Jens Bergensten

I'm pretty sure it's all gone now. Maybe in some obscure git branch but I don't know.

The ruby was replaced by the emerald. I changed it because the ruby ore was too similar to redstone.

Well, yeah, maybe it can be looked into again. Currently the strongholds try to place themselves straight under a village.

I do not remember that portal-looking block so I can't say anything about its purpose.

No, the surface stronghold was just a happy accident, but back then I didn't have any reliable tools to detect the surface of the world. So the strongholds ended up far beneath the ground, to avoid being in oceans and similar. (Surface-detection was added for the end cities, much later.)

Sure, but I won't be able to say anything about future plans.

Correct!

My last photo was maybe a bit too hard, so hopefully this one's easier... where in the world is jeb now?

Yes, for me as well. It got easier when I realized the squash can squish multiple zombies at once, but it was still a bit random to get to 15

Hmm, I can't think of anything, so I don't think so.

Oxeye is currently on pause. We're all working on other things at the moment.

The Yeti just showed up for me. Twice, actually. I don't know what triggers it or if it's simply random.

Plants vs Zombies,
Released: 2009
All achievements: 2025 😅

Lots of ideas! It's similar to the brainstorming sessions the team has. Then it's a long process of figuring out which ones of these that can be made, what "impact" they will have, and if there is a common theme. So there are seldom "bad" or "good" ideas, it's more of a range.

It's an interesting idea. Kinda like the tickrate gamerule. Not sure how hard it would be to implement, though.

I'm not sure. However, it's true that we gave translator capes to the top contributors. The problem was that flooded the translation site with "I want a cape, too!" people, which made the translations worse. Not saying that was the case for this person, but it's why we stopped giving out the capes.

Hehe I was actually looking for an Airzooka the other day

Fun! Ask him to send it to the Mojang office in Stockholm. the address should be on Google

Where in the world is jeb? (Actually "was", but I'm a slow poster)

When beds were added there were plenty of more "advanced" items that had a stack limit of 1. Over time most of them have changed, but the beds are still at 1.

The original idea of the shulker was that it was going to camouflage as the block it was sitting on. The code base didn't support that back then, so I changed the design to its current form. Not sure where the inspiration came from, except I wanted something very vertical.

Having a nice promenade with this friendly cat

... I could also have added sponges to more locations, or maybe even have sponges instead of gold in the "gold room". I probably simply didn't think of it back in the day. I think I just thought it was cooler with gold.

Well it's a good question. It's a balance between fixed features and procedural ones. The sponge room is hard to place because it only has an opening downwards. I could've made it a fixed feature, but that would have implications on the procedural parts. ...

Yes, I agree

The core idea is to be able to release features more frequently. I'm not sure where the conversation is regarding version numbering.

It was probably just an oversight. Not sure about the ghast, though, seems like a very specific use case.

No? The sponge drop was added to them to make sure that even if a monument doesn't have a sponge room, you will at least get 3 of them.

You can also check here if this fixes the issue for you, help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/art...

Ok thanks, I'll check if this is still the case