Morning Discussion
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Friday Morning Minecraft FUCK YEAH Thread!
at0micgarden Is Doing All the Work Edition!
(FUCK YEAHHHH!)
- SURVIVAL MULTIPLAYER NEXT WEEK OH MY GOD
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/875499109/im-going-all-gaga-now-1000-sales-in-24-hours
"In more concrete news, I noticed that BIGJam starts next week. I will release the SMP server before I leave for that."
- Seecret Friday Update is today! The actual post isn't up yet, but you can check Notch's blog until it is!
http://notch.tumblr.com
- Speaking of Notch and the Friday Update, at0micgarden tipped me off that powered minecarts might be making an appearance!
http://twitter.com/Inacio_/status/19841162268
http://twitter.com/xnotch/status/19841283041
- Speaking of powered minecarts, here is this cool thing that ZTac found!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwXTQHlACE8
- On the topic of cool things, at0micgarden found a PC Gamer interview with Notch!
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/29/community-heroes-notch-for-minecraft/
- http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23589530#itemanchor_23589530
http://www.shackpics.com/files/Canwefixit_09sw3fkdq9827287nn2l.png (Very tall image!)
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The Best of the Past!
- (via Haxim) Like Minecraft, but hate that your saves are locked to a single computer? Minecraft Save Manager is a program (currently in beta) that will auto-sync your saves with an external hosting service so you can play on the go!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=20119
I haven’t tried this out, so I can’t really say anything else about it!
- Cool story from at0micgarden about playing Minecraft! Exploration! Adventure!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23591770#itemanchor_23591770
- Zek raises an interesting point!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23592535#itemanchor_23592535
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Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, links courtesy of 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
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Creative Multiplayer Server! run by our very own MercFox1!
http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?server=a16f86bfc644bae85cba8ff2e7edf027
For those who are unaware, Creative mode for Minecraft is what the Alpha form of the game grew out of! Features include:
- Instant placing/ removing of blocks
- An inventory that gives you instant access to all block types (press B to open it!)
- The sponge block! Place it near water to make the water go away! It looks a bit like spoiled cheese, all yellow with black dots on it.
- Totally safe water! It will expand to fill any space, and there is an unlimited amount of it! You won't take drowning damage, as there isn't any health bar in Creative, but it will fuck up your builds something fierce! it also poses no threat to you in any way!
- No fall damage!
- Giant pink cocks shooting rainbows jizzum into the air! ONLY ON SHACKNEWS EAST
Happy ending!
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/minecraft_5387io7kja6mraz6s6no.jpg
Just looks like that, which looks like a newly generated world. -
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I finished Olympus v1.0 last night.
This is a shot from my original base on ground level. It's very high up.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/GroundJPG_6pqbbms8mc973vcgqo6j.jpg
I was pretty pleased with how the pathway turned out.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/LandingJPG_dv71csnbzjrj7wteh8lv.jpg
Tall building is tall.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/FrontJPG_d3fjzbweb3xfmrbn5cv9.jpg
I tried to do a split staircase design. It turned out well for the most part, but unfortunately you can't put a half block ONLY on the top half of a space.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/StairwayJPG_qd26cdpz5bqaep75l6st.jpg
A shot of the second floor interior, with balcony.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/SecondFloorJPG_wghhajarbc0l821scrh3.jpg
A shot from the balcony looking at the original base (vantage point in shot #1)
http://www.shackpics.com/files/BelowJPG_3sblfu6jodluum9i3z3f.jpg
Bonus creepy night shot! I'm not sure how well this one turned out.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/NightJPG_u4zmufgzctey5o6gv8zf.jpg
I'm going to try to reform this a little and make it a bit more circular and the 'dome' less Empire State Building-ish.
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The 3D Dot Game Heroes theme looks pretty good:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9613
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It's not necessarily filling in the blanks. It's more like seeing a flip-book animation versus a Disney feature film. It's still an animation and you are getting the basic representation of what the artist is trying to convey, but not a fully fleshed out, detailed, exact vision like "this is what I want you to see". It's like walking into a town made of legos. It's obviously not "real" so you have to pretend it is.
