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offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-10 00:41 [#02405870]
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Minecraft

Apparently eight times the surface of the earth.

Anyone tried this?


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2011-02-10 01:00 [#02405871]
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interesting review, especially the bit about logic blocks.
Now I understand the buzz about it. I might try it but I
don't have much time for games these days


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-10 01:19 [#02405874]
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jump to 8:20 minutes into this review.

it's insane.


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-10 21:06 [#02405915]
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I have been playing this game for a couple months now, it's
awesome!

The single player survival mode kept me interested for a
while, but once I got onto a multiplayer server with some
friends it became much more entertaining.

Highly recommend putting the $15 or whatever it is now for
it, development is starting to speed up and there is a lot
of content to come.

Recently added were music blocks, which are a bit
laggy/glitchy and limited, but you can do some awesome shit
with them as-is.

A simple musical path

An automated music machine

The developers are trying to get an official modding API out
for the game so that the community can add content to the
game more easily, and even without it there has been some
interesting shit done already.

Graphics modifications

A zelda like gameplay mod

Multiplayer is interesting because of the tons of different
ways you can play the game. Some people build platforming
courses for jumping challenges, some build themed towns and
roleplay, there are survival servers where people struggle
so hard just to make it through the night (Street boys!)

There are also no-rules servers where you can live as a
bandit and tear shit up, fucking with people's shit or
placing a sign with some hurtful comments in their "hidden"
treasure vault before stealing all of their diamonds and
placing a trap pressure plate which triggers a hidden music
machine to play "Pop goes the weasel," and finishes with a
bang detonating their entire fucking base.

Or you could build a little farm in the country side, grow
wheat, flowers, and sugar cane. Get milk from cows and eggs
from chickens, and then bake a cake. :3


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2011-02-10 22:20 [#02405929]
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woah, also:

enterprise


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2011-02-10 22:35 [#02405932]
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Minecraft Review


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-11 21:19 [#02406015]
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the graphics mod looks great. give this game another year
and we'll be seeing some mind bending stuff.


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-11 21:20 [#02406016]
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"The original Enterprise is 642.5 Meters x 467.0 Meters x
137.5 Meters".

that's ... that's big.


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-11 21:26 [#02406017]
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Or you could build a little farm
in the country side, grow wheat,
flowers, and sugar cane. Get milk
from cows and eggs from chickens,
and then bake a cake


That's poetry, right there


 

offline Portnoy on 2011-02-15 15:56 [#02406460]
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This game is immense fun. Played it for the first time this
weekend with a friend. We literally played non-stop. So much
fun, so much great potential. Screw the graphic mods, I love
the pixelated look.

Apparently some people are getting bad lag playing over the
internet, but LAN is no problem.

Started playing single player now. It's a lot more difficult
this 'survival' thing. Love those creepers. They act just
like triffids.

I won't rest until I've built everything and more.


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-15 17:25 [#02406465]
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I definitely agree with you on the graphics mods/texture
packs. I use the default textures with no mods or anything,
and I love the pixellated retro charm.

As far as lag, I find the game tends to run much smoother
for me on LAN/internet than it does when playing single
player.

Something worth noting, if you hadn't figured it out yet, is
that if you make a furnace (make a square of 8 cobblestone
in the furnace) you can burn tree trunks in both squares of
it to make charcoal.

If you craft charcoal on top of sticks you can make torches,
which is a lot faster than having to search for coal if you
do not see any readily availlable on exposed rock faces.

Charcoal and coal cannot be stacked together, but function
the same.

Also the developer just got back from a two week vacation so
hopefully development will start to speed up again in the
next few weeks! He was on a livestream last friday giving an
interview, and mentioned quite a few things they are going
to get to work on trying to implement.

For anyone who sees the videos I posted, or the stuff Aphex
has mentioned and still thinks:

"This looks like lego on sega genesis, it is super gay, and
there is no way I would enjoy this..."

I personally thought that myself, but you really need to try
this yourself before you "get" what the draw is. Seems like
everybody finds a little something different about the game
to enjoy, and with more features coming out the emergent
gameplay is only starting to bloom.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-02-15 17:33 [#02406466]
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i love it. made a giant rollercoaster last night.


 

offline Portnoy on 2011-02-15 19:25 [#02406475]
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Cool charcoal tip. You can never have enough torches.

Before when I saw videos or read about it I wasn't too sure
about it either. Half an hour in though I knew it was a gem.
Wish I had bought it when the lifetime of updates offer was
still on.


