Evening Reading
While I won't be staying up to watch the match live, I'll definitely be checking out the VODs tomorrow. Then, October's tournament should begin and I'll probably be watching that. It also looks like a lot more ex-StarCraft 1 pro-gamers will be involved in the second GSL tournament.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Gears of War 3 now a Fall 2011 title.
- EA renames "Taliban" in Medal of Honor.
- Steam Wallet and Mann-Conomy TF2 update now live.
- Blizzard hands out bans in StarCraft II.
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Dong Patrol
replyFriday Evening Minecraft Thread!
Friday Evening Edition!!!
Friday Evening!
Multiplayer Servers!
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Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
Weekend Discussion-
First Time Playing?
- Check out (and help with) the Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
- Map your levels with Oizomapper, by mroizo40!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24100023#itemanchor_24100023
Video Guides!
- (Series) X's Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff!
http://tinyurl.com/2ah7sex
Lots of useful info in here!
- (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Boosters! Track switches! Et cetera!
http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
- Water Physics Tutorial by Arctic Fox!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24127669#itemanchor_24127669
Written Guides!
- 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
Shacker Help!
- 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
- Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
- Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
- Circle guides! More useful than they sound!
http://www.agentpothead.com/minecraft/sphere.html linked/hosted by AgentPothead!
http://www.shackpics.com/files/radii_even_to_100_pgzh2n77iabkgcmee93q.png hosted by Arctic Fox!
- Beginner’s Guide to Redstone, links by The Grolar Bear!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24044649#itemanchor_24044649
- And some generally useful keys to press!
F11 - full screen!
F3 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
F5 - third person mode!-
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Welcome to the world of Minecraft! That's probably going to happen a lot.
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griefer gets online, griefs through duke city headed northeast, nox's town agrestic is burned, sparkly's garden suffers casualties.
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You name your town 'Agrestic' and you're pretty much asking for it to burn down.
Kidding. Griefers suck, and if somebody wrecked my shit I would be pissed.
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i can see foreverrrrrr http://www.shackpics.com/files/Picture2_ew3rna5hfypatjrt9c3i.png
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This happens all the time if you warp or teleport. I think it's just taking a while for the blocks to actually load in. I've found in multiplayer if you look straight up or down it tends to load a bit faster. If you are in single player I have no idea and good luck!
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New Renders are Up !!
Birds-eye: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-current.png
Oblique: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-oblique-current.png
Oblique Angle: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-angle-current.png -
Walked into my Fry's grocery store recently, and saw this...thought of Minecraft, of course.
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=house1_rpii9ap0zkb3iconsfqs.jpg
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=house2_dku8h1y83x67mpty5jd8.jpg (Beetlejuice playing)
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=house3_fg93nfjc8fqshnqtljhf.jpg
Now THAT'S a Halloween decoration. It was amazing.-
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lol sorry! I think both chains are owned by the same company. The grocery stores are ultimately owned by Kroger.
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Also, you can tell it's Phoenix by the Cardinals Coke box pixel art!
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redstone and diamond are about 15 up from bottom with it rarely found higher than 25-30up, iron is most plentiful about 35 up, but is found from sea level down, rarely above sea level. Coal is found almost anywhere, but is slightly more common below sea level that above, getting rare over ~20 above (mostly because of how little land there is above that level)
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Look for natural cave systems with openings on the surface. They are pretty common, and you can usually find iron and coal pretty easily that way. Caves down near the bottom of the world are good for gold, diamond (still very scarce in my experience), and redstone. You can mine by just sinking shafts and then drifting horizontally, but that's a lot more work.
Lava has source blocks, just like water. I sunk a deep shaft this evening and found a huge cave with multiple lava and water falls. The main lava fall was over 20 blocks tall. Absolutely spectacular, and the coolest thing I've seen in the game so far.
I used the minecraft wiki for crafting recipes when I started out. I don't see how it could be considered cheating.
After a solid week of playing, I have a main base along with a half dozen satellite outposts. Basically, whenever I want to try mining at a different location I build a base on that spot. Do whatever works for you.
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lol i just picked a block and jumped out before it respawned. and I broke the glass and checked the chest. I made a cock in it because there were no diamonds in it.
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You should build in JOasis!
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i know what you mean. i even deleted it the other night. and then restored it from backup the next morning.
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pot meet kettle
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Seriously. I don't think he even asked for help.
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Can you make infinite lava in this game? My keeps disappearing...
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Yep.
