I know what I want for my birthday now!
Minecraft 1.4 released yesterday, with tameable wolves. Expect a Minecraft video adventure in the near future!
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It’s been a while since I made a Minecraft video! In today’s episode I investigate a couple of the recent changes to the game, and bimble around a bit trying to remember what the heck I’m doing. I have a soft spot for fishing games, especially fishing minigames in MMOs, so I’ll be interested to see how the fishing system develops. I’d love to see more types of fish, and interesting fish recipes available eventually. I also had my first (and second) glimpse of the new Octopus, and gave it a fine Minecraft “Hello!” with my steel sword. After rather a long break, I continue my search for that most precious of Minecraft substances. Snow! Well, it was precious on this map at any rate! In which I investigate a few more of the recent changes to Minecraft that came in with the Halloween patch. Compass and watch in hand, I venture forth in search of strange new biomes! As promised I’ve uploaded a fresh map rendering. It’s rather large, so might take a little while for you to download. (The little green arrow will blow it up to full size if you’re looking at it from this page.) My original map area is the squarish area that makes up the top right side. You can just about make out my portals, and torches. The new area fits somewhat clunkily on to that, often with wildly discordant borders. I guess that’s what you get when the world generating code changes. As you can see, I’m snowless so far, but I’ll keep on looking. I am surprised though. Videos I’ve seen made snowy biomes seem far more common. Update: Cartographer also tells us how many of each sort of block are within my generated world:
Oho! According to that, there’s 99 snow blocks. I think I can see them on the map (I had originally thought it was more sand, but looking closer I see it’s a slightly different colour), not terribly far from where I finished, so I’ll head that way next time! I see there is also pumpkin, but I don’t think we’ll be able to spot them from the map, but perhaps I’ll run into some eventually. The Minecraft Halloween update was patched in a few hours ago, and I spend this episode exploring the new Nether dimension, AKA the dimension formerly know as Hell. It’s quite grim in the Nether, as you’ll see! The sound effects there got a bit much after a while though, and I fear they drown me out a bit at times during the recording. I engage in heroic battle with a wraith, and end up wishing I’d been playing in 3D so I could have perceived how enormous and far away it was! (That is indeed an option with Minecraft, but I don’t have any red/blue 3D glasses!). I don’t know whether it was just odd luck, but there seems to be rather more beasties about, even in the normal Minecraft dimension. I was lucky to make it to the Nether, let alone back again! Just as I was about to start recording, Notch tweeted: The inventory loss on death is a bug! But let’s just pretend it’s extra difficulty for halloween!. This made me even more nervous than I usually am! I didn’t get around to exploring all the new features in the patch. It’s amazing how quickly 15 minutes goes when you don’t want it to, but I’ll look at biomes and watches and what have you in the next episode. I have to admit, the release of the Halloween update happened during the recording of this one, taking me utterly by surprise. Diamond is truly elusive on my Lets Play map, and it literally took me hours to find enough. There was enough digging, adventure, and pain for a few episodes. I ended up having to cut 90% of it, but hopefully it’ll still make sense. It was a bit of a rush job though. With that finally uploaded, it’s time to get working on the Halloween special!!! I struck forth with purpose today. Notch has revealed that travel to the upcoming Minecraft Hell Dimension will take place though obsidian archways. I don’t have any obsidian yet, as I don’t own a diamond pick with which to mine it. Diamond is usually found pretty deep, deeper than I’ve been yet, so for today’s episode the only way is down. |
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