Talk:Minecraft Wiki

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Data Values
I think that the Data Values page should be on the Popular Pages. Even with the addition of Creative mode for ops, some items still have to be given with /give. I constantly visit it.--12.230.127.220 17:13, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Sky Dimension
I think the sky dimension is replaced with the End, so should we still have it on the main page? Assisstion 23:00, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I concur!

The new netherworld mobs
the two new mobs of the netherworld are the Blaze and the Magma Cube --UnKnOwN10 15:42, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

1.8.1 is out
So you should update the version in main page. Thanks. -Alex_Aaa789


 * Also update the Beta server version, which is 1.8.1 too. --SwissTHX11384EB 18:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * From 1.8 minecraft is RPG

I need help regarding the demo
Hi, I'm interested in getting Minecraft so I downloaded the demo.

I play the demo and then it says it's loading but then the loading screen turns white and the whole window disappeared, I wondered at first if that's suppose to happen so I waited...for 20 minutes, nothing happened.

I've searched for an hour on google for topics about problems like this but I could only find people with lag problems, while I can't even get past the loading screen. I saw a youtube video that helps with a loading screen problem but my problem is different, the one in the video's is the actual game so menu looked different and their window didn't disappear when they loaded it.

Please help me with this problem, it's driving me nuts, I've tried updating drivers, graphic cards etc but none of that has changed anything.

(If I need to get a new one then please suggest it) Radeon165 9/7/11 5:30PM (Australia)
 * Please refer to the Minecraft Forums and/or the Minecraft IRC channel. This page is only for discussion about the main page.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  11:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Czech translation
I mean that small player of Minecraft need help but they don't speak English very good, so I want to transtlate pages on this wiki to Czech. If it is possible then send me e-mail jacktech24@gmail.com.
 * Simply add your name Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Czech translation and go to work! -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  20:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Updates
This is a little crazy, but, can some be on here and look at every page, or split it up between your admins, because there is a lot of old info on a lot of pages that have a purpose, but have old info. The Thunderstorm page, and a bunch of pages. And if something is confirmed to be an expansion of a block or item, please make a 'Future' Section, like I did with Pumpkins. From Moi, Ajc_1254 22:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC) (I'm sooooooo sorry i forgot soooooo long ago to do this!)

EGA 2011
Minecraft is nominated at the EGA 2011 in the categories "Best European Game," "Best Indie Game," "Best Online Game", "Best Game Design" and "Best Browser Game." Should we place a link on the mainpage? -- Oliver Scholz  de.Wiki Admin 02:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Release Date
The release is going to be during Minecon.Minecraft rocks!!! literally all I can find is rocks! 18:45, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Minecraft Pocket Edition
It's already out, you can remove it from Upcoming features. Piotrek 07:09, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

In Popular Pages
Just one minor edit:

Smelting Recipies -> Smelting Recipes. CosmoConsole 	 my page! my talk! my contributions! 18:44, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Foreign Language Versions
I understand that the foreign language pages are valuable. I actually like the idea, but there's a serious flaw with the current organization system in place for these pages: They clog up the auto-generated pages. Especially the "wanted pages" article.

I know many other Wikis (including Wikipedia and most of the sites on Wikia) use a prepending system to handle this. (en.minecraftwiki, es.minecraftwiki, he.minecraftwiki, etc) This would reduce the stress load on the collector functions and allow persons wishing to contribute to "broken pages" an easier time in finding them. Thanks much, BobChao 02:24, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * The prepending system is also used on Minecraft Wiki (see Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese versions), but only when translations are sufficiently advanced. There are many people who demand the establishment of a translation project, but that translation is not often done after… – Scaler (t) 08:35, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Alright, thank you very much. That makes it really easy to find only the pages for any one language except English. Is there any way to sort only pages that aren't, for instance, subpages or something to aid my contributions? BobChao 15:46, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Remove cascading protection
Don't unprotect this page.--Tag2902 18:14, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Why? Then we'd have to go and protect each template used on the page. – ultradude25 ( T at 23:11, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, to be fair, they should all be individually protected anyways. Cascading protection is meant as a fallback, a failsafe in the event of accidental/unintentional unprotection, and there are known issues with cascading protection not applying when used by itself. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 02:32, 4 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Really? I thought it was just to make things easier. You could go protect the templates manually if you feel it's necessary. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 08:31, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

1,000 articles.
Maybe a nice title on Main Page about 1k articles? Zaqq 12:12, 11 September 2011 (UTC)


 * We've already reached 1,000 articles a couple of times now. The translation projects take up a large amount of pages, in reality, we've probably only got something like 400 pages. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 12:17, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

