ive made a couple of joke posts about snow and water physics in minecraft and that got me thinking. i cant think of any other game out there that lets you do the things you can do in minecraft. is minecraft really the most advanced game to date?

water physics including flow and the water pushes your character with the current.

land deformation and destructable terrain (if youve encounted any creepers you know what im talking about)

advance snow physics. not only can you collect it but you can also craft snowballs with it.

one of the most complicated and versatile crafting systems ive seen ever including in MMOs.

for you fellow engineering students out there they have red dust which is used for creating on/off switch systems for doors and various contraptions

intelligent AI. if a creeper cant get into your house and you get to close to him to swing your sword he will simply blow up and kill you or at least take out your door and windows. i learned the hard way that you cant have to empty side by side space open no matter how high you are.......those spiders will get in. eeks

fire actually burns the environment and even spreads further out.

gravel is affected by gravity (i wonder why they dont do the same thing with dirt)

tools and weapons degrade with use

an exciting plotline similar to castaway with tom hanks

probably lots more things i can think of.

Joke?

You can program that sort of stuff in LittleBigPlanet2, but then, you can do it with GMod if you wanted to.

There's actually a large ongoing thread about Minecraft already, you're welcome to repost this http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1169068-unofficial-minecraft-discussion-xxxiii/ but it's about to hit 200 posts so you may want to wait for the next iteration.


It's not AI I'm afraid, creepers blow up when you get within a certain distance of them providing nothing is blocking you (you and a creeper can be on opposite sides of a window or even a door without them going off. So it's not that the creeper blows up because it can't get to you, you've just gotten close enough to trigger it.

Creepers will try and hide however, which is something. Then again in terms of intelligent AI it's painfully easy to get a mob to run smack in to a cactus, or in to a pit, or in to a pool of lava, etc. as long as the obstacle/trap is in between you and it since most of the time they charge straight towards you with no thought to what is in between.