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Garcia said:
It doesn't bring depth because it isn't supposed to bring depth. It's there for balance. Which it provides.
1) If food stacked game difficulty would be trivial. Hotkey it, and you could spam heal over and over. Even surviving in lava for minutes.
2) It encourages players to take the most potent food possible. It ensures they cook their meat and fish, as they're "supposed" to. If food stacked people would just take tons of uncooked porkchops. Now, if you're headed into a deep cave, you're more likely to take a few cakes.
Whenever I'm spelunking, I just use a lot of chests. I place one right at the entrance, and drop the bulk of my food and extra wood in it, keeping just a bit with me. When I keep deeper in, I'll set up a little "checkpoint" with another furnace and chest, and dump off resources there.
Anything in a chest is safe. Use them when mining.
It's still stupid as is the limit on signs. Eventually you'll run out anyway. Just let us stack our food!
Signs.. which take up less space than a block of anything, including fences, but can only be one per tile. Why?
And food on easy is just useless waste, but my OCD won't let me just throw it away.
Signs.. which take up less space than a block of anything, including fences, but can only be one per tile. Why?
And food on easy is just useless waste, but my OCD won't let me just throw it away.
webrunner said:
I always just dig straight up, and place ladders every other block as I go. If you run into sand/gravel/water/lava, it will get stopped by the highest up ladder currently placed. It only takes one slot in your inventory to have 64 ladders and makes a pretty quick and safe way to back above ground.
Server still messed up? Not cool.
Anyway, here are some pictures of my home (and brothers who I play with on my own server).
It was built over several days. A little bit each time. A few issues (e.g. creeper blowing up old entrance) but they were overcome.
My brother decided to keep a pet chicken which soon died in our newly made incinerator.
We overcame it by pushing another chicken in our home and fencing it in. Sadly, that too died (by punching - trying to stop it from escaping), but not before it laid an egg which has hatched into a nice chicken, safe in our home*.
The view outside our home.
And our cool watchtower/safety zone.
Our entrance (which attracts a lot of animals)..
Awesome game. Just came back from a long expedition in a mine which took us to bedrock. Lasted a few days as we got trapped in by monsters. Managed to get some redstone ore to make a compass for me and my brother and we also got a load of coal and iron. Ran into gold but didn't realise an iron pick was needed for it...
*The bit of sand is to indicate an entrance to a soon to be railway system. It's currently just a safety zone in case things go horribly wrong.
Anyway, here are some pictures of my home (and brothers who I play with on my own server).
It was built over several days. A little bit each time. A few issues (e.g. creeper blowing up old entrance) but they were overcome.
My brother decided to keep a pet chicken which soon died in our newly made incinerator.
We overcame it by pushing another chicken in our home and fencing it in. Sadly, that too died (by punching - trying to stop it from escaping), but not before it laid an egg which has hatched into a nice chicken, safe in our home*.
The view outside our home.
And our cool watchtower/safety zone.
Our entrance (which attracts a lot of animals)..
Awesome game. Just came back from a long expedition in a mine which took us to bedrock. Lasted a few days as we got trapped in by monsters. Managed to get some redstone ore to make a compass for me and my brother and we also got a load of coal and iron. Ran into gold but didn't realise an iron pick was needed for it...
*The bit of sand is to indicate an entrance to a soon to be railway system. It's currently just a safety zone in case things go horribly wrong.
Like the hat?
Banned
I built a greenhouse to keep mobs from destroying my wheat. Left the area. Came back, and the greenhouse had spawned inside of it 3 sheep and 2 pigs.
Like the hat?
Banned
:OZZMitch said:
THANK YOU!
it was so annoying
This game needs flags. Not for capture the flag, but for decoration. They could be made with three sticks and four pieces of wool. Maybe the pattern and colors of the wool could define what's on the flag, or Mojang could implement a way to use a user defined image for its design so you could have your own country logo.
They'd be three tiles tall and would remain in place if the block under them is removed (Like fences) or if placed on a wall, they'd come out at a 45º angle and hang down.
They could have them sway like wind was blowing.
Their pole would look exactly like a fence pole as if you placed it alone so you could place it on top of a stack of fences for a longer flag pole. Maybe there could be different sizes. I dunno.
Speaking of which, I wish I could place torches on top of fences. And I wish fences attached themselves to adjacent walls instead of standing alone with half a meter between them and the wall. And it'd be nice to be able to stack them without having to use the "dirt" method of placing them on a pile of dirt and removing it.
They'd be three tiles tall and would remain in place if the block under them is removed (Like fences) or if placed on a wall, they'd come out at a 45º angle and hang down.
They could have them sway like wind was blowing.
Their pole would look exactly like a fence pole as if you placed it alone so you could place it on top of a stack of fences for a longer flag pole. Maybe there could be different sizes. I dunno.
Speaking of which, I wish I could place torches on top of fences. And I wish fences attached themselves to adjacent walls instead of standing alone with half a meter between them and the wall. And it'd be nice to be able to stack them without having to use the "dirt" method of placing them on a pile of dirt and removing it.
butzopower
proud of his butz
greenjerk said:
There was one mentioned on the last page. PM that poster.
