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Minecraft XBLA |OT| Don't touch my cactusSsSS
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sneakypete
Member
Wow light stops monsters from spawning.. can't believe I didn't put that together on my own. 'preciate the advice buddy!
bengraven
Member
Skellies can hit something like five or six blocks away. You just proved the old adage: "I don't need to outrun the bear, I need to outrun you".
I remember my first few nights in MC. I built a little dirt and cave area - at the time I didn't realize that natural caves were better for mining than ones I made myself, so I just dug out some dirt and rock and formed a pocket in the mountain. I wasn't aware of the light rule at the time and just had a torch outside, above my door so I could find it on dark nights. My pocket was about 10 x 20. I sat by my door and waited for the sun to come back.
Yeah.
Thwang. What?! Thwang. "Oh what the fuck, what the fuck?
While I had been running home a skeleton RIDING A SPIDER had spawned inside my house. I had ran in, slammed the door shut against the coming night, and just turned my back to the darkness inside my own home to peek out the window in my door and THWANG SKREEE THWANG SKRREEEEE.
Respawning at midnight and having to find a single candle miles from home sucks.
Dirt floor? Pigs and cows and chickens will spawn on grass as long as there's light.
Neuromancer
Member
Built a mighty tower at the top of a mountain with some friends. Good times!
Pretty sure 1.6 has boosters.
AHappyPanda
Member
Have they said anything about patches coming to the XBLA version...or will MS do what MS does and put out the patches on PC as "content pack" DLC for the XBLA version
Also, what little I know of the PC version, I think I can do without the hunger mechanic. Seems unnecessary.
Also, what little I know of the PC version, I think I can do without the hunger mechanic. Seems unnecessary.
It looks like Notch got 3 or 4 free updates. Minecraft is living on a whole different cloud then most XBLA games.
I do have to say that the updates for Minecraft on the PC just sound annoying and not fun. Outside of the endless world.
I am more addicted to this on my Xbox than I am on my Mac.
I'm in the " must mine more stone, I NEED STONE" moment. I'm currently trying to build a rough stone outline of a massive cathedral/building thing.
And to fix my floor outside my door.
I have had my "OH SHIT THAT'S COAL" moments the past 3 nights.
I'm in the " must mine more stone, I NEED STONE" moment. I'm currently trying to build a rough stone outline of a massive cathedral/building thing.
And to fix my floor outside my door.
I have had my "OH SHIT THAT'S COAL" moments the past 3 nights.
There are plenty of great ones that I hope they implement in this version, playing around at a friends house it seems a bit too 'barebones' for me to enjoy it at this stage (having played hundreds of hours of the PC version), as well as the miniscule world size. According to Notch they plan to add the communities most requested features in each patch, more of a pick and choose type of deal rather than copying the PC versions iterative update cycles. Which is nice since they have hindsight on their side, but it also means this version will be constantly lagging behind the PC one.
Ok so we are at about 48 hours now.
Minecraft
Peaceful- 319,860
Easy- 581,063
Normal- 312,096
Hard- 64,815
Trials Evolution
539,109
Geometry Wars 2
620,775
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved
1,103,859
Doom
601,898
TMNT Arcade
998,839
Castle Crashers
2,815,360
Limbo
947,400
Sorry just having fun with leaderboards.
Minecraft
Peaceful- 319,860
Easy- 581,063
Normal- 312,096
Hard- 64,815
Trials Evolution
539,109
Geometry Wars 2
620,775
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved
1,103,859
Doom
601,898
TMNT Arcade
998,839
Castle Crashers
2,815,360
Limbo
947,400
Sorry just having fun with leaderboards.
RebornYeti
Member
Haha, nice picture.
I had a couple friends join my world after you left and they both got the achievement. Perhaps it was just a glitch on your end. If you want, you can join me again tomorrow and we'll go for it again. Also, don't worry about not being able to help me. I had my friends help out a ton with the resources after you left. I have so much Cobblestone haha.
Oh, and yes, I am decked out in iron armor. Working my way up to diamond armor pretty soon.
In other news, my castle is nearly complete. What should I start building next? I'm thinking a proper mansion up on the tallest mountain.
Still not sure what the deal is with my house and beds, as there's space from the walls, space below and above, and it's well lit. But I'm just making another house anyway because of the craziness that happened when I tried digging in the basement.
Slowly went down, my friend split off and we dug different directions. I eventually found a big room, and kept digging down. He wasn't finding much, so he met up with me and we pushed it out a lot. Then he just went "fuck it" and dug straight down. Fell down a hole, barely lived, but we hit bedrock for the first time. I dug my way down to mine all the redstone we found, also came across a gold ingot and 4 diamonds.
But, given how far down we were, it was pretty dangerous digging, usually upwards. My friend had the stupid idea to use the insane amount of cobblestone we had to try and see if we could pop out of the surface, but I figured since we were hitting bedrock that it would be reallllly high up, especially with that dangerous digging. The problem? I built my house on a BIG hill, and the fact we even managed to hit bedrock from there is crazy. We went extremely far down to hit where we were. Either way, he goes and digs up while placing cobblestones behind him while I'm slagging behind a bit, then I hear him scream and fall with a ton of gravel crushing and killing him. Yup, plan failed. My inventory was completetly filled and my last pickaxe just broke, so I was nearly stranded and had a lot of good stuff on me. I slowly managed to make my way down to the bedrock again, but couldn't find the hole I fell down here in.
My friend was trying to find me on the map and dig straight down(which I advised against...) and he ended up falling right into lava. So, good to know that I have a bunch of that on top of me as well. I eventually found the hole I fell down in and made an extremely dumb move when I was going to build up. I hit LT as I was scrolling to the dirt I had, and accidentily used the Flint. I lit myself on fire, freaked out and covered the flame then started building up as high as I could. LUCKILY the fire stopped when I had a half heart, so I was alive and back in my normal carved out mine. Got upstairs and saved all the stuff I found.
