The update is out, and I guess the biggest feature is Sneaking. Press (and hold, for now) shift to move slower. You won’t make sounds, and you won’t crush plants, and you won’t fall off ledges.
The big feature was supposed to be biomes. Again. And again I had to abort and rollback the code to get a release out. Again.
I must stop trying to do it in a single sitting. Now I’ve spent almost two full days on it! I won’t work on it again until I can dedicate an entire week towards it.
The main problem is that the transition between different biomes looks horrible. It’s either a chaotic wasteland of random blocks, or a sharp border of sudden ice. Actually generating the biomes themselves is interesting, and I can reuse a lot of the ideas from indev with the different level types. The floating island biome is kind of slow to generate, because it adds a second pass to fix waterfalls along all the edges.
The hell biome will be used for an alternate fast travel dimension. Have you read Wheel of Time? That.
There are a couple of other new things hidden in this release, but nothing game changing.
So it's confirmed - Notch hates the idea of teleporters (earlier tweet), but he's gonna make a Hell biome and use it to get around the world faster - how awesome is that?! Now we won't be confined to only building close to the spawn - now we can build a week's walk away from spawn without any problem!!
Floating island biome? Hell biome? Ice biome? Damn, this is gonna be AMAZING!!
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Well this is just me but... Water moats are so wet and dirty and annoying.... Real men make moats of liquid hellfire forged in the bowels of the earth and torn from the teat of the unholy adminium. Real MANLY Men create a LAVAFALL of death.
The update is out, and I guess the biggest feature is Sneaking. Press (and hold, for now) shift to move slower. You won’t make sounds, and you won’t crush plants, and you won’t fall off ledges.
The big feature was supposed to be biomes. Again. And again I had to abort and rollback the code to get a release out. Again.
I must stop trying to do it in a single sitting. Now I’ve spent almost two full days on it! I won’t work on it again until I can dedicate an entire week towards it.
The main problem is that the transition between different biomes looks horrible. It’s either a chaotic wasteland of random blocks, or a sharp border of sudden ice. Actually generating the biomes themselves is interesting, and I can reuse a lot of the ideas from indev with the different level types. The floating island biome is kind of slow to generate, because it adds a second pass to fix waterfalls along all the edges.
The hell biome will be used for an alternate fast travel dimension. Have you read Wheel of Time? That.
There are a couple of other new things hidden in this release, but nothing game changing.
So it's confirmed - Notch hates the idea of teleporters (earlier tweet), but he's gonna make a Hell biome and use it to get around the world faster - how awesome is that?! Now we won't be confined to only building close to the spawn - now we can build a week's walk away from spawn without any problem!!
Floating island biome? Hell biome? Ice biome? Damn, this is gonna be AMAZING!!
Maybe even... Monster City Biomes?
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Well this is just me but... Water moats are so wet and dirty and annoying.... Real men make moats of liquid hellfire forged in the bowels of the earth and torn from the teat of the unholy adminium. Real MANLY Men create a LAVAFALL of death.
I agree this hell biome doesn't make any sense at all and it's tangential to the conventional biome idea. The normal one is to at least have the world change between snowy and summer, and with decently sized chunks so you have to walk for a few days to change the climate. This has nothing to do with some other plane of existence where you can somehow travel faster.
I think it would be more in spirit with minecraft to just create an airship which travels at a decent clip, but is super fragile (like 2-3 arrow hits and its gone) and expensive. That or fix boosters and replace with fast powered minecarts.
Skills. For more exact answer, I simply screenshotted the text, removed background and saved it as a .png. Although after noticing that you can only have 100 pixel high pictures in your sig I chopped the picture down in to 3 pictures. Simple.
EDIT: I noticed it's not perfect, will fix.
...Clever girl. Why didn't I think of that? :biggrin.gif:
Love the ideas that he has about biomes, it's going to be so awesome!
I turned on snow on my server for a while, only to turn it off again the next day, then generated a carto map and noticed how cool it looks there. Around the edges the snow is just scattered around, I think it looks awesome.
It made me want this happening normally, and from what I understand, biomes are supposed to be something like this, just look more normal. Right?
The Wheel of Time is a book series written by Robert Jordan (who is now dead) with the last few books in the series being written by Brandon Sanderson. The basic concept for wheel of time is that time is cyclical. That is to say it repeats it's self over and over reusing the same souls over and over.
I would explain the magic and etc better but the series is extremely long and intricate. They are amazing books though so get off your **** and read them.
So it's confirmed - Notch hates the idea of teleporters (earlier tweet), but he's gonna make a Hell biome and use it to get around the world faster - how awesome is that?! Now we won't be confined to only building close to the spawn - now we can build a week's walk away from spawn without any problem!!
Floating island biome? Hell biome? Ice biome? Damn, this is gonna be AMAZING!!
Maybe even... Monster City Biomes?
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I agree this hell biome doesn't make any sense at all and it's tangential to the conventional biome idea. The normal one is to at least have the world change between snowy and summer, and with decently sized chunks so you have to walk for a few days to change the climate. This has nothing to do with some other plane of existence where you can somehow travel faster.
I think it would be more in spirit with minecraft to just create an airship which travels at a decent clip, but is super fragile (like 2-3 arrow hits and its gone) and expensive. That or fix boosters and replace with fast powered minecarts.
HOW. How did you do that?!
...Clever girl. Why didn't I think of that? :biggrin.gif:
I turned on snow on my server for a while, only to turn it off again the next day, then generated a carto map and noticed how cool it looks there. Around the edges the snow is just scattered around, I think it looks awesome.
It made me want this happening normally, and from what I understand, biomes are supposed to be something like this, just look more normal. Right?
http://axel.muninn.is/world.png
It's from Jurassic park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time
All I did was google for wheel of time and that was the very first result, amazing isn't it?
Oh, I'm not disappointed.
(jk)
Correct, Sir. You get a cookie.
I would explain the magic and etc better but the series is extremely long and intricate. They are amazing books though so get off your **** and read them.