Notch just dropped a bombshell on Twitter: patch 1.6 will be coming to the Minecraft beta next week. While it's probably taken a little longer than originally planned, it's for a good reason. The patch was primarily a bug-fix update that would include only one new feature: an awesome in-game map system.
Then a few weeks ago Notch updated the timetable for the patch release as "not soon" because he wanted to do something else: add a fully functional Nether to multiplayer.
So we know that maps are coming, as is a working Nether, and there are a lot of bugs squashed to boot. What are you looking forward to most in the patch?
Hello, something that I mistoke and written in one of my supply room „Gold, Silver, Diamond“ so... I mistooke Iron for silver so maybe you could add Silver in the game, I think it's common in the real world and it's cool and also magnets, always the magnets!
I've been waiting so long for the Nether in SMP! On my 4-person server, we have giant castles, a cathedral, a 40-block snowman, and more, and I'm planning on being the first to build a nether base on my server.
I've got to admit I'd be glad if the update's "not soon" - it feels like I JUST got my server and its plugins working again after the last update. Man, maps and weather and bugfixes are great, but mod support should really be the priority, not many people use a completely vanilla server even if it's just grief protection or minor things, and with bukkit plugins the nether already works in multiplayer nearly the same as singleplayer. I heard that bukkit was planned to become the default server software - I really hope that's true.
HAHA! maps! Although minimaps are more useful, I'm definitely excited for this patch! Using a map would be awesome! It seems more minecraft-ish. Minimaps sometimes takes out the challenge of Minecraft, cause it also shows mobs close by, so that you never get surprised, by...say... a creeper creeping out at you!
:ohmy.gif: I can't wait until this update comes out. I've been having trouble with Multi-Verse in my Bukkit server, now I can get it right! But the thing is, I got it to work a couple of times, and I build cool stuff in the nether. Will the new Nether be in a new folder or will the new nether be combined with the original world? I hope the nether comes in a new folder...
definitely nether smp for me. just got set up on my friends server, and I just got another friend addicted to MC, so I cant wait to go on a ghast hunt with my friends!
I'm looking forward to the 12-20 some bug fixes Notch happened to fix in his spare time, it seems he's so busy lately with so much other stuff, whether it be leisure or business.
Agree on that. I just managed to get my plugins to work on the server... Damn!