Minecraft! (single player dwarf fortress)

Becoming · 2011-09-15T10:06:02.000Z

I really like the new terrain and it’s running extremely smooth. It’s interesting how much more polished it seems compared to a year ago.

Time to obsess again.

Pogo · 2011-09-15T10:14:20.000Z

Thomasch:

Yeah, I get this too. Never had the problem before.

marxeil:

Tried 1.8 last night. MC crashed after 2 minutes telling me I don’t have enough memory or that the jave does not have enough memory allocated :(

Install 64 bit java if you have W7.

Marcin · 2011-09-15T10:50:04.000Z

Hmm, do I need shears to make a bed now? For which I need iron? Suddenly iron has vastly grown in demand.

Dreamshadow · 2011-09-15T10:53:10.000Z

Pogo:

Install 64 bit java if you have W7.

Thank you, this would have never occurred to me as being the problem. I’m running w7-64 and never thought to install java 64.

Shellfishguy · 2011-09-15T10:58:01.000Z

Marcin:

Hmm, do I need shears to make a bed now? For which I need iron? Suddenly iron has vastly grown in demand.

Either shear one sheep or kill three. If you kill a sheep it drops one piece of wool, shearing will give you three or four pieces. With the last few patches iron became really easy to get now. It’s in much larger quantities and with the new canyons you can get to it quickly.

Marcin · 2011-09-15T10:58:56.000Z

Ohhh, I thought they just didn’t drop any now, and you HAD to have shears. Thanks!

jeffd · 2011-09-15T11:18:04.000Z

So how does one go about getting a mushroom house?

Shellfishguy · 2011-09-15T11:24:42.000Z

Mushrooms, bone meal and imaaaaagination!

barstein · 2011-09-15T11:35:13.000Z

Start by sprinkling bonemeal onto a mushroom.

marxeil · 2011-09-15T11:46:32.000Z

Pogo:

Install 64 bit java if you have W7.

Still no good.

Pogo · 2011-09-15T11:49:49.000Z

You sure you did it right? I believe there’s a little bit of searching that needs to be done in order to do that… I think.

marxeil · 2011-09-15T12:02:56.000Z

Pogo:

You sure you did it right? I believe there’s a little bit of searching that needs to be done in order to do that… I think.

I don’t know if I did it right. Probably not. I downloaded this from here and installed it.

marxeil · 2011-09-15T12:05:04.000Z

I found this post in some forum, but I can’t understand what this guy is saying.

Pogo · 2011-09-15T12:07:22.000Z

If you’re using a 32-bit browser, I believe it defaults to Java 32.

Read the last section of the help page:
http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_win64bit.xml#Java%20for%2064-bit

Dreamshadow · 2011-09-15T14:06:10.000Z

Stared an Enderman down till sunlight. Gave me chills the whole time.

Bill · 2011-09-15T14:19:31.000Z

I found a challenging new seed: Gayle

You start as a castaway stranded on a deserted island…

under_bus · 2011-09-15T15:10:04.000Z

marxeil:

I found this post in some forum, but I can’t understand what this guy is saying.

He’s telling you how to allocate more RAM to a Java application (Minecraft). If you look around minecraftforum.net, there are 2 ways to do this:

[ul]
[li] Control Panel->Java – Search minecraftforum.net for: allocating-more-memory-to-java-windows (I think this affects all Java applications).[/li][li]Command line or .bat file – Run a command like the one in your link on Minecraft.exe.[/li][/ul]
I’ve also heard that reducing the viewing distance to <=Normal or turning off Smooth Lighting can help with out of memory errors.

Of course, a high-res texture pack also eats up a lot of memory.

Bad_Neighbor · 2011-09-15T15:14:57.000Z

Bill:

I found a challenging new seed: Gayle

You start as a castaway stranded on a deserted island…

Not sure what to do without any trees.

Fugitive · 2011-09-15T15:43:45.000Z

The ‘Tierney’ seed I tried earlier gives you one starting tree, though it’s a small one so you better hope it drops saplings!

pg1 · 2011-09-15T15:51:15.000Z

It still runs acceptably for me but performance really has taken a huge dive and I don’t really see why.