Is there a way to tell if/where a spawner is nearby? I ask because my home/mine is completely infested with goddamn slimes and I never want to hear that stupid sound effect again, let alone fight off five large slimes every time I come back to my house thing.
Is there a way to tell if/where a spawner is nearby? I ask because my home/mine is completely infested with goddamn slimes and I never want to hear that stupid sound effect again, let alone fight off five large slimes every time I come back to my house thing.
Spawners look like cages with fire and a mob in them. they spin faster and faster until they spawn a mob. as far as i know, mossy cobblestone will indicate a nearby one.
P.s. slimes spawn in well lit caves near gravel and dirt. they cant hurt you in peaceful.
So this is basically Dwarf Fortress but more awesome right?
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
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Haven't played Dwarf Fortress myself but I'm pretty sure that game is quite a bit more complex than Minecraft. The cool thing with Minecraft though is that multiplayer is going to be absolutely rad, and the alpha version of the singleplayer is a fun distraction.
So this is basically Dwarf Fortress but more awesome right?
It has nothing to do with Dwarf Fortress at all. The only similarity is mining into a low res mountain and using the resulting stone to build things.
This game does not let you assign jobs to multiple dwarves as you watch from above, or make workshops, or trade with caravans, or make soap, or die horribly to rampaging elephants. Or have an awful interface.
I'm actually kind of frustrated with Minecraft's platform, I can't play multi at work because "pixel format not accelerated," but single player alpha works...but I can't use the offline client at home or at work because "failed to launch java virtual machine" or something.
I googled it and it's a severe java bug and the way you fix it is redo your computer from scratch. No thanks, not just for Minecraft. So I live with the web client...
I'm actually kind of frustrated with Minecraft's platform, I can't play multi at work because "pixel format not accelerated," but single player alpha works...but I can't use the offline client at home or at work because "failed to launch java virtual machine" or something.
I googled it and it's a severe java bug and the way you fix it is redo your computer from scratch. No thanks, not just for Minecraft. So I live with the web client...
I'm actually kind of frustrated with Minecraft's platform, I can't play multi at work because "pixel format not accelerated," but single player alpha works...but I can't use the offline client at home or at work because "failed to launch java virtual machine" or something.
I googled it and it's a severe java bug and the way you fix it is redo your computer from scratch. No thanks, not just for Minecraft. So I live with the web client...
post the java error log from the console
I will when I get home, it's not worth trying at work. But yeah, I looked all over the official forums and that was the conclusion they came to.
Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited July 2010
is it the error where the game has a black screen when you try to play?
in any case
i had an error where the game was searching for the
C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Application Data\.minecraft\bin\native\lwjgl
file
problem is the "natives" folder didn't exist. So I just created the \natives folder withiin the \bin folder and moved everything from the \bin folder to the \natives folder
restarted minecraft
the game resets the \bin folder contents and the game
you lose your saved worlds, but you get to play again
maybe back those up if you try it
It's an error where when I click the client on the desktop I get an error sound but no popup, no window, nothing. Under various circumstances I can occasionally get it to throw me an error about the java virtual machine (usually when I force quit all running java applications). The web version of everything works fine for me at home IIRC.
So far my only death has been to pure stupidity. I'd finally found a pocket of iron lunged at it, not bothering to notice the metric f*ckton of gravel it was supporting...
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When building my giant mineshaft I didn't take into consideration that skeleton archers might spawn in some of the outcrops overlooking the main staircase.
Since I had a little trouble getting started (and I didn't find anything like this elsewhere,) I thought I'd throw together a guide to get someone started with wood, a crafting table, a pick, and torches. Maybe this can be linked to in the OP. Criticism welcome.
tldr:
- Smash trees for wood.
- Refine wood.
- Use refined wood to make crafting table and sticks.
- Use refined wood and sticks with crafting table to make pick and other tools.
- Use pick to mine for coal.
- Use coal and sticks to make torches.
Basic Controls:
WASD to Move
Left-click to Attack or use tool in hand.
