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If you don't have internet, how did you post that comment? Or even get on minecraft forums?
I'm sure it comes out in November...
I use the internet from my android it very awsome sadly I cant use it to teather
It really sounds almost like the sound slimes make when bouncing around..really tricks me when playing on superflat world presets...>_<
And in deserts lol
I almost forgot the sound problems... they finally fixed the "stomping chickens" with a clicking sound... talk about lazy LOL and the zombies sound like you're stirring mac n cheese when they walk, and so do the spiders
-supermario2902
I said earlier that people complaining about the API were clueless about what it actually does.
Q.E.D.
The formal recommendation to get this accomplished can be found here:
https://mojang.atlas...rowse/MCAPI-102
You are welcome to participate in that discussion, although it seems to have a very fractured set of views for how it will eventually work. In other words, I doubt consensus is going to happen any time soon without Notch directly getting into the mess or the Mojang dev team simply declaring a course of action and moving on. It also involves legal and financial issues that will end up involving nearly the entire company before it can be implemented.
See also the above proposal, but also note that the purpose of the API is to establish a "common format" for plug-ins (the correct term, as "mods" are for "modifications" of the game code itself... which these are not doing if they stick with the API alone to talk with Minecraft).
I do agree that some mod programmers will likely be frustrated with the changes. For those that can't adapt to simply using an API instead of the old ways of making stuff, I have little sympathy. Those programmers who are challenged on a philosophical basis because they won't be able to share their extensions (both genuine mods and plug-ins) to Minecraft because they want to either earn some money on the side (aka adfly income or even simply charging money for the plug-in) or because they want to stick to an open source software license (like the GPL) and Mojang won't let them.... those kind of developers will be driven out of the community. It seems likely both kinds of developers will be driven out if things continue on its current course.
I really don't know who will be left if you drive out both the libertarians and hard-core capitalists from the mod development community, but it won't be pretty if that really happens.
Also discussed in the above link, but dismissed with a handwave that I think needs some extra attention. That software sent through upload/download links will by necessity conform to the API before it will work provides some sort of security. Malicious mods can and even are being written at the moment, but you are correct it can get worse.
The Bukkit team is integrated into Mojang. It takes time, so I'm not really sure what you are referring to here with this statement. Bukkit will not become the API, but due to the experience these guys have with Bukkit there will certainly be many features of that 3rd party API which will likely be integrated into Minecraft.... with a whole bunch of other features. It is a clean-sheet reimplementation though, so existing API libraries will not be supported directly.
jeb dinnerbone please fix this bug as soon as possible so no one else has to feel the pain i am feeling now