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Seriously. The radiators are tiny, and the rooms are huge. I think the landlord turns down the heat during the weekends as well.. I stopped by yesterday to get some bonus work done in between the two trips (I was in Mexico one week ago, and we're going to GDC in one week followed by a short stop in Vegas). Most of the work I got done last week was with the new launcher, and it's almost done now!

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Seriously. The radiators are tiny, and the rooms are huge. I think the landlord turns down the heat during the weekends as well. I stopped by yesterday to get some bonus work done in between the two trips (I was in Mexico one week ago, and we're going to GDC in one week followed by a short stop in Vegas).


Most of the work I got done last week was with the new launcher, and it's almost done now! Here's a mostly complete summary of the changes:

  • Newly designed window looks slightly prettier, and also has a nice big space to load an HTML page showing the updates in the latest patch
  • If there's a new update, the launcher asks if you wish to update. You can choose between “Not yet” and “Yes”.
  • The launcher only downloads modified files
  • Logging in is done over https, preventing sniffing (we even double check the certificate)
  • Downloaded files are checksummed, making sure the correct file was received
  • You can force a full re-download of all game files in case you suspect your local files are corrupt
  • There's a handy link to go directly to the game install folder

  • We have a couple of bugs left to fix, and we're going to try adding the ability to choose what dir to save/load levels from. Playing against your dropbox dir might be fun. Once all that is done, it'll get released!

    While I was away, Jens's been working on 1.3, which we're aiming at releasing sometime early/mid-week next week. I've forgotten all the new stuff in there (it's sunday, ok?), but my favourite two are the redstone delay/repeater blocks and the beds. We're hoping to be able to make the beds feature complete before GDC, but it's more important to get the 1.3 update out, so some of the functionality might be missing for a week or two.


    In other news, all the lights are on here. I tried playing Amnesia, but it turns out I'm a coward. If you're reading this, Frictional; AMAZING JOB! I've never been this scared in a game, ever.

    (development blog link)

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    Paxton
    Paxton - - 394 comments

    Yay beds!
    Yay launchers!
    Yay Minecraft!

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    ReezeTheVampire
    ReezeTheVampire - - 3,930 comments

    well said, comrade.

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    forehanddeath11
    forehanddeath11 - - 57 comments

    awesome work notch and team, so does this mean when it say it only downloads the need files that it won't delete mod files? easyier work for modders. :D, also is it able to be downloaded or only online? so many questions.

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    Cameron:D
    Cameron:D - - 312 comments

    But the file you mod (minecraft.jar) is the one that will always be updated.

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    limst321
    limst321 - - 55 comments

    Finally new stuff, can you make the dude sleep?? and have dreams?

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    DarthAwesome
    DarthAwesome - - 323 comments

    What? Dreams would be kinda silly. Regaining health . . . sleeping through the night . . those would be nice.

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    Scarwing
    Scarwing - - 418 comments

    Definitely. if i have a bed/dresser for my "clothes" or outfits/skins. then i would have a reason to make a real bedroom. i mean making couches is easy. and that weird fire place using lava...

    either way an official bed is sweet.

    and why is he using wings3d????

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    Orac|
    Orac| - - 896 comments

    I guess Wings3D is all you need when you really only intend to work with cuboids.

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    limst321
    limst321 - - 55 comments

    Are you kidding me it could be cool like random dreams something like netherland but when u die u wake up.

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    UkrainaGuy1111
    UkrainaGuy1111 - - 492 comments

    Word bro..

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    NinjaTheory
    NinjaTheory - - 207 comments

    wouldn't something like mo' creatures be a little more useful than a new launcher?

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    p0w3rs
    p0w3rs - - 300 comments

    ppl think minecraft is for ppl with no money Y_Y

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    Cake_
    Cake_ - - 86 comments

    Lol, that's why Minecraft is $15 EUD atm.

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    Awesome_ninja
    Awesome_ninja - - 809 comments

    more like free is you DL it.....
    Go ahead karma me down, I'll still never pay for this.

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    Kizzycocoa Author
    Kizzycocoa - - 1,827 comments

    then WHY DO YOU PLAY IT?
    gog damn. if it's worth playing, BUY IT. >.>

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    MarcusM
    MarcusM - - 158 comments

    Have you made the launcher cross-platform yet? Would be an annoying little thing not to have on Linux.

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    Cameron:D
    Cameron:D - - 312 comments

    Yes, its cross platform, you can also already download it. Just use it to launch MC instead of your current minecraft.exe: Twitter.com

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    SIR_halyavshik
    SIR_halyavshik - - 387 comments

    Hah!
    Tell me about , im from russia

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    Mastermagic
    Mastermagic - - 68 comments

    Погугли, чудак!

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    SIR_halyavshik
    SIR_halyavshik - - 387 comments

    и чего мне гуглить?
    может ты себе чувство юмора нагуглишь?(

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    wolfbrother9393
    wolfbrother9393 - - 98 comments

    Ysy! Amnesia is amazing!!

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    ChristopherDeer
    ChristopherDeer - - 192 comments

    Agreed!

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    Croco15
    Croco15 - - 1,240 comments

    It would be cool if you could use beds to instantly make it day.

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    Kizzycocoa Author
    Kizzycocoa - - 1,827 comments

    I think that's the plan!

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    RisingDivinity
    RisingDivinity - - 109 comments

    Oh... Now I see a bit more use in them :P

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