I wish this thread didn't devolve into "hey, this is only for the people who play on Nibirucraft... and theRepublic occasionally. =/
In other news, it has been confirmed that the next official update will be November 18 - when Minecraft 1.0 releases. All the details originally announced for Beta 1.9 and Beta 1.10 are now going to release for 1.0.
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