Active camouflage in Minecraft in only 148144 commands

YouTuber slicedlime made this bonkers command block machine as a thank you for 1000 YouTube subscribers.

It has 148144 command blocks totaling more than 27 million characters that sample the blocks around the player who wears the predator armor, calculates the average color and gives the appropriate dyed armor. Lots of command blocks, yet it still runs pretty smoothly assuming that you give Java a decent amount of memory and that you don't stand among the commands blocks.

You can see the video here, or if you'd rather toy with it for yourself you can download the world file here or on the Planet Minecraft page.

If you try it out, give it a while when you first log in to the world - it lags terribly for a little bit since you end up among the command blocks in the spawn chunks, but you'll be moved out to a better spawn and get back to normal framerates.

Happy 6th birthday Minecraft!

Happy 6th birthday Minecraft! (Notch started development May 10th 2009)
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history/Pre-classic
It's an interesting thought that there are kids playing Minecraft right now who have never lived in a world without it. 

Minecraft Skin Studio Encore now available!

To celebrate two years of skin sharing, Minecraft Skin Studio has been completely redesigned!

Since the release of Skin Studio over 900,000 skins have been created, almost 3,000,000 comments written, and over 2,500,000 likes cast. Not too shabby. A lot has changed in Minecraft since then too, so rather than patch the older version, the good people at 57digital have remade their app from the ground up.

Skin Studio Encore now features:

• A completely new user interface and easier to use editing system
• Full support for both Steve & Alex
• 3D Previews everywhere – including while editing your skin!
• Uses the new Minecraft API for importing a skin by username
• Loads of advanced tools (including the much requested copy & paste!)
• Over 900,000 community skins
• The ability to submit your own creation to the community or download & modify!
• Upload your skin to minecraft.net and change your skin for PC/Mac.

A trial version of Skin Studio is also available. Skin Studio Lite gives you the chance to design a full Minecraft Skin, but with slightly limited tools. It’s also worth pointing out that Skin Studio Pro users get the Encore upgrade for free! Just go to the updates tab on the app store.

Don’t forget about 57digital’s other apps too! Minecraft Papercraft Studio and Minecraft Skin Scanner are also pretty cool!

Happy Holidays everyone!