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But gondolas etc. would be really slow, especially for super high towers and islands. An elevator might be reasonably faster. And using coal would mean coal needs to be a lot more common, unless I'm missing something (to say nothing of material requirements to build roads).superbank said:
platypotamus
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I seriously can't wait for multiplayer. It'll be so fun to build massive settlements, and then settle new lands, and then build mine car mass transit networks between them.
The Technomancer
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Okay, trying to apply a custom skin on Windows 7, but nothing Minecraft related in AppData, and no results on the searches. Help?
EDIT: *facepalm* nevermind, I was looking under M in AppData, and it was named .minecraft
EDIT: *facepalm* nevermind, I was looking under M in AppData, and it was named .minecraft
Caesar III
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All of this. Really all of this sounds so much like Clonk! I love it. This is Clonk in 3d to me!superbank said:
For anyone who has no clue what clonk is http://www.clonk.de/news.php?lng=en
G-Fex said:
Note though that I had mined to pretty much the bottom of the world, due in part to the fact I spawned on the biggest fucking cave system I've ever seen filled with redstone and gold and iron and lava pools and waterways. Shit was amazing.
Though I decided to delete the world and reroll because I had lost literally everything I had made from the slimes.
The Technomancer
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Okay, used WinRar to extract the minecraft.jar, went in, swapped out the terrain.png...and now....how do I make the folder a .jar again?
TheExecutive
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The_Technomancer said:
it should retain the .jar extension
The Technomancer
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Okay, then I used WinRar incorrectly, because I just extracted it as a folder. What was I supposed to do? Somehow use WinRar to access the files inside the .jar?TheExecutive said:
(Not a huge Windows user here)
Move the jar file to your desktop.
Double-click it to open (or do so in WinRAR if it doesn't open automatically).
Find the terrain.png file in the WinRAR window.
Drag it out of the WinRAR window so you can copy it somewhere (if you want to back it up).
Delete terrain.png from the WinRAR window.
Drag a modified terrain.png file into the WinRAR window.
It should ask you what type of compression you'd like, just leave it on Normal.
Close WinRAR.
Move the jar file back to its proper location.
edit: Actually you might not even need to bother with moving the jar file around. Anyway, it'll work that way so I left it.
Double-click it to open (or do so in WinRAR if it doesn't open automatically).
Find the terrain.png file in the WinRAR window.
Drag it out of the WinRAR window so you can copy it somewhere (if you want to back it up).
Delete terrain.png from the WinRAR window.
Drag a modified terrain.png file into the WinRAR window.
It should ask you what type of compression you'd like, just leave it on Normal.
Close WinRAR.
Move the jar file back to its proper location.
edit: Actually you might not even need to bother with moving the jar file around. Anyway, it'll work that way so I left it.
Ferrio said:
Yes! They will be important for mass transit of materials and animals from coast to coast in multiplayer. And of course the player designs and builds the entire ship, depending on how many blocks are used and their weight properties, a certain amount of coal will have to be brought on to fuel the trip. We will need defenses as well if sea monsters are added. This game will be so awesome if done the right way.
Blizzard said:
Traveling island to island would be slow. I'm fine with that. Elevators powered by mules or cows pulling one of those circular things, you know, where they walk in a circle to pump water from a well (I forget what its called) would be cool. Roads could be a flat surface or maybe wood.
I'm all in for a GAF server but I cannot host. We should have a minimum of 4 rooms.
Peaceful: Everyone joins together and cooperates to build a huge city.
Big Team Factions: Large factions will be formed (maye 3-5 total) and pitted against each other.
Small Team Factions: Small teams of 5-10 people can join and try to survive.
Free For All: Every man for himself.
Caesar III said:
I watched some youtube vids. Seems similar though less scary.
Can you build up the terrain and stuff too?The Technomancer
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epmode said:
Okay, last issue. The skin I downloaded was out of date, so I was copying and pasting the relevant tiles from the skin into the current tileset. However, upon saving and running MC, the new tiles are there alright, but anything with a transparent background now shows up with white backgrounds in game. Is this some weird thing with Paint not saving the png correctly?
TheExecutive
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The_Technomancer said:
Cant use paint to do transparency. Are you sure a newer version doesnt exist?
The Technomancer
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Don't think so. I'm just going to email it to myself, reboot into Mac, and do it in Photoshop anyway.TheExecutive said:
Funky Functionality
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Just rolled a snow world on my laptop (about to head to a friend's house and wanted to take the game over to show him first hand--his PC sucks) and within a short distance of the spawn point is a short but deep mine with only one entrance and one exit, and both of those openings are on the surface a short distance apart... went down there and there's already coal and iron ore exposed right off the bat, no work necessary. Glorious. I think I'm going to stick this one out.
