Funky Functionality
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Definitely needs a thread title change.
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Minecraft |OT|
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Just as long as it doesn't become TOO popular, because then people who won't like it try the game, and then it goes from the Unknown Game stage to the Hyped Game stage to the Most Overrated Game Ever OMG It Sucks stage. :lol
Also, if you need some motivation to keep playing, some day you might have enough materials to burn (or else you hack enough materials into your game) that you can make...A Machine For Sheep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXujC4-mMmQ&feature=related
Just be careful to be ready to blockade with mud or a door or something, since you might hit a cavern underneath your house and monsters could come through (or you could fall to your death in entertaining fashion).FlyinJ said:
Also, if you need some motivation to keep playing, some day you might have enough materials to burn (or else you hack enough materials into your game) that you can make...A Machine For Sheep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXujC4-mMmQ&feature=related
Funky Functionality
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FlyinJ said:
I wish I'd seen it before today! This game is so awesome on so many levels, and now I can't wait to see what we get in the update tomorrow. Oh, and I finally discovered the recipe for leather shoes... embarrassingly simple, can't believe I hadn't tried that combo yet.
I'm about to expand my house upward through the cliff I'm in until I reach the top, and build an overlook/balcony type thing up there.
Nice...there's also this thread, with people using an editor etc. to get tons of TNT.GDJustin said:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19307&sid=49f014fe080b2c8277e9d0f8b102d6c4
Cave from TNT, I assume:
http://img195.imageshack.us/f/newbitmapimage5e.jpg/
Nice desktop, again TNT I assume:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4826/soawesome.png
It would be really cool if those kinds of caves could be randomly generated. :O
British Monsoon
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Man, i'm loving Minecraft, but it keeps crashing on me - it runs fine, I get a good 60fps even with the fog set to lowest, but occasionally after an extended session of play my laptop will just shut itself off and after this happened last night the keyboard was no longer working. Got it sorted now though, had to drain the laptops flea power to fix it, but now i'm scared to start up Minecraft in case it happens again Would running it via the browser help? The symptoms make me think the downloadable version of the game was over-working the processors, to the point that the laptop shut entirely down, so if anything I figured it would be worse with the browser version :/
Would running it via the browser help? The symptoms make me think the downloadable version of the game was over-working the processors, to the point that the laptop shut entirely down, so if anything I figured it would be worse with the browser version :/Meatpuppet
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Bah, was expanding my underground farm, didn't have sound on so didnt realise I was getting near the surface....
Next thing I know a creeper has killed me and caved in my entire farm. Bastard!
Next thing I know a creeper has killed me and caved in my entire farm. Bastard!
buy teh haloz
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It's a cactus.Kritz said:
buy teh haloz said:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Cactus
Hrm... it damages mobs too? I think I know what I'm going to make my lower trap floors out of, if not lava...
Fulleffect
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i bought it due to thread it is awesome can't wait to get to do some multi
it is awesome can't wait to get to do some multiAlright... so I re-rolled another world. But it's my FINAL one this time, I swear. Those of you following this thread know I had a good reason this time, even though I am admittedly a habitual re-roller (I lost a bunch of progress and items due to a glitch).
Anyway, this time around I decided to settle on top of a large hill/mountain. I know it's the stereotypical thing to do, but I'd never actually done it (I've preferred islands). I found a good looking one just a few feet from spawn:
Also, note the ore. This proved to be a sign of things to come. Ore EVERYWHERE on this map... far more than any other I've played.
I've decided that building a dirt or wood hut and cowering for the first night or two is for chumps. I might make a full post soon on why. But basically, if you find ore in your first day, wall off as large an area as you can cover with torches. Since each ore makes four torches, you can probably "claim" a pretty large territory day 1. Wall it off, illuminate it.
On day one and into the night I quickly walled up the East, West, and South walls of my hill, and then torched it. I didn't need to place walls on the North side, because it was already steep enough to keep me safe:
Overnight, things got... loud. I decided to go ahead and wall up the North side anyway, after seeing this as day began to break:
The view is really quite commanding, even with the draw distance set to medium. I wasn't intentionally trying to settle the highest peak, but it worked out that way. I notice now that I didn't even snap a pic of the view to the south, which is the best of all. A waterfall and a large valley.
And finally here is a view of the beginnings of this mountain fortress from the outside. The cave pictured actually opens up into a quite large cavern, extending almost underneath my entire mountain itself. Will probably wall up that cave entrance and mine down into the cavern next time I play.
