A few facts...
1.) After minecrafts initial hype and sandbox experience wore off, people realized the game could only ever reach its potential if enhanced by creativity/ingenuity (which the game was founded on) and thus the modding community began. I don't know of any minecraft SMP server that doesn't have a few mods on it to make it unique above the rest. Who really wants to play straight vanilla minecraft anymore - sorry to say, but it does get old. The only reason it hasn't hit a dead end yet is because Notch has been putting out and promising more content.
2.) Notch hinted a modding API system which was supposedly on the horizon for 1.8 and that never happened. What did happen however, is implementation of existing mods into the core of minecraft (pistons, new lighting engine)... Can anyone say mooch?
3.) Minecraft continually suffers from being written in Java. People who play on 32-bit systems can't even run minecraft with a far render distance because it runs out of memory... This has been a problem since the inception of minecraft and yet Notch makes no effort to port the game to C++. However... He released the portable version of minecraft ported to C++ and now he lets another business port his game to C++ for the XBOX 360... It makes you wonder if Notch really even knows what he's doing or if he's just flying by the seat of his pants from day to day...
Bottom line... This is a PC game made popular by the fans of the game (mods) and has no place being in the console world where big business (microsoft, sony) lords over every transaction... Minecraft has been a game created for the fans, by the fans... Minecraft would be Nothing without its modding community and to further ignore support for it is only going to hurt minecraft in the long run... There will be no modding or texture packs within the XBOX version, just a straight up vanilla version which can't compare in the least to modded versions of minecraft which add endless features to the game which Notch has so conveniently ignored or dare I say "stolen" as he saw fit.
We need to bring minecraft back to the fans... To our obsessive compulsive creations and fantastical imaginations...
I've spoken my peace. G'day.
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I'm curious about the color of trees... What is the logical operation behind their different varying colors? Is it distance from something or age because I have some trees that I would like to stay a lush green but they've all turned brown lol, which is very disheartening for a place which is to be considered a "sanctuary" haha. The leaves are still attached to the trunks, however I have trimmed them... Could that possibly be a factor?
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Lava and Water, as was said above, lacks a certain depth. It's very flat and unappealing compared to the original texture. I don't mind the speed of either animation, but I think the texture needs a bit more "fine tuning" if you will. Just thought i'd share my thoughts on that.
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I'm a programmer and would love to work with you on modifying texture-specific code, however my knowledge of java is very lacking.
I'll let you know if I think I could help you with that or not.I just looked at the code and I wouldn't even know where to begin haha. Never been fond of Java and I was reminded why haha. Anyway, your pack is amazing and I look forward to future versions. You should see if you could team up with the guy who created the McPatcher.0
This issue is a known bug from the latest update to the game. Notch has not released any details when it will be fixed, but i've heard that there is a mod for Hey0's server wrapper for fixing/reducing the occurrences of this bug. I haven't tried it myself, but check out Hey0's forums and i'm sure you'll find a solution.
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Well said. I completely agree.
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I wondered the same thing, lol.
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I'm just very curious now.
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I don't know why no one has posted this yet, so I will...
Notch just created this poll and posted it on twitter a few hours ago... Already about 7,000 votes. It's a landslide (obviously) for server-side health.
In my opinion, he needs to do more polls like this.
Feel free also to talk here about your vote and why. It'd be nice to also get an idea on here what people want, though I pretty much already know the answer to that.
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I was laughing so hard when I saw that AND the reference from the fanboi below... Priceless. This should be headlined somewhere.
So perfect.
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I'm all for an official bug report forum, but I doubt it's going to happen on this site.