I did but thanks. That makes it soooo much easier.

I'm pretty sure it's already been discussed, but I don't want to have to reread this entire thread to find it - how many blocks high can you build from 'sea level' (I'm guessing the sea level's constant throughout the map).

 

Got a little project that's going to be 71 blocks high and I need to know whether I need to dig down to fit it all in!

Also - how easy is black wool or wool and black dye to come across?

 

Does anyone have any vast stocks of the stuff?

I think total height from bedrock is 128 blocks (I may be wrong). Try F3 for coords or /getpos

I'll do some experimenting tonight.

I like.

(Although notch is finally increasing the height to 512 for the 1.8 release.)

What's the thing with randomly generated structures or something? (I've not read anything just what's been on here)

Of course, it lies about lava, which can occur naturally at any level, and isn't guaranteed to be above bedrock.

Indeed, if you took that as gospel you'd die a lot when digging deep.

Yeah, there's going to be NPC villages, and old ruins, ravines, and lots more stuff.

No details on how any of it will affect gameplay though.

Isn't it just a 'maximum level' sort of thing?

Interesting, not sure if I like it. I feel things that are building-like should be user built.

The maximum level for Lava is not 10.

As I wrote:


There are plenty of surface-level lava lakes on the server, and I've encountered lava falls coming from at least 80 in single player a few times.

Yeah, there's a lot of uncertainty about all this - especially because they're adding so many radical changes in one go.

So long as they make sure that there are distinct Creative, Survival and Adventure modes then I think people will be happy.

If they try and merge any of those three then there will be a lot of people complaining.

Really? I don't think I've ever seen natural lava at surface level :O

It's been possible since Alpha 1.2.6 but was "rare" back then.

just west of my snowglobe thinger there is natural lava at the surface

I think PB's image is just intended to be a general guide, I know I've seen iron higher than 64

It's not my image!

There's two reasons though - they're not hard boundaries, but probabilities, and they've changed over time.

There's some people who have used level editors and done graphs of actual distribution. Might be interesting if anyone has done that for each release to see how things have changed.