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[Vlad]

So it was like 2 days of bug fixing for pre-release 6?

Does this means that most bugs aren't fixed and only some major ones? This smell likes an awfully short fixing time.

According to the Development Version History, 1.9p5 was released on October 27th, and 1.9p6 came out on November 11th. Way more than two days.

According to Notch and Jeb's twitters, they went into feature freeze a month ago, and have spent the last month leading up to Minecon in pure bugfix mode.

 

[Sye d'Burns]

According to the Development Version History, 1.9p5 was released on October 27th, and 1.9p6 came out on November 11th. Way more than two days.

According to Notch and Jeb's twitters, they went into feature freeze a month ago, and have spent the last month leading up to Minecon in pure bugfix mode.

I'm sure Ranger X is referring to the two days or so between 1.9.6 and the RC1/RC2.

 

[Ranger X]

Well, in overall it seems they have been debuggin more than I initially thought. That's good.

 

[spuit*11]

One of the first reviews of the game.

Eurogamer 10/10

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-18-minecraft-review

 

[Ranger X]

I wonder if the game is planned to be released today or after the Minecon...

 

[Vlad]

I wonder if the game is planned to be released today or after the Minecon...

Supposedly it's going to be during Minecon, as in "Notch is going to upload/activate/whatever Minecraft 1.0 on stage".

 

[epmode]

One of the first reviews of the game.

Eurogamer 10/10

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-18-minecraft-review

Nice. Eurogamer is again on the right side of history.

 

[celebi23]

Sucks that NeoGAF will be down during MineCon

 

[nismogrendel]

This is what I have been building over the last few weeks.

Walls are done, got a hole made for one of the gates, another gate will be on the lower left somewhere. Have a big pile of stone to remove still, slowly working through that. Also need to figure out how to light the outside of it, it looks crappy at night. Straight walls are 172 long if I remember correctly, not sure how long the diagonals are.


An in-progress shot. I didn't want to fill in this water/pave all these mountains so I built the fake floor above.

 

[celebi23]

Has anyone found the IGN livestream link? Their Minecon section says the Livestream should've been up yesterday.

 

[bengraven]

Wow, been so busy writing my NaNo novel and playing Skyrim that I forgot about Minecraft. So the official finally release is tonight? So we should see the server updated within a few days?

Dang, had no idea they release pre-6 either.

Edit:

Oh shit, these are the things I've been wanting for over a year!

Changes to the mining time of many minerals, including red stone ore, stone brick, nether brick, iron bars, iron door, mob spawners, and obsidian, making their mining times much faster.

Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.

Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.

 

[Atomski]

So todays release right? Whens the official v1.0 hitting?

 

[WillyFive]

So todays release right? Whens the official v1.0 hitting?

Ancient legend states that it will happen when Notch is onstage.

It will probably happen sometime during MineCon in general, though.

 

[celebi23]

Pretty awesome how IGN's Minecon site is down (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

 

[Quixzlizx]

Has anyone found the IGN livestream link? Their Minecon section says the Livestream should've been up yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuAA-n2zog

 

[Im_Special]

I haven't ply this since 1.7.something, I've had no problems playing minecraft on my desktop (well it could run better for what it is) but for my little brother who plays on a laptop it runs terribly, and the laptop is a beast. My question is I remember there being some talk about fixing performance issues with the game, like rendering the blocks that you only see, has this been done? Will MC 1.0 be a better optimized game compared to the earlier versions?

 

[Barberetti]

Changes to the mining time of many minerals, including red stone ore, stone brick, nether brick, iron bars, iron door, mob spawners, and obsidian, making their mining times much faster.

And there was rejoicing in the streets!

 

[celebi23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuAA-n2zog

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜&#12494 Thanks!

 

[Vlad]

I haven't ply this since 1.7.something, I've had no problems playing minecraft on my desktop (well it could run better for what it is) but for my little brother who plays on a laptop it runs terribly, and the laptop is a beast. My question is I remember there being some talk about fixing performance issues with the game, like rendering the blocks that you only see, has this been done? Will MC 1.0 be a better optimized game compared to the earlier versions?

