Voice acting would increase the awesomeness of the production.

It would be easier than regular animated voice acting because the minecraft characters cannot actually move their mouth.

Still, great job and thumbs up to you guys. Very clever camera tricks used to simulate a sense of motion and gravity. Awesome job

Kind Regards, Walster.

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How about a machine running Windows 98 (88 times better than Windows 10), 20GB of blazing fast HDD storage, 256MB of DDR5 RAM, and some sort of single core Intel CPU.

Regards,

Dylan H.

You sir, made my day

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IGN:Brightblade


Name:Rod


Age:30


Years Played:2


Have you ever been banned for any reason?:from the library


If yes to previous question please explain:That was a joke guess they don't like cherry bombs in the tolits


Do you like penguins?:No they freak me out

Can you please explain why, if you are really 30 years of age...that penguins freak you out!

And try spelling toilets properly next time

Kind Regards, Walster.

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IGN: swiftdeathsk
Name: Justin
Age: 26
Years Played: 4ish. I joined the forums after I had purchased and had already been playing the game. This account is at the time of this writing "4 years, 6 months, and 9 days" old according to my profile. Could possibly be 5 years playing, or close to, though.
Have you ever been banned for any reason?: No, typically in the past I was the one wielding the ban hammer as admin and/or founder of past servers
If yes to previous question please explain: N/A
Do you like penguins?: Yes. Although I prefer turtles, since I've had the same pet turtle for 23 years of my life. He's like a little brother to me

PS. I would offer to help with moderation of the server, but I do not plan on being overly active (maybe 2-3 days a week at best at my current schedule), so take that into account. I have the experience and the leadership qualities to properly do the job, but I am constrained on time access right now.

This here folks, is the guy you should hire. Looking at your language and the way you handle yourself sir I can see you would be an excellent candidate for the Job.

It's a shame we don't find many older people playing Minecraft (meaning no offence to yourself) because people from your age category make great leaders...Just my rant and two cents.

Kind Regards, Walster.

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A website where I can compare plans

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I link to what exactly?

Didn't check into this but if your starting up a server host you'll generally want to have a good website. A lot of hosting providers tend to use WHMCS for their websites to automate tasks.

What Alex means is that he wants a website where he can go to it, compare the plans to each other on the website and then, if possible, compare them to other plans from other hosts. Its usually how people pick the best host and the best plan

Woah! Slow down a bit there Mate! First things first, If your going to have a post that big, at least use spoiler tags so that people don't have to scroll down one big block of text. Alright, now onto the good stuff.

The last part you posted there :

I've already written a plugin that will automatically broadcast an ad for your host in bright blue on the server every 8 mins or so. Your host will be featured in our banner which will be the signature for all of our staff on this site and i made a mod that will make you site appear at the top right side of the screen and you will be receiving 70% of all donations.

That last part rather sounds like a desperate attempt at soft-talking them into giving you a server. Not trying to dampen your hopes and dreams, nor am I putting you down, rather I'm just throwing my two cents in learned by being a successful server owner for 3 years. I personally wouldn't want to be on a server that has chat getting spammed with advertising and having advertising in the corner of the screen. Its not professional, and while it may get more traffic to your host and secure the deal that your looking for I couldn't imagine it would secure the players

The amount of plugins/mods your describing here vs amount of ram is not going to work. You'll need at least 4GB of ram with the amount of slots you want to have + extra for the plugins and mods. If you manage to get this up and running it sounds like an exciting new gamemode for minecraft. So, Good Luck My Friend.

Kind Regards, Walster001.

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I guess that a middle ground could be to have the 3D default resource pack included with its 2D version, but that players can decide to implement it on their own.

I think thats the whole idea the OP was trying to put forward to everyone. Having an OPTIONAL 3D resource pack come bundled with the default 2D resource pack. Its the same goes with shaders, not all computers can run them and the minecraft community accepts that. If the 3D pack was optional, people with "military-grade supercomputers" could use it if they wanted to and all of us could just stick with the normal, everyday, 2D pack

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Many many years ago there were Single player and Multiplayer games (Before Jeb BJ) and never did the two co-exist. They combined them and removed single player only or multiplayer only with the promise of a combined API that would make Modding easier... We are still waiting for this wonderful API!!!

Before that happened builders could build, explorers could explore, hostile Mobs were only a distraction. They had to be dealt with but anyone not wanting to confront something/someone didn't really have to.

