Minecraft’s crafting is weird. I’ve only just started playing it for the first time a couple days ago and it’s really strange. Having to make the specific image in the crafting menu is unique but sometimes doesn’t feel like it makes sense. I guess playing it years ago would be more of a trial and error system, which could be more enjoyable. I like how there aren’t recipes you need to learn or milestones you need to pass before you’re allowed to make stuff. As long as you have the ingredients, you can make it. Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. It’s something tangible like a building or a minecart highway or a huge farm instead of just seeing stats incrementally increase.
The King of Antarctica I know, it’s much more rewarding to see your base gradually grow and expand according to your needs rather than see arbitrary stats increase. It’s more fun to spend hours designing and building a specific farm or project then spending hours grinding to see a number go up
>Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. Holy cow that explains why I'm drawn to these two games. That way of progression system is great, and you can really feel the outcome of the effort you've done after hours and hours of gameplay.
You’re a totally underrated channel. The editing is smooth, the script flows really well, the jokes are on points, and it provokes thought! I hope you blow up soon!
If Merakl Came back to UA-cam and did frequent uploads. even if the videos are just lets plays. I would watch him when ever I can. He's young. He's fresh, He's new. and he could honestly become very successful. there's just something but his personality that's down to earth and "vibey". I can see a lot of people can connect with that. his content is relaxing and entertaining. Hope he comes back.
S-someone changed their mind on the internet!!! In all seriousness though I appreciate the time and effort that was put into the the analysis even though the last video came out months ago. I watch all of your videos and I have to say that you make some of the more entertaining videos out there. Keep up the good work my guy :) P.S. I appreciate you putting my comment in your vid it was very surprising
The Sweden remix isn't up on UA-cam yet, I was working on a video to go with it but then I got busy. Here is my channel though ua-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html Remix will be up soon.
I'm posting this when I'm ~2 minutes into the video. I've been playing since Beta 1.7, and my biggest critique is probably of the "recipe book." Back when Minecraft was one of those forum-based games (before the wiki), people would post asking "how do I craft a piston?" This community learning was a novel feature of survival crafting systems. Then, in 1.12, to widen the game's appeal, they added the recipe book. It was apparently implemented to guide players through the game. For some reason, the book would guide you through making a furnace, but not making a hopper. For some reason, the book shows you some recipes from the moment you have the ingredients, but only others after you've already crafted them. This gives players a half-baked idea of what the game has to offer, only to be met with frustration when they needed to figure out how to craft certain items (or learn that these items exist at all). In 1.14, the Village and Pillage update added a ton of functional blocks that players would benefit from knowing how to craft and use. Did the book show you these? No. If you didn't read the patch notes, you would have no idea they even existed, ruining the whole point of their alleged convenience and ease of crafting. I am still getting used to using these new blocks, as I have to unlock (and therefore Google or remember their recipes) in every new world. My second main critique is one of options, and this is why I tend to avoid survival in general. For such an open ended game, it really forces you down some annoying paths to be able to interact with some of its mechanics. Do you want to make literally any advanced redstone system? That's going to require a steady source of slime balls. But how do you get slime balls? Theoretically, slimes spawn in swamps, but that's at a rate too slow to be of any use to even a casual player. If you want slime without using third party tools, you need to dig out massive areas near the bottom of the world. Why would you ever do this without someone telling you to? We're already at a giant gameplay non sequitur, but it only gets worse. Slimes spawn low in the world, but only in specific chunks, or 16x16 areas. If you see a slime spawn in your giant dug-out area, you know it spawned in a slime chunk and that's where you should dig out more area and make a slime farm. But does the game tell you what the borders of this spawning area are? Not normally, no. You have to know to press F3+G (I think) to show chunk borders. If you're going to use a debug feature to find where one of the game's necessarily farmable mobs spawn, then you might as well use a third party tool to find your slime chunks in the first place. And if you like playing in peaceful, you're just fucked, because slimes don't spawn at all. For some reason they implemented honey, a way to farm a sticky substance without needing to make a mob farm, then did fuck all with it. Yes you can make some neat looking blocks and a new version of slime blocks that sticks to itself but not slime blocks (which is actually super useful), but it can never serve as an actual replacement for that bullshit gameplay path for getting slime balls. Why? Because you cannot make sticky pistons with honey. You cannot use the game's only other sticky substance to make sticky pistons. Watching Mojang implement alternative ways to get certain items, only to make these systems entirely separate, removing player agency, has been incredibly frustrating. My final critique is of what systems Minecraft actually let's you bypass. If you know what new features *are* exploitable, you can bypass half the game. Forget mining for cobble, then iron, then diamond, then obsidian to make diamond tools and an enchantment table. Forget killing endermen to access the end. Forget gaining 30 levels of experience and killing tons of cows so you can actually enchant your gear. All I need is a wooden axe and a couple villagers. There's a type of villager that you can change any other villager into which can give you emeralds from sticks. Because I know of this mechanic, I now have infinite emeralds. I can use my infinite emeralds and knowledge of easy profession switching to get an infinite amount of maximally enchanted tools (including mending, the single rarest enchantment in the game. It doesn't even show up in the normal enchanting system), armor, ender pearls, rare blocks, name tags, and an assortment of other things. This completely broken mechanic ensures I never have to even dig through stone to get diamonds. Yet for some fucking reason, no matter how knowledgable you are about villager trading, you'll still need to dig out a 16x16x39 area determined by some random slime chunk finding website just to make a sticky piston.