From my own experience, the last officially released version of Minecraft (1.8, I believe) ran HORRIBLY. Then, the various prereleases of 1.9 seemed to get worse and worse, which made me think I was done with the game for good. However, the last 1.9 prerelease and the most recent RC really got a lot of the old performance back. the constant stuttering was gone, my framerate was back up to what it used to be, and so on.

The only thing that still doesn't seem to be fixed is the "crashing on 32-bit systems on FAR render distance" thing, which annoys me to no end, but otherwise everything runs a LOT better now.

So, if your brother is having issues on Beta 1.8, the yeah, he should hopefully see a performance boost once 1.0 hits.

 

[Ranger X]

Also, is there evident uncomplete stuff in the release?

Like, is there NPCs in the villages yet and do they serve a purpose?

 

[Blizzard]

Huh, Minecraft for iOS accidentally released early. :O

 

[Articalys]

IGN stream is live (well, at least with music):
http://www.twitch.tv/ignlive#r=-rid-&s=em

 

[balladofwindfishes]

IGN stream is live (well, at least with music):
http://www.twitch.tv/ignlive#r=-rid-&s=em

Notch in chat: We will be starting in about an hour

 

[celebi23]

I guess they're running a bit late

 

[balladofwindfishes]

It's starting

 

[VGChampion]

Totally forgot about the release! I've been telling myself to wait for months. I know I've said it before but I stopped playing right before the big Halloween update last year so I can't wait to see what's been added.

 

[Max]

Is the audio getting major crackle with certain frequencies for anyone else

How annoying

 

[Woo-Fu]

minecraft.net was down, is back up now but still pushing 1.8.1.

 

[NihonTiger90]

Oh, hi Minecraft Chick.

 

[celebi23]

Is the audio getting major crackle with certain frequencies for anyone else

How annoying

Yep, same here :/

Oh, hi Minecraft Chick.

Wait, she works for Mojang now?

 

[Stitch]

hey cool it's kelly osbourne

 

[NihonTiger90]

Wait, she works for Mojang now?

News to me.

Oh, and it's Captain Sparklez.

 

[Max]

That animation was a lot better if you muted

 

[mr_chun]

That animation was a lot better if you muted

QFT lol. That voice was grating.

 

[Quixzlizx]

Blah blah blah get to the Minecraft.

 

[_woLf]

absolutely incredible

incredible

hey guys, minecraft is incredible.

This is kind of awkward.

 

[celebi23]

That animation was a lot better if you muted

It was like a cat dying >_> Horrific voice >_<

Blah blah blah get to the Minecraft.

I know, right?

 

[CountAntonius]

absolutely incredible

incredible

hey guys, minecraft is incredible.

This is kind of awkward.

Seriously...get on with it already.

 

[NihonTiger90]

Hey, Notch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YmS_VDvMY

 

[celebi23]

Goddamn MinecraftChick is annoying. Get on with it already.

 

[Xun]

Minecraft Chick is infuriatingly annoying.

 

[Acerac]

I'd feel bad for her if I wasn't so bored. >_>

 

[NaughtyPrawn]

This is painful so far.

 

[Articalys]

Poor girl doesn't realize that right now no one cares about anything except Notch getting on stage and launching Minecraft.

Or she does and is just suffering through it.

 

[CountAntonius]

Christ..shut the HELL up already.

 

[NihonTiger90]

Xbox 360 Minecraft: It's like PC Minecraft, but we're gonna make you pay out the nose for it!

 

[Jasoco]

So who is Minecraft Chick? I've never seen her before. And that is some bright pink hair. She's like Link.

Who is this guy? Stuart Platt? I do not know you. But hey, does that switch on the brick wall behind you work? Does it launch the game? Pull it!

 

[Stitch]

omg minecraft for 360...

...and not a single fuck was given.

 

[Acerac]

omg minecraft for 360...

...and not a single fuck was given.

Why would you start a con like this?

 

[BlueLegs]

"Oh running really fast now"

Notch is hilarious.