[Lonestar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc&feature

Possibly mentioned already, as this video is about a year old, but some people have/are creating a replica of Middle Earth. The size of the map is stupidly huge. At the time of the video, they say journey time on foot from one side to the other would be about 13 hours. Moria is about 30 minutes into the video.

[NihonTiger90]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc&feature Possibly mentioned already, as this video is about a year old, but some people have/are creating a replica of Middle Earth. The size of the map is stupidly huge. At the time of the video, they say journey time on foot from one side to the other would be about 13 hours. Moria is about 30 minutes into the video.

I wonder how things are looking for them now or if they gave up. Did we ever hear more about this?

[Lonestar]

I wonder how things are looking for them now or if they gave up. Did we ever hear more about this?

http://www.mcmiddleearth.com/
Seems to still be going, with updates as recent as June 16th

[Morokh]

Oh boy, that game ! xD

Had trouble figuring out what to do with the top of my tower, just started to try some things and ideas ended up flowing (but not all of them for the tower)

Btw, who is building that temple in the desert ? that's very good looking !

I also made my first donation this week-end, thanks to the people who bought my crap items on Diablo 3's real money auction house :D

[-Minsc-]

While not the project I previously eluded to, I'm currently in the Nether building a solid foothold.



Hidden from view is my nether side portal room which mirrors the style of the same room on the overworld. As of yet I have no idea how big I'll build the structure.

[Inferno313]

Hey guys, I was wondering. If you host a LAN server, using either the existing server program available or the built-in LAN functionality in 1.3, can you do multiplayer with one copy of the game? Or does everyone still need to own their own account.

[NihonTiger90]

New episode of NihonTiger on Neocraft! A bunch of you are in this one.

Episode 14 is coming Thursday, which is the last one I have pre-recorded.

I should add, if you want to mic up for any adventures, let me know and we'll figure out when the recording and such can happen. I'd love to have you guys in my videos some more so it's not just me building on my own, lol. XD

[-Minsc-]

New episode of NihonTiger on Neocraft! A bunch of you are in this one. Episode 14 is coming Thursday, which is the last one I have pre-recorded. I should add, if you want to mic up for any adventures, let me know and we'll figure out when the recording and such can happen. I'd love to have you guys in my videos some more so it's not just me building on my own, lol. XD

I've eyed up some new caves in my mine to explore. There has never been a torch placed, all new ground. :)

[Ranger X]

Hey guys, I was wondering. If you host a LAN server, using either the existing server program available or the built-in LAN functionality in 1.3, can you do multiplayer with one copy of the game? Or does everyone still need to own their own account.

Good question. I suppose they thought up something against that. It will be an "online lan" after all. Wouldn't be different than the current online servers security wise I guess (therefore everybody would need their accounts).

[Mister_Bubbles]

New episode of NihonTiger on Neocraft! A bunch of you are in this one. Episode 14 is coming Thursday, which is the last one I have pre-recorded. I should add, if you want to mic up for any adventures, let me know and we'll figure out when the recording and such can happen. I'd love to have you guys in my videos some more so it's not just me building on my own, lol. XD

Thanks for scratching that itch on my shoulder. Just the spot!

[-Minsc-]

I should add, if you want to mic up for any adventures, let me know and we'll figure out when the recording and such can happen. I'd love to have you guys in my videos some more so it's not just me building on my own, lol. XD

For some reason I completely missed that part of your post. Strangely enough I had already been thinking about getting a mic set up on my end.

[Rokam]

BdoubleO is great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kLSgc3CpwM

[ArtistDude88]

BdoubleO is great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kLSgc3CpwM

WHAT. I had no idea you could put repeaters behind note blocks to carry the signal!

[-Minsc-]

The pretty much completed front facade of my Nether stronghold.



Now comes filling in stuff behind that wall.

[Mengy]

Okay, I believe I have creeper damage blocked again. Looks like Worldguard got turned off somehow. That probably affected some other things like fire spread too. Anyway, it is back on as I'm typing this, and I tested it with a few creeper volunteers and I didn't see any blocks flying about, so I think it's fixed.

[Ranger X]

Ok, here's some pictures of the huge mob grinder I am currently building in my creative world. I know there's people lately that wanted some insight into how it is done so there you go!


