Minecraft

[Johnny]

P.P.S. People need to stop with this "would of, could of, should of" thing. It's would Have! G'damnit! *ahem* Sorry, just seeing it more and more lately and it's starting to annoy me.

 

I blame Dean.

[Mal]

Eh, its not greed. I think when it comes to legality of things, he's saying yes to whatever his lawyers are telling him. The lawyers are paid to do what they can in the best financial business of Mojang. Not sure how Carl I think, the CEO, plays in all this. I doubt the rest have much say in what goes on. Hell, I think they see the stupidity of the last move but they just can't say it to their boss' face.

 

But yeah, what's best for the company's finances and IP isn't what best for its image... and image is worth far far more.

[Pirandello]

 

My god... maps!

[AgamemnonV2]

Niiice. Finally, a new feature. And I lol'd at him wondering if 65,536 maps was enough (although I suppose I could sort of seeing it being a problem on big servers with lots of folks).

 

Perhaps books are next on the horizon?

[Mal]

Actually, if I read correctly from one of his tweets, books are coming. Along with custom paintings. Guess I will have to look out for pixelated porn now.

 

And I think that amount of maps is enough at the moment since most worlds don't see pass two months of life. It could be a problem though when a server, as you said, has tons of people and last for a very long time. So pretty much when Minecraft is "finished".

 

Maps on walls... hrmm.

Edited April 28, 2011 by MaliciousH

[Mal]

 

Double post for that. Dat music!

[Pirandello]

PC Gamer has released another mods article. Many of them are quite interesting.

 

PC Gamer - Top 10 Minecraft Mods

[Mal]

This speaks for itself.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zTtwXQ5PJM

[deanb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpksyojwqzE

To acheive this effect I used the GLSL shaders mod:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=128043

And this custom shader:
http://pastebin.com/WbVNtMg7

copy it to a txt file then rename the txt to - base.vsh then making sure to backup your existing, base.vsh drag it into the shaders folder located inside your minecraft.jar (once the GLSL shaders mod is installed of course)

[deanb]

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/20/mundaneminecraft.html?dlvrit=36761

 

I liked the motorway.

[Pirandello]

Anybody know a good mod manager for Minecraft? I'm currently using Minecrafter with TooManyItems but it always ends up giving me black screens. And I lose progress when it does.

[CrowKnow]

1.6 Changelist is out

 

+ Added Nether support to multiplayer

+ Added craftable maps

+ Added hatches

+ Added tall grass in some biomes

+ Mushrooms now spreads (very) slowly

+ Added server property view-distance. Sets the radius of terrain updates (in chunks) to send to the players. Range 3-15, default 10.

 

* It’s no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the maps (sorry!)

* Players stuck in walls will slide towards the nearest gap if there is one

* Made booster tracks speedier

* Severely nerfed fire so it spread slower, and doesn’t spread infinitely

* Seeds are now found in tall grass, using a hoe on the ground no longer works

* Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now shows the breaking block particle effect

* Activated dispensers make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer

* Doors make sound for other players in multiplayer

* The record player now supports more than 15 different songs

 

* Fixed running out of memory corrupting the current level

* Fixed the side textures of grass getting extra dark when mining them

* Fixed anaglyph 3d rendering mode having severe visual bugs

* Fixed the crash screen vanishing immediately

* Fixed not being able to target blocks when at x or z pos 1000

* Fixed the achievements screen messing up the sky color

* Fixed saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground

* Fixed a system clock change messing up the game speed

* Fixed rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled

* Fixed hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players

* Fixed the attack/swing animation not being applied to the armor layer

* Fixed player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game

* Fixed arrow physics, making them not get stuck midair when you open a door

* Fixed arrows hitting reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks

* Fixed keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions

* Fixed the player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti

* Fixed a bug where the player could mine without swinging their arm

* Fixed boats placed on snow being placed too far up

* Fixed submerged boats rising very very fast

* Fixed sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation

* Fixed a game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the nether

* Fixed falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider

* Fixed buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use

* Fixed dispensers shooting through walls

* Fixed fire hurting through wall corners

* Fixed entities reaching water through wall corners

* Fixed placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors

* Fixed buttons and levers being placeable on leaves in “fast graphics” mode

* Fixed furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed

* Fixed dispensers biasing later slots

* Fixed farmland taking too long to dig

* Fixed tilling below some blocks being possible

* Fixed tilling the underside of blocks somehow working

* Fixed fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible

* Fixed walking on top of fences not producing step sounds

* Fixed fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain

* Fixed fences and wooden stairs not being flammable

* Fixed fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location

* Fixed fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking

* Fixed fishing rods being stackable

* Fixed mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass

* Fixed rain falling through liquids

* Fixed items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly

* Fixed water interacting strangely with glass

* Fixed glass not blocking rain sound

* Fixed fences and signs preventing grass from growing

* Fixed rain and snow being incorrectly lit

* Fixed grass staying alive below stair blocks

* Fixed the achievement screen not pausing the game

* Fixed some screens breaking the sky tint color

* Fixed fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes

* Fixed chat messages surviving through game switches

* Fixed ice so it regenerates regardless of whether it’s snowing or not

* Fixed rain falling too slowly

* Fixed levers being placeable on weird locations

* Fixed floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards

* Fixed floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed

* Fixed rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbor

* Fixed minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities (sorry!)

