I finally started building. I need A LOT more cobblestone. A LOT. If anyone has spare, I'll be happy to take them.
Visit my excavation some time. Dig away!
You could also help me hollow out my great hall.
Also, I turned my dirt into cobblestone. Sell 64 dirt at the market for 1 gold, then buy 32 cobblestone with that gold. I had a large chest filled with stacks of dirt, so this was a great way to replenish my cobblestone reserves.
If you like repetitive manual labor, go work in factory.
The fun in mining is the exploration. Finding an underground passage or a sudden lava flow.
I finally started building. I need A LOT more cobblestone. A LOT. If anyone has spare, I'll be happy to take them.
Visit my excavation some time. Dig away!
You could also help me hollow out my great hall.
Also, I turned my dirt into cobblestone. Sell 64 dirt at the market for 1 gold, then buy 32 cobblestone with that gold. I had a large chest filled with stacks of dirt, so this was a great way to replenish my cobblestone reserves.
That's not a bad idea, but I use all my spare dirt/sand/gravel to fill up water holes.
Scott doesn't get that the act of exploring, mining, and then building an efficient system to collect and transport resources is half the fun of Minecraft. The constraints of this system drive the creativity. Want a lot of X resource? Come up with a clever way to get it. Defend against enemies. Overcome obstacles. It's a game with tangible and contextual rewards that allow world-enrichment.
Hardly anyone would bother with it if it were just a LEGO system.
Peaceful mode means no one smashes your precious digital legos, Scott.
You still have to collect the LEGOs.
Which obviously isn't fun.
If you like repetitive manual labor, go work in factory.
Because you can't do anything creative when you dig. Why do you keep expressing your complete inability to grasp the appeal. It's like you're setting yourself up to just not understand.
Scott doesn't get that the act of exploring, mining, and then building an efficient system to collect and transport resources is half the fun of Minecraft. Hardly anyone would bother with it if it were just a LEGO system.
Are you kidding? Imagine a game where everyone had infinity of every LEGO piece ever. Then you could all build with those LEGO in a shared space. Now imagine if it had a full set of working Technic pieces. And then add on working rockets and aerodynamics for flight and space travel. Also working weaponry. Then have multiple game modes of both coop and vs. I would play it forever.
Pete: Tertius' first market tycoon! Trading useless stuff for useful stuff! Industry, science, and technology! Big men putting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them! Build your own atom storage box! Bringing you state-of-the-art in soft serve technology! Pulls off caps of any size jug, bottle, or jar. And it really, really works.
Are you kidding? Imagine a game where everyone had infinity of every LEGO piece ever. Then you could all build with those LEGO in a shared space. Now imagine if it had a full set of working Technic pieces. And then add on working rockets and aerodynamics for flight and space travel. Also working weaponry. Then have multiple game modes of both coop and vs. I would play it forever.
Scott doesn't get that the act of exploring, mining, and then building an efficient system to collect and transport resources is half the fun of Minecraft. Hardly anyone would bother with it if it were just a LEGO system.
Are you kidding? Imagine a game where everyone had infinity of every LEGO piece ever. Then you could all build with those LEGO in a shared space. Now imagine if it had a full set of working Technic pieces. And then add on working rockets and aerodynamics for flight and space travel. Also working weaponry. Then have multiple game modes of both coop and vs. I would play it forever.
I think you've just described Garry's Mod. If you've ever played Garry's Mod, you know should know why none of that really works as well as you want it to.
I haven't yet had to mine specifically to collect building resources. I picked a medium hill to make my structure on, and just from completing some reshaping of the hill and building a few cool tunnels I had thought up, it left me with tons of cobblestone and dirt. It was enough to complete the whole structure and then go to the market and get like 50 gold ingots. As long as I'm not building my next structure out of some crazy precious metal or something, I am set.
The point of this post is to say that if you want to play Minecraft but don't want to do manual labor, you don't have to. If you have very grand plans or choose to use expensive resources, you might have to do the labor, but nobody is forcing you to do either or those. Yes, mining time and resource scarcity are false limitations instituted by the game, but it's the best game of its type so far, so I choose to play.
Ro, I didn't see the market for a few days either. It's really tucked away in a corner, but is close to spawn. I realized where it was when Jason posted the latest map. Look for the big blue and red covered awnings in the center of the map and navigate to them.
Are you kidding? Imagine a game where everyone had infinity of every LEGO piece ever. Then you could all build with those LEGO in a shared space. Now imagine if it had a full set of working Technic pieces. And then add on working rockets and aerodynamics for flight and space travel. Also working weaponry. Then have multiple game modes of both coop and vs. I would play it forever.
Thats basically what I wanted the LEGO MMO to be.
And unfortunately, it could not be further from what the LEGO MMO actually is. Sigh.
I think you've just described Garry's Mod. If you've ever played Garry's Mod, you know should know why none of that really works as well as you want it to.
