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It's preferable to use default or close to default texture packs when creating tutorials so anybody viewing it can immediately look at the video and know what is what.

Using comparators to send constant pulses to droppers no longer works. I have come up with a design that works to counter this though.

How about an option to change your skin within the launcher and not have to go to the webpage.

If a daylight detector is covered it becomes a moonlight detector

People who rely on bonemeal for their primary food source = hate the change
People who actually set up farms and let them grow naturally = don't care

Bone meal was never meant to be your primary source of food. If food was meant to grow instantly then it would have, or you could just eat the bone meal. I've always built farms everywhere I go and even though I have a two double wide chests full of bones I have never relied on them for food, only to finish off those slow crops when the rest of the farm is done.

I support the change. I've always set up decent sized farms and only ever used bone meal on the few slow growing crops before I harvested. Food is really not that hard to get but this does add a little more balance.

Quote from Gnardak

Instead of altering the gui they could use a extra input to the dispenser so that it shoots when the signal strength is above the level of that input.

So by default(unpowered) it would always shoot but if you put a redstone torch next to it(full-power) it would always drop.

It would probably mess up existing designs however so I'm fine with the two blocks staying.

Messing with additional inputs is a bad idea. You would lose all ability to have compact arrays of dispensers / droppers.

Changing how a dispenser/ dropper behaves based on the power level in put is a bad idea too. A lot of circuits rely on direct input from a repeater to function. We would also loose the ability to have compact arrays.

I really don't see the problem with having a separate block, the number of possible blocks was expanded significantly so that is not an issue. Tomorrow we should be getting a new snapshot with hopefully more dispenser features to differentiate between the two.

Quote from haschischtasche

That is simply not true, it will only update the block in front of it. Just try it out with a BUD.

For future reference (unless it's changed in a future update) The Comparator actually updates in a 3d + shape in front of it. So that's the block in front, and in front of that, to the sides, as well as above and below

Quote from TVflea

Yeah, it's most likely caused by the new stupid texture pack system.

Some of the textures are wonky for now but it's a snapshot so they will be fixed before the release.

What makes it stupid? The fact that you can now animate just about every texture? The fact that when the game updates you won't need to update your texture packs to get access to the new blocks? The fact that it will have native HD support? The fact that you can easily mix and match textures from different packs regardless of resolution? The fact that it will be significantly easier to add new blocks when the Mod API comes out?

Are you making an informed decision or one of "Oh no my current texture pack doesn't work" (use the stitcher provided by Dinnerbone) or one of a texture pack creator who has to update their texture pack?

Quote from Justhereforthemods

Something I thought would be a nice feature for daylight detectors was to detect if they were placed on top of or next to a redstone lamp and invert their output signal. In case you put your lamps in areas where you couldn't wire them with redstone, all you would have to do is get a daylight detector for each of your lamps.

I've already given up on this idea though; it hasn't been very well received.

Close the detector in solid blocks, it turns it into a moonlight detector.

I for one am glad they don't respond to glow stone or torch light. There are plenty of other ways of sending redstone signals and using a light detector to do just that is not needed. If they responded to redstone lamps them self contained lamps would not be possible, The lamp would turn on, power it's self and then never turn off completely negating the need for a day light detector, not to mention the fact that they can also be used to get "moonlight" levels

-- We have made it into Minecraft 1.7! --

My main goal with this post was to make the community interested in more biomes so that Mojang would prioritise that aspect in their busy schedules. And it seems we have finally made it happen! Additionally we also got 2 of my suggestions into the game, which of course is fantastic.

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Blossom Grove

Now put down your guard and enjoy the moonlight in this mob free but oh so rare environment. Unfortunately, the underground isn't as peaceful. If you are lucky you will also encounter a deserted old vineyard for some delicious grapes. This rare fruit replenish only 0,5 hunger each, but they are all eaten at the same time, making it the quickest but most expensive food source.

Rumours say the farmers have noticed crops grow faster.



Old version:

Oasis
Take your horse and embark on a journey to discover the Orient. These warm and barren deserts might contain a scarce amount of watering wholes, a common place to find various merchants with donkeys full of goods to trade. Make sure to have your wallet full, for these rare goods cannot be acquired elsewhere.




Fungi Biome
The luminescent mushrooms proves to be a perfect, yet mystique light source in the deep caves of the underworld. Rumours speak about small glowing angler-fishes that thrive in nearby underground lakes.

Thanks to Hansentale for the inspiration.




Tropical Islands
Palm trees grow on the beaches of these plant rich atoll islands located on the great oceans. Breaking palm leaves spawn coco nuts, which are an essential food source out here.




Savannah - IMPLEMENTED IN 1.7
In the never ending terrain of the African wilderness, animals thrive in the shadows of the acacia trees. Clay is commonly found in nearby watering holes.




Wild West desert - IMPLEMENTED IN 1.7
This arid landscape consists of a new reddish stone, and a new matching sandblock*. Lone wanderers need to watch out for the vultures, for they will attack any trespasser carrying raw meet.


*)The sandblock is not present in this screenshot since it's very time consuming covering the grounds.


Autumn forest biome
A colourful forest arises as you continue your exploration. No one in these woods will ever starve, as the ripest apples fall from the trees and the ground is covered by mushrooms galore!




Frost biome
A cold breeze caught the landscape by surprise, which immediately froze the tiniest straw of grass. Make sure you wear some armour, or you will soon be history.




