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MINECRAFT: Tonight, we build stone dongs in Hell!

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    I want to build a giant creeper out of TNT.

    Or some safer alternative material.

    Find some dungeons, loot some mossy cobblestone.

    That's what I did - you can make a surprisingly large creeper from just 3 dungeons-worth of material 8-)

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  • MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    wonderpug wrote: »
    2000 posts, looks like we need a new thread againD:

    ?

    In 20 pages, you mean?

    Excuse me? ten, sir.

    (singsong) Someone only shows 25 post per page!

    EDIT:

    Regarding Branch Mining:
    I always start my branch mining about ten above the lava zone. It is a lot easier to just keep digging the area down, than it is to make a new section of branch mine up a level.
    Also, less floor to light, so less risk from spawning monsters.

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  • MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    What can you make with redstone?

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  • MonthenorMonthenor Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Mifio wrote: »
    What can you make with redstone?

    You can make a server crash :(

    EDIT FOR REAL CONTENT: Also this

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  • MifioMifio MrrlendRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Single player? :P

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  • BlurblBlurbl -_- Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    If you're good with computers/logic gates? Calculators and shit.

    Blurbl on
  • da newbda newb New York, New YorkRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Repeating, can anyone invite me to the Steam Penny Arcade Minecraft group?

    My page:
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/da_newb

    da newb on
  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SteevL wrote: »
    This has probably been posted, but a brief search didn't reveal anything, so in case it hasn't, here is how not to make a fireplace in your house:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs

    After watching this I decided to make my own log cabin with a working fire place. It worked just fine, but then it caught fire when I tried burning away some tree a few blocks away. :(

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Welp.

    Power surge.

    Single player games wiped, good bye 40x40x7 castle, 2 story glass storage shed, wheat field, tree farm, dock, 200+ iron bars, gold set, etc etc.

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  • MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Mifio wrote: »
    What can you make with redstone?

    You can make a trainstation that detects if you are in a minecart or not with track switches and such. You can detect carts. You can toggle switches that trigger track changes.

    You can open and close doors, have lighting patterns with red stone torches, turned on and off by logic circuits.

    It is pretty nuts.


    Most I did, I made a train station that keeps carts ready thanks to boosters. You pull a lever to deploy one to you. If you miss it, it will go back in to the storage booster track. If you are on it, it will send you down the line. At the end, it will take you to an exit loop to let you off. As soon as you are off, it will take it into a seperate storage booster track at that station.

    Next I want to set up a circuit to have one station send a cart to another. Unfortunately, circuits can't be too long. They need repeaters (easily done), but also only can operate in a single zone.

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  • El GuacoEl Guaco Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Welp.

    Power surge.

    Single player games wiped, good bye 40x40x7 castle, 2 story glass storage shed, wheat field, tree farm, dock, 200+ iron bars, gold set, etc etc.

    http://mozy.com/

    I know this will make me sound like a shill, but these guys recently saved my ass. HDD decided to die without notice 2 weeks before my term project was due in my database class. Not to mention all the other files I value greatly. I didn't even panic, I just went out and bought some new hardware, reinstalled Windows and downloaded my data again. In 2 hours I was back to work. $5/mo is a bargain as far as I'm concerned.

    Then again, you get the joy of starting over with your addiction! :winky:

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Yeah I'm just gonna remake my castle bigger, stronger,faster on Eins server. 40x40x40 with 3 stories, a guard wall and 4 towers and a moat or something like that.

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  • SgtsolidusSgtsolidus Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • dargondarkfiredargondarkfire wyomingRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Yeah I'm just gonna remake my castle bigger, stronger,faster on Eins server. 40x40x40 with 3 stories, a guard wall and 4 towers and a moat or something like that.

    faster? you figured out how to make moving buildings?o_O

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  • JerkbotJerkbot some kind of hypnotist Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Welp.

    Power surge.

