Minecraft

Amalgam · 21-10-2010 10:30am

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

oeb · 21-10-2010 11:39am

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.

oceanclub · 21-10-2010 11:48am

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.

Amalgam · 21-10-2010 11:56am

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

SoupyNorman · 22-10-2010 2:02am

A mans home is his castle after all >.<

flynnduism · 22-10-2010 9:52am

Nice castle!

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

Amalgam · 22-10-2010 4:41pm

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.

Hocker · 23-10-2010 1:32pm

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

Just Like Heaven · 24-10-2010 1:17am

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.

hacx · 24-10-2010 5:54pm

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.

24-10-2010 6:02pm

Just got into this recently. Love the survival. Creepers keep sneaking up on me. Multiplayer survival with increased difficulty would be great, or even pvp.

Just Like Heaven · 25-10-2010 8:29pm

hacx wrote: »

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.

I was afraid of something like that, i don't even know what obsidian is.

generalmiaow · 26-10-2010 3:21am

Is there much interest to set up a boards.ie server? Looks like it will be starting at about 8 euros plus a month though for 8 slots...

if there's interest and people genuinely say they'll donate maybe a couple of us could set one up for a couple months at least... not sure if my home net connection is up to handling one.

I could buy us a domain to make it easier to type in (lack of copy and paste in minecraft :eek:), but there's no point if only 2 or 3 people are interested. it'd want to be at least full enough that you'd know someone would be there, or at certain times

generalmiaow · 26-10-2010 3:23am

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

I was afraid of something like that, i don't even know what obsidian is.

You get it where lava and water collide naturally. It's purple stuff. Never actually got a decent enough tool to chop it

oeb · 26-10-2010 10:04am

generalmiaow wrote: »

You get it where lava and water collide naturally. It's purple stuff. Never actually got a decent enough tool to chop it

You can actually force grow it too, all you need is a few buckets of lava, some buckets of water and some dirt. There are vids on youtube about it.

It's something to do with the angle of the water hitting the lava or something.

Amalgam · 26-10-2010 2:55pm

generalmiaow wrote: »

You get it where lava and water collide naturally. It's purple stuff. Never actually got a decent enough tool to chop it

Just to add to generalmiaow's post, you can force water towards lava and Obsidian will be created when the two meet..

You need a Diamond tool to mine it.

Amalgam · 26-10-2010 2:58pm

oeb wrote: »

It's something to do with the angle of the water hitting the lava or something.

Funny you should say that, I had a feeling it was when two blocks or more collided, I noticed with single block collisions you were more likely to get a block identical to the main 'processed rock'. The water was hitting the lava from above too, I noticed, for the main run..

hacx · 26-10-2010 5:02pm

it's called cobblestone

TPD · 26-10-2010 7:36pm

Tower, work in progress

Tower at night

Daytime

Ground floor + spiral staircase

1st floor + part of 2nd

Some job mining that lot.

Amalgam · 30-10-2010 10:07pm

Just gone 10pm. Minecraft is updating itself..

Minecraft Alpha v1.2.0 now.

Just Like Heaven · 30-10-2010 10:09pm

Amalgam wrote: »

Just gone 10pm. Minecraft is updating itself..

Minecraft Alpha v1.2.0 now.

So this is the halloween update and stuff?

Amalgam · 30-10-2010 10:12pm

Probably, fairly small update, I'm not close to my 'base', so.. can't test the Obsidian blocks or the fishing rod yet..

Just Like Heaven · 30-10-2010 10:16pm

I can't log in online. Is it updating or am i just broken?

Amalgam · 30-10-2010 10:45pm

The Minecraft server has been DDoS'd for some or most of the week. Add to that the expectation from the half a million users.

Some 'status' lists from this evening. Posted on crafthub.

and..

Just in the last hour.

Amalgam · 30-10-2010 10:52pm

Sadly, crafthub.net are reporting that the game user accounts have been compromised in some manner. Seems to be a brute login cracker of some sort.

Gonzovision · 30-10-2010 11:12pm

Just got the update.

oceanclub · 31-10-2010 12:53am

There's a livestreaming event which notch has joined over at:

http://ghostinthestream.net/minecraft.html

2500 viewers so far!

P.

Jaafa · 07-11-2010 11:15pm

Anyone here running this with an Intel HD graphics card??? Having serious issues with lag here.

Amalgam · 20-12-2010 6:47pm

Minecraft Beta 1.0 is being pushed out at the moment.

Minecraft Beta

I just updated the client and the server to Minecraft Beta 1.0

* Working server-side inventory! Finally! (And as a result of that, a whole pile of bugs and issues got fixed)
* Made SMP servers save chunks way less often in most cases. Chunks don’t resave if they got saved in the last 30 seconds
* Moving too far away from a container, or having it blow up, closes the inventory screen
* Fixed /kill
* Introduced leaf decay again. It acts differently from before
* You can now throw eggs
* On a whim, added super exclusive clan cloaks for Mojang Employees
* .. and something else, which is even more rare

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2389820531/minecraft-beta

hacx · 20-12-2010 7:08pm

Anyone know wwhy the commewnts are gone from his blog?

Amalgam · 20-12-2010 7:12pm

hacx wrote: »

Anyone know wwhy the commewnts are gone from his blog?

They were very umm.. 'ripe' comments. I reckon Notch probably wanted to make the site suitable for a wider and more varied audience, including children.

A very small minority were also snipping away at Notch.. the crime of being profitable..

Amalgam · 13-01-2011 7:50pm

Beta 1.2 is being pushed out at the moment.

*cough* Be careful where you swim..

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2730532961/minecraft-beta-1-2

Minecraft Beta 1.2

Minecraft Beta 1.2 is live. All servers need to be updated to 1.2.

New features:
* Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
* 15 wool dyes
* A new water dwelling mob
* New tree types
* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
* A bunch of new crafting recipes
* One secret useful block
* One secret pretty block
* Cake
* AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes:
* Paintings work in multiplayer
* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
* Falling sand behaves better in SMP
* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs

hare05 · 18-01-2011 9:23am

Does anyone know how to move server maps from one pc to another? Moving the server world folder doesn't work and I can't find any extra files in appdata...