I like the new blocks, white wood is awesome, the game needed more white/grey blocks
The new mob looks like a modded minecraft mob, not even a good one, the symetrical thin limbs make it look cheap. It doesn't even hide well because the BRIGHT ORANGE EYES.
I'm okay with a dark oak forest reskin, but no trees are technically 1:1 in the game. Even birch trees are slightly different leaf and height wise from oak, these are 1:1 with dark oaks, they better change the trees style before release or its lazy
No unique resources only blocks, unless they add uses to the creaking stuff. Desert has sand (tnt), desert temples, camels for example-, despite being a new biome with unique mechanics, its only building blocks