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Can you imagine how Notch feels right now? I mean think about it and put yourself in his shoes.
You make some little game, Left4kDead, and it's a huge hit. You made it because you were in love with video games. All of a sudden people are emailing you, making forums about you, all because you made a little java game and it's brought them joy.
So you decide to give them more, and make Minecraft. Then all of a sudden the moneyhats start rolling in. All the hard work you've put into building this small game is paying off.
Each morning you wake up and check your paypal account to see $1000 more dollars, then $10,000 more dollars, and more and more.
You start shopping for motorcycles.
Websites across the web are screaming your game's name. Your favorite game company (valve) gives a shout-out directly to YOU and your sales increase 10 fold.
You start shopping for houses.
People start making mods and skins for YOUR game, because they love video games. It's a beautiful cycle and indie dev's are here to stay.
Big publishers should take a gander at how a one man team can grab just as much of a market as some of their AA and AAA titles can, without buying every magazine/web ad imaginable. -
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Don't have it here but it was just a couple lines but can be done in one:
robocopy %appdata%\.minecraft <destination folder> /z /mir
I had a couple extra lines to make a backup folder based on the date/time. I don't remember the commands off the top of my head but you have to strip out the slashes in the date and the colons in the time.-
Here's my full batch file if you're still interested:
set op=D:\minecraft_backup
set curDate=%date%
set curDate=%curDate:/=_% <-- changes the slashes '/' to underscores '_'
set curTime=%time%
set curTime=%curTime::=_% <-- changes the colon ':' to underscores '_'
set curTime=%curTime: =0% <-- changes any spaces to a zero. Necessary at least on Win7 if you play past midnight. :) eg. Instead of outputting "00:30" it will output " 0:30". Windows still doesn't handle spaces properly (imo) so I always try to avoid them if possible
robocopy %appdata%\.minecraft %op%\%curDate%--%curTime% /z /mir
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Yeah, it will save but if his laptop is crapping out it could corrupt the saves when it crashes. There was a bit of a bug that corrupted my game world, the entire world would freeze when I tried to enter a certain section of the of the map. I lost a few hours of mining but a backup saved me from restarting from scratch.
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I've seen this backup program fly by on the SA minecraft thread, haven't tried it yet myself: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=20119
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Last night I decided to clean up my structures a bit. I had two main bases and random entrances peppered around the countryside (from mining, losing my way, and digging upwards). I finally showed my wife this game last night and she thought it was cool, so I bought it for her (can't wait for MP), and since she is not used to playing fps games with a mouse and keyboard, she was at first having some issues getting up my shitty spiral staircases, which I had constructed in a crude "jump up the blocks" manner.
So for the next hour or so, I tried to make my stairs handicapped accessible. It was like playing a puzzle game trying to figure out the best way to wind up the half-blocks. I finally locked into a method and ended up reconstructing all of my staircases, so I can now freely go up and down with no spacebar needed.
Then I wanted to somehow dig a tunnel from my main base to my secondary base on what I call tree island (so many trees on this island you can barely walk on the surface). I have no fucking idea how people do this, or how you can even approximate underground base positions that are a fair distance apart without counting blocks. I knew I had to dig under a somewhat narrow piece of ocean, and I began my descent into base #1while trying to keep my mouse pointed at base #2.
After spending around 30 minutes digging a 3x3 tunnel towards what I was praying was at least in the general vicinity of my second base, I decided to make my way to the surface and see what I had going on. Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig...
Dig....dig......dig......diggggg.......STARS! I had reached the surface.
I was in the middle of the ocean at night on a small sand dune, my target a vast distance away. FUCK! -
IF YOU'RE CONSIDERING BUYING MINECRAFT, READ THIS
The price will be raised to 14.95 Euros within the next week or two. MP servers are supposed to be up next week without mobs. When mobs are added, it's officially 'Beta', which is signifying the increase in prices. If you're on the fence, best buy it now and save yourself a few bucks. -
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It's not easy, but can be done. At your 1st base, dig a 3x3 tunnel straight down for 10 blocks. Then go to your second base and do the same and then point in the direction of your first base and dig away. Pray you hit your first base's tunnel and you don't run into a huge natural cavern on the way. I managed to do it a couple of times, with the span being over 500 blocks long.
