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Melissia wrote:It won't let me. Says play online once in order to unlock offline mode.

The hell?

How did I manage it then?

Maybe you played it before they implemented this.

It has been implemented for a while, it was there when I started.

Also you don't need to actually play online, if I remember correctly logging in is enough for it.

Dunno, it says user not premium, so I assume I have to pay to join the beta.

I've seen whole clans/communities collapse because of this game, like, TF2 communites.

An admin blew up the owner of this communities house with an absolute gakload of TNT he planted underneath his house.

He dug these underground caverns from far away, that encompassed the whole landmass of the owner.

Blew it straight to hell, both the house and the long-standing community.

I guess I could lend you my account if you really wanted to try it out, provided you don't steal it.

Naw, it's okay. I'm sure I'll be able to afford it eventually. For me at the moment, Homefront is a higher priority anyway, and it's coming out soon enough. Until then I have the DoW2 beta.

I was getting ready to head out on a business trip for a week and being that the hotel was in the middle of no where I'd need something to do for six plus hours every night where I'd be stuck in a hotel with no car and no where to go to do anything.

I got Minecraft.

I got addicted fast.

Frankly the classic version is just boring to me. Yeah the construction part is fun but what's more fun is building a castle out of stone you've mined and constructed in such a way that the baddies that inhabit the map can't get to me and kill me.

After a few stops and starts getting going I finally got my bearings and started working. My first mine was of the strip variety and I didn't segregate it from my house. I essentially lived in the mine which was in a hole in the side of a hill. Never saw any iron (was way over the sea level +5 limit for iron, and couldn't figure out why the damn monsters kept spawning in my base. Nothing like going out to harvest wood then coming home to find a creeper waiting on the other side of my door. Cannot tell you how many times I had to rebuild the entrance to my cave.

Did some reading, did some experimenting and my second attempt at making a life out of it went much better. I'll get pics later but my base is a castle with a footprint of 20x20 surrounded by a 3 wide and 3 deep moat. The lower part of the base is three floors high then there's an 8x8 tower about 30 meters tall with a 16x16 two story high "house" sitting on top of it. That one was a bit of ridiculousness as it also represents my "feth your random terrain," impulses at full swing. I had to clear away an entire hill to get the open area for that castle and I leveled most of a second to get it away from my front door and to stop ruining my view. I should mention that this was a savanna biome but thanks to my forestry habits I collected enough saplings (300+) to turn the area around me into a forest.

That one is sort of behind me as the terrain nearby really isn't that attractive and given the work I need to do to get everything perfect it's not worth it with a fairly ugly landscape to build in.

I really hate the savanna biome.

My next big go of it got off to a great start as I've gotten some very cool hills and terrain around my area. I've got my first base built and I've decided to start building satellite bases near points of interest. This place also has the first surface lava waterfall I've ever seen that I have been gleefully doing my best to enlarge. It makes for a fun landmark and a great sight at night. I'm in the process of building my first satellite fort (only the keep is stone, the walls are unrefined wood which is taking a long time to harvest since I don't want to deforest the snowy biome the fort sits in the middle of. Next up is finishing this fort which will be greatly aided by the tree farm I've started nearby.* Then I'm going to go build a spawn shelter. Really tempted to try and build a tunnel all the way back to my spawn point then enclosing the point in a building for safe respawns. That and a big sign that will read, "Stop Dying Dumbass!" Then I'm going to dig out the source of that surface lava flow and see if I can't dig out around it to get a lava lake I can harvest from. If I do I'm going to make a mob grinder to see if I can farm up some sulfur because I'd like to start moving some mountains explosively.

*Why do you only get the generic tree type when you plant? Why can't I get big fir trees when I plant saplings in a winter biome? Very disappointing. I can't cut down trees in a winter biome because if I replant all I get are generics.

Giant creeper mod fun.

My laptop charger broke so now i'm using another laptop until I order anther charger, not going to bother making a new world when i'll just ditch it in a week or two.

Is there a way to migrate worlds? I play on three different computers and I'd like to be able to keep the same worlds even if it takes me swapping files to and from a flash drive.

I'd assume you could simply take a flash-drive from Computer 1, and copy the contents of your Minecraft folder into that, place those files on Computer 2 and Computer 3, then log into your account and play.

UNLESS, Minecraft works by storing your information online in a manner much like an MMO, where you simply Download the game, log into your account and play...

It saves it offline in the Application Data folder, Minecraft has it's own one there called .minecraft.

I haven't tried it but you may be able to play it from the USB. Easiest way to try it is to put the folder on it, open the game from there and make a new world. Then find where that save goes.

Saves are completely transferable this way. I could copy my world 2 upload it and you could download it place it in the saves folder and be able to play it. It does replace whatever world happens to be in that slot but that is as simple to fix as changing that worlds folder from "world 2" to "world 3" or whatever happens to be unused.

There is no need to even log into the game more than once unless you're doing multi-player.

My favorite biome is the one I seem to always get, Taiga. Has a fair amount of variety to it to keep it interesting.

I get deserts (or what at least feels like deserts) always deserts... so much sand

Ugh, built a wooden satellite fort and it was painful. I dunno why but this one attracts creepers like the plague and being wood they tend to take out big sections of the walls when they blow. I may have to dig out the front entrance like I did with my main castle. Leave only a long walled in set of stairs to and from the front door to screen if from creepers and dig the ground around the doors down a few levels. It keeps me from setting off creepers every time I leave my front door but it's more work than I want to put into a satellite base.

