In non-thread-winning-related news, the area of the stronghold near the end portal now has a melon patch, a brewing stand, and an enchantment table! Who's up for killing an enderdragon this weekend?

I also have an XP farm nearby. It's kind of slow at the moment, but I'm going to try out a different design that I saw on YouTube, which should increase the XP rate significantly.

XP is basically fuel for the enchantment table: the higher the experience level you enchant with, the better the enchantments your items get.

...oh, hey, Bukkit was finally updated for 1.0. Once I get that installed, the doors and chests near spawn will start behaving properly again.

What about CraftCraft Revolution?

Tyrant wins.

You should sell the rights bundle for the movie+game. You'll be billionaires.

Notch stole the block idea from another entity?

No because then Bethesda will come and say it is infringing copyright because it has mountains. Just like they did with Scrolls.

Yeah, I laughed a while back when I read that Bethesda was doing a lawsuit against Mojang's Scrolls game. The article I read had an excerpt from the lawsuit and said Mojang was violating copyright because people would confuse the Elder Scrolls game with Scrolls. Stated (accused) Mojang of intentionally doing it so people would buy Scrolls thinking it was a part of Elder Scrolls. Then the thing that got me was Scrolls is breaking copyright because Scrolls has mountains just like Elder Scrolls.

I read the mountain line and thought, "Well, Square-Enix better hurry up and file a lawsuit against Bethesda because FF and TES have mountains."

Next time they're in the courtroom he should thank them.

Minecraft is very popular. IIRC, developers from VALVe gave a shout out to it at one point. It's very likely that the Skyrim development studio has played Minecraft and completely feasible that it was indeed an Easter egg to shout out to Notch (it likely wasn't connected in any way to the legal dispute, and I wouldn't even be surprised if the corporate/management groups are unaware of said Easter egg).

I'm not sure you know how these places work, Specter. There is major division between the legal and the development departments. It is HIGHLY likely NO ONE on the development teams thought the copyright infringement case made any sense. It is likely, however, for them to have played minecraft and thrown in little homages to it. In any large game company, legal is a completely separate and evil entity.

This is all beside the point, however, as the notched pickaxe was around in Oblivion, as you said, which came well before minecraft.

relpatseht: They are separate entities. The law still requires affidavit from the lead developer factually showing what was being infringed upon as he would be the one that knew the most about the project. Just taking the legal departments say so that it was infringement doesn't work that way because it is hearsay at that point.

Of course Valve would pay respect to him. Valve is more about indie developers (Steam) than what Bethesda is.