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RebornYeti
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Salaadin said:
Thanks man!
WolfofMebu
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Jasoco said:
After digging a 30x30 square about 10 blocks deep I could keep it up! Plus I love blowing stuff up, and I only killed myself twice! :lol
I discovered putting a 3 block high pile of dirt next to a sapling would cause a tree that had branches to grow about 95% of the time, but it does take the trees longer to grow normally.
Then once I got a big tree I would just dig out the center leaves at the top, place a block of dirt for the sapling and place three more dirt blocks next to that sapling. Think I have about 4 trees as the base and just started growing them on top of each other.
CrunchyFrog
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Found the weirdest chunk error on my server today. Went straight through an area already populated and built on, straight through my mountainside lair. I lost all the arrows I had stocked up from the glitch :lol but that was it. Other people lost a lot more. But without further adieu:
The area is now referred to as Notch's Asshole
My castle is half done. It's beautiful when the idea you once had begins to begin to form in front of your eyes. Still, I did some decisions that have proven to be a pain in the ass, but they look wonderful, so I won't complain too much. I'll post some pics when I finish it.
SMP is where it is at. I mean, I can connect from any computer and play my game, and I get to meet my friends and discover what they're coming with and we can explore caves and what not. I really love this game.
SMP is where it is at. I mean, I can connect from any computer and play my game, and I get to meet my friends and discover what they're coming with and we can explore caves and what not. I really love this game.
RebornYeti
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So I'm finally getting the hang of this game, but I still can't even imagine building some of the creations I see on youtube and stuff. It's insane what some people can build. I even saw a freaking 16-bit computer haha.
But anyway, about mining: I found some stone with red cracks in it and I tried mining it, but nothing came out. I don't really know exactly what it's used for, but it looks useful.
But anyway, about mining: I found some stone with red cracks in it and I tried mining it, but nothing came out. I don't really know exactly what it's used for, but it looks useful.
RebornYeti
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fresquito said:
Oh, so is redstone what people use to make switches?
Mengy said:
I saw that too, and I'm... well, I'm kind of confused.
I know above-ground lava lakes are new (and I can't say I really like it much... above-ground lava always ends up looking kind of out-of-place to me. I can deal with the odd lava pouring out of a mountainside, but I don't want it to be too common above ground. Now, if there was some sort of "volcanic wasteland" biome, I could see it.
As far as the other stuff, that was already in-game, as far as I understand. I could have sworn that I've come across underground water pools before (nothing huge, but they were there), and I come across huge lava lakes all the time down near the bedrock.
I'll have to start a new world and see if I can figure out what exactly the new stuff is like...
Hmm, Redstone is used to connect switches to things that are far. For istance, if you place a switch beside a door, it will open the door without the need of redstone. But if you want to open it remotely, then you need redstone. I haven't used it too much, so I can't talk in detail about how it works. Sorry.-Yeti said:
funkmastergeneral
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reminds me of wind waker
Silly question, but have you updated your videocard drivers and Java version?Insaniac said:can anybody tell me why my new laptop is running minecraft terribly? On 'fast' graphics and 'short' draw distance it still gets about 20 fps.
Intel® Core i5-460M processor 2.53ghz
4gb ddr3
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
I'd like to enjoy the beauty of the game but i can't
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
funkmastergeneral said:
just contributed =3
rohlfinator
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That high water map looks really cool, I might have to mess around with those tools sometime.
Is the floating islands shot from the same tool?
Is the floating islands shot from the same tool?
I am trying it right now. I'll see how it goes.WolfofMebu said:After digging a 30x30 square about 10 blocks deep I could keep it up! Plus I love blowing stuff up, and I only killed myself twice! :lol
I discovered putting a 3 block high pile of dirt next to a sapling would cause a tree that had branches to grow about 95% of the time, but it does take the trees longer to grow normally.
Then once I got a big tree I would just dig out the center leaves at the top, place a block of dirt for the sapling and place three more dirt blocks next to that sapling. Think I have about 4 trees as the base and just started growing them on top of each other.
I don't know anything about your video card so yeah that'd be good. I didn't mean the Java applet though, I meant the Java runtime. You can get the JRE from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.htmlInsaniac said:
Side note, that java.com site is actually official? It almost looks like a scam or something. :lol
Trees haven't grown yet. They've been there for days and have candles all around them. *sigh*
Oh, wait. One of them did. Whoo! And it's a big one too! The trick works!
A while ago I wandered south and set up a post. Then I opened my map in MCMap Live and noticed a forest fire right on the edge of the map and a lava flow next to it. The game had spawned lava right next to a cluster of trees. I decided tonight I'd seek this fire out and see what it looks like...
Awesome. Some of them are big trees too. Time to put the flames out and gather the wood. Can't let it go to waste.
Oh, wait. One of them did. Whoo! And it's a big one too! The trick works!
A while ago I wandered south and set up a post. Then I opened my map in MCMap Live and noticed a forest fire right on the edge of the map and a lava flow next to it. The game had spawned lava right next to a cluster of trees. I decided tonight I'd seek this fire out and see what it looks like...
Awesome. Some of them are big trees too. Time to put the flames out and gather the wood. Can't let it go to waste.
SatelliteOfLove
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I've had that before. Looks awesome.
Also, I've stumpled into a desert area, FILLED with shallow dungeons, some so shallow, they're roofless with no mobs (they burn in the sunlight.) More saddles than I know what to do with.
Also, I've stumpled into a desert area, FILLED with shallow dungeons, some so shallow, they're roofless with no mobs (they burn in the sunlight.) More saddles than I know what to do with.
