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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Grinchy
Banned
One of my favorite things about the changes to the bow is that you now go through way less arrows. Making arrows used to be my most hated part of the game. I do not like gathering flint either. But now, I don't mind it at all. A stack of arrows can last you a long time in 1.8. Two fully charged shots kills any mob IIRC.Complex Shadow said:
tangmaster96
Member
I thought this was pretty "cool"
WolfofMebu
Member
Love exploring caves in 1.8 
Orbis Tabula
Member
I hate when Notch talks about new features and updates without posting pictures.
Today he made the swamp biome "swampier" and I want to seeeee! Hopefully some sort of mud block.
Today he made the swamp biome "swampier" and I want to seeeee! Hopefully some sort of mud block.
AngryChinchilla
Member
I think that flint has become more common in 1.8 when destroying gravel. I use gravel a lot as a improvised tower when I am trying to reach something high. It seems that I am getting more flint than I used to when I go to tear it down.
Lol, I've bought RO2 as well as a few other games I intended to shit some time into, but yeah, we've both been building on Xenos' AusGAF Survival server.jambo said:
I do enjoy popping into ark's every so often, but the latency makes fighting mobs such an annoyance. I wonder if we can get xenos to increase the uptime...
I was making myself a new custom skin, and while I'm no pixel artist, I'm happy with its progress. Is there a good way to use the accessories area to enhance hair? It always ends up looking so disjointed.
I seldom change skins, but I do find the process of drawing just as fun as the game itself.
LATE EDIT: Making posts from mobile devices is hard.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Kritz said:
That's not a bad skin at all, nice job! I've been using the same downloaded skin since I first started playing SMP, but I want to make my own custom skin. I've made a few but I haven't finished one yet that I like enough to use. Maybe tonight I need to just sit down and draw a skin up that I like enough to make my own.
Houston3000
Member
Some more of my 1.8 place after a couple hours last night. I explored the entire map of my spawn mostly but made some progress on my small house as well.
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Front and back entrances:
Views from the lake:
I should probably spruce up the sides of the place a bit - lots of bare stone brick walls.
Some more cool biome generation around the spawn:
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Front and back entrances:
Views from the lake:
I should probably spruce up the sides of the place a bit - lots of bare stone brick walls.
Some more cool biome generation around the spawn:
Wow, I really like that style. Super cool!Bootaaay said:
bengraven
Member
Mineshafts are SO so awesome. The twists and turns, the deceptive claustrophic mazes, the treasure chests...
In my opinion, shafts themselves have changed the game. I have yet to find a stronghold, but the shafts are so damn fun that even without strongholds, this is definitely an "adventure".
In my opinion, shafts themselves have changed the game. I have yet to find a stronghold, but the shafts are so damn fun that even without strongholds, this is definitely an "adventure".
Mengy said:
I think it's so oddly close to the actions of Minecraft, making a skin. You're essentially just placing coloured blocks trying to make some kind of aesthetic.
I kind of can't really ever use any skins I see online. I really just have to make my own, even if I don't have the talent or ability of some of the people submitting their artwork. Much like how I can't just "live" in someone else's minecraft structure. Just gives it a bit more personality.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
bengraven said:
Agreed. Mineshafts plus ravines plus cave spiders plus the dark fog at bedrock have added a whole new dimension to the underground that I like alot. I love picking mineshafts for all the rails and planks, afterwards you are left with a maze of square tunnels that are freaking cool to run around in. I've also found many ores behind planks along the walls. Cave spider spawners though, my new Minecraft terror is cave spider spawners...
Before you know it we will be seeing red zombies with swords and blue creepers who run twice as fast...
Houston3000
Member
Agreed, they're a real game-changer. Very claustrophobic and generally fun to traverse - I love when I come to a little junction and I'm super worried that I'm going to peek around the wooden pillars and get an arrow shot in my eye. Then, after spending an hour or more crawling through the shafts, when you come on a huge cavern with lava, waterfalls, and open space it's so much more exciting than it was before. I also like how sometimes the terrain generates in such a way that the wood and "fence" posts from the caverns gets broken up by ravines and chasms - makes some interesting scenery with the wood pieces hanging there.bengraven said:
Endermen are just screwing with me. They place a few blocks around torches I use to mark my path, and then when I return I can't recognize the area or which way to go. The entrance to a cave system was almost completely unrecognizable when I returned to the surface after an extended session.
