Notch has leashed a wave of angry tweets on Twitter letting the world know the evil wrong-doings of Yogscast. His rant included brutal accusations such as calling them “dicks” to acting like “total spoiled divas nonstop” to even egotistical along with other remarks.

This is a haunting realization that not everything went “according to plan” or to Notch’s favor. It seem Yogscast have in someway ruined Notch’s experience. Let’s face it, this is the most angriest we’ve publicly seen Notch and it shows it. Apart from calling another user a dick, this a whole new level of accusations with grey-area written all over it.

This just begs the question “what happened?” If you scour the Internet such as the Yogiverse forums, Notch’s twitter, or even this /r/Minecraft thread, you’ll see it was more than just a simple f-bomb. Apparently, Notch did not like the way the Yogscast acted at all. Even to the point calling them spoiled divas and being egotistical stating “they made Minecraft big”.

But also saying they “should be paid for coming” and calling Mojang a “bunch of nerds who don’t know how to run a company”. If all of this is true, and with Notch being the man he is, then the Yogscast have some explaining to do. However Notch has stated he has liked their work which obviously sends a mixed bag.

But I don’t think that will ease the raining pain of words Notch has directed at the Yogscast. I hope Notch realizes what he’s done.

Wow. Hate, insults and threats are flooding in from Yogscast fans. I’ll stop biting my tongue now.

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Yogscast repeatedly insulted people, talked behind their backs, refused to cooperate, and acted like total spoiled divas nonstop.

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They called us “a bunch of nerds who don’t know how to run a company”, demanded that we pay them to come here (nobody else got paid).

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And they claim they’re the reason minecraft is big and that we should thank them more than anyone else in the community. They’re total dicks

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A kid wanted them to sign something I had signed, and they said they’d cross it out and put “fuck you” there instead.

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Everyone else in the Minecraft community is all about respecting and caring. They’re not. They’re an isolated island of egos.

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All this said, I’m very tired at the moment, and this will probably pass. I do like the work they do, very much.

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So, it seems Minecon was a hit! The booths were toured, parties were had, Notch pulled the lever and Yogscast did their panel. Notch didn’t like that, apparently. He tweeted to his hundreds of thousands of followers regarding two specific tweets.

First, Notch tweeted:

We also learned who not to work with at Minecon. Shame.. :/

The tweet alone sent the whole Minecraft universe into a huge ‘whodunnit’ case. Many speculated Yogscast among others. An hour later, Notch tweeted:

I’m very sorry about the behavior of the people we won’t work with any more. Celebrity or not, you don’t f-bomb kids.

Obviously for Notch to send a tweet like that, on a magnitude of that�disappointment, someone must have done something very wrong. Five hours later, Notch�quelled�the suspicions by confirming that it was indeed Yogscast.

We have reached out to Yogscast for their comment on this event and have yet to reach a reply.

UPDATE (2:15 pm USA EST):�Lomidia, Yogscast’s PR person, has released this statement in the topic:

“I find the words ‘work with’ to be very interesting in this � you will see why when Lewis gets home and makes his v-log of Minecon.

He used masturbation jokes in our videos, but then criticises us for using old footage with swearing in, when we have limited resources to edit the footage in Vegas, and also neither Mojang nor IGN gave us any guidelines as to what we were and weren’t allowed to do � the people in the panel and on the livestream chose to come and see us � so you’d think they’d know swearing is likely.

We did about six hours of signings and photos in general � no kid or parent complained to us about swearing.

I won’t say more as Lewis’ v-log will expose everything in wonderfully high definitioned rage, so give us a few days to get our thoughts in order. “

Image courtesy of VipeNess via Flickr.

I �have seen the “INVALID SERVER KEY” error allot these�days one fix is to just retry until it works.

A better fix however is this,�http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/801030-100-invalid-server-key-fix/�by�sk89q�(you know the guy who makes WorldEdit, WorldGuard, CraftBook, and a few other things?)

