Minecraft

[Rots]

lol, I like it. It's craftable so useless or not you don't have to have them around.

Has anyone even found a snow biome yet??

[DarrenM]

Some have talked about using the snow golems in turrets to lure mobs into traps so there may be a use for them depending on where you're building.

Snow isn't in 1.8 due to a bug/incomplete biome code but it's supposed to be back in 1.9.

I hope when it's out of beta or the underlying game is at least complete they start adding a lot more free content, but it would speed things up if they'd hire one of the prominent modders to work purely on content while they work on the core game/bug fixes.

There will possibly a release tomorrow, but I don't know what it will be. 1.9 or a 1.9-pre perhaps.

[NeilPearson]

Notch justvtweeted 1.9 today. more adventure mode stuff in 1,10. got to love it. all advebture was originally 1.7... Heh

[Shonky]

Lol, is he serious, a pre-release for a beta, to make it more beta-ish.

What do folks think, leave the server as is until the official 1.9, I'm inclined to let someone else bug test for a change.

[Hazelb]

Lol, is he serious, a pre-release for a beta, to make it more beta-ish.

What do folks think, leave the server as is until the official 1.9, I'm inclined to let someone else bug test for a change.

[DarrenM]

Yeah, I'd leave it until it's official.

Lots of new stuff in this version, but with new builds coming out so often I'll stick to single player for now.

[Rots]

I reckon leave it as well... RAZ has been making an awesome island castle and I'd hate to see that hard work gone so quickly!

[ysu]

Yeah that island is mental. It has a cobblestone generator down below ffs!
I reckon there should be a pyramid in the middle!

[NeilPearson]

i say we just wait for official release in November. before we update. Just stay on 1.8 and this map, then once official release comes on 18/11/2011 or around there we refresh to a new map. I think we are going to have a few releases before we get minecraft final coming out.

[ysu]

may not even happen in november...

[NeilPearson]

sure they have only organised "mine-con" in las vegas for it not to happen

[DarrenM]

1.10 will get split to 1.11
1.11 will get split to 1.12
...

The joys of feature creep

Minecon does make a pretty firm date though.

[NeilPearson]

To be fair though, From what I have read from notch about minecraft is that he will always be adding new stuff to it. He doesnt know if itll just stream in updates like now for free or come in DLC. (hope everyone is an alpha player here :P) Thats his plans now, but who knows.

[Shonky]

Shamelessly stolen from OCAU.

[NeilPearson]

lmfao!

[Shonky]

I reckon leave it as well... RAZ has been making an awesome island castle and I'd hate to see that hard work gone so quickly!

Spoke to Raz earlier (well via email) and he wants to know when we are updating the map, he expected it to be on 1.9pre already.

[Shonky]

i say we just wait for official release in November. before we update. Just stay on 1.8 and this map, then once official release comes on 18/11/2011 or around there we refresh to a new map. I think we are going to have a few releases before we get minecraft final coming out.

I don't think I can wait that long, maybe 1.9 official or 1.1 official but wait until minecon is a long time without the new stuff.

[NeilPearson]

well update it as it comes out but stay on the current map.

[Shonky]

OK, I might trim off some extraneous exploring I did before I update it, I know bauer is off to the nth about 4 clicks but we don't need my 27km boat ride buggering up the terrain generation to the south.

[Bauer]

yeah trim it down. I went a fair way out but nothing that was seen cant be unseen

[wobblysauce]

[Shonky]

Ok folks, server is off line for the night while I upload the trimmed down map, gone from 920mb down to 361mb so it's a bit more manageable now.

When the server fires up again and new chunks are generated we may get some weird things going on with the terrain, if this happens they'll make nice features for us to look at, I fully expect this to happen when we move to 1.9 anyway as the terrain engine has had some major changes.

[DarrenM]

They must have changed melons in 1.9. They appear to be the quickest way to grow food now.

The plants can still take a while to grow, but once they do they spawn melons at about the same speed as wheat takes to grow. Difference is instead of 1 piece of wheat you get 3-7 melon slices.

Shame I had to cheat to find a stronghold in order to get the seeds. Fucking stupid how they're all underground. They should have strongholds above ground and dungeons below ground.

[DarrenM]

lots to play with in 1.9 pre3. sky realm, enchanting, potions

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You can translate the writing for the enchantments
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Doesn't seem to be anything meaningful though. I translated a few and it appears to just be random words

sword
snuff cube sphere destroy
imbue physical light beast

pickaxe
bless demon spirit berata

axe
fire cold fire
dry stretch snuff

Really wish I could have a level 14 axe of dry stretch snuff

[Santaria]

lots to play with in 1.9 pre3. sky realm, enchanting, potions

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You can translate the writing for the enchantments
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Doesn't seem to be anything meaningful though. I translated a few and it appears to just be random words

sword
snuff cube sphere destroy
imbue physical light beast

pickaxe
bless demon spirit berata

axe
fire cold fire
dry stretch snuff

Really wish I could have a level 14 axe of dry stretch snuff

Turning into an FPS Terraria which isn't a bad thing at all! I like Terraria but didn't like the 2D scrolling. Now all we need is Goblin armies and Eater of Worlds!