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This week, David & Toby cover a range of topics, from Notch's recent BAFTA Award announcement, a look at the new split-screen gameplay feature of the XBLA Minecraft port news on this week's snapshot, and a sneak peek at an interview with Jens "Jeb" Bergensten, with special focus on modding for Minecraft - take a look!

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Notch Revisits Piracy

Not long ago, Notch had a chat with Chris Hecker (of Maxis fame) at the recent GDC regarding the sensitive, ongoing issue of software piracy. While his quote is often mis-attributed ("If someone copies your game a trillion times, you won’t have a single lost cent”); the message seemed less about legitimizing piracy, and more about sending a message that worse things exist in the industry - and that pirated copies of the game could easily become bought ones, if the potential future customer were treated right. He went on to say that he "still think[s] piracy is wrong, but it's the level of wrong...me calling my friend an idiot. It’s wrong, but it’s such a minor thing. It’s ridiculously small."

He Also Reveals...

In other discussions at GDC, Notch talked with Chris about his thoughts on developing Minecraft, indie titles in general, and the curiously unanswered mystery of why no females appear to exist in the game. Among other things, Notch speculated that "about 62.5 percent" of any given behavior in-game was intentional, the rest being emergent behavior from the code that he wasn't expecting, but liked anyway. Wolves chasing sheep is one example of such a happy accident that ended up becoming an important bit of the setting as time went on.

He speculated that one of Minecraft's strongest suits is its lack of proper tutorials or official instructions in-game, as it always encouraged players to interact with each-other to exchange crafting tips and secrets. He was especially thrilled at how players became dependent on one another for the information, and it developed a culture of its own - a culture of crafting. Of course, despite all the unearthed crafting secrets, apparently one still remains; regarding a secret recipe, he said "there is one [recipe] people haven't found yet."

From there, he was curiously silent about what it could be. Can you discover it?

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
A secret? Better get hunting!

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
I read about this in GameInformer....I haven't found the secret yet....

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
what could the secret resipe be? or is there even one at all? maby he wants us to think that there is one so we try to discover it,but there isnt
really one at all. IF someone knows the recipe, if there is one please tell me

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Piracy will never end.
I'm not with it, but it will never end.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Not sure if we have a troll as a game creator,making us pursue for a unexisting recipe, what wouldbe a nice joke, or if it really exis. If it really does, Notch should have put it in a different code folder or something like that ( i'm not a programmer=P ) or modders should have found it ages ago.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
I know nothing about coding, but could someone decompile minecraft's code and look there for the secret recipe? Or would that take a ridiculously long time?

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Some one look for the secret recipe! I wonder what It might be...

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Maybe that "secret" is only the recipe... Perhaps we've already had the item, but no one knows how to craft it? (I'm talking about how mods like TMI give you all the times).

For example for those who don't understand.... Chainmail. People can get the item through multiplayer, SMP, etc by putting in the simple Item ID. Legitimately you can't craft it (it's made with the "Fire" block, which is unobtainable). Maybe... there is a way to make "Fire"?

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Like the previous poster said, there is no 'secret' item, as we know the entire list of in-game item codes. Honestly, I'm more willing to believe that Notch is just trolling us (think of Herobrine) than that there is some secret recipe no one's found yet.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
I actually think it's when you smelt diamond ore, you get a diamond. I found this back in Beta 1.5.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
A secret recipe doesn't necessarily have to be a new item.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
darnit guys! it aint a recipe! notch himself said so!
While all the recipes have been discovered, Notch says there is still something secret in the game nobody has discovered yet

if you dont believe:
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/03/07/notch-talks-minecraft-development-regrets-and-piracy.aspx

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Here is a pic of the item. https://dl-web.dropb....png?w=5f2f4ed0 Check the original terrain.png in the minecraft.jar
if you don't believe me. What is it, though?
Notch isn't trolling anybody.
Maybe they haven't added craftablity yet?

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
A secret recipe? A recipe for love? A recipe for disaster? The recipe for disaster sounds more like it. There should be no secret when people are snooping around the coding.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Quote from BopMeExtreme

^this

because the game-console states there are 177 recipes on load, and the wiki lists 177, too. it says 174 in the text on top though. but i counted.
the only things not counted are smelting-recipes, which are listed as follows:
addSmelting(Block.oreIron.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.ingotIron));
addSmelting(Block.oreGold.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.ingotGold));
addSmelting(Block.oreDiamond.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.diamond));
addSmelting(Block.sand.blockID, new ItemStack(Block.glass));
addSmelting(Item.porkRaw.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.porkCooked));
addSmelting(Item.beefRaw.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.beefCooked));
addSmelting(Item.chickenRaw.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.chickenCooked));
addSmelting(Item.fishRaw.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.fishCooked));
addSmelting(Block.cobblestone.blockID, new ItemStack(Block.stone));
addSmelting(Item.clay.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.brick));
addSmelting(Block.cactus.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.dyePowder, 1, 2));
addSmelting(Block.wood.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.coal, 1, 1));
addSmelting(Block.oreCoal.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.coal));
addSmelting(Block.oreRedstone.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.redstone));
addSmelting(Block.oreLapis.blockID, new ItemStack(Item.dyePowder, 1, 4));

no this has been known a long time. but does this code say you can smelt coal, redstone and lapis too? or am i reading it wrong, as i dont code myself?

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
I'm guessing it is the new sandstone but have no idea what the recipe is. Something to do with sandstone and sand????

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Quote from Zaccaboom97

I just found the recipe!

if you put a log in the craft bench you get x 4!!!

OMG HE FOUND IT!

But seriously, I think it has something to do with chainmail... (recipe for fire)

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
What happened to the post/comment I made a few minutes earlier? It just disappeared.

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This Xbox 360 Minecraft seems cool but I would like a bit more updates about pocket edition.

This Xbox 360 Minecraft seems cool but I would like a bit more updates about pocket editions development.

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Posted Mar 9, 2012
Piracy is Darwinism. If you create a good product, it will spread like wildfire, and if handled correctly by producers, can lead to more profit than what may normally have resulted.

Products that fail will either die off or force their creators to revamp it to something that people will like and want to spend their money on.

Give people a good reason.

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