After arriving back from school camp, I decided to check the Minecraft Wiki to see if anything has been added to what may be coming in 0.8.0, and when I looked, I saw A LOT of things that weren’t there last time.
ADDITIONS:
- Blocks: Ice (Possibly in Creative), Rails, and Powered Rails (always powered)
- Items: Redstone (mineable and used to craft but not as wire [redstone on the floor]), Minecarts
- New Creative Menu
- Farther Render Distance
- Maybe new controls
- Mob AI System (Mobs WILL swim over deep water, and hostile mobs will be smarter)
TWEAKS:
- Shadows now move depending on the position of the sun (***EXCLUSIVE***)
- Possibly lighter coloured Water and Sky
- Redstone Ore drops Redstone Dust
- Transparent Hotbar
- Possibly smoother edges on players and mobs
- Fire and Lava will set off TNT
- Flint & Steel in Creative
- Sideways Wood
- Clouds WILL be 3D
- Gravel Textures Changed from this: to this
- Birch leaves changed from this: to this:
- Mipmaps and Anisotropic filtering
WHAT MAY BE COMING IN 0.9.0
- BLOCKS: Tall Grass (which is technically a non-solid block)
- GENERATED STRUCTURES: Caves!
- OTHER STUFF: Infinite Worlds, New Biomes, and Plans to port Minecraft PC world generation, potentially allowing for infinite worlds, Generated Structures (like villages) and increased world height
That’s all the news so far, and for you MINECRAFT PC players, keep an eye out on the snapshots! AND also if you know how to put on a texture pack (who doesn’t) get the SphaxPureBDCraft 1.7 texture pack, and use it on not just the snapshots (latest one 13w38c) and use it on 1.6.4! 0.7.6 is coming before 0.8.0.