@@merakimerakimeraki OH! A recent comment too. Okay that's cool. Thank you for your amazing content and I can't wait to see you again on UA-cam. As another commenter said, I believe you can make it big on UA-cam. Get some tips from the algorithm or even without them I believe you can grow big. But always remember me when you grow :)
I absolutely love the quality of each of the videos you put out! So smooth and everything seems to fit together perfectly. The shaders, of course, really help that as well. I'm assuming it is SEUS?
I don’t understand how this channel is still this small. Clean cut and modern editing, paired with actual intelligent content is getting harder to find. But I guess the size is also wha makes this channel special. Idk all I know is this is some of the most thought out Minecraft content I’ve ever watched
I only see two real flaws with Minecraft's crafting system: 1) over-reliance on the crafting table. There are a few offshoots (like with enchanting, and brewing) but the vast majority of recipes are all in the same place. If there was a little bit more variation there, and they made better use of what they have. (The cartography table and smithing table are so niche, like cm'on just move more recipes to them) (why is the stonecutter not required/only gives buff for stairs. Why no woodcutter?) Going back to the same block every time can feel a bit repetitive. 2) lack of customization for armour and tools. I feel like minecraft needs way more customizability to armour and tools. When I hop on a new server, and grind out a full set of perfect gear, the only reasons it feels "mine" is because of the names I happened to give them in an anvil. My efficiency 5, unbreaking 3, mending, silk touch netherrite pickaxe is indistingiushable from any other one, except that *I* name it "Silky & Smooth" while my friend names it "Work pick." Especially armor, which I can't even be bothered to name, just feels like "a set of armour" not "a thing I built". Perhaps expanding the vexillography mechanics beyond shields by expanding loom's functionality could do this. Similar visual tweaks to tools and weapons could be possible. What if it was possible to cover perfect tools in another metal, and change the visual appearance? (Like netherrite, but with multiple options) Swords and axes help, but I feel like it's not enough. I even tried intentionally keeping a diamond sword for world building, but it still felt a bit short of how much expression I wanted. If I can see an item in my hotbar, and go "that's my item" it feels much more like there's a story there. Anyways, those are my thoughts, have a good day random internet denizen.
holy fuck, just the sheer amount of work and love you have put in these videos just explodes my mind. i never really liked high quality videos, but you took the format and made it feel homemade, comfortable. loved it, will be something to look back at and take inspiration from, because this is literally the thing i was looking to make myself. o7
One issue I have with crafting nowadays is that it basically doesn't exist, because of the recipe book you're never going to have to manually craft anything which takes out something I think was a lot of the fun of the game, the mystery. You never knew what you might find deep in the caves or out exploring the endless landscape in old Minecraft and that applied to the crafting, you had to figure out how to make everything, and while this could be annoying, it was sort of fun just trying out differing things and seeing what you might be able to make, or knowing about and item and trying different combinations of items until you figure out how to craft it, idk I just think it was something special about old MC
PLEASE upload more. I just started watching your videos and I subbed immediately. Your schedule may not match 1,000,000 subscribers but your video quality sure as hell does. 👌
Hey Meraki, I'm nervous because you haven't done anything since July 2020, you weren't available on any social media, and I'm worried, I found your channel 4/5 months ago thanks to the algorithm because I explicitly went to Wii Sports Resort I was looking for. I hope that you are well in your health please give us a sign of life so that we can take our fear away, I hope we haven't seen your last video, please come back and you don't have to do one of these fantastic videos and it's enough if you (doing a vlog through your living room saying that you are fine) just please give us a sign of life. I think your videos stand out from the crowd and like many others I would look forward to more and I bet I'm not the only one who is so worried about your life, and if someone has really trustworthy information about him, how his health is, please answer me. with this you help me and many others on the Internet who are also wondering where Meraki is. Meraki, if you see this, I am also known by the name (Danu).
@@merakimerakimeraki hey man it's great to hear from you and I'm glad you are fine, looking forward you will get it! I believe in you! And dont forget: There is no pressure on you to make videos
Man, I discovered your channel not long ago and the content you're putting out is really freaking good. I'm sure the channel is going to blow up shortly. Keep up the good work!
I mean the crafting system could do with one major change. That is more special recipes that aren't just blocks. Netherite is one, but that is all. I'm talking about new items that can enhance the player experience, while also not breaking the game from it's roots. Terraria does this well, as you mentioned that their is materials that link into a crafting system that is entirely optional. There is enough blocks in the game. Adding more will make the already bad creative menu worse. If you have ever played modded minecraft and seen how many unique crafts there are, it becomes exciting to see what you can craft. Another example is with 'Tinkers' Construct'. Where you need to make many different items and place them in a certain formation to make a fancy furnace, giving a guide book so the player understands. Just to clarify I like modded just as much as vanilla. I do not want to see the lines blur, but modded does things that make the game more exciting and a process. Lets say they add a new step in the cycle: Calculate. A step that will be entirely optional, but a more enjoyable system to use instead of the old. People that make auto smelters and item sorters fit into this category. Another benefit will be more self driven goals, Once an item has entered a crafting table, it will come out in it's final form, not a part of something bigger.
