Hunger isn't even a nuisance, if anything the game is easier. Every animal gives you food, and chickens are a renewable resource now. Not to mention farms (mushrooms, melons, wheat) and zombies.
In your opinion, which I don't really care about. At last look I had put in upwards of 350 hours of mining and building on my SMP server. There's been at least 100-200 more since then, plus quite a few in SMP. I *never* cared about food except in the rare event I had to go through an underground cavern to light it up. I didn't even look into plants until I needed Sugar Cane to make paper to make books to make bookshelves.
Now I need food just to stand in place.
This new mechanic is requiring me to add a completely new task that has to be repeated ad nauseam that I wouldn't have had to care about before. I'm honestly more likely to just kill myself when I get hurt, since I'll spawn near where I'm working.
Do you think that's the intent Notch had when adding this? That it's easier for players to commit suicide to reheal than take the time to farm and make foods to eat to get a stupid little hunger gauge up?
Mechanics are preventing me from playing the game the way I use to choose to play it. It's becoming less of the sandbox environment that attracted many people to it.
Honestly? Defending your house against Endermen is ridiculously easy. Try water.
Put water on top of my lighthouse. Smart. That'll look awesome.
That 'deal with it' was valid. The chests are smaller? THAT ruined it for you?
Nobody should have to "deal" with anything. Got a problem with that? Deal with it.
Many people came to Minecraft because it's a sandbox game. Any change that makes it less of a sandbox is going to tick off a lot of people. And yes, forcing people to change how they've played is one sure fire way to do that. And by no means do they need to "deal with it".
Not only is it a game they've paid for, but it's a game they've potentially invested hundreds of hours in as a creative outlet. You don't screw with a person's creative outlet.
The fact that I have a quad core, 10GB setup, with 1GB of dedicated graphical processing struggling to run the game. Laggy. Bad. 1.7 was fine.
The fact that there remain MANY empty promises. Let's get some organizational skills and a decent team manager / project coordinator.
This shows how little you know. 1GB GPU does not mean 'dedicated graphical processing', it means how much memory you have. Does not determine the speed at which your graphics are processed. 10GB what, RAM? That doesn't make it faster either. You are in no position to criticise performance.
This update ruined nothing for me. It made the game more fun. All of you, stop moaning. It's great.
I have read the first 3 pages out of 7 and am wanting to ask a few questions and post my own opinion. 1.8.1 quickly came out, but I am still sitting on 1.8. I am playing on a very cheap HP laptop, it has:
AMD Athlon II Dual-Core M300 @ 2.0 GHz
3.00 GB (2.75 usable) RAM
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, with at little as 128MB of memory up to 630/768 MB possible
All running on Windows 7 Home Premium with all the flashy Microsoft bells and whistles along with constant monitoring from Comodo Internet Security and the various bloatwares installed with the drivers.
I have ModLoader, AudioMod, Sound Mod Enabler, Zan's Minimap, Too many Items and Zombe's Modpack installed.
I bring up these specs to show how crappy my laptop is (my 'main' computer died...now THAT was a screaming machine and I just became re-employed, so that will be fixed SOON)
So far, I have not experienced:
Lag - Only when I have 30+ BLOCKS OF TNT exploding.
'Crashes' - My client has not once closed on me unexpectedly.
My render distance is on Far, Balanced Performance, Smooth lighting on, FOV on normal...you get the idea, so i do not understand why people are saying their games are 'crashing' unless they are already playing the game on 1) bad hard drives, 2) bad memory, 3) adware/spyware/virus infested computers, 4) cracked copies 5) mods not ready for 1.8 (i mean, come on! MCP for 1.8 has not even been released)
So, questions now:
What could be causing the crashes on these computers?
Why do I feel like I'm lucky? My computer is not that great, I admit. I do not know a whole lot about computers but I do know some things about maintenance and builds...
And final question:
Will 1.8 be patched endlessly until it has everything originally talked about in it before 1.9? Or is Notch serious about taking everything left out and making that the 1.9 update before the game goes retail? Just a curiosity. ;-)
@ Rikaelus "You don't screw with a person's creative outlet."
I have read your past, a few before and the one after, I just felt like I should comment:
I believe that for those who are purely wanting to be creative have the option of using the 'Classic' mode. Notch and Co left that or included it in as a world selection for that purpose since the 'Survival' (pay attention to that word) Should become more of a Survival situation. When I first laid hands on Minecraft when 1.5 was released, I used tons of mods to make the game both a 'Survival' and 'Creative' outlet at the same time. Now, I can use fewer mods. This game is targeted for the audiences like me, and the audiences like my girlfriend, who just enjoys building.
I have noticed that when something changes, there are those who just don't like change. Windows 98 gets released and the entire MS community goes in an uproar, most don't like it. Soon, more people like it. It's agreeable and people don't mind the change after a while. Windows XP gets released. Many don't like it. Complain. Leave. Only to come back later after they have gotten used to it and now champion it. Wash, rinse and repeat with 7. I think this is one of those situations where people just need to let it grow on them.