Then I decided to use the good ~2000 cobblestone I have from all of this to move to the beach and make a giant stone house partially on the water. Because FUCK my other house, it's cursed.
Slowly went down, my friend split off and we dug different directions. I eventually found a big room, and kept digging down. He wasn't finding much, so he met up with me and we pushed it out a lot. Then he just went "fuck it" and dug straight down. Fell down a hole, barely lived, but we hit bedrock for the first time. I dug my way down to mine all the redstone we found, also came across a gold ingot and 4 diamonds.
But, given how far down we were, it was pretty dangerous digging, usually upwards. My friend had the stupid idea to use the insane amount of cobblestone we had to try and see if we could pop out of the surface, but I figured since we were hitting bedrock that it would be reallllly high up, especially with that dangerous digging. The problem? I built my house on a BIG hill, and the fact we even managed to hit bedrock from there is crazy. We went extremely far down to hit where we were. Either way, he goes and digs up while placing cobblestones behind him while I'm slagging behind a bit, then I hear him scream and fall with a ton of gravel crushing and killing him. Yup, plan failed. My inventory was completetly filled and my last pickaxe just broke, so I was nearly stranded and had a lot of good stuff on me. I slowly managed to make my way down to the bedrock again, but couldn't find the hole I fell down here in.
My friend was trying to find me on the map and dig straight down(which I advised against...) and he ended up falling right into lava. So, good to know that I have a bunch of that on top of me as well. I eventually found the hole I fell down in and made an extremely dumb move when I was going to build up. I hit LT as I was scrolling to the dirt I had, and accidentily used the Flint. I lit myself on fire, freaked out and covered the flame then started building up as high as I could. LUCKILY the fire stopped when I had a half heart, so I was alive and back in my normal carved out mine. Got upstairs and saved all the stuff I found.
Then I decided to use the good ~2000 cobblestone I have from all of this to move to the beach and make a giant stone house partially on the water. Because FUCK my other house, it's cursed.
Press Start to bring up the menu, then press Y. It'll ask for your Facebook login information and then it'll post the screenshot to your wall
Ravensmash
Member
My buildings are all so ugly, I'm talking about cobblestone houses which just don't feel right D:
I love the satisfaction you get from building though; really missed it.
I love the satisfaction you get from building though; really missed it.
MS have allowed patches for Minecraft, so hopefully to see the XBLA version to catch up to the PC version in time.
you building with cobblestone? If so, give it a while and you'll be in the 'need more furnaces to make smooth stone' phase
Backfoggen
Banned
Hmm the Start + Y thing doesn't work for me at all.
Online sessions, all 4 splitters need to be gold accounts. It seems to not let them be guests.
Also you need to be playing via HD.
Local anybody can be any profile
Emerson
May contain jokes =>
Not Start + Y, Start and then Y. In the pause menu there's even a little Y icon at the bottom that indicates hitting it will "Share."
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Yes, they can play split-screen with you without having gold accounts (I've just tested this myself).
Backfoggen
Banned
I don't have that at all in my game. I'm gold too. Weird.
Emerson
May contain jokes =>
Do you have the Facebook app downloaded?
Backfoggen
Banned
Yes, logged in there too. Already tried restarting the Xbox and reconnecting XBL but nothing.
Unfortunately, it looks like, according to the Minecraft Wiki, the boosters were removed in Beta 1.6, so they wouldn't have them any more.
Can I ask how you have a custom skin in the 360 version, or is that the default multiplayer skin (on the right) or something?Tried to get the minecart achievement by joining RebornYeti's world earlier but it didn't work. Maybe you have to build and ride the cart in your own world? Sorry I wasn't able to help you gather resources man, the wife needed help with something. I did take a picture of our brief encounter though lol
That's RebornYeti decked out in iron armor?
Backfoggen
Banned
Can I ask how you have a custom skin in the 360 version, or is that the default multiplayer skin or something?
It's the default second player skin.
Ravensmash
Member
"Can I come in?"
MikeE21286
Member
0_o.I played this with 3 mates from 8:30pm - 12:30pm last night building a super fortress. Great Fun.
Also NOPE!
Seems like an extreme amount of time to be playing
Yes, logged in there too. Already tried restarting the Xbox and reconnecting XBL but nothing.
You have to enable social network sharing in your account security settings for the Y prompt to show up.
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Played about 4-5 hours yesterday with the missus. We're having problems in the bedroom... zombie problems. Room is well lit and bed isn't next to a wall. There is a room upstairs, but is also well lit. I think I have to build a basement so I can sleep in peace.
Diablohead
Member
Is it possible to make a floating island by digging out dirt from under a mountain? I know sand will drop but mud seems to float?
gregor7777
Banned
The damn basement was when I strted having zombie problems lol.
Clearly my house isn't fortress-like enough. The time to remedy that is approaching.
Yes, actually I was thinking in Animal Crossing while I was playing it. We need more Totakeke...
Yeah, it's very doable. The only materials that are affected by gravity are sand, gravel, and TNT once it's lit.
-bakalhau-
Member
I know it is a small thing, but I would lovve to see some more crops and food recipes worked into the game. Pumpkin pie, anyone?
An acceptable Harvest Moon-esque title for the 360!
You'll get both of those things
Phonomezer
Banned
I just tried the demo. Is there a point to the game other than creating things made out of blocks?
-bakalhau-
Member
Awesomesauce!
You'll get pumpkin and melon farming in 1.8 (the second update) and a few more food items too, I just checked it out.