wsoxfan1214
Banned
Would be great if they'd finish with it instead of making us wait the entire 7-10 days.
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Yeah but I have a ton of big projects I built that I don't want to lose. :lol
I suppose I could always rebuild them in a new world.
You dont have to delete that world or anything. I still plan on revisiting my current world at times, considering the setup I've made for myself there.
I didn't mean delete them. I just meant not having them when I start a new world with the new features.
ZeroGravity
Member
4J Studios confirmed the 1.8.2 update will be released tomorrow.
Shortt Sirket
Member
HELLZ YA!
Full change list anywhere?
Gotcha. Yea, its an inconvenience if you've vested a lot into your current world, I'll give you that.
Praise be to jesus.
Oh for real? Nice. I hated having to take up 3-4 inventory slots for food if I was out exploring.
The food/health system got a huge overhaul in this update, so being able to stack stuff was an absolute necessity. I am curious to hear what the Xbox players eventually think about the change.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Who decided that the controls for sprint were a good idea, ew
sneakypete
Member
I loaded up the new tutorial and I really like the changes so far. Lots of small improvements that make the overall game look and sound better, such as the sound of the chests opening/closing or when the creepers explode. Between this, BL2 dlc, Happy Wars, Fifa 13.. well who needs to sleep anyway.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Tap it twice quickly. Hold A to then go higher.
tap A twice fast, it works
in fly mode:
dpad is for slowly moving up/down/left/right
pressing the right stick in will move you down fast (if I remember correctly)
and A is for moving up
sneakypete
Member
Quit out of the map and reload it, you should be able to choose which mode.
K I did that I'm flying. I'm guessing he wasn't in creative mode. So seeds, I'm guessing this is like people's worlds they have created? If this is true, and cool ones that he might enjoy? He's not so much into the bad guys, more exploration and big structures.
Seeds aren't people's worlds, but kind of an algorithm sort of thing for the automatic world generation.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Update fucked up all the chests in my old game, now they are all black and facing North-South (or East-West, not sure which), sometimes phasing through walls.
sneakypete
Member
I like 'Elfen Lied' a lot, haven't tried it since the update tho. Make sure you use capital letters, case does matter with world seeds.
Oh and 'gargamel' is awesome as well
Put/remove a torch near them and they won't be black anymore
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Yeah my last seed had zero snow so I'd like to go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and find a world dominated by snow.
Those seeds will have changed after this update.
RangerX said:
Cool, still have to rearrange most of them though since they're facing the wrong direction. No biggie though.
Same thing happened to me.
Started a new world and got a couple hours of playtime in.
First impressions:
- Quick move for armor/furnace items is fantastic and a time-saver.
- New sounds are great. Jumped out of my seat when a Creeper blew up behind me, killing me instantly. Chest opening is a little loud, though.
- Sprint is another huge time-saver. Gotta be careful with it right now since I dont have a ton of food, though. But it allows me to stray farther away from home.
- I like the hunger addition so far. Stackable food is just so convenient. I haven't spent much time spelunking in caves or anything, so maybe things can get a bit strenuous(or tedious), but I think it'll be ok.
- New sunset looks good.
One thing I'm not sure about is the animals. There's hardly any around and the game doesn't seem to spawn new ones. They haven't put breeding into the game, so how am I supposed to collect things like wool or feathers in any reasonable number? These items used to be easy to get but now they're a rarity and I absolutely need feathers for creating arrows. Seriously, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I cant go down in caves fighting enemies without a fair amount of arrows, ya know? Am I just missing something or is this just something I'm going to have to deal with?
First impressions:
- Quick move for armor/furnace items is fantastic and a time-saver.
- New sounds are great. Jumped out of my seat when a Creeper blew up behind me, killing me instantly. Chest opening is a little loud, though.
- Sprint is another huge time-saver. Gotta be careful with it right now since I dont have a ton of food, though. But it allows me to stray farther away from home.
- I like the hunger addition so far. Stackable food is just so convenient. I haven't spent much time spelunking in caves or anything, so maybe things can get a bit strenuous(or tedious), but I think it'll be ok.
- New sunset looks good.
One thing I'm not sure about is the animals. There's hardly any around and the game doesn't seem to spawn new ones. They haven't put breeding into the game, so how am I supposed to collect things like wool or feathers in any reasonable number? These items used to be easy to get but now they're a rarity and I absolutely need feathers for creating arrows. Seriously, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I cant go down in caves fighting enemies without a fair amount of arrows, ya know? Am I just missing something or is this just something I'm going to have to deal with?
