I think their current mechanics are fine. They're great in pelagic environments, which are often my favorite areas too. The only problem is the bug that lets the server and client disagree about where the boat is, leading to odd behavior and crashing when you shouldn't.
It has been improved since it appeared, but it's still a problem as of 1.8.x
Oh, and lilypad hit detection. Sometimes you go through, sometimes you explode. Is this intentional? I don't like it.
Water features? Yes, please.
I think that an underwater plant or two would do a lot for scenery. Look at Biomes o Plenty.
Adding a shark mob would give oceans a random threat, which they currently do not have. Limited capacity to damage boats would be interesting, but you'd need to make archery from boats work better or it could be frustrating. Either way, sharks would need to be rare, and eat squid.
Whales, if added, should drop a lot of food and an oil item that can be used as high grade furnace fuel. This could add gameplay to certain survival island scenarios and probably some roleplay value.
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Personally, I like not having to wait ages for the new content to arrive. Although they have had a LOT of patches recently.
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And the mini-base was originally devised because you might have to wander for a few hundred blocks to find a good cave system. Now with essentially unlimited caves directly under your base, it isn't as important. I've been thinking of just removing that section.
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And I think I'm about done with this hole of a server. You can't have a publically advertised non-whitelisted and vanilla server. the spawn area is a wasteland, and only two of the people I've interacted with have not tried to destroy my base and kill me for fun. I came here to prank people's houses, but the server is so thoroughly griefed that there's nothing to prank.
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BTW, I'm pretty sure carrots and potatoes grow faster than wheat. And baked potatoes are the best food in the game. Get a stack of those and you're good for IRL days. Beef and pork will heal more drumsticks and keep you full a little longer, but baked potatoes are extremely fast and easy to make.
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And I'm experiencing a significant drop in framerate. I'm running on a Toshiba satellite p755d. 6gb ram, 4X1.5ghz processors, integrated graphics. Windows 7, 64-bit.
It occasionally crashes and immediately closes the game when I open the config menu or change a setting within it.
And this appeared on my desktop one time when it happened.
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x50343608, pid=4564, tid=2680
#
# JRE version: 6.0_25-b06
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (20.0-b11 mixed mode windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [atioglxx.dll+0x5b3608]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
--------------- T H R E A D ---------------
Current thread (0x4caf1400): JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=2680, stack(0x4e8f0000,0x4e940000)]
siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000010
Registers:
EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x51326c40, ECX=0x50343600, EDX=0x0000000c
ESP=0x4e93f0b0, EBP=0x6a7ad4b8, ESI=0x6cf0c820, EDI=0x578233ec
EIP=0x50343608, EFLAGS=0x00010202
Top of Stack: (sp=0x4e93f0b0)
0x4e93f0b0: 50343600 5058dbc1 50d57840 6cf0c820
0x4e93f0c0: 4caf1400 4e93f118 4e93f128 00000000
0x4e93f0d0: 00000000 6a7ad548 4e93f118 495a7b07
0x4e93f0e0: 00235010 00000000 4cc91254 02aa8a90
0x4e93f0f0: 4caf1528 4e93f118 00000096 00001405
0x4e93f100: 4e93f138 00000000 71221874 00000000
0x4e93f110: 519e30f8 4caf1400 4543f3e8 505e4caf
0x4e93f120: c31a9ab3 c149eb85 4e93fa70 02aa8dc0
Instructions: (pc=0x50343608)
0x503435e8: f6 22 34 50 f6 22 34 50 36 23 34 50 76 23 34 50
0x503435f8: bd 23 34 50 cc cc cc cc 51 8b 44 24 0c 8b 40 08
0x50343608: f7 40 10 00 00 00 10 50 74 0f 8b 4c 24 0c 51 e8
0x50343618: d4 a8 ff ff 83 c4 08 59 c3 8b 54 24 0c 52 e8 a5
Register to memory mapping:
EAX=0x00000000 is an unknown value
EBX=0x51326c40 is an unknown value
ECX=0x50343600 is an unknown value
