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SNJ here to talk about Minecraft 1.8 and what i think of it!
1st Blog Entry – 25/08/14 – Enchanting & Banners
1st Blog Entry – 25/08/14 – Enchanting & Banners!


First I will talk about enchanting, with the new 1.8 update you now have to use lapis to enchant tools, weapons and armor, I like the idea of using lapis for more than just a blue dye as it always seemed very unused in my survival worlds, also It forces players to go and mine for lapis which previously most players didn’t really do (this is my personal experience), as well as these cool uses I like the way the player has more choice of what enchantment they get. There are also some things I don’t like about it, I don’t like the fact that you only loose a maximum of three levels of experience when enchanting because It used to be hard work to achieve thirty levels each time I wanted to get a good enchantment and now you have only got to achieve three apart from at the start and if you die, I can see how some people may like this change as it can get quite tedious to keep getting thirty levels each time you wanted to enchant something else or re-enchant because you got a bad enchantment, but overall I find this feature okay to use in-game and should be nicer having better and quicker enchantments.


Now for the banners, I think that banners will be a good way to define territory/bases ETC for different players/teams so that you can tell who’s land is who’s very clearly, you could have many different team logos/marks using banners because they have many different designs that are easy to discover and craft, you also have large communal websites like PMC with useful programs that let you be creative and make up different designs and share them to the community. What I don’t like about banners hmm not a lot really they are just a very good aesthetic feature that will be very nice to use in multiplayer and single player.


This is my first blog so I may be a little rusty with my English, if you have any suggestions or your own opinions/questions then please leave a comment below.


2nd Blog Entry – 29/08/14 – Better Performance - Rendering!
2nd Blog Entry – 29/08/14 – Better Performance - Rendering!



I heard that in the new Minecraft 1.8 the game will run a lot smoother at a higher FPS due to the fact that Caves and other underground structures do not render in the game unless you can actually see them, because of this I thought I may as well try out this new feature on a new snapshot so that’s what I did, In a new world and in an extreme hills biome I was getting around 150FPS where I would normally get around 50 at the most! I was so surprised. I really think that Mojang have really put in the effort to make sure that there game is as compatible as it can possibly be with all types of machines. As I currently have a bad computer for gaming (getting a new one in the near future) this feature really allows me to have a smooth game whereas before 1.8 I had quite low FPS.



This blog was quite short as it’s quite late at night!


As always if you have any feedback or your own opinion, please comment below!


Minecraft system requirements: https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/325948-minecraft-system-requirements 




3rd Blog Entry – 03/09/14 – Herobrine Removal!


 


They said they have removed notch’s dangerous and mysterious brother Herobrine, I wonder if the Mojang crew have really got him for good this time, these sightings have been going on ever since the dawn of Minecraft days. He is a scary entity that doesn’t seem to be coded into the game yet still exists and messes with the players mind! The good thing about this is that players can play happily and freely without him stealing there stuff and killing them, the bad thing about this is that they probably haven’t caught him as he is very sly and seems to hide in the code away from the Mojang crew! He is gone… no really he is… go play Minecraft……. Or is he gone???!


BTW ik he isn’t really in the code or in game as I am a coder/Modder my self!


My next blog will be more serious and long! :D





Thank you for reading, if you enjoyed why not give me a diamond!


SNJ
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3rd Blog Entry – 03/09/14 – Herobrine Removal! : by slimenamedjerry 09/03/2014 1:27:55 pmSep 3rd, 2014

Here i am again speaking about more 1.8 features!

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09/04/2014 11:03 am
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They even added a new section where you can show off your designs!
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09/04/2014 11:05 am
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Thanks for the support
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09/04/2014 12:13 pm
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No problem
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