MineCraft?

[crazzy88ss]

Poll won't let you vote 'No, I do not know what MineCraft is' without choosing options in the other two questions that do not apply to someone who hasn't heard of it.

Poll hasn't been fixed yet.

I'm really tired of retards on neowin who can't design a proper poll.

[Richard Hammond]

So... like... if garry's mod used voxels?....

No. Pixels and polygons still.

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http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13134

^Very Useful

I can't wait for the multi player to get sorted out it'll be awesome to make stuff with other people.

[Nagisan]

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13134

^Very Useful

I can't wait for the multi player to get sorted out it'll be awesome to make stuff with other people.

The problem with that map utility is it is not a live map (the game really needs an in-game map of some form IMHO), you have to render a map any time you explore more land to have a map of the new area, and its very hard to tell where anything is in the map it creates. Unless you have a few landmarks, or very unique geometry in an area, it can take awhile of searching around the map and in-game to find where you are at if you get lost. One tactic is to put a specific marker around your base (if your base is underground or does not make an obvious landmark on the map), another thing you can do is make gigantic numbers in a large area around the map areas you have been to (such as a large 1 or 2 made out of stone on the surface, or in the middle of an ocean) that you can easily see in-game from a decent distance, then, if you do get lost all you need to do is look for roughly where you are on the map, then find where your numbers are to get back to your main area.

I still think leaving a torch trail is the best method for not getting lost though. Even on the farthest render distance it is pretty easy to get far enough away from your base that you cannot see a large floating marker that identifies it, leaving a torch every 50 or so will not take a ton of torches, but should leave them close enough that you can always see at least 2 torches from the one you are currently at (which will give you a possibility of 2 directions), you can even place a sign to identify cardinal direction or simply follow the sun to make sure you are travelling the right direction on your breadcrumb trail (best way is to just pick torches up as you travel back to your base), but that method also takes the most amount of immediate work (remembering to always drop them when you explore, and always pick them up when you return).

EDIT: The map utility is still definitely useful though, but not until you mine enough blocks to build some identifiable and unique buildings or landmarks, otherwise your doing it by terrain alone which with the randomness of minecraft, an be very difficult. Only was I was able to identify where I was at one point was by finding the nearest body of water, then matching its shape up in-game with the map AND also taking note of nearby hills and what not. With what I have built now though, it would be super easy to identify where my base is relative to everything else.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Notch said he's going to add a map or something similar in the future.

[Nagisan]

Notch said he's going to add a map or something similar in the future.

Must have missed that, good to hear.....way too easy to get lost early on so I ended up simply building around where I respawn if I die. Worst-case, I can kill myself to get back to my base. :p

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I've been lucky 4/5 times I've started a map, I'm surrounded by fairly deep caves.

Cartographer helps though, there was a massive cave complex only about 10 units away from the spawn on one map (I managed to cave the roof in and flood it, so no spelunking for me)

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Max rendering distance atm is 300 blocks ... so you gotta leave a sign every 300 blocks.

[Nagisan]

Max rendering distance atm is 300 blocks ... so you gotta leave a sign every 300 blocks.

Thats still more effective than building a single large marker over your base which requires you to stay within 300 blocks of your base to find your way back.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

i found a cave, that seems to go really deep, under my house and when i found it some really creepy music played, i'm kinda afraid to go down there lol

[Tech Star]

i found a cave, that seems to go really deep, under my house and when i found it some really creepy music played, i'm kinda afraid to go down there lol

BE A MAN, do the right ting.

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BE A MAN, do the right ting.

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:D thumbs up

[Brandon H Supervisor]

lol

[Nagisan]

i found a cave, that seems to go really deep, under my house and when i found it some really creepy music played, i'm kinda afraid to go down there lol

I have the game in peaceful mode (I don't mind fighting baddies, but with the low amount of stuff I have right now, 40% of the time I do play would be eaten up by equipment management if I played in normal or higher) and I still get creepy music every now and then.