Garrett 2U
Member
I was so disappointed to find out that there was no breeding yet.
That is an absolute necessity with hunger.
So there's absolutely no way to get more chickens? I've seen like maybe 6 of them in the world. Once I've killed them all, I'm simply going to be unable to create anymore arrows?
At least before, dead zombies would drop feathers too, but now they just drop rotten flesh. So ZERO ways to get feathers other than chickens now and they're super-limited in the world. Great.....
sneakypete
Member
Oh wow didn't realize this. Anyone know any good ones to try now?
wsoxfan1214
Banned
Found two strongholds. No portals generated. Has anyone found one with portals?
If not, looks like remaking the worlds will be needed yet again with the next update.
If not, looks like remaking the worlds will be needed yet again with the next update.
Lighting typically works for about 6 blocks in pitch black I think.
Anyways, I'm really at a loss about the lack of animals. I see they do spawn, but its very rare. Didn't see a chicken at all today, but found a couple sheep, so I can finally make another bed! Up to about 50 arrows now after waiting for skeletons to burn alive in the morning, so perhaps soon I'll actually be able to cave dive. Until then, I'm building. Got a nice new house built that simply needs furnishing and detail touches.
Oh, and I dont know how I ever lived without the Sprint ability. So nice.
Nether portals? I wouldn't create a new world for something I can build myself relatively easily.
wsoxfan1214
Banned
No, end portals.
I've seen a few animals spawn, but I'm not sure how the game handles it. Seems to be in random spurts, but there might be some logic to it.
As for wolves, I haven't seen a single one in mine. I'm mainly concerned about lack of sheep(I want some wool!) and chickens.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Is there any point to the villages that spawn now, seeing as there are no NPCs? Or are they there just for flavor.
The End wasn't added into the PC version until Beta 1.9, so it's not going to be around just yet.
Just there for flavor currently. Even once the villagers were added to the PC version, they didn't do anything until relatively recently.
Hydranockz
Member
Will I have to start a new world to see any of the changes or can melons, apples and the new mobs be found on existing worlds?
Weird, I went into Creative Mode on a pre-update map. I found my old house. I flew around, having a laugh. Then I discover that things break in a single hit. I keep digging down through a mountain and I find a stronghold! I was quite surprised. It was in previously unexplored areas of my map. I think the update affected what loaded because there were sections loading oddly. Like high mountains with a line as if they were cut through.
Weird, I went into Creative Mode on a pre-update map. I found my old house. I flew around, having a laugh. Then I discover that things break in a single hit. I keep digging down through a mountain and I find a stronghold! I was quite surprised. It was in previously unexplored areas of my map. I think the update affected what loaded because there were sections loading oddly. Like high mountains with a line as if they were cut through.
That is weird. Huh. Did you find out the answer to your question about the food/mob additions in your old world? I was curious to know the answer to that as well, though I suppose later I could just test it out myself pretty easily.
Spent some time in Creative mode finally, too. Its pretty cool. Learned very quickly you need to load a Superflat world in Peaceful mode, though! Slimes everywhere! I think I'll be using Creative mainly for testing out things before I commit to them in my Survival game.
With the animal problem I had before, I've been seeing more lately. Saw quite a few chickens, which was nice. And at one point, I had 8 pigs on the screen which is 8x more than I had seen at one time before. Definitely seems random, its just very slow to spawn them. I hope this is the case, at least. I wandered away a fair while and found a sheep I had sheared, so they definitely dont despawn. I'm just hoping all the new animals I'm seeing haven't just wandered to my area and I'm killing off everything in the world.
Shadow Hog
Member
My understanding is that the map generation algorithms changed in 1.8, so if you wandered into an unexplored chunk, you'd have the weird border between them with the sheer wall and everything. This kept happening for a few versions, but I think finally stopped happening in a Final revision (1.2/1.3 or something?)
Anybody know of any mob grinders that work for the Xbox version that kills both regular mobs AND spiders? Its important that it gets spiders, too. I spent some time learning about how to build this one mob grinder only to find out at the end it wont kill spiders, which was an annoying waste of time. I need the string to make wool.
EDIT: Ok, think I've found one. I'll take suggestions still. Simpler is better.
EDIT: Ok, think I've found one. I'll take suggestions still. Simpler is better.
Something really strange has happened to my Xbox Minecraft, the screen goes pitch black once I select play and I can't look round as player 1 no matter which stick I use, player 2 is completely fine. Also the big minecraft logo from the main menu screen is still visible on the game screen blocking my view. WTF?