Following up from my last article analyzing confirmed release information and hailing our lord and savior Hatsune Miku for creating it, Minecraft has finally released it’s Cliffs And Caves 2 Expansion! Players who have downloaded the Bedrock Edition or Nintendo Switch players can now access this update’s additions in all it’s morning glory.

This Minecraft update has been hotly anticipated for some time, promising better environmental effects, all new super-sized locations, biomes, ALL OF THE RACES!

Turns out the Caves and Cliffs update was so big that Mojang have announced it will be coming out in two parts, hence this update being ‘Cliffs and Caves 2’, you see.

Between the naturally-spawning lush and dripstone caves offering new ore veins and blocks, players can also go mountaineering with Billy Goats Gruff, so try not to get yeeted from on high.

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The Minecraft Marketplace has also added new free items you can download for your avatar to make custom outfits. Get em while you can, as after this update has been out for a year, you’ll have to pay to get them.

Some concerns have been raised that the regularity of gameplay additions and updates from Mojang means the game won’t be seeing as many regular bug fixes and patches in the future, but hey, they’re a big boi gaming company that made a game that launched the careers of thousands of YouTubers, I’m sure they’ll be fine.

With that said, some biomes are in need of fixing.

The Non-Sponsored YouTuber-Shilling Tangential Power Hour!

First off, I myself have a YouTube channel, so like comment and subscribbildy-diddildy when you can. Second, I’d like to use this section to discuss the channel Folding Ideas.

Why bring this channel up? Because the presenter Dan Olson did an interesting video on Minecraft, Sandboxes and Colonialism.

I recommend watching it yourself, but the short version is, Dan makes a lot of parallels between the design philosophy of many open-world games and the practice of colonizing.

I mean, let’s break down how most popular open-world games work to the barest of bare bones minimum: A lone Man Of ActionTM explores some vast landscape of beauty and dangerous conflict, where familiarity and knowledge of the setting often translates to improved strength and/or extra mechanics that lead to you becoming the most powerful bloke around. It’s almost like there’s some kinda Empire Of The British Variety that got a kick out of dicking around with other countries, looting their boxes like Activision and congratulating themselves by framing the people already there as intrinsically less important than themselves.

Britain is far from the only country to take part in colonialism, but you get the idea, I trust. And not to get too political, but back in my pre-uni days, the furthest my knowledge of British history went back essentially consisted of WWII trivia and funny stories about Sir Francis Drake. That’s all well and good, but learning about the bad with the good? I can dig it.

And on the off-hand that this article makes it’s way to some anti-Critical Race Theory part of the internet… Trust me. I’ve studied Post-Colonial Theory and Critical Race Theory. Most of you haven’t picked up a textbook on the thing and it shows!

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Mojang, the company behind hit game Minecraft, has announced Version 1.18 will air November 30th!

How big is Minecraft? Well, when searching for Mojang’s company website, I encountered 2 Minecraft related website portals first! Anyway. Before we dive into the news, let’s have another Product Poem Power Hour!

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Minecraft Caves and Cliffs 2 Update Features:

• Dripstone caves, for any Slick Goku fans in the servers!
• Lush Caves being added to the biomes list with various new subtypes of mountains. Snowy Slopes, Mountain Meadows and more.
• Promises of some of the biggest caves and caverns seen in-game to this point.
• Local water levels, waterfalls and higher mountain tops.

But, there’s a smidge of bad news. Archaeology, backpack-like bundles, and goat horns are getting pushed back amongst other things, as Mojang announces there will be some content delays, most likely as a result of working to get this update out sooner.

“These features have been put on hold. They have not been cancelled, we just had to put them on the backburner for now” – Mojang in recent update on official Minecraft website.

Furthermore, the Warden enemy, part of the upcoming 1.19 Wild Update will also be put on hold till next year.

Minecraft version 1.18 will be available for Java Edition and Bedrock Edition both on November 30.

An Analysis On Why The “Hatsune Miku Made Minecraft” Meme is Darkly Hilarious and Tragic: Sit down and strap on, it’s story time! Hatsune Miku is a hololive character and virtual pop idol. Basically one of the earliest examples of a Vtuber. The legend goes that one day, out in the digital ether one day, some discourse arose alleging the actual (or “actual” depending on your commitment to the joke) Minecraft creator Markus Persson  made transphobic hate comments on Twitter (including, but not limited to advocating for purposeful misgendering). Not long after, a parody Twitter account of Hatsune Miku boldly claimed “I created Minecraft” and the collective online sphere from Tumblr liberals to groypers lost their collective minds!

This then set off a whole new joke genre of saying “Hatsune Miku made X” whenever an author of a popular piece of media says something queerphobic. Obviously, in terms of games and most art (Minecraft included), there’s usually a team involved with making the product, so there’s not always a single “author”/auteur in the traditional sense, but it’s a good joke format for things like the JK Rowling controversies.

Why is this meme “darkly hilarious”? In part because it speaks to a desire to have your cake and eat it too. I mean, just full on claiming “I don’t like the way things are, so I’mma tell you how the world should be and you’re gonna like it” in a pretty absurdist way. Any fan of HP Lovecraft worth their salt will tell you that for all the depth and enjoyment of his writing, the not-so-subtly racist and homophobic parts can be distracting, to put it mildly. To paraphrase one Sunburned Albino – “Think of the nicest, sweetest, most hardworking person you know in the entire world… That person does crack”! Metaphorically speaking.

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