Minecraft News and Discussion

[GTvsForza]

What you do is, you have the launcher open. On the bottom left corner there is New Profile. Click that and you should be able to select ANY version of Minecraft. You can check if you want Beta versions or even Alpha. Then, where it says Use Version, you should be able to select Minecraft 1.2.5 from the drop down list. Last thing to do is save the profile to whatever name you want to call it.

Once the profile has been saved, you should be able to access the folder from your computer. For example, I saved a 1.6.4 profile for mods. I found the folder and installed Forge in it. After you run the version with Forge, it should rename the profile Minecraft 1.6.4Forge... Worked with me.

 

[nascarfan1400]

Thanks!

 

[GTvsForza]

Hope I didn't confuse you. I'm not good at explaining modding very well :/

 

[nascarfan1400]

I know how to mod, I just didn't know the new launcher supported pre-launcher versions. Now I can play the first version of MC too!

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

So the 360 just got an INCREDIBLE update yesterday!!!! The anvil, the ability to trade with villagers, and several others truly brought even more life into an already amazing game.

UPDATE 14

• Added Emeralds
• Added Emerald Ore
• Added Block of Emerald
• Added Ender Chests
• Added Tripwire Hook
• Added Enchanted Golden Apple
• Added Anvils
• Added Flower Pots
• Added Cobblestone Walls
• Added Mossy Cobblestone Walls
• Added Wither
• Added Potatoes
• Added Baked Potatoes
• Added Poisonous Potatoes
• Added Carrots
• Added Golden Carrots
• Added Carrot on a Stick
• Added Pumpkin Pie
• Added Night Vision Potions
• Added Invisibility Potions
• Added Nether Quartz
• Added Nether Quartz Ore
• Added Block of Quartz
• Added Quartz Slabs
• Added Quartz Stairs
• Added Chiseled Quartz Block
• Added Pillar Quartz Block
• Added Enchanted Books
• Added Carpet
• Added Bat
• Added brand new recipes for Smooth & Chiseled Sandstone.
• Added a new Mob: The Zombie Villager.
• Added new terrain generation which features: Desert Temples, Desert Villages, & Jungle Temples.
• Added Villager Trading.
• Added Anvil interface.
• Logs can now be placed sideways.
• Changed the placement of half blocks & other blocks on half blocks.
• Changed the placement of upside down stairs & slabs.
• Wooden Buttons & Wooden Pressure Plates can now be activated with Arrows.
• You can now place dyes on Leather Armor.
• You can now dye Wolf Collars.
• You can now control a Pig using a Carrot on a Stick.
• Added different Villager professions.
• Villagers that are spawned from a Spawn Egg will have a random profession.
• Villagers now make noises from being hurt, trading & wandering.
• Baby Mobs can now be spawned by using RT on an adult form of that mob.
• Furnaces can now use Wooden Tools as fuel.
• Ice & Glass Panes can now be collected using a Tool that has the Silk Touch Enchantment.
• Nether Mobs can now spawn in the Overworld from Nether Portals.
• Creepers & Spiders are now aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
• Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period of time.
• Removed knockback when drowning.
• Doors being broken by Zombies now show damage.
• Ice now melts in the Nether.
• Cauldrons will now fill up when out in the rain.
• Pistons now take twice as long to update.
• Pigs now drop Saddles when killed (if it is equipped).
• The Sky Color in The End has now changed.
• String can now be placed on the ground (for Tripwire Hooks).
• Rain can now drip through leaves.
• Levers can now be placed on the bottom of blocks.
• TNT now does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.
• The crafting recipe for Books has now changed.
• Boats now break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
• Pigs now drop more Porkchops.
• Slimes now spawn less in Superflat Worlds.
• When Creepers explode, the damage is variable based on difficulty setting & now the explosion has knockback
• Fixed a bug where Endermen are not opening their jaws.
• Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
• Added the ability to teleport for players (this is used by the in-game menu).
• Furnace will now return an empty bucket when fueled by a bucket of lava.
• Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
• Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
• Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
• Added new languages * Danish, Finnish, Latin American Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish
• Various network issue fixes.

