Full disclosure: I learned to play the piano first, then guitar, then anything i could bring myself to spend money on. Everything I have done is amateur (although I did do the terrible old theme tune for the mindcrack podcast before I fell out with them) so don't trust me basically. I don't know how...

Great news. Thanks FC. What's the point of wrestling your way to the top of the food chain if you can't bathe in the souls of your fallen enemys :).

I imagine this is the same problem I brought up quite a while ago:
http://sargunster.com/btwforum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7134
This was obviously an older version but I don't know if the hopper code has been changed since then. Hope the extra pictures help diagnose the problem in some way.

...indicate that he's still finding himself as a designer and is looking to his favorite games to show him how things "should" be done. I can definitely see that. Lacking experience, suddenly finding yourself dealing with a fan base, looking to minecraft and pulling the wrong lessons from...

His focus seems to be sandbox and getting to it as quickly as possible. ...I think a designer talking about an extended tech tree from the get go like it would automatically have to be a grind shows a very limited understanding of what makes something feel that way in the first place. I entirely ag...

I'm sure this will be of interest to some people here. CupGRIL2h64 Two points of note: 1. He says he is a game design major and he is more of a designer than a programmer. 2. He says that it is fine that top-tier players can breeze through the tech tree in a few flights and he doesn't want the tech ...

How about a 'redstone rack and pinion' or some variation. It's a linear actuator and it also allows for use of the phrase 'hardcore rack'; the perfect combination.

DNoved1 and I have been messing around with this, and have found that, even following the instuctions to the letter, our addon class will still not be loaded until we add a reference to it somewhere in a vanilla class; something to make the java classloader care about it. I'm having the exact same ...

I hope I've not got the wrong end of the stick here but I believe this is a fairly long-standing issue related to minecraft's implementation of OpenAL. The sound unloading fps drop, especially horrific when it's animals in water, is usually attributed to an old, crappy version of OpenAL and can be f...

Further to my last bug report, while the dispenser no longer rotates weirdly it still has issues when a redstone torch is attached to the side of it. It will trigger on certain orientations when it definitely shouldn't be. Also which orientations it triggers on changes depending on whether there are...

Sorry for posting a bug report so soon after a big update but this one's a weird one. A powered dispenser on a rotating turntable turns 180 degrees instead of 90 on each turn. The image shows the easiest setup to reproduce this behaviour. http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag55/TheGroovyWorkshed/20...

My two penneth: From what I've seen very few of the most useful contraptions made from components from the 1.5 update significantly rely on redstone's new analogue nature but instead from weird or exploity interactions between the hopper, dropper, comparator and minecarts. Much of the new stuff that...

The original spiral (the one whose malfunctioning prompted this thread) was made of stonebrick and the xp orbs actually ended up in even odder places. One of the hoppers consistently produced orbs diagonally 2 blocks above it (definitely not the closest air block obviously). I can only assume in tha...

I hear what you're saying but I think the xp orbs having high horizontal velocity on mob/player death is something defined in the death event. Note that items leaving the hopper don't have the same scatter that items leaving a dead player do. The fact that the orbs visually appear to head straight d...

I apologise if this has been dealt with before but a search for "orbs" brought up nothing relevant ("XP" is too short to search for). The problem I'm having is that my xp shower isn't showering... it's not even drizzling. In an effort to work out why I set up a test rig in creati...

Them messing with underwater gameplay also scares the shit out of me. I can't find anything official pointing towards watery activities, only fan musings. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they added a water mob to keep the suicidal squids company but I can't see it being more than a differentl...

Can anyone think of a nice safe area of the MC design that we can all start bitching at Mojang about needing attention to try and distract them from working on more critical aspects? If we convinced their entire team to just work on the API I'm pretty sure that would be equivalent to halting develo...

There will be new mobs in 1.6, but not 1.5

From Jeb's twitter.
Source: https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/304301377818066944

I'm hoping this doesn't mean they're going to 'improve' mob AI again. Who am I kidding?

Have these already been discussed? I couldn't find them in the past few pages (Technic forums, I don't know their original sources) http://pastebin.com/BMxd6Gsq (Gil's been conned, guy claiming identity for second log) http://pastebin.com/pUXYm7r4 (Lex's response to some questions) https://gist.git...

My uninvited contribution: I've lurked here for a very long time but I decided to register just to reassure you that you have a lot more support than certain people's egos may have them believe. I have little more to add except my whole-hearted backing; I hope it is of value to you. Keep fighting th...