Maybe it's easier for me, change that is. I am 29, and still move every two or three years, changing my surroundings and people I know. Is that because my parents were in the military when I was growing up? I have no idea. I've been told military brats have it easy when it comes to change.
Instead of concentrating on 'everything Notch is doing wrong' concentrate on what IS there in the game, be glad it's mod-able and if that's not enough; move on. Find another game. It's easy since you aren't paying $50+ for the game like you do with consoles and bigger, more established software houses.
Again, this is a great game and it's a healthy direction it's going in; it is catering to those wanting pure creativity, those who want the adventure/RPG/action style of play and those right int he middle who want the best of both worlds. Mojang is doing things others aren't and I believe they deserve every penny we can give them.
one last edit, reading your posts a bit farther back...are you into a survival game or a building game? Unless I've been reading your wording incorrectly, all the things Mojang is doing for the survival mode are wrong???? I really don't think so.
In your opinion, which I don't really care about. At last look I had put in upwards of 350 hours of mining and building on my SMP server. There's been at least 100-200 more since then, plus quite a few in SMP. I *never* cared about food except in the rare event I had to go through an underground cavern to light it up. I didn't even look into plants until I needed Sugar Cane to make paper to make books to make bookshelves.
Now I need food just to stand in place.
It sounds like all you do is build and gather material, since you *never* cared about food, it implies you never got damaged. Maybe you should just play on peaceful, where there is no hunger bar?
Put water on top of my lighthouse. Smart. That'll look awesome.
It sounds like all you do is build and gather material, since you *never* cared about food, it implies you never got damaged. Maybe you should just play on peaceful, where there is no hunger bar?
Learn to read. I explicitly said I only cared about food on the rare occasion I had to go into nearly found caves, and then monsters rarely got close enough to do any damage. I've been hurt more by lava than by mobs.
When would I be hurt besides then? Any structure I spend significant time around has built-in defenses.
And, as mentioned before, playing on Peaceful would make my mob traps much less useful, stop all my spawner traps from working, and make various materials (Gunpowder, Bones) impossible to obtain.
Light the top of the LIGHThouse.
Which would make it look architecturally stupid and throw off the lighting/shading designs. You might not care about things looking nice, but you'll find quite a few players do.
I have a habit of playing on peaceful, so getting griefed by Endermen isn't really a concern for me, and... WAIT THERE AREN'T ANY SNOW BIOMES OMGWTF?!?!?
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
416 stone 296 stone slab (150 blocks) 149 stone stairs (228 blocks)
How would a couple glowstone planted into the top of a lighthouse look stupid? You wouldn't even be able to see them.
If it were a completely flat roof it'd work, but I've never once built anything with a perfectly flat roof. And with any surface of multiple tiers, light will bleed over them and be observable from the side.
Don't whine about how "The new color scheme,It's so depressing, wah wah wah"
It's calle da brightness cahnger, try changing it fro dark to bright, you'll notice the dark is labeled- And OMG, how APROPRIATE for the colors- MOODY!
In your opinion, which I don't really care about. At last look I had put in upwards of 350 hours of mining and building on my SMP server. There's been at least 100-200 more since then, plus quite a few in SMP. I *never* cared about food except in the rare event I had to go through an underground cavern to light it up. I didn't even look into plants until I needed Sugar Cane to make paper to make books to make bookshelves.
Now I need food just to stand in place.
This new mechanic is requiring me to add a completely new task that has to be repeated ad nauseam that I wouldn't have had to care about before. I'm honestly more likely to just kill myself when I get hurt, since I'll spawn near where I'm working.
Do you think that's the intent Notch had when adding this? That it's easier for players to commit suicide to reheal than take the time to farm and make foods to eat to get a stupid little hunger gauge up?
Mechanics are preventing me from playing the game the way I use to choose to play it. It's becoming less of the sandbox environment that attracted many people to it.
Put water on top of my lighthouse. Smart. That'll look awesome.
Nobody should have to "deal" with anything. Got a problem with that? Deal with it.
Many people came to Minecraft because it's a sandbox game. Any change that makes it less of a sandbox is going to tick off a lot of people. And yes, forcing people to change how they've played is one sure fire way to do that. And by no means do they need to "deal with it".
Not only is it a game they've paid for, but it's a game they've potentially invested hundreds of hours in as a creative outlet. You don't screw with a person's creative outlet.
This shows how little you know. 1GB GPU does not mean 'dedicated graphical processing', it means how much memory you have. Does not determine the speed at which your graphics are processed. 10GB what, RAM? That doesn't make it faster either. You are in no position to criticise performance.
This update ruined nothing for me. It made the game more fun. All of you, stop moaning. It's great.
AMD Athlon II Dual-Core M300 @ 2.0 GHz
3.00 GB (2.75 usable) RAM
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, with at little as 128MB of memory up to 630/768 MB possible
All running on Windows 7 Home Premium with all the flashy Microsoft bells and whistles along with constant monitoring from Comodo Internet Security and the various bloatwares installed with the drivers.
