Minecraft

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 14th, 2010, 21:17

Looks like the MP is getting pretty close now.

Notch, in 16 minutes wrote:On the Multiplayer front all is well!
I just finished implementing tile mining and movement verification. It’s now impossible to claim to mine a tile you can’t mine, or to mine a tile too fast, and it’s also impossible to move through walls.

I can now log in with several clients and see changes other players do to the world, although I can’t see the other players yet.

I’ve got a really nice and stable base to build on, I think. Terrain streaming works great, and tile changes get sent out automatically, and collapsed into a single message there’s multiple updates within a single chunk. If the number of updates is really huge, it’ll get replaced with a single replaceregion call, which is compressed.

There’s a slight chance I might stay up late tonight, working on this.. I’m starting to have FUN! =D

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 15th, 2010, 5:54

Yeah, there was a rumbling earlier yesterday that he was building momentum. It's a massive step for the game, although it still needs more of a long term goal or challenge - the easiest way to play the game is still just to hide from the monsters.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » July 15th, 2010, 8:11

i think thats dungeon mode is what hes adding to give the overall game a bit more purpose but i agree something to try and work towards in survival mode would be good, maybe even some kind of quest/mission system if friendly npc's are ever added.

or some huge nasty beastie types deep underground that need to have their eyes poked out, or a mix of this with the afforementioned quests

but yeah once youve build your impenatrable palace on a floating island somewhere wearing diamond armour their isnt really a whole lot to do except find more resources and do it again.
although it takes me a very long time to do this ^ and i enjoy doing it alot because i tend to build something different everytime

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 15th, 2010, 9:57

There's mention of points for killing monsters in the wiki, but I've not seen evidence of this in-game. That's not much of an incentive unless you're a points whore or you can spend the points on something.

The introduction of seasons has great potential for incentives. Having to sort things out before winter, certain things only being available in certain seasons.

Post by **Grimmie** » July 15th, 2010, 10:58

Ooh, that's an awesome idea. Things growing better in spring and summer, higher crop yield in autumn, slower movement in snow.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » July 15th, 2010, 11:45

Snerbles!

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 15th, 2010, 15:58

That's all coming. Snerbles are already in (yesterday). Longer nights mean shorter time for crops to grow in winter. Also, snow covering the glass roof of your underground arborium could be problematic.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » July 15th, 2010, 16:04

just use torches to either melt the snow or get light to the crops

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » July 16th, 2010, 11:54

friday update, aparantly contains boats!

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » July 16th, 2010, 11:59

But I'm still going to wait for the MP version to start playing again.

so everyone can do all the hard work for me.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 16th, 2010, 12:22

shot2bits wrote:friday update, aparantly contains boats!

It does, I'm on a boat motherfucker. They're quite fragile but could be useful for escaping from mobs. Until sea monsters are introduced.

/edit
And there's new flora.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 16th, 2010, 20:06

People have been after boats for ages so that travelling across water doesn't take ages. However, unless you leave a trail of breadcrumbs to wherever you end up you'd never find anything you built there after you died. Until there's a way to set a new spawn point there's not much point straying too far other than to see the sights.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 16th, 2010, 20:39

Dog Pants wrote:People have been after boats for ages so that travelling across water doesn't take ages. However, unless you leave a trail of breadcrumbs to wherever you end up you'd never find anything you built there after you died. Until there's a way to set a new spawn point there's not much point straying too far other than to see the sights.

Good point and I'm glad you pointed it out before I had a chance to discover it for myself.

Legoshoes · Post by **Legoshoes** » July 16th, 2010, 21:17

Even with breadcrumbs, i learned the hard way to not carry everything with you when exploring. I went for what must have been miles away from my original spawn using at least 100 torches. then died. Frantic naked running to my deathspot revealed i'd been exploring, going the one direction for at least an hour.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 16th, 2010, 22:00

Almost as exciting as the original video. For minecrafters at least.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_Rbn5QS-4[/media]

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 19th, 2010, 19:33

Hmm, Notch has added a google "vote on my idea" thing. I like that, and there's some pretty good ideas in there.

http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=1c111

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 20th, 2010, 10:28

Moocows.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 20th, 2010, 17:21

Woah! This I gotta see.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 20th, 2010, 18:43

Yep, coos in abundance. Mooing loudly.

Since I last played there seems to be an increase in interesting things. Trees have some variety (some are massive), I found a few cactii, and there seem to be more caves and resources. Terrain seems more random too - I've found several sand walls/crevaces.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 20th, 2010, 19:16

The generated landscapes are much more varied now, quite impressive. The cows, not so much. Their texture could do with some work and I thought they dropped raw chickens at first, before I realised it was supposed to be leather. But additions are always welcome.