Alright, thanks for the help. As for getting hungry, they become hungry again after producing dung, right? Also, do I have to worry about any ill effects if I don't feed them?

I am very confused about what exactly you can feed wolves, and what will happen when you feed them. This is confusing enough in vanilla minecraft, where feeding wolves can both heal them and also cause them to breed; I'm still not sure when each thing happens, and I'm also not sure what you can feed...

Yeah, that's what I meant, sorry if I implied something else.

A bit of searching found this, which is still active, so it seems whatever fix mojang implemented didn't fully solve the problem. I'll try putting fences around the outside of the pen; hopefully that will stop the animals from disappearing.

So, occasionally when I come back to my animal pen I find that there are fewer animals than there should be. I'm certain it's lit up and there are no ways for monsters to get in. It also should be plenty big so the animals shouldn't be suffocating each other. I think that this is just because of the...

A related question: under what circumstances would you consider it okay to cheat? For example, (I may be wrong but) I think most people would agree that if, for example, your computer crashed and messed up your inventory, causing you to lose some expensive items, it would be reasonable to cheat thos...

Nah, if that had been in there before, people would have known about it. I mean, if there is an easter egg when naming your sheep Dinnerbone, the first thing people would do is try giving the names of other mojang staff.

Sorry to be off topic, but what texture pack is that?

I checked there but didn't see anything; I thought it might have been something hidden that you didn't mention. Anyway, upon breaking more pumpkins they have all given me four seeds so I guess those other ones exploded so much that the seeds went too far for me to notice them. Sorry about that.

Quick question about this update - did it reduce the amount of seeds dropped by pumpkins? In the last version I seem to remember getting 4 seeds from every pumpkin, while this version I am only getting 1 or 2... my sample size is not very large though, so it might just be my bad luck.

Yeah, the issue is that I am casually mining when suddenly there are zombies attacking me out of nowhere. I suppose I should try actually blocking off dark passages to keep them from coming out. EDIT: I don't see how that is really exploity, though... running away from skeletons, and then coming bac...

Thanks for all of the different perspectives, everyone. From what I've heard, I think I might try to suppress my inner fear of starvation and try making an iron pick first. On a related note, how do you all manage to go caving and survive long enough to get an iron pick? I always end up being ambush...

Thanks for the advice, everyone. For me, I feel like the game is just a race against starvation until I get a renewable food source, and it's a race that I want to win as fast as possible.

I have tried playing better than wolves a few times, but have always ended up dying before I can get enough iron to make even a single ingot. I hope to get past that point in this try, but I am not sure what to do when I reach it. My instinct would tell me that the best thing to do first would be to...

Yup, I have no issue with game over states. When I made these changes it was with the knowledge that SMP servers in particular could theoretically become incapable of sustaining life, but with the decision to not minimize the SSP experience (which is and always has been my focus) in order to accomm...

Now that easy and peaceful difficulties are no longer with us, should references to them on the wiki be removed? (e.g. "Zombies breaking wooden doors and sieges occur in all difficulties except peaceful (sieges now follow regular spawning rules).")

The longer you stay in an area, the harder it gets to survive as resources are depleted and animals are killed by zombies and spiders. This got me to thinking, would it be possible to have your world so resource-depleted that you cannot accomplish anything? The primary thing that I am thinking of is...