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What are circles?Registered User regular
What are circles?Registered User regular
HALLOWEEN UPDATE NEWS
As you can see, Notch said that in order to get the new terrain features from the Halloween update, we need to explore new terrain. We don't have that option unless we wanna set the server on fire or something. SO! Decide what you want to keep and what you don't mind losing between now and Halloween so we can ask Ein to just copy and paste what you made onto the new map! Just tell me or one of the other mods and we'll save your stuff!
[strike]We can not save your inventory! If you are afraid of losing all your diamonds STICK IT IN THE STRUCTURE AS BLOCKS or tell us what bits you wanna keep and we can magic them back up for you![/strike] Legba and I set up the storage center in The Lighthouse of Alexandria. /warp lighthouse to get there. Everyone gets 1 chest. There's a blank sign above the chests, put in your name and put your stuff inside. Take a screencap when you're done or just write down what you got in there in case someone decides to be a dick and steal everything. You are responsible for your own inventories and if you lose your stuff all the mods are gonna do is "Welp!" unless you keep your own records.
Don't worry about space. We got 40 chests, and everyone gets one chest. Is that dirt really that fucking important to you I mean come on. We can always build more chests if someone is without one, I mean christ have you seen the lighthouse even?
SMALL UPDATE:
If you want a floating island, build it NOW. It's actually pretty hard to build a floating island with the map tools Ein has, but it's much easier for him to just copy and paste. He'll punch us a bigger hole than what we got now. We have all the resources we need now, no reason to waste the week we got and do nothing if there's something we can do for the new map. PLEASE TRY TO BUILD THEM ALL IN THE SAME VICINITY FOR EASE IN TRANSFER. The vicinity being the area around Mt. Doom. Don't worry about making it perfect right now, just build the basic structure. You can also just wait until we get the new map. If you know of a floating island off something like Skylands or from your own singleplayer map, upload your save file, screenshot the island and mark it on a map program like Cartograph or AlphaVespucci so that Ein can download your map and copy and paste it over easily, but lets try to keep this as simple as we can cause he's also gotta worry about G&T's Rapture/Columbia server so unless you really fucking love that island then please don't waste his time.
BE PATIENT. We gotta wait for the map tools that Ein uses to update before he can build us a map. I'm asking everyone to be ready BY HALLOWEEN to be on the safeside but we'll likely have to wait a few days for everything to update. Use this time to explore the Halloween Update in singleplayer mode so you have a sense of what to expect. We don't know much about what's gonna be in the update so we're all gonna be in for a surprise.
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING SAVED, SCREENSHOT THE BUILDING AND THE LOCATION ON THE MOST RECENT MAP RENDER WE HAVE.
NOTHING UNDERGROUND WILL BE SAVED.
BUILDINGS WE ARE SAVING
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Rane's 60x60 pit to bedrock for his [strike]1:1 scale replica of his anus[/strike]Statue of David
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The Colosseum
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Maxabillion's Spiral Thing
This is a game where we go to recreate this out of blocks.
"Oh my god how do I do that?"
Well, you go to Minecraft.net and you can try the game out for free!
Not the full game of course, just creative mode. The game costs 9 Euro dollars, which is roughly 13 US dollars when I last checked.
Which of course is where the [strike]addiction[/strike]fun starts!
"Wait what is this exactly?"
It's a sandbox game, where you build stupidly ridiculous crap like that, mine forever, fight monsters and build a little home for yourself. There is multiplayer survival*, single player survival and creative mode. The Enterprise was made in creative mode. Keep in mind that this game is not finished, it's currently in Alpha still. If you want news on development you can check out Notch's Blog, the guy who made this. Music is done by C418.
Also do yourself a favor and don't try this game out during finals week.
I'm not kidding around don't fucking do it.
He tries to set up updates every Friday, but lately he's been trying to start his own business. I'll put in news from the blog in the spoiler below:
October 10 wrote:
More information coming next week, in some form.
October 8th wrote:
Work on the new dimension is going well! Here’s a new block type.
October 4th wrote:
As with all things you wanna be sure what you're hearing is also correct right? Some guys got together and made a thread where they gather information that they know and can reference as to plans Notch has up, so if you hear something crazy and you ain't sure, here's a good resource for you!