One of the reasons this game was so interesting to me back in 2012 was coz of the crafting , you had to guess or look up recipes and U enjoyed that It made it more full filling and in my opinion added to the experience.
You just gave me one of the biggest jump scares of my life with the creeper sound at 6:26! I was playing while listening to the video in the background, almost threw my mouse at the wall...🤣
I'm sure other people have said it, but I'll say it too. Crafting also contributes to world building. The recipe of an item lets us see how it's made, how it functions. How does a dispenser shoot? It has a bow in its crafting recipe. Stuff like that. I do think that crafting could be more engaging in some ways, but going too far into that would make it tedious. Think of "Crafting" concrete. You need to preform an outside step, you need to get it wet. A bit annoying, but arguably a step in the right direction, and it is a new challenge that inspires new creative solutions like concrete blast chambers to solve. If minecraft were to update or expand on their crafting system, I would think they would do so by using new methods other than the crafting table. That's what they've been doing already after all. You can craft gold into enderpearls, you just gotta use this fancy new crafting table called a piglin and also roll the dice a bit. Perhaps minecraft could borrow a little from the various magic mods that exist? Pretty much all of them involve some sort of ritualized crafting for more powerful items that you don't make in bulk. Being slow adds dramatic tension and it wont be too repeated. The fact that these mods are so popular implies a demand for that type of crafting to supplement the normal crafting system.
every week, I discover and subscribe to about 3 youtube channels. I am currently subbed to 165 channels, though there used to be many more before UA-cam removed about 50 of them due to me not watching their videos. This channel in particular stands out in that sea of channels; it's somewhat unique, interesting to watch, and is very high quality. (Plus, it will help me design my minecraft "improvement" that I might be working on in the next few years)
Your channel is seriously underrated. Your editing and just the way the videos are put together Is just great And just great content in general. Great video as always.
I just discovered your channel and let me tell you that I absolutely love the way you make your content. I really enjoyed watching both this and the "Crafting in Video Games SUCKS" one (since they're related lol) and really hope you keep making awesome content like this (Take your time tho)
love your videos, this one and especially the "unexpected turn of minecraft" vid, editing and the commentary is amazing :) also youre very beautiful lol i might simp
just want you to know your honestly my favorite youtuber. I hear so many people say that to so many people but you are just special your content, commentaries, and amazing video about minecrafts music. Meraki i want you to know that i never want you to stop content
Hey man, wherever you are out there. Please come back. I'm sure you've read this a thousand times already but man. I do miss you alot. You're Videos were absolutely amazing.
dude you are so under appreciated, you make such quality great videos that only a few people see. I wish this channel could blow up so more people see your amazing content!
I love minecraft. It is a game i like to play for fun and when I am bored and have nonething else to do. I usualy play older versions like 1.7.2 witch is a version I played the most because of my crappy pc. Nice video btw. Keep up the good work ;)
I'm getting a saxophone soon and I'm definitely going to try and learn Sweden on it. Hope to make a passionate cover with that jazzy funky growling in it. That being said, that is getting ahead of myself by many months at the least.
I think since it was made for young kids, the crafting was pretty simple, but still required some guides and stuff which I thought was fun to look up when I was learning for the first time
I have been looking to start UA-cam and I just wish I had the courage you do to stand Infront of the camera and record such a clean and heartfelt video that had thought put into it. I admire you for your traits and I wish you the best success.
The quality and the amount of thought and effort that goes into these videos make me question the amount of subscribers you have. Get him to 1 Million subs already please.
Crafting in Minecraft is a tool. Simple as that, it allows you to have a lot of cool stuff that wouldn't make sense to find in the world. It also makes it so if you want something that does spawn in the world like rails, you don't have to go out of your way to find those in the world, you can just craft them from common materials. It also is a mission in itself, you go on an adventure to find diamonds to craft a diamond pickaxe. Now, everything is limited to 3x3 menu, so you probably won't need an assenite amount of 7-9 different materials (because the materials in crafting are repeated most of the time, you never need a lot of unique items to craft something, unless you craft a thing to craft a thing, but I don't remember ever doing much of that other than stripping wood logs into planks). Also the controls are fluid with how you can grab 1 of, stack of or half of a thing. It feels fast. And because crafting exists and often requires common materials, it gives greater purpose to what you carry around. You might be carrying wood around to be able to make more torches and tools, but decide that you wanna make a bed, a door or maybe just wall yourself off. In a way it allows for a huge expansion of inventory size, because a stack of unstripped logs should last you for 32 stacks of torches (!). If you're in a cave, coal is easy to come by, wood is not. Anyways, there is a purpose to the system and there is depth to the system as well. On top of that it's not boring. It doesn't have to be especially engaging. It's fast and snappy. It gives you options you would otherwise miss out on.
