Multiplayer progress update, and Minecraft Alpha 1.0.3
Getting the levels to support more than one player turned out to be a bigger rewrite than I thought. There was a
surprising amount of level.getPlayer() calls, so I added a level.getNearestPlayer(x, y, z), which worked great as a
substitute for most of the calls.
Another issue was the tile polling. In the original version, tiles between two
players would get polled twice as frequently as tiles only near a single player. This also affected the mob spawner
code. The solution there was to build a set of all unique chunks near players, which turns out to be handy when I do
the memory caching of terrain data anyway.
I haven’t actually implemented any multiplayer support in the client yet, but I did do some work on it, which leads up to version 1.0.3:
* The pathfinder now works for hills. Except for spiders. Of course.
* Generally more convincing mob idling
behavior. They’ll stand still more, looking around at their surroundings
* Monster sounds
* Ambient cave
noises
Tomorrow is Thursday, then it’s Seecret Friday time, so it doesn’t seem like I’ll have anything testable this week.
