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New Lighting Scheme Makes for Beautiful Sunrises
Posted by Admin on 13 September, 2011
Instead of sections of the landscape turning to darker lighting modes, the colors change gradually in this leaked release of Minecraft version 1.8. When the sun rises and sets the colors change and provide for greater atmospheric impacts.
Mountains and rolling hills
Posted by Admin on 13 September, 2011
Not only are there beautiful mountainous terrains, you’ll also find rolling rills and fields that stretch out in the leaked release of Minecraft version 1.8.
Rivers in Minecraft Landscape
Posted by Admin on 13 September, 2011
Along side grandiose mountains, cliffs and ravines you’ll also find rivers snaking their way through the Minecraft landscape. At the moment, rivers do not actually flow, but they are a very pleasing feature in terms of appearance and they help making the landscape more realistic.
Ravines are one of the new landscape features
Posted by Admin on 13 September, 2011
In the leaked release of Minecraft version 1.8 the land generation algorithms have been overhauled and now if you go exploring you’ll generally find more epicness in the world around you. One example of these new landscape features are ravines. They are long, deep trenches, like deep cuts in the landscape. Be careful when running […]
It’s one of these Enderman Fellows
Posted by Admin on 13 September, 2011
If you’re going about your world at night in the leaked prerelease of Minecraft version 1.8 you’ll certainly come across some Endermen. They’ll be moving blocks around, generally ruining the landscape. At night it is a little bit hard to spot them because they are all black, but if they do attack you it’s not […]
Enderman moving blocks, screwing up trees
Posted by Admin on 12 September, 2011
One of the new mobs you will encounter in the leak prerelease version of Minecraft 1.8 are the Endermen. They will move blocks around as seen in the screenshots above and ruin an otherwise perfectly fine landscape. They will only attack you if you move your cursor over them (look at them) and when they […]
Sunrise/Sunsets are very stunning in the new version!
Posted by Admin on 12 September, 2011
In the leaked prerelease version of Minecraft 1.8 the lighting scheme has been overhauled. When the sun rises and sets you won’t get light blocks turning dark section by section like you do in older versions. Instead you will be treated with a gradual change in lightness and slight hue changes as you get some […]
Torchlight gives a yellow glow to the inside of caves
Posted by Admin on 12 September, 2011
Putting down torches in caves in the prerelease version of Minecraft 1.8 gives off a more yellow glow than regular sunlight does. Apart from a noticeable higher abundance of caves, this new lighting scheme really plays up the atmosphere inside caves and such.
View of the terrain in the pre-release of 1.8
Posted by Admin on 12 September, 2011
It’s hard to say for certain but the terrain generated in the prerelease of Minecraft version 1.8 really feels different. You can spot some new kinds of trees- obviously they signify a kind of pine-tree for this biome. I’ve heard some people make the remark that some of the new trees look like toilet brushes… […]
My First Night home in the pre-release
Posted by Admin on 12 September, 2011
This is my little house in the pre-release of Minecraft 1.8. It’s recommended to start a new world because terrain generation is done with new algorithms. You can’t really tell from this image, but lighting has also gone a complete overhaul- it looks very good now. You can also see vine type things hanging from […]