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funkmastergeneral
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Blizzard said:
Wow what a surprise.
VGChampion
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I hope Notch quits the Friday updates and just updates with no schedule to hopefully stop some of the complaining. It gets real old when a Friday passes and people start complaining. Besides, if he ditched Friday updates no one would be waiting at home and you could go out and a have a good time.
And I'd be surprised if Minecraft ever came out on the 3DS. At least in the next couple of years.
And I'd be surprised if Minecraft ever came out on the 3DS. At least in the next couple of years.
Spent a night hiding in my house. Decided to do something productive, so I crafted some pick axes and started a shaft just mining cobblestone.
I was pretty far down when I hit dirt, which I thought was odd, so I excavated all that to see if something neat was behind it. Nothing but dirt though, so I sealed it up and headed to the surface.
Dropped all my stuff off in my chest, walked out my front door, and was immediately killed by a creeper.
Respawned back at my sand pit. There's just so much stuff right on the surface around here (Got coal directly under my feet, for instance), I decided I was going to dig out the sand and strip mine the shit out of this place, maybe build a nice tower or fortress on my spawn point.
While digging a perimeter to mark out the extent of my strip mine, in the distance I saw a fucking island floating in the goddamned sky. Just a small one, but holy shit!
I fear it will be a while before I get there though.
I was pretty far down when I hit dirt, which I thought was odd, so I excavated all that to see if something neat was behind it. Nothing but dirt though, so I sealed it up and headed to the surface.
Dropped all my stuff off in my chest, walked out my front door, and was immediately killed by a creeper.
Respawned back at my sand pit. There's just so much stuff right on the surface around here (Got coal directly under my feet, for instance), I decided I was going to dig out the sand and strip mine the shit out of this place, maybe build a nice tower or fortress on my spawn point.
While digging a perimeter to mark out the extent of my strip mine, in the distance I saw a fucking island floating in the goddamned sky. Just a small one, but holy shit!
I fear it will be a while before I get there though.
Also, it's been a while since I died and had to respawn, but I swear last time I spawned in a slightly different place. I distinctly remember trying to mark the spawn point and then accidentally breaking a barrier for a block of water that immediately began flowing into a cave that I was scratching my head over how I could have missed it the first time out.
This time I spawned over to the east a little bit, overlooking the place where I'd dried up the water with dirt. Though if this was my original spawn point, that would be why I didn't see the cave (though it raises the question of why I would have spawned elsewhere last time.)
Idunno. Like I said, it's been a while since I died, so maybe I'm grossly misremembering everything. I should just commit suicide and see where I end up.
This time I spawned over to the east a little bit, overlooking the place where I'd dried up the water with dirt. Though if this was my original spawn point, that would be why I didn't see the cave (though it raises the question of why I would have spawned elsewhere last time.)
Idunno. Like I said, it's been a while since I died, so maybe I'm grossly misremembering everything. I should just commit suicide and see where I end up.
Stitch
Gold Member
we need a update song for minecraft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jkz0pdHk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jkz0pdHk8
Melville
Member
I saw a video of a water-powered elevator, has anyone tried it? I might make one for this huge cave that's right underneath my fort. Also, are there other methods of creating elevators?
And I found my first room with a chest! Is there a way to stop the monsters from spawning there?
And I found my first room with a chest! Is there a way to stop the monsters from spawning there?
VGChampion
Member
Calantus said:
That's what I'm saying. With the amount of complaining coming out with no Friday updates....it makes me wonder sometimes.
Ether_Snake said:
1) Armor
2) Sword. Keep the stone for the cattle. Spend some iron on a real one for monsters.
3) If you can, a Bow. Arrows can be gotten off of skeletons or made from chicken feathers, sticks, and flint.
4) Torches. Alot.
5) Workbench.
6) Sticks. Alot. You'll run out of tools and need to be ready to make more or improvise on the fly.
7) Food. 1 or 2 pieces. Don't overdo it. If you become so injured from fighting or falling that you need more, its a good sign you need to go back and rearm.
8) Go light. This last point is key. When mining, you'll build up a LOT of cobblestone. Don't bother taking coal, you'll find some if you're mining, and will only need some for torches. And you should already be bringing a ton with you.
If monsters spawn you either have to kill them or leave so they despawn and try again. If you find a spawner, I don't think you can destroy it, but isolate it. Put it at the bottom of a pit or something.
Some other tips from my own experience:
- Wall up the entrance to your mine after you. Often you can come back up and find its night. Save yourself of making the mistake of finally getting back out of your mine, taking a deep breath of relief and... "Hssssss..."
- Start close to home. Minimize your travel distance if possible so you don't waste time or resources on other things but, more to the point, so you don't get distracted with other things you see. Also, so you don't get lost.
- Don't start on a mountain, start LOW. Down at normal elevation. Sure, you might miss some items in the mountain, but you won't have to be as careful carving away, and most of the good stuff is below water level.
- Don't go UP! Going for ore on the ceiling is okay, but don't mine upwards. Its the easy way to flood and drown yourself, burn yourself from lava flow, or get crushed by sand/gravel. If you want to get to that part above you, build up or go around and approach from the side.
My Mining Strategy:
I go in a 4X4X2 pattern. After going two steps, I drop one level and keep going. When I drop one level, I actually dig away as much as I can from the step I am on, to minimize if there is a collapse or a sudden lava flooding. Once I go two elevations down, I make a random directional change. So far this has netted me a small cavern with a cool lava flow and water flow converging to cobblestone and a GINORMOUS cavern I am currently in with multiple monsters and branching tunnels. Only bitch I have is no diamond yet.
Question for the thread: Creepers. How do you kill them? I'm encountering them underground and have no strategy to deal with them. Can I run up to agro (they start hissing) and run off. That way they explode, I probably take some damage, but still live? Or are they always lethal?