"Oh man this is awesome but how do I play?"
You punch trees. If it doesn't work just hold down the mouse button. You then turn the logs into planks. Which gets turned to a crafting table, and you can also turn them into sticks. And then it kinda spirals out of control. If you need help crafting, go here. Don't feel bad if you don't understand how to play the game, there's no real tutorial. If you don't know what something is, look here.
Here's the basics you will need to know for your first day and night.
WASD controls + Mouse.
I opens up your inventory
Hold left click to remove blocks or attack mobs
Right click places blocks or gets into boats/minecarts.
Space jumps or swims.
F5 goes into third person, if you like that kind of thing.
Q drops whatever item you are holding
F changes the draw distance.
Esc takes you to the main menu
T lets you talk to people in multiplayer
First, punch those trees. Now you have logs. You may also wanna punch down those leaves, you get saplings in return which allows you to replant more trees. You can punch as many as you want, but for the moment let's just stick with one tree.
Don't know what to do with logs? Stick them in here.
1 log gives you 4 planks, which you can use to build a tiny little home for the night much more quickly. Plus planks burn at about the same rate as logs do, so when you're low on coal or you'd rather use coal for torches it's a good substitute.
To make a crafting table, do this.
This allows you to use a larger crafting surface, which is what you will be needing for tools and for most of everything else in the game. Consider bringing an extra one with you in your travels as part of your supply kit. You can destroy it with an axe to pick it back up.
To make tools, you need handles. You make them out of sticks like so:
At this point you are probably thinking you need more lumber. Make an axe.
In singleplayer, all tools have a life expectancy. Wood and gold don't last for very long, iron lasts a decent amount of time and diamond lasts for quite a while. There's a bug currently in multiplayer that lets you drop an item and then pick it back up to "fix it" but don't expect it to last forever. Some tools are better suited for different materials. Hoes don't last for very long, and you won't want to use a diamond pickaxe to harvest stone as fast as it may go. Diamond swords though should be the first thing you make once you find diamond as they are quite deadly and last quite a while, especially if you use bow and arrows. You need an Iron pickaxe to harvest gold, diamond and redstone, and a diamond one to harvest obsidian. You'll be fine starting out with wood but personally, I mostly use stone tools when I can.
Is it getting dark? You should consider finishing that home pretty quick. No one makes anything elaborate on the first day. You can use dirt to finish your home but don't use sand or gravel on the ceiling, they fall.
Now that you are hiding from the scary monsters you probably want to light the place up. Monsters spawn in the dark after all. To get coal though for torches, you need to mine. And you need a pickaxe.
When you do find coal, and look at this list to see what coal looks like, grab a stick and then do this.
As you can see you don't need a crafting table to make torches, they only require two blocks.
And there are the basics! If you get hurt build a hoe and right click the ground until you find seeds. Plant them into soil near water and wait, and you'll have wheat! Make that into bread and regenerate some life, or you can kill a pig, eat the raw flesh for some health or cook it in your furnace for more. The wikia tells you how to make armor and all kinds of stuff in the crafting link so check it out!
I opens up your inventory
Hold left click to remove blocks or attack mobs
Right click places blocks or gets into boats/minecarts.
Space jumps or swims.
F5 goes into third person, if you like that kind of thing.
Q drops whatever item you are holding
F changes the draw distance.
Esc takes you to the main menu
T lets you talk to people in multiplayer
First, punch those trees. Now you have logs. You may also wanna punch down those leaves, you get saplings in return which allows you to replant more trees. You can punch as many as you want, but for the moment let's just stick with one tree.
Don't know what to do with logs? Stick them in here.
1 log gives you 4 planks, which you can use to build a tiny little home for the night much more quickly. Plus planks burn at about the same rate as logs do, so when you're low on coal or you'd rather use coal for torches it's a good substitute.
To make a crafting table, do this.
This allows you to use a larger crafting surface, which is what you will be needing for tools and for most of everything else in the game. Consider bringing an extra one with you in your travels as part of your supply kit. You can destroy it with an axe to pick it back up.
To make tools, you need handles. You make them out of sticks like so:
At this point you are probably thinking you need more lumber. Make an axe.