So... that's it. It may not look like much, but I'm very pleased with how things are going here so far. I STRONGLY encourage people to use the outer wall / torching method of claiming territory. It makes it very easy to make very large stretches of land 100% safe and monster-free.
I dunno exactly where I'm going to go with this one... I'm probably going to extend my wall to the hill next door you can see on the left in the final picture, and settle it as well. That + giving things a proper grand entrance + getting a proper quarry going will keep me busy for a while I think.
Anyway, this time around I decided to settle on top of a large hill/mountain. I know it's the stereotypical thing to do, but I'd never actually done it (I've preferred islands). I found a good looking one just a few feet from spawn:
Also, note the ore. This proved to be a sign of things to come. Ore EVERYWHERE on this map... far more than any other I've played.
I've decided that building a dirt or wood hut and cowering for the first night or two is for chumps. I might make a full post soon on why. But basically, if you find ore in your first day, wall off as large an area as you can cover with torches. Since each ore makes four torches, you can probably "claim" a pretty large territory day 1. Wall it off, illuminate it.
On day one and into the night I quickly walled up the East, West, and South walls of my hill, and then torched it. I didn't need to place walls on the North side, because it was already steep enough to keep me safe:
Overnight, things got... loud. I decided to go ahead and wall up the North side anyway, after seeing this as day began to break:
The view is really quite commanding, even with the draw distance set to medium. I wasn't intentionally trying to settle the highest peak, but it worked out that way. I notice now that I didn't even snap a pic of the view to the south, which is the best of all. A waterfall and a large valley.
And finally here is a view of the beginnings of this mountain fortress from the outside. The cave pictured actually opens up into a quite large cavern, extending almost underneath my entire mountain itself. Will probably wall up that cave entrance and mine down into the cavern next time I play.
So... that's it. It may not look like much, but I'm very pleased with how things are going here so far. I STRONGLY encourage people to use the outer wall / torching method of claiming territory. It makes it very easy to make very large stretches of land 100% safe and monster-free.
I dunno exactly where I'm going to go with this one... I'm probably going to extend my wall to the hill next door you can see on the left in the final picture, and settle it as well. That + giving things a proper grand entrance + getting a proper quarry going will keep me busy for a while I think.
Infdev IS survival mode. And Survival mode IS Alpha. They're all referring to the same thing. More or less.
The names indev & infdev exist because at one point maps weren't infinite - they were actually pretty small in size. The first test versions of minecraft with infinite worlds became known as infdev, and for a while it was a separate development line from indev, which was the version with the small worlds.
But now there is only Alpha.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Indev
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Infdev
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Alpha
The names indev & infdev exist because at one point maps weren't infinite - they were actually pretty small in size. The first test versions of minecraft with infinite worlds became known as infdev, and for a while it was a separate development line from indev, which was the version with the small worlds.
But now there is only Alpha.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Indev
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Infdev
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Alpha
Funky Functionality
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Billen said:
I've got a sign above the door to my mountain/cliffside dug-in dwelling that says, "This Shit is Mine"
Eaten By A Grue
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Ugh I woke up this morning so tired after playing close to 1AM trying to dig my tunnel under the lake and now I have to go to work. Then back to the salt mines after work. :lol
built an awesome boathouse right by my base, dug out into a small hill that was at the edge of the water. gonna link it to my minecart house via an undergrtound tunnel. The minecart house kinda works like a garage with a door and small corridor into my mountain base so it all connects.
Fucking love mining shit.
Fucking love mining shit.
Has anyone else had weird things disappear on them? I was just playing today and a huge big tunnel I dug down to a huge cavern and decked out with stairs/lights etc disappeared. The tunnel starts fine, but then about 10m in it just stops, no more tunnel.
It's making me not want to play because what if other things I spend time on just disappear?
It's making me not want to play because what if other things I spend time on just disappear?
VoteForPedro
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This game sounds so awsome, can't wait to get paid so I can buy it too!
All I've been doing for the past 3 days is reading this thread over and over and feeling overwhelmed by the amazing stuff you guys've made.
Keep sharing those Screencaps!
All I've been doing for the past 3 days is reading this thread over and over and feeling overwhelmed by the amazing stuff you guys've made.
Keep sharing those Screencaps!
