Morning Discussion
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Minecraft thread.. ?
You fuckers made me buy this thing, and I was up til 2:30a.
How come I can't find any iron?-
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Yeah, they're all very easy to move around, and if you haven't done too much exploring you could even send it through e-mail if the need ever arises. The files are saved to:
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\.minecraft\Saves (Application Data is a hidden folder)
Windows Vista/7 - C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\Saves-
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Map: http://www.minecraft.net/infdev/preview.jsp
Load up your save in that and you should be able to find your way around using terrian.
Compass: As someone else pointed out sunrise/set is east/west and clouds always move north -
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Use this thread: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17634 Cloud's your saves using Dropbox, and a second method does the same but doesnt let Dropbox sync until you've quit the game.
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I think you're much better off searching for natural cave formations than just digging down wherever you want. Sometimes there are huge networks of caves completely enclosed in the ground though, I'm not sure if you're equally likely to find them with random digging or if you should start in existing caves.
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Just picked it up last night and it's fun and relaxed so far. I got it based exclusively on how much fun some friends and I had in the online multiplayer a while ago. Building underground bunkers, making secret entrances, trying to expand those bunkers and OH GOD LAVA POCKET. GET OUT. SAVE YOURSELF, IT'S TOO LATE FOR ME.
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There is (for me) a sense of geniune achievement when playing Minecraft that I don't seem to get from other games. Open world games are everywhere now, and I love playing them; but the houses I can inhabit and the things I can see are the same things everyone else gets. When I go back to my house in Minecraft I feel comforted in a way that other pretend video game houses don't make me feel; I built that house, and if it ever feels weird or I think of a way to make it better, I can rebuild it any way I see fit. I have weathered Creeper storms and killed pigs in that house, attempted to make a basement and fallen 50 blocks down into a pool of lava in that house, sworn for a solid hour about losing diamond equipment because who the fuck puts a lava pool under a flat plain in that house.
When (in Minecraft) I see a mountain made almost entirely of stone rising out a lake of molten lava, I can acknowledge that other people may have seen a similar thing, but my particular fuckawesome stonemountain has features that the others don't. Other mountains may have trees on top of them, or openings to massive, sprawling caves complexs, but those trees and winding cave systems aren't the same as the ones I encounter. I can explore these caves and have a wholly different experience than anyone else; I will encounter things no one else will ever see unless they walk into my caves.
I can (and have) stripped down entire mountains to ground level and five story mansions on top of them; I have dug into the earth and grown crops and trees in underground groves that sit in the middle of pools of fire; I have made railways system that cross rivers and dive under oceans, that connect entire fucking continents to each other, and none of the things I've seen or done or built are ever going to be experienced the same way by another player.
Ah fuck I was going somewhere with this but I forgot how I was going to end it. -
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Linkmania!
Skins galore!
http://skins.tkte.ch/
Staple Structures Every Town Should Have (will be usefull for multiplayer-run towns and economies)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14998
Hi-Res Texture Pack
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=18216
Sync Minecraft saves across computers (Mac or PC)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17634
InvEdit - Lets you cheat/hack items into your saved games, great for testing or building something without the grind of mining (which is the best part of minecraft, so only use this if you're lame)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15921
SkinEdit - Make your own skins super easy with templates pre-installed!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4843
MCEdit - Build Maps!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15522 -
I bought it too. I haven't played much yet, but I did find a neat cave loaded with coal high up on a cliff face last night. I also discovered the inspiration for this VGCats comic: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=292 which ended with me laughing whilst sitting half-dead at the bottom of a smoking crater. Little green fuckers!
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I've found the best way is to find natural caves. First stockpile torches, carry a workbench/furnace with you and lots of poles. Just mine, mine, mine and follow the natural openings b/c those open spaces are where you have a higher % chance to spot stuff like iron, gold deposits. Setup 'checkpoints' with your workbench and furnace to fashion more iron pickaxes as you keep going.
Eventually you'll get so deep that I suggest clearing a big cube room and digging up while replacing your footing with cobble, planting torches you grab then replant up (like a primitive escape elevator straight upwards) until you surface. Mark that spot with a big monument of cobble and torches so you can come back, dig down, and resume. -
Started a new game last night.
made my house exactly where I spawned, gathered trees the first day like it was going outa style. Ended up just sitting in my house for the first night, dug a little bit down. Second day I went out and found some coal, then my spiral stair to the bed rock began. Made it all the way down, found a lot of iron on the way, also got some gold and diamond! Currently excavating vaults down by the bed rock, found my first lava. Tonight more digging! -
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Craft yourself a pickaxe first
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Check this out: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
First you want to make workbench by cutting down some logs from trees and turning them into planks, then using those to build the workbench. Then you can make a pickaxe, which makes mining actually do-able.
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Listen to this and get a fresh backpack of picks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsLGYD4Gh_4
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I don't know what it's actually called but it's just verbal shorthand for referring to the pixellated circle I have open in the background. I was using two of them very close to each other, and at some point I started referencing the outer circle rather than the inner one; when I finished digging, my triumphant return to the surface ended up with me panicking and trying to swim up against the current, because I surfaced in the fucking ocean.
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Giving the most basic of instructions (since I went through it last night).
Hold down the left mouse button until you chop down some trees. Put those blocks into your inventories 2x2 crafting grid. Break the wood into 4-planks.
Use 4 planks to make a 3x3 crafting bench which you then deploy on the ground.
Right click on the deployed crafting bench to access the 3x3 crafting grid, then use 2 planks to make sticks.
Use planks + sticks to make pick axes. With those, you can mine everything up until you have to mine diamond, etc.
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MineCraft Custom-Skin SubThread
Here we show off our custom MineCraft skin.
