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 From:  koswix   20 Jan 2011 22:08 
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I burnt a forest down the other day, its still burning :$

GIVE ME MEAT! :@ msg:37418.1
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 From:  JonCooper   20 Jan 2011 22:08 
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I decided I didn't like leaves hanging about after I'd 'mined' the trunk so I set fire to them - burnt down a whole island full of trees and had to wander about putting out loads of logs
Jon
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 From:  Monsoir (PILOTDAN)   21 Jan 2011 00:16 
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Played this for the second time last night. First time I really really didn't get it and got fed up. Watched some of the Youtube videos and thought I'd give it another bash. I'm still not sold on it - I got a bit bored during the night time bit. What should I be doing?

 

I'll tell you what though, those monsters scare the fucking shit out of me. The noises are....haunting. One appeared at my lookout hole and I nearly dropped the laptop.

 

Incidentally, it's bit stuttery on the laptop but I dunno if that's because uptime was probably in the days (not counting hibernation).


Dan Herman
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 From:  JonCooper   21 Jan 2011 00:36 
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night time I generally go mining a bit - you'll need torches
Jon
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   21 Jan 2011 00:41 
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What's the viewing distance set to? I have to turn mine down from the furthest to stop major jerkiness/HDD crunching when I'm moving around.
Chrissywissywoo
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   21 Jan 2011 00:48 
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There's a quick graphics option in the settings - makes leaves non-transparent and a few other things that might result in better performance.
(Also, as Chris says, set the Fog / view distance to one less than max and that'll help without ruining it too much.)

During the night, work on expanding your base - what you do depends on what style of structure you have, and how much you care about decorativeness.

* Back door / escape exits - if there's a creeper sitting outside, you might want an alternative way out - or (if you've been delayed far away) a quick but safe way in.

* Furnaces. When you get to smelting anything, you want to have plenty of furnaces on the go in parallel, otherwise you'll be waiting around for ages.

* Spare tools - build a large storage chest and fill it with picks, axes, swords, and whatever else you might use - saves precious daytime if you make sure you have a good stock and can just grab them into inventory.

* Spare items - similarly, fences, ladders, steps, boats, etc - harvest a huge bunch of wood then spend a night building a bunch of these in advance, and plonk them in a storage chest for when they're actually needed.


And of course, once you've managed to get at least 26 iron, you can build yourself a full set of armour and a sword and consider not cowering inside at night. :)
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 10:45 
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If the stuttering is not constant then it's probably just the game generating new terrain. It generates the map on the fly when you travel towards somewhere you've not been before and this will stutter a bit on pretty much any PC. This happens a lot on newly generated worlds obviously as you've not been anywhere yet. When you're just wandering around already-well-explored areas this shouldn't happen so if you get stutter there then it's probably just graphical intensity as others have said.

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I got a bit bored during the night time bit. What should I be doing?


What do you want to do?

My first day is generally spent looking for coal so I can have light when night comes. Then I'll make some basic tools and a shelter and then, as Jon and Pete say I either go mining or work on my house. Sometimes I'll take a boat out and go exploring at night as the sea is relatively safe and boats move pretty fast, best not to do this till you've made a compass though as it's easy to get lost.

But yeah, depends how you want to play - what your natural inclinations are. Some people like just exploring above ground, some people like mining, some like exploring cave systems, some people just like to craft stuff, some like building a big base.

For most people it's a blend of all of that but one or two things are usually primary and the rest just done to fuel that. For me exploration (both above and below ground) is primary - I tend to spend my days running across the land/exploring coastlines by boat until I find an interesting looking cave entrance then see how far it goes. I keep exploring until either my inventory is full or I'm dangerously low on health or just fancy a change of pace, then I'll head back to base. My house just being a place to recoup and store stuff, though I tend to spend a bit of time extending it between expeditions.

I always have plans of connecting up my furthest-explored places with railways so that I can easily keep exploring outwards but I always tire of the grunt work this involves and end up starting a new game instead when I've explored as far as I reasonably can on foot/boat. I should probably use those dimensional gates but I've been down there once and it was scary.

Oh another goal I tend to have in mind when exploring is to have a full set of diamond tools/weapons and enough diamond to replace stuff as it wears out. And ideally diamond armour too.

Some people even play it as a monster killing game. I mean they just spend their time killing monsters with swords and axes both in the normal dimension and the other one. Which is cool cos monsters drop resources you can't get elsewhere. Some people spend the majority of their time in the other dimension. Loooooads of ways to play.

