MineCraft

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Minecraft

So I've been playing minecraft for a while now and just have not gotten around to sharing it with you.

Minecraft is an indie game where the entire world is made up of meter square blocks. These blocks can all be destroyed and collected, some by hand but others require tools... It is a completely open world where you are free to do what you desire.

There are enemies that will try to kill you and caves to explore for resources. You can build houses, castles, or floating islands if you so choose.

It's currently in alpha so it's 50% off the final price, once it his beta it will be 25% off.

It's been designed low res but after a while you don't even notice or care

Of course you do not get all the cool stuff with the free to try version. There used to be a public account but the password has been changed

http://www.minecraft.net/

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/29/community-heroes-notch-for-minecraft/

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Minecrafts Multiplayer is now out in alpha, it's quite buggy though.

At some point I'll have to post things I've built.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/Minecraft%20Fort/approaching.jpg

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Has nobody taken interest in this at all? Even looked? Anybody who likes creative games should at least try it. Also there is survival multiplayer in the works right now. It's out but it's buggy and the survival aspects are not there yet.

I created a Suicide_Soldier account if anybody is interested in trying the full version.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Tutorials

Part1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs&feature=related

Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwp-E6Kh_fw&feature=related

Part3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2cJ6jVGZC8&feature=related

Part4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZd3G4DEntA&feature=related

Remember all the crafting recipes are here:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

[||§§||Dr.H]

I looked at everything when you first showed me a few weeks ago. It looks like a neat idea. Definitely one of those games you need to try out for yourself.

[||§§||Dr.H]

Well I've been playing Minecraft for a couple weeks now so I thought I would show a couple pictures on what I'm working on.

The first ones are from a map program. I still have a long way to go and I'm mainly working on the structures framework. It's sort of a castle but I'm calling it an Overlook. Once I finish the wall and level the inside I will add streets and buildings. The wall is 121 blocks square and 30 blocks to the top of the walking area on the wall, another 5 for the corner towers.


Here is from a couple days after I started playing. I had already destroyed a good portion of a mountainside and made the overlook and 1/2 of one wall before I knew about the map program or even decided to take pictures...
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=374

Here is from a couple min ago:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=373

If you want to see the full map and not the cropped and enlarged sections I showed you can look here:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=365


Here is an angled view from one tower of the current completion:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=367

Here is the front of the building, I'm standing on about 15 blocks for the shot:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=368

A night view of my overlook:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=369

Inside the first floor of the overlook. You can see the glass floor that covers the waterfall:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=372

The second floor of the overlook. My bathtub :thumbsup2::
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=371

The walls are actually hollow so I can go around the whole parameter from inside. There are 3 doors in each side for entry. Here is the view from one end to the other:
http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=44&pictureid=370

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

That is big, can bad things spawn in there at night?

[||§§||Dr.H]

Yeah unfortunately the zombies, skeletons, creepers and spiders still spawn in the yard at night. As soon as I have that inner mountain flattened out I will lay down streets and a bunch of street lamps, the light should keep them from spawning in there if I can get the layout right.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Here is my over head map. I don't have any massive structures built but I do have a note worthy road network

http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=375 (http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=375)

http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=376 (http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=376)

http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=377

[||§§||Dr.H]

I've been on Sven's world, the roads and watch towers they go to on mountain tops are damn impressive!

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Kotaku just posted about your little game. Seems that people seem to like it according to the comments, big surprise.
http://kotaku.com/5642505/this-is-minecraft

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Alright, I broke down and aquired Minecraft. I know you are all playing Cat right now, but anyone the plays on a multiplayer server should let me know.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Alright, I broke down and aquired Minecraft. I know you are all playing Cat right now, but anyone the plays on a multiplayer server should let me know.

I had a bunch of servers I played on but not so much anymore. Every couple of days I hop on my server dig a little and then back to MW2. Just started the server with the latest update so all I've managed to build so far is a bunker to keep myself from getting murdered.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Anybody one the fence about getting minecraft should do so before the 20th. Not only does the price go up but you will no longer be promised all future updates for free.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Yes, buy it NOW while in Alpha for $13 US. 12/20/10 it will go Beta which is $20 US and all Beta buys will only get you updates until the full release and then just bug patches, you will have to rebuy the game. All Alpha buyers get everything for free forever.

