itt we minecraft

i think i understand the concept of this game. what i don't understand is why the graphics are so exaggeratedly crude.

you know one (1) guy does all the coding right

one lone fucktard

oh i thought it was essential to the gameplay or something.

that guy's also currently a millionaire

one lone fucktard millionaire

Minecraft makes $350k a DAY, dude probably has millionaire butlers by this point

Where are the latest stats for purchases et al?

http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

1954 players online, in 652 servers.
5919511 registered users, of which 1731266 (29.24%) have bought[*] the game.

In the last 24 hours, 35859 people registered, and 8466 people bought the game.

WHOA did they all buy it for €14.95 or are there discounts or w/e cause thats like $40m

*launches career as indie video game developer*

no dude is a millionaire now and getting courted with a shitton of venture capital cuz there's a perception he's a potential "next zynga"

have not played this but it looks p far out, like tapping into some deep down game play realities

i did download it a couple months ago but couldnt get it to work after like one min so i gave up

w/e prob im never going to spent hours chopping trees anyway, but i do like the vibe of this conceptually

dwarf fortress is still so much better

dwarf fortress is still so much better
man... right? :( i want minecraft to win but :/

df is great but minecraft is a more fully realized game imo. it's almost unplayably clunky and not even close to completion. don't get me wrong, i've wasted many hours on df, but i always get frustrated and take a long hiatus after the first few fortresses or so

by the way, what servers do most of you use? i'm on the reddit one (c.nerd.nu), mainly because i don't know of many others

oh i thought it was essential to the gameplay or something.

tried this last night, and I think you're right. Maybe he's trying to keep it avaiable to lower spec machines, which is a good move.

Like it, but I only played the free browser version. There didn't seem to be much else to do other than digging and building. Are there enemies? I never came across any.
Is there like limited resources, as i was happily building whatever and it didn't seem to limit me.

Will give it another crack soon

yep Ste, you have to mine for your resources and there are enemies that come out in dark places and at night. Loads of other stuff in the beta proper too. ( and multiplayer of course)

xp to flow, I'm looking for a good straightforward smp server. how is the reddit one? don't want anything with too many rules, cliques, crazy mods, ppl getting butthurt about their precious creations. just vanilla smp

xp the enemies/resource limits/crafting/redstone/etc. are only in the full beta version

i always think its fascinating that the ppl who play this video game are always really super pysched to use it to build replicas of buildings in other video games

this was my vote for biggest disappointment of the year (tho I ultimately changed it to FFXIII). just so much promise (esp since it was first introduced to me as a first person dwarf fortress) but in the end it's a really shallow game. i guess exploring all the procedurally generated landscapes is enjoyable but after a few gameplays i really exhausted all the content.

Mordy, have you played multiplayer? can be really entertaining, particularly if two towns decide to declare war on each other.

I haven't, but I can't see how that could be fun -- is it just a bunch of avatars jumping around hitting each other with swords?

New update's out

Beta 1.5 is out - expand your super anal railway system with the two new track pieces.

we need ilxor server :/ had a lot of fun playing online mp lego, but my friends's server is no more, and playing in a vacuum doesn't have the same... anything

^^ this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpksyojwqzE

sidescroller style minecraft terraria released and it is all sorts of fun

1.6 is out! trapdoors:-))

Did anyone get an ILX server going in the end?

Not that I know of. I read somewhere that hosting a Minecraft server really chews up bandwidth, something like a terabyte a month even with only half a dozen users.

Also, I'm off this now. Nothing wrong with the game, in fact it's the most fun I've had playing a videogame in a long time. But I can't justify the amount of time I've pished away. I actually deleted my save files, then not one hour later found out about the upcoming 1.6 update. Must... resist... nnnnrrrrgghhh...

trapdoors! lol, no you're better off leaving it, at least until 1.7

pfffft... I might check back in when they add pistons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf6JCpJjdiY

MINECRAFT KINECT

NO, REALLY

BIG FISH LITTLE FISH CARDBOARD BOX BLOCK OF STUFF

I am weak.
(still haven't made any pistons because I don't remember where I left all my iron ingots)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbz9KoF_xX0
2.13 o_O

Endermen...
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/2/28/Enderman.png
...appeared in a dream I had last night. And the 1.8 update isn't even out yet.

notch made this for ludum dare this weekend:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html

Can you beat it?

Really cool physics-based game mechanics. Wonder if any of them will find their way into Minecraft.

Yeah, I like the skating puzzle, as simple as it was, though I didn't figure out how to kill the golden beholder without taking a lot of hits. Maybe by switching between skating and hitting? The ball rolling wasn't at all frustrating - the balls never got stuck in a corner. I haven't beat the game yet. I got killed by a gob-spitting mucus zombie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB684ym3QY4&feature=player_embedded

i think it's time for me to buy this

well i'm addicted.

the crafting mechanism is awesome, although I'm struggling how to figure out how to make windows (sure it involves sand?)

trying not to look up any crafting recipes, and figure them out for myself - this appears to be the major appeal of the game imo.

But the first time playing, and hid away in a tiny dark cave with just a tiny hole listening to the horrible noises as darkness comes in - is just one of those unique gaming moments.

but evolving from my cave i now have a large two floored stone mini castle with furnace and its own garden.

and. the rain is amazing