Mojang’s Jens Bergenstetn has been tweeting today about the wolf/dog mob Notch leaked a few weeks ago. Apparently it’s moving along pretty well, well enough for working models anyway. Jens, who tweets under the pseudonym @jeb_, posted the picture you see above.
I’ll be interested to see how the pet system is implemented. My mind is still a little blown by the possibilities of large scale Minecraft PvP, but I’m open to Mojang adding new features, too.
The official Nocturne Champion Spotlight went live some time last night, giving us a quick look at Nocturne’s abilities. Most of the gameplay footage was taken from the PAX preview over on IGN, but it was nice to see Phreak describe how each ability works in detail.
More thoughts on him later today – about to get a game in with Sorith, who I just found out is a reader here. As always, you guys can catch me online as “The Wiggin Boy.”
I was thinking tonight we would change things up a little bit and play some Minecraft together. This might actually be a nice way to mix things up – on patch weeks we play Minecraft on Monday nights, and the week after a patch we play LoL and get to show off our amazing skills with the new champion.
For tonight, I invite you to join me in some building and mining. Maybe we’ll get lucky and get to do a little destroying along the way. I’m currently playing on a server called DarkTide, which you can find on Minestatus.net. Drop a quick application in their Minecraftforum.net thread to get whitelisted and find me in game. I’ll be playing as “TheWuggler.”
Depending how many people play MC, we might be able to fire up a city on this server, though we should probably wait a week or two to do so.
I’ve been a devoted Minecraft fan from the moment I made my first dirt hut to wait out the night. There’s something amazing about the simplicity of the game, and it continues to deliver months after I would have been bored with so many other games.
I recently joined a hardcore-themed PvP server, which is my first real experience with any kind of PvP in Minecraft. For all its limitations, Minecraft PvP is surprisingly fun, offering a threat of danger that creepers just can’t provide. As an example, a friend and I were doing some tunneling and randomly popped through the wall of another player’s underground tower. During our climb to the top, we noticed movement overhead. Another player! His nameplate was showing through the blocks, which meant ours were showing to him as well. We started digging furiously, trying to get up to the surface and find him. He made his escape, but we were able to loot a few valuables before running off to the safety of our own base.
Granted, this doesn’t sound particularly thrilling, but when you’re in a simple of world of blocks and almost anything is possible, the game feels alive in a way no MMO has ever felt. I’m continually amazed by how good Minecraft is on its own, but also the level of community development that goes into expanding the game’s possibilities. Big developers could learn so much about what makes a game fun from just a few hours with Minecraft. Let’s hope they give it a chance.
When Co-op vs. AI launched at the end of the week, I took a couple hours to test things out. Though I wasn’t particularly impressed with the bots, I was shocked to see just how rude players were to one another when playing against a computer.
To break in the new bots, I played champions like Gangplank, Veigar, and Kassadin – champions that can kill an underfarmed player very quickly if they streak out ahead. It was a lot of fun, despite nearly constant cries from my teammates to “stop ks noob.” I sort of understand the anti-KS mentality in PvP. There’s reputation at stake for a lot of people, and everyone likes to have a nice K/D/A ratio. Against computers, though, who cares?
In my last Co-op vs. AI game (Kassadin), I had a player calling me a noob the whole game because I died a few times. After the game he went on and on about my win count, how he hoped to meet me in ranked, etc. He went on like that for two full pages of lobby text with no response from me other than, “yeah, I was trying my hardest.”
It’s a strange thing to join a Co-op game mode if the only goal is to berate your teammates. Have you had a similar experience?
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