Is there any client plugin which let's me remap the mouse bindings? Using the mouse with the left hand, I'd prefer to dig with the right button or even better with a keyboard key - but google failed me.

Also a plugin which makes running on/off instead of having to keep a key pressed and same for crouching would be nice - I had one of those when I played last but it doesn't work with 1.7/1.8 anymore.

Can't you do this from the mouse driver? You can in windows 7.

When will the server be updated to 1.8? I usually go to an Internet cafe and play for a bit on my break (which will be in about 3-4 hours), but since it's in the browser, it will be running a later version than the server.

The update seems to have moved things around in the Nether as well. When I restarted, I was at the same coordinates as when I'd left, but in a completely different location. Right now, I'm where the portal back to town should be, but there's no sign of it or any of the structures that used to be around it.

If you could send me back to town, that would be great. I'm about to start starving.

I don't know if this is a 1.8 induced bug, or an incompatibility between 1.8 and the texture pack I was using, but now, all unopened chests are black, and all double chests, whether unopened or not are drawn 2-wide on the N-S axis, even if they;re really 2-wide on the E-W axis.

The introduction of Endermen has killed my mob-tower as well.

Add/remove a torch next to them and their lighting will go back to normal.

Wow cubelands looks much better. Probably less buggy -- and look at those shadows...

Apparently the only way to fix the "double chests drawn going the wrong direction" bug is to break and re-place the chest.

In better news: there are now large ocean biomes, the fog at the bottom of the world disappears if it has natural light shining on it (so, once a few skylights are added, my slime pit will be usable again!), and slimes seem to spawn more often.

I did some exploring today. Here's a few images of some of the new features:

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Is anything documented on how minecraft actually works in the sense of the environment? I know it's all based on a seed but I'm interested in how they get the entire massive world generated so quick and in such a small set of data files, including all the caves, rivers, biomes, etc then of course all the changes people make to them.

Or is the landscape really not generated until you get somewhere close to it?

Land isn't generated until you get close to it (within 300 blocks, I want to say... don't quote me on that, though).

This is why your save files get bigger the more you explore. Generated land is saved (so you don't lose changes you make) once you've explored near it.