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Razorskin said:
That's evil :lol :lol :lol
On other news, i don't completely get how water works. Tried to fill a small artificial lake for my house, but the water from the spring dry up after a few blocks. I guess i have to fill the entirety of the lake with water blocks...man what a pain.
Air Zombie Meat
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I had an idea of what was about to happen once he started loading up on gold :lol
Found some diamonds finally! Took me long enough.
Found some diamonds finally! Took me long enough.
I decided I'm going to make a day-by-day diary of a new world, so EVERYTHING that goes into making a base can be documented. People tend to ooh and ahh at big tree farms and towers, but it's the unsung stuff, like shifting ~500 dirt, that us minecraft players have to do to make space livable sometimes. And these tasks get overlooked!
DAY 1: Scouting, first coal, and hut building.
About two seconds after spawn, I found my first coal. The vein was 10 big - nice. There's coal EVERYWHERE but I didn't collect it for the time being. 10 is plenty.
I found a nice hill to the North and quickly decided to settle there. It's within site of my spawn, which is key. I get lose CONSTANTLY in minecraft. The picture isn't much (it was very tough to get a comprehensive angle of it), but it's a nice space.
As anyone following this topic for a long time knows, I'm actually not a fan of the popular "build a hut and hide" night 1 tactic. I think it's a huge waste of time. Much better to wall yourself in somewhere, so you can at least spend the night mining, instead of twiddling your thumbs.
BUT, like a complete noob, I lost track of time and night snuck up on my. I had to VERY quickly build a hut. I didn't even have enough dirt... had to use wood.
Day 1 materials:
96 planks
5 cobblestone
4 coal
10 saplings
3 yellow flowers
4 sticks
62 torches
2 wood pickaxes
DAY 1: Scouting, first coal, and hut building.
About two seconds after spawn, I found my first coal. The vein was 10 big - nice. There's coal EVERYWHERE but I didn't collect it for the time being. 10 is plenty.
I found a nice hill to the North and quickly decided to settle there. It's within site of my spawn, which is key. I get lose CONSTANTLY in minecraft. The picture isn't much (it was very tough to get a comprehensive angle of it), but it's a nice space.
As anyone following this topic for a long time knows, I'm actually not a fan of the popular "build a hut and hide" night 1 tactic. I think it's a huge waste of time. Much better to wall yourself in somewhere, so you can at least spend the night mining, instead of twiddling your thumbs.
BUT, like a complete noob, I lost track of time and night snuck up on my. I had to VERY quickly build a hut. I didn't even have enough dirt... had to use wood.
Day 1 materials:
96 planks
5 cobblestone
4 coal
10 saplings
3 yellow flowers
4 sticks
62 torches
2 wood pickaxes
OgTheClever
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The server software isn't being released until tomorrow, the update just gives clients the ability to connect to servers manually.
Dead Prince
Banned
oh. i didn't know there was an update. no wonder my 3D Dot Game Heroes textures weren't there :lol
TheExecutive
Member
Razorskin said:
:lol So awesome.
Day 1
Day 2: Logging & leveling.
After noobing it up in my hut all night I noobed it up some more the next morning. Killed one creeper, but another snuck up behind me and got me.
I spent the day chopping down all the trees on my hill. I'll replant them in a more systematic way later. For now they block my view and hinder the construction that's about to begin. An aerial shot of the bulk of my space. Boring now, but snapped to serve as a "before" picture:
Day 2 materials:
332 planks (woot!)
147 dirt
4 coal
3 cobblestone
26 saplings
3 yellow flower
2 feathers
1 egg
62 torches
2 wood pickaxes
UP NEXT: lots and lots of dirt moving. I'm going to remove dirt down to (probably) the level of my hut, and build up the areas that are below that level. This is (probably) going to represent digging up about ~1000 dirt blocks.
Day 2: Logging & leveling.
After noobing it up in my hut all night I noobed it up some more the next morning. Killed one creeper, but another snuck up behind me and got me.
I spent the day chopping down all the trees on my hill. I'll replant them in a more systematic way later. For now they block my view and hinder the construction that's about to begin. An aerial shot of the bulk of my space. Boring now, but snapped to serve as a "before" picture:
Day 2 materials:
332 planks (woot!)