Multiplayers could download a wide variety of combat Mods if that was what they enjoyed and slash and burn to their hearts content. I don't think they gave much thought to hostile Mobs. Johny and a few of his buds could create spectacular cites, computers, what have you... Today that still be done but only in peaceful! And if you try to ignore a skeleton you'll die!

Once there was no longer two distinct versions of the game there has been a gradual shift toward combat... Hostile Mods had to be ramped up to withstand updated weapons and tactics, MineCraft has moved more and more toward CombatCraft. There are already far too many games in this genre. Trying to change a MINING based game to one more clone is fool hardy!

Builders no longer matter. Explorers no longer matter. Even single players aren't what's important. They have changed a distraction when mining into the basis for the game. IMO Notch had it right, Two separate games is the only solution! Hostile Mobs need to once again be only a minor disturbance. Their drops once again a means to fill your inventory so you must stop mining and find somewhere to store the excess.

Eventually some hungry lawyer will start a class action that will reap him probably 10s of milllons. The name has become a misrepresentation!

Will the current leadership smell the coffee before this occurs? I doubt it!

I think that's the underlying reason long time staff members are now leaving. It's going to get worse before it gets better!

1. No.
2. Yes
3. No
4. Not so much... They are bent on combat and care not that it negatively impacts those that understand it's not what MineCraft is supposed to be about!

very, VERY well spoken! +1

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TL;DR

It will make files lighter, should cause less lag, give a lot of customizability, and help type human readable names like

/give player "blue brick stairs" (OR) /place "inverted north red oak stair" ~0 ~0 ~1

Then easily be interpreted both in code and in commands.

The principle

Look at â, from French’s bâtir (to build) - it’s not a new letter but rather a + ^.
You can even have more than one accent like with this cute and evil looking ặ.

Blocks in Minecraft vary in model, texture, colour, and state.
Brick Stairs, heading North? Block id, Data value.
Wool, Red? Block id, Data value.
Oak door opened to the west? Block id, Data value.

This actually works fine for the moment.
Yet… this unclear model-texture and colour-state-texture distinction does not help customization, because, in order to have polished andesite stairs, trapped painted doors, obsidian red painted levers, or whatever your mind can create, one can only play with more and more block id and the same small amount of data value.

So let’s ease block/item/mob/biome addition by making the current system more intuitive and still light.

How?

Varying bytes. Using this way of coding and due to its variable size, quick calculations can be made with great customizability.

Looking at the Chunk Format and NBT structure, block ID and data value are kept in cubic chunks of 16*16*16 block ID under 256 in one list (4'096 bytes of information), block IDs over 256 in another list called "Add" (2'048 bytes of information), and data value in a third list (2'048 as well). Which makes that each cubic chunk weighs between 4 and 8 kilobytes.

I'm proposing differently which can make each cubic chunk weigh between less than 1 kilobyte to (unfortunately but unlikely) up to 20 kilobytes when super hyper customized. Let's...

• separate Y and Z into subcategories inside the cubic chunk
• allow 16 bytes in each Z-lines of each Y-Leaflets for "blocks"
• keep added information in a new 8-bytes "Add" format melting old "Add" and "Data", and there can be multiple "Add" lists.
• have the number of 1 before the zero in bytes from the "Blocks" array represent the number of four-bits related to it in the new "Add" format (At most 8 four-bits per blocks but that's quite unlikely).

This is how it would work:

• 0AAAAAAA 128 blocks where data=0
• 10AAAAAA: BBBB 64 blocks with data value
• 110AAAAA: AAAA BBBB 512 blocks with data value
• 1110?AAA: AAAA BBBB CCCC
128 blocks (A) with data value (B) and colour (C)
or 2'048 blocks (A+B) with data value (C)

• 11110?AA: AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC
1'024 blocks (A) with data value (B) and colour (C)
OR 4'096 blocks (A+B) and data value (C)

• 111110AA: AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC CCCC
1'024 blocks (A) with data (B) and 256 textures (C)

• 1111110?: AAAA AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD
4'096 blocks (A) with data (B), colour (C), and 16 textures (D)
OR data (B) and 256 textures (C+D)

• 11111110: AAAA AAAA AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD DDDD
4'096 blocks (A) with data (B), colour (C), and textures (D)

If that is too complex, we can let go of the varying bit idea and simply add a new list for a third set of 4-bits for colours (2'048 bytes per cubic chunk, or 128 bytes per Y-leaflets, or 8 bytes per Z-lines) and a fourth for textures (16 possible texture related to the mix of block ID and data value, which can be hair pulling to prepare the code for it though). Of course blocks that are already coloured (stained clay) can't get coloured again.

