If I had a shit that was 5000 blocks square, I would consider that a big shit.
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Minecraft PS4/Xbone |OT|
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If I had a shit that was 5000 blocks square, I would consider that a big shit.
xKilltheMx
Member
^ This. That tutorial alone is scary as fuck.
Living Proof
Member
Hahaha. I can imagine someone buying this game off of recommendations from friends or the internet about something fun and easy to play, only to go into some confused state of awe while playing the tutorial. My girlfriend thinks it's cute, but she'd never bother with actually playing it after seeing how complicated it can get.
ok so I had a question if anyone can answer this, I am currently in the planning stages of building a castle to protect myself from the things that bump in the night and I am wondering if it is possible to move water/lava from one location to another. My plan was to make a moat around my fortress as an added layer of defence if its possible. I have two water sources near my castle and my guess is that I will probably have to find a way to tunnel the water to the location I want it to go unless there is another way to move it.
SwiftDeath
Member
Make a bucket, then use the bucket on the water/lava
You can make yourself an infinite water source to draw buckets of water from here
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Water#Infinite_water_source
You cannot make an infinite lava source though anymore
ShogunDarius
Member
finally made up my mind and got it on playstation, as much as I want the dlc on xbox, I dnt like a next gen tax being put on the prices of dlc especially since afaik only effects the uk. I now have it on PS4.
Digital Snake
Member
No, you would have to had played it before August 28th I believe.
Played a few hours last night for the first time.
My first item of business was to make a little cave, because I could not find a mine to craft or investigate and family that has played said by night you need shelter. Killed some pigs and a cow with my bare hands. Looked for resources. Night came, I walled up my cave entrance. Checked inventory to make something... but items are so scarce, I couldn't make anything. Searched for more resources outside after walling up my cave next morning. Nearly went hungry looking for food. Came home to the cave just before sunset, only to find a skeleton with bow and arrow in there... somehow, and holes in my ceiling. Patched up the holes. Days later, still no resources and little food. I've been hearing zombie moans outside my cave. How did they know I was here? How can I leave? The next night, a green bomb guy must have found my place, there was a large hole opened in the ceiling. I spent the night running, looking for a new home. Next day, a combination of arrow to the back, starvation, and a fall from a tree ended my life... and like that, all my stuff is gone.
It's about as fun as Don't Starve, which IMO wasn't.
What exactly am I doing wrong in survival? Should I just make new worlds until I generate one that is resource friendly? I see IGN vids of guys with farms, homes with actual doors, and here I am living like a cave man :/
My first item of business was to make a little cave, because I could not find a mine to craft or investigate and family that has played said by night you need shelter. Killed some pigs and a cow with my bare hands. Looked for resources. Night came, I walled up my cave entrance. Checked inventory to make something... but items are so scarce, I couldn't make anything. Searched for more resources outside after walling up my cave next morning. Nearly went hungry looking for food. Came home to the cave just before sunset, only to find a skeleton with bow and arrow in there... somehow, and holes in my ceiling. Patched up the holes. Days later, still no resources and little food. I've been hearing zombie moans outside my cave. How did they know I was here? How can I leave? The next night, a green bomb guy must have found my place, there was a large hole opened in the ceiling. I spent the night running, looking for a new home. Next day, a combination of arrow to the back, starvation, and a fall from a tree ended my life... and like that, all my stuff is gone.
It's about as fun as Don't Starve, which IMO wasn't.
What exactly am I doing wrong in survival? Should I just make new worlds until I generate one that is resource friendly? I see IGN vids of guys with farms, homes with actual doors, and here I am living like a cave man :/
Everybody starts like that. That's part of the game, you grow and get better and eventually conquer the world that was earlier chewing you out.
Try punching a tree and making a wooden pickaxe and a wooden sword. That alone will make you last longer.
Many thanks! This game is much more brutal than my 7 year old nephew lead me to believe
;_;
BeamImpact
Member
thats what you have minecraft wikis for, in the beginning you will have to look up every second craft, but just a few crafts later youll see how much you already memorized
give it a chance, it might be overwheliming in the beginning but soon after that everything goes hand in hand and youll find yourself getting overflown with ideas of what to do and get
N° 2048
Member
To progress a bit faster prioritize wood, meat and cobblestone.
Use the wood to build a small box to call home.
Use the wood to make a crafting chest.
Use the crafting chest to make a furnace with the cobblestone.
Use the furnace to make charcoal with wood (not planks). Wood+wood in furnace = charcoal I believe.
Use the crafting chest to make sticks from wood.
Use the sticks + charcoal for torches.
Use furnace to cook meat (meat+charcoal) (wood+meat also works I believe)
Next up, go get some wool to make a bed.
You can do all this within the first two nights
Daffy Duck
Member
All those saying the size is disappointing, I myself just don't see it.
So far I've built my house in a nice area surrounded by mountains with caves to explore, I've explored one cave so far and found an old abandoned mine and spent hours down there, that's just one cave, I can literally see about 30 more when I scroll around looking in all directions.
Then there is the jungles to explore, then the deserts and everything else.
Then there's visiting the nether and sitting out a base there, then there's enchanting, there's massive amounts to do.
I admit I've not played it on PC but the sense if scale on this compared to the PS3 version I have played is immense!
So far I've built my house in a nice area surrounded by mountains with caves to explore, I've explored one cave so far and found an old abandoned mine and spent hours down there, that's just one cave, I can literally see about 30 more when I scroll around looking in all directions.
Then there is the jungles to explore, then the deserts and everything else.
