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Quote from mastertygon

That is an amazing cannon!!

I agree. I'm not even a big redstone and explosions enthusiast, and I found this awe-inspiring. Excellent choice of video to spotlight.

That's right, Rillian! We can create log piles!

And log rafts!

And primitive log ships, and log-tile wall art, and ceiling beams that are turned the right way, and whatever other rustic loggy things strike our fancy!

Steelfeathers, I adore your FeatherSong texture pack! I especially like how farms look in them; the wheat and melons and pumpkins are gorgeous, as is the tilled land. I even love the textures that don't match my idea of "the perfect texture pack"; they're just such masterful work anyway.

If there's one thing I'd request an alternate for, it would be chests. The current FeatherSong chest texture is busy and high-contrast, and in my opinion its coloration looks out of place with the rest of the pack. I'd like something smoother and simpler, something that would look good where there are many chests together, such as in a large storage room.

I'm looking forward to the new 1.3 textures, and hoping to see more complete coverage of item textures in the future. Thank you for making and sharing this pack!

Quote from specklespack

I built this at the beginning of the year, so the save is long gone. But I can rebuild it, and I'm trying to track down the tutorial on YouTube right now.

That's too bad. I was curious as to how you'd decorated the inside. Anyway, it's a cute house!

Very nice! I enjoyed seeing your work at each stage, too.

yubyub96, this architecture is gorgeous! And I love how you've thought out the purposes of the buildings, and how the people interact with them.

I invite everyone who's been playing with the new rotatable logs in the 1.3 snapshot/pre-release to show off what you've created using them. I'll kick off the celebration with this humble log cabin:





I'm finding that log cabins look better if you use a texture pack that shades logs to make them look rounded. The texture pack I used here is FeatherSong by steelfeathers.

Now let's see what you've built!

Hooray, pictures!

Your school has quite an unusual design. I wouldn't call it pretty, or practical, but it sure is interesting. I like the lockers.

Villagers now offer trades. Right click on a villager to open the trade UI. If you make a trade with a villager, there's a chance he will offer another trade. If he does, you'll see little pink spirals around him that look like a potion effect. Then you'll be able to click on the right arrow in the trade UI to see the new trade. So far I've seen a villager offer up to three trades at once. Once you make the same trade with a villager many times, the villager will stop offering that trade. But he'll always offer at least one trade.

The trades revolve around emeralds, which villagers use as currency. Typical things villagers buy include wheat, wool, and raw chicken. Villagers sell a variety of things. The ones in brown sell food, flint, arrows, and other common supplies. The priests, in purple, sell things that are otherwise hard to get in early game, such as glowstone, redstone, and even Bottles o' Enchanting. Or they may offer to enchant an item for you. A smith, in black, sells tools and armor. Learn more here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Trading

When I play single player (usually just for snapshot testing), I play in hardcore mode. One of my multiplayer servers is building-focused, and the other has several newbies, so I host at normal difficulty for both servers.

Congratulations, PhearDarkrai! I was really excited about the first couple of music discs I got, too. I've only recently gotten the hang of taking advantage of music disc opportunities when I see them.

Ooh, look at this: they claim a feature freeze, and then sneak in a feature at the last minute. Yay sideways logs! I am so going to make a cabin today.

Quote from 5thHorseman

You can watch it here:
http://teamcoco.com/...ecraft-07/24/12

He played it on Xbox, which is a little sad but oh well. He didn't like it, for the same reasons that everybody who doesn't play it enough doesn't like it. Oh well.

The Xbox edition of Minecraft isn't bad; it resembles Beta 1.6.6 on the PC version, which is not far shy of the Beta 1.7.3 I first fell in love with. The sad part was that the video didn't show Minecraft's good side. It probably didn't give viewers the right exposure to get from "What is this dumb blocky mess?" to "Whoa! I can build whatever I want! This is the best game ever!" But the video was funny, probably extra funny to Minecraft's detractors.

By the way, if I ever end up joining some friends in the Xbox edition, I want to wear a kilt. Kilts are awesome.

I tried the CubicSheep pack, and its has its strengths and weaknesses. I like that it picks a style and sticks with it. (Speaking of which, the leaves texture is a really important part of your overall theme; you should update the screenshots on the OP to show your leaf texture instead of the deafult.) The weakness I find is that too many different textures have the same pattern on them.

My favorite blocks from this pack are colored wool, glowstone, crafting tables, and flowers. My least favorite are the stone types: they're too light and high-contrast. And Netherrack is too bright of a red. The jarring appearance of the common blocks is the biggest problem with this pack, and the reason I don't enjoy it overall. I'd recommend using something lower contrast and more medium-tone for common blocks, and reserving bright colors and high contrast details for special things like light sources, blocks you can interact with (e.g. crafting tables, furnaces, ladders), and less common blocks (e.g. colored wool, precious metals).

Are you looking to talk over ideas for your future map, or is this just an announcement that you'll post a map later? If this is just an announcement, then there's no content to talk about here, or much reason to post. A policy I recommend for forum posts about your creations is "Don't promise, just deliver."

If you want to talk about the ideas, then I would suggest you describe your ideas in more detail. And if you're looking for ideas, start us off with some questions. To kick off the discussion:

• What is taught at the school?
• Who attends?

I hope things go well for your development of the School of Minecraft.