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Vinci said:
Well this sounded like a good plan, and i managed to hit a Lava pool so i could see for a while, but then i came a across some red stone so i knew i was far to deep to get out. So after about 20 minutes of random digging in and around the bedrock i fell through the bottom of the world and re-spawned. Pissed off i lost a lot of iron/coal/red stone but it was my fault for falling without any torches :lol
HappyBivouac
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He said dig at an upward angle, making stairs.
There's no such thing as "far too deep to get out"
When I find myself lost in a cave and low on torches or food, i dig into a random wall and make a spiral staircase up until I hit light. Pretty simple. The only thing you need to watch out for is lava, which thankfully flows slowly enough that if you break open a hole and hit lava you should be able to close it back up before it gets you.
There's no such thing as "far too deep to get out"
When I find myself lost in a cave and low on torches or food, i dig into a random wall and make a spiral staircase up until I hit light. Pretty simple. The only thing you need to watch out for is lava, which thankfully flows slowly enough that if you break open a hole and hit lava you should be able to close it back up before it gets you.
HappyBivouac
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Ah, yeah you still could've gotten out but it would've been awful/taken forever.
HappyBivouac
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You should adjust your brightness/contrast/gamma somehow, through your graphics card or on your monitor. There shouldn't be any actual pitch blackness in the game.
Brilliant avatar by the way.
Brilliant avatar by the way.
HappyBivouac
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What should I do with 36 tnt? Don't say a cannon. That takes too much tnt for too little actual result.
I'm not really sure of how the tnt mechanics work. Maybe I'll just experiment. I wnt to figure out the best way to make a massive hole in the ground so that I can then cover it with glass to keep the snow out and make a big underground glass covered city.
I'm not really sure of how the tnt mechanics work. Maybe I'll just experiment. I wnt to figure out the best way to make a massive hole in the ground so that I can then cover it with glass to keep the snow out and make a big underground glass covered city.
ShallNoiseUpon
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Bought this earlier this afternoon. This is so addicting. Love me some Minecraft, even if I have died a bunch because I was being stupid.
I realize most baddies will die when the sun comes up, but I've found there to be some latent ones most of the time, will more time get rid of these guys or do I have to fight them/run away/pray?
Edit: Question 2 - is there any way to loop the music? It is so awesome, but only getting to hear it every so often makes me a little sad.
I realize most baddies will die when the sun comes up, but I've found there to be some latent ones most of the time, will more time get rid of these guys or do I have to fight them/run away/pray?
Edit: Question 2 - is there any way to loop the music? It is so awesome, but only getting to hear it every so often makes me a little sad.
HappyBivouac
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Generally mobs won't spawn really far away from you, and will despawn if you go far enough away from them. If you're hanging around in your house at night then go outside in the morning, the spiders and creepers won't have burned up. I usually just kill them off (I actively seek out creepers to kill these days) but they'll despawn if you go off on an expedition somewhere.
maniac-kun
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New project: sightseeing train
the pirate ship will be the first stop
in the hut are some furnaces and a workbench in the ship (captains quarters) is a tressure chest
still need some white cloth for the sail
BuggyDClown
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couldnt be more addicted to this game. Damnit
BuggyDClown
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Nice I plan on doing a huge sand pyramid after I finish building my floating castle, such a pain building something in the air up high when you have nothing to build off of.
BuggyDClown
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seems like most people use the standard texture pack. I love the one I'm using, its a mashup of two 3D dot game heroes packs taking the best pieces, and a bunch of edits I made.
Been working on this over out on gafland. I wanted to create an artificial land area away from all the buildings. The water acts as a sky I guess, and you could build random emblems up at sea level to create custom skylines or something. I might mine out of the sides of the place and create little side things, but it's fine as it stands. No real way out besides to ride the water out from the sides, it's not deep enough to drown your way up.
Someone made a cool little chain bridge to the location. If someone want to expand on it, go right ahead because I'm done with it. I like to create landscapes more than buildings anyways. It's off the coast of the old spawn. It's between a bridge, a random tree in the water, and a Space Invader.
Finally got time to sit down and play today, so addictive. Started building my house and just couldn't stop building, kinda went overboard. I like how grass isn't affected by gravity so you can just make shit float, I don't like though how my island can't grow any grass on the dirt 
. I didn't even think about going in search for a dungeon, just build smelt build. I'll post screens in a bit.
. I didn't even think about going in search for a dungeon, just build smelt build. I'll post screens in a bit.
My current house. I built a moat, but it's kind of unnecessary cause nothing ever comes close.
I've got 4 floors, bottom has my work bench and stove along with 2 chests, I have yet to fill the 2nd 3rd or 4th floors with anything (except for a tree at the top.