That definitely sounds like a hardware thing...does your laptop get really hot on the bottom? You might try downloading a utility like RealTemp and seeing what your CPU temperature gets to. You could also try using the "fast" graphics option and make sure you have limiting fps turned on.Bootaaay said:Man, i'm loving Minecraft, but it keeps crashing on me - it runs fine, I get a good 60fps even with the fog set to lowest, but occasionally after an extended session of play my laptop will just shut itself off and after this happened last night the keyboard was no longer working. Got it sorted now though, had to drain the laptops flea power to fix it, but now i'm scared to start up Minecraft in case it happens again
Take a break, play something else fun, come back after updates.Max said:
Burning out isn't any good!This is my favorite. :lol
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The title isn't going to be changed to something cute or an in-joke that people who have already played the game would get--that kind of clique stuff isn't conducive to new people, which is a bad thing. If someone can come up with a title that describes the game better than the current one to people who have not yet heard of the game or clicked on the thread, I'd be happy to change the title.
Well to be serious, it would probably make sense if the "equation" was just changed slightly, something like Minecraft = Rogue + Dwarf Fortress + 3D Dot Game Heroes, or similar.Stumpokapow said:
I believe the plan was to hold off on an actual |OT| until the beta is released with multiplayer, at least.
So I finally made a crappy little staging house right at my spawn. Made a bunch of rad windows (first time using a forge!) and a staircase going to the roof so I can take potshots at monsters/pigs/etc.
I was all set to start an excavation right into the floor when my computer crashed. No problem, I'll restart. .....HDD can no longer be detected. SIGH
Thankfully, I have a recent backup. Double thankfully, my Minecraft save is on a different drive.
BTW, is there a building material that's safe from those exploding things?
I was all set to start an excavation right into the floor when my computer crashed. No problem, I'll restart. .....HDD can no longer be detected. SIGH
Thankfully, I have a recent backup. Double thankfully, my Minecraft save is on a different drive.
BTW, is there a building material that's safe from those exploding things?
OgTheClever
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Minecraft |OT| - The most ultimately amazingly awesome game everStumpokapow said:
Stumpokapow said:
The idea for my title, well mostly just the exploded part is that it would intrigue people into thinking "Hey, what does that guy mean? I better check this out".
Minecraft |OT| It's like Legos... but with one shape. And monsters. And Dirt. Lots and lots of dirt.
OgTheClever
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I think the real title should put an emphasis on building and exploring.
Caesar III
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how to do that? I need thisK2Valor said:
ah, found it: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tree_(structure)
nice nice!
WOAH awesomeBlizzard said:
man, I love this game
I think the thread should be aimed at content more than at the topic
People of Gaf, where do the game files reside? Java cache? It seems the game is unplayable behind firewalls, making it impossible to trade the lunch newspaper against lunch mining. Can't dl the files, it seems.
Edit: Ignore the question regarding where it keeps it's files.
People of Gaf, where do the game files reside? Java cache? It seems the game is unplayable behind firewalls, making it impossible to trade the lunch newspaper against lunch mining. Can't dl the files, it seems.
Edit: Ignore the question regarding where it keeps it's files.
Supposedly, once the game updates you should be able to play it offline. I don't know if it expires at some point and requires you to check for updates though -- anyone else had any experience?Billen said:I think the thread should be aimed at content more than at the topic
People of Gaf, where do the game files reside? Java cache? It seems the game is unplayable behind firewalls, making it impossible to trade the lunch newspaper against lunch mining. Can't dl the files, it seems.
Edit: Ignore the question regarding where it keeps it's files.
OgTheClever
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You just have to log in to the game client once and then you can play it offline indefinitely. (on the same pc)Blizzard said:
TheExecutive
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Probably shouldnt be playing this at work :lol
Seriously though, we need fishing.
Seriously though, we need fishing.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
This game really really captures the feelings of exploration and progress very well, because everything is procedural and random, and you have to do literally everything yourself.
I do think the current title fits pretty well, although it would be nice to get an = and a |OT| in there.
I do think the current title fits pretty well, although it would be nice to get an = and a |OT| in there.
OgTheClever
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Water mobs are coming soon, so you never know.TheExecutive said:
Funky Functionality
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In all seriousness:
MINECRAFT |OT| Mining, Crafting, Building, and Surviving in the Ultimate Sandbox Game
MINECRAFT |OT| Mining, Crafting, Building, and Surviving in the Ultimate Sandbox Game
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