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I want to build something under water, but the "oceans" are never deep enough to truly be amazing. Actually, the scale of the world is really small. It's like in real life the MC world you create would be so riddled with water lakes and small hills that a development crew would come through and flatten it out and turn it into a landfill or satellite town. I walk for a long time in any direction then do some conversions of meters to miles and find my world is only 3 miles high and 3 miles wide. (9 square miles) And the distance from the bottom of the world to the top is only .08 miles. (.04 from sea level, or 211 feet.)
Edit: Replaced with corrected map.
The Eestern tower, portal and garden are all on top of mountains. The bridge connects two mountains. I might build a small castle next to the garden.
I plan on building a long sky bridge (Shut up) from the Eastern Tower to the central Glass Overlook tower. It's only about 1400 meters. 21 stacks of blocks per line. 2 blocks wide plus one on each end. Maybe some supports... So about 6 blocks times 1400... Uh... I'm going to need some more cobblestone...
I don't believe in spawning items. So I guess I should get to mining.
Edit: Replaced with corrected map.
The Eestern tower, portal and garden are all on top of mountains. The bridge connects two mountains. I might build a small castle next to the garden.
I plan on building a long sky bridge (Shut up) from the Eastern Tower to the central Glass Overlook tower. It's only about 1400 meters. 21 stacks of blocks per line. 2 blocks wide plus one on each end. Maybe some supports... So about 6 blocks times 1400... Uh... I'm going to need some more cobblestone...
I don't believe in spawning items. So I guess I should get to mining.
RebornYeti
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How does one access a map of the land?
Use one of many applications available. There are dozens of them for Mac, Linux and Windows.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_Editors
For OS X I use MCMap Live for isometric (Shown) and minutor for top-down layer by layer (SUPER FAST) viewing of the world.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_Editors
For OS X I use MCMap Live for isometric (Shown) and minutor for top-down layer by layer (SUPER FAST) viewing of the world.
My bad. I labeled the tower as West. It's East. I'm stupid. And no, the map is 100% correct. MCMap Live outputs the image correctly as opposed to rotated like some other viewers do. I'll upload a new map with the right labels. Silly me! So you didn't fail, but you did point out my silly mistake.
Speaking of which, I decided to try building a bridge from the eastern tower to the new central tower by the quarry and ended up falling at about 1/3 the way on the first strip of tiles. Died. Tried to get back to it twice and died from falling in a hurry both times. :lol So I restored my backup from before I started and decided to not build it right now. I calculated it would take about 1200 tiles for each strip. That's about 18 stacks of stone each run. Or one normal treasure chest per strip.
Think I'll build a castle to the north instead. Leave the bridge for later.
Shame too because it turns out I lined up the two towers almost exactly with each other. Only one tile difference. And I wasn't even trying.
Also, building the bridge over a vast snow land was depressing.
Speaking of which, I decided to try building a bridge from the eastern tower to the new central tower by the quarry and ended up falling at about 1/3 the way on the first strip of tiles. Died. Tried to get back to it twice and died from falling in a hurry both times. :lol So I restored my backup from before I started and decided to not build it right now. I calculated it would take about 1200 tiles for each strip. That's about 18 stacks of stone each run. Or one normal treasure chest per strip.
Think I'll build a castle to the north instead. Leave the bridge for later.
Shame too because it turns out I lined up the two towers almost exactly with each other. Only one tile difference. And I wasn't even trying.
Also, building the bridge over a vast snow land was depressing.
Wow. I accidentally stumbled onto the most interesting thing I've seen in this game. A giant tree that grew out of dirt in a deep hole in the ground. The hole is the entrance to a cave and is just barely big enough to fit the tree. I found it while wandering around behind the castle I have been building at the very northern end of my world so far. Found a desert, and a forrest next to each other. Just as it gets dark I fall into a hole and notice I'm standing on leaves. WTF I think. Find my way to the bottom through the openings in between the leaves and wall and find it growing from dirt. So amazing.
KidGalactus
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So has everybody but me a Vlad abandoned the neoNeoGAF server?
If anybody's interested, I could use some help with my castle and the wall as well as sundry other projects in new neoNEOGAFland.
Also, did you ever decide what to do about the server and monsters, Spotsie?
If anybody's interested, I could use some help with my castle and the wall as well as sundry other projects in new neoNEOGAFland.
Also, did you ever decide what to do about the server and monsters, Spotsie?
KidGalactus said:
It sounded like the consensus was to restart with mobs and no spawning. I've just been super busy with work and I haven't had time. I suppose there's no harm in backing up the current world and putting on a new one, shouldn't take that long.
I'll need to do some work on the backup for the current world. It's gigantic (5GB) because of people exploring and the mapping program I used. I think I can pare it down but it's still gonna be big. If anyone has any objections to me starting a new world with mobs let me know by tomorrow.
KidGalactus
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thespot84 said:
No objection from me dude.
