#camel by camel is a good song but sadly I cannot use it in anything due to the animation

[coreofbuddy]

Don’t do it!

[mintenochian]

what other people want added to Minecraft: g u n s

what I want added to Minecraft

•Birds

-For multiple biomes, but mainly for the forests.

-Songbirds would add SO MUCH life to the otherwise quiet areas of the game

-Ravens and crows would be awesome and could use some of the parrot mimicking AI

-Cardinals in the snow biomes would bring a GORGEOUS pop of colour into the white atmosphere

-Seriously we need something to populate the sky, parrots do NOT fly like they should

-nests in trees, can find eggs in them

-doesn't really add a use but fun new feather types would be cool

•Owls

-technically still a bird but would go really well in covered rooftop forests and snow biomes

-we're already getting larger avians added in the form of vultures so why not more large birds?

•Mice and / or rats

-absolute precious babies

-sadly would go well with owls :(

-with cave update coming we need adorable rodents scurrying around

-lil bastards could make mouseholes inside of blocks

-will they be tameable? idk.

-adds the necessity for cheese

•Deer

-MOJANG this is a MUST, this is a NEED

-You literally have pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep spawning in forests what the fuck

-Deer with spotty baby fawns??? Yes

-Young bucks with different stages of antler growth? Yes

-Fawns frolicking in flower forests bc they feel safe

-Stripped wood appearing on trees where bucks scrape velvet off their antlers

-Being able to collect sets of antlers when they fall off periodically (would NOT be attainable by killing the deer, you have to wait for them to shed)

•Elk and Moose

-Same vein as deer

-Bigger, much bigger, neutral instead of passive, less shy

-Snowy biomes

-Better additions than fucking llamas tyvm

-Sidenote but savannahs could also really use some endangered deer-like species to help raise awareness for their status

•Squirrels

-Mojang plz

-Adds nuts to Minecraft ;)

-Black, grey, red, and mixed colour squirrels and breeding

-Brings life to forests like songbirds and deer

•Bears

-Mojang bby you literally already have a neutral bear in Minecraft why have you not reskinned it for grizzly/brown/black bears?

-Bear caves

-Hibernating mobs

-Brings more use to the beehives and bees, bears could be attracted to any area that has more than one bee hive with honey

•WOLVES AND DOGS

-They NEED the ocelots and cats update

-More wolf types (red, timber, snow, black, etc)

-Actual wolf packs (the AI would be difficult to program but the doges are worth it)

-Please let the howl at the moon, if foxes get to say ringdingding all night long wolves deserve to be allowed to howl

-More dog breeds (I know that there's no reason for domesticated dog breeds in Minecraft but ACTUALLY THERE IS)

-Hunting dogs like springers that can jump and run faster

-Foxhounds :D

-Most Important Goodest Boy: Herding dogs like collies and sheepdogs

-Herding dogs could be found in plains where cows and sheep spawn and create herds

-LET DOGS LAY DOWN FOR FUCKS SAKE

•Herding

-Instead of having to pen up and enclose your livestock you could form herds of cows and sheep

-Your Goodest Boi herding dog would protect them and move around with them when they graze

-Just soft peaceful minecraft tingz

•Salt licks

-Something SO SMALL but would make SO MUCH HAPPINESS

-Drawing new cows into your herd by putting up a salt lick

-I'm soft

-I guess salt would be a new ore???

•Bird feeders

-idk I think it would be cool

-excess seeds used for SOMETHING

•Raccoons

-The coolness of wolves, the chaos of foxes, the cunning of cats

-thumbs

-be gay do crimes

-can open chests (trigger trap chests to catch them?)

-Fantastic little shits

-Not tameable but will trust players like foxes do

•Snakes

-I know it's a lot to ask and it would be hard to make them look good

-But??? Imagine a tiny lil garter snake in your garden

-unlikely but would be so fantastic

•Rope

-climeable

-please Mojang we need this so badly

-imagine the ships? The bridges? The bell towers and everything?

-super easy to add, just reskin vines and add a string crafting recipie

•Butterflies and Moths

-Bflies could be a unique mob to flower forests and friends with bees

-if moobloom is added they would all be BEST BUDS

-get it "buds" ahahaha

-help with flower polination but just gives a TON of life to flower forests

-We literally have lanterns in minecraft why do we NOT have moths? Such a cool aesthetic addition.

-helps fill both the daytime and nighttime sky

•Hummingbirds

-fourth member of BEST BUDS

-just soft baby

-i love birbs okay

-the only avian who does not work for the bourgeoisie

•Fireflies

-10 million of them please

-they give great hugs

-adds so much atmosphere to the night world

•Cheese

-We have milk

-We have, presumably, goat milk

-Quit being cowards and add butter and cheese

-Butter churn job block for villagers

-V funny bc they have no arms to churn with?? Oh well

•Seashells

-Something decorative and beautiful that could 1) liven up beaches and 2) have snails and crabs inside!

