I can no longer expand my minecraft client to full screen, removed .minecraft and redownloaded executable, still doesn't work, just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem... updated java too, same thing happened before and after update
Really? Are you alt+entering? Because that never worked for me. Just hit esc to free the mouse and click the maximize button right by the close button up in the corner..
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).
Yes due to PC malfunction I've been forced to play on an old eMac the last few days. And got all of that. amusing to see through the world.
I can no longer expand my minecraft client to full screen, removed .minecraft and redownloaded executable, still doesn't work, just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem... updated java too, same thing happened before and after update
F11 still works for me. Do you have it binded to something else? I know some programs like to take over the later F# keys (ie Fraps)
I can no longer expand my minecraft client to full screen, removed .minecraft and redownloaded executable, still doesn't work, just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem... updated java too, same thing happened before and after update
F11 still works for me. Do you have it binded to something else? I know some programs like to take over the later F# keys (ie Fraps)
I just use the mouse to expand it, I've never had a problem with it before, just started today.... the minecraft forum server is down, as are most minecraft related sites... so I'm guessing I'm not the only one. There was a minecraft update when I started it up... even when I don't expand the window it still is slow and laggy, so something in the update isn't jiving with my machine
I'm confident that it will be fixed at some point it is in alpha
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.
This means that the verification that goes on with minecraft.net when you try joining a SMP server, well, took too long. It's because MC.net is terrible. Just keep trying and you'll make it.
In the end it was the server that had trouble. I don't think it was any issues with minecraft.net authentication, since I was able to connect to other servers fine.
Can someone help explain to me how to build a lava generator? I know I've seen the diagrams before but it's never made sense how it works.
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Can someone help explain to me how to build a lava generator? I know I've seen the diagrams before but it's never made sense how it works.
You can't. You used to be able to, but now you can't.
Water still works, though. With water, basically if an empty space has water source tiles on two or more sides, it will become a water source tile itself. Thus, you can make an infinite pool like this:
WB
BW
W = water source
B = any other block
Mine out the non-water blocks, and you have a pool that will refill no matter how many buckets you take out. It used to be the same with lava, apparently, but that got changed.
Ah, I thought they still worked, never mind than, thanks.
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Question: I like how clouds look, but I want then moved higher than the highest level we can build at. I don't like it when they intersect with constructions.
Is that possible? Is there a mod around that would accomplish that?
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Question: I like how clouds look, but I want then moved higher than the highest level we can build at. I don't like it when they intersect with constructions.
Is that possible? Is there a mod around that would accomplish that?
Speaking of clouds, does anyone know how many rows above the cloud row are buildable in survival before hitting the ceiling? :P
Clouds are different for different people, don't ask me why. Might depend on texture pack, although that's unlikely. You can get rid of clouds by changing clouds.png in the minecraft .jar file to a blank png.
Can someone help explain to me how to build a lava generator? I know I've seen the diagrams before but it's never made sense how it works.
You can't. You used to be able to, but now you can't.
Water still works, though. With water, basically if an empty space has water source tiles on two or more sides, it will become a water source tile itself. Thus, you can make an infinite pool like this:
WB
BW
W = water source
B = any other block
Mine out the non-water blocks, and you have a pool that will refill no matter how many buckets you take out. It used to be the same with lava, apparently, but that got changed.
I did a lava generator just a month ago.You regenerate the lava because you flow into a square from like five sides (including above) or 4 sides (including above), I can't recall.
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
Clouds are different for different people, don't ask me why. Might depend on texture pack, although that's unlikely. You can get rid of clouds by changing clouds.png in the minecraft .jar file to a blank png.
Yeah, I can remove them. However, I kind of like the look of them, but I want them out of the way.
Oh well, I think the code would have to be edited to move the clouds higher.
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After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
I did a lava generator just a month ago.You regenerate the lava because you flow into a square from like five sides (including above) or 4 sides (including above), I can't recall.
Would you mind making a diagram of this or linking to a guide? I thought it was well known that lava generation didn't work! I'd love to be wrong.
Edit: from the wiki: "Using a bucket to scoop lava will leave a hole missing from the pool as the lava blocks won't refill the space you took from. With Water, a space adjacent to two Springs will be filled with another spring, but this does not work with lava. The amount of lava blocks in a created world is currently finite and cannot be increased without modding as of Alpha."
