Have i missed much since the 1.8.1 minecraft update?

No not much

Yo same here… I have exams coming up and i want to get over it… As a long term minecrafter I can tell you there's nothing out there… In servers nowadays you get 8 year old noobs and the burning 14 year olds, communities in almost all normal servers suck… Furthermore, since Notch left The microsoft guys have been sitting on their asses… We have not got a good update sine the redstone update…