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-16 18:21 [#02406538]
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There is a new update coming out soon, and the development
team just posted a video on youtube showing off one of the
new blocks, a redstone diode/repeater/delay as demonstrated

here


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-17 20:59 [#02406607]
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Cortical, ever tried a game called Noctis?

Noctis (Latin for "night") is an open source
computer space flight simulator featuring first-person
visual exploration of an imaginary galaxy. The player is
manifested in Noctis as a physical intelligent being in
charge of a fantastic spacecraft called a Stardrifter,
capable of instantaneous interstellar travel. This allows
travelling between stars, refuelling the Stardrifter from
Lithium ion-ejecting stars, approaching planets in star
systems and their moons, and even landing where it is
physically possible. Many planets feature atmospheres and
weather effects. Some harbour plants and animals, or even
mysterious ruins. No goal or measure of success is imposed
by the game: it simply allows to catalogue and annotate the
player's discoveries in a common database of stellar bodies
called the GUIDE, which is to be synchronised over the
author's Internet server. The player can explore the
Stardrifter and even walk on its roof.

It contains over 78 billion stars, most of which host many
planets and moons orbiting them.



 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-02-17 21:44 [#02406618]
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u tried amnesia?



 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2011-02-18 09:45 [#02406634]
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not yet, but it's mentioned everywhere. is it as scary as
they say?

i've seen parts of it via walkthroughs on youtube, and that
invisible monster walking around in the water is a neat
idea.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-02-18 12:38 [#02406638]
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i tried the demo. definately seemed like shityourpants game


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-18 16:16 [#02406646]
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Noctis: Haven't played it before, but have heard a lot of
good things. Doesn't seem like the kinda thing I would be
into though, however I said the same about minecraft.

Amnesia: Really good, just make sure you play it in a dark
room with the speakers turned up!


 

offline yoyoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2011-02-19 18:21 [#02406724]
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have you built a giant cock yet?


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-02-19 19:01 [#02406727]
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ive done that. we made this today


 

offline yoyoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2011-02-19 23:30 [#02406736]
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looks nice


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-20 20:35 [#02406794]
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What server have you guys been playing on? Mind sharing the
info with me, you can email me if you want, in my profile.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2011-02-22 21:47 [#02406981]
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i just got this. what do i do


 

offline corticalstim from Canada on 2011-02-22 23:34 [#02406986]
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How to survive the first night

Also, there was a pretty significant update released today,
full list of changes here.

Most notable: there have been some big optimizations and the
game seems to run much more smoothly now, especially on
low-end machines.

Also, beds!


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-02-23 00:48 [#02406992]
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just me and a mate really. nothing too serious. we should
start a zilty server


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2011-02-23 04:00 [#02407003]
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That looks Fucking amazing. I will buy it. I will play with
it till I go blind.


 

online mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2011-02-23 09:46 [#02407006]
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I played it intensively for a couple weeks but got bored
without a good multiplayer server to play on.

Made a video of my water elevator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5bef_JDecI note: the sound is a little loud, turn it
down

i don't know about '8 times the size of the earth' from what
i've heard it's not got a limit to the size but even if it
is limited each time you start a game it's a new world so
it's virtually unlimited in that respect.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2011-02-23 13:38 [#02407010]
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I like to set the difficulty to 'peaceful' and just potter
around exploring. I never get any further than building a
smelter and rudimentary houses before I decide to spawn a
new world.

It's good shit but it completely rapes my laptops battery.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2011-02-23 13:46 [#02407011]
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Also, is the netherworld type place somewhere you can mine
to or do you have to teleport there?


 

offline Portnoy on 2011-02-23 15:05 [#02407013]
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You have to make a portal. Combining water and lava and then
using a lighter on it or something. Haven't done it yet.
Taking things slow. Setting up a nice perimeter, building an
air garden, finding and making good mining sites.

My friend and I dug quite deep and found a "dungeon" where
there is a spawning point. My friend made a nifty trap which
captures and drowns the skeletons, effectively creating a
nice chamber that farms bones and arrows.

Fucking good game.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2011-02-23 16:05 [#02407015]
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cheers, i've been through a few tutorials and i'm getting to
grips with it. this is fucking awesome


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2011-02-23 19:04 [#02407018]
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Everybody hugged in a Minecraft chat room, and then IDM came
out of the vaginas.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2012-11-02 09:44 [#02443954]
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Legocraft. I made this.


Attached picture

 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2012-11-02 15:44 [#02443971]
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cool.


 


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