I'm considering hosting a Survival Multiplayer server, just open to a select few people. Anyone here interested?

If you don't know what Minecraft is, let me educate you! It's a game where the world is your oyster! You create tools to mine, build, fight, and survive. Basically you dig blocks, craft them into tools which allow you to dig different blocks, which in turn let you use other blocks for building, fighting, or more digging.

A trailer!

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Hooray for Sony!

A boss fight!*

* - Not yet implemented in-game.

Cart Ride! Almost everything seen here is user-created

Why would I pay for a game that looks like a predecessor to the original Wolfenstein?

This is better than that old blockland game

I've invested probably 60% of my waking hours this weekend in this goddamn game. I have a map with an entire fortress made of glass and ice. I have another one where I hollowed out an entire mesa, from the cloud layer all the way down to lava and bedrock at parts. All I'm missing is a fucking balrog.

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Maradon! was naked while typing this:
the hell I just played this game for 9 hours

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As did I. My reaction was quite similar.

edit: Since the main website is down, anyone know where I can get a recipe list? Also, what the hell can I do with eggs?

So far I've got..
- Ladders
- Stairs
- Containers
- Forge
- Workbench
- Torches
- Axe
- Sword
- Pick
- Shovel
- Button
- Pants
- Glass
- Door

I also made a minecart but I have no idea what to do with it.

I found a trick to make a beacon to my home base for when I explore. I look straight down and jump, then I can place a block under me. I make sure that I build two blocks thick. Once the tower is high enough I use a pick to carve my way back down while placing torches on the main tower. The tower can be seen from great distances away and is a useful point of reference.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 09-19-2010 at 10:42 PM.

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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Ghost of Forums Past who doth quote:
Since the main website is down, anyone know where I can get a recipe list?

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Recipe list

The beacon idea is great, I just wish it worked underground

My castle is hardcore. Note the tree inside: I didn't plant it, that bitch was there when I started.

Just past the courtyard behind the castle you find the quarry. Strip mining is pro. Stairs blocks are double pro.

At the bottom of the open air quarry you get to...

The subway! (cart and tracks pending)

This takes you to...

THE SUBWAY STATION. Glass surround so monsters can't surprise you. And yes, I flooded my tunnels like ten times building that shit.

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 09-20-2010 at 12:01 AM.

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Maradon! spewed forth this undeniable truth:
the hell I just played this game for 9 hours

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Welcome to Minecraft.

It's the Free-to-play weekend right now! enjoy while it lasts.

The free version is a lego-ish sandbox where you can create and destroy to your hearts content.

The paid version is a survival game where you mine for materials, turn the materials into useful tools, and then use the tools to dive deep underground in search of riches.

It's currently $10bux, going to $15bux when it reaches 'beta' status (Which is soon! Notch is just going to flesh out the survival multi-player to make it beta), and when it's done it'll be $20bux. or euros instead of bux but whatever.

Your crafting link sucks and is outdated. Try this : http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

If you want to have some fun customizing the game try the painterly pack : http://painterlypack.net/

Quick rundown on stuff :

1) Make a wooden pick first. You need it to mine coal and stone. To do so, punch down a tree, make a crafting table, and make a wooden pick first. Better materials mine faster, last longer, and can mine better materials. Stone picks can mine out iron, iron picks can mine out redstone/gold/diamond. Diamond picks can mine out anything, last longest, and mine the fastest.

2) Gold tools suck. They last as long as wood, they mine slowly, and they can't mine iron or better materials. Gold as a whole is mostly useless right now, if you really want something to do with it then grab the painterly pack and make it into fancy armor. Just don't go spelunking in it.

3) If you find cobblestone rooms underground, they're treasure rooms! Inside is a monster spawner and treasure chests. You can find apples (The only stacking HP restoration item), saddles to ride pigs (Seriously), free iron items like buckets, and records.

4) If you don't set the game to peaceful, then nighttime is not your friend. Spiders are jumping assholes, skeletons will fuck you in the ass with arrows, and zombies are pretty much just zombies. Daylight makes spiders passive until attacked, zombies and skeletons will light on fire.

5) Creepers become passive if you give them a red flower.

Minecarts ride along tracks. They can be pushed by a person, you can let gravity carry you down, or you can combine a minecart and a furnace to make an engine that'll push you. The engine is a bit weak right now, it has problems with hills, that's being addressed in a future update.

