Sounds amazing. All of it, the ancient tomes, the ritualistic bookshelf layout. All of it. Should've been done like that in the first place. Did anyone else learn the alphabet before findin' out it doesn't mean jack shit? Yeah. Yep, I learned the alphabet from the Commander Keen games where it was ...

Hey I just stumbled upon this and thought I might post it here ... with all the talk about Notch possibly funding or helping to fund Psychonauts 2, it looks like he has some other plans for charity. I sometimes check out Ludame Dare (sorry I'm so horrible with names) and it seems to somewhat take o...

Aha, I think I figured it out! With all the talk of zombies attacking villagers, FC is changing villagers to drop brains on death for luring zombies and making Frankenstein monsters! I'm sure there is more to it than this, though, just need to figure out the rest.

I assume you are talking about just a gear and not the gearbox, in which case, isn't this true of every item that isn't a tool and can't be placed? Isn't it default minecraft behaviour to swing your arm when you click, regardless of whether you are holding an item or not.

They apparently run faster than zombies shamble and can usually outrun them. Which means you tend to already have survivors, even without actual self-defense added yet. Plus, the chunk in question would need to be loaded for them to come under attack, meaning that the player would have to be nearby...

I'm sure the terrain generation modder's will figure out a way to have the mountains above 128 before we know it. Oh yeah, already been done, they'll probably be updated in time for 1.2 to be released now that the new file format is known, whereas previously they would only work if you had cubic ch...

I had thought they had mentioned at some point that they wouldn't (ever?) change the terrain gen to go above 128 blocks so it wouldn't negatively affect performance. The change seems to be there just to support player buildings. In a way, I prefer it this way as it means that if you find an epic mou...

Some nights in villages will be worse than others… Looks like new moons (guessing) will cause zombie sieges, good self limiting mechanism for villager population, though I'm still wondering how any will survive past a week though, as after a couple of nights almost all the doors in the village will...

I don't recall them saying at any point that they were inspired by Minecraft. And if we're going to start guessing at their inspirations, Dwarf Fortress is infinitely more likely to be their primary inspiration as it's the same exact genre as Castle Story. I'm reluctant to call Dwarf Fortress style...

Castle Story Still in the pre-alpha stage, but it looks promising. You design castles and designate mines, and your bricktron minions gather and build for you. At a later stage they will add fighting and castle defence features. They are using the Unity engine, which I know little about, so not sur...

I haven't played it myself yet, but from Morv's news there was a comment about this. I think they were only allowing wolves to enter breeding mode if they were at max health, otherwise food would just heal them.

Random mobs is installed by MCPatcher by default if you don't disable it.

Roll back to 1.8 or whichever version they were introduced, you couldn't dig 30 blocks without hitting one, made lighting up the underground such a pain if you wanted an efficient mob grinder.

and an Oddworld game. God, I'd love soooo much a new Oddworld game. The two firsts one were so awesome, I spent hundreds of hours playing them over and over again :) Hello! Hi! Follow me! Okay! I got stuck in the first one about 3/4 of the way through, then got lost, then forgot the controls. The p...

About 25% of cats have different chemical recptors and are unaffected by catnip. The odd ones out tend to have a similar reaction to honeysuckle. Yeah, so I see from watching the infotainment video linked above. There must be a honeysuckle scent in our cat scratching post then, he often goes crazy ...

We have a tunnel that we spray with liquid catnip, one of our cats just goes and hotboxes in there. The other cat seems entirely unaffected by catnip, but then he is already daft.

The odd thing I've noticed with catnip is sometimes it just chills them out and sometimes they just go mental.

But, since you mention it, can you find me a Hobbit hole that can accommodate someone who is 6'2". I understand the architects in the Shire never really accounted for it, but maybe there was one or two freaks of genetics they had to make arrangements for. Gandalf managed it, so the ceiling hei...

When I start a new world, I always cheat with TMI to give myself a starter kit of torches, an axe and a pick, then never use it again. Yes, they don't take long to get legit, but I've done the punching wood progression to death, it doesn't hold much enjoyment, I'd rather just get on with things. In ...

I've had mixed results with dentists, my current one is nice and explains everything he does, instead of just attacking you willy nilly with steel tools until the blood gets in the way of progressing further. That said the last tooth I had pulled was a wisdom tooth that was supposed to take 30 mins....

Nasty situation, but you weren't joyriding or being reckless, you were being helpful, but things just took a downward turn and spiralled a bit. Oh honey. *offers hugs* It's going to suck, but the best thing to do is suck it up and take it. Admit you screwed up and ask immediately what you can do to ...

Nice one, I am a fan of both jackets (perpetually cold), and pockets (have to carry around more than most people for medical reasons), and they ship internationally (unlike 90% of US companies)! I have seen them before as well, when I found a link to their crazy (but tempting) suitcase coat . Are th...

I haven't used the shader mod for a long time, but IIRC there are multiple composite.fsh files in different folders, hopefully on the MC forums they describe which folder to look in, but when I used it I found the available information very hit or miss.

I've seen this in every version of minecraft I've played, so I don't think anything has changed. As long as it's dark enough (under heavy trees, in a surface cave or during rain) mobs can spawn. The only difference about day one is that there hasn't been a night before, so there are no mobs spawned ...

Ooh, this is going to piss of a lot of people who play vMC. As stated, most vanilla mobtrap designs rely on mobs thinking signs are full blocks so they just walk right over them and fall to their doom. Also if the detection of halfsteps is fixed, this implies that mobs may be able to spawn on half b...

The problem with these protestations is that they are international websites protesting a US policy change. Yes it makes sense since most of them are based in the US, but international people don't get any say in the policy one way or the other (even if it would have a negative worldwide effect).