From Kotaku http://kotaku.com/5712115/minecraft-transforms-beta-and-changes-kick-in-soon

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/12/500x_minecraftwow.jpg

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Here's my server right now

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/custom-map-normal-day.png

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

LOL the trail of fire to the tree house. I think those orange spots are trees i lit on fire to clear out brush near the skylight

What is the red in the bottom right corner?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

LOL the trail of fire to the tree house. I think those orange spots are trees i lit on fire to clear out brush near the skylight

What is the red in the bottom right corner?

I was wondering what that was. The red is probably a surface lava lake.

Overall it's not a spectacular world. The giant arch that had the pumpkins under it is probably the best feature of our little island. I will have to explore the surroundings in detail at some point.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Been on the server quite a this weekend and have not seen anybody else on. I tried to find the last mine you two were working at but I couldn't find it, but guess what I did manage to find. Another skeleton spawner! I was walking around looking for your cave and I heard skeletons, not just one, several. The spawner was only about 10 meters underground and I got lucky and dug right into the entrance, sealed it off, and built a mob killing arrow factory. On top of that I built a fort called "Wondering Earth Outpost" as it is near a large collection of floating islands. My other live-in outpost near the spawn still needs a name though

Also I am collecting arrows as I write this

[||§§||Dr.H]

Sweet arrow factory! I lost both my two to mishap..

I was on my solo world this weekend finishing my tunnel that goes from my spawn to fort and doing some modifications. I can now get started back on my wall!

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Sweet arrow factory! I lost both my two to mishap..

I was on my solo world this weekend finishing my tunnel that goes from my spawn to fort and doing some modifications. I can now get started back on my wall!

I've simplified my original design and this one works quite well. Only my second one too. A few stubborn skeletons will take their good old time jumping into the thing but they always do and it has a 100% collection rate with about half the footprint of my first design. When you and hand are both on I'll show it to you. It took me several tries to get it to work but at least I didn't have to start from scratch with my original idea.

On another note my two favorite glitches have been fixed. You can now no longer store your items in the crafting slot and the item repair glitch is gone. Also the item duplication glitch that I just figured out how to manipulate last night is fixed as well.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

nice i will check it out, and the repair glitch is a little annoying to loose but o well. back to always using stone.

[||§§||Dr.H]

Yeah I use stone almost all the time in my shovels and picks, it may wear out fast but if you look at how common it is vs how long it lasts it makes sense.

Steel and diamond are good for bringing into a cave with you but a waste on general demo I think.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

there is another duplication glitch, it creates phantom items that will sometimes be real. The phantom items will disappear as soon as you use them. Took a swing at a spider and *poof* my sword was gone, take any damage and *poof* my armor is gone. The duplication glitch doesn't seem to work on stackable items though and I have not figured out how to make a real duplication and not a phantom.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Well I now have a bunch of diamond Picks and swords. but it wont work on shovels for me. O well, I upgraded the security around the tree house.

[||§§||Dr.H]

It won't let you make a diamond shovel?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTS9Z6PFh0

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Excellent series of quick start pages which add a little story to the game. Click the link and then click the "Next" picture for the next page.
http://kotaku.com/5724456/minecraft-manual-gallery//gallery/1

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/01/minecraftmanual01.jpg (http://kotaku.com/5724456/minecraft-manual-gallery//gallery/1)

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

That's great. Kind of feels like Myst with the random note

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

My castle so far

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/Minecraft_Castle/walls_04.jpg

At this point I've decided that once my castle is finished I am going to turn the rest of the island into a walled town.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Well I have 2 full large chests of Cobble so far LOL

I see that pic was before I opened the skeleton spawner to the surface.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Well I have 2 full large chests of Cobble so far LOL

I see that pic was before I opened the skeleton spawner to the surface.

Yeah... about that... I kind of wish you had not done that. I ended up using a map editor to re-place the changed terrain with a backup so I could build my mob trap.

I don't really want my structures or my castles island to be modified.

Now to change the subject.