Combine a minecart and a chest to make a cart to haul your loot out of whatever mine you're in.

Updates used to be once a week, regular as clockwork. Then the game's popularity exploded like you wouldn't beleive, and now the main developer is doing constant interviews and trying to organize this as a business. He went from like, 10-50 purchases a day to 1000 purchases a day a few weeks back, and the popularity has only gotten higher since then.

Water is useful for making elevators and irrigating farms. Boats travel very, very quickly up waterfalls which is how you use it to make an elevator.

Lava is useful for incinerating items you don't need. Drop the items into the lava and as long as they don't randomly bounce back next to you the items can be permanently destroyed. Lava can also provide light, melt snow, and power a furnace for a long time (but the bucket is destroyed so this use is not recommended).

Water and lava can only be picked up at their sources. Water can flow down a waterfall and create a large flood, but only the source at the top of the waterfall can be picked up and moved.

If you place two water sources 1 square apart, they will create a new source in the middle square. You can use this to create infinite water springs. this trick does not work with lava.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9xMNuAfwE#t=0m50s

Also goddamnit I hate the 10-minute edit limit, and the fact that url's don't auto-url on these forums

Khyron fucked around with this message on 09-20-2010 at 11:59 AM.

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

Khyron fucked around with this message on 09-20-2010 at 12:18 PM.

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x--KhyronO-('-'Q) :
Your crafting link sucks and is outdated. Try this : http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

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At the time of that posting the minecraft wiki was crashed and not loading, just like the main site.

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 09-20-2010 at 04:18 PM.

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Longest free weekend ever

If you’ve been refreshing the site all day, you might’ve noticed I put it back up for a while. It started running slower and slower, until it finally died under the pressure.

TkTech from the #minecraft irc channel is helping rewrite the code to make the database not run in linear time (I hacked together a quick test DB early on, and because I fear web backend development, I haven’t touched it since). Progress seems to be good, but it’s not quite finished yet. I don’t know when it will be finished, but the plan is to cut over to the new code base when it’s done.

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Also a new unofficial trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I

It's pretty amazing, for one guy developing this alone it's reached this point now where he's got over half a million euros in sales and it hasn't even reached beta yet.

Or make golden apples for super emergencies

Also, who's volunteering to host the Evercrest server?

Torches.

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Ghost of Forums Past painfully thought these words up:
You can plant trees?

Also, who's volunteering to host the Evercrest server?

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I tried running a server last night and it worked well for ~30 minutes with 3 people on it. Then after two more connected, within 5 minutes it had become unplayable. My cable connection could not keep up

Give it a shot

[edit: Server seems to start lagging and rubber banding real easily, and I'm hosting it on a decent laptop and connecting over my local network. I keep getting server overloaded warnings and it's just me logged on (?). Also, sound seems to be broken in the game in general. I'll have to mine another day!

I'll leave the server up, feel free to try it and let me know what your experiences are.

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 09-22-2010 at 07:58 PM.

Also, if you find a great pocket, always always always make a "safe room" with a storage chest if you are deep underground and mining goodies. I found a lava/water room where the walls were literally lined with gold (and coal). The lava lit the way and I didn't have to worry about baddies spawning anywhere. I was loaded down with more rare elements than I ever imagined existed. I mined to greedily, too deep. I sprung a leak and touched lava. I ran around on fire in agony until I burnt to death inches away from water. My gear landed in the water and the current swept it into the lava.

If I had a safe room I'd be able to store everything there without worrying about losing it when I die. Also remember that when you go very deep you may find a lot of amazing stuff but it's also very dangerous. It's only a matter of time until you spring a leak on the ceiling and flood the whole place with lava.

Learn from my mistakes.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 09-22-2010 at 10:53 PM.

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Peanut butter ass Shaq Willias booooze lime pole over bench lick:
And if that doesn't work, there's also the option of carrying a bucket of water on you.

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This can backfire - obsidian is indestructible

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Maradon! said:
This can backfire - obsidian is indestructible

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No, it is destructible, it just takes a very long time to destroy and you need a diamond pickaxe to do it. People farm obsidian by doing this to make nigh-indestructible base materials.

Steven Steve fucked around with this message on 09-23-2010 at 06:25 PM.