Minecraft - best PC game eva y2k+10

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Made me a skin: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=Lave

Bobbyaro wrote:

okay, how do I build a door?
Also, it's gone dark and I don't have a roof!
Oh and how do I build a roof?

To build a door:

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A 2x3 grid of planks. You'll need a workbench first (which is a 2x2 grid of planks). You make planks by punching (before you make an axe at least) tree to make blocks of wood, that you can place in your craft box, to turn into planks. (4 planks for each wood block). Press I to get your inventory).

Placing blocks:
Any block can be placed against the side of any block by equiping it (number keys) and pressing right mouse button. You can thus build out of the side of your walls to cover your roof.

Bear in mind you can delete the block you connected it to and it will float in the air quite happily. PROTIP: FLOATING CASTLES.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 14:42

This is me: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=Dimrill

Door:

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Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 14:44

Number keys PAH! Middle mouse wheel scroll.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

thanks Dimrill! time to get me a door!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

OK - stick and what for a torch?

I might restart - I'm on a desert island chain which I'm not sure is ideal

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Desert? Not many trees? Maybe best.

Coal to head the torch.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Ah. I have no coal. When I try and go digging to find coal, it is too dark to see. Because I have no torches. Because I have no coal.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 14:51

Khazad Dim now has a lava moat. *dusts fingernails*

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

I'm stuck down a massive natural hole (fell down huge number of blocks, and died. Couldn't let my loot perish, so returned and dug straight down to reclaim it. Found my first gold (didn't realise needed an iron pick axe to mine that - I;ve wasted a lot of gold that way), and plenty of coal. Which is all great, but it's full of the undead. Quickly built a hidy hole base camp, but going to be rough going building a way out.

THIS IS MINECRAFT.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Craster wrote:

Ah. I have no coal. When I try and go digging to find coal, it is too dark to see. Because I have no torches. Because I have no coal.

Hmm, restart. You should be able to find your first coal quite near the surface. Especially in cliff faces.

I like that your first torches are precious mind.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

I am having to sleep at the top of a tree!

sadly it is cold and snowing. Good job I am a hardy soul.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

The tree died, and I can here something hissing! :'(

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Top, of a tree? Good idea. In a pinch.

But bugger. Pro-tip: Don't mess with your skin whilst playing. Just returned to my game to find it had reverted me back to my castle. Don't know how much progress I've lost.

:(

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

well, the hissing turned out to be two enormous spiders. I hid under ground for ages and when I eventually tunnelled out, the bright sunlight was delectable! There also appears to be a pack of wolves near by.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

I died! and I don't know why.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 15:32

I haf found Iron!

You can wood-pick it, can't you? Can't wait to get some proper tools. So far I've got a two-story house, well lit, with stove, workbench and chest. I've found one promising mine working too. And a scary ink black cave with a probable suicidal drop.

I love this game. I almost regret I've a house party starting in a few minutes...

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 15:37

You can make stone tools as well.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

NervousPete wrote:

I haf found Iron! :D

You can wood-pick it, can't you?

Think you need to cobblestone pick. You should only really use wooden tools long enough to get enough cobble stone to replace them. Far superior and last a lot longer.

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I love this game.

Woo, sometimes I worry when I throw a huge recommendation out there and people drop £8 or so on it, so glad it's not just me.

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I almost regret I've a house party starting in a few minutes... :S

It's weird, I've just got back from france (which was lovely, despite that drunk thread) and having done so much the past 8 days or so it is just divine to be sitting inside whilst it rains sucked into this game in a way I haven't been since maybe the amiga days. No, since I sank days into SMAC.

It's so wonderful to just sink time into.

Back to an early question, don't worry about how fast your going, remember dimmers has almost super human gaming abilities. When I decided to build the castle walls and tower (out of all the cobblestone I had mined) it only took a little while. Most of the time I was pratting around. I like slowly exploring.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

oooh, interesting. From the devs blog:

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The rationale for Redstone
“But why”, some people ask, “are you making Minecraft programmable?”. The reason is, adventure mode!

The three main game modes when the game is finished will be:

* Creative mode. You can build anything for free, and there’s no health bar, and no inventory.
* Survival mode. There’s a health bar, an inventory, and you need to gather resources to be able to build.
* Adventure mode. There’s a health bar and an inventory, but you can’t destroy or place blocks, you can only use items.

(You can combine at least the two latter game modes for different players in multiplayer)

I foresee a future where people can design “challenge maps” in creative or survival mode, then share them with people so that they can try to beat them in Adventure mode. Being able to create interesting puzzles or trigger events requires some more advanced programming than the sand and water based stuff we’ve seen so far, yet still I don’t want to introduce real programming into the world.
I think the Redstone Dust (which is, and always has been[*] the official name for the red stuff) fits fairly well with the pseudo fantasy theme of Minecraft, and it will certainly have more uses in the future, mainly for alchemy and possibly other forms of magic.

Also, I’m a huge cellular automata nerd.

[*] I made it up last night.

As it stands today, I think the game is easily worth the money it costs, but if even half of what he promises he realises then......

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Dr Lave wrote:

Craster wrote:

Ah. I have no coal. When I try and go digging to find coal, it is too dark to see. Because I have no torches. Because I have no coal.

