This forum is in permanent archive mode. Our new active community can be found here.

Minecraft - First Person Dwarf Fortress.... Kinda

1161719212233

Comments

  • edited November 2010
    The AI really doesn't fit with the rest of the game currently. How I'd like to see it would be that enemies spawn out of something (Could be a block or fog or some other condition.) that you first have to go in and clear out before you get down to mining an area.

    Am I the only one who prefers cave exploration to just standard mining?
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • It's not hard to craft. Sometimes it can be hard to find the materials, but that's what exploration is about. To know how to survive your first night, you need to know crafting basics, and there is no in-game tutorial. Go to the YouTubs for help getting through your first night.
    Don't bother with that bullshit. Just turn on peaceful mode.
    That won't stop the dark. And if he doesn't know how to get coal and process wood into sticks to make light, he's in for a very boring 20 minutes of night.
  • That won't stop the dark. And if he doesn't know how to get coal and process wood into sticks to make light, he's in for a very boring 20 minutes of night.
    I don't know about you, but I can mine in the dark. It never gets completely dark, and I can still see what I'm doing.
  • Just building and mining is really boring. Exploring is also pretty boring after a while without any real danger.
  • Just building and mining is really boring. Exploring is also pretty boring after a while without any real danger.
    Man, painting is so boring. It's no fun unless there's a chance of someone barging into your studio with a bomb.
  • Man, painting is so boring. It's no fun unless there's a chance of someone barging into your studio with a bomb.
    Minecraft in easy mode is akin to painting with additional manual labor involved. It's not much of a game, but a sandbox.

    If I'm just going to design and build an awesome castle, I'll spawn the blocks I need without actually mining them.
  • The whole game is kinda lacking until they get the multiplayer survival properly sorted.
  • If I'm just going to design and build an awesome castle, I'll spawn the blocks I need without actually mining them.
    This is true that it is annoying having to mine the blocks. However, an artist also has to work in food service to get money to pay rent and buy paint and canvas and such.
  • . However, an artist also has to work in food service to get money to pay rent and buy paint and canvas and such.
    I'd rather do real work for real money to fund art than fake work for the virtual tools to make arbitrarily-constrained art.
  • . However, an artist also has to work in food service to get money to pay rent and buy paint and canvas and such.
    I'd rather do real work for real money to fund art than fake work for the virtual tools to make arbitrarily-constrained art.
    Constraints induce creativity. Design any house I want? Boring. Design a house with only popsicle sticks and chewing gum, oh yeah!
  • Design a house with only popsicle sticks and chewing gum, oh yeah!
    That specific example would be fairly boring as well, at least for me.

    Not all constrained situations are fun for all people.

    Minecraft as a Lego game doesn't excite me at all. Minecraft as a multiplayer game does.

  • Minecraft as a Lego game doesn't excite me at all. Minecraft as a multiplayer survival/combat gamedoes.
    Dwarf Fortress isn't fun because you can make cool forts, it's the stories that emerge due to hardship and fucked up mucous monsters. Minecraft needs less lego, more death.
  • I think Minecraft is good in both ways, just like Dwarf Fortress almost was/is. Remember how Dwarf Fortress had adventure mode that nobody cared about? Build forts, and then explore them. Minecraft bringing multiplayer ads the excitement of having other people collaboratively build and explore simultaneously. I'm excited for all the aspects.
  • Dwarf Fortress isn't fun because you can make cool forts, it's the stories that emerge due to hardship and fucked up mucous monsters. Minecraft needs less lego, more death.
    I disagree to a degree. It can keep its Lego-iness, but it needs more narrative. Whether it's user or Notch-generated Narrative, I don't care. One of those can't happen without decent multiplayer.
  • It needs work, we get it.
  • Dumb question: Currently I can only play in a windowed mode. Is there a full-screen mode I can use? What kind of FPS are you guys getting?
  • Dumb question: Currently I can only play in a windowed mode. Is there a full-screen mode I can use? What kind of FPS are you guys getting?
    Press F11.
  • Dumb question: Currently I can only play in a windowed mode. Is there a full-screen mode I can use? What kind of FPS are you guys getting?
    F11, and for me the game only lags noticeably when it's loading/generating new terrain.
  • edited November 2010
    F11 = CTD.
    Reloaded, F11 = very strange artifacting and "noise" on the screen.
    Post edited by GreatTeacherMacRoss on
  • edited November 2010
    I just spawned 30 blocks away from this:

    image

    BEST WORLD EVER.
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • edited November 2010
    ALERT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I WAS JUST KILLED BY A SKELETON RIDING A SPIDER. YOU HEARD ME: MOTHERFUCKING SPIDER-RIDERS.

    I tried to get pics, but was already endeadened.
    Post edited by Jason on
  • Spiders have a 1 in 100 chance of spawning with a skeleton riding them. I'm looking forward to them getting the saddle working properly (Currently you can only ride, not steer.).
  • SKELETON RIDING A SPIDER
    This is the first time I have felt interest in playing this game.
  • That is so awesome. I wish you had a screenshot/video.
  • Indeed; it's a very rare but very awesome occurrence. My brother had it happen and showed me once, but I didn't get a particularly good viewing of it.
  • Figured out part of my fullscreen issue. I downloaded the program instead of playing it in the browser, which can be made into a fullscreen easily with a little greasemonkey add-on which fixes the artifacting problem.
    Still no idea how to make the downloadable version go fullscreen properly yet.
  • Still no idea how to make the downloadable version go fullscreen properly yet.
    You press F11. If it doesn't work, your computer is busted.
  • Still no idea how to make the downloadable version go fullscreen properly yet.
    You press F11. If it doesn't work, your computer is busted.
    Like I said, it goes full screen, but there is a lot of artifacting (Lots of scrambled patches on the screen). I even updated to the latest catalyst drivers.
  • Like I said, it goes full screen, but there is a lot of artifacting (Lots of scrambled patches on the screen). I even updated to the latest catalyst drivers.
    If it doesn't work, your computer is busted.
Sign In or Register to comment.