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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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AngryChinchilla
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I got off of work early today, but minecraft.net has been down for me since I got home 
Grinchy
Banned
I haven't been able to actually connect to minecraft.net since shortly after I updated to 1.8. I keep having to play offline.AngryChinchilla said:I got off of work early today, but minecraft.net has been down for me since I got home
Despite the crashing and the duplication bug, starting from scratch and playing vanilla survival in 1.8 has been some of the most fun I've had in Minecraft yet. I just feel like the entire experience has been improved. I still don't like the fact that you can fast forward to daytime, but whatever I'll just not use that.
ilikesanta
Member
I was flying around in CM and a found this:
It's a ravine, in a mountain, that goes all the way down. Can't wait for the official release.
It's a ravine, in a mountain, that goes all the way down. Can't wait for the official release.
AngryChinchilla
Member
Finally got into minecraft.net and downloaded 1.8. Game is super laggy for me all the time, which shouldn't be happening since I have a i7 @ 3.6 and a 5970.
Zomba13
Member
Ok. I've noticed my minecraft guy wearing wrong skins when I play. Like, I stopped playing for a long time and when I went on neocraft the other day I was wearing a knight skin (not my Finn Skin). Went on just now and my guy was wearing a Luke Skywalker skin.
I changed my pass after I first noticed the wrong skin. Does someone have access to my minecraft account?
I changed my pass after I first noticed the wrong skin. Does someone have access to my minecraft account?
ChoklitReign
Member
My first house built in CM
Awesome ravine
I'm using the seed "iamthecheese" and it's pretty cool
Awesome ravine
I'm using the seed "iamthecheese" and it's pretty cool
Diatribe1974
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What's the NeoGaf server name for Minecraft?
Orbis Tabula
Member
DurielBlack said:I think I found my 1.8 starting point for my next single-player world.
Seed: Yellowstone
Starts you off inside of a village on a relatively flat plain. You don't have to go far to start finding epic mountains and very deep and long ravines.
I did some fast spelunking and discovered there are a lot of epic cave systems, including abandoned mines. I stumbled upon this sight while running around on creative mode;
That spawn is brilliant. I love it. However, I hate going too far from the village so soon, and I can't find a damn tree anywhere.
DurielBlack
Member
EskimoJoe said:
Around X -122 Z 53 right near the edge of the shoreline is a great little cave to start spelunking from and it's not too far away. I found a single tree in the opposite direction from the village near the base of a mountain with ravine that runs under it, I chopped it down and replanted the seeds closer to the village.
That cave system is awesome, I've found 1 spider spawner and at least 2 different abandoned mines and I haven't explored a tenth of the place. I found some sort of ruins as well judging from some mossy cobble, but its in the ceiling and right underneath the ocean, its kinda like sunken ruins. Awesome.
That Seed has a HUUUUGE desert that's so big it has two villages in it. Biomes are sooo much more awesome now.spuit*11 said:
The only thing that could make them better is if they generated biomes more like Earth's climate regions. North and south would be cold and snowy. Center would be hot and tropical. And all in the middle a muddle of different types.
Speaking of tropical, they should make desert islands that have palm trees and seashells on them.
Also, deserts should have their own kinds of ruins. Sandstone ruins and pyramids would be AMAZING. I am surprised they didn't think of it themselves.
Sye d'Burns
Member
I love these new rivers.
Remember when people were talking about how with biomes and such, terrain generation wasn't very good anymore?
I guess the ideal solution would be to let people tune sliders like "more floating mountains" or "more caves", but still...these screenshots are looking great. It sounds like things have really been improved in terms of world creation.
I guess the ideal solution would be to let people tune sliders like "more floating mountains" or "more caves", but still...these screenshots are looking great. It sounds like things have really been improved in terms of world creation.
Grinchy
Banned
What I really like about what seems to be going on here is that there are huge expansive areas of land which seems to have a certain property (plains, mountains, swamps, ect). So if you don't like flat land, you just walk until you see the crazy mountainous areas which are sure to be around.Blizzard said:Remember when people were talking about how with biomes and such, terrain generation wasn't very good anymore?
I guess the ideal solution would be to let people tune sliders like "more floating mountains" or "more caves", but still...these screenshots are looking great. It sounds like things have really been improved in terms of world creation.
