Thanks to Kris_xK, Ein, Vic, and Jerick 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.
If you want to play survival, play using one of these links:
Browser |
Downloadable Client.
If you want to play creative, play using one of these links:
Browser Singleplayer |
Browser Multiplayer |
CPColin's Client |
WoM ClientNote: 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 HereVideos:
Includes How-To and Beginner videos!
Useful Shit (MAY BE OUT OF DATE):Programs & UtilitiesIsometric Live Map Preview - Use this for your survival worlds.
NBT Forge - A map editor for Survival.
OMEN - A map editor for Creative
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 DATESMP's Texture PackTahel's Texture PackCheap Shot's Texture PackBrown & Bloom Texture PackPainterly PackDokus' RPG Texture Pack
None of these interest you? Try browsing
this list. Someone on the minecraft forums compiled every texture pack into one megathread.
The rather excellent
HD texture fix would be a valuable addition to the OP. Being able to play with larger textures, and still have animated water & fire is quite enjoyable.
Want to see what the look like? Cog made a handy picture guide!
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:
SkinsJava Skin EditorSkinning Tutorial,
Supplementary Skin by VALVEjunkie
The Skin Index - Skin Listing
Miners Need Cool Shoes - Site for Skins
LinksThe Official Minecraft Site - Play the game here.
The Dev Blog - Notch's dev blog., Posts a lot of updates and info here.
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.
SA Minecraft Wiki - Another wiki, this one run by Something Awful Goons. Lots of in jokes and not as comprehensive.
World of Minecraft - The WoM Custom Client lets you hack and play offline in
Minecraft Classic.
The Skin Index - Skin Listing
STEAM GROUPClicky!Ask in Steam chat 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 ServersNations at Warhttp://nationsatwar.org/
Ask Empirical to be whitelisted. Just be sure to read up on our rules on our site.
SE++ server, go check out their thread.The Underdark: No longer online. Download Link http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6WHZU2GSPhoenix Smasher's server.minecraft.guardbreak.com:25566WildCard Minecraftsmp.wcminecraft.comHardcore, Faction, PVP, PVEHerocraftonline.commc.herocraftonline.comHardcore, RPG, PVP, PVEFor others ask in Steam Group chatIF YOU HAVE A SERVER AND WANT IT TO BE ADDED TO THE LISTS, FEEL FREE TO PM ME.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGMuiMMmYg
We're ready for beta testing. Aculem is ready for any bug reports. /naw help to get plugin commands. Right now we've enabled the ability for anyone to grant themselves, or others for that matter, iConomy using /money grant player amount.
We're currently in closed beta. Get your applications in for season 2.
Here are the gameplay mechanics.
Please submit any bugs here.
Ein also updated the texture pack. It'll likely update again with a few small changes here is the pack. Make sure to use the HD texture patcher found here.
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Yours would be great too. "Kill a creeper with a TNT block", hah!
The Ghibli video linked in the last thread is all kinds of awesome. Apparently the map can be downloaded from the author's blog, but it's in Korean and Google Translate fails, and the files are in some odd compressed format (.ALZ).
I'm on some kind of underwater-building-spell that has me building domes, towers and tunnels everywhere on the seabed. Pity the generated sea is rarely deep. Two floors on a tower and it hits the surface But at least it then shows up on the renders.
Dual-wielding, with left-click for left and and right-click for right hand! And zip lines! Mo' Creatures for 1.5_01! Game of Life! Sloped blocks! Revamped tree generation! Have the entire world contained in glass spheres!
I can see this ending up like how Bethesda games always do for me; more time spent trying mods than playing
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
That would make an interesting server mod though.
"those.. fuckers..."
"i... hate...the earth...nation..."
thats right.. i finally found your hidden, and WELL hidden forward base.
holy
shit
this
thing
is
huge
i must give you props for this you guys. My god, you are insane. and just brilliant.
I also looked around and saw one of my old mining shafts when right by it... one block....
one
damn
block
and i would have discovered you. well then again, by then water nation had already been nerfed and you threw all my diamond swords into lava so there would have been no hope for me except to get around 10 water nation to assult that place.. good times... good times.... i miss the server why cant you guys code faster!?!?!?!
just kidding, i realize coding is annoying, long, and tedious. i took a flash game design and animation class and holy crap.
i was amazing... but hated it.
i hope for the best of luck at coding for the next few days, or weeks on the server mods. and maybe you can release them to the public? i might want to use it for a server soon...
I cant wait for the new server
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.
Anyone got any good suggestions?
Well, different hosting sites are offering different prices. Was wondering if anyone had any good experiences or knew of any good deals.
AH! Now I get it. I thought you meant like, buying a physical server and setting it up in your house. Ignore me.
i was suprised fire nation ever found your forward base
They followed someone in.
Unfortunately, there was that business with the ransom note, and I acted like an idiot. I later bricked up their teleporter and made Luny suffocate, though.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/sec-fun-factions-v1-1-7-guilds-war-and-user-controlled-antigrief-733.3565/
maybe you could get in contact with that coder and see if you can pool your efforts. It kinda sounds like you both are on the same mind set.
It will overcome us...
That last also has a mod that turns creepers into cluster bombs
Done.
A view from Cerger's totally awesome skyrail. My home is conveniently located at one of the corners.
One thing that is driving me crazy is that some of my fences just love to go invisible. They are still there, keeping the minions of the night at bay, but they don't show up and look like there is large portions of my fence missing.
Here is a closer view, standing on top of my tunnel of trees.
And here is the map, showing where on the server it can be located. The arrow points to a corner of the sky rail, you can just climb the rail and follow it all the way to my place.
(so much light gray wool... my god! I actually have a buttload of light gray dye at least for once, but somehow ran out of white wool, which is crazy because I had a lot)
This is what it looks like on our server's dynmap:
I really wish DynMap showed wool colors
(p.s. that is the main reason I didn't fill in the circles yet even though I have a few stacks of light gray wool on me... I like looking at the hearts on the map )
Does lightning set wool on fire?
Well it won't fit in the sentience incinerator.
I was mining and I've gotten used to hearing the typical growling, but this time I heard what sounded like the start of an ambulance siren. It started low and reached the high point and then just stopped. Maybe I just haven't paid enough attention before, but this sound was awful. I guess you could also describe as the sound you hear in Psycho, that dun dun dun, only higher pitched and slower.
LOL: Batmantis
MTGO: Batmantis88
What's essential to download? I shall trust in the forum's opinion on this.
C'mon now, you can't leave out AdventureCraft. It's the most ridiculous shit ever. Except for, you know, all the other ridiculous shit ;-)
I think that is the wailing sound in the caves you mean? It doesn't happen very often (I've only heard it a few times). And yeah, it is terrifying.