itt we minecraft

i think if you paid for the beta then the update is already paid for, j says u shd use "force update" from the options menu.

ah okay, although there doesn't appear to be a force update in my options it doesn't say Beta anymore. just Minecraft 1.00 so i guess i'm good to go.

Started a new game, but not seem too much difference yet. There is a more pleasant sound effect when i collect xp blobs. And spider eyes, not sure what they are for. nice to be playing again. Oh god why did i load this up. need. to. stop.

there's an END BOSS in this game? now i don't think i understand it

It's entirely optional, and even if you beat it you can still continue with your world.

ya but

Sort of hooked on the iPad version. Just doing the creative building though, no survival mode yet.

360 version is out next week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH8PI1FM8nU

does this still have an active community? remember being introduced to it via reddit and am now in realization that it hasn't been mentioned for months, maybe a year.

I tries the survival mode and it sort of sucked. I like just having unlimited resources to create. My art.

http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-minecraft-07/24/12

Conan & Bley attempt to play the 360 version

Minecraft knocks Call of Duty off the top off the most played xbox games chart!

http://majornelson.com/2012/10/24/live-activity-for-week-of-october-15/

off the top of

WTF
http://imgur.com/a/Mfd18

I'm about to delve for the first time into the Feed The Beast pack, from the vids I've seen it looks pretty complicated but adds quite a bit to the whole experience. I was impressed with the Quarry feature.

Anyone else use it? Know of any pitfalls?

Re texture packs, some looks really nice but almost all of them make the rain effect worse. I love the original rain effect in this game.

I think I'm going to be evil in my next map, and pretty much rape the shit out of the land around me.

I've not used it, but I've used Tekkit3, another package which includes most of the same mods as FTB (including the Buildcraft quarry). Pitfalls I guess would be that once you start using mods in a world, you can't go back to using vanilla Minecraft in that particular world. Although the Tekkit3 does allow a mixture of vanilla and Tekkit3 worlds to be saved on the same computer.

I read that Minecraft sold 500k copies in December or something? It's now the favorite game of my friend's young children. I don't understand...

XBLA / lego upbringing basically

Oh, here's the headline I meant:

This New Year's Eve the Xbox Live version of Minecraft reached 5 million sales

okay so my plans for evil are going well. i've built the tallest blackest tower ever.

but i fell from the top. lost all my weapons. respawned into my stock room where i was trapped between two creepers. stock room oblterated. valuable stuff lay around swamped by emptied barrels of stone and dirt.

luckily all my thauncraft stuff was in a seperate part of the tower and was safe.

loving it still

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

This month's late night opening at the V&A (tonight) is all about minecraft:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/

Oh cool, I'll probably head down to that.

thanks for that - dream end-of-the-summer-holiday evening for my girlfriend's son.

it's nice being able to wander around the v&a in the evening, the atmosphere's very informal. but the quality of the additional bits varies and they can fall short of expectations (sometimes because, y'know, londoners). the kids might help here, usually it's over 18s (because of the alcohol?), but i guess this is a summer holiday special.

(i've more experience of the science museum lates, where you can get people demoing things to themselves most of the evening and talks being drowned out by the brass band doing sci-fi theme music on the floor below. still, drunken discovery lab was fun)

Didn't think much of this to be honest. The content was slight and thinly spread (except maybe for one room at the back which looked like it might have some interesting workshops in there but which also had an enormous queue outside, so I didn't go in). But that wasn't such a big deal. The main problem was that the curatorship felt very simplistic and very detached from what's actually great about minecraft. I'm sure someone working in the visual arts might think the visual style of minecraft was distinctive and interesting, and it is, but that's such a small part of what's important about the game. This event didn't get beyond that pure superficial level though. So they were projecting a few ghasts on the ceiling, having some oversized soil blocks lying around, and (worst of all) sticking in a few cardboard cutouts of clothing "inspired by" the mobs or characters of the game, and it all felt like it was missing the point. At best that was just ignorance of gaming as a medium but maybe it was actually a cynical "hey, i hear kids like games and not museums, lets stick some game stuff in our museum to bring the kids in" thing.

Come October I'll have been playing the same world for three years.

Started playing this on a closed serve with a friend and my girlfriend. Realized how much I missed a nice game with a creative element.

I don't think I can really stand the "Minecraft community" though.

Could someone tell me about Stampy Longnose. My son is addicted to his Let's Play Minecraft for Xbox series on youtube, which really functions almost like a kid's show. I'm a little fascinated myself. Is he a worldwide thing or mostly just England? He has star quality beyond the confines of video game stuff, I think.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/01/denmark_dynamited_by_cunning_american_minecraft_vandals/

Last week, the Danish government put a 1:1 scale replica of its country online at Minecraft and invited players to politely explore the land of Lego and Carlsberg. Gamers being what they are, you can guess what happened next.

