Your broken mob farm: or How I learned to stop worrying and love the changes.

       I never will tell someone that their opinion is invalid.  But I will make the people complaining about their mob farms being broken love the new changes...  Well, like the new changes... Maybe "accept" is a better word.

       Minecraft was always intended to be a game of horror survival.  That means you live, but just barely.  That means with enough hard work you might have an adequate shelter.  With enough work, you might even be safe for long stretches of time, despite the constant threats.  It does not mean that farming dangerous creatures is something you should expect.

       "Hey jerk" I hear some of you saying, "there is a large community who play this game just to build things like mob farms and automation."

       Yes.  Yes there is.  Why I have even been known to indulge in creative-mode building myself.  I will not say you are playing the game wrong, as there is no wrong way to play it.  But your complaint about having to redesign your slime farm is misplaced.

       First, Mojang is merely correcting things that were not right in the first place.  A creature that spawns in swamps should be able to survive in them.  Second, there are other designs which will still work, so you can still farm them.  Third, and most importantly, as a designer you should be relishing the opportunity to redesign something.  It's part of the fun of the game.

       OK, that was a stretch.  Having something randomly broken, that you have put a great deal of time and effort into, is really annoying.  But to be fair, this was done to improve the game, not to break your stuff.  I despise command blocks.  They make designing things too easy.  But I tolerate them in the game because they did improve it in many ways.  Not any ways I use, but still...

       The real reason that anyone complaining about changes in Minecraft should accept them is that, unlike every other company out there, Mojang has yet to charge for expanded content.  They are not breaking your slime , or golem farm, just to charge you extra to make it functional again.  By changing the game, for free, they are creating a new user experience, generating renewed interest, and keeping the game challenging.  Isn't that why you're still playing in the first place?