feels odd to me

[the-lotus-pond]

Why I think the Minecraft Mob Vote Isolates it's Players

I think it's fair to say this year's Mob Vote (2023) brought up a lot of long standing issues that have been reintroduced into the Minecraft community throughout the years. Everywhere between basic marketing practices and outright revolution, I want to try and make sense of the chaos I feel is somewhat warranted.

To be blunt, I will be sure to disclaim that I don't like Mob Votes. I've played since a few years after launch, and have since then off and on. Not really due to Minecraft itself (there are some factors), but due to the fact that usually I'd rather just play other games more. That's not a bad thing, and I attribute more to growing up and learning about other games. The reason I mention this is to show I have been through many of a mob vote before, even back when they were Biome votes. From the start, my indifference turned to annoyance.

I believe where I and many others lost our trust in the mob votes was back in during Minecon 2017, the very FIRST one. This presented the community 4 rough ideas of a new creature mob to be added. At the time the Mob Vote was insanely popular, and Mob B, the Phantom, won. However when it did finally get added to the game, I remember many expressing disappointment in what the mob's role would be in the game. On top of that, back when the votes first started happening. Mojang is on record for saying the votes did not decide what got added entirely. They specified it was what was being added first and prioritized, but in later updates the losers of the votes would be added and updated in an appropriate update. And while some biomes as promised have been updated and revitalized, the same cannot be said for the mobs. The very first mob vote was in 2017, and in the 6 years since then, not any of the losers (besides frogs, but I am not counting it because it was in a biome vote.) have been added to the base game. If a bit ironic, they've been added or almost added to side games owned by Mojang.

Because of this, I can absolutely see why people are frustrated with Mojang. Especially when the own the most successful game in the world is Minecraft. That is not an exaggeration, Minecraft is still the best selling video game in the world overall. Multiple activity websites still show millions of players on Minecraft and playing it. It's a big enough game to have a convention just for this game year after year. To call them outright lazy might be a stretch, but there seems to be a fundamental disconnect between Minecraft and it's players. It feels like the line of communication is completely gone. When that communication ends, and you have a growing number of disgruntled gamers, that's how you apparently get Mob Vote revolution, demanding all mobs be added despite the vote, and for it to be removed. It's been nothing but "Feed the Machine" edits demanding to the end of the mob vote. While some are made in good fun, in normal internet fashion, many have expressed their anger in less productive ways. Many outright saying the devs are lazy, when really we don't have any idea what the devs are doing. I don't think I've ever seen this community directly related to the game's development this toxic or plainly pessimistic about the game as a whole. They need to start keeping their promises as a gaming company, or more and more people will become dissatisfied. What do you all think? Im... honestly 50/50, I see both sides.

[luigi-mcdingle]

a while back, out of sheer morbid curiosity, i went back to beta version 1.7.3 of minecraft (the earliest version i could find new records of people playing) yknow, to see what was different and if it was still any good that far back it was. um. not? i mean i guess i see the appeal but i couldn't play without the ability to sprint, no end, no enchanting, no hunger? but that's just me, again i see the appeal then, again out of morbid curiosity, i upgraded to version 1.0.0, expecting a similar experience i now have 142 hours on my 1.0.0 world. | v

this version of minecraft is, compared to today's vision of minecraft, simple so many things we tend to take for granted aren't there, like stained glass, hoppers, maps, item frames, villages, horses, stone walls... you get the point

i didn't expect to put more than an hour or so into this world before going back to my heavily-modded 1.16.5 world or making a new 1.20 world, but something about it just kept me entranced there were simple goals and simple ways to reach it, but the basic gameplay was just so fun

i've always thought modern minecraft was kinda bloated, and this really cemented that feeling; we didn't need frogs or ocean monuments or horses or redstone comparators or any of the stuff that has been added since that time

yeah, it'd be nice for some of the modern quality of life features to be available like pressing ctrl to sprint or sheep being able to regrow their wool, but it's not needed minecraft became popular because the concept is perfect as is; your imagination really fuels things before i realized i was having so much fun, i was doing things i had never done before in my thousands of hours of minecraft, like building functional mob grinders, mining out slime chunks, and making elaborate redstone contraptions

(the walls of the lower room in this pic ^ are made of mushroom blocks... that i had to manually push into the room one by one with pistons because silk touch only gave solid brown mushroom blocks, no red ones) when i decided i was getting bored of this world, i went to good ol curseforge and downloaded about a hundred mods for 1.16.5 and played that... for maybe five hours, then i went right back to 1.0.0. yeah, i know, those are kinda polar opposites in terms of content and bloat, but it says something, right?

(yes that's the animal crossing train station) the one thing i ended up doing in this world that i had never done, that i honestly thought id never do, was go to the end and kill the enderdragon. yeah, in thousands of hours playing this game, i never once beat it. id always make a world, dick around for a while, then stop playing and eventually come back and start the whole process again... that or id play on multiplayer servers. remember mineplex? i should ramble about that one day...

i had known about the ending poem, especially since the whole thing with it becoming public domain (have you read the author's blog post about that situation? where he talks about how he took a bunch of shrooms in the woods and God told him what to write, and the end poem was the result?) but i never read it because... well, i just never felt like it, really. reading it for the first time after my long playthrough of this simple, fun version of minecraft that i so quickly grew to love so much was... something else. id say you should read the poem (it's available online, obviously) but it really doesn't work nearly as well without the experience of a full minecraft playthrough backing it up.

all this talk and im not really sure what my point in all this is. i guess it's something along the lines of "you don't need everything to enjoy life. limitation breeds creativity, and simplicity can bring happiness." or something. i dunno, it's fuckin' minecraft. maybe try making a new world. and having fun.

oh yeah, also i never really got that "creepy feeling" most people seem to get in these older versions of minecraft. i got a little creeped out while strip mining but that's just me not liking corridors.

[gamegeekly]

All you need to know about Minecraft Live and the 1.21 update.

Another Minecraft Live is upon us, and with the fast-encroaching 15th anniversary, Mojang announced plenty of brand new updates that will leave fans on the edge of their seats in anticipation. Between update 1.21, the new mob vote, and plenty of other new materials announced there was a little something for all Minecraft fans this year. 

Update 1.21

Agnes Larson, the Game Director, reveals this year’s 1.21 update and discusses how the development team is leaning more towards combat adventure and tinkering. Agnes takes viewers into the game to view the newest addition, Trial Chambers. Trial Chambers is a randomly generated dungeon players can find in the world that offers a different style of spawners, loot, and block designs. Matthew Dryden, level designer, walks players through the entrance to the trial chambers update, “The corridor leads to different rooms, and it can lead to supply chests. You can find things that will challenge you but also things that can help you.” Some of the trial spawners and mobs showcased are the stray spawners; what makes these spawners different than usual is they consistently release mobs onto players until defeated, to which it will undergo a cool down so they can always be farmed. The spawners also adapt to the number of players that join the fight. After defeating a spawner, it will release enough loot for party members. The newest mob is called the breeze, a funny, inconvenient mob that pushes players around using a wind attack that doesn’t cause damage and has an ability that does harm. For those more interested in crafting, they have added the Crafter. Oscar, a game developer at Mojang, elaborated on what the Crafter does, “…With the Crafter, you can automate crafting with Redstone. It’s pretty similar to a crafting table except pulling the items out yourself; you can use the Redstone pulse to get it out.” 

The Mob Vote

Every year, the developers release three concept mobs with a brief explanation of what they can offer or do for players, where to find them, and what they will look like. Mojang will then place a pull on their website, Twitter, etc., to get fan’s opinions, and during Minecraft Live, they announce the new mob. This year’s mobs were the Armadillo, Crab, and Penguin, each offering unique contributions to the game that, if you click the individual mobs, will take you to the Minecraft YouTube page for those particular mobs. After a few hours of the polls being open, Minecraft Live began, and they finally announced this year’s winner…The armadillo, now why some were extremely happy to see these armored buddies that will help their canine friends, while others were devastated to see the others disappear into the missed mob abyss. 

