Minecraft! (single player dwarf fortress)

Sepiche · 2012-07-06T11:58:26.000Z

benloran:

I believe it’s currently just a mode that doesn’t allow the player to place or remove blocks, or use buckets, or set fires, etc. It’s for people who make adventure maps to give them a little more control over what the player can do.

Bah! It’s not Minecraft unless you can encase someone’s house in obsidian. :)

DeepT · 2012-07-06T12:18:20.000Z

walTer:

:) There, you made me feel better.

Good. I do not like it when people discount their own creations when they see something someone else did.

Theodore_Rex_DX · 2012-07-06T18:01:29.000Z

Minecraft needs more mobs and more tools (that are interesting - grappling hooks, dowsing rods, more weapons etc.). And some goals. Add that stuff and I will start playing again, Mojang.

Daagar · 2012-07-06T19:27:37.000Z

Mods provide a lot of crazy stuff. The technic pack is a quick way to get going with a lot of it - by my god, the minecraft community is (literally) a bunch of 12 year olds. Impressive that they learned enough java to hack this stuff together, but digging through some of the forums makes official Blizzard forums look like a MENSA community.

Lord_Twilight · 2012-07-06T19:56:13.000Z

I love tekkit, a friend and I have a nice server going for it. Lots of fun to build when you have all those machines around.

Fozzle · 2012-07-07T09:47:14.000Z

Daagar:

Mods provide a lot of crazy stuff. The technic pack is a quick way to get going with a lot of it - by my god, the minecraft community is (literally) a bunch of 12 year olds. Impressive that they learned enough java to hack this stuff together, but digging through some of the forums makes official Blizzard forums look like a MENSA community.

My server is 18+ only. strictly upheld, if anyone is looking to get their Minecraft on. It’s a fairly vanilla MC server, with about 350 peeps in the whitelist, and about 10-20 online usually. We run with McMMO and Magic Spells, if that interests you. Shoot me a PM if interested.

P.S. if anyone has ever thought about renting an MC server, I highly recommend Beastnode.net. The server runs all on SSD drives with very little lag, and no real over selling as far as I can tell. The owners also have an uncanny ability to actually reply to your support tickets in a timely manner =) I’ve been with them for a year now, and am very happy with the service.

Daagar · 2012-07-07T10:59:36.000Z

Thank you for the offer, but it is really my kids that play (mostly single player). I just try to set up mods and texture packs for them, because it is such a sad state of affairs that it takes a LOT of work without something like technic or magiclauncher to bring some sanity to it all. They probably would have been just fine with vanilla - but I like to overwhelm them with doodads :)

Dave_Markell · 2012-07-26T11:09:35.000Z

Conan O’Brien reviews Minecraft.

Quaro · 2012-07-26T13:44:03.000Z

Really nice looking graphics upgrade for Minecraft:

Love the lighting.

Pogo · 2012-07-26T13:47:04.000Z

Oh nice, they added water shaders. That was sorta the only reason I didn’t keep using Sonic Ether’s shaders, because it was nearly impossible to get working with the water shaders.

Unfortunately it looks like the bloom is still overdone.

walTer · 2012-07-26T14:09:19.000Z

I like it, I think. Truly part of the charm is the retro-graphics. That said, it is pretty and it doesn’t actually take much away from the original look, it just makes it look better.

Quaro · 2012-07-26T14:11:34.000Z

I think the blocks themselves do a good job of keeping the retro look. The high quality lighting and shaders add a naturalistic tone that I love since the landscape generator in Minecraft makes some cool stuff.

SlainteMhath · 2012-07-26T14:18:21.000Z

Dave Markell:

Conan O’Brien reviews Minecraft.

Haha! That was great! Love the rating system.

karnisov · 2012-08-01T16:15:32.000Z

some interesting changes in 1.3 not mentioned in patch notes, non-combat activities give experience now. so far i’ve gotten exp from mining coal, smelting materials (on furnace removal).

Mr_Popov · 2012-08-02T09:38:12.000Z

levers on ceilings = OMG IT’S A WHOLE NEW GAME for me.

Pogo · 2012-08-02T10:01:41.000Z

At this point I’m hearing about enough new things since I’ve played that I’m close to loading it up again.

RichVR · 2012-08-02T16:59:15.000Z

We’ll see you in a week or so.

Pogo · 2012-08-02T17:12:53.000Z

Has patch 1.3 already hit, then?

Some video showing 120 things I didn’t know about Minecraft is exposing a whole slew of shit I haven’t heard of. For instance, I had no idea dragons and nether fortresses were in the game.

Wolff · 2012-08-02T19:57:06.000Z

Link to that video?

Ultrazen · 2012-08-02T20:24:57.000Z

I’ve been playing the 360 version a lot lately, and I’m itching to get back into the PC version. Any recent mods or texture packs that people are big on?