Hold left-click to continuously attack or break down target blocks
Right-click to place block or object in hand, as well as interact with crafting table, furnace, and storage(?)
I to open Inventory (more on crafting shortly)
Getting Started:
Once your world is created and you get dropped in, you will be empty handed. Your first task should be to adjust the difficulty down to Peaceful. Press Esc and select Options to find this setting.
Your second task will be to collect some wood for the purpose of making a crafting table, and subsequently, making tools with that crafting table.
Collect Wood:
Find a tree that you despise and get the drop on your new foe. Hold Left-click to beat the tree into submission and collect the wood from its trunk. (Destruction of foliage is optional, since we only care about the wood at this point.)
Refine Wood:
With your new found wood, open your Inventory (I) and move the stack of wood into the 2x2 crafting space. You should see a more refined stack of wood appear in the result slot. Grab from this stack until the crafting slots are empty. (Note that you can efficiently craft the same object repeatedly by duplicating the input and repeatedly grabbing from the result slot.)
Make a Crafting Table:
Using the refined wood, fill the 2x2 crafting space with one piece per slot. The crafting table should appear in the result slot. Move this down into the bottom row of your inventory so it can be equipped in hand.
Craft Sticks:
Now place two stacks of the refined wood into the crafting space, one directly above the other. A stick should appear in the results slot. Grab at least one stack of sticks, but leave 3-6 pieces of refined wood for the next step (or go beat up on some more trees.)
Place your Crafting Table:
Close your inventory, and equip your crafting table. Find an acceptable location to craft and Right-click to place your crafting table. Placement is not too important, since you can break it down and place it somewhere else.
Craft a Pick:
Approach your crafting table and Right-click. A window will pop up with a 3x3 crafting space. Place refined wood in each slot across the top row. Place sticks in the 2 remaining slots in the center column, forming the shape of a T in the crafting space. A Pick should appear in the result slot, so grab that and move it into the bottom row of your Inventory. I would recommend creating at least two picks at this point. Any less and you might find yourself making an unnecessary trip when your pick is destroyed. By the time you get through two picks, though, you should have the resources to make a better pick.
(You can make an assortment of tools for different purposes, but I won't bother covering them. The recipes can be found on two differentsites.)
Collect Coal:
Now that you have a pick, find a place to mine. Before you get started, you should get familiar with the blocks that stand in your way. Dirt, gravel, and stone are going to be fairly common at this point. Dirt is brown, and usually has grass on top. Both gravel and dirt are fairly easy to break with your hands. Gravel looks like a mix between brown and gray. Gravel will drop if there is nothing beneath it to support it, unlike dirt or stone. Stone is gray, and its pretty tough, which is why we crafted the pick.
The blocks that contain coal will be gray with a hint of black marks. In my world, they were typically in clumps of 2-7 blocks among the standard gray stone blocks. Where you find these are up to you. It may be as simple as looking for it exposed externally in a mountainside, it might be in a cave, or you might just have to dig into some stone until you find it.
Equip your pick and left-click to break the stone and coal blocks. (You can do this with your hands, but it will take a long time and will not produce the drops of stone or coal.) The stone that drops can be used for building structures or crafting better tools that will perform their tasks more efficiently. The coal can be used for a few things, but most importantly, torches.
Occasionally flint will drop, and it looks a lot like coal. Coal is black, though, and only coal can make a torch.
Crafting Torches:
Now that you have coal, open your Inventory. Place stacks of coal and sticks into the crafting space, with the coal directly above the stick. A torch should appear in the result slot. Grab as many as you can produce, because you can never have enough torches. Place a stack in the bottom inventory row so it can be equipped.
With torch in hand, you can place it using Right-click. This will allow you to establish a path (its a big world, you will get lost,) as well as light up your caves when you are spelunking. They affect mobs as well, but I haven't increased the difficulty yet.
Proceed:
- Turn the difficulty up so you start seeing mobs.
- Build a fort.
