Minecraft has been in beta for quite some time now, yet I’m still using v1.2.2. Simple reason.
Notch bug-fixes, and his bug “fixes” break needed mods and cause more bugs than you can shake a stick at. However with Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening completed (finally), I debated if I should come back. Even made an ass of myself asking for a program that will check minecraftforum.net for me for updates to my mods.
After looking at the list of changes between 1.2.2 to now and seeing no serious bugs, I’ve decided to give it a chance.
So I went to see if I can update my mods, and half of them now require ModLoader, 1/3 of them haven’t been updated, and two of them have their authors who have stopped working on them. All because of Notch’s constant updates.
I have three mods I MUST have to continue my enjoyment of this game;
No Animals (for SSP), to stop them hurp-durping all over my tracks and laughing at me at my failed attempts to stop them.
A time freezer, to stop nighttime so I can see.
Minecart Mania, to give my World2 Transit System a purpose in SMP.
I had to literly bump my old request thread for a No Animals mod. Quite sad really, but it got the attention of one who made what I (and others) wanted.
For the old Day/Night mod I had for 1.2.2, I found three options for it. One used ModLoader and the other two didn’t. The one I’m using is from a mod called Single Player Commands, that brings the console from SMP into SSP.
And the final one… the situation is grave for the World2 Transit System.
Afforess has dropped SSP compatibility and made the SMP version a Hey0 mod. So all I have to do is just fire up my server with Hey0 and continue playing it, and everything’s cool, yes? Ohh I wish it was that easy…
Hey0 has stopped working on his server mod, saying he lost his interest with Minecraft. No Hey0 = No Minecart Mania. No Minecart Mania = …. no purpose for my transit system.
Afforess however hasn’t completely given up on SSP. He gave up on it because of Notch shitting out updates left and right.
A new server mod named “Bukkit” is supposed to replace Hey0 in the future. Will Afforess make the SMP version work with this… Bukkit mod once it comes out? No one knows.
AUTOCART is pretty much, left for dead. 🙁
There is however an AUTOCART-like replacement out, for SSP. It comes with Zombie’s Modpack. It uses your arrow keys to move it along the rails. And when Notch releases the next patch, it will have a “speed lock” that I suggested.
Wish he’d release it before that happens, since I’m refusing to update once again.
Everyone knows now that what Notch is doing is getting on their nerves. It’s not just me anymore.
Hell, if WoW was like this with their updates, they could possibly lose a… oh.. half of their fanbase. They may have over 11,000,000 players, but if the devs start to get update-happy that number will be greatly reduced.
I know I would quit, permanently.
But you got to look at it another way. Notch did what most video game devs would not (or very rarely) do; release the bare bones of Minecraft Alpha to the public.
The mod-breaking is a consequence of mod authors having to directly modify core game files, and the fact Notch seems reluctant to release the SDK. Remember before when there was no way to save your texture packs?
Minecraft has grown before our eyes, yet we bitch and moan everytime a critical to us mod breaks.
Half of me agrees to what I just wrote. The other half… well. We’ve already seen that side before.
He wants to say “There’s no excuse anymore! The game is in BETA now!”, but the truth that this is sadly an early beta, technically still making it Alpha.
As long as the updates fly out of Notch’s ass (lol’d at my own words) as fast as we bitch about them, it will remain like that. But eventually, there will be a day where the madness will slow down.
And that day, hopefully, is when Minecart Madness will rise again. And so will the usefulness of the World2 Transit System.
It’s all a matter of time. Surely the game won’t be in development forever, right? … Right?!