First...lemme answer where I have been for the last week or so.....My House Is On The Market! So I've been a little preoccupied :/ That and some epic work projects because it's entering the busy cycle. But I promise I'm not dead!

As always, here's the old game files for before we update, which will be soon: 1.1 version (Windows and Linux). Here's how to find the files that need to be backed up:

• In Linux: ~/.minecraft
• In Windows XP: C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/Application Data/.minecraft
• In Windows 7: C:/Users/[USERNAME]/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft
• In OSX: Mac Version of 1.1 /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/minecraft

As always, here's the Official Feature List and the often-more-useful Wiki feature and bug list. Also, for everyone asking when Bukkit will be updated, here's their status: Bukkit Dev Status.

Look at how fucking adorable my baby chicken is.

Look at them. PEEP. Look.

I am the great item gatherer. I have an almost unlimited supply of every item in the game...so I got to thinking. Which items are truly endlessly renewable? I came up with the following list...I know there's some discrepencies, for example, ghast tears (too difficult to harvest), gold nuggets (again, no reasonable traps), Magma Cream (No trap) and Feathers (you have to kill the birds, meaning you have to find them...non renewable, though you just need to find 1 bird for infinite eggs in theory). Click the link below to see the full list:

We're pleased to announce that you can now chat on the server from a live, web-enabled IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client! We know a lot of people made friends on the server, but have moved on from minecraft. This is a great way to stay connected to the people on the server without having to be logged in all the time. It's an ajax client so it should work on most tablets/phones too. Also...since when you're logged in you're seeing our ads...it helps us pay for the server :D So if you wanna get into the chat room, click the "IRC Chat" on the sidebar, plug in your username, and pop on in! The link is also below.

IRC Chat

O...k so I was drunk the other night and posed a question...Kermit had an interesting response.

2012-02-03 22:20:09 [INFO] DrunkSurf: let's say...you get abducted by aliens
2012-02-03 22:20:11 [INFO] DrunkSurf: kirby too
2012-02-03 22:20:12 [INFO] rtkermit: the fuck!
2012-02-03 22:20:15 [INFO] DrunkSurf: taken to spaceship
2012-02-03 22:20:16 [INFO] Kirbyf: yay probe time!
2012-02-03 22:20:24 [INFO] DrunkSurf: you're up there...they say "release the genital switch ray
2012-02-03 22:20:38 [INFO] DrunkSurf: whole planet....girls are EXACTLY THE SAME but have penises and balls....
2012-02-03 22:20:49 [INFO] DrunkSurf: boys are exact but have uterus and vaginas.
2012-02-03 22:20:49 [INFO] Kirbyf: D: no not my balls. leave the boys alone!
2012-02-03 22:20:55 [INFO] DrunkSurf: they beam you back...you're unchanged.
2012-02-03 22:21:07 [INFO] DrunkSurf: which do you bang. You have to choose.
2012-02-03 22:21:27 [INFO] Kirbyf: well fuck. so its a world of shemales and dudes with vaginas
2012-02-03 22:21:37 [INFO] rtkermit: SHEMALES ARE SEXY