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
The verticle mines they describe have risk, yes. You could modify it into making it a 2x1 column going down and alternate your standing position as you go down, stair-stepping down, basically. Double the mining, but safer. You will never risk falling into lava, chasm, or spawning room.
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
The verticle mines they describe have risk, yes. You could modify it into making it a 2x1 column going down and alternate your standing position as you go down, stair-stepping down, basically. Double the mining, but safer. You will never risk falling into lava, chasm, or spawning room.
Of course, the only reason they recommend vertical mines is that they're easy to stack and give you great coverage.
As soon as you make them 2x1, you might as well strip mine or branch mine
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
The verticle mines they describe have risk, yes. You could modify it into making it a 2x1 column going down and alternate your standing position as you go down, stair-stepping down, basically. Double the mining, but safer. You will never risk falling into lava, chasm, or spawning room.
Of course, the only reason they recommend vertical mines is that they're easy to stack and give you great coverage.
As soon as you make them 2x1, you might as well strip mine or branch mine
Good point. In face, a stair case is probably better since you don't need to column your way out.
Well I think i'm officially burnt out on Minecraft for now. I've built tons of shit everywhere. I've made my own single-player adventures, visited far off servers and assisted in the building of wild and crazy things.
I'll give it a few more months to grow some more before I dive in again
Well I think i'm officially burnt out on Minecraft for now. I've built tons of shit everywhere. I've made my own single-player adventures, visited far off servers and assisted in the building of wild and crazy things.
I'll give it a few more months to grow some more before I dive in again
Hopefully this game does go somewhere.
Well, October 31 would be a good time to check back. Are you unaware of the update? I'm taking a short break until then, myself.
Edit: honestly, the game is in alpha and making about $90,000 USD per day. It's going somewhere. :P
Pretty sure. But door don't allow liquids through them when they open, unfortunately.
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I don't think so, which is a shame. About the only thing I can think of is setting up a TNT fuse :P That's kind of a permanent lava flow at that point though :P
Pretty sure. But door don't allow liquids through them when they open, unfortunately.
Is there any way to press a button and cause someone to receive lava?
a) No, lava won't flow through a door, even an open door.
b) Lava won't flow through/trigger a pressure plate either.
c) Lava will eat redstone wires, though. Especially redstone wires connecting a pressure plate to a door.
After having read the (scarily) comprehensive guide to mining that was posted a few pages back, I'm wondering about vertical mines. Am I right in thinking that there is no real efficient way to dig a vertical mine pattern without risk of plummeting into caverns/lava, or am I just being stupid?
In my mind, vertical mining is more efficient but less desirable for 2 reasons.
1) Vertical mining is dangerous. And using 2x1 to be safe lowers the efficiency to be equal to horizontal mining. Making & placing ladders is slow and keeps you from mining.
2) The best vertical levels to mine are between -55 and -45 below sea level. It's where you get the best chance for diamonds and other ores and the least chance for lava.
Last night I started a medium density pattern starting at -55 and the first run I got more ore than I ever did strip mining or spelunking in caves.
I'd like the address for the Underdark server, ive tried logging on but i think it was changed from the last time i knew about it? PM please?
Oh and, I made a little... boat "elevator" to my little castle in the sky i made lastnight, a giant collum of water is so much fun to be shot out of at 50 blocks above sea level. haha.
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Sometimes, when no one is watching..
I dig straight down...
Im going to laugh when i see on the news that a criminal prone kid strangled his brother to death with a shoelace when he erased his minecraft save.
So, you hate having tons of stacks of useless gravel?
Well I just discovered myself that it's a great way to fill up anything, but most specially underwater constructions. Build up the walls and base, and then just start dropping it all around, since it plummets itself to the bottom, there's no more guessing where the hell you're seeing in the dark. Then of course you do the roof or whatever, go in and blast it all away.
So, you hate having tons of stacks of useless gravel?
Well I just discovered myself that it's a great way to fill up anything, but most specially underwater constructions. Build up the walls and base, and then just start dropping it all around, since it plummets itself to the bottom, there's no more guessing where the hell you're seeing in the dark. Then of course you do the roof or whatever, go in and blast it all away.
I just toss stacks of it in my lava incinerator. Useless junk. :P
Someone just remind Timspork not to go crazy with the size he puts in to the seabed generator script I gave him. Too much and he can crash the server, and I am not around to restart the server tonight.
