We told you yesterday the hole Mojang fell into for a change they intended to make in Minecraft 1.19.1. The chat moderation and reporting system, which, while I have no doubt that it was designed and implemented with the best of intentions, has led to a real rift in a community that has already been somewhat disaffected with the developer and her latest moves in recent months.

As we saw yesterday, the reporting system that Mojang intended to implement in Minecraft 1.19.1 without first informing the community and thus without gathering feedback from it, may result in a temporary or permanent ban of the user on all servers. Yes, on all of them, both those run by Mojang, i.e. Realms, and private servers, be they public, restricted, or private.

The community response to Mojang, as we talked about yesterday, has been explosiveboth due to some of the categories available for reporting messages (which at one point even included the use of profanity) and the extent of the bans, a point at which the vast majority of the community agrees that they should be limited to realms or in any case to them and to the server where the report was created and verified.

The storm has no doubt reached the Mojang offices, who first announced that the release of Minecraft 1.19.1 was delayed (it was originally scheduled for June 28th), and yesterday they did something that they have not seen before, when publishing a new preview version 2 after release candidate 1 is published. In addition, Mojang has also published two pages to respond (or at least try) to community concerns: a blog post explaining the reporting system and an FAQ with questions that have arisen as a result.

In Mojang’s post about this pre-release 2 we can also read the following:

«Hello everyone! As some of you may have noticed, we’ve decided to delay the 1.19.1 release and are now back in preview mode. It is about solving some of our more significant problems. We have yet to fully decide on a new release date, but it won’t be too far in the future.»

In this first paragraph, the notable issues are generally discussed, but the next paragraph deals more specifically with the dispute over the reporting system, and here we can also find links to the sites I mentioned above.

Will this be enough to solve this crisis? Unfortunately, no. Despite the changes introduced by Mojang in this pre-release and the clarifications provided, the temperature in the Minecraft Java community does not seem to have dropped significantly and is likely to remain so unless Mojang decides to completely back off and restart the process of implementing a reporting system with community participation in the design process .

I think I already did it on another occasion, but once again I recommend a video by elomars88, a youtuber specialized in Minecraft, who in my case is part of the 3 best Spanish-speaking content creators of Minecraft and who sees it this way are the last steps of Mojang: