Aaaaaaand.... Where's the green hill covered in green leafy evergreens on the other side of the river?
Guess what ... the Black Hills and Badlands National Parks are right next to eachother, and get covered in snow for about half the year. How about the southwest USA? The Grand Canyon alone has both desert and pine forests in it, and unboubtedly the mountain regions get snow in winter and frost on cold nights. The Gobi isn't alone either, how about the Atacama, that one is actually at high elevation, the Gobi isn't. You're not even trying.
I'm happy to suspend disbelief in terms of scale and call 50 block high mountains sky scraping monstrosities, but the problems is that you can have, within a couple of blocks of sea level, a swamp, snowy pine forest and the desert all chilling within 30 blocks.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not whinging and whining. I'm just saying it's kind of annoying when you try to make "environmental themed" buildings and you can't because the environments aren't even close to making sense.
Biomes were made bigger for just this reason. Don't build at the edge of it, build in the middle if you want consistency. They're not all huge expansive biomes with multiple patches of the same thing next to itself, but if that's what you're looking for, that's why the terrain is randomly generated - you can find what you're looking for if you try to.
With over a quintillion seeds to work with, I'm sure you can find some with the combination of features you want.
Now mind you, I realize that there will be a new dimension added soon. But still, I don't believe there is actively a reason to prevent people from making tier 1 potions early on. Even if its something as small as restoring 3 hearts or something along those lines. Early game you wouldn't even have access to stuff to make it in large quantities anyways.
Why does the potion making itself need to be tiered? The stand is like a furnace. Once you have it, you can use it. The challenge is simply in gathering what you need to make what you want.
Running into the Nether, punching some Netherwart, and running out can all be done your first day if your goal is potionmaking to make the rest of Minecraft easier.
The problem is that "Ice covered lakes and snowy trees" does NOT occur close to "Desert".
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LOL
It took me all of 90 seconds to find images of real ice covered rivers and snow covered trees in deserts.
I wish people would stop proclaiming things that are obviously not true. Go outside and learn about the world before you try to tell the rest of us what it is like out there.
I think they should drop some stuff like, iron or gold bars, because dragons are known to hoard stuff...
There is no mythology, biology or psychology for dragons in Minecraft. They are not "known" to have any properties other than what we can observe in Notch's screenshots.
... Notch probably won't make Minecraft "finish" when you "win"; he'll just add a well-defined goal that you can strive toward while playing.
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More stuff in the game gives the players more targets to aim for. Just because a person hits a target, doesn't mean the game has "ended." Or even that it would need and "end" to be fun in the first place.
Maybe MC dragons won't be boring cliches and breathe fire, but instead have bursts of it as waste. Maybe thats how they propel themselves through the air, like a rocket.
Actually, till the new updates, the nether was a place to go to get netherrack for neat fires... alchgemy gives me a good reason to actually explore this helloish thing :wink.gif:
Yeah, fast travel, Glowstone, and Netherrack were the only reasons to bother going there. Now people will want to explore it and gather many other resources. Getting to the Nether will be a technological midpoint, most likely, and the Ender/skyrealm full of Endermen and Enderdragons will require greater survival resources.
Having the prerequisite technology of Diamonds and Obsidian seems like a very low hurdle to Alchemy. Depending on your seed, that could be achieved in less than 1 MC day.
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I can definitely see the appeal in making fancy potions with flowers straight from hell. so doit how terraria does it. Alchemy in terraria permeates every facet of the game. ...
Yeah, 'cause being original is stupid. He should do everything the way <other game> did it, so I can play Minecraft and imagine I'm just playing <other game>.
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it shouldn't require anything more than iron and water to get started. requiring netherwart is ****ing absurd.
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'Cause all I have to do in real life is shake water in a bottle and put it on my iron stand to make a potion. Why can't i just punch a tree and have potions fall on my head. Requiring ingredients and prerequisite technology is stupid.
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You know, just ignore the skeletal archers, giant spiders...
'Cause back in the eleventh century there were zombies eating everyone (spreading the Black Plague, duh) and skeletons shooting people with bows, and giant spiders prowled the forests eating peasants.
That's what knights were for, killing zombies and skeletons and giant spiders, duh. When the Mongols invaded Europe, they wiped out the zombies and spiders and skeletons, and the Medieval ages ended.