-Mojang plz do not add sand dollars to the game people already don't know how to tell if they're still alive before trying to take them home

•Whales

-WHALES.

-Imagine something as massive as the ender dragon but peaceful. Allows you to stand on them (idk how but make it happen Jeb)

-WHALE SONGS.

-Being so deep and far out into the ocean, and when the moon is high in the sky and you're sitting in your boat, you just hear the beautiful melancholy sounds of the whales in the distance

•Jellyfish

-Idk if y'all know this but the glow squid is a bad idea

-Dream buddy you fucked up, please use your influence to get in contact with Mojang and have them redo the vote. People would have so much regained respect for you if you tried to fix your mistake.

-Also why does a speedrunner get to tell millions of people what mob would bring more life to Minecraft? He's only playing the game for 5 minutes smh

-aNYWAYS

-Jellyfish could literally do everything the glow squid is going to and look better for it AND possibly be neutral instead of peaceful

•Orcas

-Not much to say but it would liven up the frozen water biomes a bit

•Penguins

-You already know why

-Imagine giving a new home to all the Club Penguin players? Legendary.

-Gender doesn't exist in Minecraft but we all know penguins would be hella gay

•Lobsters

-I think they would be cute

-You would NOT BE ABLE TO BOIL THEM ALIVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

•Mermaids

-Never going to happen since passive mobs are generally real life animals but it would be so cool

•Otters

-they can hold hands

-brings life to the rivers

-super cute

•Frogs and possibly toads

-Swamp gods

-Absolute mad lads

-maybe grow from tadpoles

-wouldn't do much but needed

•Fairy Forests

-NOT Twilight Forests. Not a new dimension.

-Just gentle hidden groves in forests

-ADD FAIRY RING GENERATION TO MINECRAFT.

•Big cats

-Tigers, lions, bobcats, panthers

-Literally anything that could finally add a strong predator possibility to savannahs and jungles

•Zebras and Giraffes

-Shy and skittish

-cannot ride (their skeletal structure is NOT MADE FOR CARRYING HUMANS)

-Super cute tho, brings much needed life to savannahs

•Camels

-The better llama

-Can honestly just be a reskin

-brings much needed life to the desert

-spits and wears carpet and forms caravans like llamas

•Lemurs

-Easier to add to "jungles" than monkeys

-it would be really cool if we could just get a Rainforest biome

-King Julian stans awaken

•Red pandas

-we need them

-cuter than normal pandas and you can @ me

-better idea than sloths or koalas

•More Eldritch Horror Hostile Mobs

-Fun fact time

-The enchanting table language already has Lovecraftian references

-"phnglui mglwnafh cthulhu rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagn" is literally a quote from the enchanting table

-translates to "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

-Bet you didn't know that fun fact

-aNYWAYS add the Kraken to Minecraft instead of the shitty guardians. Thanks.

-imagine how cool it would be to see lights slowly extinguish as something terrifying and dangerous slowly moves in for the kill

-torches get extinguished and can get relit

-if not relit fast enough Something will be waiting

•Ice statues

-We have giant fossils and ship wrecks and cool stuff like that but please imagine finding a GIANT humanoid ice sculpture in an ice spikes biome

-maybe bones inside to show you that... That wasn't carved or naturally generated.

•Skeletons

-Not a mob but a decoration block

-Found in temples, mineshafts, and caves

-implied to be the remains of miners and explorers

-rare

-also implies that every skeleton you kill has some backstory since they look the same

•Constellations

-Not real world star maps but completely unique to Minecraft

-chance for LOTS of fun references

-The stars are your only companions in an apocalyptic world where you are the last of your kind

-Space is gay minecraft is gay thus minecraft space is gay

•Corn

-we have butter in this list

-we have salt in this list

-popcorn. That is all.

And finally

•Leeks

-mostly a joke but would be a cool crop

-100% a reference to Hatsune Miku the creator of Minecraft

DISCLAIMER: I recognize that mobs are added to Minecraft to serve a purpose within the game and that many of these mobs would be better in mods and such, but I also feel like many of these suggestions would really bring so much more life to parts of the game that really need it. Even if they don't serve a huge purpose, they would still be really amazing additions imo.

I would love to see the ideas and suggestions that other people have for what they want added to Minecraft, please TAG ME if you make a post like this, I wanna hear and read it!

[sobtanian]

On how I really tried to love the Nuraphone

I was really excited when I found out about Nuraphone headphones. Combining both over-ear (for bass/haptic feedback) and in-ear technologies, as well as customising the music to suit your particular hearing profile (something that the brilliant AKG N90Q did with great success), it was a combination that was too good to resist.

They arrived yesterday, and I was really eager to give them a spin!

