1.8 "released"

Posted by The Avatrol on Sept. 9, 2011, 5:29 p.m.

Notch quietly released 1.8 for testing…

http://assets.minecraft.net/1_8-pre/minecraft.jar

Make sure to backup your old minecraft.jar (I guess that goes without saying for anybody here who's actually playing Minecraft here)

:D

Comments

anthonyloprimo 13 years, 3 months ago

So… damn… laggy

WTF how is this happening D"

Moikle 13 years, 3 months ago

aw balls, i gotta go to work.

Praying Mantis 13 years, 3 months ago

Apparently trying to cook chicken in a furnace makes the game crash.

Maybe Notch is vegetarian?

LAR Games 13 years, 3 months ago

It just crashed for me too. Which is weird since I was cooking a whole bunch of raw beef before and finished just fine…

RC 13 years, 3 months ago

You guys like using Cesque a lot, don't you?

JID 13 years, 3 months ago

anyone else notice that it doesn't rain or snow anymore or is it just me?

anthonyloprimo 13 years, 3 months ago

When I was playing, it was raining quite a bit

Also Firefox was the reason it was so laggy as a few of you who watched me would have realized.

KaBob799 13 years, 3 months ago

Its rained once for me but it didnt last as long. I've noticed that apparently snowy biomes don't start out snowy, which is a bit dissapointing due to the less likely chances of snow,

JID 13 years, 3 months ago

I think the Adventure Update is dissappointing from what I've seen. It just feels like an underdeveloped mod to me, I mean nearly all of the new features I've already had in my mods, like sprinting, villiages, flying, etc. I really hate how hard it is to find snow also. I just swam for 10 minutes to find something other than deserts and grassy places, and guess what I found, more deserts and grass.

Also, the villiages are pretty buggy, like when blocks block entrances, I've seen mods do a better job than this.

I really wish there was more to explore, I am really trying to find something interesting besides fighting endermen, and I really can't.

KaBob799 13 years, 3 months ago

I had a long comment typed out and 64d lost it <_<

Basically though, 1.8 adds a ton of new stuff that is either too rare, too annoying or too useless. A lot of it could be fixed through minor changes that wouldn't really be able to add new glitches, like making blue spiders drop poison (attach to sword =D), having silverfish sometimes pop out of logs, have silverfish drop tiny piles of sand which can be crafted together into a sand block, have endermen return blocks when they die, have rotten flesh be cookable or have some other use, have a decorative block crafted out of ender pearl, have melons rarely spawn in the wild, etc

Most of these things would be pretty simple to do because it would just be copying existing code and changing a few minor things, also creating a couple new graphics but I still bet it could all be done in a day. Heck I could probably do most of that myself if they gave me the source for a day <_<