I have ModLoader, AudioMod, Sound Mod Enabler, Zan's Minimap, Too many Items and Zombe's Modpack installed.
I bring up these specs to show how crappy my laptop is (my 'main' computer died...now THAT was a screaming machine and I just became re-employed, so that will be fixed SOON)
So far, I have not experienced:
Lag - Only when I have 30+ BLOCKS OF TNT exploding.
'Crashes' - My client has not once closed on me unexpectedly.
My render distance is on Far, Balanced Performance, Smooth lighting on, FOV on normal...you get the idea, so i do not understand why people are saying their games are 'crashing' unless they are already playing the game on 1) bad hard drives, 2) bad memory, 3) adware/spyware/virus infested computers, 4) cracked copies 5) mods not ready for 1.8 (i mean, come on! MCP for 1.8 has not even been released)
So, questions now:
What could be causing the crashes on these computers?
Why do I feel like I'm lucky? My computer is not that great, I admit. I do not know a whole lot about computers but I do know some things about maintenance and builds...
And final question:
Will 1.8 be patched endlessly until it has everything originally talked about in it before 1.9? Or is Notch serious about taking everything left out and making that the 1.9 update before the game goes retail? Just a curiosity. ;-)
@ Rikaelus "You don't screw with a person's creative outlet."
I have read your past, a few before and the one after, I just felt like I should comment:
I believe that for those who are purely wanting to be creative have the option of using the 'Classic' mode. Notch and Co left that or included it in as a world selection for that purpose since the 'Survival' (pay attention to that word) Should become more of a Survival situation. When I first laid hands on Minecraft when 1.5 was released, I used tons of mods to make the game both a 'Survival' and 'Creative' outlet at the same time. Now, I can use fewer mods. This game is targeted for the audiences like me, and the audiences like my girlfriend, who just enjoys building.
I have noticed that when something changes, there are those who just don't like change. Windows 98 gets released and the entire MS community goes in an uproar, most don't like it. Soon, more people like it. It's agreeable and people don't mind the change after a while. Windows XP gets released. Many don't like it. Complain. Leave. Only to come back later after they have gotten used to it and now champion it. Wash, rinse and repeat with 7. I think this is one of those situations where people just need to let it grow on them.
Maybe it's easier for me, change that is. I am 29, and still move every two or three years, changing my surroundings and people I know. Is that because my parents were in the military when I was growing up? I have no idea. I've been told military brats have it easy when it comes to change.
Instead of concentrating on 'everything Notch is doing wrong' concentrate on what IS there in the game, be glad it's mod-able and if that's not enough; move on. Find another game. It's easy since you aren't paying $50+ for the game like you do with consoles and bigger, more established software houses.
Again, this is a great game and it's a healthy direction it's going in; it is catering to those wanting pure creativity, those who want the adventure/RPG/action style of play and those right int he middle who want the best of both worlds. Mojang is doing things others aren't and I believe they deserve every penny we can give them.
one last edit, reading your posts a bit farther back...are you into a survival game or a building game? Unless I've been reading your wording incorrectly, all the things Mojang is doing for the survival mode are wrong???? I really don't think so.
It sounds like all you do is build and gather material, since you *never* cared about food, it implies you never got damaged. Maybe you should just play on peaceful, where there is no hunger bar?
Light the top of the LIGHThouse.
Learn to read. I explicitly said I only cared about food on the rare occasion I had to go into nearly found caves, and then monsters rarely got close enough to do any damage. I've been hurt more by lava than by mobs.
When would I be hurt besides then? Any structure I spend significant time around has built-in defenses.
And, as mentioned before, playing on Peaceful would make my mob traps much less useful, stop all my spawner traps from working, and make various materials (Gunpowder, Bones) impossible to obtain.
Which would make it look architecturally stupid and throw off the lighting/shading designs. You might not care about things looking nice, but you'll find quite a few players do.
I have a habit of playing on peaceful, so getting griefed by Endermen isn't really a concern for me, and... WAIT THERE AREN'T ANY SNOW BIOMES OMGWTF?!?!?
416 stone
296 stone slab (150 blocks)
149 stone stairs (228 blocks)
794 total stone
1082 blackstone
174 blackstone slab (87 blocks)
52 blackstone stairs (78 blocks)
1247 total blackstone
(not counting drawbridges and portcullises)
How would a couple glowstone planted into the top of a lighthouse look stupid? You wouldn't even be able to see them.
If it were a completely flat roof it'd work, but I've never once built anything with a perfectly flat roof. And with any surface of multiple tiers, light will bleed over them and be observable from the side.
The black fog is kind of dumb, too.
The chest bugs.
The increased lag.
It's calle da brightness cahnger, try changing it fro dark to bright, you'll notice the dark is labeled- And OMG, how APROPRIATE for the colors- MOODY!
Woo-hoo for pre-emptive bitching!
I don't make spelling mistakes, I make new words
Also the lag and memory issues **** me off.