I M A G E I S U N A V A I L A B L E

He's done a great job organizing the code & adding new things.  But ... it's called "mine"-craft.  Everything that's been added has to do with everything except mining. No new minerals. No new incentive to go mining. Horses, flowers, double-plants, new biomes (without new reasons to go there, ie: no new things to mine there), amplified biomes, ...  none of this gives you more incentive to go down in the depths and explore and come back to craft new riches. Not just riches (ie: most folks craft gold armor just for the status), but useful things. Heck, lapis was added as a new ore just to be useless, since it was only for dye. They forced its usefulness onto folks by shoe-horning it into the enchanting system.

This lack of direction and shoe-horning cliche ides into the game has gone on for a while now. EG: when they first started with XP in the game you only got it from monster kills. Why? It's a game about mining, but they expected you to waste your time killing mobs to get XP to enchant. That's cliche. It's a game about mining. They finally came to their senses, and rewarded XP for, you know, mining. But, why didn't they think of that in the first place?

Basically, Mojang has run out of good ideas, and they have to focus so much time on the code that ideas implemented into the game aren't given enough thought. All of the good ideas already exist.. as mods. What they need to do is either a) get their modding API going ASAP (and polish the heck out of it to make it very robust), or b) cherry-pick the best mods to incorporate into minecraft (eg: more creatures, smarter/deadlier creatures, more ores and more things to do with them, better towns, better rpg, etc).

As it is, everything Mojang adds to the game pales in comparison to what modders are adding, so Mojang needs to stop focusing on adding stuff, and just focus on code polishing, code robustness and making multiplayer networking better. eg: they should have incorporated BUKKIT in a long time ago. They should have offered the TEKKIT folks a chance to merge things. Set options in the game that let you Admin what kind of tech is allowed in that instance of game world (eg: flip a switch to go from rudimentary tools only to allowing more advanced TEKKIT stuff).

All I do in MC is mine. That was the cornerstone of the game for a long time, but it's wasted away for so long due to all the focus going on non-mining stuff.  farming, horses, really?  Let's get back to the core of the game. Create long-lost civilizations deep underground that you can find and explore while mining. Create super creatures under ground to go battle. Create useful stuff to get folks to go under ground again.

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People think he is ruining minecraft because he is making a server owners life a living hell.
For example UUIDs people don't hate them just makes alot of more happen to server owners.
This is one of the things people actually take out on Jeb.. He is removing ids for items you will have to use their proper name or probably no more secret blocks for servers..
All server networks no longer get support on skins from mojang meaning it is nearly impossible to get skins on a network..

i think its quite easy if you dont like it dont play it that or downgrade your version theres a reason they put it in

But many people don't remember how minecraft was Suppose to turn to. Survivial!   With many of these new blocks sure they look cool and stuff but have no great reason to be in. Minecraft started out as a survival game and it hasn't be going that way.   And I know Jeb isn't all that bad he has added some pretty great things but I just don't believe MC is where it should be.    * Please do not spam me with hate messages, and such for expressing my opinion :l *

If people hate the new updates... Then they should downgrade their minecraft to an older version. -.- It just gets so annoying when people rant about new things...

you are right first i thought WTF MOJANG but after a few updates im kinda happy he runs minecraft look at what he added HORSES the thing that a lot of people been waiting for in so much time THX A LOTZ JEB!!!

Well, there were a few things Minecraft really does not need, like the brewing-items or emeralds (why not trade with gold?), but much things he implemented are god (don't forget, jeb alsi implemented the redstone-repeater and the wolfes).

But what I don't like, are the tousands of features for map makers. Does Jeb want everybody to be a mapmaker? I think the mean part of MC is the creativity of building. (I am a mapmaker, but play survival just for fun very often)

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