Get 5 buckets of lava
Dig a + sign into smooth stone, 1 deep
Fill + sign with the 5 buckets of lava
Dig down into the + sign (through the lava) one more level, resulting in a + sign that's 2 deep, full of lava
Take buckets out of the center tile, it should regenerate
If you want, hop on to MercFox's server and I'll show you how to do it sometime.-
^^^^ yeah magistersmax is the man, got us set up with a sweet regenning lava pool in Orthanc.
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That whole section of Orthanc is going to be hilarious when damage gets turned on.
Lots of frantic running to the CobbleFAIL Generator to put out the flames.
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What did you write on the ground?
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Quick Tip: No matter how far away you are from everyone else, it isn't enough. Their buildings and roads will consume continents and run rampant into your borders, pushing inwards and crushing your little sanctuary under a raging torrent of giant buildings and monstrous penes.
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SC all up in this bitch!
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Isengard is a perfect case study of this.
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This is why a massive wall and moat is a good idea
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Not hating on Penis Island. There are developments butting right up next to Isengard on every side, that's what I was referring to.
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I've seen quite a few of those. I still can't tell if he's claiming the spot or just saying that he was there.
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Foo:
I was looking at the PA map and it looks like there are specific weather areas. Is this possible to do without restarting the map?
I never got to play on the snow world server and wonder if it would be possible to add one in. In a much smaller fashion though. Maybe just a continent or something.
Give it a read.
http://minecraftforums.net/viewtopic.php?f=1014&t=46625-
They must have hacked them in with a map editor.
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No it's SMP, they say it in the root post.
Admins and mods on the main build server do spawn blocks for people when needed, but only for things that can't otherwise by regularly attained such as ice blocks or lava. If they want any gold, diamond, rock, whatever, that is regularly available in the map, it's up to the player to get it.-
also the obvious We're anxiously awaiting the day that minecarts work properly in SMP so that we can add a working skyrail system in. :)
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Goddamnit I just install the Mixcraft HD texture pack and the Painterly guy releases a massive alternate texture update.
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Fort Tex is well on its way: http://www.shackpics.com/files/render_2esnfnug5vf89h421e6i.png
- Bridge to Nowhere is up
- Rasnowl's Beachside Property now has a moat (thanks Crabs)
- Sky fort is being torn down
- New sky fort wall is making good progress
- H@RVESTER is now complete
- LunarLady is building a base North of the bridge on the beach.
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lol diagonal bridge :( I didn't mean to give off that much of a stay-the-fuck-away vibe
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Panic fail. :(
I sunk a deep shaft this evening and found a huge cave with multiple lava and water falls. The main lava fall was over 20 blocks tall and fed a lava lake that covered the bottom of the cave. Absolutely spectacular, and the coolest thing I've seen in the game so far.
At any rate, I mined a ton of copper and coal from the cave, along with some redstone, gold, and a little bit of diamond. During my 2nd visit to the cave to finish up and get the harder to reach ore that I'd passed over on the 1st visit, I was trying to reach an outcropping of iron that was hanging upside down over the lava lake. Managed to work my way down to it and build a small island in the middle of the lava lake, and then began hacking at the ore. Got to the last block, and as it crumbled away, lava began flowing out. I panicked and jumped backwards to get out of the way and - you guessed it - fell off the island into the lava lake. ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... :(
This game is seriously getting to me, and the monsters are really creeping me out. You have to mine to get the ore, and caves are the best source of ore, but that's where the monsters are. TANSTAAFL. I'm actually scared whenever I'm down in a cave. Darkness. Zombie moans. Spider screeches. Skelly clanks. Heart beating fast and everything. I live in fear of those damned creepers. Absolutely silent ...until they ignite. Digging for ore in a cave, hear a hiss - "OH SHI..." BOOM!
I built a new base today, and for whatever reason, it is a monster magnet. It isn't uncommon for me to have to kill 5-6 spiders and 2-3 creepers when I go outside at daybreak, and I've gathered tons of arrows and feathers from burned up skellies and zombies. IDK what the cause is, but nigh time there is a maddening cacophony of spider screeches and zombie moans. On the plus side, I've gotten pretty proficient at offing spiders and creepers with a sword.
Damn, I'm loving this game.-
After an exploding guy blew the front off my house, I started putting torches every 10 squares or so outside my base in a fairly large radius. No enemies spawn nearby now and as a result I haven't had as many problems. (It does have the unfortunate side effect of making me cocky about being outside at night.)
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The first defensive measure I built was a lava moat. Best thing ever.
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I wish the multiplayer servers had monsters
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Yep. At $14 per copy (although it was probably cheaper a few weeks ago) times.. 300,000.. that's.. $4,200,000.00.
Holy shit.-
- Paypal's cut, and some overhead, but yeah
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Paypal.
Fuck Paypal. Fuck them in the ear.
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