MINECRAFT IS SAVED Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)15:55 No.129559189

    Jeb tweeted that this week's Snapshot will likely come tomorrow, instead of the usual Thursday release time. In addition, he released the following information for key changes likely to be seen in the coming update:

    >Maximum build height has been increased to 256 (was 128)
    >Empty sections of the world are not loaded into memory
    >Block ids have been increased to 4096 (was 256) by adding a 4 bit data layer (similar to how meta data is stored)
    >Block ordering have been changed from x/z/y to y/z/x in order to improve compression
    >Packets for sending chunks have been updated (a full 128-high chunk is smaller than the old format, and a chunk with lots of empty space is much smaller)
    >Biomes are saved per x/z column, which means they can be altered by tools

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)15:56 No.129559287

    Does that mean Minecraft will now run smooth as fuck without the useless loaded chunks?

    cool

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)15:58 No.129559560

    Keeps getting better and better after Notch is gone.

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)15:59 No.129559685

    >256

    MY BODY IS READY FOR TALL AS FUCK MOUNTAINS

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:00 No.129559766

    Disregard notch, aquire improved game.

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:00 No.129559901

    please explain why this is good to me as if i was a mentally retarded babby

    i dont understand what most of OP means

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:01 No.129559982

    >still no "team" support
    >still no CTF

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:02 No.129560062

    Oh jesus people are seriously still bored enough to care about MC nowadays?

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:02 No.129560100

    >>129559901

    basically it means that minecraft will stop being laggy as fuck and will run smoother, much much smoother, since it won't load extra useless shit notch coded anymore.

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:02 No.129560131

    >>129559685

    only build height is getting increased.
    Map generation is staying the same, so no tall mountains yet.

Anonymous 02/14/12(Tue)16:02 No.129560166

    >>129559901
    Jeb's making steps towards mod compatibility, optimizing chunk loading, and adding mod compatibility. AKA, everything Notch was kicking and screaming about being asked to do.