Build quality is really very, very good. They feel solid, not cheap and plasticky, with nice soft over-ear pads that are made from a velvety plastic. The in-ear portion of the cans are nice and flexible and not intrusive at all. These don’t feel like IEMs in your ears, more like you’ve gently inserted a small finger :)

To customise the listening experience you have to use the Nura app, which couldn’t be simpler. Wear the headphones, pair them with your phone, be quiet, and listen to various bleeps and bloops for a few minutes while it calibrates to your ears.

After that’s done, you’re given a demo song that plays using the generic profile. The app tells you to swap to your calibrated profile when you’re ready. It is here that I noticed something not right...

You see, the generic profile sounded unbelievably crap. We’re not talking about cheap ear buds crap, but actually like it was intentionally fucked up with so much DSP: tinny highs, muddy lows, hardly any mids. It really was rubbish, and felt as if it was intentionally made that way, to make the customised profile sound even more amazing.

I was ready to switch to my calibrated profile, which I did and WOAH! What a difference. Everything sounded just right, and really quite good. Exciting!

I fiddled about with the “immersion” setting: what this does is change the degree of vibration on the over-ear parts, as well as how loud the bass is. The idea is that you can be “front row” with bone-ratting base, or turn it off completely, and anything in between.

Again, with the demo song, fiddling with this was quite unique, with true shaking bass at the most extreme setting, and smooth bass to accompany that, and none of that when it’s off. I settled for a setting in between.

Finally, the app told me to customise the buttons on the headphones. There’s one on each side and they’re (very) touch sensitive. By default, the left one toggles the immersion setting, while the right one plays/pauses. I left them as they are.

I switched over to my iPhone’s music app, and started listening to lots of different genres of music, and this is when it all fell apart :(

The main problem was that the Nuraphone was applying a huge amount of inconsistent DSP to the music, without any real consideration to what it was actually doing. In other words, if my calibrated hearing profile meant that the bass needed to be boosted and the treble lowered, it did that blindly, regardless of what that actually did to the listening experience.

To best highlight what I mean, I’ll list some example songs I listened to and what happened:

1\ Superman Theme - John Williams. The whole of this recording sounded like it was playing through a cheap bluetooth speaker, sat around 50 metres away from me. My assumption was that the mids were dampned down so much by the calibrated profile that the whole song was fucked.

2\ The Louvre - Lorde. This was a bit better. The bassy start sounded quite pleasant, but then Lorde sang, and when she went higher up on the scale her voice became sibilant and almost tinny. She drops down the scale and sounds like Lorde again. It was a really weird experience.

3\ I Want To Break Free - Queen. The best of the experiment, in that at least it was consistent throughout. However, still, Freddy’s voice sounded so artificially out of line with the rest of the song as we know it.

4\ Oxygene 17 - Jean-Michel Jarre. Again consistent throughout but it had the same problem as Superman, it sounded like it was playing through a cheap speaker.

5\ Human - Rag and Bone Man. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. When it starts and he sings, all low and that, it sounded really quite good. Then when he sings the chorus and goes up an octave or two, it immediately sounded all tinny and harsh. It was like someone had spliced two versions of the song, or like a different singer had come along to sing the chorus. A thoroughly unpleasant experience.

Another issue I noticed was with volume changes. The above songs were played via bluetooth on an iPhone 10. If I had the volume on 80% or so, some parts of the music were almost completely missing/low. If I went up to 100%, they suddenly appeared and were really quite loud. Drop the volume down and again they disappeared suddenly.

This issue, along with all the songs above, made me come to the conclusion I mentioned above: the DSP was changing everything with no consideration to what it was actually doing. It had decided that some frequencies had to be very low, and some very high, and so on. It was doing this regardless of context, so very-low-rag-and-bone-man was fine, higher-pitched-rag-and-bone-man was boosted beyond recognition. Very unpleasant.

To ensure this wasn’t an issue with bluetooth or MP3, I repeated the songs again but this time with a 3.5mm connection to my AK Jr, and FLAC sources. The exact some issues were replicated.

Sadly, by then I had come to the conclusion that these just aren’t for me. They way the same piece of music was changing as if a child was tweaking the DSP dials was just unpleasant, and I now have an RMA code to return them.

Finally, these headphones have gained great reviews on the interwebs, which does make me wonder whether the main issue is with my ears, or to be more precise with my hearing profile. I cannot see how professional reviewers can have the same listening experience that I had and still come back with a positive review. Or it could be that I was perhaps unfairly comparing them to my AKG N90Q and Sennheiser HD800S cans, both absolutely amazing at what they do. 

Saying that, however, Apple’s AirPods are a much more pleasant, and consistent, listening experience, so there’s also that.

Try as I might, I couldn’t enjoy the Nuraphone. Obviously YMMV, but at £349 I wouldn’t risk it.