The Minecraft Thread

I wouldn't want to live in a village. Besides the villagers themselves being annoying, you also have to deal with cats randomly spawning in your house, and unpreventable zombie sieges.

[hrhhh intensifies]

But... cats! :<

Weird coincidence.

I haven't checked this thread in months and I'm mentioned by name on the previous page. Hi everybody!

It's been years since I ran the Kaon and Iacon servers. After 2013, I wasn't able to host anymore due to moving cities and changing ISP.

RedWhitenBlue started hosting a copy of Iacon shortly after, but I lost track after a while and I don't know if that is still going on.

As of today, I have no clue what's going on. Hadn't touched it in the last probably three years, and that map doesn't connect anymore. The map's probably been shut down, but idk if a new one ever replaced it.

I think this is the suitable thread, since it's about speedrunning the game.

An incredibly gargantuan scandal is happening after LetsPlay.Dream's 1.16 speedrun was determined to be cheating. Dream is trying to hammer it down on as many people as possible that he isn't cheating, and very little people outside his "stanbase" is buying it, additionally stirred by Dream recruiting a (?)Harvard astrophysicist(?) to dispute the claim (which alot of people also don't buy).

[1] A summary of the scandal by Karl Jobst.

[2] Official speedrun moderator analysis regarding Dream's speedrun.

[3] Dream's response to the mod analysis.

[4] Ant Venom corrects the probabilities regarding the parts of the speedrun Dream was suspected of cheating of.

[5] An interview with SomeOrdinaryGamers over why Dream acted the way he did regarding his speedrun.

[6] Final conclusion of Dream's speedrun, whether or not he cheated.

Edited by SomeLibre on Jan 2nd 2021 at 11:09:08 PM

Glow Squids are now here. They drop glow ink sacs (so much for not killing animals for specific materials) to make glow item frames. And they are distractingly glowy.

Also, glow lichen.

Sounds useless.

Granted, so are most inedible passive mobs.

I know, but I voted for it (well, I didn't vote for it because I didn't vote period but I voted for it in spirit) so I'm glad its in.

Question time: How on earth did Dream become so popular?

This isn't an edgy "Ugh this guy's videos suck I can't believe he became popular" thing. I've never watched his videos. What it really is is "How did this random guy I've never heard of suddenly gain such insane popularity in the course of several months."

Essentially he has an inherently very kid-friendly mass-market appeal due to his personality and presentation, which combined with some algorithm luck and the sudden influx of millions of kids watching way more You Tube thanks to pandemic lockdowns to catapult him to overnight success

A side-by-side comparison of old underground generation and its current state as of the latest snapshot.

Oh shit, they're even deeper now?

The fact that it goes to y = -64 instead of just bumping the surface to y = 128 bothers me though.

but where is the ideal diamond y-level

Edited by Yinyang107 on Feb 10th 2021 at 5:16:33 AM

From 0/256 to -64/320, goddamn.

As someone who does like to mine and explore underground from time to time, this feels pretty hype.

You can't change the surface level without frakking up existing games. Whenever the player would reach a point of the game world they haven't been to before and the terrain chunk is generated on the fly, they'd be treated to a 64 block tall cliff where the chunk created by the old terrain generator ends and the chunk created by the new terrain generator meet.

Oh, damn nice.

I mean, you could first update the old worlds by shifting everything but the bedrock up 64 blocks. Though coordinate-based command blocks would still break.

What I wonder about is how the underground borders between new and old chunks is going to be handled — as it is, it seems that once a new chunk loads in an preexisting world, there are going be areas where mineable rock exists side-by-side with the void beneath the older chunks' bedrock. I guess they might code a one-off thing where this discrepancy is addressed by making bedrock "walls" to line these areas?

Mind you, the idea of a big viewing gallery looking out into infinite nothingness does sound interesting.

Does anybody know if when you throw items onto floor cave spikes (I've given up memorizing what they're called) will they be destroyed? I'm trying to figure it out so I can make a Slime farm in 1.17.

Its time for Minecraft Shower Thoughts with BackSet.

Why were people scared of Herobrine? In any of the early stories he never actually did anything particularly malicious aside from being kind of a dick to this one guy who tried to talk about him on the interwebs.

A very good question. I think people were just eager for drama, honestly.

Anyway! The new mountains are looking slick. Especially when compared to the old ones.

Heh. Mind, it would be pretty funny if the old Extreme Hills biome stayed in the game and was just renamed "foothills" or "moderate uplands".

I'm in utter awe at the sheer beauty of them.

That's glorious.

Extreme hills will likely be renamed and likely will be a higher version of the new mountains.