[Bryson]

What noise do Endermen make? I keep hearing a sort of violin stab every now and again and can't work out what it's supposed to be. I haven't seen any Endermen yet. (Although, I have been sleeping at night, not exploring. At least until I get some proper armor and weapons.)

[SpecMode]

They make zombie noises at the moment, at least when you hit/kill them. Not sure if that'll change at some point.

[Bryson]

Originally Posted by Brad You guys can use whatever you want, but "Applenova" isn't going to be the server seed.

Sacrilege!

Time to break out the torches and pitchforks again, lads!

[Brad]

Originally Posted by SpecMode They make zombie noises at the moment, at least when you hit/kill them. Not sure if that'll change at some point.

C418 asked people to stop bugging him because he did make separate Enderman sounds. Mecause people are manually installing the bet 1.8 jar, their clients aren't downloading the new sound files. I'd bet we'll get them later this week.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Bryson Sacrilege! Time to break out the torches and pitchforks again, lads!

Seriously, though, if everyone explored the same seed, that would kill a lot of the fun/point of having a multiplayer server. Collaborative and new exploration, discoveries, and adventure... you know, that stuff.

[Bryson]

I understand really. Just messIn' with ya!

[turtle]

Yeah, it is mostly underwater. At least one block. Nice actually. I haven't explored much really. Just doing house keeping and cutting the grass, growing wheat, etc...

I just gave my oldest her code. I'll get her added to the white list once she chooses her name.

BTW, I love the background image on the game now. Very nice touch Brad.

[turtle]

Ok, had to post this. As I mentioned I have given my oldest daughter a MC code and she is getting her name in mind so we can register it for her.

She came over an watched me working in the village and saw all the over grown grass. With she makes the statement, "You need to cut your grass."

My reply, "This is why I gave you a code!"

[Elysium]

So here's a fun one. Tried another SSP seed, and spawned in a tree that was overhanging a chasm.

[turtle]

Skellie-Rider! This was so cool because I never get to see them normally so this time I actually caught it on video for all of you. A few comical moments in there too though.

Video in SD | HD

[billybobsky]

I just had an idea: trainable spiders. In daylight give them enough silk, and they follow you/actively defend you until they or you die; however watch your back at night, they have a reversion rate.

[Robo]

Originally Posted by Elysium So here's a fun one. Tried another SSP seed, and spawned in a tree that was overhanging a chasm.

What's the seed (if you remember and don't mine sharing)?

[billybobsky]

Ok. I am done with the pre-release. I was trying to play a game straight -- you know, spend first day collecting resources, first night shitting yourself/building tools and small shelter, but then I accidentally ended up generating an infinite pickaxe source that kept filling my inventory and the furnace kept crashing.

[turtle]

What mode are you playing? SSP? I'm not seeing this on my SMP. In fact, SMP is playing really good. Other than chests that moved over from a 1.7 world don't lay right. They operate right, just not displayed right.

Yes, the block I'm looking at when right-clicked opens the chest. Right clicking the ground where it looks like I should doesn't.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by turtle What mode are you playing? SSP? I'm not seeing this on my SMP. In fact, SMP is playing really good. Other than chests that moved over from a 1.7 world don't lay right. They operate right, just not displayed right.

Seen this in both SSP and SMP with old pre-beta 1.7 chests. I haven't manually dug into the data files yet, but based on some observations, I'm pretty sure that this is because the chests in beta 1.8 have new rotation position metadata. The old chests have garbage/no data there, similar to the "calico leaves" that appeared in old trees after new tree types were introduced a few major versions ago.

[turtle]

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining what's likely the issue.

Man, now I can't get into my own server to show Mrs_T what 1.8 is like. Using a stock MC server is there a way I can make it connect? We get our login to the user but when it tries to connect to the server it times out and all the other stuff.

I'm using this: java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

[Brad]

That should do it. If you copied the setup from mc.applenova.com, torch the server.properties file and let it be regenerated. If that doesn't help, stop the server, set online-mode=false in the properties file, and restart the server. That will allow players to join without requiring the server to authenticate with MC.net.

