I watched IcyNewYear's video and everything looks amazing. I personally LOVE the textures of stone in the deeper stratas.

After taking a short break from Minecraft in general, I'm glad to see such a great update to welcome me back with open arms. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

Even though I haven't been around since the beginning, I would like to say congrats and thanks to FlowerChild and the community. For the last couple of years I have experimented around with many different mods, but the only one that I can consistently return to to have an amazing time is BTW. It has...

Thanks guys. These explanations make a lot of sense and have completely answered my question.

I thought about this, but I have seen similar things done in plenty of other games. I guess im just out of my league here and don't know what im talking about :)

Let me start off by saying that this is *not a suggestion, but is simply a question as to why a feature has not been implemented in vMC. My question is why do torches not give off light when held in the hand. From a developing stand point, how hard would this be to implement? I can imagine that a mo...

1 log = 4 planks = 16 high efficiency sticks = 8 burned items. (+ saw dust, if that burns) >/= coal So yeah, exploit. So that would essentially make them equally as efficient as charcoal, but only once you have a saw. I now see this as a problem because the saw comes before the kiln in the tech tre...

I think It's more efficient to use high efficiency sticks than planks, you get 1 bonus unit of smelting time per two planks I think. Exploit! It does kinda make sense that by "chopping" the wood into smaller pieces, you create more surface area and allow more oxygen to feed the fire, impr...

On the topic of pumpkins vs fishing, I think I am going to have to side with Ulfengaard. If you consider the problem in terms of the early game, farming pumpkins for food requires you to settle down permanently. Fishing, on the other hand, is an easy source of food wherever water is present. I guess...

I do not think this is a result of FC's modifications to world gen. I started a new world in 4.62 and found a desert village within 20 blocks of a desert temple, and a desert well was about 10 blocks from the villages actual well. I think the clustering of naturally generated structures is simply ju...

I can't help but cringe at all the ways gameplay will be more difficult from now on. However, in the back of my mind I know that these changes will produce an overall better experience. But still, damn... Am I a bigger or smaller tease if I say the something something is the first step in my epic br...

FlowerChild wrote:My own fault guys, but I think we're straying a little too far into off topic here. Please feel free to continue these various conversations elsewhere.

Makes sense. I withdraw my request for pictures. :)

DaveYanakov wrote:If it makes you feel any better I have in the past built a couple dozen walls out of vases filled with cobble in the past. The open air pillar look for a window or even the entire wall is quite pleasing.

Would you mind posting a picture of this? I am having a hard time visualizing a wall of vases.

Congratulations man! I wish you nothing but good luck with the future of BTW and the soon-to-be RTH. Glad to hear that things are wrapping up the way you want.

Still laughing at Shengji's "vBS" comment...

I can agree that I have never really had a problem obtaining obsidian. For me the new desert temples are more of a convenience than a huge find that devalues obsidian.

I look forward to what you end up doing in RTH to make mining both a valued activity and hopefully an interesting one. I think this was done very well in Terraria through the amount of things that can be found while mining. In Minecraft, there are abandoned mine shafts, dungeons, and mob spawners, ...

FlowerChild wrote:-Changed desert temples in one other subtle way that I'll leave to the player to discover ;)

I will be entering the next desert temple I find like a bomb technician.

I'm not an expert, but one tip I will add is when you harvest your mushrooms, leave more than one. The spreading of mushrooms is exponential, and if you leave 10 after harvesting your farm you will get much more output in less time than if you only left 2.

Is it possible that with the addition of the iron nuggets in BTW, my earlier suggestion of filtering iron out of dirt or gravel could now become valid? I ask simply because I would hate to see BWR die out.

Well that solves my mooshroom dilemma from the earlier release... And about the iron, my zombie spawner farm now has a much more practical use as an iron farm considering its output was just multiplied times nine. Thanks for the update!

Nah, it's fine. I'm planning to do the same thing to hunger actually, in the release following the next one. At present, there are items I'd like to make edible, but they're far too common to warrant a half hunger-pip in value (flowers are one example that Dave brought up), so I'll be increasing th...

BlackCat wrote:Quick question, would you guys like to hear some of my pre build logic in this thread? It just occurred to me, that might interest a few people.

I would be more than happy to listen to what you have to say. So by all means, fire away.

dawnraider wrote:Indeed. Some of the minor features have given the most fun, such as HCB, HCM, and especially HCH.

Couldn't agree more. It's when all the subtle, seemingly insignificant features come together, that you get an amazing experience.

Bergensten also revealed that he's considering changing up how "Minecraft" handles health and damage for players. "I'm leaning towards doing something radical on 'Minecraft'," he tweeted. "Changing health from 20 to 20.0 and reducing randomness of damage." He went on t...