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[Tilla]

Hmm... from a developer's standpoint, that's about as dangerous a concept as you can propose. Take a perfectly functional game that's sold a whole bunch of units, then make drastic changes. Screw up, and you've pissed off a very large and vocal fanbase. Succeed, and you still won't be selling any extra units to people who already own the game. It's kind of a lose-lose situation. 


Still, the worst that happens from our perspective is we hold on to version 1.7 as the "Holy Grail of Minecraft", and the best that happens is we get an awesome update to an already-awesome game. So I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly. 

People lost all right to complain that things changed much when they bought an alpha/beta.

Isn't Notch technically also working on Scrolls?

I dunno, I think its mainly in the idea stage right now. Am I the only person who doesn't want a card based strategy game?

Notch isn't working on Scrolls, except in discussing ideas with Jeb. Notch is only working on MC directly.

[Duke 2.0]

 People will complain no matter what it is. The fact that it isn't done six months ago and not fully functional fully rotating moving block-based ships with physics will cause a shitstorm to be brewed. And people bitching about how a mod did it first and better.

[SirAaronIII]

Hopefully, this update will deliver what it lacks in comparison to, say, Terraria.

This. I've lost interest in Minecraft due to Terraria. I probably won't play MC for a while until N@W starts.

[ein]

Y'know, I actually lost interest in Terraria really fast because it felt like there was so little to do.
I got all the items and beat all the bosses and it was like, well, that was fun, what now?
And I went back to Minecraft, and did a bunch of running around exploring the landscapes and making shit with redstone.
Lag is the only reason I don't play MC much anymore.

[forsaken1111]

Y'know, I actually lost interest in Terraria really fast because it felt like there was so little to do.
I got all the items and beat all the bosses and it was like, well, that was fun, what now?
And I went back to Minecraft, and did a bunch of running around exploring the landscapes and making shit with redstone.
Lag is the only reason I don't play MC much anymore.

Except in the time it's taken notch to implement pistons, Terraria has introduced a ton of new content.

[Duke 2.0]

Y'know, I actually lost interest in Terraria really fast because it felt like there was so little to do.
I got all the items and beat all the bosses and it was like, well, that was fun, what now?
And I went back to Minecraft, and did a bunch of running around exploring the landscapes and making shit with redstone.
Lag is the only reason I don't play MC much anymore.

Except in the time it's taken notch to implement pistons, Terraria has introduced a ton of new content.

 In the time it took Terraria to start actually adding new content Notch made Multiplayer Creative.

 Let's all do our own bullshit judging scales here while we are at it.

 I'm really with Ein on this one. Terraria got boring in under a week when you did everything. What else could you do? you couldn't exactly make huge structures because the environment was more limited. It makes adventuring and content easier to add, but it doesn't last a long time. Minecraft continues to be massively popular because it's a great medium for building. Adventure content is not gonna make people stay, it's building. And really, no other game does it with such elegance and ease.
 (Until Beta Creative comes out anyway)

[Tilla]

Totally agree with the 'bored of terraria' crowd, I've never been big into platform games and such. The week after Terraria got stale for me I first started playing with Millenaire and stuff. The mods really add whole new layers of awesome stuff to play with.

[freeformschooler]

Also, if you want to, you can make mods able to enter creative mode on a server running in another game mode.

Wait what? Is he talking about client side mods overriding the server's set mode? I'm assuming no.

[ein]

I'm not really sure what he means, but it sounds like it'll neat regardless.

[Jay]

New Jaycraft is going to be up for the next few hours, burning in the "new" old rig.
I'll move the actual post if I can get a high place on one of the pages (no, I don't care that your pages start in different places, people with non-standard post/page counts) but for now just use the link in my sig to get the details.

[HLBeta]

I'm just waiting for Notch to announce colored lights. He's already said that the new lighting allows for tinting so I want to see the option of adding a bit of dye powder to torches for some mood lighting. My piston-powered disco demands it!

[Tilla]

I'm just waiting for Notch to announce colored lights. He's already said that the new lighting allows for tinting so I want to see the option of adding a bit of dye powder to torches for some mood lighting. My piston-powered disco demands it!

With some redstone speed improvements colored lights could make color monitors.

[Thexor]

I'm just waiting for Notch to announce colored lights. He's already said that the new lighting allows for tinting so I want to see the option of adding a bit of dye powder to torches for some mood lighting. My piston-powered disco demands it!

With some redstone speed improvements colored lights could make color monitors.

Well, that and more restrictive redstone circuits. A battery of adjacent lights:

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could not currently (AFAIK) be configured such that any single light was active independent of its neighbours - redstone circuits are just too large and bulky, speed improvements or no. 

[PTTG??]

But you might be able to make pistons move colored blocks to make a nine-color display.

[Andir]

I thought Notch already shot down colored lights?  I remember somewhere they said they tried it and it "didn't look right" or something.