Sneak Peek at 1.7!

[Shenorai]

Firstly, these pistons are just damn sexy:

Secondly, here's a list from the MineWiki (before Curse went down):

• Adventure update, to flesh out the game a bit and make exploration and combat more rewarding.[1][2] Note that this is not necessarily Adventure Mode.
• New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/new generated areas.[3]
• Shift+Click on items will work correctly.[4]
• The Clay bug will be fixed.[5]
• Labels for items will be added.[6]
• Shears, will be the only way to harvest wool from sheep without hurting them.[7][8]
• They also destroy wool and leaf blocks faster than by hand.[9]
• Using shears will be a legitimate way to obtain placeable leaf blocks.[10]
• TNT will only be activated by redstone or fire, so picking up TNT will be possible.[11]
• Wool particle colours fixed.[12]
• Multiplayer server list.[13]
• Pistons.[14][15]
• Sticky Pistons will be included as well. They will be made with slime balls.[16][17]
• Spike blocks, Jeb initially considered spike pistons then decided to make a spike block that can be pushed by the sticky piston [18]
• Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up.[19]
• New "scary" mob added.[20]
• New improved lighting — day/night cycles will not require chunk updates.[21] Lighting will be updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.[22]
• Warmer light from torches.[23]
• New textures for cobblestone (and moss stone) blocks.[24]
• Torches placable on fences.[25]
• Possibly Experience Orbs. Has not been confirmed by Notch, but is a possible explanation for the twitter clues he's been leaving.
• Other secret projects. [26]
• Huge Mushrooms [27]
• Use for Slimeballs: Slimeballs have been confirmed to be used in the creation of Sticky Pistons.[28]

Speculation time!

What do you think the new scary mob will be? Will it be dragons? Or some other monstrosity inspired by one of many mods?

 

[mr_pi3]

oooh, sharks? ghosts? giant creeper? could be anything really do we know when its gonna be released?

 

[Oxea]

Sharks would be fun!

 

[Shenorai]

Not sure as of yet. Could be soon, though...

 

[Oxea]

I wonder how experience orbs could potentially affect us.

 

[Justaz101]

Can't wait for the spikes. You can make a whole bunch of traps with them and the pistons.

 

[DanVonTrap]

Nice im looking foward to this, but im not looking foward to everything being temporally broken lol

 

[Kainzo]

Going to definitely be awesome - I can't wait.

 

[mr_pi3]

lol, with the experience orbs we'll probablyhave two parallel sets of levels to gain

 

[Justaz101]

lol, with the experience orbs we'll probablyhave two parallel sets of levels to gain

Great, just what I needed, more grinding.

 

[Draskuul]

I've been waiting a long time for pistons, so glad to see them almost here. Unfortunately Notch nerfed them quite a bit from what the original mod did.

lol, with the experience orbs we'll probablyhave two parallel sets of levels to gain

I would imagine those orbs are only for MC running in Adventure mode. I don't see the server changing modes unless the Heroes plugins were integrated with the new Adventure mode.

 

[Punisher79]

Wow. Just.... Wow. Cant wait for pistons. And shears.

@Kainzo craftable by only Smiths?

 

[Doogler]

New scary mob, pistons, and new textures. nice.

 

[Robertwest]

"New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/new generated areas.[3]" So we wont have that for a while? Or @Kainzo will wait with expanding the map until this

 

[Kainzo]

Wow. Just.... Wow. Cant wait for pistons. And shears.

@Kainzo craftable by only Smiths?

we dont have craft only items yet.. we may.

 

[gabizou]

I think it'd be cool to see huge mushrooms... imagine mushroom the size of a house.... Smurfs anyone?