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OK.....one question: can we make black dye in survival?

Quote from Ryker61

Is this update out for the Android OS or are we gonna have to wait a while?

Well, I'm not sure. I'm using Kindle Fire, which is Android-based, and in the Kindle app store it says the Kindle version is now 0.9.0 but I can't get my version to update. :\

EDIT: I had to uninstall completely and re-instll and now it's updated on my Kindle. So if they have the update on Kindle I think it's most likely out for regular Android.

OK, I'm going to give this a spin. All I ask is for it to not glitch out like it was for me with the previous Kindle version...please..

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If it doesn't work then don't force it. Stop relying on minecraft to make money for you. Mojang made it clear that the only money you will be making is to maintain servers at most.

I find it very bizarre that people think they're entitled to pursue their get-rich-quick pipedreams with someone else's product.

I'm largely Ok with what Mojang is doing. I actually wish they buckled down harder. And I hate the capes thing. I really do. Besides my hatred of capes in general, I hate anything that's emblematic of butt-kissing the heirarchy, possesing rank over others or otherwise being in an "inner circle" in a community like this. But since I don't plan on doing anything that will involve me having to deal with any of these "I'm in with Mojang" bros I suppose I can just ignore it.

My concern is now they've done this whole "we're enforcing our EULA" song and dance, I completely expect Mojang to do favors and make exceptions for people they know and like, and that never ends will from the rest of us. I have the suspiciont hat this is how they got into this whole mess in the first place--they allowed some people they knew to get away with things and then everyone else thought they could do it too. Would explain why they were slow to enforce their own EULA.

And I don't know what to think of Notch's Twitter-angst, whether he's being ernest or what. I do think the rage against Mojang has been extreme and inappropriate, but if he's this soured on the Minecraft community, it can't be a good sign.

"everyone's favorite green monster"? Who is this "everyone"? Frankly, I wish they either remove them from the game entirely or give us the option to disable them. I could happily play Minecraft for many more years without ever seeing another creeper again.

Optimizations > more mobs. Wish they'd get their priorities in order before the whole game get so bulky and clunky that the only people who can run it are the few with super beefed-up gaming PCs.

I've been looking into this issue more deeply, as when I first got into MC, I don't remember donors and perks being a big thing like they are now. And I have to be very, very honest as an experienced gamer and a person with a lot of life experience with not nice people:

Many of All of these perk system on servers that I've looked into make me wildly uncomfortable, even ones that are being promoted by microcelebrity You Tubers that I otherwise like. I personally would not want to be on a server with one of these systems. In the very least, it's potentially game-breaking, this is, ruins the game for anyone else who isn't buying into the perk system, and encourages otherwise honest server owners to do some dumb things that are damaging to the community. In the worst, it's just a feast for scam artists and grifters to take advantage of dedicated fans, especially younger fans who by no fault of their own don't know better.

If I was in any way associated with Mojang, I would certainly feel the need to step in and draw some clear lines and work out something with server owners, to protect the product both legally and as a business venture. And that is ultimately in the best interest of the community as well. I don't think anyone either on the business end of MC or on the fandom end wants this community to become associated with rip offs and shady server perk systems. Anyone who's been a gamer for a while know how that can happen, and how it has happened with other games.

The truth is it's very hard to verify the trustworthiness of any server owner as it is now. Unless this person is a longtime buddy of yours and you can personally vouch for them, you really don't know that person or their motivations. If Mojang sets down some rules that server owners have to agree to, then at least we'll have a bar against which to measure them. And maybe this won't make everyone happy but personally, I don't want to start hearing stories of people donating and then logging on the next day to find the server down and the owner unreachable, and then a few months later a suspiciously similar new server and server owner opens up and starts asking for donation. Because if that's not already happening, it will. Human nature is very predictable like that.

$4.99 to upgrade your 360 version to Xbox One seem quite reasonable to me, but unfortunately since I have no interest in any other games currently available (or soon to be) for Xbone, it doesn't exactly offset the expense of buying a whole new console. If Microsoft decides it really wants to appeal to today's diverse gaming community it claims Xbone was designed for (like understand that we female geeks and gamers aren't going to buy an Xbone just to oogle at Zachary Quinto) and start delivering a game selection that doesn't give me bummer flashbacks of the junk-alicious gaming market circa 1999 , then maybe I'll consider getting one. Until then, I'll just save my pennies for a new gaming laptop and continue regretting wasting my $ on MC for 360.

(And before someone starts hyperventilating: yes, I haven't forgotten there was good game releases circa 1999--but many gamers old enough to remember have just forgotten about all the many, many terrible ones.)

OMG. I'm a huuuuuuge Stargate fan. Forget Mario Bros. I wanna build my own Chappa'ai, go to Chulak and hang out with Teal'c.

I'm going to need to build this very soon.

Caves now generate in deserts & mesas.

Because that's just what Minecraft needs: more caves. *groan* That was one of the nice things about mesas--no ugly gaping holes pockmarking an otherwise lovely landscape. Thank the cosmos for landscaping tools.

"What is Minecraft to you? What do you do in it? What are some of the best parts of it, or parts you think could be different?"

Well, it's a sandbox game, and that's mainly what attracted me to it. Best part: that I'm not bound too much by someone else's idea of how to play the game (although the elements that involve hostile mobs, and items that you need to get from hostile mobs, does bind me to combat gameplay which I don't like, unless I stay in Creative). Parts that I wish were different: as a long-time RPGer, I kind of find the environment a tad sterile and lonely for any kind of RPing unless you have some cool ppl to do multiplayer with, which I don't. I wish the villagers could be more interactive at least. More elements that to help personalize one's world could help make the game more fun for singleplayer RPing, like more tamable mobs, or more diversity of current tameable mobs and new behaviors, more biome diversity, more building resource diveristy (bear in mind I'm a Xbox player so I can't mod and don't have stuff like horses, new flowers or trees, stained glass/clay--those would go a long way, I think).

"How would you feel about interviews with notable community members?"

I like this idea a lot. It's always interesting to see what other people are doing, especially in a community which such diversity of interests and ideas.