New messages from Notch

Three new messages from Notch that I've missed to post here.

Welcome back, Tumblr!

I missed you! While you were offline, I came up with a funny pun:

Watch it! You don’t want to tumblr and fall!

Server-side inventory and websites

(A lot of my blog posts have “and” in the title!)

I’ve been working on server-side inventory, but progress has been slow and agonizing, mostly due to the first version of inventory just being a GUI hack. I got almost nothing done yesterday, but today I will roll up my sleeves and just dig in. The first step will be to commit everything to our brand new version control system (git), the second step will be to start screaming out loud (“aaaaaaaaa!!”) and just start typing code randomly. That should do it.

Jens have been working with a consultant (did we mention we need to hire more people?) to create a slightly better version of the website, with additional payment provider support, somewhat saner design, and the ability to buy and redeem gift codes in time for X-Mas. It’s highly likely that we will keep redesigning the website for a bit.

A big “thank you” to everyone who emailed about videos! :D We got a LOT of submissions, and I think we’re set for a while now.

And on a personal and political note, I just like to say that what’s happening with Wikileaks now is a disgrace, and a sign of how little freedom and democracy we actually have. Freedom of press is one of the most important concepts we have, and it’s not only being eroded away, it’s getting assassinated in broad daylight.

Paul Millen is not enjoying our support

Support is not our strongest side. Having grown rather quickly from a one-man operation, we obviously have no idea how to deal with the level of emails we get, and that sucks bad.

Turns out in this case that he had forgotten his username, something that wouldn’t happen if we sent out proper confirmation emails.. or if the email hadn’t gotten missed repeatedly several times by several people.

I’m sorry about this, and about the current support situation. We will shape up our support routines.

New kind of booster

I was surfing around a little yesterday before I went to bed and found a model of a new type of booster. So I decided to make one of my own, looking like this.

As usual I will make a tutorial for it later.

People are starting to send in their builds!

Yesterday I recived the first email with pictures and a world save, fun!

And today I have recieved a few more, keep 'em comin'!

And if you don't know what I am talking about, I can tell you that I am hosting a small Minecraft Christmas Competition where the winner will get a free minecraft account that he or she can do what ever he/she whishes too with. How ever I suggest you give it away as a Christmas present and make a friend or family member happy!

You can find the contest thread HERE

Yarrh!

Pirates hey yee!

This is a very well made ship in my opinion! And it comes with a small pirate village aswell.

32 Cannons in total according to the thread maker, but I can count to 13 cannons at the side of the ship, and I think it's safe to think that the other side looks exactly the same, and that would make a total of 26 cannons... I must be counting wrong! 

Anyway, the design of the ship is very piraty!

You can find the thread HERE

So I tried

So I tried to make a video tutorial of how you do to convert a 3D model into a model consisting of 1x1 block that you then can import to minecraft by using MCedit. But the stupid program that I am using doesn't want to work properly!

argh argh!

I don't really know what's wrong, maybe it doesn't like that I change between so many windows when making the video... I'll give it a try again another day. And if that doesn't work, I'll make a simple text tutorial!

Spleef!

Alot of you might not know what spleef is... perhaps you have seen my spleef arena on youtube, perhaps you have not.


This is the video of my spleef arena and it's features. I just noticed that this video too has reached over 1000 views! I like it!

And if you don't know what spleef is, here is a sumary that I have been lazy enough to just copy from the Wiki, hehe.

Spleef usually takes place in an arena or stadium. In the stadium, there is a series of blocks that form a flat surface, usually several suspended blocks in the air. Two or more players in the stadium choose their positions on the slab of blocks, and after a countdown, begin the game.

The goal is to destroy blocks near the opponent to cause them to fall, while avoiding suffering that fate yourself. Creating blocks during the playing of Spleef is not usually allowed. The time Spleef matches take depends on the size of the stadium.

Spleef can be played individually or in teams.

There are also some standard rules while playing spleef.

Spleef has several rules in order to maintain fairness and balance. Here is the complete list.

• No creating blocks between the game's start and end, UNLESS the exception (1) scenario takes place.

• Do not delete or create blocks after you have lost

• (1) If 2 players at any point in the match are unable to affect each other (for example: they are on two sides of the arena and a ditch wide enough to make it impossible to jump across has been dug between both sides), then, only then, can the players build blocks

• The losers must replace the blocks that were deleted during the game. Start replacing them when the time has ended. (OPTIONAL)

• If you are playing a team match then use the blue or red Team Skins.

Of course you can use what ever colors you may like for the teams, in my video, the arena is made for one golden team and one iron/metal/silver team.


Download my world save (to the left of the blog posts), put it up on a SMP and play some spleef along with your friends!

Don't forget!

Hey everyone! Don't forget about the two competitions going on right now that is Minecraft related.

There is a little over seven days until this competition ends, so make sure to give Minecraft your vote before then!

The texture pack competition Notch is holding along with Webhallen is ending at december 20. so you have about 13 days to finish your texture packs and send them in!

Click on the pictures to get to each competition.