Darklands

The sky darkens as you enter this gloomy realm. A great challenge awaits the one who seek to face the death. Now grab your diamond equipment, you will need it.

Here is an easy to build and compact item sorting system, with a nice application to mining. This kind of setup is also applicable to your automatic wheat farms, mob grinders, tree farms, etc.!

So

1. Dig, dig, dig till you find Diamonds.
2. Dig, Dig, Dig, till you find Obsidian
3. Grow a metric crap ton of wood
4. Build a farm to grow reed, and collect a bigger metric crap ton of that.
5. Dig, Dig, Dig, till you find a full stack of iron
6. Kill, Kill, Kill a bunch of monsters
7. Coal to smelt down the iron.
8. Make your diamond armor, anvil, and enchanting table.
9. Enchant it, over and over and over till you get the desired effect, needing more and more exp
10. Maintain the armor and anvil with diamonds, iron, and experience.

And this is easier than finding 6 more diamonds to make a new shirt?
All that is too easy?

Looks like a lot more work to get to the same place. However once you make the initial investment in materials, and time. You get the payoff of reduced material costs to maintain your equipment. I'm down with that.

I'll repost what I said on another thread as it seem more appropriate here anyway.

Quote from Black_Drath

I have a few complaints with the anvil repair. It has some pretty stupid limitations which significantly impairs its usefulness and have been added for no reason that I can see.
First of all, the most limiting thing is that you cannot repair/combine items if the cost of doing so exceeds 40 levels. This means that combining 2 powerful items becomes impossible, even if you have the levels required. If the player works hard to get those levels, shouldn't he be able to spend as many as he pleases?
Renaming a tool costs 15 levels. 15 whole levels! I can understand it costing maybe one or two levels, but 15 is pretty ridiculous. This also means that it is impossible to rename powerful tools, because attempting to do so will push you over the 40 level cap. Also, renaming a tool more than once costs more than 15 levels, increasing by 150% each time according to the wiki.
Also, repairing the same tool more than once will increase the cost of repairing that tool each time, even if you are just repairing you tool with a normal unenchanted tool of the same type each time. This means that you cannot keep your super-powerful pickaxe and keep repairing it because eventually it will become too expensive to be possible. I don't think this should be a limitation. Powerful tools should be expensive to repair, but their expense should not go up every time, that doesn't seem fair.
Also, why does the anvil break? It already costs levels to use, why do we have to spend 55 iron ingots to get ourselves a new anvil every so often? It's the only block that has this limitation, and I don't understand why it does.

Things, I am happy about though are the fact we can do this at all, the fact that combining enchantments of the same level increases the level, the repair cost takes the rarity and power of the enchantment into account, that you can rename any items (even if it does cost 5 levels for a non tool item) and that you can drop anvils on people and squash them.

So, overall, I like the addition of the anvil, but it needs some work. I would be satisfied with only the level cap being removed, though I would like all my issues with it to be fixed.

I have a few complaints with the anvil repair. It has some pretty stupid limitations which significantly impairs its usefulness and have been added for no reason that I can see.
First of all, the most limiting thing is that you cannot repair/combine items if the cost of doing so exceeds 40 levels. This means that combining 2 powerful items becomes impossible, even if you have the levels required. If the player works hard to get those levels, shouldn't he be able to spend as many as he pleases?
Renaming a tool costs 15 levels. 15 whole levels! I can understand it costing maybe one or two levels, but 15 is pretty ridiculous. This also means that it is impossible to rename powerful tools, because attempting to do so will push you over the 40 level cap. Also, renaming a tool more than once costs more than 15 levels, increasing by 150% each time according to the wiki.
Also, repairing the same tool more than once will increase the cost of repairing that tool each time, even if you are just repairing you tool with a normal unenchanted tool of the same type each time. This means that you cannot keep your super-powerful pickaxe and keep repairing it because eventually it will become too expensive to be possible. I don't think this should be a limitation. Powerful tools should be expensive to repair, but their expense should not go up every time, that doesn't seem fair.
Also, why does the anvil break? It already costs levels to use, why do we have to spend 55 iron ingots to get ourselves a new anvil every so often? It's the only block that has this limitation, and I don't understand why it does.

Things, I am happy about though are the fact we can do this at all, the fact that combining enchantments of the same level increases the level, the repair cost takes the rarity and power of the enchantment into account, that you can rename any items (even if it does cost 5 levels for a non tool item) and that you can drop anvils on people and squash them.

So, overall, I like the addition of the anvil, but it needs some work. I would be satisfied with only the level cap being removed, though I would like all my issues with it to be fixed.

Considering it costs 55 ingots to craft, and requires large amounts of experience to use, I think having the Anvil break is a bit overkill.

Our Enchantment Tables don't degrade over time, so I'm not sure why the Anvil does.

I've been seeing a lot of complaint threads claiming that witches and bats don't fit with Minecraft's theme.

Going by that logic, pretty much every mob doesn't fit in with the whole "sandbox building game" theme that Mojang is going for. Take a look at creepers, they are destructive, everywhere, and highly dangerous. People don't whine and complain that creepers don't fit in. Why are they complaining about bats and especially witches.

Witches are simply testificates with hats, and they throw potions at you. Villagers fit in well, therefore an outcast villager that has turned aggressive would fit in fine as well.


Ok, rant ended. I just hope somebody agrees.

My other thread is already quite cluttered with all the new additions so i decided to make a compilation of all the new tips,tricks,designs , enjoy.





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Complete album with other camos and Reddit Source







































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Lamp post.



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