Modification�summery:

The bug is actually caused by (another attempt…) at fixing this exploit:
http://www.minecraft…ecraft-account/
It attempts to check if the server key is valid by attempting to parse the server key as a long, but there’s an error that makes this fail (attempt to parse an unsigned long, causing overflow). I’ve changed this to a simple check to make sure that the server key is a hexadecimal number.

And the�installation�process�is fairly simple if you have installed mods before:

1. Open up the minecraft.jar file with a ZIP program, because .jar files are secretly .zip (on Windows, type %APPDATA%.minecraftbin in Windows Explorer to find this file, on Linux, it is in ~/.minecraft/bin, On Mac OS X Got to finder and from the “Go” menu select “go to folder” and type in “~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/bin/” there just rename minecraft.jar to minecraft.zip and unzip it)
2. Copy the downloaded abp.class file into minecraft.jar and replace the existing file.
3. Go to the META-INF folder and delete everything except for MANIFEST.MF. The files you delete tell Java to make sure that Minecraft’s files have not been modified, but that’s what we’re doing!
4. Now select all the files and compress them back to a zip file, rename the zip file minecraft.jar (On Mac OS X leopard or higher jsut select all fiels and right click -> compress, on windows consult comments or minecraft forums, linux consult comments or minecraft forums�)

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL MOJANG FIX. IT IS MADE BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

Notch has pulled the�gigantic�lever at the minecon main stage and Minecraft has now been released. For real this time no more beta alpha or any other development label.

Go update if you can, the logins server will be taking a pounding and not sure it will hold.

public.crafthub.net is now Minecraft 1.0 server!

The day is upon us, the heavens have opened and minecon has started, TeamMojang just released a video of the preparations that has been going on in Las Vegas.
Sadly, we will not have anyone there to report on the happenings but we will nevertheless try to bring you the latest in news.

For those who are going we hope that you have the best of times there, and go hug a creeper for us!

If you take any photos or videos you want to share with the community please post them on the forum, or try to breathe life in to our reddit page.

The agenda list can be found here.

The full release of minecraft is going to be�tomorrow�(according�to this tweet by Carl)

And as always we are going to keep our public server up to date with the�release on a temp map, and later when bukkit and plugins get updated we will move over to a�permanent�map.

Block Fortress does it again. We last�showcased�him when he revealed Amida’s Shrine (which was just as glorious). This time he’s gone all-out again bringing us the Capital of Myrith: Chryseum. Folks, this has got to be one of the most�magnificent�displays of city-builds I’ve seen. A giant castle stands in the middle, fenced with houses that are parked near the two parks�adjacent�to each other. Then there’s also the�arenas, farmland, and�agriculture�and more. The whole city is littered with gold-platted blocks that make it shine valiantly through-out the land. If you were to enter this, you’d probably just stare and awe as your roamed around. I have to say a job well down, Block_Fortress. Only you can provide builds of this caliber and magnitude.

Sadly, this is not�available for download. However, if you have the�1.7+�client (not 1.8!), you can play this on the server:�64.74.97.84:25565. But if not, you’ll have just to gaze at its beauty from afar.

Block_Fortress says:

This would be my first big city build.�Unfortunately�it was rushed due to the fact I had to get it into the minecraft Top 5 creations contest by today… Freaking�couldn’t�finish with the amount of detail I wanted… But it’s ok, I’m going to finish it off properly later.

Anyway, I would like to say thank you to Jistic and Gingermidget for helping me out on this one. Otherwise I�wouldn’t�have got it finished in time!

There are �districts. The castle, 2 parks, the arenas, farmland and agriculture and the other 4 are for housing. In total there are 52 houses. The central castle goes up around 100+m and has the rough width and length of 200. The city itself has a width and length of 485 by 485, roughly. The texturepack is a custom dokucraft. The grass is so stupid, I know. Looks better with nice green grass.

We worked hard to make this in 3 days so we could enter it. Can you please do us the favour of upvoting this project? Thank you. Also whilst you are here would you like to look at my youtube channel? Maybe subscribe?