Fixes

• Fix for issue in multiplayer/splitscreen which could cause save file corruption.
• Fix for memory issue causing random game freezes and exits to XMB.
• Fix for being unable to join games at times (“The host has exited the game” message incorrectly being displayed).
• Fix for splitscreen crash on adding a player when language is Russian.
• Fix for issue which can prevent leaderboard updates and some trophy awards.
• Fix for issue causing “No DLC offers available” message when converting trial to full version.
• Fix for game render glitch when a new streaming music track starts up.
• Fix for a lighting issue on a network client.
• Fix for the block damage decal being incorrectly offset
• Fix for selected item text not fading off screen if a menu is opened when it’s visible.
• Fix for “Where are we now” music disc
• Fix for issue with Ghasts firing at certain angles
• A few rendering performance improvements

Bugs

• When playing mulitplayer over Xbox Live random actions cause ALL users to crash.
• Breaking and placing blocks frequently duplicates the items. (Very easy to do)
• When playing split-screen sounds fail to function in some cases. (Monsters, and damage in particular)the sound only works when each players is far away from each other
• Leather armor not dye able via anvil as shown in tutorial world
• Many sound are absent ( ex: when eating pork chops, sound doesn't play )

 

[nascarfan1400]

So the 360 just got an INCREDIBLE update yesterday!!!! The anvil, the ability to trade with villagers, and several others truly brought even more life into an already amazing game.

1.6

• Added Emeralds
• Added Emerald Ore
• Added Block of Emerald
• Added Ender Chests
• Added Tripwire Hook
• Added Enchanted Golden Apple
• Added Anvils
• Added Flower Pots
• Added Cobblestone Walls
• Added Mossy Cobblestone Walls
• Added Wither
• Added Potatoes
• Added Baked Potatoes
• Added Poisonous Potatoes
• Added Carrots
• Added Golden Carrots
• Added Carrot on a Stick
• Added Pumpkin Pie
• Added Night Vision Potions
• Added Invisibility Potions
• Added Nether Quartz
• Added Nether Quartz Ore
• Added Block of Quartz
• Added Quartz Slabs
• Added Quartz Stairs
• Added Chiseled Quartz Block
• Added Pillar Quartz Block
• Added Enchanted Books
• Added Carpet
• Added Bat
• Added brand new recipes for Smooth & Chiseled Sandstone.
• Added a new Mob: The Zombie Villager.
• Added new terrain generation which features: Desert Temples, Desert Villages, & Jungle Temples.
• Added Villager Trading.
• Added Anvil interface.
• Logs can now be placed sideways.
• Changed the placement of half blocks & other blocks on half blocks.
• Changed the placement of upside down stairs & slabs.
• Wooden Buttons & Wooden Pressure Plates can now be activated with Arrows.
• You can now place dyes on Leather Armor.
• You can now dye Wolf Collars.
• You can now control a Pig using a Carrot on a Stick.
• Added different Villager professions.
• Villagers that are spawned from a Spawn Egg will have a random profession.
• Villagers now make noises from being hurt, trading & wandering.
• Baby Mobs can now be spawned by using RT on an adult form of that mob.
• Furnaces can now use Wooden Tools as fuel.
• Ice & Glass Panes can now be collected using a Tool that has the Silk Touch Enchantment.
• Nether Mobs can now spawn in the Overworld from Nether Portals.
• Creepers & Spiders are now aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
• Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period of time.
• Removed knockback when drowning.
• Doors being broken by Zombies now show damage.
• Ice now melts in the Nether.
• Cauldrons will now fill up when out in the rain.
• Pistons now take twice as long to update.
• Pigs now drop Saddles when killed (if it is equipped).
• The Sky Color in The End has now changed.
• String can now be placed on the ground (for Tripwire Hooks).
• Rain can now drip through leaves.
• Levers can now be placed on the bottom of blocks.
• TNT now does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.
• The crafting recipe for Books has now changed.
• Boats now break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
• Pigs now drop more Porkchops.
• Slimes now spawn less in Superflat Worlds.
• When Creepers explode, the damage is variable based on difficulty setting & now the explosion has knockback
• Fixed a bug where Endermen are not opening their jaws.
• Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
• Added the ability to teleport for players (this is used by the in-game menu).
• Furnace will now return an empty bucket when fueled by a bucket of lava.
• Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
• Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
• Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
• Added new languages * Danish, Finnish, Latin American Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish
• Various network issue fixes.

