Haha, they were before I tried out Minecraft. There wasn't a demo out and I was worried about getting bored with it, but after playing the demo basically 3 times, I'm trying to pick it up.

Speaking of, I'm actually trying to buy it right now, http://oi53.tinypic.com/25yvpg7.jpg....(Uh, totally forgot it took a screenshot of both monitors. Oh well.). I have NoScript and AdBlock Plus both off. What's up?

Nevermind: Just had to use the spawn of Satan Internet Explorer.

Well first you have to run the mod that allows for higher-res textures. It should be in the same post in the link. But it should run fine even without the mod, you just wouldn't get animated water and a couple other things. If you're having performance problems it's probably because your computer can't handle higher-res textures.

Ok, so my card isn't working tonight. If someone gifts me the game tonight, I'll, uh, gift them a $15 on Steam or something later.

Please? You know I'm good for it.

Here is the pack I was talking about Colonel :celebration:


[post='John Smith']http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1021&t=29164&sid=cdde1956d3b9dd4c28e802de4c2afae3[/post]

I would've but I just cut up my card.

Awww, well, it's the thought that counts! haha.

I can do it, send me a PM.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE :cryvaultboy:

I DL'd the patcher, now the inbrowser Minecraft goes straight to blackscreen :sadvaultboy:

Delete .minecaft (make sure you back up levels) and then reinstall from the website.

Augh, just screw it, I guess I'll wait until we go to 1.5 and mess with texture packs. To much hassle with that 1.4 crap.

Edit:In Hindsight, I may need a 1.4 John Smith Texture pack

I've been messing around with the new powered rails. You would think you would need a lot of them but you really don't. Well... going up steep ramps takes a lot more power so for those you need at least one every three steps. But otherwise you can travel pretty far with just one. It's still hard getting enough gold to make them though. 1 gold bar basically equals 1 powered rail so when you gather enough gold to make it you get 6 total. So far I only have 12 powered rails. But seeing as my rail network has about 200 normal rails so far, that's not bad.

yeah that 1km on rails achievement is pretty hard when you think about it. 1000 blocks of rails, that's going to deplete my iron reserves

Okay, seriously. Drop what you're doing in Minecraft right now. Start up a new world and use the seed "Skyrim" without the quotes.

Okay, I did that and it turns out that it's snowy. So... yeh, snowy. Like Skyrim. Right.

Well. I just managed it. I broke... a diamond pickaxe. Mining obsidian alone. That's right. I now have 1562 blocks of obsidian... on the nose. Enough to make a 15x15 tower - shell only - 26 blocks high, with some change.

Which means, I'm about halfway to the goal. I cannot tell you just how exhausted I am right now, after having made that damn Nether run so many countless times... However, I'm quite proud of my resilience and patience, just mining that one block over and over and over and over and over... Sigh

... Regardless. I'm not gonna be awake and around by the time 1 PM rolls around, which is when my 48 hours are up. So, I'm gonna skip right to the good part and http://www.mediafire.com/?l75d92aiz6pm4gr to do with what you will. May the fruits of your labors turn out more than just a chest half-full of obsidian like mine did.

Oh, and Mr. E... That minecart tunnel of yours. You burrowed right through two coal patches that were annoying me greatly every time I passed by them in my little cart. So after I broke my diamond pick, I stopped by in that tunnel with the stone one and chopped out all the coal. Came away with about 20 coal, after which I replaced everything I mined with smooth stone. So now your tunnel looks a little bit more pristine.

Much respect for mining all of that, I could never mine that much Obsidian, hell I can barely stand taking apart nether portals. One question though, where exactly are the molds and the chests of Obsidian? I looked around the main tower but I must have missed it...

...oh hey...it's 5:30am. Look at that.

Damn this game.

Yeah, it'll do that to ya. Don't worry, it gets worse. :wink_smile:

Maybe, I don't mind that lightning does that, it makes perfect sense and adds another element of risk, but my pirate town is made almost entirely of wood and wool (Sails, flags etc.) Having that burn down would be...I don't know, it would svck. I already started an accidental forest fire while experimenting with netherrack for use with some beacon towers around the town, I'm glad I made that mistake there and not in the town itself.

EDIT: Oh, breaking a diamond tool? On our MP server me and some friends decided to build a desert palace...thing is, most of the area we decided to use was covered by dirt and water. I broke 3 diamond shovels digging through dirt and then spent hours placing sand blocks. The palace isn't even done, we've started a new map on our server some time ago.

I baked you a cake as a reward!

...it's not a lie.

Heh. Usually I do the same... I usually do up a lot of smooth stone in the furnace for that very reason - I much prefer building with it than with cobble. And it corrects the... imperfections. I'll eventually go into the tunnel and do the same for all the dirt and cobble bits, I bet.

And yes, kudos on the mining. Exemplary patience.

http://notch.tumblr.com/


It'll be the first time that we use our left arm for something in the game.

It will be nice to be able to use paper for something other than decoration.

That maps thing looks wicked. I wonder how its going to display my 150MB map...

After seeing a wicked texture pack posted in this thread I think i'm already going to revisit minecraft for just a bit!

I visited the Minecraft forums and i've been reading a few tweets to and from Notch, and it really seems like the people have a massive say over the development of this game. When he implements certain things, (ladders for instance) He'll get yelled at for making them only climb 1 square...When he was going to charge for API, people once again yelled at him and he busted under the pressure.

If you take a step back and look at how this game is being developed...its a lot more radical then simple ideas and suggestions you'd find here or in any other forum.

Great. Next step: Mining skills that display in the stars. :shifty: