Snapshot 13w47a Ready for Testing!
This week's Snapshot brings an exciting new feature: the ability to live-stream your game on Twitch.tv with one click! How does it work?
Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Then, while in the game, you may check the quality settings in Options -> Broadcast Options, or just go ahead and start broadcasting at any time by hitting F6. This key can be configured in the Controls options.
Currently, the livestreaming feature is only supported on Windows (XP and higher) and Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and higher. If you cannot start broadcasting in-game, go to the options screen and it should say why it isn't working.
To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher.
This is a really awesome feature, and I will be demonstrating it on my Twitch page throughout the day*! Feel free to drop by, see how it works, and ask questions.
SERVER CROSS-PLATFORM JAR:
Click here!
* - Barring breaks for food, sleep, and/or technical issues - it IS a Snapshot, after all!
You seem to ignore my entire comment. I was like, the seventh person or so to comment on this thread, and the first thing I did was go to the wiki to see the changelog. All it mentioned was the Twitch thing, and had no bugfix mentions at all.
I mean, unless you can go back in time and show me where I missed that at like, ten this morning, then sure. But it's a wiki. Wikis change.
ETA: Oh, and you edited your post.
Actually it means nothing.
I'm sorry, I just could not resist. Hate me if you like it's just.....Well...
And on to more serious notes. I really hope that this gets bukkit servers back in action. I suspected that this update would break a lot of things, but were almost a month out from the release and the poor bukkit people don't have a beta build up. I've been reduced to playing Mechwarrior Online.
Please make my bukkit work on 1.7
Okay,yeah I wish bukkit and the mods(should be a band,lol)would get back into action...
So,how do you think I could fix that problem,or do you not have an answer.
Minecraft wiki has quality control. Did you know that? I did read your comment, and you seemed to not have read mine after the edit.
I'm saying that just because there's no mention of a bugfix doesn't mean there isn't any. Making assumptions makes an ass out of you and me.
Hopefully they'll be bug fixes and the ability to change your name fairly soon!
Although, I will say that it doesn't seem to be the biggest update I've ever seen. Then again, Mojang may surprise us. Still, bug fixes would be a nice thing to have, but I guess those will have to wait.
I think it says something that I've stopped expecting that. Not from 'Minecraft' specifically, mind you. Just in general... from anyone.
See, this is the thing: It's not like people are expecting them to fix every bug at once. That's just..... well, stupid.
It's that people rightfully expect them to at least start fixing a FEW of them, particularly the larger ones that either heavily interfere with the game or just outright keep players from being able to play it at all. They arent small glitches, and they arent super rare, and there's quite a number of them.
And I wouldnt expect too much of Mojang fixing the errors in how that (the Twitch feature) works, considering that they leave monstrous, game-shattering glitches in there and add unnecessary things in place of it.
And besides that.... those that stream frequently, and actually get viewers? They're already going to have a full, reliable setup that they use in order to do that.... making THIS utterly redundant. And as with much of the game, the Twitch feature is likely to very randomly develop new, wacky glitches as various things in the game get altered by continuing updates, and as various unfixed bugs interfere more and more.
I know that seeing so many angry players is annoying, but with this one.... they actually do have a proper reason for it that's kinda been validated many times recently.
One way or another, the update IS a hindrance. That development time could have been used to make the actual game experience better, at the very least undoing some of the glitches that 1.7 specifically introduced. That, actually, should make the most sense, and would to most developers, who will tend to put out a great many "hotfix" patches after introducing any sort of major update. The decision to do THIS though..... yeah, my respect for the devs is really starting to get bent out of shape with this one.
I mean, hell: The core reason why the snapshot updates are even DONE is so that bugs can be found, and thus fixed, before the main update goes live. Yet.... this really doesnt happen. And when it DOES, the glitches that get fixed are often extremely low-priority ones, such as backwards bed textures or crap of that nature.
A sad state for the game to be in, really. I dunno about others, but I for one am expecting to be stuck with 1.6 for..... quite awhile.
At least I have mods to use though, so there's that at least...
Oh, hell. Can't wait to see random noobie 12-year-olds livestreaming NOT-epic Minecraft fails. Agreed?
plus you can watch tutorial videos while playing.