Then there's visiting the nether and sitting out a base there, then there's enchanting, there's massive amounts to do.
I admit I've not played it on PC but the sense if scale on this compared to the PS3 version I have played is immense!
Daffy Duck
Member
I agree, having to build a map for a new area is a pain and I didn't know you had to do that until I read it on here.
Play the PC version, it doesn't have autocrafting. You not only need to know the item you want to make, the ingredients, and their crafting placement. Console minecraft crafting is very simplified. I like it a lot. No longer do I need 10 pages of recipes printed or the need to alt-tab.
I tried it yesterday and its not registering/giving me the discount. One person here said they did this (bought the actual disk) and played on the 3rd, on the 4th they went on the mobile store and bought it for $5 so that must of been the last cut off date. I tried on the 5th and nothing so far so its probably not possible or maybe you need a unique disc ID for it to be able to do it as REDBOX copies may have been used online already so its not unique any more?
legacyzero
Banned
So I can buy the Vita version when it hits, and then spend $5 to upgrade to PS4??
Puppet Shadow
Member
It's in the Community:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637091
Awesome seeing so many new people enjoying Minecraft. That first night, man I wish I could go back and experience that fear again.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
The controls suck. I can't get them to do what I feel is natural. I want Use and Attack to be L1 and R1, Jump to be X, item scroll to be the d-pad and inventory and craft to be L2 and R2.
Daffy Duck
Member
Yeah those first couple of nights are fantastic!
I also like how nervous I feel doing anything at night.
I also like how nervous I feel doing anything at night.
N° 2048
Member
Thanks, no idea why it doesn't show up in the search :S
seventynine
Member
That's primarily focused on the PC/Mac version and user/Gaf servers.
There ought to be a console/Vita OT since the two version they are out of sync with each other.
Any takers?
Auto-Reply
Member
When playing the 360 version I was trying to wrap my head around redstone circuits... I nearly went Insane!
N° 2048
Member
Great idea! Console OT would be awesome.
Daffy Duck
Member
Yeah a console OT would be a great idea!
I had 36 levels of XP in the bank and got killed by three bow and arrow guys mining for diamonds.
Lost all my obsidian, an enchanted book I found and my diamond sword/pick axe, both maps and lots of other stuff.
Luckily I knew the mine well and was able to find it all again. Luckily I set up a mob spawner farm so I should get the XP back quickly.
I had 36 levels of XP in the bank and got killed by three bow and arrow guys mining for diamonds.
Lost all my obsidian, an enchanted book I found and my diamond sword/pick axe, both maps and lots of other stuff.
Luckily I knew the mine well and was able to find it all again. Luckily I set up a mob spawner farm so I should get the XP back quickly.
FeiRR
Banned
I have an idea for you. Make a stone temple with a bird-cat statue [wink].
seventynine
Member
I'd do it myself but I don't have the time to do it today. It does need one, discussion is spread over two or three threads at the moment.
I don't know if that image shown showing it to be 36x larger is true but if it is, it's waaaaaay bigger and, IMO, more than you'd ever need, unless you are trying to recreate something absolutely massive. Even in the 360 version, I never even came close to running out of space, but I usually get stuck in the metagame aspect of minecraft. I wanted it to be infinite worlds too but, I'm way more than satisfied if it really is 36x bigger. I feel like the math doesn't quite add up though.
862x862= 360 version
5000x5000= next gen versions, that doesn't quite seem to be 36x as large as someone indicated with the pic before.
Is there some simple math I'm missing? that seems more like 6 - 7 time as big as the previous console versions.
(5000X5000)/(862X862)..
Neuromancer
Member
Probably or you could buy the ps3 version now, pay the $5 to upgrade to ps4 and the vita version will be free for you when it comes out.
Fuck maps man you don't need em
Storm Raider
Banned
(Last Gen) 862 x 862 = 743,044 total blocks
(This Gen) 5000 x 5000 = 25,000,000 total blocks
25,000,000 / 743,044 = 33.645383
About 34 times bigger, right?
MathGAF?
how do you find your way back to your house at night?
Daffy Duck
Member
Stick a beacon (torch) on the top of it so it stands out.
IAmRandom31
Banned
I built stone monuments myself. Like the washington monument almost.
Everytime I reached an area where when I turned around the monument in the distance was getting fogged over, I would put together a new one.
Ended up with dozens and dozens around the world eventually lol. Looked pretty slick actually.
I played the PS4 demo and was actually pretty surprised. Game seems to have the highest draw distance you can possibly have and i dunno if it is my TV or not but I don't see the aliasing I have on my PC version.
Also surprised that in the demo you can basically say F the timed stuff and just play as long as you want. I dug out of the first area and was then out in the village and exploring around building whatever was available. Was playing for 2-3 atleast an hour last night until Velocity 2X and Hotline Miami downloaded
So the 36 was from someones ass?
It'll get easier as you play you just gotta ease into it. At first it seems like a lot but you'll get it.
No, it came from 4J themselves
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/28/minecraft-36-times-larger-on-ps4-and-xbox-one
PC version has crazy aliasing for some reason. The only way I was able to get rid of it was through shader packs somehow.
Really don't see why with what's avaliable on PS4/XB1 that they can't just do infinite worlds. Both consoles have the power too.
legacyzero
Banned
The Kev is lost. Hope you didnt have plans for the weekend
legacyzero
Banned
Ohhh I forgot the cross buy. Awesome
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
It's because of limits on save file sizes that Sony and MS have