In singleplayer, all tools have a life expectancy. Wood and gold don't last for very long, iron lasts a decent amount of time and diamond lasts for quite a while. There's a bug currently in multiplayer that lets you drop an item and then pick it back up to "fix it" but don't expect it to last forever. Some tools are better suited for different materials. Hoes don't last for very long, and you won't want to use a diamond pickaxe to harvest stone as fast as it may go. Diamond swords though should be the first thing you make once you find diamond as they are quite deadly and last quite a while, especially if you use bow and arrows. You need an Iron pickaxe to harvest gold, diamond and redstone, and a diamond one to harvest obsidian. You'll be fine starting out with wood but personally, I mostly use stone tools when I can.
Is it getting dark? You should consider finishing that home pretty quick. No one makes anything elaborate on the first day. You can use dirt to finish your home but don't use sand or gravel on the ceiling, they fall.
Now that you are hiding from the scary monsters you probably want to light the place up. Monsters spawn in the dark after all. To get coal though for torches, you need to mine. And you need a pickaxe.
When you do find coal, and look at this list to see what coal looks like, grab a stick and then do this.
As you can see you don't need a crafting table to make torches, they only require two blocks.
And there are the basics! If you get hurt build a hoe and right click the ground until you find seeds. Plant them into soil near water and wait, and you'll have wheat! Make that into bread and regenerate some life, or you can kill a pig, eat the raw flesh for some health or cook it in your furnace for more. The wikia tells you how to make armor and all kinds of stuff in the crafting link so check it out!
"OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT!"
It's a mob! There are all kinds here and some of them are more useful than others.
Pigs, Cows, Sheep and Chickens are all friendly. The worst they will do is trample your crops, but that is why we have fences!
Pigs drop meat when you kill them, which you use to eat to heal yourself. Cows drop Leather, which you can use to make armor. You can also milk them with buckets. Sheep drop wool which is nice for carpeting or your walls. Chickens drop feathers when you kill them and eggs when you just leave them alone, you'll hear a pop sound. They are useless for the time being, but we're expecting that to be changed in an update. Feathers are used to make arrows.
There are also hostile mobs.
Like skeletons that drop arrows, zombies that drop feathers for some reason, creepers which fuck your shit up and they also drop gunpowder. Kill them from a distance as they will explode. Spiders drop string, which you can use to make more cloth and to build a bow and a fishing pole that does nothing yet. Slimes are recent enough that what they drop is entirely useless, which is just more slime. Be careful killing them because you'll just have two smaller versions. They live in caves near bedrock.
Some more tutorials you may find useful:
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We have a number of Penny Arcade servers up. Most of them come from G&T but we have one of our own and it's new! If you would like the IP to join, PM me or any one here and we'll give it to you. It's run by Ein (Thank you!
Our rules are simple, don't be a dick and don't go outside the Boundary. It's a 6 block wide gap of just air that serves as our border. When you move around in the game more map is generated and eventually it can become too large and become a pain on the server. Our map is pretty large in of itself so we'll be just fine for a long time. FYI you can't set things on fire and you can't explode tnt, which we asked to be put into place so assholes wouldn't come and burn everything down. Any fire that's around was around before Ein turned those off.
Here's the latest map render we have.
The G&T folks have done some crazy things. Like build Rapture and Columbia. There's also the Underdark which a lot of us are from before we got our own server. They're building a new version and it's going to be entirely underground. If you wanna check out those servers, head on over to the G&T thread and ask nicely and they'll PM you the IP.
We also have a Steam group! PAMiners!
Where can I see cool stuff?
You can browse this sticky in the minecraft forums.
We also had a LP during the month of July that I guess people ran out of free time for. I'm not aware of any plans made to start it up again but perhaps we will again one day. In the meantime, here it is.
July 2010 Minecraft LP
July 2010 Minecraft LP Continued
Something Awful also has a thread that may be worth browsing.
If you need help deciding what to build, this thread is loaded with ideas.
Youtube also has a ton of videos to check out as well! Also if you need help building something, it's full of tutorials as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV0XB-w_yM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_S_7DRfCow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9xMNuAfwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCupMnuMDeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDaKthO6a0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkibXv84WU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asImTDkPWKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv-FORwG2oo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhM47-c4H78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ns52-Ijz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVFTmqXFLX8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANgI2o_Jinc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxcxnKYPOc
Then get texture mods! They are fucking awesome!
[strike]Word of advice though, for anything that's 32 bits gold blocks (not ingots and not raw gold ) and bricks don't function properly. Something to keep in mind for texture mods like Doku's RPG Pack.[/strike] I LIED GET THIS NOW!
They're pretty easy to install and edit around yourself too. When you download your texture pack, the textures are located in a file called texture.png. If you have photoshop and GIMP you can mess around and recolor or completely design your own pack. Don't use mspaint or something cheap like that, because there are transparencies involved. Here is a very indepth guide to installing texture mods for OS X and Windows 7, but you can also read the guide I wrote below.
How to install:
Download the texture pack file. It's a winrar file.
You'll need to find the .minecraft folder. It's hidden so turn that feature on and let your computer do the work. When you have found it, open it and then open up the bin folder. Look for minecraft.jar and open it up with winrar.
Now go back to your downloaded texture file. Extract it and copy, get to where the files are and copy and paste that into your winrar window.
I browse this forum regularly for updates for my favorites.
I've got a few here listed already but here's another list for you as well. This list changes often and if you find a texture mod yourself you would like me to post here let me know!
16 bit
Painterly Pack -- Comes with a lovely customizer that lets you pick and choose what you want. Also has a link to a texture pack installer and Skylands which is a lovely map you really should be trying out right now. Be sure to check back often for updates! You might also want this.
Quandary
Eld's Artpack
Nurio's SplotchBlock 16 & 32 bit
Legend of Zelda
GloomCraft
Tilecraft
CleanCraft
Frenden's Pack
PokeCraft
32 bit
Dusty Textures
Brown and Bloom
Glimmar's Steampunk Texture Pack
Doku's RPG
Taehl's Texturepack
Emperorr's Texture Pack
JohnSmith's Textures Pack
Mixcraft -- Has a 16 bit version as well.
Brocklehurst's Faithful Hi-Res Texture Pack
"What else can I download for this game?"
You can edit your maps!
Omen
NBTedit
NBT Forge
MCEdit
You can also edit your inventory. I do this for flowers and sometimes reeds because fuck finding them.
Also I prefer to leave flowers where they are cause it's pretty.
INVedit
A few others!
Minecraft Save Manager
Minecraft Texture Switcher
MineEdit All-In-One Editor
Wanna see your whole map?
Cartograph
AlphaVespucci
Are you a cheap bastard and want a premade skin?
http://www.minecraftskins.com/
Want to have a personalized skin?
Skinedit
Need help with circles?
Circle Guide
Would you like to put in some pine trees with an unfortunately named mod? Yes please!
MC MapDeleter/Pine tree generator
Do you want some Lensflare?
Astronomical Anomalies
GET SKYLANDS
I AM DOWNLOADING SKYLANDS
The radio told me this so it must be true.
No game can be so popular and not have anything to do with the devil, I say.
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is that a thing that is going to happen
Au Contraire.
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mining crafts what is that you got fuckin lanyard quarries or something
dig down deep and hope for a popsicle stick vein what
part of it apparently reverted to its original state. It was a very interesting effect, half of a room in its original state, other half as I made it, dead-end staircases, torches floating in mid-air.
Back up your save files regularly folks!
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shit
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GODDAMNIT
Joke site, it's cool.
They sell chastity thongs
You might even say I was
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praying for it.
WTF KILL IT KILL IT!
TELL ME MORE INTERNET PERSON
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It really works!
THAN COME HALOWEEN HELL BURN OUT AND DIE
HEH HEH STUPIC CRISTIANS
I promise I am too lazy to grief
BUT DID HE NO I DONT THINK HE DID
QUIT FORCING YOURE RELIGION ON ME YOU STUTID SHEEP
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My current Minecraft skin. Happy Holidays!
what the hell, larlar just needs to use your phone, let him in!
That's pretty cool
I get away clean, but the crater it left turns into a 4 hour spelunk in the wrong direction and 62 iron. I love-hate this game.
http://thewikigame.com/
you play by starting at one wiki article, and you have to get to another in a certain amount of time