Minecraft
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Maniacal
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The new half-blocks are wood and sand, cobblestone will now make a cobblestone half-block and you have to smelt cobblestone into (smooth) stone to make the smooth stone half-block.
At least netherrack is useful now.
At least netherrack is useful now.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
The new chunk handling seems to make saving much quicker. Anyone know the details of the change there?
MaxaTheGreat
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Ignore this...
SS-18 ICBM
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Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Not really, the new update vastly decreased the resources used apparently, and its not like the game takes up a lot of space. The world might not be infinite anymore but I don't think that will be a problem.
croxis
Chat room op
Yes and no. The smaller the device the smaller the display, which means less power needed to render a frame. The processing power is nothing to sneeze at either: iPhone 4 has an 800 MHz ARM processor with 256 (or is it 512?) megs of ram. On the 512 server we could handle 6 players with no issue. Which leave GPU. The GPU is OpenGL 2.0 and, considering the low polygon and texture requirements, should be able to handle minecraft just fine.
Edit: Also, the optimizations for the iPhone/pad also have a good chance of being useful for the desktop version as well. I see this as a good thing. I also don't think they would of announced this unless they had a working proof of concept.
Edit: Also, the optimizations for the iPhone/pad also have a good chance of being useful for the desktop version as well. I see this as a good thing. I also don't think they would of announced this unless they had a working proof of concept.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
I forgot to take this into consideration.
Well, that bodes well for anyone who wants to play it on said devices. And the opposite for their free time.
MaxaTheGreat
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My favorite thing with 1.3 is the new lighting engine. Looks beautiful.
croxis
Chat room op
Aye it does. However the central auth server seems to be down :/
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This and the extra save slots/being able to name them. I'm not too thrilled about beds, but I'm sure they'll be useful.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
I love the new update! Beds are so awesome, and it's really neat you can name your own worlds evocative names and stuf...
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
Before the world was saved with a single file for every chunk which was randomly thrown about. The simple version of what it does now is it stores them in a more sequential manner, which is much easier for the HDD to load. Random reads take longer than sequential reads. Look up McRegion for more info.
Mostly decreased disk IO which can be a big bottleneck when you're traveling about a world. You should note that now the chunks closest to you load first and spiral out.
Those of us who were using the AO mod, which later became the BetterLight mod have had this lighting for a while. It's not new, its just a Mojang port of BetterLight into the game (although there are some bugs still)
You actually need significantly more RAM when playing because you have to store rendered frames. Of course the higher the resolution Minecraft is being played at the more RAM is needed.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
There are already games available for the iPhone that are vastly graphically superior to minecraft (which is a pretty small game resource wise already), and they run fine.
croxis
Chat room op
Wait, store renderd frames? The only time that I know of where frames are stored is in multipass rendering, which I don't think minecraft uses.
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