Visualante
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Yup. Gotta be careful around lava.fugimax said:I died in lava. Is all the stuff I was carrying gone?
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maniac-kun
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dig to the ground then 10 up and do this:fugimax said:Damnit. I was down deep mining.. had diamonds, red dust, gold ... ARGH.
Are there any tips on finding those materials faster? I really wanted a diamond pick-axe and sword.
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Some legends have it that you will actually find minerals faster if you find cave systems and follow them from the surface, concentrating your mining on the walls of the cave and wherever you see ore.maniac-kun said:
Of course, that would depend on if you actually have any caves near where you are in your world.
maniac-kun
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i got full diamond armor and tools in 30 min with thisBlizzard said:
How can the legends lie?! Next, I will claim your way isn't as "fun".maniac-kun said:i got full diamond armor and tools in 30 min with this
What do you mean to the ground and 10 up though? Down to the bedrock, then build yourself back up 10 higher? So you would make open holes where those spaces are (not the X spots) that reach all the way down to bedrock, then fill them back up on your way to the surface?
...if so, how did you not fall into lava on the way down?
Or maybe you meant go down to the bedrock, hopefully not hitting the lava, climb back up 10 spaces, and dig that pattern around? But you would have to check in the center of those solid 9x9 blocks somehow, right?You'll burn through less equipment that way by a long shot, but the distribution of all subsurface materials is so even that there are huge quantities of them that natural caves completely miss. The intrigue of discovering what the terrain generator came up with and the threat of monsters definitely has an appeal, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if a smart strip mining technique is more efficient at producing the good stuff.Blizzard said:
funkmastergeneral
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sgnhh said:
the spawn on this server is weird. all sand.
Tony Rocky Horror
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Just had the biggest scare ever.. Walking through a new-found cave, planting torches and whatever.. I turn around the corner, and the sound was pretty loud at this point, and suddenly this Piano music starts and it scared the living hell out of me.. :lol
maniac-kun
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one time it was getting dark i was on my way back to my fort i heard someting turned around HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BOOOM i jumped up and screamedBanzaiaap said:
i never got that scared in a game before :lol
les papillons sexuels
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fresquito said:
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
the rest you should figure out on your own imo.
Built a bow, I like it better than the sword. It's practically rapid fire.Spire said:
Found what I thought was a small cave and went in. Got 17 iron ore, 4 iron bars, 4 buckets and 3 saddles.... having trouble finding my home again though ;_;
Good thing I built a Inukshuk on the top of the mountain near my house so I can at least have a vague idea where to go.
OgTheClever
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Does anybody know of any decent servers to play on at the moment? I just can't find one I feel like coming back to since GAFland closed.
les papillons sexuels
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this game has so much potential, I can't wait to see the final version.
This game is really frightening -not only because you spend hour after hour crafting little tools-. I was at home, at night, crafting and shorting my stuff, when I suddenly hear an arrow passing by. I'm like "WTF". I look and see nothing, but I hear noises about. Then I go to the oven and get shot. I look and see one of those nasty archers shooting through my door. It's almost dawn, so I pick my sword and open the door. I hit him, he stumbles, I see a glimpse of him catching fire, then a burst and he's gone. Then suddenly I hear another grumbling, I look above and see one of those green creatures jumping over me, I run away, but he explodes. I'm not deeply hurt, but my house is. I was waiting to change its face, use some newly found bricks. This is the time to do the job. Always look on the bright side of life, they say.
Some minutes earlier I explored my first cave. It was dark, but I went crazy with torches, so everything was fine. Until I realise I'm a little too deep to my liking and I start hearing noises coming from about. I try to escape from the cave, but I have a hard time finding the entrance. It is pitch black outside, so I only see some stars in the sky, but I can hardly see blocks to jump on. In the end, I use some torches more and run away in panic.
Minecraft is utterly awesome. My only complaint so far is that I'd love having the names for each block in the inventary. Another complain is that it looks like it will drain my life :-(
Some minutes earlier I explored my first cave. It was dark, but I went crazy with torches, so everything was fine. Until I realise I'm a little too deep to my liking and I start hearing noises coming from about. I try to escape from the cave, but I have a hard time finding the entrance. It is pitch black outside, so I only see some stars in the sky, but I can hardly see blocks to jump on. In the end, I use some torches more and run away in panic.
Minecraft is utterly awesome. My only complaint so far is that I'd love having the names for each block in the inventary. Another complain is that it looks like it will drain my life :-(
This is such an addicting game. I just built a cool waterslide from the top of the mountain to the lake below. Then I was wondering what I could do, so I built this little farm house with a secret entrance to my base. I love this game. I cant wait to see what other things get added later.
It's pretty hard. It seems like spiders, zombies and green creatures have a very close spawn, or they spawn like crazy, can't tell. Only thing I know is they spawn not that near my house, then they come at full speed to where I am.
I'll have to think about a good solution, because each dawn is war. But going on a night hunting has proven to be not very usefull.
I'll have to think about a good solution, because each dawn is war. But going on a night hunting has proven to be not very usefull.
Aquavelvaman
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You can kill spawn cages if you hit it for a while (I just used a pickaxe). Also if you sneak in and place torches all around the room that it's in and then leave and come back, there won't be any enemies because they won't spawn near the torches and they just disapear when you get far away.
For an underwater one I bet you could build some sort of tunnel that leads directly underneath it, and then just pick away at it from below. You could probably just drop a bunch of sand blocks on top of it and around it to smother it and be fine too.
