1.8 Update finally arrivesFollow

I'm not even trying it until Aether is updated. Honestly, the Aether seems twice as good as this change. They left out a ton of the good things:
-NPCs
-skills
-mushroom biomes
-points to the strongholds
-animal breeding

...while implementing a bunch of changes... and not good ones:

-hunger bar
-experience with no reason to level
-limited animal spawns
-empty NPC villages.
-new enemies have no useful drops (or no use for the items they drop)

The only things I want to fool around with are rivers, ravines, mineshafts, Endermen, and sprinting. Nah, I'll stick with Aether for now.

I started it back up. Took me over 2 game days before I could find me a ghost town and that turned out to be a church and a smith. Wide open plains on one side, desert on the other. Did a bit of exploring and found a mineshaft and I have only one thing to say about them. If there is fairly large cave network in the area where the mineshaft spawns at it gets bloody confusing to navigate. Got it on peaceful due to how I am setting up my story. To put it simply hostel mobs will not spawn until I open the portal to the nether. I know many would find that boring but I am enjoying myself atm.

It does feel a bit weak of an update though. -shrug- Oh well, beta is beta.

I've always given Notch sh*t for half-assed updates, but this time I'm not even gonna bother. It's too easy to point out everything that was already implemented third-party that Mojang can only seem to implement half the features for (but just enough to make the mod harder to install or semi-trivial).

First it was all the decent SMP Nether plugins, now it's Millenaire (and partly Citizens) under the knife... but then the official version is so incomplete you'll have to find some way to disable it for the mods to be worthwhile. Aether is a whole different story since the Skylands generator was completely neglected after implementation.

I can only figure somebody, not gonna finger Notch alone, at Mojang just simply hates third party development. Every update they're in a feature race with their own community and they sure as hell don't drive nicely, especially when their SDK went vaporware.

And yes I just love exploring a whole stronghold for three pieces of coal and an apple in one chest and a few books and paper in another. That there's only one per world just leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Edited, Sep 20th 2011 12:21pm by Raelix

As a slight consolation, I believe they're upping it to three spawning per world

Yes, this last update was pretty fail. The new stuff they work on always looks cool... but then it takes several weeks/months to come out, and only some of it makes it in that patch. The latest round: updates to the Nether. I'll believe it when I see it...