• Tell Me There’s A Heaven: Minecraft’s Aether
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im' gaye
Fucking snowballs. How do they work.
Notch really should be implementing this, instead of his sky dimension thingy imo
I'll wait until the official mod API comes out before I really mess around with something this big. We need worlds to specify which mods they have been created with first.
Seeing this makes me realise how notch failed at making the nether interesting.
[QUOTE=NinjaWilko;31322193]Notch really should be implementing this, instead of his sky dimension thingy imo[/QUOTE] Well I [I]was [/I]going to say that now this is a mod, maybe people will stop clamoring to have Notch add it. This wouldn't mesh well with Minecraft at all. Like RPS said, this is almost a total conversion, and adding mods like this would make the Minecraft into some awkward patchwork of differing design styles and asymmetrical levels of content.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;31327159]Well I [I]was [/I]going to say that now this is a mod, maybe people will stop clamoring to have Notch add it. This wouldn't mesh well with Minecraft at all. Like RPS said, this is almost a total conversion, and adding mods like this would make the Minecraft into some awkward patchwork of differing design styles and asymmetrical levels of content.[/QUOTE] Uhh, not really, the Aether is completely optional and you can play the game normally without EVER going to it. It doesn't add anything too different to the main game, just things that actually would make the game better. (More equipment slots, accessory slots etc.)
[QUOTE=Zeos;31327278]Uhh, not really, the Aether is completely optional and you can play the game normally without EVER going to it. It doesn't add anything too different to the main game, just things that actually would make the game better. (More equipment slots, accessory slots etc.)[/QUOTE]It doesn't makes sense to have an area of the game that suddenly has 3 times the content of the previous areas combined awkwardly tacked on to the side. Just because a mod might improve something doesn't mean it would make sense as a natural part of the game. Mods are their own creature.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;31327418]It doesn't makes sense to have an area of the game that suddenly has 3 times the content of the previous areas combined awkwardly tacked on to the side. Just because a mod might improve something doesn't mean it would make sense as a natural part of the game. Mods are their own creature.[/QUOTE] So, essentially you're saying that, because Notch is a hack and spent way too much time not actually adding any reason to go to the Nether, the Aether is out of place?
[QUOTE=Zeos;31327738]So, essentially you're saying that, because Notch is a hack and spent way too much time not actually adding any reason to go to the Nether, the Aether is out of place?[/QUOTE]This shouldn't be a part of the game any more than Spires or Midas Magic should be part of Oblivion. I'd rather Mojang make the game they want than make it a collection of FotM mods, even if it means less content. The mods are still there if you think Notch is a big lazy fatty and his floating islands are stupid and you hate them.
Seems to me like there's actually more shit to do in the Aether than in the regular world.
[QUOTE=Galago;31331999]Seems to me like there's actually more shit to do in the Aether than in the regular world.[/QUOTE]You get to the nether by doing normal shit in the normal realm you get to the aether by mining shit in the nether and you go to the normal world by falling off a cloud.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;31327159]Well I [I]was [/I]going to say that now this is a mod, maybe people will stop clamoring to have Notch add it. This wouldn't mesh well with Minecraft at all. Like RPS said, this is almost a total conversion, and adding mods like this would make the Minecraft into some awkward patchwork of differing design styles and asymmetrical levels of content.[/QUOTE] What you mean to say is it doesn't fit with Notch's work because it is of a higher standard of quality than Notch's previous work. While I agree, that does not mean original Minecraft shouldn't have contained stuff like this to begin with. Which is what your comment seems to infer depending on your perspective. Tacking it onto minecraft as it is now would require a reinvention of The Nether as well as probably Minecraft itself to make it seamless, which... is an interesting proposition. So you are right in saying that Minecraft in its current state is too gray for this colorful addition.
[QUOTE=Slight;31338758]What you mean to say is it doesn't fit with Notch's work because it is of a higher standard of quality than Notch's previous work. While I agree, that does not mean original Minecraft shouldn't have contained stuff like this to begin with. Which is what your comment seems to infer depending on your perspective. Tacking it onto minecraft as it is now would require a reinvention of The Nether as well as probably Minecraft itself to make it seamless, which... is an interesting proposition. So you are right in saying that Minecraft in its current state is too gray for this colorful addition.[/QUOTE] The lack of content might be partly Notch's poor work ethic, but it's also because he's had a design philosophy, at least up until 1.8, of keeping things simple and streamlined, so the game suddenly becoming Terraria wouldn't fit into the game naturally. The Aether only really makes sense as a mod- it's a load of extra content for people who are board of vanilla, and has little to do with the original game. If Notch is moving more toward a Terraria type game with 1.8, then he probably has his own plans for floating islands, and I'd rather him stick to his own vision, even if it isn't as good.
The nether probably could have been much better with dungeons, etc.
There ISN'T a heaven. Sorry RPS.
[QUOTE=W00tbeer1;31340402]The nether probably could have been much better with dungeons, etc.[/QUOTE] 18 minutes into the video he enters the sky dungeon.
[QUOTE=Bytecry;31342722]18 minutes into the video he enters the sky dungeon.[/QUOTE]Yeah I know I said the [B]nether[/B].
Seems like the modding community is putting more effort than Notch does into Minecraft. [editline]26th July 2011[/editline] Power to the people.
[QUOTE=W00tbeer1;31348264]Yeah I know I said the [B]nether[/B].[/QUOTE] Oops sorry I misread.
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