Prior to the spawning overhaul you mentioned, spawning rules were entirely vanilla, with the exception that mobs could not spawn on mycelium or mushroom blocks (but could spawn elsewhere in mushroom biomes), which is still true.

Somewhere in the server properties file. The VMC wiki can tell you more about what specifically to change.

Disagreement is perfectly fine, being a dick isn't. Doesn't matter who was a dick first, just don't do it, which goes for both you and Aaron. Doubling down on being a dick after being warned not to is not helping your case.

For the record, there are other, more effective, ways to fix world corruption issues than using in-game commands. But yeah Hiracho pretty much hit the nail on the head. I don't want to worry about policing how people play the game. My greatest regret is not prodding him to release his notes before l...

Unfortunately that'd be really difficult to implement. Possible, but outside the scope of what I would want to spend time on, largely due to opportunity cost. The AI for that would be incredibly non-trivial, potentially performance intensive, and would require it to also be a chunkloader, which coul...

I think the idea there is perfectly fine, though honestly I feel like the incredibly slow mining times, and the fact that almost nothing drops its normal drops when mined by hand, means that the player is already well enough encouraged to use to appropriate tools. If I did anything with that it'd pr...

Personally I find the large hunger cost to be enough. It encourages the player to be conscious about when they do it, without being too overbearing. Anything more drastic would cause issues with swimming out of things like clay holes anyways, since those also fill with downward flowing water.

That's long since been removed. FC removed it due to the random death it tended to cause.

Lol honestly even better :)

Ok that world with the mountains and the overhang are sweet. Can you share the seed and settings for that, and the coords? (use /loc to get the coordinates)

That's because fences are a part of the same id grouping as siding, moulding, etc, and so oak automatically gets a fence through that, but there was already an oak fence in vanilla, and so the game just uses the already existing one. Also, if you have a potential issue, the bug reports subforum or a...

Finally had some time to get back to playing BTW and recording it :)
https://youtu.be/jMxMiUDw4Vs

Yep, I'm aware :) Wanted to push out some of the more critical fixes in last release first so I wasn't able to get to everything.

These are some of the items included in vanilla plus.
Armors from top to bottom are tanned leather, chain, gold, iron, diamond, steel.

Current plan is to update to 1.8, primarily for the technical benefits. The features included in those releases will be kept to the same standards as any BTW feature, but for the most part the biggest features of those versions should be reasonable enough to adapt to fit.

Realism is not an inherent good. Realism is useful as a heuristic so that the player can know what to expect from some mechanics, but not any further than that. The effect it has on gameplay and the overall experience is far more important than whether or not it's realistic. When adding features, it...

Mobs have a chance to despawn when they are more than 32 blocks away, and are guaranteed to despawn at 128 blocks away. It can be a bit weird, and maybe I'll tweak it eventually, but I don't see too much reason to as the payoff for the investment would be super low. Also FYI you can edit posts, incl...

Villager sounds were added in MC 1.6. We'll be updating to that eventually (BTW currently runs on 1.6, just a lot of cleanup and bug fixes) so i don't plan on doing anything with that now.

Ooo! What are some examples of the differences between mix and plus? Changes to metal tools are armor, ore items, the terracotta that was in the base pack has been moved over. I plan on doing some stuff with leather as well. I'll post screenshots once i have a chance :) Hello. I feel like the wood ...

Ah shit i totally forgot to take care of that with the latest release. Yep, known issue.

Huh. That is a bizarre issue. Might be related to the snow? I just doubled checked it in natural generation and also manually placing a few down and didn't see any issues there (it not rendering right in inventory is a known issue). I'll see if I can figure out what on earth is happening there. EDIT...

Version 1.10 has been released! As of 1.10 this pack has been split in two. Vanilla Mix now contains only textures which are generally faithful to modern vanilla, while Vanilla Plus contain textures which differ from vanilla, but which still fit the style of vanilla. Download Vanilla Mix here Downlo...

Version 4.1.1 has been released! Download here - Fixed an issue where wooden sidings and corners placed moulding blocks. - Fixed an issue where trying to craft mouldings together would crash the game. - Fixed an issue where willow and redwood sidings and mouldings rendered as the wrong subblock type...

Version 3.2.1 has been released! Download BTA here Download Better Biomes here BTA: - Changed grassy clay to behave like regular grass blocks. It can spread grass, grass can spread to dirt clay blocks, and animals can eat grassy clay. - Changed how grassy clay renders to only render clay in the dirt...

I mean cutting down neighboring trees is definitely a thing that happens, but I'm not particularly concerned. Just 4 bits per state, huh? Yeah okay that's not much. It's not 4 bits per state, it's 4 bits total to contain every state for that block, which is why there can only be 16 unique states. It...