HappyBivouac
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Something I did a couple days ago...
Look carefully in the waterfall.
Look carefully in the waterfall.
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HappyBivouac
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Is there a way to improve the 3d and overlay (HUD) resolutions in this, instead of having it just stretch when I maximize my window?
Been playing this on my laptop, but I just plugged it into my monitor and wow, that's a bit much.
Been playing this on my laptop, but I just plugged it into my monitor and wow, that's a bit much.
Why thank you. I still get slightly annoyed when people mention IoG in "Best Games" threads without also including Terranigma and/or Soul Blazer.Sciz said:
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GAFLand New World Tour
That's the last video I recorded yesterday. I walk along the road I built that goes out into an untouched region of GAFLand.
Thanks for making these videos. I haven't gotten through all of them yet, but you do a great job of showing everything off. I've been avoiding the server because the game crashes when I play online. I'm not sure if it's been fixed with the latest update or not. Anyway, it's nice to finally see all the neat stuff people have built.Awakened said:
SmokestormX
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HappyBivouac said:
I remember a quote from Notch in his twitter last week or so saying that he's improve resolutions later down the road. I think someone asked him about reducing the size of the text overlay chat window on big resolutions.
I rather wish that were the case, considering that the clone is an open source project (though I couldn't find the source code easily on the site), and it would presumably give Notch the actual possibility of shutting it down.OgTheClever said:
It's apparently in C# though, so unless they actually did some automated translation of decompiled Java code to C#, then I dunno. It is a pity that it seems to be super identical, down to connecting to Minecraft servers so people don't have to buy the game. I haven't looked up anything on Infiniminer yet, but I am guessing that Minecraft has become much different than it?
funkmastergeneral
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This game feels like it could have the potential to be the best MMO ever. Worlds where you can destroy/build anything you want. Real PVP
GOD DAMN
GOD DAMN
Visualante
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That giant mud structure in the center of town is now flooding water. Who the hell built that thing?
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Razorskin said:
creatures will be good but I think pvp could be bloody brilliant.
"God's Beard!"
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funkmastergeneral said:
Think sourceforts.
Caesar III
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think Clonk 
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I want the ability to create insane things in Creative mode and then let players run through them in Survival.funkmastergeneral said:
Caesar III
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I just looked up some posts in the Manic Digger forums and it has one possible feature I'd like to have in Minecraft as well. Stress to blocks. So you cannot du floating islands and such to any degree. If it is too much they'll break off and fall down. It's not implemented in MD so far but the guy is working on it. Sounds great.
Would be cool to have something like this as an option to choose from when starting a new world.
Would be cool to have something like this as an option to choose from when starting a new world.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Having played around with Minecraft now, I hope the direction goes more towards additions, creation, and content, and not simulation. Hearing that the developer wants to add stuff like limited burn time to torches worries me.
Also, the game needs a fucking parachute.
Also, the game needs a fucking parachute.
HappyBivouac
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Been using a cartograph trick to hunt down dungeons for a few hours now. I'm hoping to find a creeper dungeon so I can rig up a water trap to it. I'm starting to think that creeper dungeons don't exist, though. :/
CoolS said:Wouldn't have helped, the lava was too deep
Yeah, I'm going to do that from now on. Fuck, tninking about it still makes me sad about how stupid I was.
Of course, a little over a day after offering my sage advice about setting up a storage room in caves, I decide to go wandering around in a newly-discovered cave without a chest or the stuff to make one. Unfortunately, this cave is not only huge and mazelike, but absolutely swarming with monsters. I think I clear the area behind me, and I get an arrow in the back as I'm mining all the good stuff down there. After running out of pickaxes, I start heading back up, and it seems that one branch of this horrible cave system had a colony of creepers or something that have decided to hang out along the path back out of the cave.
Now, if this was like a normal cave, all nice and mostly horizontal, I could carefully worm my way back, taking out creepers as I saw them, but this cave has many vertical shafts which I haven't explored yet, yet I have to go through part of them in order to get back out. At least once on this trek I had a creeper land right next to me and explode before I could get away (couldn't just back up, due to the risk of plummeting to my death down the shaft).
So, now my armor's almost gone, I'm down to one heart, I'm lost and carrying a fair amount of stuff from my mining that I have no way of storing.
New moral: listen to my own advice.
BuggyDClown
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does cross platform play work, havent been able to join any servers really,. (On OSX)
My latest tactic for this sort of situation has been to build/tunnel a stairway straight up to the surface whenever my inventory fills up. A little tiresome, but on the whole much quicker and more or less safer than backtracking through the caverns.Vlad said:
If you really, desperately need storage space and have no wood for chests (always, always carry a stack of logs), furnaces will work in a pinch.
