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For those who cant wait:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/214-want-to-play-18-early-heres-how/

if the pre-release of 1.8. I am not giving you a link to anything bad(I got this from a respectable youtube channel). I myself havnt used it but all I know is that you need to replace/backup your current jar file with it.

Wolf wrote:metallifan, I am completely with you I really cant wait for 1.8 !

Really I just want it for the creative mode. I always have one "Sandbox" world that I use Invedit to just mess around with when I don't want to constantly be smacking Creepers away. Invedit is okay and all, but I really hate having to save+exit, then swap back and fourth between game and desktop in the middle of a megabuild to replenish my stocks. Really sucks, especially if you're tasking yourself with building like a huge medieval port city of something.

Creepers<Snowballs...
Like a boss.>

johnscott10 wrote:For those who cant wait:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/214-want-to-play-18-early-heres-how/

if the pre-release of 1.8. I am not giving you a link to anything bad(I got this from a respectable youtube channel). I myself havnt used it but all I know is that you need to replace/backup your current jar file with it.

I love you.

I also love stone brick and fence gates. and vines.

however no crafting in creative when the list doesn't include many items is a bit silly.

corpsesarefun wrote:

johnscott10 wrote:For those who cant wait:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/214-want-to-play-18-early-heres-how/

if the pre-release of 1.8. I am not giving you a link to anything bad(I got this from a respectable youtube channel). I myself havnt used it but all I know is that you need to replace/backup your current jar file with it.

I love you.

I expected as much

Glad somebody enjoys the (very little) effort I put into getting it XD. Ill wait till the proper release though.

metallifan wrote:

Wolf wrote:metallifan, I am completely with you I really cant wait for 1.8 !

Really I just want it for the creative mode. I always have one "Sandbox" world that I use Invedit to just mess around with when I don't want to constantly be smacking Creepers away. Invedit is okay and all, but I really hate having to save+exit, then swap back and fourth between game and desktop in the middle of a megabuild to replenish my stocks. Really sucks, especially if you're tasking yourself with building like a huge medieval port city of something.

I used to use INVedit but found this a lot easier:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/140684-18pr-toomanyitems-in-game-invedit-sep-9/

TMI is the app that the yogcast gang use. Excellent stuff actually.

I personally enjoy the yogbox now, I'm running 2 minecrafts (1 with mods 1 without) and got the yogbox, with TMI and also the guns mod.

urm, what?
I logged out of minecraft to change skin, but the internet page froze and I had to end the program. When I started it up again, when I tried to log in it said "Login throttled, too many attempts. Try again in a few minutes". I've been retrying for the past hour to no avail. I've refreshed the page, closed and re-opened the page, tried to do in browser and download, and waited about 15 minutes between each try.

Check notch's blog...

Doctadeth wrote:Check notch's blog...

Which one? Where?


The only one I can find is the 'The Word Of Notch' one which links from the Minecraft site.

"I went to system restore (which on my system you can get to with the search bar in the start menu) and restored my system back to a little before it stopped working. I restored it and let it shut down before rebooting my computer"
*sigh*

shrike wrote:"I went to system restore (which on my system you can get to with the search bar in the start menu) and restored my system back to a little before it stopped working. I restored it and let it shut down before rebooting my computer"
*sigh*

Did it work?

Haven't tried it yet.

Is it just me is the minecraft login server completely dead? I keep getting "can't connect to minecraft.net"

Yep I get the same.

And now I get past that error only to have the server kick me for taking too long to log in...

Tried the pre 1.8 and it's great fun (admittedly i'm on peaceful on my surv. world, and easy on creative (so I can experience the mobs) so I haven't had to feed myself); found my first ravine and mineshaft (mineshafts, or at least the one i've found, are awesome; ores and other valuables scattered around with rails and wooden beams. They're also really quite extensive).

I'm not sure if it's just creative (only time where I thought of testing it), but F3 doesn't seem to show mob tags anymore, so creepers have become more creepy (as if they needed to) and exploration more tense; might be best to bring a buddy from now on, or at least a death chest.

Ive seen yogscast with leaked 1.8 with exp bar hunger bar And replenishing health running its gonna be frikkin EPIC!!

There is a link to downloading 1.8 at the top of this thread man Just do that.

I'm still very skeptical about the hunger bar and exp; I think they're both pretty unnecessary (someone can argue that you need to feed yourself all they want, but the stone house they're lecturing me in is still defying the laws of physics), and I don't really know how levlling could be implemented, or how it could even benefit you.

There's also the fact that if you die, you lose all your exp, and since dying is one of the easiest things to do in MC, and with food taking time to consume, I just don't see the point in collecting exp at all - at the end of the day, it'd just be one more thing you lose when you die.

You don't loose all exp, when you level up the exp is used up and can't be lost.

What does the leveling up acctualy do though?

Nothing currently, the use for EXP comes in 1.9.

the only thing I can think of do get when you level up is something like doing X% more damage in melee or mining X% faster, or having X% more damage durability.

shrike wrote:the only thing I can think of do get when you level up is something like doing X% more damage in melee or mining X% faster, or having X% more damage durability.

That's what I was thinking. Like an RPG mod, almost.

Actually I remember something(cant remember where exactly) that the XP is actually used to cash in for items and stuff.

I will say that im 90% certain Notch said this himself.

I like the hunger bar if you keep it fully replenished you can only be brought down to halve a heart and not die thats awsum and when you die the xp you had filling the bar dropps and you can pick it back up and when you level up you have a talent tree thing to make you faster or better at talents like mining and running and attacking and stuff =P and has it been officially released yet because wheb yogscast did the video some stuff isnt ready

JAMES.F23 wrote:has it been officially released yet because wheb yogscast did the video some stuff isnt ready

Nope, its released tomorrow IIRC.

Ok, if 1.8 is being released tomorrow, I have a question.

If I upgrade to 1.8, will I still be able to play on the server, which as far as I know is remaining at 1.7.3?

RaptorsTallon wrote:Ok, if 1.8 is being released tomorrow, I have a question.

If I upgrade to 1.8, will I still be able to play on the server, which as far as I know is remaining at 1.7.3?

Probably not, so make a backup of 1.7.3 if you want to keep playing on the server until I upgrade it. I won't be upgrading it until a few patches have been released and/or most major bugs are spotted and fixed. Although this time around they do seem to be being more cautious with the bug testing, this is a major update and there will inevitably still be some.