Yes, I'm anxious for snow and dynamic weather too. I've torn up my beautiful private island so much that it looks like some sort of construction site - quarry thing now. A nice snowfall would fix all of that. The only problem is I'd have to shovel my castle roof.
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I know it's been asked hundreds of times but seriously, I already know snow is being re-added, that's a given, but WHEN?
It's nowhere on Notch's to-do (that I've seen, smack me if I'm wrong), and it's been quite a long while between biomes being released and now, still with no snow in sight. All that's being tweaked is SMP. And maybe leaf decay, but I still think this is a MUCH more glaring omission than leaves not disappearing.
Seriously. I'm having to play on Peaceful in my snowy world so creepers don't leave pockmarks in the pristine, white surface. If it refilled I wouldn't have to do that, but it doesn't, so I do.
I know Notch is busy with a lot of things. SMP is a bigger deal, I understand, but are we really going to move into beta without biome-based weather? Wasn't that initially spoken of in... September? August? How long is this taking?
Don't mean to rant. I'm just disappointed that I still can't take up residence in a self-healing winter wonderland...
Snow never got removed, I have a huge snow biome north of my base.
Falling rain would put out open flames and has a chance of solidifying lava it contacts after a while, forcing you to give your lava moat design some extra thought.
Yeah, if it was strong enough force it would stop fire. But Lava?
That water would have to be close to Absolute Zero (-473 F?) to have a chance to freeze Lava.
That is some cold water.
But yeah, more weather effects would be cool.
Minecraft does have a temperature system so it actually would make sense if lava were to cool down in certain biomes. If the environment is below freezing (certainly doesn't need to be as cold as Absolute Zero) then anything that is within that environment and exposed to the elements for long enough should eventually freeze, including lava. I like the idea.
My first base was made in an all-snow generated map before biomes. I got used to the look of the snow, and I took for granted that the snow would always respawn wherever I dug it up. Snow was plentiful, and I never felt like I needed to be careful around it.
But now, I feel like I need to avoid my first world for an indefinite amount of time. I don't want to ruin the look of the snow. Luckily, I have avoided creepers for the most part. Still, I'm disappointed that snow is so limited--it's probably the easiest biome to literally destroy any evidence of.
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Falling rain would put out open flames and has a chance of solidifying lava it contacts after a while, forcing you to give your lava moat design some extra thought.
Yeah, if it was strong enough force it would stop fire. But Lava?
That water would have to be close to Absolute Zero (-473 F?) to have a chance to freeze Lava.
That is some cold water.
But yeah, more weather effects would be cool.
Minecraft does have a temperature system so it actually would make sense if lava were to cool down in certain biomes. If the environment is below freezing (certainly doesn't need to be as cold as Absolute Zero) then anything that is within that environment and exposed to the elements for long enough should eventually freeze, including lava. I like the idea.
Consider Greenland and Iceland, some of the coldest places on Earth where lava flows freely in the open until it reaches the ocean, where it solidifies. Rain (and air temperature for that matter) does nothing to lava--it turns to steam before it even touches it.
In any case, rain would be a cool addition once snow returns.
Falling rain would put out open flames and has a chance of solidifying lava it contacts after a while, forcing you to give your lava moat design some extra thought.
Yeah, if it was strong enough force it would stop fire. But Lava?
That water would have to be close to Absolute Zero (-473 F?) to have a chance to freeze Lava.
That is some cold water.
But yeah, more weather effects would be cool.
You would not have to cool lava to freezing to make it turn solid. Yon only need to bring the temperature under the melting point which is rather high. Considering the temperature of the lava probably isn't much higher than the melting point, a deluge of rain would probably do the trick.
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Snow never got removed, I have a huge snow biome north of my base.
Dig up all of the surface snow and tell us how long it takes to come back.
It won't because falling snow was removed, which is what the original poster is talking about.
Minecraft does have a temperature system so it actually would make sense if lava were to cool down in certain biomes. If the environment is below freezing (certainly doesn't need to be as cold as Absolute Zero) then anything that is within that environment and exposed to the elements for long enough should eventually freeze, including lava. I like the idea.
My first base was made in an all-snow generated map before biomes. I got used to the look of the snow, and I took for granted that the snow would always respawn wherever I dug it up. Snow was plentiful, and I never felt like I needed to be careful around it.
But now, I feel like I need to avoid my first world for an indefinite amount of time. I don't want to ruin the look of the snow. Luckily, I have avoided creepers for the most part. Still, I'm disappointed that snow is so limited--it's probably the easiest biome to literally destroy any evidence of.
Consider Greenland and Iceland, some of the coldest places on Earth where lava flows freely in the open until it reaches the ocean, where it solidifies. Rain (and air temperature for that matter) does nothing to lava--it turns to steam before it even touches it.
In any case, rain would be a cool addition once snow returns.
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You would not have to cool lava to freezing to make it turn solid. Yon only need to bring the temperature under the melting point which is rather high. Considering the temperature of the lava probably isn't much higher than the melting point, a deluge of rain would probably do the trick.
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You need a lot of water sprayed, and fast on Lava to harden it.
But this is not the Lava thread, so I'll bow away from the topic.
But yeah, rain, not really going to do much to Lava.