Notch Pumping Air Into Minecraft's Sky Dimension

[theultimateend]

It also helps that, y'know, people have been clamouring for floating islands, carving out floating islands, building by hand more goddamn floating islands,... It's not like he got the idea specifically from the Kodaichi people.

Or the Kodaichi people asked him to see their work.

'Sides, if Notch builds it directly into the game rather than as a mod, it'll likely be less glitchy and mesh better with the game itself.

Yeah I root for them both. Notch is wonderful at what he does and these modders have done a fantastic job. I just thought it was obnoxious the whole "HE'S A THIEF" thing.

The aether is the inverse of the nether.

He had already done one it was inevitable he'd have done the other.

I'm just waiting for someone to say "He added Potassium into the game?! OBVIOUSLY STEALING IDEAS!"

 

[Peteron]

Eh, I would prefer that they work on more objects and mobs for the regular world than starting a brand new dimension. Nether worked nicely but this just seems the same as dry land only in the sky.

 

[Smerf]

the way it is now, id rather just stay in my underground city Menzoberrazan. were the humans (me) stay in the city carved into the ceiling, and the creepers haunt the lands below.

but if there was some new epic thing in it, like planes. Id play in the clouds for the rest of my days.

 

[speakeasysyn]

At least you'll know when to stop digging right away...but really, if people want floating land masses they make their own. I did at least...

 

[RedDeadFred]

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

Notch is so shameless in his taking ideas from mods.

Right him taking the ideas of modders modding HIS game and putting it into a free update is sooooo shameless.

It would be nice if he credits them but I don't think he really needs to.

 

[RedDeadFred]

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

To be fair, Terraria ripped off Minecraft. Consider them even.

Whoa, at least watch the trailer, Terraria is it's own game.

Infact the only elements similar are digging and building, and I think there's a game called "Real Life" that invented them.

Terraria is better, IMHO. Minecraft doesn't have:

Magic
Bosses
2D sprites
Goblins
Hookshot
Health that can be increased by finding crystal hearts underground
NPCs
Vines that can obstruct light in caves
Underground jungle biome
Proper dungeons
Corrupted parts of the world

I'm not going to go on because I'm taking up too much space here. Just research the damn game next time.

I got all excited when I read your post about all the stuff it has. Then I searched it on youtube and saw that it was 2d. And you think that's better?
To each their own I suppose....

 

[samsonguy920]

I like the idea, and this definitely supports the idea of not building straight down. People seem to already forget that is one of the commandments of Minecraft.
Who wants to bet the portal to the skyworld is made out of diamond blocks? Hmm, 9 diamonds to a block at 10 blocks...that's only 90 diamonds you'd have to collect. Time to diggy a hole!

Those look pretty awful.

I mean, great idea, but if the end result makes the map look like you laid down roughly 7 million blocks of TNT, then it might not be a very well received update.


Of course, he could just make the seed's make floating islands in-game again, instead of making them an entirely different dimension.

Notch himself said it doesn't look good. Consider this a rough draft. This may not be released until closer to the release date with a lot of new stuff added.

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.

Ah, I was ninja'd.

Yeah, I have a feeling that mod is the reason he's announced it. I'm actually a bit surprised he doesn't mention it. There's no way he doesn't know about it...

Unless he is too busy with debugging the game and adding new features, as well as having a personal married life now to take time to see what mods are coming out.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

OH GOD PLEASE YES

 

[ivannorr]

And I though fall damage was bad before...

 

[beef623]

It seems that Notch literally cannot win here.

Makes the mod official?
OH WOW JUST USING MODS NOW NOTCH? YOU LAZY BASTARD!

Doesn't use the mod, and instead makes his own version?
WHY ARE YOU NOT USING THE MOD THE MOD IS BETTER STOP RIPPING OFF THEIR IDEAS NOTCH!

Decides to just not incorporate sky worlds?
WHY ARE YOU NOT PUTTING THESE IN NOTCH WHY ARE YOU SUCH A LAZY GIT THESE WOULD BE GREAT!

The man could walk across water, and people would complain about how he's taking money away from ferrymen.

