Minecraft

that perpetual motion machine is fucking sweeeeet.

btw, notch *bought* an office building (or floor of a building) for mojang today.

beyond minecraft, i can see this guy doing great, valve-ish things.

the worst, THE WORST thing about this game is you look at a project and think 'hmmm that'll take x time to do' - but it always takes x^2 time to do.

what do you guys do for health? I find myself committing suicide a lot to regain my hearts. I never seem to find enough pigs to satisfy my hunger...

i play peaceful a lot of the time, but i still find myself committing suicide a lot when i have loads of shit stored at home and i'm undertaking a big project.

i've never turned on peaceful, maybe I should start but it feels like the easy way out.

Question about that minecart video, what is the "booster to keep the mine cart in motion" he talks about?

edit: nevermind, watching first video....

  On 10/16/2010 at 3:10 AM, lumpenprol said:

Question about that minecart video, what is the "booster to keep the mine cart in motion" he talks about?

at the moment, when two carts are next to each other, there's a feedback loop where they keep adding momentum to each other.

i guess it's a bug sorta, and this exploits it.

he has two loops, one has momentum from the ramps, which adds to the momentum of the other one. when the one at ground level has completed a loop it arrives back at the right square for the other loop to add momentum and in turn have momentum added to it.

it's very very fucking elegant.

second floor is independent of the first, floating in space

but it's still pitiful looking :(

i reckon the 'chunk' is there because i entered that chunk (in code terms) while mining

So the main 'save' that I've been working on since the start has disappeared? My computer crashed while I was in a session and now I've rebooted the save has gone. Any ideas where it might have gone?I think for some spastic reason it has deleted itself. Well gutted

I just have the exe on my desktop does it automatically issue a directory for saves etc?

  On 10/18/2010 at 8:03 PM, David R James said:

So the main 'save' that I've been working on since the start has disappeared? My computer crashed while I was in a session and now I've rebooted the save has gone. Any ideas where it might have gone?I think for some spastic reason it has deleted itself. Well gutted

 

I just have the exe on my desktop does it automatically issue a directory for saves etc?

On Windows XP it's C:/Docs and Settings/username/Application Data/.minecraft/Saves

On Vista and 7 it's C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft/Saves

Take a look there. Inside Saves it should be folders called World 1, 2 etc, with millions of folders and files inside.

also i think there's utilities that can recover from a crash like that, google it.

I need to get playing this again. I haven't properly sat down with this game in a while what with work being so busy. Didn't even get home from the city all weekend :(

  On 10/18/2010 at 9:09 PM, Obel said:

  On 10/18/2010 at 8:03 PM, David R James said:

So the main 'save' that I've been working on since the start has disappeared? My computer crashed while I was in a session and now I've rebooted the save has gone. Any ideas where it might have gone?I think for some spastic reason it has deleted itself. Well gutted I just have the exe on my desktop does it automatically issue a directory for saves etc?

On Windows XP it's C:/Docs and Settings/username/Application Data/.minecraft/SavesOn Vista and 7 it's C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft/SavesTake a look there. Inside Saves it should be folders called World 1, 2 etc, with millions of folders and files inside.

  On 10/18/2010 at 9:10 PM, kaini said:

also i think there's utilities that can recover from a crash like that, google it.

ok chaps thank u kindly

I can't bring myself to play this on anything other than peaceful for more than an in-game night. The monsters are just so irritating. They aren't fun at all to kill and you essentially get totally raped if you need to go get something outside at night time.

If the combat was remotely interesting then it would be a different story but I feel like this game works a lot better without zombies trying to kill you every 6 seconds. Same goes with exploring the cave depths. Every time I put enemies on, I regret it fairly quickly afterwards when I waste a shitload of steel making armor and then get blown up somewhere that I can't find my way back to.

If peaceful mode ever gets removed, I think I would stop playing.

I only play peaceful mode.

Gays. Peaceful mode is gay.

I play peaceful when I'm building outside because I don't like to cut up my building time, but I play hard usually. I also die quite a lot because I play on a macbook with the trackpad and when I panic after falling into a cave etc my hands do weird things and my mouse cursor usually ends up facing the roof and then a creeper will explode me ;_;

My god...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxcxnKYPOc&feature=player_embedded#!

that's ridiculous.

how deep for optimum iron mining?

I was just waiting for him to accidentally break a glass block and flood the joint.

Does the developer come to these boards?

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Where do you look for inspiration?

 

Music, usually. I usually listen to either electronic music a la Squarepusher and Autechre....

  On 10/19/2010 at 2:54 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

I can't bring myself to play this on anything other than peaceful for more than an in-game night. The monsters are just so irritating. They aren't fun at all to kill and you essentially get totally raped if you need to go get something outside at night time.

 

If the combat was remotely interesting then it would be a different story but I feel like this game works a lot better without zombies trying to kill you every 6 seconds. Same goes with exploring the cave depths. Every time I put enemies on, I regret it fairly quickly afterwards when I waste a shitload of steel making armor and then get blown up somewhere that I can't find my way back to.

 

If peaceful mode ever gets removed, I think I would stop playing.

noob

i see iron everywhere from just above sea level to all the way down.

i just discovered the fun of TNT. i went all the way down in my mine and used all of my tnt in one area where i'd found a shitload of red dust and other good stuff and ended up blowing a hole in the bottom of the world :( i fell through it and lost the rest of my tnt.