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fredrancour
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shuri said:
on the other hand, many people have had enough fun with the game as-is that they feel like the product gives them their money's worth now. deadnoob, if the game that exists right now seems as satisfying to you as it is to many people you should buy it now. just make sure you understand what you are getting. I personally would not have felt ripped off if I had been charged 13 bucks for this game and told it was a finished product (probably because I generally am so indifferent to online multi in anything). If you dont mind the state of multi i see no reason to hesitate.
r1chard said:
I'd rather think of it as a feature than a bug.
If you were playing SMP without assigning jobs then getting ore to make decent tools would be soul destroying. I've had a hard time find enough diamond for a set of four picks+shovels I think seeing them break would be the end of me.
And then Iron would be a pain too. Once you get Iron it's a bit of a pain to go back to slow old stone, especially when you are mining for four :s
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And in terms of buying the game, though it may be half of what it should be in the end and hasn't had an update in some time, do keep in mind it's currently half price.
Parallax Scroll
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Plus the price is going up to 15 euros when it enters beta, which should be as soon as the major multiplayer issues are resolved.
WanderingWind
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What I wouldn't give for the ability to set my own spawn point. Or to have some way of finding places again. I built a really cool place set in a basin that had a lava waterfall and a water...waterfall meeting naturally. Nearby was a tree that eternally on fire.
*hssssss* FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can't find it again.
*hssssss* FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can't find it again.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
That seems like cheating. Must....resist....:lol
WanderingWind said:
My friend is coding to splice separate worlds into a single for online multiplayer. The plan is make our stuff now then bring it into the single world online. The things he has told me about.... I have to resist from doing them as it's cheating (cloning items being a key)
I was trying to clear out a huge underground area, but had used up my prized diamond pickaxe. So I spawned some diamonds using that program, made new pickaxes, and carried on, for at least two minutes. It felt like I had just cheated on my wife with one of her sisters... the ugly one. Quit to main menu, delete world, start new world. About 40 or so hours work gone. 
YourMaster
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WanderingWind said:
You can't move the spawnpoint without cheating. But you can move the world around it.
CoachKevin
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Ok, I have bought and downloaded minecraft. I watched a quick tutorial video on how to do thinks like build pick axes and suck. But what should I be doing? Wandering the land? I know some mentioned dungeons, so do I just search for them, Zelda style?
Thanks.
Thanks.
First things first. You should focus on surviving. This means building a shelter, some tools and probably weapons. Then, once surviving is more or less a given, you can do whatever you feel like doing. Be it mining, exploring, adventuring into dungeons, building up things...CoachKevin said:
The thing about Minecraft is there's no set guideline. Each world is a new experience, each person is a different way to experience it.
WanderingWind
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Log4Girlz said:
Yeah, that's a good idea.
drizzle said:
Nobody saw that.
Haunted
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I would agree with you in principle, but in all honesty, what's there right now is already worth the 10. Easily. What's coming in the future is all a bonus.shuri said:
A man's man. You did the right thing.Rainier said:I was trying to clear out a huge underground area, but had used up my prized diamond pickaxe. So I spawned some diamonds using that program, made new pickaxes, and carried on, for at least two minutes. It felt like I had just cheated on my wife with one of her sisters... the ugly one. Quit to main menu, delete world, start new world. About 40 or so hours work gone.
I honestly believe that a huge part of the SP appeal (for me at least) is that you literally mine and craft every single thing in your generated world by yourself, by your own doing.
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Hmm I'm not sure what to do. I've built my third shack, linked to my sky bridge, so I can be more productive even at night. But during day time I always go to new sites and dig only a bit.
What is my GOAL?
I noticed that few monsters are spawning where I left torches before, but a whole LOT are spawning on the other side of the hill where I haven't gone. I mean I could see like five creepers jumping around + zombies and spiders.
So basically, what should be my next goal? Dig as deep as I can? What am I supposed to look for and what should I be prepared against?
And can monsters climb ladders?
What is my GOAL?
I noticed that few monsters are spawning where I left torches before, but a whole LOT are spawning on the other side of the hill where I haven't gone. I mean I could see like five creepers jumping around + zombies and spiders.
So basically, what should be my next goal? Dig as deep as I can? What am I supposed to look for and what should I be prepared against?
And can monsters climb ladders?
CoachKevin
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quick question. I just got killed by a spider, do i lose all the progress I made? including the shelter/cave I created?
HappyBivouac
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Artanisix said:
Man, the whole point of minecraft is that if you want to make something really badass out of gold blocks, diamond blocks, obsidian, etc. you gotta work like hell for it for it and invest a lot of time and love into a single world. So while I respect the artistry you put into the project, I feel like you've cheated yourself and ruined the experience a little bit. Not that it's my place to tell someone who to enjoy their game, but I just had to say it.
I think one of the nice things about Minecraft is that different people can play it in different ways. In fact, that seems like almost the point of sandbox games. Some people might really enjoy classic creative mode -- I liked it. Even with infinite resources, it was fun to create crazy huge structures and explore with other people.
It's also fun to craft and mine it all yourself, and should eventually be fun to survive cooperatively against monsters and so forth. But one nice thing, potentially, is that those who want to edit their world or use custom tools/cheat programs can do it, offline. If that's more fun for them, it doesn't really hurt it for the rest of us, hopefully!
