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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Upsidedown Fuji
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I have a question about Intel HD Graphics. Yes, I know intergrated graphics are inferior for almost everything outside of watching videos and surfing the net but I still want to play on my laptop...
I just got an ASUS K52F Core i5 450m with 4gb of ram and figured it would be able to handle the task better than my now dead HP Pavilion DV6000 Core2Duo 1.6ghz and 4gb of ram. I was mistaken. Minecraft runs kind of choppy if I use fancy graphics and normal to near draw distance. It runs fine if I don't use fancy though. I guess its something I can live with but I am really bummed out. If anybody knows of any tweaks or work arounds to improve graphics, I'd really like to know.
Anyhow 1.8 is pretty dang cool. It feels like a whole new game because of how the maps are formed. Can't wait till my friend gets his server back up again so I can rebuild...
I just got an ASUS K52F Core i5 450m with 4gb of ram and figured it would be able to handle the task better than my now dead HP Pavilion DV6000 Core2Duo 1.6ghz and 4gb of ram. I was mistaken. Minecraft runs kind of choppy if I use fancy graphics and normal to near draw distance. It runs fine if I don't use fancy though. I guess its something I can live with but I am really bummed out. If anybody knows of any tweaks or work arounds to improve graphics, I'd really like to know.
Anyhow 1.8 is pretty dang cool. It feels like a whole new game because of how the maps are formed. Can't wait till my friend gets his server back up again so I can rebuild...
Articalys said:
I can only speak about Quake 3, but it was really borne out of players trying to get as much as an advantage on their opponents as they could. Due to the nature of the fast paced gameplay of Quake (split second reactions meant you getting the drop on your opponent was often critical), people used custom configs that dropped all of the graphical settings down as far as possible. One of the advantages of tweaking the fov was you'd see more onscreen at 110 than you would at 75 (or whatever the default was, I can't remember). This was important to competitive players, and even though it gave a 'fisheye' effect, it meant that hopefully they'd spot their opponent first. Some people also said it helped their aim and movement around the map better. Some stuck with the default however, and did pretty well.
Barnaby_Jones
Member
I'm sure the new code has upped the amount of ores generated due to the ravines and whatnot. I've just started a new new new map and within 10 mins i've got a 64 stack of iron. Loving this update so much so far!
Barnaby_Jones
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Mik2121 said:
Yeah, it feels very natural. Just stumbled upon another massive mine full of endermen and cave spiders right next to a ravine that extended all the way down to pure lava. Jaws hit floors. This game is getting too much! I've got a degree to study for this year!
I was starting a new world, put in a certain seed and started of on a tiny island with one tree. Made the workbench, some dirt housing and still dont have enough wood for a pickaxe... patiently waiting for my first tree to grow...
Also: no animals so far, I gathered some dirt and made a bigger plain for them to spawn, but right now I only got zombies and skeletons during the night but no animal spawns. So I should probably starve within one day. Hope I'll find a mod soon that deactivates starving.
And the last funny thing, because of the skeletons I sat in my mud housing during the night until one dirt cube disappeared and an Ender stared at me through the hole.
...
Oh dear.
Also: no animals so far, I gathered some dirt and made a bigger plain for them to spawn, but right now I only got zombies and skeletons during the night but no animal spawns. So I should probably starve within one day. Hope I'll find a mod soon that deactivates starving.
And the last funny thing, because of the skeletons I sat in my mud housing during the night until one dirt cube disappeared and an Ender stared at me through the hole.
...
Oh dear.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Toma said:
OH JESUS CHRIST this will be awesome.
Sye d'Burns
Member
Ranger X said:
Certainly the same game; definitely not the same seeds. In my experiences, after biomes came in exploration just wasn't as good.
1.8 though. Wow.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
wait does this mean we will use an water map. because that would be sooo cool.Ark said:I think the large port town in the photo I've left linked is the best option. Whilst I LOVE the DA2 idea, the Ark's would best fit the theme of a port town.
When we decide what it is we're going to do, we'll take around 10 or so 'selected' builders to plan out and start the spawn area. That way we'll be able to manage how its organised far better and we wont end up with the sprawling mess that was the original spawn
I think once the area is planned out etc, lists should be drawn up of what needs to be built, and people can lend themselves to building certain parts of the town.
AngryChinchilla
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Ark said:When we decide what it is we're going to do, we'll take around 10 or so 'selected' builders to plan out and start the spawn area. That way we'll be able to manage how its organised far better and we wont end up with the sprawling mess that was the original spawn
I think once the area is planned out etc, lists should be drawn up of what needs to be built, and people can lend themselves to building certain parts of the town.
