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[freeformschooler]

Okay guys I don't know how many of you tries this... but I tried digging upwards in hell

Several things I learned:
1) Going up is a lot like digging down in the normal world.
2) There are sometimes elaborate caverns full of zombiepigmen (manpigzombie? pigzombieman?)
3) I have yet to reach another type of blocks other than the normal Slip rock
4) A lot of it seems to be strangely lighted.

EDIT:
Scratch that, I reached bedrock.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

I spawned my portal in a Nether cavern. I went back up later, after finding the main cavern, and spawned in a normal cavern. Stupid caverns.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think it's mostly the screams of the pigmen and the Ghast. Apparently Ghast cries travel longer than any other sound in the game, so chances are you'll always be able to hear it.

I find the Nether genuinely terrifiying, even if the Ghast are far easier than they seem and the Pigmen peaceful until attacked. It's the dead, blighted landscape contrasted to the Overworld, which always seems familiar. The skeletons and zombies may be undead, but they're still former humans. The spiders may be gigantic and murderous, but we have small spiders in real life, and their actions during daytime suggest they only attack you out of instinct or hunger. Even the Creepers aren't all that bad, because they're pretty much the face of Minecraft now.

Mud and gore covered Zombie Pigmen who shreak constantly and carry swords of some gold-like material? The freaking Ghast? The Nether is just so alien that it manages to be scary.

EDIT: Speaking of how alien the Nether is, taking a compass or watch inside of it won't do you much good at all. I'm begining to doubt that the Nether is so much "below the Overworld" as it is "a horrible alien dimention that you have tunneled through to", which isn't all that suprising.

[Lap]

Basically, this does not at all feel like a months worth of work to me.

Probably because he really didn't work on it that much. We watched him on twitter fix long standing bugs and add in fishing in just a couple hours.

[forsaken1111]

Yeah he has been a bit distracted with other things, like forming a new company and wasn't he fighting paypal for something?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yes. Because Minecraft is so very awesome (by which I mean a great deal of copies were bought in a short time frame), Paypal ended up frezing his account and taking the income for themselves because they thought he was a scammer. A fairly decent logic fail on Paypal's part, but I think Notch got it worked out.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

3) I have yet to reach another type of blocks other than the normal Slip rock

There's gravel, though it's rare.

4) A lot of it seems to be strangely lighted.

It seems to have a darkness limit, probably comparable to normal-space night, if there's brighter space connected to it. So digging a hole in the red cobblestone and sealing it up again will give you a much darker place than leaving it open.


Hmm... there's apparently a new update, because minecraft's updating itself.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Now someone needs to make a mod where the Nether is accessed by pillars of diamond above and in a magma sea. With huge hollows in them that spawn Ghasts.

[KrunkSplein]

Hmm... there's apparently a new update, because minecraft's updating itself.

Tweet from Notch: "Small emergency Sunday update; You drop your stuff when dying now."

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Apparently the transition from 1.2 to 1.2.01 made it so Slow Sand/Blockfaces/Slowmud doesn't spawn in the Nether anymore. If it was spawned before that it'll still be around, but all the future instances spawn gravel instead. That's...odd...

[Lap]

I'm really disappointed that biomes don't work with old saves. They technically spawn, but with no regard for anything around it, meaning you get huge cliffs of ice in the middle of a forest type stuff.

[breadbocks]

Lanternite -- This is a good one.  It will undoubtedly be used for lanterns once they're implemented, and the name sounds cool too.  So much better than "brittle gold" that is neither brittle nor gold.  The name on the Wiki is currently "Lightstone", and that just sounds terrible.

It is VERY brittle. Try barefisting it a few times. It looks quite a lot like gold. Therefore- Brittle Gold.

Actually, slowstone behaves like a rock. Gets mined by a pick.

It is mud. Anything can be mined by a pick. Shovel works too, therefore, soil block type.

[Jay]

Lanternite -- This is a good one.  It will undoubtedly be used for lanterns once they're implemented, and the name sounds cool too.  So much better than "brittle gold" that is neither brittle nor gold.  The name on the Wiki is currently "Lightstone", and that just sounds terrible.

It is VERY brittle. Try barefisting it a few times. It looks quite a lot like gold. Therefore- Brittle Gold.

It BEHAVES nothing like gold, though.
Gold does not glow.  Therefore- NOT Brittle Gold.

You can't use a real name for things that are not that material.  Au has all kinds of properties that this rock does not.  One of which is being malleable, not brittle.  Gold is never -brittle- per se.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Lanternite -- This is a good one.  It will undoubtedly be used for lanterns once they're implemented, and the name sounds cool too.  So much better than "brittle gold" that is neither brittle nor gold.  The name on the Wiki is currently "Lightstone", and that just sounds terrible.

It is VERY brittle. Try barefisting it a few times. It looks quite a lot like gold. Therefore- Brittle Gold.

It BEHAVES nothing like gold, though.
Gold does not glow.  Therefore- NOT Brittle Gold.

Earth Gold does not glow. We know nothing of the properties of Nether Gold, except that we do, because it's Brittle Gold.

[Jay]

Lanternite -- This is a good one.  It will undoubtedly be used for lanterns once they're implemented, and the name sounds cool too.  So much better than "brittle gold" that is neither brittle nor gold.  The name on the Wiki is currently "Lightstone", and that just sounds terrible.

It is VERY brittle. Try barefisting it a few times. It looks quite a lot like gold. Therefore- Brittle Gold.

It BEHAVES nothing like gold, though.
Gold does not glow.  Therefore- NOT Brittle Gold.

Earth Gold does not glow. We know nothing of the properties of Nether Gold, except that we do, because it's Brittle Gold.

Except that's not how elements work.
Gold will always be gold, regardless of its location.
You can't take a gold block from the overworld into the Nether and have it turn into this stuff.