It looks like the octopus got a friend; he's no longer the only animal in the ocean.

No, I didn't build that; I had to scour the ocean floor to find one that was generated naturally.

Adding the sponge back into Minecraft is something I've had a hankerin' to do for a while now -- just part of my quest to make everything attainable without cheats. I toyed with the idea of having sponge act as a coral reef, but then it just looked like barf on the sea floor. (So it is obviously the current decorative sponge; not the old, functional, water-banishing one.)

This is based on the really-real Caribbean Barrel Sponge, which is so large that a person can fit inside of it.

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It sure seems like my yearly site anniversary curse is being accompanied by a horrible, younger sibling a month earlier. I somehow lost all of the Reality's End git tree -- including almost a year of unpushed changes.

So back to Minecraft.

You may have noticed that my server was either saddled with an old version (1.6.x) or was a head-of-line version without my fun changes. This is because the Mod Coder Pack had fallen woefully behind, and I had been using MCP to do my decompiling.

I've managed to forward port all of my changes without MCP, and so (since this was supposed to be the point of this log section) here is how I done'd it, you Googlers you.

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