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Someone just remind Timspork not to go crazy with the size he puts in to the seabed generator script I gave him. Too much and he can crash the server, and I am not around to restart the server tonight.
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Yes due to PC malfunction I've been forced to play on an old eMac the last few days. And got all of that. amusing to see through the world.
F11 still works for me. Do you have it binded to something else? I know some programs like to take over the later F# keys (ie Fraps)
I just use the mouse to expand it, I've never had a problem with it before, just started today.... the minecraft forum server is down, as are most minecraft related sites... so I'm guessing I'm not the only one. There was a minecraft update when I started it up... even when I don't expand the window it still is slow and laggy, so something in the update isn't jiving with my machine
I'm confident that it will be fixed at some point
In the end it was the server that had trouble. I don't think it was any issues with minecraft.net authentication, since I was able to connect to other servers fine.
Oh well... now I know!
Water still works, though. With water, basically if an empty space has water source tiles on two or more sides, it will become a water source tile itself. Thus, you can make an infinite pool like this:
WB
BW
W = water source
B = any other block
Mine out the non-water blocks, and you have a pool that will refill no matter how many buckets you take out. It used to be the same with lava, apparently, but that got changed.
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Is that possible? Is there a mod around that would accomplish that?
Speaking of clouds, does anyone know how many rows above the cloud row are buildable in survival before hitting the ceiling? :P
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I did a lava generator just a month ago.You regenerate the lava because you flow into a square from like five sides (including above) or 4 sides (including above), I can't recall.
Also, asked a while back but no response: any chance for a steam group invite? http://steamcommunity.com/id/sentient6 Would be much appreciated.
You are most definitely correct.
Making a vertical mine is asking for it.
Yeah, I can remove them.
Oh well, I think the code would have to be edited to move the clouds higher.
You could always just make sure you are not standing on the current tile you dig out :P
Edit: from the wiki: "Using a bucket to scoop lava will leave a hole missing from the pool as the lava blocks won't refill the space you took from. With Water, a space adjacent to two Springs will be filled with another spring, but this does not work with lava. The amount of lava blocks in a created world is currently finite and cannot be increased without modding as of Alpha."
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The verticle mines they describe have risk, yes. You could modify it into making it a 2x1 column going down and alternate your standing position as you go down, stair-stepping down, basically. Double the mining, but safer. You will never risk falling into lava, chasm, or spawning room.
Of course, the only reason they recommend vertical mines is that they're easy to stack and give you great coverage.
As soon as you make them 2x1, you might as well strip mine or branch mine
Good point. In face, a stair case is probably better since you don't need to column your way out.
I'll give it a few more months to grow some more before I dive in again
Hopefully this game does go somewhere.
Edit: honestly, the game is in alpha and making about $90,000 USD per day. It's going somewhere. :P
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Pretty sure. But door don't allow liquids through them when they open, unfortunately.
a) No, lava won't flow through a door, even an open door.
b) Lava won't flow through/trigger a pressure plate either.
c) Lava will eat redstone wires, though. Especially redstone wires connecting a pressure plate to a door.
In my mind, vertical mining is more efficient but less desirable for 2 reasons.
1) Vertical mining is dangerous. And using 2x1 to be safe lowers the efficiency to be equal to horizontal mining. Making & placing ladders is slow and keeps you from mining.
2) The best vertical levels to mine are between -55 and -45 below sea level. It's where you get the best chance for diamonds and other ores and the least chance for lava.
Last night I started a medium density pattern starting at -55 and the first run I got more ore than I ever did strip mining or spelunking in caves.
Yes.
However, it involves TNT.
Oh and, I made a little... boat "elevator" to my little castle in the sky i made lastnight, a giant collum of water is so much fun to be shot out of at 50 blocks above sea level. haha.
I dig straight down...
Im going to laugh when i see on the news that a criminal prone kid strangled his brother to death with a shoelace when he erased his minecraft save.
Well I just discovered myself that it's a great way to fill up anything, but most specially underwater constructions. Build up the walls and base, and then just start dropping it all around, since it plummets itself to the bottom, there's no more guessing where the hell you're seeing in the dark. Then of course you do the roof or whatever, go in and blast it all away.
I want to play minecraft
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Wakkawa, that fort of yours is brilliant. I saw it the other day and was in awe of the size and how great it looked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk2Z-0A-BdU
I'm keeping it at default.