very sweet update cant wait till official 1 though, oceans are epic and biomes are really cool

one side note, has anyone noticed a lighting bug with the villages? you need to remove and replace the torches for the light to emit. weird.

for anyone wanting to see my save, you can grab it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4rnrpn87zy18ld3

its a 6.5mb zip

ok, dont venture too far out guys, i just suffered a crash that corrupted that world

i'm glad i uploaded it to mediafire as i can restore it from that! lol

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Also, click post reply, (blue one) and click choose file to add pictures to the thread.

It appears that villages show up on the map (as brown blobs). Swamp biomes can consist of shallow water with trees in them, the light blue to the top of the map shows a swamp biome.

It seems on my seed that I have large stretches of "Sea" biome separating the larger landmasses.


EDIT: It also seems that vines grow naturally wherever you place them. It also seems that they could easily cover a tall build if you are not careful. Grow like mushrooms, not at all one moment and then other moments they are everywhere.

edit2: Hrmm, seems my map is around 106mb in size..
Seed is "-705598900408309069"

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It seems on my seed that I have large stretches of "Sea" biome separating the larger landmasses.

Mulan

that's what i've been doing RE: pics... are my images showing correctly on the previous page?

ok my seed is:

4607272909621763485

ok here's a massive screeny update. apologies for the super widescreen shots, i run a triple monitor setup and cant be bothered cutting them all LOL

this batch is for all you spelunking fans out there.

it also includes a few cool things you can find, including chests and what they contain.

ok this will wind the people that like basements under their builds... there are huge ravine and tunnel structures at just 10 blocks beneath most of the surface at sea level. that sucks a bit and the ravines are so deep and cave structures to windey that spelunking will be a challenge! i hope this is toned down a bit for full release. more air blocks mean less resources. and alot of resources stuck on 30 high straight drop walls.

How does animal breeding work? Is it in the pre- release yet?

not sure. i haven't tried feeding them anything. but will certainly try in a moment

Animal breeding isn't on for 1.8 If I recall. I believe it was postponed to 1.9, animal breeding will activate when animals become "fixed".

just a couple of map shots of my seed for comparison





I notice that there's no snow biome in sight. i may try to find one to see how large they are

random mountain valley and trademark floating dirt

(still haven't found a snow biome yet)

I have not seen a single snow biome at all. Gone from 0,0 to -4000,4000 and no snow biomes.

Side note, build portal, equip bed, fly around blowing the nether up. Sooo much fun.

wonder if the snow will be triggered by weather.

i'm in Creative Mode so haven't seen any weather affects at all.

Creative mode has weather, well rain. Had a thunderstorm which wiped out small parts of my forest.

Anyway. What I have seen is that there seems to be a large landmass with rivers and lakes, and then there is a large ocean biome which encompasses it, before forming new landmass and areas.

My first map showed the islands, and this shows my spawn. So we could expect that if this is a trend with other maps (I had to go out 3K blocks) that this could prove a barrier for expansion.

hmmm nether portals seem to transport you 5X the nether distance now.

My first map showed the islands, and this shows my spawn. So we could expect that if this is a trend with other maps (I had to go out 3K blocks) that this could prove a barrier for expansion.

Mulan

i'll test that theory on my seed too

i'm getting frequent areas of mountainous terrain. what about you?

i think the combined lack of land, with a lack of resources from all the underground air space being so close to the surface and mountanous regions will make a new map very difficult.

as it stands right now, i'd suggest broonie hold fire on the update. That is unless Notch addresses these issues

It makes survival harder, that is for sure. Also, I believe the damage scale is overdone, and the the Endermen don't have the correct damage value.

Build Space. I believe there is plenty of build space. Forests, deserts and flat biomes vastly outnumber the mountainous terrain. However the mountains will make it far harder to traverse the land.

Resources. Hard to say, I believe it will be harder to harvest materials en mass. I think mines around diamond level will be largely unaffected. Also, it would seem to me that the abandon mines seem to have some very valuable loot chests (can get diamonds). I'm sure we can work around it and work out new mining techniques.

i'm getting alot of situations like this too. arid desert, no trees or resources, right next to mountain areas that would be difficult to build on

although i've got to admit, it does look pretty

the caves cut into the land would be great to hide in too

As long as the spawn is in a forest biome it will be fine.

Edit. gah, getting 2000+ chunk updates XD...

that's just it, forest biomes are rare on my seed lol. and never seem to occur on mountainous regions either.

still, you only need a few saplings to cure that issue. would be a nice trade for wood

errr just as i replied about the forests, i flew over this