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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Visualante2
Member
Sorry if this is OT but I just got an e.mail about the Minecraft documentary, and a working link to download it even though I never bought it.. all I did was sign up to be notified when it released. Anyone else get this mail, did the movie go free or something?
e. Confirmed:
e. Confirmed:
Grinchy
Banned
Wow, that's really helpful. I had absolutely no idea what to do with most of these new toys. I'm definitely making it so my furnaces automatically send items into a chest.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
That video is awesome. Some really cool stuff I am definitely going to build in my vanilla world.
No one else on OS X here plays FTB? I'm really sad I can't play with my brother anymore. It won't work on either my Air or my Mini. (His Air hasn't had any problems yet somehow.)
No one else on OS X here plays FTB? I'm really sad I can't play with my brother anymore. It won't work on either my Air or my Mini. (His Air hasn't had any problems yet somehow.)
Ay tips for recording a playthrough in minecraft? My son is building a castle for a school project and he'd like to put a little walkthrough together. Probably using two people, one as the point of view for the camera, and then him walking around in the world and talking over it.
Visualante2
Member
Use FRAPS, what is the school project and what age?
Shrike Alvaron
Member
Just decided to make my first post in here after lurking a bit, hi people. These days with Minecraft I play a modpack I put together myself that's based off FTB Ultimate though with the removal of the Voxel stuff and ForgeIRC, Rei's Minimap back in, Universal Electricity and all its mods except ICBM, a few random extra mods.
I have been completely and utterly addicted to modded Minecraft for the past month or two and it's like, wow, I haven't gotten this addicted to a game before in my life. I admin two small Minecraft servers for a community I'm in (a vanilla Bukkit one and the Forge server running that modpack I made) and it's the modded one I spend all my time in lately. If I wasn't at work I'd take some pictures of the new house I built last night and am still working on setting up. And all while I have new ideas now for an even better setup...
I've never been much the builder type but I am completely in love with just how detailed and advanced some mods can get. My favorite now is Applied Energistics, which I feel like I'm still just scratching the surface of. I have an entire automatic processing line that works through my ME network, with items being imported in out of an ender chest and then ores exported to macerators/pulverizers, the dusts imported back into the network only to be exported to elite smelting factories from Mekanism (a furnace with seven slots that can even be upgraded to work faster!), and finally the ingots imported back again and put into my storage unit preformatted for ingots. Kind of scary to think that when my Nether lava pump runs out and my power cuts off that I won't be able to access anything, but that's why I keep an emergency steam boiler hooked into my energy bridge with a chest of coke nearby.
It's also fun thinking about how that entire paragraph will look like gibberish to anyone not familiar with FTB or modded Minecraft in general. Been trying to get a friend into it and he doesn't understand anything at all!
I have been completely and utterly addicted to modded Minecraft for the past month or two and it's like, wow, I haven't gotten this addicted to a game before in my life. I admin two small Minecraft servers for a community I'm in (a vanilla Bukkit one and the Forge server running that modpack I made) and it's the modded one I spend all my time in lately. If I wasn't at work I'd take some pictures of the new house I built last night and am still working on setting up. And all while I have new ideas now for an even better setup...
I've never been much the builder type but I am completely in love with just how detailed and advanced some mods can get. My favorite now is Applied Energistics, which I feel like I'm still just scratching the surface of. I have an entire automatic processing line that works through my ME network, with items being imported in out of an ender chest and then ores exported to macerators/pulverizers, the dusts imported back into the network only to be exported to elite smelting factories from Mekanism (a furnace with seven slots that can even be upgraded to work faster!), and finally the ingots imported back again and put into my storage unit preformatted for ingots. Kind of scary to think that when my Nether lava pump runs out and my power cuts off that I won't be able to access anything, but that's why I keep an emergency steam boiler hooked into my energy bridge with a chest of coke nearby.
It's also fun thinking about how that entire paragraph will look like gibberish to anyone not familiar with FTB or modded Minecraft in general. Been trying to get a friend into it and he doesn't understand anything at all!
ArtistDude88
Member
All this hopper and redstone goodness.
Urge... to build... Harvester 2.0... rising
Urge... to build... Harvester 2.0... rising
He's 11. School project about old castles. Bonus credit for making a model of one and his teacher said it was ok to build his in minecraft
vas_a_morir
Banned
Do it.
NihonTiger90
Member
Don't do it.
Think of all the other things you could do with the time D:
All the TF2 you'd be missing out on
That's a pretty cool teacher!
ArtistDude88
Member
It looks like Jeb did some performance enhancement stuff, judging from his Twitter and this: http://mojang.com/2013/03/minecraft-1-5-1-pre-release/
-Minsc-
Member
Nobody is on the server... building stuff alone is kind of sad
I fell asleep. D:
Visualante2
Member
Cool! Sounds fun.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Nobody is on the server... building stuff alone is kind of sad
I've been playing offline in my new single player world for the past few days, the new 1.5 patch has me hooked. Actually just starting out in a fresh world has me hooked. Took me forever to farm enough leather from cows to make a full 30 bookshelf enchanting room. At this point though my mountain base is set up nicely. Still have detailing to do but I've got all the major rooms and hallways dug out except for an alchemy center. Did get into the nether but haven't found a nether fortress yet. Nether quartz is fairly easy to find though. It's common enough to be found now and then but rare enough that I have to hunt for it. And I've found it at a variety of places too: exposed out in the open, deep underground, it seems to be evenly distributed everywhere. Eventually my entire base will have quartz arches and stairs, I really like the look of the stuff.
