Be Excellent To Each Other

Currently, stuck inside my mine. Mining whilst waiting for daylight to start building the south tower.

Found this useful image for making circles. Nothing you can't do yourself, but why reinvent the wheel hey?

I'm making some iron pants.

I am utterly lost and confused. I hit a sheep with a breeze block.

No clue what I'm doing so I search for a tutorial. Aha!



Not a bad effort, kiddywinkle!

Yes, but how are you finding Minecraft?

Lave's guide to getting started
left click - beat shit up.
right click - place shit.
Q. WTF?
A. Ok, your aim before it gets dark is to a) have a workbench and some tools. And a hidy hole to prevent death.
A. First things first you need wood. Find a tree.
Q. Ok.
A. Punch the fuck out of it.
Q. It exploded. That makes sense.
A. Good collect the wooden blocks.
Q. I have wood.
A. Open the inventory (i) and put the wood into the 2x2 craft window. Tada! Planks! you get 4 for each wood.
Q. Yeah!
A. Now place a plank in each square of the 2x2 crafting grid. Tada! you made a work bench. Put it somewhere for the mo. Don't worry where you can always move it by beating it up with your fists.
Q. Ok.
A. Now make sticks. two planks. One on top of each other Like so:
S
S
Q. Sticky.
A. Now by right clicking on the bench make a wooden pick by making a T shape of sticks and planks. Like so:

It's a pick axe! Use it to mine some stone. You should get cobble stone. Use that to make a better stone axe.

Now start mining a house or building one. Experiment for more craft recipes. Sword, axe and so on can be worked out based on pick axe. If you can't work them out, use the wiki to find out the ones for 'door' and 'torch'. You need them.

If you can't make a door by nightfall for gods sake block yourself inside.

EDIT: Bah, beaten.

EDIT: EDIT: Ignore that kid when he says set to peaceful. The scary start sets the scene. It's important. (At least I think so)

Also something I didn't realise for ages: hold down the left button to mine/gather stuff, don't repeatedly click.

BOOM. LAVE TOWERS.

You can hear me a little better in after a few minutes.

I second this. I hit a sheep. It turned pink.

Then a tall wobbly thing hit me and I died!

I have built a hut with a workbench. There is a lake outside, and across the lake and up the slope a big, big cliff face with a giant scary gaping cave mouth. Oh no, it is dark! I shall build a door, and stare through nervously. Time to wait for morning in my dark, dirt floored hut...

You know what I love about this game? The fact that it is actually scary despite only being against block-o-men. I haven't felt this nervous in a game since Sentinel or Daggerfall: Elder Scrolls. ("VENGEANCE!")

Can't wait for morning. I'm going mining like Curdie from the Princess and the Goblin. And if they try and stop me, I'll stomp on their toes! You just watch! Um.

Oh my god, I can hear something outside my hut... *mewls with fear*

I have secret mining tunnels leading from my dining room. The bad men can't find me there, and I can work through the night.

Just like The Princess and the Goblin!

I love that book.

So that's approximately £8.50 a game, and he's sold 1353 in the last 24 hours. That's £11,500 and 50p in 24 hours, then.

He must be quite pleased to be earning my annual wage in a day and a half. Blimey.

Lave that video is brilliant. I love how you are giving the tour and then suddenly, an unidentifiable growl and although you try to continue with the tour you also start muttering to yourself about scary creature and not trusting them whilst trying to close all your doors. Brilliant.

Bloody hell. Playing in dark, in bed, on laptop. Just finishing my the first part of my second tower on a foggy day and I realise later than usual that the sun is setting. I turn around and see sitting above my other tower a Creeper. It slowly turns around and looks at me.

Scared me to death, and I was frozen to the spot. Made it back safely though. But I've realised, the open towers give a way into Castle Lavestone.

I am compromised.

EDIT: Fuck me that was brilliant. Spoiler for monster/crafting details

Yeah, I think it sold for less before, but even so he's raking it in. I really like the fact he puts the stats up. Makes it honest and makes a mockery of how indie's can't make money. The fact that it's alpha and he adds new stuff nearly weekly gives the game constant attention far better than DLC to buy.