This has already become an essay so fuck it.

Then there's online play, which feels quite different. It allows people to collaborate, obviously, enabling them to complete building projects on a scale far beyond what anyone can reasonably do in single player. But kinda more interestingly it allows people to specialise - people who like to just explore and gather rare stuff are necessary now because the people who just like to build need diamond tools. People who just like to mine are necessary because the builders need basic materials. People who like engineering come into their own because they can link everything up with trains. Everyone becomes useful whether they're a specialist or a generalist.

Anyway, yeah, the game will never tell you what to do. You have to decide what you want to do then figure out how to do it.
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 From:  Mouse   21 Jan 2011 10:53 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      222 of 477 
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Hang on, what "other dimension" ?

Roses are bollocks, Violets are crud, I hate bloody flowers, And much prefer mud.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 11:01 
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There's another dimension... I forget what it's called. It's this weird place full of lava and weird monsters and shit. Every step you take in there is worth 8 (I think) above ground - something like that. So if you made a gateway, stepped through, made another gateway, stepped back out, you'd be 8 steps onwards in whatever direction.

To make a gateway: make a structure out of obsidian with a gap big enough to walk through (2 high x 1 wide) - so essentially a 3x4 wall of obsidian with the centre two blocks missing (you can also miss off the corners to save on obsidian). When that's made, set fire to the bottom of the hole and then it should quite obviously turn into a dimensional gate and you can walk through. I believe shit in the other dimension can come through too though so be careful.

It's scary in there.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 11:19 
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Sorry, just checked and the gap is 2x3. So the structure needs to be 4x5.

And the dimension is called The Nether :O
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 11:21 
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http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Portal
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 From:  Mouse   21 Jan 2011 11:22 
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I've heard of this obsidian before but never found it. Hard enough to find iron for me.

Roses are bollocks, Violets are crud, I hate bloody flowers, And much prefer mud.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 11:32 
 To:  Mouse      227 of 477 
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Obsidian occurs where water and lava meet. You can actually manufacture it by causing water and lava to meet yourself. It's a pain to mine as it takes about 15 secs per block with a diamond pick.

Best way to find it is: get deep - either dig down or find a big looking cave and keep moving downwards till you find lava. Then move sideways (either following caves or tunnelling, whichever is suitable) and listen out for water/lava. Eventually you'll find some, it's not all that rare at the right depth (far more common than diamond). It always occurs on the floor, is often underwater and is black, so it can be fairly hard to spot if the area's not well let. It'll often be underwater too. It's also quite hard to mine as it'll often be over lava.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   21 Jan 2011 11:33 
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Obsidian is formed when water flows into a Lava source.
(When flowing water and flowing lava meet, you just get Cobblestone.)

Buckets are your friend. :)
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 From:  Mouse   21 Jan 2011 11:36 
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I shall have to find some diamonds yet, found none.

Roses are bollocks, Violets are crud, I hate bloody flowers, And much prefer mud.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   21 Jan 2011 11:38 
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Hard enough to find iron for me.


Go deeper.

Iron is not normally found above sea level.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   21 Jan 2011 11:41 
 To:  Mouse      231 of 477 
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I shall have to find some diamonds yet, found none.


Go even deeper.

Diamond is only found at the deepest levels.

There's a chart somewhere, that tells you the numbers, so you can count down from sea level until you get to the appropriate depth.
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 From:  Mouse   21 Jan 2011 11:43 
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Ohh, OK I will. I have a few scary pot holes I've not properly been down to yet.

Roses are bollocks, Violets are crud, I hate bloody flowers, And much prefer mud.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Jan 2011 11:47 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      233 of 477 
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I really wish there were indestructible tools. It eventually becomes frustrating when even your diamond tools constantly need replacing. I mean, I know it pushes the exploration on and all that but it'd be nice to have a pick and spade that just never degrade. Maybe some new super-rare material or something. It's annoying having to carry around a stack of diamond when I go exploring. Especially when a creeper booms me miiiiles away from spawn and I lose it all.

Used to be a glitch in multiplayer where if you dropped a tool and picked it up it would be fully repaired, but this got fixed :'S

</random thought>
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   21 Jan 2011 11:50 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      234 of 477 
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Is diamond that bad?

I was under the impression that it was several orders of magnitudes more robust, and wouldn't need a great deal of replacing? :(
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