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¡Damned!
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
 
2014-09-02, 22:17

It's been nearly a year since MC has had a full point upgrade! How time flies! A lot lot lot of under the hood stuff, little of which we'll notice as players, but also some neat new blocks/items and a handful of new mobs.

Diorite, Andesite & Granite, and polished versions of each (2x2, same as sandstone). Unfortunately no slabs, stairs, etc. That's a huge oversight imo.

Course Dirt: Basically the grassless dirt in 1.7, except now you can make it: dirt+gravel 2x2 checkerboard.

Red Sandstone: 4x4 square of red sand. Same as sand>sandstone. Smooth Sandstone, Chiseled, Slabs and Stairs craftable. I'm so happy about this.

Prismarine, Prismarine Bricks, Dark Prismarine, Sea Lantern.
All making up the new Ocean Monument. The greatest thing is that the Prismarine block has an animated color ramp. That's incredibly cool for MC.

Sponge and its wet counterpart. They are exactly what you think they are.

Slime Block. Now this is fun. Bouncy bouncy.


Plus there's some other things. Fences, Gates and Doors are now wood-color specific (and have individual designs). We have iron trapdoors (not easy to open though, only by redstone). Banners…. this needs its own post, and lastly, Armor Stands.


Some new meats: mutton and rabbit. Yum. Plus, rabbit stew. So lots of new meaty things. Also, kill a rabbit, get a foot, brew a Potion of Leaping (new). Also rabbit hide. 2x2 = leather. Cute.


And mobs: The bunnies that everyone will feel bad about killing, endermite that…. eh, nobody knows anything about this bug, and finally some very bad fish(?) called Guardians. They are highly evil, by all accounts.


So, 1.8.

So it goes.

Last edited by 709 : 2014-09-02 at 22:43.
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