Minecraft

hacx

Any of you gentlemen play Minecraft?
It's an Block-based indie construction rpg, currently in alpha, being developed by a swede called Notch. It has a large online community and can be played offline in survival mode as well. It cost's only 9€ for the full version, which gives you access to the latest version of InDev, which has many features that regular survival mode doesn't. I seriously recommend checking it out: http://minecraft.net

Amalgam

I love the blocky feel of it. Reminds me of the first Dungeon Keeper game from Bullfrog.

quarryman

bump!

just started playing this and loving it. absolute pure sandbox.

zekiel

I haven't downloaded the game, but just checked out the stats..! wow.. copied from site: In the last 24 hours, 12876 people registered, and 4613 people bought the game.

The guy is a single developer just making this game, he must be in high heaven at the moment with sales like that. fair play to him!

quarryman

Just finished a 4 hour stint there. Amazing game.

If your stats are right, he's made €46000 in the last 24 hours so!

Icyseanfitz

ya its a great little game id definitely recommend it

Wolfe Tone

What exactly do you do in it?

oeb

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

What exactly do you do in it?

You dig, and you build.

Think of it as a giant lego set or something. With monsters.

Notch had his account frozen recently because paypal were suspicious of the amount of money flowing in. Apparently there was more than 600,000 euro in there. Definitely not bad for a guy hacking away by himself.

Da Bounca

Can't wait to get this game.

This video made me laugh:

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

Nevyn

My son asked could he get the game and after reviewing it we got it for him.
He plays a lot of gary's mod but now prefers this.
I've had a go myself and it's a enjoyable game, the graphics are on par with Hexen and the first of the Daggerfall games.

Varik

I can't get the fire to stay, it flashes for a moment then stops (online).

Wolfe Tone

From the site:

Minecraft got way too popular for this humble server. I've had to disable everything fancy to even get it to run. It went down on Saturday, September 18.
It will probably go back to normal on Tuesday, September 21. I hope.

If your launcher is giving you download errors, please update the launcher by downloading the latest version from this page.

The following things do not work at the moment:
Registering an account
Purchasing the game
User verification for online servers
Sounds and music for new players
The following does work:
Actually playing the game
Player skins
Until this all gets sorted out, I'm officially calling a "free-to-play weekend", or however long this will take to fix. You will need to have a paid account to play it later on when this gets fixed though.
If you want to keep track of the latest developments, please follow my blog. I also post stuff on my twitter, but there's a lot of nonsense there as well.

Varik

Nevyn

Fecking Gabe, my son has been happily playing minecraft for the last 3 weeks and now this.
The cheek, how dare they popularise a homebrew game to the extent this happens :P

Wolfe Tone

Just got it there, and I am lost I am running around stabbing cubes of muck.


Anyone play this on a server online?

oeb

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

Just got it there, and I am lost I am running around stabbing cubes of muck.


Anyone play this on a server online?

I generally just play survival single player, but if someone had the bandwidth a boards server might be a nice idea *hint* *hint*

Wolfe Tone

oeb wrote: »

I generally just play survival single player, but if someone had the bandwidth a boards server might be a nice idea *hint* *hint*

I am still confused about what to actually do, I have made a hut thing... what now? lol And how do I tell what material certain blocks are?

quarryman

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

I am still confused about what to actually do, I have made a hut thing... what now? lol And how do I tell what material certain blocks are?

Its pure sandbox so that part is up to you

Check the minecraft wiki for info on ore types and crafting. http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

oceanclub

Finally got enough iron together to get my first rail line and minecart together...whhhhheeeeeee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z0BpLsoh4E

P.

oceanclub

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

I am still confused about what to actually do, I have made a hut thing... what now? lol And how do I tell what material certain blocks are?

I found some of the tutorial videos on Youtube a great help, such as X's adventures and also this guy's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs

P.

hacx

Speaking of videos, here's one of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rILQmSbN5M

Rev Hellfire

I so lurve this game.
I agree someone should setup a server

quarryman

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

I so lurve this game.
I agree someone should setup a server

+1. A server would be great.