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I cant link it now but:
Use the cartographer program in cave mode. You can dig down then drill horizontal pilot holes to identify where you are on the map. Do this for both bases and line them up. Then dig away. Once the tunnels meet on the horizontal axis, use the colors to decide how to make them meet vertically.-
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If I were doing it, I'd dig a hole on your starting island, climb back up, and swim across the water in a straight line, and dig a hole when I hit ground. That way, when you start the tunnel, they HAVE to connect if you just keep digging straight. If you need to do a diagonal line, I would just make it a right angle, so you don't have to worry about not hitting your holes.
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Lol, I know following a straight line underground is tough.. Just go to a point across the water that is in a N S E or W direction straight, dig down at an angle toward the island. On the island, dig down, and refill with another block type, so you know when you've hit the island.
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dig the straight down on the island, try to overshoot the depth. If it's 3 blocks across then put a torch on the beach in line with the middle block. hop in a boat and stay in line with the torch to the shore of your second base. Plant another inline torch, and just keep planting them until you reach your second base. if you need to put any turns in the path, just dig out the turn wall so it's easy to find when you're underground heading that way.
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crazy minecraft night
1) my fiancee bought it last night, and her addiction is now well in place
2) thank you whoever gave the tip about planting trees on top of trees. i have a good little forest going on top of my base now
3) i hit the bottom of the map last night under my base, and kept going in a straight line until i found a cave. died once, lost all my shit (none of it was there when i got back, wtf), but i ended up finding a bun of iron, gold, and diamonds (finally!)
4) is there a way to make an infinite lava pit like the infinite water pit? i made a 2x2 hole and put lava at either corner, but it doesn't calm over like water :( -
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Live feed of carts http://brocraft.net/minecraft.html
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/Capture730201021658PM_m0hsy3bewop4xp6puyhw.jpg
It made this, but not sure how to make it play
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Apparently there are 3 types of minecarts now
Maybe check here, its not loading for me tho.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
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ok it worked but If minecarts only "Push" not "Pull" the only thing this is good for is squat.
I did it and If I put the engine behind the cart I am in it moves the engine further behind me.
If its in front of you it just takes off and your sitting in a cart like a jackass while your motor drives on.
must be a way to "connect" cars-
It seems fine to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ofvZyV-J2U
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I think he's made some changes to the world generator: http://grab.by/5Ftf
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there's definitely room for more than one kind of server.
1. i like the idea of a sandbox world where i can do my own projects without other people messing with them, but where they can log in and i can show them to them. and then they can build some shit of their own next door, or maybe help me with my project if i want them to.
2. i also like the idea of a big sandbox world where 30 people are working on the same megaproject, maybe even competitively trying to build something awesome against the opposition of griefers. maybe some of the "builders" would just be security fighting the griefers off, who knows. defensive earthworks could be a factor.
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What do you suppose the hats mean in his post:
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As in mine carts?
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecart
Doesn't seem to be implemented yet/anymore. Even so it's probably too much work (and uses a lot of resources) for something I only need the once.
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Finally got enough work done to take the Minecraft Plunge last night.
So... yeah. Stayed up until 5 AM playing. Not sure when the last time was that I did that.
Moment of panic when I died from being lit on fire by magma (guess that doesn't go out by itself eh), then respawned way the hell far away from where I had set up my Fortress of Solitude, then couldn't find the blasted place again, then Minecraft locked up. I was sure I was going to end up permanently lost or with a corrupted save (or both)? Fortunately the save seems to be OK, and I fixed my spawn and position with MCEdit. Even with MCEdit though it was reaalllly difficult to find my base in the world.
I know eventually people get to the point where they are happy to just discard a whole world and start over, but I'm not there yet. :-)
Powered minecarts will be awesome! I was just looking at starting a track system between my mountaintop base and a cave system. -
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Don't you have to hold down the right-click on the powered minecart to keep it moving? Right-clicking once makes it move briefly and then it stops. So if I make an S-curve and hop in the cart, the powered minecart would simply stop moving as I'm no longer behind it holding down on the right mouse button to keep it moving.
