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British Monsoon
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Yeah, discussion seems to have died down somewhat since then - not everyone follows threads via subscription, so I imagine a fair portion of posters aren't even aware it's in the online forum now.
Like the hat?
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UGH
Finally find 3 diamond, make my diamond pick and mine some obsidian, create a portal, take one step forward and fall about 20 blocks straight down into a pool of lava, lose a bunch of clay, bricks, my diamond pick, my flint and steel, a bunch of stone, a bunch of other stuff, my iron armor, etc. Try to go back for everything, but it all burned up. The portal takes me directly to my death.
wtf
edit: plus my portal takes me into some random cave with no torches or picks, instead of back to my portal that I had created near my home.
Finally find 3 diamond, make my diamond pick and mine some obsidian, create a portal, take one step forward and fall about 20 blocks straight down into a pool of lava, lose a bunch of clay, bricks, my diamond pick, my flint and steel, a bunch of stone, a bunch of other stuff, my iron armor, etc. Try to go back for everything, but it all burned up. The portal takes me directly to my death.
wtf
edit: plus my portal takes me into some random cave with no torches or picks, instead of back to my portal that I had created near my home.
goldsoundz
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The mods may as well move any game with multiplayer to this board. It's a shame seeing such little activity in my favorite gaming-side thread at NeoGAF.
After watching some great tutorials, interested in playing this game. However, I need some questions answered first:
- Can Minecraft server (like one I might run myself) able to deliver the full Minecraft Alpha Survival mode or is survival mode only in single-player? I'm confused about this. I'd hate to build an awesome world in single-player only to have been able to do it online with a friend.
- When you pay the 9 Euros to own Alpha, how does it unlock the game? Do you get a code or what?
- Do you have to save your game or what?
I'll pass on answering #1 (I think you can copy a singleplayer world to multiplayer but others should have a better idea).ckohler said:
#2: You are able to use a website account at Minecraft.net to change your avatar and download the game executable. You can download it as many times as you want to whichever computer you want, and it will let you run it in offline mode after you run it once, in case you don't have access to the internet.
#3: Your game saves automatically, in theory. To be safe, you can press escape to get to the ingame menu, since I think the game autosaves there. To be really safe, you can occasionally save and exit to the main menu, then restart your game. To be super safe (probably a good idea since the game has bugs), you can manually zip up your save file directory, or have a program that makes a zip of it, every couple of days if you're doing a lot of work. That way, if something goes horribly corrupted, you can get back to it.
You can transfer your single player worlds to a server real easy (theres a world folder you can copy, I back mine up and put it on a server for friends to play quiet a bit)
A lot of single player stuff does not work in multiplayer yet though. You take no damage and neither do mobs. So its not much survival multiplayer yet. Notch is still working on that.
funkmastergeneral
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animlboogy said:
Evilore is trolling us
What's the best way to mine Obsidian? Every time I've tried, I've ended up falling into lava and dying or the obsidian piece falls into the lava and I lose it. I've directed the water, then I am placing bricks all around to stop both the lava and water flow. around the obsidian block. Unfortunately usually right below the obsidian there is more lava. What should I do?
Question: I want to make some signs to put in my Nether "Inter-Biome Transportation Hub" area to help me remember where each portal takes me, will they catch on fire if I place them too close to fire/lava like wood does? I am very unfamiliar with signs as I've made a total of one once to try them out. Just curious if I have to keep them far away.
rohlfinator
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I haven't tried this yet so I'm not sure how well it works, but my friend was doing something like this:Cryptozoologist said:
- pour water over the top of the pool to turn the surface to obsidian
- mine down beside the new obsidian on the edge of the pool
- any time you reveal lava, quickly pour water next to it so it turns to obsidian before it spreads
- repeat until you've converted as much visible lava as possible, then mine the outer layer and repeat
Or if you have enough buckets, you can scoop up the lava on top until there's only one layer left, then turn that, and put the lava you collected somewhere else in a single layer.
Cryptozoologist said:
Obviously it doesn't have to be this elaborate, but you can build a mold, put buckets of lava in it, pour water over the lava (making sure you don't put the bucket of water directly into the lava, you want the flowing water to hit the lava) then mine the obsidian safely.
Just make sure you're in a location where the water flow won't push you into a nearby lava lake or something. I have my little portal factory built with a portal that goes near a lava lake in the nether, and a bunch of buckets in a box in the factory so I can grab them and go on a quick lava run.
Anyone else think it's weird that the watch wouldn't work in The Nether? It's not like the compass where it requires a source to point to, it's just a timer that would keep ticking no matter what.
Though I think it would be cool if time went faster in The Nether as well as just distance. You could spend 15 minutes in there and have 8 days have passed in the real world. Or something. I dunno.
