I have to agree on the PR nightmare front. -snip- You did read the chatlog or at least parts of it, right? There were people there that seemed to be simply screaming at him for telling them a change was going to happen, and that they were going to be enforcing their rules. Saying that MC is going to...

Well, sounds like there's some talk about changing the EULA regarding servers and people making money off of them. There's a video that sheds some light on the situation. After reading parts of the pastebin chatlog with Grum I'm just disgusted by the people there. Bloody immature, entitled kids. &qu...

-Added a few new trades to villagers to further flesh out the system in the previous releases. Flesh out, eh? I do wonder... -Changed a little something something about priests. This one you should probably worry about. O-oh no. When you say there's something to worry about I get really worried. -C...

Thanks for linking this. It certainly isn't something everyone instantly thinks of when they hear the word game, but as FC put it, an interactive philosophical statement suits well. I love how everything about it seems so deliberate. Every prompt, other than the first option in each section, tells y...

Yes...but "hero" is the word that I find questionable. BTW Steve doesn't exactly qualify :P Hero, villain, aren't both quite similar but simply seen through a different point of view? I could easily see Steve seeing himself as the hero, the good guy. I could just as easily see him knowing...

Happy 10th of April, and thank you, Flowerchild! I'm game, my current world has been on hold for a good while now, anyways, and it just feels right to start from scratch for this. Can't promise videos (though I've been looking into it) but I'll try and make sure to take pics at the very least. I als...

Wait wait wait. Jeb, who no more than a couple days ago was calling Mob Farms "basically item duping", is adding a way to automate farming? Yeah, that was pretty much my first thought, as well. I guess I could see him thinking food is such a non-resource in vanilla that it doesn't matter ...

Glad to hear your break served you well. I guess what they say about walking away and looking at things with fresh eyes really is true, then. To be honest, I've been excitedly waiting for this. I haven't played too much BTW recently but that's likely going to change soon. Thank you, Flowerchild, for...

While lurking around, I saw this in the MCF thread I know of only one BTW player that is able to play through the entire mod's tech-tree without dying a single time, and she gets mad props for it. and got to thinking. How far do you guys get before your first death? I haven't started new worlds afte...

In my main world (started at 4.891) I went hoe first. I really wanted to get sustainable food before I went any deeper into the caves even though I had a few stacks of meat stored from the initial slaughtering and some hunting trips. I figured that if I ended up dying, the hoe would definitely make ...

hunger resolution and other hunger changes Oh man, I know I'm going to hate you so much when I open up my world with these changes. I just started a new one yesterday after a while of not playing, had my first brush with the Darkness (I've never been so happy to plonk a furnace down!) and found som...

Any Magic The Gathering fans out there? *raises hand* Though I wouldn't necessarily call myself a fan, that communicates a much greater dedication than mine. Haven't bought new cards in a year or two, it got kinda expensive... I'm still perfectly happy to play and stuff, though. Also played Pokemon...

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Hmm, yeah, I see your point, I wasn't thinking about it from that point of view. Baby steps, eh? Well, here's hoping he was indeed thinking of it in context of those changes!

If you scroll down to his earlier tweets, you'll see that him and I had a bit of an exchange about charcoal recently, and I mentioned charcoal devaluing coal in the early game. He may already be thinking about that, which is why the smoothstone thing is occurring to him now. I think he's working on...

I don't really see how it would provide any gameplay benefit. Finding trees in Minecraft is trivial, and since you can burn trees into charcoal in vanilla, all this would do is make it take longer for you to craft whatever it was you were going to craft. It simply wastes time. Now, if they added cha...

and almost no chance of actually dying to the trap. Yeah, that's kinda what I thought yesterday, too, after like 5 hours of play without establishing a base and just carrying everything valuable after a long and scary abandoned mineshaft adventure and a few cave expeditions. Inventory was obviously...

Stuff and things Oh yes, I definitely agree. I don't think people who'd really want to play BTW would really like handholding, anyways. I admit I did mention the day/night thing in my "fluff list". I guess I was more focusing on the "get through the first few weeks to the point of ge...

Short list of what I'd include: *The changes of all the hardcore modes, with emphasis on armour, beds, buckets, hunger and movement, since those are the ones that really affect your progress early game. The rest should be mentioned, too, though. *Finding villages is essential since wheat is only ava...

Yeah, I have to agree that the health regen thing is pretty big. Those damn cave spiders... Three times yesterday I had to dig into a wall (while fighting off zombies I couldn't see until they were very close. Thanks, blindness effect!), take a short break and read the forum on the side while waitin...