I was sure the update will be today, because he said “early next week”. And how early can you get than Monday? I guess tomorrow (Tuesday) is the mod-breaking day.
Today’s news in Notch’s Blog mentions an article from PC Gamer. One of the authors spices up the difficulty of the game by one rule; if he dies, he has to delete the map.
Notch actually likes this idea and is planning to put it in.
I played in Hard difficulty recently, just to see how it’s like, and it’s pretty wild. The reason is I found out that if you use INVedit to put armor on you and give it a high negative damage number, you pretty much have a form of “god mode” in SSP.
So I wanted to test it out, and it works beautifully. And I got to see what it’s like dealing with Creepers.
But this so-called Hardcore mode… I think it should be called “Insane” mode. I’m not going to risk weeks if not months of work of my transit system to one death of myself.
Still, that’s a pretty good idea. It’ll keep people wanting more.
UPDATE: Notch has been playing Fallout New Vegas instead of releasing the update, nor has he posted anything about what day he’s releasing it. Now it looks like it won’t be until this Friday.
He’s still talking about getting PvP working, though.
You maybe wondering “Wow, you’re selfish. Notch does have a life other than Minecraft”. And I may sound it. I just want him to release the update and get it over with.
It’ll give me an excuse to play Wurm. I’m getting too addicted to Minecraft again and I need this update to get me to play another game.