Minecraft Beta 1.5 released!

[gifi4]

Minecraft Beta 1.5, and some thoughts on this blog
(You will need to update your servers as well)

* Weather (rain, snow, thunder)
* Statistics
* Achievements
* Detector rail
* Booster rail
* Performance improvements

More statistics and achievements will be added over time as we develop the game. They’re only stored locally at the moment, but we’ll slowly be rolling out online storing of achievements over time.

Nothing too major, the weather is overrated but looking forward to the booster rail and the stats and achievements. Sadly I just downloaded mods, time to get rid of 'em =(.

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[Sausage Head]

Great news! Sooner than I expected.

 

[purechaos996]

Didnt knwow about the booster or detector rail, interested in using those and getting rid of my old boosters.

 

[Damian666]

i dont even get why people like this...

i played for 5 minutes, and never touched it again, i personally think its very lame.

Dami

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

i dont even get why people like this...

i played for 5 minutes, and never touched it again, i personally think its very lame.

Dami

Well you're not going to get a good feel of the game if you only played it for five minutes. That's like saying a movie sucks after only watching the first five minutes.

 

[Damian666]

although i do agree on that, i have to say that if you allready see whats it like, and it doesnt catch ya,

what do you do then? i personally drop it.

the first impression sort of speak.

Dami

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

although i do agree on that, i have to say that if you allready see whats it like, and it doesnt catch ya,

what do you do then? i personally drop it.

the first impression sort of speak.

Dami

To get a good feel of a game like minecraft, you have to play it for a solid 30 minutes. It also helps if you learn how to do stuff beforehand.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

To get a good feel of a game like minecraft, you have to play it for a solid 30 minutes. It also helps if you learn how to do stuff beforehand.

True, until the 1.4 update I could never get into it but then I watched one of the "survive your first night" videos on youtube and found the Wiki. Once it's out of beta it really, really needs a short tutorial level or friendly NPC to turn up and show you things on the first day.

 

[gifi4]

although i do agree on that, i have to say that if you allready see whats it like, and it doesnt catch ya,

what do you do then? i personally drop it.

the first impression sort of speak.

Dami

To get a good feel of a game like minecraft, you have to play it for a solid 30 minutes. It also helps if you learn how to do stuff beforehand.

Yep! Youtube "How to survive your first night in Minecraft" Also on the official Minecraft site.

Weird bug I found whilst completing the small amount of achievements currently available:

Spoiler

I can't even work out where this bug is from, I see torches but I don't remember that place.

 

[Eckin]

the game is sort of a "niche" thing

not everyone will enjoy it like the fans of minecraft, some people waste days/months on in and can't wait for new updates, others waste a couple of hours doing everything possible and then stop, and others look at it for the graphics or gameplay point of view and decide this isn't worth their time

it's a sandbox experience, not a proper game. The lack of objectives turn some people off I suppose

 

[Sausage Head]

Yep! Youtube "How to survive your first night in Minecraft" Also on the official Minecraft site.

Weird bug I found whilst completing the small amount of achievements currently available:

Spoiler

I can't even work out where this bug is from, I see torches but I don't remember that place.

Nissssssssssssssssssssssssssssse bug you have there, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it!

It might be a chunk from a previous world -- this happens alot when you delete a world and recreate it with the same name.

 

[gifi4]

the game is sort of a "niche" thing

not everyone will enjoy it like the fans of minecraft, some people waste days/months on in and can't wait for new updates, others waste a couple of hours doing everything possible and then stop, and others look at it for the graphics or gameplay point of view and decide this isn't worth their time

it's a sandbox experience, not a proper game. The lack of objectives turn some people off I suppose

Reminds me of my friends, I told them to try it out and they said they would watch youtube videos, speak to them later and they're like that's shit, made them play it, they are now addicted!

@Sausage Head

Did you even notice the most epic thing on that pic? The creeper ofcourse =D Oh and I never made a world with the same name. Only have 3 worlds atm, 1 of mine, 2 of my friends.

 

[machomuu]

Sadly I just downloaded mods, time to get rid of 'em =(.

You're telling me, I had a bunch of mods for 1.3 (I'd say about 20-40 mods), hadn't even finished updating them to 1.4 yet. Oh well, it will be nice to be back in the Vanilla game, though I wish there were some friendly mobs.

 

[twiztidsinz]

YAY BROKEN ADDONS!

 

[_Chaz_]

although i do agree on that, i have to say that if you allready see whats it like, and it doesnt catch ya,

what do you do then? i personally drop it.

the first impression sort of speak.

Dami

To get a good feel of a game like minecraft, you have to play it for a solid 30 minutes. It also helps if you learn how to do stuff beforehand.

I played for a week and didn't like it. Personally, I thought it was overrated and very boring.

 

[Arras]

Sadly I just downloaded mods, time to get rid of 'em =(.

You're telling me, I had a bunch of mods for 1.3 (I'd say about 20-40 mods), hadn't even finished updating them to 1.4 yet. Oh well, it will be nice to be back in the Vanilla game, though I wish there were some friendly mobs.

Well, there's the dogs/wolves that are friendly once you give them some bones.

 

[Issac]

Hmmm, I had a lot of problems with this so far... Can't press ESC to get some kind of menu or anything :/ (to get to options, quit the game, etc.)

 

[Joe88]

though I wish there were some friendly mobs.

huh?

sheep
cows
pigs
chicken
zombie pigmen
squid
spiders (daytime)
wolves

 

[machomuu]

though I wish there were some friendly mobs.

huh?

sheep
cows
pigs
chicken
zombie pigmen
squid
spiders (daytime)
wolves

I should have been more clear, I wish there were more Humanoid Friendlies/neutrals as well as friendly (not neutral as with every non-evil mob right now, excluding the wolf) non-humanoid mobs.

 

[chyyran]

*Waits for TempCraft to update*