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Minecraft - First Person Dwarf Fortress.... Kinda
Since the forum seems to be into playing some indie games, I figured I would bring Minecraft to everyone's attention. I've been playing the shit out of the paid version, but the free version is pretty good too. (If you buy the game now, it's half price.)
Basically, you're dropped with nothing in a randomly generated world, and you can only explore and hit things. You can hit everything in the game. Most of them will turn into an inventory item of themselves. You can combine items into machines, different items, etc. Monsters spawn in very dark areas and they will kill you. The goal is to survive and build things.
This should give you a good idea of the game play, at least early on.
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And this is an example of a player's server.
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The big shocker is, this is an ALPHA. Unless they're just lying and the game is almost done in it's current state, this is going to be an amazing project to watch. The game is extremely fleshed out, supports a fuck ton of people at once, and hasn't given me a single issue in the hours that I've played it.
Anyone interested?
Basically, you're dropped with nothing in a randomly generated world, and you can only explore and hit things. You can hit everything in the game. Most of them will turn into an inventory item of themselves. You can combine items into machines, different items, etc. Monsters spawn in very dark areas and they will kill you. The goal is to survive and build things.
This should give you a good idea of the game play, at least early on.
0VWnQHS-ffs
And this is an example of a player's server.
XUDrevF-LfI
The big shocker is, this is an ALPHA. Unless they're just lying and the game is almost done in it's current state, this is going to be an amazing project to watch. The game is extremely fleshed out, supports a fuck ton of people at once, and hasn't given me a single issue in the hours that I've played it.
Anyone interested?
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All you do is dig, craft, build and punch sheep for wool (or shear them by a snowball offence). The performance is shit, being entirely written in Java. It's way to expensive, €20, luckily there's already opennsource clones that implement the same things. I still play single player survival sometimes because it is fun, but tedious.
EDIT:Can you hand me your BSc?
I've basically been doing what I did in Dwarf Fortress. Dig into a mountain, make a house, strip mine for minerals, make armor and weapons, farm wheat for bread, etc. There's a mineral that let's you build wires also, which means you can make connected switches and traps.
Anyways, now I've been landscaping a rocky overhang in the middle of fucknowhere into a house. It's ridiculous. I'll put a tree farm on top and hide behind the natural wall.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
I'm playing the paid version, but I'm pretty sure most of the recipes work in the free one. The site is actually down right now so I can't check.
Anyway, you need to mine whatever you want to smelt. Then make a furnace. Right click on the furnace and put coal as the fuel (bottom slot) and whatever you want to smelt in the top slot.
I want to love this game as I love my LEGOs. But I have to have some goal, no matter how flimsy, if I want to grind away at blocks all the live long day. A tunnel is meaningless without a place to go. A tower is meaningless without a reason to defend it.
That shouldn't work. You still have to log in. And the client'll get outdated.
I can host a server for a bit, but I can't promise anything on the reliability end of the spectrum.
Let's see what happens?
Edit: Well shit. Furnaces don't work in multiplayer, which means you can't do half the shit in the game, monsters don't spawn, and you can't kill the wild animals for meat or materials. It look like it's just build shit for now. I can spawn shit into the game to build with, it just seems silly to have to.
Maybe we'll see an update soon. It's seems he just added the inventory in not too long ago.
As for the business meetings, I do believe he's going to talk to valve. Maybe to put minecraft on steam, maybe more.
Maybe even have lots of randomly generated towns, as well. You do things and word spreads of you based on your actions, so that when you die, you come back again to a progression of that world. Rumors are passed around about your old character. Maybe a portrait here and there.
Either way, I enjoy this game, especially for it being just an alpha. I can see this going in many good directions, and I hope that it does. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to find some iron ore.
Indie gaming FTW.