news about minecraft remake?

Alrighty, time for some news about my latest project :)

Last few days have been very productive, And things have gone allot faster than i first expected. After only about 2 days of coding, i have a few "pretty" chunks rendering a procedually generated terrain(wohoow) :)

I do have some screen-shots but i don't feel that it is worth showing off atm, since I'm not even using textures, and only drawing single-Colored vertices with normals.

But as soon as i have threading working correctly and an infinitive terrain, i will implement textures and real-time shadows... THEN i will have some awesome eye-candy to show :)

In the original Minecraft game, there was only one type of stone, one sand, one wood, grass and so on, this works very well with Notch choice of pixel graphics, BUT this wont look good at all when we are using higher quality textures and a more realistic texture style, you would clearly see where the repetitive patterns are... so i have decided to have 5 different materials for every type of block that can be placed(including Ores).

At this time, it is unsure if i will pick a random texture to use, or Procedurally generate that variation.

The first alternative would mean that the game looks slightly different every time you load your world, it could also mean that you get a different texture pattern if you place a block, instantly remove the same one, and place it again.... now the new block could have different textures.

this don't bother me at all, but it might bother others?
I have yet to deside if its worth the extra CPU spent on Proceduall generation.
Personally it seems more important for me to load chunks as fast as possible so the game can run on as slow machines as possible.

I do have some VERY awesome and(do i dare to say: EPIC features) things i want to implement, that would make the whole world much more dynamic with the things the player can create, and i think i have exactly the thing that will drive people crazy of happiness! :D
but time will tell, im keeping it a secret for now(i would kick my self if i mentioned it here, and some other clone implemented my ideas before i did... stealing many of my future customers)

so, back to the Salt mine ... ha ha *some gentle minecraft comedy*