4:33 that enderman appeared in the most cinematic way possible; it was mysterious; coordinated; elegant; it was perfect. but yes, it also kinda looks like it teleported the wrong way around.
I would say that, in a way, the crafting system does affect the "story" of Minecraft. Probably the most common theme among the individual storylines of Minecraft players is the idea of transforming the natural world into something of your own creation. Assuming that process was only the 2 steps, breaking and placing, players would have a hard time feeling like they're changing the world so much as just moving its pieces from place to place. It's the crafting system, creating entirely new items and blocks from the world around you, that creates that feeling of transformation, at least in my eyes.
Crafting is alright, like you said, but its going in a different direction. In the newer updates they added the new crafting blocks, which take away functionality from the crafting table. Which don't get me wrong, the crafting table can be difficult like when it comes to banners, but it makes crafting longer when you need a whole other block. Also nice video as always
Hey man I found one of your videos in my recommended and now I am binge watching your entire channel. I wish you luck and hope that you keep posting great videos. ✌️
fun fact: i look at my script 1726389228 times during this video!
If thats true thats sad
Make that first number a 2 and I'll believe ya 👀...
Haha that was big funny
It's nice that you care enough to put the effort in to writing one
You deserves more subs dude, your videos are great and it’s clear you put a lot of effort in
*kills sheep. Sheep drops shears.*
Yeah, I see why we need the crafting system now.
It'sElle lol 😂
whoever made that sweden remix at the title card is a god
That’s Dr. Keyz! Check him out! He also made the end remix
@@merakimerakimeraki I searched it up and couldn't find any of his remixes/music. Where can I find it?
Eazikai Pretty sure it’s SoundCloud. I could be wrong.
@@rationxl2922 Wish I saw this earlier. Here's a link - soundcloud.com/thedrkeys
@@Saiegg Soundcloud, and UA-cam! :) ua-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html
"every single block is gatherable for use"
*Looks at bedrock*
*looks ar air*
*looks at barrier block*
well if you play bedrock, anything is possible
@@PresidentNathan exept having fun
@@PresidentNathan yes, even unstable releases with plenty of bugs
Minecraft’s crafting is weird. I’ve only just started playing it for the first time a couple days ago and it’s really strange.
Having to make the specific image in the crafting menu is unique but sometimes doesn’t feel like it makes sense. I guess playing it years ago would be more of a trial and error system, which could be more enjoyable.
I like how there aren’t recipes you need to learn or milestones you need to pass before you’re allowed to make stuff. As long as you have the ingredients, you can make it.
Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little. It’s something tangible like a building or a minecart highway or a huge farm instead of just seeing stats incrementally increase.
The King of Antarctica I know, it’s much more rewarding to see your base gradually grow and expand according to your needs rather than see arbitrary stats increase. It’s more fun to spend hours designing and building a specific farm or project then spending hours grinding to see a number go up
>Minecraft’s gameplay loop is up there with series’ like Monster Hunter. It’s fun to see your improvements little by little.
Holy cow that explains why I'm drawn to these two games. That way of progression system is great, and you can really feel the outcome of the effort you've done after hours and hours of gameplay.
You played terraria first didn’t ya
bro, where you at? we haven't seen you in 5 months
You’re a totally underrated channel. The editing is smooth, the script flows really well, the jokes are on points, and it provokes thought! I hope you blow up soon!
Wow he wants him to die!
@@ignzyriq lol
thanks so much :)
Dude what shaders does he use they’re beautiful
BSL! They’re my favorite
@@merakimerakimeraki you should give rtx a shot!
It feels like it's gonna set something important on fire...
Hmmm, I wonder what it would be🤔
@@danielawesome36 *HIS PC!?* 🤯
@@pancake5830 rtx is only on bedrock
If Merakl Came back to UA-cam and did frequent uploads. even if the videos are just lets plays. I would watch him when ever I can. He's young. He's fresh, He's new. and he could honestly become very successful. there's just something but his personality that's down to earth and "vibey". I can see a lot of people can connect with that. his content is relaxing and entertaining. Hope he comes back.
I keep thinking about it. If Meraki comes back it will be awesome I hope.
Bro you need to start uploading again, I miss you so much! Much love, one of your loyal fans!
It looks to me like you liked your own video. I'm pretty sure that is a cardinal sin.
silence! dont let the others hear you!
gotta algo the rhythm lol
Looks like he forgot his youtube password
S-someone changed their mind on the internet!!! In all seriousness though I appreciate the time and effort that was put into the the analysis even though the last video came out months ago. I watch all of your videos and I have to say that you make some of the more entertaining videos out there. Keep up the good work my guy :)
P.S. I appreciate you putting my comment in your vid it was very surprising
If anyone is looking for that Sweden remix from the title sequence, it's on Dr. Keyz's Soundcloud. Doesn't appear to be on UA-cam.
soundcloud.com/thedrkeys/sweden-minecraft-lofi-hip-hop !
