Wait, have Friday Forums gone out the window?

As for why... well, for one, the news has been super depressing these last couple of months. For two, once we were out of the summer, Fandom News died down a bit. And for three, it wasn't really doing what I wanted it to do. It didn't spark discussion - just had people posting unrelated posts at each other.

Which is all well and good, but 'rambling discussion and debate' was what I was aiming at. ;) So I figured I'd let us drop back to free-form news posting.

Now, Minecraft! I've been playing Minecraft since... let's see... the addition of flowers. ^_^ My very first world featured a glass tower with flowers planted on the corners, which actually worked until a couple of updates down the line flowers could only be placed on glass. And don't get me started on my lovely shrubbery that suddenly turned into a forest...!

I also had a wooden lava-duct, and made use of the probably-bug where dropping sand into lava or water raised a cube of the liquid to the height you dropped it from. And this was in the days of infinitely-spreading liquids... yeah, one time I deliberately flooded the whole world just for fun.

('The whole world' being one of the old Creative squares, of course. I remember scoffing at the idea when InfDev came out...)

Okay, so new stuff. The terracotta blocks are very pretty, but I've not managed to figure out how to get them to tile properly. Several of them have quarter-circles on them, but these have a distressing tendency to not form into full circles.

I also really like the llamas, which are actually from 1.11, but have the same 'pretty colours' thing as the terracotta, with the blankets. Hmm... llama farm with terracotta floor to match the blanket colours? Sounds like a thought...

The Wiki page for 1.12 is here. The big thing you've not mentioned is the Illusioner, which is a new mob that... apparently doesn't naturally spawn? How weird.

hS

They get placed in whichever direction you're facing (I don't know about the others, but Light Gray has the partial circle appear in the top-right corner from the player's perspective, I think.)

Is there a spawn egg for the Illusioner? I don't think I saw one, but I'm wondering what exactly it does.

Interesting little detail, by the way: The achievement for killing the Ender Dragon is now called "Free the End," which means the player now has a reason to kill it, instead of just "because I can." (I like dragons :3) I have yet to figure out, however, why the player is supposed to summon the Wither if it's just going to cause so much damage and you're just going to kill it anyway. Also, if the dragon is evil and its egg is "The Next Generation", why do you want the egg? Bit weird but it's progress.

-Twistey