Lewis Robinson
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Where did they say this was a "Exploit", I've searched everywhere the only thing I can find on someone calling a light based farm an exploit is you. Looked through the patch notes until 1.5 didn't find anything about a fix for farming/wheat/light/redstone lamps that involve a light farm, also looked at the blog and saw 0 reasons to say that it was considered a exploit.
Wish I knew this before I spent 12 hours over 2 weeks gathering all the stuff for this farm in SMP. What's the point of Redstone Lamps now? A on-off switch for a mob spawner maybe.
Seriously why can I not be able to farm like this? The scale of it isn't any better than water farms, it's more resource intensive than water farms, it's worked like this for longer than water based farms, it makes me feel like I actually worked for my farm...
How is that a bug fix? It was like that all the way in alpha with torches. Matter of fact is was like that if you didn't have torches and it became night until recently, which was to my knowledge at the time a design feature.
Looks like it was always an intended feature Alex, and that it was never an exploit. They didn't decide to "fix" it, it was a mistake.