Minecraft - The block building thread

[Shady_Ghost]

Yeah so apparently now in regards to the enchantment silk touch we can no longer pick up ice.  This mainly dealt with being able to have water in the nether and some other bug.  Check this thread on a minecraft forum for random details on this: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/787823-silk-touch-no-longer-picks-up-ice/page__st__40

[Stuffman]

Ah good, I was thinking I would need to manually disable the placing of ice in the nether with worldguard or something :V

[Dr.Strafe]

Disabling sand/gravel dupers and now halting the use of ice in the Nether. Two of my concerns regarding the server will be taken care of. *sigh of relief*

Since when did Notch get the notion to start fixing stuff?

[DX7.EP]

And yet we can pick up Silverfish blocks. :\

I still would've liked the ability to mine ice, even if it couldn't be used in Nether (shouldn't be too hard to code it so that ice instantly evaporates there, though that wouldn't make sense).

[Myschi]

And yet we can pick up Silverfish blocks. :\

Welp, time to fill a resource-rich cave system with those things.

[Totaku]

As we speak, Minecraft has now enter it's offical reelase! Go and grab it now! If you played RC2 it's not much differnent except for a few bug changes. But otherwise the game is now offical and no longer in beta

[CadrinHaverit]

Well, fcuk. The changelog in the launcher still only lists the new things in 1.8. I want to know what is new in the release!

[HakureiSM]

Oh bby it's on

I gotta finish eating

[Myschi]

Well, fcuk. The changelog in the launcher still only lists the new things in 1.8. I want to know what is new in the release!

Probably what was in the release candidates, maybe a bit extra.

Anyone watch the livestream of the keynote? Holy balls that was awkward.

[Agent of the BSoD]

Well, fcuk. The changelog in the launcher still only lists the new things in 1.8. I want to know what is new in the release!

Fixes & Changes:

    New achievements
    Amount of Experience Orbs dropped by a player on death now limited.
    The ability of Endermen to carry blocks reduced in some way.
    New Monster Spawner texture.
    Ghast fireballs have a different texture.
    On death, a proper score is given based on how many experience orbs the player has collected.
    When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates Stone where previously the lava would flow through the water.
    You can toggle between three states when pressing F5 (first person, third person back, third person front), having the addition of 3rd person view from the front.
    Ender Pearls have a unique ability. When thrown, the player will teleport to the Ender Pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage. They will not work in Creative.
    Golden Apples now glow purple in inventory.
    Fences no longer block you from moving onto their space. You can now stand next to them, like you can with glass panes and iron bars.
        They will also connect to solid blocks.
    There is a slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button, so that the player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces.
    Labels for items have a blue border.
    Random loot chests in Strongholds.
    Blocking now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword just floating right in front of the player.
    Weapon and tool damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (Diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5).
    Some mob health has been changed (Sheep, Spiders, Zombies)
    Redstone Ore can now be mined much, much faster. It can be mined faster than coal ore and iron ore and is about the same speed mining as stone.

New Features:

