So 1.8 is delayed for about another week. Big deal. What really pisses me off is that

a. NPC's will be implemented in 1.9 . Theyre not even ready yet

b. Experience Orbs are absolutely useless until 1.9

Deal with it..

Lol! That made me laugh so fucking hard!

One week more or less......

Likely 1.9 will follow fairly quickly considering they want an overall release by November. So the plan is probably something like ...

b1.8 release September

b1.9 release October (Probably early November)

1.0 release November (Probably mid to late December)

you mean minecraft goes out of beta and its jsut "minecraft" or its like 2.0?

b1.8 Release in a week

b1.9 Release october

v1.0 Add a shit ton of mods for fun, and release about a week after 11/11/11

Notch is having MineCon around then, and he said he's gonna upload the final build there

Lol by Notch time this is -

b1.8 release October

b1.9 release November (Probably early November)

1.0 release 2012