Minecraft: whats in the pipeline?
Whenever I ask the community what they would like to read about, the topic gets the highest amount of votes (tune in to my twitter at
www.twitter.com/JahKob to make your voice heard). As always, your wish is my command, so here’s some info about the next release:
- Wooden and cobble stone half blocks to add some more options for your designs.
- New save file format. With the new format, loading is now seven times faster. On top of that, the number of files for each saved world is drastically decreased. This new format will not destroy your current saves, as they will be converted the first time they are loaded.
- New Minecraft launcher. This is a great communication tool for us as we will be able to give you guys important information directly in the launcher.
- Various bug fixes!
- New block!
- This is a sweet one for you red stone junkies. A block that acts as a signal carrier, much like red stone. But on top of that, it also acts as a repeater AND a p- rogrammable delayer.
- Secret update! Oh, yes. There will be that as well.
Personally, I’m most excited about the new carrier/repeater/delayer block. Every time we release an item like this, we are blown away by what you guy make with them. The release of the music block was pure joy in that way. The whole office gathered around a computer and marveled at the creations uploaded to YouTube.