By Craig Pearson on January 14th, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
The secretive world of Minecraft snapshots, the semi-official weekly updates that Mojang puts out to test the updates, delivered a doozy of an update last week. It supports animated textures. The theory goes that people will use the textures to animate small blocks. So you could have fizzing fire crawling along a Redstone circuit, or maybe a you could use it to animate a powered circuit, like the frightening magic picture above. Cool, huh? Of course, some people have to take it too far.
You could just use it to animate every texture in the game, turning the world into a sliding, vomit-inducing puke hole of horror. This reminds me the carpet my old bank used to have. You’d stand in there, in the long line of robbers and old ladies, and the pattern would slurp and shift around in your peripheral vision. I honestly had to stand there and hold onto the counter, to fight the feeling of falling it would churn up. You have been warned.
Welcome to Pukecraft! The system is hugely flexible, and is only really constrained by PC power. Do you know what that means? That’s right! Behold!
Obviously the music is added for effect. I actually downloaded it to make sure I wasn’t being trolled. While it makes the game a bit unstable, and I had to allocate more RAM to it using Magic Launcher (which also let me run the new snapshot without replacing my main Minecraft install), but it worked. I even walked up to the wall and punched a hole in the video.
It was fun having a porn free Minecraft while it lasted.
14/01/2013 at 15:07 piphil says:
First video – what Minecraft should look like if you eat the wrong type of mushroom. And in the game.
14/01/2013 at 15:22 Gnoupi says:
No, this is what it looks like.
14/01/2013 at 16:25 AzureBlu says:
Acid trip mod + this + person actually on acid + youtube = ???
15/01/2013 at 01:51 marshabilly5 says:
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14/01/2013 at 17:20 Monkeh says:
In my experience this video (so not the one you linked) is more like a bad shroom trip.
I’m getting flashbacks just looking at this, not good. xD
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15/01/2013 at 06:05 DHP says:
With their powers combined, some early Bowie, Mulled wine and an Oculus there is a good possibility of breaking through to the other side. The possibility of return is rather slim though, I’m afraid.
14/01/2013 at 15:11 Meat Circus says:
What’s going on?
14/01/2013 at 15:15 Zunt says:
Lots of dried grass, apparently.
14/01/2013 at 16:01 killmachine says:
and the walls are melting.
14/01/2013 at 17:36 Eclipse says:
Ooh, Ooh, Oooohh, Oooohh, what’s up…
14/01/2013 at 15:13 Surlywombat says:
*goes back to mining his own business till the pun thread starts*
14/01/2013 at 15:16 Sp4rkR4t says:
The pun thread is nether going to start.
14/01/2013 at 15:36 Lambchops says:
You crafty rascal,
14/01/2013 at 15:38 RedViv says:
And then they’re just waiting for it to start, watching the thread like silly creepers.
14/01/2013 at 15:39 Chalky says:
I hope this isn’t going to get too creepery
*edit* son of a…
14/01/2013 at 16:40 FurryLippedSquid says:
I’m not sure this will add any depth. Colemandonkeypasty.
14/01/2013 at 16:41 Wololo says:
This thread lacks constructive comments.
14/01/2013 at 17:15 Tei says:
I have seen pun threads more animate than this. I think you guys need to craft better puns.
15/01/2013 at 02:11 qlhbqvrm says:
I’d rather see Jeb work on the engine. I dunno maybe Notch doesn’t comment his code and no one else can understand it.
http://www.game.co.uk/en/elder-scrolls-bundle-oblivion-goty-morrowind-goty-skyrim-hearthfire-and-dawnguard-199776?pageNumber=2&pageSize=20&searchTerm=skyrim&sortBy=MOST_POPULAR_DESC
14/01/2013 at 17:18 FurryLippedSquid says:
Yeah, I think we’ve hit rock bottom here. Must be the weather, very Chile out.
14/01/2013 at 19:15 Inglourious Badger says:
These puns are great, but not as good as Mine
14/01/2013 at 18:48 geldonyetich says:
Water vein.
14/01/2013 at 17:13 jrod says:
Pun threads are never going to ender around here! Ore will they?
14/01/2013 at 20:04 Rhuhuhuhu says:
That comment of you hits like a pickaxe on a pig…
14/01/2013 at 15:21 Gap Gen says:
Well, this has existed for ages, so it’s not like texturing whatever you wanted wasn’t always possible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFdzA2wI6c0
14/01/2013 at 16:36 LTK says:
Yeah, I had a stint in texturing months ago where I added a glint to diamonds, and a sheen to refined metals. It was pretty cool.
