Isn’t that like adding pvp to Barbie Horse Adventure or something? I mean… Who asked for this?
Lots of players play battle arenas through Minecraft mods. I didn’t ask for this, but I can see playing 4 player split screen battles with my kids being quite a bit of fun. We’ll definitely try it.
Wendelius
I dunno. It’s like pvp in Diablo, which I find useless and silly because it was never really designed or balanced for it. Except all the Diablo games have good combat for the genre and Minecraft combat is like actually slapping plastic dolls against each other and pretending they’re doing something cool.
But, ok. /shrug
Anybody with VR kits should try the official or unofficial Minecraft VR mods. They are awesome. Puts the scale of the world, building, exploring in a whole new light. Does take longer to do anything through.
Diego
Yeah, I tried the GearVR minecraft, and the sense of scale is wondrous. Those blocks are really big.
Razgon
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I love the title on this thread!
barstein
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A co-worker wants to help her 8-year-old play with a friend across town and is balking at a $9.99/month rate she saw somewhere. Are there any good, cheap options open to parents like her? I didn’t bother asking her about versions or Vanilla vs. modded.
If you can leave a PC running, you can very easily run your own server. Which means your coworker could easily have their child’s friend connecting to it.
It does potentially require someone confident enough to read a FAQ on how to make their router route the traffic to the pc running the server, but that’s it. It takes very little time.
I guess the console versions are another option you can easily play with a friend.
Wendelius
barstein
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Thanks!
I have a feeling that’s more than she’d be willing to take on alone. She wasn’t even clear on what a router was when I tested those waters. Hmm.
You can find server hosting in the $3-$5 range pretty easily.
Fired up a new instance of Minecraft over the weekend using Resonant Rise 4 via the AT Launcher. Works great, but I have a few questions I was hoping someone might help me with:
- What version of BDCraft (or PureBDCraft) is compatible with Resonant Rise 4? My game was crashing during launch attempts with that texture pack in place so I pulled it.
- Where’s the best place to go for detailed info about crafting/building? Particularly Industrialcraft2. Resources for the magic system/items would also be great. I found an outdated wiki, a semi-active subreddit and a scattering of youtubes but nothing great yet.
- In an old Let’s Play, I saw someone build an enormous quarry by setting up a large frame of transponders to define the horizontal demensions. The device would rack back and and forth across the top of an area and remove one level at a time inside it. It did not resemble the Void Miner at all. It felt more like a Buildcraft or Industrialcraft thing than Env. Tech. (Edit: Finally found info on the BuildCraft version here and I think it was ported to IC2 based on this. Just have to verify in-game.)
Related to #2 above, I mastered some of the IC basics but can’t figure out how pumps and item pipes actually work (or is it not the item pipe that I should be using for transferring items/water/lava?). Tried using a pump with first a geothermal generator, then just water, and finally with item sorting and wasn’t successful.
Does Resonant Rise have any internal documentation? I’ve seen a few item descriptions, but not many and I’ve seen zero info within the game interface about how to set up these items.
Got it! The quarry, anyway. It’s now known as a Miner, which covers a pretty small area (I think 9x9). I knew of it but didn’t notice the Advanced Miner, which starts at 33x33 and can be upgraded to cover a 65x65 area. That’s what I wanted to make. Expensive to make but it accomplishes a lot and looks fairly simple to operate.
Resonant Rise is super, by the way. Building and crafting is so so much smoother than anything I’ve experienced in Minecraft to date. The only thing is you’re kinda on your own to figure out what all the thousands of items actually are.
Still no idea on the texture pack or material/item piping thing.
On question 2, you’re already on it, YouTube is where it’s at. Don’t forget whatever forums are available for a mod or modpack.
If you don’t play mod packs often, it’s actually easier to track down the specific modpack of a good Let’s Play series and load that older or less modded version.
I mostly play FTB packs and those seem to have more followers and thus more videos to look up things.
Whats the modpack liike, @barstein?
Bear in mind that I’ve only put in a dozen or so hours or so, over last weekend. Also should mention that although I have hundreds of hours in MC vanilla and MC slightly modded, until now I’ve only spent a few dozen or so trying out various FTB/AT modpacks over the past couple of years.
Generally, this pack strikes me as being very well-balanced, considering that it includes 245 mods, and I get the impression, judging from youtubes and such, that it’s matured and improved quite a bit between version 1 and 4. The other modpacks I tried weighed too heavily in one design direction or another, or were limited by maintainer compromises. Personally, I’m really appreciating having easy access to such a vast amount of very optional content while still able to create the play experience that I’m looking for without being too distracted by other unwanted mods/features. (Of course, at the moment I’m still mostly using just IndustrialCraft2, haven’t dabbled in the magic stuff yet.)
Sorry, it’s a broad question; what in particular were you wondering about the modpack, @Skipper?
Regarding YouTube series, this is the one that inspired me to dig into Minecraft again recently: Sipsco Dirt Factory, with Sips and Sjin (2013). In that I think they were using Tekkit at the time, which bears many similarities to IndustrialCraft2 (and, I think, to BuildCraft). Sips and Sjin are total clowns, but they’re fun to listen to and I learned a lot about advanced systems in Minecraft through them.
Those guys have put out a TON of series/episodes on a bunch of different channels, including the above, and have used a variety of modpacks. This episode from a different series is my absolute favorite at the moment:
You know, I’m chuckling right now with the title of this thread.
The link between Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress is tenous at best, and if anything, Minecraft is more known for the multiplayer.
Skipper
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Just getting a feel for what type of pack it was. The ones on the launcher all seem a little different in subtle ways. I’ve had so much more fun with modded Minecraft than vanilla over time, and for a while had a server that my nephews played on as well as one gaming buddy. I’ve also played on some public and private mod servers. So much fun.
I tend to do the same things when exploring new mod packs:
Get a feel for how mining works (what’s been added, where ores are at based on level or biome)
Find out which ore processing I’m going to use to start
Find out what food system I need to use
Get a weapon and armor
Look at basic power generation
I’ve used IC2 in the past but I’m trying to remember the history there. I think there was some drama over either it for the piping/circuits it used. A lot of people hate the wrench as a tool. A lot more think automation and ore processing are better in other mods. I’ve never had a problem with it. I prefer Thermal Expansion over IC2 though.
A lot of threads here start the same way. People aren’t sure what a game actually is, but they start a thread on them searching for more people playing it. Then it just sticks and people remember it for the title.
Zylon
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[quote=“TurinTur, post:4818, topic:60133, full:true”]… if anything, Minecraft is more known for the multiplayer.
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WTF.5
