Minecraft

[Flipz]

again i ask:

huh. so if i wanna play online i just delete the minecraft program off my computer and re-download it?

No, just the META-INF folder within the Minecraft.jar

[mtmerrick]

cool, good to know.

my only mod is toomanyitems. i have 3 worlds - a toomanyitems survival, a creative, and a survival where i refuse to use toomanyitems, which is where i play 90% of the time. I started this world with a seed to spawn me right next to a tiny NPC village. Spawning where there are torches, shelter, and some items already available made me actually survive the early stages, and i'm in the progress of making an epic castle.

[Darth Rexus]

I don't install mods, I'm hardcore

Anyone heard about the newish Hardcore mode that might come out in the near-distant future?

[mtmerrick]

So is there some easy way to share your world with someone else?

[Canama]

again i ask:

huh. so if i wanna play online i just delete the minecraft program off my computer and re-download it?

No, why would you do that?

-Canama

[Cookieo]

So is there some easy way to share your world with someone else?

Yep. Remember how you had to find the minecraft file to install that mod? Instead of going to the bin folder, go to saves. Then find your world in there. Then upload it to the internet.

-Cookieo

[Flipz]

Dude, you guys HAVE to check out Knoxes' server Nexus Creed!  I was digging a wide stone staircase for the Hall of Knowledge (I'm helping him beautify spawn), and I ran across a ravine.  So, I decided, we should use it as the main area of the library (you know, soaring shelves of bookcases).  So, we're digging out a few things, and I run across ANOTHER ravine (albeit not a very tall one, it was more like a tall cave).  So, I think to myself, OK, we can use this as a tutorial area in caving once we clean it up and attach it to the rest of the tutorials.  So, I'm placing torches to light it up (no sense in drawing mobs nearby) when what do I find just below?  That's right--ANOTHER ravine.  This one's flooded with lava, so naturally I decide we're going to build a mine cart shaft and coaster to take maximum advantage of the area.

This place is going to be EPIC once we're done with it! 

[mtmerrick]

gotta share a link.

so i made my first giant toadstool this morning. fun stuff.

[Flipz]

Dude, you guys HAVE to check out Knoxes' server Nexus Creed!  I was digging a wide stone staircase for the Hall of Knowledge (I'm helping him beautify spawn), and I ran across a ravine.  So, I decided, we should use it as the main area of the library (you know, soaring shelves of bookcases).  So, we're digging out a few things, and I run across ANOTHER ravine (albeit not a very tall one, it was more like a tall cave).  So, I think to myself, OK, we can use this as a tutorial area in caving once we clean it up and attach it to the rest of the tutorials.  So, I'm placing torches to light it up (no sense in drawing mobs nearby) when what do I find just below?  That's right--ANOTHER ravine.  This one's flooded with lava, so naturally I decide we're going to build a mine cart shaft and coaster to take maximum advantage of the area.

This place is going to be EPIC once we're done with it! 

Oh, yeah, the server name is NexusCreed.  IP can be found on Knoxes' official site:
http://nexuscreed.blogspot.com/

[mtmerrick]

*sigh* keep loosing all my equipment....
my cattle pasture is in a ditch by a mineshaft.... thought i sealed the mineshaft off, the cows can't escape, but apparently skeletons and creepers have found a way in...

[Flipz]

Hit F3 and tell me your seed.  I MUST find out what sort of horrible world you're playing.

BTW, you playing on Easy, Normal, or Hard?

EDIT: Your X and Z coordinates would also help.

[mtmerrick]

well, the horrible world might be at least partially my fault. so i'm emailing you a ZIP of my world.

you'll spawn in my house. go out the door right by the ladder, and you'll quickly see a pole with a couple dirt bricks on top, that marks my "pasture" cave thing

full inventory is in my chest upstairs.

[Darth Rexus]

I've made a house in the cross-section of two ravines before, it was awesome, especially since to get into the cave you had to go underwater (I built a lighthouse for the Water Entrance to make it easier to get into.

[Canama]

Minecraft 1.0 is out! No more Beta, guys!

-Canama

[mtmerrick]

this is epic. just download and open. works beautiful.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/619213-18-pc-mac-linux-minecraft-gametype-changer-change-between-creative-and-survival/

[mtmerrick]

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2011/11/17/minecraft-in-lego-blocks-to-bricks/

you gotta check this (and related pics) out

EDIT: also, great quote from someone on youtube "once you play multiplayer, you're not scared of creepers anymore, you're scared of people with iron armor and diamond swords"

xD

[Flipz]

OK, MTM, I finally managed to download and play your world.

Um, how do I say this?  ...You are WAY undersupplied.  Your torch lighting is FAR too dim, and you have no lighting or protection in the fields surrounding your house.  Add to that the fact that your access routes are all messed up...basically, you're asking to die.

Really, at this stage of the game, you shouldn't even be building aboveground.  You should have a little hidey-hole dug in the side of a cliff (preferably next to a large coal deposit), and you should mine for TONS of coal and iron.  Once you have a full set of iron armor and several stacks of coal, THEN come aboveground.  Granted, the village there is highly helpful, but really, without access to the underground minerals and without protection...you're doomed.

If you really want to keep going, ditch all your stuff in a chest and go find a desert.  Get some cactus and some sand, and build a cactus wall around your village.  (A simple cactus farm can be made by digging two rivers 1 block apart, placing sand between them on alternate blocks, planting a cactus on each sand block, and placing blocks adjacent to the (empty) block above each cactus.  Since cacti can't be placed next to other blocks, the cactus segments that grow will immediately pop off, hopefully into the water, where they will be carried down to a single collection point.)  Since cacti can't be placed directly next to other blocks, you'll have to stagger the wall as you place it.  Be sure you have the sand flush with the soil on the outside, but dig a trench on the inside, so the villagers don't kill themselves on your wall by accident.  Also don't forget to build a door or two in the wall so you can get out later!  By building a cactus wall and properly lighting the inside area, you'll be (mostly) unharmed by hostile mobs while you build, and after a night of mobs killing themselves against your cactus wall you can come out in the daytime to pick up the drops--just watch out for morning creepers!

EDIT: Also, build yourself a compass and a watch ASAP; once you've built one of each--EVER--you'll be able to pause the game and go to the statistics screen to use them--even if you don't have one in your inventory!  (Go to Statistics->Items and scroll down.  The item icon is just as functional as when it appears in the inventory--just remember that the compass points to your original spawn, NOT necessarily North.)

EDIT 2: Cactus wall diagram (C is cactus, s is sand (or dirt, just remember that cacti can only be placed on sand)):
CsCsCsCsCsC
sCsCsCsCsCs

[mtmerrick]

I've made plenty of progress since then lemme send you my current save file.

[Flipz]

So, I was playing Minecraft in my original Survival world...



 

[Wantija$$$]

Updated to Minecraft 1.0 and made an all new world to try out the new features. I found an abandoned mineshaft behind-under-ish my house in the first 15 minutes (if that a remarkable feat...) and found 2 diamonds. Life's good