Just a heads up for server maintainers; there is a crapton of drama with Bukkit/Spiggot right now. TLDR version: most official downloads are currently down due to a disgruntled Bukkit dev sending out DMCA takedowns (that have no merit, based on knowledgeable people I've talked to, but will still take time to sort out), Spiggot has an active workaround and you should go to their site to find out how to get updates and verify any third-party builds.
A lot of the drama is tainted by loud and dumb people who have nothing directly to do with either involved party. Not to be believed are statements such as "Mojang wants to kill X to promote Realms", "Minecraft is gonna be dead because of this", and in general, accusations of Mojang being malicious.
Less TLDR: The current maintainer of Bukkit announced that he wanted to close the project. Mojang chimes in and goes "Uh, when we acquired you guys, we also got the rights to the project so it's not yours to close; we'll take it over if you want to step down." Maintainer goes "oh, right, okay." Rest of bukkit devs who joined after the acquisition go "WTF, we didn't know this", most resign, hurt feeling all around. One dev tries to claim the open source licence is invalid and files DMCA takedowns against Bukkit and its sister projects. Mojang's latest word
is "The takedowns have no merit, and he's trying to imply we sanctioned the takedown which is not true, besides that we're still trying to figure out what to do because we've been super busy with the update and console launches, oh and we're kinda sorry we neglected the project."
I finally found a village! They seem like nice folks. I think I desecrated their church, though.
Looking for some stories?I'm just happy that I finally have a way to get rid of all that rotten flesh.
Looking for some stories?Do we have a working Minecraft server these days? Shoot me a PM if we do, those cosmetic add-ons like banners and such caught my eye.
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von LewisThere's always a way around bedrock, you know. If the diamonds were truly trapped you wouldn't be able to see them.
Anyway, 5 is just enough. A diamond pick to mine 14 obsidian, and two leftovers to make an enchantment table. Any further diamonds you get are for swords and armor pretty much, which are useful but not as high-priority as the other two objects.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Microsoft is thinking of buying Mojang.
Also, just noticed the WSJ article is under paywall. Here is a Kotaku link.
edited 9th Sep '14 7:58:56 PM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Found a pretty awesome cave system. Iron, gold, redstone, even some lapis lazuli. Of course, this is slightly negated by the fact that I am lost as fuck in this thing and have no idea which direction is up.
Looking for some stories?

I love ravines especially when I find one right near the bottom of the map. Though five witches, skeletons and zombies all at once wasn't so fun the last time I found one.
Creepers: They're like raptors except they explode.