It's also fun to craft and mine it all yourself, and should eventually be fun to survive cooperatively against monsters and so forth. But one nice thing, potentially, is that those who want to edit their world or use custom tools/cheat programs can do it, offline. If that's more fun for them, it doesn't really hurt it for the rest of us, hopefully!
CoachKevin
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Holy crap! I found my cave, thankfully I put torches at the top pf the mountain it was in. Thank you Justin from Joyst***Atomski said:
CoachKevin said:
Nope. When you die, the world stays exactly as it was when you died, you just respawn at your spawn location. Anything you were carrying will get scattered around the area where you died and will stay there for a short while, so if you haul ass you can make it to your goodies before they disappear.
Artanisix said:
I didn't even notice the gold blocks at first (they kind of blend in with the lava). Where's there diamond on that thing.
Oh, and at least you admitted that you used an editor. I'm enjoying scraping everything together too much to do that myself. I've been tempted a few times where I've done something stupid and lost a bunch of diamond equipment to lava, but I much prefer the ruthlessness of the game as-is. I think the only time I'd feel justified in doing that is if I lost anything due to a bug in the game.
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HappyBivouac said:
Heh, I was thinking pretty much the same thing. When I see something that someone built without any outside intervention, I not only admire the creativity that went into it, but I can also appreciate the sheer amount of work that went into getting the materials/clearing the land for whatever was built. Like you said, it's not like you want to tell someone how to play the game, but it just feels a little bit wrong somehow
.On the last world I started, I got so carried away with collecting materials on my first day that by the time I ran back to my spawn base it was too dark to build and the creatures were starting to come out. Instead of putting together a crude fortress to hide, I 'dug up' by putting blocks under me till I was about 20 blocks off the ground. It was cool watching them walking down the beach looking for me, especially the spiders with those scary red eyes. They didn't seem to be aware of my location until I was only four or five blocks up off the ground. So I spent most of that night teasing the bastards.
So anybody that's not on TouchMyBox's server should probably see this. We made an awesome football stadium with some great teamwork within about a week.
Here's a couple of good shots of it from the outside.
Here's the front entrance ticket booths, and you can see a couple vendor booths behind it.
And here's the field and the bleachers. The "LOL" you see on the right is the jumbotron/scoreboard. You can also see some of the skyboxes up top.
We've even got a set of locker rooms, complete with showers.
Here's inside the main skybox, which is the control room. This is just above the jumbotron.
Here's a better glimpse of the glass dome on top. This thing was a pain in the ass to work on.
Just like to take this opportunity again to thank everybody who helped me with this huge project! It was a lot of fun to make. =)
Here's a couple of good shots of it from the outside.
Here's the front entrance ticket booths, and you can see a couple vendor booths behind it.
And here's the field and the bleachers. The "LOL" you see on the right is the jumbotron/scoreboard. You can also see some of the skyboxes up top.
We've even got a set of locker rooms, complete with showers.
Here's inside the main skybox, which is the control room. This is just above the jumbotron.
Here's a better glimpse of the glass dome on top. This thing was a pain in the ass to work on.
Just like to take this opportunity again to thank everybody who helped me with this huge project! It was a lot of fun to make. =)
CoachKevin said:
Yeah, that's what I generally do. While exploring caves, too. Leaving torches as "breadcrumbs" on the trail or to mark entrances and pathways. It's not foolproof (in the more complex cave systems, it can still be easy to get lost), but it works reasonably well.
Haunted
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Get to the nearest big mountain from your spawn and build a quick n dirty tower - like 2x2 dirt blocks or something - up to the sky limit. Go explore wherever you want and start building your stuff.Atomski said:
When you're better equipped (say, a couple ingame days later), return to your spawn point (that's why you built that tower in the beginning) and litter the way with torches or other recognisable block patterns.
Really, building two super quick towers (one at your spawn and one at your base) helps out so much with navigation at the beginning.
edit: holy shit @ Neogaf stadium. Impressive work, guys.
HappyBivouac
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JRW said:
Well... why do you play games?
JRW said:
Some people like the tension that the monsters bring.
Personally, monsters are more of an annoyance to me, but that's only because they're dumb as bricks. There's no skill involved when it comes to killing them, and random creepers sneaking up behind you is a major pain in the ass.
JRW
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HappyBivouac said:
I know what your getting at but minecraft is a rare breed of games .. I just wanna craft & build a bunch of things without worrying about what time of day it is, but then again ive only had the game a few days and I still have much to learn, I was just curious what other people thought lol.
VGChampion
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JRW said:
Only if you like the tension. There's only a few items they drop that can be used. I had my game on peaceful during the single player because I wanted to dig and explore.
If you personally get more out of just building, then play on peaceful. For a lot of people, the challenge of keeping yourself alive and not losing all your stuff is part of what they enjoy about the game, it's almost like a roguelike in that regard. Different strokes. Personally I keep it on peaceful and just enjoy exploring, building, and crafting.JRW said:
Once you go up at certain height, you can come back down and the skeletons won't shoot at you. I think it's because they tend to get right up against the single tower of blocks you're standing on, so you're positioned almost directly above them. It's like it's too much of an angle for them to shoot.Blizzard said:
HappyBivouac
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JRW said:
Yeah, when I first played the game I put tons of hours into building epic stuff on peaceful, so I know where you're coming from. I just think that eventually you'll get an itch for the tension it adds when you're not just building stuff for creativity, but for survival.
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ZealousD said:
you should try and make it so you can allow creatures to spawn on the field over night, and make it into a Colosseum-esque experience, were people can battle with them for your amusement.
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