Who can do it?

Generalized simplified recipe in survival
The principle (first presented by Alexcamostyle) is simple, really. So that all of this greatness is accessible in survival, the recipes should be simplified. 3 of the same blocks horizontal? Slab. A dye with a block whatever it is? Dye with said block. Can't get much simpler. For this the way recipe works probably has to be changed as well a little. We'll see.

New GUI when in creative
The old separation of blocks/items in creative may or may not continue to exist, but one could be able to make from a three to four sided window, first with model (block ID actually), second with texture, third with color, and fourth with miscellaneous data value and otherwise tags aspects.

Command-accessible only
Or we can leave it to the command savvy, simply doing /give %p 'big cyan obsidian boat' (Link Removed)

Extra customizable ressource pack

So you want a pink-stained golden door? But how does it look?
The program will look first for a file in the ressource pack called "pink.gold.door.png", if absent then "gold.door.png" adding to it a pink tint, and if absent then take the oak door, add gold texture, then pink tint.

You have orange brick stairs? Same thing, if there is an orange brick texture, it will choose it first, otherwise it will tint the existing texture.

Beyond blocks

A similar potential can be done with entities from which the number would never go beyond a relatively small number, thus allowing more modulability to each ones like villagers with strange item exchanges, bigger creepers which could drop a TNT block, friendly spiders... And what about a swamp in which water is poisonous, or a mountain with loads of ore but water-filled caves? the limits are really far
The system for entities and biomes would be a quite different different though, and instead of having 4 bits per additional 1 in front of the first zero, it would have 8:

• 0AAAAAAA for 128 normal unspecific mobs/biomes.)
• 10AAAAAA: AAAABBBB for 1'024 entities/biome/etc. (it can't get more numerous) with 16 different basic changes (that can include the different kind of villagers, guardians, golems, or M/X/whatever other version of biomes)
• 110AAAAA: AAAAABBB BCCCCCCC same thing plus one of 128 predefined add-on (outfit, exchange, poisonous water)
• 1110AAAA: AAAAAABB BBCCCCCC CDDDDDDD same thing plus another 1/128th add-on
• 11110AAA: AAAAAAAB BBBCCCCC CCDDDDDD DEEEEEEE
• 111110AA: AAAAAAAA BBBBCCCC CCCDDDDD DDEEEEEE EFFFFFFF
• 1111110A: AAAAAAAA ABBBBCCC CCCCDDDD DDDEEEEE EEFFFFFF FGGGGGGG
• 11111110: AAAAAAAA AABBBBCC CCCCCDDD DDDDEEEE EEEFFFFF FFGGGGGG GHHHHHHH (you get the principle)

Human Writable Names for ID and data value

Follow the discussion here

Be aware

- It's going to be arduous change yet when it's done it's done for good.
- It may break many mods in their current form yet it will simplify mod making afterwards.
- By separating texture and data value, slabs and stairs for example will have unused bits yet it can be used to have side way stairs or slabs (the latter useful for thinner walls).
- Also, there will be block ID and texture overlapping, so the code is not fully efficient but at least enables future addition of blocks.
By the way, this, if well made, will not screw up existing world, only update it. Of course it's good to make a copy of your world before opening it like after any update.

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Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Multithread / Multicore Support Topic. With this topic I want to rally support for this idea and hopefully get it implemented into true Minecraft.

Minecraft is a very CPU intensive game but currently Minecraft will only use a single core of your processor, whether you have a 6-Core I7 Extreme or a single core AMD sempron. This is a complete waste of resources and support should be implemented to balance the load on computers (Especially Laptops). Support for this would lead to major boosts in FPS, even for those who have dated Dual-Core processors.

I already know that a mod exists for this. (Its called Optifine. You can find it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/249637-11-optifine-hd-d4-fps-boost-hd-textures-aa-af/ ) But I would like to get official support rather than mod support.

So if you support this and would like it to be implemented make your voice heard and do something. This could be leaving a like to this post or simply leaving a comment saying I support.

Happy Minecrafting! :biggrin.gif:

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