Who loves Minecraft?

[geezuzkhrist119]

There's barely any talk about Minecraft here.
Who here plays and what are your thoughts on it?

[ProgrammingAce]

I run a vanilla minecraft server for a few of the people around "here". If anyone wants to join us, send me a PM and I'll get you the info.

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[VertigoProcess]

Ive been meaning to get itto this game but havent gotten around to it yet....

[kupomogli]

From videos it just looks like you create stuff and that's it. Is there anymore to the game?

[ProgrammingAce]

From videos it just looks like you create stuff and that's it. Is there anymore to the game?

From videos, Super Mario Brothers 3 just looks like you walk left and jump; that's it. Is there anymore to the game?

Fun is what you make of it, minecraft especially so.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Sadly, this game makes me feel ill.

No, really. For some reason the game makes me feel ill. It gives me godawful motion sickness... as bad if not worse than Half-Life 2.

I'm more of a Terraria guy, myself.

[RCM]

From videos it just looks like you create stuff and that's it. Is there anymore to the game?

I'm with you in the sense that I don't understand the objective. I originally took it to be a "world building" game, but heard you have to build to defend against some sort of army or foe.

I'm not a big PC guy, but would like to try it when it comes to Kinect.

[Collector_Gaming]

http://www.minecraft.net/classic/play here you go you can try a older version for free here

[Colorado Rockies]

meh. i dont give a damn about this game. seems overhyped.

[kupomogli]

From videos, Super Mario Brothers 3 just looks like you walk left and jump; that's it. Is there anymore to the game?.

Don't you mean walk right and jump(or swim and fly?) Technically you can walk either direction, but the usual direction to the end of the stage is to the right.

[ProgrammingAce]

Don't you mean walk right and jump(or swim and fly?) Technically you can walk either direction, but the usual direction to the end of the stage is to the right.

Nope, my statement is no more incorrect then yours.

There are many things to do in minecraft, building a shelter to protect yourself from the baddies is just the first step. At some point you'll raise chickens to provide feathers to create arrows to kill a dragon. Or mine the depths of hell itself to get ingredients to make a health potion. Or build a 1,200 ft waterslide into the front of your house. Or raise a pack of wolves and keep them as both pets and guardians. Or just stand there looking out a window watching the sunrise over the horizon.

The fun part of the game isn't what *you* build, it's seeing what other people have built around you and adding to that. Once you dig a pile of raw iron ore out of the ground, smelt it in a furnace to make ingots, use the ingots to make plate armor and a sword, then set out across the countryside with a few of your buddies, that's when you'll see what minecraft is about.

[Berserker]

I think what I like most about these type of games is that they seem to speak to some sort of lost childhood curiosity, back when you had no understanding of what a program was, or that cart/disk space was finite, or that there were limits, and wondered what hidden worlds might lie behind or beyond what little slice of it you were seeing on the screen.

[substantial_snake]

I run a vanilla minecraft server for a few of the people around "here". If anyone wants to join us, send me a PM and I'll get you the info.

PM sent.

I enjoy minecraft for simply being creative and building things but with obstacles that present themselves in the game like the various mobs or just terrain or logistical challenges. Its a game that doesn't really have a stated goal and if you cant wrap your brain around that or you just find that unfun then its not the game for you. Otherwise you can literally lose yourself in it and the joke "just one more block" really is how I at least get sucked into minecraft for extended periods of time.

[JSoup]

Minecraft is something I've been meaning to try, but just haven't bothered yet. I've watched a few streams by the Backloggery guys and it seems like something I could get into, but $26 just for me to test the thing goes against my sensibilities. Maybe if the program goes on sale sometime I'll jump.

[otoko]

Prog you run a minecraft server for friends too? Fun!

In any case for me and my friends our fun is trying to take basic items and build something we otherwise couldn't do in real life. Such as stadiums where people fight to the death. Since we don't die for good, it's all good fun with friends!

In honesty like it's been said it's the user that will make the game fun. most of us like sandbox games where you can build dismantle and restart what you are doing. Definitely for those who love to plan and design.

Some things from the past we built before changing server files: We've cleaned up since.

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[geezuzkhrist119]

I think what I like most about these type of games is that they seem to speak to some sort of lost childhood curiosity, back when you had no understanding of what a program was, or that cart/disk space was finite, or that there were limits, and wondered what hidden worlds might lie behind or beyond what little slice of it you were seeing on the screen.

Its the same for me. Back when I was a kid, I loved lego and I mean loved. Thats all I did was build and build for hours apon hours. Minecraft to me is just a giant Lego sandbox without the Lego product name stamped all over it.

[Collector_Gaming]

Know who likes minecraft alot?