Just a quick note for all the minecraft newbies, the floating islands were in minecraft before it switched to infinite maps, he's just adding them back in. If anything, the modders were recreating an old feature that he is now adding back in.

 

[Logic 0]

At last I can recreate the world of FF6 using minecraft only.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I am seriously, seriously hoping that he makes the top of the sky a portal to this place. THAT would be awesome.

You could have towers that extend into the sky dimension. It would look a little odd (since you wouldn't see the bottom of the tower), but it really feels like the charmingly weird sort of thing you'd expect of Minecraft.

 

[lacktheknack]

It seems that Notch literally cannot win here.

Makes the mod official?
OH WOW JUST USING MODS NOW NOTCH? YOU LAZY BASTARD!

Doesn't use the mod, and instead makes his own version?
WHY ARE YOU NOT USING THE MOD THE MOD IS BETTER STOP RIPPING OFF THEIR IDEAS NOTCH!

Decides to just not incorporate sky worlds?
WHY ARE YOU NOT PUTTING THESE IN NOTCH WHY ARE YOU SUCH A LAZY GIT THESE WOULD BE GREAT!

The man could walk across water, and people would complain about how he's taking money away from ferrymen.

Thank you.

Personally, I think he should create a sky realm that deviates from the Aether in several key ways, so only the most anal-retentive complainers will complain.

 

[lacktheknack]

I wonder where he got that idea from [http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/Floating_Islands]

Probably from when he did it back in Indev.

I find it hilarious that a game of so little that is popular for so much is being outpaced by the mods of people not employed to create the game.

Give it up.

Give what up? He can't keep up with the THOUSANDS of talented modders that are modding the game. That would be like me giving you a big whack of paint, and telling you to paint a building attractively, then saying "Oh, by the way, we're letting a few hundred bored people paint the next building over however they want to. Your job is to paint all their designs on your building before they do."

When you can do that, THEN you can comment on the hilarity of Notch not working 65 hours a day.

 

[YouEatLard]

Oh, wow, wait, don't care.

I guess it's better then lightning. Still waiting on ore and creature expansion.

 

[noble cookie]

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I got all excited when I read your post about all the stuff it has. Then I searched it on youtube and saw that it was 2d. And you think that's better?
To each their own I suppose....

Well, yeah I prefer the 2D, it suits the features of the game, its like an old school RPG feel.
Anyway if you buy Terraria expecting it to be 2D Minecraft you will be dissapointed.

 

[lacktheknack]

Oh, wow, wait, don't care.

I guess it's better then lightning. Still waiting on ore and creature expansion.

He'd rather get the big influential parts implemented first, as any good dev would.

 

[shaboinkin]

He should make SpaceCraft with gravity and spherical planets and crap. And you gotta build your own ship to get off and explore other worlds.
Planet X would be rich a certain mineral where as Planet Y would be rich in another type...
Different planets would contain different alien life (might have to start recycling)
Make the stars giant balls of lava.


Hey, that sounds like an interesting concept.
Modders! Get to work!

 

[Sabinfrost]

It seems that Notch literally cannot win here.

Makes the mod official?
OH WOW JUST USING MODS NOW NOTCH? YOU LAZY BASTARD!

Doesn't use the mod, and instead makes his own version?
WHY ARE YOU NOT USING THE MOD THE MOD IS BETTER STOP RIPPING OFF THEIR IDEAS NOTCH!

Decides to just not incorporate sky worlds?
WHY ARE YOU NOT PUTTING THESE IN NOTCH WHY ARE YOU SUCH A LAZY GIT THESE WOULD BE GREAT!

The man could walk across water, and people would complain about how he's taking money away from ferrymen.

Tall Poppy Syndrome.

At least he cares for his customers, the only thing you can really fault the guy for is not realising that he has literally millions of fans and you can't treat that number the same as three or four guys.

 

[Yokai]

*Snippity-snip*

Now, I'm not complaining. I think it's awesome that Notch is taking ideas from the community. I just hope he has at least as much planned as they do with the Aether mod, or he's going to get upstaged by his own fans.