Fixes

• Fix for issue in multiplayer/splitscreen which could cause save file corruption.
• Fix for memory issue causing random game freezes and exits to XMB.
• Fix for being unable to join games at times (“The host has exited the game” message incorrectly being displayed).
• Fix for splitscreen crash on adding a player when language is Russian.
• Fix for issue which can prevent leaderboard updates and some trophy awards.
• Fix for issue causing “No DLC offers available” message when converting trial to full version.
• Fix for game render glitch when a new streaming music track starts up.
• Fix for a lighting issue on a network client.
• Fix for the block damage decal being incorrectly offset
• Fix for selected item text not fading off screen if a menu is opened when it’s visible.
• Fix for “Where are we now” music disc
• Fix for issue with Ghasts firing at certain angles
• A few rendering performance improvements

Bugs

• When playing mulitplayer over Xbox Live random actions cause ALL users to crash.
• Breaking and placing blocks frequently duplicates the items. (Very easy to do)
• When playing split-screen sounds fail to function in some cases. (Monsters, and damage in particular)the sound only works when each players is far away from each other
• Leather armor not dye able via anvil as shown in tutorial world
• Many sound are absent ( ex: when eating pork chops, sound doesn't play )

Is it out for PS3 yet?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Is it out for PS3 yet?

I had a typo. Its actually Update 14. 360 version was yesterday. PS3 version should be out today. http://www.destructoid.com/minecraft-title-update-14-out-on-xbox-360-today-ps3-tomorrow-272483.phtml

 

[nascarfan1400]

Awesome!

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Its truly an amazing update for console owners. Greatly improves the game. I just hope the list I posted above is the proper list. A little confusion out there of which list to post.

 

[nascarfan1400]

Do non-loaded chunks include the new ores?

We have a great PS3 world going, but we want Taters and Emerals ect

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Do non-loaded chunks include the new ores?

We have a great PS3 world going, but we want Taters and Emerals ect

I don't think it does but I am not sure. We decided to just start another new world. My group of friends has at least 15 different worlds but its always fun to star all over again in a new world.

 

[nascarfan1400]

Wait, I just realized.

You can get 'taters through killing zombies, at least on PC, and you can get emeralds by trading!

Quartz is sold by villagers I think, too.

 

[nascarfan1400]

Update live on PS3!

 

[Gerarghini]

Gotta say, that's a lot of content for a measly ~40Mb, Although I'm not too fond of the 2 new texture packs here on the ps3 version.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I traded 16 wheat for 1 emerald last night. I really like the ability to trade with villagers. This game now feels like Skyrim mixed with Fallout 3. So glad we can combine worn out weapons and armor to make better weapons and armor. Saves a lot of resources and inventory space. Such an amazing update for the consoles. I am still looking for potatoes and carrots. Cant wait to add those to my jungle tree house farm.

 

[GTvsForza]

Wait, I just realized.

You can get 'taters through killing zombies, at least on PC, and you can get emeralds by trading!

Quartz is sold by villagers I think, too.

I don't think villagers trade quartz.

 

[Brutaka]

The city villagers scare me

 

[nascarfan1400]

Are there any pics of the new texture packs? How much are they?

 

[JohnBM01]

After learning of the updates to the console version of Minecraft, it was time for me to test drive some of the new features. Suffice to say, I was quite impressed. All I did was mostly drop in certain items into my Creative world. I even tried to chat with the Villagers. I saw all they were offering. I didn't broker any trades, but it was cool to have Villagers be more than just a sign of life in villages created and/or generated.

