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Dude, it has been confirmed that food would be made stackable. Also, why would they use too many items? They are the creators of Minecraft, doubtlessly they have their own tools.

It was confirmed by Jeb/Notch that stacked food will be implented. It would mean some unbalancing, but I bet they'll take actions to keep things balanced. Another confirmed thing is that food won't directly heal you, but "indirectly".

In my own eyes, there are + and - points in this:

- The stacked food will surely unbalance the game for what I can see right now. Even if the stacking only stays for the raw food, it will be unbalancing. 1 cooked pork will heal 4, but a stack of 4 raw pork will heal 6. You can carry only raw stuff, and it will heal more that way, meaning cooking your pork might get useless. I therefore hope it was stacked because it was cheated into the game for the sake of the picture.

-/+ More diffrent food seem kind of useless to me. We already have the pork, and if you get food from every animal, it will, though it's logic to let them all drop, unbalance the game, as it's A LOT easier to obtain food now early in the game. It also makes pigs useless, as all other mobs already give you food + other items. I hope they make certain actions to keep this balanced.

If you didn't notice yet, look at the GUI's. There are 2 other status bars, one long, and one with a chuck of meat as symbol.

+ I take it that the food chuck statusbar is symbolising hunger. This adds a great new deal of survival, neat for both SSP and SMP (though I can understand some will dislike (I highly doubt there will be no SMP mods that remove it after 1.8). SSP will become more challenging and in SMP more teamwork will be required.

-/+ The other bar looks like an experience bar, meaning that there will come something like leveling up. In my own opinion, I don't think you should get stronger by leveling up, or let it affect the game in some way. I am unsure what to think about this one, but we'll see how this turns out.

Don't forget that these are opinions and guesses based ON WHAT INFO WE GOT SO FAR. I can't know how it will turn out in the game itself. We'll see.

To claim a word is yours is just stupid...
Next to that, Mojang didn't even use the damn word at all. They didn't make any money with it, which copyright is made for. To prevent people for copying something you made to make money. This is just one of the many abusements of failed laws...

@Nathan99
That's a 'big mushroom', something that will (or might) also get added. It was seen already on a picture from Notch featuring villages.

This is the brown big mushroom. On the said picture, there's also a big red mushroom.

It was already said by Notch that these things will be added.

@Gurgadurgen
Who says Notch can't mess with us?

The one in the middle shows to have a clear, but slender human figure. It seems like they can hold blocks too. The one in the middle hold a dirt block with grass on it. The one on the left hold a sand block.

As for my own opinion, I think this might be fake. The held sandblock looks pasted in the picture, and the figures look a bit drawn.

As for Slenderman, these unknown creatures don't have tentacles, don't wear a suit, are entirely black (no white face) and have eyes. Doubt this has to do with Slenderman.

What these creatures might do:
-Pick up and throw blocks
-Pick up and place blocks, meaning they can change landscapes or build (Notch said something about villages on his blog about 1.8, didn't he?)
-Pick up dropped items and build/throw them.
-Be pretty damn creepy.