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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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just found a great seed. a large level forest biome with three mountains and a desert surrounding it.
spawn is in the center of this picture taken from one of the mountains. desert is in the distance.
so much space and resources all within sight of each other, sooogoood.
spawn is in the center of this picture taken from one of the mountains. desert is in the distance.
so much space and resources all within sight of each other, sooogoood.
Barberetti
Member
Bloody hell those cave spiders are sneaky little shits! I just saw one catch sight of me, but instead of attacking, it climbed up a wall and hid in a 1x1 hole in the ceiling ready to jump down on me. I'd have jumped out of my chair if that had landed on my head!
Barberetti
Member
fredrancour said:
Yeah I'm not buying this either. I once attempted a trip to the Far Lands by using the airship mod to fly there. I flew for way more than 12 hours west over a period of a week or so, and flying covers a lot more ground than walking.
onken
Member
Yeah I never quite got any of the claims for the Minecraft map's size, so let's do a little back-of-an-envelope maths, (all figures approx. for ease of calculation)
radius of earth = 4000 miles
circumference of the earth = 2*pi*4000 = 25,000 miles
average walking speed = 3mph
approx time to walk the circumference of earth = 25000 / 3 = 8300 hours
surface area of earth = 4*pi*(4000)^2 = 200,000,000 square miles
The area of a minecraft map is supposedly 8x the Earth's surface, so:
Area of a minecraft map = 200,000,000 * 8 = 1,600,000,000 square miles
Radius of minecraft world = sqrt(surface area / (4*pi)) = 11,300 miles
circumference of minecraft map = 2*pi*11300 = 71,000 miles
approx time it should take to walk the circumference of a minecraft map = 71000 / 3 = 23,700 hours
So either a) my maths is out, b) walking speed is ridiculously high or c) the map is nowhere near 8x the size of earth.
radius of earth = 4000 miles
circumference of the earth = 2*pi*4000 = 25,000 miles
average walking speed = 3mph
approx time to walk the circumference of earth = 25000 / 3 = 8300 hours
surface area of earth = 4*pi*(4000)^2 = 200,000,000 square miles
The area of a minecraft map is supposedly 8x the Earth's surface, so:
Area of a minecraft map = 200,000,000 * 8 = 1,600,000,000 square miles
Radius of minecraft world = sqrt(surface area / (4*pi)) = 11,300 miles
circumference of minecraft map = 2*pi*11300 = 71,000 miles
approx time it should take to walk the circumference of a minecraft map = 71000 / 3 = 23,700 hours
So either a) my maths is out, b) walking speed is ridiculously high or c) the map is nowhere near 8x the size of earth.
Barberetti
Member
So the Far Lands don't exist anymore eh? I remember some guy on Youtube was traveling there and keeping a video log of his journey. I bet he was a bit pissed off when version 1.8 dropped :lol
onken said:
The Far Lands weren't the end of the map. Just where everything started getting screwy. (Though I gather they were the end of the usable map.)
Notch clarified his definition of "infinite" in this post, though it's fairly old nowi: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/3746989361/terrain-generation-part-1
kyubajin said:
It's always a good time to start playing Minecraft, honestly.
So far, there hasn't been a single update that's required a new map. Sometimes stuff will get weird where the new parts of the map generate after a patch (different land generation code, etc), and you'll need to go to new areas in your map to get new ores and stuff to spawn, but you can still start any time.
As far as wikis go, I'd recommend at least wandering around without one for a few in-game days. They introduced an achievement system a few patches back that acts as something of a tutorial, but there are some key things that aren't covered by the achievements (like torches).
Grinchy
Banned
Definitely start playing it. You may want to wait until early next week (estimate) for the official 1.9 patch, but if you know what winrar is, you can always just install the pre-release 1.9.kyubajin said:
Definitely, definitely play without a guide at first. The achievement system will get you familiar with common build items. Then, just play. Explore, collect, build, survive. Don't get frustrated by the mobs and turn them off. At least play on normal difficulty. Then, try to remember that there is life outside of Minecraft as you plunge deeper into a gaming coma.
