minecraft

[Jerome Scuggs]

so i dug my way out and then used the ladders to build a tower that goes 20 or so blocks high, and now i can see most of the world i am in. it's huge! what i thought was just a vast expanse of water is in fact just a lake, and there's an island in the middle of it. my new goal is to, of course, dig an underground tunnel connecting it to my current infrastructure. this is a new challenge. before, i could look from the entrance of a mine or a house, to the other entrance, and guesstimate where i needed to be digging, and then dig. after awhile, i then dig up and poke my head out and see where i am so i can adjust the direction or depth of the tunnel. the problem now is, since i am going under a lake, i wont be able to poke out and check my progress without flooding the tunnel. gonna have to make some hella good guesses to get this one connected!

using that minepedia website i looked up how to craft a boat and holy cow it goes pretty fast, i think i am now going to build a "water-road" around the world. like an aqueduct on crack.

galleleo: haha ok point taken, but ONLY because assassin's creed and the sequel are two of the tightest games i've played recently.

[Jason]

it's not about the shit you build looking good

it's the fact that you can build alllllll kinds of shit

you're only limited by your imagination (which, hopefully, isn't shitty!)

[Galleleo]

it's like heroin, i mean when you look at it objectively it's like how can you get addicted to a drug that is injected via needle and causes you to puke and shit everywhere and ruin your life? but then you do heroin and it's like... man, have you guys tried that heroin? oh and also i have a brain and like to think as opposed to being dazzled by the latest ~!*GfX*!~

I'm not dazzled by graphics, I don't really care for Bioshock for instance. Also I like Assasin's Creed and I thought the first one was better looking than the second one, but the second one is better overall.

It's just... in this day and age and you're working with that. I would just get annoyed by it.

Edit: Besides if it's about building shit, I want that shit to look good, not... well, like that.

[Vatican Assassin]

graphics remind me of world of xeen

[Jerome Scuggs]

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

all the info you need to start learning what resources to combine to make this and that

holy shit this is nice. time to build the world's biggest ladder

[Jason]

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

all the info you need to start learning what resources to combine to make this and that

[Jerome Scuggs]

i feel kinda dumb, i just realized i had some wood on me, so i crafted a workbench and then used it to craft some torches and now i can see. just gonna backtrack and see if i can get out of here!

Neat.... Somehow I'd never heard of this until this thread.

Very interesting concept and it is quite fun, although having a mountainous snow world with almost no trees was totally uncool the first time I played; got killed by something with arrows in the dark when i finally found some trees. lol

i had the same experience, so i started a new world and it gave me a normal world with mountains and lakes and lots of trees. on the first day you want to have wood, iron ore and coal by sundown. i just build a hut out of earth, or dig into the side of a mountain, either way you gotta then craft a workbench so you can craft a door so you won't get killed at night. and then you craft torches so you can see and then you won't have to spend your first night in the dark. that's why i like to dig a house into the side of a mountain - at night, you can just go home and spend your time mining into the mountain, so by sunrise you have a shitload of resources, and a bigger house

[Jerome Scuggs]

so four in-game days in, and i have connected my first hut via underground tunnels to the mine and where i cut trees down, so even at night i can still travel to collect resources. maybe soon i will craft a sword or something to fight zombies at night.

while i was in the mine looking for coal i dug a tunnel down (i think you can craft ladders but i dont know how / what resources you need, if i could i would just drop a shaft straight down) and stumbled across a huge, spooky cavern. i walked down it a ways until i ran out of torches to put on the walls, and then i just started digging upwards to find out where i was. turns out i was under the lake, and the cavern flooded and i got swept into pitch black. i now have no idea where i am. i am under the earth in a flooded cavern that is huge. it could take hours to get out, mainly because there's no light and i am completely dis-oriented.

maybe i should just start a new world. but i dunno. there is so much infrastructure already in place! i spent hours trying to connect all my buildings and mines together via underground tunnel. i dont wanna do it again

[vaped]

Neat.... Somehow I'd never heard of this until this thread.

Very interesting concept and it is quite fun, although having a mountainous snow world with almost no trees was totally uncool the first time I played; got killed by something with arrows in the dark when i finally found some trees. lol

[Jerome Scuggs]

How can you get addicted to a game that looks like it runs on MS-DOS.

it's like heroin, i mean when you look at it objectively it's like how can you get addicted to a drug that is injected via needle and causes you to puke and shit everywhere and ruin your life? but then you do heroin and it's like... man, have you guys tried that heroin? oh and also i have a brain and like to think as opposed to being dazzled by the latest ~!*GfX*!~

[Jason]

we play spaceships

obviously we don't care about graphics

[Galleleo]

How can you get addicted to a game that looks like it runs on MS-DOS.

[D1st0rt]

i played it the weekend the server was down and it was free

i see the appeal but I never really had much of an attention span for games that weren't alpha centauri or ncaa football

[PaulOakenfold]

GBS Goons love this game, so I decided to never try it.

[Ilya]

i have no intention of playing this but i've spent hours watching the minecraft youtubes



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