Rock, Paper, Shotgun ran a feature on the surprisingly-successful indie game MineCraft last week. For those of you that don't know what MineCraft is, imagine a truly infinite open world like Oblivion but with the terrain composed of cubes. Now imagine that you have the ability to modify and manipulate that environment near-any way; that's MineCraft.
Of course, its namesake is very indicative of it's gameplay; you mine assorted rocks & minerals and you craft tools, buildings, anything else out of said rock. This involves exploring the limitless world, full of oddities and treasures. Oh, and might I mention that hordes of skeletons, zombies, and spiders all climb out of their caves at night, thirsty for quadrangular blood? Naturally, this is where MineCraft becomes an amazing dungeon crawler, as the "dungeons" can be so expansive that you'll quickly become lost or trapped in them. And watch out for lava.
Words can't grasp what MineCraft is really about, so playing it can. The latest update on Friday overloaded the servers, so the one-time €10 account fee has been waived for the weekend, or at least until the new server arrives and is up and running. By the way, MineCraft is still in "Alpha", which is utterly ridiculous, since it seems chock-full of gameplay enough to be sold as a final, retail product.
you mine assorted rocks & minerals and you craft tools, buildings, anything else out of said rock.
Friday's Penny Arcade comic nicely summed up the quandary that poses for people with such predilections.
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My name is jawathehutt and my drug of choice is minecrack. I began using in January. It started with a free copy from my friend. In febuary, my new drug pusher gave me a gift copy so I had the legit stuff. Now I spend my time building pyramids in pyramids in pyramids and obsidian houses with the help of my beloved inventory editor. Please help me Dr Drew
"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
Hans Scholl
"It is Lucasarts"~ LordJhredmo
I finally finished my castle. I started by chopping a mountain in half and then building the castle on top. Then I wanted a moat. It had water at first. Then I hollowed out the mountain and built an indoor pool. Added a lava disco floor, and the floating lava tower thingy. Then I switched up the moat with lava.
I started out not cheating, but then said screw it and started using an inventory editor.
I think my next castle will be a sky castle. I read somewhere that waterfalls can be used as an elevator. Should be cool.
Build a pyramid on it. I'm thinking that while I'm in this bizarre pyramid obsession stage of minecraft Ill probably build a Ziggurat as well, simply because they look cool.
"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
Hans Scholl
"It is Lucasarts"~ LordJhredmo
I've been watching an LP of this on youtube (Seananners if you're interested.... he's great, heh) and i may have to get this, even though it will accentuate the worst of my anal, quasi-OCD characteristics...
I started with water elevators, but I didn't like having to use a boat to go back up. I ended up building a ladder inside the lava column. I actually still haven't finished. I've just been sidetracked with other things lately.
Thats pretty epic. I will post some of my creations eventually. Could I get a copy of that world once its finished?
Here you go. There are train tracks from the land castle that lead to the docks by the sky castle. I also started on a ship, but my video game ADD kicked in and I never finished it.
I don't have any mods, just a texture pack, so I don't think there will be any problems just copying that folder into your saves.
Wow, I was gonna post some of my creations but after wandering through your world mine seem kinda pathetic in comparison
"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
Hans Scholl
"It is Lucasarts"~ LordJhredmo
i recommend anyone go on youtube and watch the Yogscast. There is a huge series about minecraft of two guys playing together and it's really entertaining and funny. It teaches you a lot about minecraft too, and it's responsible, alongside my best friend, for my current addiction to it
Wow, I was gonna post some of my creations but after wandering through your world mine seem kinda pathetic in comparison
It should be noted that I cheated like crazy. I did like half the land castle using blocks I actually mined, and then said screw it and started using MineEdit to spawn blocks in my inventory. I wanted to build more than mine.
It wouldn't be anything fancy. If what I've read online is correct, my server/bandwidth can host about 10 people. At the moment, I haven't setup the minecraft server as a windows service yet. Until then, I have to start the server via the .exe and leave the remote desktop connection window open.
If anyone wants to hop on the server, you can get in touch with me. Easiest method is via Steam (LF Steam Group link in my sig). It most definitely will not be running unless someone bugs me to turn it on, or if I'm playing on it.
The server is whitelisted (PM/IM me your minecraft nick) and does authenticate names with minecraft.net (so you need an account or something).
Oh, and I actually haven't tested the connection/port forwarding outside my network. So need a guinea pig.
Looks like everything works.
I've found something even more entertaining than building. I made a copy of my main save, and have filled my inventory with TNT. I now know that with the exception of my panic room in my underground throne room, all of my creations are highly vulnerable to hundreds of blocks of tnt
"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
Hans Scholl
"It is Lucasarts"~ LordJhredmo
Canderis's house is on the right. It looks really nice. All I can do is put a bunch of squares together.
I did all of that legit. No cheating using MineEdit, and monsters do spawn. That's why there are a crapload of torches everywhere. You can see the crater of a creeper explosion in the bottom left of the first picture. It scared the crap out of me.
So! MineCraft is coming to Xbox 360. No other details as of yet, as all was said was the fact it's actually going to the 360.
Will be interesting to see how that turns out. Sort of bummed out on it not being on the PlayStation 3, but I was planning on getting an Xbox 360 Slim anyway.
Yes this game is awesome as my pal is always playing it when I come over. Has ben for awhile. I was utterly amazed at the W.I.P. enterprise mod. This is eerily similar to those 8 bit mods of wolfenstein I might add.
Tried it out. I will not get it b/c I will seriously cease all other functions to feed the addiction habit. It's *that* good. Drugs might be cheaper, hell even anime might be cheaper.
Love me, I win.
Hate me, I win.
Ignore me, I've got exactly what I wanted.
Love me or hate me, you're still thinking of me either way.
The more Notch goes on holiday or spends more time on games, the more i lose faith in him actually finishing the game. Tbh, modders have finished it for him, and hes just run off with our money.
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