Minecraft

[Antilogic]

Nowhere near as elaborate as the video above, but my buddy and I have been building a Ghast Party Box (TM). It's basically a massive 100x100x30 hollow cobble box over a lava lake in the nether, plus a few additions I'm planning. I'm glad it's almost finished, I'm running out of patience with those unappreciative ghasts blasting me before their awesome box is complete.

 

[Maniacal]

1.1 is out!


Link to video.

http://mojang.com/2012/01/12/minecraft-1-1-update/ (link is currently down)

Official list "of some of the added features":
Bow Enchantments
Golden Apple recipe
New language translations.
Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
Removed collision box from ladders
Sheep eat grass and regain their wool
Many bug fixes

Most important changes from the snapshots:
Fixed double door bug
Re-added Taiga biomes
Apples have a 1/200 chance to drop from leaf blocks
Farmland isn't trampled from walking on it, only by jumping
Animals don't trample farmland
Removed bedrock void fog in creative
Languages
Mob spawner eggs added in Creative mode
Sheep eat grass to regain wool, amount of dropped wool reduced from 2-4 to 1-3
Added a few new lines to the splash texts
All discs except "11" can now be dropped by Creepers
Melons and Pumpkins can grow on dirt
Added 'Pirate English' translation
Smoothed color transitions between biomes
Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
Decreased randomness of Enchantment Tables (What does this mean?)
Hills in newly generated forests and deserts - Screenshot ~ via
Beaches in newly generated terrain! - Screenshots ~ via 1 - 2 - 3
Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
Removed collision box from ladders
Updated fence gate collision box to align with fences

 

[croxis]

Gah real changes, none of this silly end stuff! We just started a new world too!

 

[GenMarshall]

Time to play the waiting game for the mods to update . I'll be sticking around 1.0 for a while.

 

[Bowsling]

Yay for the new map generator! This is just beside where I spawned, too.

 

[Maniacal]

I don't see anything new in that screesnhot.

 

[GenMarshall]

Other than an amazing floating blocks of dirt .

 

[Maniacal]

Floating blocks isn't anything new though...

 

[Bowsling]

Well, I think they eradicated in in 1.0, but it's back in force now. I found the whole top of a mountain floating after a quick look around.

 

[Maniacal]

Ah, I don't remember if they did or not, although there certainly did seem to be fewer floating stuff.

 

[Rub'Rum]

At first there were no floating blocks. Then there were. I missed the part where they were gone again.

 

[Bowsling]

Well, I don't recall any floating blocks at all from 1.0, but they're all over the place now.

 

[Skwink]

Well, I don't recall any floating blocks at all from 1.0, but they're all over the place now.

They were there. I saw a few.

 

[Civ'ed]

set my minecraft to pirate

 

[GenMarshall]

Link to video.

Asside from (what some would say, annoying news casters in the youtube video) that. In summary, Notch is planning to pull Minecraft offline in protest of the SOPA for one day on the 18th of January.

SOPA @ Wiki (For more info)
More news @ gamespot
Notch's offical adnouncement on twitter

 

[Civ'ed]

just watched that video and oh god the accent.

 

[cardgame]

The last time I updated it was... a long time ago, before endermen or pistons

The last update things I remember were pistons, endermen and ravines

How much has changed besides those?

 

[Chieftess]

Found this huge village with a flatland seed: 6544778256838193758

It's almost like it's two villages merged together. Too bad it has a few slime chunks. That's what I don't like about the flatlands - it's too low to bedrock and slimes can spawn (at least when it's not on peaceful).

 

[Civ'ed]

spawn more villagers and give them homes!

 

[Skwink]

I love that you can spawn mobs now, I've been renovating and repopulating my old town from World 5.