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The Technomancer
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Okay, I think I have to give up on my giant cave for a bit, since getting swarmed and killed every five minutes is getting old fast. Probably time to break off an earlier shaft from the main mine and see where that leads.
TheExecutive
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DownLikeBCPowder said:
You mine in caves. The caves have just as much or more ore and you dont have to dig. It is a waste of time making HUGE mines. Find a gigantic cave system and reap the rewards. Plus exploring caves is like 1000% times funner than digging endlessly. Use the cartographer and find massive caves if you dont feel like finding 50-100 dead ends before you find a cave system.
TheExecutive
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Inkwell said:
I was beaten... badly.
Just picked it up. For 13 bucks the potential this game has is pretty amazing. I am on top of a mountain right now on a 5 block tall man-made dirt mound doing some crafting while the spiders/zombies/skeletons/creepers attempt to attack me.
As soon as day breaks I will be adventuring off to find a new hideout and do some serious mining.
As soon as day breaks I will be adventuring off to find a new hideout and do some serious mining.
Stitch
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sneakypete
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Can anyone point me to the Minecraft dir on Win7?
Edit: how2modMCtextures?
Edit: how2modMCtextures?
Stitch said:
Oh fucking yes.
Thank you
sneakypete
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<3 Razorskin
I spent more than a couple minutes searching everywhere the other night before saying fuck it. Most appreciated kind sir.
I spent more than a couple minutes searching everywhere the other night before saying fuck it. Most appreciated kind sir.
He's said before he'd like to release Minecraft on Steam eventually.
Just because he's talking to Valve - I'm sure it's them - doesn't mean they're going to buy the game, or anything of the sort. Apparently a fair number of Valve developers play Minecraft, and they may just want a chinwag. Not every discussion between developers means a deal is in the offing.
Just because he's talking to Valve - I'm sure it's them - doesn't mean they're going to buy the game, or anything of the sort. Apparently a fair number of Valve developers play Minecraft, and they may just want a chinwag. Not every discussion between developers means a deal is in the offing.
That's not baseless at all. He's said many times before how Half-Life 2 and Portal are some of his favorite games, and has mentioned Valve in a number of occasions. Besides, Valve has a record of being awesome.Sciz said:
I'll say "holy fuck" if they're looking for him. I mean, I'd love to see Minecraft finished without external influence first, but he could do some great things in partnership with a company like Valve.
civilstrife
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As great as Minecraft is, there's no doubt that it'd be even better if there were...you know, more than ONE person working on it.
I hope Valve hires him and creates the ultimate Minecraft experience.
I hope Valve hires him and creates the ultimate Minecraft experience.
He does? I thought he stopped updating the WC3 game a while ago.Zerokku said:Yah I mean it's not like Icefrog (the guy who made DotA what it is today) was hired by valve and yet still does regular updates to the original WC3 DotA while working on his own DotA like game with Valve at the same time or anything.
That's awesome.
civilstrife said:
I don't know... he conceptualised it as an indie project and things are ticking on OK in that sense.
He is also making plenty of money. If he wanted he could already hire other programmers to work with him fulltime. But I've a feeling he'd hesitate on that.
Although others have worked on the graphics and sound, I think the idea of this being 'one man' making this has created a certain romance around the game and has kept expectations in check. If suddenly there was a larger team working on it - either with Valve or otherwise - I think that would go out the window, and there'd be much more pressure on them.
I don't know though, I'm sure whatever he does it'll be with the best interests of the game first and foremost in his mind. But I wouldn't read too much into these tweets...
sneakypete
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A friend of mine just came over and watched me play for 15-20ish minutes. He pulled out a 20 and told me to buy him a copy with PayPal(he doesn't have an account and won't use CC on internets) and to keep the change. He claims we're going to hang out after I get off work in 6 or 7 hours but I'm almost positive he'll still be playing when I get off. :lol
God damncrack Minecraft!
God damn
S. L. said:
Was always afraid of something like this, but it never has happened. I always dig at an angle when descending till I hit bedrock, then I move till I find lava. Once there, I try to determine the exact size of the lava pit and circle it, looking for diamonds and other good stuff.
In short: I love lava.
EDIT: Five minutes after saying this, lava eats some diamond ore that I mined and went into the lava since it was directly behind it (I couldn't see the lava).
Caesar III
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Today I started to dig away all the dirt and gravel in the self dug cave I have under my underwater glass dome. By doing this there was one suprise after the other all the time. Now I'm out of flares and need to get some more (I had 128 with me!) And I need to get all the stuff I found to be safe as well!
