Barberetti
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Notch said:
Hmm .. I wonder how many you can have on the go at the same time? Would be amusing to take an army of them on a cave exploration trip.
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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Hmm .. I wonder how many you can have on the go at the same time? Would be amusing to take an army of them on a cave exploration trip.
tangmaster96
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hmm i made a world with the seed Dungeon
dug straight down and there was a mineshaft
dug straight down and there was a mineshaft
tangmaster96
Member
Professor Beef said:
lol
I think I need help. I've been playing Minecraft for over a year now, and I've built some cool stuff, but it seems like all I've been doing since I started playing again about a month ago is useless digging and clearing of mountains and ravines. I built a roof over a bunch of mountains, then demolished them to ground level, then smoothed that out, and made some weird, squarish amphitheater. Then I shaved off the mountains behind it to get this nice picturesque view of this river valley. Now I'm smoothing out this series of underground ravines that connects to my amphitheater. I have all this awesome space to build stuff, yet I can't stop terraforming. 
I want to build cool stuff again...but my OCD is getting out of hand.
I want to build cool stuff again...but my OCD is getting out of hand.
mrklaw said:
The seed: USSEnterpriseNCC1701 starts you out on a medium sized island with plenty of more medium to large sized islands to the south. Northwest there is a banana shaped huge island / small continent with half of it being a desert that takes about 1.5 minutes to fly from southernmost point to the northenmost point. To the east there is an irregular continent.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Rabbit Lord said:
Neocraft is a survival server, not a creative server. It sounds like you very definitely prefer creative to survival, and there is nothing wrong with that (I'm having a blast in creative mode in 1.8), but the whole point of survival is to build things while in danger of the monsters and environment of the game. There is no danger with flying enabled. Minecart systems mean nothing if you can just fly or warp everywhere. Roads are meaningless. No one wanders the countryside in search of materials or new places, they just safely and quickly fly there. Part of the fun of a multiplayer server is working together against the obstacles of monsters and high heights and deep chasms and such. Making roads and rails that join peoples projects so they can travel easily and safely. That hasn't happened on Neocraft because everyone could just warp all over the place. The nether as a travel system was pointless. And flying makes it all even more pointless.
This time, on 1.8 Neocraft, we want people to actually make rail systems and roads joining areas. We want the nether to actually be used as a transportation network. If flying is enabled, that won't happen.
Plus, flying makes it incredibly easy for people to just go off in random directions and create long "spider legs" on the server map, which rocket up the map file size. We want to keep that to a minimum this time so Ark and Toki don't have to spend so much time trimming the map. Taking flying away will go a long way in preventing that.
Personally, I've never flown on Neocraft. Making the game easier does not make it more fun for myself, I like the challenge of building high with the danger of falling. I like wandering the countryside on foot and sightseeing or hunting materials. God Mode just makes it a huge Lego set. And while that can be fun, it's not the point of Neocraft...
Mengy said:
This is the biggest reason I suggested the removal of flying. It doesn't bother me when people use it in the building of structures and the like, but there have been some who have clearly used it to make the server map larger far more quickly than would be possible without it. Sorry to the people who used it without abusing it; it always sucks when someone ruins something for everybody.
Houston3000
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I really enjoy the seed: Houston.mrklaw said:
Tons of forests around the spawn, with huge lakes and rivers and little islands. There's at least two deserts around them but they're both relatively small (well, one might be big but I haven't explored it yet). There's a couple of lava pools on the surface and a lava waterfall on a mountain past the eastern desert. In one of the large lakes the ground underneath is caved in and there's a great cavern system accessible by swimming down into the caves. If you dig around the mineshafts found under the spawn there's a huge ravine breaking through the center that I believe might be under a river but I haven't climbed out of it yet.
Barberetti
Member
Toppot said:
If that's the case, I'm going to re-skin them to look like stormtroopers, and change the snowball colour to red. And then I shall create my army, and together we will build an Empire and bring order to
Last night I was working on my shaft mine (I find it relaxing), when I ran into lava pools. Long story short, I hit a huge complex of caverns and an abandoned mine! I I left with over one hundred iron ores, 70 tracks, and a cool picture.
A waterfall next to two lava falls! That was a first for me.
The 1.8 update definitely made mining more of an adventure for me! Because of those caverns and the abandoned mine I spent two hours wandering around killing mobs instead of mining
A waterfall next to two lava falls! That was a first for me.
The 1.8 update definitely made mining more of an adventure for me! Because of those caverns and the abandoned mine I spent two hours wandering around killing mobs instead of mining
bengraven said:
I think Neocraft is great as it is. I mean, it's impossible to please everyone anyways so the case is close in my point of view. At least, in survival mode you can build if you're a builder. In creative mode, the game is broken for other play styles. Therefore, having a survival server is better because it pleases more people.
The flying islands on the Ark server like mine on top of Spawn were made without flying. I think that's what makes it impressive. If you can fly, it doesn't really matter if you build on the sky or the ground...EVIL said:Can i be honest about wanting flying simply for the flying island project
Kisses Liz
Orbis Tabula
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Update tomorrow with 4(?!?) new mobs! Can't wait!
Mengy said:
Moo-shroom, snowman, and Jeb said he added two new mobs to the Nether.
I think they really need to work on how combat feels if they're going to keep adding hostile mobs. Right now using a pick is more satisfying than swinging a sword. Bow update was a step in the right direction.
