1.7 Sneak Peek: Sunflowers, Falling Particles
One of the curiosities of Minecraft has always been compass directions. The in-game compass has not ever pointed north, but rather at the player's spawn point. Most people generally assumed that east and west was easily determined by the sun and moon rising and setting, but other things - like cloud movement - always added to the confusion. So, who has the answer?
The humble sunflower!
While many of the upcoming developments of 1.7 have been kept under wraps, Jeb revealed this delightful addition to the game, which is confirmed to always face east! Very nice!
Dinnerbone also gave us a brief look into an upcoming feature which will help with immersion - impact particles! Basically, if you fall more than a certain distance, then you will generate particles from the impact of whatever block you land on. Sweet!
Keep an ear to the ground, because there is a lot more coming up, and you don't want to miss it!
Emeralds were meant for Currency, NOT TOOLS. They are NEVER adding them
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This argument is STILL going on?!
It's not planted at the intersection of 4 blocks. there are 9 dirt blocks, and it's on the middle one.
Careful. I think even censored profanity via. asterisks is against the rules and could still end you up with an infraction.
I'd be willing to wait for a December release if this update ended up fulfilling all of my expectations, because the longer they work on it, the more work is likely to be put into it.
I can think of many ways that minecarts, for instance, are still useful in their own right, and I've already explained why in an older thread, so I'm just going to quote it from such:
Saddled pigs and speed potions though, are another story.
"(These features have not appeared in development versions but have been confirmed by Mojang employees)
Biome Changes/Improvements
Hey Fanatictekken, how about you stop complaining? When you bought the game, you knew what you were purchasing. Now updates are just a free gift that quite frankly, you don't deserve. You don't respect or understand that Mojang goes through to produce more content. If you honestly expect that much content, you should just download mods or shut the ferk up.
Believe it or not, the Minecraft community is actually pretty decent, for the most part. It's just that the minority of immature members are extremely vocal.
Agreed
As for the haters, I suggest you take your negativity elsewhere, this is a pro-minecraft forum. We are here because we love the game, despite it's flaws. There are probably a thousand things that could be improved, but the same could be said about any other game or material product for that matter. Asking stupid questions like "can I get a refund?' is not going to achieve anything other than show how ungrateful you are for all of the free updates you have received since you bought the game. When Notch was leading the Minecraft team, people hated on him. When Jeb took over, people hated on him too. Now that Dinnerbone is playing a bigger role, people hate on him too. The only reason for this is people assume that they could do a better job. Or they assume that the time could have been used in another area.
Majority of us love any addition to the game. Not everything in the game needs to have a defined purpose. Most of us are not selfish enough to expect the game to cater for our personal tastes. If you don't like any of the new additions, they have released this thing called a new launcher that lets you choose which version of the game you want to play, Try it. Stop your whining and get over yourself. The game is great and you know it. If you disagree, then move along and play something else.
I love Minecraft, no matter what they add to the game it stays awesome. I can't think of any addition that has ruined the game for me. Sure there are some things that were added that have no use to my particular play style, but I am happy with the knowledge that millions of other people will be able to use them.
In that case, roses and dandelions were bad ideas. Which they weren't.
The game is expanding into something new, yes, but these features are nice to many, many fans of the game. Don't like these changes? Well lucky you, they have added the new 'Time Machine' feature into the launcher. Go hang out in Alpha/Beta and enjoy all the bugs and missing features. I have played since Beta 1.2, and I love these new features.
I believe the reason behind that is the fact that the initial version is the update itself and the extra bit (.3/4/5/etc.) is reserved for the bugfix updates for that update, in case any problems occur after official release.
Really funny how you only respond to the posts you can respond to without looking like an idiot, and yet you still manage it. Just because they haven't shown us the stuff that it 'interesting' to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Also, I believe you're thinking of the wrong definition of pro.
EDIT: Why are 4J and Mojang so 'horrible'? I'd really love to know
EDIT: Nvm