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Quote from TheMasterCaver»

Contrary to widespread belief, Beta 1.8 made no changes to caves other than to fix a bug that made them cut off along chunk borders, but the overall volume of caves remained the same - it is the addition of ravines and mineshafts that made the underground basically infinite. Here are comparisons of the code for Beta 1.1_02, release 1.6.4, and release 1.7.10:

Huh, never knew that until now. Thanks for clearing up that myth.

Swords shouldn't break blocks that can be broken instantly by hand, such as grass or torches.

I'm happy it's taking so long, I don't wanna use a microsoft account, ever

Rabbits are extremely easy to harvest. If you have to chase them, you are doing it horribly wrong. There are dandelions all over the plains/forest biomes. Pick one up. Head to a desert or taiga with a stone/iron axe in main hand and a dandelion in the off-hand. The rabbits are gonna run right up to you and just sit in front of you. No need to chase them.

Be sure to use an axe cause it lets you precision-chop a single adult in one strike, without hitting babies or sending other adults running.

Even better: pick up a bunch of dandelions, like 20-30. Then you can breed adults before chopping them out and give some to babies to make them grow faster. Just be sure to keep at least one flower so rabbits remain attracted to you.

Bundle is absolutely awesome for exploration runs. You head out there, find some village chests, some desert temples, some broken nether portals, and soon enough your inventory is littered with two of this, three of that, etc. This is where bundle really shines. Sure, once you got shulker boxes, bundle is a lot less useful, but in my current snapshot world, I got the ender chest/shulker setup and still find myself making use of the bundle quite a bit.

The thing that bothers me the most is that most of the features they said are technically challenging are alredy done in the previous snapshots - the height limit, the caves, the mountains. The generation still needs tweaking, but most of the stuff is ready. That's why I think that they are just using covid as an excuse and are pushing the release back to maybe match the release of some other competing game (probably Hytale).

And the content we are getting now is basically nothing - a bunch of new blocks, some useless mobs and a basic rework of ores that was overdue at least for 5 years. This doesn't justify a major update.

Idk if I'd use the term "Veteran", but I'd say "an extremely long-time" and "old man".

Just happened upon this thread. Guess I was the one feeling nostalgic.

I started late '09. Never used the "Glacier" seed, hell, I've never even used a seed. Tried Creative ONCE - absolutely hated it, (but I realize some people really like it... I just like the survival aspect and 'earning' every block I place).

Saw someone mentioned the leaves staying hahaha. Yeah, memory lane, man. Mine were no shears (also mentioned) but mainly, no charcoal, no beds, etc. So, when you started a game, if you didn't find coal right away, you were pretty much screwed. All you could do was dig a hole, wait in it, in the dark all night and hopefully find coal the next day. If not? I'd just start a new one.

Obv, no Forge, so when people did start modding it, you had to do it all manually, within the guts of the files, set all the item block numbers manually, etc. Too old to remember his name, but there was ONE guy, that everybody had to wait on to start installing mods when MC updated... b/c they all relied on his mod... in order to add whatever. Buildcraft and Industrialcraft did NOT get along - it wasn't until somebody made a 'bridge' mod that you could even install them together.

I have a million more. Now, it makes me want to hear the theme song from "All in the Family" - being all reminisce-y and crap.

Bundles are a great idea but it is way too hard to get when its suppose to solve early game inventory problems. I can beat the game before i can get 6 rabbit hide. Rabbits are hard to find, they're not that common, and hard to kill because they're fast and small. Even if you do kill 1 or 2 there is a high chance you wont get any rabbit hide. For that reason i think its reasonable to change the amount of rabbit hide from 6 to 3 and have the recipe shaped in a V with string in the middle or top of the V.

Copper is at most just for decoration, and while thats cool and all, but for the people who dont want to make a house out of copper, give the copper more uses like changing the recipe of the blast furnace instead of using iron ingots it uses copper ingots (Iron already has so much recipe using it anyways).

Huh! A tiny but momentous snapshot this week!

Metal ores will now drop lumps of "raw" smeltable metal rather than ore blocks. This will let Fortune work on them! (Though I'm not clear on why they say this will avoid cluttering the inventory.)

It's clear that 1.17 is going to make some pretty fundamental changes to how the game is played. On the whole, I'm very pleased. But I daresay modders will want to think carefully how to balance ore-doubling methods and so on against Fortune.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

Besides, how would copper ever be practical for armor? unprotected, it oxidizes easily,

The exact opposite is true - iron easily oxidizes and rusts away while copper can survive for centuries since copper oxide forms a stable protective layer while iron oxide flakes off, exposing more metal. It also takes years or even decades for copper to fully oxidize (form a patina) in real life, and can remain structurally sound for centuries after that.

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In my opinion, it was Release 1.6. There were a lot of things that urgently needed improvement, but Mojang somehow decided to add horses, as if half of the games out there didn't already have horses. Hard to appreciate the fact that baby zombies now spawned naturally.

1.10 was at least understandable. Perhaps Mojang was scared of adding something too controversial after 1.9.

Can't forget 1.14 either with the new textures.

Baby zombies are hard to hit because they're too fast and I rarely use horses.

Looking at the game from just standard, single player, survival I'd consider 1.9 to be one of the best updates, probably at least one of the top 5 for me. It added 2 insanely needed quality of life features and made the end somewhat useful