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It would appear that they added shaders to the game, but they cycle randomly through a list, for a kinds of *wierd* effects. I also noticed new video options, including antialiasing, mipmaping, post processing, and fps capping. The game also seems to run much more smoothly for me, and announces in chat when an achievement is achieved.

The biome generation may also have been tweaked, because I am seeing a lot more unique landmasses and more differing landscapes, on two maps I generated.

I don't see any sand anywhere on the bottom of oceans, or clay. Its all gravel and nothing else. Is this intended? (I'd report it, but atlassian won't let me create an account)

What do you mean by "villagers can now ride on grum"

What the heck does that mean?!

Okay. 1.3 is shaping up to be the best game update of any game ever. Minecraft will be absofrickinglutely amazing after this thing goes live.

I really like the implications of the new multiplayer idea he has... If singleplayer and multiplayer become one and the same, he will have to update one less program... meaning more frequent updates or updates with more stuff! EVERYONE WINS

well it may be just me or a texture pack, but when I was in The End the chunks away from me did not unload and rather were covered in a haunting blue texture. Maybe it was the texture pack (dokucraft made from a customiser, which does not actually have a light gradient option changer) but I don't recall anything like this being in the past versions or even really possible.

Id Est it is a creepy texture in The End where far away things become a creepy blue.

Quote from Drakeington

Notch just announced the secret to the world on Reddit. He Said (Quote)
"So a while ago, I did some intentionally obscure code in the title screen to switch two letters around, making it say "Minceraft" (old running gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) instead of "Minecraft" on every 10000th game launch or so..."
It was even posted by Notch himself! THATS IT! (source)
http://www.reddit.co..._a_post_mortem/

oh well that makes a hell of a lot more sense

omg does it fix crappy swamp blending?!!!?!?!?!????!

This is great... an awesome way to learn whatever the teachers can build, a way to learn basic online etiquette, and all that jazz. I am really happy that someone finally did this!

does anyone know what texture pack they are using for this vid? It went really well with this mod...

Since levels are set to 0 when you die, I really hope this provides some options in SMP... For example, you die, and then you respawn with some modifier, like if I died for the first time I would be Scynscatha the 2nd or some such. Just a thought

And another point on this: PERMA DEATH IS NOT WORLD DELETION READ THE FECKING ARTICLE BEFORE FLYING OFF YOUR ****
Also, (and I made this point before) if you don't like leveling or towns or stuff just don't do it!!! While you will probably level up no matter what you do you don't have to work with towns or the dungeons! It's still optional! So stop complaining about how minecraft is turning into an MMO!!!!!!

i really like how one single voice of reason (thank you moderator) just completely quenched a flame war. That is the first time I have ever seen this happen on the internet, EVER.

THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT
I know many roguelikes delete all of your stuff, like Realm of the Mad God, a few that I wrote myself (that I should really distribute), and that seems to be all I can name of the top of my head. However, what many people in this forum seem to be forgetting is that since they think the idea of a world being deleted sucks, and since so many other people feel the same way, NOTCH WOULD NEVER IMPLEMENT IT. It is foolish to assume he would, and if he did not make it toggleable, HE WOULD LOSE A HUGE AMOUNT OF PLAYERS. Seriously, its just bad business... no one in their right mind would change a game that irrevocably. He just meant levels are lost as well as inventory, and would have said it outright if worlds are lost. Besides, wouldn't the article have been very careful to point that out if it was true?

And as for everyone flaming about mild RPG elements being added, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO USE THEM. Just stay level 1! Don't interact with towns! Don't go into the new dungeon areas! It's that simple!

And that is all I have to say about that.

I'm not entirely sure what he means by permadeath, but I imagine that he means you just lose your fancy leveled up character, not your world. That is way too harsh, and I really don' think he would do that. And if he does, it will probably be toggleable considering how damn harsh that is.

Has notch said anything yet about what will actually be living in the villages?