Additional Announcements

Minecraft also announced the release of Star Wars Path of the Jedi. This interactive game allows players to play as a padawan on their path to becoming a Jedi with the help of Yoda and other familiar faces. Players can battle monsters and dual other Jedis, all while wielding a lightsaber and using the force. There is no concrete release date, but from what players could see during the Live, the animation looks very sleek and well done.

Minecraft Legends has also announced an update during the Live, and here are a few things players can look forward to on release. Their most significant announcement is that players can finally pet the animals, which fans have asked for since their early release. They also announced a new mount, which is the frog, and the ability for players to play as the llama. Two new mobs were showcased: the witch for non-hostile and the piglin clanker as an enemy. There were a few other announcements for Legends that should excite fans for the update.

BBC Earth will release its last installment of Planet Earth 3 in 2024; this interactive experience allows players to see the world they live in a new, close, personal light. Players will see a brand-new ecosystem, animals, and more with the final installment. Minecraft Education has been highly praised and used in many personal and academic settings; the new installment has fans excited to dive back into the world around us. For more information on the updates announced above, click the link to Minecraft’s game page and peruse the plethora of new material for yourself. 

Minecraft Live has always offered plenty of new material to get old and new fans excited to immerse themselves into the game for the first time or dive back in again. Seeing these updates and how fans react to them when they are finally released will be exciting. Stay tuned for more Minecraft talk and happy mining.

[pubby-pupperoni]

Why is it controversial to say people should rightfully be mad about mob votes?

Ever since the year the votes got rigged its just been a long decline into people hating the votes altogether

Locking a mob behind a vote and than scrapping them forever already upset people but the vote getting rig for the most useless mob ever really made people’s anger spark

I understand implementing new features takes time but they are owned by Microsoft now

If anything the voting should be the order in which mobs get implemented first not “only this mob will get added while the rest are scrapped forever” especially with the way they keep mocking people by including mooblooms plushes/refs in their vids KNOWING they were the most popular but the vote got rid so they just opted to never add them

Not to mention how the voted mobs can get silently added to Minecraft with a 1/100000% chance of spawning and having really no practical use

Not to mention modders can just make and add all the mobs themselves in under an hour

Again I know development for games takes time but they aren’t a small dev team anymore they are owned by Microsoft!! This shouldn’t be an excused used to justify feeding us breadcrumbs

The biome vote I didn’t mind waiting for as those are whole new biomes but a small mob that doesn’t really add much but scenery and/or a decor block shouldn’t shouldn’t be treated the same way

Anyway on a lighter note remember when they added frogs who could swallow the play avatar and make you lose access to your world because you wouldn’t exit anymore? That was fucked up

[lunareclipsez]

the ‘make a fist and not a plan’ behind the scenes masterpost

I try not to ramble too much in my author’s notes, so I thought it would be nice to have a big old post that I continuously update with all my little notes about the pieces of canon lore and various superhero media that I’ve drawn on for inspiration for their role in the fic! I’m also adding some notes about any ‘blink and you miss it’ lines that confirm different character relationships, but might be hard to remember with chapter-by-chapter updates.

All characters referenced in the fic (so far! more will be added as they appear) are put in alphabetical order by the name they’re commonly called for my convenience.

Bad: Sapnap’s father and former mentor. Currently mentors Eryn. Powers have yet to be revealed.

Boomer: His power is inspired by Nightcrawler from the X-Men. I thought a sneaky movement ability would suit a bedwars player and someone with a frog motif.

Charlie: The details of his abilities aren’t confirmed yet, but the initial inspiration for his power comes from Ragdoll’s quirk, ‘Search’, from My Hero Academia. He knows a lot of the Essempi’s history.

Dream: Puffy’s former sidekick, currently teamed with George and Sapnap. His power is inspired by Shadowcat from the X-Men. I was very happy when I figured this one out because he stumped me for awhile, since I wanted something that was both strong and interesting. It’s also a reference to the fact that Dream the Minecrafter excels with movement and parkour.

Eryn: Bad’s present-day sidekick (I think the adoptive son dynamic they had in canon was so cute and under-explored so I wanted to draw on it for this fic!). Powers have yet to be revealed.

Fundy: An orphan. Does not like discussing his power.

George: Skeppy’s former sidekick, currently teamed with Dream and Sapnap. George is a wild one because his sotckpiling power reference a fantasy series that I like, Mistborn. He functions like a feruchemist, except he doesn’t need to use metals as a conduit. I wanted something that referenced the ‘canon’ of him constantly sleeping, and I really liked working the drawbacks of this ability into his character! There isn’t a one-to-one correlation, but the parts of his backstory that’s been alluded to are somewhat inspired by Hawks from My Hero Academia.

Hannah: Girl I am so sorry but your Elytra lore was right there... Born with a rare combination of a ‘useful’ hybrid trait (wings that she could use to fly) and a strong power. Power has yet to be revealed in full, but mentioned to be related to plants. Her arc is deliberately written with feminist themes in mind, especially since Hannah the Minecrafter has talked openly about doing the same with her character.

Karl: 🤫

Philza: Tommy’s current mentor. Technoblade was his former sidekick, but we don’t yet know what caused their separation. He’s got the epic bird wings, and I originally considered giving him Hawks’s quirk from My Hero Academia, ‘Fierce Wings’, but it’s kind of an awkward ability to describe without having the manga drawings as a reference, and I thought of something else that suited his story/character better (yet to be revealed).

Puffy: Dream’s former mentor. She is responsible for leading pro-heros as a a collective and reporting back to the Hero Commission. Powers have yet to be revealed.

Punz: A ‘vigilante’ (mercenary) who has ins with both pro-heros and villains. Powers have yet to be revealed (or have they?).

Purpled: Initially aligned with Schlatt. Has the ability to manipulate gravity, and this is somewhat inspired by Ochako’s quirk from My Hero Academia, but I buffed it to make him more OP.

Quackity: Died at the hands of XD, only to be resurrected and enlisted by Schlatt. Can shapeshift into anyone whose genetic material he ingests, and is also able to copy their powers while transformed (it’s not just aesthetic). His power was directly inspired by Toga’s quirk from My Hero Academia, with some tweaks here and there. I liked the shapeshifter headcanon that had floated around the fandom and I think it suits his planned character arc super well!

Sam: The Warden of Pandora’s Vault. Powers have yet to be revealed.

Sapnap: Bad’s former sidekick, currently teamed with Dream and George. His fire-powers are just basic and function via anime/comic book logic (ex: shooting fire at someone will just knock them out and burns only happen when they’re plot-relevant).

Schlatt: A villain who runs a pseudo-cult. Has the ability to bring back the dead, which is a reference to the fact that he was the first holder of the revival book before trading it in the lore. I was really happy to flesh out his backstory and try a new angle out with his characterization.

Skeppy: George’s former mentor. Powers have yet to be revealed.

Tina: Used to follow XD, but it now a prisoner in Pandora’s Vault. Her backstory and powers are directly inspired by Wolverine/X-23 from the X-Men. She’s got both the claws and the healing factor, that we know of. Her role in the story is inspired by the moment where she wrote ‘I want to be a god too’ in chat after seeing the DreamXD statue and her inclusion in the DreamXD fanclub.

Technoblade: Philza’s former sidekick, but now a prisoner in Pandora’s Vault for an unknown reason. Powers have yet to be revealed.

Tommy: Philza’s current sidekick. Has a healing power, but the drawbacks are currently unknown. I came up with his power because I loveeeee the idea of giving super chaotic characters traditionally ‘gentle’ abilities.

XD: The greatest villain the Essempi has ever seen. Currently locked up in Pandora’s Vault. Has the ability to take other’s powers and keep them as his own, and even distribute them to others. The extent of the power he’s accumulated is unknown. Directly inspired by the main villain of My Hero Academia, All for One. Since in canon he’s god of the server, I wanted to incorporate that into his motive and how he’s perceived by others. The whole idea of alluding to strong characters as gods is inspired by their presence in canon, but their lack thereof in this AU.