Anyone find that a game that looks so basic plays so poor?

oeb

Anyone running this on linux btw? It runs fine on my laptop (Windows 7) but is laggy as hell on my linux box. I have tried the solution offered on the site, but I get errors about classes not being found etc.

Rev Hellfire

Runs fine for me under both, I'm using the sun/oracle jvm.

quarryman

Jaysus, he's making $250,000 a day.

edit: correction, $350,000 a day!

Rev Hellfire

for those who don't have sound ie. new users this may be of assistance.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=38263

Cryos

quarryman wrote: »

+1. A server would be great.

Anyone find that a game that looks so basic plays so poor?

Sure will look at setting one up..

Cryos

213.175.200.130

Enjoy

Monsters are off, but can be turned on if people want

Rev Hellfire

Must say I like the monsters...

Cryos

turned on

Rev Hellfire

Cool, twas only a suggestion.

dazftw

Bought this last night.. Its so addictive ill hop on your server later.

Rev Hellfire

Tried the server on Sunday but it was down.
On a side note multiplay are now offering them as well, which shows the uptake the game has achieved.

Cryos

Have been trying to get it running as a service so need to spend some time getting it working

Kersmash

I love this game so much. i get lost in it for hours.

Rev Hellfire

Nice update coming for Halloween.

A-Trak

Best €9.99 I've spent in a long time.

Rev Hellfire

A-Trak wrote: »

Best €9.99 I've spent in a long time.

Worst €9.99 I ever spent, can't get access to my PC cos the nippers are always playing it

Stercus Accidit

Amalgam wrote: »

I love the blocky feel of it. Reminds me of the first Dungeon Keeper game from Bullfrog.

I actually stopped playing DKII for this, I had started as I loved DKI so much, played it through many times, even converted the Avatar to my side (and glitched the game) and I am now addicted to minecraft.

Its a very similar draw, being able to build, dig and explore.

flynnduism

Bought Minecraft about a week ago, completely addicted to it!
Great game, despite it's simplicity.

Anyone have any good mining tips? Finding lots of Redstone Dust, but finding relatively little Iron and Gold despite carving out huge mines.

hacx

if you're just digging down, you're doing it wrong. stack up on supplies and go spelunking and see what you can find.

flynnduism

I was tunnelling straight down to the bedrock then exploring horizontally, was finding lots of Redstone but not much Iron & Gold.

Changed tactics a bit and dug around 10 blocks higher, having better luck on that level... still though takes a helluva lot of digging to find say, 5 pieces of iron ore

oeb

flynnduism wrote: »

I was tunnelling straight down to the bedrock then exploring horizontally, was finding lots of Redstone but not much Iron & Gold.

Changed tactics a bit and dug around 10 blocks higher, having better luck on that level... still though takes a helluva lot of digging to find say, 5 pieces of iron ore

As mentioned earlier, Iron and gold are much easier to find by just exploring caves. Diamonds are really the only thing you need to mine heavily for (In my opinion)

Hercule

theres a few tricks for easier mining in survival mode.

I build a 5x5 or 3x3 spiral staircase down to the absolute lowest possible (bedrock/lava)

Diamonds deposits will appear just above 2-4 blocks above the bottom - for those you should then dig horizontally from there.

Gold deposits are generally in dungeons or 4-5 blocks above the bottom
Iron can be anywhere but is usually 2-7 blocks above the bottom - so find one set then dig horizontally for more of the same.

If you find lava you can try flood your mine at the top then close the flow of water off to create obsidian - this is especially easy if you use a 3x3 spiral staircase

SeanKev

Very addictive game.

The early stage of my base, built into the side of a mountain.

SeanKev

Main room.



Other room, acess to the mine.

Rev Hellfire

I like your fancy wooden flooring, very swish

SeanKev

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

I like your fancy wooden flooring, very swish

My save is corrupt. :eek:

flynnduism

Ugh, collected a dozen diamonds and about 70 iron ore, then fell into lava on my way back to the surface

flynnduism

SeanKev wrote: »

My save is corrupt. :eek:

Oh that's not good!

Happened me before - even though the game slot looked empty, it still loaded up my world ok - think the items I'd been carrying had vanished though...

I've taken to backing up my world via Dropbox every couple of days in case it happens again and vanishes for good