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Edited, Sep 21st 2010 4:42am by Shaowstrike

I've been playing a pretty ridiculous amount of this game considering how simple it is. For being in alpha still, it's remarkably glitch-free - I've only run into one issue, and only after the latest patch. You will pretty much need to have a page open to the Minecraft wiki the whole time so you can look up crafting recipes, though, because there's no in-game framework for that yet. It also is constantly using something like 40-50% of my CPU despite being a fairly simple Java application. Still, there's something really addicting about it, especially if you've got friends who you can show off your new, hand-crafted world to.

anyone know how much it was to play when it wasn't free?

I just recently dug a very deep tunnel and found myself in a vast underground cavern where I could find no footing in total darkness... well, I ended up falling down a rapid waterfall and right into the arms of one (possibly more) of those annoying exploding guys who killed me instantly. I lost all my stuff -____-

per month or period?

Well it was free last night, so I downloaded it and tried it out.

Wow. I did really get lost. I kept making temporary bases. One of the first ones I built was just a hole in the wall as night fell. And that was interesting, as I didn't have any coal to make torches :-P So I started tunneling a bit and saw some night sky... and then I died. When I respawned and went back, my former shelter was a crater. Seems a creeper got me. On the plus side, got my stuff back!

My next shelter turned into an excavating project. Down, down, down I went. I managed to get a little iron, which was good enough to mine a bit of red stone I found at the bottom, but found no gold. I broke into a cavern with a waterfall that went nowhere, and eventually got to bedrock without finding anything good. Oh well! Maybe I should find a natural mine next?

So I did, with some skeletons in it (easily dispatched by my sword). The natural mine, unfortunately, had nothing good in it. Looks like I'd have to do some more exploring!

Over the next few hours I built two new bases; one a floating house in the sky (died 4 times falling off while trying to place the floor) and the other a walled fortress island (which was a good idea, as a few zombies and a spider tried to attack me that night. Found a TON of redstone mining in the island, but no more iron or gold, so I decided to call it a night at like 1 am (ouch...).

This morning it's back to pay-to=play, and I think I'll be investing in it! It was a lot of fun, and will be better with sound, I think.

Cripes, just look at the pixel art some people are doing in game with the blocks. It's incredible.

I wonder how that person feels when those little blowing up dudes hits his stuff?

Yeah I turned the difficulty down as well. The only thing that irks me is that The island I moved to from spawn point has a HUGE built in cave system. It's really nice but I have now died twice somehow getting stuck building a minecart path and I can't find where I died (as in I ended up in a solid space and bled to death and when I went back and dug all around, nothing).

Once I get this mine system completely fleshed out and lit up, I will turn the difficulty back up.

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Edited, Sep 27th 2010 3:22am by Paskil

That would suck, but I'd imagine it's on a server with no mobs.



Some people, like myself, were lucky enough to download it during it's free week. Currently it's not free, but someday it will be open source supposedly. I imagine it will eventually be some "app" on Facebook or something seeing how it can run off a browser.

Edited, Sep 26th 2010 6:39pm by Kuwoobie

Paskils server doesnt seem to save any data, at least it didnt save the giant's beanstalk I made. I reccomend starting a single player game. And watch this guys videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bh4EexJO4I they are amusing and teach you a surprising amount. Also get used to referring to Minepedia for information on crafting recipes.

Ive just had to start a new game out of annoyance. I fell in some lava, died and lost all my items. Including the Obsidian I had just mined with my shiny Diamond Pickaxe. But at least my new world isnt full of snow. Snow looks cool, but gets annoying really fast.

After 2 days in game, I still haven't actually built anything. I mostly went around collecting materials, and also took a bit to figure out how to properly craft stuff with the workbench... but I'm having fun and can't wait to build some stuff after I get some work done :D.

Anyway, it would be fun if that server could be like a permanent world we could all interact in and have our stuff save.

@#%^, I thought spiders were supposed to go away when day came... that thing making noises outside my base all the time is freaking me out. I kill one and another takes its place :(.

So far they can't... but it still scares the sh*t out of me every time I hear an arrow come flying at me when I pass the opening in my base. (I leave a single block open so that enemies can't get through but I can tell when it's daylight outside)

Also, supposedly I should be able to change my spawn location by hitting Enter, but this doesn't seem to work. Is this feature not in the game any more?

Ok, I got my server launched. Took me forever to figure out but open minecraft app and type in 71.90.98.24

Careful, this is my single player map and monsters are up. Difficulty on easy. Watch yourself if you're in at night. Depending where you spawn, follow the tower torch thingies with eternal wood burning across to the water to my 'castle'

My first base is near where you spawn and there's a forge/workshop to build a boat. There's some wood in the chest.

Edited, Sep 27th 2010 3:40am by Paskil

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1013&t=22682

How to bring your single player map online.

Hmmm, I changed it to Peaceful before leaving, I thought that would stop the spawns. Regardless, you might want to dig at the least an earthen moat since you said you were having issues with the creepers.

71.90.98.24 is the multiplayer IP once again.

I will try to log on to your server tonight. That sucks about the invincibility stuff though... but I guess you don't need to kill animals if you don't need to build weapons/armor :).

The mobs in this game are just freaky. The noises they make, for one, are creepy as @#%^. Furthermore, even though you can kill the spiders with relative ease using a stone sword, it's still a frightening experience to try to kill one out in the open.

Also, those little explody guys freak me the @#%^ out more than anything. I had one pop out of a cave I was about to explore and back me into a corner and murder me, and it took me 30 minutes to find my base again from the spawn point (I have since laid a path of torches from the spawn area to my base). Then, one morning after a particularly harrowing night where an archer was shooting arrows at me through my viewing hole, I wandered out of my base only to find one of the @#%^ers sitting there waiting for me. I killed him, and promptly got blown halfway across my field of view by another one that snuck up from behind. Thankfully I had been at full health (got dropped to 3 hearts)...

I think I'm going to move my base soon. I've dug fairly far down and cannot seem to find anything but stone. :(

I haven't found the explody guys yet, thank god. And why don't the spiders despawn? I think I spent three "days" in my little cave because I could hear something outside the wall, and I was afraid to open a hole and look outside. I finally got up the courage and peeked outside to bright sunlight and a spider that was (thankfully) facing away from me and to the left of my hidey hole. I ran away as fast as I could.

I like the "path of torches idea." If you're in the light of a torch, do things stay away from you?

I don't understand why I'm so fascinated by this game...

Haha, it is strangely fun despite how simple it is. As far as the torches go, my understanding is that mobs will not spawn in areas lit by a torch but they can still enter them.

Multiplayer is still extremely buggy. I've found that typically, moving to another area of the world will allow you to destroy things again. Sometimes you'll see dirt or stone regenerate two or three times before finally being destroyed, though I've mostly experienced that when using TNT.

Since we're all getting into playing online has anyone figured out how to change your character skin yet? I see them posted on their forum but I can't see any way to transfer them to the game.

(That thread is epic win by the way.)

Changing Skins is fairly easy too.
Log into Minecraft, and then visit this page.http://skins.tkte.ch/
Select a skin from the list, and then click the arrow facing up. Restart Minecraft and you'll have that skin.