I wouldn't leave my kids alone with stampy longnose, I'll say that. I get the vibe that he might be part of the grand British tradition of children's entertainers, if you follow me. That "love garden" thing gave me the creeps.

my god this game has been around for what, like 4 years? and it JUST occurred to me, 2 minutes ago, that it's called minecraft because you mine and you craft. not "it's like warcraft but with mines" as i thought it was for four years.

Wut

ITS BECAUSE YOU MINE
AND YOU CRAFT

Lots of drama with Mojang regarding EULA, DMCA takedowns, and now talks that Microsoft may buy all for 2 billion from Notch. Been kind of interesting to follow.

I wonder how all this would play out for the modding community?

To me, vanilla Minecraft is a game that *hints* at a much better game, one which modders in turn try—but fail—to deliver.

I have found myself really bored with Minecraft on my recent revisit. There are few experiences in gaming that match your first night in Minecraft, few that manage the actual uneasiness you feel exploring a cave and getting lost for the first time, but it's really it doesn't sustain my interest now. There isn't enough variety or sense of escalating intrigue (yes I know that's not the point exactly) to keep me going once I've played with all the limited blocks. Can't be bothered exploring the world because it all looks like shit, frankly, and there's nothing really surprising even if it is procedurally generated.

Modding attempts to answer that, but if Microsoft is involved, you can be sure they'll look askance at people enjoying the game how they want to.

Modding is the reason people still give one shit about this game. Microsoft would have to be stupid to ah wait a minute..

xp I have to agree that Minecraft doesn't sustain my interest any more either. I recently started a new world on Hard and found the first few nights a cakewalk since I knew what to do so well. Actually one time I spawned on a small island with one tree and still didn't find it a challenge.

Basically I knew I was hooked when I was digging directly underneath me (never do this BTW) and fell down the hole into a huge cavern. From there I explored a huge underground cave network, not really knowing where the hell I was, until I came across a vertical shaft. I looked up and saw... daylight! Building a staircase up the shaft, I reached the surface and managed to navigate my way back to my base. It was one of those "wow awesome" moments that games often strive for but rarely deliver.

― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, March 28, 2011 11:16 AM (3 years ago)

^^^ I haven't had an experience like this playing Minecraft more or less since I posted that.

There's the purely creative aspect as well, too. Recreate something from reality or in another game- or design a building on a whim. Those kind of projects I always found fun. When one approach goes stale, another approach becomes interesting again.

http://mcgs.crummy.com/

Does anyone else think Minecraft has peaked and that $2B is an astonishing overvaluation? Minecraft was mentioned on Coronation Street the other night FFS.

Sale confirmed.

Minecraft has kind of peaked- I'm expecting it to be Angry Birds'd in whatever way it already is not.

It's possible there's more growth top - it's still pretty amazing how far this game has gotten with like zero paid promotion (at least before it hit Xbox)

Microsoft clearly read the same article I did, which argued that Minecraft isn't a game it's an "entertainment platform." Browsing through YouTube you can certainly see how this argument could be made.

Personally, I suspect the underlying codebase is far too rickety to become much more of a slick, DLC crossplatform in-app purchase multimedia streaming entertainment platform than it already is—I'm paraphrasing someone else—"Notch's main achievement wasn't Minecraft itself, it was getting the Java programming language to do that."

The degree of success Minecraft has achieved may have as much to do with rise of the YouTube gaming video as an "art form."

I wonder how much money Microsoft already made on Xbox Arcade copies of Minecraft?

The common line I've heard is that Microsoft have paid the money to purchase a 'generation of gamers' IE everyone sub-teen.

It's too cold to do anything this weekend so I downloaded this again after having not played it for over six months. WTF is this all this diorite etc. everywhere?

Not familiar with that one, not played vanilla mc for a long time

Just swung my sword at a rabbit and it made an "eeeep!" noise, then it fell off a mountain and died with "eeeeeetthhhhhrrrp!" sound. I felt like Hitler. Sometimes I wonder if this game was secretly designed by Morrissey. In my defence, I was on top of a snow covered mountain and really hungry. Elsewhere, I was digging in an abandoned mine when a skeleton fell through a hole in the ceiling and I nearly shat myself.

I've been messing around with the Fossils and Archeology mod. So far I've grown a tiny dino and have a baby Brachiosaurus which has now started to eat my hedges.

so playing with my godson today, we built a tree house out of Jukeboxes. It had a gold floor and four poster bed. In the back there was a christmas tree, grand piano, ironing board, and some barrels.

Green juice flowed down from the house to the ground, where an enclosure was created to house the dozens of baby dinosaurs we'd hatched.

And we had a scattering of pirate wives spawned in for good measure.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC-VnvVWEAAKSYD.png

Neat resource pack, though are those custom trees off to the left?