Notch Pumping Air Into Minecraft's Sky Dimension

Tom Goldman

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Notch Pumping Air Into Minecraft's Sky Dimension

A dimension made of islands floating in the sky could be coming to Minecraft.

A few tweets from Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson have revealed a possible new dimension for the game tentatively called the "sky dimension." It looks similar to Minecraft's hellish Nether, but is located in the other direction.

"I spent a lot of time today trying to add a floating island dimension," Persson tweeted. "It did not go well. Performs well, looks ugly." The next day, he tweeted a link to six screenshots showing what he was working on.

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Later, Persson said: "I guess I'll have to finish it. Consider it confirmed." If the tweet means anything, the sky dimension is officially a new feature coming to Minecraft sometime in the future (though not in the upcoming 1.6 update [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109644-Notch-Reveals-Charming-Map-System-for-Minecraft]).

The Nether added a fast-travel option to Minecraft and also came with the inclusion of zombie pigs [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104626-Minecrafts-Deadly-New-Ghasts-Will-Burn-You]. If we're lucky, the sky dimension will replicate these sorts of features.

My guess is that players would once again have to travel to the sky dimension through portals, as with the Nether, but I have a much better idea for getting back down. Water slides. That is all.

Source: PC Gamer [http://twitter.com/#!/notch]

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cybran

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Hopefully we get some blocks unique to this place aswell, im starting to get tired of bricks and cobblestone...
 

Yokai

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Well, I hope it will be as good as this mod [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/194948-coming-soon-the-aether-collab-king-kodaichi-shockah/] is shaping up to be.
 

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Tom Goldman said:
My guess is that players would once again have to travel to the sky dimension through portals, as with the Nether, but I have a much better idea for getting back down. Water slides. That is all.
Maybe you use giant white flying pegasi pulling a carriage made out of clouds to get down again? Or you just jump of the edge and there's giant cushions beneath to catch you...

People better be aware though...running around gathering stuff and suddenly walk off the edge and splat, painting on the ground.
 

Braedan

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Nice! hopefully flying enemies! (I consider Ghasts to be floating enemies...)
I think a great way to get from up to down would be to make the player craft a balloon with hard to find resources. Much more sensible than more portals.

EDIT: Perhaps a new block could be the lowest portion of every island, which explains why they float? Skyblock?
 

FredTheUndead

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http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/194948-coming-soon-the-aether-collab-king-kodaichi-shockah/

Notch is so shameless in his taking ideas from mods.
 

Deathfish15

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I think it's very cool. That's all I've been doing in my Minecraftian world is building bridges and floating castles, so to have it all in island-in-the-sky form would be awesome!

I think though that Notch should invest in those 3rd party mods like More Creepers and Creatures, which adds a ton to the game world to make it more living (instead of just boring daily livestock and nightly zombies).
 

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I REALLY hope the Aether mod people don't stop working on the mod just because of this. This looks kind of neat but nowhere NEAR as awesome as the Aether mod.
 

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Looks like someone's taken a look at Terraria's floating islands, and thought "I like the look of those..."
 

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Yokai said:
Well, I hope it will be as good as this mod [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/194948-coming-soon-the-aether-collab-king-kodaichi-shockah/] is shaping up to be.
Fuck that, Notch should just ask those guys if he can add the Aether officially.
 

John the Gamer

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Like. MOAR please.

This would be awesome if he added parashutes and/or flying vehicles(flying animals work too(dragons?)).

Maybe the islands keep afloat using some kind of cloud-brick layer, and when removed from the island it falls down, crushing anything below, nessecitating carefull mining when you're building a large city below. The cloud-brick would have to have some incredibely awesome purpose, so players have to choose between awesome stuff or the chance their castle will explode.
 

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Yokai said:
Well, I hope it will be as good as this mod [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/194948-coming-soon-the-aether-collab-king-kodaichi-shockah/] is shaping up to be.
Yeah this interesting news but I think that this mod just looks better than what notch is currently working on.
 

LostCrusader

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I hope that he doesn't make you have to get there with portals. I want to build a ladder to heaven.