For an underwater one I bet you could build some sort of tunnel that leads directly underneath it, and then just pick away at it from below. You could probably just drop a bunch of sand blocks on top of it and around it to smother it and be fine too.
I finally made a big wall around the heights of my house. I put torches on the wall and waited there for enemies to spawn. They didn't. It turns they don't spawn that near, but they come close at full speed when the night falls.
So I cleared the area inside, and prepared to have one big sweet garden. Then the game crashed and lost the wall and all I did for the last hour or so. The funny thing is it seems I kept all the crafted stuff.
BTW, While doing this wall a doubt arose: how do you make stone stairs properly? I couldn't create them. In fact I think the game just gor bored at me trying and crashed :lol Each time I tried, the stairs would look wherever they wanted. Then I'd add a new piece and it'd change directions. It's cracy!
So I cleared the area inside, and prepared to have one big sweet garden. Then the game crashed and lost the wall and all I did for the last hour or so. The funny thing is it seems I kept all the crafted stuff.
BTW, While doing this wall a doubt arose: how do you make stone stairs properly? I couldn't create them. In fact I think the game just gor bored at me trying and crashed :lol Each time I tried, the stairs would look wherever they wanted. Then I'd add a new piece and it'd change directions. It's cracy!
OgTheClever
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It looks like Minecraft will soon be speeding up with development:
http://notch.tumblr.com/Hiring some people, getting an office, and all that!
I will get back to posting about actual Minecraft development soon, but bear with me for some more business news:
Its Monday, the trip to Bellevue is over, and plans are slowly turning into reality. I met a lot of really interesting people over there and got a bunch of new potential business contacts, but for the immediate future I will be investing the money Ive saved up into hiring people and starting up a proper company.
Or, rather, a close friend and I will be starting up a new company together. That company will continue to develop Minecraft. I will be the main developer, and I will keep working on it just as I have now, but there will be people supporting me, such as an artist, a web site developer and a business guy to help sort out all deals and make sure that things like the Creeper plushies actually happens.
My friend (name withheld for a while for office political reasons) will lead development of a game idea he and I have talked about for a few years. It will be developed in parallel with Minecraft, and has a fairly different style both in visuals and gameplay. Everyone working at the company will be involved in both projects to some degree.
Well get an actual office type of thing somewhere in Stockholm. Well have mandatory game playing hours every week to make sure people are a jour with the latest games (indie and otherwise), and to help build office spirit.
If you live in (or can move to) Stockholm, are good at 2D graphics (pixels, gui, illustration), play a lot of games, and want to get a new job, please email jobs@mojang.com with a work sample and a short introduction and a summary of what youve done before.
Were also looking for a web developer. Ideally this person should both be able to handle the front end and the back end of web development. If you know what a Cloud is and can explain it to me, thats a huge plus.
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If youre worried this means Ill spend more time on administration:
I spent way too much time already doing non-development stuff, like talking to paypal about them unlocking my account, traveling abroad, and sorting through support emails to see what bugs there are.
I will now hire a person to do all this for me, and some more people to help do the stuff I cant do well myself (like the website, and some of the art (the armor)). Im already getting amazing help with the sounds from C418, so I know getting help just makes me more productive.
funkmastergeneral
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Sounds fantastic, though I am slightly worried he wants to develop a second game with his friend at the same time.
Also in the comments in the blog post he said he's also hiring additional programmers. Rad.
Also in the comments in the blog post he said he's also hiring additional programmers. Rad.
Those of you a little bored with minecraft, not knowing what to do in the game while updates have slowed, please remember I set up http://www.minecraftcreations.com.
It is a blog that takes user's submissions and publishes them. Readers can sort the submissions into categories, vote on projects, etc.
It hasn't been updated very much because the site is user-driven, and I haven't promoted it too much.
So, I've seen a ton of cool shit in this topic. PLEASE take some of your collect projects and submit them to minecraftcreations@gmail.com! Or create something new for the site! Try to top the leaderboards.
It is a blog that takes user's submissions and publishes them. Readers can sort the submissions into categories, vote on projects, etc.
It hasn't been updated very much because the site is user-driven, and I haven't promoted it too much.
So, I've seen a ton of cool shit in this topic. PLEASE take some of your collect projects and submit them to minecraftcreations@gmail.com! Or create something new for the site! Try to top the leaderboards.
funkmastergeneral
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Taj Mahal is very neat. I wish I was good enough to get a rounded roof like that, I've tried doing it on some of my buildings and it comes out horribly. =/
Went exploring today. Found an awesome island, but it's a 20 minute walk from my "main" camp (IF you can call a cobblestone shed with a workbench and furnace in it a camp :lol)
How much iron would I need to build a mine cart track that's approximately 20 mins of walking. I have 55 right now, but I imagine that's not nearly enough. I'd love to do some serious building on that island. It was amazing. Had awesome mountains, a waterfall a nice valley with a stream and such... but if I die it's a 20 minute blind walk with nothing to get there.
Also Copia by Eluvium goes incredibly well with this game
How much iron would I need to build a mine cart track that's approximately 20 mins of walking. I have 55 right now, but I imagine that's not nearly enough. I'd love to do some serious building on that island. It was amazing. Had awesome mountains, a waterfall a nice valley with a stream and such... but if I die it's a 20 minute blind walk with nothing to get there.
Also Copia by Eluvium goes incredibly well with this game
I don't know if running with "fast" graphics will make it crash any less, but just a warning, you might want to hit escape to go to the menu every 10-20 minutes or so, or maybe even save to the main menu if you're paranoid. I think hitting escape makes the game autosave so you will lose less stuff.fresquito said:
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