Vanilla Minecraft News Discussion

[Urian]

It will mean easy brown coloured wool for those who haven't realized you can smear the wool with something else as well.

[FlowerChild]

It will mean easy brown coloured wool for those who haven't realized you can smear the wool with something else as well.

And another food-source in a game over-saturated with them.

[Gormador]

And another food-source in a game over-saturated with them.

Unless they make it so that Steve can only eat them when NOT hungry and slow down his movements when eaten.
Yeah, this is crap.

[MoRmEnGiL]

It will mean easy brown coloured wool for those who haven't realized you can smear the wool with something else as well.

And another food-source in a game over-saturated with them.

While still not fixing cake to be actually useful.

Back in the old food mechanics days, I had cakes strategically placed over my entire base, so I wouldn't need to have food in my inv unless I was venturing far outside. I was kinda hoping to do the same with hunger later on, using block dispensers to compensate for the increased demand, but 1 food bar per "slice".. just not worth it at all.

As for cocoa beans, well we knew they were coming, jeb has stated quite a long time ago that he will make them farmable. Eh, I'm not gonna fuss over this, it is small and minecrafty.

[FlowerChild]

As for cocoa beans, well we knew they were coming, jeb has stated quite a long time ago that he will make them farmable. Eh, I'm not gonna fuss over this, it is small and minecrafty.

Yeah, I agree with you there. It doesn't bug me, and I'm certainly a fan of doing small relatively useless features when the mood strikes me or I need a break from more serious work, it just doesn't excite me as a feature.

As Urian pointed out though, it does make sense in vanilla more from the dye standpoint, as there was no reasonable way to get brown dye (which is why I made dung useable as a dye to begin with).

I guess it did make sheep-farms valuable since the breeding mechanics were introduced though.

[Panda]

Besides its not a useless addition, its tieing up loose ends from the days of the legendary dungeon coco, that made little sense. I've wanted this for a long time myself.

You're stretching Panda :)

Stretching like a kitty cat!

[Thalarctia]

The food system has really been kind of irrelevant since the introduction of watermelons, which I believe was more or less at the same time :)

Thankfully, BTW allows us to convert much of the extra food into tallow, and thus dynamite :D Gotta love standing on a dirt tower during the night, flinging dynamite at creepers...

[kregoth]

New snapshot 12W19A http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/495- ... r-testing/

• Added cocoa plants to jungles
  Added a “large biomes” world type
  Added specific names for the different sandstone and smooth stone blocks

A large Biome option sounds nice, at least I hope it is lol :P I am curious just how large they actually are.

[Yamboyz1]

Hmmmm... Large biomes sounds intriguing. I'll have to check this out.

[Katalliaan]

I spent a good half-hour flying just under cloud level to try to trace the outlines of a taiga biome in one of the "lage biomes" worlds before I gave up, and I had to be 2k blocks away from the starting point. So, very.

[TheAnarchitect]

That's, frankly, awesome. I'm going to have to figure out how to convert my existing world into one of those. Heck, I'll just start a new world and MCedit my island into the middle of an ocean if I have to. Holy Hell, reasons to sail places.

[Stormweaver]

large biomes sound fun (yay for almost-flat deserts) for when you want a more organic base, and want to keep a specific biome colour around. I wonder if it affects rivers at all?

Cocoa beans will be a nice automation to make though. Sounds like netherwart, but on the side of a tree and far less useful :p

[Yamboyz1]

Lol, I just saw this on Reddit:

Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks

[FlowerChild]

Lol, I just saw this on Reddit:

Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks

Hehehe...like I said, I knew this was likely to be fixed in a future update.

Mojang was obviously interested in fixing this kind of thing when they made updates save on chunk unload. What I did wouldn't have been feasible otherwise.

I viewed what I did as just correcting a temporary oversight on their part.

Anyways, BTW users got it a month earlier than otherwise ;)

[Husbag3]

IMO, large biomes will just make spawners above oceans even easier than before...

[Sarudak]

I don't understand how having large biomes changes anything in that regard...

[Husbag3]

I don't understand how having large biomes changes anything in that regard...

Well I don't know about everybody else, but I found it hard to find an ocean the was 144 blocks in all directions from land.

[kregoth]

The FlowerChild seed still produces a survival island like spawn, it's more then 144 blocks of water in all directions :) I wonder what larger biomes would do to that, anyone wanna test it out?

[FlowerChild]

The FlowerChild seed still produces a survival island like spawn, it's more then 144 blocks of water in all directions :) I wonder what larger biomes would do to that, anyone wanna test it out?

I expect regular seeds will produce entirely different results with large biomes. The way biome generation works is *extremely* fragile when it comes to small changes in the variables that determine what's in the world.

It basically works like the butterfly effect. Subtle changes in the initial state are hugely magnified in the end result.

[Crismon]

I love the new map type...

The seed used is FlowerChild. On defalut and Large Biomes the starting island is exactly the same. Everything is the same...
So I got a map. I've gone to x 0 and went to z+ until I would hit another biome.

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And... Large Biomes:

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Still nothing. That is how biomes should have been... Well, at least we can call this a Real Ocean now.

[Ulfengaard]

I'm very particular about my base positioning. Even moreso since HCB. What usually happens, though, is I find a nice snowy biome with an elevated, covered lake, and the only reasonable location for my base has a wonderful view.... of a sandy desert. :p

This new biome configuration is going to be really nice since I'll be starting a new world soon.

[kregoth]

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Still nothing. That is how biomes should have been... Well, at least we can call this a Real Ocean now.

Damn that's a lot of water, I love it! So FlowerChild is even more of a survival island with the new large biome option :) I feel there is some hidden meaning in relationship to the names? perhaps it is reflective of just how much FC loves to troll us :P

[TheAnarchitect]

Hmmm... Maybe I'll drop castaway into that seed, then.

[MoRmEnGiL]

Hmm I dunno.. Larger biomes is a mixed bag. Personally I think it makes for a boring view.

[Husbag3]

You could argue that it gives an experience similar to BOD, where there is an need to set up various checkpoints across your world. For example, if you set up your home in a desert, you need to travel long distances to get wolves, cats, snow golems, etc.