Round Up: Minecraft Live (September 2025) - New Drops, Mobs, Weapons, DLC And More

Just started playing a bit again today. The spear and the Nautilus seem neat.

Ugh, I haven't played in literal years. Maybe if it runs well on my Switch 2 I will boot it up...

To be honest, non of this matter to me as long as they havent released a switch 2 update with all bells and whistles yet.
Wonder why they Are taking so long time.
Would be great to Get a time frame.

@Artonide Beats me. Maybe they think the Switch 1 version is still good enough.

@Artonide It took them 3 years (I think, maybe more) to develop a native version for the PS5. People were stuck with the PS4 version of Bedrock for the longest time.
So, uh, I'm not getting my hopes up 🤣

When did we start calling game updates "drops"?

@RainbowGazelle Just under two years ago, when Mojang shifted their focus from yearly big updates to smaller Game Drops that were released more often

Saw this on Instagram and laughed for several seconds 🤣. As a massive Dragon Ball fan, this is one of my favorite Minecraft DLCs that I've seen. Here's hoping a Rising of the Shield Hero one follows eventually 🤞.

What I would really care about is a Switch 2 version with that pretty new upgraded graphics update.

Still no news on the Vibrant Visuals update coming to Switch 2... without that, it's hard to get excited about everything else...

Seems super weird to be updating copper and trying to make it out to be something exciting after the games been out for what, 10 years? 15?

@CaleBoi25 you haven't layed for years? that cant be good for your health!

Copper tools were needed but like Shulkers, took 3 updates or more because reasons.

The Zombie horse returns after being dumped in the 1.6 Horse update, Skeleton Horses are a rare spawn for commands only to I can't remember if always in the game or cut entirely. I mean they literally are recycling the Zombie horse which is fine but it also comes off as look we made this when they didn't it's the same texture. XD

Why do we have 5 zombies or skeletons, because Mojang can't think of anything else to be undead and creative angle with them.

Spears better be more then Crossbows were as to me they were just slower bows and didn't tweak the bow back to it's machine gun status so to me the crossbow is pointless.

Throwing a spear sure but otherwise the damage/relevance seems kind of pointless, what a cheaper trident then?

Mojang doesn't really tweak some things for a lot of purpose. They make small updates that have less worth (even if were all over the play prior but are less exciting in how they gave purpose to them and not just compared to mods either).

The Golems are nice but at the same time I mean, mob vote a while ago was supposed to have them. Mojang goes 'oh community engagement' but to me it's just 'lets dangle a carrot then put effort into things'.

I get sometimes they try to do things different from modders but sometimes they work really badly or have a fair use case outcome but most updates have been 'we wanted something quick for more attention' but lack substance and are random ideas shot at the wall. It's one of the most well known/played games, what more attention can you want. You make money from modders/texture artists and more on the Bedrock version but the EULA on Java isn't the case and Java creators have to host 3rd party sites for that stuff. (I'm glad they are free on Java as it would restrict people more even if there is importing of Bedrock content but they don't work on console only Windows/Mobile and not as much validation program to deal with).

Their rules never make sense.

But coming from the 'can't harm the player' = Phantoms added to punish players who don't sleep, also Thunder has existed for years. Their rules make no sense at all and never have.

@LastLife Having tested it on PS5 it is interesting how it goes about things but no idea how Switch 1 would run it. Not tried it on PS4 or tested much thoroughly though.

Also to me the base game colour changes of grass per biome or general stuff is good enough, shaders are overrated of lighting of the sun/moon or the fog and more. I've never been a fan. It works but I find it just looks dumb and unnecessary but that's just me.

Even the clouds don't change they are still the blocky clouds compared to Java edition fan shaders.

So it only changes so much really of lighting and fog.

Even PS5 with a few addons it crashes, or seems like memory leaks or particular with some addons over others.

More a saving issue.

So to me no matter the render distance/simulation distance or more on Switch to limit mob counts or block updates and how the player goes about things or the game acts on it, I'm not sure how well vibrant visuals would go for the water, fog atmospheric stuff and more. It can also be a bit awkward at times to use with settings too.

At least with how Mojang treats the game with Bedrock, older Java versions with Shaders was clearly possible, my PC is average/outdated and even then Shaders were ok with the older versions I was testing it with for a mod review or general testing of some Java performance mods. I don't even use performance mods on Java anyway besides review.

@TheWokesterGamer whoops lol, good catch.

Vanilla Minecraft - adding things that mods do better since 2010.