@@merakimerakimeraki ^ ^ ^
The Sweden remix isn't up on UA-cam yet, I was working on a video to go with it but then
I got busy. Here is my channel though ua-cam.com/channels/fmq8jIWtVWgTQDhveQNl6g.html Remix will be up soon.
I'm posting this when I'm ~2 minutes into the video. I've been playing since Beta 1.7, and my biggest critique is probably of the "recipe book."
Back when Minecraft was one of those forum-based games (before the wiki), people would post asking "how do I craft a piston?" This community learning was a novel feature of survival crafting systems.
Then, in 1.12, to widen the game's appeal, they added the recipe book. It was apparently implemented to guide players through the game. For some reason, the book would guide you through making a furnace, but not making a hopper. For some reason, the book shows you some recipes from the moment you have the ingredients, but only others after you've already crafted them. This gives players a half-baked idea of what the game has to offer, only to be met with frustration when they needed to figure out how to craft certain items (or learn that these items exist at all).
In 1.14, the Village and Pillage update added a ton of functional blocks that players would benefit from knowing how to craft and use. Did the book show you these? No. If you didn't read the patch notes, you would have no idea they even existed, ruining the whole point of their alleged convenience and ease of crafting. I am still getting used to using these new blocks, as I have to unlock (and therefore Google or remember their recipes) in every new world.
My second main critique is one of options, and this is why I tend to avoid survival in general.
For such an open ended game, it really forces you down some annoying paths to be able to interact with some of its mechanics. Do you want to make literally any advanced redstone system? That's going to require a steady source of slime balls. But how do you get slime balls? Theoretically, slimes spawn in swamps, but that's at a rate too slow to be of any use to even a casual player. If you want slime without using third party tools, you need to dig out massive areas near the bottom of the world. Why would you ever do this without someone telling you to? We're already at a giant gameplay non sequitur, but it only gets worse. Slimes spawn low in the world, but only in specific chunks, or 16x16 areas. If you see a slime spawn in your giant dug-out area, you know it spawned in a slime chunk and that's where you should dig out more area and make a slime farm. But does the game tell you what the borders of this spawning area are? Not normally, no. You have to know to press F3+G (I think) to show chunk borders. If you're going to use a debug feature to find where one of the game's necessarily farmable mobs spawn, then you might as well use a third party tool to find your slime chunks in the first place.
And if you like playing in peaceful, you're just fucked, because slimes don't spawn at all.
For some reason they implemented honey, a way to farm a sticky substance without needing to make a mob farm, then did fuck all with it. Yes you can make some neat looking blocks and a new version of slime blocks that sticks to itself but not slime blocks (which is actually super useful), but it can never serve as an actual replacement for that bullshit gameplay path for getting slime balls. Why? Because you cannot make sticky pistons with honey. You cannot use the game's only other sticky substance to make sticky pistons.
Watching Mojang implement alternative ways to get certain items, only to make these systems entirely separate, removing player agency, has been incredibly frustrating.
My final critique is of what systems Minecraft actually let's you bypass. If you know what new features *are* exploitable, you can bypass half the game. Forget mining for cobble, then iron, then diamond, then obsidian to make diamond tools and an enchantment table. Forget killing endermen to access the end. Forget gaining 30 levels of experience and killing tons of cows so you can actually enchant your gear. All I need is a wooden axe and a couple villagers. There's a type of villager that you can change any other villager into which can give you emeralds from sticks. Because I know of this mechanic, I now have infinite emeralds. I can use my infinite emeralds and knowledge of easy profession switching to get an infinite amount of maximally enchanted tools (including mending, the single rarest enchantment in the game. It doesn't even show up in the normal enchanting system), armor, ender pearls, rare blocks, name tags, and an assortment of other things. This completely broken mechanic ensures I never have to even dig through stone to get diamonds.
Yet for some fucking reason, no matter how knowledgable you are about villager trading, you'll still need to dig out a 16x16x39 area determined by some random slime chunk finding website just to make a sticky piston.
you can give feedback on their website
its on the minecraft menu, right at the front
i agree :)
Swamps are actually really common, and when you go there during full moon, ohohoh boy that's afuck ton o' slimes
Wow, your comment is bigger than my pp
Stas Goitz so is my comment
Please upload again if you’re still out there. Please.
bro where you at we need you back ;((((((((
And when the world needed him most, he disappeared,
( much like Sam O’nella)
Damn I can't believe you don't have 1M subs yet
The return! Thanks for using my Sweden remix!
I couldn’t not! It’s too good!!
Woah, I just liked 5 of your songs 3 hours ago because of this video
I feel like I am responding to celebrities
@@stasgoitz1632 I saw that! Thanks for the support. I appreciate it.
I know that the upload schedule is a mess but Jesus 6 months already past
bro i miss meraki 🥲🥲🥲
Guess he wasn't kidding when he said inconsistent upload schedule.
guess life happenned. hope you're doing great outside, mate.
i’ve been alright :) but i’m coming back, stay tuned
@@merakimerakimeraki OH! A recent comment too. Okay that's cool. Thank you for your amazing content and I can't wait to see you again on UA-cam. As another commenter said, I believe you can make it big on UA-cam. Get some tips from the algorithm or even without them I believe you can grow big. But always remember me when you grow :)
@@merakimerakimeraki Do you have a channel discord server?
