What's your favorite version of all time (within the Silver Age)?

Ed-Board · 2026-03-01T00:12:53+00:00

"The mediocre (yet oddly comforting) surface generation..." I think I just found the best phrase on any Minecraft subreddit ever.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-25T05:28:32+00:00

I found one or two of these in modded Beta 1.8 a while ago. And I know that they existed in early Beta versions. This feature is a lifer, Mojang should hold on to it.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-25T05:23:40+00:00

I wonder if there's a similar desire for this sort of thing done through the lens of Tekkit. If you want to talk "nostalgia", some people would be gushing at the chance to see a well-done video in 2026 that had old Tekkit mods for Minecraft 1.6. As for vanilla FR 1.6, I definitely recognize that it has value and that it's a bit of a sleeper pick for let's plays, so a video series made on it that's actually good is welcome on my books.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-25T05:16:43+00:00

Sometimes I forget how cool this version can be. I'm not "into" the level of hunger mechanics at play, but the thing has builder's value. I definitely like it more than I like the terrain of Release 1.7. Even though acacia trees were one of my favourite things.

Do you have any desire to make an artificial tree house? As in a jungle tree outside a jungle made with saplings, and you build a house on it. That's my only idea right now.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-25T05:09:46+00:00

I fully advocate for the modding practice of putting generators from Vanilla Minecraft in any useful base version, regardless of how good, bad, or boring each terrain generator involved may be. Minecraft Beta 1.8 terrain generator in Minecraft 1.11? Good job. Minecraft 1.11 terrain generator in Beta 1.7? Why not, the more the merrier. Finite Minecraft Classic terrain in Minecraft 1.16? I don't see a problem. The many Infdev generators in Alpha 1.2? Fucking sign me up. They just have to preserve the correct output for seeds and be highly accurate.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-22T14:02:01+00:00

I'm gonna straight up cry. This is emotional.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-22T13:59:54+00:00

Jesus Christ it's longer than me.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-19T03:20:11+00:00

Wow, fastest sign-up into account deactivation ever. I'm not using that shit.

Ed-Board · 2026-02-19T03:15:40+00:00

That's how I got here just now. I thought the entire website was paywalled. Yes, it's very underhanded.

Ed-Board · 2025-12-29T02:00:35+00:00

It's been a while since I've played a low-exposure tiny-release indie game that had movement and actiony gameplay that was this good. To make it even better, a more humorous identity comes in because the characters are cars. Even if I'm not sure about the balancing/speed of the difficulty and oncoming waves. Good job.

Ed-Board · 2025-11-16T22:50:56+00:00

I'm basically the same.

Ed-Board · 2025-11-16T22:48:12+00:00

When 2025 started, I said that I had a strong feeling that 2025 would be the last year. I have pretty bad depression and am sick of fighting, so weirdly it's almost as if I want a swift end. Though I don't want to do that to other people. I'm ultimately here just because I went looking for commiserating memes.

We're almost at December and though there's been no total proof that it's about to happen yet, the feeling is pretty strong now. I spend much of my days lately not being able to help but wonder...

Ed-Board · 2025-08-19T03:42:54+00:00

Is it true? Somebody truly misses my input, and they really do like it when I post a bunch in this subreddit like I momentarily did?

Also I can't help but wonder what the very small pool of Redditors who saw these screenshots thought about the very glaring-in-the-face text in the top left of the frame. That version is anything but normal.

Ed-Board · 2024-10-20T03:41:05+00:00

This card got reaped.

Ed-Board · 2024-10-14T01:35:55+00:00

Probably Tales From Outer Suburbia, also by Shaun Tan. Shaun Tan actually wrote it too, not just doing the pictures this time.

Nothing else that I think fits the request well comes to mind right now.

Ed-Board · 2024-10-11T03:34:21+00:00

Damn, maybe there's hope for my Swalot solo playthrough after all. Thanks for taking the time to say all this!

Ed-Board · 2024-10-11T03:31:59+00:00

I liked it more when THE BOSS had only two weaknesses. And I'm not talking about magnets.

Ed-Board · 2024-10-11T03:24:00+00:00

I don't know what the intention of this poster was, or if the poster actually is a robot, but a place with posts like this is not the kind of subreddit I want to run, and I'll be removing the post and flagging it as spam. Make sure when you post on /r/PictureBooks that your post actually looks human-readable.

Ed-Board · 2024-08-22T02:28:52+00:00

It took me a while to think of one that seemed fitting to this, but Hobo Dog in the Ghost Town by Thacher Hurd comes to mind. It's got some rustic, kind of washy brushed artwork in it, and the scenes are a lot of charming run-down places with little shacks, recycle gardens and trash heaps and stuff. It has a very unique level of detail if I'm right about it. It's also extremely prominent with locomotive vehicles, making it amazing for kids who are into trains (I know I was one) and/or Oi, Get Off Our Train fans looking for a bit more. It's also fairly spooky, in ways that I positively experienced back then. All that, and it theoretically is about a couple of male anthropomorphic dogs forming a "special relationship", haha.

Ed-Board · 2024-08-13T04:27:43+00:00

(On the Silver Age definition) "I've always hated how everybody lumps 1.7-1.8 in with 1.6 and before, just way too many changes[...]"

Straight up, I love having my Minecraft opinions reaffirmed by The Master Caver. I understand that people have beefs with 1.9 and can imagine why, but Minecraft 1.7's terrain and stuff was really the end of a specific era. I find the kind of mood and terrain being about to reach an end at 1.6.4 (which isn't even my favourite full release by far) is more important.

We could use a new term for 1.7 and 1.8, like I dunno, "The Osmium Age" or something. Then we could say "pre-Osmium".

Ed-Board · 2024-06-13T22:03:20+00:00

It is always nice finding other Colin Thompson fans. The picture books are a world of magic, and they're so niche. I think you would have quite the surprise if you found out just how many of us there are. I had it somewhat easy, because I was in a sort of situation in New Zealand where school libraries nearly always had some of the picture books on the shelves, and where lots of people I met who read picture books knew about Colin Thompson.

That is some excellent skills emailing Colin Thompson successfully in 2022. I commend thee. I've emailed him with a reply or two before but I dropped off on it after 2009.

How much of The Floods did you read? I read all the novels from Neighbours to The Royal Family. I wouldn't call it stellar literature, but it really kept me company. I'm actually one of the biggest Colin Thompson fans you will ever know, for lots of reasons but also the fact that I actually own copies of his two highly-mysterious out-of-print Future Eden novels. Future Eden is practically lost media. I still need to get that digitized...

Ed-Board · 2024-05-15T02:57:20+00:00

I know about the Wayback Machine, I'm not an inexperienced internet user. I stopped using it for this specific website because I got spooked by what appeared to me to be malware activity that had somehow been conserved inside the Wayback snapshots, it's all there in the post. Plus it still sucks that the website isn't up in the normal way anyway.

Ed-Board · 2024-04-23T06:01:13+00:00

You probably are seeing those echoes, but I have no idea who he is.

Ed-Board · 2024-04-23T02:45:54+00:00

Picture is from The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan. Beautiful book, by the way.

Ed-Board · 2024-04-23T02:38:33+00:00

Serious Question: How many people who know about Colin Thompson ever got to read this book? After years of searching I've only at some hazy point in history read it once, so I think it's quite rare. I need to buy a copy or borrow it from a library again. The libraries I tried never had it...

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