Minecraft

From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)13 Jan 2011 17:40
To: JonCooper 142 of 477
Redstone.

And yeah, I do now remember someone was asking a while ago if a turing machine was possible, which I think it is - so with enough time, space, and resources anything can be emulated.

Of course, input and output methods are limited, and running anything complicated inside a game inside a Java VM inside an OS is not going to give the greatest performance.

But it's still cool how this "simple" stuff can allow such complexity.
EDITED: 13 Jan 2011 17:41 by BOUGHTONP
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)14 Jan 2011 00:30
To: ALL143 of 477
Beta 1.2 is out.

quote:
New features:
* Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
* 15 wool dyes
* A new water dwelling mob
* New tree types
* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
* A bunch of new crafting recipes
* One secret useful block
* One secret pretty block
* Cake
* AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes:
* Paintings work in multiplayer
* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
* Falling sand behaves better in SMP
* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs



Bastard!

I need to eat food, digest it, then go sleep. Preferably all achieved before 1am, so I can get enough sleep combined with being up at a decent time.

But I also want to go find the water mob, the new trees, and discover what the new recipes might be.

:(

I hate you Notch! :@
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)14 Jan 2011 00:55
To: koswix 144 of 477
That's pretty damn cool :D

You might want to remove all the dirt/grass tiles round your crops to stop wildlife spawning and trampling them.
From: steve14 Jan 2011 01:19
To: ALL145 of 477
All this has reminded me "The Incredible Machine" I used to play in 1995. So I found the disc ( :Y ) and reinstalled it :-

I tried to make a random number generator using balls and ray guns, but I ran out of parts :(


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From: koswix14 Jan 2011 08:55
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 146 of 477

Ahh, its the dirt tiles that make them spawn. I'll give if a stone floor later.

 

Yesterday I added a second floor made of glass with with more wheat beds. I harvest every few days and get like 64 wheat :$

From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)14 Jan 2011 11:01
To: koswix 147 of 477
Yeah took me a while to work out how the fuck the animals were getting into my farm.

I seem to always build my house as a bunch of raised islands connected by bridges. Which no doubt says something about my personality. That I am a dick perhaps. A dick surrounded by a cactus-wall.

I thought I'd kinda tired of this game for a while but I got lost in it again last night. I love exploring.
From: koswix15 Jan 2011 18:46
To: ALL148 of 477

Anyone played it in 3D mode?

 

Wondering if it's worth getting some glasses off eBay....

From: JonCooper15 Jan 2011 21:01
To: koswix 149 of 477
I didn't know it could display in 3D!

just tried it with some cheapo cardboard glasses
mostlt it looks quite good, clouds seem a bit odd though
From: koswix16 Jan 2011 00:52
To: JonCooper 150 of 477

Sounds fun, think I'll order some glasses then. They're only a couple of quid.

 

Just hope I can finish my new castle before they turn up :D

EDITED: 23 Jul 2012 18:00 by KOSWIX
From: Mouse16 Jan 2011 01:01
To: ALL151 of 477
When can we have a Teh Mine? So far I have become an expert at tunneling rabbit holes through mountains. I'm going to have to build something soon....
From: koswix16 Jan 2011 01:05
To: Mouse 152 of 477
I'm was already planning on setting up a server PC when virgin finally get round to installing 100mbit in my area (10mbit upload \o/), I totally plan to put a Minecraft server on it too.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)16 Jan 2011 01:07
To: koswix 153 of 477
quote:
Just hope I can finish my new castle before they turn up

:?

You know you don't have to start wearing them immediately?
From: koswix16 Jan 2011 01:34
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 154 of 477
You do realise that that was just a grasp for any excuse to show my half built castle, right?
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)16 Jan 2011 01:49
To: koswix 155 of 477
What the fuck do you need an excuse for?

Just post it.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)16 Jan 2011 01:51
To: ALL156 of 477
My future new home...
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)16 Jan 2011 01:54
To: koswix 157 of 477
Like that. :)


Although, maybe we should kick off another thread for people to post their current favourite Minecraft construction?

(not to kill this one, just to have a dedicated 'pictures' place for people that want to look)
EDITED: 16 Jan 2011 01:56 by BOUGHTONP
From: koswix16 Jan 2011 02:29
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 158 of 477

Heh, that's a decent place to build a house. My Guest House is built into a hill just like that. And all the stone from hollowing it out has been rather helpful in building my castle.

 

And I know I don't need a reason to post pics, I was just trying to keep a semblance of flow to the thread :C

From: koswix16 Jan 2011 03:26
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 159 of 477

Woo, the outer shell is basically complete. Need to fix the 'droopy' corners on the tops of the turrets, and sort out the ramparts on the first tower, but more or less done.

 

Next I'm going to add a gate/portcullis stylee bit (don'[t know how yet) and then build a house and stuff inside the castle walls. Then dig out all the sand around it and have just one entry point (although i already have a couple of underwater emergency exits...)

 

Time for sleep.

EDITED: 23 Jul 2012 18:00 by KOSWIX
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)16 Jan 2011 04:05
To: koswix 160 of 477
I'm still trying to decide exactly what to do with the house.

I've got ideas for what to do with the surrounding area, but I'm currently sitting wasting time each night because I'm not sure how to handle the inside. :(

Here's my beautiful architect's plans for what to do with outside, and my current floorplan...


For some reason I had this idea to build a giant greenhouse, which is what I've been doing during the day.

I'm probably about half way finished with the shell, which will give me a safe place to work during the night, but you're not getting a screenshot of my current progress, because I just realised it's fecking 3am. :'(
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)16 Jan 2011 05:55
To: koswix 161 of 477
"Guest House" (giggle)

Nice castle though.