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MINECRAFT: Of supercities and flammable hobbits. RAPTURE video in 2nd post.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I made a land bridge in the Nether and Ghast were all "that's a nice bridge you got there, BOOM where'd it go?"

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  • AvynteAvynte Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    So I decided to check my bedrock mining station today, and it was full of skeletons D:

    Mining and spelunking are way more tense now knowing you could have a creeper fall on your head at any time, hehe.

    Ghastball continues to amuse me to no end as well. It's gonna take a while though before I can create my obsidian fortress in hell. Stupid portal decided to spawn on top of a thin ledge way high up from the sea.

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  • Phoenix SmasherPhoenix Smasher Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Minecraft has been crashing on me for the past week or so. Every time I start it up, I log in, it checks for updates, then closes. :'(

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  • GalagaGalaxianGalagaGalaxian Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    I made a land bridge in the Nether and Ghast were all "that's a nice bridge you got there, BOOM where'd it go?"

    Use cobblestone, it seems to hold up to Ghast blasts pretty well.

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  • NotyetdoneNotyetdone Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Jaunty wrote: »
    I wish you could put torches in the pumpkins


    you can! :D they light up :) Just put a torch under a pumpkin in the crafting menu and BOOM! there ya go :D i have a bunch of tile'd walls with lit-up-pumpkins. They make the room verry bright thankfully.

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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.
  • trednistrednis Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    the lit jack-o-lanterns also work underwater.

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  • formatformat Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    The Lightstone found in the Nether is my underwater light of choice.

    Also there is a bug associated with returning from the nether, I looked a few pages bck and didnt see this picture but it sums up the problem nicely.

    QUcu1.png

    edit: this same issue extends in a way to positioning the third portal in the overworld, if the third spot is a lake or inside a mountain it will shuffle around and often into a dark hole in the ground filled with the worst things imaginable.

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  • NotyetdoneNotyetdone Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Yeah... i have 4 portals now when i only built one, kinda annoying.

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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.
  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    First new world I got a jack o lantern and when you put it on the effect is worthless but funny...

    The biomes I have got so far are pretty neat. I had a winter biome show up on the ocean so all the water I could see in front of me was frozen.

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  • samurai6966samurai6966 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Notyetdone wrote: »
    Yeah... i have 4 portals now when i only built one, kinda annoying.

    But if you are farming Obsidian, this is a good thing.

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  • formatformat Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Notyetdone wrote: »
    Yeah... i have 4 portals now when i only built one, kinda annoying.

    But if you are farming Obsidian, this is a good thing.

    Yes, you can break down one part of the portal frame and travel back to your original portal, go through and back again, another portal will be created next to the dead portal from earlier.

    also you only need a frame of 10 obsidian. you can skip the corners.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Obsidian is such a chore to mine though.

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I can't wait to see what kind of things people are making with the new materials. I already started experimenting a little with building things out of portals.
    2010-10-31_144139.png

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    The hellbeasts have already started to come through! What have I done?! D:
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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Yeah, I use stairs a lot and end up wasting a lot of them so that fix is probably my favorite.

    How do they work now? Hit them to rotate them?
    Obsidian is such a chore to mine though.

    As others have said, make molds in the shape of the portal, pour lava, pour water, repeat.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I need my texture packs back!! ;___;

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    You know what, I just realized something.

    Everyone assumed that portals would be the "walk through" kind like in Portal (or anything else). As such, they were asking for different sizes and orientations, so that you could make a cart track that dumps the player directly into hell.

    But that won't work with the "stand inside it" type of portal. :(

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  • cobracobra Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    this screen shot is from my adventures in sp,

    i just found this while digging and have never come across anything like this before, I know the block on fire is a spider spawn block, but I didnt know you could find chests with items in them and torches already placed on the map

    spiderspawn.png

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    cobra wrote: »
    this screen shot is from my adventures in sp,

    i just found this while digging and have never come across anything like this before, I know the block on fire is a spider spawn block, but I didnt know you could find chests with items in them and torches already placed on the map

    snip

    yeah! that is a dungeon, which notch added a little while ago! they can have pig saddles in those chests if you are lucky

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  • oldmankenoldmanken Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I was thinking about two projects... the first, a simple Central American type pyramid, so that I can get used to constructing large structure. The second, a round and spiralling Tower of Babel type thing. The only problem with the second is constructing a round structure, and figuring out how big to make it.

    Anybody know where I can find info on making round buildings?

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  • cobracobra Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    cobra wrote: »
    this screen shot is from my adventures in sp,

    i just found this while digging and have never come across anything like this before, I know the block on fire is a spider spawn block, but I didnt know you could find chests with items in them and torches already placed on the map

    snip

    yeah! that is a dungeon, which notch added a little while ago! they can have pig saddles in those chests if you are lucky

    Yeah i actually got a pig saddle!

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Crashtard wrote: »
    Ever since the update my game has been running it what I would call "fast forward"; it feels like everything is running double time, and it's making it difficult to build anything when I'm placing 2 blocks at once all the time. Anyone else experienced this and know how to fix it?

    Well, I actually figured this out. I restarted my computer and it's fine.

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    cobra wrote: »
    this screen shot is from my adventures in sp,

    i just found this while digging and have never come across anything like this before, I know the block on fire is a spider spawn block, but I didnt know you could find chests with items in them and torches already placed on the map

    snip

    yeah! that is a dungeon, which notch added a little while ago! they can have pig saddles in those chests if you are lucky
    Torches already placed on the map? That can't happen, can it?

    Wait a minute..
    Oh yeah, and I spotted something new and frightening while spelunking in some topside caverns. I didn't see him in the light, just a glowing face in the darkness. Died before I could muster the health to return to where I saw him...

    Oh God. D:

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    oldmanken wrote: »
    I was thinking about two projects... the first, a simple Central American type pyramid, so that I can get used to constructing large structure. The second, a round and spiralling Tower of Babel type thing. The only problem with the second is constructing a round structure, and figuring out how big to make it.

    Anybody know where I can find info on making round buildings?

    Make a portal at the top of the pyramid, sacrifice animals to appease the dark gods.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Man I am so glad I set up to farm these skelly and spider spawners. Ranged weapons is pretty much necessary for the Slip.

    Is there a way to fix portals now? I just want to be able to return to the one in my base. Or do I need to deconstruct all of them in the overworld and rebuild them to reset everything?

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Seems like Ghasts are actually really easy to kill, they can't do much damage to you at all. They're only dangerous when you're afraid of them and let them chase you around in a panic so you die to fire/lava/cliffs.

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  • nwkegannwkegan Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I just started a new game in SMP. Found a tiny cave and have dubbed it my living space. Now I gotta find a natural cave system for minerals. : )

    Are there any new blocks found in the normal world?

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  • DelphinidaesDelphinidaes FFXIV: Delphi Kisaragi Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    nwkegan wrote: »
    I just started a new game in SMP. Found a tiny cave and have dubbed it my living space. Now I gotta find a natural cave system for minerals. : )

    Are there any new blocks found in the normal world?

    Punkins!

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  • Renaissance MandroidRenaissance Mandroid Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    God damnit. God DAMNIT.

    I get finished decking out my secret underground portal chamber and then down the rabbit hole I go. I'm playing peaceful because I don't want to get chased around by ghasts while boldly going where no blocky man has gone before. I pop out right next to Australium, so I mine that, set up a cobblestone/halfblock building around my portal so as to be a safehouse of sorts, then go wandering off. I mine some slowsand, more Australium, and go down several hundred blocks to fill buckets with lava source blocks. After coming back up and making it back to the portal to see if anything happened (I didn't know what to expect), I go off laying down torches so I can go and make another portal in the distance for fast-travel. I see an unusually dark spot, and trundle over. I get a lag spike because suddenly the game was rendering a shitton of lava and empty space, and then I find myself falling through said empty space and die instantly upon plunging into the lake of fire. I loose several stacks of cobble, my diamond shovel, my iron picks, what I believe to be most of my iron, stacks of torches I'd been saving up for a lantern-conversion that never came, and all of the Australium I mined.

    I yelled, pouted, and like every time I die in Alpha at catastrophic cost, I resolved not to touch this bloody game for a week or so. Stupid Nether.

    edit: I remember why I came to post in the first place in addition to vent; screw you Notch. Your bastard child SMP is crying on the doorstep, and by telling him he'll have to wait until "beta" for all of these fixes, to run with the metaphor, you probably won't open the door for the unfortunate fucker until this time next year.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I know a lot of people find crazy formations and stuff all the time, but here's another one I just stumbled across:
    63066490.jpg

    Notice Porkins up there in mid-suicide.

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  • DelphinidaesDelphinidaes FFXIV: Delphi Kisaragi Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I know a lot of people find crazy formations and stuff all the time, but here's another one I just stumbled across:
    63066490.jpg

    Notice Porkins up there in mid-suicide.

    Former site of a Hadron Collider obviously.

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  • FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Haven't played in a while. Downloaded the update and I get fucked up graphic anomalies when I play. Is that one of the new "bugs" people are talking about or is something wonky now?

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  • DyvionDyvion Back in Sunny Florida!!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Lorahalo wrote: »
    Idoliside wrote: »
    trednis wrote: »
    Rizzi wrote: »
    Grr. I want to see hell, but I can't find any diamond to mine obsidian with.
    :(

    use the cast method to make obsidian. only iron for buckets is needed.

    You still need to mine it up from the ground though. Unless I'm thinking of a different cast method.

    Nope. Make a cast, pour lava in so every block is still and then dump water on top of it. Just make the cast the right shape.

    It's probably already been said, but this is brilliant!

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Goddamn pigmen. I didn't hit you, the stupid ghast did.

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  • AvynteAvynte Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I decided to light up a square of stone in front of my hell portal to brighten things up a bit. Pigman decided that was a good time to jump right into my fire.

    Now I have 5 angry pig zombies camping my portal exit ffffffffff.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Avynte wrote: »
    I decided to light up a square of stone in front of my hell portal to brighten things up a bit. Pigman decided that was a good time to jump right into my fire.

    Now I have 5 angry pig zombies camping my portal exit ffffffffff.

    Is your portal near a big dropoff? If so, walk a million miles in that direction in the real world, make a new portal, and once back inside convince the pigmen to jump down so you can use your original portal in peace.

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  • samurai6966samurai6966 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    So, other than spiders, what has red eyes? I was playing SP and I saw something with red eyes. I hit it with my bow but it didn't flash a spider shape.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    If you set difficulty to peaceful, (either in hell or set it and then enter hell), it will basically reset the pigmen. You can revert to normal after.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    God there are like four hell portals in my world now. They just keep creating themselves.

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  • luceklucek Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Well hell (or the nethers) isn't as bad as I heard. I did some exploring and came out alive.
    in other thins I freaked when I say my first biome.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I made a Ghast activate a portal for me, since I had lost my flint. It does work.

    Also my skin got reset.

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