Ehm... kinda?

Wait, have Friday Forums gone out the window? by twistedwindowpane on 2017-10-29 23:20:00 UTC Reply

Because I don't think I saw one.

Anyway, since I like Friday Forums and want them to keep going, I guess I'll do like hS did earlier (well, this would be a Sunday Forum) and say to you guys: What news have you heard in fandoms or in real life? Or what interesting little tidbit have you discovered to put into the Not News category?

My contribution to this is that the newest Wolfenstein game was released on Friday! Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a sequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, which came out back in 2014 and is about what might happen to our friend BJ Blazkowicz if we slipped up and lost World War II. Apparently, a Nazi takeover would involve flipping awesome giant robots. Oh well, none of the games in the Wolfenstein franchise have ever been 100% realistic, and that's what kinda sets them apart. Find out more at the first link below my signature.

Oh, and another thing from the world of gaming: Minecraft got another update a little while ago. I don't know exactly when, but I've tried it out and it's pretty dang cool! We now have:
- Tamable bird pets that sit on your shoulder and look adorable!
- Concrete...?
- Glazed Terra Cotta blocks! These are by far my favorite thing in the update, because they have the coolest designs and work really well if you want tiled floors!
- Colored beds! Finally!
- The Observer, an interesting Redstone-powered block with a poker face, that detects updates in the data of nearby blocks.
- New look for the achievements menu and new achievements!
- Minecraft finally takes a hint from Terraria (and from one of its own most popular mods) by giving users the crafting recipes for items they've picked up for the first time and letting them reference them later!
- There may be other things - I can't get a hold of the Minecraft Wiki pages that contain info about the update. I can, however, get a hold of the link itself, and that will also be posted underneath my signature.

Back to the main point of this post. Share your news! I'd love to hear it!

-Twistey
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Wolfenstein The New Colossus: http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/WolfensteinII:TheNewColossus
Minecraft update: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.12

Ehm... kinda? by Huinesoron on 2017-10-30 10:44:00 UTC Reply

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

I figured out how to do the terra cotta blocks. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-11-04 21:00:00 UTC Reply

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