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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 :)

so how do i get this? is it just an update to the beta version i already paid for? i can't seem to find any info on the minecraft website.

My version went through an update, not sure if it's the full thing or not. How do i repair items?

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.