- Get familiar with crafting so that you can make better tools, storage, a furnace, weapons, armor, etc.
- Learn the function of other tools and objects.
- Spelunk!
Since I had a little trouble getting started (and I didn't find anything like this elsewhere,) I thought I'd throw together a guide to get someone started with wood, a crafting table, a pick, and torches. Maybe this can be linked to in the OP. Criticism welcome.
tldr:
- Smash trees for wood.
- Refine wood.
- Use refined wood to make crafting table and sticks.
- Use refined wood and sticks with crafting table to make pick and other tools.
- Use pick to mine for coal.
- Use coal and sticks to make torches.
Basic Controls:
WASD to Move
Left-click to Attack or use tool in hand.
Hold left-click to continuously attack or break down target blocks
Right-click to place block or object in hand, as well as interact with crafting table, furnace, and storage(?)
I to open Inventory (more on crafting shortly)
Getting Started:
Once your world is created and you get dropped in, you will be empty handed. Your first task should be to adjust the difficulty down to Peaceful. Press Esc and select Options to find this setting.
Your second task will be to collect some wood for the purpose of making a crafting table, and subsequently, making tools with that crafting table.
Collect Wood:
Find a tree that you despise and get the drop on your new foe. Hold Left-click to beat the tree into submission and collect the wood from its trunk. (Destruction of foliage is optional, since we only care about the wood at this point.)
Refine Wood:
With your new found wood, open your Inventory (I) and move the stack of wood into the 2x2 crafting space. You should see a more refined stack of wood appear in the result slot. Grab from this stack until the crafting slots are empty. (Note that you can efficiently craft the same object repeatedly by duplicating the input and repeatedly grabbing from the result slot.)
Make a Crafting Table:
Using the refined wood, fill the 2x2 crafting space with one piece per slot. The crafting table should appear in the result slot. Move this down into the bottom row of your inventory so it can be equipped in hand.
Craft Sticks:
Now place two stacks of the refined wood into the crafting space, one directly above the other. A stick should appear in the results slot. Grab at least one stack of sticks, but leave 3-6 pieces of refined wood for the next step (or go beat up on some more trees.)
Place your Crafting Table:
Close your inventory, and equip your crafting table. Find an acceptable location to craft and Right-click to place your crafting table. Placement is not too important, since you can break it down and place it somewhere else.
Craft a Pick:
Approach your crafting table and Right-click. A window will pop up with a 3x3 crafting space. Place refined wood in each slot across the top row. Place sticks in the 2 remaining slots in the center column, forming the shape of a T in the crafting space. A Pick should appear in the result slot, so grab that and move it into the bottom row of your Inventory. I would recommend creating at least two picks at this point. Any less and you might find yourself making an unnecessary trip when your pick is destroyed. By the time you get through two picks, though, you should have the resources to make a better pick.
(You can make an assortment of tools for different purposes, but I won't bother covering them. The recipes can be found on two differentsites.)
Collect Coal:
Now that you have a pick, find a place to mine. Before you get started, you should get familiar with the blocks that stand in your way. Dirt, gravel, and stone are going to be fairly common at this point. Dirt is brown, and usually has grass on top. Both gravel and dirt are fairly easy to break with your hands. Gravel looks like a mix between brown and gray. Gravel will drop if there is nothing beneath it to support it, unlike dirt or stone. Stone is gray, and its pretty tough, which is why we crafted the pick.
The blocks that contain coal will be gray with a hint of black marks. In my world, they were typically in clumps of 2-7 blocks among the standard gray stone blocks. Where you find these are up to you. It may be as simple as looking for it exposed externally in a mountainside, it might be in a cave, or you might just have to dig into some stone until you find it.
Equip your pick and left-click to break the stone and coal blocks. (You can do this with your hands, but it will take a long time and will not produce the drops of stone or coal.) The stone that drops can be used for building structures or crafting better tools that will perform their tasks more efficiently. The coal can be used for a few things, but most importantly, torches.
Occasionally flint will drop, and it looks a lot like coal. Coal is black, though, and only coal can make a torch.
