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  First Time Playing?
  - Check out (and help with) the Shackwiki Minecraft page!
  http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
  
  - Map your levels with Oizomapper, by mroizo40!
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24100023#itemanchor_24100023
  
  Video Guides!
  - (Series) X's Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff!
  http://tinyurl.com/2ah7sex
  Lots of useful info in here!
  
  - (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Boosters! Track switches! Et cetera!
  http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
  
  Written Guides!
  - Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, originally linked by at0micgarden!
  (Work in Progress) Guide to Alpha: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17021
  How to Survive Your First Night: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
  
  Shacker Help!
  - Things I Wish I’d Known, a retrospective by Ebu!
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23608826#itemanchor_23608826
  
  - Linkmania! By zuff!
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23514788#itemanchor_23514788
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23533536#itemanchor_23533536
  
  - Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
  
  - Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
  
  - Circle guides! More useful than they sound!
  http://www.agentpothead.com/minecraft/sphere.html linked/hosted by AgentPothead!
  http://www.41370.com/linkedimg/radii_even_to_100.png linked by Hemtroll!
  
  - Beginner’s Guide to Redstone, links by The Grolar Bear!
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24044649#itemanchor_24044649
  
  - And some generally useful keys to press!
  F11 - full screen!
  F3 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
  F5 - third person mode!