I call mine 'Dirty Miner'. http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=DrZettl
You can also go into 3rd person mode in-game by hitting F5.
Custom skins you say? Check out http://www.minecraft.net/skin/ and http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Skin for info. The editor mentioned in the wiki article is super easy to use.
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I didn't make it but http://www.minecraft.net/skin/
snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!-
crap link fail: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=zuff
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I just made this, because well he's a blockhead.
http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=stonedonkey-
the skin if anyone wants to dick around with it:
http://www.shackpics.com/files/char_tos2jbrct7e1at8lgcwq.png
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i'm hooked! i did some sweet stuff today... I made a stone fort on a peninsula and made a harbor + moat the harbor has some boats docked in it along with some torches so I can find it at night when I'm on my way back. Sitting safe in my house at night waiting for day was boring so I started tunneling down for night time excavation operations... Eventually I fell like 10 blocks down after I broke a rock under me that had nothing under it. I landed in a sweet cavern that had an underground river in it! After digging some more I fell again this time into a cavern with a magma river! I built a bridge over the lava and continued on finally to strike it rich! I came upon another zombie infested cavern with a MOTHERLODE of gold, iron and coal. Cha ching!
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You've convinced me to dig into a cave I know is close to my main stairs. I hear them, the zombies... making noise behind a thin paper wall. I have not seen their cave, but they are many. From mother Terra's fiery depths strike out at the fiends with glistening diamond cuts! Hopefully I find some mother load too!
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I have a set of stairs at the back of my house that goes down to my middle minecart station & mine.
If you follow the tracks one way, it leads up and out to a hill station that you can ride down into the mines.
If you follow the tracks the other way, it takes you to monster infested caverns that are full of lava.
The mineride is scheduled to keep going through there and into even more riches... next step is to propagate some grass underground into a crazy grove. -
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Slash them with the sword and step back when you hear SSSSSSSSSS. If you can get far enough away from them, they won't explode. It's a proximity thing.
I've killed LOTS of those creepers just by slashing and moving backwards. Your effective attack range is a couple of spots in front of you with a sword. -
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Follow the bouncing creeper! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkibXv84WU
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You can play with your wife on Creative Multiplayer already. You can start a Creative Server and connect to it from any number of clients.
Speaking from experience hosting a server, I suspect you will be able to host a Survival server even if you do not have an account, which means you would only need 1 copy to connect to your own server. You would need to download the Server files, however, and run those.
The offline client is basically a single .exe file. -
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Kill pigs. Get pork. Cook pork in furnace.
Grow wheat. Combine 3 wheat to make bread. (grow wheat by hoeing soil till you get seed. Then moisten soil by having it next to water. Plant seed. Wait for it to go yellow, then harvest).
Find mushrooms (2 types). Combine one of each with a bowl to get stew.
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If ever you see that minecraft downloads a new update, head to http://notch.tumblr.com/ to see what's new. Notch posts tons of stuff to his blog.
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Pro tip: Stone spiral staircases are really fucking useful, because they don't blow up to creepers, and you can build them taller than the ground level, so when night ends, you can leave your cave more safely. What I do is put a storage container at the top of the spiral staircase, and store all rare materials from a night's quarry, then I work outside collecting wood and leveling my land
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Just in case you don't know what to do..
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23515741#itemanchor_23515741
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Yeah, that's the same game. The not-very-deep thing you refer to is the Creative mode, where you can just go around and make stuff, no crafting, no health, no monsters, just building stuff.
What has been developed since then is a mode called Survival, where there's a day/night cycle, crafting, you actually have to perform actions to get blocks, like cutting down a tree with an ax you've crafted, or attacking monsters with a sword you made from iron ore you mined, or gathering wheat from tilled soil to make bread, or making a railway network with railroad tracks, or smelting sand to make glass.
It's impressive, and there are other things in development (what Notch, the developer, calls the InDev build) like an infinitely expansive world, MP survival mode, etc. -
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actually it looks awesome shut up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NszGurDUlHc-
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Yeah it does look damn awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwr79lPRrFI
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Do you love building things? Excavating huge rooms? Finding crazy caves miles below the surface? Do you like cute monsters you grow to fear like bloody stoles? Have you ever wanted to make a rollercoaster? Can you touch your nose with your own tongue? Woudl you like to build a nose that is being touched by a tongue? NOW YOU CAN!
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You don't have to buy it, try out the Creative version. Go to www.minecraft.net and poke around in the free Creative version (I'd put up a direct link to it but I'm at work). We're all buying it just for the Survival SP and future MP mode, but you don't have to do that.
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Man this is spreading like wildfire across the internet, it's insane how quickly the sales are going up:
http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
It's sold 660 copies in the last 24 hours, and this figure has been increasing rapidly for weeks. For a one-man indie operation this guy is pulling in some mad cash. -
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Isn't there multiplayer already? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjcgxpCpbjE
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So where does everyone live?
Here's mine so far: http://www.shackpics.com/files/towersunset_wq1e7ueauy0o23k6l37u.png
I built a huge 9 story tower on a hill near my spawn. There's a small hole on the 8th floor for where the minecart ride is going to start (the initial plan was to make a huge drop and then a short incline at the end and have it go hurtling off into the ocean, but I don't think minecarts work like that yet). I'm going to start excavating the hill under my tower and see if I come across any cool caves.-
I have yet to build the actual house, but here's the location: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/695255/minecrafthome.png
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My first house:
http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/glassoutsideback.jpg
http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/glassoutsidefrnt.jpg
I literally just got the game last night so I haven't really done much of anything yet.
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Multiplayer status update
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/837581232/multiplayer-status-update
2 weeks left for mp. :O -
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