No. Not tile in the world. Tile in the inventory. I'm sure there's some technical reason for having to have one sign per slot. I'd think it was because they can be customized with text, but the signs don't remember their text when you remove them anyway. (I wish they did though. And I wish I could move the cursor too.)webrunner said:
I can see them serving dual purpose. But how would you prevent someone from creating a duplicate flag decoy to trick the other team. Maybe the server could have a "no flag" flag that could be turned on to prevent creation by anyone other than the admin or mods. (Just in case one gets destroyed)rdelaney said:
I just found my first dungeon!!!! I've been playing in this world for at least 20 hours or so, and this is the first time I have found one.
There I was exploring this cave system, and all of a sudden I run into a chest. I ran away at first and was kind of creeped out until I saw the mob spawner. It was a lot like this if you've ever seen "I am Legend":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZWmXRaT3k&feature=related
There I was exploring this cave system, and all of a sudden I run into a chest. I ran away at first and was kind of creeped out until I saw the mob spawner. It was a lot like this if you've ever seen "I am Legend":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZWmXRaT3k&feature=related
The site is very responsive for me right now. I can't get on the GAF server, but I finally found some non-whitelist server that I could join in multiplayer to make sure it wasn't broken. It seemed to work properly. The server seemed a bit laggy with like 30 people in it, though. I think a block I dug may have reappeared once.barnone said:
Enco said:
Awesome game. Just came back from a long expedition in a mine which took us to bedrock. Lasted a few days as we got trapped in by monsters. Managed to get some redstone ore to make a compass for me and my brother and we also got a load of coal and iron. Ran into gold but didn't realise an iron pick was needed for it...
*The bit of sand is to indicate an entrance to a soon to be railway system. It's currently just a safety zone in case things go horribly wrong.
Can anyone tell me what texture pack Enco's using?
Sure, it's Moontrains Lucid Pack.randomwab said:
Was thinking about patching it with better graphics and all the other mods but couldn't be bothered.
Right now I'm using the pack by Frenden. I think I'll be sticking with it for now.
themustardman
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Failed to connect to server, operation time out.thespot84 said:
Anyone else unable to connect to thespots server?
I tried the DNS flush, didn't work for me. There must be a problem with my campus network. I switched to google DNS and it works now!
I had the problem of not being able to get to Minecraft.net or downloading new packages. Trying the DNS flush and changing DNS servers didn't help. (At Uni in UK if anyone wants to know)
I solved it (on OS X) and was able to go to Minecraft.net and then update packages after logging in by adding to /private/etc/hosts
50.16.232.191 minecraft.net
50.16.232.191 www.minecraft.net
I also tried this in Win 7 in Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts which allowed me to get to Minecraft.net but when clicking login in Minecraft I would just get:
Failed to Launch
Fatal error occured (2): NULL
Hope this helps in some way. Found this information on minecraftforum.
Edit: Fixed the fatal error by deleting /bin and /resources in .minecraft folder!
I solved it (on OS X) and was able to go to Minecraft.net and then update packages after logging in by adding to /private/etc/hosts
50.16.232.191 minecraft.net
50.16.232.191 www.minecraft.net
I also tried this in Win 7 in Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts which allowed me to get to Minecraft.net but when clicking login in Minecraft I would just get:
Failed to Launch
Fatal error occured (2): NULL
Hope this helps in some way. Found this information on minecraftforum.
Edit: Fixed the fatal error by deleting /bin and /resources in .minecraft folder!
rohlfinator
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It's actually pretty solid now if you're running vanilla, in my experience. (I just started messing with mods and they can make things pretty messy.)SumPog said:
The only major problems right now are:
-The Nether doesn't work at all
-hitboxes on monsters tend to feel kind of laggy, and turning on monsters can wreak havoc on performance on some servers
-authentication has been really unstable this past week, but it sounds like they're sorting that out
But if you turn off enemies, it's a pretty smooth experience. (And enemies aren't too bad either if you don't have too many players or if you have the hardware/network resources.)
Am I the only one who sometimes finds monsters "ghosts" while exploring (in SMP)?
For example, a few minutes ago I was walking around in broad daylight and I found a zombie standing still on top of a tree. Obviously, he wasn't really there - he didn't move, attack or could be attacked. I could still see him, and when I walked close to him, I could hear the noises zombies make.
In this case it isn't as bad, but sometimes these ghosts appear out of nowhere, like when I was walking down on my mining complex a couple of days ago, turned around to look back at the stairs I had JUST walked down just to find a creeper "ghost".
I screamed like a little girl
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For example, a few minutes ago I was walking around in broad daylight and I found a zombie standing still on top of a tree. Obviously, he wasn't really there - he didn't move, attack or could be attacked. I could still see him, and when I walked close to him, I could hear the noises zombies make.
In this case it isn't as bad, but sometimes these ghosts appear out of nowhere, like when I was walking down on my mining complex a couple of days ago, turned around to look back at the stairs I had JUST walked down just to find a creeper "ghost".
I screamed like a little girl
inside
Garcia
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Vanilla is really stable for me as well, except for some eventual extreme slowdowns that happen here and there while exploring a cave I don't get any other problems at all. Even with plenty of mods the game runs smooth most of the time, however "Teleport signs" almost fucks up my save file after trying to teleport from an extreme distant location back to HQ. The chunk almost didn't load at all and I got scared as hell. Other than that it's been stable.
Want to freak out?
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd271/Volane/herobrine.jpg
Brazil said:
Want to freak out?
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd271/Volane/herobrine.jpg
It is a hoax tho' , confirmed by notch. Still... .It'd be awesome if he implemented such thing into the game. CREEPY !!!!!
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