The rendering and lighting engine rework is nothing to be sad about. It will actually increase performance for some and get rid of those annoying random black shadows.
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To all of you people who think Notch is still working on the game, he stopped working on Minecraft in late 2011. Get your facts straight and stop spamming his twitter about Minecraft updates.
I really want mod API & more in the ocean biome.
But I think they are redoing the rendering engine and lighting engine.