itt we minecraft

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

i have hundreds of units of dirt i don't know what to do with.

i absolutely need to keep avoiding this methinks

i was the same, but ended up plumping up the dough this evening. and then decided to stop playing at 4am

hefty session today

learnt a valuable lesson - don't venture too far from the den without any means whatsoever of finding your way back, and don't take half your belongings with you. Spent a good couple of hours just trying to get back to base, every night time building a quick den. Just completely lost!

So I ended up just having to kill myself, of course losing all the stuff I had on me.

If this is what being stranded on a deserted island is really like, count me in!

crafting is annoying me though, it lacks consistency in some things and I have to look them up. for instance making a ladder i discovered by myself. So then I wanted to make a fence, and so thought well it should be quite similar. But no instead of using the full 3x3 workshop grid you have to do it 2x3 for the fence. How the hell are you supposed to know that?

but hey i did discover the armour parts totally by accident though.

and a bowl. wtf i gotta do with that? i just eat my food like an animal!

Even more frustrating is losing all your items by falling into a lava pool.

so i looked up all the recipes, and yeah i wouldn't have guessed half of them. luckily there's not as many as i thought, just repeats with different materials.

as addictive as this game is, i can happily not play it for days. just that when i do open it up it will stay on for hours

i tried creative mode as i wanted to dabble with red stone. made a few moving carts etc but meh, i'll come back to it at some point. still prefer survival right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6IX-huRrK8

the boy Joel mithered me to remind you that the full 1.0 version got released last night. he said it's gob-smacking amazing but i don't play this shit so \o/

It is gob-smacking amazing. I've been playing this since October last year. In terms of time played to money spent, it's the best gaming decision I've made (worst decision: buying a Dreamcast)

i'll be looking at this later, so what's new in the full release?

More mobs, NPC villagers, some additional crafting recipes, ability to repair tools, an 'enchantment' system for powering up tools and weapons, and an actual proper end to the game with an end boss (you can keep playing a particular world after it's defeated though).

definitely don't regret buying it for him, he has played it a hell of a lot and the new verzh is actually quite beautiful too but i have enough time-guzzling gaming habits thx :)