Minecraft 1.5 features and release date set

Looks like you can tame the wolves using bones.

Quote :

We picked November 11, with the unofficial tagline “us too”.
It’s the same date as a few other games and movies, and the one I’m the most excited about is Skyrim, so that will be a nice reward for me if we actually manage to hit that date!

Notch says that they are going to release the full game on 11/11/11. But they will keep adding stuff when the full game is released.

Quote :

We’ve been working on finishing up Achievements and Statistics for 1.5, I ran into some issues with JSON, got frustrated, and added weather instead. Developing new features like that is what I enjoy doing the most, so I ended up covering a lot of ground. There’s periodic downfall (snow in snowy areas, rain in others, nothing in deserts) that make the sky darker, hides the sun, moon and stars, and makes everything wet. Ice grows back in cold regions, and snowfall covers the ground when it’s snowing. During rain/snow, there can be occasional thunderstorms with lightning. I haven’t finished the actual lightning bolt yet, but everything else is fairly done.
Once the stats are done and the weather has been tested through, we’ll release 1.5. I’m guessing this will be next week. The piston mod might get added, but it will not be in time for 1.5.

Cant wait for the weather to be added. When it snows the water freezes and makes ice. The achievements could be a cool feature too. This video from Notch basically shows some basic ideas in the 1.5 update.

Wondering where im getting all this from? Its from notches blog, probably the best way to keep updated about the game: http://notch.tumblr.com/

The weather goes from snow to rain at 1:31 like theres an invisible wall there
Also the weather cycle is too fast, it goes from downpoor to sunny about 3 times over the course of 3 minutes, maybe that was just for demonstration purposes though

Pat1487 wrote:

Also the weather cycle is too fast, it goes from downpoor to sunny about 3 times over the course of 3 minutes, maybe that was just for demonstration purposes though

The video description on youtube says: "Just a quick video to show off the stuff coming in 1.5. Rain and especially thunder is waaay too common in this test, for demo purposes."

Oh wow, i said it almost exactly like he did

More from Notch about the 1.5 update:

Quote :

We were aiming at releasing 1.5 this week, but no. There’s been significant feature creep (we’ve got powered rails now, and lightning hitting a pig will turn it into a zombie pigman), so we don’t have time to get it out this week.

But next week!

I havent even made normal rails yet so the powered rails mean nothing until i learn to use rails.
The zombie pigman just seems pointless and just something they did out of boredom. There are probably small chances that a pigman will actually be created too.

Powered rails is gonna be sooo sick