If Notch, the man himself, actually says in the opening sentence "I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun" - then what does that make the team who is now leading Minecraft? It's sort of an official statement that FC was right the whole time.... Anyways, y...

So, is it an offer Notch can't resist?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... ion-report

*coughs awkwardly* No void fog will make bedrock mining at lot less harrowing and much easier though. Not really, it just limited your vision to a certain number of blocks, for no apparent reason. If you lit up where you were, there was no danger, and I never found it harrowing, I just felt weirdly...

One thing I really do like in the recent snapshots that hasn't gotten a lot of attention is that they removed the void fog. Thank god! But that makes me wonder, the put it in over a year ago, if not 2, and not outrage in the community could convince them that it sucked. But now they get rid of it? N...

Taleric wrote:I swear ever time a major vMC LPer makes a reasonable feature comment it gets done ASAP. It is way too coincidental, can't remember if it was Etho or another.

Next up: Inventory size. Etho and Seth both recently complained about how it's been the same since Alpha. So watch out for that one ;)

Yeah, I think a code freeze on a game is one of the best things that can happen for modding. Rearchitecting the game on the other hand is the worst. ...particularly at this time. I don't know the latest sales figures of Minecraft, but I certainly think the novelty aspect of it is wearing off rather...

Definitely looking forward to the final release, but I also have to say I'm a bit sad about that. I've only played the mod for the last 2 years roughly so I wasn't there in the beginning, but having seen Minecraft's ragged edges getting transformed into a whole well-rounded game has really been grea...

There's a select few blocks where I think it looks pretty good, but I agree on the grass, looks really bad, and will look even worse when you add the old flowers, fern etc. It would be neat on saplings though, as they grow into a fully threedimensional tree, to see a tiny representation of the end r...

I have a feeling this is going to make you chuckle, Flowerchild. ;) http://youtu.be/R-3DnMtzk_c?t=7m3s As for the rest, I like the possibilities they add for mapmakers, but their focus on that aspect as of late surely is only interesting for a very small crowd. That wolf-thing seems like an awfully ...

Zisteau mentioned they were running a 1.7 pack. Err, yeah. Fair enough. I suppose I could have worded that better... Sorry. Guess they're using devbuilds or something then. No worries, it's all in good fun, but it's quite interesting to see what will eventually become of all this. First this whole ...

Is it just me or has Mojang killed modding in general? Are you sure the mods simply aren't released to the public yet? The Mindcrack guys are currently running a rather heavily modded 1.7 server, though I wouldn't be surprised if they're essentially beta-testing it for the modders as the pack they'...

As always, I'm very happy I just stepped away from the whole thing versions ago and decided I'd no longer update to new versions of MC. Being dependent on a changing code base is bad enough. Being dependent on one going through what is essentially a complete rewrite bit by bit for goals I don't eve...

Is it just me or has Mojang killed modding in general? I was just browsing the MCF Mods section again and realized that hardly anything at all was running with 1.7.x, so I went to the Wiki and found out that pretty much only the stuff like McPatcher, Optifine and TMI was updated to 1.7... no Modload...

Just a funny little thing I've come across, not really related to this discussion but sort of...

Have a close look around 0:39... =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMoS3z6L2rQ

if it's done right there shouldn't really be one, it should (we don't know how they work) only send a signal when the frame is updated. As there is no way to spam updates onto a frame, there should be a negligable performance hit, even if you could spam them it would be no worse than a redstone clo...

I'm not saying I think that Mojang should intentionally decrease the power of map making tools or what have you, however, I do think I can see why improving them in the ways they have may not result in more interesting map content. I think part of the reason people make these things is to pull some...

Looking at the screenshot.... so when you mouseover the enchant it shows you what the result might be? Genious. Why not make the Enchant visible altogether?

I'll be experiencing that first-hand tomorrow night as well and am quite curious how it'll play out and if everyone will stick with it. There is one guy who has played BTW with me before, although that was before all the hardcore changes to the early game were implemented... I plan on making a let's...

because they don't want to just release the source code themselves for whatever mysterious fucked up reason. Wasn't it for legal reasons that they didn't release the source code? I thought that was the official reasoning behind it so it wouldn't be "open source" and they could still claim...

I expected a lot more. It looks like they just added a bunch of new biomes, with a few changes to snow biomes and biome placement. I was glad when they said they weren't including the new terrain to the snapshot because that would mean they want to work on it more, but then decided they're pretty m...

...glad I'm not the only one who likes the new world gen... yeah, granted, the mesa looks extremely weird right now, I think it is the completely parallel high-contrast stripes that just makes it weird. It's particularly strange in the amplified world. But nothing really strikes me as off-the-chart ...

Edit: tested it out, generated a world - nice, really nice. Are you just talking about the amplified terrain generation? Because I tried the regular and was far from impressed. The amplified bit is just an option that has very little to do with the new terrain gen, and would probably be exceedingly...

I have just watched the first two minutes of this, and quite frankly, I really like what I see there in terms of terrain generation. Not sure my server could handle this, but o well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmKYtRM6iU Watching the rest right now. But I have to say, from what I've seen, I am ...

I just started a new server (4.87) with a friend to finally get to all the new early-game mechanics since we had progressed quite a bit on our old world already, so the changes didn't affect us all that much. It's a 2 player co-op, and we have all the hardcore stuff enabled and died a few times alre...

....and they seem to have taken the whole thing to the next level. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1865131-upside-down-mobs-easter-egg/ I mean, sure, why not, can't always take everything seriously and throw in some fun stuff every once in a while. I mean it would be very funny if you had a map ...