Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Aclockworksinasimplemannerrotatingclockwise(appropriatelyenough)betweennight
and day phases represented by black and blue hemispheres. At midnight you see the moon
located at the 12 o'clock position. The sun rotates to the same location by noon.
Figure
11.12
shows a clock mounted in an item frame with sunrise starting to approach, shown by
the border between the blue hemisphere starting to push the night disk aside.
FIGURE 11.12
Time to down tools and get back to the surface; morning has broken.
The Bottom Line
Minecraft's worlds are riddled with dungeons, abandoned mineshafts, and strongholds, as
wellasintricate,lengthynaturalcavesystems.You'veprobablyseensomeofthisifyou've
done any flying around in Creative mode, where the landscape generates in real time in
front of you, starting from the bottom up. Structures are much thinner, literally, on the
ground,butthe temples doholdsome useful bits andpieces, andtrading with villages adds
a whole new dynamic to the game. You can even treat the trading offers as a quest-gener-
ation system, heading out to gather the requirements for any given trade, no matter what,
andwithoutbreakingtheorderinwhichthey'rereceived.Actually,asyou'llseeinthenext
chapter,thetradingsystemcanevenletyouskiptheentireNetherregionandjumpstraight
to that epic battle pending with the Ender Dragon. It all depends on the villager priests and
their precious Eyes of Ender. Read on to learn how.
