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Minecraft News - Bukkit Site Changes, Minecraft in BAFTA & More

Posted in: News by Sacheverell, 13 February 2012 - 10:09 PM

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Should Minecraft Win the BAFTA Game Award for 2011?

The British Academy Video Games Awards have listed a number of hot 2011 titles (including LA Noire, Skyrim, Portal 2 and others) - included on this list is, of course, our favorite sandbox building game! Do you think Minecraft should beat out other, larger triple-A titles? If so, head on over here and make your voice heard - vote for Minecraft today! BAFTA will have a livestream of the awards ceremony on March 16th, so regardless of what title you vote for, feel free to give the ceremony a watch.

Pocket Edition Updates

Recently, Minecraft - Pocket Edition saw a major update, which included Survival elements, new blocks, monsters and more! While the Android version of the game is already updated (simply by starting up your game, if you haven't already), the iOS version update is still pending. It is expected to arrive in the very near future. In the meantime, you can check out the full list of updates, or view a list of the added features below:

New Game Modes
Creative (All worlds created before alpha 0.2.0 will be in creative)
You can fly. (Press the jump button twice) Press up or down arrows twice to ascend/descend.
Survival
There is no crafting yet
Caves have been worked on a little. (zombies get stuck in caves)
Some materials (Tools and anything that can not be naturally acquired) are in infinite stacks which is indicated by ∞ (infinity) symbols.
When an item you have 0 of is selected your fist is shown.
Added Hitpoints Bar same as computer version (health will slowly regenerate, similar to peaceful difficulty in the computer version).
Added Air Bar when under water (you can now drown and die)
Added Death with options to respawn or go to main menu.
Sand and Gravel still aren't affected by gravity.
Mobs
Sheep
Zombie
New items
Stone Shovel
Stone Pickaxe
Stone Axe
Stone Sword
Shears
Doors
Fences
Fence Gates
Cactus
Gravel

Bukkit Site Changes

Have you ever wished that the Bukkit site was a bit more user-friendly for downloads? Was the old interface counter-intuitive and difficult to understand? The Bukkit team seems to feel the same way, and has now updated their site to a more streamlined, user-friendly layout! Bukkit developer EvilSeph summarized the changes:

EvilSeph, Bukkit said:

On the surface, dl.bukkit.org, presents you with a landing page that gives you precisely what the average user of our product or prospective users of our product want: a link to the latest download and some helpful links in an attractive design. When designing the landing page, we wanted to appeal to the consumer, rather than the developer. We wanted to provide consumers with a clear indication of where they need to go to get the latest download link and feel we have achieved that with inspiration from Mozilla's Get Firefox page. On top of this, we wanted to provide users with obvious links to answer their most pressing questions so that no one feels lost when trying to get started with Bukkit.

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#1

RicochetOrange

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 01:10 AM

No Bastion? What?

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 02:10 AM

As Much as I love Minecraft. I would have to say Skyrim. Hands Down.
FUS ROH DAH!
Hope Fully those 12 year old cod players arn't going to vote.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 02:59 AM

I hate how it always goes to age with older gamers. I'm 11 and I love minecraft but if there are alot of 12 year olds or younger who like Minecraft the most its there choice. I could simply say the exact same but instead change it with Portal 2. Just because Im bored I shall!
I hope there aren't enough 16-year old, die-hard fanboys that vote so Portal 2 wins;. It's a good game, but there are so many games that are so much more enjoyable. Minecraft bought so much uniqueness to a game that it gets my vote.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 03:09 AM

I'm not voting for anything this year. I simply can't. I love MC, and Skyrim, I haven'y played portal 2 so I can't vote against it TBH.

I'm 20 BTW for all "12 year old fan-boy" remarks. >.>

Anyways... I love Skyrim - but it was so buggy it almost became un-enjoyable. As for Minecraft, its hella addicting... But it gets boring fast. Is it odd I enjoy people playing custom maps rather then playing it about 40% of the time? Perhaps its jsut the people recording it that make it fun.

Anyways, best of luck to all the games out there!

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 04:22 AM

Minecraft got a vote from me

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 04:33 AM

No Minecraft shouldn't win. Its a bad message letting a game win after a 3 year development cycle for a game that has 16bit graphics.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 04:53 AM

Totally got my vote, not gonna be one of those "bananas" who say they voted for Skyrim and Portal 2. Minecraft deserves this, even if it IS 16 bit.

Miner L. Esq.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 05:24 AM

sorry, skyrim got my vote

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 06:04 AM

Note: I'm 19.
I have to be honest here, but I'm confused as to why FIFA is on here? I guess it's on there due to 3rd world countries. Anyhow, I'm debating here. Either Minecraft or Skyrim will get my vote. Skyrim has a HUGE amount of content and quests and special items. But Minecraft allows you to make anything you want, and the modding community, at the moment, is probably the best I've seen. When I look at a game my favorite part about it is the customization. Minecraft is unlimited in how you can customize your world whereas Skyrim has some limits. For example, you cannot enchant certain items with certain enchantments. Even though Skyrim has it's limits I still feel like I have unlimited options. Plus Skyrim makes me feel like a total badass, which is what separates it from Minecraft. It's very close for me, but I have to vote Skyrim. Why? Items. Skyrim has a bigger amount of unique items that Minecraft cannot compare to. Weapons like the Wabbajack, Nightingale items, Spell Breaker, etc. On top of that are all the powers, shouts, spells, and abilities that your character can use/have. So it all came down to combat and items in all reality. Customization was even between the two. I won't mind if Minecraft wins, but my vote belongs to Skyrim.
BTW, if you read this all, here's a :Diamond:

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 06:16 AM

I voted  <pre>MMMM
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:Diamond:

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 06:52 AM

Voted for BF3, but minecraft was second choice. New bukkit site is looking nice!

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 07:06 AM

Sorry, but I really don't think Minecraft will get close at all. I voted for Skyrim.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:11 AM

If Skyrim wins GOTY again, I'm gonna flip some tables >.>
It was good but it wasn't THAT good!

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:31 AM

Urgh. I'm between portal 2 and minecraft.. No.. Seriously, i'm not going to vote for skyrim. Yeah, yeah it is freakin great game. But too over-rated in awards and stuff