No idea.

I was standing watching various people mining in a glitch when Kos & Drew turned up, acted all friendly etc just waiting 'till I looked the other way - then they chucked TNT at me and ran away!!!

I wouldn't have expected anything less from those two. Kos has only recently stopped greeting my logging into the server by teleporting to me and hitting me a few times with whatever's in his hand at the time.

>>hitting me a few times with whatever's in his hand at the time.

 

(Quite often, John)

That track in the tunnel is a health and safety NIGHTMARE. I lost loads of my stuff when I crashed into a runaway cart at speed.

 

So I'm building runaway cart detectors. Don't panic, if you're bombing along and you're in a cart you'll go straight on. If a cart has no occupant it will be taken off the track and stored :Y

Good lad.

 

Looks like I'll not have to impose a Potters Bar H&S fine on you today then.

I was going to make one for runaway carts going the other way, but I am failing to login :(

To Minecraft itself? Me too :(

Response code 503?

 

Edit: Oh right, restarted the application and yeah, won't connect to minecraft.net

Yeah, the authentication servers seem to have had a bit of a wobbly. Apparently, someone's trying to fix it at the moment.

The 503 error is because (I think) minecraft.net is down, and the server verifies your user name with minecraft.net to make sure you're not pretending to be someone on the whitelist.

 

I shall turn off that check now and you should be able to log in if you do 'play off line' when you load minecraft.

Well that kinda worked, but stopped me being koswix and turned me into "player" :(

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/minecraft-coming-to-ios

 

But no mention of Android :'(

If you still can't log in, the new launcher (which uses HTTPS) seems to still be working. Can grab it here:

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/tmp/MinecraftLauncher.jar

Is that definitely the official one?

Notch's blog post only references minecraft.net/download.jsp which doesn't mention that file. :/

That is the beta/leaked one that Notch linked to on Twitter on Friday.

 

The 'official' one came out today, just before minecraft.net fell over :D

Well minecraft.net is back and seems reasonable speed (and was when I posted that).

And his blog article says:


So... maybe the server crashed again and they reverted to the old version? :/


And grrrr:

No! :@ People don't like being forced to eat food in games!

I thought he said he would only add fun things. :(

Still, at least it'll be configurable... just so long as it doesn't required going into peaceful.

I have no idea. But the new launcher i have works and lets me in, so i don't care. :D

No, not on Android please, it'd eat every spare minute I have then.

http://www.mobot.net/official-minecraft-release-coming-ios-android-16774

 

%-)