http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPUgq5nBbI

Wow that looks sweet

Yeah I've been playing it. Freaking epic. Only way it'd be ANY better is if I could use my own maps in it.

I wonder how one would go about creating levels. I'm sure making it with a Minecraft setting would be easier with blocks and all versus having to worry about all the minute details of the environment.

Though I wonder if it'd be all from scratch or would it be possible to bring in models and what not in from Minecraft.

so big news 8/1/2012 we get 1.3

Note : Very few references are provided here since most of this content has been directly released in weekly snapshots 12w15a to 12w27a.
General
Large amount of internal changes.[1]
Demo mode playable through non-premium Minecraft.net accounts.[2]
Added Adventure Mode.
Players can't place or destroy blocks but can open doors, press buttons, etc. [3]
"Large Biomes" world type.[4]
'Open texturepack folder' button now works for mac.
Creative Mode updates
Ender Portal Frames added in Creative Mode
While in Creative Mode, players can supply a powered minecart with fuel by right clicking it as if they were holding coal.
Flying in Creative Mode is no longer affected by water and lava.
⇧ Shift-clicking in Creative improved.
Potions as well as their effects will be in the creative inventory screen.[5]
Improved creative inventory screen.
Category Tabs and Searching
Survival Inventory Tab
"Backpack" inventory, 2x2 crafting grid, armor, and deletion box.
Singleplayer will be a local server.[6]
Added a publish button to allow LAN connection.
Gamemode and Allow Cheats button.
The multi-player menu now scans for LAN servers
Optional bonus chests placed close to the player when creating a new Singleplayer world.[2]
Hardcore in multiplayer (HMP).[7]
Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.
Blocks & Items
Added Emerald
Added Emerald Ore.
Added Block of Emerald[8].
Added Ender Chest.
Drops 8 obsidian when broken without Silk Touch.
Has one inventory per player.
Added Sandstone Stairs.
Added Cocoa Plants that generate on the sides of jungle trees, which can be harvested for cocoa.
Cocoa Beans have a new texture.
Cocoa Beans drop from jungle tree leaves at the same rate as apples.
Added Tripwire Hooks.[9][10]
The hooks are connected (up to 40 blocks)[11] by string, which will be placeable.[12]
Tripwires work on all entities.[11]
Added Book and Quill and Written Book.
Ability to write in Book and Quill (up to 50 pages), save them to edit later, and sign them and title them to finish off the book.
Added a new type of Golden Apple[13]. with attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1[14].
Bottle o' Enchanting and Chainmail armor are added to survival mode.
Added Chiseled Stone Bricks to survival mode.
New slabs and stairs of the 3 new plank types.
Wood slabs behave as wood, not as stone.
Half-slabs can now be placed upside-down when pointing at the upper half of the side of a block. This does not work with stairs.
New Gravel texture.
New Dispenser features:
Dispensers will eject water and lava source blocks (from buckets).
Will also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
Will be able to place Minecarts on rails and Boats in water.
Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually.
Specific names for different Wood, Wooden Planks, Leaves, Saplings, Sandstone, Stone Bricks, and Monster Eggs. (e.g. Oak Wood, Birch Plank, Spruce Leaves, Jungle Sapling, Smooth Sandstone, Chiseled Stone Bricks, Stone Monster Egg).[4]
Redstone (including repeaters, torches, levers, and pressure plates), Torches and Rails can now be placed on slabs and stairs positioned upside down.
Levers can now be attached to the bottom of a block.
Wooden Pressure Plates detect arrows.
When exposed to rain, Cauldrons have a possibility of slowly filling with water.
Removed old Chest texture, causing Locked Chests to appear purple.
The player can now see the cracking effect on blocks when other players mine blocks in multiplayer.[15]
Updated Pistons to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also altered the way Pistons work, so you might have to adapt your repeater delays and similar.
Inventory, crafting & smelting
Different crafting recipe for books.
Easier item manipulation within inventory
Brewing Stands allow use of shift clicking to put items in it.
⇧ Shift+clicking can now be used to wear armor.
Empty Buckets are now stackable up to 16.[16][17]
Wooden tools can be burned in furnaces.
Signs are stackable up to 16.
Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.
Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed.

XP and Enchanting
Silk Touch will be able to pick up Ender Chests, Ice, and Glass Panes.[18]
The first 16 levels are linear (17XP/level), while levels 17+ require more points per level.
Maximum enchantment level reduced from 50 to 30.
XP orbs can now be gained through mining ores, and using a furnace for smelting.
Gaining Experience from mining ore is different for each type of ore. (Mining Coal will give you the least amount while Diamond Ore & Emerald Ore will give the most amount of XP).
Enchantment has been reorganized so the higher/stronger level enchantment is on the bottom while the lowest is on the top. (The middle obviously being in the middle of the enchantment table.)
Map, Weather & Structures
Added Pyramids, a new structure in Desert biomes.
Added Jungle Temple.
Villages spawned in Desert Biomes now have a different style.
Stars are slightly smaller and slightly brighter[19].
Rain will slowly drip through leaves.
Villagers and Mobs
Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession.
Trading with Villagers.[20]
Villagers may remove a trade option after it has been used 3 to 15 times.
Pigs now drop 1-3 Porkchops instead of 0-2.
Extremely rarely, Nether Portals will spawn Zombie Pigmen.
Passive mobs can be easily pushed around by simply walking, most likely intended to help the player navigate through animal farms more easily. Side effect: players cannot push each other in SMP anymore.
Baby animals will follow their parents.
Vehicles
While sitting inside of a minecart pushing the directional keys will make it move the direction you are pressing. This will only work while the minecart is sitting on rails.
Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds.
Boats are now easier to control.
Boats will now pass through lilypads without breaking the boat ; the lilypad drops as an item instead.
Commands
Commands in Singleplayer.[2]
The /tp command now allows teleporting to specified coordinates.
The syntax for this is /tp [target player] .
The other functionality of the /tp command is still there.
New /seed command that displays the current world seed.
Added /debug command.
Bug Fixes
Arrows "warping upwards" in multiplayer fixed.
All multiplayer sounds have been fixed.[21][22][23][24]
Better chunk loading in SMP.[25]
Fishing lines are now visible in SMP.[23][26]
Fix for glitchy mob prediction in multiplayer.[27][28]
Using buckets filled with lava no longer consume the bucket when smelting items.
Armor and Tool Enchantments now show on multiplayer.
Endermen open their mouth and vibrate on multiplayer


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=117157&page=13

other news test 1.3 server on port :26654 this server will not be saved.

also there will be brief down time sat morning or sunday night    

change in plans since i have to be up all day and not sleeping like normal makeing changes now server will be down until further notice shortly 

we are back up... the map is still messed up but will be fexed tonight 

Map is back up

Keeping this thread in my forum buddy.

since no one was using it but em ive shut down the test 1.3 server. it may reappear during testing of 1.3 for rollout when final version comes out on the 1st. no other changes at this time

Oh, I forgot about the test 1.3 server. Been super stinking busy with Army, Korean, and baby-related life. =|

Been on vacation for a week.

Can't wait to get back into the game.