Becoming a mighty game dev in 2025!

It is finally time to make that dream game! :)

Follow my progress!
• Here on YouTube :D

Fynnland:

Things I already recoded:

Remaining games to port:

- 0:00 Intro
- 0:55 Fynnland
- 1:34 What I did last year
- 3:03 Grumbler
- 3:38 Mine Blocks
- 4:54 Rogue Among Robots
- 5:35 Outro

Music:
• The rest of the music are my unreleased tracks!

Thanks to Mick for recording my purchase of lemons! 🍋
Thanks to YOU for watching my videos! :D

[IsraaAnes-wc]

I have been playing Mine Blocks for 5 years. Please, we need new servers to play with friends.

[KefeGames]

Congratulations on the new apartment and the PC!
Mineblocks has positively impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people—you deserve the best for your hard work!

Answering the Mineblocks questions:
1. It would be great to be able to add animated textures.
2. Being able to choose between D-pad or joystick-style controls.

By the way, the editing is amazing—wishing you all the best in this new chapter!😊

[jaunaryst]

Deltarune Chapter 3, Hollow Knight Silksong, and now Zanzlanz reawakens from his slumber. 2025 looks good so far.

[P.Manoel]

For mobile control, consider that each button you add to the hud will also cover the screen. I really like how vampire survivors handled it, the d-pad is contextual appearing only when you move your finger on the screen. Maybe you could make it so the left side of the screen has this function while the right side has classic buttons. Speaking of buttons, sneak and jump shouldn't be on the d-pad, this will prevent accidentally sneaking while a monster chases you. The toolbar should also be vertically displayed on the right edge of the screen for easy access.
Not pertaining to the mobile controls, mineblocks desperately needs some quality of life changes. The spread of ores is inconsistent, there's too little coal so I end up using it exclusively for torches and smelting all my stuff with wood. Terraria does a good job, rarer but much bigger clusters of ore, but you could just make it so coal has a chance of dropping multiple from a block. The player character should auto climb one block ledges, they already can jump 2 blocks so there's no harm done. Armor degrades, which I don't mind by itself, but it's too hard to get xp to repair it. The cost in ore should already be enough, and make sure you have to spend less than the ore you used to make a tool, to repair it. Hopefully you'll read and consider my insight!

[Morality]

Zanzlanz never ceases to impress me with his editor + game development dedication.

But more importantly, when will the next songs be?

[konrado]

Dear Zanzlanz i really want to thank you how your games shapes me and me intersted in how games are made nowdays im a game developer and you are one of people worth crediting

[viniciusable]

Mine Blocks was my life in 2012~2014. I've made so many friends by publishing Mine Blocks videos, and even contact you at some point to send me the first Mine Blocks version for a video!! I'm really glad you are still going on with these cool projects! The new game looks amazing and I've just binged all of your recent videos haha. Keep being amazing!

[saeternal]

For the texture-pack type thing, you should make it like Minecraft but a bit less complicated. basically instead of adding it in settings like the skins you should make a whole new UI button for it, right under the "Play" button. so when you click it there will be a layout with a "Add Textures" button. and when u click it it will take u into your files and you will add your texture pack but the twist is that like if you wanna add another texture pack next time but after a while you want the first texture back than you can equip it. so if you have added like 6 textures you can kind of like "equip" the texture pack and there should also be a button that could disable all texture packs and make you go back in vanilla MB. also my idea for the layout when u click the new UI is that it should be like when you make worlds. so you know how there is a "Minigames" and "New World" UI when you click the play button? I kind of want the layout to be like that. the "Add Texture" button to be where the "New World" button is and the "Disable Texture" button to be where the Minigames is. If u did read this thanks Zanz its appreciated, also sorry for my bad and long explaining :( Note: I know u can make Texture packs and stuff and also download Textures from the "MB Stuff" website but will you be implementing a Texture pack system where you make Textures or something like the skins where the community can make Textures?

[anotherplaceholder]

I wish you good luck man, u r awesum!!! :V

[ericlopez-ri]

rexture packs are you ssure thats a good idea I mean modded weapons sounds good

[Boodog]

Love you Zanz! I hope you're able to achieve everything you hope to this year! Also, you are so talented with video editing!! These are always so fun to watch!

[justsomemushroomheaddork]

I think one advanced feature I'd like to see for texture packs would be a means to change the sounds blocks make when mined, placed, walked on, etc

[Noob_Frank]

Watching all these Anniversary and Year goal videos has made me realize that wow, It felt like yesterday discovering Mine blocks when the 1.26 update came out. Me and my sister used to play Mine Blocks all day long. I had a survival world while she had her own creative world making houses and spawning NPC's. What great times. Zanz, you really were quite the chunk of my childhood. Thank you

[ImCrowned]

I haven’t heard your name in years, I used to play mineblocks on my laptop when I was bored doing homework!

Also that jump from a bad laptop to a pc is real, going from an unstable 60fps to a stable 700 is a crazy feeling

[kilésengati]

I've been out of the YouTube game for so long, I actually forgot about how to use this site - but not how to click notifications. :D
Glad to see you alive and well, still making videogames like hell.

[ogabrielcasanova]

Great to see how things have come along Zanz, and congrats on the apartment! Hope this brings a new era of fun and independence for you. Also congrats on the new setup, your old notebook + keyboard combo reminds me a lot of my old setup one too. Thank god these dark times are over haha

It's 2025 and Fynnland is a game that still looks and feels amazing, it's a game that really stood the test of time (in no small part thanks to your creativity and prism's unmached incredible pixel art work) and i can only imagine how happy you're to finally get back into it's development nearly eight years later.

Once again, it's always amazing to follow you on your journey. Here's to an awesome 2025!

[kelvin]

i think its best the mod loader and texture packs to be separated, example the game to have basic code needed for adding blocks/items, just like how KubeJS mod for minecraft functions i think its best way for mine block to be modified just by writting some codes, obviously this would put much more requirement for you to work in order for mod makers to have to work less, but that is the fun, even the un-experienced mod makers would be able to create mod for mine block.

[AlexanderBrior]

Whoa, you're still around, I remember playing Mine Blocks on school computers all the time

[thedeadking]

One time when I played MineBlocks, I found random blocks dropped that I never made, also a cloud block. Thought it was some sort of herobrine moment

[thenoseguy]

Holy hell I loved Mineblocks when I was a kid, so many good memories