I also went ahead and sampled the extra texture packs. I prefer the original Minecraft texture pack, but I really liked the City Texture Pack. I wasn't pleased with the Plastic Texture Pack, though. The original textures are just fine for me. The different texture packs have to be purchased if you want to continue using them.

I haven't been playing Minecraft in a while. Not because of disinterest, but mostly because of my TV. My old TV basically lost a bit of its color. Minecraft is a game with many bright colors. Sadly, the green colors sort of appear like very dark blue colors. So because of this, I haven't done too playing as I used to. Only other alternative is to play console Minecraft while using my USB capture device.


I am still plenty impressed with console Minecraft. These edits just make it better.

 

[homeforsummer]

Not experienced any of the new bits yet, as I've mainly been carrying on with an existing game. I know size-wise the console games are a fraction of the PC version, but it amazes me how much I've left unexplored on the map. And beneath it, for that matter.

 

[Eks]

I'm liking the new update. 👍

Probably gonna start a new Survival world since the one I'm in now not only has no villages but no emeralds/nether quartz.

@nascarfan1400 The texture packs for Playstation 3 are $0.99.

 

[homeforsummer]

I can't remember whether this has been asked before, but can a survival world started by one person be worked on by another on a different console?

For example, if two people play an online game, can the one or the other player dip in and play it independently if both aren't online?

I'm just thinking of ways to expand my use of the game a little - I'd like to play online, but given the different timezones most of us play in it isn't always easy finding a time when more than one person is online. That, and I'm quite busy with work so only tend to play for an hour or so at a time, whenever I can squeeze it in.

But it'd be useful/interesting if two players could add to the same world without both of them necessarily being online at the same time.

 

[nascarfan1400]

I can't remember whether this has been asked before, but can a survival world started by one person be worked on by another on a different console?

For example, if two people play an online game, can the one or the other player dip in and play it independently if both aren't online?

I'm just thinking of ways to expand my use of the game a little - I'd like to play online, but given the different timezones most of us play in it isn't always easy finding a time when more than one person is online. That, and I'm quite busy with work so only tend to play for an hour or so at a time, whenever I can squeeze it in.

But it'd be useful/interesting if two players could add to the same world without both of them necessarily being online at the same time.

Nope the host must be online for anyone else to join,

 

[homeforsummer]

Nope the host must be online for anyone else to join,

Arses. That's a shame.

Okay, next question: Is it possible to turn an existing world you're working on into an online-able game, or do you have to start one from scratch? I've got three saved games at the moment - can any of those be made online, so others can join me?

 

[nascarfan1400]

Arses. That's a shame.

Okay, next question: Is it possible to turn an existing world you're working on into an online-able game, or do you have to start one from scratch? I've got three saved games at the moment - can any of those be made online, so others can join me?

But it makes sense. If someone's being a griefer you just have the host leave.

Not sure on that

 

[homeforsummer]

But it makes sense. If someone's being a griefer you just have the host leave.

Nah, I understand that, but my thinking is more that if you're playing with friends then it can be quite limiting.

 

[Eks]

Okay, next question: Is it possible to turn an existing world you're working on into an online-able game, or do you have to start one from scratch? I've got three saved games at the moment - can any of those be made online, so others can join me?

Yes, if you've started an offline world, then all you have to do is go to "More Options" and check "Online Game."

 

[homeforsummer]

Yes, if you've started an offline world, then all you have to do is go to "More Options" and check "Online Game."

Awesome, thank you. I'll probably make a few of my worlds online then. Any GTPers who want to add me on the off-chance they catch me online, my PSN is the same as my username here.

I don't have a mic though so if you do ever catch me online, feel free to do basically whatever you want as long as it doesn't involve pushing me into lava

 

[Tornado]

I could pla-

*PS3 version*


Oh.

 

[homeforsummer]

Heh, sorry. As I put a few posts back, getting the PS3 version is the best way of getting me away from the computer I spent 12 hours a day on already...