This guy
http://blahblahblahscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/deadmau5.jpg

he even has his own server named "Mau5ville"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZADE9aTxA
yes he is that big of a gaming nerd too which is one of the reasons why deadmau5 is awesome! @_@

[geezuzkhrist119]

Know who likes minecraft alot?

This guy
http://blahblahblahscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/deadmau5.jpg

he even has his own server named "Mau5ville"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZADE9aTxA
yes he is that big of a gaming nerd too which is one of the reasons why deadmau5 is awesome! @_@

Does that guy ever take that helmet off?

[Collector_Gaming]

Does that guy ever take that helmet off?

http://www.dirtysmart.com/thumbs/news_images/396x396/joel%20zimmerman%20deadmau5%201fw396fh396.jpg
his real name is Joel Zimmerman.

[geezuzkhrist119]

http://www.dirtysmart.com/thumbs/news_images/396x396/joel%20zimmerman%20deadmau5%201fw396fh396.jpg
his real name is Joel Zimmerman.

didnt expect him to look like that. i had this mental image of him looking full on nerd.

[Jaruff]

I used to play it a lot but I eventually became bored with the game. I paid $18-19 for the game and imo, that's what it is worth. $27 is a bit high for something that is still largely incomplete and buggy.

[VertigoProcess]

Just bought it half a hour ago... would have bought it yesterday but the protest and all...

[geezuzkhrist119]

I paid 20 bucks. The price of stayed at 20.

[geezuzkhrist119]

I paid 20 bucks. The price of stayed at 20.

EDIT: Should of stayed at 20.***

[Drixxel]

Minecraft is awesome, the open ended nature of it is truly mesmerizing and I find it effortless to put hours into this game. The current $20+ price tag may seem a bit steep for a game that's buggy, poorly optimized and incomplete but that's all you'll ever have to spend on it. Performance and content is continuously being updated and you'll have free access to all advances for the life of the project.


I'm with you in the sense that I don't understand the objective. I originally took it to be a "world building" game, but heard you have to build to defend against some sort of army or foe.

I'm not a big PC guy, but would like to try it when it comes to Kinect.

Until the genuine XBLA Minecraft release, you might be interested in checking out one of the handful of Minecraft clones on Xbox Live Indie Games, should the idea of a console version of the game float your boat. The best of those, IMHO, is Total Miner: Forge as it feels the most like the game its directly derived from.

[VertigoProcess]

I am now addict... damn you for putting this thread up and reminding me to check it out... do you know how many games I had before this one on my list? Now im gonna be days behind... thanks a lot for turning me on to this fun game... you jerk...

(I would use a smiling emoticon here but I hate them. Im just gonna assume people know im being sarcastic about the jerk part)

[geezuzkhrist119]

I am now addict... damn you for putting this thread up and reminding me to check it out... do you know how many games I had before this one on my list? Now im gonna be days behind... thanks a lot for turning me on to this fun game... you jerk...

(I would use a smiling emoticon here but I hate them. Im just gonna assume people know im being sarcastic about the jerk part)

And You are welcome. My job here is now complete lol.

[Collector_Gaming]

i just registered and now on a server checking it out and o my gawd. look at all the shit people built above ground and below ground!

[Collector_Gaming]

so far i made a massive castle... and now making a deadmau5 head!

[VertigoProcess]

i just registered and now on a server checking it out and o my gawd. look at all the shit people built above ground and below ground!

Im starting out in survival mode... i gotta take in the massiveness of the game little by little...

[Collector_Gaming]

so far i am using the free mode. but still alot of fun!
i also made a giant robot figure and a mcdonalds building complete with golden arches sign!

[Collector_Gaming]

DUDE!!!!!!!
Deadmau5's server is friggin amazing!!!

I just found a life size pacman maze on it!

people who bought the game...

Join "mau5ville.com"

[geezuzkhrist119]

learn how to make mob spawner traps. i love making those.

[Collector_Gaming]

his server is massive too... its i recon 52x52 atleast plots plus whatever he added for himself.. and thats just 1 world... supposedly he has atleast 4 of them!

edit: nope i just counted... 60x60
so 3600 plots in just one world!

[geezuzkhrist119]

his server is massive too... its i recon 52x52 atleast plots plus whatever he added for himself.. and thats just 1 world... supposedly he has atleast 4 of them!

edit: nope i just counted... 60x60
so 3600 plots in just one world!

Is it a free server?

[Collector_Gaming]

Is it a free server?

i think it only works with the paid copy but it is free to go into yes
i got 3 plots on it (allows you 1 of each of the 4 worlds. i can't get one on the second because its full but yea :P)

and if you get in there.. let me know. My name on there is Captaindoom666

[geezuzkhrist119]

come join the server im playing on server.jazzyhaircuts.biz

its a good server with good people.