First off, I made it so it's a device that can collect loot and EXP. You simply need to change the mode of use with those levers :)




The levers are activating a piston system. It decides if the mobs are going into the drowning tube or the EXP tube!



This is the drowning tube. Made of glass so mobs are actually sinking instead of trying to swim back up. There's also a cactus at the top to discourage the most stubborn spiders.



This is the tube that brings the mobs into the EXP collecting room.



So, the bottom of the grinder should be a huge pool room that brings all the mobs into one final canal that leads to both tubes. Here's the pool room halfdone, showing the final canal.



Here's the pool when its done. I also got a lighting system for maintenance.



A floor of spawning modules is now been built over the pool room. The spawning "modules" like I call them are 8x8x2 blocks. There's canals in-between all of them in order to bring the mobs into holes (falling into the pool room).



So here's how it was looking from outside a little while ago. I am currently building a second spawning floor.

[-Minsc-]

*snip*

That would look quite ominous on the server.

[Ranger X]

Yeah I guess. But I would be lazy to gather all the ressources needed to built it. :P

[NihonTiger90]

Episode 14 is up. It involves my statue (briefly) and a quick tour of what's up at the fortress, among other things.

[Morokh]

Pimp my Minecraft !

These guys are really good !

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...ature=view_all

[-Minsc-]

I don't believe this has been mentioned, so a heads up. It seems the mob spawning rules for half slabs has been modified. From what I gather, mobs can now spawn on upper slabs (and upside down stairs). Single, lower half, slabs still appear to block mobs.

[Tesseract]

so, how has this game evolved over the past few months? i quit playing just after the nether update.

[CharmingCharlie]

Not been on much today because I have been busy trying out a new program called "Chunky" it is basically a rendering program specifically tailored to minecraft and it is absolutely fantastic (even if it is written with bloody java). Here is dome city in all it's glory :-







But who cares about Dome City ? That's old news, it's history, it's about to get eclipsed and made to look like a crappy shanty town boys and girls because there is a new City on the block. It's Future City :-





Oh and just for giggles here are a couple of other quick renders :-




If you want to give it a go yourself then here are the necessary links :-

http://chunky.llbit.se/index.php?title=Main_Page

The only downside to this program is the long render times. The renders here were only allowed to run for 10 minutes and still look fairly grainy. Apparently for best results you should leave the render going for hours.

[Xun]

Not been on much today because I have been busy trying out a new program called "Chunky" it is basically a rendering program specifically tailored to minecraft and it is absolutely fantastic (even if it is written with bloody java). Here is dome city in all it's glory :- But who cares about Dome City ? That's old news, it's history, it's about to get eclipsed and made to look like a crappy shanty town boys and girls because there is a new City on the block. It's Future City :- Oh and just for giggles here are a couple of other quick renders :- If you want to give it a go yourself then here are the necessary links :- http://chunky.llbit.se/index.php?title=Main_Page The only downside to this program is the long render times. The renders here were only allowed to run for 10 minutes and still look fairly grainy. Apparently for best results you should leave the render going for hours.

Looking good.

Glad you avoided taking a photo of my currently shitty roller coaster.

[legacyzero]

Holy shit.

[Frantic Fanatic]

Hey sirs. I'll be lurking around this thread. (And possibly the server) Some of you may recognize me from Civil Wars.

I also fiddle around with many of the popular major content mods, so let me know if you ever have any questions about those.

[CrAzYLeGzLU]

Can't wait to have the time to get back on the server again. After the wedding on the 7th I should have tons of time. :-)

[CharmingCharlie]

Looking good. Glad you avoided taking a photo of my currently shitty roller coaster.

What can I say ? I mean it is such a masterpiece of engineering I was worried that people would see it and think "whelp no point playing minecraft any more after seeing that engineering marvel" ;-) so it if is any comfort I did it for the health of the server.

Can't wait to have the time to get back on the server again. After the wedding on the 7th I should have tons of time. :-)

Mwahh ha ha ha ha ha, ah the delusional mind of the groom, ya gonna be her manslave you know. It will be nothing but foot massages, taking the garbage out and driving around all hours searching for a place that sells Milk because YOU LEFT THE TOP OFF and YOU LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP.

Anyway good luck on the 7th I will listen to the "last post" in honour of another fallen bachelor ;-) .

