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Minecraft to get portals between servers, eventually

by Richard Mitchell on Oct 20th 2010 6:40PM

Minecraft maestro Markus Persson recently updated his blog with a progress report on his new studio, Mojang Specifications, and news about the upcoming Halloween update for the game. He notes that Mojang has found a building and now includes six employees: three programmers, a pixel artist, a CEO and a business developer.

As for the Halloween update, Persson says it will include six new block types, five of which have "unique abilities." There will also be a new monster, "a new dimension" and portals. Persson explained later in a tweet that these portals will eventually be able to link between different Minecraft servers, though this functionality won't be implemented anytime soon.

So, can monsters use portals? If so, we totally would not build a transdimensional monster funnel leading directly inside of another player's meticulously crafted fortress. So, feel free to invite us to a game and leave us alone in the back room for a few minutes ... okay?

Via: Big Download
Source: The Word of Notch, @notch [Twitter]

Tags: mac, Markus-Persson, Minecraft, Mojang-Specifications, pc, portals

Reader Comments (34)

Man, it always strikes me as amazing that the Game of the Year is still in Alpha.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Oh I second that.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

They've got an Alpha release out for Fable 3 now?

@This Little Man Says His Name Is
Shitstorm inbound.

@Dr Acula

Man your battle stations

@This Little Man Says His Name Is The only thing Fable 3 is going to do is exist.

@Credge

And that's all it needs to do to be a better game then Minecraft.

It's surprising how a simple game like Minecraft can be such a hit with the community. Just goes to show you looks aren't eveything

@Prboi

Actually, the looks have their own appeal. I very much lke th default look... Something appealing about a entire world composed of cubes. It should also be noted that many people apply hi-res textures modifications to the game.

I need to play Minecraft with my friends... but not beeing immortal... pleeease! Release the damn update already!

@Chazzr

Ahem

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/3762597413/

Portals between servers. I can honestly say I never would have thought to implement that.
String myJaw = "on the floor."

@Faren22

I think i'v seen some in the classic mode, however I could be mistaken.

Notch couldn't successfully accomplish this if he had unlimited resources. Nothing personal and i love minecraft but notch needs to just stick with adding blocks, animals, tools, etc because the more advanced crap he adds, the more he breaks the game...or fails horribly each time.

Being an optimist is great and all but you have to know your limitations and notch's are basic Java coding

@Ray5780
He said it would be pretty far in the future. If he can't do it, then I'm sure he won't put it into the game broken. And he is adding more blocks and animals and stuff in the Halloween update.
You do realize he's hiring a team to work on minecraft right? This isn't a one-man job anymore.

@Ray5780

-Run into portal
-Loading screen (which is actually disconnecting you from current server and reconnecting you to another server)
-Come out of other side of portal

Servers wouldn't even have to be linked to each other or have permission from another server's admins to "portal" to them, but the portals would have to be told what IP they are connecting to after they disconnect...Kinda like how you tell it what IP you want to play SMP on now, but its a portal within a server telling the game to do it if you ever run through it. Doesn't sound like it would take much to figure out how to program that in.

@stoneNboneCDXX
Mczall server software (and maybe others) already have portals between worlds on their servers, it would be a piece of cake to do the same thing between servers, but I don't really see a major need for it at this point.

@ArcaneAmoeba

Only thing I could see it for is to have a public world set up that anyone could log into and a portal to a "VIP/Whitelisted" world for regulars.

Otherwise I don't really care for this. Was just trying to show how simple the concept behind it was.

Im tempted to buy thiss, the browser demo was addictive... even tho it was jsut making stuff.. but $13 for a lag fest of a "game"... I dont know :/

@Faenix
If you're not into "just making stuff" then minecraft probably isn't the game for you.

@ArcaneAmoeba

Well the full game is having you mine stuff, cut trees, hide from enemiess.. or something.

Theres more in the "full game" then the browser "Demo". Thats all I meant. Browser was just building stuff, there was no purpose (I made a gigantic castle)

@Faenix Also its an EXE that you can change settings on when you download it.

Im using a Dell Dimension 4400 from 2002 with 2 GB ram and a 1 GHz processor. I can Barely run L4D2 and 1 and I still bought them XD

@Faenix
Yes, but survival (alpha) mode is still primarily about building up a fortress, with a side of exploration. Personally, I am much more fond of creative mode because there are no limits on what you can create.
@Wazzup4567
I think he probably meant that online is a lag-fest, but I'm not really sure. Creative can sometimes can get laggy when people start using commands. Then again, some people can have lag issues when the fog render distance is set to far if their computer sucks.

Well then, if there's a new monster, than I'm assuming the halloween update will let us KILL them too. (In Multiplayer that is.)

I'm going to sound like a noob right here, but what exactly IS Minecraft?

*prepares for onslaught of downvotes*

@Burnflare
"Minecraft is a game about placing blocks while running from skeletons. Or something like that.."

Or Penny Arcade's interpretation:
Part 1: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1010842689_DYj3P-L.jpg
Part 2: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1015419613_NYok6-L.jpg

@Burnflare Imagine Sim City. Now, ignore that. Now imagine Dungeon Keeper. Now, ignore that. Now imagine Harvest Moon. Now, ignore that. Now imagine Lego. Now, ignore that.

Combine those things and you get minecraft.

Also, a train simulator or something.

@Credge Look at minecraft, now look at these. Now back to minecraft, now, back to these. Thankfully, minecraft is not these, but it can seem like these.

@Chazzr

You do realize that the portal in the image is just a photoshop... And games used portals long before Portal.

I know I'd love this game, but sadly my PC just can't run it.

@Zacxx201
Scratch that. Just installed Firefox and it works perfectly on it. I guess it's not compatible with Chrome. I know what I'm buying tomorrow :)

@Zacxx201
I've got Chrome, it works perfectly on my PC. Also, if you bought the game, you don't need to run it from your browser, but as an .exe-file.

Going through that portal looks like it would result in a long fall.

The world I'm currently on has a bit of a cliff beside my house. I've dug into the side of the cliff. Scary as hell when the sun is at midday to walk between the cave and the house, to be attacked by a bloody spider remaining alive somehow ready to stalk me.

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Posted: Oct 20th 2010 6:42PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

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