http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Minecraft-1-7-Coming-Friday-60106.html
QuoteHere's the full list of feature changes:
New world generation!
Double the amount of biomes, with new trees/flowers/blocks.
New ?Amplified? world option.
Less ocean, more awesome.
New blocks!
Two new types of wood.
Stained glass! With both blocks and panes.
Packed ice, red sand, podzol.
Lots of new flowers, including double-tall versions of current plants.
Portals can be bigger sizes!
Fishing!
Added more type of fish.
Redone the fishing mechanics. Can now catch junk and treasure too.
Fishing rod enchantments!
Maps!
Put them in an item frame and hang them on your wall. They?re extra big!
Lots of new colours for lots of blocks!
Now with less lag!
Achievement & Statistics overhaul!
Now both world (or server) specific.
In multiplayer, it?s announced to everybody when you get an achievement.
You can move your mouse over this in the chat to see what it was!
Some new achievements and statistic types were added.
Zoomable achievements screen!
Multiplayer enhancements!
Servers can now put a 64?64 image called ?server-icon.png? in their folder, that you will see on your server list.
You can see who?s online before joining a server; move your mouse over the player count!
Lots of hidden preparation for allowing name changes.
Resource pack changes!
You can now have multiple selected.
They can completely re-do your sounds, adding new ones or changing current ones.
Servers can now recommend a resource pack for you to use.
Chat & command improvements!
New commands to spawn mobs or blocks of any type.
Command block minecart!
Clickable links to achievements and items.
Click on somebody?s name in the chat to message them!
bukkit 1.6.4 is out, so I can at least update to that right away. it is an absolutely necessary update, so it'll happen regardless. and then we need to go flying around to load up all the existing structures. maybe make a night out of it or something.
I might re-trim after, I'm not sure. I'm hopping bukkit releases a 1.7 asap. I really don't want to lose /back & /home :(
Oh man, bukkit has a special plugin that goes and looks for structures. perfect. I'll run that and upgrade to 1.6.4 in the next couple days.
Oh, and the server ip may change, I haven't decided if I'll move it from the vm to a new host yet.
Quote from: Tom on October 24, 2013, 02:40:37 PM
Oh, and the server ip may change, I haven't decided if I'll move it from the vm to a new host yet.
You may want to dial down your TTL prior to the DNS change to make it take less that an hour to update
Heh, looks like I had the ttl set to a day :-x I've put it down to 10 minutes.
Quote from: Tom on October 24, 2013, 03:31:02 PM
Heh, looks like I had the ttl set to a day :-x I've put it down to 10 minutes.
Probably best to move it back up to 1hr after you make the changes.
1 Day would make the change very slow.
However this is also why you shouldn't use your top domain level as a host record because that record you do want to have a longer life in case something goes down.
Well I think I can change the TTL on the mc subdomain iirc. but to be honest, its not something I expect to change too much.. lately has just been a strange bit of circumstances.
definitely re-trim
So I'm playing a bit again tonight. feel free to pop on.
Hope you don't mind Thorin, but I left an enderchest by the enchanting table in the super xp farm.
And some regular chests, I did a bunch of enchanting today. a bunch. most of the books suck. but what can you do.
Nope, I don't mind. There's a ton of books there already, in the big chests. Anything there is free for the taking, pretty much. I was trying to get Silk Touch so I could put it on some shears, but no luck after 50 books.
I managed to get silk touch on a /shovel/. go figure.
Good to know about the books being free for the taking, I already stole some ;) unbreaking and protection and probably some eff or the like.
It's out today!
Anyone interested in doing a one-shot play in 1.7?
You mean put up a temporary 1.7 server? could do.
Ja, that's what I was thinking
Just to see what it's like
Someone should search for an awesome seed :)
I have a couple good ones for 1.6 but yeah, I bet there's some GREAT seeds out there already
If it is a temp server we have to try it with Amplified Biomes enabled. I want to see those crazy mountains and floating bits... might make walking around hard though.
Yeah, could be interesting
You need a pretty good computer for amplified biomes. I tried it on my laptop, and it struggles with it. quad core ivy bridge..
I think I'd be interested in trying out a temp 1.7... Would need to update, and I would miss my mods, but hey, that's MC life :)
Quote from: Thorin on October 25, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
I think I'd be interested in trying out a temp 1.7... Would need to update, and I would miss my mods, but hey, that's MC life :)
The new launcher lets you switch back and forth. Though its probably a good idea to have each version in its own dir, especially if you try out the snapshots. Theres a setting in the launcher to specify where a given version pulls its settings and data from.
I know, but I'm sure Rei's Minimap and Zombe's Mod Pack aren't updated for 1.7 yet.
They might be. but yeah. I'll miss rei's and nei.
For a one shot session shouldn't be too bad
I just hope I don't get lost...
Easy way to get home: die
lol
So what day and what time?
Well, I've been under the weather for a few days basically doing nothing but sleeping and coughing after work so... I kinda want to do something that isn't one of those things (I basically spent yesterday watching Freeman's Mind on my tablet while alternating between freezing and sweating.)
I know I will be playing games Sunday afternoon for sure, tonight is a toss up, if I'm not too dead after work today I could be up for games or I could finish a few art projects I guess.
Tomorrow night is Game 3, so if I'm online it will be after the game...
On again for a bit tonight. getting ready for my wither battle :)