EDX=0x0000000c is an unknown value
ESP=0x4e93f0b0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x4caf1400
EBP=0x6a7ad4b8 is an unknown value
ESI=0x6cf0c820 is an unknown value
EDI=0x578233ec is an unknown value
Stack: [0x4e8f0000,0x4e940000], sp=0x4e93f0b0, free space=316k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [atioglxx.dll+0x5b3608]
Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
J org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.nglCallLists(IILjava/nio/Buffer;IJ)V
J org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glCallLists(Ljava/nio/IntBuffer;)V
J ban.a()V
J bak.a(ID)V
J bak.a(IIID)I
J bak.a(Lmd;ID)I
J bac.a(FJ)V
J bac.b(F)V
J net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.J()V
j net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run()V+90
j java.lang.Thread.run()V+11
v ~StubRoutines::call_stub
--------------- P R O C E S S ---------------
Java Threads: ( => current thread )
0x4caf4000 JavaThread "Client write thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4160, stack(0x56580000,0x565d0000)]
0x4caf3800 JavaThread "Client read thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=1536, stack(0x56460000,0x564b0000)]
0x4caf2c00 JavaThread "Thread-16" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=5968, stack(0x564f0000,0x56540000)]
0x4caf1800 JavaThread "Thread-13" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6060, stack(0x492a0000,0x492f0000)]
0x4caf0000 JavaThread "Thread-12" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5320, stack(0x53c40000,0x53c90000)]
=>0x4caf1400 JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=2680, stack(0x4e8f0000,0x4e940000)]
0x4caf0c00 JavaThread "Timer hack thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3728, stack(0x4e820000,0x4e870000)]
0x4caf0400 JavaThread "Snooper Timer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4428, stack(0x4e790000,0x4e7e0000)]
0x4ca84000 JavaThread "D3D Screen Updater" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5716, stack(0x49440000,0x49490000)]
0x024e9800 JavaThread "DestroyJavaVM" [_thread_blocked, id=4004, stack(0x00280000,0x002d0000)]
0x4c9db400 JavaThread "TimerQueue" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4960, stack(0x49330000,0x49380000)]
0x48e1d000 JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [_thread_blocked, id=5584, stack(0x4c3c0000,0x4c410000)]
0x48dcb400 JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=4020, stack(0x49210000,0x49260000)]
0x48da7c00 JavaThread "AWT-Shutdown" [_thread_blocked, id=3476, stack(0x49180000,0x491d0000)]
0x48da7400 JavaThread "Java2D Disposer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=1720, stack(0x49080000,0x490d0000)]
0x025c1000 JavaThread "Low Memory Detector" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5916, stack(0x48c50000,0x48ca0000)]
0x025bc400 JavaThread "C1 CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4676, stack(0x48bc0000,0x48c10000)]
0x025b9400 JavaThread "Attach Listener" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2648, stack(0x48b30000,0x48b80000)]
0x025b6400 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5368, stack(0x48aa0000,0x48af0000)]
0x02588800 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=1248, stack(0x48a10000,0x48a60000)]
0x02587000 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3796, stack(0x48980000,0x489d0000)]
Other Threads:
0x02583000 VMThread [stack: 0x02440000,0x02490000] [id=4084]
0x025d2400 WatcherThread [stack: 0x48ce0000,0x48d30000] [id=5092]
VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)
VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None
Heap
def new generation total 157376K, used 122573K [0x045f0000, 0x0f0b0000, 0x19b40000)
eden space 139904K, 83% used [0x045f0000, 0x0b8a2b88, 0x0ce90000)
from space 17472K, 29% used [0x0dfa0000, 0x0e4a0c20, 0x0f0b0000)
to space 17472K, 0% used [0x0ce90000, 0x0ce90000, 0x0dfa0000)
tenured generation total 349568K, used 45134K [0x19b40000, 0x2f0a0000, 0x445f0000)
the space 349568K, 12% used [0x19b40000, 0x1c753ad8, 0x1c753c00, 0x2f0a0000)
compacting perm gen total 19200K, used 19173K [0x445f0000, 0x458b0000, 0x485f0000)
the space 19200K, 99% used [0x445f0000, 0x458a94c8, 0x458a9600, 0x458b0000)
No shared spaces configured.
