Morning Discussion: Labor Day Edition
This weekend I mostly read, polishing off Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar and Use of Weapons by Iain Banks then making a start on Slaughterhouse-Five. Books are nice. I also saw The Last Exorcism, which was mostly very enjoyable. I'm glad to see a decent, slow-paced horror thriller in an age of tiresome gore porn.
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replyMonday Morning Minecraft Thread!
Back in the Habit Edition!!!
I haven’t slept in over 24 hours, all to ensure that I get this thread on up on time and properly formatted!
Multiplayer Alpha Servers!
MercFox1 : 74.83.233.187:25566
Haxim : 199.216.192.102
zuff : 75.178.46.57
AgentPothead : shackcraft.sytes.net
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com : 9987
Also I had work to do but that is a much less important reason!-
First Time Playing? Useful Links!
- Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
- (Video) How to Survive Your First Night, originally linked by zuff!
http://tinyurl.com/3xy98ky
- (Video) (Series) Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff
http://tinyurl.com/36zhta3
- (Video) Your First Shelter in Minecraft!
http://tinyurl.com/28nw3s6
- (Video) (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Booasters! Track tricks! Et cetera!
http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
- Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, originally linked by at0micgarden!
(Work in Progress) Guide to Alpha: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17021
How to Survive Your First Night: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
- Things I Wish I’d Known, a retrospective by Ebu!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23608826#itemanchor_23608826
- Linkmania! By zuff!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23514788#itemanchor_23514788
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23533536#itemanchor_23533536
- Rotation Logic for Stairs, Explained by Arcanum!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23572304#itemanchor_23572304
- Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
- And some generally useful keys to press!
F11 - True full screen! No more hitting the maximise button for you!
F6 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
F5 - third person mode! View wonky animations and gradually figure out that the block you’re really aiming at is directly to the left of the one of the crosshair is on!
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Additional Multiplayer Stuff!
- From SA via Zek, make your own persistent inventory with Persister!
http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/persister_082310.jar
- Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
- Join the Steam group if you feel like it!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ShackMiners
Posts IPs and events when applicable!
Creative Multiplayer Server run by MercFox1!
http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?server=a16f86bfc644bae85cba8ff2e7edf027
How Do I Join?
You need to have an account registered on the Minecraft main site, and to be signed in on the main site as well. If you meet both those criteria, click the link in the above, and you should be all set!
What is Creative Mode?
Creative mode for Minecraft is what the Alpha form of the game grew out of! Features include:
- Instant access to all Creative Mode block types (press B to open the inventory!)
- Place/ remove those blocks instantly!
- Crazy water! It will expand to fill any space that is below it, and there is an unlimited amount of it! It will flood your build eventually, which is why you will happy to have:
- The sponge block! It’s yellow with black dots, and it makes water disappear!
- No health bar! Which no means no drowning, no burning to death, and no death-drops off high places!
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First post of the chatty HELL YEAH!!!
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2 posts in a row without being tagfucked! BUT HOW LONG CAN I LAST???
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isn't that the wrong IP for MercFox1's server?
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I said tagfucked.
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Not infobuggered
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I am glowing with pride so much right now that you could use me as a lamp.
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MercFox1's OIZOMAPPER RENDER: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7834948/20100905_0337.png
Rendered: 3:37 AM EST, Sept. 5th-
Oh cool, my little house is still around! I'd assumed it was lost in the wipe/rollback, and that was one of the reasons I leaned away from playing.
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The spawn point moved there wasn't really anything lost, it just takes about 5 mins to get back to the old spawn area by boat in the canal.
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I think I might start a new SP map... I'm too bummed out after losing all my stuff in lava twice now. :(
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Use containers people, sheesh. I lost all my stuff once, but all I really lost was the tools and food on me, all my ore / steel / ruby and backup tools were up in the mf'ing tree house.
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yah i was still basically starting out and went on a long expedition in a cave... i should of gone back to the surface, but I didn't. :(
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Recent Render http://agentpothead.com/newest.png Also have the experimental textured shot. http://agentpothead.com/textured.png
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Wrong Ip in the root post: 75.186.55.158:25566
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I couldn't even get animals to stay in a pen above ground. They would just randomly dissapear even though I know they couldn't get out.
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thank god i don't have to post the thread this time.
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Notch is too busy hobnobbing with Gabe.
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he has twittered a lot about the inventory and how he originally implemented it as a complete hack for SP. So basically, he's totally reingineering the inventory system to work with MP. I don't know if that ties into mobs or not. I mean, we already have chickens and pigs that can walk around and (reportedly) die by fire or falling off a cliff.
I think once Notch settles back in from his world tour we will see progress at the normal ridiculous-for-one-guy rate. Meanwhile, still having a ton of fun with the game in MP with friends.-
reports confirmed, I killed a bunch and made arrows.
but with no bow to shoot them :(-
Try to find a dungeon. Chests appear empty in MP, but if you destroy the chest you get what was inside. I found a bunch of spider thread in a chest along with some gunpowder.
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!!!!! hmmm i wonder if there are any in zuff's..
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Sure all the maps have dungeons. Try and ask Zuff for a cave render, it will take a while but you can pretty easily make out the dungeons. They are square shaped where as the normal caves tend to be oval or circular.
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i think he's actually having a second guy to come in and help with the non-programming things related to minecraft, but it'll just be him and that one guy exclusively on minecraft
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Notch just announced he's starting a business officially and hiring several people to get development sped up on Minecraft and development started a second game. http://notch.tumblr.com/
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So awesome. Hopefully this kicks development into high gear.
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