Minecraft

[Gottaa]

Stuff is supposed to stay around for 5 minutes, but if it's blown up it won't stay, or drops in lava, and it can be washed away (well to the end of the river) in water.

Making a minecart system already ? I must have been so unlucky finding iron ore, I still don't even have one stack of iron

 

[Artanix]

i've been playing in mostly multiplayer mode, so i've never explored the lovely minecart system fully, i might have to have a good play.

Anybody ever see the 16 bit processor that somebody made with red stone switches?

 

[Aciiid]

Well whilst digging I now hear a new sound. so will follow that one shortly. I did get an eery sound coming from the spider spawner so I can only assume that each noise may relate to a specific 'thing' that is near. Spawners have their own noise (possibly one for each type) and caves have theirs. The latest sound I got was when I was on the surface surveying the area for a mob trab/drowner. If only the sound was more frequent it would help track them down faster.

Got blown up again and lost all my stuff again, I'm guessing it may have something to do with those damn green things. Still it makes the game more interesting. I rarely carry much more than stone picks/items and only one iron pick so I don't loose much. I've been killed a few times by them now and haven't always lost all my stuff, I'm guessing it's a distance thing.

 

[Gottaa]

Creepers (green things) are the bane of my existance in minecraft, a couple of times I do manage to kill them which feels good, only usually to then turn around and see one in my face about to blow up :/

What difficulty you playing on though Aciid ? I play on Normal now and it really then needs two creepers or a creeper and a skelly plinking to take me down, well unless I'm stood near lava

 

[Aciiid]

No I play on hard, makes it more interesting, still a bit tame. I don't fancy the very hard one though as mobs may start spawning inside my base with the new rules.

 

[Aciiid]

Well I've not built a massive railway but boy is it a time saver when moving around.

The best vid I found on boosters is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPj4xqOdMCw

and there seems to be a few tricks with rail placement to get it working properly but a bit of trial and error will sort that out. At first I was trying to get a powered minecart running by putting a furnace in it but these rail boosters are much better and if you use the sloped one seem to throw you up hill at incredible speed (I thought I might go splat on the ceiling kinda fast).

 

[Gottaa]

Hmm I need to mine more and get enough iron. I messed up my mine so I'm pretty sure that won't ever have a rail system but above ground it would be useful to get me to and from various places. Need to try and get the server working again as well, after the last update it's refusing to let me connect to it

 

[Gottaa]

http://kotaku.com/5686555/minecraft...otaku/full+(Kotaku)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Not watched it yet, thought I would post it up, if only so I remember to watch it at home

 

[Aciiid]

Rofl, I guess it was only a matter of time.

2 Damage !!! Yeah.

 

[Gottaa]

Right, server is up and running, currently running broville v8 map:

Which I'll keep running until server side health is turned on, at which point I'm gonna reset to a blank map.

No mods running, so everyone can do whatever they want, PM me if you want to know the address

 

[Guy]

Ooh, only just came across this thread. I'm a fully paid-up miner too and loving it. Just got myself into the netherworld for the first time and was nearly wtfpwned by ghasts. Still haven't found a gargantuan cave or a dungeon yet though

 

[Gottaa]

Right, quick update it enters Beta on Dec 20th, if you buy it before then it's still an "alpha" account, which financially means it's cheaper and you get all future updates FREE

Going to reset the world on the server I run on the 20th when it enters Beta, and the plan is over xmas Talili and I will be giving it a spin, if people want to join PM me and I'll let you know the connection details.

I've still no visited the nether worried that I'll get Ghasts on the normal side that with wtfpwn me

 

[Aciiid]

I've not had any gasts come through, I've even put down a layer of 'neither stone' (the red stuff) in a large open dark area of my fort and not had anything spawn on it yet either.

I did kill a Gast with arrows (took around 10, they seem to just drop one gunpowder), but the problem with fighting them is that their fireballs can destroy earth so you need to end up watching where you're strafing. I built up the area around my portal with regular stone and they didn't destroy it but did destroy torches, glass windows and the portal itself so make sure your flint and steal has a few charges left so you can re-ignite the portal if needed.

 

[Gottaa]

Right, the server (Running Beta 1.1_02) is up, currently running on the old machine, and will see how it performs, if it's an issue I'll bump it over to the proper server with a much faster line. If you want to join it PM me and I'll let you know the details.

PvP mode is enabled currently, but that may get turned off, will see how it is when Talili and I are playing

Only rule (if you can call it that) is don't mess up other people's stuff, I'm planning on building a town, well it'll start with just a few buildings but if others do want to give it a try you can built your own houses as well. Not explored the map at all yet, but it'll be obvious where the town is.

 

[Gottaa]

Right a little testing and old server = slloooowwww, moved to the new one which means if you ever connected to the old one you'll need to PM me again and get the new address. On the plus side it now has a 10M up/down line

 

[Gottaa]

Finally settled on a map I like the look of, spawn turn around run up a hill, run around, fall into a hole, dig my way out, took about 10 steps fell into another hole this one had water, look around and then see a bloody creeper jump in the hole with me and swim towards me, anyway, I got out alive, climbed my way out and then set up a little shack with lights a crafting station, going to get a supply of wood and tools organised and then set off to clear an area for the town.

There will be a proper setup at the spawn point but until then when you first spawn, turn around and you should see the pointer to the shack. My thoughts for the town are it'll be in the same direction as the shack from the spawn point (not the big hill, slightly to the right, but not over the water) looked like two small hillocks that could be dug out for a flat surface for the town

 

[Gottaa]

Ooookay then

Walked out of the shack *hiss* *bang* WTF
*hiss* WTF /run *hiss* *bang* WTF !!!! /run
Look behind me having just had 2 explode, and see THREE creepers running at me, so five were hovering around the shack :/ Is multi-player supposed to be this hard ?

Time to build a sword though I can see

 

[Gottaa]

Well my plan of playing over xmas was stopped by us having no internet at all, and when it did finally start working the BT box just kept locking up the entire network (wired and wireless) while showing all was fine on the status lights.