147 dirt
4 coal
3 cobblestone
26 saplings
3 yellow flower
2 feathers
1 egg
62 torches
2 wood pickaxes
UP NEXT: lots and lots of dirt moving. I'm going to remove dirt down to (probably) the level of my hut, and build up the areas that are below that level. This is (probably) going to represent digging up about ~1000 dirt blocks.
That is until they all fill in.Javaman said:
This is a common idea? I thought it was common since to just mine your first night after you get a little hut and hopefully a bit of coal. I mean, what else is there to do?
Also, why are you turning all your wood bricks into planks?
Those are either obsidian or bedrock. I can't tell from the textures. If you can't destroy them with a diamond pickaxe, they're bedrock. That means you're near the very bottom of the map; be careful there, you can fall into the abyss.Stitch said:is this the end of the world or something? can't destroy these blocks.
Edit: Aha! I'm too slow.
Oh my god this just happened to me. I had just built my first actual planned building. I had to go up on the roof to add a waterfall I have for it. I get down and go through the door the marvel at my wonderful creation. I turn to my right just in time to notice a creeper walking toward me. The damn thing explodes, I have one heart left, my armor is completely destroyed, and water from my waterfall is gushing all over and filling up the whole the creeper left in my floor.Razorskin said:
I had torches in the building, and I don't know how he got in. I'm just lucky the thing didn't kill me.
Hard to tell from your texture pack, but I think its Obsidian, a very hard rock. Takes a long time to mine though, and you get nothing unless mined with a diamond pick axe.Stitch said:is this the end of the world or something? can't destroy these blocks.
But it could be bedrock in your texture, then it would be the bottom of the world and by wary of gaps in it.
Stitch
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I'm using this texture pack http://thesoupiest.tumblr.com
i guess i'm gonna hit it for some time and report back what happens :lol
edit: hitting it with an iron pickaxe for two minutes didn't do anything. so i guess it's bedrock
i guess i'm gonna hit it for some time and report back what happens :lol
edit: hitting it with an iron pickaxe for two minutes didn't do anything. so i guess it's bedrock
Yeah, this is I suppose why people were terrified of him adding gravity to different block types, and why I'm afraid he will make torches start burning out or something (per what the wiki suggested was the plan?).Drkirby said:
I have old versions of the world and program files backed up so I guess I could play offline with those, but it is scary even in alpha to know that your elaborate fortress could burn/crumble/turn to darkness when he does an update. :lol
Dead Prince
Banned
to use the furnace do i need a fire source or something?
I sort of hope he waits to turn torches into temporary things when he makes a major overhaul that breaks map compatibility. Or just changes all the torches into a perminate light source/doesn't fix the 'problem'Blizzard said:
I did like the idea of the torches never going out all they way, just dimming to a burning cinder. That way we would still have some time to replace all the torches in our base if a torch lasted like 1 hour.
I also don't think we are going to get to realistic of gravity. Just "Blocks must touch other blocks" and "Obsidian can float". Though that means all the random flying land masses are going to just crash to earth.
Nothing will stand in our way. Our forts being burned down just gives us more stuff to do!
Horizontal. All on the same Z axis.
Also, I tend to like doing
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More, since then you can take out any single cube and the water fills back in. The other way you have to take the middle one out. Also only adds like 5 seconds of work on your part.
I sort of wish it was possible to have random natural disasters. Tornado strikes, earthquake hits (Tons of ore to gather then!), meteor strikes.
Though with an option to turn them off of course. No one wants there glass tower to crash during an earthquake and there treasure room to fly out the back door to a tornado.
The update is up.. so how do we start a server/find out IP addresses of servers?
Hahahahha, I wonder if some of you guys' buildings will turn into a blazing inferno because of this lava fix.
Edit:
Minecraft Alpha 1.0.14
* Lava now sets stuff on fire
* Tried to make fire act better (need feedback)
* Extremely silly third person swinging animation
* You can enter the IP to a server now. The first, buggy server will be released tomorrow.
* Fixed the M.
Thank you everyone who emailed me about the stuttering, I will work on fixing that tomorrow as well while people are testing SMP. =)
Hahahahha, I wonder if some of you guys' buildings will turn into a blazing inferno because of this lava fix.
