Minecraft 1.3. - Thoughts?

[Danny 2232]

As most people will know, MC 1.3 is currently in the works - there's already been pre-releases etc out. I was wondering what people thought of the various features that're being introduced?

For those who are unaware of what's being introduced:

• The chances of slimes spawning in super-flat worlds has been decreased. Thank goodness!
• Right clicking on a powered minecart in creative feeds it coal.
• Dispensers now deploy boats and minecarts onto their respective rails / water.
• Brewing stands + Enchantment tables can now be shift clicked to add items quicker.
• Shift clicking also now adds armour quicker.
• The "pick block" button now gives the block that you click. ( If mob is clicked then mob egg is added).
• Items now stack themselves if thrown onto the ground individually.
• A demo for non-premium users has been added.
• A bonus chest option has been added to world options. The bonus chest is spawned nearby your spawn location and provides some starting kit.
• Single Player Commands is implemented into vanilla Minecraft
• Language files updated.
• Items can be deleted from the hotbar by shift clicking on them in creative mode.
• Some bugs have been corrected.
• Editable books have been introduced, see here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Book_and_Quill
• Wooden slabs for each type of wood added.
• Leather is needed for crafting books now, presumably for the wrapper.
• Silk touch now allows you to receive ice blocks and glass panes when broken.
• Ice doesn't turn into water in the Nether anymore.
• Chat options have been added to the Options Menu:- Chat Opacity, Chat Disabling, Chat Colours, and an "only commands" mode.
• /help has now been added to vanilla Minecraft for use with the newly implemented Command Prompt.
• Tools have infinite durability in Creative.
• Minecarts and boats are destroyed in one hit in creative mode, instead of having to spam click them.
• Livestock can now be walked through, and don't push the player around inside crowded pens.
• You are no longer slowed by flying through water in creative mode.
• Bonus chests aren't included in hardcore mode.
• Server commands now appear in italics in multiplayer.
• Saplings are now called their correct name, e.g. pine sapling.
• Debug Screen has been changed:- removal of graphs, coords now rounded to 5 digits, walking speed, flying speed and 'ground' are now in it.
• Single-Player now runs as a local server.
• Came doesn't pause when you enter your pause menu, or any other form of men, e.g. chests, chat, signs.
• Servers can now set their own texture packs which the client can download from in-game.
• Wooden tools are now able to be used as materials for cooking in furnaces, in the same way as coal.
• Cocoa beans can now be obtained by breaking jungle leaves.
• Villagers that you spawn with 'spawn eggs' get a random profession.
• Hardcore mode is now available for multiplayer.
• The splash screen that says "Mojang" - now only appears for 1 second, instead of the older 3 seconds.
• Each wooden log and plank type is named after it's tree. e.g. Pine Wood, Spruce Wood.
• Cocoa Plants can now be found inside jungles! See here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Cocoa_Plants
• There is now 'large biomes' as a choice for world generation.
• Stone bricks and sandstone now have names for their specific types, e.g. Broken Stone Brick, Mossy Stone Brick.
  Cocoa Beans have a new texture!
• Cookies give you two hunger points instead of just one.
• Ender chests have been added, that allow you to have an inventory that is constant between all ender-chests in your worlds.
• The new emerald ore has been added, which drops emeralds. This allows for villager trading. See these links: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Emerald | http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Emerald_Ore | http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Villager
• Buckets are now stackable!
• Snow is now accessible via the Creative Mode inventory.
• You can change the direction of a minecart by pressing your directional keys.
• NPC Villages have different styles depending on biome, I'm presuming viking style in snow biomes, and desert themed for sand, etc.
• Stars are now slightly smaller and brighter.
• Gravel no longer looks crap!
• The options menu has been improved.
• Pyramids are now generated in your worlds.
• There's a new type of golden apple, made with Blocks of Gold. It gives you Resistance, and Fire Resistance for 5 minutes, as well as the 30 second regeneration.
• Sandstone stairs have been added.
• Dispensers now dispense water and lava sources if buckets are shot from them.
• Boats now go through lilypads and don't break, however the lilypads can now break instead.
• /seed displays the seed of your current world. Quite pointless considering F3 tells you.
• Passive mobs can be easily moved by just walking into them.
• Creative Mode has a new inventory screen, featuring categories for each item type, and a search bar!
• There's now a "Monster Egg" block, that when broken spawns a silverfish!
• You can now get chainmail armour in-game, without fire.
• The enchantment system has been rebalanced.
• Smelting with a lava bucket in a furnace now leaves you the bucket to be re-used.
• Jungle Temples have been added.
• Tripwires and tripwire hooks have been added, as a kind of redstone activation trigger.
• Emerald Blocks have been added, the equivalent of diamond blocks, gold blocks and iron blocks.
• The adventure gamemode has now been added. In adventure mode the player can't place or destroy an blocks, however they can trade with villagers, interact with blocks and damage mobs.
• Silverfish Cobblestone and SIlverfish Stone Brick have also been added.
• Rain now slowly drips through leave blocks.
• Nether portals can now spawn Zombie Pigmen, albeit rarely.
• Cauldrons can be filled with water if it rains.
• Blocks in your inventory have been oriented to the right instead of the left.
• Half slabs can be placed upside down when you look at the upper half of the side of a block.
• Endermen are now tougher.
• Ender chests now spawn inside the homes of Blacksmith villagers.