Here's a sweet video courtesy of our update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDq8p-stJjM&feature=player_embedded

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

sry I just did it to make it easier to work with, it was just temporary. Thought removing the water above would make it easier to work.

The dispenser thing is really neat btw

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

sry I just did it to make it easier to work with, it was just temporary. Thought removing the water above would make it easier to work.

The dispenser thing is really neat btw

I know you did it to help, and normally working with a spawner would be much easier if it's not popping out skeletons but I've figured out how to make the mob trap without ever going into the dungeon.

I just get OCD with my projects some times
:eek: OMG a block is out of place!
and I swear you're either playing a trick on me or AT&T is filming a commercial on my island

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I love your lava tower thing btw.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

lol thanks i just kind of built til i got board and just poured lava in it, may make it higher and add water

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

http://www.sarcasmpoisoning.com/minecraft/

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

[||§§||Dr.H]

I just hopped back on to mess with my torch tower some and.. there is squid in the water??? do they hurt you?

Oh and I checked out Hand cool lava tower, you don't realize how big it is until you get up close and see that only 1/3 of it is actually above ground :P.

I went down the water that you have on there and I was thinking, you know what you need to do Hand? Make a HUGE water slide!! I realized the one you have now isn't exactly a water slide when I went off the end and hit the sand and got hurt.. lol so I stole a couple loafs of bread from you :P.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Yea that is all pretty beta not sure how I want to mess with it. Any idea on how to make the slide and where to put it is welcome. O and all that Lava is right from the top, never needed to reflow anywhere whuch was neat. Squid are passive and leave you alone like sheep. Kill them for black ink.
Take what you need I have lots of stone and hay if you need it. Kinda why i started there, I think that may be a local supply hub for us

Zero Punc was good BTW

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Yea that is all pretty beta not sure how I want to mess with it. Any idea on how to make the slide and where to put it is welcome. O and all that Lava is right from the top, never needed to reflow anywhere whuch was neat. Squid are passive and leave you alone like sheep. Kill them for black ink.
Take what you need I have lots of stone and hay if you need it. Kinda why i started there, I think that may be a local supply hub for us

Zero Punc was good BTW

Yeah I will probably end up going to get a load or two of stone next time I am on. I finished removing all the sand from the inside of my castle walls so I have nothing left to do but keep building.

[||§§||Dr.H]

Ok WTH! since when can spiders climb over fences and up walls?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Ok WTH! since when can spiders climb over fences and up walls?

Since the last update.

[||§§||Dr.H]

Since the last update.

I must now build barricades and start digging underground. SAVE YOURSELVES!!

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

I hope we get some kind of decorative wall spike to put on our walls, always having overhangs are ugly.

I intended to play last night but after all the snow I passed out as soon as I got home from work, was only up for a few hours after 11 to eat, watch myth-busters and fell back asleep.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Yea, they can climb my cactus fence as well. You would think that when being impaled by cactus thorns, you would stop climbing.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Neat update:

Beds http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/c/c5/Bed.png

You can now build a real bed which you can lay down in at night. It will lay you down by right clicking on an empty bed which will then fade the screen to grey slowly and then you will "Awake" at sunrise. It is a nice little feature.

Note: in multiplayer, all players on a server must be lying down for it to work.
It will NOT make growing crops or furnace work go quicker.

Made by three wool over three planks (wool color does not affect the color of the bed)


From: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Bed
"Beds are used by right-clicking on the part with a pillow during night time. Attempting to use it during the day will result in a "You can only sleep at night." message, which also appears when attempting to use beds in the Nether. When used, the player is positioned in the bed and their view slowly fades to gray. After this transition, the player wakes up at dawn.

To ensure that you are not awakened unnecessarily during the night, the bed must not be placed along a 1 block thick wall, unless the area on the other side of the wall is also safe. If a hostile mob can get within 2 blocks of the bed, even if the blocks are separated by a wall, you will be awakened with the hostile mob standing next to you. There appears to be a slight delay before the mob attacks you, giving you time to get the first blow.

In SMP, to skip the night, all players on the server must be in bed at the same time.

Sleeping, while skipping night time, does not accelerate other events such as the decay of dropped items, crop growth or smelting."

