Notch spoke about the upcoming 1.8 Adventure Update, and more! We will have
Confirmed so far:
- cobwebs
- endermen
- new lighting
- experience orbs
- rivers
- oceans
- food-eating animation
- variable-strength bow (hold it longer for more damage)
- new (and expanded) biomes
- 1.8 will add Creative Mode
- Creative Mode will have flight
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can anyone confirm it?
I wouldnt be too harsh on him, I guess we all have very high expectations of something in a while, or dont like something even if it does make it better. I have to agree I also had some more expectations on some aspects, but meh, its still in BETA and improving :smile.gif:
Notch keep up the good work, also when is the release date for 1.8? Ive heard its the 28th (tomorrow) is that right?
When will there be an official minecraft for the iPhone and iPad?! I'm dying to see one!!!!
A lot of people are saying 1.8 is coming on the 16th of September. Some say 20th or longer, even. Some are saying tomorrow. Some are saying early September. I don't think there is an actual release date.
Enderman can teleport -.-
WE KNOW!!!!!!!!
My main expectations from 1.8 are:
-Enderman - to feel safe in a house with EGHTHUNDRED traps
-New lightning - oh saint pumpkin, I just LOVE it when lighning has like different colors and so on. To be honest lightnin now - is just smooth light-dark stuff. MOAR colors, I say. With new lighning we will have a.... PARTEEEEYYY
-Underground ravines, ruins and stuff like this. This are the most adventures thing out there. Dont you want unlimited exploring of this things? And like imagine if those ruins and ravines will have randomly generated TRAPS?
-Stuff Mojang doesnt say about. Maaan, really? You think PAX and stuff and twee-tweet and gogley+ will tell you EVERYTHING about 1.8? I know that Notch is giving surprises to fans of MC.
And that's it. You just wait there for 1.8, it will give you more than you just saw, ok?
Anyways ontopic. 1.8 looks good so far. Endermen though from what I saw seemed a little less dangerous than what notch made them appear to be... And if the video showing a guy killing one in one hit with a diamond pick axe is true... Im rather sad. I was hoping they would be hard to kill lol..
But alas, I haven't played and things can change alot before release so yeah. I'll just wait. Though waiting is killing me just about :tongue.gif:
I would imagine 1.8.. Also supposedly Notch might add the update in multiple parts. So maybe 1.8.2 or something?
This update isn't supposed to make adventure a "big" part, it is only supposed to make adventuring a more worthwhile experience. Notch did say that watermelons aren't grown like wheat, so there's another farming option. For the NPC villages he never said he didn't want to let them communicate or not house NPC's, he said they weren't added as of yet. If you even followed minecraft 1.8 you would see the RECENT interview with jeb, on 1.8 and jeb mentioned trading with the villagers
To me, there is not much more that can be added to minecraft, that doesn't take away from the feel that minecraft has tried to achieve for so long. They cannot simply just add a mod in, because for one, Notch and Jeb would have too much pride to out rightly add in someone's work, so they would end up tweaking it A LOT. 2: I may not know much about coding and all that, but I would assume it would conflict with some stuff.
To me, adventuring is going out to see all of the cool things instead of spending hours mining, and building. Which the underground ravines, and better dungeons, etc. will add A LOT to "adventure" part which you say this won't include..
About that mod support, that will just make it easier to ADD mods, that won't mean it will make all mods compatible with each other or be able to be used on servers.
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I'm guessing that 1.8 releases end of next week or beginning of the week after, as well as, having a few things added in we didn't hear of yet. Perhaps we get suprised with NPC's eh?
@Ryandolan123 That is only for Creative mode, which if you have ever played, you would see that you had unlimited of everything and there was no mobs, just the terrain. It was made like that so you can just build your heart out.