I absolutely love the quality of each of the videos you put out! So smooth and everything seems to fit together perfectly. The shaders, of course, really help that as well. I'm assuming it is SEUS?
I’ll have to check when I get home!
But thank you so much for the kind words!
@@merakimerakimeraki
They're actually BSL shaders!
@@merakimerakimeraki Thank you! They just looked too good not to download haha!
6:25 i was playing hardcore and when i herd that sound i almost crapped myself
Hope your doing good man
I don’t understand how this channel is still this small. Clean cut and modern editing, paired with actual intelligent content is getting harder to find. But I guess the size is also wha makes this channel special. Idk all I know is this is some of the most thought out Minecraft content I’ve ever watched
Dude thanks so much! I appreciate it so much- honestly, it’s worth it as long as people watch and enjoy, I don’t care how many!
I only see two real flaws with Minecraft's crafting system:
1) over-reliance on the crafting table.
There are a few offshoots (like with enchanting, and brewing) but the vast majority of recipes are all in the same place. If there was a little bit more variation there, and they made better use of what they have. (The cartography table and smithing table are so niche, like cm'on just move more recipes to them) (why is the stonecutter not required/only gives buff for stairs. Why no woodcutter?)
Going back to the same block every time can feel a bit repetitive.
2) lack of customization for armour and tools.
I feel like minecraft needs way more customizability to armour and tools. When I hop on a new server, and grind out a full set of perfect gear, the only reasons it feels "mine" is because of the names I happened to give them in an anvil. My efficiency 5, unbreaking 3, mending, silk touch netherrite pickaxe is indistingiushable from any other one, except that *I* name it "Silky & Smooth" while my friend names it "Work pick." Especially armor, which I can't even be bothered to name, just feels like "a set of armour" not "a thing I built". Perhaps expanding the vexillography mechanics beyond shields by expanding loom's functionality could do this. Similar visual tweaks to tools and weapons could be possible. What if it was possible to cover perfect tools in another metal, and change the visual appearance? (Like netherrite, but with multiple options) Swords and axes help, but I feel like it's not enough. I even tried intentionally keeping a diamond sword for world building, but it still felt a bit short of how much expression I wanted.
If I can see an item in my hotbar, and go "that's my item" it feels much more like there's a story there.
Anyways, those are my thoughts, have a good day random internet denizen.
Miss your uploads man, hope you are well and safe!
i miss him too, i just hope he's doing okay
HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBS! I mean this video is so well made like always
Hey man. You've been missing. I just wanted to let you know that your name, "Meraki" means "soft and passionate love" in my home laungage, Greek.
ur way around words is so mesmerizing i could literally fall asleep to this video lmao
Man I wish he would upload more
i have been waiting for so long but from what i know he is still finnishing school and that he is currently takin a long break from youtube
i’m coming back big time :) thanks for your patience
sir, we need your uploads.
Honestly, you're videos are so well put together. I don't know how you don't have one million subscribers.
holy fuck, just the sheer amount of work and love you have put in these videos just explodes my mind. i never really liked high quality videos, but you took the format and made it feel homemade, comfortable. loved it, will be something to look back at and take inspiration from, because this is literally the thing i was looking to make myself. o7
i know, i just love it
He commented recently that he should come back soon
Where have you gone, dude?
I'm excited for meraki to finish college good luck!
6:25 i actually had this video playing in the background and panicked for a second.
I was playing Satisfactory and it made me terrified.
modding minecraft enough to use shaders but not enough to add basic quality of life (like inventory sorting) should be considered a sin imo
MERAKI WE NEED MORE UPLOADS
One issue I have with crafting nowadays is that it basically doesn't exist, because of the recipe book you're never going to have to manually craft anything which takes out something I think was a lot of the fun of the game, the mystery. You never knew what you might find deep in the caves or out exploring the endless landscape in old Minecraft and that applied to the crafting, you had to figure out how to make everything, and while this could be annoying, it was sort of fun just trying out differing things and seeing what you might be able to make, or knowing about and item and trying different combinations of items until you figure out how to craft it, idk I just think it was something special about old MC
Maybe the recipe book would show the recipe when you craft it once
Might have inconsistent uploads but gosh darnit are these videos are well worth the wait
PLEASE upload more. I just started watching your videos and I subbed immediately. Your schedule may not match 1,000,000 subscribers but your video quality sure as hell does. 👌
I WAS PLAYING MINECRAFT WHILE THIS VIDEO WAS IN THE BACKGROUND PLAYING AND WHEN YOU PLAYED THAT CREPER SOUND MY HEART STOPPED
merakiiii where did you go :(
I miss him
Hey Meraki,
I'm nervous because you haven't done anything since July 2020,
you weren't available on any social media, and I'm worried,
I found your channel 4/5 months ago thanks to the algorithm because
I explicitly went to Wii Sports Resort I was looking for. I hope that you are well
in your health please give us a sign of life so that we can take our fear away,
I hope we haven't seen your last video, please come back and you don't have to
do one of these fantastic videos and it's enough if you (doing a vlog
through your living room saying that you are fine) just please give us a sign of life.
