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This. Biome-specific mobs are awesome. One of my texture pack reskins creepers based on biome, and even that adds a nice bit of atmosphere to the game.

I also think that more interesting/unique mob drops would be nice. It always bugged me that they added bats close to fireworks, but didn't make bats drop guano or something for making fireworks, or "bat wings" for potions. I like that bats exist, but I think all mobs should drop something.

I gotta agree with Sonickyle and Desdruktiva. I think that the idea that Minecraft's feature creep is affecting performance is flat out wrong. There's something going on with the water and, based on other methods of fast travel, perhaps rapid chunk loading in general. I can have a room with a thousand mobs in an experience trap with several players actively doing a variety of things and experience less lag then when one player is crossing ocean on a boat. Many of my players have it even worse; with lower-end rigs they get insane levels of FPS lag while anywhere near significant amounts of water.

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It seems to me that this debate is quite split...

On one side, there's some players, who are tired of donating and want to be equal with others. Not saying there's not hosts that support mojang's new EULA changes, but still. On the other side, there's server hosts, players who have donated, and some others.

I can see this debate from both sides. On one hand, some people don't want to have to donate, and may be sad that others who can are better off than them, and I get that. However, I dont think they see that their donations really help server hosts, and that it keeps the serer they love alive. And on the anti-change side, I know that servers are expensive, but I dont think they are seeing it from the player's eyes, who see it as that the server owners are milking them like a prized hoffer.

Its so balanced and I get what people are feeling, so I'm torn about which side to support

You're missing a subset. There's a vast sea of players who couldn't give two craps less about gigantic, financially supported servers. These are folks (and I'd be willing to bet they're a significant, mostly silent majority) who play on small private servers, local family servers, or completely on their own. This group has absolutely no stake in the actual outcome of this fight, other than apparently the nuisance of these server types are damaging Mojang's reputation and potentially their bottom line, which could have an impact on all of us.

Although I know anecdotal evidence isn't the strongest; among the people I play with (family, friends, friends of friends, family of friends, friends of family), a circle of about 30-40 all told, not a single one has been on a pay to play server, let alone a pay for perks server. I'd say of those 30-40 only about 10-15 know about the Minecraft forums. Outside of my personal group, I've talked with students in a very urban area where I work about the game on various occasions. Probably 10-15 of them play minecraft regularly, and only one or two of them have even been on any server. Several thought that the nether was a mod, because without searching online there's no in-game way of discovering it.

Like I said earlier; I think the folks on these forums, particularly those participating in this thread, VASTLY overestimate the number of people in minecraft who are into the large-scale server scene. There are far more players who would be more concerned by Mojang facing legal battles due to nuisance claims of financial responsibility than would care if a couple of huge servers who charge money for perks got shut down. You just don't hear from them because they don't even know the issue exists.

I think the people who are angry about this are grossly overestimating the number of players that will be impacted by this decision.

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Or, more likely, it's just the random joke that snapshot descriptions usually end with.

QFT

As a survival player I seriously appreciate the idea of faster carts, but don't necessarily like the idea of derailments. Realism is overrated, but fast travel is not.

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That would require a lot of programing with all the different blocks, not to mention how would you trouble shoot your circuit design? No it would be easier if they took another cue from the modders and made it possible to craft redstone and iron to form wire that could be run right up the wall or over the ceiling. Side by side wires? provide a way to insulate the wire like colored wool or add a new resource like rubber also dyeable.

I don't use too many mods, but I've always liked the idea of vertical redstone. The space necessary to create vertical wiring is a huge pain. I similarly like the idea of insulated wire. It would be particularly cool if you could cross insulated wire to really shrink down redstone contraptions.

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Sweet mod, but I barely ever enchant

Get this mod, it might change your mind. Prior to using it neither me nor the friend I play with on our server ever enchanted. Now its a race to see who can get the books necessary for a table first. Once you've spent a lot of time mining with an Efficiency V pick its hard to go back.

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Its been, what, 6 months since the last release? And all we get are bug fixes and a feature ripped from mods (Ender Chest)? Bug fixes that somehow caused even more bugs...

I can understand people's excitement, but this isn't the process we were promised when we spent money on the game. The most game-changing thing added since the game's official release almost a year ago is jungles. We bought this game half-completed, they took our money promising a whole and complete game with features they will probably never add.

I'm not unhappy, but I certainly won't be praising a group who clearly abandoned their project in favor of making money elsewhere. This herd mentality of "every comment is joy" while being nearly spat on by the devs doesn't make me feel like singing Beetles tunes, that's for sure.

I hope Notch is setting aside most of his money, I don't think he will have this kind of luck again with any of his side-projects and the MC well will run dry.

Just think: They spent all this time trying to release a more efficient and stable game while Optifine and similar teams have been on the job putting out damn-near weekly releases to squeeze out the best from a cluster**** rendering system.

Eh... you should read the full changelog. That little snippet up top seems to be for those who installed prereleases and has little to do with the incredibly massive number of changes for those of us who ignore all the prereleases.