Minecraft

  On 2/11/2012 at 7:54 AM, Franklin said:

i just got killed out in the open .. what's a defenceless noob post-reset spose to do?

redeem your extra life :D or go back to the WATMM server

omfg i forgot about my extra life!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOT

i tried hcsmp and i starved to death before my pvp protection even ran out. you must have to be eating all the time... and there are no animals anywhere except for wolves.

i found pigs.

there are a plenty of animals but sometimes they are just away from where you are. I think it's better to quit the spawn zone when the sun is just beginning to rise so that you have time to get far enough outdoor.

Hey stomach if you're around hop on. I found 2 adjacent dungeons. Spider and Zombie. Lets make a good xp farm out of it.

if you are lucky enough to get in when the map is new you'll find lots of animals near spawn, but if you aren't then you won't find any at all and will have to travel farther.

  On 2/12/2012 at 4:19 AM, taxman said:

i tried hcsmp and i starved to death before my pvp protection even ran out. you must have to be eating all the time... and there are no animals anywhere except for wolves.

Grow wheat, underground. They should have called it 'UndergroundFarmerSMP' instead of 'HardcoreSMP'.

man, they reset hcmp again this week? Thats about 4 times I've gotton myself sorted out and then had to go back to nothing.

I just spent 4 hours mining diamonds.

  On 2/12/2012 at 7:12 PM, couch said:

Hey stomach if you're around hop on. I found 2 adjacent dungeons. Spider and Zombie. Lets make a good xp farm out of it.

YES

did the server crap out?

Seems like it.

  On 2/12/2012 at 8:36 PM, couch said:

Seems like it.

workin

So we now have a relatively easy to get to xp farm that levels you up pretty damn quick. It has two dungeon spawners feeding it. A spider one and a zombie one. It's called DA POOP CHUTE(???). So go to the nether plaza and find it. When you get there stand up top on the corner of that glass room and let them spawn. Then when the chute seems overloaded go down and relieve it with a sword(diamond recommended, iron sword will break too soon). Just stand under the iron fence and attack from below. They can't hurt you from there. Then back up on the 1 block high ladders to retrieve the xp.

^ yes this is lovely

my next project is making an underground forest at bedrock... kind of a mini survival map, you'll start at one end and there wont be any lighting in the forest. You need to find the safehouse in the forest without dying - remember there's a thick mist at that depth, so you won't know what's creeping about (see what I just did?). Hope to have it done in a week or so maybe

Woah that sounds cool with the void fog. How clever. You should use black wool to line the walls and ceiling. Talk about disorienting.

yeah it'll be terrifying

Feel free to borrow my golden record. It sounds pretty frightening.

is it the creeper/skele one?

I'm not sure, I found it in a dungeon a long time ago. It's in the temple right now.

qual

Minecraft PE now features survival mode:

http://mashable.com/2012/02/13/minecraft-pocket-edition/#484311-Survival-Mode

Hello!

Jon and I have been working on a new map format for Minecraft that we’ve dubbed “Anvil” (it’s just a name). The purpose of the new format is to prepare for modding, especially to allow for more block types, but also to improve other areas of the game (such as map height). The changes are:

• Maximum build height has been increased to 256 (was 128)
  
• Empty sections of the world are not loaded into memory
  
• Block ids have been increased to 4096 (was 256) by adding a 4 bit data layer (similar to how meta data is stored)
  
• Block ordering have been changed from x/z/y to y/z/x in order to improve compression
  
• Packets for sending chunks have been updated (a full 128-high chunk is smaller than the old format, and a chunk with lots of empty space is much smaller)
  
• Biomes are saved per x/z column, which means they can be altered by tools
  

The next snapshot, and Minecraft 1.2, will automatically convert worlds to the new format. The files of the current format (“McRegion”) will remain in your save folder, if you need to restore them for some reason.

I’ve prepared a converter (with source code) for tool makers that wants to be prepared. You do not need to use this to convert your maps! It’s only for reference!

Added the new world format to the svn trunk... Will be in next snapshot! Also, snapshot will probably be tomorrow, not Thursday.

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:09 PM, Pennywise said:

Hello!

Jon and I have been working on a new map format for Minecraft that we’ve dubbed “Anvil” (it’s just a name). The purpose of the new format is to prepare for modding, especially to allow for more block types, but also to improve other areas of the game (such as map height). The changes are:

• Maximum build height has been increased to 256 (was 128)
  
• Empty sections of the world are not loaded into memory
  
• Block ids have been increased to 4096 (was 256) by adding a 4 bit data layer (similar to how meta data is stored)
  
• Block ordering have been changed from x/z/y to y/z/x in order to improve compression
  
• Packets for sending chunks have been updated (a full 128-high chunk is smaller than the old format, and a chunk with lots of empty space is much smaller)
  
• Biomes are saved per x/z column, which means they can be altered by tools
  

The next snapshot, and Minecraft 1.2, will automatically convert worlds to the new format. The files of the current format (“McRegion”) will remain in your save folder, if you need to restore them for some reason.

I’ve prepared a converter (with source code) for tool makers that wants to be prepared. You do not need to use this to convert your maps! It’s only for reference!

 

Added the new world format to the svn trunk... Will be in next snapshot! Also, snapshot will probably be tomorrow, not Thursday.

when is this going to be released?

SKYLANDS