A Mod Review - SMP Capes (ZaphodX)

A link to download : The Cape Mod!

Pros:

1.                    Simple to put on/make a cape; didn’t take 5 minutes!

2.                   You can have any design, or even create your own!

3.                   Easy to install; drag in two files into minecraft.jar

4.                   Works in singleplayer and multiplayer.

5.                   You can use the Minecon Special Edition cape!

Cons:

1. 1.       It glitched twice, for me, and wouldn’t change my cape.

What Can Be Improved/Added:

1.                   Add in a bit on your website, which will allow people to post/download new capes!

Overall: Overall, I would give you [10/10 diamonds!], this is because it is an absolutely awesome mod

(The video will be uploaded to my youtube channel, later!

A Mod Review - JP's Light Mod

Pros:

1.  Simple recipes; the making of the lamp, in particular, was very easy and if anyone was to use this mod on Adventure mod they would have lovely looking lamps with ease.
2. The lights are very bright; they could easily stop hostile mobs spawning and they are just a powerful as torches, but they look better!
3. There is a variety of types; there is brick ones, smooth stone ones, cobblestone ones and wooden planks ones
4. The wooden plank lamps work well on fences; they have the same texture and when put on top the fence looks super-cool. It could make a cool entrance, using the fences and lamps!
5. The wall-lamps look good on walls of their type; the cobblestone ones look rather nice on a cobblestone wall, etc.
6. The mod was easy-to-install; all I needed was to put in the files and ModLoader and I was away! This is the sort of mod I like to install.
7. There was no bugs/glitches during the process; but there was my lava at the beginning of the video :L
8. You can collide with the lamps; so you cannot walk through them like torches, this works well with a small entrance. When you put two lamps side-by-side they leave a small gap you can walk through!
9. If you place them on top of each other then destroy the bottom they both go; this is handy and a clever bit of programming

Cons:

1. Only two different types of light; I would have liked a block like the new lamp in 1.2
2. I wanted stone-brick lamps; as many people build stone-brick castles, etc.
3. The lamps cannot be placed on top of each other; this is good, but I did want to put them on top of each other.

What Can Be Improved/Added:

1. As I said, I want stone-brick lamps for all those castle-builders.
2. Possibly a lamp alike the new one in the 1.2 snapshot (12w07b), maybe needs just a lever no redstone?
3. The stacks of the lamps to be 16 instead of 64, as they are big and personally I think have them in 16’s suits them.

Overall: Overall, I would give you [9/10 diamonds!], this is because it is an awesome mod, but as I said I want stone-brick ones, then it would be [10/10 diamonds!]!

A link to download : Here is the link to the Light Mod!

(The video will be uploaded to my youtube channel, later!

Update Log - Minecraft 1.2!

Jeb has recently tweeted that there will be new:

• Maximum build height has been increased to 256 (was 128)
• Empty sections of the world are not loaded into memory
• Block ids have been increased to 4096 (was 256) by adding a 4 bit data layer (similar to how meta data is stored)
• Block ordering have been changed from x/z/y to y/z/x in order to improve compression
• Packets for sending chunks have been updated (a full 128-high chunk is smaller than the old format, and a chunk with lots of empty space is much smaller)
• Biomes are saved per x/z column, which means they can be altered by tools

He also said that the next snapshot will be out on the 15th (tomorrow) instead of Thursday!

*Also next weeks top 5 will be the top 5 minecraft minecart tracks!

Minecraft Top 5 Creations -- 14/02/2012 Redstone Contraptions!

To apply just follow this simple tutorial on how to send me your world.
Step 1. Download either WinRAR/7zip and install it.
Step 2. Locate your world save (C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves <-- It should be in this folder) (Or just type in %appdata% into Run).
Step 3. Right-click on the folder (that is your world - for example world1);
WinRAR: After right-clicking click "add to archive" then select .zip instead of .rar and click okay.
7zip: After right-clicking go into 7zip and click "add to .zip"
Step 4. Go to media fire and upload the .zip file.
Step 5. Post your username and a link to your save on media fire.

-NOTE- Please copy either a tiny video or a few pictures into your .zip file before uploading it to media fire.