Official Minecraft Coming To iPhone, iPad, Android

9 responses to “Official Minecraft Coming To iPhone, iPad, Android”

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   Powalen

   February 22, 2011 at 9:49 am

   I don’t think my phones battery would be able to take the pressure! lol

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   Rory Leahy

   February 22, 2011 at 12:04 pm

   Perplexing seeing the original version loves to suck down ram, around 3gb usually, this will be interesting to see how it runs.

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   1. 

      mambodog

      February 22, 2011 at 2:31 pm

      On iOS I’m guessing the port won’t be in Java, which can probably take some of the blame for memory usage, as both the JVM and Java’s abstractions add a non-trivial amount of memory overhead, and the language does not allow manual memory management (ie. explicitly freeing up memory when it is no longer needed).

      Also, I imagine world data is the main offender in terms of memory usage in Minecraft (I doubt it’s the textures, haha) and on a mobile this data could be easily unloaded from RAM and only streamed in from the flash when needed, as flash memory is super fast.

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         Nicholas Laver

         February 22, 2011 at 9:03 pm

         You can essentially free memory by setting objects to null, though it is really just a suggestion to the garbage collector.

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   Alinos

   February 22, 2011 at 12:56 pm

   makes sense they haven’t added anything to the game in months now they have a reason not to add any more

   and the stuff he has added doesn’t work in MP anyways

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4. 

   Lucid

   February 22, 2011 at 2:28 pm

   Alinos – did you miss the beta 1.2 update? Or the 1.3 that is releasing in two days?

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      Alinos

      February 22, 2011 at 10:15 pm

      you mean the one that essentially added stuff that was in creative mode a year ago(colored blocks) the only useful thing in my opinion

      and a couple of items that for the most part are useless

      as for the next update they seem rather SP centric.

      i mean how does the game deal with half the playerbase skipping night while the other half don’t

      Not to mention his lanterns still haven’t shown up

      his halloween update seems to have been ignored since he can’t get them both working on the one server and the portals never worked in any sense of the fashion offline

      and in my opinion random generated terrain is no where near what it used to be like it till seems more rounded and less eccentric

      and his new client with its browser window seems pointless to me. Especially seeing as the page it links to is rarely updated.

      notch seems to be trying to replicate things mods provide in his game Ie the ability to skip dark. have custom spawn points.

      Except that too seems pointless since the mods do it better

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5. 

   Sutter

   February 22, 2011 at 4:19 pm

   I really like to see an xbox version, where you could invite your friends over xbox live to your little worlds!

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      Aramis Marcuola-Bel

      February 24, 2011 at 8:47 am

      @sutter like the Lame clone of Minecraft coming to XLIG in the next couple of months?

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