  Sep 28, 2010 6:18pm PDT
  First Time Playing? - Check out (and help with) the Shackwiki Minecraft page! http://shackwiki.com/wiki : Dong Patrol
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  Oblique MercFox1 Render: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png : YerMothah
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    YES! The grass has finally reached the sky fort! : ConsFEARacy
    • Also, my thanks to whoever was helping with the outer wall! : ConsFEARacy
    • Your sky fort is crazy! : Haxim
    • where's your sky fort? i wanna visit : OhSnapHighFive
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    Jeez it looks like you guys are creative. Any chance for a video tour of some of this at ground level? : Rasnowl
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      Just buy the game and come visit :) : Arctic Fox
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        I did just now, because of the youtube vid someone posted in another thread :-( I just spent the last ... : Rasnowl
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          Kill pigs, cook bacon in furnace, eat for health. Gold and diamond tend to be near the bottom of the w... : Arctic Fox
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            I killed two pigs with my stone sword but they both disintegrated? : Rasnowl
            • Kill more, they'll drop meat for you to eat, if you cook it in furnace though it will heal more health. : Fpsnut
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    haha, love the mouse cursor. : deathofrats
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      what cursor? : watcherxp
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        near S or SE corner of the render : OhSnapHighFive
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          ?? that program generates the map to a file, no screen to get a mouse cursor from? You aren't talking : watcherxp
          • no someone actually made a mouse cursor out of obsidian and sand, its far south on the map. : Shadowdane
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  Shadowdane's Render - New World Birdseye - http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-c : Shadowdane
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    If i move to your server, can I make a giant Your Momument? : YerMothah
    • Yah you can build what ever you like : Shadowdane
  • Updated the maps.. same links : Shadowdane
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    That lake with the big dark ring in it is my underground lair in the works! : Nerdsbeware
    • cool most everyone else has moved closer to the coast : Shadowdane
  • Current Mineral & Rare Block Amounts CoalOre: 2,165,991 IronOre: 928,881 RedstoneOre: 316,073 GoldOre : Shadowdane
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  How do i fill in water canal? : snowwolf
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    Create a checker pattern with some sand or dirt in the canal, then fill each hole with water. Once you're... : VencieraX
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      I thought there might be a faster way :( : snowwolf
      • There is. I'm gonna try to make a video of it tomorrow night. : Arctic Fox
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  Minecraft has made it to wimp! http://www.wimp.com/minecraftenterprise/ : Vividvoid
  • Someone earlier posted the youtube, but hey, who doesn't like wimp? : Vividvoid
  • What...the....fuck....... : paulatreus
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  16 Bit minecraft logic unit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug : watcherxp
  • That thing is insane. What kind of code is he going to try to compile on that thing anyway? : magistersmax
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  Just finished my tower. It now needs a name. http://upload.spillmonkey.com/uploads/tower.1285725847... : Arcath
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    Ball Hitch : Vividvoid
    • Bonus points if you construct a giant whore sucking the chrome off of it. : ChibiJosh
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    pawn, radardome, buttplug : MamiyaOtaru
    • Buttplug Tower it is! : Arcath
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  MercFox server admin men, I was trying to claw my way out of the spawn and I destroyed the sign with my c... : ArB
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    I think it's just you. The sign seems fine to me. : Vividvoid
    • Oh ok. Weird. It was still like it when I reconnected so I wasn't sure. : ArB
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  hurrr derpp saw this over on SA: http://www.thuneral.com/media/progress.png yes plz Also, thi... : manero
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    What am I looking at in that picture? : SilverSnake
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      Looks like the overworld map from Zelda 1? : guido anchovy
      • That it does. Wow. I didn't recognize it at all. :O : SilverSnake
  • I was thinking about doing this, along with some puzzles that require redstone setups (nothing complicate... : DHAvatar
  • some parts of it look like sound waves : Vividvoid
• That article Brian wrote on how much money minecraft is making ( http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65... : Haxim
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  How does water spawning work? Like at the top of a waterfall, there is one block that makes the water? ... : Nixx2004
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    The still blocks are the 'source' blocks, the moving blocks are runoff from the source : Arctic Fox
    • Hmm, OK. How do I get things back to 'normal'? :( The more I mess with it the more it spreads out, ... : Nixx2004
    • So the water is it's own source? It looks like it's coming out of a rock, but I don't know. What would... : Nixx2004
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      Here, a pic: http://www.shackpics.com/files/waterhelp_hyaw52ykvkdu7ikimntw.jpg See how it bumps out th... : Nixx2004
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        There was probably something there which made the water bump out before. Just block off the source block ... : Haxim
        • I was wondering if that'd work. Cool. : Nixx2004
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          Errr I don't think it worked. I blocked it off, the water stopped, I opened it, and nothing. : Nixx2004
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            http://www.shackpics.com/files/nowaterfall_7uky55oeyc8kyewhu8g2.jpg No waterfall. That hole next to th... : Nixx2004
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              Did you block off the actual source block? Or a block a little further away? If you blocked the source bl... : Haxim
              • OK, a bucket worked. Now I'm trying to make standing water, what's the trick? I made a grid, but I don... : Nixx2004
      • cut off the source and it will stop flowing, then let it flow again. it will correct itself : Shadowdane
• Do any of you guys who bought the game just mess around in Classic mode (on the website) for the hell of ... : The Grolar Bear
• So this is a pretty cool game, I bought it yesterday after finally sorting out all the bullshit with payp... : RetroRedEyeJr
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  playing my first game and creating my 2nd base because i died and can't find the first one! what a noob.... : aurealis
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    You need a program to make maps, there are lots on some minecraft forums, or the one used here isn't rele... : Nixx2004
    • i had found this awesome area at the base of a mountain to start mining my base, after putting in some go... : aurealis
  • Use this to make fancy pictures: http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip : Haxim
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  MINECRAFT + ANDROID users: Do yourself a big favor and go to the market and download "Minecraft Canary". ... : mlev
  • Bought. Nice suggestion, thanks! :-) : Legolas5
  • awesome, thanks for the tip : harold.johnson
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  check out this neat gif of a castle development (copy + paste) http://img.waffleimages.com/52245dc1525cd... : MurrayTheSkull
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    im surprised noone has built an arena on shack server yet, like an actual colloseum type deal. would be c... : Chandler55
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      sparkly has built a small arena, but there isn't a full on Colosseum yet. : MurrayTheSkull
      • Screw an Colosseum. Build a Thunderdome : SolrFlare
      • :{ Next project? :( : sparkly
    • I thought someone built an underground arena? : Nerdsbeware
  • woah : gyokuro
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  Need help.... I am taking the Isengard/Penis Island SC and working on connecting it to the North West ... : Arcath
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    The framework connecting the Sky Canal is done. Need help making it along with tons of stone/earth to... : Arcath
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      I am going to actually add one more down the center. : Arcath
      • Well center line is a no go. : Arcath
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  I kept getting mobbed in the SP game at night, while locked securely in my fortress. At one point I had ... : Colleton
  • The cage is the zombie generator. You found a dungeon. I got some pig saddles in one. You can't pick up t... : Fenring42
  • I thin k it's just "mossy cobblestone" and yu should save it for decoration : Juno
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  Water question. What happens if I make a pool of still water (2 deep), then drop a waterfall into it? ... : Nixx2004
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    It stays still, I believe. : magistersmax
    • Yeah. I need visitors, and someone to build a chandelier in here: http://www.shackpics.com/files/spa_i... : Nixx2004
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  Reached a milestone today and finished the last segment of the glass dome: http://www.shackpics.com/fi... : nem00
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    congrats that is awesome. what is the ring around the outside? going to be a moat? : MamiyaOtaru
    • That was going to be the moat of zombies but they don't spawn in their dungeons (marked with the Zs in to... : nem00
  • This looks great. I'm going to have to look at it in person. : ArB
  • Damn dude that thing keeps looking better and better! : Nerdsbeware
• now this is what I like to see http://www.shackpics.com/files/richVein_9mau2dzp9156nl8f0382.png : MamiyaOtaru
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  Ok, why put diamonds above a lava flow? Geeez, Kerplop gone! Only one I have found too. I HATE LAVA! ... : TempusT
  • put some dirt around next time you're mining so it doesn't fall into lava. Also you can pour water from ... : Fpsnut
• If anyone ever gets an idea to transform a whole part of a continent into a desolation devoid of life (ge... : Kronyxx