Melville said:
Yes sir, that is a monster spawner. Haven't seen one myself yet, but according to Mineapedia, that is what it is.
JoeBoy101 said:
If you're careful, you can hit them with a sword when they are at the very edge of your melee range, and they will be knocked back far enough that their fuse won't completely trigger. They'll keep coming at you until you manage to kill them, so if you mess up once, you're going to get blown up.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
It'll probably be hitting 300k sales sometime today. I wonder what big budget games it's managed to outsell.
Syth_Blade22 said:
I'm the exact opposite. I restarted a few times when I couldn't find anything really interesting when I first started out, but since then I've been sticking entirely to a single world. I've got so many supplies stashed away in there, and I've spent so much time building in it, I can't imagine starting over from scratch.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
You can get yourself a new world by literally just running 5 minutes in a random direction.
Played this for the first time yesterday.
Chose a random server, spawned in a labyrinth of water, stone and lava. Was lost for ages, until eventually I managed to dig my way up to the surface...and came across this:
Seriously considering purchasing the full version, it's been a while since I've had so much fun just exploring in a video game.
Chose a random server, spawned in a labyrinth of water, stone and lava. Was lost for ages, until eventually I managed to dig my way up to the surface...and came across this:
Seriously considering purchasing the full version, it's been a while since I've had so much fun just exploring in a video game.
maniac-kun
Member
The rurvival mode in the full version is a lot of funNTom64 said:Played this for the first time yesterday.
Chose a random server, got lost in a labyrinth of water, stone and lava. Was lost for ages, until eventually I managed to dig my way up to the surface...and came across this:
Seriously considering purchasing the full version, it's been a while since I've had so much fun just exploring in a video game.
I'm all the opposite. One of the things that I love about Minecraft is getting used to the landscape, feeling safe, even at night. Because everything's like you worked it to be. Then you expand horizons and travel to new lands, and you feel uneasy and long for a safe place, for home. And you look back and you know it's there, but it's maybe far. You just hope not too far.joelseph said:
But then again, this new land is like paradise. You see floating islands and a big cascade. Some caves in the face of the cliff. You've found paradise just mere hills away from home. But it's getting dark and what's ahead doesn't look quite like paradise now.
Then you head back and you realise the place where you live, the place you've worked on so much, is beautiful as well. Maybe not as dreamy, but cool nonetheless. Maybe you're just attached toit and it's ugly to no end. But not to you. Not anymore.
For people having trouble with string. What I did was make a hidey hole near an open field and waited until night, I ran outside a bit until I saw a spider, ran the f back in...when it hit day, all the zombies and skellingtons burned up and the spiders and creepers stayed around after they spawned...killed teh spiders, got string. You could also make a hidey spot with lots of glass, a lot more stuff seems to spawn outside or rather, stay spawned once they see you.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
Scrow said:
Good luck. There doesn't seem to be any real reason why it blew up. 4Chan, GAF and SA helped, but so did Valve's TF2 team posting it to their blog.
Biggest factor: Word of mouth. An Alpha game more stable than most PC releases and extremely fun? Sign me the fuck up!
Edit: The actual history is scattered, but Notch does talk about it. Some of it can be found in the IndieGames.com #2 podcast where he mentions how Minecraft came to be from another project. I think some of the idea was from when he worked on Wurm.
May 2009: Development beginsScrow said:
May 2009: First publicly released build
June 2009: First publicly released multiplayer build
June 13th 2009: Preorders opened
June 15th 2009: Notch complains about Paypal for the first time.
Loads and loads of development occurs (paw through the patch history on the wiki or Notch's blog for the details). Minecraft's popularity slowly grows via word-of-mouth courtesy of SA, /v/, and the like.
July 28th 2010: The TF2 team collectively succumbs to the lure of the game and lets everyone know. It had sold 37k copies before that.
Exponential sales growth commences.
ashbash159
Member
Hello I am just about to start a server but I really don't know much about what I am doing.
If anyone has played on touchmybox's server, you can see that you can spawn kits and teleport etc.
I would like to know how to add those features to my server.
Also touchmybox uses dyndns.org for his server URL. I would like to know how to get my own custom URL.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I will share my server details after this has all been sorted out.
If anyone has played on touchmybox's server, you can see that you can spawn kits and teleport etc.
I would like to know how to add those features to my server.
Also touchmybox uses dyndns.org for his server URL. I would like to know how to get my own custom URL.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I will share my server details after this has all been sorted out.
Developing the ability to research is a useful lifelong skill.ashbash159 said:
touch's url seems to be hosted somewhere... maybe you could go to www.dyndns.org and see what happens
also the kits and teleport say something in front of them when activated, you could try googling that. Or maybe googling some way to be an admin of a MC server.
ashbash159 said:
For your kits and teleports, you need a server mod, like this. http://minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1012&t=23340
As for dyndns, you make an account, download a program, and choose a name, then people type that in and go to your server. Pretty self-explanatory when you go to http://www.dyndns.com/
Log4Girlz said:
Depends when he actually finishes it.
For me, it was awesome for week or two, but now I feel like it really needs a lot more work and depth. It has been a bit disappointing that updates essentially stopped the moment I started playing =(
GOTY is likely going to be a knife fight between Starcraft 2, Mass Effect 2, and Civ5 at most sources, at least of games released so far. Maybe RDR will get some awards, as will Halo Reach?
It's been a really damn good year for gaming.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Log4Girlz said:
Game of the year? I'm still waiting for him to fix minecarts in SMP instead of adding stuff like fishing poles...
maniac-kun
Member
so no friday update today?
funkmastergeneral
Banned
JoeBoy101 said:
Completely unusable in SMP
Philthy said:
What a lazy bastard
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