RebornYeti
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You can use regular coal as fuel. Same with wood.
But I think you can burn the wood in a furnace and use coal as the fuel to produce charcoal.
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Minecraft XBLA |OT| Don't touch my cactusSsSS
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You can use regular coal as fuel. Same with wood.
But I think you can burn the wood in a furnace and use coal as the fuel to produce charcoal.
I was playing with my headphones on last night and that was a bad idea - even inside my makeshift house I could hear nothing but baddies mouth breathing right inside my ear, then when I decide to go outside I nearly have a heart attack when there is a nearly deafening explosion as a creeper decide to explode right next to me. Then right after I am dazed and confused from that some skeleton starts shooting me with arrows but from across a little river (even though it's daylight) - I jump in the water to go whack him with my sword but he proceeds to kill me while I'm in the water and my stuff goes flying everywhere inside water and on sides of little stream.
I played maybe 15 or 20 hours of Minecraft when it originally came out and still in that beta phase, it definitely does not run nearly this smooth on my laptops...being 60fps is a huge deal for a "chill out" game like this.
Does anyone really figure out all of the crafting things by themselves? I would bet you 99.99% of people playing look up a Wiki site even to figure out how to build the first simple items, and they probably researched that before they decided to make the crafting aspect simple. It's welcome for me, I am not playing this game to sit there dragging around inventory items with left thumbstick.
I played maybe 15 or 20 hours of Minecraft when it originally came out and still in that beta phase, it definitely does not run nearly this smooth on my laptops...being 60fps is a huge deal for a "chill out" game like this.
Does anyone really figure out all of the crafting things by themselves? I would bet you 99.99% of people playing look up a Wiki site even to figure out how to build the first simple items, and they probably researched that before they decided to make the crafting aspect simple. It's welcome for me, I am not playing this game to sit there dragging around inventory items with left thumbstick.
Neuromancer
Member
Thanks
No problem, it's fun helping people with Minecraft. Make sure you see my edit, which explains things in a little more detail.
For me, it was about 80/20 between using a Wiki and just messing around.
CrAzYLeGzLU
Member
Logs in the top part of the furnace and any kind of fuel in the bottom like wood planks, or saplings.
gregor7777
Banned
Wow. I can see why people liked that. Not for me though.
And I can certainly understand the reasoning behind the new system. I wouldn't want to have to play with a PC at my side.
Ape Gone Insane
Member
Just to clarify, since a fellow Gaffer got confused, the gaf tag is 'Minecraft GAF' not 'Minecraft 360' as the OP seems to indicate.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Reminds me of playing Viva Piñata with Piñata Island always open.
I don't think I want to go through that again. I like knowing what I need to mine to make the items I want.
Diablohead
Member
I bought this mostly because it was for my brother and nephew to play on my bro's xbox, but I used my gamertag so I have a copy in my room too.
It's not bad for the small time I have played this and the pc version only last week, crafting on the 360 seems too easy but it was fun, need to sit down and dedicate some time to it.
It's not bad for the small time I have played this and the pc version only last week, crafting on the 360 seems too easy but it was fun, need to sit down and dedicate some time to it.
Charcoal is gotten by smelting logs in the furnace.
Coal is gotten by mining it. Look for gray blocks with black dots on them.
Charcoal and Coal both function the same, but you can't combine them in a single stack in your inventory.
Also keep in mind that you can use other things for fuel. Pretty much anything wooden can be used (it's a lot less efficient than coal/charcoal, though), as well as a bucket of lava.
I also got stuck on charcoal last night because I wanted to build torches and I was like "How the heck do I turn coal into charcoal" - I didn't realize that you could just press down to do coal torches instead until later. I am digging down beneath my house looking for coal but didn't find any at a pretty deep level so I ended up having to go exploring for it. Gotta have torches...
But we could've had both very easily, and everybody would have been happy. I certainly see the positives of the new interface for those who just want to build stuff, so I wouldn't want it taken away. Just give us options! Options are always good! *shakes fist*
RebornYeti
Member
I have chests overflowing with coal. Well, not really, but I have a lot. It's honestly not hard to find. Just find a cavern and you should see loads of it as you explore.
goldenpp72
Member
You do have an option, it's called play it on PC. It's funny reading your review I didn't actually find it offensive, having never played Minecraft before, almost every single thing you complained about is something my girl would have despised in the original game, so i'm grateful a version for people who don't want to invest 100 hours while browsing wiki entries exist. The only thing I am sad about is the world size thing, but splitscreen is fun.
Ravensmash
Member
Ah, my desire for this has grown to be honest.
I have the PC version, but I want the comfy controller situation where I can just lie back and mess around - don't find it comfortable on my laptop with a mouse.
Cannot justify purchasing it at the moment though; hopefully I'll find a few competitions somewhere, but likely down the line I'll get
I have the PC version, but I want the comfy controller situation where I can just lie back and mess around - don't find it comfortable on my laptop with a mouse.
Cannot justify purchasing it at the moment though; hopefully I'll find a few competitions somewhere, but likely down the line I'll get
Neuromancer
Member
So I made a save in the tutorial level, now I'm trying to load it and it's crashed my Xbox (frozen screen) 3 times in a row. Anyone else get this? Man I really don't want to have to restart the tutorial from the beginning.
