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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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nismogrendel
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ckohler said:
That trap is awesome, shows me how pathetic and slow mine is (16x16 spawning floor repeated 5 times flushing to 4 grinders on the first floor). I built it to collect string, got maybe 30-40 string total in a few hours.
Yes, the top of the trap is on the top level. As the video says, there are 12 spawn floors with two blocks of air between them.Jasoco said:
I believe mobs have to fall a minimum of 23 meters (blocks) to die. Mobs can sometimes survive the fall if they bounce off each others heads on the way down, though.
Google for it. It's the first hit for "minecraft earth map".Qwomo said:
It's not very usable though. Since it was generated by a program and has hardly any post processing it doesn't feel like a current world.
Snow capped mountains are covered in snow blocks and not dirt or stone with snow. They're also not snow biomes so the weather would never be right up there.
Trees all look the same instead of like they do in MC.
Oceans drop all the way down and don't seem to be the same depth type as the real world. At the bottom of the ocean, which you can't reach because it's too deep, is lava. Which you can see from the surface, but not once you dive under.
Since it's a scaled down world, there are no rivers. So I couldn't recreate my hometown or something because there's no Delaware river. The map is 3GB uncompressed and it's scaled down a lot. Since in this map the scale is that 1 block = 1 mile, it means that going by MC's 1 block = 3 meters thing the map would need to be a LOT bigger (Possibly 50-100GB) in order to be to scale. Think about how long it would take to walk across country.
You get two spawnpoints to choose from. LA and the Sahara. So I'm trying to walk from California to NJ and it's taking a whole day to walk. Imagine if it were 1:1. (They should release one with a Nether-based warp zone to take you to each major region.)
I found a few pumpkins. And flowers are scattered. But it doesn't have everything you'd find in a real MC world.
No caves at all. Sad face.
By the time I reached the East coast, I discovered it was in the middle of a snow biome and the water was icing over. But it was past sundown and I started walking at sunrise. When the sun comes up again I'm going to figure out what state I'm in. Edit: Turns out it's Virginia.
Still sad there's no rivers. I'd kill for a full scale server-based MC server to join. I'd find a nice place in Hawaii and build a home.
NihonTiger90
Member
elrechazao said:
Can't connect to the server this morning either. And I just updated.
nelkon and parker
Member
I can't seem to set netherrack on fire in the 'normal' world on my SMP server. Trying to right-click on it with flint and steel. Is this a known issue, or am I missing something?
elrechazado
Banned
It's 10 dollars, and 7.50 in a 4 pack.Ranger X said:
Today it's been my first time in the Nether. It's an interesting place, but I expected something different. Except for Ghasts (or whatever it's spelled), there's nothing hard about it. There're dozens of pig men, but what gives? They are totally peacefull.
Notch should rethink The Nether. I want a place where there's high value and high risk.
Notch should rethink The Nether. I want a place where there's high value and high risk.
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Deleted member 80556
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Ranger X said:
It would be counterproductive to Valve's rules of giving developers free reign on what they publish.
In my opinion, that could actually kill off some opportunities for indies to have their games published, since they would have to spend some resources in making demos.
callmedave
Member
Why would they use the Mercator projection? Still pretty cool though.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Not sure why my game won't load. It gets to the Mojang logo, then goes black. Frustrating as hell!
EDIT: Figured it out..
EDIT: Figured it out..
Juan29.zapata said:
I understand this but I don't mind this type of things. Having a mandatory demo would just be another variable that natural selection would play with. A demo would increase the risks a little and at worse would encourage and push people into making better games. As with many things, constraints are often a good thing and pushes people's creativity. Liberty can produce crap and encourage lazyness.
A renting system for digital goods could be smart. But they aren't doing it because they fear it would kill they "full sales" ---- just like with physical goods... where renting doesn't kill them sales. Anyhow, the subject is complex... and off topic
Some tidbits from Notch on twitter:
Sounds like 1.7 could be quite a way off, but I like the sound of an "Adventure Update." I'm guessing Terraria may have inspired him in that regard, seeing as the Mojang team has been tweeting about Terraria for a few days now. If he's adding NPCs and events and stuff, this is definitely an update I can get behind.
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/74910025411330048
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/74910560235429888
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/74910723964276737
Sounds like 1.7 could be quite a way off, but I like the sound of an "Adventure Update." I'm guessing Terraria may have inspired him in that regard, seeing as the Mojang team has been tweeting about Terraria for a few days now. If he's adding NPCs and events and stuff, this is definitely an update I can get behind.
Does anyone know what he means by an adventure update? It sounds like a great idea but I would hope it does not implement goals to achieve, and more so just a benefit to exploring. Either way, the fact that he is talking about getting out 1.7 so soon after 1.6 is very exciting!
Thats how I see it. Good for them. Competition drives progress, and without the popularity of Minecraft, Terraria probably wouldn't exist so... Let them feed off each other. MC is the 3D game. Terraria the 2D one. Both similar but different.