    In the Nether:
        Nether Bricks.
        Nether Fence.
        Nether Stairs
        Nether fortresses.
    "The End" (unofficially called "The Ender", or "Enderlands"), which replaces the previously announced Sky Dimension.
        End Portals take the player from the Overworld to The End. To go back to the Overworld, one must defeat the Enderdragon and jump through the portal that appears.
            End Portal Frame (Name not confirmed)
            End Portal Block (Name not confirmed)
            Endgame/Credit screen (You can still play your world)
        End Stone
    New Items:
        Ghast Tear
        Blaze Rod
        Nether Wart
        Gold Nugget
        Glass Bottle
        Spider Eye
        Fermented Spider Eye
        Blaze Powder
        Magma Cream
        Glistering Melon
        Eye of Ender
            Activates Ender Portal Frame blocks.
        9 new Music Discs.
    Finished Biome code and new Biomes.
        Snowy Biomes.
        Swamp Biomes adjusted to appear "swampier."
            Darker Grass
            Darker Water
            Lily Pads
        Mushroom Biomes.
            Naturally generated Huge Mushrooms.
            New Mushroom Cow, the Mooshroom.
            Mycelium blocks.
    New sound effects, including:
        Minecart sounds.
        Shears sounds.
        Additional Bow sounds.
        Big Slime sounds.
        The true sounds of Endermen and Silverfish.
    Changes in already existing sounds:
        A change in the sound of Rain.
        New sounds for Doors.
        New sounds for the Skeletons' walk to make them sound more skeleton-y.
    Bow models now appear in third-person larger and in 3D.
    If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided you are within 13 blocks of the ceiling.
    6 New Mobs:
        Enderdragon (Boss Mob)
            Enderdragon eggs
        Mooshroom Cows.
        NPCs in Villages, as Villager Mobs.
        Snow Golem mob.
            Can be crafted.
            Melts in hot biomes.
            Spreads snow around when it walks.
            Passive, but throws snowballs at enemies.
        At least two new aggressive mobs for the Nether.
            Magma Cube
            Blaze
    Experience (skills) is now enchantments.
    Each Experience Orb is worth one Score Point.
    Animal Breeding.
        Wheat Bundles feed animals and make them come towards you.
        Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode".
        Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode.
        Breeding will produce Baby Animals. Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have a faster animation and a higher pitched sound.
    Unlimited Strongholds per map (changed from three).
    New/Improved Armor system.
        Increased armor durability.
    Sun and moon changes:
        Moon phases.
        Sun and moon now rise in the east.
    Game mechanics changes:
        Hardcore Mode - Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces you to delete your world if you die. The health bar changes appearance to indicate you are playing in Hardcore mode.
    Item Repair
    Potions, Splash Potions, Potion effects, Brewing Stand, and Brewing.
    Enchantment Table, and Enchanting

[Stuffman]

Ender Pearls have a unique ability. When thrown, the player will teleport to the Ender Pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage. They will not work in Creative.
Redstone Ore can now be mined much, much faster. It can be mined faster than coal ore and iron ore and is about the same speed mining as stone.
Unlimited Strongholds per map (changed from three).

Cool shit, especially the Ender Pearl. Not as good as my Luna Dial but I'm sure you guys will appreciate it :V

At least two new aggressive mobs for the Nether.

Wait what. At least?

[Agent of the BSoD]

Yeah, I'm not sure if Notch is planning more or not, that's just what the wiki said. Your guess is as good as mine.

Amount of Experience Orbs dropped by a player on death now limited.
The ability of Endermen to carry blocks reduced in some way.

Both will be much more beneficial to the server here, especially the orbs.

[DX7.EP]

Cool shit, especially the Ender Pearl. Not as good as my Luna Dial but I'm sure you guys will appreciate it :V

Everyone gets poor man's Warp Compasses. And I probably won't be using those as often as the rest.

[pineyappled]

oh god the falling sounds are like bones snapping ;_;

[Shady_Ghost]

Cool shit, especially the Ender Pearl. Not as good as my Luna Dial but I'm sure you guys will appreciate it :V

Real men walk they dont need teleportation :colbert:

And I probably won't be using those as often as the rest.

Cheater =/

oh god the falling sounds are like bones snapping ;_;

then stop falling :V

[Totaku]

Well recent news points out that Notch is leaving the Minecraft world now and handing Jeb Minecraft to work on from here on out.

More or less now Jeb will be resonsible for anything new going into Minecraft. Course the first order of business that needs to be worked on are the NPCs. Which as far as I know Jeb has an AI programmer that's coming to join the team to work on these NPCs. But other than that, all new stuff from there is up in the air. That's about all that is known for now about Minecraft's future ATM.

[J.O.B]

Hopefully we will finally see bugfixes that don't cause more bugs  :V

[Stuffman]

Jeb was doing pretty much everything already so good for him, I suppose :V

[CadrinHaverit]

oh god the falling sounds are like bones snapping ;_;

Beats the obviously masculine "UGH!" sound. Touhou skin users, rejoice!
Also now that the main character is the silent protagonist, that kind of makes them like Gordon Freeman. That's pretty badass.
All in all, I like the new sounds. Although the skeletons still do not sound much like skeletons in my opinion.