Youtube:�http://ping.fm/fMDdY

View the rest of my work:�http://ping.fm/XsuR6

Jistics PMC:�http://ping.fm/FfaLn

Build can be found on the server Mithrintia. IP�attached�WARNING still running 1.7

Remember that kickstarter project started by 2PlayerProductions? Well, it’s going along well and we’d just like to indulge you in what will be a feature film coming to you in 2012. �Minecraft, along with Mojang, has become a landmark success that most indie game developers only dream of. With over millions of copies and thousands of dedicated players, it’s no wonder it’s going places. Markus and company have certainly made a name for themselves and with this new power comes great responsibility.

For example, they’ve recently teamed up with Kristen Schaal, famous for appearing in such shows as Flight of the�Conchords, Bob’s Burgers, and The Daily Show, with a building competition�being hosted by them in part with Schaal. And most of you already know about the Las Vegas’ MineCon where the game will be released. However, they are also teaming up with IGN where MineCon will be streamed live so others may take part in the fun.

Lucky for you, if you haven’t seen it, 2PlayerProductions has released a mini-doc where you can see part 1 and part 2. It’s around 20 minutes long but worth the watch. It’s basically an introduction of what the film will contain as Mojang’s rise to success in the indie-game scene. If you love Minecraft, this is a must-see. It highlights Mojang as one of many in the world where the indie world yearns for success. Mojang, one of the few, has found and earned it. So, coming 2012 when the film is released, I know where I’ll be.

According to PC gamers article (http://ping.fm/TiuMa) on�October 28 2011 the latest expansion of Magicka, scheduled to launch this winter, will have some elements that takes a stab at minecraft.

Ah Magicka, with your completely bonkers expansions. Joining this year’s�Vietnam�is The Stars are Left, a ‘spandey based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos, spotted over on�RPS. Scheduled to launch this winter, it includes a new adventure campaign, which is one of the most requested features for the co-op spell ‘em up.

Like Vietnam, only the host player needs the expansion for others to join in � an act described by developer Arrowhead Studios’ colleagues as, “More insane than a black goat with a thousand young.” We don’t believe for one minute that anyone actually said that.

It also makes fun of Minecraft. Magicka is rapidly becoming the Naked Gun series of computer games.

Here are some bullet points, if you’re into that kind of thing:

• An all-new adventure, several levels long, allowing players to get lost in space and time
• 2 new challenge maps
• 2 new robes
• 2 new bosses
• 5 new achievements
• 7 new enemies
• Considerably more than 2 new items and Magicks
• Also, we make fun of Minecraft this time

I see no harm in some friendly parodies, my only question is when will notch take a stab back?

In the 1.8 update, Mojang added the ability to take a plain old mushroom and make it huge with�bone meal. �It results in beautiful giant mushrooms that you can create within Minecraft. �Well, Minecraft user Welsinc created a whole village out of them. �That’s right, take a look at these screenshots of the beauty of the Mushroom Village

Early Stages

Finished Product

Inside of a Mushroom house

This map is available to download�here. �In the Reddit thread (which you can view�here) Welsinc said:

It’s somewhat of a work in progress, as you’ll come to find out. :p. �Sorry about that. Coordinates are as follows: x:-1303 y:102 z:538 f:2

So you do have to do a little bit of hunting to find the village, but with the new creative mode it isn’t very hard. �You should�definitely check this out if you enjoy the giant mushrooms. �Even if you don’t, this is a cool village.

The guys over at Dead Workers Party has made a new music video starring minecraftchick.
They are the team behind The Shaft podcast among other things.
We at crafthub love the shaft. We know their podcast is amazing, but who knew that they had such great dance moves?

The music is composed by Eric Fullerton, wich also made “in looks for diamonds”.
Both songs are worth a listen, and be sure to
check out the shaft podcast!

The music is composed by Eric Fullerton
The Lyrics by Dead Workers Party
Male Vocals � The Dreaded FireFly
Female Vocals � Sweet Lucy

This is just a small list of all the people involved in the video, check the drop-down to find the rest of the people who helped making this video come together

credits list