MLP: Minecraft - Page 30

On February 13 2012 10:39 Whitewing wrote:


You can fly, single best ability in the game hands down =p.

That said, I've been trying to brainstorm ideas, I'll see if I can think of anything to suggest to cane for Pegasi.

On February 11 2012 10:31 Srsishere wrote:
Soooo yeah I finally got Starcraft II

Anypony wanna re-teach me how to play? (I haven't played in a looong time)

On February 13 2012 20:53 carloselcoco wrote:


But... But... But... I thought I was teaching you
I mean, after all I am the one giving you for free my second account

On February 13 2012 22:04 Srsishere wrote:

Oh, quit whining Carlos. More than one person can teach me. And besides, when will you even be ABLE to teach me? -______-

On February 13 2012 22:59 nohbrows wrote:


You do realize you are on a Starcraft 2 forum also right hahahah.

Also, now that Scintillia got his office, and teh second room off to teh side is being unused, anyone object it to being turned into a desert biome garden?

On February 13 2012 22:59 nohbrows wrote:


You do realize you are on a Starcraft 2 forum also right hahahah.

Also, now that Scintillia got his office, and teh second room off to teh side is being unused, anyone object it to being turned into a desert biome garden?

Hello!

Jon and I have been working on a new map format for Minecraft that we’ve dubbed “Anvil” (it’s just a name). The purpose of the new format is to prepare for modding, especially to allow for more block types, but also to improve other areas of the game (such as map height). The changes are:

Maximum build height has been increased to 256 (was 128)
Empty sections of the world are not loaded into memory
Block ids have been increased to 4096 (was 256) by adding a 4 bit data layer (similar to how meta data is stored)
Block ordering have been changed from x/z/y to y/z/x in order to improve compression
Packets for sending chunks have been updated (a full 128-high chunk is smaller than the old format, and a chunk with lots of empty space is much smaller)
Biomes are saved per x/z column, which means they can be altered by tools
The next snapshot, and Minecraft 1.2, will automatically convert worlds to the new format. The files of the current format (“McRegion”) will remain in your save folder, if you need to restore them for some reason.

I’ve prepared a converter (with source code) for tool makers that wants to be prepared. You do not need to use this to convert your maps! It’s only for reference!

Download the converter+source here

Some info:

The 16x128x16 “Blocks”, “Data”, “SkyLight” and “BlockLight” tags are removed
A “Sections” tag has been added with up to 16 compound tags
Each section has 16x16x16 “Blocks”, “Data”, “SkyLight” and “BlockLight” tags
Each section has a “Y” integer tag saying which section it is (note that some Y positions can be skipped). 0 is at the bottom of the world and 15 is the topmost section
Each section also has a “AddBlocks” tag, which is a DataLayer byte array just like “Data”. The “AddBlocks” tag is not included in the converter since the old format never had block ids above 255. This extra tag is created whenever a block requires it, so the getTile() method needs to check if the array exists and then combine it with the default block data. In other words, blockId = (addBlock << 8) + baseId.
Each chunk has a 16×16 byte array with biome ids called “Biomes”. If this array is missing it will be filled when the game starts. The converter doesn’t include any biome sources, though (it had too many dependencies to be included).
Note that the old format is XZY and the new format is YZX (see the difference between DataLayer and OldDataLayer).
The new format uses the extension “.mca” instead of “.mcr” (the old format is kept for safety, with the level.dat backed up as “level.dat_mcr”)
Finally, a shoutout to Robinton’s hard work on his mods: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/310298-100robintons-mods/

Cheers,

// jeb_

On February 16 2012 16:38 Aylear wrote:


Please stop. Do I have to repost this or put it in the OP?

On February 17 2012 15:28 Raelcun wrote:
I found something out today, ALL THE GOOD COLOR COMBINATIONS ON PONIES ARE TAKEN BY THE SHOW

ffs I can see why they repeat BG ponies instead of making more I was trying to remake my skin today and every time I made a color combination that looked good in photoshop I'd login and go "GOD DAMNIT I'M (character name here)"

Applejack, Scootaloo, Roseluck, and Aloe were the main offenders of the THIS LOOKS SO GOOD but I look too much like a canon pony. :[

Settled with the fake Scootaloo though because the only good looking one that didn't look like a show pony made me look discorded... literally it's kinda hilarious I kept the skin cuz of it. Also the colors are significantly enough different it's obvious that I'm not Scootaloo... sigh so annoying.