Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Edition - Monday Release

[Chippiewill]

Brand spanking new features:

Terrain Generation Features:
- Larger caverns (More of chasms)
- Long empty trenches of land
- Rivers
- More and larger biomes (Swamps!)
- More/Bigger Mountains
- Bigger dungeons
- Abandoned mines
Farming / Food:
- More meat! Chicken, Cows and Pigs all drop meat
- Watermelons (Hella yeah)
Blocks:
- Flat Glass (Looks flatter)
- Stone bricks (Like smooth stone sorta?) - And mossy variant
- Vines, grow in swampy ish areas and on trees and stuff, not climbable
Lighting:
- Looks smootherer
Mobs:
- Pigs have snouts, it looks like a button, if you hit it with a sword it drops meat.
- Cave spiders - Reskinned blue spiders
Experience and Hunger
- Gain XP so that you can catch 'em all? (No benefits yet)
- Hunger so you can die slowly or heal slowly, no instant heal meat no mo' (Might need validating)
- Eating animation!
Combat
- Sprinting
- Critical hit enemies!
- Arrows can be charged for more damage!
- High ground = more damage (Velocity related)
- Charging at people then hitting them causes more damage and they get knocked back
Creative Mode
- Flying
- All blocks
- No health etc.
Villages
- Prefab houses
- free stuff
- No npcs yet

Here's a screenshot of the new villages:
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5571/lolhidden.png

Pretty big update imo.

[Chris]

I'm really excited for this update, its going to be very fun to try out all the new stuff.

[Chippiewill]

Yeah, so many cool new terrain features. The caves, caverns, abandoned mines and valleys look really interesting. Annoyingly that means new maps for 1.8, and jeb just posted we need new ones for 1.9 as well.

But abandoned mines look AWESUM.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/thumb/b/bb/Trailer_Mineshafts.png/800px-Trailer_Mineshafts.png

[dbgtz]

He literally split up the update because it was so big :P I can't wait until this update, gonna be huge but I wonder if it will kill the minecraft feel at all.

[Recursion]

Apparently people got official pre-release versions???

[jackass]

This is definitely going to be the best update yet! I can't wait. :)

[The Don]

Looks like a great update, Can't wait for this!

[Chippiewill]

Apparently people got official pre-release versions???

Small closed-beta to iron out some bugs because this release is so large. We're getting nightlys after 1.8 I think though.

[Zuth]

Because of the leak, the yogscast have posted some pretty good videos on most of the new features :P