Minecraft -

***Nate*** · #**631** 07-04-2011, 10:50 PM

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I never seen someone engage in Minecraft threads so much despite not playing it.

You're talking about me? I find Minecraft fascinating. And I appreciate the creations of other people. But I know it's the sort of game that I would personally find disappointing, because I'd play it for ten minutes and then run out of ideas of things to do myself.

Multiplayer does look fun though. I just don't have the time to sink in to it.

T-nex · #**632** 07-05-2011, 03:19 PM

id find minecraft pretty boring if it wasnt for the multiplayer aspect....

We STILL need a voice chat mod though x_x

Havoc · #**633** 07-05-2011, 03:22 PM

I don't think our current server would be able to handle that :P

T-nex · #**634** 07-05-2011, 03:23 PM

That's cos your peen is small!

EDIT: Sry

.. But why not. Is voice chat really that heavy?

Havoc · #**635** 07-05-2011, 03:34 PM

It's a small server as it is, only designed to run Minecraft and no secondary services like Teamspeak or something. It would be possible to add a Teamspeak server, sure. But that costs extra money and since I'm not receiving donations for the main server yet, I'm not going to start paying for a TS server as well.

Manco · #**636** 07-05-2011, 03:50 PM

Just set up a Skype group or something if you guys are that desperate to be creeped out by each others' mouthbreathing.

T-nex · #**637** 07-05-2011, 04:29 PM

Im not 'desperate'. But Id find it easier to play if i could keep doing whatever i do without having to stop up and write when I wanna interact. plus it's more personal. But a lot of people probably dont like getting that personal.

enchilado · #**638** 07-05-2011, 05:03 PM

My voice has nothing to hide.

Dynamithix · #**639** 07-05-2011, 06:12 PM

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7276719413/coming-soon

Cool things about the adventure update.

T-nex · #**640** 07-05-2011, 10:56 PM

Yay for you DarkHoodness

THere will be sprinting which will make exploring new areas less tedious!

enchilado · #**641** 07-05-2011, 11:25 PM

There will probably be a drawback though:

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So I added sprinting, just to try it out. Double tap forward to start running, like the fast jump move thing from Unreal, but it only works forwards, like sprinting in most modern FPS games. It felt slow and weird until I added a FOV change as well, but now it's fun and addictive. I feel like there needs to be a drawback to doing it, though, or you'll feel like you're wasting time when you're not sprinting.

DarkHoodness · #**642** 07-06-2011, 01:33 AM

Interesting. It'll be a nice thing to have when you're in the middle of nowhere, but I hope it won't make minecarts obsolete, especially considering some of my tracks don't go places directly.

At least they're relatively safe to travel on at night though.

Manco · #**643** 07-06-2011, 03:05 AM

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Randomly generated dungeons

Finally, proper dungeons.

STM · #**644** 07-06-2011, 04:38 AM

It's good that this is starting to turn into a proper RPG survivally type dohickey. The D&D fans will be pleased.

enchilado · #**645** 07-06-2011, 04:49 AM

And maybe there could be Magic Spells and Quests and other races like Dark Halfling, Half Human, and High Dwarf!

STM · #**646** 07-06-2011, 04:50 AM

Or not. I'd like for there to be quests at least.

Wings of Fire · #**647** 07-06-2011, 04:50 AM

Can I get all the loot?

STM · #**648** 07-06-2011, 04:57 AM

Sure thang.

Manco · #**649** 07-06-2011, 05:23 AM

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and High Dwarf!

Gwan-Thwei · #**650** 07-09-2011, 07:16 PM

Has anyone heard of the far lands? It's this place where shit stops rendering and everything just stops appearing. it is literally the end of the world. It causes your computer to crash if you stay long enough, but no one can get there without a mod...yet.
And now for my sob story.
I was diggin in a cave far below the surface of the world, mining for iron and some coal. I came across a pool of lava that crossed with a river, making some natural obsidian. I made sure to remember the spot should I happen across some diamond to mine it.
After some screwing around in the caves, I found a big open cavern full of enough ore to fuel any miners wet dream. I hopped around on the stone bridges and mined all of the gold, iron, lapiz-lazuli, and redstone I could find. I check around for more minerals, when I saw it...DIAMONDS.
Laughing happily to myself as I mined them all, I thought of all the obsidian I could mine, how big my creeper proof house would be. I went to go back to the mines entrance, when my computer started to lag.
See, now when my computer lags, it lags BAD. I have died from trying to turn away from a creeper, only to turn back into it and run toward it. I can count tons of deaths where I have fallen to my death or drowned because of this system.
So as I hopped over a pool of lava, my computer lagged, and I fell in.

STM · #**651** 07-10-2011, 02:35 AM

Wouldn't it have made more sense to just....stay still.

Gwan-Thwei · #**652** 07-10-2011, 12:59 PM

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Wouldn't it have made more sense to just....stay still.

Yeash, but it was lagging while I was mid-air. There was no time for corrections. On ther bright side though, I found lots more today.