Either way I think either the watch should work or time should go faster. Also, the game should have a calendar telling you how many days it's been since you started the game. Maybe it could also add years and have different things happen at different times. I dunno. Throwing ideas out there. Guess they'd work better if seasons were possible. I don't see why they couldn't though. Since chunks are loaded and unloaded all the time, just make them change when reloaded next time to whatever the current season is. Though I wonder if the seasons should be based on real-world time (i.e. right now it'd be fall.) or based on the aforementioned calendar year inside the game.
Though I think it would be cool if time went faster in The Nether as well as just distance. You could spend 15 minutes in there and have 8 days have passed in the real world. Or something. I dunno.
Either way I think either the watch should work or time should go faster. Also, the game should have a calendar telling you how many days it's been since you started the game. Maybe it could also add years and have different things happen at different times. I dunno. Throwing ideas out there. Guess they'd work better if seasons were possible. I don't see why they couldn't though. Since chunks are loaded and unloaded all the time, just make them change when reloaded next time to whatever the current season is. Though I wonder if the seasons should be based on real-world time (i.e. right now it'd be fall.) or based on the aforementioned calendar year inside the game.
rohlfinator
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Doesn't it take a lot longer to mine if it's under water? Or is that only when you're completely submerged?Brashnir said:
So what's going to happen to the Minecraft Multiplayer thread?
Barberetti
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Cheeky fucker's just sat there in my cart staring at me! Ran round the corner and almost ran into him. Damn near shit myself.
I am thinking of getting this to play with my girlfriend, but I'm trying to thinK; is there a way to do full survival (with monsters, health, etc) but easily share the world across the internet? Like, a cloud save? I know survivial MP isn't finished, but alpha survival is, and we dont have to play at the same time, but I'm wondering at least w can still collaborate on things. Or something? Is tehre some "virtual folder" cloud file sharing system which works on macs, maybe, that Minecraft can be tricked to point to?
Hell of it is, multiplayer rarely enters the equation for this thread. It's usually just people sharing their stories/screenshots of their personal kingdoms.
It's almost like the Mod's are just putting every permanent "game thread" into this forum to get them out of the way. My guess is that NeoGAF becomes more legit if it's only news in the Gaming Forum being discussed?
It's almost like the Mod's are just putting every permanent "game thread" into this forum to get them out of the way. My guess is that NeoGAF becomes more legit if it's only news in the Gaming Forum being discussed?
elrechazado
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what mods/texture packs are these? want.Atomski said:Game is so purdy sometimes
Barberetti
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As much as I love this game, I have to say that mining obsidian is fucking boring :lol
Hexadecimalt
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SToRM said:
georgc said:
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Horsebite said:
ZZMitch said:
ahoyhoy said:
Before I actually send the PM I've written, has anyone already spoken to a moderator or administrator about this?
Big ass picture the first.
Big ass picture the second.
Big ass picture the last.
Some things clearly still need some work.
I think I'm going to go back and edit the colors. Not nearly vibrant enough for me but I just wanted to test out several mods at once.
Big ass picture the second.
Big ass picture the last.
Some things clearly still need some work.
I think I'm going to go back and edit the colors. Not nearly vibrant enough for me but I just wanted to test out several mods at once.
very nice! Great detail.
I found a mapviewer that works with mac and have been enthralled with that recently. I totally forgot about some of my buildings until I opened the map up in this lol.
I started a new world to use the inventory editor with. I wanted to have some fun so I packed my inventory with dynamite and went about laying it down by the hundreds.
I had spent forever laying this huge field of dynamite several slabs thick and planed to at least double it when all of a sudden I hear "ssshhhk".
I look up and a damn creeper is staring me in the face. I do a backwards spin jump and run like hell move but only get a few feet before he explodes and sets off my dynamite field. The next 5 minutes consisted of endless explosions while my framerate dropped to nothing forcing me to stand there in frozen annoyance.
I think I'm gonna turn peaceful on in that world.
I found a mapviewer that works with mac and have been enthralled with that recently. I totally forgot about some of my buildings until I opened the map up in this lol.
I started a new world to use the inventory editor with. I wanted to have some fun so I packed my inventory with dynamite and went about laying it down by the hundreds.
I had spent forever laying this huge field of dynamite several slabs thick and planed to at least double it when all of a sudden I hear "ssshhhk".
I look up and a damn creeper is staring me in the face. I do a backwards spin jump and run like hell move but only get a few feet before he explodes and sets off my dynamite field. The next 5 minutes consisted of endless explosions while my framerate dropped to nothing forcing me to stand there in frozen annoyance.
I think I'm gonna turn peaceful on in that world.
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