-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Minecraft |OT|
- Thread starter FlyinJ
- Start date
- Status
"God's Beard!"
Member
I didn't need it 
That's pretty much only for the underground areas, though. The house and encampment is pretty uniform.
K2Valor said:
That's pretty much only for the underground areas, though. The house and encampment is pretty uniform.
RebornYeti
Member
Oh man, this game is pretty fun, but I can only use the free version... which kinda sucks compared to what I've seen of the Premium version.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
I'm hoping he doesn't raise the price in the next two days. Looks like either the long weekend or yet another technical issue has delayed my Paypal bank transfer.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Since you're limited with how many items you can carry at once is there a way to build a type of chest to keep your extra items in?
RebornYeti
Member
Drkirby said:
I don't have a debit/credit card.
Do you not have a bank account? You can tie Paypal to withdraw right from it.-Yeti said:
Yes, 8 wood planks with the middle empty will make a chest. Two chests next to each other make a large chest. No, you can't make it bigger.
Looking at the stories on the Minecraft message boards, we are going to have to really try hard to keep the wood in stock when we get our multiplayer server. That, or send people on wood cutting expeditions, making long ass rails going to the cutting sites.
I find it a bit odd though that in a story about wood shortages, hearing someone make a wood fort 2000 blocks away from spawn. I would be hard pressed not to set fire to it :lol
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Oh sweet! There will be a GAF server? I can't wait!!Drkirby said:
Yeah, in 2 or 3 days once Public Alpha Survival Multiplayer comes out.LovingSteam said:
I just hope the person who offered to put up a server can keep it dedicated. We will most likely have to do like the TF2 people did and rent a dedicated sever (I think that is what they did), but minecraft may require a much more robust server
That is until we start running out of space to build trees. But the GAF server should be better then a public server full with 20 people every moment its up.
RebornYeti
Member
Drkirby said:
Hmm.. didn't know that. I'll have to try that out.
Couple things -
Re: wood - yeah, it's going to be very scarce. It's going to be a rule that for every tree you chop down, you have to replace it with a sapling in the vicinity. Exceptions for clearing land for building/mining obviously.
Re: server. I don't think it's going to be a problem at all. Virtually every other multiplayer game requires players be playing at the same time. But not Minecraft. If we have 80+ people all playing in the same world, the odds of more than 20 of them connecting concurrently after the first couple days are... slim. We'll all be signing in to help out the group projects on our own time.
Re: multiplayer in general - I'm less excited about it than some. I think it's going to turn out to be one of those things that's better in theory than in practice. I think we've all gotten used to being able to shape our Minecraft worlds in the exact way we want, and it's going to bug us to see things mined out in a way we don't prefer, or see things constructed we think are ugly.
That, and despite efforts to keep things very organized (mostly my efforts I bet!) I think within a few days there will be tons of unlabeled mine-shafts and buildings, furnaces everywhere, etc.
Any real joint multiplayer project needs a dictator, and we lack one.
Re: wood - yeah, it's going to be very scarce. It's going to be a rule that for every tree you chop down, you have to replace it with a sapling in the vicinity. Exceptions for clearing land for building/mining obviously.
Re: server. I don't think it's going to be a problem at all. Virtually every other multiplayer game requires players be playing at the same time. But not Minecraft. If we have 80+ people all playing in the same world, the odds of more than 20 of them connecting concurrently after the first couple days are... slim. We'll all be signing in to help out the group projects on our own time.
Re: multiplayer in general - I'm less excited about it than some. I think it's going to turn out to be one of those things that's better in theory than in practice. I think we've all gotten used to being able to shape our Minecraft worlds in the exact way we want, and it's going to bug us to see things mined out in a way we don't prefer, or see things constructed we think are ugly.
That, and despite efforts to keep things very organized (mostly my efforts I bet!) I think within a few days there will be tons of unlabeled mine-shafts and buildings, furnaces everywhere, etc.
Any real joint multiplayer project needs a dictator, and we lack one.
buy teh haloz
Banned
My sound cut out too, but it randomly turned back on after about ten minutes playing.dejay said:
GDJustin said:
Well, I also thought that we plan out something first. We at least would need to have an idea here in the thread what to build in general. Whether its supposed to be a village where everyone builds his own house and how much space everyone has for that. Or whether we immediately start working on a big project with communal storage (I think everyone should be able to have his own belongings)
I'd say we start off by creating houses for ourselves. If this would get too crowded in terms of a village, I'd also gladly share my apartment with 2 or 3 others (Big houses, yay!)
After everyone is set up investigate the area a bit and make a cartograph overview picture ,if possible. If not we need to help ourselves with high towers to make screenshots to orient ourselves. On these Screenshot/maps we then can make marks for dungeon entries we found for the people to go adventuring and make out a place where to build a bigger project.
Then we still havent decided on what to create and for THAT we definitely need a guideline. The easiest would be to have a picture of what we want to build (Notre Dame, Disneyland castle, whatever) and share building plans in the thread. We need a plan before we build that thing. Anyone ideas of what to build? Personally, I think we should go with a building and not a bridge. Bridges are more difficult to construct. But which building? We should start collecting ideas, pictures and blueprints.
Edit: And by guideline I mean exact plans at least for the layout. If 10 people will try to build the notre dame, I bet not two of them will have the same width for the building.
Edit2: The reason for personal storage: If you harvest diamonds yourself, you will be extra cautious regarding your equipment if you make armor from it. I think people might get a bit ... careless if they simply can get stuff like this from a communal storage. For building purposes we can collect everything for the community (which should be no problem for stone, iron, redstone etc) but it should be up to decide for everybody whether he wants to keep something or use it for his own safety or to build on his home.
Edit3: On a further note. I think just building a village where everyone can do stuff on their own measure would be fun as well. Someone starts a project, others ask whether they can join in or start something else. You know... like a real village. You go sleeping and 10 others worked on the village and their houses. Something new to see every day. I think this solution is by far the most feasible. But then we would still need rules that A: destroying others houses and constructions is forbidden and B: Looking at someone elses house is fine. Stealing isnt.
Edit4: Working on that village idea: People might even start some "dungeons" for others to enjoy. We will need a rule that forbids the use of creating blocks or mining in anothers construction. Meaning: Twig creates a labyrinth, and I am not allowed to simply use a pickaxe to get through it. Same with houses. What others have created is not to be destroyed or altered.
NemesisPrime
Banned
Neuromancer said:
Not really... just cubes. Because it looks square it doesnt mean voxels. Voxels are point clouds, not cubes.
British Monsoon
Member
besada said:
Yeah, that first night is a bitch - I usually just make a point to find some coal ASAP, build a small overnight base around the vein, make some torches and mine until daylight, then i'll go start a proper house.
Also, I just discovered why it was a bad idea installing a furnace into my ice house :lol
TheExecutive
Member
besada said:
I still do this when exploring. I love adventuring but you cannot go out at night on normal so I almost always put it on peaceful. Plus, NOTHING is more infuriating than mining for 3 hours just to get killed by a zombie half way home. I use iron armor and equipment and those fuckers kill me within seconds. It makes for an interesting dash back to the death site though :lol
TheExecutive
Member
Funky Functionality said:
Quoting in hopes of a mod stumbling through this thread. Would be nice to change the title to this.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
For some reason I expected that the game would be persisting your saves to a server. i was all excited to play at work. Looks like I'll just have to start a game at work and have a game at home. :lol
Whenever I chop down a tree, I almost always get at least one sapling from destroying the leaves. I don't think it would be too difficult to keep a constant supply of trees. As long as people are constantly replanting trees there shouldn't be a problem.
Also, I find that a bow is a life saver. It's so easy to kill things at a distance. You just have to keep a constant supply of arrows. No worries about being blown up, less hassle with skeletons (especially if you can use a little bit of cover), and zombies are a joke.
Also, I find that a bow is a life saver. It's so easy to kill things at a distance. You just have to keep a constant supply of arrows. No worries about being blown up, less hassle with skeletons (especially if you can use a little bit of cover), and zombies are a joke.
I vary in difficulty between Easy and Normal. Easy whenever I'm working on my dungeon - I'm tired of dying while constructing the damn thing - and Normal for other activities. I should really consider Peaceful for dungeon construction, but it's sort of nice getting a sneak preview of how difficult this thing is going to be in the end.
I wanted to create a tree farm at one point, but I so rarely find saplings that it's become very difficult to get it started. It's a 30 x 10 space meant to hold nothing but trees, and I think it's about a dozen trees in after cutting down virtually every single tree in the tri-island area.
My work game is my dungeon, my home game is natural splendor, the most beautiful natural environment I've seen the game generate thus far. It's so pretty, I don't even want to hurt it. I think the key to not getting disappointed in either side of your game-time is to have very different goals with both.
Inkwell said:
I wanted to create a tree farm at one point, but I so rarely find saplings that it's become very difficult to get it started. It's a 30 x 10 space meant to hold nothing but trees, and I think it's about a dozen trees in after cutting down virtually every single tree in the tri-island area.
jon bones said:
My work game is my dungeon, my home game is natural splendor, the most beautiful natural environment I've seen the game generate thus far. It's so pretty, I don't even want to hurt it. I think the key to not getting disappointed in either side of your game-time is to have very different goals with both.
SpinningFrog
Member
I was exploring a new world when I came across the biggest grouping of trees I'd ever seen. So I did what was only natural, I jumped on top and hollowed them out creating my ultimate tree home. It's still a work in progress.
the view from the bottom:
and a few from the inside:
the view from the bottom:
and a few from the inside:
Its more or less space near spawn thats the problem.ZZMitch said:
A good rail network could also fix the problem.
Also, communal storage will be for nothing unless Notch can get item storage server side by the time of the launch. Right now storage is done client side and items in a chest don't appear in others chests.
But if its added, then its not a problem.
Everyone spawns at the same point, set by the operator/moderator etc. I still don't know the details on classic creative servers -- whether people used hacked server binaries with mods, or just wrappers, whether Notch approves of them, or what, but that one has multiple worlds, /goto commands, et.Javaman said:
Even the basic alpha multiplayer server Notch is running has everyone spawning at the same point, and no blocks in the area being destructible (or hopefully buildable), however.
SpinningFrog
Member
besada said:
While clearing out the inside I acquired 30ish saplings, I plan on clearing out a huge stretch of land and then making an even bigger/better tree home.
Toma said:Screenshots?
Not yet....
I'm still finalizing the maze. Once I have the first level of the dungeon completely done, I will make a video showing it off. I'll do the same for the second level, and the third, etc. and so on for as long as I can stomach working on it. All I've got at this point is a couple of levels of massive, empty space with some preliminary hallways set up.
Seriously, we get a multiplayer GAF server set up, we need to design one of these things as a group 'cause it takes an immense amount of effort.
As for my home game, the natural splendor one... I might be able to get some screens of it later this week. I don't play very much at home, sadly. =(
- Status