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FlowerChild wrote:

Shengji wrote: Me too! I don't understand why such drastic development continues on the game after its release. It's almost as if Notch is paying an in house modding team, surely current sales cannot pay their wages?

Sure they can man. MC is still selling a million units every few months. You can see it just sold another million in the news items on MCF. What is that, 25 million dollars gross?

It probably doesn't cost more than a couple of hundred thousand a year to keep MC development going the way it is now.

I certainly don't approve of the current direction in which MC is going, and I'd personally be in heaven if they just stopped developing it entirely, but at the same time, I sincerely doubt it's not cost effective for them to keep going the way they are.

In all, the PC/Mac version of Minecraft brought in 4,177,843 sales throughout the year, which isn’t bad for a game that has been available for a number of years already.

Of course, while the PC version’s sales were impressive, they couldn’t top the sales of the Xbox 360 version. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition was purchased 100,416 times on Christmas day, jumping up to 325,591 sales during the larger Christmas week. 5,002,370 sales was the final tally for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, which again is something that we already knew.

With the huge number of people getting a new smartphone or tablet on Christmas day, it definitely isn’t surprising that the sales for Minecraft: Pocket Edition managed to come in on top of the Xbox 360 and PC versions. The mobile version of Minecraft netted 283,939 sales on Christmas day, 706,419 on Christmas week, and 5,899,727 for 2012 as a whole. Both iOS and Android sales are counted in this figure, so it would appear that Mojang is cleaning up across all platforms.

Add up all of those numbers for 2012, and we come to 15,079,940 sales for all versions of Minecraft in 2012. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars for Mojang, so the studio is definitely sitting pretty as we head into 2013.

last year, the majority of profits went straight to Notch Development—Perssons' own company—rather than Mojang itself. MCV states the 425 million SEK ($63.5 million) of the total 550 million SEK ($82.2 million) went to Notch Development). Now with the company's massive increase in yearly profits, much of the money will go straight to Mojang since the company has officially taken over the IP from Persson.

johnt wrote:I don't have a clue what Mojang would be worth if it went public, but I would wager 'a lot'.

Donzaffi wrote:Its only me taht is some kind of paranoid, or minecraft is getting more and more ideas from BTW ?

Elevatator wrote:

Donzaffi wrote:Its only me taht is some kind of paranoid, or minecraft is getting more and more ideas from BTW ?

You are not paranoid (at least not in this case)
Some weeks/months time ago, Dinnerbone visited the McF thread. He and Flower had a talk, and one thing we know is that Flower suggested Dinnerbone, that he should play Btw to get an idea of gameplay.

Mikko-blu wrote:I'm really actually curious if dinnerbone got any of the stuff from the mod. I'd like to say he did, but I'm still really curious.

• Bug fixes.
• Finally put the multiple snow heights into the game. You can craft 6 snow layers with 3 snow blocks in a row, then stack these, ala this gif.
• Made stair lighting better.
• Added more stuff to the scoreboard system that was introduced last snapshot.
• 'Rebalanced' bonemeal so that all crops take an average of around 2.5 bonemeal to grow, but I think trees remain at 2?

• Increased beacon range.
  - 1 layer = 41 blocks diameter (old diameter:33)
  - 2 layers= 61 blocks (old:49)
  - 3 layers: 81 blocks (old:65)
  - 4 layers: 101 blocks (old:81)

Six wrote:

• Increased beacon range.
  - 1 layer = 41 blocks diameter (old diameter:33)
  - 2 layers= 61 blocks (old:49)
  - 3 layers: 81 blocks (old:65)
  - 4 layers: 101 blocks (old:81)

Six wrote: [*]Finally put the multiple snow heights into the game. You can craft 6 snow layers with 3 snow blocks in a row, then stack these, ala this gif.

BinoAl wrote:

Six wrote: [*]Finally put the multiple snow heights into the game. You can craft 6 snow layers with 3 snow blocks in a row, then stack these, ala this gif.

That's actually really fucking cool. It's a relatively small addition, but it should be incredibly fun to play with. I hope collision works with them, creating gradual slopes in a snowy region would be great

Six wrote: The funny thing is the code has been in the game for this for a long time. If I'm not mistaken, I believe if the difference of height between one block and the next is 1/2 a block or less you can walk between them smoothly.

FlowerChild wrote:Kinda smoothly. This is the way Groth already works, but movement over its surface is a bit glitchy as a result.

Hopefully now that Mojang has included this feature they'll be motivated to fix up the player movement code for that kind of thing, although I'm still uncertain as to how player collision will work with these partial snow blocks given that regular snow is ignored for collisions.

Magnavode wrote: - A stack of 8 (looks like a full snow block) can still melt and wash away from water, same as other stack sizes. In other words; any stack size still behaves like a 1 high stack.

Magnavode wrote:Personally I applaud Mojang for the changes in this snapshot. I hope the new lighting looks as good decompiled as it looks ingame. And here's hoping they don't go overboard with adding other blocks like the new snow.

Six wrote:

Magnavode wrote: - A stack of 8 (looks like a full snow block) can still melt and wash away from water, same as other stack sizes. In other words; any stack size still behaves like a 1 high stack.

A few more questions I have about it:
- What do you get when breaking different sized piles?
- Does that stack of 8 become a snow block?
- Does (and did) water wash away full snow blocks?

FlowerChild wrote:

Magnavode wrote:Personally I applaud Mojang for the changes in this snapshot. I hope the new lighting looks as good decompiled as it looks ingame. And here's hoping they don't go overboard with adding other blocks like the new snow.

That's awesome to hear man. That should smooth out a lot of movement problems with partial blocks in general.

johnt wrote:Oh, and on notch's money:

$100 million in 2012:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ ... in/c87pl91

Also, notch does an impromptu AMA on what it's like to be filthy rich.

As a point of comparison, EA earned 74 million for the entire year.

Six wrote:

• 'Rebalanced' bonemeal so that all crops take an average of around 2.5 bonemeal to grow, but I think trees remain at 2?