[Xun]

What can I say ? I mean it is such a masterpiece of engineering I was worried that people would see it and think "whelp no point playing minecraft any more after seening that engineering marvel" ;-) so it if is any comfort I did it for the health of the server.

It'll look pretty when I get around to sorting it out...

[Rokam]

Oh god, I wish I had fraps. Was sitting afk at my cave spider xp farm, and had let them build up for about 25 minutes. Came back, flipped the switch to crush them and instead of crushing them there was an explosion of spiders...not sure what the hell happened but there were spiders everywhere in the room. I just started busting up laughing, not even mad that I just lost 30 levels. Funniest shit ever.

[-Minsc-]

Hay, Artistdude.

Since creeper damage is fixed I went and patched together your harvester. It's functional, though still needs some cosmetic work.

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For those who complain about crippling lag in the Nether, there are some mods and tools which should help.

First off, download Magic Launcher. It makes installing mods a stupidly easy. Check out this video to see how to use Magic Launcher.

Next, download Optifine. Seriously, get it. Aside from fixing lag problems in the nether, it has a whole slew of performance and graphics options which you'll wonder how you lived without for so long.

[CharmingCharlie]

Yeah I moved me hotel away from Future City and I only crashed the server once :-p .

On another Minecraft related note Jeb tweeted this :-

Ok, the plan is to get 1.3 out on August 1, with pre-releases a week prior to that. ‪#ValveTime

https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/219828495918960641

Bit of a wait, we have only just started July. Ah well better late than never.

[Kandrick]

Thinking of buying the PC version after playing it on the 360.

Sales for this game are non existent right ?

[CharmingCharlie]

Thinking of buying the PC version after playing it on the 360. Sales for this game are non existent right ?

Pretty much non-existent, I think the only time I saw it go on "sale" was during Valentines day and even then it was a case of pay full price get 2 copies. I personally wouldn't wait for it to go on sale, when you think about how many hours you will get out of it the price seems minuscule in comparison.

If you enjoyed the Xbox 360 version then you will go ape crazy over the PC version. The two versions are like night v day in comparison.

[CrAzYLeGzLU]

Thinking of buying the PC version after playing it on the 360. Sales for this game are non existent right ?

Yup, just go ahead and buy it. Since it's only offered through Minecraft.net it's never been on sale that I can recall other than when it was still in beta and alpha and was cheaper.

[Kandrick]

Pretty much non-existent, I think the only time I saw it go on "sale" was during Valentines day and even then it was a case of pay full price get 2 copies. I personally wouldn't wait for it to go on sale, when you think about how many hours you will get out of it the price seems minuscule in comparison. If you enjoyed the Xbox 360 version then you will go ape crazy over the PC version. The two versions are like night v day in comparison.

That's what i thought since i never heard of it being cheaper, other than at the start.

I'm sure the PC version is better, with a lot more options (mods etc) that's why i want to get it!

Yup, just go ahead and buy it. Since it's only offered through Minecraft.net it's never been on sale that I can recall other than when it was still in beta and alpha and was cheaper.

Yeah, time to head to minecraft.net.

[Rapstah]

My skin looks crazily blackface racist in the statue park. :/ It looks all right with default packs, I swear!

[vas_a_morir]

Wow, I hadn't seen the last dome in dome city yet. Gotta check that out.

[Morokh]

was connected earlier, and now i can't anymore -> connection timeout :o

[CharmingCharlie]

was connected earlier, and now i can't anymore -> connection timeout :o

Just tried to get on myself with no luck. I don't believe it is a problem with just our server. I have had a look around the net and it seems to be affecting all minecraft servers so it is something to do with Mojang.

[Rokam]

So is there just a limit to the number of mobs that can be in a crusher? If I let them build up over 20 minutes they'll escape out when I hit the lever.

[CrAzYLeGzLU]

Who built that sweet ass TARDIS!? ;-)

Also I see Commander Shep finally decided on a sex.

[CharmingCharlie]

So is there just a limit to the number of mobs that can be in a crusher? If I let them build up over 20 minutes they'll escape out when I hit the lever.

Erm dunno about that, I know there is a bug in mp where Mobs can glitch through the walls. I see that all the time on my grinder. The only solution is to make all the walls two blocks thick.

Who built that sweet ass TARDIS!? ;-) Also I see Commander Shep finally decided on a sex.

