Gaming Hielor's Minecraft Server

[orb]

At least the JAR version of the launcher updates itself automatically (or rather the Minecraft.jar or Minecraft.exe download the actual launcher JAR and then execute it).

 

[Quick_Nick]

Next Minecraft update messes with biomes...again! "Yaaaay"

 

[Hielor]

Wow, lots of changes:
https://mojang.com/2013/08/minecraft-world-generator-update/

Current:

New:

...that looks AWFUL.

Look at our planet. It's 70% water. The top one looks a lot more like reasonably realistic terrain, the bottom one looks a lot more like random fractal noise.

Looks like we need to explore the survival world all the way to the edges before this update hits so we don't get the world ruined by that nonsense.

Why does it seem that every minecraft update seems to take the game farther away from the sort of thing I want to play?

 

[Artlav]

Fractal functions are tricky things - it's like holding a fork, a cellphone and chineese eating sticks in one hand. You move the fork, and the stick is in your eye while the phone dips into the sauce.

I won't be surprised if their "We’re not done yet" includes fixing the continental layout back - maybe they only wanted to show off the main terrain, not the large scale layout.

...or maybe they won't. They made regenerating health, for crying out loud.

 

[tl8]

They changed it again after that image.

 

[Hielor]

They changed it again after that image.

Doesn't look any better. Still just looks like random fractal noise, not actual terrain.

 

[orb]

Doesn't look any better.

It's probably just a different seed with the same generator, or the same seed affected by added new biome or sub-biome.

EDIT: well, It's actually the same seed, but 4 times larger area (the 1st picture is almost the same as top-left part of the 2nd), with only slightly changed generator.

 

[Hielor]

EDIT: well, It's actually the same seed, but 4 times larger area (the 1st picture is almost the same as top-left part of the 2nd), with only slightly changed generator.

Yeah, I kinda thought it looked like a larger area.

It looks awful.

 

[dnt462]

Keep in mind oceans get up to around 3k blocks across.

 

[Hielor]

Keep in mind oceans get up to around 3k blocks across.

Currently, or in that new generator? Doesn't look like the new generator even *has* oceans.

I'm totally okay with 3000-block-across oceans.

 

[dnt462]

New Gen. 10K plus oceans were never great.

 

[Hielor]

New Gen. 10K plus oceans were never great.

10K oceans make the land you eventually find that much more special. And based on the image posted, the new generator doesn't have any oceans--just lakes.

 

[n122vu]

the new generator doesn't have any oceans--just lakes.

Global warming, caused by all the candles and burning netherrack?

 

[Artlav]

It got so hot the oceans boiled away?

 

[n122vu]

Precisely.

The result? The Netherlands conquer all!

 

[orb]

10K plus oceans were never great.

Yeah. Oceans should be much greater than only 10 km across.

 

[Pablo49]

Why does it seem that every minecraft update seems to take the game farther away from the sort of thing I want to play?

I dread updates to minecraft. I don't mind more biomes, and more diversity. I loved that when the server moved to 1.0, there was no snow at spawn (granted that was a bug) and we had to search for eons, and cross a vast ocean to find it. I'm not happy to see a world of contiguous land.

Also, are those orange areas the clay hills whatever? If so, why is 40% of the world clay?

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Has something changed with the chest to hopper transfer on SMP? as it works offline but on the server its not?

 

[Hielor]

Has something changed with the chest to hopper transfer on SMP? as it works offline but on the server its not?

BOO HISS FARMS ARE BAD. Maybe I disabled it because automated farms suck, HMMMM?

Kidding, I have no idea.

 

[Artlav]

Without farms the game just gets too grindy...
Actually, it gets too grindy anyway, unless it's a Super Hostile map or something.