Interacting with the community is what gives me a lot of joy in this role. It's a unique thing to have one on one interactions with fans as a developer. It's at times disappointing that this can't happen without some toxicity in small groups.

Sometimes I forget that social media is crafted to encourage controversy and conflict. Anecdotally, it feels like Twitter has become a bit worse at this in the past year. All I've wanted to do as a developer on this platform is share my learnings/process and give insight.

It's like complaining about The Sims adding a new furniture set and wondering why it isn't "useful" mechanically or make the sims in your house more powerful. The Sims doesn't need to make their furniture useful - it's about curating a sandbox experience for players to toy with.

I think there is a balance that has to be struck with Minecraft, and it could use more extrinsic motivation in some places. But a large amount of feedback is usually about how "useful" something is, which makes no sense in the context of a sandbox game. There's no goal.

Noticing a trend of critiques about Minecraft are from people who want the game to be a different game than it is. A lot of comparisons to Terraria, or mods adding extrinsic motivation. Minecraft is a sandbox game, and while it can have more extrinsic goals, that's not its core.

One day into the Trails & Tales Update: What have you been up to?

No new Beta/Preview this week, more time to play the 1.20 Trails & Tales update though! 🤩

Minecraft and @Google Chromebooks are better together! Experience the Trails & Tales Update on your own or with friends on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

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are you coming in?

Who's your camel buddy? 🤔

What should you do first in the Trails & Tales Update? Just pause and see what you get! ⏸️

oh my god Minecraft 1 dropped

Cherry blossom pink hair to celebrate the Trails & Tales release! (cred to my daughter for coming up w the hair colour idea ☺️)! 🌸💕🌸💕🌸 I hope you all are having a lovely time with the update! 🌸💖 It truly was a beautiful team work to create it 🥰

Go out there and nail some tails!

Check out all of the new Trails & Tales Update features in our changelogs!

Bedrock:
Java:

Minecraft Tales & Trails 1.20 is rolling out today! Jump in and have fun! 🌸🌸🌸

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

The Trails & Tales Update is out now! 🙌

▪️ Ride a camel and hatch a sniffer
▪️ Find a cherry grove and dig an archaeology site
▪️ Craft with bamboo and trim your armor

It's time to head out there and tell your tale! 📖

Sweden.... ROCK!

40 seconds of AI-enhanced coding with github copilot. Would have taken a few minutes to do manually, or longer with bugs. This code was fairly simple, but the time savings add up fast.