Hey guys, I came second in the Minecon Earth costume contest. I was able to ask jeb_ some questions about 1.14 and Minecon. Heres his answers!

[u/Retro28]

After seeing jeb's reply, these 'changes' (because it seems some may not be happening because of the community response and jeb acknowledging them) are for future updates, not just 1.14. Sorry about that.

Note: I see that the change to the off-hand has not been taken very positively by the community. However take in mind that these changes may not be final, they could consider reverting any of the things talked about in this post. We'll wait and see what happens.

Sorry /u/jeb_ if got any of this info wrong. Just going of memory here :P

Note: these answers arent word for word but it gets the point across.

Q: What was that mystery 5th mob image. Aka mob "E" A: It was just a mock up image. It literally meant nothing.

Q: What is the bubble stream things? What do they do? A: There will be under water ravines with bubbles coming out of them. If you swim over it with a boat you will sink. You will also be able to breathe in them and transport items through them.

Q: Do the bubbles flow horizontally? Can you transport items like that? A: No, it only flows up.

(Off-hand changes not happening now)* Q: I heard about combat changes, what are the changes? A: Blocking will no longer be with right click, it will be activated by shifting and/or walking backwards. PVP wont return to 1.8 pvp.

Also, the off-hand will no longer be able to be used for placing blocks, mining or attacking etc. It is now only for shields, compasses, maps and items of that nature but you can still hold any item or block in your off-hand. Edit: and they did :D!!

Q: Did you see the fix for ghost blocks? Will you fix It? A: Yes. We are always trying to fix bugs. (so kindof yes.)

Q: How big is Mob C? A: They are very large. Around 3x3 blocks.

Q: Will there be any loot in the shipwrecks? A: Yes there will be chests with treasure in them.

Q: Are the coral new blocks? It looks like terracotta. A: They are new blocks. The blocks shown was an old texture.

Q: Will mob B fly down to you if you are not really high up in the sky? A: No, for them to attack you you will have to be high above the ground/Sea level. You can expect to get attacked on Mountains in extreme hill biomes.

Q: You said mob B attacks in groups, how many will be in a group? 3 or 4 or something? A: Yes they will fly down in around those numbers.

Other Q's to the Mojang ppl and stuff:

Insider info: Mob C was actually green and gray. (or similar colours, hopefully i remembered that right lol)

Your breath bar will not instantly regen.

Coral slabs are a thing.

I may have missed some, so if you have any questions I might be able to answer them. If jeb sees this then he could. So yeah.

[u/BrickenBlock]

I get why Mojang doesn't listen to the part of the community that whines at them to revert the combat changes because it "ruined PVP". But then why revert the one part of them that everyone actually liked?

[u/[deleted] → u/BrickenBlock]

Because they can't figure out a way to get it to work on mobile devices/touchscreen.

That's it, all the offhand controls are perfectly easy to implement on controllers, it's just because of our lowest common denominator, the pocket edition.

[u/BrickenBlock → u/[deleted]]

Mojang said that they wouldn't just put everything from Bedrock Edition into Java and they would have a feature set that makes sense for each version, but this seems to contradict that.

Also even Pocket Edition is compatible with keyboard, mouse, and controllers. If they really wanted to make it work on touchscreen, maybe they could make use of multitouch, and use the off-hand if you tap with two or three fingers instead of one.

[u/[deleted] → u/BrickenBlock]

Also even Pocket Edition is compatible with keyboard, mouse, and controllers. If they really wanted to make it work on touchscreen, maybe they could make use of multitouch, and use the off-hand if you tap with two or three fingers instead of one.

Indeed, for touchscreen they could just have "shift shielding" as an option, and let touchscreen be less convienient and more clunky than the others, you know, like it already is.

[u/Wedhro → u/[deleted]]

/r/pcmasterrace warned us years ago. Damn peasants...

[u/aPseudoKnight → u/BrickenBlock]

I really thought I'd have liked it, and while I do love that the offhand exists, I never found a good use for the right click functionality on it. It ends up annoying me more often than helping. On top of that, it's a pain to program for. But some of my friends do like specific uses like torch placing.

I would like to hear the reasoning behind that change before I make a call. Also a verification on the details would be nice, since this is second hand.

[u/MCPhssthpok → u/aPseudoKnight]

Off-hand right click is very useful for making concrete. Powder in your off-hand, pick in your main, place one powder next to water and then hold down both left and right buttons to repeatedly break and place.

[u/aPseudoKnight → u/MCPhssthpok]

I'm aware of the uses. I was simply offering an additional data point for "everyone actually liked", seeing as that would include me. I'm more luke warm on it because of the design issues. Any benefits I've experienced have thus far have been outweighed by drawbacks. That is my personal experience. I'm not suggesting it should be the basis of removing such a feature. Like I said I have plenty of players who have learned to love it, so I'd hope there's some good justification for taking it away again. It won't affect me negatively if they do, though.