Frontier updating to MC 1.4.7 on Sat night [now ready]

[Sorontar]

At long last, we are able to update the Frontier server to Minecraft version 1.4.7.

So, what will this mean? Well, there are plenty of new things to delight and surprise you.

• Portals work for any entity, including mobs and minecarts. You can no longer walk through a portal without activating it.
• For breeding, use seeds for chickens and carrots for pigs
• Pigs can be controlled when ridden.
• Added beacons
• Added anvils to repair tools, apply enchantments from enchanted books or other tools and name items
• Leather armour can be coloured.
• Add the Wither as a boss mob (Note the rule about where you can create and fight a Wither - a separate thread will elaborate)
• Add the witch and witch's hut, wither skeletons
• Mobs now occasionally spawn wearing armour which may be dropped on death
• Villagers form opinions of players based on their interactions
• Zombies can infect villagers but players can cure them
• Added flowerpots, cobblestone walls, picture frames, mob heads
• Added potatoes, carrots, pumpkin pie
• Changed what XP is earned from a little
• Fireworks added

and more. See Version history - Minecraft Wiki for more details.

So you can now do much more if you want to face the challenge and return to the basics of what is almost vanilla Minecraft. The borders will be increased to give players more space to explore and build, find new vegetables and villagers, and generate witches' huts.

But beware of what may come through your portals. Not only can you no longer just run through them (as they activate on contact) but who knows what may come visiting from the other side! You might want to rearrange things before the update.

Thank you for your patience,

Sorontar

[MadMax]

"The borders will be increased to give players more space to explore and build" .....yay.

Thanks Sor and co.

[Fox]

Okay, so, ive a portal right next to my bed. Can i temp disable it by remove one block?

My other option is to use this as an excuse to build a new negastructure house ...

Thanks for the hard work!

[Sorontar]

Yep, removing a block will turn it off.

[DaedalusAlpha]

Originally Posted by Sorontar

Yep, removing a block will turn it off.

You can also simply move the bed and give the portal it's own small room with a door.

[Obsi]

The nether pathway system might need to be fixed up, as for memory there are a few portals you need to walk through to continue along the corridor, which you won't be able to do now.

[Sorontar]

The Nether world mapping outside the existing Overworld border will probably be regenerated too so as to allow players access to glowstone. This may result in regenerating some Nether fortresses and spawners.

Note that this will need to happen again once MC 1.5 arrives, due to the Nether quartz being added as a resource in the Nether.

I can't make any promises when Frontier will be ready. Presume Sunday morning.

Sorontar

[Dazaroo]

woohoo

[Carm]

can't wait to have a run on it

[Sorontar]

Okay Frontier is up now. The border has been extended from 2000 from (0,0) to 3000 from (0,0).

The Wild West PVP area has also been extended to the new border. The marked WW border has been loosely extended along its eastern edge to the new world border but no extension has been made yet on the west side. Remember, if you build in there, your construction can be raided/damaged/boobytrapped.

UPDATE: Problems with servers, so still Admin only for a while