[2021] Tweets by Kingbdogz on 18 Oct

I of course helped where I could with a lot of direction and design constraints, and we built a lot on a mutual server to test out and try ideas, but in the end I think my strengths are much more in game design and creative vision than the minutiae of architecture.

Credit where its due, BIG shout out to @cookiecat_9, @HeartlessMoesh for brilliant help on the architecture for the Deep Dark ancient cities. Mariana's concept art was absolutely critical, and Moesh's expertise in building and level design resulted in a really great collaboration

And to top it all off, @wChiwi has just done such a great job with animations on the Warden. While we couldn't show it all off during the Live show, there is some great stuff he's done and even just using his animations as references for when implementing is greatly appreciated.

It should not go unmentioned that @JasperBoerstra helped a lot in reviewing the work on the cities and making sure that they fit within the vision for vanilla Minecraft's art style. His perspective is always immensely valuable.

I will always campaign for us to appreciate more the different teams and skillsets that go into making a feature set for a game. I am so grateful for the art team and what they've been able to accomplish with The Wild Update. We could not do it without them.

@ItaloUT999 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh They are randomly generated so while there won't necessarily be "variants", the layout and what buildings are there will be slightly different each time. Sometimes a particular building might not generate in one, for example, but they might generate in another.

@thyfatman @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh Not right now, but maybe some day we can have some place to see it all :)

@Hellshock77 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh The current plan is that Deep Dark is still a biome. Sometimes you can have a Deep Dark cave biome with no city. It's not yet figured out how common the cities will be.

Oh yeah, and @slamp0000 ? That guy? Have you heard the sounds the Sculk Shriekers and Warden make? His work speaks for itself. Spectacular.

@ItsDrickMC @Hellshock77 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh Yes they only generate in the Deep Dark.

@King_Mudkip @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh I have a huge drive to push Minecraft into new territories that players never expected. The tricky part is keeping it still feeling like vanilla. I am hoping that the Deep Dark and Warden strike that balance of fresh while also recalling old feelings of surviving that first night

@leham39 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh It's hard to measure. It's very wide, one of the widest structures we have - the walls stretch out very far and buildings line those walls. But each building is much smaller than a Bastion Remnant. So it's hard to compare.

@gizmonster01 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh It is much darker in-game I would say, we had to brighten things up a lot for the Live showcase :) But I agree the name "Deep Dark" doesn't really fit the cities - but it does when the Darkness effect creeps in from Sculk Shriekers and Wardens :D

@CygnusGD @ItaloUT999 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh Much more like villages

@ElObser80378799 Sculk does not generate underneath players who have died

@camcamburger Only living entities

@MinecraftEnthu3 @cookiecat_9 @HeartlessMoesh I love it!!

@camcamburger Oh okay I read this as a "ender dragon breath" LOL, yes I assume it will work. But we'll need to figure out if there will be a cap to how much the sculk grows.

@Christi02617505 @camcamburger Was my mistake, I read it as a "ender dragon breath"

LOL https://twitter.com/Xilefian/status/1450106750112354304

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@TheodoreSevi11e I would say suddenly removing permissions from a bunch of members in the team for disagreeing with a "political view" is quite malicious

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@StevLaJer @ilmango1 what if you're a modder and a Minecraft developer like me and many other developers within the company. This idea needs to die tbh it's really not helpful nor accurate in any way

@Dracathio @ilmango1 @Mojang Literally many of the developers in Mojang are modders, such as myself. I've been modding in Minecraft for 10 years before joining Mojang. This is a bad take.