[ppersonna]

swipe right - jjk | m

“ i wanna ruin our friendship. we should be lovers instead. i don't know how to say this, cause you're really my dearest friend “ - jenny, studio killers

♡ summary-  after a horrible breakup, you sign back up for tinder and ironically match with your best friend, jungkook. a date for fun is harmless, right?

♡ genre- best friends to lovers, idiots to lovers, jk is a minecraft streamer, brother namjoon, brother-in-law jimin, namjoon is kind of a himbo stay at home dad ngl, ex-boyfriend seokjin (mentioned but doesnt show up)

♡ word count- 9k

♡ warnings- mentions of a bad breakup (smh seokjin wtf??), penetrative sex, unprotected sex (u know the business folx), oral sex (m receiving), teasing, SO MUCH BODY WORSHIP, jk is a simp, slight dirty talk, lots of just talking during sex yall it happens, creampie, cum play, praise praise body worship praise, did i mention body worship, tit-fucking, cum eating, i think thats all.

♡ a/n - helloooo and thank you for your wait for this fic! i’m so happy its done and i loved writing it! it’s a little bit different feel for my usual style of writing (smut-wise) so please tell me your thoughts! i didn’t use dom/sub themes OR a daddy kink LMAOOOO praise me please. i hope you enjoy!! pls feel free to comment, chat, message, carrier pigeon, email, mail, WHATEVER U WANT, me. i love u babies. thank you to @kimtaehyunq​ for the sexy banner. and for @xjoonchildx @ladyartemesia​ @untaemedqueen​ for the writing support and idea generation. i would be nothing without my council. and thank you to my beta editors @hobi-gif and @ughseoks​ and @hongism​ for the perusal and help in writing this!

Jungkook is the person you call when your world falls apart.

He answers, voice raspy from the late hour, and the second he asks you what’s wrong, the downpour of torrential tears you’ve been holding back finally escapes and you’re sobbing through the phone that you just lost the love of your life—that he left and with little effort on his part, and a lot on yours.

Jungkook listens to you—his heart aching deep in his chest at hearing the utter heartbreak that’s clear in your voice. You’ve never been hurt like this, and he’s desperate to hold you, to make it go away. He wants to drive over to Seokjin’s house and throw a left hook into his stupid, handsome face for making you feel you weren’t worth it.

Because if there’s anything in the world that Jungkook knows, it’s that you’re worth it. You’re worth everything. Add up all the money and all the gold in the entire world, and it still doesn’t meet a fraction of what you’re worth to him.

“Where are you?” He asks as he cradles the phone against one arm and pulls on his jeans.  

You sniffle. “Jungkook, it’s 3 am.”

“So? I was up playing Minecraft,” He lies. “Where are you?”

You can’t help but laugh the tiniest bit, a sliver of warmth wrapping itself around your raw and exposed heart. Like a balm to a flesh wound. It doesn’t heal it, not yet.

“I’m at our park.”

Jungkook smiles as he grips the phone back in his hand. The park. The place you and Jungkook spent your childhood playing make-believe games, and formative teenage years loitering around smoking clove cigarettes to look cool.

“Give me five minutes, okay?”

You nod, even though he can’t see you. 

“Okay.”

Jungkook arrives with two minutes to spare. His beat up Nissan that he insists is “vintage” and “priceless” idles next to you.

He can see you through the darkened glass of your car—your mascara is running down your face, tears streaked through your flawlessly applied makeup.

You still look so beautiful.

And it angers Jungkook that all that time you spent looking good for Seokjin meant nothing to him.

He motions for you to come over, pats the passenger seat next to him and smiles as he watches you open the door and slide into the security of his familiar car.

“You cleaned your car,” you murmur as you notice a severe lack of McDonald’s trash.

He sniffs haughtily. 

“The trash added character.”

Jungkook doesn’t give you a chance to respond. Instead, he’s unbuckling his seatbelt and pulling you as close to him as he can get you. The instant his arms wrap around your body, the floodgates open again and your once-quieted tears turn back into full-fledged sobs.

“I loved him,” you gasp through the pain in your throat.

He rubs your back, pats your hair gently, soothing you the way he has for years now. Through every breakup, through every family fight with your older brother Namjoon, through all the mean girls in high school. Jungkook is the north star—always consistent, always guiding you back to safety.

“I know, babe,” he sighs. “You deserve someone who’s going to treat you right, who’s not just going to give up when things get hard.”

You choke back a cry against his Patagonia hoodie and bury your face further into the crook of his neck. He smells like Old Spice and the shampoo he uses, along with the smell of laundry soap you buy for him—he uses dish soap when he runs out and nearly broke his washing machine last time.

“I thought he was the one. I’m so stupid.”

Jungkook swallows hard. Tonight is about comforting you, not about feeling sorry for himself that you’re his best friend and not his girlfriend. He can’t help but think of what kind of life he would give you. He knows it’s one that wouldn’t end with you crying in a parking lot at 3 AM.

“You’re not stupid, you just loved him. And there’s nothing stupid about loving someone, even if it doesn’t work out,” he sighs as he cradles your head against him. It feels right having you there, pressed up against him and seeking comfort from the solace of his arms.

“Let’s go get a milkshake, yeah?” He asks as you pull your head up and look at him with sad, glassy eyes.

“Yeah,” you nod after a moment of staring.

Jungkook’s eyes sparkle with love, with hope. It makes the desperate, alone feeling inside you—disappear. Jungkook presses a soft kiss to your forehead and then starts the shaky ignition of his car, that takes three cranks of the key before it turns over.

He sends you a look, a laugh evident on your face.

“Don’t even start,” he warns. “The engine is fine.”

“Whatever you say,” you snort as you wipe an errant tear from your face.  

“It’s a certified classic car! I could get millions for this baby!”

As the weeks pass, the pain of losing Seokjin becomes further and further from your mind. You can get through the day without crying anytime you see something that reminds you of him and even start flirting with others without feeling like you’re cheating.

You just still haven’t reached the point where dating someone else even feels possible. You’re terrified of allowing someone close to you, letting them into a place where you’re inviting them to possibly hurt you. You’re not sure your heart is ready for it. 

“I think you’re just scared,” your older brother Namjoon states as he warms up a bottle of milk in boiling water. 

He cradles his new baby in one arm while the other works at the bottle of milk. 

“I’m not scared,” you huff. “I just don’t think it’s the right time.” 

Namjoon sighs and hands the gurgling newborn baby off to you and readies the bottle for you to feed your new niece, Jisoo. 

“Look, Seokjin sucks, okay? I know you two were together for some time, but in the end, he wasn’t the right one for you. There’s someone out there who is the right one for you. You know how many shit frogs I had to kiss before I got my prince?” 

You make a face as you feed Jisoo, who happily sucks and gazes at the lights above. 

“You call Jimin a prince?” 

Namjoon sighs dreamily as he watches the baby and thinks of his husband. 

“The dreamiest prince,” he breathes, eyes closed in bliss. “But back to your problems. I think you should get back out there. Go on some dates, meet some people. No one is telling you to fall in love and get married tomorrow. Just go have some fun.” 

You allow Namjoon’s words to mull through your mind. What could be the harm in joining a few dating sites, perhaps spending some time at the gym or grocery store flirting with someone cute?

“Fine,” you say. “I’ll think about it.” 

“Good. I can’t be the only one giving our parents grand-babies. Soo needs a cousin.” 

You smile down at the tiny bundle in your arms and imagine a future where you have a baby of your own. 

“Okay, I’m not trying to get knocked up, Joon.” 

“Whatever,” he sighs. “Help me choose a wall color for me and Jimin’s new master bathroom.” 

Tinder’s changed since the last time you used it, years ago. It’s gone from any semblance of dating to strictly an app used to get laid. 

It’s discouraging swiping through all the obvious fuckboys. Sure, a quick and easy lay sounds great, but you’re also trying to go out and enjoy real, traditional dates, and it seems none of these guys want to step foot outside of a bedroom. 

