Minecraft!

[Herr Matzat]

And a StripClub.

http://thechenry.imgur.com/dukesclub

[Rocky]

Books in a strip club

Dems stripper be learnin'

[Herr Matzat]

Looks a lot like Minecraft will hit one Million "Premium" acounts within this week. (the unused giftcodes are not in the statistic given on the side.

[Sousa]

So I tried the Minecraft survival experiment that this blog covers. I have been failing in hilarious fashion each time. Expect this to end up in the Cube this week.

[Rocky]

I'm only a few days into that blog and it's bringing back the memories.. I love these stories of people on their first adventures

My favourite is still X's youtube adventure (linked on page 1)

MAkes me want to attempt this challenge, but knowing that I die often... May be a bit more difficult that I thought.

[Sousa]

I'm on World #6, and I'm actually thriving a little bit here.

You'll see the details.

They involve me swearing a lot at creepers.

[Rocky]

I can imagine it It will be fun reading/watching a minecraft diary from a "local"

[Herr Matzat]

http://multimedia.worth1000.com/contests/26433/minecraft-fan-art

You still got 24 houres. - But there will be brilliant stuff, with worth1000 there always is, so keep an eye on it.

Minecraft + Kinect

http://www.orderofevents.com/MineCraft/KinectInfo.htm

WTF?!

Thats pritty nice.

Just wow.

http://multimedia.worth1000.com/entries/619603/house-of-fire-water-earth-and-air

Oh well, i don´t want to post every interesting thing. There is a lot of "not so special" enteries, but inbetwen there is awsome.

Edited January 12, 2011 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Herr Matzat]

Less than 2000 Copys till one Million.

I bet the update they talked about last week will hit tonight.

Minecraft Beta 1.2

Minecraft Beta 1.2 is live. All servers need to be updated to 1.2.

New features:

* Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)

* 15 wool dyes

* A new water dwelling mob

* New tree types

* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.

* A bunch of new crafting recipes

* One secret useful block

* One secret pretty block

* Cake

* AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes:

* Paintings work in multiplayer

* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world

* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer

* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC

* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer

* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps

* Falling sand behaves better in SMP

* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs

Edited January 13, 2011 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Sousa]

HUGE content dump today. Holy crap.

* New addition charcoal

* Note Blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)

* 15 wool dyes

* A new water dwelling mob (Squid)

* New tree types (Birch, Pine)

* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.

* A bunch of new crafting recipes

* One secret useful block (Dispenser)

* One secret pretty block (Sandstone block)

* Cake

* Sugar - Crafted from Sugar Cane

* Default furnaces given new look

* Bones added to the drop table, exclusively for skeleton archers.

* Bones can be crafted into Bonemeal.

* New gray, light gray, and black sheep. Drop correspondingly colored wool.

* Tools made out of stone and wood are now twice as durable.

* New ore type (Lapis Lazuli)

* Spiders can climb up walls.

* Mob Spawners now show a rotating model inside of what they spawn

* Wheat Seeds might be harvested more often when plowing grass blocks.

Bugfixes:

* Paintings work in multiplayer

* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world

* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer

* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC

* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer

* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps

* Falling sand behaves better in SMP

* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs

* Jack-O-Lantern now has correct tooltip.

* Sheep now visibly lose their wool when hit.

Wish I wasn't feeling like hell.

[Katsuya]

* Spiders can climb up walls.

What.

[Rocky]

HOLY SHIT!!! It's no longer safe in the water...

and spiders scare the shit out of me when they jump but now they're climbing walls!!!

How's your survival diary going to cope with these changes Sousa?

[Katsuya]

Squids are a passive mob and drop ink for wool dye.

[Rocky]

I just seen that on a video... I'm going to surround my house with dispensers and lure the Mobs in... Much more exciting than that Mob Water Trap...

Can't wait to run screaming from the wall climbing spiders though.

[=BK=]

So Sousa's diary got me interested in this, I went to the site and played the demo thingy there and oh my god this game would be so much fun......if I didn't have to play with my keyboard, I REALLY can't stand playing a game with a keyboard. Looks like I'll just have to follow other people's games to see this stuff.

[Sousa]

I'm not sure what's going to happen with my diary--presumably, none of the mines in my area will have lapis lazuli. Even so, I haven't explored much yet, so new chunks will obviously have a chance of spawning the stuff.

Here's some new stuff:

Coniferous trees!

As many colored dyes as I could make without lapis lazuli!

This is from a new game, by the way, not the survival game.

[King Ellis]

I went on last night not knowing about the update and immidiately saw a black (which turned out to be grey) sheep. That was interesting.

[Sousa]

Yeah, I've seen multicolor sheep. You can apparently use the dye to paint sheep, too.

One thing I found while exploring the new world is that the new trees have different bark on the outside. The top and bottom textures are the same, but the pine trees have darker wood (and seem to grow taller), which birch trees have white bark (and grow at about the same rate and height as regular trees). Still haven't seen a squid, but I suspect I will in this new world, since all of my construction so far has been under ice/water.

[Herr Matzat]

That would explain the spider flying ontop of my head in my roofless treehouse yesterday. :-D

[Sousa]

Climbing spiders are awesome. I actually prefer it. They climb slowly anyway, so they're easier to cap.

Anyone finding drop rates smaller, though? I played for a couple of hours yesterday, killed a bunch of spiders, only ended up with two string.

Did find a dungeon right under my underwater research center, though.