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Well i was using the morecreative mod which you can find somewhere and i searched egg and these ones came up that were gray and this mod only changes how creative looks no new items! So i threw one and it just exploded then i threw another and it shot an arrow then it spawned a boat. Then one of them spawned a legendary GIANT!!!

Certain effects/entities have NPC ID's.

Look at the bright side, Minecraft is much better in Jeb's hands than in Notch's.

Also, SMP has always been buggy, but most bugs are a result of server lag, or clients not syncing correctly, it's not exactly easy to fix issues like this, too many variables that Mojang has very little control over.

I haven't played SMP in a while, but in the past any bugs I've encountered were just annoyances, or the result of latency. What is so drastically wrong with SMP now?

It doesn't really make sense to add bug fixes to a weekly snapshot anyway, how many servers actually run the snapshot instead of 1.1?

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WTH is an ocelot?

Hope that helps.

B- But I like cats.

Quote from Yrael

Your wishes have been granted. :tongue.gif:

Ocelots are officially the greatest update since Minecraft was conceived. <3

I don't understand why everyone hates content updates.

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I doubt it, as the Silk Touch is a waste of XP then.

Too bad Jeb confirmed it is getting nerfed.

Anyway, silk touch means you can collect smoothstone without it turning into cobble.

With a silk touch shovel you can acquire grass blocks and mycelium blocks.

In other words, silk touch = very useful.

I bet that title made you want to click this thread and rage at it.
Well, putting that aside it's pretty annoying seeing all this hate on the 1.9 and how Notch is going too fast. Most of which I think is 12 year old kids thinking "What is this?" and deciding to be a immature creeper and create explosions of retardation everywhere.

Seriously, is it that big of a deal for something like "The End" to easily assume there's actually a end to minecraft? I'd crush the idiot who thought of that with over 9000 tonnes of bedrock or something. Also the fact that Minecraft is becoming and "RPG" being a problem. It's not like you HAVE to do that while your playing the game, and if it bothers you that much, get a damn Mod that removes it. Yeah, you probably never thought of that when you were typing down a hate post.

TL:DR/CSB for this? Well, I'll summarize it for you then. Stop. ****ing. Complaing. About. A. Game. That. Hasn't. Even. Come. Out. Yet.

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Jeb just tweeted this:
"The exit from the End is the end :wink.gif: And then you respawn..."
He then tweeted:
"The End is not completed yet!"

Am I to assume this means that currently, once you get to the End, you can't leave without dying? If that's true, then what the hell is the point of going there if it means you have to wipe your inventory to get back to the main world?

If this is the case, the End should NOT have been implemented yet. Incomplete features are OK most of the time, but if someone doesn't know about this and enters the End after looting a stronghold, they're going to be PISSED.

It's a pre-release for advanced users. You aren't using your main world.

If you are, you are an idiot.

the smaller the moon is, the darker it should be. I MISS HOW DARK MINECRAFT USED TO BE AT NIGHT!!! Anyone agree?!?!

One of my favorite things about Minecraft is observing what the terrain generator can come up with, and imagining uses for these different landscapes. With each update to the terrain generator I have explored and observed dozens of worlds, with recent updates it has been hundreds. There is always room for improvement in what can or should be possible, and some improvements are more needed than others.

There have been many threads related to one or another biome in need of further attention, but with limited time for work on any one aspect of the game, which is/are most in need? Aside from changes to the flora and fauna of biomes, which general features of the terrain/map generator are most in need of fine tuning or being altogether updated?

For the biomes most in need of attention I would list the top three as:

• Ocean: I am pleased that we now have a proper Ocean biome, but it is severely lacking in content.
• Basic flora and fauna need to be added such as Kelp and Crabs.
• Some secondary flora and fauna, Coral (superfluous but colorful) (put sponges back in?), and Jellyfish (a slow but dangerous "predator").
• An excellent location for another adventure location, such as shipwrecks (since villages or strongholds may be innapropriate)( but this can wait for later).
• Swamp: It is a biome type that was needed, and has recieved moderate development, some features need to be tweaked.
• Transitions here were obviously in need of fixing.
• A new tree type might be more appropriate than just recoloring (a lower priority).
• Passive mobs seem out of place in a swamp.
• Mushroom: Is an amusing new rare biome with unique features, it needs minor touch-ups.
• A secondary type of foliage might be needed, perhaps even a second animal type, both fairly low priority.

From most to least important, the major issues I have with how the world is made (aside of bleak Oceans) are predominantly in the general terrain features:

• Topography Variation: most biomes appears to be sculpted with very little variation in their topography.
• Some features need this strict restriction, such as the river transition, and to some extent the Swamp biome. Most do not.
• The Mountain biome should be the extreme, stony barren heights under high erosion. However, other biomes, particularly the forests and desert, should be capable of being extremely hilly as well as flat - they are currently only flat - they used to exhibit extreme heights and should do so again.
• Vertical Limit: the Y limit of Minecraft is miniscule compared to its horizontal axes.
• There is so much potential for Minecraft with a more realistic vertical limit, both in providing a proper canvas/sandbox for sculptors and builders, as well as in rendering lifelike landscapes.
• I'll provide some numbers to put this in perspective:
Compare the Vertical limit of Minecraft (comparing the 64 blocks above sea level):
Sears Tower, 442m tall, tallest skyscraper in North America, (6.9*Minecraft).
Burj Khalifa, 828m tall, tallest manmade structure on Earth, (12.9*Minecraft).
Mont Blanc, 4,810m tall, highest mt. in the Alps, (75.2*Minecraft).
Mount Elbert, 4,401m tall, highest mt. in the Rockies, (68.8*Minecraft).
Mount Everest, 8,848m tall, highest mountain on Earth, (138.3*Minecraft).
Olympus Mons, 22km tall, highest known mountain in our solar system, (344*Minecraft).
To the Horizontal Limit of Minecraft:
Minecraft X*Z covers an area of 576 million square kilometers of world.
Earth has a surface area of 510 million square kilometers.

