Keith Minecraft Review

The copper age update has been out since September 30th, 2025, and for the review I’ve played with the new features to see how they fit into the progression system. During this update the main focus of the developers has been to make copper something that players want to use. While they’ve succeeded in their goal, made the armor and equipment progression even worse. The copper weapons seem to be a good fit between wood and iron, but the armor damages the already fragile balance. Leather armor was already harder to get than iron, encouraging the player to ignore it all together. When I joined one of my the world’s on my wifi, I noticed I was able to find copper and make armor on my first night, making leather completely useless now. Copper is so abundant in every world, and it’s just better than leather at protecting. The other main feature of the update is the copper golem. When placing a carved pumpkin on a copper block you get one copper golem and a copper chest. The copper golems oxidize like any other copper block and if they become fully oxidized, they turn into cute little statues. Their purpose is to sort items from their copper chest into all nearby chests in a ten block area, and they’re horrible at it. In my two newest worlds, one made right before the update, and one made right after, I got to observe first hand how they behaved around chests. If the golems are near empty chests, but their copper chest is full of random items, they will place one type of item in an empty chest. (If there’s only dirt in a chest the copper golem will see this chest as ‘the dirt chest.’) It took me a while to understand what was happening on my first world, so now I have a bunch of chests in my trading area. In my second world where I understood how the copper golems work before creating it, I made two to manage four double chests, where I put a few items in the regular chests beforehand so that they could find out where everything went on their own. Even with knowledge of how the golems operate, they are still painfully slow at sorting, and once you leave render distance they stop working all together. They will get through everything eventually, but if you regularly come back home with a full inventory just to leave again, you’re better off sorting the chests yourself. A lot of people see the changes as a bad sign of things to come, but I would like to propose a different perspective. Much like the copper age for ancient civilizations, this is the beginning of a massive overhaul to the systems that determine what’s possible for players. The copper age update doesn't work well with everything else in Minecraft, because everything else in Minecraft is about to change.