[turtle]

Originally Posted by Brad That should do it. If you copied the setup from mc.applenova.com, torch the server.properties file and let it be regenerated. If that doesn't help, stop the server, set online-mode=false in the file, and restart the server. That will allow players to join without requiring the server to authenticate with MC.net.

Ok, this is actually a new clean install. I only replaced the world files to play using AN's world. I'll see about making this change.

Works perfect now. Thanks you. Had to edit the file.

[SpecMode]

Map seed: Glacier (1772835215). Coordinates: x = -162, z = 470.







Also, I just set a grass-covered plain on fire not far from there. No trees, just grass. Spreads decently fast, too.

[SpecMode]

One more: I found this totally awesome canyon. Underneath an ocean. Giant waterfalls from holes in the top of the canyon, with lava pools and flows scattered about.

[drewprops]

Amazing!!
I can't wait until we can all go exploring a world together so that I can hide behind other people when things get dicey.


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[ThunderPoit]

I made a random map in creative mode and started running around. I found an NPC village, but somehow all the houses got filled with TNT...

[Bryson]

Have you always been able to do this, or is it new in 1.8?



This is my little village - it seems to be much smaller than others I've seen, and the well is in a lake. That seems useful.

[SpecMode]

Originally Posted by Bryson Have you always been able to do this, or is it new in 1.8?

I'm reasonably sure that we've been able to put torches on spawners for a while now (or at least as of 1.7.3). Pretty sure I had done that to a few in my 1.7.3 SSP world.

Meanwhile, I spent over an hour flying around in Creative mode in the world I took the screenshots above in, and I have yet to find a single village. Plenty of mineshafts branching off from the canyons I found, but no villages.

Also, if you hadn't already figured it out, you can fly in Creative by double-jumping. It even works in mid-air if you're falling, too. Hold space (or whatever you've got jump set to) to go up, shift (crouch) to go down. When you hit the ground, you're back to walking. And, you can blow right through the 128-block "ceiling" to get some awesome landscape views, though you still can't actually place blocks up there.

[Brad]

I've been putting torches on spawners for a good while. It's my preferred way of lighting them up.

[Elysium]

Originally Posted by Robo What's the seed (if you remember and don't mine sharing)?

I believe that one was Mastadon Paradise (didn't write down the map seed #).

Originally Posted by SpecMode Map seed: Glacier (1772835215). Coordinates: x = -162, z = 470. Also, I just set a grass-covered plain on fire not far from there. No trees, just grass. Spreads decently fast, too.

I've been using that one as a new SSP to actually build on. I've been working on an area at x = -258, z = 738

Originally Posted by SpecMode One more: I found this totally awesome canyon. Underneath an ocean. Giant waterfalls from holes in the top of the canyon, with lava pools and flows scattered about.

Those are fun to find and are about the only interesting thing in the ocean worlds. I had one that dropped down to bedrock and another small one that dropped me on top of a zombie spawner.

[turtle]

Fence gates! Awesome. My world is ready now.

[Brad]

Jeb has been busy today! This is the list of items he was working on today (and presumably got most fixed):

* SSP chunk memory leak * Mineshaft density (half now) * Increased stronghold count to 3 per map instead of one * Furnace tile entity crash * Crafting bench ghost items * Vines (and leaves) crash in nether * Use item animation in SMP (blocking and eating) * Blocking in SMP * Sprinting with right-click or sneaking * Added some blocks to creative mode * Fixed dropping items * Nothing can be eaten in creative mode * Enderman client-side problems * Chicken and cow drop burned food * Squids drop exp * 1.7 worlds should get structures * Farmlands rejecting melon and pumpkin seeds * Bonemeal on melons and pumpkins * Bonemeal on mushroom only works on dirt or grass * Added item drops for cracked and mossy smooth stone brick * Adjusted fog strength at low positions

http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/113289341761093632

Also relevant:

I said this earlier, but tomorrow I will *at least* upload a new pre-release

http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/113343463705165825

[billybobsky]

I am seeing some strangeness with the terrain generation: perfectly rectangular volcanic plugs (or the minecraft equivalent), also.... i would prefer a mix of this terrain with its breathtaking mountains and the rolling terrain of the previous incarnation. Not every mountain has to be a holy shit phenomenon.

[RowdyScot]

So I started a new world with the seed RowdyScot. Found this after a scary first night at sea.