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Oh my god they've added rotisserie chicken to Minecraft!

Oh thank god we have butter as well!

Recently Minecraft updated the textures for all the dyes in the game.

Well, I say recently, but Bedrock Edition received this change like two

ago, but you guys know me, I like to pretend Bedrock Edition doesn't exist.

But now, the changes are on Java, my territory, and I want to talk about

You see, Mojang actually directly outlines in their article why they've

these texture changes, and it's to make the game way more accessible for users

with colour blindness.

Which, to be completely fair, I 100 % support.

And to its credit, I genuinely think Minecraft is one of the better games out

there when it comes to accessibility.

That's why I think it's great that Mojang is trying to make an effort to

certain changes to make the game better for colourblind players.

Such as myself.

Now, previously, they had made changes to the various ore textures in the game,

to all have unique patterns within the rock face, to make them a lot more

identifiable, when previously, they all shared the same pattern, which I do

think some people didn't like at the time, but now that it's been a couple

years, and we've gotten used to the new ore textures, I'm just gonna say it, I

think the new ones for, like, iron, gold, and red, I just think they're

They're way more identifiable. They're better. Good change.

But I don't think I can say the same about these new die textures.

Okay, so hear me out. If we were to take a look at the, I guess, old textures

for the various dies in the game, you can quickly see that some of them are

completely identical in all ways apart from colour.

This isn't good.

Okay, so to help illustrate this point, let's play a game.

I'm going to remove the colour and shuffle them about.

Now I want you, viewer, please point to the die you think is...

Purple.

It's this one.

See? Even if you somehow manage to pick the correct one, you might see how this

might be an issue for colour -blame players.

However, let's play this game again, but this time I'm going to show you the red

die, the yellow die, and the green die.

Alright? Please choose the die which is green.

Now that was a lot easier, wasn't it?

Why? Because each one of these colors instead has a distinct texture and

Realistically what Mojang should have done is only updated these circle dies

have unique textures and shapes just to help those guys be more identifiable

because the rest of them honestly were fine.

But that's not what they've done. Instead what Mojang has done is updated

the dies to now be these

Undescriptive blobs with paper underneath.

I mean, sure, they've given all the dyes a unique shape, but each one of them is

so undefined and blob -like in its shape, I genuinely find it hard to tell

from another.

Especially if you make it greyscale.

And all of this has been done in favour of helping users who are colourblind,

such as myself.

And I'm telling you, as a colourblind user of your game, this change is

objectively harder for me.

Colourblind test.

let's do it that's just a grey blob is there a number in there that's a one

that's a five i'm getting that nine six oh god what the hell is

that what the hell is that i got one third of those wrong

now i've done a whole video about how i feel that minecraft's art style has

changed over the years but one point i made in particular is how japa has this

tendency to smooth off all the textures. He really doesn't like roughness for

whatever reason. If we look at the progression of the yellow dye, you can

how in this new blob form it's tried to retain the shape of the original, but

it's lost all of its roughness and contrast.

The same goes for the green dye.

The type of colour blindness I have in particular is Deuteranopia.

Red green.

Where, in particular, I'm not that good at picking up green wavelengths within

my eyes.

It's the most common type of colour blindness in the world, and actually

around 1 in 20 men.

It's not insignificant, it's actually quite common, right? And I'm not kidding

you when I say this, but the yellow dye and the new green dye look so goddamn

similar to me. Like, they really do.

I just have to now remember that the yellow one is the one that points to the

right, and the green one is the one that points to the left. When previously, I

had no issues.

I'd look at the green dye, and I'd say, hey.

That's the one which looks like a bunch of bananas.

That's not the yellow one.

Yes, really.

Now look, this is just a short video I wanted to make to highlight an issue

Mojang clearly cares about, but I just don't think they've done a very good

And I do hope they change it, because they clearly care.

So that's about all I have to say. Now, I promise next video I'll stop simping

for accessibility and go back to being mean and ruthless to the disabled, as

always.