Which of the features are you excited about, and which are you... myeehhhhhhhh about?

Personally, the only feature I actually dislike is;

The Ender Chest - I feel it's just not a good idea. I don't like how you can just make a chest that's accessible anywhere. It ruins the fun of having to store your things in chests, and travel with it as far as I'm concerned. I won't be using a ender-chest anyway.

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

The only thing I care about

Modding API.

[Lawrence Berell 226]

The only thing I care about

Modding API.

[Seventh / Ryan 93]

The only thing I care about

Modding API.

To be honest, with that, everything else that the plugin comes with can go, because we can re-create it.

Endless posibilities.

ME GUSTA.

--Seventh

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

Horses. Shields. Lances. Maces. New blocks. Armor that can be weighted and allow sprinting for short periods of time.

So many possibilities.

[Viper3X 1056]

I for one am glad that they are finally expanding upon what already exists, which is what they should have done a long time ago. What I mean by this is sandstone stairs, chainmail armor being craftable, broken and mossy stone bricks having their correct label, etc. In my personal experience I found that many features that were added could have been expanded upon further than what they were. Another example would be NPC villages. I originally felt that they could have done so much more with them, and now they finally are (trading).

[Lirinya 4021]

*Throws her hands in this air*

This, I want.

[ayresalex 517]

If Someone could explain to me what a modding API is... cause I'm stupid.

[｡◕‿‿◕｡ Hawk Whitestorm 715]

If Someone could explain to me what a modding API is... cause I'm stupid.

Allows you to install mods without actually needing to mod your client yourself.

[0000 175]

This is spectacular. It will be much I a help in Minecraft as a whole and he server itself. One question. Will we use editable books as is or make a Bookworm plugin to modify editable books?

[Phibbup 286]

All I can think of is "Checkmate Atheists!"

Delete that. Now.

[0000 175]

@Philip

Delete that. Now.

EDIT: If it was really considered that offensive, alright. Note it was in quotation marks, I said 'Joking aside', it's a reference to a popular catchphrase, and was used because the meaning was it was a "godly" update.

Nothing against Atheists, I'm a rather open minded guy who was one for quite a long time. No offense was directed towards anything, group, person, at all. It was supposed to be a joke that would be a small chuckle and perhaps it didn't come across as well as planned.

I apologize for anyone who took offense, that comment did not portray any of my feelings, it was meant as a joke, and I will try not reference anything, however humorous and lighthearted it's intent was, if it can be interpreted as differently. >>

Sorry. Philip or anyone else, if you still have a problem, please PM me to get that straightened out.

Back to topic, and my previous question, how will editable books be used in LotC? Modifying plugin, keep with bookworm, etc.?

[Rom 59]

My thoughts:

Sandstone Temples - Explosions, kewl.

Trading with Villagers - "GIMME ALL YO STUFF FOO'!"

Growing Cocoa Beans - Cookies for DAYZ

Sandy Villages - Meh

Writing Books - Write all them books in sngleplayer that no one will ever read Q_Q

Ender Chests - Teleporting chest inventories..... Wut.

Stackable Buckets - THANK GOD

Different Slabs for different Wood - Noice

Sandstone Stairs - Kewl.

Single Player Commands - Now all we need is built in WorldEdit.

Emerald Ore - I don't really see a use for this...

[Ancora (pandalex12) 20]

*Gets happy as he scrolls down the list, stopping at "Endermen are stronger"*

Aren't they already strong? They can two hit you anytime...

[Danny 2232]

*Gets happy as he scrolls down the list, stopping at "Endermen are stronger"*

Aren't they already strong? They can two hit you anytime...

In default Minecraft they ain't I don't think.