Cocoa beans are tossed as an item instead of planted on jungle wood logs.


Possibly related: The block dispenser harvests cocoa bean plants as cocoa powder. Cocoa powder in the block dispenser is not tossed as an item.

I really like the cosmetic change that happens with the scientists at lvl 4. I wasn't expecting it, but it's such a nice touch. Also, I was pleasantly surprised by one of the trade offers from the maxed level farmers. That will make starting nether farms in new worlds so much easier. I always dreade...

Now if only they actually used it, the bloody hoarders. Who says they don't? :) Yeah, one of the things I like most so far about this system is the way that the new trades which open up at each level are related to the threshold item that you give. So far I've managed to develop a couple lvl 4 farm...

The artificial waterfall idea in the OP should work if the waterfall is big enough and dark enough. BTW changed it so that squids spawn at any height, but only in darkness and in sufficiently large bodies of water. If your base is near an ocean though, the possessed cow farm might be better. Farms t...

Is it intended that you don't get the mainsail engine with the big orange tank anymore? And if so what am I supposed to do with the big orange tank? At first you have to improvise your own high-thrust engine by using the adapters that come with the orange tank to cluster a bunch of smaller engines ...

I normally only lurk, but I thought it only right to chime in here and say thank you for everything! I picked up BTW nearly two years ago when I got bored of vanilla Minecraft after two months, and am still enjoying BTW to this day. You've really made something remarkable, and I can't wait to see wh...

Hmmm. Okay, so instead of a single floor of replacing stone, I'm looking at several floors to encourage silverfish to breed multiple times? Multiple floors make sense given the number of silverfish you'll want, but how do they encourage them to breed multiple times? If you're dropping the silverfis...

I'm posting again here to say that, having recently died and respawned near a jungle, there's a very cool tension to that situation. Part of me immediately wanted to search the jungle in the hopes of finding a temple and early redstone, but another part wanted to avoid poisonous spiders at all costs...

Yeah, I set up an observation post in the middle of the jungle near my base to try and discover the changes. For the first few minutes of the night I only saw a couple of mobs and was concerned that jungles might still be too safe. Then I got a closer look at one of them, and now I'm never going bac...

Yeah, I've never seen a witch either. The spawning rules are indicative of Mojang's complete disregard for mob traps. I've toyed with the idea of building a farm for them, but it just seems like an unjustifiable amount of work lighting up everything so that you can get decent rates from their tiny s...

Just played a bit with this update, and I'm really enjoying the hunger change. In my early game world I was feeling a bit ridiculous living exclusively off of pumpkin seeds, but now they're so inconvenient to eat that I finally upgraded to real food. Thanks, FC!

Woo! This is awesome. I was just starting to feel bothered by my excessive use of both rotted arrows and the vanilla enchanter in the late game. It seemed like I should have upgraded long ago, but there was no need to do that when I could easily enchant Power IV regular bows, Fortune III iron pickax...

Another balance issue to keep in mind is the same problem that vanilla jungles have. Hostile mobs don't normally spawn on leaves and therefore any biome with lots of underbrush feels too safe. This definitely seemed to be true of the Sacred Springs biome, at least. That being said, I haven't found a...

I really like this change, though that's easier for me to say since it doesn't affect me at all. I've built a lot of redstone machinery in my worlds, but only one early build uses redstone-activated trapdoors, and I disliked the look of it enough that ever since then I've stuck to pistons. When ever...

Hehe...indeed. Do you happen to know how they interact with creatures with the relentless attribute? I don't have any in my deck right now, but I may become much fonder of iron ogres if they plow through those things. I had the same hope for Iron Ogre, but unfortunately relentless doesn't do anythi...

I don't know if this is helpful, but I've observed that if a baby animal is being pushed against a wall (often by other babies trying to get to an out-of-reach parent) it will often glitch into that wall as it turns into an adult. If the wall is made of solid blocks the adult will usually suffocate....

Thanks Flowerchild! This looks awesome. Pillaring was silly. :) I also want to thank you soooo much for the recent optimizations. I only just got to try them out a few hours ago, and my framerate has absolutely skyrocketed. I had gotten used to a miserable 5 fps on tiny render distance in my develop...

FlowerChild wrote: -Removed all the fetid and lingering remnants of the horrid monstrosity that is the Forge from the mod as part of the update to 1.5.1, since all the functionality I was still using is now provided by vanilla. Huzah! :)

Congratulations! That one must be nice. :)

Thanks for the release!

This is not a feature I would have wanted in Better than Wolves. I know I could make us of it, but I think it's a very bad idea. I think an analog system in itself is fine, but tacking it onto a digital system just seems like a lazy implementation that detracts from the elegance of redstone. That's ...

JoshGayou wrote:Signs don't work as fuel in furnaces.

Well it's definitely not a bug, since they aren't fuel in vanilla either, according to http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Furnace

Honestly, I had no idea that so much random junk could be used as furnace fuel.

After some testing, I'm seeing about a 20% increase in FPS with the patch. Thanks a lot, FC! My low-end computer needs all the help it can get.

What I already did for the next release is remove vanilla's crafting-grid repair method of combining two damaged weapons. Oh thank you! I assume this applies to all tools, not just weapons? I've always been annoyed by how the game encourages me to go through the distracting busy work of combining l...

After wandering a bit in a new world and finding an area that looked good for a base, I quickly went around enclosing some of the local wildlife in dirt boxes to keep them safe until such time as I could move them to a real pen. The next morning, I discovered that this is also a great way to bait ce...

Oops, sorry! I was a bit over-eager and didn't catch that I was leaving a little hint. Won't happen again! And yeah, this release is definitely very fun to experience without any spoilers.

Wow! I just spent half an hour in a new world trying this out. So many cool things that I'm not allowed to talk about! :) Great job, FC. I can't wait to figure out how some of this stuff works. It reminded me a lot of my first experience with Minecraft, when I actually thought that this was what the...