With all the new items and features added for 1.8, there have been new customization’s for certain wood tools, such as fences and doors. These new customization’s have been added for a new variety of different wood planks types for your average day Minecraft usage. Along with the new wood category items, there is new crafting recipes for 1.8 to make a more diverse section of wooden blocks.
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The Personal Narrative of Minecraft
You’re alone in the forest and night is closing in. You’ve wandered too far from your home, your sword’s blade is pitted and scarred, and you have only a few arrows left for your bow…
But you’re tough. You know these lands, and that battered blade has put more skeletons and zombies back in the ground than you can count. Those hours you spent in the depths digging up diamonds will not go to waste now. You break into a sprint, dashing madly through the trees. Above you in the leaves, you hear the familiar slurping hiss of a spider – but you’re faster, and the spider crashes to the ground behind you.
Almost there. Light shines in the distance, comforting torches keeping the creatures of the night at bay. Your jaw clenches in fierce determination. You will make it back! Then you hear it – from your right, that awful, sibilant “Hssssss!” Eyes glowing in the darkness, its body swells for a brief instant. Then a flash of light, a concussive BANG, and the ground becomes a cratered mess.
But you’re alive. Your armor is smashed, you’re weak and wounded, but you’re alive. And home is only a few more steps away… [Read more…]