Minecraft Update next tuesday - Beds! Skip the night & act as respawn points

[Technologic]

Everyone’s favourite mining game is about to get a non-ore orientated update; beds. Next Tuesday Minecraft will be updated with a feature that grants players the ability to make a bed for their character to sleep in. Read on for the details.

Beds will function as places to waste away the night hours. Taking a nap in bed will skip past the dark of the night and bring back the sun. But this is just the start. Coming next month, a further update will make your bed a respawn point. The last bed you took a snooze in will function as a revival point, meaning should you die you won’t have to walk all the way from that lakeside back home. For people with an adventurous spirit, this no doubt comes as pleasing news.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/02/18/minecraft-to-offer-a-sound-nights-sleep/

I wonder how the beds will work in multiplayer.... I know the night skipping wont work but the respawn idea could...

[mynameiswootzeh]

respawn point sounds good but as just a way to waste hours its stupid

[Hushy]

maybe its some way of getting rid of the night and healing yourself?

[Thomas]

i like the idea, i bet to make beds its like wool and sticks :P

[redtom]

Guess it could be useful but its not worth its own update, there must be more.

[Matthew]

It should be a way to heal yourself too :P

[Technologic]

It should be a way to heal yourself too :P

... Pork chops

[Thomas]

... Pork chops
i agree with matt because pork chops take effort... killing pigs then cooking....

[Fez]

Maybe multiple people can sleep in the same bed.

Together.

[GommeInc]

Maybe multiple people can sleep in the same bed.

Together.
Reminds me of GTA where "having fun with a friendly woman of the night" gains you extra health beyond the usual restrictions - so 100% becomes 120% :P

Seems odd, but I rarely plan single player anymore anyway. If you're bored at night, do some mining :P

[Nemo]

Seriously. The radiators are tiny, and the rooms are huge. I think the landlord turns down the heat during the weekends as well.. I stopped by yesterday to get some bonus work done in between the two trips (I was in Mexico one week ago, and we’re going to GDC in one week followed by a short stop in Vegas).
Most of the work I got done last week was with the new launcher, and it’s almost done now! Here’s a mostly complete summary of the changes:
* Newly designed window looks slightly prettier, and also has a nice big space to load an HTML page showing the updates in the latest patch
* If there’s a new update, the launcher asks if you wish to update. You can choose between “Not yet” and “Yes”.
* The launcher only downloads modified files
* Logging in is done over https, preventing sniffing (we even double check the certificate)
* Downloaded files are checksummed, making sure the correct file was received
* You can force a full re-download of all game files in case you suspect your local files are corrupt
* There’s a handy link to go directly to the game install folder
We have a couple of bugs left to fix, and we’re going to try adding the ability to choose what dir to save/load levels from. Playing against your dropbox dir might be fun. Once all that is done, it’ll get released!
While I was away, Jens’s been working on 1.3, which we’re aiming at releasing sometime early/mid-week next week. I’ve forgotten all the new stuff in there (it’s sunday, ok?), but my favorite two are the redstone delay/repeater blocks and the beds. We’re hoping to be able to make the beds feature complete before GDC, but it’s more important to get the 1.3 update out, so some of the functionality might be missing for a week or two.


Seems like theres more than just beds!

[Pazza]

Delay/repeater blocks
Beds
Slimes have a higher spawn rate

never seen a slime so from
TUESDAY, IF WE CAN FINISH THE BEDS ON MONDAY, OTHERWISE WEDNESDAYSmaybe i will :O

[Technologic]

Updated! Trying to figure out how to make a bed lol, the new smooth lighting makes everything look real nice