15/01/2013 at 08:30 Hmm-Hmm. says:
Oh man that’s.. well.. I’m speechless.
14/01/2013 at 15:27 Tei says:
I think it would be more interesting to have a shader or something that make the vertext of leaf block “wave” in X,Y,Z. Or something to make the nature in minecraft look like afected by wind. This feature looks like the type of “explotable” thing that modders will make really shine.
14/01/2013 at 15:42 Gap Gen says:
Someone modded shaders to do this kind of thing a while back, iirc.
14/01/2013 at 16:00 Hahaha says:
glsl shaders?
14/01/2013 at 19:24 Prime says:
https://www.facebook.com/SonicEther?fref=ts
14/01/2013 at 20:20 Tei says:
Pretty, but I have not seen the actual effect of leafs moving.
15/01/2013 at 06:31 zbeeblebrox says:
It’s an option in the mod. It’s set to off by default, since for actual gameplay it’s kind of annoying (what with the leaves swaying but their hit boxes staying in place). But it does look awesome in motion.
14/01/2013 at 15:37 RedViv says:
I want slimy, bubbly, truly intestine-like netherrack.
14/01/2013 at 15:39 Napalm Sushi says:
Huh. So that’s what madness looks like.
14/01/2013 at 22:56 Geen says:
I CAN SEE INTO FOREVER
14/01/2013 at 16:43 Reapy says:
Did I fall into a time machine back to 1992?
14/01/2013 at 22:17 Skabooga says:
Certainly on par with some of Doom 2′s more egregious animated textures transgressions. Rotating flesh pillars, I’m looking at you. And vomiting.
15/01/2013 at 18:45 Rawrian says:
If I remember correctly, it was more like a case of a special effect – you could make any texture on a wall scroll, it’s just that it was used only for those flesh pillars.
14/01/2013 at 16:51 SocraticIrony says:
Obligatory: Animate ALL the textures!
14/01/2013 at 22:33 fabulousfurrygingerfreakbrothers says:
I agree. I watched the whole of the second video expecting at some point the lintels and pillars to start spangling. Not a GTAIV-style programme. Sad :(
14/01/2013 at 18:05 SuicideKing says:
The first video kind of made me dizzy :|
14/01/2013 at 18:22 jeanjoan421 says:
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14/01/2013 at 20:04 fish99 says:
For $78 per hour, RPS can hire me to delete these spam posts.
14/01/2013 at 20:41 Mrice says:
I would be tempted to give you that my self.
14/01/2013 at 20:03 fish99 says:
I’d rather see Jeb work on the engine. I dunno maybe Notch doesn’t comment his code and no one else can understand it.
Since the 1.8 beta the engine has had some serious issues with large parts of the landscape becoming invisible, even on my desktop with 8gb ram and 64bit W7, plus it crashes on 32 bit systems if you have the draw distance on full. The game also runs worse and worse every update.
Not that it matters, I’ve played hundreds of hours and seen everything/done everything.
14/01/2013 at 20:30 FionaSarah says:
This feature comes as a side effect of rewriting the rendering engine AFAIK.
14/01/2013 at 21:03 spectone says:
I thought it had something to do with the way multiplayer and single player code bases were unified. Originally single player did everything in the one process. Now there are two separate processes, the single player game runs a server as one process and client as the other. I think that somehow the server process is not gaining enough processing power and has trouble loading in parts of the map when needed.
15/01/2013 at 18:47 Rawrian says:
I don’t know, I visit my hometown like twice a year and try running Minecraft on an old pc every time. Last week fps was considerably higher. There’s this bug with invisible blocks, though, but I suspect it might have something to do with integrated video – never saw it on my main PC.
15/01/2013 at 00:07 The Random One says:
Porn free Minecraft? Well, I suppose the kilometer-tall penises are more art than pornograpy, but still.
15/01/2013 at 00:27 Arkhonist says:
I suddenly feel extremely manly. Oh he-man…
15/01/2013 at 04:05 Liudeius says:
There’s nothing really special about this…
Any client that supported textures better than x16 already supported animated textures (At least I assume the HD patcher is what supports animated textures, I just use optifine since that bundles a bunch of stuff.)
It is good however, after Notch announcing that nothing better than x16 would be supported, to know that they actually came to the realization that HD textures are actually good to support.