The swiping left becomes almost monotonous. You’re sitting on your couch, watching some documentary about serial killers, when a startling profile pops up on your Tinder feed. 

The picture that pops up is... Jungkook. You can’t stop the bubble of laughter that leaps from your chest. His profile is so authentically Jungkook that you’re swiping right before you even know it. 

Your brain doesn’t even comprehend what a match with Jungkook means, really. You’re still laughing as you click on the bubble to message him and send him as many laugh emojis as you can. 

“Hey guys, what’s up, Kookie here with another Let’s Play Minecraft video for ya. Be sure to like and subscribe if you enjoy this kind of content.”

Jungkook’s headset is firmly wrapped around his head, mic next to his mouth and hands at the ready on his mouse and keyboard. He’s set and in the zone. 

The game is well into play when the familiar chime of his phone goes off. It’s a Tinder notification—he can tell by the sound. He can’t help but roll his eyes, wondering what sort of boring conversation he’s meant to have with a girl who will probably ghost him, anyway. 

He lazily lifts his phone and glances at the notification, before dropping it back to the desk. 

His hand freezes on his mouse as he finally comprehends what he just read. 

He just matched with YOU. 

His best friend. 

His secret, lifelong crush. 

He sputters something into the microphone and stops recording his game, wildly grasping for the phone and unlocking it. 

YN: 😂😂😂😂 is your bio a Minecraft pickup line?!

He pauses, attempts to collect his thoughts, before desperately typing on his screen. 

JUNGKOOK: Why? 😉😏 did it work?

You spend the rest of your night jokingly flirting with Jungkook, sending GIFs and emojis in between the silly lines you’re using on each other. 

Right before you’re about to head to sleep, Jungkook sends one last message. 

JUNGKOOK: What if we went on a date lolol. Haha jk. Unless?? 👀👀👀

Your thumbs hover over the keys to your phone. 

A date with Jungkook? Even though you matched with him, you’ve never thought of a date with your childhood best friend. 

YN: alright, it’s only fair since we matched 😝 show me how you treat these tinder ladies

“I have a date with Jungkook tonight,” you tell your brother, Namjoon, over the phone. 

Over the crying of your newborn niece, you hear Namjoon splutter in confusion. 

“You what!?” He nearly screams. “Jeon Jungkook? Like... the annoying kid you’ve been friends with since fourth grade?”

You huff. 

“He’s not annoying! He’s my best friend. We ironically matched on Tinder and… Well, why the fuck not? Nothing serious is going to happen. We’ll go out and have a story to tell about how incompatible we are.”

Namjoon doesn’t reply. Instead, you hear him speak to his husband. 

“She’s going on a date with Jungkook,” he says over the muffle of his hand on the receiver.

There’s a shuffle, and the dulcet voice of your brother-in-law, Jimin, comes over the line. 

“Girl,” he starts. “What the fuck?”

You chuckle as you move about your closet, trying to decide what’s appropriate to wear on a date with your best friend. 

“It’s nothing!” 

“Mm-hmm,” Jimin tuts. “You know the boy is in love with you.” 

“Okay, Chim, you’ve been spending too much time cooped up with my brother. It’s affecting your grip on reality.”

“Sure, honey. I just tell it like it is. Don’t break his heart.” 

You roll your eyes. 

“I won’t break his heart because there’s nothing there, Jimin.”

“I’ll be expecting your call later.”

“Yes, dad. Love you guys.”

“We love you too, sweetheart. But really, don’t break that poor boy’s heart.”

You open your mouth to retort yet another reassurance that there’s nothing to break, but the line goes dead.

“Fucking Jimin,” you mutter as you throw your phone to the bed.

You can’t allow yourself to think that Jungkook might have feelings for you. It’s totally out of the questions. He’s your best friend. The guy who shoves Cheetos up his nose to make you laugh and falls asleep during every movie night with his face in the popcorn bowl. He’s just Jungkook. This date is just a funny way to hang out.

So, why do you care so much about what you wear?

You’re still standing in front of your closet, attempting to find something respectable to wear. It doesn’t matter that the last time Jungkook saw you; it was with mascara streaming down your face and a hoodie from Namjoon’s college swimming days and ripped leggings. Jungkook has seen you in nearly everything you wear, so your indecisiveness gives you pause.

Do you want Jungkook to be attracted to you? Do you want to do your best to look as presentable as you would for a normal date?

The thudding of your heart tells you that maybe you’re more interested in this being a date than you’re allowing yourself to believe.

You shake all thoughts off. 

No, you won’t allow yourself to overthink a night that should just be fun.

You settle for a fitted and simple summer dress, tights and heels. Simple, easy, respectable but also showing enough cleavage and sculpt of your ass to ensure you look more dressed up than not.

Perfect.

With one last look in the mirror, you’re ready.

JUNGKOOK: I’m outside!

ME: See you soon!

Jungkook taps his foot anxiously as he sits on the bench outside your apartment. His tight black jeans feel like a second skin on his legs, and the black button-down shirt he’s tucked in makes him rethink his choice of outfit.

Is he too casual?

He’s never really worn something like this around you. This is what Jungkook wears when he wants to seduce. This is what every girl he’s desperately wished was you got to see. The girls who swooned over his messy hair, the way his jeans display his toned thighs, the peek of skin at his throat.

Maybe it’s too much.

Maybe he’s afraid he’ll scare you away.

Maybe he’s afraid you won’t like it.

He’s given no chance to ruminate anymore because you’re exiting the building and walking straight towards him.

He doesn’t think he remembers how to breathe.

It’s as if you walk towards him in slow motion. Angels chorus around him and the setting sun sparkles on your face like a spotlight. There’s nothing in the world anymore, nothing but you.

You’re the most beautiful human he’s ever seen in his life.

“Hi,” you smile as you approach him.

He continues to stare, eyes traveling over the soft curves of your cheeks and jaw, trailing down to the way your dress clings just right to each dip of your body. His throat goes dry.

You are without a doubt the girl of his dreams. 

“Jungkook?”

It pushes him out of his reverie, eyes widening as he realizes he’s been staring at you for maybe a few minutes too long to play off as normal.

“Hey!” He coughs, attempting to right himself.

“You okay?” You ask, eyebrow lifted in concern.

“Yeah! Yup! Totally! I’m okay—a-okay, absolutely great.” He internally slaps himself.

“You clean up nice,” you smile as your eyes elevate up and down the lean form of his body.

“Oh?” He asks, taken aback. 

In his daze, he never even realized what you’re thinking about him, rather only how intensely he was thinking about you.

“This must be the Jungkook that all the girls in college couldn’t stop begging me to hook them up with.”

His cheeks flame with sudden embarrassment, hand moving to the back of his neck to rub it awkwardly. 

“Ha, yeah,” he swallows. “You look r-really nice too. I don’t think I’ve seen you in a dress since your brother’s wedding.”

The smile that he’s rewarded with nearly knocks him on his ass. “Thanks! It’s fun to dress up cute again. Jin hated this dress.”

A stab of pain eeks its way into Jungkook’s heart. Seokjin. God, how he hates that man.

“Well, uh, you can wear whatever you want with me!” He assures. 

You loop your arm around Jungkook’s, saddling up to his side as you look at him expectantly.

“Well, are we going?”

Jungkook can’t help but smile at the sparkle in your eye, the way you peer up at him with those soft, cherry lips. He wants to capture them with his own, kiss you until you don’t remember Seokjin’s name ever again.

But he resists.

“Let’s go!”

You never thought you’d admit it to yourself. You never even thought it could happen. 

But the date is everything you’ve ever wanted, and more. 

Jungkook is still Jungkook, still just as silly and easy to talk to as he always is. 

But he’s also charming. Flirtatious, even. He holds doors open for you; he rests his hand on the small of your back as he guides you towards your table at dinner. He feeds you bites of his dessert and lets his eyes linger on the way your lips look wrapped around his fork. 