Also I'm seeing a lot more monsters wearing armor and weilding weapons. I've gotten two enchanted bows from skeletons already. One of them I died too, lol.
I haven't even bought Starcraft II:HotS yet, Minecraft has been taking all of my time lately. Maybe in a few weeks...
Shadow Hog
Member
I'm seeing a lot more mobs in general, honestly. Might just be because the cave system I'm exploring is pretty friggin' huge, but there are a sizable amount of skeletons and zombies about.
Especially skeletons. Everywhere I turn, skeleton. Argh.
Especially skeletons. Everywhere I turn, skeleton. Argh.
The Skeleton difficulty was upped. The shoot much faster and with greater accuracy.
They also now shoot over walls so if there is no roof over your head they'll still find a way to hit you.
Ravensmash
Member
I might check out the server later if it's okay. I got burnt out on MC before and don't think I've played since the adventure update. Can't promise I'll be on loads but I always enjoyed servers more than SP.which server is more active?
Shadow Hog
Member
And I still have no particular means of recourse when I'm early into the game and low on arrows, short of bumrushing them and hoping I can kill them before they take away too much damage.
I suppose having four dogs helps a bit (lots of skeletons = lots of bones), although keeping them from killing themselves is a bit of a chore.
Ye I think getting lucky with a skeleton spawner early on really helps with arrows more than ever. Its super easy to build a basic mob trap now too after 2-3 hours of play. If you build a basic mob trap up at the 230 block height you will actually be far enough away from the loaded chunks on the ground that you can get incredibly good spawn rates. Thats what I have in my SP world atm. I want to try to sort them but Ive got to somehow get a villager up to level 220 :/
NihonTiger90
Member
Nobody is on the server... building stuff alone is kind of sad
I had to work late last night, sadly.
Shadow Hog
Member
So, ultra-important question!
Beard or smile?
I've always seen a beard - a sort of goatee that stretches up to Steve's lips - but I can kinda see the smile. It's just, if that's a smile, it looks a bit absurdly goofy. I know a lot of Minecraft's textures look kinda silly, but somehow it strikes me as even sillier than the kinda derpy pigs. Like, it'd be comically large.
(Official answer was
, before they removed it from the skin, but don't let that stop you :V)
Beard or smile?
I've always seen a beard - a sort of goatee that stretches up to Steve's lips - but I can kinda see the smile. It's just, if that's a smile, it looks a bit absurdly goofy. I know a lot of Minecraft's textures look kinda silly, but somehow it strikes me as even sillier than the kinda derpy pigs. Like, it'd be comically large.
(Official answer was
"beard", apparently
ArtistDude88
Member
I can definitely see it as a beard/goatee, but I've always seen it as a giant smile.
Don't know if its been a while you've played but they made mobs harder sometimes last autumn. And they spawn in greater numbers with better pathfinding. And now they are suposedly even harder.
That's cool however because I find Minecraft super easy, I mean, I don't die anymore because of mobs, they don't even scare me anymore (although fun to kill)
-Minsc-
Member
Anybody know how to fix this?
Hmm, could you put the error text in a code box?
Code:
Use the code tag.Well it fixed itself when I got on after work. No PC restart either. I can still put it but its basically
Code:
GL Error 1282: Invalid operation @gbuffers_texturedMore text and stuff. It may have been memory related or something.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, but they've boosted them again for 1.5. I know that burning zombies will now catch you on fire too if they touch you, and skeletons are not only more accurate and deadly, but they fire at you more often the closer you get to them. Makes meleeing them much harder, and if you are fighting more than one at a time it gets real chaotic.
Shadow Hog
Member
FWIW, the last version of Minecraft I played with any sense of regularity was 1.3(.2? not sure).
ArtistDude88
Member
Ugh. Dubstep.
Amazing video though! Even more so since it's the 360 version.
Looks like the game runs much smoother on a console than PC...
Yeah, 360 version has been really popular and if I recall correctly, wasn't it ported to C++? I like Java, and Jeb was doing performance enhancements recently like I mentioned, but I imagine changing over could help PC performance.
Grinchy
Banned
WOW that's incredible. That's one of the most impressive things I've ever seen from this game.
I can't believe one person (or one group) came up with so many clever uses of perspective and just general Minecraft quirks.
dangerbyrnes
Member
i believe that if you put a floating block directly above the tree spot at the height you want, no trees should get any taller than that block. pretty sure that still works.
oh and make sure to put a torch on top of the block.
make sure you are using the most updated version. the one i use never has any problems. (well.... until 1.5 ;P)
best way to know if you are using an old version, the torches will be really dim.
SEUS V10
GLSL
Why is the torch necessary?
dangerbyrnes
Member
oh, just skeletons and zombies, and creepers will spawn on them, even with lights on the floor of the tree-farm. i think, who knows if that's changed by now, was a while ago. but i remember that happening to me. (although less of a problem with creepers destroying blocks off)
i suppose a half-slab would have the same effect.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I can't believe I still can't play Feed the Beast on neither of my Macs anymore for some inexplicable reason.