You honestly don't really need to play the tutorial level, you get little tutorial bubbles popping up when you start a real world too...
Ace Harding
Member
Wow I totally forgot this was coming out. I had tried to buy Minecraft for my MacBook Pro (only computer I have) but it wouldn't accept my credit card for some reason an I gave up and forgot about it.
This seems like the perfect "zone out and listen to a podcast while you build some shit" experience, and as long as there are no major setbacks with the controller or any changes to the console version I'm going to DL this tonight. If I don't see myself getting too intense with this and getting into mods and stuff, is this version fine? Am I missing anything vital from the PC version? I know the world is smaller, and that's probably OK for me. I'll probably also just play solo most of the time. Any other differences might be outweighed by the ability to sit on the couch and play with a controller versus on my MacBook.
This seems like the perfect "zone out and listen to a podcast while you build some shit" experience, and as long as there are no major setbacks with the controller or any changes to the console version I'm going to DL this tonight. If I don't see myself getting too intense with this and getting into mods and stuff, is this version fine? Am I missing anything vital from the PC version? I know the world is smaller, and that's probably OK for me. I'll probably also just play solo most of the time. Any other differences might be outweighed by the ability to sit on the couch and play with a controller versus on my MacBook.
Neverender
Member
I played this for about 3 hours with my girlfriend last night. I think it works really really well on the 360. She's never played minecraft but has watched me play before and picked or up pretty quick. The simplified crafting system is great for playing on 360.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Good lord, there's over 340,000 people on the easy leaderboard already - this has got to be the biggest first day sales for an XBLA game, insane!
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Downloaded the demo with every thought to buy it. Even have a 1600 point card unused waiting but the demo turned me off. I was bored the entire time. Oh well. Can't catch them all.
Baconsammy
Banned
Yep, this thing is going to be huge (actually already is apparently). Gotta give props to Microsoft for securing it.
If you played the PC one, after you buy it you can set the difficulty and randomly generate a world outside the tutorial. It's just like playing PC one imo except you get to sit on a couch and relax. I'm happy I bit at least even though I was highly skeptical after playing the demo.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Yeah, this is mental for XBLA, I wonder what the final figure will be for the end of the first day...
It will be over 1mill by the end of the week.
It's easily going to be the highest selling XBLA game soon.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Never touched the PC version. Never even seen gameplay before today, just screen shots.
Fox Mulder
Member
I played for a few hours and started building a castle and digging for stuff, but I may start over in peaceful mode. I don't really see any reason for the zombies and shit other than to just annoy you.
Baconsammy
Banned
I think you can just switch your current world to peaceful without starting over.
Blatant ripoffs and clones on the indie channel were selling like crazy so now that the real thing is out it's not too much of a shock. Game has a ludicrous word of mouth and I'm sure plenty of people who wanted it but didn't game on PC bought it.
Fox Mulder
Member
I was borderline, but bestbuy had it for $15 and sent a code immediately.
I knew it was going to be big, since the indie games section is flooded with clones. The hunger for a console version of minecraft was there.
sneakypete
Member
Damn was that a pre-order special or something? I don't see that on their website
-bakalhau-
Member
Within two updates (so not the next one, but the one after) there will be a final boss fight. Along with enchanting items, armor, potions, hunger meter, new locations, biomes, mobs.
It's already on the PC since 1.8 (console being 1.6.6).
And here I was worried that the XBLIG rip offs would dent it.
Pretty sure the game is done for, and the guys who made it are just moving on instead of trying to expand on it in any way.
Such a shame.
No bosses, not until/if it gets updated to the equivalent PC version that has the Ender Dragon. No special loot, unless you count things like pumpkin seeds in chests (if that's in this version.) Terraria focuses more on that kind of thing - but I see you've already played it.
Very doubtful. The developer seems to be done with Terraria completely. The coder stopped working on it to focus on family, and the artist went over to a game called Starbound.
For some reason buying the 360 version has re-sparked my interest in the PC version and I ended up playing the PC version all night tonight. Before tonight I havent put more than 10 minutes into the PC version...and now Im hooked.
I guess Im holding out on the 360 version until it catches up with the PC version.
I guess Im holding out on the 360 version until it catches up with the PC version.
-bakalhau-
Member
Made some quick math. Game sold 250 copies in 1 minute, twice I checked. There's 375 minutes until the first day is complete. So at this rate it will sell another 93k until the first day is over.
Which will make it around 450k units day one.
Which will make it around 450k units day one.
Baconsammy
Banned
Every ranking on the leaderboards isn't a sale though.
-bakalhau-
Member
I said that earlier and people on this same thread told only gamertags which paid for the game get on the leaderboard (which I confirm). It does not translate 100% accurately, but it must be like what, 99% accurate?
Ape Gone Insane
Member
I think I'll prefer it when it's updated to include Creative Mode. The Survival aspect is good in co-op but just building is frustrating with having to go back and forth for resources: ya, I'm lazy. Unlimited resources would be great.
Baconsammy
Banned
Not sure about the percentage, but I imagine its high. I just know that I'm on the leaderboard, and so are the gamertags for my wife and daughter. And I'm the only one that bought the game. I doubt there's any chance it doesn't outsell everything else on XBLA.