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The use of server sided platforms would only make the contents underwhelming...
What I want to see more is multiplayer contents that is not only easier to add-on, but has no restrictions on it's effectiveness on a platform.

For example a way to add a new monster, new blocks, new items into the server without forcing everyone to download and install it themselves, yet at the same time isn't a platform that's severely crippled to the point of only text and only command line based functionality.

I want things that are really innovative, not things that people develop for the retarded sense of profit.
When I look at mods, and you see adf.ly links, all I can see in the minds of those developing are 'profit profit profit', and less of 'fun fun fun'.

The moment one thinks about profiting from their actions, they will cease to innovate any further and development will slow to a halt.

Sure Mojang brings out snapshots and content updates with fixes, but the pacing can be slow, and player contribution can't adapt very well in user friendliness or interfaces.

Maybe because in reality, Java sucks so some programmers would rather do other things than that.

There is pros and cons of mojang and modders talking together.
The pro side is that both parties will get to talking about a way to change things for the good of the game.
The cons side is the restriction both side will inevitably agree to, for the sake of the 'licencing'.

The Minecraft code isn't even protected per say, so it's quite easy for anyone to decompile it and figure it out, so even if they do want to control modding in a way, they can't do anything about the vulnerability that's already there.

Regardless there will always be people who will do things outside the scope of the API, so trying to protect or enforce it then won't do crap.

You can build a minecraft server for under $300 dollars if you can optimize it only for server hosting.
a dual core cpu isn't always necessary as you are going to be optimizing it so it won't be running anything else except a linux os and the server.

The server on it's own won't drain the cpu sufficiently, and for anyone who wants a boost can add a SSD to boot the OS in.
Ram is cheap so 8GB is sufficient.

AMD Cpu would be the cheapest to build for a pure minecraft server, and looking up specific brand for it can help too.

Estimates:
Cpu + Mobo = ~$150
Ram = ~$50
HDD = ~$50 (Hard Drives are expensive as hell these days)
Case = ~$50

You can do plenty with a linux os to host the server anyhow, I've heard that linux can do various networking tweaks and such.

I would suggest options on the 'mining' functionality to be possible to adjust for adventure mode...

There will be times where you don't want to break blocks with your hands, but do want to with a pickaxe, and not able to break it with anything else other than the required tools.

So in adventure mode, there should be checkboxes that changes 'blocks require proper tools to break'.

So:
Default: Blocks can't be broken or placed.
Tool Mode: Blocks require specific tools to break and can be placed. Durability of all blocks is greater, and requires higher quality blocks to break.

This means you can't fist punch trees, dirt, sand, and cannot use a sword on impropriate blocks.

In MP, I wonder if adventure mode can be applied to player's gamemode, not the server's gamemode like the current one does, so you can have several players be "Roleplayers" and a single "Dungeon Master" in creative mode.

In Tool Mode, you cannot break stone with a wooden pickaxe anymore, the wooden pickaxe is used to dig clay and cobblestone.

But if you can't get a stone pick to break stone, doesn't mean you can't find other means to attain the item, like villages or treasure chests.

Btw, with the world generation atm, there will be chests sealed into rooms that players wouldn't be able to get into in adventure mode, as stone is blocking the way.

Also, digging for flint should give you experience then, and redstone and lapis lazuil because they break apart.

Heck, why not just make all ore be able to drop multiple pieces and not allow to be placed as blocks?

Iron 1-2
Gold 1-3
Coal 1-2
Flint 1-2

Then add experience gain for digging up ores.
Once you dig up ores, it makes sense that they are broken up and as such can't be placed.

Cobblestone is technically stone glued together using cement of some sort, because once you dig out stone you get fragments which can't be used to place blocks... Sooo, what if you can change the idea of blocks broken gets turned into fragments which you can use to 'rebuild' the blocks and place them again?
It provides a lot more materials to work with in a better form...

Stone Fragments from digging stone can technically be a cheap form of ammo, you can equip and right click to toss a stone to do 0.5 damage and it can have a slow flight and short range (heavy falling)... Maybe make it do up to 3 damage if dropped from high above.

The issue is that you can mine a mountain and have infinite ammo to pelt zombies and creepers with rocks from high above....

Notch dropping out of development for Minecraft was the best thing that ever happened for it... Because we got Jeb now!

Doesn't mean that someone can't develop a app that adds java language into the game somehow and makes it run a minecraft.jar, with modified controls to 'trick' the game it thinks its a pc.

Note that the humble indie crew might start to do a 'average minimum payment' requirement sometimes in the future.
Thus null-ing your attempts at 1 cent or 1 dollar payments.

Like making 50% of the listed products require a average of $11 average...

The more people buy it, the higher the average costs will become.

Imagine crazy people donating $1000 dollars which happened to spike up the 'requirement' to like $20?

Disappointing Humble Indie bundle this time around...

I'm starting to feel that their list is starting to water down and they are gonna re-sell the same games they sold 2 years ago...

Don't tell me they ran out of different indies to sell so now they are 'reselling' two games and are starting to use the 'average' price as a way to force people to be able to get it?

Also, current listing is disappointing... I would have sworn that a one year gap would have seen a ton of indies coming around, but this shows that the industry is failing because of the economy too.

This is why having a fanbase is a idiotic thing to do, but sometimes you NEED them, no matter how crazy or tsundere they are...

The only effective lessons relative to teaching in minecraft, to a general public is mostly the redstone kinds...
Unless you mean primary lessons like the basis of analysis and calculations...

Because the only thing I find at my level and those of the average internet users, is more of the complex mechanics, like logic gates and switches, and essentially 'logic' programming.

But I guess you can incorporate puzzles and scenarios into the game to teach problem solving too so yeah it really depends on how you innovate on the technology.

Quote from MikeWTF

3,884,294 Bought the game so far (10/24 2011) He made more than 50 Million US Dollar.. - I agree with you, if he really did it only because of the money he would be just like everyone else :dry.gif:

Wrong, he has to do it for the money because Mojang is a developing company, AKA a actual corporation so they need to make a income. As with all businesses, their "need" for income or revenue increases each time they count the muneh.

So they might go: "We need to earn more to pay off our development cost"
Then they will go: "We need to earn more to pay off our staff"
Then they will go: "We need to earn more so we can go buy some new stuff"

The excuse is endless really...

Look at EA games and see how they turned out from the start... Their greed got bigger and bigger until they got a incredibly FAT EGO.

If they didn't attempted to hire too many people to develop a single game, and only hired 1 professional programmer for that, then they would probably saved and not need to make extra money.

But nooo, they had to hire 200 programmers for a single game.

Since when can sticky pistons push other sticky pistons???

The problem is, we shouldn't consider minecraft to be a indie now, since Mojang is typically a company and is pretty much mainstreamed at this point.

You do realize that if Notch was a better debugger he would have cleared up all those bugs and such while adding extra content? To debug now after a year will be quite a pain to having to look up old hidden bugs and codes...

AI.

Enuf said.

A all-knowing sentiment being...

In minecraft.

I think I'll call him... "god"...