Ok one question
In order to obtain a jungle Biome wouldnt we need a new map or expand the border alot?

I believe jeb stated that it would take a new map for jungle biomes

well, no way thats happening then

Double doors now function Correctly and levers recongized there on and off stage

Zombies will now break down doors on hard or hardcore mode

Mobs have a chance of dropping a new Item such as a skeleton dropping a bow and a pigman dropping a golden sword and zombies will drop a whole manner of things

New animation for swimming mobs

Hostile mobs will attack NPC villagers now. Villagers also now get social with other villagers and will hide in doors when it turns night and when it rains

There has also been alot of talk about Villagers Treading in shops that mojang are walking on it now ever since john joined

There has also been alot of Bug fixes and Cats now make a noise!

Will it be possible for us to get the new Jungle Biome without losing the map? I have complete faith in Broonies Omnipotence

Perhaps expanding the map? or regenerating a swath of ocean? Dunno seems like it should be theoretically possible but maybe its not lol

Theoretically proven...
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/inactive-edit-chunkregenerate-v1-1-regenerate-a-chunk-860.11277/
now just wether it would work as i would hope lol

Will it be possible for us to get the new Jungle Biome without losing the map? I have complete faith in Broonies Omnipotence

Perhaps expanding the map? or regenerating a swath of ocean? Dunno seems like it should be theoretically possible but maybe its not lol

Theoretically proven...
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/inactive-edit-chunkregenerate-v1-1-regenerate-a-chunk-860.11277/
now just wether it would work as i would hope lol

CagedFury

We [the staff] are looking into options.

We [the staff] are looking into options.

BRooNiE

Via Jen's twitter (jeb_)......
https://twitter.com/#!/stephenphilp/status/167918048144138241


Stephen Philp @stephenphilp
@jeb_ Would it be possible to have a way of getting jungle biomes in 1.1 maps without messing up the other biomes?



Jens Bergensten Jens Bergensten @jeb_
@stephenphilp I'm trying to fix it...



Stephen Philp @stephenphilp
@jeb_ Yay Good luck



Perhaps if he "fixes" the biome code, we could just expand the borders again a little? So, 8k in each direction, up from the existing 7k. That would give us a 1,000 block wide strip around the existing map where jungle biomes could possibly spawn. Not sure how that could affect the map file size, though. I assume that a 1k strip that is basically 24k long would add a fair bit to the overall map file size.

12w07b:



The block hight has changed to 256 blocks high

Zombies will now invade villages in hordes and there are now baby NPC villagers.

New redstone lights that can be turned off and on with redstone, levers etc. redstone lights can be crafted just like watch but instead of gold use redstone and in the centre put a block of glowstone

Very excited by the redstone torches. It's about time!

The block height is only 256 high for special 'anvil mode' maps though.

no point in the redstone lights i heard they are really dim

Very excited by the redstone torches. It's about time!

The block height is only 256 high for special 'anvil mode' maps though.

Discharge

Wait but will the world height still change for us, I need my funnels D:

Very excited by the redstone torches. It's about time!

The block height is only 256 high for special 'anvil mode' maps though.

Discharge

I might have misunderstood, but from the Twitter thread I followed, Jens is saying that all maps in the future (as of 1.2x) will be "Anvil" format maps, and the old maps will be converted automatically to Anvil, with a backup made of the old map prior to conversion.

The new map format lets Jens simply add 128 blocks of air on top of existing maps. Since the Anvil format does not send air blocks, or "empty" spaces, to the client during chunk updates, the server impact should be negligible, even possibly causing better performance, since existing maps have a lot of air blocks from sea level up to 128.

Basically, I'm hoping my interpretation is correct, since it would clear the way for some vast new structures not possible before in Minecraft.


Edit: My info comes from some answers given on Jen's Twitter account (Jeb_), but mostly this post on Mojang.com:
http://www.mojang.com/2012/02/14/new-minecraft-map-format-anvil/

Also, one other thing that Jens stated in a Twitter post, glowstone will once again be able to conduct redstone and have restone dust laid on it.

I can't find the tweet right now, but basically, someone asked Jens if "the fact you can put redstone on glowstone again was a feature or bug". Jens replied its a "feature".

A Bug that he decided to call a feature?

I decided to make a form of skyscraper to illustrate the magnitude of the new height.

This will certainly allow us to build structures never before seen in minecraft. It is also worth noting that the 25x25 blocks normally allowed for skyscrapers is insufficient. I believe 50x50 should give a reasonable base.






I for one would love a version of this.

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interesting, i will see if i can sketch some basic plans for such a construction.

on a relevant note; does Logblock record all blocks or only non-air blocks?

It records block changes. No need to worry.

Issue is, how well does the 'Far' view distance function for this new hieght limit?, I would hate to build something, and the not be able to see the top

like you can see in aco's screenshots above, render distance will not be a problem

Ah now i would like to see a good version of that picture aco.
whats it from anyway?

Bringing the thread slightly off-topic but the new Deus Ex.

http://andrewhemphill.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dxhr_screenshot_hengshaarrival-noscale.jpg


Search for Hensha District.

Couple of quick points..... the redstone-on-glowstone was actually part of the game up till the 1.0 "final" version (I think). Also, we had the ability to put tracks on glowstone. After the update, tracks would pop off glowtone if a block update happened to the glowstone or track block, and we could no longer lay tracks on glowstone. That wasn't the first time it happened either, there was an update on the beta a while back that broke this, due to glowstone being switched in the code from block type 'stone' to 'glass'. Not sure why, in the final version, Jens switched it back to the redstone-incompatible type.... as he initially got a lot of grief for this.

Anyway, having redstone back on glowstone is not as big of a deal as having the ability to lay tracks on glowstone, personally. I would rather have rails than redstone on glowstone, tbh. It would make constructing skylines much simpler.


As for the render distance, remember that in single player the render distance is different than multiplayer. On servers, there is the ability to restrict how many chunks are sent to each client. The radius of what you can see around you is dependent on how many chunks the server is feeding you. I've already tested this in both single player and on the server, building a tower to 128 in an area I have reserved to build in, and the render distance even at 128 high is, in my opinion, lacking on the server currently. The build I have planned will not be fully visible from one end to the other.

Perhaps if the Anvil map format does allow better for performance in multiplayer, Broonie can tweak the chunk updates value a bit?

12w08a

Nothing much but There is a new Mob called iron golems that can be found within NPC villages and protect them and the villagers from Zombies attcks and invasions. The player can kill them( very hard) and apon death will drop iron ingots and flowers.
Stairs also now can be turned upside down to form arches and a few lighting fixes

ghast balls : the new cannonballs for dispensers on ships

1.2 is going to be released tomorrow (March 1st)!

http://www.mojang.com/2012/02/minecraft-1-2-preview/