I think your videos stand out from the crowd and like many others
I would look forward to more and I bet I'm not the only one who is so worried about your life,
and if someone has really trustworthy information about him, how his health is, please answer me.
with this you help me and many others on the Internet who are also wondering where Meraki is.
Meraki, if you see this, I am also known by the name (Danu).
hi! i’m okay, just struggling through my last year of college and solidifying a real job! too busy for youtube at the moment, which sucks :(
@@merakimerakimeraki hey man it's great to hear from you and I'm glad you are fine, looking forward you will get it! I believe in you!
And dont forget:
There is no pressure on you to make videos
Man, I discovered your channel not long ago and the content you're putting out is really freaking good. I'm sure the channel is going to blow up shortly. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words! I would be so happy if it did ☺️
I mean the crafting system could do with one major change. That is more special recipes that aren't just blocks.
Netherite is one, but that is all. I'm talking about new items that can enhance the player experience, while also not breaking the game from it's roots. Terraria does this well, as you mentioned that their is materials that link into a crafting system that is entirely optional. There is enough blocks in the game. Adding more will make the already bad creative menu worse.
If you have ever played modded minecraft and seen how many unique crafts there are, it becomes exciting to see what you can craft.
Another example is with 'Tinkers' Construct'. Where you need to make many different items and place them in a certain formation to make a fancy furnace, giving a guide book so the player understands.
Just to clarify I like modded just as much as vanilla. I do not want to see the lines blur, but modded does things that make the game more exciting and a process. Lets say they add a new step in the cycle: Calculate. A step that will be entirely optional, but a more enjoyable system to use instead of the old. People that make auto smelters and item sorters fit into this category.
Another benefit will be more self driven goals, Once an item has entered a crafting table, it will come out in it's final form, not a part of something bigger.
Come back what the hell did you go
I JUST discovered you channel but these videos are absolute gold. Just 10-20 minutes of c o n t e n t
One of the reasons this game was so interesting to me back in 2012 was coz of the crafting , you had to guess or look up recipes and U enjoyed that
It made it more full filling and in my opinion added to the experience.
He’s BACK *gasp* love the vids man, and the music and tone and everything, you inspire me to be better. Have a nice day.
Please come back I live your videos! You’re amazing!
I'm convinced you're that actor from NBC'S manifest
You just gave me one of the biggest jump scares of my life with the creeper sound at 6:26! I was playing while listening to the video in the background, almost threw my mouse at the wall...🤣
I'm sure other people have said it, but I'll say it too. Crafting also contributes to world building. The recipe of an item lets us see how it's made, how it functions. How does a dispenser shoot? It has a bow in its crafting recipe. Stuff like that.
I do think that crafting could be more engaging in some ways, but going too far into that would make it tedious. Think of "Crafting" concrete. You need to preform an outside step, you need to get it wet. A bit annoying, but arguably a step in the right direction, and it is a new challenge that inspires new creative solutions like concrete blast chambers to solve.
If minecraft were to update or expand on their crafting system, I would think they would do so by using new methods other than the crafting table. That's what they've been doing already after all. You can craft gold into enderpearls, you just gotta use this fancy new crafting table called a piglin and also roll the dice a bit.
Perhaps minecraft could borrow a little from the various magic mods that exist? Pretty much all of them involve some sort of ritualized crafting for more powerful items that you don't make in bulk. Being slow adds dramatic tension and it wont be too repeated. The fact that these mods are so popular implies a demand for that type of crafting to supplement the normal crafting system.
Your minecraft videos are really underrated, they are really cool, i am glad i looked deeper into your channel
All of the videos you made are incredible hope you can get back to making videos soon
every week, I discover and subscribe to about 3 youtube channels.
I am currently subbed to 165 channels, though there used to be many more before UA-cam removed about 50 of them due to me not watching their videos.
This channel in particular stands out in that sea of channels; it's somewhat unique, interesting to watch, and is very high quality.
(Plus, it will help me design my minecraft "improvement" that I might be working on in the next few years)
Hi meraki hope your 2021 is going well
Your channel is seriously underrated. Your editing and just the way the videos are put together Is just great And just great content in general. Great video as always.
Thank you so much!
Meraki no problem
I just discovered your channel and let me tell you that I absolutely love the way you make your content. I really enjoyed watching both this and the "Crafting in Video Games SUCKS" one (since they're related lol) and really hope you keep making awesome content like this (Take your time tho)
Why you stopped uploading videos? they are so good...
love your videos, this one and especially the "unexpected turn of minecraft" vid, editing and the commentary is amazing :) also youre very beautiful lol i might simp
I'm already simping 😂
just want you to know your honestly my favorite youtuber. I hear so many people say that to so many people but you are just special your content, commentaries, and amazing video about minecrafts music. Meraki i want you to know that i never want you to stop content
Hey man, wherever you are out there. Please come back. I'm sure you've read this a thousand times already but man. I do miss you alot. You're Videos were absolutely amazing.
