After being away from Minecraft since version 1.5, I've gotten excited about the Adventure update, and done a bunch of reading on it. I haven't updated to it yet (as I like to have a stack of mods running, and not all of them have updated to 1.8 yet), but I was a little disturbed by something I read...
Apparently the features in 1.8 won't work in worlds created prior to 1.8? Is this true? Do I really need a new world to experience stuff like Enderman? That's a depressing thought, as I've spent countless hours shaping my world to how it is now, and I'm rather fond of it.
So my question to you all is this: is there any way around this? Some kind of conversion tool to make my pre-1.8 (in fact pre-Beta) map 1.8 compatible? If not, are there any hacking programs that might help me? I've never been interested in cheating in Minecraft, but perhaps I could use some kind of program to copy and paste just my castle into a new 1.8 map, would that work?
Thank you for taking time to read my post, and for your assistance!
After being away from Minecraft since version 1.5, I've gotten excited about the Adventure update, and done a bunch of reading on it. I haven't updated to it yet (as I like to have a stack of mods running, and not all of them have updated to 1.8 yet), but I was a little disturbed by something I read...
Apparently the features in 1.8 won't work in worlds created prior to 1.8? Is this true? Do I really need a new world to experience stuff like Enderman? That's a depressing thought, as I've spent countless hours shaping my world to how it is now, and I'm rather fond of it.
So my question to you all is this: is there any way around this? Some kind of conversion tool to make my pre-1.8 (in fact pre-Beta) map 1.8 compatible? If not, are there any hacking programs that might help me? I've never been interested in cheating in Minecraft, but perhaps I could use some kind of program to copy and paste just my castle into a new 1.8 map, would that work?
Thank you for taking time to read my post, and for your assistance!
You should be able to use pre-1.8 worlds with the new updates and mobs and such will spawn just fine (far as I know). However, for any of the new terrain generation to take place you either have to start a new world or move outside of the areas of your map that were already explored (generated) before 1.8.
You need to understand how chunks work in minecraft, once something is generated it will not be subjected to any further alterations. If an update occurs and a new material exists in the game, you must travel outside of the area which you have already explored. Anything that isn't generated by the world seed (I.E. Mobs) will spawn as expected.
In other words, explore outside of areas you have already been to to experience new content, or start a new map and import your structures to a new map.
Personally, I would not get too attached to any world until Notch and Jeb are done tweaking terrain and structure generation. For instance, in 1.9 there are going to be snow biomes again, so extant worlds will not have them until you go outside the currently generated area, and then who knows if the parts will match up?
As for crazy stuff you've built, my policy has been to save it using MCEdit and move it to the new world if I'm serious about it. I haven't been serious about a world since probably the beginning of Beta, since there have been so many terrain changes.
After being away from Minecraft since version 1.5, I've gotten excited about the Adventure update, and done a bunch of reading on it. I haven't updated to it yet (as I like to have a stack of mods running, and not all of them have updated to 1.8 yet), but I was a little disturbed by something I read...
Apparently the features in 1.8 won't work in worlds created prior to 1.8? Is this true? Do I really need a new world to experience stuff like Enderman? That's a depressing thought, as I've spent countless hours shaping my world to how it is now, and I'm rather fond of it.
So my question to you all is this: is there any way around this? Some kind of conversion tool to make my pre-1.8 (in fact pre-Beta) map 1.8 compatible? If not, are there any hacking programs that might help me? I've never been interested in cheating in Minecraft, but perhaps I could use some kind of program to copy and paste just my castle into a new 1.8 map, would that work?
Thank you for taking time to read my post, and for your assistance!
You should be able to use pre-1.8 worlds with the new updates and mobs and such will spawn just fine (far as I know). However, for any of the new terrain generation to take place you either have to start a new world or move outside of the areas of your map that were already explored (generated) before 1.8.
In other words, explore outside of areas you have already been to to experience new content, or start a new map and import your structures to a new map.
As for crazy stuff you've built, my policy has been to save it using MCEdit and move it to the new world if I'm serious about it. I haven't been serious about a world since probably the beginning of Beta, since there have been so many terrain changes.