• While I think the payoff for increasing the vertical limit of Minecraft would be immense, I sadly do not expect this great improvement to actually happen, even though it should be a much greater priority than the folks at Mojang give it.
• Weather: similar to the topographical variation, I think the distribution of snow:rain should be greatly changed.
• The type of precipitation should have little to do with the terrain/biome. Perhaps none given the present array of biomes. Snowfall should be possible in any biome, with higher probability in some such as Mountain or Pine Forest.
• Only Tropical Forest biome, which I am not certain exists anymore, should be excluded from the possibility of snowfall.
• The sad current state of things are that only one biome exhibits snow, and does so 100% of the time. This biome should not exist at all, being nothing more than Plains with permafrost.
• Tree Density: a similar problem to that above, treecover density should be more variant within any type of biome.
• The placement of trees should be a varaible with great scale. Forests of all types should exhibit variation in the range of tree-tree proximity.
• Secondary foliage (tallgrass, ferns, flowers) could have density countering that of the trees.
• Biome Types: some have been lost that should come back, one or two we have now are unnecessary (if some of the above changes are implemented).
• The current snow biome is unnecessary if better weather mechanics are implemented.
• The current "Extreme Hills" biome could be replaced with a Mountain biome that exibits steep rocky snow capped peaks - if proper topographical variation is introduced to other biomes.
• The Tropical Forest could be brought back into the current array of 9 biomes with the elimination of the redundant "snow" biome we currently have.
• Better yet, we could have an array of 16 biomes instead of 9, making room for additional realistic or fantastic biomes.

*ps*
An additional excellent idea that cromlathe brought up was additional diversity in some of the biome categories. For example, we have already experienced several distinct types of forests (arboreal biomes). That kind of diversity could be applied to arid biomes to give us several kinds of deserts, as well as wetland biomes and oceanic biomes.

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They could be divided into these groups within their type:
Arid: having three major distictions.

• Dunes: being very much like the Desert we have now, with predominantly Sand covering the ground with perhaps a layer of Gravel under it, sparse Dead Bushes, and uncommon Cactus. No dirt or trees, except perhaps adjacent to rare oases.
• This type of arid biome is reminiscent of cliche deserts, and the Sahara or Arabian deserts.
• Rocky: would predominantly have Gravel cover followed by Stone and Sand in amounts roughly equal to one another - there could be a wide variance in the density of Cactus and Dead Bushes - trees would be uncommon.
• This type of desert would be much like the Great Basin of the southwestern US or parts of most other deserts.
• Verdant: representing those deserts and arid regions that are covered in foliage adapted to low precipitation - a mix of Sand, Gravel and Grass - dense Cactus, moderate Tallgrass and Dead Bushes, occasional trees.
• Again most arid regions that people would call a desert have these regions as well.

Wetland: having two major disticntions.

• Swamp: much as we have it today, with greater variation in tree density ranging upward from what we presently have.
• Marsh: predominantly full of reeds / cattails, a variation on Sugarcane mechanics that grows in the shallow waters (1-2 deep) up to 3-4 blocks above water level, and is generally devoid of trees.

Having a set of oceanic biomes, rather than just one Ocean biome, would be very nice. Oceans being entirely barren and in need of some kind of content probably distracted me from the idea that was brought up earlier about desert and wetland diversity being applied to oceans as well. The oceans we have now are temperate, ocean diversity would be nice (in the same way that we have arboreal diversity with several kinds of forest).

There could be the temperate oceans we have, plus an 'arctic' variety with icebergs polar bears and walruses, and the one that I think a lot of people look forward to, tropical ocean, with corals and abundant small sealife like crabs, jellyfish, and all manner of little colorful fishes.

Yeah... It's hard to get funding for nether wart.
I tried to obtain government funding for Ghast tears, but they told me I was mad.

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Get optifog.
There is a disable rain option.

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Is this youtube now?
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This will be a consolidated guide to mining covering everything from ore spawn rates to mining patterns, mathematics, spelunking strategies, and recommended materials.

Anchor tags aren't working, so ToC will have to wait. You'll have to scroll for now.

Version History:

0.1 - Navigation Method, Segmentation
0.2 - Ore Spawn Rates by Layer and Quadrant
- Initial Cave Bonus Data
0.3 - Improved Navigation Method w/ Save File Example
- Added Pickaxe Material Section
- Added Dirt/Gravel Section
0.4 - Updated Quadrant Information for 1.6
- Added 2-Gap vs. 3-Gap Section
0.5 - Added Multi-Level vs Single Level Section
- Added X Mine