Notch isn't adding eggs for all the animals, he was just joking. End of story.
I don't understand how the topic got 3 pages long on something that isn't happening. Especially when half the posts are pointing out that it was a joke (and even directly quoting Notch)... really... learn to read. Eggs are NOT for all the animals, it was a JOKE.
I think animal eggs would be a fun alternative. That's how it works in pokémon. You bring two pokémon of opposite genders (or a ditto and anything else that can breed) with at least one egg group in common to the daycare and leave 'em in. Wander around and come back, and you get an egg. Walk around with it for a while and you get a baby pokémon.
In Minecraft, it could work much the same way. Get two mobs of the same species into a "mating mode" (Notch already has this, it would seem). Once they've mated, they'd drop an egg. You'd either put it in something like a furnace (used as an incubator in this case) or carry it for a while. Eventually, it'd go away and nearby wherever it was stored is a new mob.
It's a fun idea. Minecraft is a fun game that's meant to be a little quirky. I don't see the harm in this.
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Yeah I completely agree! In Minecraft EVERYTHING must be realistic! That's the most important thing! If Notch doesn't get going and fix the terrible square moon, 3 legged exploding creatures, magical "nether" world, rivers that you can store in a bucket, and the myriad other STUPID 5 YEAR OLD IDEAS in this game I'm going to QUIT!
Or maybe it's just a fun game that is so far from realistic that animals all coming from eggs is the least of the oddities.
To be fair, all pigs and cows are female. It would be weird seeing a cow walk up to another, a pink stick go up its butt, a ton of mooing, then 18-21 months alter a blocky cow pops out of a hole.
To be fair, all pigs and cows are female. It would be weird seeing a cow walk up to another, a pink stick go up its butt, a ton of mooing, then 18-21 months alter a blocky cow pops out of a hole.
But unfortunately, some people will insist on saying anything just to disagree with what seems logical. It's not that they want to see a blocky stick being inserted into the animals, they just want to disagree with someone.
I actually like this idea a lot. This would give us a way to store animals until we needed them, rather than have too many animals crowd up a pasture.
It simply would make it easier to have animal farms. No having to travel several biomes away and then figure out how in hell's name you're going to get that cow, sheep, or pig back to your base so that you can breed it for food or meat. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't have a few of every animal anywhere near my spawn point. I have several sheep, most of which are stupid bastards trapped in a naturally formed pool just outside my house. XD
OK I would first like to state that I am NOT one of the common whiners on here. I have been very accepting of all the changes that have come to Minecraft. I like the Endermen, I sort a like the villagers (though they could do with a nose job. <.< ), I like the nether dungeons, the ravines, the new biomes (though the swamp needs a bit of tweaking with its boarders), I love the mine shafts, and the food bar (and anything else I may have missed). I welcome it all into Minecraft as if it were a part of the game from the beginning.
But animal eggs? Come on, that has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard any one say EVER its like the thought process of a five year old came up with that idea. I mean, what the hell? I among many others are/were looking forward to animal breeding, the type that actually happens in real life; Not this abomination of a lazy excuse.
It- it's beyond stupid! Why would such an idea ever exist? What are you on Notch? You're screwing over your fan base one person at a time.
I know that it's a beta, and that there is a lot of testing going on, but if this is integrated into the game, and becomes a permanent feature I'll be staying in 1.8
My mind has been blown 10 fold from the stupidity escaping Notches mouth. Hell I don't even see him as the developer of this game anymore.
Don't like my opinion? Tough.
GAH there is no other way for me to explain that animal egg thing in any other way other then calling it out right as a stupid idea.
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So I couldn't care less between live birth or eggs. I don't see why so many are hell bent on keeping some kind of perceived normality in a fantasy game.
Eggs solve two problems with one stone. The breeding, and transportation.
I just hope some of the eggs dropped will hatch automatically to keep wild populations up.
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First off chickens lay eggs... thats normal man, they do that in real life anyways, and i don't think the others do and if they do who cares? what did you expect him to do, make you drag one cow over to another cow to start a humping animation, then after severall ingame months a calf is born? This is a rated E game, remember that.
MoCreatures mod. Nuff said.
Cow breeding by eggs = ridiculous, dumb, and not even that entertaining from a gameplay perspective. It is simply too simple. Games gain replayability by some basic level of complexity and depth, not by "PLOP cow drops an egg", *throws egg*, "PLOPP new cow"...
Actually eggs isn't a stupid idea. One has to break eggs to reveal chickens. It solves the problem of 'perpetual mating', from all those distant and stuck in a hole animals out there. It would seem that most people would exchange silly for lag.
Actually eggs isn't a stupid idea. One has to break eggs to reveal chickens. It solves the problem of 'perpetual mating', from all those distant and stuck in a hole animals out there. It would seem that most people would exchange silly for lag.
Have mating only occur between animals that have been domesticated as an event prompted by the actions of the players. Like the mods that already have animal breeding in them do. Have some bovines and want to give someone else one? Catalyze a breeding event. Out pops a little baby bovine. Maybe even two. The other person can use an item to get the calf to follow them back to their place so they can raise it, etc, etc.
Why go through life always picking the easy way out of situations? :tongue.gif:
I don't understand how the topic got 3 pages long on something that isn't happening. Especially when half the posts are pointing out that it was a joke (and even directly quoting Notch)... really... learn to read. Eggs are NOT for all the animals, it was a JOKE.
3 pages of nonsense is enough.
In Minecraft, it could work much the same way. Get two mobs of the same species into a "mating mode" (Notch already has this, it would seem). Once they've mated, they'd drop an egg. You'd either put it in something like a furnace (used as an incubator in this case) or carry it for a while. Eventually, it'd go away and nearby wherever it was stored is a new mob.
It's a fun idea. Minecraft is a fun game that's meant to be a little quirky. I don't see the harm in this.
Or maybe it's just a fun game that is so far from realistic that animals all coming from eggs is the least of the oddities.
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Get Notch on the phone!
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But unfortunately, some people will insist on saying anything just to disagree with what seems logical. It's not that they want to see a blocky stick being inserted into the animals, they just want to disagree with someone.
It simply would make it easier to have animal farms. No having to travel several biomes away and then figure out how in hell's name you're going to get that cow, sheep, or pig back to your base so that you can breed it for food or meat. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't have a few of every animal anywhere near my spawn point. I have several sheep, most of which are stupid bastards trapped in a naturally formed pool just outside my house. XD
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Eggs solve two problems with one stone. The breeding, and transportation.
I just hope some of the eggs dropped will hatch automatically to keep wild populations up.
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It has been explained how the breeding will work, and no its not eggs, maybe excluding chickens?
As a side note, THIS ISN'T POKEMON!
2. I can't ****ing wait for eggs.
MoCreatures mod. Nuff said.
Cow breeding by eggs = ridiculous, dumb, and not even that entertaining from a gameplay perspective. It is simply too simple. Games gain replayability by some basic level of complexity and depth, not by "PLOP cow drops an egg", *throws egg*, "PLOPP new cow"...
Actually eggs isn't a stupid idea. One has to break eggs to reveal chickens. It solves the problem of 'perpetual mating', from all those distant and stuck in a hole animals out there. It would seem that most people would exchange silly for lag.
Have mating only occur between animals that have been domesticated as an event prompted by the actions of the players. Like the mods that already have animal breeding in them do. Have some bovines and want to give someone else one? Catalyze a breeding event. Out pops a little baby bovine. Maybe even two. The other person can use an item to get the calf to follow them back to their place so they can raise it, etc, etc.