This poll is bogus. Its based off the idea that Notch is considering Farlanders as an alternate name, when, in fact, all he has done is comment on a particular petition. Indeed, his only response was to suggest that rather than change the name from Enderman, he could change the name "Farlands" instead. Doesn't really sound like he's considering it at all.
I dislike the name Farlander because, to be fair, the Farlands are basically a glitch, and are basically impossible to reach anyway. Basing a mythos on a glitch that is inaccessible in Vanilla Minecraft... why? The only reason this name gained any sort of support is because a few kids on /v/ liked the idea, and then a bunch of other people supported it to inflate their "4chan changes the world" ego.
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I dislike the name Farlander because, to be fair, the Farlands are basically a glitch, and are basically impossible to reach anyway. Basing a mythos on a glitch that is inaccessible in Vanilla Minecraft... why? The only reason this name gained any sort of support is because a few kids on /v/ liked the idea, and then a bunch of other people supported it to inflate their "4chan changes the world" ego.
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I guess if they're 'folks' they would think so...
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Also, unless I missed something, didn't he literally walk right past another block of redstone on the same layer before deciding on the one he used? Why skip over the first redstone?
And why would anyone mine out that area but leave the redstone in place?
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Now to design a theoretical model...
Edit: To get around the issue of monsters spawning in nearby caves, I was thinking that such a mine could be a dug vertically, such that any caverns that might pose an issue would be discovered in the process, and even incorporated into the trap. Hell, could a simple 2x2 spiral staircase (with a few offshoots in which mobs could spawn) work? It'd be easy enough to flood with water... Or maybe a 3x3... 2x2 would have the mobs getting stuck on the ceiling. You'd expose quite a bit of ore with that design, and then you could just dig another one enough blocks away that the first was mostly within the optimum spawning radius... though there is the issue of drops disappearing in five minutes... I guess you could just gather mobs at the bottom, and try to keep them within in the radius where its very difficult for them to despawn prior to the application of some method of euthanasia...
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I know he has at least two different mob traps, one for passive and one for hostile mobs. I've only recently begun to watch his videos, so I don't know if there are more. In any case, he has how to videos for most of his contraptions, so watch those and he'll probably share the information within.
Design your own house.
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Look, its a neat idea, but without cheating you don't have a chance of success. With cheating, you wind up investing a ridiculous amount of time anyway, with a giant railway people will only ever ride a fraction of the distance (unless they want to keep Minecraft running for a week or longer at a time), will be very easy to mess with, and will probably wind up being blocked by an animal before they even ride for a half an hour, unless you build guard rails, which is an even larger time investment.
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Monday's are actually really bad update days for any company running a five day work week (assuming day's off on Sunday and Saturday). It basically means that you have to have the update ready to go at the end of the previous week (in which case... why not release is Friday?) or that you have to finish the update on Monday, after not having touched the code since Friday. Now, in Minecraft's case, I somewhat doubt that development is totally stagnant over the weekend, but it's still not a great day.
One thing I will say is that, in general, updates should come when they're ready. I don't care what day of the week an update happens- I'm just glad to have gotten the content when it was ready to be released, not when it was dumped out for the sake of meeting a deadline.
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The bolded statement is incorrect... learn2science.
Minecraft doesn't need to be realistic. Maybe some of the features you have suggested would be relatively decent additions to the game, but I don't really think any of them are particularly necessary.
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