    Single player games wiped, good bye 40x40x7 castle, 2 story glass storage shed, wheat field, tree farm, dock, 200+ iron bars, gold set, etc etc.
    Try making a new save on the same world slot.

    I had a BSOD which wiped my main world, however, when i restarted, it had that world corruption glitch and all my stuff minus my inventory was still there, there was just a tiny bit of terrain weirdness on the outer limit of the generated world, as well as my spawn being moved to an island a little bit away from the spawn building I had built around it. Was easily fixed in MineEdit.

    I started up expecting a new world and my jaw literally dropped as I swam toward the cobblestone and light in the distance and saw my house.

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  • gilraingilrain Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I suggest a thread title change to: We have already seen the viral Minecraft things you're excited to post a week late.

    Or a variation that will fit.

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  • lollybolollybo Registered User new member
    edited October 2010
    Can someone invite me to the steamgroup?

    My profile is http://steamcommunity.com/id/lollybo

    Thanks!

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SteevL wrote: »
    This has probably been posted, but a brief search didn't reveal anything, so in case it hasn't, here is how not to make a fireplace in your house:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs

    After watching this I decided to make my own log cabin with a working fire place. It worked just fine, but then it caught fire when I tried burning away some tree a few blocks away. :(

    Oh man, that's great. Is that because he was a moron and had a wood floor underneath, or does fire just spread like that? I haven't really played around with it yet to know how it behaves.

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  • gjaustingjaustin Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Warlock82 wrote: »
    SteevL wrote: »
    This has probably been posted, but a brief search didn't reveal anything, so in case it hasn't, here is how not to make a fireplace in your house:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs

    After watching this I decided to make my own log cabin with a working fire place. It worked just fine, but then it caught fire when I tried burning away some tree a few blocks away. :(

    Oh man, that's great. Is that because he was a moron and had a wood floor underneath, or does fire just spread like that? I haven't really played around with it yet to know how it behaves.

    Personally, I think it was staged.

    The fact that he had a fountain and three buckets on his hotbar to try and put the fire out is very suspicious.

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    This game is fucking amazing. I keep getting lost in my frozen home (the snow effects are really satisfying) and I keep just building new little huts.

    I also build big towers with torches on the top to guide my way back and forth to my main compound.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SteevL wrote: »
    This has probably been posted, but a brief search didn't reveal anything, so in case it hasn't, here is how not to make a fireplace in your house:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs
    Ha. Wow. That sucks. That was a cool cabin he had too.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Jerkbot wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    Welp.

    Power surge.

    Single player games wiped, good bye 40x40x7 castle, 2 story glass storage shed, wheat field, tree farm, dock, 200+ iron bars, gold set, etc etc.
    Try making a new save on the same world slot.

    I had a BSOD which wiped my main world, however, when i restarted, it had that world corruption glitch and all my stuff minus my inventory was still there, there was just a tiny bit of terrain weirdness on the outer limit of the generated world, as well as my spawn being moved to an island a little bit away from the spawn building I had built around it. Was easily fixed in MineEdit.

    I started up expecting a new world and my jaw literally dropped as I swam toward the cobblestone and light in the distance and saw my house.

    That worked, thanks!

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Quotin' this for the dudes I am organizing to help lay the foundations.
    AaronKI wrote: »
    Revision 3 of my Siren Alley blueprints. (old version here)

    I shrunk the area down further and tried to make it a bit closer to the version in the game. As a result it looks a bit sloppy in areas (trying to figure out how to fit the stairs up to the second floors is still giving me a bit of trouble) but perfectly symmetrical buildings can be boring anyway. :P
    Reddish-brown: Cobble
    Orange: Raised wood platforms
    Olive-ish: Railings around the raised rood
    Light Yellow: Wooden Stairs
    Blue: Glass (I need more glass in it for ocean/city views)

    SirenAlleyRevision3.jpg

    I looked around Rapture today and I think northeast of the sub bay might be a good place for it. It feels kind of empty out there and I saw a sign that said buildings were needed out past the forge (forge = Hephaestus?) too. I also spent most of today collecting wood and making a crapton of glass for it. I already have a double chest full of cobblestone, but I might need more.