I can't wait to find a huge snow biome.
Sye d'Burns
Member
Blizzard said:Remember when people were talking about how with biomes and such, terrain generation wasn't very good anymore?
I guess the ideal solution would be to let people tune sliders like "more floating mountains" or "more caves", but still...these screenshots are looking great. It sounds like things have really been improved in terms of world creation.
Terrain wasn't very good anymore. It was very bland. The caves seemed so small and there were no massive underground spectacles. At least not of the same frequency as before biomes came in.
With 1.8, I take it all back.
I'm in awe again. It's a wonderful feeling. Better than before. I was seriously impressed when seeing a sunset in a thunderstorm, with lightning flashes and the like.
Rabbit Lord
Member
Hey NeoCrafters, lets talk about 1.8 spawn area. Currently spawn is a mess. Mixed themes, with some good creative builds and some messy and or bland builds. I think what we need is a consistent theme with the surrounding area void of personal builds.
With the Manifest Destiny (The Ark) being the spawn point a Port/Harbor/Settlement theme is the natural and obvious choice. Some ideas. First keeping with the 'new world' vibe, a simple settlement town with inspiration drawn from real colonial landing points such as Jamestown.
I rather quickly slapped together an idea of what that could look like(creative mode). Reminder, this is basically a small example of what I am thinking.
Another idea is a little more developed and advanced Harbor/Port city. I played a fair share of Dawn of Discovery(Anno 1404) and thought something like this could be amazing.
Lets take it a few steps Further. How ambitious are we? Maybe we can come together or least a handful of us and build something truly defining. Truly awesome for a new person to see as they log on for the first time.
I love this piece of concept art from Dragon Age 2. Could we do something like this? I know a few of our builders have built some epic shit, maybe some of us could come together and design and build a truly awe inspiring build.
With the Manifest Destiny (The Ark) being the spawn point a Port/Harbor/Settlement theme is the natural and obvious choice. Some ideas. First keeping with the 'new world' vibe, a simple settlement town with inspiration drawn from real colonial landing points such as Jamestown.
I rather quickly slapped together an idea of what that could look like(creative mode). Reminder, this is basically a small example of what I am thinking.
Another idea is a little more developed and advanced Harbor/Port city. I played a fair share of Dawn of Discovery(Anno 1404) and thought something like this could be amazing.
Lets take it a few steps Further. How ambitious are we? Maybe we can come together or least a handful of us and build something truly defining. Truly awesome for a new person to see as they log on for the first time.
I love this piece of concept art from Dragon Age 2. Could we do something like this? I know a few of our builders have built some epic shit, maybe some of us could come together and design and build a truly awe inspiring build.
Rabbit Lord said:
I love this piece of concept art from Dragon Age 2. Could we do something like this? I know a few of our builders have built some epic shit, maybe some of us could come together and design and build a truly awe inspiring build.
Off topic but this reminds me of a scene in one of the LotR movies.
Sye d'Burns
Member
Mirk said:I have a server running 1.8 up if any of you guys and gals want to mess around with 1.8
atm I only have it set to have 10 people. no mods or anything either
Thanks for the server. Good times! Shame that cave spider got me at the end though.
That's exactly what it reminded me of.HenryHSH said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuBDfTFQquQ
I guess it also reminds me of a description in a Game of Thrones book, of a titan statue on an island.
fredrancour
Member
All of my confused at every aspect of the song of ice and fire reference. I guess I need to go get me those sequels tomorrow. My brain is so full of wat at the generic non-spoiler.Blizzard said:
I'm confused.fredrancour said:
I was careful to keep it non-spoilery. Here is a slightly more detailed description in spoiler text, though it's just a description of the geography around the statue.I think this might not have shown up until book 3-4.
*** IF YOU DON'T WANT GEOGRAPHY SPOILED DO NOT READ ***
One island/water location in a Song of Ice and Fire book has a giant titan statue. I think it is hollow, might have fires burning in its eyes, and it has some sort of horn so it can shout/yell every morning. Apparently the idea is for it to be huge and imposing as people sail into the harbor, kind of like the big Lord of the Rings statues.
