Update 1.5 Discussion

BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats !TX Icrontian
edited April 2011 in Minecraft
Weather coming
Notch wrote:
Adding rain and snow to 1.5.
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I'm getting so carried away with this weather.. Adding thunder now.
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Ok, so it doesn't look GREAT on the border of two biomes.. http://i.imgur.com/UVNCC.jpg
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Maybe Different Saplings:
Jens wrote:
Heads-up to texture packers: Slot (15, 3) is now spruce sapling and slot (15, 4) is birch sapling (counting coords from 0)
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Pistons confirmed but won't be in 1.5
Piston mod status: 1) I'm in contact with Hippoplatimus. 2) Yes, we want to alter the feature slightly. 3) Not in beta 1.5.
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  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    # It's temporal and global (this means it is not per biome and is not always on.)

    # You can't see sun/moon/stars while it's raining, and days are one level darker. about 2 hours ago via web in reply to TheFedora

    # Higher odds of catching fish while raining.. Good one. :D I'll try making it fill small holes with water, but it might be annoying.. brb about 2 hours ago via web

    # I'm not making it solidify lava, as that would ruin all surface lava structures when the first rain hits. But it does put out fires. about 2 hours ago via web

    # Wolves get wet in the rain. Crops will get watered. Anything else it should affect?

    Notch is on a roll this morning, just go read his tweet stream: http://twitter.com/notch
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Jeb says Auto harvesting will drop seeds in the future:
    I'm a bit tired now, but it would be fun if the automated harvesting also dropped seeds... Maybe do that tomorrow!

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  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    What is auto harvesting?
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Water flowing over crops will pull the crops and pop up the wheat, but there is a 0% chance of seeds coming up. This was the major disadvantage, now the major disadvantage is not there anymore.

    Here is a video that combines the concept of auto harvest with a workable on/off for the water without using any mods.

    <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y226Lr7m5L8&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    Once the seed drop is implemented I will totally be making a huge one of these.
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Snipit From Notch's blog:
    We’ve been working on finishing up Achievements and Statistics for 1.5, I ran into some issues with JSON, got frustrated, and added weather instead. Developing new features like that is what I enjoy doing the most, so I ended up covering a lot of ground. There’s periodic downfall (snow in snowy areas, rain in others, nothing in deserts) that make the sky darker, hides the sun, moon and stars, and makes everything wet. Ice grows back in cold regions, and snowfall covers the ground when it’s snowing. During rain/snow, there can be occasional thunderstorms with lightning. I haven’t finished the actual lightning bolt yet, but everything else is fairly done.
    Once the stats are done and the weather has been tested through, we’ll release 1.5. I’m guessing this will be next week. The piston mod might get added, but it will not be in time for 1.5.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Didn't he say something about announcing a release date today? For like, the actual finished product?
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Wow... that's crazy... I think my next project is going to be a massive corporate farm on Mt. Dick.
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    UPSLynx wrote:
    Didn't he say something about announcing a release date today? For like, the actual finished product?

    Yup, The quote above is an excerpt of that announcement, I posted the who thing here

    -Digi
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qy882ILYJMM&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    Just a quick video to show off the stuff coming in 1.5. Rain and especially thunder is waaay too common in this test, for demo purposes.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Those weather effects look incredible! Can't wait for weather.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    I don't know if I would go so far as to say anything in Minecraft looks incredible.
  • DoubleOBondDoubleOBond
    edited April 2011
    CB wrote:
    I don't know if I would go so far as to say anything in Minecraft looks incredible.

    I'll differ with this.
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Rail boosters coming?
    Next tex pack update: (3, 10) is powerrail unpowered and (3, 12) is powered.
    http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/57377538720268288
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Zombie Pigmen in the regular world:
    MUOAHAHA! Pigs that get hit by lightning turn into zombie pigmen ;D

    http://twitter.com/notch/status/57426954093211648
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Very interesting. Looks like we should have a good solid featureset in for the freeze.
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Relevant as Fly Mods are being used,
    1.5 servers will have an allow-flight setting (default false). It's not like I believe we beat the fly mod clients, but it's harder now

    http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/57803123166687232
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Good to know. allow flight will surely be staying set to false.
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    As Jeb stated it will be set to no by default so by our rules our server will stay that way unless brought to vote and passes.

    -Digi
  • SuperStrifeSuperStrife Florida
    edited April 2011
    It almost sounds like flight was something that is already included in minecraft somewhere, as its not a mod, it is a hack of the client. Wonder why it was left like that?
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Yeaaaah, no 1.5 this week. :-/
    http://twitter.com/notch/status/58177729064992768
    For all you who are asking, the detector rail will generate a redstone signal when a minecart (any kind) is on top of it
    http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/58069036868710400
  • colacola part legend, part devil... all man Balls deep Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Detector rail= cola making world's best traps
  • SuperStrifeSuperStrife Florida
    edited April 2011
    well, using 3 wooden press plates did the job back in my day.
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    I hadn't played Minecraft in more than 3 months and played a decent hour session last night. Forgot how awesome it was, I can only imagine how much these additions are going to be fun.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    I can't wait for this update. With the weather effects and a real rail boosting/detector system, it's really getting good.

    Though, it's going to be a lot of work to convert all of the rail systems to use booster tracks over the current glitch boosters.
  • SuperStrifeSuperStrife Florida
    edited April 2011
    I was just thinking about the rail booster system, and how conveinient it was going to be, Then I remembered, Hey, redstone has a limit to how far it goes anyways (i think its 500 blocks or so, I haven't counted, but its been annoying to make trackwide switches because of this).
    ah, isnt it fun to balance features and bugfixes
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    Unfortunately, chunks have to be unloaded at some point. Though I imagine you could use detector tracks to help mitigate some of the issues that come with unloading.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    SuperStrife wrote:
    It almost sounds like flight was something that is already included in minecraft somewhere, as its not a mod, it is a hack of the client. Wonder why it was left like that?

    Flight is just movement without physics telling you that you have to have solid ground under you. Technically, any game you can move in could have flight if you take out the code that implements "gravity".
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    This fucks with so many people it's funny!

    (including me, I accept this)
    You know how you can climb ladders with gaps? Yeah, not in 1.5.

    https://twitter.com/notch/status/58802331071938560

    -Digi
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    >_< damnit... need to punch moar wood now.
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    ardichoke wrote:
    >_< damnit... need to punch moar wood now.

    Apparently he tweeted that you'll get 2 for crafting now. Compromise. My guess is it was required for some sort of fix.
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