About the relase date
shouldnt someone change that countdown on the main page to 73 days? 66+7=73 i mean thats when the full game will be relesed wont it? --SSSSSSSssssss 01:16, 13 September 2011 (UTC) signed wildfire
 * The release date is not November 18, 2011? – Scaler (t) 08:20, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Yet the info on the main page says the full game will be relished 7 days after the 11th?im confused --Thatssss a very nice ssssignauture you have there SSSSSSSssssss, Signed Wildfire 22:33, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes and 7 days after the 11th is in 65 days. So what is the problem? – Scaler (t) 07:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

The "Current Release" info
If I were a noob and saw "Current Beta Version: 1.8pre2" I would spam the forums on why my Client won't update from 1.7.3 to it. We need a new entry stating "Current Public Release developement version: 1.8pre2", while the Current Beta Version tell you the version your client should autoupdate to.

Now obviously my tactic to fill that info is not that good considering how long the wording is: it can be made better. You all are smart guys, I'd really appreciate it if you all could find a way to shorten it. UGoBoom 23:24, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

All i can think of is "Current developement release". Yearegi secure 11:32, 29/10/11

1.8.1
Minecraft 1.8.1 IS OUT! -cake

Freezing
Since my vdersion of Minecraft updated automatically today I cannot play the game - it freezes within a couple of minutes.

This page is for discussions on wiki content not technical support, i hope you got it working, if not, seek the help of the minecraft forums

Sourcing images
Hey, I'm not sure if this has been discussed. Should all images not created by the user be sourced? Example: File:DirtSlab.png, from The Word of Notch (notch.tumblr.com/post/220243988/half-sized-blocks-all-dirt-tiles-so-it-kinda). Pages with information not from the game are at least sourced, and unsourced contents are either discussed or removed, so why not images? And I just realized this is the wrong place but it's kind of late now.--72.19.122.119 02:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes they should, using the Template:Information. Next time please post on Minecraft Wiki Talk:Community portal--Yurisho 03:58, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Upcoming features
Once again, I'm telling, you can delete 'Many new blocks' and 'New features in the terrain generator' from the Upcoming features section. Piotrek 13:10, 18 September 2011 (UTC)


 * That's what the editcopy page is for. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 13:15, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

1.9 pre release!
nether brick, nether fences, blaze rod, ghast tear, nether wart, two new nether mobs, nether dungeons

For anyone willing to report this to Notch; I've noticed that armor, (full steel was what I was using) since it's new durability, is invalid to the HUD now since I had a full set on and it was showing that I had about 4 armor shards missing. After about twenty minutes of fighting in the Nether, I noticed that I only had my chest and pants left, when my armor said it was practically full. Just a warning for anyone that hasn't run into this issue yet. K12machinima

Wiki Color Scheme
A lot of the big wikis out there have their own color/design scheme, and maybe this one should have them too. I'm not bringing up the idea for the sole purpose of copying or "being up to par" with other wikis, but the Minecraft Wiki is far too valuable and informative to just have a white background with black text. XZippy 12:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)


 * If you're talking about everything outside the content div, then I agree. However it'd be limited to any modifications you can make with vector.css. You wouldn't be able to make a custom skin as Curse would be extremely unlikely to accept it due it making upgrading the wiki more difficult. Before I found out about that I even started working on a skin based on the minecraft forum skin. I tried to make within the constraints of vector, but it just made it too limited.


 * Although if you're talking about the content div itself, then definitely not. Black text on a white background is statically the easiest to read, plus it'd break a lot of things. All the gif images' transparency is made for a white background, various vector styling and images are made for a white background, they'd all need to be changed. And all it ends up doing is making things harder to read. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 12:40, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I believe that the original design intention of Minecraft wiki was to mimic Wikipedia which lead to the decision to stay pretty much with the vector default skin, as well as the Minecraft rendition of a globe for the logo. If enough of the community expressed an interest in redesigning the wiki (say to more closely mimic the Forum) it is something that can be done. It would require the participation of the international wikis as well, since we would prefer they all keep the same basic design. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  05:13, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

1.9 prerelease is out
Could you update the mainpage :) –The preceding unsigned comment was added by (Talk)  Please sign your posts with
 * "Current Pre-release PC version: 1.9pre2 • Server version: 1.9pre2" what do you want to update? – Scaler (t) 18:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * New one is out :) Look to jeb's twitter for more info --Hawkseraph 15:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Brewing recipes
Brewing Recipes will probably need a link alongside the Crafting Recipes and Smelting Recipes. Ecksearoh 18:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Pocket Edition is no longer Xperia Play only
the text on the main page should be removed as it is now for all Android phones --Chungy 16:53, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Pickaxe remove?
Is it true that you want to remove the pickaxe. that's really unfortunate –The preceding unsigned comment was added by (Talk)  Please sign your posts with