I wish there were a world generation mode that would just generate a whole world based on your parameters and create all the chunks right then and there that you could then work with. Like how Sim City does it. I'd love to be able to input parameters. Like ocean on 1, 2, 3 or 4 sides. Use some tools to create mountains and beaches. Press a button to populate it with trees and plants. Place a snow biome at the top. Or a volcano instead. Or neither. Then have it so when you venture out past your set world it would then start generating the rest of the world around it.
I'd love a mode where I could just tell it to create an ocean with different sized islands. Each with beaches around the edges and various sized mountains in the middle. And they'd be big. Not tiny, but actually big like maybe 500 blocks wide on the biggest.
I just want an island surrounded by a vast ocean. It sucks that it's all random right now. I think instead of procedurally generating chunks, it should generate large areas and islands all at once. I'm sad I can't replicate an island volcano fortress or the kingdom from Tangled. (With the castle on top of the mountain on the island surrounded by houses all the way up and an awesome bridge from the mainland.)
I wish there were a world generation mode that would just generate a whole world based on your parameters and create all the chunks right then and there that you could then work with. Like how Sim City does it. I'd love to be able to input parameters. Like ocean on 1, 2, 3 or 4 sides. Use some tools to create mountains and beaches. Press a button to populate it with trees and plants. Place a snow biome at the top. Or a volcano instead. Or neither. Then have it so when you venture out past your set world it would then start generating the rest of the world around it.
I'd love a mode where I could just tell it to create an ocean with different sized islands. Each with beaches around the edges and various sized mountains in the middle. And they'd be big. Not tiny, but actually big like maybe 500 blocks wide on the biggest.
I just want an island surrounded by a vast ocean. It sucks that it's all random right now. I think instead of procedurally generating chunks, it should generate large areas and islands all at once. I'm sad I can't replicate an island volcano fortress or the kingdom from Tangled. (With the castle on top of the mountain on the island surrounded by houses all the way up and an awesome bridge from the mainland.)
rohlfinator
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Hm, good to hear that the adventure stuff is still in the works. I was starting to think that they were going to lock down the major gameplay stuff and just iron out bugs until the release date this fall, and then do some of the more ambitious stuff as expansions later on.
That would be awesome, and it doesn't seem like it would be terribly hard to do. Just open up some of the parameters to the terrain algorithm to be user-adjustable. Maybe there's more to it than that, but I think some of the mods do that kind of thing already.Jasoco said:
From what I remember, he talked about having monster villages spawn randomly, which would then spawn monsters that would attack your base. Then you could track them back to find the village, and destroy it to stop them from spawning and get some loot. I can't remember if there were going to be friendly NPC villages also, or if that was something else (a mod, maybe?).guest1321 said:
callmedave
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I messed around with the MCEdit program and ran into a problem. I selected parts of the map I no longer wanted so they could regenerate and deleted the chunks. When I went into Minecraft they were empty chunks that wouldn't regenerate. I kept a backup of course. Anyone know what I did wrong?
MCEdit doesn't delete chunks. It just blanks them out. So the game won't regenerate them because as far as it's concerned, you dug all that out yourself.callmedave said:
MCEdit sucks for me. I can't make head nor tails of it and it's slower than moles asses in winter. It doesn't let you fine tune close enough and has a horribly clunky UI.
I would love to create an ocean world then build an island using SimCity style raise/lower tools. Then press a button that would automatically add trees, vegetation and caves and other environmental elements like minerals to my template.
Mojang should release an official world editor that works well and offers Sim City style editing features like that. Even if these custom worlds are a secondary ocean world mode that doesn't offer infinite generation and instead ends at the edges, but is big enough to be a vast enough ocean. That Earth world proved that MC can handle a huge world. The ones I'd want to make wouldn't be anywhere near that big. As long as we can also chose where each biome should fall too. So I can have snow on mountain tops only and desert only if I need it.
Jasoco said:
Selecting and deleting (by pressing del) will just remove the chunks.
To actually make the game re-generate those chucks, the process is a little different.
Instead of selecting what you DON'T want anymore in the map, select what you want to stay there (like, the area that has your constructions) and press the rightmost button, chunk proprieties or something. One of the options will be "Purge the World", meaning that only the parts you selected will remain, and everything else will be purged from the save.
Minecraft will, then, repopulate these areas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvonQOR5Fk&feature=player_embedded#at=43
250k views minecraft typography video... its crazy
250k views minecraft typography video... its crazy
vas_a_morir
Banned
GT Vespene said:
Honestly, a quest mode would be mind blowing... like, people ask you to build things for them, even. And of course, the current mode would remain intact.
Barnaby_Jones
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looks awesome. is there any way i can get back on 1.5 cause i've gone and updated thinking that the server would be upgraded and i really wanna take part in this one!
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Mirk said:Well tonight we got most the dwarven city dug out
Man, you guys got a lot done since I was on last. I was just down there, and there are slimes all over the place. And a few monsters too, they are falling from unit blocks in the ceiling. I'm going to start cleaning the ceiling up and making it safe so our town doesn't get monsters dropping on it from above, lol.
I think we need to call the town Slime Haven or something like that. And have a community shrine to slimes, with a chest where we can put all of the slime balls into...