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HappyBivouac
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What's the dura on, say a diamond pickaxe versus an iron one? I'm blowing through iron pickaxes and shovels and its a pain making a bunch before every gathering trip/adventure, but I don't wanna spend the few diamonds I've collected if the tools would only last a little longer.
Oh goddamit. I was taking it slow, i made a house near a fucking waterfall so i wouldn't lose myself, made a nice stairwell to the top of the mountain so i could go back, put a couple torhces around, started digging and hit a FUCKING CAVE AND PLUMMETED TO MY DEATH
Now how the fuck am i supposed to find my house again?
Now how the fuck am i supposed to find my house again?
jim-jam bongs
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"LTTP: Minecraft (LBP on PC!)"HappyBivouac said:
That's why.
I'm going to have to check this out now, my gaming rig blew up spectacularly a few weeks ago and this would be a perfect laptop game.
revolverjgw
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This is like THE game on /v/
I've been meaning to try it
I've been meaning to try it
I just spent 5-6 hours straight playing this game. o_o
I made a little house, went exploring, got lost, found a big ass series of cliffy mountain things with a big hole in the middle, made a second house in the lower centre of it, started digging a mine. Four hours later I end up digging up to the surface again, and make a secondary house at the end of the tunnel and then make a huge ass tower from the materials I made. I then spend the next hour trying to navigate a waterfall through my base, but it never really panned out.
I can't wait for multiplayer.
I made a little house, went exploring, got lost, found a big ass series of cliffy mountain things with a big hole in the middle, made a second house in the lower centre of it, started digging a mine. Four hours later I end up digging up to the surface again, and make a secondary house at the end of the tunnel and then make a huge ass tower from the materials I made. I then spend the next hour trying to navigate a waterfall through my base, but it never really panned out.
I can't wait for multiplayer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjj1zjGAiBI
:lol
EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6JqoE7MZEE
Christ. Now this is scary.
:lol
EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6JqoE7MZEE
Christ. Now this is scary.
Wow... I played one of the very very first Mincraft alphas I think... over a year ago? It was a LONG time and only the browser version existed. No sound, no enemies, etc. You could just run around in the game world and mine blocks and nothing else really. No equipment or inventory either.
Incredible how far the game has come since then.
Incredible how far the game has come since then.
RadicalRad
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I shouldn't have bought this... now I'm not gonna get anything productive done!
Damn, just started playing this, first impressions are:
Took me a minute to realise you could auto-attack when hitting something, I didn't think you could beat down trees so I was trying to craft with the random bush/branch like things (oh, it's called a sapling) you find near trees.
I really like that when crafting an item you kinda have to make the shape of the item with the materials, help when trying to remember what is needed for an item without having to alt-tab to the Wiki constantly.
I like that some monsters seem to explode on death, caught me by surprise and makes the combat a little riskier.
Really enjoying it so far.
Took me a minute to realise you could auto-attack when hitting something, I didn't think you could beat down trees so I was trying to craft with the random bush/branch like things (oh, it's called a sapling) you find near trees.
I really like that when crafting an item you kinda have to make the shape of the item with the materials, help when trying to remember what is needed for an item without having to alt-tab to the Wiki constantly.
I like that some monsters seem to explode on death, caught me by surprise and makes the combat a little riskier.
Really enjoying it so far.
â Narayan
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lolluka said:
OK, I've come up with a few questions.
What's the best way to heal? I've got some pig meat, but not sure if I can eat it in anyway. Also, as far as armour goes, does higher quality materials mean you take less damage, or the durability is higher? Or both even. Lastly, can you equip a torch without mounting it on a wall?
Oh, and can you destroy items you no longer need? Damn, and another, do torches last forever once placed? Unless you destroy the wall they're on obviously.
EDIT x3: I really should have kept playing before typing this all out, anyway, I just figured out how to eat the Pig Meat, so that's one mystery solved!
What's the best way to heal? I've got some pig meat, but not sure if I can eat it in anyway. Also, as far as armour goes, does higher quality materials mean you take less damage, or the durability is higher? Or both even. Lastly, can you equip a torch without mounting it on a wall?
Oh, and can you destroy items you no longer need? Damn, and another, do torches last forever once placed? Unless you destroy the wall they're on obviously.
EDIT x3: I really should have kept playing before typing this all out, anyway, I just figured out how to eat the Pig Meat, so that's one mystery solved!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Hey, I really want to get in on this awesome looking program/game thing, but for various reasons I really dislike PayPal. If some gracious GAFer will gift it to me, I'll reciprocate with a 10$ gift on Steam.
So I caved in (eheh) and grabbed it. While it is brilliant, I don't think I will continue on my own. I'll wait for MP. I'm also a tad bored at this point, I want an objective, and a reason to build bigger structures other than showing off.
Also, while some people are telling awesome littles tales about creatures knocking at the door, the world feels unpopulated and pretty easy to survive in to me. I've had one or two insane shit your pants scary moments in my mine though, that was great. I just wish I had a reason to upgrade my shitty little wooden hut. I want a big bad wolf to come and blow my house down.
All I can think about is how awesome it would be in MMO form, with real riches to hunt down, dragons being accidentally unearthed, massive cities being built from the ground up by hundreds of people etc.
Torches seem to last forever, and you can throw stuff away that you don't need by open the inventory and dragging it out, don't think you can destroy.
Also, while some people are telling awesome littles tales about creatures knocking at the door, the world feels unpopulated and pretty easy to survive in to me. I've had one or two insane shit your pants scary moments in my mine though, that was great. I just wish I had a reason to upgrade my shitty little wooden hut. I want a big bad wolf to come and blow my house down.
All I can think about is how awesome it would be in MMO form, with real riches to hunt down, dragons being accidentally unearthed, massive cities being built from the ground up by hundreds of people etc.
If you cook the bacon in your Furness it becomes twice as healthy.Colkate said:
Torches seem to last forever, and you can throw stuff away that you don't need by open the inventory and dragging it out, don't think you can destroy.
Here's my current house:
Three stories plus a walkable roof, a moat trap and a really, really deep mine which is completely lit by torches to prevent zombies appearing. In the foreground you can see my canal project to fill a zombie-infested hole with water. It's not going very well.
Three stories plus a walkable roof, a moat trap and a really, really deep mine which is completely lit by torches to prevent zombies appearing. In the foreground you can see my canal project to fill a zombie-infested hole with water. It's not going very well.
I'm glad I found this thread, I just actually bought the game and it's really fun. This is the kind of game that I wish the industry had more of.
Looked through the thread quickly and didn't see it posted, this is pretty amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7UKLCNYjw
Minas Tirath recreated in minecraft. It is HUGE and detailed also.
Looked through the thread quickly and didn't see it posted, this is pretty amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7UKLCNYjw
Minas Tirath recreated in minecraft. It is HUGE and detailed also.
So, after quite a few hours last night I finally started adventuring outside my mine/house. I wasn't finding much materials extending my vast network of gopher holes, so decided to strike out on the world and see what was out there. Also my house had become pretty safe due to all the lights outside and the waterfall that I created to flow over it.
Took quite a few pick axes, couple hundred torches, and started spelunking. A couple close calls from some skeletons but I struck quite a few iron veins and a couple gold veins across 3 caves I came across. Still trying to find that elusive diamonds, since I really would like a kickass pickaxe.
Also I think I've come up with my end game plan, lighting the world. I'm going to cover every inch of this place with light... zombies will have no where to run!
Took quite a few pick axes, couple hundred torches, and started spelunking. A couple close calls from some skeletons but I struck quite a few iron veins and a couple gold veins across 3 caves I came across. Still trying to find that elusive diamonds, since I really would like a kickass pickaxe.
Also I think I've come up with my end game plan, lighting the world. I'm going to cover every inch of this place with light... zombies will have no where to run!
Notch added a Google Moderator page to submit suggestions to implement in Minecraft:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=1c111
I posted there a suggestion I already made, Minecraft+ Trains, but no many people are voting this
http://goo.gl/mod/dsHi
1.0.7 is out, fixing the shuttering bug.
http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=1c111
I posted there a suggestion I already made, Minecraft+ Trains, but no many people are voting this
http://goo.gl/mod/dsHi
1.0.7 is out, fixing the shuttering bug.
Razorskin said:Yeah no monsters will spawn inside, they'll just spawn outside and kill you.
Outside of my base is lit up so much, that and the waterfall keep them at bay now. It's nice. Trying to get enough torches set up so I can see my place no where where I am. Thinking of building a lighthouse structure.
TemplaerDude
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Fine. FINE. I'll fucking buy this. I can't resist any fucking longer. Damn you GAF.
Lol, I died and now I don't know where I was in the map, this game is awesome. :lol
Now I live hiding and burying myself in the map during the night to avoid enemies, acting like Saddam Hussein. I refuse to build another house for a while, I need to find my first house.
Dont know if it's because of this thread, but according to the meter in the official game site, 31.400 people buyed this game (was on 31.100 when I bought on saturday), nice to see people supporting this game.
1.0.7 update - http://notch.tumblr.com/post/832681960/incidental-bugfix
Now I live hiding and burying myself in the map during the night to avoid enemies, acting like Saddam Hussein. I refuse to build another house for a while, I need to find my first house.
Dont know if it's because of this thread, but according to the meter in the official game site, 31.400 people buyed this game (was on 31.100 when I bought on saturday), nice to see people supporting this game.
1.0.7 update - http://notch.tumblr.com/post/832681960/incidental-bugfix
Went ahead and bought the game. As I said last night, it is AMAZING how far this game has come since I played the pre-pre-alpha so many months ago. At that time, there was no crafting of any kind, and no weapons/armor/tools. :lol All you did was run around and delete blocks & place blocks. I'm glad the dev stuck with it!
- My first couple starts weren't so great. I couldn't find any coal ANYWHERE, so I could never dig too deeply, it was always pitch black inside my little starting hut, etc. Not too fun.
- But then I spawned an amazing world. I mean I'm sure it's nothing special but it is more aesthetically pleasing than the others, and had 20+ coal exposed to the open air right by the spawn.
- I know it is hardly an accomplishment, but it is incredibly satisfying to build a little shack with a door, light it with a few torches, put a storage crate in the corner, etc. Mine is made of dirt while I gather stone, and it still feels satisfying to have a roof over my head.
I have a Q:
At some point I acquired a material that looks sorta like coal, but isn't. It's black and has a similar shape. It almost looks cole coal, but mirrored. It doesn't burn in a furnace. Anyone know what it is? The one thing Minecraft needs more than anything else is a simple tooltip system! Hover over something in your inventory for its name to pop up.
- My first couple starts weren't so great. I couldn't find any coal ANYWHERE, so I could never dig too deeply, it was always pitch black inside my little starting hut, etc. Not too fun.
- But then I spawned an amazing world. I mean I'm sure it's nothing special but it is more aesthetically pleasing than the others, and had 20+ coal exposed to the open air right by the spawn.
- I know it is hardly an accomplishment, but it is incredibly satisfying to build a little shack with a door, light it with a few torches, put a storage crate in the corner, etc. Mine is made of dirt while I gather stone, and it still feels satisfying to have a roof over my head.
I have a Q:
At some point I acquired a material that looks sorta like coal, but isn't. It's black and has a similar shape. It almost looks cole coal, but mirrored. It doesn't burn in a furnace. Anyone know what it is? The one thing Minecraft needs more than anything else is a simple tooltip system! Hover over something in your inventory for its name to pop up.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh man I want in on this, it sounds like its going to get incredible as it develops. Still willing to gift a 10$ Steam game for a gift of this.
Meatpuppet
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Dammit, lost my lair completely. Starting anew
It's certainly not for everyone. I would say you basically have to like building and exploring. Looking at people's buildings in classic creative mode is cool. The graphics are obviously very minimalistic, and like Tetris, it's not a game with an overall goal unless you make one for yourself.syllogism said:
Multiplayer sounds nice, but unless you find a server with good admins, or unless the dev goes ahead and implements region claiming systems (even then), it would seem impossible to have any sort of cooperative building without people just coming through and destroying everything, attacking other players (would presumably have PVP-free servers), etc.
Basically, try the free version in singleplayer and creative mode. If you like the concept, great, donate $10 to the guy to buy the game so he keeps working. If you don't enjoy it, there are many other games that you might enjoy a lot more.
...actually you're right. I don't know when he started development, but over 30,000 copies sold at $10 apiece means $300,000+ for one guy...and more if it's actually in pounds. I seem to recall that he's a bearded Swede, so it might be more or less in SwedeBucks. :lolGDJustin said:
Multiplayer survival mode needs to have someway for players to engage others in combat without having the ability to totally destroy forts without the builder being in the server. Hopefully that makes sense, I haven't played any classic multiplayer yet but it sounds like griefing can be an issue.
also, the ability to capture zombies and spiders and turn them onto your side in a battle would be awesome. and creating arenas for players to fight against the enemies. so many possibilities.
also, the ability to capture zombies and spiders and turn them onto your side in a battle would be awesome. and creating arenas for players to fight against the enemies. so many possibilities.
yeah, in regards to needless griefing. but I think fighting and having factions will be a big part of some servers. I guess it depends on how many people participate in a server... as long as someone is always there, they could at least alert their team through non-game means.
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