Code Cache [0x025f0000, 0x02bd8000, 0x045f0000)
total_blobs=2815 nmethods=2460 adapters=288 free_code_cache=27386816 largest_free_block=192
Dynamic libraries:
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0x77920000 - 0x77aa0000 C:\windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
0x75fd0000 - 0x760e0000 C:\windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll
0x75e80000 - 0x75ec7000 C:\windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
0x75290000 - 0x75330000 C:\windows\syswow64\ADVAPI32.dll
0x75640000 - 0x756ec000 C:\windows\syswow64\msvcrt.dll
0x75720000 - 0x75739000 C:\windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll
0x75080000 - 0x75170000 C:\windows\syswow64\RPCRT4.dll
0x75000000 - 0x75060000 C:\windows\syswow64\SspiCli.dll
0x74ff0000 - 0x74ffc000 C:\windows\syswow64\CRYPTBASE.dll
0x75ed0000 - 0x75fd0000 C:\windows\syswow64\USER32.dll
0x75460000 - 0x754f0000 C:\windows\syswow64\GDI32.dll
0x75bb0000 - 0x75bba000 C:\windows\syswow64\LPK.dll
0x75740000 - 0x757dd000 C:\windows\syswow64\USP10.dll
0x75bd0000 - 0x75c30000 C:\windows\system32\IMM32.DLL
0x75c30000 - 0x75cfc000 C:\windows\syswow64\MSCTF.dll
0x7c340000 - 0x7c396000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\msvcr71.dll
0x6d7f0000 - 0x6da9f000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
0x6eaf0000 - 0x6eb22000 C:\windows\system32\WINMM.dll
0x6e150000 - 0x6e19c000 C:\windows\system32\apphelp.dll
0x6d7a0000 - 0x6d7ac000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\verify.dll
0x6d320000 - 0x6d33f000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.dll
0x778f0000 - 0x778f5000 C:\windows\syswow64\PSAPI.DLL
0x6d7e0000 - 0x6d7ef000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\zip.dll
0x6d000000 - 0x6d14b000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\awt.dll
0x6e1a0000 - 0x6e1f1000 C:\windows\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV
0x76d90000 - 0x76eec000 C:\windows\syswow64\ole32.dll
0x74a40000 - 0x74bde000 C:\windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2\COMCTL32.dll
0x75e20000 - 0x75e77000 C:\windows\syswow64\SHLWAPI.dll
0x6f2e0000 - 0x6f2f3000 C:\windows\system32\DWMAPI.DLL
0x71df0000 - 0x71e70000 C:\windows\system32\uxtheme.dll
0x76140000 - 0x76d8a000 C:\windows\syswow64\shell32.dll
0x6d230000 - 0x6d27f000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\fontmanager.dll
0x712f0000 - 0x714b3000 C:\windows\system32\d3d9.dll
0x71520000 - 0x71529000 C:\windows\system32\VERSION.dll
0x73310000 - 0x73316000 C:\windows\system32\d3d8thk.dll
0x71860000 - 0x71909000 C:\windows\system32\aticfx32.dll
0x73630000 - 0x7363b000 C:\windows\system32\atiu9pag.dll
0x6a030000 - 0x6a44f000 C:\windows\system32\atiumdag.dll
0x6a820000 - 0x6ab87000 C:\windows\system32\atiumdva.dll
0x6d600000 - 0x6d613000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\net.dll
0x757e0000 - 0x75815000 C:\windows\syswow64\WS2_32.dll
0x75bc0000 - 0x75bc6000 C:\windows\syswow64\NSI.dll
0x6dff0000 - 0x6e02c000 C:\windows\system32\mswsock.dll
0x6e760000 - 0x6e766000 C:\windows\System32\wship6.dll
0x6d620000 - 0x6d629000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\nio.dll
0x6df50000 - 0x6df55000 C:\windows\System32\wshtcpip.dll
0x4c120000 - 0x4c164000 C:\windows\system32\DNSAPI.dll
0x6df20000 - 0x6df47000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WLIDNSP.DLL
0x72c70000 - 0x72c8c000 C:\windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL
0x72c60000 - 0x72c67000 C:\windows\system32\WINNSI.DLL
0x499f0000 - 0x499f6000 C:\windows\system32\rasadhlp.dll
0x6d5b0000 - 0x6d5e8000 C:\windows\System32\fwpuclnt.dll
0x6f2c0000 - 0x6f2d6000 C:\windows\system32\CRYPTSP.dll
0x6f280000 - 0x6f2bb000 C:\windows\system32\rsaenh.dll
