DocLazy
4161
I’m pretty sure more animals will spawn when you kill all the animals in an area. It’s much slower than it was before so you don’t really notice it. But, I’ve been playing on the same map for last couple of weeks and have seen it happen.
Depends on which version you’re running. In the latest pre-release version, animals definitely do not respawn.
I don’t get it. I played the freebie version in the browser in the link. Crappy graphics with which I can lay down or destroy various multi colored blocks. I don’t understand the point. Where’s the game?
It didn’t hook me until I’d spent about a half hour in, at which point i was oh god oh god oh god need more resources to get more resources. It’s like Transport Tycoon or SimCity, the completely freeform building capability becomes its own end.
Once I got to the point of “wow, I can do something really cool now with all the shit I’ve piled up” I kind of just get bored and quit, though. The game runs out of upgrade hooks really early, and I’ve seen too many of these games to be completely sucked in anymore.
Pogo
4165
Your name has stupid numbers in it, so I don’t trust you, but I’ll respond anyways.
Yeah you played the creative version. That made me wonder the same thing. I didn’t buy it until I watched some videos of survival, particularly tutorial videos about what to do on Day 1. That got me hooked.
I just wanted you to know that you made my whole Friday with this.
First and only post on Qt3 and you use it to state that you just fired up Minecraft, and that you hate it. In late 2011. On Qt3.
Sh1t b0ne3rz.
Zylon
4168
Ah, a rare specimen of the elusive viral anti-marketer.
I’m kind of reaching the point after a couple of weeks of play where I’m hitting a wall (literally and figuratively). I’m playing in survival mode, and it’s exciting to start out, try to gain a foothold and slowly build up a nice home and secure some resources. Once that’s done though it gets a lot slower. I enjoy exploring the caverns and finding resources, and I’ve collected plenty of iron, gold and redstone along with a small amoutn of lapis lazuli and diamond. I’ve even diverted some water onto lava deep underground to create my own Obsidian farm. The problem is, why? What is there really to do with all this gold, lapis, obsidion, etc. other than build bigger, prettier and more elaborate houses for myself?
I guess I could play around with mine carts and tracks. I built a portal to the nether, but that seems even more pointless as there is nothing there aside from tons of pig zombies and ghasts to fight.
Pogo
4170
The only draw of the nether so far is to get the blocks there. Netherrock burns infinitely, which you may want as a barrier of some sort for your buildings, or as a fireplace.
Glowstone mostly grows on the cavern roofs, so you may find it fun to try harvesting it without dying via creative block placing and digging/climbing. It’s good stuff mainly because it is one value brighter than torches, so you can light up larger areas.
There will be more of a sense of finality to it with the official release, where the general flow will be to gather resources, go to the Nether and fight new monsters and collect more resources there, then use those to open a gate to the End, where you’ll fight the dragon, and beating it is essentially winning Minecraft.
Other than that, it’s just up to your own creative/exploratory impulses. Being the exploring kind, I like starting new worlds every once in a while, though it would be nice to see more overland and mountain-based stuff to do in a future expansion. There isn’t really much reason to dig into the sides of hills and mountains other than to hollow them out for your own living spaces.
DeepT
4172
Yeah, I wish the development focus was geared more towards exploration. I like the idea of villages and these dungeons. I wish he would also would integrate better mod support, ie: Modloader and whatnot should not be a community project. You would also think he could build in the high-res texture support.
I visit minecraft every once in a while to see what is ‘new’. Mostly the only new things of interest are mods, and not the core-game. Currently I am exploring Industrial craft, Build Craft, and Better than wolves.
DocLazy
4173
I made a challenge a while a go that gives you a few goals to work to: Utopia challenge
If you do try it, don’t worry about the mods listed there, it’s out of date and some of mods like redpower are unstable. You only need the latest version of Better than Wolves. You could even play it without BTW, but it adds a nice progression to the game and adds a lot of interesting toys to play with.
There’s also the Skyblock challenge. I’d recommend playing this one with Equivalent exchange.
I don’t think it’s been mentioned here yet, but for those interested in the more construction-oriented mods, there’s the Technic Pack, which is a Yogbox-like mod compilation including the major ones like IndustrialCraft 2, BuildCraft, BetterThanWolves (edit: whoops, nope), RedPower, Equivalent Exchange, and a whole bunch of other popular ones like Millenaire, Rei’s minimap, Somnia, etc.
They’re supposed to be working on an SMP version of the Technic Pack as well, though it’ll only have a small subset of the same mods (many mods are still single-player-only).
It’s a bit controversial though, since I think they’re working without the permission of some of the mod authors (the BTW author in particular is opposed to his being included in any packs).
I highly recommend the Technic Pack put together by the Yogs Cast forum members.
It’s basically a working pack of Industrial Craft 2 v1.15, Buildcraft 2.2.2 and Better than Wolves (not sure the version) as well as a bunch of other optional mods and built in graphics upgrade so you can use the hi-rez texture packs.
There’s a series of youtube quick looks here (for the older 1.7.3 version of the Technic Pack)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
and Part 5
EDIT: LOL for crosspost
Pogo
4176
I personally don’t give a shit. I want someone to make one god damn zip file of all the stupid bullshit I need to install something instead of linking me to 20 different downloads that have to be put into some sort of order.
Hah! Actually I think my information was outdated and Better Than Wolves is no longer in it, and it’s a pain to add it in afterwards since they’re running out of block IDs. So, if you really want BTW, you still have to roll your own mod collection.
I agree with you. The Technic pack is nice because it includes a java installer. You just have to make sure you have a vanilla minecraft installed first, then run their installer and it does it all for you (even gives you some control over which additional mods are installed).
Pogo
4180
That’s pretty satisfying.