    Edit: And I suppose if anyone objects to a big honkin' red light district, the old version/revision 2 of the blueprints could easily be tweaked into Poseidon Plaza from Fort Frolic. It has a shopping mall feel to it and plenty (maybe too many) shops.

    Ein on
  • TremblayTremblay Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Usually when trying to connect to a particular server, what does the message "Took too long to log in" means?

    I can connect to other servers fine.

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    here soal is having trouble with minecraft

    All of yesterday I was able to play online all fine and dandy. But now today when I go to login I lag really badly. Whenever I mine a tile it will reappear ~5 seconds later and then if I am lucky disappear again in another ~10

    and then either way I will get a socket error or something and disconnect

    "Internal exception: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error"

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Ein wrote: »
    Quotin' this for the dudes I am organizing to help lay the foundations.
    AaronKI wrote: »
    Revision 3 of my Siren Alley blueprints. (old version here)

    I shrunk the area down further and tried to make it a bit closer to the version in the game. As a result it looks a bit sloppy in areas (trying to figure out how to fit the stairs up to the second floors is still giving me a bit of trouble) but perfectly symmetrical buildings can be boring anyway. :P
    Reddish-brown: Cobble
    Orange: Raised wood platforms
    Olive-ish: Railings around the raised rood
    Light Yellow: Wooden Stairs
    Blue: Glass (I need more glass in it for ocean/city views)

    SirenAlleyRevision3.jpg

    I looked around Rapture today and I think northeast of the sub bay might be a good place for it. It feels kind of empty out there and I saw a sign that said buildings were needed out past the forge (forge = Hephaestus?) too. I also spent most of today collecting wood and making a crapton of glass for it. I already have a double chest full of cobblestone, but I might need more.


    Edit: And I suppose if anyone objects to a big honkin' red light district, the old version/revision 2 of the blueprints could easily be tweaked into Poseidon Plaza from Fort Frolic. It has a shopping mall feel to it and plenty (maybe too many) shops.

    Some slightly updated blueprints (didn't have time to slep the text from above on them. Also, refer to the above spoiler for the color key):
    siren4_1.jpg

    Side/Height view with some detail of my idea for the roof:
    siren4_2.jpg

    In the game, the roof of the plaza just had a concrete thing jutting up in the center between the two glass domes. I wanted to keep the concrete thing on the building to keep the roof from being boring... but I thought it would look pretty crappy as is so I plopped another glass dome on it in paint. I as playing with the idea of either hollowing the concrete thing out and making it the building's third floor or even building it all out of glass. No idea what would go up there, though.

    Now for the kinda bad news. I hate to bail on multiplayer if you're trying to organize a group to help with it, but I really need a break from the game for a while. I was getting a bit too frustrated trying to come up with ideas for how to reintegrate Siren Alley with the curved window. My idea for just lowering it so the roof of the curved window was even with the cobblestone roof of the alley isn't going to work because it still leaves the building too high above the sea bed (I didn't count actual spaces, but you can see how high up it would be from the tiny bit of frame I put up before stopping)

    Plus, my super-addiction to the game's multiplayer is really affecting my performance in classes and I'd like to focus on salvaging my grade for a while. I kinda failed a test because I couldn't pull myself away from the game yesterday to study. :P

    You can repurpose the area as you see fit, or anyone can take over the project and modify the design however they want. (This also means that I forfeit my dibs on the mermaid lounge. :P)

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    My current project, which I would appreciate help in resources (smooth stone mostly) is a 1200s enclosed city with a large castle and small shop area and peasants hovel, with outward guard towers and a high wall.