The Technomancer
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Hellz Yes!
TheExecutive
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Boonoo said:I like this simplified terrain that was posted above. It has a good feel.
yep best look, otherwise its too busy.
RadicalRad
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I've discovered that the best way to get diamond is get to the bottom where the dev blocks are and start breaking tunnels down there. I found 15 diamond in a relatively short ammount of time.
SpinningFrog
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RadicalRad said:
I did that once, dug a giant spiral staircase all the way down to the bottom. Then I dug around looking for the rare stuff for about 10 minutes and found a hole in the floor, so i did what any normal person would do, i jumped through it.
It didn't end well.
platypotamus
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SpinningFrog said:
:lol :lol :lol
So true, would have totally done the same.
Cool idea: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Airlock
I was looking at the torch page, and it seems that torches are infinite...but Notch apparently has plans to make them temporary. While I realize that's more realistic, it makes me sad since I (and probably other people) probably want to make a secure, lit-up fortress, or light a whole island, and it sounds like with some future update our fortress may suddenly go dark and get filled with spawning creepers. ;_; If one has miles of mine lit by torches, going through them every day to replace the torches would also be awkward. Maybe the player should be able to carry a lit torch, effectively becoming invincible to light-fearing monsters!
I was looking at the torch page, and it seems that torches are infinite...but Notch apparently has plans to make them temporary. While I realize that's more realistic, it makes me sad since I (and probably other people) probably want to make a secure, lit-up fortress, or light a whole island, and it sounds like with some future update our fortress may suddenly go dark and get filled with spawning creepers. ;_; If one has miles of mine lit by torches, going through them every day to replace the torches would also be awkward. Maybe the player should be able to carry a lit torch, effectively becoming invincible to light-fearing monsters!
TheExodu5 said:First night playing. I couldn't stop. Awesome game.
Wow! Very cool!
I just started on my Aztec sacrificial altar. When I first started I had the base 10 X 10 and planned to taper it upward like a pyramid.
The finished product was like 5 squares high.
This is going to take some time.
The new terrain generator is great. I built on top of a huge mountain again, with sheer cliffs and a deep valley with caves like the opening to Moria below me. Unfortunately I fell to my death taking a screenshot down the cliff face, and APPARENTLY all my stuff vanished before I could walk all the way around the mountain base. Does enough fall damage just destroy all your equipment? I'm not sure how long in real world time they take to decay otherwise.
I also found and got coal much quicker this time so I'm already mining at night. I even saw some sort of ore down on the outside in some exposed cave. And my respawn point is basically next to a giant field of cattle, cows, and sheep.
I don't think I've seen any papyrus yet. Oh, and one bug...my mountains are so high that they go OVER the cloud level. As a result, when I'm mining in my basement, a dark night-time cloud can pass straight through the basement walls, making it look creepy and sometimes hard to tell if it's water/a pit/just a dark hole.
Weirdly enough, on normal I don't think I've seen ANY enemies yet, except maybe one burning enemy far below on the valley floor. Maybe they're not as good as climbing as me...I can only hope.
I have white blocks that are apparently neither sand nor clay. What could they be?
Does enough fall damage just destroy all your equipment? I'm not sure how long in real world time they take to decay otherwise.I also found and got coal much quicker this time so I'm already mining at night. I even saw some sort of ore down on the outside in some exposed cave. And my respawn point is basically next to a giant field of cattle, cows, and sheep.
I don't think I've seen any papyrus yet. Oh, and one bug...my mountains are so high that they go OVER the cloud level. As a result, when I'm mining in my basement, a dark night-time cloud can pass straight through the basement walls, making it look creepy and sometimes hard to tell if it's water/a pit/just a dark hole.
Weirdly enough, on normal I don't think I've seen ANY enemies yet, except maybe one burning enemy far below on the valley floor. Maybe they're not as good as climbing as me...I can only hope.
I have white blocks that are apparently neither sand nor clay. What could they be?
HappyBivouac
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Blizzard said:
Not really a bug. There are tons of mountains that high the world I've been playing for the past week. It's pretty epic climbing up a mountain and looking down at the clouds and the valleys below. The way the clouds behave does get a bit weird as you said, but I don't mind so much. Sometimes it's kinda cool. I imagine it would take a lot of work to try and get the clouds to go around structures instead of through them, and that's time I'd rather Notch spent adding new features.
I love the way updates work in this. I travel to a foreign land and suddenly there are resources and things I didn't have at home, due to map generation happening after a new update.
Blizzard said:
Wool?
