no worries, it'll all come right in a day or two (possibly ;-) )
I had a quick poke around in 1.8 and... it's underwhelming. What do y'all think?
not that impressed either
Jake has been killing endermen for their pearls all evening, water hurts them so he chucks a bucket of water on the floor, stand in the middle and makes them come to him - not a scary as billed :(
Hahaha, I like endermen just because they're like... built-in mild griefers. And that's cool. Shame they're not on peaceful (being essentially non-hostile) because non-peaceful bores me.
I also updated without thinking about it but using Ant's bin folder asks me again if I want to update which I said no to. I can't connect to the server though, says something like Internal client error: javaexceptionblah, 503, etc.
503 is what the dodgily written website returns when it's overloaded with people trying to log in.
So even if I've logged in on the main screen it still needs to connect to the minecraft server when connecting to teh server?
Yep.
Well, no. It doesn't need to, strictly speaking, but I think because the server has a whitelist and due to the way it has been implemented means that's what it does.
Used to have this problem on a regular basis before (like every Friday evening), but now it's only really around new releases when there's a lot of simultaneous connections.
Right. I had assumed when people said they were having the 503 error it was when logging in on the first screen, nit the server connecting bit. Obviously lots of people trying minexrsft with 1.8 now released.
Given it a more substantial go now and... yeah, underwhelming as all fuck.
What this game needs most is: more block types/processes/stuff to make.
Yeah lots more interesting things to craft would be good. Things like the pistons were a nice addition and fairly interesting.
I really like 1.8's terrain generation (although I can't find any fucking snow). The ravines and mountains and rivers all make it even more lovely than it already was. The combat change and stuff are all quite cool too but unfortunately catering to a different type of player than the peaceful hippies of Teh. :(
Should make a special chest (8 wood + 1 redstone) inside which you can layout redstone circuits, and then if you place the chest on a workbench and combine it with sticky stuff and whatever then it produces a custom circuit-in-a-box, so people can condense all those stupidly large circuits into a few squares, and thus enable some insane sorts of contraptions to be made from the results.
Aye, I've said that many many times.
Say it louder and towards Sweden so Notch hears and does something about it.
Yes, integrated circuits! (dance)
And maybe some means of having wires go vertically more than 1 block.
And some way of rotating blocks - having a redstone powered windmill or roundabout would open up all sorts of possibilities.
On a similar theme, some sort of gears system would be grand.
I was thinking along similar lines recently - with rotating blocks, and some way to make the rotate at a given speed, all sorts of mechanical things could be made!
The main issue I can see is that, well, everything's a cube, and I'm guessing it'd take a fairly substantial rewrite of the basic game engine to allow for rotation.
Alternatively, like graphitone said, some sort of gears system might work if the gears were entirely contained within blocks. Hmm....
Aye, gears in a blocky square world :-S .
I like the idea of containing them in blocks - maybe something like the redstone circuit shrinker mentioned a couple of posts back - you get your gears worked out in a configuration, stick/map the whole assembly in a storage box which outputs it into a single block.