Tyyr wrote:Ugh, built a wooden satellite fort and it was painful. I dunno why but this one attracts creepers like the plague and being wood they tend to take out big sections of the walls when they blow. I may have to dig out the front entrance like I did with my main castle. Leave only a long walled in set of stairs to and from the front door to screen if from creepers and dig the ground around the doors down a few levels. It keeps me from setting off creepers every time I leave my front door but it's more work than I want to put into a satellite base.

Sounds like you need a watch tower, a bow and enough arrows to blot out the sun.

Made an absolutely massive mob trap in survival single player, spanned across the entire island my base is on and takes around 5 mobs per minute during day and 10 at night.

Climbed inside to alter the lava trap slightly and managed to fall in in such a stupid way that my items all also fell in after I died, losing the entire contents of my inventory including all my diamond gear.

Feth. Still love the game to bits.

I'm playing the single player version right now in offline mode-- all you need to do is load the proper files and you can log-in and play as you wish.

And...

Holy gak is this game addictive. And I only have the single player version. I went about one game making a lot of shelters all over the place simply because if the time before I kept getting caught in the dark. I marked them with jack-o-lanterns because I found a bunch of pumpkins near where I played, and I finally found out how to make doors so that I don't have to keep removing the same piece of dirt every time it gets dark... I need to make an iron door for my main mine entrance to set it apart. And there's just nothing creepier in this game than coming across an underground cave... you KNOW there's gonna be something bad inside...

And once I found this:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
The game became SO much more fun.

edit: I hope Guild Wars 2 comes along this year and breaks my Minecraft addiction.

Ok I admit, you have peeked my interest in this game. It seems to have one heck of a following. The graphics of the game seem to bother me, but I am thinking there is a point somewhere to them.

The graphics mean absolutely huge gameworlds that nearly any computer can run, and they have their own charm in that they are easily modified and there are some really cool skins available now

The block aspect will also grow on you, as it makes preplanning a construct nice and simple.

Ifalna wrote:The graphics mean absolutely huge gameworlds that nearly any computer can run, and they have their own charm in that they are easily modified and there are some really cool skins available now

The block aspect will also grow on you, as it makes preplanning a construct nice and simple.

So the capabilities of what you can do and create in the game make the graphics not so bad? See I was thinking this was similar to legos, and no matter what age you are you can fun with legos. A lot of the links are blocked at my workplace, so would anyone care to explain to me what a creeper is?

One of the aggressive mobs that spawn. It will wander towards your spot if you are within range and has a habit of coming from out of your line of sight. They are silent untill they are within range of you at which point they let out a hiss and explode, taking out a giant chunk of whereever you were standing regardless of it was an empty field or a carefully cultivated produce garden

Ifalna wrote:One of the aggressive mobs that spawn. It will wander towards your spot if you are within range and has a habit of coming from out of your line of sight. They are silent untill they are within range of you at which point they let out a hiss and explode, taking out a giant chunk of whereever you were standing regardless of it was an empty field or a carefully cultivated produce garden

So is it like a Tower Defense game?

No, it's first person view for most of the time in an open game world.

Well I mean does it function like one? Do you build motes, walls, etc. to keep the creepers out? Are you able to build offensive stuff in the game?

I see a lot of people growing plants, grass etc and coming up with elaborate ways to grow the grass in odd places. It seems like a game where you are trying to build a garden paradise and creepers keep showing up to mess it all up.

You can build whatever you want. I just built a wooden house ontop of the highest cliff I could find and stuck braziers on it so I'd be able to find my location regardless of the time of day.

I just need to remember to keep fire away from it.

Moats are fun, but it's hard to make them unless you have a bucket, which takes three iron ingots, and that's not quit an early game type item (not hard to find, but rare enough that you've probably established your first shelter by the time you find some. You can have an infinite spring of water using a bucket and a 2x2x1 hole in the ground, which makes making a moat very useful. Whenever you use a bucket that has water in it, it creates a water spawn point-- the wiki explains it better than I would.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Water

Also, monsters die from sunlight and do not spawn in areas that are lit by torches, which is how you prevent them from spawning in your shelters or mines. You need looots of torches to not be overwhelmed by monsters if you have a huge mineshaft or cave.

And lava moats are much more effective than water moats...

Melissia wrote:You can build whatever you want. I just built a wooden house ontop of the highest cliff I could find and stuck braziers on it so I'd be able to find my location regardless of the time of day.

I just need to remember to keep fire away from it.

Once I get home and their main website isn't blocked I will check it out. How much does it cost?

ok, here is my shame and why dakka does not have a full ebay clone, 3d renderings of every model, etc etc. Minecraft has stolen my only bits of spare time since it came out. I'm still tinkering away on my first world. Here is my current main project beginning:



My old base. Wanted to just build a big tower. Each floor has a different thing like water/lava storage, tool storage, portal to the nether, etc.


The pyramid takes on a faster construction technique instead of scaffolding I build down using scaffolds, then demolish them and start building out from the one path to the base on the right.


I have a massive quarry for the stone for this, but I ran out here and needed to get more. Total stone that this will require if I dont redo the ground as well will be just under 32000 blocks, all mined honestly are with great effort!


This is the view inside. All light was blocked by the size so it became very dangerous and had to get lighting everywhere. Only about 300 torches though, not too extreme.


This is the view from the outside as of yesterday. Still need about 10000 more blocks to complete the other sides and edges:


This is the cartograph view of the map so you can get some idea of the scale involved:

No you dig stuff you build stuff and at night monsters come to eat you.

Damnit legoburner, I can't see your awesome stuff :(

They are png screenshots right from the game. Internet Explorer might not be able to see them, but firefox and chrome should have no problem. The images are hosted here on dakka too so shouldnt be blocked.