I'm so excited FlowerChild! I've commented a few times on how much I enjoy caving, and how quickly reached a technological tier beyond the need for caving. Gone are the days of vMC where one could acquire a diamond pickaxe in less than 10 minutes! The iron changes helped, but now I can go spelunking...

I'm playing a large biomes world from a swamp biome. The nearest biomes are tundra and jungle, so not only have I not found any easy temples, but I haven't managed to find wolves yet either. I'm still in a settler phase, and plan to go nomadic and explore soon, but I concur with the above posters wh...

I assume you're specifically referring to that which effects Netherrack, or is this something else entirely, which I don't know of? I believe he is, but Netherrack was not the only one subject to insta-mining. IF you had a high enough efficiency rating, you could insta-mine several stone variants, ...

I don't think any feature that makes the game indiscriminately harder is necessarily a good feature. The slow disappearance of lava was apparently the result of an old block update bug -- it was never intentional, but nobody got around to fixing it until recently. It just doesn't make sense for lav...

However, chemical reactions in btw and the ingredients making sense has been part of this mod so far. There's actually been several discussions of it before. Usually fc creates features like this in such a way that with a little cleverness the recipes can be figured out since they make sense from t...

I just watched CreeperCannibal's video above; it looks like Mojang is making lava disappear when the source block is removed almost as fast as water now. I definitely don't like that, as many times as I have personally died because of the slow rate at which lava recedes. I don't think any feature t...

At first I was taken aback by Hardcore Bouncing. I thought pillaring was just a unique part of Minecraft's bizarre physics. Then I stopped and considered how pillaring affects my own gameplay. And now I'm super excited to take on huge building projects with glorious scaffolding all over the place. I...

It should be mentioned that I'm playing by rules that are even harder core than the present hardcore :) If they don't spoil any plans you have for the future, I'd love to hear what these rules are! This story happened in my second world with 4.66. I had just come back to BTW after around a year of ...

FlowerChild wrote:Hehe...no, it's wool "armor"/clothing to act as an early game very basic form of low durability protection and to provide use to all the wool that tends to accumulate as you massacre sheep in the early game.

Early game? I'll choose looking like a lumberjack over safety every time :D

Basically, if someone creates a chicken farm, mushroom farm, and a dairy farm (and potentially a pumpkin farm, although that's trickier from a recipe standpoint), I want them to feel they've received acknowledgment from the game of that achievement in a "yes, you beat the early game" kind...

Given that I feel prompted to create a brewing stand and crucible, I'd say that it feels like a midgame cave now. In my experience, I have to disagree. I've found that abandoned mineshafts, particularly those near bedrock-level (which one is prone to encounter while branch mining), are much safer t...

Abandoned mineshafts seem to make getting iron quite a lot easier. There also much safer than caves, assuming one is quick enough to block off cave spiders. That said, cave spiders are a much larger, near insurmountable threat if left to roam unchecked. I also noticed this. I won't comment on wheth...

Congratulations on reaching this stage of development! I can't wait to see what you have in store for us with HC Villagers. After a bout with world restart syndrome, I've settled cozily into a world that I feel great about riding from BTW to RTH. I have some serious incentive to get myself ready for...

Hmmm...decided to just check this out in code, and picks aren't currently set to be efficient vs silverfish blocks. I'm surprised nobody noticed this before now, and I'll fix that for next release. I believe that was vanilla behavior. In vMC, picks are ineffective against silverfish blocks, but you...

My FPS in general has stuck around 28-30 from 4.67 to 4.69. Chunk loading and stuttering improved through 4.68 and 4.69, it has really improved my play experience. I'm still noticing a lot of stutter in the large biomes swamp where I set up my base. I thought it was related to chunk generation, but ...

While MultiMC works for that, the save-folder-switching is probably a good thing to suggest to Dinnerbone on Twitter. Based on this tweet , he's working on this kind of customization this week. I would love to be able to switch save folders on the fly. I'm always afraid of opening my BTW world by ac...

Mods don't work in the launcher because the launcher hasn't even reached a fraction of completion. The discussions of compartmentalization is speculation at best, and not worth discussing until the launcher is released in its final state and modmakers can assess the new platform. Mojang fully unders...

I didn't see any kind of FPS boost in the sunny overworld, which is fine since I generally get around 28-30 FPS anyways. My FPS used to drop down to 15-18 in the rain, but now stays 24-26, and even better if I turn down the particles. This is a really nice improvement! The most significant differenc...

Swamp slimes spawn at light levels 0-7, just like every other overworld mob. This is why they only spawn at night btw, though if you build an enclosed area without light they should spawn during the day. This is actually kind of surprising to me because their spawning is affected by the moon. It al...

I'm going to do some research tomorrow about how slimes spawn in swamp biomes. Basically I have two questions: 1. Do they spawn at any light level? Or does it have to be night and dark? My guess is that they do spawn at any light level, much like underground slimes. 2. Where precisely do they spawn?...

I don't have screenshots, but in a vMC world I did something kind of like this. I started out by making a witch farm in a large swamp. It wasn't a large biomes world, but it was a large enough swamp that covering that covering a 300x300 area in one-deep water was easy, which meant I would get equall...

I can confirm what a lot of the above posters have said with regards to animals. I think it was around version 1.3 that they supposedly fixed a bug involving chickens and lag. People had chicken singularities for egg production and as soon as you exited their 16-block sound radius, you experienced s...

Oh I don't disagree with that. It's nonsensical that Steve could fuse 9 diamonds into a cubic meter block using nothing but his bare hands and a table, but can't figure out how to tie a piece of leather onto a horse. I was just surprised by the specific reaction of Reddit, which of course has a lot ...

I personally don't mind some loot being dungeon-exclusive. I personally love caving, and I love that BTW incentivizes caving by encouraging mob traps and giving spawners a purpose. Ironically, by discouraging mob traps and spawner farming, Mojang has discouraged caving as well. A lot of the reaction...

Ah, nm, turns out I had advanced GL turned on in my release version, which decreases my framerate significantly. I've played Minecraft on every manner of video card and driver, and I've never once experienced a reduction in lag thanks to Advanced OpenGL, which is odd since occlusion culling is supp...