The Yogscast vs Notch War has been very entertaining. Notch accusing Yogscast of swearing, destroying little kiddies, and being prima donnas and Yogscast accusing IGN of stealing and making money off Yogscast videos of Minecon. Then Notch having a very public meltdown on Twitter. Yogscast website is then flooded and pushed offline via a DDOS attack by thousands of Minecraft fans.
Battle of the nerds indeed. What is painfully obvious after the dust had settled is just how badly run the Minecon event was and how Notch desperately needs a PR agent to handle his public affairs and events like Minecon. Also the British sense of humor is completely different to that of the Swedish sense of humor.
Glorious stuff indeed! :)
peterb
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I dunno. I certainly never heard of 'em, nor did most of the people I know who play Minecraft. They just sound like another bunch of randoms to me.
I also knew Minecraft from before, but the Yogscast videos have around 500.000 - 1.100.000 visits (each one of the 270 videos), so i can imagine a fair share of fans who were introduced to Minecraft with them.
they must have gotten their own panel at minecon through a random lottery then…
c’mon they had their own panel at minecon. that should tell you how important mojang thinks their contributions were to the minecraft phenomena. they might not get invited back next year because they were assholes, but you still have to recognize obvious indicators of influence. like turintur mentioned, yogscast’s vids frequently get over 500k views. please tell me another promoter of minecraft that pulls in that many views consistently.
SeaNanners? But yes I agree, Yogscast are a largish chunk of the dizzying Minecraft community.
Teiman
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Thats a very old video. I don’t know how has ended here. Probably a conspiration from Israphael.
Actually it was more a case of Notch being a bit of an asshole. He’s not the most socially experienced guy.
JM1
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It’s proof of them swearing in their videos. And it looks like they spliced together a bunch of their old stuff for IGN or something.
Well then.
Anyway, now that the Notch drama has mostly blown over, it’s time for modding drama! On the verge of expecting the 1.0 releases to start coming out, the author of Better Than Wolves has decided to stop using MCForge, making his mod incompatible with most other major ones. The author of BuildCraft is also one of the primary MCForge authors, and he’s unhappy with the state of things and hopes to get out a 1.0 version, but I think he’s still on vacation for another week or so. And IndustrialCraft will be sticking with 1.8 beta for a while yet. Hopefully nobody was in a big hurry to see all of those working with the final release…
But on the plus side, 1.0 versions of smaller mods are starting to trickle out now, including Rei’s Minimap, Millenaire, TooManyItems, Single Player Commands, etc.
Pogo
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Yeah it seems like this is the type of big release that’s gonna have to take a while to get rolling.
DocLazy
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It’s a shame but not too surprising. Thought it was a bit weird when she started ripping off other mods using the forge. It’s a shame really as the forge made things a hell of a lot easier for the end user.
DeepT
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I knew it would be a while for mods to become compatible with 1.0. So before 1.0 came out, I did a force update to the 1.8.1 mod. I had been playing with IC2, BTW, and Buildcraft. I wanted to drop BTW because I wanted to use the additional pipes mod and it seemed to have a problem with BTW.
So long story short I am having an issue of Minecraft just having a black screen after login after following these steps (I narrowed it down to this):
Fresh 1.8.1 minecraft.jar.
Use the MCPatcher to patch for high rez textures. I run a test and MC works fine.
I install Modloader and modloader MP. I test MC and it runs fine.
I install Minecraft forge. I test minecraft and get a black screen.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? I did this with Minecraft forge 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
Lamalo
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You ought to consider maybe switching to Optifine instead of MCPatcher.
Hopefully all the modders just switch to Spout once the client and server APIs have been fully implemented.
DeepT
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Speaking of Bukkit, what the hell is it? I see it talked about. I went to their web page (or a web page) and it talked about how to install it, but nothing on what it actually does.
Bukkit is basically a complete reimplementation from scratch of the Minecraft server, with built-in hooks to support server-side mods, and there are already a bunch of mods to enhance the chat system, make administration easier, roll back griefing damage, etc.
Not all server mods support Bukkit though, so depending on what mods you want to run, you have to choose between Bukkit+Bukkit Plugins or Vanilla Server+ModLoaderMP+MLMP mods. There’s a project to get ModLoaderMP mods running under Bukkit, but it seemed kind of awkward to use the last time I looked.
Teiman
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The minecraft modding community is weird to me
I use to be modder, my mod was a quake engine, and the modding community was like a big frienly family. I have very few people on my facebook profile, and i am proud to habe a few modders there because is the best people you can get.
My small experience modding minecraft was fun but i did a lot of nodding with my head.
Don’t ever change, Teiman.