Jungkook treats you the way you’ve always wanted to be treated. Like someone he wants to cherish for the rest of your combined lives. Someone he wants to take care of, build a future with, enjoy life with.

And as much as it thrills you, it absolutely frightens you. 

It’s when you’re walking down the small river trail together that Jungkook slips his hand into yours and laces your fingers together. The once-steady beat of your heart becomes erratic. He continues chatting—as if holding your hand was a subconscious act for him. He’s knee deep in a story of his Minecraft server when you stop walking, causing him to pause. 

“What’s up?” He asks curiously. 

Your eyes glitter with anticipation, with fear, as you stare at the gorgeous man before you. He looks like a full course meal in his tight jeans and he makes you feel like a princess. You can suddenly see doing life by his side—no longer his platonic best friend, but as his lover and lifelong partner. 

You say nothing. Instead, you simply close the space between you two by grabbing the buttons of his shirt and tugging his lips onto yours. 

“Wha—oh, mmmmmm.”

Jungkook is still for a second as he battles the surprise, but jumps into action and cups your face with his hands, deepening the kiss by pushing his tongue past your lips and swirling it around your own. 

Your bodies press close together. He can feel your breasts against his chest and he desperately wants to rip the dress off your body and worship you like he’s always wanted to. 

As soon as the kiss started, it’s over. You’re pulling away with eyes wide with fear.

“I’m sorry, I—I need to go,” you stammer awkwardly.

Jungkook’s heart drops to his stomach.

“What? We were going to get ice cream?”

You can feel tears building in the corners of your eyes. You’re so confused, so unsure of what you’re feeling. You want to stay and kiss Jungkook until you’re clawing at the clothing on his body, pressing kisses to the firm column of his neck. You want to run far away, too scared to admit it to him you’re sure you could love him for the rest of his life.

You can’t lose that friendship. You can’t risk everything you love about Jungkook. He’ll only hurt you the way every boyfriend ever has.

“I don’t really feel well,” you swallow hard as you lie. Jungkook always knows when you’re lying.

His body stiffens.

“Okay, let me walk you home.”

You shake your head, already moving away from the man.

“It’s fine. We’re nearby. I’ll just run or something.”

He opens his mouth to protest, but you’ve already turned face and started running the direction away from him.

Jungkook watches, misty-eyed, as the girl of his dreams runs further and further away from him.

You’re sobbing as you finally reach home, out of breath and confused. The phone call to Namjoon is quick.

“Yo,” he says cooly as he answers the phone. His tone changes when he hears your whimpering sobs on the other end.

“Joonie,” you whisper. “I fucked up.”

“Oh god,” Namjoon quickly shuffles and calls his husband over, before putting the phone on speaker.

“What’s happened, baby?” Jimin’s sweet voice asks.

“I—I kissed him,” you sob, holding yourself close in the comfort of the elevator. 

Namjoon and Jimin look at each other with knowing looks.

“We’re on our way over.”

Jimin knows the first order of business is to stop the crying. He places sleeping baby Jisoo in your arms, which quiets your whimpers enough as you cling to the tiny baby. He knows your weakness is sleeping babies.

Namjoon looks on anxiously, hates seeing his little sister upset and with no way to make it better.

Jimin’s been asked to take the lead on this, because he knows his husband's response is to cry as well—he gets emotional anytime he sees her cry. Namjoon agreed, knowing Jimin was better suited for the conversation.

“Tell us what happened,” Jimin asks quietly. You’re rocking the baby gently, sobs turned to sniffles. “Did something go wrong on the date?”

Your eyes peer up at your brother-in-law’s, a wounded look that makes Jimin feel sad. Namjoon clenches beside him, and Jimin lays a hand on his lap to soothe the protective brother.

“No,” you whisper. “That’s the thing. It was an amazing date.”

Jimin watches you curiously, but remains silent to let you continue.

“We had dinner, and we played arcade games and we walked around. And he was so… fuck, he was perfect. It was like dating the guy of my dreams.”

Jimin nods knowingly.

“And it surprised you how much you liked him.”

“Yeah,” you sniffle. “At the end, he was holding my hand and just talking about normal, stupid Jungkook shit, but this time it felt like more. Like, I felt in my heart that I wanted to be the one he always talked to about it. I wanted to be the one he came home to at night.”

Jimin pats your cheek lovingly, the care for his sister-in-law clear in his gaze. 

“You don’t just like him, honey. I think you might even love him.”  

You pull baby Jisoo tighter into your grasp and nod, pathetic tears slipping down your face. 

“I just left him. Like, I ran away from him like an asshole.”

Namjoon grunts and takes a spot next to Jimin. “If he loves you, which I’m sure he does, he’ll still be waiting for you.”

Jimin nods and rests a hand on his husband's back. “But you better have one hell of an apology.”

Jungkook doesn’t answer your phone calls. He doesn’t respond to your texts, snapchats or Instagram DM’s. He doesn’t even look at the TikToks you sent him! It’s becoming infuriating to get in touch with him.

You take matters into your own hands and storm to his apartment after work, the rising tension in your shoulders and stomach full of rocks an indicator of your anxiety about the future of this relationship.

Jungkook opens the door wearing nothing but a pair of grey sweats. All the carefully crafted words exit your mind at light 

speed and you’re left gasping, wide-eyed at the chiseled body of your best friend.

“Can I help you?” He asks, tone flat.

Ouch.

You push past him into the apartment you know so well. “Yeah, you could start by answering your phone.”

Jungkook rolls his eyes and closes the door, then heads back towards the large gaming setup in the living room.

“My apologies for not responding to the girl who literally ran away from me on a date.”

Your cheeks heat uncomfortably as you stand in the center of his living room, arms crossed over your chest. 

“Jungkook, listen. I’m—”

“Please,” he shakes his head as he sits down at the impressive gaming chair. “Save the apologies. I get it.”

“You don’t get it!” You say, exasperated. “You don’t get any of it! That’s why I’m here.”

Jungkook narrows a look at you then stands from his chair. Slowly, he makes his way towards you and stands inches from your face. The proximity of his bare, toned chest to your body makes your throat dry.

“No, you don’t get it.” His voice is threateningly quiet, completely different from his usual chipper tone. 

“Jungkook, I’m sorry.”

“Sorry for what?” He quirks his head sarcastically, and you’re struck by the sharp lines of his jaw. “Sorry for running away from the date? Sorry for going on a date? Sorry for making me feel like I had a fucking chance when you kissed me?”

You swallow hard and open your mouth to reply, but he cuts you off.

“I’m sorry too. For giving myself way too much hope that this could ever be something. I’m sorry for myself for thinking you’d at least respect me enough to reject me politely.”

“You always had a chance!” You can feel tears building in your eyes and Jungkook feels his heart pound in his chest like a drum.

He scoffs, a harsh and mirthless laugh. “Clearly not.”

“I just—,” you start. “I never saw you like that before and suddenly you became everything I’ve ever dreamed of. It was like getting hit by a train, Kook! Suddenly my best friend turned into the man of my dreams.”

He shakes his head, stepping back away from you.

“I really find it hard to believe you,” he whispers. “I can’t let myself hope.”

“Jungkook, please,” you beg as tears start slipping down your face. “Please believe me.”

“Just leave,” he sighs. “I hate making you cry.”

You want so badly to wrap yourself in his arms, cry into his chest like you always do when you’re hurt. But you stand still, frozen in your shame and embarrassment of hurting your best friend so badly.

“I’m sorry,” you murmur, before you spin around as quickly as you can and leave Jungkook’s apartment in a flurry.

He watches as the door slams behind you, eyes full of sadness and regret. As much as he wants to believe you, have faith in every word you said, he can’t allow himself to get his hopes up again.

He can’t watch you run away from him again.

“Welcome back to Kookie’s Wild Weekly Walkthrough!” Jungkook cheers as enthusiastically as he can through his microphone. “The weekly segment where I react to your Minecraft worlds!”

Jungkook needed to dive back into streaming to take his mind off of you. He hasn’t left his apartment in days, only subsisting on takeout and coffee. At least he was making more money and his subscribers didn’t seem to mind the up-tick in content.

