Minecraft (online Lego essentially)

I would never joke about Minecraft, Mr Litsix.


Minceraft, a post mortem - Notch

We've tried adding secrets to the game before. Small things, like obscure crafting recipes or weird behavior, and everything always gets figured out immediately. No matter how obscure we make a new feature, it's fully documented within hours of a new release. This is awesome, and a great example of how dedicated some Minecraft players are, but it also means we can't really hide anything good in the game even if we tried.
So a while ago, I did some intentionally obscure code in the title screen to switch two letters around, making it say "Minceraft" (old running gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) instead of "Minecraft" on every 10000th game launch or so, and nobody found it! I was so happy about that, I finally knew something about the game the players didn't know.
Flash forward to this GDC a few days ago, I'm doing an interview with Chris Hecker, and he asks me if there's anything nobody has found in the game, and I say yes. I should've said no, but I said yes. Then I start getting emails and tweets about it, people start getting excited, and knowing how minor the secret is, I try to tell people it's a very minor secret. That seems to fuel the flames. A reporter from a well known gaming site wants to run an article on it, and I tell him not to. Getting people hyped up about an intentional typo isn't really a good way to spend everyone's time.
There's a lot of cool stuff to learn from this, though. One is that it IS possible to hide stuff in plain sight, but once people go looking for it, they will find it. Another thing is that people seem to want to get excited over things, even if you tell them it's nothing major.
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if anyone has any advice on downgrading my newly purchased copy of minecraft from 1.2.5 to 1.1 it would be much appreciated. i need 1.1 for technic pack 6 (because i'm too impatient to wait for the downgrading patch to be added)
 
MCNostalgia perhaps?

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/800346-tool-mcnostalgia-211-now-works-with-125/

I just upgraded (although i thought i was already on 1.2.5?), running into a lot of missing textures/stuff. I thought pigs were sheep because they were completely white, the crafting table menu was just white with some text and going underwater gives this weird circle of text that basically surrounds you. May have been to do with my trying out screen recording but i don't see how...
 
the patch has already been released, and i'm happily playing with the technic pack :D

well, i was happily playing on the technic pack before a giant ogre stomped through the lovely house i found :(
does anyone know how i could ogre proof my house on the first day?
 
does anyone know the recipe for the centrifuge extractor and the singularity compressor on technic?
i've looked EVERYWHERE and cant find it. ive even tried my own recipes to no avail. i know i could just cheat it in, but i'm trying to do a run through without cheating so i really dont want to do that.
 
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