itt we minecraft

This game is still eating up a huge chunk of my time.

i never got around to trying this, might do tonight.

what's the addiction?

You can build whatever you want (if you can get the materials). You fight monsters. It's possible to devise your own machines to automatically kill mobs. There's the exploration of a procedurally generated world which can be vast.
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.

It's the fun of building or tunneling out something extravagant, then getting bored and either flooding it or setting it on fire.

I want them to institute muskets and horses next.

tangentially related at best, but one of the Facebook pages I run for work gets fucking SLAMMED with spam offering free Minecraft accounts to gullible tools who hand over their FB logins/personal info/god only knows what else. like at one point a few months ago we had 18,000 inbound referrals to our page just from ONE scam site, and there are like 5-8 of them active at any given moment.

The 1.4 beta test vids with the new "wolfies" look amusing.

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.