So yeah. Experience points can now be used on enchantments and only on them, I think. That's a pretty cool system, although farming experience for a level 50 enchantment is going to be a pain. Unless the enderdragon (which supposedly drops 10000 experience) respawns every once in a while.

Also, the armor. I don't know what's going on with it. My set of iron armor with low-level protection enchantments is about to break, but... I am playing on hard(core) mode and when a skeleton shoots me and I block, the armor absorbs all of the damage. Otherwise it would deal about 2 hearts of damage to me. Moreover, the iron armor's protection level never goes below 7,5 vests, I think. High-tier armors are actually pretty powerful now, it seems.

EDIT: oh yeah, that's probably because i had Projectile Protection II on my chestplate.

In other news: spend 10 exp. points on enchanting a piece of armor, get Protection I. Poker face.

[HakureiSM]

    Fences no longer block you from moving onto their space. You can now stand next to them, like you can with glass panes and iron bars.
        They will also connect to solid blocks.

oh bby finally

    Weapon and tool damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (Diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5).

Ass. I haven't even touched enchantments yet.

Also time to start a cattle and sheep ranch.

Hey Dr. Stuffstrafe, any idea if/when you're thinking of upgrading the server to the final version? I kinda want back in :3

[Dr.Strafe]

Hey Dr. Stuffstrafe, any idea if/when you're thinking of upgrading the server to the final version? I kinda want back in :3

Whenever Bukkit and/or some of our other plugins get updated, I suppose. It shouldn't be too long..

[Stuffman]

What will probably happen is that Bukkit will get updated this week, but Strafe won't be around next weekend for us to do the schematics.

In that case, I might go ahead and upgrade the server anyway, and let you all play from scratch and explore until Strafe gets back to give you your buildings :V

[DX7.EP]

Sounds like a good idea, Stuffman. Though I'd extend that and say that our inventories be saved (through the manual 'copy-individual-player-data' method) before we go in.

[Freyband]

I hope my computer stops crashing the game with this update. I had to stick with 1.7.3 because it liked to tweak on 1.8 for some reason. So far the game is pretty sweet as of it's official release (even though I think the" human" npcs are plotting something... and then we find out herobrine is disguised one).    >>>-----> (oAo)/

oh god the falling sounds are like bones snapping ;_;

Heard it the first time today and sweet jesus I hate that noise >.<

[J.O.B]

I made a new survival world in 1.0.0

I spawn on a very very small island with 4 sheep.

Lol

[Agent of the BSoD]

Hey Dr. Stuffstrafe, any idea if/when you're thinking of upgrading the server to the final version? I kinda want back in :3

Here ya go!

In that case, I might go ahead and upgrade the server anyway, and let you all play from scratch and explore until Strafe gets back to give you your buildings :V

What..... We can just do that in single player though. I'd rather wait till everything is set up and ready.

[J.O.B]

 
I just saw an Enderdragon.

[Dr.Strafe]

What will probably happen is that Bukkit will get updated this week, but Strafe won't be around next weekend for us to do the schematics.

In that case, I might go ahead and upgrade the server anyway, and let you all play from scratch and explore until Strafe gets back to give you your buildings :V

It's all part of my master plan to extort the users for money. How badly do you folks want your creations back?

There's been a change of plans on my end. I won't be going out of town after all..    We can go ahead and update once the plugins are ready. However, if it happens on the weekend, then everyone will still have to wait for me to be off of work.. :V

There might be a possibility that we'll have to modify the users' position to the new spawn coordinates again... We don't want people swimming in lava upon arrival to the new world. Well... maybe Shady. :V

[J.O.B]

You should so totally spawn us in an underground cave filled with creepers instead :V

[Dr.Strafe]

Nope. Just you. :V
Even better: Send a user to a bedrock prison with a few LWC-protected creeper spawners inside. There isssss no esssssscape.