Hes coming back!
dude you are so under appreciated, you make such quality great videos that only a few people see. I wish this channel could blow up so more people see your amazing content!
yo pls come back where have you been?
Yes honestly
Why’d he quit????
@@ion7951 idk ;(
i’m coming back in the next week or so, stay tuned :)
this channel is underrated please upload more
also how does this guy not have 15 mil subs yet like so underrated?
i was playing mc cafting while listening to this and when you played that creeper sound... my life flashed before my eyes. just prooving your point
I love minecraft. It is a game i like to play for fun and when I am bored and have nonething else to do. I usualy play older versions like 1.7.2 witch is a version I played the most because of my crappy pc. Nice video btw. Keep up the good work ;)
2:52 Yes that is why I had once played Minecraft for so long and that was to finally beat the game
I'm getting a saxophone soon and I'm definitely going to try and learn Sweden on it. Hope to make a passionate cover with that jazzy funky growling in it. That being said, that is getting ahead of myself by many months at the least.
I think since it was made for young kids, the crafting was pretty simple, but still required some guides and stuff which I thought was fun to look up when I was learning for the first time
i love your perseverance man! keep going youll blow up eventually just wait for that ONE video that hits 20 million veiws! WE LOVE YOU!
Thank you for the support 💕
I have been looking to start UA-cam and I just wish I had the courage you do to stand Infront of the camera and record such a clean and heartfelt video that had thought put into it. I admire you for your traits and I wish you the best success.
you can do it! you should!
the hardest part is starting, from there it’s pure joy
The quality and the amount of thought and effort that goes into these videos make me question the amount of subscribers you have. Get him to 1 Million subs already please.
I miss him so much
The quality of ur vids is incredible bro idk how you dont have wayyy more subs
Such a great channel, with clean editing, and great humor. You deserve more subs!
Crafting in Minecraft is a tool. Simple as that, it allows you to have a lot of cool stuff that wouldn't make sense to find in the world.
It also makes it so if you want something that does spawn in the world like rails, you don't have to go out of your way to find those in the world, you can just craft them from common materials.
It also is a mission in itself, you go on an adventure to find diamonds to craft a diamond pickaxe.
Now, everything is limited to 3x3 menu, so you probably won't need an assenite amount of 7-9 different materials (because the materials in crafting are repeated most of the time, you never need a lot of unique items to craft something, unless you craft a thing to craft a thing, but I don't remember ever doing much of that other than stripping wood logs into planks). Also the controls are fluid with how you can grab 1 of, stack of or half of a thing. It feels fast.
And because crafting exists and often requires common materials, it gives greater purpose to what you carry around. You might be carrying wood around to be able to make more torches and tools, but decide that you wanna make a bed, a door or maybe just wall yourself off.
In a way it allows for a huge expansion of inventory size, because a stack of unstripped logs should last you for 32 stacks of torches (!). If you're in a cave, coal is easy to come by, wood is not.
Anyways, there is a purpose to the system and there is depth to the system as well. On top of that it's not boring.
It doesn't have to be especially engaging. It's fast and snappy. It gives you options you would otherwise miss out on.
8:05 “it’s like a reverse Kardashian”
Shots fired, shots fired!
4:33 that enderman appeared in the most cinematic way possible; it was mysterious; coordinated; elegant; it was perfect. but yes, it also kinda looks like it teleported the wrong way around.
love when you talk about minecraft :)
We need someone to revolutionize crafting.
I’ll be at work.
you definitely get overlooked my guy, this content is amazing!
Ur such an underrated UA-camr, I actually like watching your videos, I'm surprised ur not bigger
You should talk about console edition Minecraft! It’s been abandoned from even talked about for a year
sometimes i hope i would,ve started playing minecraft not knowing anything about it and having to learn it all, unfortunately its too late for that
I really wonder whats that "superkai64" kid doing today?
XD
He’s going to MIT, specializing in random access memory theory
@@merakimerakimeraki *wandom access memory
This channel is way underrated for its quality content. Subbed!
I would say that, in a way, the crafting system does affect the "story" of Minecraft. Probably the most common theme among the individual storylines of Minecraft players is the idea of transforming the natural world into something of your own creation. Assuming that process was only the 2 steps, breaking and placing, players would have a hard time feeling like they're changing the world so much as just moving its pieces from place to place. It's the crafting system, creating entirely new items and blocks from the world around you, that creates that feeling of transformation, at least in my eyes.
Underrated UA-camr, you make every second entertaining and I like your sense of humor
Crafting is alright, like you said, but its going in a different direction. In the newer updates they added the new crafting blocks, which take away functionality from the crafting table. Which don't get me wrong, the crafting table can be difficult like when it comes to banners, but it makes crafting longer when you need a whole other block. Also nice video as always
why did you stop making videos? we miss them!
Hey man I found one of your videos in my recommended and now I am binge watching your entire channel. I wish you luck and hope that you keep posting great videos. ✌️
Oh Brother where are ye
6:26 you fukin scared me, i was playing minecraft while the video was running and just..... i had a heart attack
I hope you will get back to making films about minecraft. I have just discovered your channel, but i already know its a great find.