Testificates - New and Improved?
Jeb has been working hard on Testificates as of late, no doubt implementing some of the long-awaited features players have eagerly anticipated from them - including trading! The image above shows an example of the system he is currently working on, indicating that a barter system involving a form of currency is on the horizon. Finally, Testificates will do more than meander into your towns, panicking at the sight of creepers! Although that can be humorous in and of itself.
Showing a more humorous side, Jeb demonstrates his own personal method of something many players engage in with the often aimless villagers - experimentation!
Make of that what you will - no doubt they are being sized up for new shoes and fabulous prizes!
"You Are Minecraft" Finishes Off With Approximately 90,000 Player Models!
The massive player-driven You Are Minecraft project recently came to a close, with approximately ninety thousand player models, all constructed by players themselves! A number of notable personalities took part, including team members from Mojang (Jeb's model in particular is quite a looker). All said, the project was an incredible success, bringing in players from across the globe and uniting them in a single goal - make your player avatar in Minecraft! While model building is now closed, the "You Are Minecraft" team are not done - they wish to deliver this incredible project to Mojang in person! Want to help them do so? Click this link to see how you can help them bring this amazing project directly to Mojang themselves!
Custom Skins on MCX360?
While the XBLA version of Minecraft is, in many respects, very similar to Beta 1.6.5, a number of features were brought forth a little ahead of schedule, just to make the game that much better. Of course, more updates are on the way as they bring it up to speed with the PC version, and likely some gems designed specifically for the console. One thing that has come up a lot since launch is custom skins, and players will be pleased to know that they are not far off! Currently it is believed that the skins will be DLC for the game, although the specifics are not currently known at this time. Bear in mind, this can change between now and the release of skin customization, so keep an eye out here as we gather more information!
looks like a furnace from the top.
In the background. As the pathsin the village.Look closely. It looks like it hsould be gravel but it looks different
In the first picture however, I do see the shiny ore. But jeb said and I quote "I'm not adding any new ores because I can" It doesnt look like redstone, if you look closely it has more shinyness to it.
THIS!!! Holy cow. Also, people are screaming RUBIES!!! just like people on the internet always scream BOOBIES!!! any time there are any visible. For goodness' sake, they'll probably just be currency and maybe something for enchanting, but not much more (NO ARMOR OR TOOLS PLEASE!). Not that exciting. Cool, though. Also, Crafting material for crown?
That would be epic. Half my recent posts are asking for that.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1241755-better-villages-mod/page__p__15135275#entry15135275
Though if it is rubies I atleast hope other than possible currency(although the "rubies/currency" doesn't look like a ruby too much, kinda, but I don't think so.) you can use them for jewelery as enchanted and apply it to chest armor or let it take the place of chest armor. I hate how the armor covers the full skin so the rubies as jewelery would let you see your skin and with the proper enchantment make it almost equal to chest armor? <---- I like this idea alot!
But I hope there will be more than just trading on interaction!!! Other than that, I'm not too excited on the rubies/currency.(It'd be nice to see villagers mining though... I don't know if Notch would be able to do it though...)
Also... what's with the ruby? Is that going to be a new gem, and are you able to make tools and weapons with it rather than just trade items by using it?
So we can finally have an actual reason to mine it!
Jeb hasn't added anything yet. That's just experimental ideas. For all we know, we'll trade cow poop and chicken beaks.
also ruby's my birth stone, based on July!
It'd be nice if he added all the birthstones and made it so we could make them into blocks! BIRTHDAY STONE HOUSE WOOT
or a rainbow gem castle! tho I donno if you can craft the rubies into blocks like you do with Diamonds and the like.
Unless redstone has a retexture? Everyone jumps on the relatively normal-looking gravel in one of the images and yet insists that the ore block is new >.> These releases always make people set a speed record for jumping to conclusions xD
Either way, I love most of the ideas that have been bandered around here, rubies would be something else to mine for, redstone coins would allow people to have a use for the masses of redstone they gather unless they're a REALLY avid redstone user and the inclusion of changes to villages (in new biomes for example) and villagers (nice beard pops) would make the Testificates more varied and more fun.
Just to be hypocritical and hazard a guess of my own: What if the changes to the villager appearances are something to do with the trade system? Such as Villagers actually having 'active' job roles such as, say, trader of food stuffs (farmer), trader of iron etc (Smithy)...I'd say that it would have at least been considered at some point.
Still, very excited about this update =D
... Or you could just sell the testificates a lot of crap that you don't need.