You know what someone needs to do? Tweet Notch and remind him of Link's Awakening. Having some way to charge critical sword strikes, or maybe charge the sword like Link's Awakening for a powerful round slash sound fun to me.Verdre said:
Also, we need a more legit hookshot than the fishing rod for use with mountain climbing -- after which, we need a parachute for Just Minecause 2 action. (I'm sure these probably already exist in mods
)Togglesworlh
Banned
I think the real issue is latency. Combat, while not the best, is easy enough in singleplayer, but every time I play on a multiplayer server, it is literally impossible for me to swing my sword or pick or anything at a mob without getting hit every single time thanks to what would otherwise be minor latency issues.Verdre said:
But I haven't played survival multiplayer since the update, so maybe that was fixed?
British Monsoon
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We need a sword and shield combo. Ideally Minecraft combat would be akin to that of Oblivion.
I have an issue where I need to clear out the cave system beneath by base before I can build anything. Just for peace of mind.
Well in 1.8 I keep running into more and more cave systems, they are larger than any I have seen before and just keep going. At this rate I will never clear it and spend the entire game underground.
Well in 1.8 I keep running into more and more cave systems, they are larger than any I have seen before and just keep going. At this rate I will never clear it and spend the entire game underground.
Orbis Tabula
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Verdre said:
I've heard people say it's a Nether Mob, but not Jeb specifically. Now granted, he was working on the Nether this week, at least some of the time. But they might not be Nether mobs. We know at least one is similar enough to an old mob that he tried to just reskin it with new behaviors. What do you think it was? My hopes:
1) Squid that live in lava in the Nether. Sure they're be useless, since you can't swim to them, but they'd look cool.
2) Hellhounds. Speaks for itself.
EskimoJoe said:
One of Jeb's latest tweets confirms they're Nether mobs.
I think the wolf would probably be the failed re-texture. Squid's would seem a bit useless as a hostile mob unless they're going to have something else lobbing fire at you. Or maybe Mojang is taking a leaf out of Terry Goodkind's book and making evil chickens.
So snowmen are going to be for distraction. They throw harmless snowballs at enemies to take their focus off the players and sacrifice themselves in the process. So awesome.
Just a shame they only work in snow biomes. There should be equivalents for sunny areas too. Like cactus men for deserts and tree men for other places.
Just a shame they only work in snow biomes. There should be equivalents for sunny areas too. Like cactus men for deserts and tree men for other places.
Orbis Tabula
Member
Ah, I don't know how I missed that tweet. Thanks.
If they did add hellhounds, though, I wouldn't want them hostile. Or at least I'd want them hostile, but still tamable. maybe with rotten flesh. Plus they need three heads.
My hope is, when he said they melt in hot biomes, he only meant deserts. Maybe Savannas.
If they did add hellhounds, though, I wouldn't want them hostile. Or at least I'd want them hostile, but still tamable. maybe with rotten flesh. Plus they need three heads.
Jasoco said:
My hope is, when he said they melt in hot biomes, he only meant deserts. Maybe Savannas.
Lazlo Woodbine
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I'll never understand how people can use the word cheating in relation to Minecraft.Bootaaay said:The same as spawning blocks, flying's cheating imo. And building without frustration? Hell, remember when we didn't even have crouch to stop us falling from high places? Either way, I'll continue to not use flying and just make a point of stating "built without flying" on every structure I post, so you'll all know that my builds are that much more impressive for not cheating
I'll agree, spawning in materials is one thing (ultimately destroys the risk/reward factors involved in material gathering) but forcing people to go 'teetotal' and build tedious amounts of dirt scafolding is quite another. Fair play if that's how you choose to build but I find being able to fly only allows people the freedom to attempt bigger, more sophisticated, builds in a smaller time frame. Surely that can only be a good thing, right?
EDIT: For the record though; I'd much rather we stay Survival. As Ranger mentioned, keeping things as they are will ultimately please more people.
Togglesworlh
Banned
So go play on a creative server. There is no smaller time frame than building something in creative mode.Lazlo Woodbine said:
Survival mode and creative mode are separate for a reason.
The "only" part is not true since it removes any risk of falling, removes almost any risk of losing items from lava, removes any danger from monsters, and removes any need/use for minecarts.Lazlo Woodbine said:
The "Surely that can only be a good thing" is true for people who to construct large buildings in a small timeframe. Creative mode is designed for those people, no? The more extreme people can use mods and/or map editors to create buildings even more quickly.
Lazlo Woodbine
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Maybe it's just me but I still did all that with flying enabled lolBlizzard said:
"*LazloWoodbine doesn't like Qatari summers." Ctrl + V, etc...
I just think flying should be there for the people that want it, it's not an obligation. Also I would hate to see any more mods (other then an increased height). One of the main reasons I like playing with you guys on NeoCraft is because it isn't ruined by a plethora of unnecessary mods.
@Togglesworlh: There is still a difference because I will have to have gathered those resources myself rather then by spawning. Being able to fly simply allows a happy medium for those players that still wish to use it.
EDIT: On an unrelated note, anyone else seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzuLnBasMn0
So awesome.
BolognaSoup
Member
Anyone know if Minecraft should run in browser mode on a 2006 original MacBook? Core duo with GMA 950.
AngryChinchilla
Member
One more vote for no flying.
Grinchy
Banned
Same. I love creepers and I like that they damage property, but ghasts make the Nether uninhabitable. If you find a big open area, and you have 4 ghasts shooting you at the same time, there's no possible way to build a structure that isn't made of only materials that they can't destroy. It's annoying.bengraven said:
The only structure I ever built in the Nether was on neocraft when ghasts couldn't destroy blocks. And even then, it was much harder than building elsewhere.