Hmm, restart. You should be able to find your first coal quite near the surface. Especially in cliff faces.

I like that your first torches are precious mind.

Yeah, no cliffs. Desert island, remember?

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Reroll craster. You be screwed. You're not going to get much of anything in a desert, and even if you leg it elsewhere you'll always respawn there.

Also:

Is it wrong I really like this?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

I'm lost! I respawned and now I can't find my way home!

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Bobbyaro wrote:

I'm lost! I respawned and now I can't find my way home! :(

Climb a hill and scout your way back. Remember any land marks? Next time at the very least build a nice single block tower to help you locate your way back.

Just fell to my death trying to build my stairwell out of the epic pot hole, when it got dark and I was trapped half way without light. Waiting till day break to try and return and finish the job

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Everything is covered in snow and all looks the same! I am hauled up in a hole with zombies growling outside!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 16:20

My first world was a snow world. I recreated to get a grassy one. Now I have a massive cloud level tower festooned with torches to act as a beacon.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 16:20

I now have a cloud-level arboretum of about 10 trees.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Immediately after leaving that comment I got lost when I fell from the stair well and tried to return. So now I can't find either my castle or the pot hole.

However in my wanderings I've found a FUCKING TREMENDOUS WATERFALL that runs down a mountain and forms a river. I've started a second base here and am going to have to make a series of expeditions to link these places together. This new place is infested with creepers though. One was just staring through the door of my hidey hole!

I really hope he doesn't add a map. It's fun to be lost in a game again.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I'm using sticks and coal, in the inventory and on the workbench, and I still can't make torches. Help?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 16:59

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I done did that. Nothing. :0(

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Craster wrote:

I'm using sticks and coal, in the inventory and on the workbench, and I still can't make torches. Help?

One coal with one stick (not plank) directly below it.

See this guide: though it is very spoilery so be careful. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

EDIT: Dimrill!!!

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Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Craster wrote:

I done did that. Nothing. :0(

are you sure you've got coal and not flint?

This is flint:

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Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Cocks. I appear to have flint.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:03

Are you sure it's coal, and not a flint? Flint is occasionally dropped by gravel, coal can be seen in the rock.

Bottom thing is a flint.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

okay, I have a stick, and what I assume to be coal, why can't I make a torch?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:10

Wouldn't it be great if we could get a server running or something?

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Dimrill wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if we could get a server running or something?

:this:

Although we are in no hurry, you can't even use the furnace at the moment. Might as well get to grips with single player then start the epicist Beex Towers once it's stable.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Bobbyaro wrote:

okay, I have a stick, and what I assume to be coal, why can't I make a torch?

Joking? See the above posts! :p

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

sdg · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:27

Hey, I've just found this great PC game, it's called Minecraft!

sdg · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:27

I think this is my new favourite thread on beex.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:30

This house party's a-rockin', Lord Rixondale's here and everything! Drink! Wine! Song! Sure feel sorry for you guys, stuck playing ol' Minecraft, that's for sure.

...

Um, how's everyone doing? Good right? Yeah. Yeah. Good. Cool. Diggin' mines I bet, huh? Yeah. Well. Cool. Minecraft, eh? No time for that now. No. I got a party. A big house-party.

Yeah. Watch me, I'll be drunk and everything. No time for Minecraft me.

No time for this game. No.

No expanding my house and exploring for me. Groovin' to be doing.

Yeah.

No.

*sigh*

Back to the party. :'(

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Bobbyaro wrote:

:facepalm:

Me am :wrong:

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 17:49

Trying to grow some reeds. I had to yomp for miles to find any in the first place.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

This is superb. I've just dug myself out a basement and now I'm using the stone to build Hadrian's Wall to keep the bad things away.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Well, I still don't have any torches, and I can't find my original home, so I built a new one under an over hanging cliff. It went dark, I descended the escarpment and kaboom, some blowy up thing killed me as I reached the floor INSIDE my castle! :'(

sdg · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 18:04

I haven't been able to find any coal to make torches yet either and spend most of my time cowering inside my house. Occasionally I venture outside where the frustration and fear gets too much for me and I lash out, smashing up some rocks and sometimes even murdering a cow or pig before I succumb to the never ending fear again and run back to my house, peering out the door and cursing at the monsters outside.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Getting torches makes this game a million times more fun, because you can do stuff indoors while it's dark outside.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Oh man. This looks like lots of fun, but I'm still working on my new dwarf fortress.

After abandoning the first one as the bugged military left me doomed, I started building an impenetrable, self-destructing fortress of nightmarish death for the unwary. It's going much better.

I'll have to have a look at this when the fortress finally caves in on itself (which I'm designing it to do as a last resort, after filling it with water).

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 18:26

superdupergill wrote:

I haven't been able to find any coal to make torches yet either and spend most of my time cowering inside my house. Occasionally I venture outside where the frustration and fear gets too much for me and I lash out, smashing up some rocks and sometimes even murdering a cow or pig before I succumb to the never ending fear again and run back to my house, peering out the door and cursing at the monsters outside.

I'm a house cowering-type too, no excuse either, since I'm yet to encounter a monster except the one I saw in the distance and it's five nights in.

Dudes, do they home in on you? How aggressive are the monsters? Will they try and get in when you're tucked up inside your house?

Monsters, brrrr.

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