Maybe it's a coin to use in Adventure mode? There might be shops and whatnot, and obviously coins would be used to buy stuff. It does look like the edge of a golden apple though, so it could just be that.
EDIT: @Xaiier: Dropped items have the same angle no matter what direction you look at them from. Think of the trees in Super Mario 64 if you don't know what I mean.
Maybe it's a coin to use in Adventure mode? There might be shops and whatnot, and obviously coins would be used to buy stuff. It does look like the edge of a golden apple though, so it could just be that.
EDIT: @Xaiier: Dropped items have the same angle no matter what direction you look at them from. Think of the trees in Super Mario 64 if you don't know what I mean.
Anyways, that still doesn't prove it because it is ONE picture and there are HUNDREDS of possible looks a golden apple could have in this case. Also, differences in screen quality between that guy and Notch add a few zillion more.
We need to stop overanalyzing it and just realizing that it is what it looks MOST like.
I think it's an artifact from the program he used to resize/crop/whatever the image. Like he had that color selected and the "10 pixel circle" tool and accidentally clicked on the image.
No... -facepalm- Not the color! Look at the pixel shading. The mysterious object is different than the other! NOT THE COLOR.
Right. It's exactly the same outline, and exactly the same shading pattern, only with fewer steps in the gradient. When rendering an object at a distance and in a lower light level, colors that are very close in the original bitmap could be rendered as the same shaded color, eliminating some of the detail of the shading in the original.
This seems like the most logical explanation. It seems more logical than "There's a new item that looks exactly like a Golden Apple except with slightly fewer shading details." I don't think it can be literally proven either way unless Notch explains what it is, or 1.7 is released and there's a new item that looks just like a golden apple only slightly different. So in the absence of complete knowledge, I'll go with what's more probable.
Shows how it is nearly identical to a golden apple. Modulo slight modification due to the precise render distance and lighting algorithm, it's a golden apple. I can believe that it isn't a golden apple, but I cannot believe that golden apple is excluded as the most likely possibility.
Wait, you actually realize that the bit you can see is 18 pixels high, and still don't realize that that means it is not going to be able to be matched up by shape to any item?
Any image is 16x16, minus any unused bits. The shape is therefore distorted by the resolution at which the image was captured.
That said, the bit we can see looks to be 5 wide by 12 high when adjusted for the scaling, and the shape in fact does not match any rounded object in the game, as it isn't rounded enough.
It isn't a light source, as the image is from a lighting demo and it isn't lit up.
It has only the simplest of shading, bright center darkening toward the edge. The images used for existing objects include a shadowing toward the lower right that isn't there.
The image was described as having a mistake in it.
There's no way to tell what it is. Wait and see, it might be nothing by the time it gets to us.
How 'bout, it isn't a new item or block. Its a particle emitted by something the emits particles, old or new. It pixel structure doesn't match anything in the items category.
a new particle, that means something new which emits it(possibly). now we can guess what emits it!
The pictures are the exact same save for the item. Looking at the second picture, the spot that the item was seems to be unobscured, meaning that the item was most likely photoshopped in, not out, as a hint.
I'd also like ot add the second picture is of MUCH lower quality than the first.
EDIT: @Xaiier: Dropped items have the same angle no matter what direction you look at them from. Think of the trees in Super Mario 64 if you don't know what I mean.
You seem to have missed page 6.
Not from above or below!
Oh, derp.
Anyways, that still doesn't prove it because it is ONE picture and there are HUNDREDS of possible looks a golden apple could have in this case. Also, differences in screen quality between that guy and Notch add a few zillion more.
We need to stop overanalyzing it and just realizing that it is what it looks MOST like.
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FOV dude. Stuff at the edge of the screen is stretched out.
Right. It's exactly the same outline, and exactly the same shading pattern, only with fewer steps in the gradient. When rendering an object at a distance and in a lower light level, colors that are very close in the original bitmap could be rendered as the same shaded color, eliminating some of the detail of the shading in the original.
This seems like the most logical explanation. It seems more logical than "There's a new item that looks exactly like a Golden Apple except with slightly fewer shading details." I don't think it can be literally proven either way unless Notch explains what it is, or 1.7 is released and there's a new item that looks just like a golden apple only slightly different. So in the absence of complete knowledge, I'll go with what's more probable.
Most likely, it's a golden apple.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/374762-new-item/page__view__findpost__p__5358325
Shows how it is nearly identical to a golden apple. Modulo slight modification due to the precise render distance and lighting algorithm, it's a golden apple. I can believe that it isn't a golden apple, but I cannot believe that golden apple is excluded as the most likely possibility.
... WAIT! Herobrine? Oh great, everybody run away.
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Any image is 16x16, minus any unused bits. The shape is therefore distorted by the resolution at which the image was captured.
That said, the bit we can see looks to be 5 wide by 12 high when adjusted for the scaling, and the shape in fact does not match any rounded object in the game, as it isn't rounded enough.
It isn't a light source, as the image is from a lighting demo and it isn't lit up.
It has only the simplest of shading, bright center darkening toward the edge. The images used for existing objects include a shadowing toward the lower right that isn't there.
The image was described as having a mistake in it.
There's no way to tell what it is. Wait and see, it might be nothing by the time it gets to us.
a new particle, that means something new which emits it(possibly). now we can guess what emits it!
You know, there's the distance to look at as well. It looks like the side of a golden apple.
"Like with jetpacks?"
Reported
Wtf? Reported for being right?
First the one with the item: http://i.imgur.com/NASp1.png
Then the one without: http://i.imgur.com/mbVwX.jpg
The pictures are the exact same save for the item. Looking at the second picture, the spot that the item was seems to be unobscured, meaning that the item was most likely photoshopped in, not out, as a hint.
I'd also like ot add the second picture is of MUCH lower quality than the first.