    The current foundation has been layed, it is 40x40 smooth stone and 10x10 dirt/grass surrounding that.

    The main castle will be something like 40 tall and the out wall/towers will be 20 or so high.

    It is located....somewhere off into the woods on freebuild I believe. You'll know it when you see it it's a huge huge flat foundation mostly surrounded by water near the pirate ships.

    This place also needs a name, if you work on it/donate resources feel free to make suggestions.

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  • tdewey10tdewey10 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Another cute video despite the fact I want to throw up after watching it due to the wobbly camera.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Z-al1CxvY

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  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hey AaronKI what do you use to make your blueprints.

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Jubeh wrote: »
    Hey AaronKI what do you use to make your blueprints.

    Very, very expensive designing software.

    The version of MS Paint that came with Windows 2000 set to 10x zoom with the grid on. :P

    I'm not a fan of Windows XP or Vista's paint program, so I keep a copy of Paint 2000 on a disk somewhere.

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  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I like how after a decade of using paint for shit I just learned that there is a grid function. Thanks dude.

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  • iRevertiRevert Tactical Martha Stewart Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    AaronKI wrote: »
    Jubeh wrote: »
    Hey AaronKI what do you use to make your blueprints.

    Very, very expensive designing software.

    *cough* Mario Paint Works amazing *cough*

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Server is back up guys, for updated information, hit twitter.com/DCMCPA for rules and updates.

    We recently did have a few griefers setting fires, If your stuff was half burnt down and still on fire, you got till the weekend to clean it up or it's a TNT party. It's been sitting like that for almost 2 weeks. Also don't build shit out of wood: people will set it on fire and most of us will laugh.

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  • HambrabaiHambrabai Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    If anyone would feel generous enough to invite me to the steam group I'd greatly appreciate it. One can only build a tower under the ocean for so long on single player.

    http://steamcommunity.com/id/Hambrabai

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  • G0DG0D Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I don't post on these forums often, but this... damned game has forced me to do so today.

    So.... Legit question:

    Is it normal that I've been going to sleep late, getting up too early to compensate for the lateness of sleepy-time, being constantly late for work, moody when I don't get out of work early, and neglecting both friends and family, just to play this completely amazing game; even though I only have a 1.66GHz netbook with openGL 1.4 compatability to play it on?

    G0D on
  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Yep.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Finally found my first dungeon tonight. Worth it.

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  • ShankzillaShankzilla Registered User new member
    edited October 2010
    I've been playing the online client for about a week now. I was going to pick up the full version, but I find out my PayPal account has been frozen from when I got hacked by some chinese dudes that bought a bunch of stuff on Skype.

    I don't know if this is kosher or not, I would be willing to send payment via Amazon Payments for someone to hit me up with a key for my account.

    If this isn't cool, I will delete this post. Hopefully someone can help me despite just registering. I've been lurking here forever just never made an account.

    Thanks, I would love to start playing the single player, it looks like crazy amounts of fun.

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  • Lawful EvilLawful Evil Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    AaronKI wrote: »
    Jubeh wrote: »
    Hey AaronKI what do you use to make your blueprints.

    Very, very expensive designing software.

    The version of MS Paint that came with Windows 2000 set to 10x zoom with the grid on. :P

    Wow. I've only discovered that now as well.

    So I've gone into my first foray into the very depths of the earth for branch mining. Spent around an hour digging about and got my fair share of diamonds and redstone until I hit a lava pool and tried to find the source. With that, my first time using the bucket to try and get the lava source...
    I fell into the lava and died. D:

    And is anyone here having problems with running Minecraft on OSX? I'm on 10.4 Tiger, and the blocks are awfully discolored, and shadow/lighting doesn't work well. I've also experienced transparent blocks at times (though it's pretty useful to see where the caverns are).

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  • Caffeine FreeCaffeine Free Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Episode 6 of Softcore Gaming. Saddle epicness.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVzNb0yd1fI

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