0x6ea30000 - 0x6ea47000 C:\windows\system32\USERENV.dll
0x72c30000 - 0x72c3b000 C:\windows\system32\profapi.dll
0x6e8a0000 - 0x6e8b0000 C:\windows\system32\NLAapi.dll
0x745c0000 - 0x745d0000 C:\windows\system32\napinsp.dll
0x73720000 - 0x73732000 C:\windows\system32\pnrpnsp.dll
0x73710000 - 0x73718000 C:\windows\System32\winrnr.dll
0x75d00000 - 0x75d8f000 C:\windows\syswow64\OLEAUT32.DLL
0x6d780000 - 0x6d788000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\sunmscapi.dll
0x75170000 - 0x7528e000 C:\windows\syswow64\CRYPT32.dll
0x75330000 - 0x7533c000 C:\windows\syswow64\MSASN1.dll
0x495a0000 - 0x4960b000 C:\Users\Frank\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\natives\lwjgl.dll
0x71220000 - 0x712e8000 C:\windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
0x717b0000 - 0x717d2000 C:\windows\system32\GLU32.dll
0x716c0000 - 0x717a7000 C:\windows\system32\DDRAW.dll
0x73130000 - 0x73136000 C:\windows\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x75a10000 - 0x75bad000 C:\windows\syswow64\SETUPAPI.dll
0x754f0000 - 0x75517000 C:\windows\syswow64\CFGMGR32.dll
0x75060000 - 0x75072000 C:\windows\syswow64\DEVOBJ.dll
0x6d350000 - 0x6d356000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\jawt.dll
0x73300000 - 0x73307000 C:\windows\system32\atiglpxx.dll
0x4fd90000 - 0x50e89000 C:\windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
0x49610000 - 0x4964f000 C:\windows\system32\atiadlxy.dll
0x74f70000 - 0x74f7d000 C:\windows\system32\WTSAPI32.dll
0x756f0000 - 0x7571d000 C:\windows\syswow64\WINTRUST.dll
0x71210000 - 0x7121b000 C:\windows\system32\atigktxx.dll
0x6ee90000 - 0x6efb9000 C:\Users\Frank\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\natives\OpenAL32.dll
0x717e0000 - 0x71852000 C:\windows\system32\dsound.dll
0x736e0000 - 0x73705000 C:\windows\system32\POWRPROF.dll
0x753d0000 - 0x75453000 C:\windows\syswow64\CLBCatQ.DLL
0x72cf0000 - 0x72d29000 C:\windows\System32\MMDevApi.dll
0x53c90000 - 0x53d85000 C:\windows\System32\PROPSYS.dll
0x711e0000 - 0x71210000 C:\windows\system32\wdmaud.drv
0x72ca0000 - 0x72ca4000 C:\windows\system32\ksuser.dll
0x711d0000 - 0x711d7000 C:\windows\system32\AVRT.dll
0x72cb0000 - 0x72ce6000 C:\windows\system32\AUDIOSES.DLL
0x711c0000 - 0x711c8000 C:\windows\system32\msacm32.drv
0x6fe70000 - 0x6fe84000 C:\windows\system32\MSACM32.dll
0x70970000 - 0x70977000 C:\windows\system32\midimap.dll
0x6d550000 - 0x6d559000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\management.dll
0x70510000 - 0x70522000 C:\windows\system32\dhcpcsvc.DLL
VM Arguments:
jvm_args: -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
java_command: C:\Users\Frank\Desktop\Minecraft.exe
Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD
Environment Variables:
PATH=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\sys\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\sys\x64\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
USERNAME=Frank
OS=Windows_NT
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=AMD64 Family 18 Model 1 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
--------------- S Y S T E M ---------------
OS: Windows 7 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
CPU:total 4 (4 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 18 model 1 stepping 0, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, popcnt, mmxext, 3dnow, 3dnowext, lzcnt, sse4a
Memory: 4k page, physical 5743280k(2929124k free), swap 11484708k(7528652k free)
vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (20.0-b11) for windows-x86 JRE (1.6.0_25-b06), built on Apr 14 2011 01:04:32 by "java_re" with MS VC++ 7.1 (VS2003)
time: Sat Nov 24 01:40:49 2012
elapsed time: 248 seconds
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