Minecraft

[Chieftess]

Swamp biomes are neat, careful when swimming though I've been sucked into a lot of underwater caves. They also have an abundance of clay

I got sucked into a Squid-Farm!

 

[Matt0088]

There's Clay everywhere! Huzzah! No NPC villages yet to destroy.

@Maniacal, Name Change!?

 

[MaxaTheGreat]

Surprise!

Spoiler :

At least they die in sunlight.

It's fun watching endermen chase after you in creative mode while you fly across the world.

I found an abandoned mine in a cave as well. Pretty cool, but I haven't found any NPC villages unfortunately.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Surprise!

Spoiler :

At least they die in sunlight.

And I though the creepers were scary.

 

[Angst]

Just going to say that 1.8 is effing awesome.

There are a few bugs, but screw them.

 

[ImperialGuard]

been playing around with the leaked 1.8 ... it's very cool


anyone know what a stronghold is? (saw reference to this in the minecraft forums) is that different than the NPC village(s) ?
been flying around and haven't seen either

Did find an abandoned mineshaft, with lots of cobwebs strewn about....what was really cool about the cobwebs is that if you are on top of them, you slowly SINK into them - just way too awesome !!

the new lighting code/engine is really good as well !

still lots of bugs/tuning needed to be done based on the leaked version, if this is the latest version, no way they could have released it this week.....

 

[Matt0088]

The ocean biome now has the potential to be MASSIVE. As in, if your world seed spawns you on a island, you're basically screwed. Could make for a nice Challenge map though.

(from Something Awful)

To give you a picture of scale, apparently, from spawn island in the center, on far viewing distance you still cannot see any of the surrounding islands, just, more, ocean. :O

 

[Skwink]

Eh, they didn't spawn there, but the Hawaiians did pretty good in that situation.

 

[Leonel]

Surprise!

Spoiler :

At least they die in sunlight.

OH JESUS!

 

[Civ'ed]

Surprise!

Spoiler :

At least they die in sunlight.

Are you kidding me?
Also, this leaked 1.8, do you get it when you rev up minecraft again?

 

[Skwink]

Endermen appear to die in water!

 

[GenMarshall]

Also, I'm going to be a coward and wait for the official update. I'm savoring the wait.

I'm waiting till the texture pack (Painterly) and the mods I use are compatible and ready for 1.8.

 

[KaiserElectric]

what a stronghold is? (saw reference to this in the minecraft forums) is that different than the NPC village(s) ?[/I]
been flying around and haven't seen either

Strongholds are more like ruins. Derelict locations made of stone bricks and such. Kind of like dungeons, only without monsters or treasures. There's an article about them in the minecraft wiki.

 

[croxis]

I should point out this isn't the final build, it is still mid development. There is still one more day of development, at least anyway. My hunch is it was sudo intentionally leaked so they can get a large number of testers in. I've always thought they should have an optional client for the nightly builds.

 

[Angst]

It's called a prerelease, I'm pretty sure it isn't leaked.

Ok, a potential bug report: I'm playing a LAN server with a few friends and whenever someone dies, the XP dropped will have the server lag horribly. Does anybody else have this problem?

 

[mythmonster2]

It seems trying to make charcoal crashes the game. However, it auto-saves, and when you restart the map, the furnace is making charcoal. And then it proceeds to crash some more. Seems rather random, actually.

Bottom line: Stay away from charcoal, or at least be prepared to crash a lot.

 

[Maniacal]

It was given to a few expert users to test out. Then it showed up on /v/.

 

[uat2d]

It was given to a few expert users to test out. Then it showed up on /v/.

http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/112270245888139265

 

[Maniacal]

That was tweeted after it had already been leaked.

 

[croxis]

Current buglist: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Known_bugs/Version_1.8