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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Mister Zimbu
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And grass too.
/frustrated at how long it's taking for his little floating islands to get the grass to spread out all the way
/frustrated at how long it's taking for his little floating islands to get the grass to spread out all the way
Treefingers
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Salaadin said:
Yeah. Same with wheat & furnaces & stuff.
Doesn't make sense why he implemented it that way when a simple:
Same with all the other time-based stuff.
Instead he seems to use a sappling.life variable and just increments each one loaded in memory until they reach the growtime.
If he used the first method, you could plant a sappling then go off miles away and when you come back it would have grown. But I suppose changing it now would require breaking a lot of stuff? Or they just haven't thought of it?
Code:
sappling.plantedtime = current_time (Current game time)
sappling.growtime = 2 (days)
if current_time + sappling.growtime > sappling.plantedtime then
sappling:grow()
endInstead he seems to use a sappling.life variable and just increments each one loaded in memory until they reach the growtime.
If he used the first method, you could plant a sappling then go off miles away and when you come back it would have grown. But I suppose changing it now would require breaking a lot of stuff? Or they just haven't thought of it?
Treefingers
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Ranger X said:So what the fuck a release date mean? This means the version will become "final" therefore no more big improvements will be done?
This will be their live's greatest mistake!
Their goldmine = Minecraft. They might not want to see it through.
Nah I remember Notch saying that being "final" doesn't mean development will stop. Just that they'll have a game that they can say is finished.
Likely development will slow down but once we have the modding API there will always be new things.
But anyway I'm sure Notch's blog post will explain things.
Barberetti
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Fernando Rocker said:
From what I've heard, you've got a big enough backlog already
DangerousDave
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Ranger X said:So what the fuck a release date mean? This means the version will become "final" therefore no more big improvements will be done?
This will be their live's greatest mistake!
Their goldmine = Minecraft. They might not want to see it through.
Yep. He got like 33M of revenues. And he'll a lot of Millions more before being gold. He should hire the people that made the best mods and bring Minecraft to a whole new level, without having to lose the indie flavour.
(or hire some programmers able to work in C++ to make the game work in any computer, I swear that Crysis runs better than Minecraft, in mine)
I hope that release day that they plan is around 2014
And here we are: Minecraft's formal "release date" is 11/11/11
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4423138657/11-11-11
Is this thread-worthy?
Notch said:
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4423138657/11-11-11
Is this thread-worthy?
Treefingers
Member
Well there we go.
Can't wait for the upcoming weather system.
Can't wait for the upcoming weather system.
Treefingers
Member
Vlad said:
It's pretty incredible. Has some bugs though (like note blocks being reset to the default note) that will hopefully be fixed before they add it into the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHAhRl1X6T0Vlad said:
Look interesting. Not exactly something I've pined for, but I wonder what kinda stuff you can make with it? Maybe a drawbridge? It'd be great for traps, actually!
Orbis Tabula
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This CCRT thing sounds like what I've really been hoping to see come out of minecraft, and it's enough to invigorate my desire to play again!
Too bad it's not letter me connect. D:
Too bad it's not letter me connect. D:
DangerousDave
Member
Vlad said:
Piston mod is amazing. Is a small mod that allow to create pistons. With this you are able to move blocks (even a big amount) or even throwing them away (if they are gravity affected), with redstone. You can make amazing things with this, like traps for mobs or cannons.
That's the way Notch should go, check the easy, good and not gamebreaking mods, and implement them (or a similar behaviour) as official.
lemon__fresh
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Jasoco said:
I think your "code" is a bit off. The sapling growtime is pretty much irrelevant given the way you have things written. Did you maybe mean "current_time - sappling.growtime > sappling.plantedtime" ? IMO relying on a "life" variable is probably a safer approach.
lemon__fresh
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Vlad said:
Is this confirmed yet? Or still a rumour?
Well, it's safe if you give the sapling a "planted" time based on the game time then check if the time between the current time and the planted time is greater than the grow time.lemon__fresh said:
The only way it could cause problems is if someone uses a time changing mod. But not really. It's not like changing the time back to before it was planted will make it become unplanted. Since the plant time is only used to delay the grow function. Once it's grown it's grown.