“Tonight I’ll be walking through a creation sent by,” he squints at the username. “‘Kookiesgal95’ Aww that’s cute.”  

He readies the content and starts his camera as he watches the YouTube link. His subscribers love his reaction videos—it’s a highly requested segment.

The video starts off easily, a generic Minecraft world that looks like a park.

“Hi Kook.”

The voice that reverberates through his headphones makes him pause the video quickly, wide-eyed with recognition.

It’s you. He’d know that voice from a million others. 

Shit. He’s going to have to edit so much of this clip. He’s staring at the screen as if he’s just seen a ghost.

Unsteadily, he clicks play again and watches as you lead him through your Minecraft creation.

“I wanted to recreate something for someone very special in my life.”

Jungkook doesn’t even bother to react to this anymore. This entire video is going to be worthless—there’s nothing he can say.

The video pans around the Minecraft setup and he can see what looks like handmade swings and merry go rounds.

“It took me a really long time to do this and an embarrassing amount of help from some twelve-year-olds on the internet.”

He laughs and is stunned by the wet tears rolling down his cheeks. He hadn’t realized he was crying.

“I re-created a park that is really special to my best friend and I.”

He feels his chest tighten and relax. The park. 

“This is the spot where he held me when my dog died when I was nine. I still miss that dog.”

The view is on a spot next to a blocky oak tree. Jungkook remembers that day, remembers your heartbroken sobs as he whispered words of comfort to you. He misses that dog, too. 

“This is where he and my brother got in a fight when we were eleven, because my brother called me a stupid-head. My best friend has always been protective of me, even from my own big brother.”

He can still remember pushing Namjoon around after hearing him call you names. He pushed Namjoon over and threatened to use his “big muscles” if he did it again.

The camera pans to an enormous structure, rather sloppily made, of a slide and monkey bars.

“This is where we first shared a joint in high school. I coughed a lung up and he ran down the street to a gas station at ten pm to get me a bottle of water even though I told him I was okay,”

The memory of the bewildered 7-11 employee plays through his mind. The man watched as a very stoned, very out of breath, Jungkook paid for a bottle of water in coins.

The video continues playing, moves towards what appears to be a parking lot made of cobblestone blocks.

“This is where he held me when my world fell apart.”

The break-up. The way you cried and cried and cried in his arms and he held you as if you were the only thing left on Earth. 

“This is where he reminded me I’m worthy of love, that I’m not broken. This is where he held me like I was delicate, but treated me like I was unbreakable.”

His tears don’t stop. Jungkook feels his heart thundering in his chest like a summer storm. 

He can hear your sniffles through the recording of the video—you were crying too. It pans around to the swing set.

“And this is where I’ll tell him everything, tonight. Where I’ll tell him how deeply I love him and how I want to make him the happiest guy in the world. In all of Minecraft and beyond. I hope he comes.”

Jungkook doesn’t even bother turning his camera off.

Instead, he’s running to change out of his three-day-old clothes and bolt out the door.

The creaky, rusty metal of the swing set is deafeningly loud in the silence of your park.

It’s dark, just a few street lights around to illuminate the perimeter, but it’s otherwise only lit by the moon.

It’s getting cold. You shiver in your hoodie and kick at the dirt under your swing. 

Maybe he didn’t see the video. Maybe he wasn’t going to show.

Maybe it was too late.

You spent hours working on the Minecraft world, staying up at all hours of the night to build and craft a poor re-creation of this park. The twelve-year-olds on Reddit had been invaluable and Namjoon definitely made fun of you for your creative assistants. But it had all been worth it. 

“Fuck,” you speak out loud to no one, as you try to warm your hands in the pockets of your sweater. “It’s cold.”

“You should have brought a jacket.”

The sudden voice from behind startles you. You hop off the swing and whip around to face  down the intruder.

Jungkook.

He looks so good. He’s wearing a thick coat and tight jeans. Your eyes take a delicious journey from head to toe.

He can’t help but preen at your blatant appreciation. He enjoys knowing you’re attracted to him, at least physically.

“You came.”

He nods and takes a nervous step towards you. He’s still far away, more than an arm's-reach away. You’re desperate to bring him closer, to pull him tight against your body and wrap yourself around him. You never want to be without his gentle touch again.

“I felt pretty compelled to come after you made all this in Minecraft for me.” He cracks a wry smile, a boy-ish grin that makes your heart flutter.

“It took me twenty-five hours and some teenagers to help.”

He laughs, a beautiful sound that warms you. “I’m sure they were ecstatic to help.”

You chew at the inside of your cheek, nervous at what he thinks about your in-game confession.

“Did you mean it?” He asks. He steps closer—one more step.

“Every word.”

His eyes are searching yours for the truth, desperately diving into the depths for validity.

“Why did you run away?” Another step.

You swallow hard, heavy tears brimming in your eyes.

“You went from being the silly best friend to being the person I could spend the rest of my life with. It all hit me. It’s always been you.”

One more step and now he’s just within your reach. If you stuck your hand out, your fingers would graze the soft puff of his coat, the delicate skin of his neck. 

“I’ve always felt that way about you. I never thought you’d feel the same.”

You smile softly, timidly. “It just took me a little while longer to realize it.”

All at once, Jungkook closes the gap and holds you gently by your cheeks. His thumbs wipe at the moisture under your eyes. 

“I promise to never make you cry again,” he whispers reverently. 

“And I promise to never run away from you again.” 

Jungkook smiles at that, cradling your face like you’re the most expensive and precious jewel. 

“Can I kiss you again?” He asks, somewhat unsure of himself. 

“I would like it if you would.”

As Jungkook presses his cold, plush lips to your own, you make a promise to yourself to never go a day without kissing him again. 

“I can’t believe you’re in my bedroom,” Jungkook murmurs as he kisses at your face. After the park, Jungkook loaded you into his priceless Nissan and scurried home. You could hardly keep your hands off him as he drove you back to his place—reaching and caressing the spots on his body you’re dying to become familiar with. 

“I’ve been in your bedroom before,” you remind him as he tugs up the hoodie you’re wearing. 

“God, don’t be so semantic when I’m trying to fuck you,” he says before throwing the hoodie to a corner of the room. “You know what I mean.”

Jungkook kisses you again, all lips and teeth and tongue. He kisses you like you’re the last breath of air, and he’s greedy for every bit. He grips your hips, not too tight, and brings your body against his. You can feel him grow in hardness in his too tight, and it feels like bliss. 

Teasingly, you grind your hips against his, making him shudder with desire.

“I want you,” he whines as he nibbles at your lip. 

“Really? I couldn’t tell.”

He opens his eyes to level a look at you, pulling his mouth away from yours. 

“You’re such a little smartass.”

His hands become feverish on your jeans, tugging apart the button and flicking down the fly. He pushes them down quickly, and you kick them off carelessly. 

He can’t stop looking at you in your bra and panties, standing at the foot of his bed. 

“Holy shit, okay, this is happening, right? Like, this is real?” 

You smirk, pleased with Jungkook’s obvious excitement. 

“Let me prove it’s not just a dream.” 

Softly, you spin Jungkook around and push him down to sit on his bed. He complies easily, eyes wide and excited. 

“If this is a dream, would you be able to feel this?” You ask as you unbuckle  his belt and open his jeans. He doesn’t reply, simply watches you as you tug his jeans down to his thighs. 

His cock strains hard against his tight boxers, and you run a teasing finger over the obvious bulge. 

“Oh fuck,” he breathes. 

“Feels pretty real, huh?”

“Y-yeah.” 

Your delicate hands gently tug at the waistband of his boxers and easily work them down enough to free the length of his cock. It springs out easily and your eyes widen at the impressive size. You assumed he would be at least average, but you’re looking at something definitely more. 

“Oh wow,” you whisper. “You’re fucking huge.” 

Jungkook grins. “All for you, baby.” The cockiness is palpable. 