Caesar III
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superbank said:I watched some youtube vids. Seems similar though less scary.
Not so much! But there are awesome things to build up and create. You can switch the need for electricity on and off so your lift only works if it has power. You get this with a windmill or by firing coal or oil. Like in this game here we played Clonk all the coop way with deeep deeep maps. It's so much fun to create awesome mines with cart tracks and carts on the ground
There are mobs as well But the best is the variety in those games. You can do whatever you want. Build up a base? Do so! Go on a submarine mission? Do so! So awesome. If some of the ideas of Clonk get implemented here as well, woah.
this is the best video I could find on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRDcvYoY9XA but you can try it. All the older Clonk games are Freeware anyway and OpenClonk looks cool.
wool!Blizzard said:The new terrain generator is great. I built on top of a huge mountain again, with sheer cliffs and a deep valley with caves like the opening to Moria below me. Unfortunately I fell to my death taking a screenshot down the cliff face, and APPARENTLY all my stuff vanished before I could walk all the way around the mountain base.
I also found and got coal much quicker this time so I'm already mining at night. I even saw some sort of ore down on the outside in some exposed cave. And my respawn point is basically next to a giant field of cattle, cows, and sheep.
I don't think I've seen any papyrus yet. Oh, and one bug...my mountains are so high that they go OVER the cloud level. As a result, when I'm mining in my basement, a dark night-time cloud can pass straight through the basement walls, making it look creepy and sometimes hard to tell if it's water/a pit/just a dark hole.
Weirdly enough, on normal I don't think I've seen ANY enemies yet, except maybe one burning enemy far below on the valley floor. Maybe they're not as good as climbing as me...I can only hope.
I have white blocks that are apparently neither sand nor clay. What could they be?
Eh, I dunno. I rerolled a bunch of new worlds just to test the new terrain generator and I'm not that impressed. Went back to my old world. The new generator certainly makes more impressive peaks and cliff-faces and more "interesting" terrain. You see gorgeous overhangs all over the place now.
But, I've also seen a lot more floating islands, and a lot of the new peaks are fun to look at but don't seem as playable/habitable.
But, I've also seen a lot more floating islands, and a lot of the new peaks are fun to look at but don't seem as playable/habitable.
HappyBivouac
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MNC said:Why would you reskin a perfectly skinned game
I agree. Some of the custom skins are kinda neat, but everything about the graphics in this game is gorgeous as is.
GDJustin said:
You have an interesting way of looking at this game.
You say "But, I've also seen a lot more floating islands" as if floating islands were a bad thing. Also every mountain is playable if you have ambition!
I just think the new terrain generator is quite a bit more erratic than the old one. Does it create crazier stuff? Yes. But it does so at the expense of the stability/playability of the terrain itself.
I rolled one world that had a hill I liked a lot, but the hill itself was mostly hollow and had lots of holes that led straight down, all the way to the bottom if someone fell in.
Introducing weirdness like that is regression and not progress, imo.
Or, at best it is a "side-grade" and not a clear cut upgrade. I'd just like to see worlds that feature snow in the north and desert to the south before the base algorithm itself was tinkered with too much more.
I rolled one world that had a hill I liked a lot, but the hill itself was mostly hollow and had lots of holes that led straight down, all the way to the bottom if someone fell in.
Introducing weirdness like that is regression and not progress, imo.
Or, at best it is a "side-grade" and not a clear cut upgrade. I'd just like to see worlds that feature snow in the north and desert to the south before the base algorithm itself was tinkered with too much more.
Just to be clear, I grok that the random generator is... random. I did roll 8-10 worlds and wasn't crazy about any of them, but it could have just beed a bad stretch. It doesn't matter anyway since I've decided to stick with the world I made before the generator tweaks made their debut.
Just curious, but has anyone actually died from a mob yet?
I'm playing Alpha on medium and the only death I've had was when I tried to burrow behind a lava waterfall.
Am I doing something wrong?
Aw man, that sounds awesome!
I was hoping for that death-lurks-around-every-corner feeling you get from Rogue games...
I'm playing Alpha on medium and the only death I've had was when I tried to burrow behind a lava waterfall.
Am I doing something wrong?
Aaron said:
Aw man, that sounds awesome!
I was hoping for that death-lurks-around-every-corner feeling you get from Rogue games...
I got stomped by a large ninja slime that dropped from the ceiling. I think he actually split into smaller slimes from the impact.KuroNeeko said:Just curious, but has anyone actually died from a mob yet?
I'm playing Alpha on medium and the only death I've had was when I tried to burrow behind a lava waterfall.
Am I doing something wrong?
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