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When I put the regular minecart in front or behind the powered minecart and sit in the regular minecart and right-click on the powered minecart, it moves in the opposite direction, so it doesn't push me in the regular minecart, it moves away from me. If I get out, and right-click on the other side of the minecart, it moves and pushes the regular minecart, but obviously without me sitting in it, which defeats the purpose of the powered minecart.
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I found this in a dungeon crate. Is It old? I cant get crafting pages to load
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=saddle_scb2eaecr338w41u8s76.jpg
looks like a saddle to me ill try to throw it on a cow or something-
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And if the pig is on ice, they get a huge speed boost for some reason http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFKvb8C-kys
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http://a.imageshack.us/img717/3732/kraken.png
I-i-i-i don't know what to make of this. If it's legit...COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL -
Something else from the update:
Find a red flower and pick it..
Next time you run into a creeper, let him approach and then select the red flower right from your inventory when he gets near. He'll start "SSssss" but DON"T PANIC. Selecting the flower when he's next to you makes him stationary and he acts as a "guard" from that point on for you. -
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I'm just amazed at what some people create with this game.
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Small question about flowers (not creeper-related).
I have a little orchard in my base, actually a row of trees on each side of a stairway going down into the mountain. I wanted to plant flowers between the trees. I was able to plant a line of flowers from the first tree to the second tree on each side, no problem. After that though, any flowers I plant just pop back out of the ground and become pickups again. Sometimes right away, sometimes after a while.
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So I made this with a chest and a diamond in the middle, but can't figure out what it does? http://www.shackpics.com/files/Capture730201021658PM_m0hsy3bewop4xp6puyhw.jpg
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I've been doing variations of 3X3
basically:
XXXXX
XOOOX
XOOOX
XOOOX
XXXXX
You can do that vertically, or horizontally. It's not the most efficient, but it makes it easy because you can just have 1 ladder if you make a vertical shaft.
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So I see people making all these crazy Redstone circuits, but no one ever says what they could be used for.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_circuits (the wiki is a bit slow right now)
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If you don't get redstone, you'll certainly not get this either:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/krispykrem/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-people
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Okay, here's my XOR gate.
This shot is simply the two levers that activate the door. You can open and shut the iron door (you can see the edge of the open door on the left side of the shot) from both inside and outside the room.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/switchesJPG_w78dmo0tqvsok3agqsxt.jpg
This is the start/input of the gate. The circle on the right is the lever inside the room, the one on the left is the one outside. The torch just above the right circle is the final output, right below the door.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/StartJPG_3b72rr3p6xoltjmlu6vh.jpg
It was hard to get this all in one shot, but I'm standing at the output side. The circle you see is the left circle in the last picture.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/outputJPG_qoup52k3ji77oyv6lowe.jpg
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Single player currently. I play in the browser, but there is a download version.
As to what you do, watch:
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Some update stuff I noticed
Chickens drop eggs. I'm not sure what the frequency is, but I've got two of em.
Also animals disappear where there is no light, I think this is brand new.
Animals will jump in your empty minecart and/or push it...be careful
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So i just finished the final touches on my Hill Top Castle so here are some pictures!
Outside look: http://www.shackpics.com/files/MinecraftEntirecastleview_d05uxmy2opgmw2z98tn2.png
1st floor: http://www.shackpics.com/files/Minecraft1stfloor_v82nifgcn1yifocyqp11.png
Basement and Back Exit: http://www.shackpics.com/files/Minecraftbasementandbackexit_q8nyejm8iy8rsirny20o.png
2nd and Castle floor: http://www.shackpics.com/files/Minecraftcastlefloor_9h62p0mjyntamxeapae5.png
Top of Castle: http://www.shackpics.com/files/MinecraftTopofCastle_7g2k3zahgnnmy5cjx7q3.png
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I just found this awesome underground cave and I got excited because I thought there would be Obsidian,
http://www.shackpics.com/files/mc_mxiyuvek8b8py5mnvdvo.png
but now I don't see any :(
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