1.9pre4 Relesed
Yes Jeb_ has relesed 1.9pre4 ! he the download and such! Adds: The End (enderworld), new Air Portal texture and you use Eye Of Ender to activate it, Eye Of Ender now locates Strongholds (kinda glitching in SMP) Fairly Easy to use! Here's The SSP Download: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre4/minecraft.jar

Picture gallery suggestion
I've added some Minecraft-related pictures on the right side of the Main Page/editcopy. Do You think it would work/look good? Fracq Grenade  talk    contributions  23:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * , it looks good. Cool12309(Talk 23:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool. Think it would be implementable on the main page itself? Fracq Grenade   talk  Apple2.png  contributions  23:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, it looks nice. But makes the page cluttered more than it already is.. -- Throex  '''TALK 01:25, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe someone would work a bit on it, maybe change it so it does not look cluttered? I just thought it would be nice to show puctures of the game itself on the main page, so that people get more curious. Fracq Grenade   talk  Apple2.png  contributions  13:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not too thrilled with the idea. It's bad enough that all the rest of the pages have to have a right sidebar without crowding the mainpage with unnecessary images. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  03:21, 23 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Far too much cramp. There isn't even any reason to have images on the front page, unless they were randomly changed instead of having the same things all the time. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 06:56, 23 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok. It's good to hear the opinions from you two, and I see what you mean. On an iPad (for example), it looks very bad. But almost all pages look pretty bad on the iPad. Is there btw anything we can do about that? Fracq Grenade   talk  Apple2.png  contributions  07:13, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

More underwater content?
Since the feature freeze is in effect, we can be fairly sure that that won't happen. Can saomeone remove it from the main page?
 * Features will be added after the release, ether as an update or as DLC, no need to remove it.--Yurisho 12:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Beta 1.9 pre-release 5 iso out
Beta 1.9 pre-release 5 iso out --144.122.250.211 15:25, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

1.9pre5, not pre4
Umm... pre5 of 1.9 is out, but all I see on the page under pre-release is 1.9pre4... can someone fix this? - 98.24.155.85 22:48, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Update Latest version!
"   Current Pre-release PC version: 1.9pre4 • Server version: 1.9pre4 "

Should be "   Current Pre-release PC version: 1.9pre5 • Server version: 1.9pre5 ".

Source: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/289-195-pr-is-ready-for-testing/

it's been several hours (just sayin :P )

Deathgleaner 23:38, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Remove classic from version listing?
Classic obviously isn't going to be updated again. Alpha isn't shown on there either, and beta will be replaced by the full release version once it comes out, so I don't see the point in leaving classic there. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 19:35, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If you refer to here we have talked about this some what. Making more of a timeline with each milestone on it to save room on the page. Removing a milestone from the timeline is unnecessary to me. Yes, we could wipe version history and start fresh with 1.0 when it comes out, but there should at least be a new time-line page. -- Throex  '''TALK 15:15, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I think, he talking about main page. I agree with his point, but we should left link to Classic version elsewhere. — MiiNiPaaT 15:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, if on the main page I still think it should be left there. Classic is free and one of the main ways you get people into the game to buy it. They play classic, want more and buy the game. -- Throex  '''TALK 15:35, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I have to disagree. Classic is the only free demo on the main site. Until a proper demo is released, I think it should stay. --Kizzycocoa 15:40, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * PC Gamer Minecraft Demo--Yurisho 17:09, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I knew there was a PC Demo of Minecraft beta, but classic is free. How many people still play classic? I see no reason to remove it due to the fact that it allows people to play for free and play the game, when they get tired of it like I did, they will buy beta/1.0 and play the full version of the game. -- Throex  '''TALK 17:13, 10 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes of course I'm talking about the main page, that's why I'm posting this on the main page's talk page...
 * What has removing Classic's version got to do with how many people play it? Them not knowing the version number (which will never be updated again) isn't going to affect that. It just seems a waste of space to have it there. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 18:46, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Isn't this the Main page talk? :P If not then why is that page there? And it needs to stay there not because of how many play it, but because it will help advertise every part of the game, classic is an entirely different game to me, because beta introduces so much more to the game. Classic is popular and continues to help grow the beta community.. it should stay in my opinion.


 * No that's the edit copy, for users to make changes to the page instead of having to ask us to make them.
 * Again, how does the version number advertise the game any more than the link to play the game does? Isn't that enough? – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 23:27, 10 November 2011 (UTC)