But, I do have the entrance to my staircase mine (just found out this is what the type of mine I started digging days ago is called, and its one of the safest ways to mine) finished. Rock support structure, the rest is 2 layers of glass separated by a 1-block space that I hope to fill in with lava. Lava has a natural glow in Minecraft, so I hope to do my mine roof in lava and remove all the torches. The problem I am having is I have not found a good method of rooftop maintenance once I get underground. Probably about the best way would be to build an access tunnel above my mining tunnel that I can get into and walk over the entire glass roof, but I would need to dig out so much more than I already have to do that.

I also plan on having a few rooms at the beginning of the tunnel that will basically act as storage, smelting, etc. Each of these rooms will have lava-lit ceilings as well which is where my problem is, there is no good way without digging an above access tunnel to seamlessly light all these rooms with the same lava source as I start with as I want to make it easy to add rooms on to the area, but I don't know of a solid method (besides the access tunnel) to get the lava to flow into the new rooms once they are complete.

One thing I'm trying to be very careful of though is making sure all of the ceiling is closed off so lava doesn't pour out when I dump it in and flood my mine.

Any tips on how to create a modular tunnel lava tube (so I can easily add new areas on to it once the new areas are finished) without an access tunnel above it are welcome, I've thought of essentially doing reverse airlocks (of sorts) to open the lava passage between the rooms, but I don't want the chance of destroying 1 too many sand blocks and flooding the mine.

[Nagisan]

Apparently there is a sort of physics-related glitch, of you place a ladder on a block, lava (and water I assume) CANNOT flow down that block that the ladder is in (not the one its placed on). The ladder makes sort of an invisible block that the player can pass through but lava cannot. So I can put a block with a ladder up next to the hole I put in the ceiling to open the flow of lava, then when I do open the flow it cannot flow down through that open hole because the ladder blocks it, so I can take my time to replace that hole with a glass block then remove the extra block and ladder when I'm done.

[Evolution]

Does anyone know where I can mine stone? I'm trying to make a stone button and none of the materials that I've ever mined seem to work.

[Spookie]

i found a cave, that seems to go really deep, under my house and when i found it some really creepy music played, i'm kinda afraid to go down there lol

gl hf!

[Drone_101]

Stone is literally the most abundant resource in the game just pick a spot and dig down 2 or 3 tiles through dirt and you'll hit stone pretty much every time.

[Nagisan]

Does anyone know where I can mine stone? I'm trying to make a stone button and none of the materials that I've ever mined seem to work.

Do you mean actual stone or cobblestone? You get stone by smelting cobblestone back into regular stone, you can then take regular (or, Smooth) stone and place it just like any other block, or craft it into stone buttons (assuming you find the right combination or look it up online).

[Brandon H Supervisor]

hey guys whats the best screen capturing program, i want to take a video of this cavern I found

[Minifig]

Did anyone else get an email saying that someone requested a password reset on their account name?

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hey guys whats the best screen capturing program, i want to take a video of this cavern I found

By far and away, FRAPS, if you have the registered version, the unregistered version can capture upto 1 minute in footage, and unless you plan to merge them.. yeah.

[Nagisan]

Did anyone else get an email saying that someone requested a password reset on their account name?

:blink:

By far and away, FRAPS, if you have the registered version, the unregistered version can capture upto 1 minute in footage, and unless you plan to merge them.. yeah.

Maybe someone tried using your name to register, it was taken so they though they may have registered previously and tried to reset hoping it was their account?

And I agree about FRAPS, I do not know of many others in general, but FRAPS is probably the best I have seen or heard of others using.

[Pupik]

Speaking of Fraps: when the developers of the program will realize that not everyone still stuck on FAT32?

Would be nice of them to at least release a version of Fraps that will not separate the files into 4gb chunks.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

yeah I'll look into FRAPS, I made this first video though with CamStudio, which I now realize has horrible video quality

[Evolution]

When playing today, I noticed that I lost my basement :/ The entire section that I dug out just filled itself in today... I also noticed that one of my rooms was getting flooded by water that burst through a block. Hopefully I don't lose my entire home/castle in a few days.