Sciz said:
I thought of that, but not only am I VERY far underground (and if I'm correct, I've got a mountain on top of me as well), but I don't have enough torches to light the way back up or the pickaxes that would make such a dig not take forever.
Hmmmm... never thought of that about the furnaces....
Of course, I just realized that I can't, because I don't have the wood to make the workbench to craft the furnaces
I know better than to go into a cave without wood, but I just got too overconfident. That, and I've entirely deforested the area around my base, and haven't gotten around to planting more trees yet.
So yeah, I've only myself to blame.
I've stumbled across what is easily the most extensive cavern system I've seen to date. The first entrance I found is actually a dungeon which happened to have spawned right at the surface. I've since found half a dozen other major and minor entrances, and have come up with four or five full inventories of loot so far.
There seems to be no end to the branching paths, and if I hadn't come up so far from my initial entrance last time (under the ocean!) I'd swear it wraps around on itself in non-Euclidean space.
There seems to be no end to the branching paths, and if I hadn't come up so far from my initial entrance last time (under the ocean!) I'd swear it wraps around on itself in non-Euclidean space.
BuggyDClown
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wiki has been down for days. How the hell do I make a pressure plate or lever for my iron door!?
HenryGale said:wiki has been down for days. How the hell do I make a pressure plate or lever for my iron door!?
Google site:http://www.minecraftwiki.net crafting and click the small Cached link
But a pressure plate is just three wood or smooth stone blocks going across the bottom. Lever is a stick above a cobblestone block.
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/977394407/lots-of-stuff-going-on-behind-the-scenes
Oh shit
The last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy. Lots of different people have wanted to talk to me, and Im spending a lot of time trying to decide where to take Minecraft and Mojang (the company making Minecraft).
Im going away on a personal trip to Finland next week, and the day after I get back, Im flying to northwestern USA to speak to some of my idols.
I like being totally transparent, but since this involves third party people, I dont know how much I can say; but I can tell you what I want.
I would love to hire some people and set up a small development studio in Stockholm. This would include additional programmers, and someone in charge of the website and community features. And an artist that can make a nicer glass texture.
I am not interested in changing the openness of how minecraft is developed, nor do I have any intention of selling the product to anyone else; I want to be the one developing it.
My development speed has gone down lately because of all this crazy cool but scary stuff happening, but I promise you it will go up again soon, regardless of what happens.
As to my trip to the US; I will be in Bellevue, Washington from August 30 to September 2. I dont know exactly what my schedule is yet, but Id be more than willing to meet players from that area as long as you promise not to be creepy.
Oh shit
BuggyDClown
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I'm a little annoyed that you cant use flowing water or lava on custom textures
funkmastergeneral
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Zerokku said:
This could either be very fucking awesome for the game, or horrible. I hope Activision isn't involved...
OgTheClever
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OMG glass textures!!!!Zerokku said:
I have been slightly disappointed with the lack of updates recently, but I'm sure it'll all be for the best in the end.
I made a video of my base in minecraft. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVm0F4bL43g
I was going to narrate and explain a few things, but it appears I have to be practically chewing on my microphone before it decides to pick up any audio, even with the volume and mic boost up all the way. Also, this is my first time ever making/uploading a video so let me know if there are any issues. This was really more of a test video, so it's nothing that special.
Anyway, It's pretty small. I originally wanted to make something similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's falling water (in gigantic castle sized fashion). I may do that at another time, but I would like to wait until we at least get some more colors for the different types of blocks.
I was going to narrate and explain a few things, but it appears I have to be practically chewing on my microphone before it decides to pick up any audio, even with the volume and mic boost up all the way. Also, this is my first time ever making/uploading a video so let me know if there are any issues. This was really more of a test video, so it's nothing that special.
Anyway, It's pretty small. I originally wanted to make something similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's falling water (in gigantic castle sized fashion). I may do that at another time, but I would like to wait until we at least get some more colors for the different types of blocks.
ashbash159
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Can't connect to GAFland and don't see any mention of it in the last couple pages. Is it online?
funkmastergeneral
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ashbash159 said:
Normally online noon-midnight CST
EVH said:
Oh, then this will be a very good thing then.
BuggyDClown
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Inkwell said:
Dude that green house is sweet!
The Technomancer
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So is there an upper limit on how tall trees will grow left on their own? And how should I maximize tree growth? I want to just plant some and let it sit and come back hours later to a giant multi-tree just waiting for my treehouse of awesome.
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