Posts by Jetsetlemming

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Can you build it so it's possible to make shapes with it? Like, is there some kind of block that doesn't get absorbed by the lava? That way you could build a big smiley in there or whatever.

The only blocks I've seen lava burn through is stairs and wood, and only because it sets the wood slowly on fire. The difficulty there would be getting the lava to flow inside the smiley. You'd probably have to build it floating in midair in front of the lava screen, making the lava back light it.

I solved it.

I am so unbelievably proud of this.

Like five 64 piece stacks, yeah. I actually used all my iron at the time on track pieces and ended up making about 150 extra, and then had to go spelunking to get more iron so I could build the carts.

Still haven't figured out a way to get the minecart to go back to the spawn. I might just have to make the mountain booster cart two way (just a single cart on a single flat stretch that stays at one end until moved by a cart coming the opposite direction, either that or a big V shape so that it can be infinitely used in any direction as it always coasts to center), have the cart go up a giant hill off my mountain way up to the skybox, and then have it go all downhill back to spawn so the lost weight and power of having a rider doesn't cause it to stall out in the middle of the stupid track.

Or, maybe, middle boosters along the track, like three of them. That might actually work, though it'll require me to rebuild quite a bunch of stuff currently floating in midair dozens of tiles up, and would look ugly. Maybe encase them in floating train stations.

500 stone blocks and sections of track later, I now have a complete mine track stretching from my spawn all the way to my mountaintop home. It is totally rad, and awesome. I'm still trying to work out how to get the cart to return to spawn after it drops me off at my mountain, because it seems that carts have far less momentum without a rider.

Multiplayer's currently broken, just play offline.

Due to a bunch of server crap on Notch's end (What is that guy doing? There are hundreds of thousands of minecraft players and he still hadn't updated beyond a single local server?) Minecraft.net is mostly down except for a simple single html page, the downloads have been mirrored into an Amazon cloud, and Minecraft is free to play until all of this is sorted out. The download version from the site (from Amazon) is only the plain .exe so doesn't download/include sounds, though.

So, anyway, if you wanted to try Minecraft and haven't yet, you can now get it for nothing (play some music in the background or something)

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MTS maps sure look a whole lot better zoomed in. Though it does make my glass ceiling'd farm building look like I built it out of cloth.

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Went on a sailing trip, explored some mysterious burning trees (source: a rare above ground lava flow), hid up above the clouds from creepers at night. My world filesize jumped from 6MB to 12.

That was fun. Took like a week or so ingame from start to finish, exploring everything. Had every square of my inventory and craft squares filled by the time I got home.

There are ladders you know

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Playing with water. There are ways to make water spring tiles (the full tiles that can be picked up in your bucket) infinitely reproduce themselves, and I've now graduated from making waterfalls to making entire rivers and lakes.

Doesn't look very fixed to me.

I've been terraforming that mountain into something defensible and livable over the past two days. Adding waterfalls, digging out some areas and filling in others to turn climbable slopes into walls, adding rock walls, doors, ladders, and torches, etc. Looks like this now:

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I found a post online showing how to make an infinite water pool, so the summit where all my stuff is has a 2x2x1 bath now that I can use to easily make waterfalls. Most of the thin areas of the mountain have been turned into waterfalls, with wider areas being levelled out and equipped with ladders. The NW slope is still climbable because doing all this takes a lot of time and I've been going clockwise.

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Jetsetlemming, I haven't downloaded anything besides the alpha available to everyone and I have found dungeons with monster spawns and loot chests though I can't say I noticed any particular theme.

There's a program that spawns specific dungeons made out of randomized sets of custom designed rooms and floors, with treasure chests through it. Their entrances look like this:

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The big tower there in the water.

There's a program on the minecraft forums that alters your locally saved games to spawn dungeons in them, complete with themed levels, monster spawns, and loot chests. I reached the bottom of one finally, after many deaths and tribulations, collected myself, and returned to my basecamp between the second and third floors of the dungeon in a cave offshoot.

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Daaaamnnnnn

Using the painterly pack for textures.

http://painterlypack.net/index.html

I don't have the slightest clue what that item is in my inventory three squares right of the top left corner. It's not a tool as using it doesn't make a strength bar appear on its icon, but equipping it and using it swings it like a tool.

Gunpowder's always annoying. It's so easy to get Creepers to explode on their own, far easier than to actually kill them. Wish they dropped it when they naturally exploded. Then again, it's not like TNT's even all that good.

What I've yet to find is lava, actually. I've found iron, gold, and a couple diamonds, but still no lava at all.

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someone needs to combine this game with dwarf fortress

The only times I've ever gotten into DF were when I murdered six of my starting seven dwarves and went it alone with a single guy and a cat, so Minecraft basically already is DF for me. I've spent like four hours today on a new Survival map exploring some caves, mining and smelting ore, and building shit. I've got so much iron I've stopped using stone tools for anything, even for stuff like shovels that are so weak as to be a massive waste of resources.

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And Mac.

Mac's not very PC

Going broke BEFORE release. The indie bundle was the only thing that kept them afloat until Amnesia could ship. Maybe in the future they'll balloon out and grow and start releasing on multiple platforms, but right now they're PC through and through. I mean, they've even got Linux versions. That's the PCest you can get!

Edit: The linux version thing reminds me, their custom engine is using OpenGL, another barrier to console versions, unless Sony's super open and forward with trying to get a port out of them.

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Just played the demo, really dig it. Got pretty freaked out a couple of times. Totally getting this if they port it to consoles.

They're only five dudes at Frictional, plus contracted voice and music, and they nearly went broke just making the current version of Amnesia, and it's getting like zero attention in mainstream game media. It's not ever gonna happen ever.

Edit: I agree that PC is a more effective setting for horror, too. I can't think of a single console game that has got me consistently unnerved or afraid, beyond momentary stuff like jumping in RE when something jumps through a window or the chainsaw guy gets you from the side.

I wonder what that "reserves" means in this context. Like, 5% of those existing sales, Paypal demands must stay in Paypal? 5% extra fees on future sales? Either way totally bullshit.

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The reserve would be for 90 days, so I'd get it back. Eventually. But, still.. Daniel is helping look into alternatives right now.

Man. It's almost impressive, just how asshole this is of Paypal.

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So you only died 5 times and gave up? Comeon games back in the day, I would die 50 + times and be frustrated. 5 times is nothing.

No, I died five times in a row and got frustrated but got past it, only to start dying over and over at another spot later on and got fed up and THEN quit.