One solid grip around him wipes the presumptuous smile off his face, replaced with a gasping, shuddering moan. 

“How about this? Not a dream?”

He struggles to find his voice, instead he’s gulping for air like a fish out of water. 

“That’s what I thought,” you whisper before settling into a position on your knees. “I’ll admit, I’ve dreamt about this too. I always felt so ashamed for dreaming about sucking my best friend's cock.”

You press soft kisses to the head of his length, teasing the sensitive areas at the tip before kissing up and down the length. 

“Fuck, fuck, fuck.”

His evident desire for you encourages you, and your tongue swipes at the crown of his tip and swirls around it gently. 

“Oh my god.” His eyes shutter closed and you trace the veins in his dick with your tongue. 

“This h-has to be a dreeeaaaaam,” he whines as you make an exceptionally long stripe with the flat of your tongue. 

You pull off for a moment, humming. He springs his eyes open and watches as you reach behind your back and unsnap your bra. Your breasts escape with a bounce and his eyes widen, nearly bulging out of their sockets. 

“What the fuck,” he whines. “You have the most amazing tits.”

He reaches out to grasp them and you slap them away playfully. 

“Not yet,” you smirk. “Still trying to convince you you’re not asleep.” 

He sucks in his breath and puts his hands back to the bed to steady himself, eyes never leaving yours (except to stare at the luscious curves of your body). 

Grasping your breasts in both hands, you smash them together lightly in an elaborate show of what Jungkook wants most. You lean over his body and place the throbbing thickness of his cock in between your tits, allowing him to feel just how soft and warm they are. 

“Shit!” He yelps, grabbing his sheets in a tight fist. “Are you really tit-fucking me right now?!”

Slowly, you lift your body up and down, allowing his cock to feel each stroke of your breasts. You nod at his question and continue to pump up and down. 

“Still dreaming?” 

He whines and shakes his head, already feeling so close to the edge. His cock is slick from your teasing licks and the pressure of your tits surrounding him had his mind spinning with desire. 

“Ahhh, I’m so fucking close,” he warns.

You continue, speeding up the friction and pressure of your strokes. 

“I want you to cum on me, Kook,” you whisper encouragingly. “Cum on my tits, please?”

Jungkook feels like he’s a wire about to snap, and your thick, sultry voice and incredibly perfect breasts are the snips that breaks him apart. 

“Oh, shit,” he grunts. “Gonna paint your titties white, baby.”

His moans echo around the walls of his bedroom, small gasps of pleasure and your name escaping his perfectly plump pout. 

His hot load splatters on your chest, and you stroke him through each pulse of his cock. You’re slippery with his seed now, and when you pull away from his spent length, you make a show of rubbing in his cum over your chest.

“Okay, definitely not dreaming,” he says in a daze as he watches you lift a wet finger to your mouth, popping it in to clean it off. “Who knew you were so fucking kinky?” 

His confidence grows as he catches his breath. He can’t believe he’s sitting on his bed with you on your knees, breasts covered in his load. You’re suckling the cum off your finger like it’s his cock, and he’s desperate for more.

“There are lots of things you don’t know about me,” you shrug. 

Swiftly, he grabs you gently by your bicep and pulls you close, sucking at your lips until you’re both standing. 

“I plan to find out everything.” 

Suddenly, you’re switching positions and Jungkook is pushing you down into the bed. You lay flat in the center, body relaxed and eager for your best friend.

“What are you doing?” You ask. He’s still standing at the end of the bed, watching you get comfortable. Once he’s satisfied that you’re lying exactly how you want, he settles himself by your feet.

“Worshipping you,” he says as he lifts an ankle and presses gentle kisses to your calf. “Showing you how much I adore you.” More kisses, soft and sweet. “Showing you how I plan on treating you for the rest of your life.” 

He takes his time, lavishing your legs with his mouth. He kisses and sucks at any spot, sexual or not. He mouths at the roundness of your knees, your firm hamstrings. He presses his love into the skin of your thighs, mouthing his praises with each kiss. 

He reaches the dip of your hips and he gently kisses your exposed skin as he tugs your cotton panties off you. 

“I have loved every inch of you since before I can remember,” he praises as his lips skim over the mound of your cunt. “And I don’t plan on stopping soon.” 

Your body feels like it’s on fire, as if Jungkook lights a match at every spot his lips press against. Your eyes close, and you allow Jungkook to continue his pious worship of your body. 

He teases around your folds, kissing your labia ever so gently—making you gasp. He doesn’t linger long, only kisses you enough to stir the licking flames of heat in your belly.  

He kisses at your stomach, gently nibbling and laving at the softness there. You try to hide from him, try to hide your insecurities of your body in his thorough exploration, but he moves your hands. 

“I know you don’t like this part of your body,” he murmurs. His voice is so soft, so pure and sincere. “But I do. I love everything about you.” 

His tongue swirls around your belly button, making you gasp at the ticklish sensation. 

“You’re so pretty. So perfect.” 

He continues upwards, lips now trailing to your full breasts. He takes his time there, licking and kissing and flicking at your nipples with his tongue. It feels exhilarating—Jungkook’s mouth feels like everything you want it to feel like. His tongue is warm, and he bites with just enough pressure to make your back arch off the bed into his embrace.

His hands explore, taking stock of every millimeter of skin he can find. He wants to memorize every freckle, every bump, every scar and line. Your body is his paradise, and all he can think of is you, you, you.

One hand travels down your body as he moves his lips up your neck. It snakes down your stomach and deftly slides over your soaked core. You whine as you feel his fingers part your folds and dip into the wetness.

“So wet,” he says out loud, verbalizing every tantalizing detail of your body. “So perfect.”

His lips are finally at your own and you kiss him passionately, tongue swirling around his as he slides his two fingers past your clit and into your drenched hole. You gasp against his mouth, eyes widening as he slowly scissors his fingers into you and pumps slowly. It’s almost teasing, the way he fucks his fingers in you. Slow, firm movements with his powerful hands.

“Jungkook!” You gasp. He doesn’t reply, instead he bites at your lip and tugs, then trails his hot mouth back down to your nipples. He can’t get enough of your breasts and the slightly salty taste of him still lingering.

“You feel so good,” he says as he speeds his fingers up minutely. “So tight and wet for me.”

Your hips writhe in need. He’s giving you what you need, but not enough. You need more, more. You want to feel him, all of him, spearing you open.

“Please, Kook,” you groan. “I need you.”

He laughs softly against your nipple and sucks extra hard, letting it pop out of his mouth audibly.

“And I need you, my love.”

“Fuck me, please.” You’re desperate, thighs quaking from the slow teasing. “I want you to fuck me, Jungkook.”

Chills shudder down Jungkook’s spine and he’s powerless to say no, not when you demand it so well.

“With pleasure,” he agrees. He pulls his fingers from within you and copies your move, sliding them into his mouth to suck your essence off. 

He’s never looked sexier. His eyes are dark chocolate pools of burning intensity, and you feel your breath become shaky as you watch him clean his fingers with precision.

After he’s deemed his fingers sufficiently clean, he settles himself between your legs. Easily, he lifts your hips and shoves a pillow underneath, elevating you to a more comfortable position. He grabs your legs and tosses each over his shoulders so they’re higher in the air. 

“I’m going to fuck you so good, baby,” he promises as he rubs the tip of his cock on your soppy slit. “Condom?”

You shake your head, appreciative of his question but desperate to feel him completely.

“Birth control. Regularly tested. Haven’t had sex in a while,” you blurt out. “You good?”

He nods in agreement. “Same. Well, except the birth control. But, I’d take it if they made it for men.”

“Jungkook!” You whine. Your best friend is so easily sidetracked. “Please, can you fuck me?”

He grins. “Tsk, someone is impatient.”

A low moan is rumbling in your chest as he continues to rub his thick cock at your entrance.

“I swear to god, you’re the biggest tease.”

“Oh, I’m definitely the biggest.”

Before you can react, he’s pushing past your entrance and sliding deep in your walls. Your position makes his cock feel deep, and he bottoms out and stills there, eyes closed in bliss.

