BetterLight in next update! Yes!

**yottabyte** · 02-21-2011, 16:52,

It is confirmed by jeb_, the betterlight mod will be in the next Minecraft update coming sometime this week!

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If you want to try it out, install this mod:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=55700

I've been using that for over a month now and it is beautiful. I'm so happy jeb_ is helping, he seems to know his stuff better than Notch tbh.

Sauce:
http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/38186608834523136
http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/38151861605371904

Also; (mainly quoting mojang here)

wooden half blocks
cobblestone half blocks
new launcher
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 programmable delayer
various bug fixes
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.
Beds!!!
The Bukkit team helped jeb_ fix the glitchy fences in SMP!
Secret update! Oh, yes. There will be that as well.

Discuss!

Graft · 02-21-2011, 20:59,

GEIL!

/germanmode

Vèt!

/dutchmode

I was hoping they'd do that and my wishes came true!

KriegVonBeck · 02-21-2011, 21:21,

Very exciting! Thank you Yotta! Last time we had a "secret update" we got the nether.

So says Zepheroth....

Android · 02-21-2011, 21:25,

Can't wait. The minecraft update I really, really want to see is NPCs, if ever possible.

**yottabyte** · 02-21-2011, 22:06,

(02-21-2011, 21:25)Android Wrote: Can't wait. The minecraft update I really, really want to see is NPCs, if ever possible.

Don't worry, Bukkit will solve that I believe. There was NPC features in hmod.

jeb_ is also kinda cooperating with the bukkit team so maybe he will help solve the NPC skin problems. (Currently all player characters have skin that is their name, so if you make a NPC with the name yottabyte, he will have my skin. If you make a NPC named Bob Bobberson he will have the default skin since there is no player named that.)

Android · (This post was last modified: 02-21-2011, 22:16 by Android.)

Ok, then the minecraft update I really, really, really want to see is NPCs with villages and that are able to communicate with you and actually build things. Not sure how hard that would be. Oh, and to have them within the normal generated world in a normal minecraft game, no modding included.

Graft · 02-21-2011, 22:34,

(02-21-2011, 22:13)Android Wrote: Ok, then the minecraft update I really, really, really want to see is NPCs with villages and that are able to communicate with you and actually build things. Not sure how hard that would be. Oh, and to have them within the normal generated world in a normal minecraft game, no modding included.

They would have to code some AI, which is quite difficult if you want the NPCs to place blocks, walk around, collect resources and do all kinds of other things on their own. Not to mention the load it would put on a server if there's a lot of NPC's.

Android · 02-21-2011, 22:42,

Well then Notch has to work harder >:O

Natain · 02-21-2011, 23:48,

Well they dont have to place blocks maybe, perhaps you program them to mine cobble and place it in a chest? and it only works with the fat of its hand untill you give it a pick axe to work with. Responding to monsters, hideing when it gets dark. It would still be pretty complicated.

Cell · 02-22-2011, 00:20,

Has anyone else heard of the minecraft mod, minecolonys? Look it up on google.