Would you like a restart of Minecraft? Cause apparently people don't like 1.7, and hate 1.8. And my friends don't play it much anymore because it's so blocky. Would you like Minecraft to be more realistic and turn into a real Survival Game and no blocky crap, etc.? Now that I think about it I kinda do. I just don't want the biomes Roofed Forest and Ice Spikes removed. The other 1.7 biomes have got to go. I don't really care about mesa anymore, I just want a cool canyon biome to live in. I get way too many mesa biomes on Singleplayer anyway.
All games have to change to stay fresh, aside from Call of Duty, who can just add a new gun and millions of 14 year old children will buy the new game. MineCraft changed alright, just went the opposite way. I think the best thing they did was allow us to use older versions.
To me its fine the way it is. Anyway if you want a canyon biome, just wander around the whole world until you find one. I did that and found one. Plus Minecraft was built the way it is now, because that's the way designer wanted it. So why want to change! Its perfect the way it is.
Im sure there are other games you can play besides Minecraft haha. There are a lot of great games out there.
Actually notch promised many features to make it play like other survival games, but it never happened and minecraft was then given over to jeb.
try Rust, it's a more realistic looking survival game with crafting and pickaxes and gathering supplies and fighting mobs/other players
As for the lag, well, it's a game. Written in Java. There's gonna be lag. Honestly, this game, compared to a lot of others, takes up practically no space at all. Blacklight: Retribution - 9.4 GB Chivalry: Medieval Warfare - 4.9 GB Counter Strike: Global Offensive - 6.3 GB Counter Strike: Source - 4.3 GB Half-Life 2 - 8.3 GB Planetside 2 - 12.8 GB Minecraft? 140 MB. It would take 31 Minecrafts to equal the space Counter Strike: Source takes. Of course, this varies depending on how many worlds you have, how large they are, and the amount of custom content you have installed. This is just me, I have 1 world which is fair size, and no mods installed. Back on topic, I don't like the direction Minecraft is headed, but like Zamb said, we've always got the older versions. And yes, I'd like to see it re-written. In C/C++.
I understand how Java programs tend to lag at some point, but the lag on my laptop (which sucks) is unbelievable. I just wish there wwere some ways to have make it less laggy
Yeah. Most laptops aren't really gaming caliber. Back when I tried playing on a laptop I was lucky to get 30FPS on tiny render distance. By the way, games are going to lag even if they're not written in Java. It's just that Java is worse than others.
Laptops are not great gaming machines unless you happen to have the ones with 16gb ram (most do 8gb). My laptop is budget and i can get away with 80 fps using optifine and have fancy graphics on) off works better as my texture pack still looks amazing I always tend to lag in the first minte of playing, and when going into a more populated biome and the nether lags so much im not going to bother going there
You should limit your FPS to 60. Getting higher FPS than your monitor's (or in this case, you're laptop screen's) refresh rate causes screen tears. Edit: just in case you don't know, this is what screen tears look like.
I probably should But ive had no issues before. Usually i do limit it fps. I think the first time i played, and played heaps got me up to 100 fps and my laptop hated me i bet i play servers now and i get under 60, but still playable. *goes to get optifine for 1.7.4*
First up, my MC folder is close to 400 MB, not counting saves and resource packs. With saves (and backups etc) and 3 resource packs, my MC folder is 4.6GB. Definitely comparable HDD wise. But in this day and age, HDD space is cheap, currently around 4.5c/GB. Compare that to RAM which is around $7 per GB, or 150 times more expensive. Minecraft can regularly take up 2GB of RAM, where the games you mentioned above hover around the 1GB mark. Heck the launcher itself takes up 128MB of RAM.
You're right about memory. That's one place where Minecraft is and has always been terrible. But 4.6 GB? I've never even come close. You must have a lot of saves in there. Also, like I said, the size of that folder varies from person to person. For me right now, .minecraft is 140 MB total. Including saves. And yeah you're right. I'm running Windows on a 2 TB HDD and Linux on a 1 TB right now. Not expensive at all.
