Minecraft Megathread; yeah its update 1.12 big whoop what about it

[Private McDoggy]

You lay it out and use it like wires. Wires have copper in them.

copper isn't that red

[Ad Bot]

[Wedge]

last time I looked behind a wall in my house it wasn't full of red powder

[Dr.Block]

Alright, but stone doesn't conduct electricity.

[Wedge]

It's obviously not electricity. There's no batteries, no generators. All you do is connect a switch to a door and it opens, there's no power source. It "conducts" logic.

[yuki]

More like conducts magic

[Captain Crazy]

Made a new tileset! The only things it changes are cobblestone (makes it look like stone bricks), glass (clearer), iron blocks (looks like manufactured iron blocks), and TNT (looks like a crate full of coal). I'd get a screenie but I wasted my only TNT block :(

[Menen]

You lay it out and use it like wires. Wires have copper in them.

Wires have gold in them too.

[Captain Crazy]

The red ore's official name is now "Redstone", as Notch said a few minutes ago on his blog.

[Aphtonites]

The red ore's official name is now "Redstone", as Notch said a few minutes ago on his blog.

You're late D:
Well, by one page anyway.

[Captain Crazy]

You're late D:
Well, by one page anyway.

Oh no D:

[King of losers]

“But why”, some people ask, “are you making Minecraft programmable?”. The reason is, adventure mode!

The three main game modes when the game is finished will be:

* Creative mode. You can build anything for free, and there’s no health bar, and no inventory.
* Survival mode. There’s a health bar, an inventory, and you need to gather resources to be able to build.
* Adventure mode. There’s a health bar and an inventory, but you can’t destroy or place blocks, you can only use items.

(You can combine at least the two latter game modes for different players in multiplayer)

I foresee a future where people can design “challenge maps” in creative or survival mode, then share them with people so that they can try to beat them in Adventure mode. Being able to create interesting puzzles or trigger events requires some more advanced programming than the sand and water based stuff we’ve seen so far, yet still I don’t want to introduce real programming into the world.
I think the Redstone Dust (which is, and always has been* the official name for the red stuff) fits fairly well with the pseudo fantasy theme of Minecraft, and it will certainly have more uses in the future, mainly for alchemy and possibly other forms of magic.

Also, I’m a huge cellular automata nerd.

* I made it up last night.

[Antallion]

you might wanna fix the fact that SMF turns [ * ] into

• and just replace it with a *

[Wedge]

or use [nobbc][*][/nobbc]

[Dr.Block]

So redstone IS magic. :o

[No2mad2]

Adventure mode, huh? This should be interesting.