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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.<br /> <br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">I got a bit bored during the night time bit. What should I be doing?</div><br /> <br /> What do you <i>want</i> to do?<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> This has already become an essay so fuck it.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>necessary</i> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.221&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.221"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_222"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_222"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Mouse<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 09:53</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 09:55"></span></span> <span class="message_count">222 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.222">37760.222</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_221" target="_self">37760.221</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Hang on, what "other dimension" ?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.222&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.222"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_223"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_223"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:01</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Mouse <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:20"></span></span> <span class="message_count">223 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.223">37760.223</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_222" target="_self">37760.222</a></div> <div class="message_body"> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> It's <i>scary</i> in there.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.223&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.223"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_224"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_224"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:19</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:19"></span></span> <span class="message_count">224 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.224">37760.224</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_223" target="_self">37760.223</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Sorry, just checked and the gap is 2x3. So the structure needs to be 4x5.<br /> <br /> And the dimension is called The Nether <span class="emoticon e_shock" title=":O"><span class="e__">:O</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.224&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.224"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_225"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_225"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:21</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:22"></span></span> <span class="message_count">225 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.225">37760.225</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_224" target="_self">37760.224</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <a href="http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Portal">http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Portal</a></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.225&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.225"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_226"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_226"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Mouse<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:22</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:22"></span></span> <span class="message_count">226 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.226">37760.226</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_223" target="_self">37760.223</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I've heard of this obsidian before but never found it. Hard enough to find iron for me.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.226&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.226"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_227"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_227"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:32</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Mouse <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:35"></span></span> <span class="message_count">227 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.227">37760.227</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_226" target="_self">37760.226</a></div> <div class="message_body"> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.227&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.227"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_228"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_228"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Mouse <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:35"></span></span> <span class="message_count">228 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.228">37760.228</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_226" target="_self">37760.226</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Obsidian is formed when water flows into a Lava source.<br /> (When flowing water and flowing lava meet, you just get Cobblestone.)<br /> <br /> Buckets are your friend. <span class="emoticon e_smile" title=":)"><span class="e__">:)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.228&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.228"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_229"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_229"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Mouse<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:36</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:43"></span></span> <span class="message_count">229 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.229">37760.229</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_227" target="_self">37760.227</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I shall have to find some diamonds yet, found none.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.229&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.229"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a37760_230"></a><div class="message" id="message_37760_230"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">21 Jan 2011 10:38</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Mouse <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 Jan 2011 10:42"></span></span> <span class="message_count">230 of 477</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.230">37760.230</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=37760.221#a37760_226" target="_self">37760.226</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">Hard enough to find iron for me.</div><br /> <br /> Go deeper.<br /> <br /> Iron is not normally found above sea level.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=37760.230&return_msg=37760.221" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="37760.230"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="37760.231" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>