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Have you seen the one on the QT3 server? Somebody made an awesome ship which inspired some other folks to come in and build a giant bottle around it.

It’s one of the cooler things I have seen in minecraft, and that’s saying something.

Apologies if you where in any way associated with it already, can’t remember any of the names involved.

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i’ve certainly noticed an increase in skeleton spawns where there otherwise shouldnt have been skeleton spawns.

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I heard a TON of monsters last night but I didn’t manage to find them as I was in a cave. It also sounded like they were moving around quite a lot as I could hear foot steps but maybe it was just a pig or something.

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Well done.

And I don’t believe there are any monster spawns that occur specifically, other than blobs which only spawn at the depth of diamonds (0-20).

The monster spawning seems dependent on landscape as well. Large bits of flat land will spawn lots of monsters (as DocLazy’s survival map shows quite clearly) compared to landscapes that frequently slope.

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Reposting this from the youtube thread, because it’s just awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/v/FaMTedT6P0I

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hmm. I just went to buy the thing (despite a heroic attempt to avoid it), but I’m getting…

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://www.minecraft.net/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Likely related to the server issues/sudden popularity that was happening recently. I suppose I’d best wait until that’s sorted out before buying anyway, just to ensure the purchase goes through ok.

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Becoming – that video is absolutely epic and should be on the Minecraft.net frontpage

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ya , Minecraft is down again :(

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I know, right? That’s exactly what I said. It’s a very well done video and really manages to capture some of the elusive splendor and sense of discovery going on at times.

Of course the whole actual play experience can’t really match the tension and pace of the music used, but if I wasn’t already a proud purchaser of the game that video would have totally convinced me.

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Really well made trailer, notch should jump on this. I think in the last frame they should have put a creeper’s face instead of the zombie growl.

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I thought the zombie noise was actually perfect and came off as just the right note of undefined menace.

Lets face it, the monsters aren’t all that visually scary.

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I’m guessing he cant due to copyright infringement with the music used, but yeah, pretty cool trailer.

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This is goddamn impressive. I like how the guy casually turns around to show off what he’s working on.

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I am scared, very scared.

Minecraft supports the ability to make the planet earth in scale 1:1.

Who will be the first to import the Grand Canyon as a Minecraft map?
The mount Rushmore?
The whole map of England?
Africa?

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The whole surface of earth, has seen by the mapping satelite projects?

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Drool
Now someone needs to make an imperial star destroyer or a battlestar, both of which are about 4 times the size of the enterprise.

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That thing is amazing.

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Found this via Notch on twitter, who got it from reddit:

Minecraft proposal

Also, I’m hopelessly addicted. Right now I’m working on a sky palace on my laptop, and a cliffside fortress on my desktop. I can’t wait until survival works properly for multiplayer. I got a server completely set up before I realized I couldn’t damage enemies.

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I’m guessing he cant due to copyright infringement with the music used, but yeah, pretty cool trailer.[/QUOTE]

Notch should post on his site: “I totally don’t approve of this video because it uses copyrighted material. You definitely should NOT send this link to all your friends who don’t own Minecraft”.

Then again, the composer of the music could post saying “Don’t go here to download a pirated copy of Minecraft”.

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Ars Technica article on how the guy did that 1:1 scale of the Enterprise-D in Minecraft.

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