My moat sometimes traps chickens and pigs, so far nothing dangerous though. Oh well.
The custom textures are nice but the lack of animated water/lava always gets me to switch back.HenryGale said:
It can, you just need to connect the island to existing grass first. It'll take a long time but the grass will eventually creep its way over to your side. You don't even need sunlight, just torches.sprsk said:I like how grass isn't affected by gravity so you can just make shit float, I don't like though how my island can't grow any grass on the dirt
To clarify, grass will jump to adjacent tiles given enough sunlight/torchlight and enough time. It will even move up or down a single tile but no more than that.
sprsk said:Finally got time to sit down and play today, so addictive. Started building my house and just couldn't stop building, kinda went overboard. I like how grass isn't affected by gravity so you can just make shit float, I don't like though how my island can't grow any grass on the dirt
As others have said, you can grow it wherever. Twig made a big, crazy grass-covered mostly-floating island, but it took him FOREVER to get the grass all the way up there. I think he left the game running overnight at one point. :lolsprsk said:Finally got time to sit down and play today, so addictive. Started building my house and just couldn't stop building, kinda went overboard. I like how grass isn't affected by gravity so you can just make shit float, I don't like though how my island can't grow any grass on the dirt
Technosteve
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think the developer will add custom monsters? i would like to design my own monsters
funkmastergeneral
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When Gafland goes down where is everyone going? Most of the servers on minecraft forums suck
PillowKnight
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From Oat's gaf server :
Brandtsk's tower and village.
Brandtsk's tower and village.
I'm going to take a break from multiplayer for a while. I'll check in every once in a while but theres not too much I want to do until some major updates happen. Also I have to start school again so I need to focus on that.
I started another singleplayer map which reminded me of the fun of surviving in minecraft. I explored my spawn area for a few minutes and came full circle. "What, this is it?!" I thought. It's pretty small so my objective is to explore the island and cave systems underneath and maybe build a big roller coaster on it. I had a tough time in the beginning because there weren't many visible caves or coal. Theres tons of monsters at night but I used the new fence blocks to keep them at bay.
There is another big island close to it which is kind of a let down. I was hoping it dropped me in the middle of nowhere. Would be great if the game could spawn me on a tiny island with limited wood and just completely screw me over. :lol
I started another singleplayer map which reminded me of the fun of surviving in minecraft. I explored my spawn area for a few minutes and came full circle. "What, this is it?!" I thought. It's pretty small so my objective is to explore the island and cave systems underneath and maybe build a big roller coaster on it. I had a tough time in the beginning because there weren't many visible caves or coal. Theres tons of monsters at night but I used the new fence blocks to keep them at bay.
There is another big island close to it which is kind of a let down. I was hoping it dropped me in the middle of nowhere. Would be great if the game could spawn me on a tiny island with limited wood and just completely screw me over. :lol
Lionheart1337
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Some screenshots of my attempt at remaking the "Sacred Forest Meadow" from ZeldaoT.
Forest Temple Entrance
Overhead view of the maze area
Great Fairy's Cavern
Diamond anyone?
On another note,
Also fullscreen for l4d2 but minimized. And windowed for MC but minimized.
oT.Forest Temple Entrance
Overhead view of the maze area
Great Fairy's Cavern
Diamond anyone?
On another note,
Also fullscreen for l4d2 but minimized. And windowed for MC but minimized.
Zomba13
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I downloaded a 3D dot Game Heroes texture and have been doing little mods to them (like holes in the tree leaves so sunlight can get through) and everything does look like a first person view of Dotnia. Also made a small chicken farm with fences. Took a while to get the chickens in, they bounce around everywhere >.<
Lionheart1337
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Vinci said:
Nope, sounds like something I'd do during school. :lol
It's good to plan b4 building though to get proportions right and what not. I'd do it more often if I wasn't so fond of diving in head first into a project.
I've wanted to do this, but when I can't play the game I generally don't have access to graph/grid paper. I might just do this normally since I'm sure it would make building go much smoother.Vinci said:
Recently I've been playing the game on peaceful. If I do any mining I'll put the difficulty back on normal. I just find having to deal with enemies while I'm building random things to be more annoying than fun at this point. I'm sure if I start a new world I'll probably play with it on, but right now I'm more into the creation aspect than the combat centered one.
Do the seasons change or is the weather pattern decided when you generate a world? I've only generated a couple worlds but it always has been snowing when I start. For whatever reason, my PC runs Minecraft at like 5 fps even though I can run Starcraft 2, WoW and L4D2 at 60 fps. I'm hoping that I can squeeze a few extra fps if it isn't snowing all the time as it is simply unplayable on my current machine.
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