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

I filled my castle with beds already.

Your spawn point will eventually set to the last bed you slept in.

Hopefully they will also be updated to accelerate growth and smelting.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

I like how they will set the spawn to the beds.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

I like how they will set the spawn to the beds.

I think there should be at least one more tier to beds though, the simple bed just seems to simple for something as important as setting a spawn zone

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

They probably want to make it so you just have one bed in your "Home" but that would make sense to make like a "Sleep bed" and a "Master bed"

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Spent all night updating my Wandering Earth Outpost.

Finished hands access tunnel, and moved the entrance. Didn't like how close it was to the front door, so I moved it back into the hill.
Added a garden and barracks. The barracks has 2 little public rooms on it too.
Then a high density tree farm under the garden (access down the stairs), and re-built the stairs for the tower.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Minecraft needs to hurry up and make books work... My armory needs a sign out sheet so I know what's been taken or "issued".

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

LOL I spent a good deal of last night taking care of those damn slime blocks in the tunnels. Had to lead them to holes of lava. Fell in on and had to grab some arrows BTW since all the ones I got from collection were lost. Damn slime blocks, hatem. The book idea would be pretty sweet, and like the updates to wandering. Used the beds a few times. It is a nice new outpost for exploring.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

I need to find a spider spawner or build a mob farm. My nation is desperately low on string for our bows, and we cannot deconstruct wool into string.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Yea, I have been wondering, are there spider spawners? If not, I will go on a spider killing quest soon. We really need another way to aquire string.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Yea, I have been wondering, are there spider spawners? If not, I will go on a spider killing quest soon. We really need another way to aquire string.

I think most of my spawners on my single player map were spider spawners but I have not found one on SMP yet. Also mob traps/farms don't get string that well now that spiders can climb. I think the "spiders can't climb soulsand" has also been fixed.

I tried a mob farm and left it run over night but I only had a handful of material in the morning so it seems like they don't work afk, and the spiders just get stuck above you. I wish they would only track line of sight and not follow you behind walls and floors, but I guess that would make them to easy again.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Such a pain what ind of mob traps are you making?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Such a pain what ind of mob traps are you making?

It was a lava grinder, they don't work well on spiders because the spiders try to climb out and then they die and the loot gets burned out, all other mobs just drop their shit into a stream of water below. I modified the design so it works better the the tutorial but it still doesn't work 100% of the time with spiders.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

nice, where is it?

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IhZnXSWbw

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Hand you might want to fix all your 1/2 ladders, that glitch is getting patched in the next version

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

The water ladder or the lazy every other ladders? If water ladders are out ill be pissed.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

The water ladder or the lazy every other ladders? If water ladders are out ill be pissed.

Using One ladder every 2 blocks is being fixed. The water/lava glitch will probably be fixed at some point to

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lIdI1j3q0

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

If you want to do something neat, go into Minecraft. Create a new world and use the seed
-1748196883810294628

That is the seed of the server. The world will be identical but will have all the new features of 1.7

Spawn point is at x-118 z-98 you can use f3 to find it

My castle island is at x52 z219 (the location of the nether gate)

I wandered around the deserted island and it was one hell of a blast from the past.

[||§§||Reign]

Just cant get into that game. :(

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Just cant get into that game. :(

it's certainly not for everybody. I tend to take long breaks in between playing. The Adventure update should add a lot more content for explorers though

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Hand... You're not allowed to play with fire anymore. Your nether torch caught my inn and tavern on fire.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/Minecraft_Mistakes/2011-07-27_035407.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/Minecraft_Mistakes/2011-07-27_035309.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Daray_Ryo/Minecraft_Mistakes/2011-07-27_035303.png

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

How the hell did that happen? only stone was around the whole thing.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

How the hell did that happen? only stone was around the whole thing.

I guess It was close enough to light. I don't know how really, the fire in front of the inn is not any farther away

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Right I put it specifically there to make sure it did not screw anything up.

[||§§|| Sven The Slayer]

Right I put it specifically there to make sure it did not screw anything up.

Use torches, they don't light things on fire.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

It was supposed to be a nice fire that you park your Wolves at while your in the Inn.