I'm going live with a new BTW world at http://twitch.tv/escondida in about 20 minutes (6:00 p.m. US Central Time).

Streaming a cave crawl in a newly-pierced cave at my new base at 6:00 p.m. CST today (20th Jamuary [sic]), at http://twitch.tv/escondida. Archived recordings at http://youtube.com/user/aescondida

Streaming in 20 minutes at http://twitch.tv/escondida. I'm going to be jabbering at the channel for a little bit before then just to see whether yesterday's audio mishaps recur. Hopefully not.

The stream goes live in 15 minutes, and I'm currently taking requests for what to call the world/use as the random seed at http://twitch.tv/escondida.

Hey, all. Next Mon and Tues (the 7th & 8th), from 6-8 p.m. US CST, I'm going to be streaming BTW at http://twitch.tv/escondida . Anybody who feels like watching me muddle through the early stages of a new world should feel free to drop in. (Why set a time ahead of time? Because that's how I roll...

That truly is a beautiful monstrosity you've built. I actually laughed out loud at the reveal that the whole thing was the most complex wool farm ever devised.

I definitely spend a lot of time on roads, with little wayposts here and there so I don't get stuck running for my life too often in the likely event I get overenthusiastic in my construction. It's a great feeling to slowly expand your base of operations outwards that way, and an even greater feelin...

Recently got back into BTW, and this new release seems generally awesome. I already have a bunch of paths in my world that I know I'm going to be replacing wood and packed dirt slabs with gravel slabs to go with the gravel that they're mainly made of. That change to jungle initial spawns will be a r...

IIRC, HC spawn will not deign to spawn you at a level "too low" - basically, you won't end up at the bottom of a ravine, underground, or in a cave somewhere...nor the bottom of an ocean. If the game picks a spawn point that is too low, it'll re-roll. If it, for some reason, picks enough b...

Even reading it online, without the excruciatingly slow text crawl, you have my sympathies. To quote Rosencrantz or Guildenstern (dead, either way), "Half the things he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all!"

Hehe...the quest markers in Skyrim drove me frigging nuts. Huge beautiful open world to explore, yet I have magical radar telling me where everything interesting is, so I spent more time looking at it, than at my actual surroundings. <face palm> +1, for real. I tried playing the game unmodded for a...

In the Dev Diary, in regards to BTW(1?) having an end and moving to BTW2/Return to Home... Can I make a plea for still having the explosives update? Let's go out with a bang. ;) ...and it may be low-hanging fruit, but this is what came to mind for the real The End: -gb0mxcpPOU Everybody loves Dr. St...

testificate villages have churches and priests. Who are they praying to? The Ender Dragon; that's why their souls are particularly valuable in the war against it. (-: Who knows; maybe Steve and the Testificates once belonged to the same species. Everybody else worshiped (or tacitly accepted) the Dr...

Detritus wrote:but what purpose could harnessing lightning serve?

Oh, this and that.

Spot on, thank you! Glad to oblige, and thanks! Wordpad will work too, and I think that ships with Windows these days. Oh, cool. I'd assumed the same bug applied to most of their tools, but I'm glad to hear that's not the case. (I'm making a mental note for future reference, for when my typical adv...

That's also pretty standard practice; UNIX-based operating systems (such as Linux or even Mac OS X) generally use "magic numbers" at the beginnings of files to determine the file type, rather than relying on something as variable as the filename. As to the formatting oddities, that's just ...

Sarudak wrote:[Animals might be made agressive] by domestic animals being exposed to exotic mutagens naturally present in the nether/end.

Steve, of course, being already some kind of quasi-immortal (except in hardcore mode) mutant(?) and therefore immune.

Two wise people gave the world quotes I feel really sum up the difference between btw & vanilla (well, the vanilla of these benighted latter days). Antoine de Saint Exupéry defined engineering perfection as being achieved "not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no lo...

FlowerChild wrote:Well, you can always cook them later, but I doubt you'll ever be able to uncook them ;)

So in other words, if Steve *will* be getting the ability to reduce entropy in a closed system at the furthest end of the tech tree, FC is keeping his mouth shut about it.

...Poor T-Rex.

Been trying this out; I definitely appreciate the mod! It works very well and is a big help with all the recipes I haven't bothered to memorize. Thanks for the great work!

I guess my trepidation regarding Hardcore Buckets might be because deep down I am a bit of an obsessive control-freak, and not being able to have full control over the functioning of liquids in the game is a little scary. But then again, maybe that could be what makes it fun This was my experience,...

I have two hc spawn experiences, one from each of my main worlds. I'll give you the tl;dr of this post here and now: hc spawn in singleplayer is really cool. World 1: This world's spawn has almiost everything you could ask for, all in a day's walk. There's a swamp, a taiga, a desert, plains and a fo...

There I was, not planning to play any Minecraft today, when all of a sudden this release happens. Guess I'll be updating to 1.4.2 & 4.31 tonight after all! I'm looking forward to finding out how the changes play. Thanks, FlowerChild, for the continuing hard work and inspired design. If it weren'...

I can recommend the seed Visions . You'll spawn in the middle of an ocean on a smallish island. Its salient features are a single tree, some clay under the water, a nice bluff for haning a windmill off of, another island to the northwest...and a massive, partly-flooded, very deep cave system accessi...