Fair play to the guy.

I have a diamond pickaxe. And my Khazad Dim is now entranced with obsidian.

That video is ace! I was almost shouting, "get out of there, its in there with you!"

Things they could do with: a grinder or something to get rid of things you don't want anymore. I have so much rock..

Oh look, here's the server stuff.

My tower top is above the clouds.

I've just found a vast underground cave complex while I was mining deep down. It's full of skellingtons and frankingsteins and then I found 2 chests with loot in them it are.

SODDING LAVA. I just bladdy died after getting set on fire by it and one of my precious diamonds jumped into the flow.

Bad luck old boy.

I'm on my fifth night. Built a little wood cabin, now building a small stone keep annex. Got a chest, stove and workbench and have been digging mine shafts about fifty yards away. Found a little coal but not much else so far. I guess if I keep digging I'll hit something eventually.

Lave, how long did it take you to build your mighty Lave Towers? Am I lagging behind? Not run into any monsters yet, though I did see one in the distance. I now have a wooden sword however, to disuade all threats.

Hey kids, why doesn't the stove start half the time? Just put 7 coal in there, nada. Same with 32 wood. I'm very confused. It was working fine earlier.

Holy moley. Just found a massive crevasse deep, deep underground. Must be at least 200 blocks deep with lava running at the bottom.

Bah lost a post I was writing. Did the forum go down for anyone else?



The furnace only burns when fuel + something you can smelt/cook is in it. If you dump 7 wood and 3 sand in it for example, even if you leave the menu, it will burn happily until it's made 3 sand. Then it will turn off and save the wood for later.

EDIT: Pro-tip, if you want to leave the game, but not pause it, then enter a menu before removing focus. Will keep pottering on. Useful if you are trapped somewhere over night.

I've bought this now as well. Lave, I blame you entirely...that video you posted just made me want to play as well!

We need an multiplayer server.

How much do you need to batter the trees to make them explode? I feel like I've been punching this tree for hours!*

*about a minute.

Hold down the mouse button, don't repeatedly click. You'll see "cracks" appearing in the surface texture of the block you're focused on.

Dinnae worry, I spent the first 15 minutes doing exactly the same. Then I found a hillside to create Khazad Dim.

Can you make hammers? I've been reading Viz again & want to twat a tree with one.

I cut down loads of trees and tried to build a house but forgot how to do it and then it got dark and something killed me. I respawned and it was still dark so I dug a hole and hid down it. I think it's nearly light now but i can hear something moving around outside

Oh, how do you tell how long you've got 'til it gets dark/light, or don't you?

I am making a massive tower to an island in the sky.

I just fell off the side.
and hurted myself.

We need multiplayer shenanigans Grim! Or DocG! Or someone else with an server!

Gonna go up to the Castle in the Sky. That's where I'm gonna go when I've finished this smelting.

Cheers.

Watching that video back made me realise two things:

1) I kept walking past two big coal deposits.

and

2) the one place I didn't look in that video. THE ONE PLACE. Was on top of my little tower entrance. That was where the monster was. Fucking hell!

:DD

Look at the position of the sun, like in real life. A tower on a nearby hill lit by torches is a very useful navigation aid I find.

Dimmers, you're an artist superb, did you know that at http://www.minecraft.net/skin/ you can upload your own skin for your little man? Might be useful if we get a server going.

If not I'll try running one on my macbook. Wouldn't be on very often mind....

I've managed to build a house but i've ran out of wood to build a door so I've blocked off the entrance with some dirt and I'm now waiting for daytime again to go and get more wood. I'll also need to try and find some coal so as I can get torches, I'm currently sitting in the dark.

BLOODY HELL! I was hiding in my house and thought it might be daytime, so I dug a wee hole at the botton of the door area and peeped out. It was bright outside, so I dug out the rest of my door and walked out STRAIGHT INTO A BIG GREEN BASTARD! ARGH!

Yeah, I've already made a mini-me.

Found some seeds! Now to make a walled garden and GROW SOME SHIT.

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?