Goodbye Minecraft dirt.png. You will be missed. 😢

4:00 The blur looks off because it's a "Box blur" not a "Gaussian Blur", which is what you're looking at most of the time. Box blur averages color values of pixels in a box-shaped neighborhood around pixels. It's very "cheap" to render/calculate/compute because it's just basic arithmetic. Gaussian blur uses a Gaussian function to get a smoother weighted average of nearby pixels. Looks better but takes more resources.

I feel like the dirt background just made sense. Dirt is the first thing you see and use. When you beat the enderdragon, the end credits are talking about 'how far you have come'. A dirt background felt right as it connected you back to the start, the dirt block.

Wow I can't believe they'd remove dirt from the game. Guess we'll have to live with stone and one layer of grass blocks :/

Honestly, if the UI change was properly togglable and not just a texture swap (maybe called Apply Solid UI Backgrounds or something), we could have the best of both worlds

Seeing the loading box without the dirt background actually gave me a visceral reaction, it just does not look right

fun fact every weapon in this snapshot is bugged and everything does 4 attack damage

I love when they "fix" things that have been perfectly fine for 15 years

Feels like Minecraft changes in the most slow and insignificant ways over years

They should make it optional so you can turn it on to have a blurry effect or turn it off to have the dirt screen

Ofc the skeleton explained you, he just walked off the dark area, and that's how you fix the bug!

I not only hate this change, but pray to god somebody invents a texture pack to fix this horrendous issue. I HATE not seeing the iconic dirt background.

I feel like instead of the blur they should've just used the same darkening effect that the inventory screens and the old pause menu already have, just apply it to more menus. It allows you to clearly see what's happening in front of you while still separating the background from the menu. The only place I think the blur looks nice is on the main menu panorama, and not only because it's more interesting to look at while selecting and loading a world, but also for the nostalgia of the original pre-1.13 blurry menu panorama. The End Poem change is fine on paper, but I think it's failing to account for the fact that the end portal texture is generally only seen on a relatively small portion of the screen, and having it cover the entirety of it makes it WAY too detailed and noisy, especially for a simple background. Maybe if they zoomed in on it to show more of the empty space between the "stars" it would look better. I still think the dirt was just fine, though, and it really made it feel like distinctly a part of Minecraft.

6:45 I kind of want something like this for minecraft, but the opposite. When you come out of the dark the game brightens up a lot more temporarily, before coming back down. I always liked that dilation effect in videogames, making it look like your eyes are adjusting to the light.

This feels weird to say, but I might actually miss the dirt background... It's strangely nostalgic for some reason.

I really dislike this distancing from the public companies have. Notch used to take feedback all the time and even go to community servers, it truly felt like you were able to talk to the creator and give feed back. Now everything happens so distanced from us, away in some dark room, only occasionally revealed for press releases or updates, never truly transparent.

removing the dirt background from the endgame credits makes me sad the dirt backgroud was nostalgic :(

I read a youtube comment saying how Minecraft is starting to not feel and not look like Minecraft anymore, and now i kinda agree

Kind of a shame that the dirt background is removed honestly, i really liked it because it offered a sense of safety and comfort, similar to when you turn to face the wall while trying to sleep.

Personally i like the end portal background, but it would be cool if they managed a smooth transition from end portal to dirt, it would keep the old design while also showing going back to the regular world

So basically, they're messing with accessibility and vision. Yeah, that's gonna be great... I already have issues with viewing text and seeing in the game (even at max brightness, I struggle to see when mining quite frequently unless I have torches like... every 4 blocks). Mojang there are people who are LITERALLY BLIND who play your game, you did a feature on one of them. Don't fuck with the ability to see things... EDIT: An easy fix for the end poem would be to put a black box behind the text, leaving the rest with the end portal effect. Because the end portal effect looks great! It just makes the text unreadable. :/