Crafting Torches:
Now that you have coal, open your Inventory. Place stacks of coal and sticks into the crafting space, with the coal directly above the stick. A torch should appear in the result slot. Grab as many as you can produce, because you can never have enough torches. Place a stack in the bottom inventory row so it can be equipped.
With torch in hand, you can place it using Right-click. This will allow you to establish a path (its a big world, you will get lost,) as well as light up your caves when you are spelunking. They affect mobs as well, but I haven't increased the difficulty yet.
Proceed:
- Turn the difficulty up so you start seeing mobs.
- Build a fort.
- Get familiar with crafting so that you can make better tools, storage, a furnace, weapons, armor, etc.
- Learn the function of other tools and objects.
- Spelunk!
Yay I always appreciate useful additions to the op, especially when so much work was put into this.
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
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Holy fuck.
Oh, an yes World1 locks for me too.
EDIT: IT IS MY TURN YAY
im not sure what you are talking about man
Spawners look like cages with fire and a mob in them. they spin faster and faster until they spawn a mob. as far as i know, mossy cobblestone will indicate a nearby one.
P.s. slimes spawn in well lit caves near gravel and dirt. they cant hurt you in peaceful.
it's not much but at least I managed to build something underground without ruining other people's shit
Tried a 7x7x5 room with plenty of torches for light, including 4 underneath the shrub. But it isn't growing.
Also tried a 5x5x5 room and it wasn't working either.
e:
You can also use wood in furnaces, but it isn't as efficent as coal. Coal will convert 8 things per piece, while wood does 1 per I think.
I see you already made your first contribution as well.
It has nothing to do with Dwarf Fortress at all. The only similarity is mining into a low res mountain and using the resulting stone to build things.
This game does not let you assign jobs to multiple dwarves as you watch from above, or make workshops, or trade with caravans, or make soap, or die horribly to rampaging elephants. Or have an awful interface.
I googled it and it's a severe java bug and the way you fix it is redo your computer from scratch. No thanks, not just for Minecraft. So I live with the web client...
Here is the save.
I'm too tired to do a proper writeup right now, I'll do it in the morning. But to tide you over, here's a map of the known world.
a few?
post the java error log from the console
I was so annoyed when this happened to me. It shouldn't be possible to dig into a void goddammit
I will when I get home, it's not worth trying at work. But yeah, I looked all over the official forums and that was the conclusion they came to.
Do you know of another fix then?
in any case
i had an error where the game was searching for the
C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Application Data\.minecraft\bin\native\lwjgl
file
problem is the "natives" folder didn't exist. So I just created the \natives folder withiin the \bin folder and moved everything from the \bin folder to the \natives folder
restarted minecraft
the game resets the \bin folder contents and the game
you lose your saved worlds, but you get to play again
maybe back those up if you try it
yeah when you get home post the java log
I don't claim to be even competent with computers, java, or you know
technomological things
but a few fresh pairs of eyes couldn't hurt
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7268-flarechannel
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I'm going to find those reeds and farm 'em good
I think
...
how do you farm reeds
3DS: 0447-9966-6178
Now every time it happens I have Moria flashbacks
I built myself a nice safehouse with a moat and started a mineshaft down into the earth. Haven't been finding much Iron though.
- Refine wood.
- Use refined wood to make crafting table and sticks.
- Use refined wood and sticks with crafting table to make pick and other tools.
- Use pick to mine for coal.
- Use coal and sticks to make torches.
Basic Controls:
WASD to Move
Left-click to Attack or use tool in hand.
Hold left-click to continuously attack or break down target blocks
Right-click to place block or object in hand, as well as interact with crafting table, furnace, and storage(?)
I to open Inventory (more on crafting shortly)
Getting Started:
Once your world is created and you get dropped in, you will be empty handed. Your first task should be to adjust the difficulty down to Peaceful. Press Esc and select Options to find this setting.
Your second task will be to collect some wood for the purpose of making a crafting table, and subsequently, making tools with that crafting table.
