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Gottaa

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No idea if this is the right place, as the game kind of is different, but wanted to make sure people knew about it.

It's a game made by ONE developer, the graphic style is old school, and it wouldn't be the graphics which kept you coming back, but that isn't the crux of the game. You can dig in the ground, mine rock, chop trees, kill sheep, cows, chickens, all for resources, with those resources you can build more tools, more items, things like torches (which are well with carrying around when going exploring). And at night this fun little adventure playground turns nasty and zombies, skeletons, and much nastier stuff appear and will try and kill you, so much so alot of people at night tend to lock themselves away and mine underneath there house.

If you want to mine you might want to build a ladder to help you get down, find a big area of metal and you might decide to build a mine cart to help move the stuff around, dig in the wrong place and suddenly find you flood an area. The world is there for you to do what you want.

The Game: http://www.minecraft.net/
The Wiki: http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page (for lots more info)

The guy launched and has done well enough he's starting up an office now and getting some more employee's, but I think it's pretty fun right now :)

If I get the time I might start a CUK server for people to use, if I do I'll post details up here.
 
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Aciiid

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is this like dwarfen fortress? I've played that a lot (and know a lot of people here hate it. the current release is still pretty buggy too)

If it's free what the heck...
 
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erm ok just saw some vids.... so it's just a block build fest thing at the moment then. Well maybe not then.
 
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Gottaa

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Block building, with resource gathering, crafting, fighting, etc, so alot more than just block building, you can play for free on your browser, if pay if you want to join in multiplayer stuff

for �9.99 now in alpha I'm happy with the purchase, but then I do like some free roaming where you are free to do what you want, trying to work out getting a server setup if only just to see what havoc griefers can cause :)
 
Artanix

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its not free yet, and i've had a good look into it, its interesting, but i dunno, doesn't look like it would hold my interest yet.

Dwarf fortress rocks tho :p
 
Cullhaven

Cullhaven

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It tried to get me to d/l java - which i already have on the computer and is fully updataed so I left it.
 
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Gottaa

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think it has to use the SUN java, but as I paid for it I now use the downloaded client, but it worked on the mac at home and on the PC at work without any trouble :/

*goes off to look into dwarf fortress*
 
Artanix

Artanix

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dude, dwarf fortress has a lovely learning wall, so you really have to commit some time into learning the game ;)

theres a download on the forums somewhere, with a pack including the dwarf fortress game, dwarf therapist (a must) and stonesense. get that and then spend the next few weeks with a headache.
 
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Gottaa

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Had a look, decided against it, going to stick with Minecraft and see just what I can manage, just started a Hard mode game. Once I know more about the server though I will start one, but you'd need to buy the game I think to play on it
 
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Aciiid

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Dwarf fortress is sort of like the Sims but you're controlling over 100 of them. so it's more of a town simulator (ish). You do have to defend against the odd balrog and invading goblins every year though so it soon gets more interesting.

Starting off is always the hard part and I'd recommend going with one of the standard builds so that the jobs you queue up to happen aren't all relying on just one dwarf to do them all whilst the others all sit around doing nothing. So you need to be careful about what order you do things in, once you get a few more dwarfs you can start doubling up who does what jobs and then it's not a problem.

As I said before the current v0.31.12 seems to still have some problems so I'd stick with the slightly older v0.28.181.40d. the wiki still has the older pages (new version has massive changes to military and some jobs and the map has massiveley changed so that all resources are available assuming you can dig deep enough to get them).

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Main_Page
 
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Aciiid

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Yeah that looked quite interesting. I'm awaiting youtube episodes on adventures down there.

I guess people will have to use redstone torches to stop monsters spawning from now on. does Lava work, ie using a block of lava surounder by rock (or maybe glass if it doesn't melt), as a light source for stopping monsters spawn?
 
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Gottaa

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yep, lava with a glass front does provide quite alot of light, I am infact considering using a channel of lava down each side of the next diagonal mine I do, and just hope a creeper doesn't spawn and blow the glass up, oh ... that's a painful thought.

All current torches though will be turned into lanterns, and no-one yet knows how lanterns (that won't go out) will be crafted.

The biggest concern for me is I want to go and visit the Slip, but I don't like the idea of a Ghast spawning in my normal world near the portal, infact it fills me with horror having seen them the PC gamer vid. Some very complicated Gate rooms people are building right now, but until it's live no-one really knows.

I'm happy with the simple stuff though, got my new double doors working last night for the front of my current base, planned a castle at my spawn point, and found my first lava, which is great timing as I'm going to build a cobblestone factory to make life easier building the castle.

P.S Incase you didn't hear now, the deeper you dig the more torches you will need to stop monsters spawning, which I hope is fine for me, could be painful for some of the people who like 50x50 straight down mineshafts though

That does remind me though I should convert most my coal into torches tonight before the patch, so I'll have a supply of lanterns afterwards
 
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Aciiid

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Well I'd imagine that you could just build a drowning chamber that you go through to get in and out (monsters don't swim so you could have the exit a couple of blocks down and then an air chamber the other side and can just jump in the top say 3 blocks high wall or something. A lot of people do this trick to make automatic monster killers by water flow.

Oh boy I just saw a mad video on yt that shows some people just have too much time on their hands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug

compilers in minecraft !!! shivers.
 
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Gottaa

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Lots of possibilities :) The drowning chamber idea means your portal would need to have an area large enough to catch one of the Ghasts that could spawn in the normal world, and no-one knows yet what kind of range they would spawn at, and you'd need the entire outer chamber to be of obsidian, the Ghasts fireball for example might melt iron doors, burn up water, etc, etc ....

It's early enough that my thought it to build a portal MILES AND MILES from my main base, perhaps on a little island in the middle of nowhere.

That said I will probably start a new world and dive into the Slip as soon as I can on that one, only need water, lava and a few iron buckets

So have you bought it now then Aciid ?
 
Artanix

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I've been smashing this with the guys i play Diablo 2 with (private server unfortunately). Its good fun, dissapointed the portals to the slip don't work on multiplayer yet :(

its great fun, the guy (notch) who made it has hired an office and what not now, so development should really ramp up.

Just a quick math sum, the webpage reports that he's sold 400,000 copies or so, at $10 a pop. Even with tax and paypal costs, he's easily made $1,000,000 off it so far :) not a bad return on something thats still in alpha :)
 
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Gottaa

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I played Lego and a little Minecraft at the weekend (not too much minecraft as there was a bug introduced where on death you lost everything you were holding rather than it being dropped on the floor and you being able to collect it), anyway I had fun in Lego but ended up pretty confused.

I know about the factions, I read about getting a pet and having to go to pet cove, but I've no idea how to travel there. Last thing I did with a quest was building a finish line at a mountain but I didn't fancy a race or indeed building my house and I'm wondering if I need to do those quests just to carry on.

The description of a single player game with other people runnign around certainly seem a fairly accurate description so far
 
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