Minecraft posted a very unusual tweet in which it asked whether a carrot and beetroot farm can be considered aura farming. And the truth is?? It was total chaos in the entire community. What is aura farming in Minecraft anyway? No one has a clear answer to that, but still, everybody has a different opinion and the ensuing discourse is pure craziness.
The community saw a picture of a player in front of a small vegetable garden of carrots and beets, shared by the official Minecraft Twitter account, and the text under the picture was ‘Does this stuff fit into the aura farming category?’ The picture is very easy to identify – it shows the basic standard of Minecraft farming with those lovely, colorful, and volumetric nasty vegetables that we all know and love. The term ‘aura farming’ was the reason of confusion among the players and the eruption of crazy answers.
Some players accepted this idea around the concept. The user named gurubson literally asking for the whole thing and screaming ‘HELL YEA 🔥🔥🔥’ with the enthusiasm of a diamond discoverer while zanifootball expressed ‘This image is dripping in aura’ as if they were receiving the aura of ‘the mystical’ farming straight from the screen. On the other hand, you have realists like ChkssSll who truthfully stated, ‘No Minecraft. This is just farming. What the hell are you talking about with aura? They are f… carrots’ – which, to tell the truth, is a very smart point.
The situation was quite the opposite, though. Natukki eloquently characterized the players’ mental state with ‘no aura, just farming, and that’s aura af. idk what I’m saying please send help’ – mood, to be honest. Simultaneously, James Webber kept it very brief and very clear by saying ‘No, that’s crop farming’ as if he were the farming professor from Minecraft University or something.
Spanish speakers were in the game too – AngelRuben1 commented ‘Si hubiera sembrado papa en vez de betabel si’ literally meaning ‘If he had planted potatoes instead of beets, yes’ meaning thus that potatoes are more aura friendly than beets? Who would have imagined? The crop hierarchy in terms of aura was such a thing in the metaphysics of Minecraft?
The entire discussion about aurafarming had swept a lot of other topics related to Minecraft along with it. Bioberm0 suggested that ‘the real aura is on End Update’ and thus the whole End dimension update request was revived and brought into this conversation. And, naturally, someone eventually ended up expressing dissatisfaction with the Switch version, with oiu34r begging ‘Update the switch version, please.’ because this is apparently what always happens in every Minecraft thread now.
Anyhow, a few players took it as an opportunity to show off their farms. Diantina_ shared a photo of her farm with the caption ‘My biggest flex in 1.21.10’ and RidleyHeliolf retorted with a screenshot of ‘That might, but this definitely does’ showing a more impressive design. It didn’t take long for it to turn into an odd farming flex competition.
The whole aura farming thing gives the impression of being one of those inside jokes where in fact no one really is? Like Minecraft just coined a term and let the community guess what it means. Lintbeard was even more radical with his statement ‘Please invent a way to turn the whole world irl in Minecraft blocks the mega aura farm’ which is definitely both terrifying and amazing sounds.
Random side-chats were also a part of it – someone was inquiring about the Sonic and Minecraft collaboration, another one was asking for hoe buffs (the tool, you know), and CaptainChar was whining that he ‘forgot to use an arrow to highlight’ as if the farm was not clear enough. The whole thing was chaos but in a very lovely way.
One of the interesting aspects is the extent to which this trivial question about farming types revealed player interaction with the Minecraft world. Some players only see the mechanics – plant, harvest and consume. Others almost make it sound divine where farming has an ‘aura’ and supernatural aspects. While there are also people just joking and sharing their builds.
‘Aura farming’ is probably not an actual game feature – at least not yet – but the discussion it generated is indicative of the players’ creativity in working around the game’s limitations. Whether it is a hidden feature, a joke on top of a joke, or a case of the developers playing pranks on us, it got the audience to not only participate but also to share their farming setups, which is very much the essence of the Minecraft community interaction, so to say.
So was it aura farming? Who is to say? But the whole thing certainly fascinated people because it was in the nature of farming and that is ultimately what matters. Carrots and beets may appear to be the most mundane of crops, however, the debate surrounding them? That surely is a case of some serious aura energy being at play. The discussion also sparked conversations about other gaming platforms like PlayStation and Xbox.
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