Road to Minecraft 1.0, Day 4: Infdev 2010-03-30
Tuesday. Real date: 2 September 2025 Time machine: 30 March 2010 Recorded playtime: 8 hours, 27 minutes Back at it again. I haven't played since the last update, as I've been busy watching anime and playing... other Minecraft. This is a very minor update. Notch basically pitched it as a bugfix update, but if you want to get technical, he kind of added a feature: the IsPopulated NBT tag. Now, when chunks are loaded, the world generator checks if they are populated even if they are already generated. I'm not entirely sure why it is done this way, but I assume it separates the terrain and feature sections of the generation algorithms in such a way that it speeds up the generation process. This feature has the side effect of making wood a non-renewable resource in this version, as trees you cut down no longer magically reappear when the world is reloaded. Saplings don't grow yet, so that was the only way to replenish the world's wood supply. Now, we must simply...
