Minecraft: 1.8 Adventure FULL UPDATE LIST - Endermen, Villages, Release Date, Farming & More

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Published on August 27, 2011 1:45:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzb9dOD0v0

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Minecraft (2011)

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Features:

- At least 9 new crafting recipes.
- Different game modes.
- Creative mode
+ Limited flying in Creative mode
+ Able to change time quickly and easily
- "At least one new mob"
- New Enderman mob.
+ They die in water
- New Silverfish
+ Very rare
- Zombies drop a new item instead of feathers, Rotten Flesh.
- New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/chunks
- Optional NPC Villages with farms and "town borders".
+ Possibility of players to "claim" land in villages.
+ Wells for villages.
+ Made of: Cobblestone, Mossy Cobblestone, Wooden Planks, Wood, Torches, Cobblestone Stairs, Gravel, Fence, Glass and/or Glass Panes, Ladders, Wooden Doors, Crops, Farmland, Water, Furnaces, Iron Bars, and Pressure Plates.
- Underground Ravines including canyons on the surface and ledges to walk on.
- Strongholds, consisting of 4 new blocks: Stone Brick, Mossy Stone Brick, Cracked Stone Brick, and Iron Bars. (names unconfirmed)
- Mine shafts
- Naturally found Cobweb
- Totally new, fractal-based biome code.
- 7 new biomes
+ New Mushroom biome which will include Huge Mushrooms, both brown and red.
+ Rivers flowing through/inbetween biomes.
+ Deeper Oceans
- Oceans are now a biome
+ Mountain biomes
- Larger Biomes
- New combat Mechanics
- Critical hits
- Hold-to-charge bows
+ 3 different charged states; takes less than 1 second to fully charge (around 5:05 in)
- Player blocking attack animation and hostile mob attack animations, possibly more player animations
- New farming options, more interesting farming.
- This could be the Cocoa Bean tree Jeb was talking about.
- Plantable pumpkins and melons, each with a central stem that grows to max size and spawns a fruit next to it.
- Animal breeding.
- New Food System:
- Food no longer heals directly but indirectly.
+ If above a certain point, heals Half Heart about every 5 seconds.
- There is now a food meter.
+ The food meter is possibly optional since Notch has said that it will be possible to play without food.
- Food will be stackable.
- Food takes 1.6 seconds to consume.
- There is now a food eating animation.
- There will most likely be sound effects for consuming food.
- 5 new food items.
+ Cooked Chicken.
+ Raw Chicken.
+ Raw Beef and Steak.
+ New Melon block, but not yet confirmed as food.
+ Cooked Porkchop has a different texture.
- New achievements:
- Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters.
- Possibly attempting Shoot the Moon with an arrow.
- Sprinting: By double pressing the forward button, the player will move faster.
- Sprinting will have a drawback, such as depleting your food bar.
- Hitting a mob while "rushing" (sprinting?) sends them flying about 8 blocks
- Glass Panes.
- Possibly Spike blocks, Jeb initially considered Spike Pistons, but then pondered making a Spike block that can be pushed by the Sticky Piston.
- Arrows will be stuck on mobs when they hit.
- Fence Gates.
- New types of stairs.

Graphics / UI / Audio:

- New improved lighting — day/night cycles will not require chunk updates. Lighting will be updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.
- Warmer light from torches.
- New texture for Moss Stone.
- Sliders for field of view and gamma in video options.
- Redesigned HUD, including two new features, food and experience bars.
- Killing a mob gives you tiny Experience Orbs that flash and add to your experience.
- New launcher.
- Possibly a web Applet launcher.
- A lot of new sounds and some changes, such as minecart sounds and shear sounds, also a change in the sound of rain.
- New bow sounds (including hits), new door sounds, big slimes sound, and walking skeletons sound more skeletony.
- New particle effects.
- Performing a collateral hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' to fly
- Torches emmitt red particles
- The ability to see the world seed when pressing F3.
- A new main menu background
- The version in the main menu will be in the lower left, instead of the current upper left

Multiplayer:

- Multiplayer server list
- Improved server join screen: The server join screen will feature a list of servers
- Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up.
- The ability to allow moderators to enter creative mode in SMP.

Modding:

- Modding Support.
- Including easier changing of the max level (map) height.

Release Date: Next Week Jeb and Notch Confirm

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