Minecraft

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » July 12th, 2010, 15:19

Dog Pants wrote:Invade someone else's and hide there like mole people.

Legoshoes · Post by **Legoshoes** » July 12th, 2010, 15:46

That could be endless fun. Burrowing for ore and coal, only emerging at night to collect wood and harvest souls.

I can't wait for it.

Someone work on a mole-people skin...

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 12th, 2010, 15:51

Willwillwritehiswill wrote:Someone work on a mole-people skin...

Oh this, that would be awesome. Turning up on random servers, all pink eyes and white skin, silently digging away and hiding. The paranoia (before they killed us all) would be brilliant.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 12th, 2010, 16:29

It should be easy enough to make a skin for everyone to wear. Bearing in mind we'd have to go without armour if we wanted to show it off.

There's a good lot of skins here: http://tkte.ch/skins2/
I'm wearing naked, hairy, moustached gentleman: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=spoodie

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 12th, 2010, 16:46

A gaggle of naked 5punkers? Brilliant, we could pre-enact Jock's wedding!

Mine's Stan from Monkey Island;

http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=DogPants

Post by **Grimmie** » July 12th, 2010, 16:59

SLA-Grim

http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=Grimmie

Legoshoes · Post by **Legoshoes** » July 12th, 2010, 17:26

Mine works a whole lot better if he's standing still.

http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=legoshoes

for anyone that wants it...

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 12th, 2010, 17:28

If only you could stick another little appendage on there, flailing about.

Legoshoes · Post by **Legoshoes** » July 12th, 2010, 17:38

Fingers crossed Notch allows jiggle-bones in a future update.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 12th, 2010, 19:34

Damn you Minecraft. I've decided that he dropped the spawn of ores for a few stages, and that I built my lava-moated gothic farm fortress during one of these stages. As much as I love my fortress, I just can't bring myself to dig around finding knob all any longer. No caves, only tiny patches of ore, no bloody dungeon. But that means I'll have to start again.

Oh, and I lost my diamond sword when I went spelunking to find interesting caves from the surface, and a zombie pushed me down a big waterfall.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » July 12th, 2010, 19:42

This game scares me. If I get bored and one day log in I fear I may lose my life. Again.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 13th, 2010, 9:59

I'm put off committing time to building due to all the updates and changes. Just experimenting with small things. Although I still have to commit time to collecting the resources I need to build small things.

Is anyone interested in some instructions for getting started, expanding on what Dog Pants wrote a few pages back? This seems to be the stumbling block for some people (including myself) but it's really not very complicated. I could put it in the wiki.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 13th, 2010, 10:06

A getting started with crafting guide would probably be helpful, it's not super intuitive.

Post by **Grimmie** » July 13th, 2010, 11:30

I might Fraps a tutorial video some time.

That's assuming I know WTF I'm doing of course.

Post by **Joose** » July 13th, 2010, 12:39

I'll put something together, with some of the helpful linkies ive found in. Its a bit weird at first, but pretty simple once you have got used to the quirks. The most useful thing for crafting is a guide to what you can make, such as this

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 13th, 2010, 15:11

I've written a primer guide <a href="http://www.5punk.co.uk/wiki/index.php?t ... e">here</a>. It's the very basics of getting through the first day and night, as I see it. If you feel it can be improved or there's any mistakes then poke it. Or if anyone wants to make more pages they can be linked to the main Minecraft page what I made (glory at it's rich content). Or stick it on the main page if appropriate.

A video tutorial would be good if you've got the inclination. It's certainly my preferred way of learning. I thought about making one then I realised it'd be too much like hard work to make and probably to watch if I did it.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 13th, 2010, 16:39

Looks like a good starter to me. Needs a newb to go over it though, it's easy to see things as simple when you already know how to do them.

Post by **FatherJack** » July 13th, 2010, 16:53

Dog Pants wrote:Looks like a good starter to me. Needs a newb to go over it though, it's easy to see things as simple when you already know how to do them.

I'm a newb! And none of that stuff happens. Is this a paid-for version? The free in-browser thingy on the web page just has you wandering around an empty map.

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 13th, 2010, 17:28

Ah, yes.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 13th, 2010, 18:03

I've modified the titles for clarity. You don't need much in the way of instruction for the classic mode.