Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Edition - Monday Release

Chippiewill · 08-09-2011, 05:15 PM

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:

Pretty big update imo.

Chris · 08-09-2011, 05:19 PM

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

Chippiewill · 08-09-2011, 06:35 PM

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.