Digging away the gravel and dirt is really awesome. I found a LOT of new caves, >64 iron, >25 gold, 150 red stone. I need to go down there again now
BTW all my mobs are away What did I do wrong? (it's set to normal and I'm logged in)
edit: Something really is wrong! When I throw away stuff from my inventory the blocks do not show up in front of me as well.
edit2:
Digging straight down works quite well if you stand in the center of up to 4 blocks! Dig away one, turn 90° dig again, do so until you meet lava or bedrock
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After restarting the game, everything is fine and I get mobs and stuff. But damn, now I wish I would not get them, I'm scared again Can hear a skeleton already
Digging away the gravel and dirt is really awesome. I found a LOT of new caves, >64 iron, >25 gold, 150 red stone. I need to go down there again now
BTW all my mobs are away
What did I do wrong? (it's set to normal and I'm logged in)edit: Something really is wrong! When I throw away stuff from my inventory the blocks do not show up in front of me as well.
edit2:
Digging straight down works quite well if you stand in the center of up to 4 blocks! Dig away one, turn 90° dig again, do so until you meet lava or bedrock
edit3:
After restarting the game, everything is fine and I get mobs and stuff. But damn, now I wish I would not get them, I'm scared again
Can hear a skeleton already 
I miss minecraft. I've been traveling for work, playing Starcraft, and just been generally... busy. It's been like a week since I tooled around my budding little complex and I'm going through some withdrawal somewhat :lol :lol
I was def. burnt out back around the final day I logged in and played though. It's good to stay away for a bit.
One tip:
If you're beginning to experience some Minecraft burn out, stop trying to do things BIG and instead just try to do things *new*. Every construction project I work on contains at least one small new element for me, whether it's working with redstone for the first time, lava waterfalls, etc.
I was def. burnt out back around the final day I logged in and played though. It's good to stay away for a bit.
One tip:
If you're beginning to experience some Minecraft burn out, stop trying to do things BIG and instead just try to do things *new*. Every construction project I work on contains at least one small new element for me, whether it's working with redstone for the first time, lava waterfalls, etc.
Stitch said:
After reading a bit of that thread I have the perverse desire to have this as my sun...
I'll make it happen tonight when I get home from work
British Monsoon
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dejay said:After reading a bit of that thread I have the perverse desire to have this as my sun...
I'll make it happen tonight when I get home from work
Haha, please post it when you do, i'd like to use that in my game - brings back fond memories of getting baked and watching Teletubbies when I should have been in school :lol
British Monsoon
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dejay said:
I like being able to play it wherever I want, without running the Steam client or having Steam DRM.Holepunch said:
As far as I know (which is not very far) the DRM or whatever built into the game lets you play offline as much as you want as long as you've only logged in once, no Steam client required. Less DRM is a good thing in my opinion even though I like Steam (despite the fact that it seems to take FOREVER to launch the client for me, probably because I have too many games installed).Also, I think he has basically said on Twitter that more cooks does not a better soup make, so in his opinion, I think he likes working by himself. I think he also said he doesn't think the game will ever truly be "finished".
Now, if he got the game into a good final/release state in his view, with pretty much all of the major bugs fixed, and somehow got hired by Valve despite living in Sweden...it might be interesting to see what sort of project they might make. I guess we'll just wait and see. I like Valve in general, and I'm a PC gamer from days of yore, but I guess I am just not as big of a fan of Valve as some people.
KidGalactus
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I'm guessing there's no way to buy this with an amazon giftcard is there?
Pinko Marx
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Except as I pointed out 2-3 times in that post, the Steam client is required to be installed, and to be run, to run the games, to say nothing of the Steam service.Stitch said:cool, so it works like steam
And as I also pointed out in the same post, the Steam client takes a long time to launch for me, not that that's a big deal since I usually leave it running anyway.AND, as I didn't point out but will now, offline mode has had bugs as far as I know, off and on. I thought some games wouldn't work in it sometimes, and Valve in particular had released multiple updates, even saying stuff along the lines of "REALLY fixed offline mode this time". It may be perfect now! If so, that's wonderful.
To top it all off, I typically launch Minecraft from the Steam client itself. I don't HAVE to, and I like having that choice, but if I want to run it with Steam community stuff (I'd like to be able to turn off the overlay for Minecraft only but that doesn't seem to be an option yet) and have my friends see I'm playing it, I can, and several people on my friends list already do.
Seems like everything I see someone making is inundated with glass. I guess I am alone in not liking the look of glass overly much. I mean, I'll give my houses and other structures windows and the like, but any significant amount of glass - from any sort of distance - looks more like flimsy scaffolding than it does glass.
This isn't directed at anyone in this thread, BTW. Just been watching some videos on Youtube.
This isn't directed at anyone in this thread, BTW. Just been watching some videos on Youtube.
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