Collect Wood:
Find a tree that you despise and get the drop on your new foe. Hold Left-click to beat the tree into submission and collect the wood from its trunk. (Destruction of foliage is optional, since we only care about the wood at this point.)
Refine Wood:
With your new found wood, open your Inventory (I) and move the stack of wood into the 2x2 crafting space. You should see a more refined stack of wood appear in the result slot. Grab from this stack until the crafting slots are empty. (Note that you can efficiently craft the same object repeatedly by duplicating the input and repeatedly grabbing from the result slot.)
Make a Crafting Table:
Using the refined wood, fill the 2x2 crafting space with one piece per slot. The crafting table should appear in the result slot. Move this down into the bottom row of your inventory so it can be equipped in hand.
Craft Sticks:
Now place two stacks of the refined wood into the crafting space, one directly above the other. A stick should appear in the results slot. Grab at least one stack of sticks, but leave 3-6 pieces of refined wood for the next step (or go beat up on some more trees.)
Place your Crafting Table:
Close your inventory, and equip your crafting table. Find an acceptable location to craft and Right-click to place your crafting table. Placement is not too important, since you can break it down and place it somewhere else.
Craft a Pick:
Approach your crafting table and Right-click. A window will pop up with a 3x3 crafting space. Place refined wood in each slot across the top row. Place sticks in the 2 remaining slots in the center column, forming the shape of a T in the crafting space. A Pick should appear in the result slot, so grab that and move it into the bottom row of your Inventory. I would recommend creating at least two picks at this point. Any less and you might find yourself making an unnecessary trip when your pick is destroyed. By the time you get through two picks, though, you should have the resources to make a better pick.
(You can make an assortment of tools for different purposes, but I won't bother covering them. The recipes can be found on two different sites.)
Collect Coal:
Now that you have a pick, find a place to mine. Before you get started, you should get familiar with the blocks that stand in your way. Dirt, gravel, and stone are going to be fairly common at this point. Dirt is brown, and usually has grass on top. Both gravel and dirt are fairly easy to break with your hands. Gravel looks like a mix between brown and gray. Gravel will drop if there is nothing beneath it to support it, unlike dirt or stone. Stone is gray, and its pretty tough, which is why we crafted the pick.
The blocks that contain coal will be gray with a hint of black marks. In my world, they were typically in clumps of 2-7 blocks among the standard gray stone blocks. Where you find these are up to you. It may be as simple as looking for it exposed externally in a mountainside, it might be in a cave, or you might just have to dig into some stone until you find it.
Equip your pick and left-click to break the stone and coal blocks. (You can do this with your hands, but it will take a long time and will not produce the drops of stone or coal.) The stone that drops can be used for building structures or crafting better tools that will perform their tasks more efficiently. The coal can be used for a few things, but most importantly, torches.
Occasionally flint will drop, and it looks a lot like coal. Coal is black, though, and only coal can make a torch.
Crafting Torches:
Now that you have coal, open your Inventory. Place stacks of coal and sticks into the crafting space, with the coal directly above the stick. A torch should appear in the result slot. Grab as many as you can produce, because you can never have enough torches. Place a stack in the bottom inventory row so it can be equipped.
With torch in hand, you can place it using Right-click. This will allow you to establish a path (its a big world, you will get lost,) as well as light up your caves when you are spelunking. They affect mobs as well, but I haven't increased the difficulty yet.
Proceed:
- Turn the difficulty up so you start seeing mobs.
- Build a fort.
- Get familiar with crafting so that you can make better tools, storage, a furnace, weapons, armor, etc.
- Learn the function of other tools and objects.
- Spelunk!
NintendoID: Nailbunny 3DS: 3909-8796-4685
wow, that is several dollars.
I mean he is in this by himself, but how much is he really making?
Because if it is even half that? pffft. brb guys, making minecraft II.
3DS: 0447-9966-6178
Yay I always appreciate useful additions to the op, especially when so much work was put into this.
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