OK so for some people that don't use mods and you need to know about 1.8 this is a good forum for you to read; The most popular thing about 1.8 is obviosly Endermen
Another thing to be scared of is Cave spiders
The yellow hearts is Poison from the cave spider. Next to the hearts is now a hunger bar, when the hunger bar gets down to 1/2 of a ham, you will take damage. When the Hunger bar is closer to the top you will re-heal health (even if not on peaceful.) The hunger bar lowers by you either breaking a lot of blocks in a short amount of time, and sprinting. Sprinting is done by double tapping W or Forward arrow key, considering on what key is forward. Notch took out the fog toggle key, he added the list players and you can now change your breaking block key and your placing block key. Spawn rate for monsters is now increased. Creeper Explosion animations are improved. There is now a new biome generator so biomes are now bigger and they can contain crevises and mountains. There is a new Swamp biome, and it contains vines that can be sheared. Bows are now chargeable and a skeletons bow has a new png file. Zombies now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers. Chickens drop Raw Chicken, and lay eggs faster. Cows drop Raw beef and it could be cooked into Steak. Using bonemeal on Mushrooms now make large mushroom trees. NPC villages were added. Abandoned Mine shaft and Strongholds were added. An Abandoned Mine shaft has wood lot's of cave spider spawners, some chests, a Well and a Library. Strongholds are giant crevices with lot's of iron doors and chests. I hope this helped and I will continue to make these updates if you think they are helpfull.
Another thing to be scared of is Cave spiders
The yellow hearts is Poison from the cave spider. Next to the hearts is now a hunger bar, when the hunger bar gets down to 1/2 of a ham, you will take damage. When the Hunger bar is closer to the top you will re-heal health (even if not on peaceful.) The hunger bar lowers by you either breaking a lot of blocks in a short amount of time, and sprinting. Sprinting is done by double tapping W or Forward arrow key, considering on what key is forward. Notch took out the fog toggle key, he added the list players and you can now change your breaking block key and your placing block key. Spawn rate for monsters is now increased. Creeper Explosion animations are improved. There is now a new biome generator so biomes are now bigger and they can contain crevises and mountains. There is a new Swamp biome, and it contains vines that can be sheared. Bows are now chargeable and a skeletons bow has a new png file. Zombies now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers. Chickens drop Raw Chicken, and lay eggs faster. Cows drop Raw beef and it could be cooked into Steak. Using bonemeal on Mushrooms now make large mushroom trees. NPC villages were added. Abandoned Mine shaft and Strongholds were added. An Abandoned Mine shaft has wood lot's of cave spider spawners, some chests, a Well and a Library. Strongholds are giant crevices with lot's of iron doors and chests. I hope this helped and I will continue to make these updates if you think they are helpfull.
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