Are you ready? Really? You're really ready? Okay, here we go: THE 1.7 (pre-release) IS READY FOR TESTING!
There are so many things coming in 1.7, I almost can't keep track of them all. Many of them are things we have covered over the last few weeks, but the sheer volume of awesome contained in this update is staggering. Between doubling the amount of biomes in the game, and tons of changes to get ready for the Plugin API(!!!), this really is the update that changed the world - both in-game, and out. Let's see what's coming!
- New world generation!
- Double the amount of biomes, with new trees/flowers/blocks.
- New “Amplified” world option.
- Less ocean, more awesome.
- New blocks!
- Two new types of wood.
- Stained glass! With both blocks and panes.
- Packed ice, red sand, podzol.
- Lots of new flowers, including double-tall versions of current plants.
- Fishing!
- Added more type of fish.
- Redone the fishing mechanics. Can now catch junk and treasure too.
- Fishing rod enchantments!
- Maps!
- Put them in an item frame and hang them on your wall. They’re extra big!
- Lots of new colours for lots of blocks!
- Now will less lag!
- Achievement & Statistics overhaul!
- Now both world (or server) specific.
- In multiplayer, it’s announced to everybody when you get an achievement.
- You can move your mouse over this in the chat to see what it was!
- Some new achievements and statistic types were added.
- Zoomable achievements screen!
- Multiplayer enhancements!
- Servers can now put a 32×32 image called “server-icon.png” in their folder, that you will see on your server list.
- You can see who’s online before joining a server; move your mouse over the player count!
- Lots of hidden preparation for allowing name changes.
- Resource pack changes!
- You can now have multiple selected.
- They can completely re-do your sounds, adding new ones or changing current ones.
- Servers can now recommend a resource pack for you to use.
- Chat & command improvements!
- New commands to spawn mobs or blocks of any type.
- Command block minecart!
- Clickable links to achievements and items.
- Click on somebody’s name in the chat to message them!
- Lots and lots of internal work!
- Completely rewrote how the network (multiplayer) works.
- Completely rewrote the sound manager.
- New graphics options.
- Basic shader support testing.
You can play the pre-release as you would any Snapshot, by setting it up in your launcher. Enjoy!
SERVER FILES:
Server jar: Click here
(On windows, right click -> open with -> java)
REPORT BUGS:
Minecraft issue tracker
Amplified: well MC runs terribly right now so lets make a mode that requires a super-computer! Pretty bad when your PC gets better FPS in BF3 than it does a voxel based game.
Less ocean: hardly ever found any anyway.
New wood colors,stained glass,and new flowers!: Seriously? New flowers? How about a quarry? stained glass and new wood types, totally not a ripoff of BOP and galacticraft or anything.
Fishing: really just really............ Try adding some actual features........ Anybody remember the days of when they added things like pistons? Yea well now they add flowers and wood colors.
Maps less lag: meaning the same or more right? last time I heard that it got worse.
Server-wide achievements: words can't even........ I really don't care about those and I know no one who actually does. So now the servers get to be spammed with them!
Resource packs: for the love of god. just do the "plugin api" already. you know the one thats been promised since 1.0? that a lighting rewrite so the game might actually run well without a 150$ dedicated card and a 4 core cpu,8gb ram.
Built in shaders: No. not just no but HELL NO. I mean you need a 250$ video card, a monster cpu and at least 8gb of ram to run the game with 10 mods............ gg mojang. Lets make it run worse now!
I am looking forward to the rewrote sound and networking because they were terrible.
Sorry about the caps but I'm seriously looking forward to 1.7
Now oceans generate gravel bottom. It would be way better if they replace gravel with sand, which has more uses.
What if it's just your systems you're playing on? >_>.. I see little to no lag at all when I play. Instead of just complaining about what they do, why don't you try to fix your end first?
lol yea man. Did you not read the part of specs? The servers run on a server grade Xeon cpu that is 3.4ghz with plenty of ram. And my system is no push over, A GTX 760,8GB DDR3,FX 8320. Another of friends is rocking a 680 and he gets no better fps than me. Its honestly pathetic and not my end.
@EzerArch, I agree completely with you
Many snapshot features are only half done, and there are still many bugs and discrepancies that have not been fixed.
Biomes still are a bit out of balance, the sound event system needs more features (such as the ability to set random pitch range and be able to have a non-random pitch) and needs to have a system to add in when events are actually called (and how they are called, like single, ambient loop, etc). Other issues from recent snapshots like fog color changing depending on light level, complete abyss underwater in a river, and adding backface culling to water (so being underwater is like a waterworld because the top cannot be seen) have still not been fixed, either.
This is seriously NOT ready for 1.7 unless they're going to amend it very quickly with 1.7.1.....
I'm also lovin' the new flowers. So pretty! Honestly I never cared for the rose.
(Don't read if you don't want to know!)
Somebody doesn't appreciate all the HARD WORK AND SWEAT MOJANG HAS PUT INTO THIS UPDATE!!!!!!!!
How about instead of being a jerk to Mojang, you appreciate what Mojang has given you.
Go mojang go! Do it!
Also Pugin, don't mind cindy44lo, he's just being stupid...
Yeaaaaaaaah I can agree with you on that one.