Nother story. So I come out of my house on top of this big overhang and start heading down the canyon. I was heading to my makeshift dock to go fishing for squid, when I see a creeper. It was standing on one of the indents in the canyon walls, looking at me. Not jumping towards me, not chasing me, not hissing, just looking at me. I got closer and closer, and still it did nothing.

My mind went to "charlie the gentle creeper", and i thought that I had encountered a rare gentle creeper. My heart soared, and I eagerly lept down the rocks to join him on his ledge. Making sure to put a square between us, I ate my bread in silence, observing the canyonside like my companion. I looked at my creeper endearingly, and he turned to me, meeting my eyes...

and exploded.

Havoc · #**653** 07-10-2011, 11:46 PM

Ridg3 · #**654** 07-11-2011, 03:59 PM

Apparently bed-rock can be destroyed. I'll invest in one of Nasa's, soon to be retired, computers to help me with the experiment.

Gwan-Thwei · #**655** 07-11-2011, 08:02 PM

Okay serious questions now.
1. what is the hardest building material, besides obsidian and diamond. I need a stronger fort.
2. What use is there for netherrack
3. My account won't let me craft shears.
4. My compass won't point towards where I spawn, which is my fort.
5. If you have a bow and arrow, do you constantly need to make more arrows
6. How does you fire arrows.
That is all. Thanks for any help!

Spooce-aholic · #**656** 07-11-2011, 08:23 PM

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Okay serious questions now.
1. what is the hardest building material, besides obsidian and diamond. I need a stronger fort.
2. What use is there for netherrack
3. My account won't let me craft shears.
4. My compass won't point towards where I spawn, which is my fort.
5. If you have a bow and arrow, do you constantly need to make more arrows
6. How does you fire arrows.
That is all. Thanks for any help!

1. Bedrock. But the only way to get it is via inventory hacking or blowing them up. But in order to blow up bedrock, you would need enough TNT to crash your computer. You would need a super computer.

I think another problem is that to prevent griefing, an AI automatically bans anyone who drops bedrock from their inventory. Even admins will get banned.

2. IDK. I don't go into the nether often mainly because if I go back and forth from the over world to the nether, my computer will crash due to a memmory allocation failure. If I need to go to the nether, I restart Minecraft befor the game gets too laggy.

This web page may give you an answer: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

3. IDK. Check the FAQ on the official web site or the Minecraft forums for your answer.

4. Compasses and other stuff won't work in the Nether.

5. You do need to make arrows for you bow and arrow.

6. If you have the bow in your hand and arrows in your inventory, simply right click.

enchilado · #**657** 07-11-2011, 09:36 PM

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But the only way to get it is via inventory hacking or blowing them up. But in order to blow up bedrock, you would need enough TNT to crash your computer. You would need a super computer.

Server ops can place bedrock with the /solid command and give players bedrock with the /give command. Also, bedrock cannot be destroyed, no matter how much TNT you use.

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2. What use is there for netherrack

A fire lit on Netherrack will never go out.

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diamond.

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netherrack

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arrows

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arrows.

Please learn to use the question mark.

EDIT: hmm, apparently ops can also destroy bedrock. Havoc, I'll give you diamonds if you make a gap into the void beneath my house.

Phylum · #**658** 07-11-2011, 11:55 PM

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1. what is the hardest building material, besides obsidian and diamond. I need a stronger fort.

A diamond block is as strong as stone, iron, gold and brick last time I checked.

What use is there for a building stronger than obsidian?

DarkHoodness · #**659** 07-12-2011, 01:49 AM

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1. What is the hardest building material, besides obsidian and diamond? I need a stronger fort!

See http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Explosion . The best way of explosion-proofing your base is to not let creepers explode near it at all - Have a properly fenced-off, well-illuminated entrance and be vigilant. Don't wander around at night, and build your base in an open area away from caves and dense, dark forests.

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2. What use is there for netherrack?

It's pink and ugly. You can light fires on it and they will never go out.

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3. My account won't let me craft shears.

Have you upgraded to 1.7? Also, are you crafting them correctly?

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4. My compass won't point towards where I spawn, which is my fort.

After 1.6, compasses seem to point somewhere near your original spawn, not at your bed spawn.

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5. If you have a bow and arrow, do you constantly need to make more arrows?

Yes.

Skeletons also drop arrows when they die, try running around the world after daybreak to collect them off of fallen mobs.

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6. How do you fire arrows?

Select a bow as your tool, have arrows anywhere in your inventory, then right click to fire them.

Gwan-Thwei · #**660** 07-12-2011, 07:35 AM

Alright, thanks guys.
I was screwing around looking for minecraft papercraft, and I found a new mod that allows for more creatures. It's called the Mo' Creatures mod. It can give you dolphins and horses and stuff like that, but the problem I have with it is that some of the animals, like the "new" wolves, are too detailed to look properly minecraftian. But apparantly, you can go to the menu and turn some mobs off, like pirannahs.
Here's the link: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...and-name-tags/