Minecraft! (single player dwarf fortress)

Marcin · 2010-09-30T11:44:14.000Z

Pogo:

“Movable” is a strange term to use there. The blocks don’t move, they stay put. All that happens is that an animation is triggered, the door graphic moves from the front two faces of two insivible blocks to the side faces of those blocks. The blocks are then given the property of “not solid,” and you can walk through them. There is no moving.

And how is that different from a giant upwards or sideways sliding door? Or even a drawbridge? All really have two states, open (walk-through) or closed; a drawbridge would have two states down and up.

nlanza · 2010-09-30T11:54:52.000Z

Teiman:

Minecraft is basically a celular automata, and theres a lot of things that can be made with that. Even, or specially, lifeforms. Water is halfway there…

Er, what? How is it “basically” a cellular automata?

Teiman · 2010-09-30T12:02:19.000Z

nlanza:

Er, what? How is it “basically” a cellular automata?

Well… “basically” because is not completelly a cellular automata. The players and these stuff is not usual in a cellular automata. How fire and water spread totally fit on how a celular automata work. Water spread “reproducing” generating new celules that transfer the “age” to his childrens, the cell that is generation 6 cant give birth to new cells. If theres a fall, age is reseted to zero again.

update:
http://www.google.com/images?q=celular+automata+logic+gates&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=965

nlanza · 2010-09-30T12:05:03.000Z

Uh. Yeah. Okay.

Forget I asked.

DoomMunky · 2010-09-30T13:09:48.000Z

We need more pictures of worlds and construction projects. Bring it on, people.

Black_Isis · 2010-09-30T13:11:01.000Z

Someone needs to make the anvil fortress from Loom.

DoomMunky · 2010-09-30T15:10:45.000Z

Here’s the view from the top of my new vaulted bridge:

And this is where my fortress/village will be:

I want to have stone castle towers and balconies jutting out from the cliff walls, with a tree farm, wheat farm, pool, and fenced yard down in the central area. It’s gonna be sweet.

Pogo · 2010-09-30T17:05:06.000Z

Marcin:

And how is that different from a giant upwards or sideways sliding door? Or even a drawbridge? All really have two states, open (walk-through) or closed; a drawbridge would have two states down and up.

Well, the way I imagined those things to be built (particularly a portcullis or a drawbridge) would be through mechanical means coded into the game. I suppose you could have a 5x3 “door,” but without proper animation it would look silly. Same with a drawbridge.

So, I thought you were implying that the doors would be actual blocks that you built and could then manipulate through the world, and not the on/off state that you describe (and how it’s implemented right now).

My mistake for misinterpreting what you meant.

Marcin · 2010-09-30T17:46:12.000Z

Pogo:

So, I thought you were implying that the doors would be actual blocks that you built and could then manipulate through the world, and not the on/off state that you describe (and how it’s implemented right now).

OooooOOOOooo.

Nah, just visual flair to go with larger toggleable on/off surfaces would do it for me :)

Hrnac · 2010-09-30T18:39:49.000Z

It is not looking very good for an update this week.

@notch i’m going to ask a question i’m sure you get all the time, What’s the chance your going to have a secret Friday update?

@Connormast12 i honestly don’t know. I wouldn’t count on it this week.

-Hrnac

DocLazy · 2010-09-30T18:47:50.000Z

Notch has mentioned adding moving blocks to the game, for elevators etc.

For anyone wanting to make a castle, there are plenty of castle floor plans floating around the internet that could be used. I’ve been wanting to build an epic fortress for a long time, I’m just not sure what to put in it and since I usually design my buildings from a practical perspective(everything needs a purpose) I haven’t managed to finish one yet.

This is my latest project:

I’m not sure what it is. It was going to be a tower with a cone like roof covered in dirt. The rails lead to an ore mine. This is an older world made before caves were added and the mineral deposits were made smaller.

caesarbear · 2010-09-30T18:48:15.000Z

Hrnac:

It is not looking very good for an update this week.

@notch i’m going to ask a question i’m sure you get all the time, What’s the chance your going to have a secret Friday update?

@Connormast12 i honestly don’t know. I wouldn’t count on it this week.

-Hrnac

It’s going to take a few months to get things sorted enough to the point where he can start adding things in again. If he adds a new trick and it turns out to break a lot of things, he won’t have the time to fix it.

lordkosc · 2010-09-30T20:55:25.000Z

so just keeping track of my time, I’ve clocked close to 60 hours since I got this game 2 weeks ago, I think this is my game of the year :o

RepoMan · 2010-09-30T23:24:02.000Z

I can’t even sign in. Just downloaded the game for the first time – checker’s Google Maps Minecraft view tipped me over the edge – and, while I was able to create an account on the website, I get “Can’t connect to minecraft.net” error in game. And you can’t play offline unless you’ve played once online. Sigh. Back to Defense Grid for tonight :-)

DoomMunky · 2010-09-30T23:55:21.000Z

Weird. Mine works fine. Sorry man!

Wendelius · 2010-10-01T09:42:16.000Z

What’s the one thing you shouldn’t have on your hotbar right next to the wooden planks when you are building a wooden bridge?

That’s right. Flint!

I couldn’t put it out fast enough. So I had to run back and sacrifice about 10 blocks of length of my brand new bridge to buy myself enough time to hack a 3 block gap.

All the while, I had visions of the guy burning down the Minecraft house. There were about a thousand planks in my bridge. Be still my beating heart.

Wendelius

Tman · 2010-10-01T10:15:20.000Z

ha-ha, dramatic at night!

You should try glass bridges. They let you see what is below them ;-)

Becoming · 2010-10-01T12:30:50.000Z

Tman:

ha-ha, dramatic at night!

You should try glass bridges. They let you see what is below them ;-)

You evil bastard… I’m now seriously thinking about redoing my sky bridge and fortress in glass.

Sigh.

Marcin · 2010-10-01T14:44:12.000Z

Note that you can’t put stuff on glass. Including train tracks. :/

Becoming · 2010-10-01T14:48:56.000Z

Marcin:

Note that you can’t put stuff on glass. Including train tracks. :/

How about regular stuff like torches, other blocks (like dirt for trees), and so on?

I haven’t had time to test any of that yet, so I’m definitely curious.