Houston3000
Member
Can you starve now? I was in my mine the other day and was pretty low on food. I got attacked by a spider deep in a mine shaft and went down to about 1 health with only 2 food with nothing to eat. I was super worried that that last bit of health would wither away if I started to starve but I wasn't sure if that mechanic was in the game. I ended up escaping and making it back to the surface alive but it was a terrifying dash out the tunnels.
I follow the tried and true system of only placing torches on my right as I go deeper and then following them back out (by keeping them to my left) while exiting. For the most part that still works but I've ran into a few instance where I'll intersect a previous path a couple times and it gets a little mixed up. At that point I usually put up temporary walls or place a sign post.bengraven said:
Cryptozoologist said:
Seriously, the Endermen is the first real flaw in Minecraft. They shouldn't pick up blocks that are placed by the player. Seriously, the Endermen messing your stuff doesn't bring jack shit to any aspects of the game. It only potentially bring frustration.
Ranger X said:
damn, didn't realise they did that, just thought they wandered around shuffling a few blocks from the landscape here and there.
Do they vary what they move based on difficulty?
And do they move things while you're 'away'? eg in single player if you away for 24hrs, does the game move things around to simulate the down time? If not it wouldn't be so bad, but possibly a nightmare for multiplayer.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Ranger X said:
I haven't seen any spawn in well lit areas yet, or do they? Caves I've explored and lit up don't seem to ever have endermen in them again, and the area around my new base that I have lit up hasn't had any endermen messing with it. Maybe I've just been lucky?
Mengy said:
It's possible that they don't really screw with you that much. This cave system was large and had lots of lava around, but still had plenty of dark, unlit passages off of each one so I was moving back and forth between them as I came to dead ends or whatnot.
Still, it's amazing what a couple of moved blocks can do to screw with your head and recognition of an area. I don't know for sure that they move torches around but I'm guessing they can pick up blocks that torches are attached to and then those torches will eventually disappear from the ground.
Maybe I'm just going crazy and they really aren't doing that much, but it's just the feeling that they do and the uncertainty that makes it all creepy and stressful when you can't remember exactly which way to go at a crossroads.
bengraven said:
Good lord, you aren't kidding about the getting lost.
On mine, I got a mine that is not far from a desert village I made my home. Its more and ex-mine because an underground ravine has cut right through the major part of the mine. Wood blocks, tracks, lava, water, everything everywhere. Simply incredible.
Houston3000
Member
They're not bad at all, just light up the area around your structure. Endermen can't pick up fences, fence gates, iron bars, glass panes, stairs, and they can't break through vines. Both lava and water kill them so motes are super effective as well if you don't want to put up fences, bars, etc...Ranger X said:
My experience with them so far, the only negative one so far is that they "griefed" my pyramid in single player. I didn't went near my pyramid but probably close enough so they could spawn. I had 2 blocks removed in my walls. My environnement however is indeed partially lit because it's ugly with torches everywhere.
TechSamurai
Neo Member
It would seem Notch agrees.
"By the way, I will nerf the endermen block carrying. It was a horrible idea."
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/116186387878920193
"By the way, I will nerf the endermen block carrying. It was a horrible idea."
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/116186387878920193
Togglesworlh
Banned
WHAT A BUNCHA BABIES YOU ALL ARE, TIME TO MAN UP AND QUIT YER BELLY-ACHIN'
No but really I love the Endermen they're like griefers BUILT INTO THE GAME. Almost (but not really) akes up for the lack of real griefers making life interesting. ):
No but really I love the Endermen they're like griefers BUILT INTO THE GAME. Almost (but not really) akes up for the lack of real griefers making life interesting. ):
The point was to be creepy and/or terrifying, which sound effects should help. Who wants monsters griefing their buildings? At least with creepers it typically only happens when you're involved. (another option could be for the endermen to only grief on hard difficulty)Mengy said:Well thats dissapointing. What is the point of endermen then?
Togglesworlh
Banned
Me. It makes the game more interesting.Blizzard said:
Rodney McKay
Member
Has anyone played (or is playing) the Xperia Play version of Minecraft? Is it any good?
Togglesworlh
Banned
Almost assuredly, sadly. ):Blizzard said:
crowphoenix
Banned
I remember in the early days a lot of people saying they wanted the enemies to actually attack their buildings. I think the Endermen destroying stuff is awesome, but then I don't mind if my place gets trashed on occasion.