Earlier today Jeb posted this on his twitter:

"The plan right now is to release the "PAX version" of Minecraft ASAP, but there is some crucial work remaining. Sep 8th is a good guess"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9qdYCQEY8[/link]

And we'll be ready. Wooo~

\o/

Yay!!! \o/

Screw my debut novel; it's MINECRAFT TIME!!!

Don't trust that Youtube channel its not an official one but a fan made thing. Never understand why people try to fake being an official channel.

Sep 8th is a guess, its not set in stone like that fake channel would have you believe.

- This is Mojang's Official Channel

Sep 8th is a guess, its not set in stone like that fake channel would have you believe.

Stucuk

The channel just shows a tweet from Jeb that says it's a guess. They didn't say it was definite.

In the words of bebopvox "Bad minecraft community, BAD!!" ITs all rumors, it will be here when its here.

The channel just shows a tweet from Jeb that says it's a guess. They didn't say it was definite.

Jighello

The channel does claim its the date on there channel page, there is no mention of it as a guess there. Which is why its a good idea to tell people that its a fake channel. Nothing on it can be trusted.

The channel does claim its the date on there channel page, there is no mention of it as a guess there. Which is why its a good idea to tell people that its a fake channel. Nothing on it can be trusted.

Stucuk

The internet has a habit of twisting information all the time. Jeb says it's a guess, and if people want to interpret differently then they're the fools that will be disappointed.

As for MojangAB, they don't claim to be an official channel but a fan-base. The only people who don't realise this come under the category above.

and if people want to interpret differently then they're the fools that will be disappointed.

Hey, don't use fool as an insult! We Crazy-Fools are not Fools!

As for MojangAB, they don't claim to be an official channel but a fan-base. The only people who don't realise this come under the category above.

Jighello

If you see a channel called MojangAB then you assume by default that its official given its the company name of Mojang AB(Until you realise its fake, or unless you know TeamMojang is the official one). From what i can tell calling something a fanbase doesn't mean its un-official by default(Mojang could start up there own "Fanbase" channel featuring fan's stuff if they wanted to).

The whole point im trying to make is that people shouldn't quote/rely/link to fake channels but instead quote/rely/link to official stuff.

Unfortunately, you can't post a URL to a single twitter message, you have to post a link to the person's profile, and then make people search for the twitter post you were describing. Twitter has its fair share of usability quirks.

In any case, the twitter post shown is verbatim what Jeb_ said on twitter. And its also what Notch has said in interviews during PAX and just after. They intend to split the 1.8 release into two parts, one just cleaning up the code they had at PAX, and 1.9 having the rest of the adventure update pieces in there (experience, more mobs, bosses, NPC villagers/smiths, etc.). The first part, 1.8, should be in a "week or two" after PAX (which was last week).



Bad news for those that like to build mob traps though.... Jeb_ said that in the future the mob traps *could* be rendered useless. Right now they are thinking that you should only get loot drops and experience orbs if the player actively kills the mob/animal, not if the mob/animal dies from falling or fire or suffocation, etc.

Here is the twitter conversation:
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tinfoilchef
does the hunger thing affect people sitting afk for hours while something grows or a mob tower produces stuff?
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@jeb_
No, the food meter is only affected by activity
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@jeb_
... although we may make grinders obsolete in the future. For instance, exp orbs are only dropped if a player did the killing
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@tinfoilchef
That's ok, if I'm using a mob grinder I want the drops more than the exp orbs
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@jeb_
Yeah but that was what I was hinting at... We haven't changed it yet, but we may make drops work the same way as orbs
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@tinfoilchef
that'd be a bummer.. no more legitimate ways to get thousands of TNT for a big project. that'd suck
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@jeb_
Unless you play creative mode
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I don't think this will go over too well with the long-time players, though... so there is a chance a nerd uproar could get them to change their minds. Didn't work with cart boosters, though :/

Also, more bad news.... the map height limit is not "adjustable" as first mentioned by Notch a few weeks ago. All he did was make it "easier for mods to change the map height". And that means, that there will likely be no higher maps possible unless both server and client are running the same mod. And forcing clients to have mods in order to play on the server is something Broonie will not do.

When Notch first discussed the map height change, saying it was adjustable from 128 to 512, no mention of needing a mod to do it was made. I think that he had tried to implement it in vanilla and just couldn't. So, he has backtracked. He has a two part interview (from PAX) here, where he blames performance and stability issues as the reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-41cUaNqaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KavmNrLtdso


edit: for those of you that want to jump straight there... the question about map height is in the second link, at the 1:30 mark.

Unfortunately, you can't post a URL to a single twitter message, you have to post a link to the person's profile, and then make people search for the twitter post you were describing. Twitter has its fair share of usability quirks.

"Minecraftblock0"

People have been posting links to individual twitter posts since the beginning of time. You just need to click on the bit that displays the time since it was posted(Bit that sais "16 minutes ago").

I.E http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/108812676288884736

.....You just need to click on the bit that displays the time since it was posted(Bit that sais "16 minutes ago").

Stucuk

Ah, good to know, thanks. They sure don't make it obvious, though.

Disappointing update...

"Looks grim to get a release out on 8th. We need more testing, one day is not enough. And we never release on fridays... I'll keep you posted"

Doesnt really surprise me TBH.

http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/111115064270004224

I wasn't holding my breath anyways.

It's a little hard to read whether he is saying this is the date or not, but Notch tweeted this a few hours ago.

Are we still running on bukkit?

I can't wait until the servers updated I really want to see some rivers and canyons

One more day to go!

Unlikely to be released on the 8th. See his latest blog post.

http://notch.tumblr.com/

It could always be something he's working on for 1.9, but then again.. I wouldn't know

Well it was done over the weekend so it may well be in the bag.

Another "Good Guess" from Jeb

http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/status/111473590112763905

I'm not sure if i believe him

Their office really should set deadlines.

They do but notch will come up with a new food stuff to implement and the deadline gets pushed back. Hamburgers in 1.8, yum.