Yeah, the GUI was a glitch. I think the Q-gear is glitching for me, then. I am still taking damage, and both my boots and chestplate are charged fairly well (have an apartement on the 3rd floor of the big empty building).
Oh, Bukkit is now becoming an official part of Minecraft. Their team was just drafted to do the Mod API, along with helping to upgrade multiplayer.
I am loving the 1.2 Iron Golems add on. Made a hallway connecting two sides of a canyon for easy access to a village and have been mass producing them.
The server seems extremely unhappy at the moment. Can someone reboot it? EDIT: ignore this, it seems to be working fine now.
I just updated to 1.2, and while I miss my mods (until they catch up), I am LOVING 1.2! However, a few points of interest: -each type of tree has its own version of wooden planks? WTF? There's "normal" wood planks derived from temperate trees, birch generates these very pale brown planks, and jungle trees have a darker brown mixed a bit of orange tone. Cool, and useful for subtle home decorating (birch is especially good for providing a good wall background for a painting), but it wasn't mentioned at all on their patch update list. -Wow, caves! In jungle biomes, caves have these vine/ladders growing EVERYWHERE! Feels like a genuine wilderness, like you stepped into an Indiana Jones film or something. I've actually made my home in a sealed-off jungle cave, and kept the vines hanging where they were after a little bit of thinning for visibility's sake. My house looks awesome with those things everywhere! Again, not mentioned in the official update list, but I don't mind, this was wonderful to discover on my own! -TIP FOR DEALING WITH ZOMBIES/DOOR PROBLEM: Make iron doors, problem solved. All of my doors going outside are iron doors with a lever both outside and on the inside, easy enough to leave with that setup, and guarantees security. Zombies can't tear down iron doors (not yet anyway...)!:drevil: One can still use wooden doors for internal rooms, but I wouldn't use them going to outside places. -On exploring caves/abandoned mine tunnels: my god, they're so fucking smart now! Make a full suit of iron armor as soon as possible, have a LOT of cooked something to nibble on just in case, and crank your paranoia up to 11! A zombies' range to sense you has been extended I think, and they have a MUCH BETTER capacity for navigating around obstacles to get to you. Entertaining, in a morbid way. Creepers are improved, and almost worse that zombies; they have a...smoothness to their gait they didn't have before. Watch out! (EDIT: There's a LOT of poison spiders in mining tunnels now, and they have a heck of a leap attack plus their poison! Watch out, almost died several times b/c of them!) -APPLES EVERYWHERE! Seriously, apples fall MUCH more frequently than they used to. I can now have a balanced diet without feeling guilty.
Mother of God. And that's all done with vanilla redstone. I can not overstate how impressed I am from this.
I'm really excited about 1.2.4 because of the new wood and sandstone blocks. As a texturepack designer and hopeful adventure map creator, they open up some new possibilities.
Huh, I've already ran into the different wood block types, but what has changed about sandstone, and how many types are there? How do you make these different types?
Placing four sandstone blocks in a square gives you a kind of smooth sandstone block. I assume it works the same as stone-to-stone bricks and you get four of them. If you arrange four smooth sandstone blocks in a square, you get a smooth sandstone block engraved with a creeper face and heiroglyphics. Again, presumably in a stack of four. EDIT: Correction, the engraved blocks are created by crafting two sandstone slabs on top of each other.
Cool, thanks! Can't wait to experiment w/that! Great, now I'm thinking of making some sort of desert temple-thing...partially submerged under the desert sands... *begins furiously scribbling notes down*
You're welcome. I'm always glad when new artificial, non-burning blocks are introduced. It gives me more things to make high-tech facilities out of after a bit of modification to the texture pack.
Go to Direwolf20's youtube channel, he does spotlights on all the major mods, and a lot of the not so major mods that shows you what everything does. There are also wiki's, forums, websites, and their threads in the minecraft forums that will tell you a lot about these things and how to use them.
