Jeb has confirmed this week's tester jar, 11w48a! Remember, this will not patch on its own, so if you'd like to help out by testing it, grab the file here, and copy the new .jar file over your existing one. Be sure to report any bugs you may find on the Minecraft Wiki here.
What's New - Find Out Here
We have discovered the following in this week's tester (expect this list to update frequently):
New Features:
- Taiga biomes return
- Apples can randomly drop from trees
- Farmland trampling mechanics have been altered
- "Void fog" gone at bedrock level in Creative mode
Bugs:
- Breaking wheat can "trample" between 2 and 5 adjacent farmland blocks, this is being addressed
- Placing a block next to double-doors (wooden) can cause them to force open
- Sugar cane can be placed underwater
He's releasing weekly prereleases no matter what. Jesus, it's just a bug fix patch, how the hell can you people still find something to complain about? If I ever make a game, I'm never even visiting the forums.
There was no challenge in the first place. You weren't obligated to put your crops anywhere that could possibly be trampled. In any case, what a random thing to have strong opinions over. Were you livid that sugar cane couldn't be trampled?
They weren't under the impression that it would stop updating. Because they have brain stems. :sleep.gif:
Modders need to remember that they're still changing code that isn't theirs without the approval of Mojang. They should be thankful Mojang is allowing them to do this without being dicks about it.
When Mojang officially releases mod support (i.e. a way to add things without doing core hacks, which I think CanaryMod does - correct me if I'm wrong), then customer-service bitchery will be valid.
Read his twtitter to understand why you and people like you are wrong. Or look at skyrims 1.2 patch.
Just because its a patch of bug fixes doesnt mean its stable yet or should be rushed. There are new bugs introduced, and sometimes they can be worse than the bugs they are fixing.
If its a big enough change for them to do pre-releases there is good reason for it.
Before you would be an idiot to leave crops in the open because you'd lose them. It wasn't some super hard challenge to overcome, but at least it gave you some small reason to actually protect your crops.
Now I could just start up a new world and within seconds start throwing down wheat all over the ground with almost no worry.
APPLES!!!! TREES!!! LEAVES!!!! APPLES!!!!!!
I've never been so excited for an update.
It's an enchanted tool.
wait... you want your money back because jeb is fixing bugs? Shouldent you be happy about it instead?
Also @Mister_Tessera, they are still following the same update schedual they used to, they are just released these "pre-releases" for constant testing while they develop the update so we get better quality updates. Think of it like a test server is to an MMO.
Wait.. are you angry because jeb is bugfixing?? Shouldent you be happy about it instead :/
edit: also the drops
Well good thing my farm is in the desert!
Guess rain counts as jumping, probably will be fixed in the official release, hopefully.