Grinchy
Banned
Rabbit Lord said:Another idea is a little more developed and advanced Harbor/Port city. I played a fair share of Dawn of Discovery(Anno 1404) and thought something like this could be amazing.
omg I want this. There's no grass in the entire port area. All of the land mass on that coast was built. This shit would take forever but it would be sooo good. Imagine how cool that would look on the map.
We could replicate that theme using smooth stone, gravel, cobble, wood, ect. We could even have the surfaces being held up by columns that go down into the water just like that.
In screenshots it doesn't look nearly as impressive, but, damn...
I was playing on a new map (the definitive one I'll be using for my singleplayer fun) and I was collecting some wood around. The night came so I decided to light up all my surroundings and start to build a small house. Little did I know that I'd be incredibly harassed by tons of enemies.. and before I knew it, I had only 2 hearts left so I did what little I could.. I started to dig under my house some 5 blocks or so and closed the entrance so no enemies would get me.
I decided to wait a bit and dig around me a bit to see what I had around. I barely had any coal so I couldn't go crazy mining. Then after some 5 minutes I decided to go up, but it was raining, so I went back to my small underground room, and started to mine some 5 blocks to the right when I saw this:
I almost fell down and was scared to death because I only had two hearts left. But this place looked so interesting.. So I basically started to make a small balcony around the side of the cliff and got to this place:
It doesn't look nearly as impressive in screenshots, but it was awesome, really. And I was able to find this just because I decided to hide for the night. How awesome is it!?
I was playing on a new map (the definitive one I'll be using for my singleplayer fun) and I was collecting some wood around. The night came so I decided to light up all my surroundings and start to build a small house. Little did I know that I'd be incredibly harassed by tons of enemies.. and before I knew it, I had only 2 hearts left so I did what little I could.. I started to dig under my house some 5 blocks or so and closed the entrance so no enemies would get me.
I decided to wait a bit and dig around me a bit to see what I had around. I barely had any coal so I couldn't go crazy mining. Then after some 5 minutes I decided to go up, but it was raining, so I went back to my small underground room, and started to mine some 5 blocks to the right when I saw this:
I almost fell down and was scared to death because I only had two hearts left. But this place looked so interesting.. So I basically started to make a small balcony around the side of the cliff and got to this place:
It doesn't look nearly as impressive in screenshots, but it was awesome, really. And I was able to find this just because I decided to hide for the night. How awesome is it!?
That's so awesome, Mik. The vines really are a great addition, the sight of them growing down into tht ravine makes the environment look so much more natural and wild.
I'm loving the update so far, but the game is now super laggy, when it wasn't before at all. Is this a common thing? Any solutions?
I'm loving the update so far, but the game is now super laggy, when it wasn't before at all. Is this a common thing? Any solutions?
I've only played for an hour or two, but I haven't had any crashes at all. The lag isn't really noticeable most of the time, but as soon as I start looking around too fast, like swinging the reticle around while attacking a pig, the game gets big-time laggy.Grinchy said:
I also get a crash whenever I try to cook chicken, but that's the only crash I've encountered so far.
Are you playing with Distance drawing set to far? If so, try and change it to normal. At first it sucks, but you get used to it, you can still see a lot, and it runs much smoother.blamite said:
At least it worked for me (I'm on a 2011 15" MBP, but MC isn't really optimized to run smoothly on a MBP..), so you might want to give it a try. It runs butter smooth
Man, Mojang should just have that 'all ur mods are belong to us' clause in their TOS - most of what this patch brings, mods have already done and better. 1.8 villages suck in comparison to Millenaire's (bet the npc's won't even build/upgrade them), and the mineshafts are just lolbad compared to stuff like Mystic Ruins (which had vines too already).
Huh, I switched to Normal and it's running fine. I'm glad to be running smoothly again, but I did like being able t see farther. :/ Oh well, I can live with it.Mik2121 said:Are you playing with Distance drawing set to far? If so, try and change it to normal. At first it sucks, but you get used to it, you can still see a lot, and it runs much smoother.
At least it worked for me (I'm on a 2011 15" MBP, but MC isn't really optimized to run smoothly on a MBP..), so you might want to give it a try. It runs butter smooth
edit: Of course, immediately after saying this, I get a random crash just walking into a cave. Oh well, guess I'll just wait for the final release to play much more.