Minecon aftermath

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So MINECON is over, and I’m sitting here in McDonalds waiting for the Eurostar to take me back to Merry old England. As it turns out, the modding panel went amazingly well: over 700 people showed up, and I got to meet loads of awesome fans and figures from the Minecraft community. The experience was exhilarating, and I’m definitely down for doing something like this again. Here’s the panel, recorded by the guys at Gamespot:

From left to right, the panellists are Sacheverell of minecraftforum.net, Searge and ProfMobius of the Minecraft Coder Pack, myself, Matt from MineZ, Erik from bukkit and mojang, and Austin from MineZ. Massive thanks to all of them, and everyone else I got to meet over the weekend. Good times :D

#minecon

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Minecon minecon miiiinnnneeeecooooonn

Today is an exciting day. Why? Because I’m headed to MINECON in Paris to talk about ComputerCraft! I’ll be talking on the panel Minecraft Modding with the Pros on Saturday at 1PM in The Stronghold, at the New York Convention Centre. It’s unlikely to be streamed live by Gamespot, as it clashes with a talk by notch, but it will probably be recorded and available to watch online after the event for people who aren’t going.

If you are going, I hope to see you there! When I’m not hosting the panel, I’ll be happy to talk to anyone who wants to say Hi. If you Follow me on Twitter, i’ll be posting quite regularly with where I am (and what I look like), so I should be easy to spot.

Viva le Minecraft!

Minecraft 1.4.5, and some 3D Printing

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So Minecraft was updated today, to version 1.4.5. Normally when this happens this means I have to release a new version of ComputerCraft, but this time the obfuscation mappings didn’t change, so the already released version 1.47 just works! I hope this becomes a thing, and all updates in future can be this simple. Check the post below for the download link.

In community news, lua superstar Nitrogenfingers just produced his most impressive creation yet, a graphics-driven visual 3D printing system using Turtles and Advanced Computers, check it out:

Nitrogenfingers wrote the “paint” program that comes pre-installed on the Advanced Computers in ComputerCraft, and this system expands the capabilities of this program tenfold, with amazing results. What’s more, he’s offered the entire thing for you to download and use on the ComputerCraft forums. I love the things our Community creates, and I’m definitely planning on showing off stuff like this to anyone who will listen at MINECON this weekend.

More on that later…

ComputerCraft 1.47, and Minecon news!

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First things first: A new Minecraft update came out today, and with it, a new ComputerCraft:

Downloads:

ComputerCraft requires Minecraft 1.4.4 or 1.4.5 and the recommended version of Minecraft Forge for your Minecraft version. Once forge is installed, drop ComputerCraft1.47.zip into your /mods/ directory, and launch the game.

New Features:

  • Ported to Minecraft 1.4.4
  • Fixed label tooltips not showing up in SMP

In other news: In response to the pitch video I recorded last month, I’ve been invited to speak on the Minecraft Modding panel at MINECON in Paris the weekend after next, with Searge from the Minecraft Coder Pack, and others! This is a huge and slightly scary thing! The panel will mostly be about modding in general, but I’d love to talk to fans about ComputerCraft if I get the right questions. If you’re going to the con, hit me up on Twitter, and maybe I’ll see some of you there.

Happy Hacking!

ComputerCraft 1.45 – Now in Color

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It's spelt Colour really.

Downloads:

ComputerCraft requires Minecraft 1.3.2 and at least version 275 of Minecraft Forge. Once forge is installed, simply drop ComputerCraft1.45.zip into your /mods/ directory, and launch the game.

This update adds one of the longest requested features to ComputerCraft: Colour Terminals! I’m really looking forward to seeing what kind of apps and games people make with this :D . This version also marks the first release of ComputerCraft where all the beta testing was done in public: After a bumpy start, it went quite well, so it’s something we’re going to keep doing in future. If you want to beta test future versions of ComputerCraft ahead of their wide release and help us fix bugs, check out the Beta Testing area on the ComputerCraft forums.

New Features:

  • Added Advanced Computers
  • Added Advanced Monitors
  • New program: paint (by nitrogenfingers)
  • New API: paintutils
  • New term functions: term.setBackgroundColor( color ), term.setTextColor( color ), term.isColor()
  • New turtle function: turtle.transferTo( slot, [count] )

Happy hacking! If you enjoy ComputerCraft, why not support my pitch to talk about it at Minecon this year?

ComputerCraft 1.43 – Printed Books!

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Reading is fun and educational

Downloads:

ComputerCraft requires Minecraft 1.3.2 and at least version 275 of Minecraft Forge. Once forge is installed, simply drop ComputerCraft1.43.zip into your /mods/ directory, and launch the game.

New Features:

  • Added Printed Pages (bind several Printed Page items into one with string)
  • Added Printed Books (add a leather cover to the above)
  • Labelled Turtles now keep their fuel when broken
  • Fixed incompatibility with Forge 275 and above

Happy hacking!

ComputerCraft 1.42 is Released!

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Now with Printers!

Downloads:

ComputerCraft requires Minecraft 1.3.2 and a recent version of Minecraft Forge. Once forge is installed, simply drop ComputerCraft1.42.zip into your /mods/ directory, and launch the game.

New Features:

  • Ported to Minecraft 1.3.2 and the Forge mod system
  • Added Printers
  • Floppy Disks can now be dyed different colours
  • Wireless Crafty Turtles can now be crafted
  • All new textures
  • New Forge config file
  • Various tweaks and bug fixes

Important Note for players of previous versions:

ComputerCraft now uses Forge config files, instead of the old ModLoader ones. If you edited mod_ComputerCraft.cfg or mod_CCTurtle.cfg in a previous version to change Block or Item IDs, you need to change them correspondingly in the new ComputerCraft.cfg and CCTurtle.cfg before loading your old worlds, or you will lose your ComputerCraft items.

Happy hacking!

Status Update

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Hey all, here’s some things that have been happening in the world of ComputerCraft:

As some of you noticed, computercraft.info was down a lot of last month, due to us blowing our 100GB bandwidth limit. This is great, because it means lots of people are learning and talking about CC, but it wasn’t good for our hosting plan. Luckily, deadlystrike from Siegecraft stepped in with an extremely generous hosting offer, and now the site is much more fast and stable. If you haven’t, check out Siegecraft some time and show your thanks from the ComputerCraft community.

In update news, ComputerCraft is now running on 1.3.2, and we have a couple of very cool new features to boot. We’ll soon be entering beta testing, so release shouldn’t come a lot later. Watch this space and thanks for being patient. While you wait, check out me, in famed YouTuber direwolf20‘s SMP Let’s Play series. I’ve recently been granted access to the server, and today’s episode features me showing off a lot of contraptions I built over the weekend with ComputerCraft!

If you’re new to CC, and you want to learn more about programming, check out the following series from KleebCo. It’s best tutorial for absolute beginners that I’ve seen:

Happy Hacking!