Zylon
3821
Just discovered that looking at Endermen through glass doesn’t set them off. So that’s good. Also possibly an oversight, so I won’t get too comfortable with this knowledge.
Is there any way to turn down the number of monsters that spawn? It’s freakin’ ridiculous. They should be random encounters in the wilderness, not packed shoulder to shoulder everywhere around you at all times. What the hell?
They do seem to spawn a lot more frequently than I remember.
They can spawn in your house while you are trying to sleep, if you are close enough to a dungeon!
I believe that is intentional, but now I cannot remember where I read that.
Yeah. A LOT more frequently. A friend and I have been playing on a new world and it’s just non stop waves of monsters at night. I thought Endermen were supposed to be rare and mysterious, but we get packs of 4-5 of them multiple times per night, tons of Creepers, skeletons and spiders everywhere… It’s just obnoxious. I want some danger but I’d also like to be able to step outside the village at night without it being a non stop battle.
So, is there a variable for this somewhere in single player or in the server software?
On that note, what’s a good server to run? The standard one seems awfully un-optimized.
It seems as if monsters clump together more readily at night now.
I do not like creepers jumping into the water with me. You should be able to throw stuff on them that makes them sink and drown. Stupid creepers.
Managed to get a couple of hours to play this afternoon, decided to build a small dojo instead of a pagoda:
(texture pack is Dokucraft, unfortunately not entirely updated to 1.8 yet)
For those that prefer vanilla Minecraft:
Inside it’s actually empty, there is a ladder heading up to a small storage room on the inside of the roof space and there’s a trapdoor that leads to my lair below.
peterb
3829
I’m sure this has been said before, but I am sort of morbidly weirded out by even thinking about the question “What must the evolutionary development of the creeper have been like?”
Not to mention the Endermen – who are apparently all descended from Frank Booth from Blue Velvet.
Nobody have any idea of what my problem might be? Machine is a 3.1 ghz pentium w/ 2.00 gigs of ram running Windows XP if that makes a difference, but I really don’t think it’s my specs. It happens the same whether I turn the settings down or not.
Pogo
3831
Open up your task manager and sort it by mem usage, then drag the window to the bottom of your screen while you’re playing Minecraft.
Take a note of when the game starts slowing down/crashing and how much memory it’s using.
Well I played a lot of Minecraft today.
Enough that when I see the edge of my browser window I’m worried that if the mouse gets too close it will fall off into the desktop and have to respawn.
O_o
peterb
3833
I found a second pre-built village about 1 map’s height away from the first one. This village is on top of a series of endless caverns.
Now I"m thinking about connecting the two towns with a redstone-powered train. Hmmm.
I fired up 1.8 for the first time today and I got the feeling that Minecraft is still just playing catchup with Terraria.
Maybe by 2.0 (which I predict will be released in Q2 2013 at the current rate of development) there will finally be a game to go along with the big sandbox. For now, though, it’s all just so… stagnant.
Volbard
3835
There do seem to be a few things in the recent update that are similar to Terraria, like the dungeons, but I think overall it played to the game’s strengths as a world simulator and sandbox rather than Terraria’s focus, combat and advancement. I’m really happy about that, I think the new terrain generator is rad.
It’s a lot more fun to explore now and the world generation is way better.
Terraria spoiled me when it comes to fluid dynamics. Minecraft’s infinite water has come to frustrate me.
Also, endermen aren’t scary at all. I figured they’d be rare surface-dwellers that moved in packs and were super deadly. Instead, they’re common teleporting zombies that can appear anywhere and only come solo. The biggest threat they pose is screwing up your landscaping.
When it comes to Minecraft, I wish two things: that Mojang worked on Minecraft like they did pre-Halloween update, and that Notch hadn’t become an Internet superhero. It just seems like the whole outfit got a whole lot lazier after Notch was declared god.
Not only that, when someone points out how slow they are to release content for the game the Super Notch Fanboys jump out of the shadows screaming pearls like “stop being an entitled prick!” or “if you want more content, do it yourself”.
I simply don’t get it, why can’t we complain about a game we paid and love to play? It’s not as if we are trolling going “trololol Minecraft sucks, fuck Notch”, we love the game and just want it to be even better.
I think i’ve said it before in this thread, Notch and Mojang could/should learn a bit with the Terraria guys, they release content patches regularly and as a result the game feels like it’s constantly become better and more complex and not getting a patch every 3-4 months to fix minor issues.
DocLazy
3839
Heh, Terraria was made in 3-4 months. In comparison Minecraft has been in development for almost 3 years.
On another note, I’m really not liking the idea of having villager NPCs. I much prefer finding abandoned ruins. Villages just seem out of place to me, when you want to play a pure survival game. I’d much rather they spent time developing an NPC system that could be used to populate our own creations, perhaps even provide more of a goal for building.
Here is my latest creation, a chicken coop.
karnisov
3840
i think that i don’t care much for the new hunger mechanics…