Using a life variable means that the life only gets incremented if the sapling is in memory. Once you unload its chunk, all growth stops until the chunk gets loaded back up. Or if you go to sleep, it doesn't add to the life so it just delays the growth or processing of the furnace or whatever.
Treefingers
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lemon__fresh said:
Yeah he mentioned it in the blog post. It won't be in 1.5 though.
Wow, the piston mod looks like it could make some useful stuff.
I'd like to see an elevator mod though. Or even conveyor belts. They'd also need to create objects that are capable of actually placing blocks and not just dropping block items.
But weather is gonna be awesome.
Unfortunately it'll also put out fires, so if you have any fires you actually need you'll have to make sure they're covered from the sky. I assume a single block above the fire will be enough. Even if it's glass.
I'd like to see an elevator mod though. Or even conveyor belts. They'd also need to create objects that are capable of actually placing blocks and not just dropping block items.
But weather is gonna be awesome.
Unfortunately it'll also put out fires, so if you have any fires you actually need you'll have to make sure they're covered from the sky. I assume a single block above the fire will be enough. Even if it's glass.
Goro's Lair has been done for some time, but I've been busy lately so I haven't had time to upload the pics. Here it is:
Bonus pics of Rooftop (still a work in progress):
Just a note that although we did spawn the Glowstone, all other blocks were harvested. The sandstone was particularly a tough grind for building Goro. Our current project is Hell (or Netherrealm). Shouldn't be too difficult given the nature of the game.
Bonus pics of Rooftop (still a work in progress):
Just a note that although we did spawn the Glowstone, all other blocks were harvested. The sandstone was particularly a tough grind for building Goro. Our current project is Hell (or Netherrealm). Shouldn't be too difficult given the nature of the game.
NotTarts said:
I dunno where your impressions are coming from. Maybe the screenshots are triggering wilder imagination to you. Personally, I look at those "alpha" screenshot there and it's looking identical to what I see in every world. It's only a question of finding those places, they are many but a seed is 5 times the size of Earth so...
Biomes brought some differences to the way worlds look in general, but you do still find those amazing formations and stuff. I must have tried 20-30 different seeds before I finally found one I liked, and I really like it.
I suggest creating a new world using a random word as a seed, name the world the same thing so you can remember what the seed was. As soon as you get in just start wandering around exploring until nightfall. If it doesn't "grab" you, delete that world and try again with a different seed. Keep doing this until you get a world you really like, then delete it and start over with the same seed and play as you normally would.
I suggest creating a new world using a random word as a seed, name the world the same thing so you can remember what the seed was. As soon as you get in just start wandering around exploring until nightfall. If it doesn't "grab" you, delete that world and try again with a different seed. Keep doing this until you get a world you really like, then delete it and start over with the same seed and play as you normally would.
bengraven
Member
Gotta admit, pretty fucking excited for weather. Just add some atmospheric sounds like birds in forests, wind on the tundra, strange animal cries far in the distance at night and water drops from the ceiling in mines and I'll be happy.
When I see something this awesome, I never build on it. I quote Karl Pilkington: "Well, I figure you'd rather live in a hole and see a palace, then live in a palace and have to see a hole."
Except I build the palace admiring the hole, for fear that giant formation would be sullied and nothing I can make will be as cool since I am creatively bankrupt.
BooJoh said:
When I see something this awesome, I never build on it. I quote Karl Pilkington: "Well, I figure you'd rather live in a hole and see a palace, then live in a palace and have to see a hole."
Except I build the palace admiring the hole, for fear that giant formation would be sullied and nothing I can make will be as cool since I am creatively bankrupt.
It could be that you're crazy and like your particular alpha map. *shrug* Or it could be that mountains are actually smaller and big valleys do not happen anymore due to biomes. I guess if anyone else has an area that's as big as your screenshots, feel free to post it?NotTarts said: