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ZaggyZaggy NullPointerExceptionThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
edited September 2010 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Because I felt we needed one.</div>First bit of multiplayer with Retales:

<img src="http://imgur.com/H8CPL.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

<!--quoteo(post=1799011:date=Sep 18 2010, 05:28 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (juice @ Sep 18 2010, 05:28 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799011"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->What is.... minecraft?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Ah, my apologies, it's a videogame!

<a href="http://minecraft.net/" target="_blank">http://minecraft.net/</a>

It's a blocky world, where you get to survive.
You get to craft your own tools, dig your own dwelling or build your own home, not unlike dwarf fortress.
At night the creeps come out of the darkest places and will kill you on sight.
Their wiki explains this better: <a href="http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Gameplay" target="_blank">http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Gameplay</a>

Walkthrough for payed version, currently in "alpha": <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0VWnQHS-ffs"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0VWnQHS-ffs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>

Retales and I were playing the <a href="http://-http://minecraft.net/play.jsp" target="_blank">free (classic) online version - requires java</a>, in that version you can only build, no creatures, crafting, dying.
But some people come up with really cool stuff:
<center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LWPk5zlKAEM"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LWPk5zlKAEM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    That's the innovative construction of the century. There's even a 2x3 bookshelf inside, imagine that.
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  • juicejuice Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12886Members, Constellation
    What is.... minecraft?
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  • FehaFeha Join Date: 2006-11-16 Member: 58633Members
    edited September 2010
    <!--quoteo(post=1799005:date=Sep 18 2010, 03:05 PM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zaggy @ Sep 18 2010, 03:05 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799005"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ah, my apologies, it's a videogame!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Really? I always assumed it was a computer game :S. Seeing as the free version is in the browser coded in java I kind of thought it was logical. But you might know better than me, so I guess its a videogame.
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    What is game
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    edited September 2010
    I was just playing the SP Alpha, and was going to post a screen shot but it's not starting now for some reason.

    Edit: downloaded the new .exe and it works fine. It's foggy out so here's a picture of my garden.

    <img src="http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7376/minecraft1h.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    The website is wanged (I'm blaming you Zaggy) but on the brightside... they're having a free to play weekend! Woo!

    *Downloads*
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1799047:date=Sep 19 2010, 02:23 AM:name=locallyunscene)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (locallyunscene @ Sep 19 2010, 02:23 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799047"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's foggy out<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Increase your view distance.

    I'm trying the free tryout now during the weekend.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    If you like exploring I suggest you build a big tower above your base with lights, or preferably a glass container full of lava at the top. It makes for an easy to spot landmark if you get lost :3

    I've built a small indoor farm and meadow to try and give me a reliable source of health regen (bread and ham, mmmm) but I've totally run out of coal at the momement :p
    My big project right now is working out how to drown some spiders as they come out of a spawner I discovered and encased. I managed to make something that worked but the water flow wasn't carrying the string they drop out to me so I'm trying to work out a system that will successfully drown every time and still deliver the goods to me safely... it wouldn't be so difficult if the beggars couldn't swim and water seemed to stop the spawner working XD
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  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    edited September 2010
    <!--quoteo(post=1799072:date=Sep 19 2010, 06:52 AM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Geminosity @ Sep 19 2010, 06:52 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799072"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you like exploring I suggest you build a big tower above your base with lights, or preferably a glass container full of lava at the top. It makes for an easy to spot landmark if you get lost :3<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Who needs a lava lighthouse when you have a giant stone tower visible from space?
    <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/anem0/minecraft001.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Actually you really don't need either, one of the latest patches added in a craftable compass that always points to your spawn point, though towers and lighthouses look much nicer overall.

    While Survival/Alpha has less building materials (currently) than Creative/classic, building feels much more satisfying.. at least for me. That tower is not simply a tower, but inversely it represents a rather sizable underground cavern, hollowed out to hold a forest of trees.

    Not only that, but Survival also has the exploration and adventure aspects.. Classic takes place in a closed cube, filled with randomly generated geometry when you begin. Survival on the other hand generates its world on the fly, as you're exploring. The filesystem it uses supports areas up to 8 times larger than the surface of the earth. You could walk for years and nothing would repeat.. and the simple art-style belies the grandeur and beauty of these worlds.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    Sounds like my lava tower :3

    It looks like a modern office building, has an observation deck, a workshop level and the top (which goes above the clouds) is a giant glass dias you can walk on that has lava bubbling around in a massive pool inside.
    The centerpiece for me is the giant glass pillar right down the core of the building from top to bottom just so sunlight can get to the single flower on the ground floor =D
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    Holy crap it's DF in 3d and 1st person.

    Must learn more about.
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1799098:date=Sep 19 2010, 06:50 PM:name=Chris0132)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chris0132 @ Sep 19 2010, 06:50 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799098"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Holy crap it's DF in 3d and 1st person.

    Must learn more about.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Speaking of which, there is a utility to convert Dwarf Fortress levels to Minecraft!
    <a href="http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=64473.msg1557713#msg1557713" target="_blank">http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?t...7713#msg1557713</a>
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    edited September 2010
    been playing this a good chunk of today and it is quite fun. Don't quite know what to do with myself most of the time though. I just climbed to the top of a waterfall because I wanted to see where water comes from, and it looks like they have 1 source cube. I accidentally clogged that up with a rock and the water just stopped :(

    so if you get a bucket full of lava or water and dump it out, what happens? you get just enough fluid to fill one cube?

    I wish the crafting guide at <a href="http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting" target="_blank">http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting</a> was complete. I had to intuit how to make some stuff, like glass and grilled pork.

    Now I'm just wandering aimlessly trying to find some better minerals than iron. Maybe I should just dig straight down.

    Anyone know what the circled crap is here? The two saddle-looking things, I found in a chest guarded by a spider spawner. I wonder if they *are* saddles and horses just aren't in the game yet? the other misc. substance I'm guessing is maybe gunpowder? what's the proper way to make that?

    <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/99279/minecraft%20junk.jpg" target="_blank">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/99279/minecraft%20junk.jpg</a>
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    I hear that pigs are rideable, so yeah, they might be saddles.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    edited September 2010
    Ugh, the game keeps crashing my display driver and sometimes my entire PC.

    The little black pile is gunpowder, the only way to get it that I know of is killing creepers.
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    Get some sand and craft the following, where g = gunpowder and s = sand:
    g s g
    s g s
    g s g
    Use the product carelessly, ???, profit.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    edited September 2010
    As mentioned before...

    a) the grey pile is gunpowder. Used for making TNT and not much else.

    b) As LF mentioned, those are saddles and you can use them to ride pigs. You can't control where the pig goes sadly and it's the only animal you can currently ride. On a fun note though, it seems that skeleton monsters can ride spiders, though spider-riding skeles are rare indeed :p

    I got bored of my old map so I deleted it and started a new one. Currently in the middle of building a tree tower which consists of growing trees on top of trees... I'm 4 trees high now :3

    I think I might put the tree tower on hold to build a mother tree type thing: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd0IrXpzWc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd0IrXpzWc</a>

    Oh! quick tip on doors: always put them in from the outside!
    Because doors take up a whole square but bias to one side, you can stand in the mostly open area and hit things near the door side but not vica versa, this means if you put doors in from the inside monsters can hit you through it but you can't return the favour without opening the door :p

    For those with redstone and no idea what to do, here's some videos that seem fairly useful...
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgkjRFtLoU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgkjRFtLoU</a>
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvJ9wiywL4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvJ9wiywL4</a>

    aaand a simple double door opener guide:
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyUG8UNUKw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyUG8UNUKw</a>
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1799151:date=Sep 20 2010, 04:13 AM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DiscoZombie @ Sep 20 2010, 04:13 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799151"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->so if you get a bucket full of lava or water and dump it out, what happens? you get just enough fluid to fill one cube?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->There are spring blocks and flow blocks. You can only pick up spring blocks in buckets, and only water is infinite - basically, any water flow block with 2+ adjacent spring blocks becomes a spring block. Lava has to be carried manually from bigger sources, typically the bottom of the map.

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I wish the crafting guide at <a href="http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting" target="_blank">http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting</a> was complete. I had to intuit how to make some stuff, like glass and grilled pork.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <a href="http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Smelting" target="_blank">http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Smelting</a>
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FaMTedT6P0I"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FaMTedT6P0I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>

    So awesome.

    --Scythe--
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    Are there any servers up?
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    For anyone with an excess of cobblestone, make stairs. Your caves become cosier and easy to navigate - that is, you don't have to wear out space bar by jumping constantly.
    I'm actually all out of stones here, might have to go mining...
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  • NossahNossah Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8234Members, Constellation
    damn you for introducing yet another time sink to my already hard pressed gaming schedule -.- I played the free version for about an hour and it completely broke down any resolve i might have had not to buy it.

    I would like to urge anyone to give this a shot if it's still free, if not, get the classic version which is free. I give it my personal stamp of approval.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1799181:date=Sep 20 2010, 04:42 PM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Scythe @ Sep 20 2010, 04:42 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799181"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FaMTedT6P0I"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FaMTedT6P0I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>

    So awesome.

    --Scythe--<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Gets a thumbs-up from me because:
    A: It's gives this newb some ideas and
    B: Because it's uses the music from Inception. (I LOOOOVED Inception!)
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    edited September 2010
    Here's my magnificent mansion, now made of bricks!
    From the sea level
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion01.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Front door. <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion02.jpg" target="_blank">Entrance from a bit further away</a>.
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion03.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Kind of dining room, chests filled with steaks and bread. <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion04.jpg" target="_blank">A pic from the main work room.</a> Furnaces are now at the <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion15.jpg" target="_blank">creepy dark attic.</a>
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion05.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Upstairs remodeled. <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion07.jpg" target="_blank">An atmospheric picture at night.</a>
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion06.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Observation area towards the beach. It's a freaking deathtrap <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion09.jpg" target="_blank">at night. Monsters!</a>
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion08.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Inside the boathouse at the beach. A few beacons and a small lighthouse at the distance.
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion12.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    An atmospheric night shot. <a href="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion13.jpg" target="_blank">From a bit further away</a>
    <img src="http://koti.mbnet.fi/retales/minecraft/mansion14.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    Is it still survival mode in multiplayer?
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    survival mode multiplayer is still WIP. Last I heard monsters don't attack you and you can't hurt them either, among many other issues. It's getting fixed up fairly fast though.
    You can play creative safely in multiplayer though :p
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1799259:date=Sep 20 2010, 08:13 PM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Geminosity @ Sep 20 2010, 08:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799259"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->survival mode multiplayer is still WIP. Last I heard monsters don't attack you and you can't hurt them either, among many other issues. It's getting fixed up fairly fast though.
    You can play creative safely in multiplayer though :p<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Anyone want to get some multiplayer action going?
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    Christ this game crashes my computer so hard, can barely run it for 20 minutes before the whole thing locks up and reboots.

    Interesting concept but I'm not touching it with a ten foot stick.
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    <!--quoteo(post=1799283:date=Sep 21 2010, 09:17 PM:name=Chris0132)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chris0132 @ Sep 21 2010, 09:17 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799283"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Christ this game crashes my computer so hard, can barely run it for 20 minutes before the whole thing locks up and reboots.

    Interesting concept but I'm not touching it with a ten foot stick.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Try running the linux java version. It might work for you.

    --Scythe--
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    edited September 2010
    <!--quoteo(post=1799285:date=Sep 21 2010, 12:57 PM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Scythe @ Sep 21 2010, 12:57 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1799285"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Try running the linux java version. It might work for you.

    --Scythe--<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Tried running a .jar version and an exe version, both do the same thing.

    It either crashes the display driver, or crashes the display driver which then causes the entire computer to crash.
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