I would like to help. I like collecting large amounts of resources and building massive projects. I'd like it if we didn't spawn any resources. Builds are far more impressive if everything is legitimate.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
So I started my new single player world with the seed "Mengy's World" and spawned right at the base of a HUGE single lonely mountain surrounded by rivers at what seems to be the meeting point of four different biomes: forest, plain, desert, and swamp. Really freaking cool monstrous mountain, it goes from sea level to almost the build limit, and seems to be full of cave entrances too. Here are some pics of it:
There are a few valleys and a huge lake within the mountain. This one always has a dozen or more pigs running about it. I'm calling it pig valley:
This is looking one direction off the top of the mountain, where the desert meets the forest:
And in this direction is where the forest meets the plains:
And there is a large swamp on the other side:
After I get a good base started I'm going to go off and explore the biomes and see just how far they stretch. I'm really loving the new biome generator, much more atmospheric than before. And lightning storms are much improved, wow! Oh, and rain kills endermen, lol!
There are a few valleys and a huge lake within the mountain. This one always has a dozen or more pigs running about it. I'm calling it pig valley:
This is looking one direction off the top of the mountain, where the desert meets the forest:
And in this direction is where the forest meets the plains:
And there is a large swamp on the other side:
After I get a good base started I'm going to go off and explore the biomes and see just how far they stretch. I'm really loving the new biome generator, much more atmospheric than before. And lightning storms are much improved, wow! Oh, and rain kills endermen, lol!
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Ark said:I think the large port town in the photo I've left linked is the best option. Whilst I LOVE the DA2 idea, the Ark's would best fit the theme of a port town.
When we decide what it is we're going to do, we'll take around 10 or so 'selected' builders to plan out and start the spawn area. That way we'll be able to manage how its organised far better and we wont end up with the sprawling mess that was the original spawn
I think once the area is planned out etc, lists should be drawn up of what needs to be built, and people can lend themselves to building certain parts of the town.
I volunteer to do the town mine! Any chance to dig in the earth and I'm volunteering!
Articalys said:
All of the Quake games let you customize the FOV in the config files (not the normal options). Some Pro quake players would set the FOV really wide so they could see further to each side, this wasn't considered cheating in quake multiplayer. It is sort of a jab at Quake players that set their FOV real wide.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
I am one with the forest...
I used my username as a seed and spawned on top of a tree, in a sea of trees. Trees as far as the eye could see. So awesome.
I used my username as a seed and spawned on top of a tree, in a sea of trees. Trees as far as the eye could see. So awesome.
I know some people would probably hate this, but I'd like to see a mountain biome that's made of stone and really hard to traverse. But it could have a lot of ore and stuff in it and caves and rivers. And further in the future, maybe they could implement snow on the tops of mountains.
Also an easy idea, but I think it'd be cool to hear wind the higher up that you go (while also being outside). That would really give a sense of height. There are probably mods that do that. I tried one with wind sounds, but I never got it to work.
Also an easy idea, but I think it'd be cool to hear wind the higher up that you go (while also being outside). That would really give a sense of height. There are probably mods that do that. I tried one with wind sounds, but I never got it to work.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Managing to resist downloading the leak for now, but one thing I have to ask - do minecarts have sound in this update? And what are the improved sounds like in general?
For testing purposes before I make it on Ark's server when 1.8/1.9 hits, here's the castle so far:
This is what I'll eventually be aiming for:
If you remember I worked on a similar Disney castle on Timan's server but it was nowhere near as grand as this will eventually be, nor was it done on a survival server.
I'll need as much stone as I can possibly get, so if you're willing to donate some please do!
I'm not even Disney-mad (despite the avatar), I just love castles.
This is what I'll eventually be aiming for:
If you remember I worked on a similar Disney castle on Timan's server but it was nowhere near as grand as this will eventually be, nor was it done on a survival server.
I'll need as much stone as I can possibly get, so if you're willing to donate some please do!
I'm not even Disney-mad (despite the avatar), I just love castles.
Piercedveil
Member
Endermen are so cool. I thought they had white eyes, not green?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Xun said:For testing purposes before I make it on Ark's server when 1.8/1.9 hits, here's the castle so far:
This is what I'll eventually be aiming for:
If you remember I worked on a similar Disney castle on Timan's server but it was nowhere near as grand as this will eventually be, nor was it done on a survival server.
I'll need as much stone as I can possibly get, so if you're willing to donate some please do!
I'm not even Disney-mad (despite the avatar), I just love castles.
Amazing, Im starting at a friends sever were we have a huge city with lots of people working in it a huge Disneyland resort, that means Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. Just started with the street that goes to both parks, but we are waiting for tomorrow to continue with it after the official 1.8 release.
Dark Phoenix
Member
So I found out what the bottom of the world looks like now:
Everything is covered in a thick black fog with particles appearing and disappearing. I wish I could build something down here. That lava is stopped at that point, nothing can go below it.
Everything is covered in a thick black fog with particles appearing and disappearing. I wish I could build something down here. That lava is stopped at that point, nothing can go below it.
ChoklitReign
Member
Is the official release really tomorrow? My new world is now crashing randomly every 30 seconds and I can't use it until the update.
