You need to manually place the second portal in the nether. It will not create a second portal too close to an existing portal, but it will use two portals correctly if they already exist because you put them there.
Prison servers are a class of role-playing servers which might as well all be run by the same people. They spawn you in a grief-protected prison and your goal is to escape. Most of them have nearly identical maps despite being separate servers, and the guards (OPs) are almost always jerks who will not only lock you up but ban you for trying to escape or even for fighting back when they try to kill you.
Who's being an ass? The one who points out that this one detail is not actually confirmed yet, or the crowds of people who claim to be 100% right because of pure speculation (however likely it may be) and flame him for the most ridiculous reasons?
Jeb's livestream showed that the Eye of Ender is probably the stronghold locator. He threw it up in the air and it pointed in one particular direction before falling and being able to be picked up again.
You could build a staircase with railings up to the top of the mountain. If you don't want a permanent staircase there, just make it out of dirt and dig it away when you get your first animals up.
This thread is proof that this community is pathetic. The OP raised a perfectly valid point: that it is not confirmed that the new portals go to the Ender, only to be flamed repeatedly for refusing to accept "proof" (read, Notch saying he would make an Enderman dimension).
It doesn't matter how likely it seems that the portal will in fact go to the Ender. If you claim that it is a known fact that the portals do this, the burden of proof is on you to show a source. Claiming it was brought up in a tweet at some point is not proof. Similarly, linking to a discussion where a vague description of the (possibly) new dimension was mentioned is not proof.
Now back on topic: I don't think the air portal goes to the Skylands because Notch stated that you would probably get there by sleeping. It is very possible that the Skylands and the Ender are the same thing, however.
I agree that Minecraft is easier than it used to be, but the changes that make it easier make it much more fun to play.
The change in ore deposit sizes really only applies to iron, which was significantly increased in early beta. That change really was needed, as iron tools were completely unsustainable before then.
Things like potions give you advantages over the mobs, sure. But they also create an entirely new dynamic full of interesting buffs that could allow you to do really interesting things, like mining diamond while swimming through lava or jumping across 6 block gaps.
You guys just love over-complicated, unbalanced systems, don't you?
The current system allows you to work with a small pen of animals; it doesn't force you to gather hundreds of them in order to breed them fast enough to get a suit of leather armor. Instead of tying your animal supply to your animal supply, causing exponential growth (which is a very bad thing in this case, as those with lots of animals get even more animals while those without many animals are stuck), it is tied to your wheat supply.
What does this mean? Now, large-scale wheat farming is actually rewarding! Even the hunger bar never got me to eat large amounts of bread, but now that the wheat is actually useful in the short term, there is an immediate benefit to doubling the size of your wheat field. Also, you don't have to have so many animals that your game crashes. If a breeding cooldown is added, you are effectively required to maintain large herds to be able to breed fast enough.
Making a mechanic as important as hunger toggleable puts Minecraft on a very slippery slope. You're asking to be able to pull out a large part of the game and replace it with a different system at will, and you have not even stated what that other system would be.
If Notch starts making things like this toggleable, where does it stop? Should you be able to toggle off lava damage (or more accurately, toggle off lava damage only when you are actually falling into lava, only to change it back afterwards)? What about people who don't like trees? Do they deserve to be given an option to disable trees and be given an alternate method to get wood?
How many processor cores do you have? The 1.9 pre-release uses a second thread to save chunks, essentially running two programs at once. If you only have one core, the chunk saving can hog all the processing power, preventing the game itself from running fast enough. If this is the problem you're having, I know there is a fix available if you look around.
I really know nothing about the cause of the 1.8 pre-release lag, so I'm not completely sure the two are related.
Well they get banned and don't get their money back. You make a simple thing saying no refunds and then they can dispute it on paypal. Simple. As long as you put no refunds and info about banning paypal is on your side. I had it happen and they lost their money.
It doesn't work like that. If you promise a month of play time for $2, putting "no refunds" on the web page doesn't allow you to only give them a day of play time, unless they broke some very clear rule that was presented before they made the payment. That means "no griefing" would not be sufficient, because it's anyone's guess what "griefing" actually is.
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TL;DR: don't play on prison servers.
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Who's being an ass? The one who points out that this one detail is not actually confirmed yet, or the crowds of people who claim to be 100% right because of pure speculation (however likely it may be) and flame him for the most ridiculous reasons?
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It doesn't matter how likely it seems that the portal will in fact go to the Ender. If you claim that it is a known fact that the portals do this, the burden of proof is on you to show a source. Claiming it was brought up in a tweet at some point is not proof. Similarly, linking to a discussion where a vague description of the (possibly) new dimension was mentioned is not proof.
Now back on topic: I don't think the air portal goes to the Skylands because Notch stated that you would probably get there by sleeping. It is very possible that the Skylands and the Ender are the same thing, however.
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The change in ore deposit sizes really only applies to iron, which was significantly increased in early beta. That change really was needed, as iron tools were completely unsustainable before then.
Things like potions give you advantages over the mobs, sure. But they also create an entirely new dynamic full of interesting buffs that could allow you to do really interesting things, like mining diamond while swimming through lava or jumping across 6 block gaps.
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The current system allows you to work with a small pen of animals; it doesn't force you to gather hundreds of them in order to breed them fast enough to get a suit of leather armor. Instead of tying your animal supply to your animal supply, causing exponential growth (which is a very bad thing in this case, as those with lots of animals get even more animals while those without many animals are stuck), it is tied to your wheat supply.
What does this mean? Now, large-scale wheat farming is actually rewarding! Even the hunger bar never got me to eat large amounts of bread, but now that the wheat is actually useful in the short term, there is an immediate benefit to doubling the size of your wheat field. Also, you don't have to have so many animals that your game crashes. If a breeding cooldown is added, you are effectively required to maintain large herds to be able to breed fast enough.
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If Notch starts making things like this toggleable, where does it stop? Should you be able to toggle off lava damage (or more accurately, toggle off lava damage only when you are actually falling into lava, only to change it back afterwards)? What about people who don't like trees? Do they deserve to be given an option to disable trees and be given an alternate method to get wood?
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I really know nothing about the cause of the 1.8 pre-release lag, so I'm not completely sure the two are related.
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It doesn't work like that. If you promise a month of play time for $2, putting "no refunds" on the web page doesn't allow you to only give them a day of play time, unless they broke some very clear rule that was presented before they made the payment. That means "no griefing" would not be sufficient, because it's anyone's guess what "griefing" actually is.
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