* Fixed wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps

* Fixed creepers retaining charge level when they can’t see their target

* Fixed dying in the nether spawning new portals

* “Fixed” beds in the nether

* Fixed inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens

* Fixed wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes

* Fixed redstone repeaters having the wrong particles

* Fixed saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks

* Fixed ore density varying per quadrant from the center of the world

* Fixed dispenser graphics being one pixel off. ONE PIXEL!!!

* Fixed mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights

* Fixed animals only spawning near light during the night

* Fixed the multiplayer join screen input field being too short

* Fixed IPv6 addresses being parsed wrongly. To connect to a specific port in IPv6, use the format [1234:567::1]:25565

* Fixed network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent

* Fixed entity positions going out of synch sometimes. They get re-synched every 20 seconds now.

* Fixed inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer

* Fixed mushroom soup not leaving a bowl in multiplayer

* Fixed entities above the map height limit becoming invisible

* Fixed healing not flashing the health bar in multiplayer

* Fixed arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer

* Fixed arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer

* Fixed the compass not pointing at the spawn location in multiplayer

* Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer

* Fixed record players spawning client-side fake records in multiplayer

* Fixed records not playing for other players in multiplayer

* Fixed players spawning in the wrong location and quickly lerping to the correct location

* Fixed monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to peaceful

* Fixed pigs getting hit by lightning in multiplayer spawning client-side zombie pigmen

* Fixed loads of exploding tnt generating way too many particles, possibly crashing the client

* Fixed bonemeal use in multiplayer sometimes spawning fake client-side trees

* Fixed saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side in multiplayer

* Fixed weather sometimes changing client-side in multiplayer

* Fixed grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs

* Fixed stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling

 

 

Bug fixing is always good... as long as it doesn't create more bugs in the process. Curious if the tall grass is from that wildgrass mod... also no signs of Sky Dimension/Floating Islands? Guess they'll be in 1.7 then?

[Hocking]

Very nice list of fixes, pleased to see he's sought to resolve a lot of the bugs before pushing more new features again.

 

I am disappointed about adding rain sounds to fast graphics though. I've been switching to fast graphics when it rains to avoid the rain sound, it drives me absolutely bonkers. Guess I'll have to look at replacing the sound file within the .jar with white noise.

[Mal]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34788/Android_Minecraft_Coming_To_Xperia_Play_First.php

 

Well... -nothing-

 

Also, 1.6 looks pretty damn sweet. Biggest visual change since the addition of the awesome sunrise and sunset.

Edited May 25, 2011 by MaliciousH

[deanb]

 

This isn't a fan project or dodgy port a la the iPhone thing. This is what Mojang are working on in-house.

[Mal]

 

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................... speechless.

[Enervation]

The problem a lot of people claim with the YouTube player in a map is bandwidth usage, as well as Minecraft performance in general. Having an actual video playing inside the game doesn't work so well for both the bandwidth and the machine, and I think the creator of the mod stated himself that the videos he had demoing there were on his machine, and had the search function pointed to localhost to prevent too much bandwidth usage.

 

Interesting idea, but still needs some work. Watch as people Facebook from Minecraft.

 

Fuck.

[Hocking]

Watch as people Facebook from Minecraft.

 

Fuck.

 

[Mal]

So yeah, Minecraft on the 360 with Kinect.

 

They sure are spreading themselves far too thin. Solidify the core game before spreading like this. I really don't recall any update EVER that come out without a hitch. If they pull off updates without any major problems, then I would be fine with them expanding but in its current state? Fuck no.

[Hocking]

So yeah, Minecraft on the 360 with Kinect.

 

They sure are spreading themselves far too thin. Solidify the core game before spreading like this. I really don't recall any update EVER that come out without a hitch. If they pull off updates without any major problems, then I would be fine with them expanding but in its current state? Fuck no.

 

I would imagine it wont actually appear on the XBOX until the beta has come to an end in November though. The messy updates are part of the beta process.

[Mr. GOH!]

So who will be paying for it again on 360? Because I'd bet dollars to donuts that Notch breaks his "pay once for all versions" promise. He's laughing all the way to the bank, where he'll put your money in the account he's using to make a computer trading card game.

[deanb]

Heh, they changed the EULA when it changed to Alpha for "legal reasons" so that offer isn't on the cards anymore.

 

I don't get how it will run given 360 has 512MB shared RAM, n Minecraft on PC kinda likes having access to 1GB or more. Unless it's Creative?(even then...) Also how will it work with Kinect. MC on 360 kinda makes sense, MC for Kinect makes none at all.

 

 

Thing is MS fuck over indies. Very long history of it. So unsure how Mojang will cope partnering up with MS.

[deanb]

Obsidian = http://imgur.com/kJkhY

[deanb]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/07/minecraft-on-360-wont-be-a-straight-port-not-developed-by-mo/

 

Maybe explains why it was only announced and a small video, not actually shown off or anything.

[AgamemnonV2]

Heh, they changed the EULA when it changed to Alpha for "legal reasons" so that offer isn't on the cards anymore.

If he ever says that he'll be destroyed by his own community and the only thing he'll be remembered for afterward is, "That guy who made Minecraft and ripped everyone off."