User talk:Stranded at sea

The suggestions subreddit
Hi, I saw you mention at Talk:Axolotl that the minecraftsuggestions subreddit isn't seen by developers. I guess there's no reason for me to post there anymore, now that I know this. It was fun for a while.

One of my suggestions might qualify as a bug that I could report on the bug tracker, I suppose, but it would be a stretch; that is, any scuba diver knows that a coral reef is a loud and cacophonous place. It is the loudest ocean biome in the real world. The dominant noise sounds like frying bacon, which is predominantly caused by little shrimp, but also includes creatures that chew on coral I think. These reef noises are strikingly absent in Minecraft warm oceans, which is surprising for a game that clearly strives for audio realism. I find it irksome. The absence of coral sounds makes warm oceans seem more artificial than any other Overworld biome. This could be fixed simply by making live coral emit faint snapping noises in a range of 16 blocks when underwater in a warm ocean biome.

Here's an audio sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYFbMnH8zsc - and dead coral, as expected, has no sound associated with it in the real world.

I recall this got a lot of upvotes in the minecraftsuggestions subreddit. Too bad no developer ever saw it though. Amatulic (talk) 19:48, 23 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I said they have little to no presence there, as in they aren't seen posting any comments at all, and the ones listed as mods don't actually do any moderator work anymore. That isn't to say they aren't lurking around the subreddit checking out posts silently, however, they have noted that they can only legally use ides posted to the feedback website (that's why the subreddit post has little to no chance of being what caused it to be added, but rather a post on the feedback site, or the developers came up with the same idea on their own by coincidence). The subreddit is still a good place to run a trial for an idea to gauge how much reception it gets, and it's a good way to get attention toward a feedback post on the same idea (assuming people make and link to a feedback post). I don't know if they have documentation on the ideas they've used from the community or not, but it would help if they did. Stranded at sea (talk) 08:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)