I just hope it gets people playing again
I'm looking for a low price pc game to play around with just for fun. $10 seems like a good deal. I just wanted to know if this is the game for me. I want something that I could play around with for a while without getting bored. I'm also on a laptop with low end graphics card. It's a Nividia M310 512 and I'm running a i3 2.26 processor. I'm interesting in playing the game since it looks like fun.
or is there another game you recommend. kinda new to pc games. sorry if this is kinda off topic, will delete if asked.
thanks for the help
vox-pop
or is there another game you recommend. kinda new to pc games. sorry if this is kinda off topic, will delete if asked.
thanks for the help
vox-pop
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http://i.imgur.com/YuiKT.png
I suspect Notch just implemented the ability to make and play musical instruments in Minecraft.
http://i.imgur.com/YuiKT.png
I suspect Notch just implemented the ability to make and play musical instruments in Minecraft.
kennah said:
Hah, funny.
If the current map is no longer being run on a server and it looks like nobody's going to bring it back, then I could see finishing it up in SP, just to have the damn thing finished, but there's absolutely no way I'm going to be starting ANOTHER one of those from scratch.
That's almost as good as making electric minecart tracks for automatically moving trains that don't need coal or a furnace.Blizzard said:....
http://i.imgur.com/YuiKT.png
I suspect Notch just implemented the ability to make and play musical instruments in Minecraft.
I want this! Musical instruments would be awesome. I was wondering what his twitter post was about.
Blizzard said:
reading the diagram, the materials make different sounds (drum, cymbals, organs, etc) while stacking more of them on top of one another changes the pitch.
The pitch diagram is backwards, though. The diagram shows pitch increasing as blocks are added, when it should decrease in that situation. if one is C, two should be B, three A# and so on.
rohlfinator
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:lol That music stuff could be pretty awesome.
I'd be down for playing on a new GAF server with mobs. I only made it into the old one once or twice, but I'm really itching to see how the gameplay changes with mobs in SMP.
I'd be down for playing on a new GAF server with mobs. I only made it into the old one once or twice, but I'm really itching to see how the gameplay changes with mobs in SMP.
Now when we say "no spawning", does that also include starter kits?
Constantly remaking tools and torches is the most tedious fucking thing in the world. I'm fine with stuff like no spawning building materials and the like but I'd probably go insane without starter kits.
Constantly remaking tools and torches is the most tedious fucking thing in the world. I'm fine with stuff like no spawning building materials and the like but I'd probably go insane without starter kits.
thespot84 said:
Personally I say that if we're going survival, we go all the way: no starter kits at all.
I'm guessing that a large area around spawn is going to be walled off and lit well enough to be a good-sized safe zone. Not only that, but I figure between the inevitable tree farm, mine, and community tower-type building that will undoubtedly be made there, any new player should have easy access to the stuff available to get started.
funkmastergeneral
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Is colored cloth finally in game yet? That would add so much flavor to some buildings I make, they mostly look pretty plain.
Having starter kits with stone tools would be nearly as tedious as not having starter kits at all. Instead of spending all your time making the pickaxes from scratch, you'd be spawning kits every minute or so and you'd have an excess of other tools and torches lying around.
Here's a good compromise I think.
1x Iron Pickaxe
1x Stone Shovel
64x Torches
Shovels aren't burned through as quickly as pickaxes, so it's not a big deal if they're stone. And by making pickaxes the only tool that's spawned with iron, you still have a demand for iron for things like armor, swords, and the occasional iron shovel.
Here's a good compromise I think.
1x Iron Pickaxe
1x Stone Shovel
64x Torches
Shovels aren't burned through as quickly as pickaxes, so it's not a big deal if they're stone. And by making pickaxes the only tool that's spawned with iron, you still have a demand for iron for things like armor, swords, and the occasional iron shovel.
rohlfinator
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That'd be my vote.Vlad said:
Besides, until he fixes the item drop/regen bug in SMP, tools are effectively unlimited unless you die. I've been using the same diamond pick for months on my server.
And torches are really easy to come by once you get started.
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I just want in if a new gaf server is created. I don't care if things are spawned or not.
I love single player, but it starts to get boring being alone.
I love single player, but it starts to get boring being alone.
HappyBivouac
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If we're doing a health, mobs, no-spawning server, I'm in. When do we start!?
Also I'm against the idea of starter kits, but not so much that it really matters to me.
Also I'm against the idea of starter kits, but not so much that it really matters to me.
Awesome Animals
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Reading everyone's comments about the new server has me excited. Now if only Minecraft would work on my computer again. After one of the patch, I, like many people can't play the game without 1 FPS.
Like the hat?
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what texture pack are you using? looks neat.MrMister said:
Like the hat?
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urgh, I started a new world and played five in game days doing nothing but digging, haven't found a single piece of coal. I can't do anything, and mobs keep killing me. Maybe this world isn't meant to be.
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