[Collector_Gaming]

Well i am playing again. Back on the deadmau5 server. Playing on survival mode and got a community of 5 people so far playing in our house. Pretty wild! If your ever on there let me know look for capatAindoom666!

[Tanooki]

I've been curious about this game but I originally didn't have the specs on my laptop and my wife took over my old PC which could do fine with its now upgraded 2GB video card (it's a quad core pc.) I originally had this weak netbook but upgraded a bit to a X53E ASUS Laptop which has a intel i5-2410M chip clocks as high as 3ghz per core(4) and it has the intel hd 3000 graphics and can use up to 1.7GB (of 6 GB on the system) for video. Prior intel chips were crap, this one rates in around the radeon 5450 line of dx10 video cards from like 2 years back. This thing has run Civ5 smoothly on medium settings and same with Guild Wars 2.

Any clue how this may handle minecraft?

[Collector_Gaming]

Mine craft is a very low resource using game. You'll be perfectly fine.

[Collector_Gaming]

nvm.... got banned on it again.... blew up on someone because they keep hunting me and my group down and destroying our bases no matter how hard we tried... so i blew up on them and got banned whatever i guess

[Tanooki]

Oh really low resources eh? I read earlier in the development it was fairly hungry to render the world unless you stuck to lower detail small areas which wasn't very appealing to me. I may have to give it a shot. Thanks. I had been doing Terraria but I'm sworn off using front end junk friendly or not which includes Steam so that's out.

[Collector_Gaming]

Oh really low resources eh? I read earlier in the development it was fairly hungry to render the world unless you stuck to lower detail small areas which wasn't very appealing to me. I may have to give it a shot. Thanks. I had been doing Terraria but I'm sworn off using front end junk friendly or not which includes Steam so that's out.

the only thing that would eat it up is if large amounts of players or mobs (AI characters) show up. Or some douche decides to blow up like 100 tnt at once (which supposedly theres a video of guy who blew up like a 1000 or so and it made his up to date super gaming pc go blue screen of death).

The game works old fashion style where the more pixels its gotta render specially animated the more its gonna push your computer

oh and after a long chat with head mod of the mau5ville server yesterday i got unbanned.

[heybtbm]

Mine craft is a very low resource using game. You'll be perfectly fine.?


Um...not even close. Minecraft is one of the biggest resource hogs out there. It takes a respectable rig to get it running decently. I have 10 Gb of RAM dedicated to it when I play. There sheer amount of objects this game has to render at one time is enormous.

My advice is to download the Optifine mod, only use the 64-bit version of Java, and dedicate > 4 Gb off memory (right in thecommand line). My PC is an absolute monster and Minecraft ran like shit until I did all of these things.

[Collector_Gaming]

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Um...not even close. Minecraft is one of the biggest resource hogs out there. It takes a respectable rig to get it running decently. I have 10 Gb of RAM dedicated to it when I play. There sheer amount of objects this game has to render at one time is enormous.

My advice is to download the Optifine mod, only use the 64-bit version of Java, and dedicate > 4 Gb off memory (right in thecommand line). My PC is an absolute monster and Minecraft ran like shit until I did all of these things.

I am running 6 gb at high settings and i run it fine

[heybtbm]

I am running 6 gb at high settings and i run it fine6 gb is plenty, I was just responding to the statement that Minecraft is a low resource game. The PC version needs a lot of horsepower. There's a reason this isn't out for PS3, and the portable and 360 versions only have tiny little worlds.

[Collector_Gaming]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/482710_10200859094858013_1567996207_n.jpg

I made this on there! ^_^

also now working on a massive arena in the server i got some unique ideas i think they will like and even the Mau5 himself will like

[Collector_Gaming]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd158/car_show_fan/carshows2/2013-04-05_223751_zps7496bf01.png
made this too

[Nebagram]

I play far more Minecraft than is good for me, though I love the technical side of it most of all, designing small, functional things that have a practical in-game use.

I've also done a let's play series of it that precisely one person watches- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoN7RI9HmsLqVcVKIZFEYcO48vvUGz5f2

[Collector_Gaming]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd158/car_show_fan/carshows2/2013-04-07_205523_zpsb8b3a222.png

I finished my arena

24 hours of work (i am serious too)

roughly 200 thousand bricks to make it.

Has 4 bathrooms
a consession stand
ticket booth
5 ticket lines/security checks
9 entrances into the concert arena part of the building
general admission floor as well as stadium style seating
glass front
merch stand

I think i might add a full on restraunt on a second floor in the main lobby

Phew