Minecraft, awesome one man game project

[Timman_24]

Nice nice. How old was he and what class was he teaching?

I'd say he's in his 40's. He is a nuclear engineering professor. Really cool guy actually, so I'm not surprised he likes good games

[linoleum]

Creepers are starting to frustrate me too much.

And on October 11th Notch wrote the following on his twitter: "I just made the most unfair mob ever even more unfair. You will hate the Ghast."

Flying creepers or something?

[Rush]

Well there you go, now you have something to do with the cobblestone.

Make a highway.


...with a 4 lane minecart track on it, of course.

Definitely thinking about a minecart superhighway!

For now I turned all the cobblestone back into clean rock and built a freaking massive castle out of it...

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8103/mc7m.jpg
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5366/mc5w.jpg

[taggart6]

Holy crap!

Did you do all that by hand?

you should post your world for others to check out.

[James]

Wow, that's a hell of a lot more impressive than what I've been doing.

I hit bedrock at the bottom of my staircase, and I've been systematically digging out all available "diggable" materials, and replacing it with glass. So in the areas where there is a break through the bedrock to the sky, you can see it. It also gives me an indicator of day/night when I'm down in the pit, digging away. Costing me a ton of time harvesting sand/wood to feed my 5 furnaces though.

I tried powering them with lava, but it got too expensive in iron for buckets. I've now got a farm of trees. My original farm was too close to my lava moat. It kept catching on fire.

[Adisharr]

Wow, that's a hell of a lot more impressive than what I've been doing.

I hit bedrock at the bottom of my staircase, and I've been systematically digging out all available "diggable" materials, and replacing it with glass. So in the areas where there is a break through the bedrock to the sky, you can see it. It also gives me an indicator of day/night when I'm down in the pit, digging away. Costing me a ton of time harvesting sand/wood to feed my 5 furnaces though.

I tried powering them with lava, but it got too expensive in iron for buckets. I've now got a farm of trees. My original farm was too close to my lava moat. It kept catching on fire.

Have you tried coal? I've got about 400 coal right now - it seems pretty plentiful on my current map.

[Kamakazie]

Have you tried coal? I've got about 400 coal right now - it seems pretty plentiful on my current map.

Same here. Coal > *.

[taggart6]

Been cranking out a bunch of placed lights to have them all turn to lanterns after the update.

[James]

Have you tried coal? I've got about 400 coal right now - it seems pretty plentiful on my current map.

Same here. Coal > *.

I've been converting all my coal into torches. That being said, I only have about 2 stacks of torches currently. I go through them at a prodigious rate.

[Adisharr]

I've been converting all my coal into torches. That being said, I only have about 2 stacks of torches currently. I go through them at a prodigious rate.

Ooo I keep forgetting to do that. Will the update convert all your torches in inventory to lanterns as well or do they have to be attached?

[James]

Ooo I keep forgetting to do that. Will the update convert all your torches in inventory to lanterns as well or do they have to be attached?

I think they have to be placed.
Not sure though. I haven't been following it.

[taggart6]

I think they have to be placed.
Not sure though. I haven't been following it.

My understanding is they have to be placed. Other wise they keep as torches that remain lite for only a short amount of time once planted.

I just started lining my house with them.

[kpxgq]

Have you tried coal? I've got about 400 coal right now - it seems pretty plentiful on my current map.

lol, i didnt even know you could power a furnace with wood, ive always used coal

[kpxgq]

Creepers are starting to frustrate me too much.

I started trying to build a water trap (which never really worked), but in the process it kept getting blown up by creepers (both while trying to build and while trying to test). Eventually I just built a big wall around it so I could at least complete it in peace...and of course after I reopened it, a creeper exploded right at the wall and the water flooded the hill right outside my base.

I don't mind them generally as part of the challenge of the game, but they don't die in the sun and they don't make noise, and they do way more damage than the other foes (because they take out property as well as health) and they have this tendency to get "stuck" right along walls so you can't see them until you land next to them (unlike the other foes which tend to start jumping/shooting at you when you get near them), so at the very least they should have a reduced spawn amount or something.


Also, we could do a multiplayer "group build" in Classic while we wait for the bugs to be fixed in multiplayer Alpha. This could also include people that haven't bought the game...if anyone is interested?

i just bump down the difficulty to "peaceful" so they dont bother me while im doing a big project... it might be considered "cheating" but so is placing a ton of torches to get free lanterns post-patch

[taggart6]

i just bump down the difficulty to "peaceful" so they dont bother me while im doing a big project... it might be considered "cheating" but so is placing a ton of torches to get free lanterns post-patch