Minecraft 1.9

[Type1Ninja]

Again, possible, not probable. There's always hope; maybe it'll happen, and maybe we can help it to happen. Also, I'm kinda sick of people walking around talking about how the world will end when Microsoft ruins MC, which really won't happen... People have been talking about the end of the world for every little thing in every little game since the dawn of time video games, and the reality is that in a game this big it doesn't happen. Look at KSP, mentioned earlier - since the beginning of the development, people have been uttering dire warnings about how the dev team will fall apart. Has it happened? No! People have left, people have joined - no issue. Look at Starbound, a smaller and less famous game - people STILL complain about "lack of content" but the devs release nightly builds every day, and stable builds every couple months. People complain about stuff that doesn't even exist!

So, seriously; your life will not fall apart because of 1.9, or Win10 Edition. Seriously.

Shameless self-quote.

 

[ljfa]

It just seems logical imo...the other thread here about the Win 10 mentions that 1. Java is a direct competitor to Microsoft's .NET and 2. all the other Minecraft editions are also written in C++

Ah well, the thread is derailing. I probably shouldn't answer before having tried the 1.9 snapshot

 

[Hambeau]

I'm saying that you could be wrong. What if they DID do that? What if Microsoft is struck by inspiration from a heavenly entity and decides to do something for GOOD instead of MONEY (it's possible; again, human beings work there)? They tell Mojang "alright, call off ALL projects except optimizations, bugfixes, and the Modding API. The rest of you can make mods (and tutorials!) for this new API in an official capacity. Oh, and by the way, say hello to @LexManos, @Azanor, and @KingLemming; they'll be joining you."
BOOM! This crazy event happens. Everyone lives happily ever after. It might be improbable, but it's not impossible; and the thing about probability is that we, as human beings, can change probabilities to be closer to what we want.

Well, at the MineCon panel that Direwolf20 hosted, LexManos did say that "Microsoft engineers were following him around asking questions" or something very close to those actual words...

 

[Cptqrk]

I know where you're coming from, but Mojang doesn't really have options, other than waiting, and thinking about new and interesting mechanics no one has ever seen before. I like the 1.9 update because of one thing. Mojang is keeping it feeling like you are still playing vanilla. Sure, thaumcraft has different kinds of arrows, but it ALSO has tons of magic, which vanilla doesn't have. That applies to most of the other things that Mojang "copied" from other mods. I vaguely see it as a attempt at "stealing" items in different mods, but they still manage to keep it "feeling like you're still playing" vanilla. I think that they added different types of arrows in, and shields, just to spice up vanilla gameplay. I don't think their intent was to make it feel like the person playing, was playing modded, like some people think.

Purpur blocks look cool >:3

I know, I know... Mojang doesn't have much to work with considering the modded scene has almost everything you can think of. Almost anything Mojang adds can probably be traced to a mod in some point in modded MC history.

Sure they look cool, but the name... /wrists

 

[Hambeau]

I'm still changing the lang file for "purpur" since it sounds like a Pokemon.

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"Purpur" sounds like someone with a speech impediment talking about a color...