WolfofMebu
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Jasoco said:
Yeah, it will take a long time occasionally. Really sucks when you get screwed and still end up with a sad little tree. Thankfully that doesn't happen that much :lol
RebornYeti
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Just had my first "FUUUUU!" moment. I was mining pretty deep into the ground, finding coal and iron everywhere, when I noticed a little block of diamond on an overhang right above some lava. I had to kinda drop down to get it, so I tried jumping to a little island in the middle of the lava. Well, I miscalculated the jump and fell in the lava. I lost everything.
There is a way to get your stuff back, right?
There is a way to get your stuff back, right?
-Yeti said:Just had my first "FUUUUU!" moment. I was mining pretty deep into the ground, finding coal and iron everywhere, when I noticed a little block of diamond on an overhang right above some lava. I had to kinda drop down to get it, so I tried jumping to a little island in the middle of the lava. Well, I miscalculated the jump and fell in the lava. I lost everything.
There is a way to get your stuff back, right?
As Atomski said, if it fell in the lava it's toast. However, I have found that sometimes your inventory can get scattered farther than you'd expect when you die (especially true when dying by falling from a huge height. You MIGHT be able to recover some of it, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope.
As you might have noticed by now, most of your deaths in Minecraft end up being your own fault after a while. Even now, I'll find myself getting overconfident and exploring caves without sufficient armor, being too careless near lava, etc, and every so often, it comes around to royally bite me in the ass.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Vlad said:
best survival horror game ever
Interestingly, if anyone has ever played the really old Roguelike game Nethack, I feel like it's often the same way. It is one of the hardest games to master since you have to learn so much information, and I've only ever won once, playing it off and on for years or something like that.Vlad said:
But what happens, is once you start getting good at the game, you get impatient, start running around, doing actions quickly, not stopping to consider what monsters you are dealing with etc., and suddenly you find yourself picking up a cockatrice corpse without gloves on (thanks to the nymph that seduced you and took them off), and your 10-hour game in progress is over unless you had an amulet of life saving. :lol
Well after many a day of exploring and traveling (had to find A LOT of clay) I have built my dream home in the snow to celebrate the holidays
Inside-
Workroom
Library Area (gunna build a balcony off this eventually)-
Fireplace-
Christmas Tree (need to get some more wool!)-
Outside (might have to do something about that roof...)
View (need to get that balcony built!)-
Inside-
Workroom
Library Area (gunna build a balcony off this eventually)-
Fireplace-
Christmas Tree (need to get some more wool!)-
Outside (might have to do something about that roof...)
View (need to get that balcony built!)-
Use Stairs for 45º roofs and Steps for 30º ones.ZZMitch said:
I used steps for my warehouse I built last night...
Complete with skylights. Also, I think it's time for that tower to come down.
Wish the chests faced towards you when you place them like other things do. Looks weird. Also, I am hoping to move the portal somewhere else but keep the Nether-side exit in the same place. It's my central hub and the center of my current world. In front of the other doors is a stairwell to the bedrock. 7 flights of 8 tiles (16 steps) all the way down connected to my quarry. Also, the office where the workbench and furnaces are, as well as my desk which I can't sit at anyway. But it looks nice.
It's the next best thing to actually having angled blocks. Stairs and Steps are used for so much detail in many maps I've seen. Not just stairs either. Chairs and benches (With signs on the sides) and roofs and Mac mini's and floors and table tops... You can say the same thing about fences which can be used for so much more than just fences.
Speaking of fences, I wish they attached themselves to the nearest walls so they don't look so weird detached.
Speaking of fences, I wish they attached themselves to the nearest walls so they don't look so weird detached.
DrForester
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Jasoco said:Use Stairs for 45º roofs and Steps for 30º ones.
I used steps for my warehouse I built last night...
Complete with skylights. Also, I think it's time for that tower to come down.
Wish the chests faced towards you when you place them like other things do. Looks weird. Also, I am hoping to move the portal somewhere else but keep the Nether-side exit in the same place. It's my central hub and the center of my current world. In front of the other doors is a stairwell to the bedrock. 7 flights of 8 tiles (16 steps) all the way down connected to my quarry. Also, the office where the workbench and furnaces are, as well as my desk which I can't sit at anyway. But it looks nice.
What texture pack are you using? I like that.
Wow i used to check this thread a lot, didn't know they put it in the online section (which i never look at).
I'm still on my first and the only world since I started playing about two months ago. Here are some screenshots.
My big castle with a glass pyramid inside.
The big tower.
On the left the first tower I built in the game. It's connected with the small island on the right through a tunnel. The small island is then further connected by another tunnel to a bigger island.
Sundown from the viewing platform in the big tower. In the middle you can barely see my spawn point which I built a small house around.
I'm still on my first and the only world since I started playing about two months ago. Here are some screenshots.
My big castle with a glass pyramid inside.
The big tower.
On the left the first tower I built in the game. It's connected with the small island on the right through a tunnel. The small island is then further connected by another tunnel to a bigger island.
Sundown from the viewing platform in the big tower. In the middle you can barely see my spawn point which I built a small house around.
RebornYeti
Member
Man I wish I could run this game with very far view distance. I'm stuck with Tiny and it still stutters. My computer is crap! But one thing that's good about it is that when you're exploring, it's exciting when you come across something awesome. An example from yesterday was that I was looking for a cool place to put a house, and all of sudden these giant "floating mountains" appeared. It seems that they were supported only by large trees. At that point I was like: "Yep, my house is going up on one of the those."
So glad I bought this game.
So glad I bought this game.
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