4521

Well, in my quest to find a matuure minecraft PvP server, I have stumbled upon something else.

This is called “The Walls” - http://mcthewalls.com/

Quick facts are it is a server side mod where 4 teams of 10 players are released into a small world (think it is 500x500, which is evenly split in quarters. The team has 15 minutes to gather resources and prep, then “The Walls Come Down” and the FFA for last team standing begins in a hardcore mode.

Pickup games are, as one would expect, pretty chaotic, but no one has time to really be an asshat, and it is a lot of fun. You are allowed to choose your team number before the game begins, so if you have buddies you can all choose the same side. ("/team 1" for team 1, etc.) I also like the fact that games last under an hour.

Lag is not too bad mostly, though the biggest lag moment is when the game starts. Would suggest staying still for several seconds as there is a map edge you can fall off of.

Look slike they have three dozen games running at a time. It is easy to see on their server tab which game is about to begin - then you log in and wait.

I am still looking for a good vanilla server with a good pvp environment, and not a spawn camping mess with a bunch of tween boys using x-ray. Would love to hear any suggestions.

4522

So I’m one of the few people remaining on the planet that have yet to pickup Minecraft.

Obviously I’ve seen a lot of the game and of all the crazy things that people have managed to build but I’m curious if there are any well made mods that allow for smaller block placement. I’d like the opportunity to build more detailed architecture that can be viewed normally without needing to fly about in the sky.

4523

There are two main options that I know of:

The Little Blocks mod, which allows you to subdivide a block into a smaller set of 8x8x8 blocks. Textures get scaled down too though, so it makes it look miniaturized.

And Redpower, which has a tool which lets you carve blocks into smaller pieces, like pillars, slabs of varying widths, and smaller cubes. You can also place multiple ‘microblocks’ into the same block, so you could do things like a trough with slabs on both sides that’s still only one block wide.

4524

The Little Blocks Mod was the only one that I had managed to find and it did look rather out of place by simply shrinking the textures. I’ll check out the Redpower mod, thanks!

4525

Sorry to bump this, just a question that’s been bugging me for a while.

I first played Minecraft about 2.5 years ago. I enjoyed the hell out of it for a weekend and then for whatever reason forgot about it. Two months back my brother bought it and let me play his copy and again, I enjoyed the hell out of it for a weekend but found not much to do after that.

Question: Did development stall those 2.5 years ago, or did Notch have no interest in adding anything but the most sandbox of experiences?

I know stuff was added in the meantime (spawners, slender mans, I don’t think animal husbandry/farming or as many biomes existed back then) but it seemed to be essentially almost unchanged from a very early beta.

4526

Yep. It’s still alright if you wanna stack blocks but the new gameplay wrinkles (Enchanting, alchemy, etc) basically boil down to busywork with no meaningful impact. Monsters are as dumb as they ever were, NPC villages were added and the NPCs run in circles and stare at you like pigs, and the game’s basically the same as it ever was.

4527

I guess I’m just curious if that’s deliberate (Notch never wanted to make a ‘game’), or just a symptom of Notch’s waning interest or a lack of vision/talent on his part.

I play MineCraft and I’m just dissappointed by the sheer amount of unrealised potential. I was all excited about NPC villages (knowing nothing about them other than that they exist) until I visited one, and realized what utter tripe they were.

How awesome would it be with villagers with real AI, goals, etc? So villages farm if they need to, mine if they need to, set out trading, leave villages that fail looking for successful ones? Build roads between them? Blah blah blah.

:(

4528

Mods fill that role.

Feed the beast is the new hotness. Millenaire for villages if you’re interested.

4529

Feed the beast ain’t nothing without redpower. The wait is killing me slowly.

4530

Is the android version any good?

4531

Nope.

Tekkit

Tekkit

Tekkit

did I mention Tekkit?

4532

I just started Minecraft with my kid. How is Tekkit different?

4533

Machines galore. There’s electricity, nuclear power, solar power, wind power, magic. So much fun stuff.

4534

I found this adorable:

@notch my son wants me to learn how to make minecraft mods :-)

4535

Awww… Will minecraft ever stops? Its haha, fantastic… :-)

4536

No way to be sure, but I’d give him the benefit of the doubt and guess the second. Still, hard to be too angry about it. I’ve bought a hell of a lot worse games for more.

4537

Notch has almost nothing to do with Minecraft now. It’s Jeb and the former Bukkit people now running the show.

4538

I am thinking of updating minecraft to the latest version (from 1.0 release to 1.4.5). Anyway I need to update all my mods and was thinking about adding some new ones.

I am looking for suggestions, but the kind of mods I am looking for are mods that that make the world more interesting to explore. For example that milliarie mod that adds NPC villages. I use that one. My biggest “meh” factor with minecraft is that after a while, one area seems much like every other area. IE: If you have seen one desert, you have seem them all.

I considered terrain mods, there is or was one, I forget its name, but it did something called “Eagles Paradise”. The problem is that it did the whole world opposed to simply once in a while you would find an area that was really strange. So Id be interested in these kinds of mods as long as they are not global.

4539

Better Dungeons adds random castles, caves, pirate ships, towers, etc., to encourage wandering around and exploring, but it hasn’t been updated to 1.4.5 yet. ExtraBiomesXL adds a bunch of new terrain types, which at least makes exploring have wider variety. Twilight Forest gives you an alternate dimension to explore, with some boss fights.

Otherwise no, when you’ve got an essentially infinite map, it’s hard to make any arbitrary spot in it feel particularly unique.

4540

Those two mods look really cool. I may use them. Unfortunately better dungeons does not seem to have been updated in a long time. Maybe the mod creator is done with maintaining it.
Thanks.