Minecraft

[Phosphorus15]

Anybody else looking forward to the occlusion culling on the update rather than the weather? I'm leaving out stats and achievements, those are the best parts of 1.5.

Quick edit: Occlusion culling is when the game renders only what you need to see, so it should reduce lag.

[Jovuto]

Good new everyone!!

Notch says that 1.5 Might be out today!!

Cant wait for achievements!!!

[rseah]

Yep achievements and weather sounds good.

Not too keen on the "ladder fix" as it will probably break my custom map ._.

[TheNerd]

**** it. I'll have to wait for everyone to update all their mods, and then I have install them again -.- Anyways, Occlusion Culling better reduce my lag. I've tried everything, and Notch may be my last hope.

[Alec]

Update is out: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4746701...s-on-this-blog

[RangerZero]

Any impressions on the performance upgrade anyone?

[Jovuto]

Any impressions on the performance upgrade anyone?

My performance has gone down!!

LMAO

[Phosphorus15]

Yeah, Occlusion Culling seems to have downgraded my performance, too.

[rseah]

I didn't really notice a difference. Also still have yet to see weather.

The new saplings don't have different names so they get a bit confusing. Achievements are meh at the moment nothing too exciting just basic stuff. Apparently the booster rails are pretty weak so ehh....

Mods and servers are broken

[Memodrix]

havent noticed any diff either. i turned on the OpenGL whatchamadoohickey too, and still have yet to figure out what it changed.

[Phosphorus15]

The OpenGL is the Occlusion Culling. Occlusion Culling just renders what you see, not everything around you. You need a good CPU power to have it run well, but it reduces the use of the RAM, so if you have a good enough computer, it should reduce lag greatly.

[TheNerd]

I noticed a great difference.
Without OpenGL, I run at 31-40 FPS on Normal fog, unlike before with 18-21.
Winning*

EDIT: With OpenGL it still runs the same, but it's weird how my FPS improved.

[Snrm]

The Stats & Achievements will be a lot nicer when they are not stored Locally. They should definiatly be stored on Minecraft.net. I play on two computers and am a fan of stats so it would be nicer to have them online.

[Silverleon]

I didn't really notice a difference. Also still have yet to see weather.

The new saplings don't have different names so they get a bit confusing. Achievements are meh at the moment nothing too exciting just basic stuff. Apparently the booster rails are pretty weak so ehh....

Mods and servers are broken

I happened to get reain the 1st night on the new map I made, not really so bad lag-wise actually, at least not in "Fast" graphics.
Tho even when i changed to the "Fancy" graphics, it wasn't really that bad, it added the rain sound, a lot more rain and some other slight differences, but it didn't really lower my fps that much.

It was still well and playable either way.

[Phosphorus15]

I noticed that too. Fancy runs much smoother, but I can't stand the fancy clouds. They look horrible!

[rseah]

Really fancy runs faster?

Hmm will test it out. I don't really like the look of rain, the colour is just euugh..

[Silverleon]

Really fancy runs faster?

Hmm will test it out. I don't really like the look of rain, the colour is just euugh..

Not faster, smoother.

[TheNerd]

Well, a I came into a few bugs. I started a new world and settled into a snow biome and guess what? I can't place any block or object on any other block that has snow on it! I can't even place it on the sides.
Has anyone encountered rain or snow yet?
They should have made it a little bit more common than it is now.

EDIT:

There's now a demo for Minecraft, provided by PCGamer.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/19/do...inecraft-demo/

Yes, they haz permission from Notch, obviously.
So I tried it out. You spawn in the same world, and same coordinates.
You start out with a couple of stuff.
Also, the cows are specially branded for the PCGamer people.

[Jonaolst]

BEHOLD MINECRAFTERS....

http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/sho...ades-Open-Beta

[RangerZero]

This looks like a Minecraft mod could. What imagination.