1.8 Updates: Animal Actions, Secret Stuff

By Sacheverell Sep 7, 2011
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A short while ago, Notch talked about some of the exciting behavioral changes in animals for 1.8 - most notably, how they will now flee when attacked, rather than stand there and stare at you. This ended up having the added effect of wolf attacks looking more "natural", in a sense, as prey would now flee its attacker, rather than look around blankly and grunt. He went on to say that - due in part to the behavioral changes, and a desire to see more dynamic mob-to-mob interactions - he is beginning a super-secret weekend project! What does it entail?

We'll have the details when they're ready!

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fghjconner
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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Wtf, it just said 10 September, but now it says 9? Seems to be some dating issues...

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
I wonder if wolves are going to be able to control the new tamable livestock thats supposed to be added in 1.8. It would be nice to have some more uses for wolves.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
"While testing the biome code, I started running out of food in the game and started hunting animals. Cows would just stand there, looking at me as I mashed them over and over to get their precious loot, so I figured I’d just make that mechanic a bit more fun. Four lines of code later, and animals now flee randomly after taking damage. Hunting animals suddenly became a lot more fun and morally questionable as pigs would storm off grunting and chicken (or whatever the heck they are) would jump into ravines. But the real fun came later on."

I like how Notch doesn't even know what they are. I still say they look luck ducks. I wasn't too excited about the adventure update, to me it was just another update. This week has changed that drastically and I can't wait to get my pick into ver. 1.8.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
This would be fun. I can imagine my lava killer killing piggies...trying to run away in vain... 1.8 is awesome!

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
yay...now better working pork factories are possible because we can force pigs in a certain direction :DDDDDDDDD

(man i hope there are placeable spawners for each mob in 1.8)

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Any gameplay of it?

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
I want some meaty seafood from squid! I hope that this might be the secret.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Btw the date you posted this?, is 2 days in the future, :P, "09 September 2011 - 09:28 PM Posted By Sacheverell" and it is now 9-6-2011 or 9-7-2011, typo?

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
This is going to be cool.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
i'm sure whatever it is it has nothing to do with minecraft and is some kind of sock pig puppet show refinement.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
it's probably animals having fun eating each other haha

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
hum lol the time is wrong on the time stamp at the top it say 10 september 2011. At the time I write this it still sept 6 2011 22:32 so how can it be sept 10. lol

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Yay!

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
YES!!!!!! NOW I Can make a herd of pigs fall of a cliff! like the great buffalo cliff thing

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
They won't be hard to hunt; charge in and smack one with a sword and then when it runs hit it with a charged bow shot!

Anyone with me?

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
i want to farm some pigs plz make animal corals a thing!

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
I'm hoping the super-secret stuff is a wolf AI update.

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
When is it coming out though?

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Maybe a mob pathfinding system? :ohmy.gif:

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
in the blog post he also speaks of a swamp biome :smile.gif:

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