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    #32
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Cool, twas only a suggestion. :D


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    #33
    dazftw
    Registered Users Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


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

    Network with your people: https://www.builtinireland.ie/



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    #34
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭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.


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    #35
    Cryos
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Cryos


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


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    #36
    Kersmash
    Registered Users Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭Kersmash


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


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    #37
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Nice update coming for Halloween.

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    #38
    A-Trak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    391

    Best €9.99 I've spent in a long time.


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    #39
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭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 :(


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    #40
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭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.


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    #41
    flynnduism
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭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.


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    #42
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭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.


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    #43
    flynnduism
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭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


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    #44
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭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)


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    #45
    Hercule
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭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


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    #46
    SeanKev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭SeanKev


    Very addictive game.

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

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    #47
    SeanKev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭SeanKev


    Main room.

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    Other room, acess to the mine.

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    #48
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    I like your fancy wooden flooring, very swish :D


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    #49
    SeanKev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭SeanKev


    Rev Hellfire wrote: »
    I like your fancy wooden flooring, very swish :D


    My save is corrupt. :eek: :(


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    #50
    flynnduism
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭flynnduism


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

    :o


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    #51
    flynnduism
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭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


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    #52
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Is Red-stone dust 'found' or a result of being manufactured\smelted? I need a compass..


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    #53
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Amalgam wrote: »
    Is Red-stone dust 'found' or a result of being manufactured\smelted? I need a compass..


    You mine it from redstone ore.

    You can normally find it while caving, or it's down about the same level as iron when mining.


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    #54
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    oeb wrote: »
    You mine it from redstone ore.

    You can normally find it while caving, or it's down about the same level as iron when mining.

    Just to emphasise that unlike gold and iron, you directly get from redstone dust from mining. There's no intermediate smelting ore==>product step.

    Oh, and you also need at least an iron tool to dig it with - wood and stone picks won't work.

    P.


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    #55
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Cheers. Very zen game.. yet I suffer from 'new cavern anxiety' a lot, where a block is removed and there's just darkness.. ;)


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    #56
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


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    A mans home is his castle after all >.<


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    #57
    flynnduism
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭flynnduism


    Nice castle!

    Mine is still a work in progress, I havn't been on minecraft in about 5 days, feeling withdrawl!


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    #58
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


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    Fun, travelled by boat for a good bit, stumbled across this, the lava hit the tree on the left, up in flames, then a single block of greenery touching from the right torched that tree. Passed a crop that looks like Runner beans or bamboo, must go back and have a look..

    Great to see where this goes as a product, over the next year or so.


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    #59
    Hocker
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Hocker


    My friend plays it, he's ALWAYS on about it, I should just get it to shut him up haha


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    #60
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    A load of information on the halloween update:

    http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/22/minecraft-halloween-update-preview-meet-the-ghasts/


    Sounds well difficult now.

    Personally i find the torches being exstinguished over time a massive nuisance for somebody who doesn't really play it enough.

    Hopefully the hell realm thing isn't too difficult to get in and out of.


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    #61
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭hacx


    considering that the portals are made out of obsidian and you need a diamond pickaxe to mine it, it may be a bit of a bollox to getin there in the first place.


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