Evening Reading
Gaming News o'the Day
- Double Fine's new game is full of Halloween charm.
- Guild Wars 2 is playable at PAX and Gamescom and this trailer looks mighty snazzy.
- Madden NFL 11 is out today and we've got our review.
- Fallout: New Vegas full of celebrity voice talent.
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Single player:
Go to a tree, left click to punch / chop the wood, collect the wood blocks that fall, get 3 or 4.
Press I (i) , then put 1 wood in the 2x2 crafting square to get boards. Put 4 boards in the 2x2 crafting square to get a workbench, which when placed on ground (right click) and used, will give you a 3x3 crafting square.
All things to craft: http://www.echidnatribe.org/Minecraft/crafting.php
You want to build a house / hut to survive the night. build it around your workbench.
a door can be made with a 3 boards tall, 2 board wide rectangle in the crafting square.
put 2 board vertically in the crafting square to make sticks. make a wooden pick, and wooden axe. chopping wood, and converting it to boards is the fastest way to get material to make a hut / house from.
use the wooden pick to dig up some stone - make a stone pick and stone axe.
Use a pick to dig up coal (stone with black flecks in it). coal on top of a stick make a torch. Torches won't keep monsters away at night, but it will prevent them from spawning in the lit area.
look for iron ore - stone with salmon colored flecks in it - you need a stone pick or better to get the ore. Make a furnace with a 8 stone square, then smelt the iron in the furnace using coal. using the iron bars to make iron tools and armor. you need iron tools to mine gold or diamonds.
Build a huge castle or explore a cavern!
Wiki: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
Most of the above is also applicable for multiplayer, but there is no monsters or day / night cycle in multiplayer survival yet-
the first link is dead, use this instead: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
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This might help or join the server and people will show you around.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23684320#itemanchor_23684320 -
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No no no no no no don't listen to the above. The first time you play you should just go in blind, to single player. Have the fun of not knowing how to craft and what happens at night and blah blah. After you've learned to survive a night or two, then go and read about how to craft and do the advanced shit.
Don't ruin that first "oh my god what am I doing what is that noise someone hold me" experience by going to the wikis before you experience the game!!!-
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This cartograph program is awesome! http://agentpothead.com/caves.gif Can actually visualize the underground. Even did a slice by slice scan! http://agentpothead.com/mri.gif
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Weird Single Player Event: There's this little island across the water from my base. I went there once on the first night I made this new world, died, and never bothered to go back as I didn't lose anything but my tools, some wood and coal.
Tonight I went back and all my stuff was still there on the island bouncing up and down. This is nearly 2 weeks later in real world time and many in-game weeks later. Anyone else had stuff not disappear like that? -
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