Are you kidding? Imagine a game where everyone had infinity of every LEGO piece ever. Then you could all build with those LEGO in a shared space. Now imagine if it had a full set of working Technic pieces. And then add on working rockets and aerodynamics for flight and space travel. Also working weaponry. Then have multiple game modes of both coop and vs. I would play it forever.
So make your own server where you have admin privileges and just spawn whatever you want to build with.
Pete: Tertius' first market tycoon! Trading useless stuff for useful stuff! Industry, science, and technology! Big men putting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them! Build your own atom storage box! Bringing you state-of-the-art in soft serve technology! Pulls off caps of any size jug, bottle, or jar. And it really, really works.
You should put obsidian on the market. I have a vast obsidian mine, and the shit takes way too long to actually mine by hand.
Can you do that?
And why can't I use a netherack to make an infinite furnace?
EDIT: I really want Notch to add other kinds of ships to this. Like, if I build a bunch of boats, and then put the boats together, I should get a bigger boat.
EDIT 2: I wonder if there's a way for me to play Minecraft at work...
Constraints gave us The Empire Strikes Back. A lack of constraints gave us The Phantom Menace. Limitations force creativity.
I don't completely agree with that. I think constraints definitely help, especially when people don't know when to stop. But not having any constraints can lead to some amazing and creative things as well. It really just depends on the person.
For example: I have no limitations on the server, so the game for me is doing grander things and solving larger puzzles, instead of mining for resources and dealing with the constraints of that.
Translation: I like being in a skinner box, but this one isn't finely tuned enough. I need more food pellets for less button presses!
Told you, make your own server, spawn whatever you need and LEGO the shit out of the world. Even if you don't mine all the resources, building the thing is still hard work and quite fulfilling.
I caught the bug yesterday. I'm actually kinda pissed because I started one game when I didn't know what the hell I was doing. Hacked up a bunch of diamonds with a stone pick because I had no idea. I restarted, and now I've got a nice mine with a castle on top. I'll show off the castle later. It's not visually impressive, but it gets the job done, and it has a tower.
Genius. I've just sort of made my mine all willy-nilly trying to branch out and find ores, but making a dungeon to go below my castle would be teh awesome. I'm also going to try to keep adding rooms and such to the castle. If only I could get some furniture to decorate.
I say yes, as long as the server is free of, or has very few, monsters. Personally I feel they are just annoying and troublesome. They distract from creating awesomeness. It's like I'm trying to be an architect, and some zombie comes and eats my brain. wtf.
Seeing a video of someone's stuff is a lot less interesting than exploring it yourself.
Anyone want to give me instructions on how to farm?
This game actually finally got me to buy fraps. I got a video encoding, but YouTube uploads are so slow on Time Warner. You'll have to wait for me to go to Rym's apartment. Also, having a better video card now makes fraps not suck.
And my personal favorite:
I am Dig-Dug now.
In case you can't tell, I'm blatantly taking the piss.
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You could also help me hollow out my great hall.
Also, I turned my dirt into cobblestone. Sell 64 dirt at the market for 1 gold, then buy 32 cobblestone with that gold. I had a large chest filled with stacks of dirt, so this was a great way to replenish my cobblestone reserves. The fun in mining is the exploration. Finding an underground passage or a sudden lava flow.
I have yet to find the market or really explore.
Hardly anyone would bother with it if it were just a LEGO system.
Why do you keep expressing your complete inability to grasp the appeal. It's like you're setting yourself up to just not understand.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go have fun building parapets along my border walls.
The point of this post is to say that if you want to play Minecraft but don't want to do manual labor, you don't have to. If you have very grand plans or choose to use expensive resources, you might have to do the labor, but nobody is forcing you to do either or those. Yes, mining time and resource scarcity are false limitations instituted by the game, but it's the best game of its type so far, so I choose to play.
Ro, I didn't see the market for a few days either. It's really tucked away in a corner, but is close to spawn. I realized where it was when Jason posted the latest map. Look for the big blue and red covered awnings in the center of the map and navigate to them.
Can you do that?
And why can't I use a netherack to make an infinite furnace?
EDIT: I really want Notch to add other kinds of ships to this. Like, if I build a bunch of boats, and then put the boats together, I should get a bigger boat.
EDIT 2: I wonder if there's a way for me to play Minecraft at work...
But that's probably a VERY good thing.
Also from Rooster Teeth. My friend showed this to me as soon as I told him I played Minecraft now.
Those Rooster Teeth shorts are pretty hilarious.
For example: I have no limitations on the server, so the game for me is doing grander things and solving larger puzzles, instead of mining for resources and dealing with the constraints of that.
I need to get Obsidian. >____<
@Sonic: I debugged something that might have been giving you problems at login. You should be good now.
@Pete: I am thinking about the obsidian thing.