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[Minecraft] Don't feed the bees.
Empirical
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Thanks to Kris_xK, Ein, Vic, Jerick, and DeShadowC for the previous OP's
Do you like Lego? Would you like to play with it again? Then you need to Minecraft.
Minecraft is a game about squares.
In a world made of blocks, you (a rather blocky person yourself) must use your wits and common sense to build and carve a way to safety. This is a dangerous world, make no mistake – monsters appear from out of the dark, mountains themselves can roar at you, and an errant poke in the wrong direction could bury you alive under tons of soil.
But all is not lost. You’re a smart adventurer, after all. After tearing down some trees with your bare hands and building yourself a rudimentary shelter, you’ll begin to explore the mineral wealth of this new land – iron, coal, gold, and even stranger treasures await you deep in the cores of these mountains. The question is, can you work your way to the heart of the earth, plunder its riches, and return to tell the tale?
Developed by one-man creator Markus Persson (also known as Notch), Minecraft is a Java-based, sandbox-style adventure. It fits squarely among more difficult survival games such as Dwarf Fortress and NetHack, while keeping the simple charm of one’s younger building-block days. It is outwardly simple, internally complex, easy to play, and difficult to master. Perhaps best of all, despite being constructed of laughable square blocks, the game manages to deliver a wonderful atmosphere of fear, paranoia, determination, and reward all in one package.
Where do I play the game?
This game can either be played using a downloadable application or online in your browser.
ONLY Creative Classic is playable in the browser now.
If you want to play creative, play using one of these links: Browser Singleplayer | Browser Multiplayer | CPColin's Client | WoM Client <<May be out of date.
Note: This game mode does not have most of the features that survival does. Notch has favored updating Survival instead. It doesn't have the cool lighting or half the blocks that survival does.
Is it free?
Yes and no. Creative is free and survival is pay-only. When you purchase the game, you get access to Survival and the ability to have a custom player skin, among whatever comes with the game as a whole.
Current Price:€16.95 | US$26.95 | £19.95
Purchase Here
There is also an iOS/Android ($6.99/£4.28/5,49€),XBOX360 Live version (1600 Microsoft Points), and a version for the Raspberry Pi (Free).
Each version is updated different and may be at different points of development, compared to that of the PC version.
Videos:
Includes How-To and Beginner videos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwr79lPRrFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
http://youtu.be/B36Ehzf2cxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgkjRFtLoU
http://youtu.be/QpvJ9wiywL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
http://youtu.be/B36Ehzf2cxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgkjRFtLoU
http://youtu.be/QpvJ9wiywL4
Useful Shit (MAY BE OUT OF DATE):
Programs & Utilities
OMEN - A map editor for Classic.
Isocraft - A great isometric image generator. Only works with creative maps.
Cartograph - Creates a map of your survival world. It's quite buggy right now but gets the job done.
INVEdit - You can use this to edit your inventory in survival.
NBTEdit - You can use this to change almost anything about your save. Spawn point, health, etc.
Skin Edit - A tool you can use to edit your player skin.
Textures
Don't like the default graphics? Here are some of the popular ones. MAY BE OUT OF DATE
Painterly Pack
Texture Pack Central Thread-Thread on the MC forums that links to most textures and keeps tabs on whether they're updated or not.
HD Patcher Thread-Thread on the MC forums that contains the MC HD Patcher which is needed for any textures great than the default 16x resolution. Has some other rather nifty features too.
Want to see what the look like? Cog made a handy picture guide!
Cognisseur wrote: »Attention New Players!
In case you're interested in changing your Texture Pack, but don't know what to go with?
I loaded a few of the Texture Packs from the OP and took screenshots of the same location on Zetx's server (which hopefully demonstrates some texture variety) using each one. (Tahel's Pack link didn't load, and I didn't know what to do with Cheap Shot's .png file)
Default Texture Pack:
SMP's Texture Pack:
Brown & Bloom's Texture Pack:
Painterly Pack:
All 4 Packs Side-by-Side Comparison:
Skins
Java Skin Editor
Skinning Tutorial, Supplementary Skin by VALVEjunkie
Miners Need Cool Shoes - Site for Skins
Planet Minecraft - Large repository for maps, skins, mods, and a bunch of other shit .
Links
The Official Minecraft Site - Play the game here.
The Dev Blog - Notch's dev blog., Posts a lot of updates and info here. Rarely updates.
Notch's Twitter - Can be read on his blog as well.
The Official Minecraft Forums - Just don't fucking do it. The community is fucking retarded. Already.
Minecraft Wiki - The official wiki for the game. Regularly updated.
World of Minecraft - The WoM Custom Client lets you hack and play offline in Minecraft Classic.
Planet Minecraft - Large repository for maps, skins, mods, and a bunch of other shit .
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Ask in thread to be added.
Please do not send me PM's about being invited to the steam group, instead make a post in this thread.
PUBLIC PA Servers
SE++ server, go check out their thread.
The Underdark: Is no longer active and has gone done.
Download link for third UD and @ArcSyn map: http://titanium.dickite.com/minecraft/
@Bele was kind enough to scrounge up clean versions of some of the later caves that were added and toss them into the CleanUD, not all of them are there sadly but several are.
Download link for the last/fourth UD: http://titanium.dickite.com/minecraft/UNDERDARK.zip
Nations at War
http://nationsatwar.org/
Currently in between seasons, preparing for Season 3. PAers need not go through application process, just see @Empirical.
Phoenix Smasher's server.
minecraft.guardbreak.com:25566
Herocraftonline.com
mc.herocraftonline.com
Hardcore, RPG, PVP, PVE
For others ask in thread
IF YOU HAVE A SERVER AND WANT IT TO BE ADDED TO THE LISTS, FEEL FREE TO PM ME.
Poop nuggets.
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PSN: Zanshiretsu <-- misspelled because I am dumb.
Adds shelves, potion shelves, bookshelves, tool racks, display cases, armor stands and labels.
Be aware that it can really mess up your fps, so use sporadically. Removing all shelves and potion shelves from the room in the album brought my fps from 40 to 70.
Still, getting excited for it. I'm going to try and read through a bit of their wiki later today.
Man, wait until you try building Alvearys. That's some expensive shit.
and spiders just kept jumping into my farm. Spent about an hour and a half cutting the bastard down.
but since the area I'm in is coal poor, I just ended up burning stacks of rubber wood lumber into charcoal using a other stacks of rubber wood lumber as fuel.
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Also you don't need wax capsules, you just need SOMETHING to hold the seed oil in. I used either a bucket or a glass bottle.
Quick question, does anyone know if there is a high-res texture pack that would include every item in one of the packs?
I really like playing with better then default texture size. Though, if I have to, I have to.
EDIT: huh, the FTB launcher comes with a few already installed. (Soartex Fanver looks the most promising.) Do they have all the items of supported modpacks? I'd assume so but ...
Battlenet: Judgement#1243
psn: KupoZero
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Mods man, mods. There's a mod for goddamn everything. You can set up some bees in one house in nice foresty area, connect it with a portal to your ore processing plant and then connect that to your automining quarry, or even your fully programmable and controllable frame base that can fly.
Saves so much time, and feels more reasonable anyway.
Yeah, server I played on had that as a plugin and I loved it.
What's the mod name? Is it part of a FTB pack?
That sounds magical. Do you remember what it's called, by any chance?
I'm sure there's a seperate mod, but I know Thaumcraft has that.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I recall the FTB devs saying they'll never add mods like that to their pack because it would invalidate Forestry. You can still add it yourself as a jar mod.
Soartex Fanver is real pretty and seems to cover just about everything.
The tree chopping mods are the bee's knees.
I've been running Voltz pack lately, but it leaves a lot to be desired compared to the technic/tekkit packs.
Origin: Broncbuster
It's a young pack, it's got a lot of growing pains to go through to reach the same tier as the other popular mods.
...I have no desire to know how many hours I have in MC.
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No, Forestry is all one download and no config options to allow only one feature set. It's not a real problem anyway, you can ignore all the extra stuff with no problem.
http://feed-the-beast.com/
If you've never played with mod before, be prepared to be confused out your ass once you start.
But to do beekeeping you need shit that requires other shit that requires other shit from the mod. I just don't want to bother with all that crap
...O.
...That's quite the list, yeah.
Heck, the Forestry wiki doesn't even have a Getting Started section outside of installation instructions (not that I could see).
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True story! I've been playing like...normalish? Trying to hoard everything and watch the Direwolf video thing (which I'm using the Direwolf pack), while I figure out what the hell is actually going on.
I did go into creative mode for a bit and build my house, but I'm trying to stay strictly on the not cheating side.
A friend and I are building a bailey fort quite a distance from the spawn location. We felt it provided the best start up potential with the hillside.
We dug the ground and filled in basically a large area at least 25X25 blocks and 4 blocks deep. We are the tallest area save for part of the hillside we carved out for the northside.
Even then it's level at best to us. The only access to the place is via four ladders and then gates.
I think I got enough torches all over the place, but somehow spiders and creepers still get in... I get the spiders, they can climb, but I lost a lot of materials due to the creeper.
What's the torch to space density I need to keep mobs from spawning?
I feel like taking pictures would provide a better idea of what's going on...
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Pictures would be helpful.