Talk:South-east rule

A little more than necessary?
Seems kinda redundant to list every single trivial pattern that can be found on the textures of blocks. Is there a purpose behind it that I'm missing? Alphap 20:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Orienting yourself... Yes it's a bit extensive... but it's a project ;P
 * It doesn't come under the South/West rule. Texture orientation & the south-west quirk are two different things - the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are both related to compass directions. Features on the texture of a block only orient to a certain direction because that is how the artist who created the textures made them. Please move it to a different article. Kookas 21:16, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The South/West rule applies to such things as contact with liquids. If there should be a list of texture quirks for orientation, that should probably be its own "Orientation" page. This page is for the South/West rule only.  Verhalthur (talk)(edits) 17:29, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Present in other games...?
A "bug" similar to this is present in a few other Java games, i.e. RuneScape. In RS, a monster that takes up more than one square will always drop the item on the most southwest square. Perhaps it's just something in Java? Megabobster 03:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Sun rising in North
Since Notch has confirmed the sun rises in the North, are there any plans to change every cardinal direction mentioned in the wiki? :) (for example, this is now the South/East rule..)
 * I think the directions should keep these names since this is what everyone is used to. Also signs and maps etc. of most servers uses these cardinal directions.
 * Now that notch has changed the direction the sun rises in this subject has just gotten more confusing. Daropedia 22:36, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

cactus
"If the player is standing adjacent to a sand block with a cactus on it, the North and East faces of the cactus will damage the player, if touched, while the South and West faces will not."

In 1.8 I found all sides of cactus damage you. But so far as I remember it was the same in the previous few versions as well. (Also, it's not sure how the author meant it: are you on same level as the cactus or one below? In the second case though there's no damage at all). Hoemaco 07:25, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * One below. It did damage you in previous versions. Not sure about current. Needs testing. — MiiNiPaaT 09:28, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Tested it. They no longer daage you. Same with lava and fire. — MiiNiPaaT 09:49, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

What directions are real?
Is F:0 really south? Is F:1 really west? On page Stone Brick it says F:1 is north, F:2 is east in the trivia section. Which is correct?

Answer
According to the assumption that the sun rises in the east 2 is north and 3 is east and so forth... (According to the wiki this was fixed in 1.9 pre-release 4 that the sun now rises in the east and not in the north, due to a bug in past versions)

South-West rule verses South-East rule
Since the orientation of the map has been changed due to the relocation of the rising and setting of the sun, the track page refers to a change in the name of this as being the South-East rule. As such I have currently flagged both the information here and the information on the track page as being outdated pending updates.

--Mystara 03:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've updated the page a bit, but this still needs the version number and needs to be cleaned up. - Asterick6 23:43, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Explosion bias
Southeast bias in explosions has been fixed. 108.216.22.33 01:02, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

South, East, Up
It should probably be noted that Minecraft has an upwards preference as well. It simply isn't noticed in most situations. Firebastard (talk) 09:49, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Are there actually any blocks affected by that? I don't see it being worth noting there is a preference unless something is affected by it. – KnightMiner  t/c 01:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC)