I really don't blame Notch at all for wanting to get out of the position of "LETS ALL BITCH AT NOTCH BECAUSE HE MADE THE GAME". Especially while he was still sane and wasn't going crazy with his new found fame. Money and attention on a national/global level tends to change people in drastic ways, and getting out fairly early before those changes happen is good for him. I wish him the best, and pray to god that some of the terms laid down was along the lines of letting the Mojang people keep control of the game's direction.
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An environmental impact survey:
The mesa biomes of Victor's Bounty are very extensive. Hardened clay blocks could be used for buildings in Spawnington. Would anyone be offended if I took apart a mesa that wasn't so scenic for public building supplies?
Alternately, I could just dig up a red sand hill for red sand/stone. Just let me know.
I posted this in G&T, but I'll repost here with my thoughts
I want to weigh in with my own two cents. But this really struck a chord with me to the point I feel a little numb. For those who don't know, because it's been a few years, when Minecraft burst on the scene, I took a weekend out of my life to create a 1:1 scale model of the Enerprise-D. The video immediately went viral, and as of right now, it has around 12 Mill hits on it. However, there was something that happened in the background that I want to talk about.
The first thing that happened was I got offers from the big YouTube networks. (Machinima, Polaris, etc.) to come join them. I did research and honestly, I was already working full time doing IT for a mutual fund company, and didn't want to have a second job. Two Player productions contacted me and I agreed to be in their documentary. They were a great bunch of guys, and I was happy for their visit to my very small apartment. In the meantime, I also created a forum on some free website that people flocked to it, and they created severs for star trek stuff and built ships. My Enterprise idea, the "centerpiece" of the exhibit, was completed in the span of 6 months and many other starfleet-y type stuff were created along with it.
I seeded the community, but then I felt guilty every time I would log in.
I would be mobbed by people building the ship. The gave me a custom rank on the server and all kind of tools I didn't know how to use. I had my own office that was built for me... and the worst part?
I don't even play Minecraft.
It became something bigger than me, and I didn't want to have anything to do with it. When I would play Minecraft with my friend Annapi, and put up the videos, I was pressured to play a game I really didn't give two shits about. For all intents and purposes I turned down a YouTube career for something I didn't care about.
I think about this a lot. When I see the Rooster Teeth, or Game Grumps, Markiplier, or even PewDiePie, I think that I could of done that too, I had an opportunity but I don't think I deserved it.
As an aside, I learned during my interview with the Two Players guys that Notch actually got a Cease and Desist from Paramount over my ship. I never knew about this and he somehow defected it from me ever knowing. But here's the thing too. In the end it wasn't even my ship, it was Paramount's. I wasn't my deckplans either. They were Whitefire's, and he created them with permission fro Paramount decades ago until Paramount dropped him and went with Michal Okuda instead. (Whitefire, BTW was kind enough to visit the forums and give his approval at least)
The aftermath...
Nowadays I see games like Space Engineers, I like to think that my ship contributed to the idea. I also think that If I had the programming ability, I would of gone in another direction. I actually tried to make my own game once, using the inertia of my popularity. It was going to be a Minecraft+Space Station 13 kind of thing. I honestly thought that was where Notch was going with his 0x10c game. (The 6502 programmable block was a neat idea!). But Notch, like I were trying to make lighting strike twice, and I knew looking at what he was doing, felt he didn't really care for the direction it was going in either.
I still want to hang with Notch one day and chat about what happened and have a beer with him or something (even though I can't drink). I'm actually on vacation this week and was thinking of flying out to Stolkholm and saying hi. Heh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't going to stalking, I had tried to contact the company beforehand for a tour for fun. But they never answered back and so I'm spending time with my mom for her 62nd birthday today instead.
In the end I respect Notch and hope he has many adventures. I still hope to meet him someday. I like to think I owe him a beer at least
My experiences on MMO forums has taught to me give game devs the benefit of the doubt at all times. It's startling to think how normal, nice people's first reaction to something in a game can end up insanely irrational. I'm pretty glad Notch started this game, and I've decided to keep playing on and off as I have until the game turns into something I no longer enjoy.
Could be never. Could be distressingly soon. We'll find out!
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I too, hope to be able to sell out as hard as Mr. Notch.
I am not being facetious. I have nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Persson, and truly envy his position to be able to sell something he made for that amount of money.
I could, however, do without the frustrations that brought him to the point of selling.
Jeeze, I remember when Minecraft was a dumb little java browser game that I heard about on the Dwarf Fortress forums. Back when the game world consisted of a single procedurally generated grassy island made of breakable cubes, surrounded by ocean and invisible walls, and stone all the way down to the indestructible layer at the bottom of the world. Some of the stone had different bits in it that looked like it might be ore or something, but it was purely cosmetic then. Digging and building worked like creative mode: every block could be broken in one click and didn't leave anything behind, and to build you picked a block from the menu. There was no day/night cycle, no crafting, no items, no mobs, no lava, no water you could interact with, no lighting system or darkness underground, and the world had very close borders.
But it was very interesting because it was a 3D representation of digging and building using voxels, like a 3d visualization of the ASCII tile world in Dwarf Fortress. So I kept coming back to it, and more features kept being added all the time. Then came survival mode, and infinitely generating maps, and then multiplayer. And the rest is history. I hope Notch has a fulfilling retirement.
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I staked out the tall hill across the river from spawn, I'll be building from the top of the hill west and south so as to keep the forested hill still nice from the spawn view.
It won't be a mega build, but hopefully I can add to the nice theme going in spawntown.
Things I found today. Second ocean shrine, second huge mesa biome, mushroom biome, with mooshrooms. I'll give coords when I get home, they are written down.
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I desperately want to make my abyssal stone library hanging in space manned by frienderman librarians
why does page hunting have to be so heartbreaking
Red Cows with Mushrooms growing out of them. Instead of Milk you get Mushroom stew from them.
+1
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They are less Mushroom Kingdom and more Last of Us
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I was thinking just last night about whether a horrifically realistic drawing of a red cow with cordyceps face exists
but I don't know if I have the courage to search for one
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Did a bunch more searching today. Found a desert well. Still no swamp biome or jungle biome.
Jungle biome - go nearly straight east from Spawnington (slightly north) and you'll hit it before the border. If you check the maps building you'll see it as a giant blob of green on the NE map.
Swamp - go east and then slightly south. It's kind of a blue and green patchy spot on the SE map.
Did a bunch more searching today. Found a desert well. Still no swamp biome or jungle biome.
Jungle biome - go nearly straight east from Spawnington (slightly north) and you'll hit it before the border. If you check the maps building you'll see it as a giant blob of green on the NE map.
Swamp - go east and then slightly south. It's kind of a blue and green patchy spot on the SE map.
I went south west so yeah. tons of mesa southwest. I'm actually in the village you are in right now to the west.
Do you still need to carry a map in order to make new stuff show up on the map? If that is the case I should make one.
Did a bunch more searching today. Found a desert well. Still no swamp biome or jungle biome.
Jungle biome - go nearly straight east from Spawnington (slightly north) and you'll hit it before the border. If you check the maps building you'll see it as a giant blob of green on the NE map.
Swamp - go east and then slightly south. It's kind of a blue and green patchy spot on the SE map.
I went south west so yeah. tons of mesa southwest. I'm actually in the village you are in right now to the west.
Do you still need to carry a map in order to make new stuff show up on the map? If that is the case I should make one.
To update stuff, yes you need to carry a map. You can make a copy of the current ones by grabbing one and putting it in the crafting grid with a blank map (surround a compass with paper). Then ALL the copies of that map will be updated.
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Me too. Also it was 2.5 billion.
It'd be all *minecrafters screaming* and I'd be all "What's that? I'm sorry, but I can't hear you over the sound of all this money!"
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The mesa biomes of Victor's Bounty are very extensive. Hardened clay blocks could be used for buildings in Spawnington. Would anyone be offended if I took apart a mesa that wasn't so scenic for public building supplies?
Alternately, I could just dig up a red sand hill for red sand/stone. Just let me know.
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I want to weigh in with my own two cents. But this really struck a chord with me to the point I feel a little numb. For those who don't know, because it's been a few years, when Minecraft burst on the scene, I took a weekend out of my life to create a 1:1 scale model of the Enerprise-D. The video immediately went viral, and as of right now, it has around 12 Mill hits on it. However, there was something that happened in the background that I want to talk about.
The first thing that happened was I got offers from the big YouTube networks. (Machinima, Polaris, etc.) to come join them. I did research and honestly, I was already working full time doing IT for a mutual fund company, and didn't want to have a second job. Two Player productions contacted me and I agreed to be in their documentary. They were a great bunch of guys, and I was happy for their visit to my very small apartment. In the meantime, I also created a forum on some free website that people flocked to it, and they created severs for star trek stuff and built ships. My Enterprise idea, the "centerpiece" of the exhibit, was completed in the span of 6 months and many other starfleet-y type stuff were created along with it.
I seeded the community, but then I felt guilty every time I would log in.
I would be mobbed by people building the ship. The gave me a custom rank on the server and all kind of tools I didn't know how to use. I had my own office that was built for me... and the worst part?
I don't even play Minecraft.
It became something bigger than me, and I didn't want to have anything to do with it. When I would play Minecraft with my friend Annapi, and put up the videos, I was pressured to play a game I really didn't give two shits about. For all intents and purposes I turned down a YouTube career for something I didn't care about.
I think about this a lot. When I see the Rooster Teeth, or Game Grumps, Markiplier, or even PewDiePie, I think that I could of done that too, I had an opportunity but I don't think I deserved it.
As an aside, I learned during my interview with the Two Players guys that Notch actually got a Cease and Desist from Paramount over my ship. I never knew about this and he somehow defected it from me ever knowing. But here's the thing too. In the end it wasn't even my ship, it was Paramount's. I wasn't my deckplans either. They were Whitefire's, and he created them with permission fro Paramount decades ago until Paramount dropped him and went with Michal Okuda instead. (Whitefire, BTW was kind enough to visit the forums and give his approval at least)
The aftermath...
Nowadays I see games like Space Engineers, I like to think that my ship contributed to the idea. I also think that If I had the programming ability, I would of gone in another direction. I actually tried to make my own game once, using the inertia of my popularity. It was going to be a Minecraft+Space Station 13 kind of thing. I honestly thought that was where Notch was going with his 0x10c game. (The 6502 programmable block was a neat idea!). But Notch, like I were trying to make lighting strike twice, and I knew looking at what he was doing, felt he didn't really care for the direction it was going in either.
I still want to hang with Notch one day and chat about what happened and have a beer with him or something (even though I can't drink). I'm actually on vacation this week and was thinking of flying out to Stolkholm and saying hi. Heh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't going to stalking, I had tried to contact the company beforehand for a tour for fun. But they never answered back and so I'm spending time with my mom for her 62nd birthday today instead.
In the end I respect Notch and hope he has many adventures. I still hope to meet him someday. I like to think I owe him a beer at least
Could be never. Could be distressingly soon. We'll find out!
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US$2.5B == 62 500 kg gold
1 m^3 of gold weighs about 19 300 kg
So Microsoft bought Mojang with 3.24 blocks of gold, or a bit more than 29 bars.
I could probably mine that up in an evening.
(Disclaimer: I'm up wayyyy to late.)
I am not being facetious. I have nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Persson, and truly envy his position to be able to sell something he made for that amount of money.
I could, however, do without the frustrations that brought him to the point of selling.
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how much is a beacon worth
But it was very interesting because it was a 3D representation of digging and building using voxels, like a 3d visualization of the ASCII tile world in Dwarf Fortress. So I kept coming back to it, and more features kept being added all the time. Then came survival mode, and infinitely generating maps, and then multiplayer. And the rest is history. I hope Notch has a fulfilling retirement.
But it loses its thread
I know it was in beta, and I know it was before redstone got put in, but other than that I dunno.
Now I'm even more confused.
It won't be a mega build, but hopefully I can add to the nice theme going in spawntown.
But it loses its thread
why does page hunting have to be so heartbreaking
But it loses its thread
Is that as awesome and adorable as it sounds?
By any means.
Red Cows with Mushrooms growing out of them. Instead of Milk you get Mushroom stew from them.
but I don't know if I have the courage to search for one
Horrible idea, what if mooshrooms that you turned back into regular cows eventually became mooshrooms again?
But it loses its thread
What if mooshrooms that you ate from turned you into a youshroom?!
OH GOD MY SCREEN IS NOTHING BUT SPORES WHY
thanks
I think..
Jungle biome - go nearly straight east from Spawnington (slightly north) and you'll hit it before the border. If you check the maps building you'll see it as a giant blob of green on the NE map.
Swamp - go east and then slightly south. It's kind of a blue and green patchy spot on the SE map.
I went south west so yeah. tons of mesa southwest. I'm actually in the village you are in right now to the west.
Do you still need to carry a map in order to make new stuff show up on the map? If that is the case I should make one.
But it loses its thread
Depends.
Can I milk you for mushroom stew?
To update stuff, yes you need to carry a map. You can make a copy of the current ones by grabbing one and putting it in the crafting grid with a blank map (surround a compass with paper). Then ALL the copies of that map will be updated.