Edit:
Minecraft Alpha 1.0.14
* Lava now sets stuff on fire
* Tried to make fire act better (need feedback)
* Extremely silly third person swinging animation
* You can enter the IP to a server now. The first, buggy server will be released tomorrow.
* Fixed the M.
Thank you everyone who emailed me about the stuttering, I will work on fixing that tomorrow as well while people are testing SMP. =)
I am thinking the whole time whether I need to start up minecraft offline the next time to replace some wood structures near lava. Not sure whether I build something like that.
What is about lava and earth?
What is about lava and earth?
From the minecraft boards:Kuran said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhencX2v4FQ&feature=player_embedded
Find it odd the third guy didn't try to put it out, its not that hard to put out a fire.
This game is like a really sweet rollercoaster built inside of a spanking machine. I just found my first vein of redstone, then lost it all when I slipped through a crack into a river of lava.
Hey, in a slightly related note, is there an easier, safer way to build things in the sky? I've just been jump stacking a bunch of blocks, then attempting to slip blocks onto the side of the blocks I'm standing on without falling to my death.
Hey, in a slightly related note, is there an easier, safer way to build things in the sky? I've just been jump stacking a bunch of blocks, then attempting to slip blocks onto the side of the blocks I'm standing on without falling to my death.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Three hours ago I picked a random tunnel in my mine and decided to follow it to its conclusion, ignoring side branches. Then I would work back on each branch until I had followed them to their conclusion, all the way back to start.
Yeaaaaaaah....that was three hours ago. I might need to rethink that strategy.
Yeaaaaaaah....that was three hours ago. I might need to rethink that strategy.
Re: torches going out and no more floating blocks:
Notch has stated over and over that the only question he asks himself re: Minecraft features is "Is it fun?" If something ISN'T fun, even if it's already been coded and put in, he can & will remove it.
Torches going out is NOT fun. Unconnected blocks falling to the earth IS fun and makes mining more exciting, although obviously it fucks up pre-existing floating structures.
Point is, there will never be realism for the sake of realism. Torches will never be temporary just because that's how a real torch works.
So... I'm not too concerned about Torches. Although I would be shocked if floating blocks stayed in. Besides special magic blocks (like obsidian).
Notch has stated over and over that the only question he asks himself re: Minecraft features is "Is it fun?" If something ISN'T fun, even if it's already been coded and put in, he can & will remove it.
Torches going out is NOT fun. Unconnected blocks falling to the earth IS fun and makes mining more exciting, although obviously it fucks up pre-existing floating structures.
Point is, there will never be realism for the sake of realism. Torches will never be temporary just because that's how a real torch works.
So... I'm not too concerned about Torches. Although I would be shocked if floating blocks stayed in. Besides special magic blocks (like obsidian).
I would say that torches going out are not fun, but I would say that floating islands (already in the game) and neat floating towers/castles/structures are fun. You think it's fun if they fall. WHICH OF US GETS TO DECIDE WHICH IS FUN?GDJustin said:
For instance, people who may have spent weeks mining and built wooden structures with unfortunately placed lava, whether you think they should have known better or not, lost the whole thing. Was that fun for you? Sure! Fun for them? Probably not.
rohlfinator
Member
IIRC, the talk was that temporary torches would be supplemented by a new permanent light source, like lanterns. I could see that happening.GDJustin said:
He's aiming for fun, but he's also not afraid to make the game a little bit ruthless at times, and right now torches are pretty overpowered. Once you find your first coal, it's very likely that you will never run out of torches again, and I think Notch has said that the current torches are just one or two steps from being maximum brightness. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a fairly big nerf sometime down the line, and a more expensive permanent light source added.
OgTheClever
Member
The only circumstance in which I could see torches becoming temporary is if another permanent lighting item is brought in to replace them. (Although that does seem somewhat pointless)
BakugekiNZ
Member
Joined Steam community + eagerly anticipating the server launch.
I've been lurking this thread for what feels like weeks, it convinced me to buy it last Thursday and I haven't looked back :lol
I've been lurking this thread for what feels like weeks, it convinced me to buy it last Thursday and I haven't looked back :lol
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