“Holy shit,” he gasps. “This is absolutely the best pussy I’ve ever felt.”

You wiggle your hips as you get used to the sensation of the delicious stretch.

“Please don’t tell me how many pussies you’ve felt when you’re balls deep inside of me.”

Jungkook turns his head and kisses at your legs resting on his shoulders, lavishing them with his praise once more as he keeps his cock buried inside your tight heat.

“Yours is the only one that matters. The only pussy I’ll ever be in for the rest of my life.”

“That’s a good answer,” you smile. “Now, fuck me, lover boy.”

Jungkook winks and grips your hips with his hands. He swiftly pulls out, enamored with the way his cock is already covered in your creamy essence, then eagerly pushes back in. He sets a pace and soon the sound of skin clapping on skin echoes around the room.

“Oh god!” You’re moaning loudly, unabashedly. You’re thankful that Jungkook’s old roommate, Yoongi, moved out to live with his boyfriend Hoseok months ago. He’d definitely complain about the noise for months. “Fuck, Jungkook, you feel so good.”

Jungkook fucks into you with ferocity, speed and power gradually rising as he feels his core tighten with the coming anticipation of release.

“Mmm, you look so fucking sexy like this,” he murmurs. “Getting fucked by your best friend’s fat cock.”

He moves a hand from your hip, trails it up your body to squeeze at your breast, before he’s cupping your face once again. His hips snap against yours and he loves the way your mouth utters little squeaks and gasps with each deep thrust into you.

“God, my beautiful girl,” he groans. “Can’t wait to cum in this pussy, shit, you got me so fucking close.”

You open your mouth desperately and Jungkook easily slips his thumb in. You latch on quickly and suck, tongue swirling around the tip like you’re sucking another cock. It nearly sends him over the edge and the speed of his hips matches his desperate need for more.

“Fucking hell,” he bites back. He can feel his belly tighten, driven further and further to the edge by the constricting wetness of your cunt. 

He pulls his thumb out and moves it down to where his cock spears into you, allowing your spit to swirl with his thumb around your clit. Your core tightens around him at the added stimulation and your back arches up in ecstasy.

“I’m so c-close, Kook,” you plead, as if begging for mercy. “Please, I want to cum so bad.”

The speed of his thumb increases, and he watches as your face twists in pleasure and desperation. 

“Cum on my cock, baby, let me see you fall apart. Show me what I’ve dreamt of for so long.”

A high and wanton cry ripples out of your body as he savagely increases his speed, both his cock and thumb working overtime to drive you towards your end. The butterflies that erupt in your lower stomach make your moans louder, higher. You’re so close, closer than ever. It’s building to an incredible crescendo.

He can tell you’re close—he sees it on your face as your back arches and your fists grip his sheets.

“You look like a fucking angel, baby,” he whines as he soaks in the vision of you writhing underneath him. “I bet you cum like an angel, too. Let me see it, let me see.”

With just a few more swirls of his thumb and his deep, hard strokes, you’re soaring over the edge into a pool of nothingness. Your cunt pulsates wildly around his length, milking and stroking it with your tight walls. You throw your head back, moaning out his name at the top of his lungs, letting his neighbors know just who fucks you so well.

“Holy shit,” he gasps, hips stuttering as he fucks into your juicy hole. “That was so fucking sexy.”

You grip his forearms, holding onto him tight and encourage him to go harder. “Cum inside me, Kookie, please. I’m all yours, make me yours.”

His heart feels like it might burst in his chest. He’s always wanted you to say it to him, to hand over your love to him like he does so easily to you. It’s all so much, so overwhelming, and the feeling of your hot cunt still fluttering around him sends him reeling into his own completion. 

He spills into you, warm seed coating your walls and pooling inside your womb. He fucks himself through each throb of his cock until he’s sure he’s drained every ounce of himself into you.

Your legs slip off his shoulders easily, and he gently pulls himself out of you. He falls beside you, panting with exertion, and wraps an arm around you.

After a few silent moments of catching your breath, Jungkook pulls you in close to him until he can koala-cling to you, arms and legs both wrapped around your body.

“Mine,” he whispers as he kisses your head. “All mine.”

You return the favor, clinging to your best friend—boyfriend—like he’s your only lifeline.

“All yours.”

“So, you’re telling me, you got together because of Minecraft?” Jimin asks, pointing a fork in your direction. It’s been months now since your grand virtual declaration of love for Jungkook. Months of bliss and romance, laughter and companionship. 

You were right all along. Jungkook is everything you’ve wanted in a man and more.

You’re sitting at your brother’s expensive dinner table, enjoying a meal with his family with your boyfriend at your side.

“Yeah, Jimin, I guess that’s what I’m saying,” you retort as you roll your eyes. “Minecraft and Tinder.”

Baby Jisoo is awake and in your brother’s arms, but she’s whining and wiggling to leave him.

“What’s wrong, Soo?” Namjoon asks with a pout on his lips. “Why don’t you want daddy anymore?”

Jimin snorts at his husband and you hold out your arms for your baby niece. “Come here, baby, I know you want auntie.”

Namjoon dutifully hands over his daughter, sulking that he’s been picked over for his sister. 

You cradle the baby in your arms, expecting her to calm once she’s there, but she continues to fuss. She’s thrusting her arms out and nearly crying, reaching towards Jungkook who’s busy chowing down on Jimin’s homemade ramen.

“I think she wants you, Kook,” you murmur. He looks at you, then to the baby, then back to you, before he wipes his hands and face clean with a napkin.

“Oh, okay,” he whispers, slowly taking the baby from your arms with your help. “Hello, ma’am.”

Namjoon and Jimin laugh. “She’s a baby, Jungkook, not an elderly woman,” your brother teases.

Jungkook doesn’t listen. He’s too busy cooing at the baby in his arms and playing with her tiny hands. Namjoon turns his attention away and looks at you.

“Guess I won’t be the only provider of grandchildren for much longer.”

You playfully glare at him and turn away to watch your boyfriend. Watching Jungkook interact with your niece makes your heart swell, your soul sing. He’d be a perfect father.

“I swear, if he teaches her how to play Minecraft, he’s banned from the household,” Jimin grumbles. “This is a No-Nerd-Zone.”

Jungkook cradles the child and rocks back and forth, singing her a soft, made-up song, before he looks over at you.

“Hey, I want one of these,” he smiles. “Can we have one?”

You lay a hand on your stomach, a soft bump not quite visible yet. It’s only been one test, the lines faintly indicating ‘positive’ on the stick. You wanted to make sure, get confirmation before you spill the beans.

“Sure, Kookie.”

He grins and leans over to kiss you, before turning his attention back to the baby. “Okay, Jisoo, now let me tell you all about the Endermen.”

Jimin groans. “Oh my god, do not give Minecraft facts to my infant!”

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the addition of frog lights are really cool in minecraft, and i cant wait, but based on the looks of it they look just as bright as glowstone or sea lanterns. 

since mojang changed the mob spawning rule down to only spawning at 0, they advertised that bases could have mood lighting or not have to worry about mobs spawning in them. 

but if that’s the case i really hope they add in lighting that isnt so bright. 

almost every light source block has been bright because of the need of lighting up areas. torches, lanterns, sea lanterns, glowstone, shroom lights, redstone lamps, etc are all super bright. 

the only slightly dimmed light sources are redstone torches, soul torches, and soul lanterns

but there’s no way to get dim lighting really? not without having to hide light sources further away. 

if they’re advertising that whole, can light a room at only light level 1 sort of thing. i want more options of lighting that gives low level light. 

they’re adding in fireflies, so why not let us catch them in bottles like water buckets and we can place them like lanterns!

or maybe there’s light sources that are super dim because we found them in the dep dark. 

or, with the addition of fireflies, now we know they can make tiny one pixel entities. why not add in something like fairy lights/string lights. something you can dye so you can better match the lights to the colors of your home 

give us more dim light options please. because now we can actually keep our houses dim, we need light sources that are dim.