With Minecraft in the latest snapshot 22w14a after the addition of "Echo Fragments" and "Retrospective Compass" two fairy items. There has been a lot of discussion in the Minecraft community. Kingbdogz, a developer focused on Minecraft's new features, called for suggestions:
Now tell us what you think of the new compass! We hope it will increase the rewards for players to get more loot from the ancient city. How do you feel about that? Is it useful? What if you don't feel practical enough?
Player One: What is the purpose of the Echo Fragments? There is no news that the Echo Fragments will have other uses, but if the authorities don't plan to have other uses besides the Retrospective Pointer, why not just make the Retrospective Compass an item on the loot list?
From this point of view, is the existence of reverberating fragments incomparably "embarrassing"? As if it existed to synthesize for the sake of synthesis. So flip it back, in later updates, the echo fragments must have other more uses as well.
Player two: Unique texture; did you find that the texture of the Echo Fragment looks like an ender pearl? The traceability compass currently has a unique texture, which is a good difference to the ordinary compass. However, there is no difference between the enchanted compass and the magnet compass in terms of material. So can you consider giving the magnet compass a unique texture? (PS: In fact, there are some slight differences in color, such as the magnetic compass emits blue light, while the ordinary enchanted compass emits purple light.) ）
Player Three: Stop using F3; the use of the retrospective compass can reduce the player's dependence on F3's viewing coordinates, but the concept of this retrospective compass has no meaning or value in extreme mode. This doesn't add much value to the versatility of Minecraft gameplay, as you can only die once in Extreme Mode. So in addition to locating the place of death, it may be important to add more accessory capabilities to the tracing compass.
Player four: More positioning ability; for example, if you accidentally lost your pet in Minecraft, can you use the retrospective pointer to locate it? Increasing the current traceability range in Minecraft, how to improve the ability of retrospective pointers may be one thing worth exploring.
Player Five: The rarity and practicality of the retrospective pointer are not proportional; in simple terms, it is really too rare at present, and perhaps in Minecraft, multiple ancient cities can be explored continuously to synthesize a retrospective compass. And it is destined that this item can only be stored in the spawn box, and should not be carried around. And the positioning ability of the retrospective pointer is not as godly as imagined! The compass can only position the X and Z axes, and the height axis of Y cannot be located. If you die underground, you may never find the exact location of which floor you died on.
Player Six: What should I do if I die with a backtracking compass? A very embarrassing problem, as a place of death can be located, carrying it with you is one of the most stupid kinds of behavior. First of all, given that the Echo Fragment may be a very rare and rare thing, a retrospective pointer synthesis may be very rare, then the player who has reborn (losing his equipment and becoming weaker) will die again with the echo pointer, and the retrospective pointer will become useless. Is it possible to use someone else in multiplayer mode with a backtracking pointer that allows others to help you find the place of death?
Player Seven: Trace the huge flaws of the compass! First, there may be more novice players with this need to trace the place of death, but the ancient cities of the Dark Domain are not friendly to novice players; second, for players who like to play Hardcore Mode, the Backtracking Compass has no use, does this mean that Hardcore Mode players do not have to go to the Dark Domain? It's not fair!
Player Eight: 1.19 Echo Fragment, Retrospective Compass Follow-up Update Suggestions! Because the Backtracking Compass is a useless thing for both old and Hardcore Mode players, subsequent loot optimizations have two directions of updates. One: Add more backtracking compass capabilities, which can make it useful in Limit Mode as well. Second: can you also add more synths of "Echo Fragments", such as Echo Horn? Don't let it only synthesize the backtracking compass, so that people have more possibilities to explore here.
Write at the end:
The birth of the retrospective pointer actually clearly indicates a new direction for the future of "Minecraft". For example, the developers of Mojang have repeatedly said that they are trying to get players to gradually stop using F3, and the existence of echo fragments and retrospective compasses may be to return players to the survival game itself.
The significance of Minecraft's survival should be that Steve can view the coordinates by virtue of the items synthesized in the Minecraft world, rather than sitting on the computer and calling F3 to view the coordinate data at the back end of the world.
So minecraft's future updates are already clear, and in the future, without opening cheats, pure original survival will completely disable F3's ability to view coordinates and orientations. A fair way to deal with this is that F3 should be used as one of the options to turn on cheating, or as a rule under /gamerule that can be turned on and off.