Vanilla Minecraft News Discussion

[SterlingRed]

We are flying to Seattle tomorrow, so no snapshot this week. Next, we'll start pushing these new features for a 1.4... Halloween update? :o

https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/240431798134378496

please say this is not going to happen.

Why would that be a problem?

[destineternel]

Well they stated 1.4 would be the mod api/rendering rewrite. http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft ... pshot-w27/

But more loot in dungeons and carrot on sticks...

[Rianaru]

Well they stated 1.4 would be the mod api/rendering rewrite. http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft ... pshot-w27/

But more loot in dungeons and carrot on sticks...

Mod API! Will it ever happen? The world may never know...
Dungeon loot might be cool.
Oh, and where the hell is the guy with the wheat and shit sig? :P

[walker_boh_65]

Well they stated 1.4 would be the mod api/rendering rewrite. http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft ... pshot-w27/

But more loot in dungeons and carrot on sticks...

They have been saying that each update since 1.1 was going to be the Mod API and extended block IDs. And each time they haven't done it, it is the way Mojang works.

At least this time they really have done anything game breaking other then a nerf to spawner based traps, which IMO took far too long anyway.

[CycloneSP]

Hmm, after a brief trip to the MCF I saw that mojang intends to implement more decorative blocks. Thoughts?

[Elevatator]

I always wanted to spike creeper and skeleton heads on fences.

[DocHussey]

Does anyone else think that it's awesome that we hit 2k members about the same time that Morv's news thread hit 2k posts?

[STrRedWolf]

I doubt 1.4 will be the mod API. From http://www.mojang.com/2012/08/weekly-ch ... nsnapshot/ :

The recent two weeks Dinnerbone and I (jeb_) have worked a lot on new features, both our own and suggestions from the community. Before you ask, the API that will allow you to do your own features is waiting for a large restructuring of the render engine to be completed. I’ll write more about this in a future blog post.

[FlowerChild]

2 frigging months? <face palm>

I doubt 1.4 will be the mod API. From http://www.mojang.com/2012/08/weekly-ch ... nsnapshot/ :

That doesn't mean anything really. They're doing a render engine rewrite, probably for the extended texture indices, and then working on the mod API. I still fully expect it to be in 1.4 (after 2 frigging more months), they're just saying there's nothing related to it in the snapshot.

[Faz]

Looks like hardcore chickens is coming to vanilla.

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/2 ... 6811777024

Hmm, after a brief trip to the MCF I saw that mojang intends to implement more decorative blocks. Thoughts?

Decorative blocks are pretty much always a good thing in my book. These ones don't really jump out at me though.

[Elevatator]

The "Hardcore" in Hardcore chicken is the fact that they need seed to drop eggs, not to breed them.

[Faz]

Right you are sir, my mistake.

[CycloneSP]

However, this may still provide an annoyance for FC as he now either has to adapt his hardcore chickens to the new breeding method, or he has to undo what mojang did, or some third option I'm not aware of at present.

[Mason11987]

However, this may still provide an annoyance for FC as he now either has to adapt his hardcore chickens to the new breeding method, or he has to undo what mojang did, or some third option I'm not aware of at present.

He already disables wheat breeding, not really a big deal to disable breeding with some other item. If I know his work I'd say he killed breeding altogether on chickens, so this probably will already be handled.

[dr_spindizzy]

Notch likes the Oculus Rift!

Just got a demo of the Oculus Rift, and am 100% impressed and will make 0x10c compatible with it. kickstarter.com/projects/15233… (maybe minecraft too)

I have to say I'd love to play minecraft with this - imagine the fear exploring caves in true VR. Crossing my fingers that the Rift works and doesn't cost a fortune.

[Elevatator]

I wouldn´t say that tweets of notch would be important, since he does not develop Mc anymore.
This is a 0x10c related news, not minecraft

[DxPanxD]

I wouldn´t say that tweets of notch would be important, since he does not develop Mc anymore.
This is a 0x10c related news, not minecraft

"Maybe minecraft too"

Yep definitely not minecraft related. Notch may not be head of Minecraft anymore, but that doesn't necessarily mean he has no say in it.

[Elevatator]

I should really start reading the last couple of words.
But

[destineternel]

From the PAX panel, at the 3:19:00 mark of the video they talk a little bit about the upcoming 1.4 update/api/renderer updates.

http://www.twitch.tv/pax2/b/330745811

[STrRedWolf]

From the PAX panel, at the 3:19:00 mark of the video they talk a little bit about the upcoming 1.4 update/api/renderer updates.

http://www.twitch.tv/pax2/b/330745811

In text:

• Next update is the Pretty Scary update; refining content and adding more. (Jeb_ & Dinnerbone)
• Rewriting the rendering system to scale better with better hardware and make mod-added models easier; make the launcher auto-update itself/annoyance fixing. (Warren Loo)
• Put in a bug tracker (JIRA?)/Making the best mod API possible. (Eric Broes)
• Use the bug tracker to gather all the mod API ideas together, organize meetings. (Eric)

[morvelaira]

Youmve got Eric and Warren mixed up there. Also, from some of the subtext, you can throw API for 1.4 out the window.

[FlowerChild]

[*]Put in a bug tracker (JIRA?)/Making the best mod API possible. (Eric Broes)

The above scares me. I just want a mod API for easier integration with the existing code base, and they seem intent on over-engineering the thing to the max.

Also, from some of the subtext, you can throw API for 1.4 out the window.

Seriously? Then why 2 months? So strange.

[morvelaira]

They're aiming 1.4 for Halloween not because that's how much time they need, but because they're themeing it. The Mod API was mentioned several times, but it always downplayed. They were desperately trying to lower expectations for it.

[STrRedWolf]

Youmve got Eric and Warren mixed up there. Also, from some of the subtext, you can throw API for 1.4 out the window.

Yeah, I didn't look at all of it, and assumed the lower third text was in order. I do agree, though, about the API. I doubt they'll do it by 1.4.

[thekyz]

Well it's definitely gonna not be 1.4, i'm watching the Pax video (http://fr.twitch.tv/pax2/b/330745811)
& at around 3:31:00 they're talking about 1.5, saying that they are working on rebuilding the rendering engine from the ground up & that it will take at least 1 and a half month more to finish BEFORE they can start working on the API ...