Ongoing projects

At the moment I have two ongoing projects, one that is going really slow, but is nearly finished. And one that I have ju begun building and is therefor far from finished! I'll give you updates tomorrow on the progress, and a few pictures as well!

Sick n' tired of lagg

I consider my computer to be relatively strong. It's got a 3 GHz quad core CPU, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a Nvidia quadro graphics card. But I am still laggin when playing minecraft, from time to time I'm algging real bad even. As right now, I have started Game booster and give Minecraft a high priority so it will be devoted alot of the computers capacity (see older post for how to do it).

Are any of you having the same problems? What computer specs do you have?

It's driving me insane!

Indie of the year (The quest for cake)

If you haven't already noticed it, Minecraft has made it to the finals of the indie of the year game awards over at indieDB!

Make sure to cast your vote this time around aswell and show the world that Minecraft is the game to play!

Simply creat an account at modDB and cast your vote HERE!

Notch has promised that if Minecraft wins, we will get cake ingame!

Click to enlarge and acually see what it says.

Rolf-David at youtube

I though I'd promote my youtube page a little by telling ya'll that it's growing slow and steady, hehe. At the moment I got just over 100 subscribers and about 15.500 views in total. I know it's not that much considering that some people get several hundred thousands views on each video they make, but hey! you gotta start somewhere. And sure, minecraft isn't as small anymore, but I'd still consider it a indie game so the client base isn't that big.

Click on the picture to get to my Youtube page!

Even more from Notch

Bug update #5, and we need videos

Client version 1.2.6
Server version 0.2.8 (not mandatory)

* Added /kill command. Does 1000 points damage to the player
* Did some patching client side to prevent duplicated entities
* The join server page now remembers the port as well as the ip
* Fixed a bug where joining a server on a specific port caused the client to forget all keybindings
* Added lakes and rare lava pools, both on the surface and randomly in caves.
* Fixed a crash bug when destroying the vehicle from under a player
* Players connecting to a server or respawning are invulnerable for three seconds

We’re working on tweaking minecraft.net a bit, and we need to replace the YouTube video on there. But it turns out nobody here is good at making videos, and you guys are just awesome at it. We need your help!

We’re looking for one video for the front page that sets the mood of the game and sells it well without being too cheesy, and for one tutorial type video on some help page somewhere. We have some requirements:

* No custom texture packs, it should show off the “raw” game
* No video effects like bloom or blur
* No copyright protected music
* You’ll have to tell us that we can use your video

So if you have anything good, or if you want to make anything new, please email us (notch@mojang.com and/or junkboy@mojang.com), and we’ll select a few nice ones and possibly rotate them every now and then to keep the page fresh.

We’d appreciate it a lot!

More from Notch

Bug update #4, and we’re six people in the office now!


Client version 1.2.5
Server version 0.2.7 (not mandatory, but you might want to update anyway)


* Fixed a rather bad memory leak bug in the server (entity position updates accumulated in orphaned player objects)
* Riding carts and boats now works properly when you travel long distances.
* Harvesting crops no longer yields fake seeds
* Removed /home (sorry!)
* Snowballs again!


I will start looking at server-side inventory soon in an attempt to reach beta soon.
I’ll also fix mob jump animations in SMP, the ugly black lights, and make leaves decay again. Once that’s in place 
BETA! :-D

In other awesome news, today was Jens and Junkboy’s first day at Mojang. There’s a consultant here as well, so we’re six people crammed into a slightly chaotic room. January 1, we’ll have access to the entire office. Carl (the CEO) will join us not long after.

If you’re curious, make sure to check out Jakob’s biweekly dev diary on pcgamer:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/11/29/minecraft-dev-diary-1-merch-mojangs-next-game/

New type of boat elevator

For those of you using boat elevators, here is a new type that seems to be working quite well and fast!