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- detritus0
I have a self-emplaced embargo on playing this game.
EVERY time I stupidly load it up, BAM! goes 8 hours, easily. I mean, I'm half-doing other things too, but it's there, on the bigger screen, coyly lifting up a suspender, entreating me to toy, to fix—to just 'try that one thing'.
Last weekend—I spent hours, literally clusters of entire hours, growing forests, inadvertantly burning them down again (fucking flint - fuck you, flint), then growing them back up.
Then the forests grow tall, so I have add lights higher up, to stop mob spawning over my base - the the trees grow more, so I have to add more lights, then... BAM! ad nauseum.
And of course, just when you've got your modern glass-roofed subterranean complex finished, when it reaches aesthetic affinity with the tree canopy warren complex—IN COMES FLINT! and burns it all off again. BAM! another hour or so to fix.
My Nether experiences thusfar have been a bit weak though - every portal I've made drops me in nigh-on solid rock—no Ghasts, no Zombie Pigs, nuttin' :(
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Anyone know how to set up an online MP server?
We could have a QBN-o-sphere! (Oh, imagine teh greefs)
- detritus0
Is this Microsoft sticking a very large foot in the future door of VR, whose future is at the moment seemingly owned as it is by Facebook?
in the short-term, a kid-centric phablet-type thing with this preloaded and a world subscription thrown in, then VR as it comes in down the line, means MS suddenly has long-term brand allegiance again.
- Stugoo0
so ive been of on the sick for a week,
I though 9 euros, no bad, so i started playing.... found it difficult to get started, was consulting the wiki loads but once i got into a routine I was harvesting resources to build a castle, and exploring underworld and the land outside... i keep looking back wondering what I am achieving but it doesnt matter... im addicted.
now im building an dungeon....
- Hombre_Lobo_20
Lol detritus!!!
I'm pleased to see the level of commitment / addiction some qbners have to this game, nether world portals, fugged with his diamond pic axe. I'm a bit of a hardcore pc fps shooter and sometimes feel alone in these boards with my levels of geekiness. But not now!!
- Hombre_Lobo_20
A multiplayer Qbn server would be immense.
I mean who else could rival the cool stuff multi disciplinerian designers could build with our obsessive perfectionism!!
- detritus0
Quite stupidly, a friend and I rented a 3 month slot on a server the other day. Thankfully the recent server/client updates have rendered online play laggy beyond belief, so I've only wasted 6 hours or so of my increasingly pointless life.
Such a bad, bad idea.
- detritus0
"our obsessive perfectionism!! "
Heh, I was going to post a pic of my current project, but remembered I haven't yet made the periphery blend in to the landscape - I've still got the brutal, clumsy lines of burning, protective (occasionally self-conflagatory...) Netherstone around the periphery, still got hard lines around where I delineated the extent of my base.
Once I've fucked up another night's sleep this week sometime, I'll give it a post :)
godfuck, I'm in my fucking thirties for crissakes.
- haha thats the perfectionism im talking about! good man!Hombre_Lobo_2
- i even find myself looking at architecture on g.images for inspiration! lolHombre_Lobo_2
- jtb260
Can't see this being worth 2.5 Billion to MS. It's certainly valuable, but with none of the creators coming over it's hard for me to imagine them seeing a return on this. It's at the peak of it's popularity.
VR would be a good move for minecraft. I'm just not sure there's 2b in that well.
- drgz0
Im immune to addicting games
- detritus0
Actually—anyone care to confirm?
I swear that trees continue growing if you amend the light conditions around them, but the wiki says not. It says they only have the initial growth spurt... but I'm sure that's not how it works. I've been growing trees clusters, then adding lights up above, to which the canopy height increases, to which I add more lights... lala - perhaps it's just previously-unsprouted saplings growing massively in one spurt, but.. hmm. I dunno. Anyone?
- plash0
Been working on this. its NASA's Saturn V Rocket with launch tower and mobile platform. includes a stairway inside the rocket, fuel tanks, NASA logo with typeface and the American Flag. The launch Tower has a ladder for platform arm access, also has an emergency escape exit (120 meter drop into 3 meter water damping pool). watch out for the retro rockets, they are "live".
Rocket is VERY flammable. its made out of wool. im still working on a launch switch which will activate the retro rockets. redstone lights & wiring and a small minecart system that connects to the home above.
the next major project will be the
Lunar Lander with moonscape & custom player skin (so you'll look like an astronaut!)im a big NASA fan dork.
- noice work sir.jtb26
- nerd :PdMullins
- thank you.plash
- Litterally out of this worldglitchsbrew
- detritus0
I really can't wait 'til they make this MP in a mano-a-mano sense.
The conflict aspect needs upping—must say I was disappointed when Notch toned down the overspawning glitch that appeared in the Hallo'ween update. I was quite enjoying the borderline panic of finding hordes of bastard arrow-hoying skeletons spawning in my base.
It suffers from being a little 'easy' in parts.
Not that that appears to prevent a barrier to further hours of total time wastage in the latelate.
- ffs, I'm not even playing it and i'm wasting time.detritus
- haha its sooooooo bad isnt it!Hombre_Lobo_2
- monospaced0
The general consensus is that Microsoft did this to get into the mobile gaming market. Right now they are struggling to get developers to make games for their mobile platform because there isn't enough demand, and there isn't enough demand because there aren't developers making games. A real pickle.
Microsoft making it available as a premiere app on their phones and integrating it into their overall game strategy (Xbox) is what this is all about.
- estetic0
Anyone playing on Apple PPC? Seem to be having a bug where unlit blocks become totally transparent... anyone experience this? fix?