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Fantasy setting =/= dragons. Rectangle =/= square. Something more original to accompany the Endermen in their world would have been much better.
I saw videos on youtube of people finding the new ender portals in strongholds. I searched a few strongholds and I can't find any. Anybody know how to find ender portals?
Go to the future, you'll find them there.
Right now all we have are rings of shiny blocks that do nothing and go nowhere. They are found in strongholds.
in order to perform alchemy you need to have penetrated teh nether and killed or collected quite a few things there. The problem here is that this is the climax of difficulty in minecraft and potion utility loses a degree of usefulness as you've already been the dangerous places that would require benefit from you using potions.
Create a new challenge. There is no goal or endgame to Minecraft except the one you create for yourself. That is the nature of a "sandbox" game.
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Guess what ... the Black Hills and Badlands National Parks are right next to eachother, and get covered in snow for about half the year. How about the southwest USA? The Grand Canyon alone has both desert and pine forests in it, and unboubtedly the mountain regions get snow in winter and frost on cold nights. The Gobi isn't alone either, how about the Atacama, that one is actually at high elevation, the Gobi isn't. You're not even trying.
Biomes were made bigger for just this reason. Don't build at the edge of it, build in the middle if you want consistency. They're not all huge expansive biomes with multiple patches of the same thing next to itself, but if that's what you're looking for, that's why the terrain is randomly generated - you can find what you're looking for if you try to.
With over a quintillion seeds to work with, I'm sure you can find some with the combination of features you want.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/l3jgm/enderdragons_decrypt_w_rot13_via_notch/c2ph1f1
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/l3jgm/enderdragons_decrypt_w_rot13_via_notch/
That is why everyone thinks the portal is for the Ender.
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Why does the potion making itself need to be tiered? The stand is like a furnace. Once you have it, you can use it. The challenge is simply in gathering what you need to make what you want.
Running into the Nether, punching some Netherwart, and running out can all be done your first day if your goal is potionmaking to make the rest of Minecraft easier.
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LOL
It took me all of 90 seconds to find images of real ice covered rivers and snow covered trees in deserts.
I wish people would stop proclaiming things that are obviously not true. Go outside and learn about the world before you try to tell the rest of us what it is like out there.
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There is no mythology, biology or psychology for dragons in Minecraft. They are not "known" to have any properties other than what we can observe in Notch's screenshots.
They do not need to be cliches.
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More stuff in the game gives the players more targets to aim for. Just because a person hits a target, doesn't mean the game has "ended." Or even that it would need and "end" to be fun in the first place.
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Maybe MC dragons won't be boring cliches and breathe fire, but instead have bursts of it as waste. Maybe thats how they propel themselves through the air, like a rocket.
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Dung. Required to grow some fancy plants from the Ender.
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Yeah, fast travel, Glowstone, and Netherrack were the only reasons to bother going there. Now people will want to explore it and gather many other resources. Getting to the Nether will be a technological midpoint, most likely, and the Ender/skyrealm full of Endermen and Enderdragons will require greater survival resources.
Having the prerequisite technology of Diamonds and Obsidian seems like a very low hurdle to Alchemy. Depending on your seed, that could be achieved in less than 1 MC day.
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Yeah, 'cause being original is stupid. He should do everything the way <other game> did it, so I can play Minecraft and imagine I'm just playing <other game>.
'Cause all I have to do in real life is shake water in a bottle and put it on my iron stand to make a potion. Why can't i just punch a tree and have potions fall on my head. Requiring ingredients and prerequisite technology is stupid.
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'Cause back in the eleventh century there were zombies eating everyone (spreading the Black Plague, duh) and skeletons shooting people with bows, and giant spiders prowled the forests eating peasants.
That's what knights were for, killing zombies and skeletons and giant spiders, duh. When the Mongols invaded Europe, they wiped out the zombies and spiders and skeletons, and the Medieval ages ended.
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Fantasy setting =/= dragons. Rectangle =/= square. Something more original to accompany the Endermen in their world would have been much better.
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Go to the future, you'll find them there.
Right now all we have are rings of shiny blocks that do nothing and go nowhere. They are found in strongholds.
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Create a new challenge. There is no goal or endgame to Minecraft except the one you create for yourself. That is the nature of a "sandbox" game.
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Looks like cactus and obsidian.