Oh don't even talk to me about that tardis, god the bloke that built that every five seconds "should the light be yellow or orange or green" I nearly kicked and banned him ;-). I have since learnt there are sad Dr Who fans and bad Dr Who fans. The sad ones build replicas of the Tardis, the bad ones build replicas of Karren Gillans boobies.

As for Commander Shepard yeah they got a wee bit too close to the Reaper death ray and went from pre-op to post op in seconds. So Tranny Shep is now officially Femshep. That and I get the feeling Mack felt that Tranny shep was "lowering the tone" of Mackville.

[Sarcasm]

SO what mods and texture packs are a must? I kind of started playing again. I am also trying three of the same games types (one is MC) on the xbox.

But real question is..what mods / texture packs are a must?

[CharmingCharlie]

SO what mods and texture packs are a must? I kind of started playing again. I am also trying three of the same games types (one is MC) on the xbox. But real question is..what mods / texture packs are a must?

I don't really bother too much with mods, but there are two that I use :-

Firstly there is Rei's Minimap which is absolutely fantastic and a must to help you navigate around the world.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/482147-125-jun23-reis-minimap-v32-04/


Secondly there is Optifine which actually makes Minecraft seem like a well optimised game :-

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...and-much-more/

As for texture packs, I usually use Sphax BD :-

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...dcraft-200512/http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...dcraft-200512/

Although some are switching to the the "John Smith" texture pack :-

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...w-update-0622/http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...w-update-0622/

[Houston3000]

SO what mods and texture packs are a must? I kind of started playing again. I am also trying three of the same games types (one is MC) on the xbox. But real question is..what mods / texture packs are a must?

Nothing is a "must" - Minecraft is fantastic in just it's vanilla form! That being said...

My favorite texture pack is Sphax PureBD Craft, I'm not using it right now just because I find it to be a hassle to keep up with texture packs when using tons of mods but really, PureBD Craft definitely has the best mod support of any texture pack I've seen.

For mods: IndustrialCraft, BuildCraft, RedPower, Equivalent Exchange, Forestry, Thaumcraft, Ender Storage, Wireless Redstone, NEI (Not Enough Items), Portal Gun, and InvTweaks. Along with those there are a couple of add-ons like Advanced Machines for IndustrialCraft and Logistics Pipes for Buildcraft that would be practically essential IMO if you used those mods. Optifine is a good mod if you notice you have framerate issues - it causes some weird graphical glitches sometimes but it really improves performance (plus you need it I believe for HD texture packs as installing MCPatcher is kind of buggy with a lot of other mods).


Edit: Actually, as far as mods go I would do either one of two things. Check out DireWolf20's mod list and install process or, if you really want to make it as stupidly simple as possible, install the Technic Pack. I think there's actually a Sphax PureBD Craft texture pack set built specifically for Technic Pack (though it just might be for Tekkit which is Technic's inferior multiplayer compatible version) - also I don't know if Technic has Portal Gun which is awesome and should be added.

[Sarcasm]

IS there a way to search for mods yourself? Kinda like TL1 has where you have a browser type thing?

[Taffer]

IS there a way to search for mods yourself? Kinda like TL1 has where you have a browser type thing?

First off, download Magic Launcher. It makes installing mods a stupidly easy. Check out this video to see how to use Magic Launcher.

Not searching for them but Magic Launcher can manage your mods similar to HotSpot/TorchLeech. I'd get it first so trying mods out once you've downloaded them is easier.

[Ingueferroque]

I realize this isn't the iOS thread.. but what is happening with mobile Minecraft? People paid quite a lot of money for that, and it is severely limited. Is anything happening development-wise? Is there a roadmap or blog somewhere? It seems like that project is all but abandoned, when it has so much potential.

[Chuckpebble]

OK, I have an early beta map that I'm playing now. Oddly, its the first world I ever made, and the only compelling map I can manage to stay interested in. I've tried to avoid the boundaries of the old terrain generator pretty neatly by using the nether and traveling to far off places in the overworld. But now I'm feeling confined with my home plot.

So I recently found a mod that adds world types for those older world generators. I'm using the generator for 1.7.3 beta, but for some reason, I'm not getting anything that looks like my old world. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Is the seed I pull from the world now not the right one? Do I need some other info to use instead? I forget, but wasn't the original terrain seed the time that you created the world or something?