It depends what you want. Minecraft is great for exploring, and great for building. It has a really nice sense of environment, and you can do a lot of stuff with friends/internet people if you find a good server.kyubajin said:
It's thus far not nearly as combat-focused as Terraria, if I understand correctly. Terraria seems to be more focused on killing enemies and getting lot like say, a roguelike game, while Minecraft is more focused on the 3D construction and exploration aspect.
Orbis Tabula
Member
I also wish the swamp had thicker tree density. And I still want a mud block.
Togglesworlh
Banned
Man the transition from swamp-to-anything-else is ridiculously abrupt. I mean, they almost always are, but it's really obvious here. I hope he takes time to really smooth out the transitions between biomes in the future.
I suggested Ark to upgrade to leaked 1.9 so we could play Creative mode and all he said was "it breaks the game so lol no" (sorta). Then I suggested him to go to 1.8 and make it Creative until 1.9 and the new bukkit releases so we can get back to Survival, but he hasn't replied since thenUnicorn said:
I don't think many people are using the server now, and a lot of us wanna get back, so it's kind of a waste right now..
ArtistDude88
Member
I have a friend who is running a 40 slot 1.8 server... I'll ask him the next time I see him if I can post the address on GAF
Found a seed I'm really enjoying - a huge, intricate cave system that fills a whole mountain and beneath it. I haven't explored just the one cave system and I've been playing it for hours. "Bastards" is the seed if anyone's looking to start a new game.
Minecraft Classic? It's been a long time since I played it. It will give you the basic feel of the game, but so much has been added since then. Still, if you like the free version, you should love the full game.
areal said:
Minecraft Classic? It's been a long time since I played it. It will give you the basic feel of the game, but so much has been added since then. Still, if you like the free version, you should love the full game.
Mik2121 said:I suggested Ark to upgrade to leaked 1.9 so we could play Creative mode and all he said was "it breaks the game so lol no" (sorta). Then I suggested him to go to 1.8 and make it Creative until 1.9 and the new bukkit releases so we can get back to Survival, but he hasn't replied since then
I don't think many people are using the server now, and a lot of us wanna get back, so it's kind of a waste right now..
That's not what I said at all.
I don't even know what to do with the server now, upgrading to 1.8.1 seems pointless because everyone appears to be using 1.9.
Regardless; I'm going to make the final backup now, and upgrade to 1.8.1.
jediyoshi
Member
Mirk said:I updated my mini server to 1.9 if anyone is looking for a place to play for fun!
Quote to see!!
Also the old 1.8.1 I still have If anyone wants it for single play let me know and I'll put the world up for d/l.
Please do put it up [:
I logged into the new world, found some pretty crazy chunk errors
Wolves Evolve
Member
Is anybody playing on a Mac and knows how to upgrade to 1.9 early? I'm a bit lost.
British Monsoon
Member
Yeah, biomes definitely need tweaking - for instance, under no circumstances should the only thing separating a snow and desert biome be just a river. It should be a gradual transition - desert, to plains, to swamps, to forests, to snow, etc.
Lazlo Woodbine
Member
TNT seems to be nerfed on the server right now and I'm a donater who should (in theory) be able to set off TNT...?
Regardless...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, waited until the server was updated to play 1.8 buuuut...I'm really dissapointed, performance wise. Lighting is borked for me and means MC plays like a choppy redeye simulator now.
For a game that started life as an in-browser experience, it seems with every update Mojang have, decidedly, distanced themselves from their original goal; to make Minecraft as "accessible" as possible (esp. to low end PC users).
Regardless...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, waited until the server was updated to play 1.8 buuuut...I'm really dissapointed, performance wise. Lighting is borked for me and means MC plays like a choppy redeye simulator now.
For a game that started life as an in-browser experience, it seems with every update Mojang have, decidedly, distanced themselves from their original goal; to make Minecraft as "accessible" as possible (esp. to low end PC users).
Are you serious? With the right settings, Minecraft Beta runs and looks so much better than Classic.Lazlo Woodbine said:
Classic Minecraft, 'Huge' world, 'far' render distance:
Beta 1.8 Creative mode, infinite world, smooth lighting disabled, 'fancy' graphics, 'far' render distance:
