First TWP articles

Ok, I noticed I actually also write lots of stuff for the Weekly Pickaxe. I decided to also post articles I wrote on here, to have a bit of an archive of stuff I wrote.
This will first of all be a dump of articles of previous issues...

First is the first few articles I wrote for TWP

 Minecraft News December 2nd 2011
By The_Other_Retard.

Minecon is over and Minecraft finally got released, now what?

Well, Minecraft development goes on, even if Notch is taking a break for a while Jeb is full on squashing bugs where Wiki members point him to.

But even if Minecraft 1.0 is already out for almost a week there are still some mods waiting to be updated. Main reason was the dependency of lot of mods on Minecraft Coder Pack, which got released only a few days ago. Lots of modpacks still are waiting for some core mods to be updated
The Technic pack for example still is missing an IndustrialCraft², as Buildcraft is already available for the Final Release.
Because of this lots of mods provide support for earlier versions of Minecraft, especially 1.8.1, while Minecraft Nostalgia and Minecraft Downgrader enjoy lots of downloads...

A very positive aspect of the most recent update is the absence of th usual patch-updates. There's been only one and only for the server.jar, so most Minecrafters are still playing the 1.0.0 version. The reason for this almost unusual update is the "leaking" of PreRelease files, basically unfinished versions of the game so the Minecraft Community could test the game for bugs and glitches. Most of it was communicated with Jeb through MinecraftWiki pages, which resulted in a very smooth Minecraft release.
A fun fact with these PreReleases was the accidental presence of some debug features, like the 1x1 glass towers in Prerelease 3, or the Camera Mode in PreRelease 5. It was very quickly communicated (mostly through Twitter) that they were debug features.

One feature Notch said he felt sorry for not being in the most recent update was the Modding API, as he was promising this for a long time, but it should be added very soon.

Yesterday (December 1st) Jeb released a "weekly Minecraft snapshot", a .jar file of minecraft with the version of Minecraft Jeb is working on at the moment. This gives voluteers of the Community the opportunity to dive in and search for bugs to help Jeb in debugging it further. Downloadlinks are on the [url=http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/833222-new-prerelease-is-available/]Minecraft Forums[/url] and on [url=http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_/statuses/142250239871561729]Twitter[/url].


-----JUST IN-----

Notch has anounced on his [url=http://notch.tumblr.com/post/13633493969/och-med-dom-orden-sa-passar-jag-micken]Tumblr Blog[/url] that from now on Jeb will be the lead developper of Minecraft. This in fact doesn't change much as Jeb already was doing the major part of the development, but now he will be officially in charge of Minecraft while Notch will be helping out as well as starting a new project.
So Jeb will working on Minecraft by himself until January when a new programmer will be joining him. Jeb feels his main responsibility now will be creating a Modding API, but he warns the release will be not sooner than March.


That's about all about the state of Minecraft at the moment.
I hope to write more.

- ThOR



Outtakes:

For those who didn't or couldn't make it to Minecon there are lots (really LOTS) of video's, blogs, vlogs, tweets, threads and post to be found only about it. Just a simple Google search will do to give you enough stuff to fill some hours of not playing Minecraft.(didn't want to add this as it's pretty obvious for everyone who follows minecraft stuff)

 That was one ... I think I'll need a few posts to dump all this...

*opening next .txt file*
Hrrm, even more...
Ok, next one will be spread over 2 posts.