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