Minecraft

1.2 will probably be out soonish I guess. Theres a snapshot every week which is a release of the updated minecraft jar. you just pop it in the minecraft bin folder and replace the one thats there already. Real easy.

Unfortunately Jeb said he won't be changing the world generation for the new map height (massive mountains etc.) You know it will happen someday though.

Woah, can't wait to see some pictures of that.

  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
  

this is all under-the-hood stuff except for max height, but it's big news. seems like they're getting their house in order for the mod API.

lucas botelho @LucasVBotelho

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@jeb_ any chance of adding lamps? i mean a light source that can be turned on and off instead of piston complex machine with glowstone

Jens Bergensten @jeb_

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@LucasVBotelho Yes, that will be included in tomorrow's snapshot

this excites me a lot for some sad reason. Hope they are actual lamps

Snap. I assume you can power them with redstone.

I hope giant mountain biomes make an appearance. And that the biome is actually very large like 1000 blocks long or something. And with snow peaks! Will feel like going on some mt everest expedition.

all animals are getting the new AI in the new snapshot too.

You should lose oxygen if you go up too high and run for too long. Kind of like the swimming meter.

It'd be a pain in the ass, but it'd make mountain climbing a challenge.

fuckin snow caves with wampas n shit way up in the mtns

Yetis?

If the height is going to be increase they should lower up the sea level as well. Like 128 instead of 64. And add new ores

I would let it stay at 64. Thing is with vast mountain areas there's going to be a lot more room for bigger underground places anyway.

I'd love to see vast mountain areas.

Yeah but then they have to invent a new gem that you can only find at very high heights and that allows you to craft items as powerful as diamond ones but in another way. Another way that would bring a new combat gameplay so that the pvp gets spicier.

I wanna be a game designer now

also this new gem would exist only on contact with air so that you can't hide yourself when collecting it. Then it would be a real challenge to get it if there's someone else around and you would better have to carry a knockback sword to get rid of enemies easily. blabla

I really like that:

watmm server down?

  On 2/15/2012 at 6:16 PM, theSun said:

watmm server down?

Kokoon is doing something for an hour or so.

ah cool

i have a very real moment of panic whenever i can't connect to the server.

IT'S GONE FOREVER

  On 2/15/2012 at 5:06 PM, o00o said:

I really like that:

 

is this official jungle?

yeh

Is it already or do we wait for it now? It almost looks like a trigger to get me going a bit again.

Jungles n shit are next update.

Whenever that is.

@gaarg

We'll most likely have to travel far on our map to find new chunks to generate Jungles. Not that I mind exploring.

I think we could go for another zoom map on tectonicus or whatever to find where we should be exploring.

the map won't generate jungles without koko applying a pretty simple hack that jeb has posted about.

I'm pretty sure Jeb said that a new map will have to be made for jungles to appear, unless you mod your map.

WTF KAINI

it's just changing one line in a text-based config file.

Oh yeah i wasn't disputing that, it's just we posted basically the same thing within 10 seconds of each other.

make it happen imo