I would have to go with Forest. There's just so much you can make with it! First off, the grass is a nice shade of green, and not the yellow-brown crust you find in deserty/plains-y areas, so it's nice on the eyes. The trees surrounding give a never-ending supply of wood for those that know how to efficiently use them. They're usually nice and flat with a few gentle hills, so you can set up a nice base of operations on level ground while still having some depth to your terrain. So, forests would have to be my favorite.
A friend of mine at my school played it all the time, and he told me to look it up. I did, but didn't really care for it. Then, about a month later (Around the time the first Halloween update came out) another friend of mine bought it, and he showed and explained it to me. I tried on his profile, loved it, bought it, played it. Too much so, I actually stopped playing it for a couple of months, but I'm starting to get back into it.
I'm more of a vanilla minecraft player, and I don't use mods. Ever. Even so, my computer is probably too old to run mods. It can barely maintain 15fps in Minecraft...
I know I have to generate new chunks, I have already seen a new swamp biome, I'm just wondering if old worlds can generate the strongholds and things in these new chunks. I've seen other questions asking this on google and I see some people say yes, and some people say no.
I've been wondering, can I keep my old world and have things like strongholds and abandoned mineshafts in new chunks? I made a nether tunnel 5 minutes in one direction, and I got a newly generated area (I'm sure of this because I saw vines in a swamp), but I can't seem to find any ravines or anything. Do I get these in my old world, or do I have to use mods/start a new world? I'm just wondering because I have an entire large chest filled with wood and I don't want to lose it or use mods to get my stuff back.
I was on a mountain, apparently playing king of the hill with skeletons, and when there was one left, I switched to a pork chop to heal, and healed up to about 8 hearts, and the skeleton shot/sparta'd me off the mountain, and I landed on a single block on the side of the mountain, with about 6 hearts now, and a freaking climbing spider which was coming up the mountain pounced on me, and make me fall down into a lava flow that I placed to make the game more interesting.
Gravel itself doesn't even deserve to exist. I replaced an ENTIRE gravel beach with sand once, and it was the best thing that ever happened to my world.
I think they have about a 1% chance to spawn whenever a spider spawns, and I, seeing a lot of spiders on my world, have actually seen about 4 of these spawns of satin.
These things are downright awesome to fight, because there isn't much of a challenge when fighting mobs, and these have speed and range.
I think if you look at them when they are holding a block, they should freeze, stare back at you, and awkwardly nom on the block. If you look at the texture for them, there seems to be a jaw, that is what it should be for.
That, or (this is probably going to be impossible to code) use them to build bridges into your fortress of solitude.
Maybe try making a western town! You know, with saloons and the fenced porch patio things and all that! If you have mods, you would also add dead shrubs around the place too, just to add detail! Deserts aren't all bad! I live in one irl!
That, or make a tnt tower and set it off. Either one sounds awesome.
I'm going to get my cool stuff together, travel west in the nether for 5 minutes, emerge from my nether portal, and enjoy the new land that 1.8 will have brought me.
I'm really excited for the whole bow and arrow system. I never really got into the whole "rapid fire machine gun" bow. (But it was cool for shooting straight into the air and dodging the arrows) I'm really liking the looks of the new system, where you can essentially snipe mobs.
That, and the vines. Dang, those things are cool. I don't know why, but I really like them.
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Gravel beaches are terrible things. Kill them.
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These things are downright awesome to fight, because there isn't much of a challenge when fighting mobs, and these have speed and range.
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That, or (this is probably going to be impossible to code) use them to build bridges into your fortress of solitude.
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That, or make a tnt tower and set it off. Either one sounds awesome.
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Then, to **** off the endermans!
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That, and the vines. Dang, those things are cool. I don't know why, but I really like them.