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Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition |OT| Big Third Party Support From Microsoft

Chessr

Member
I Remember it being in alpha. Where you could buy the game for a few bucks. Never did though and never played it once. Looking forward to physical edition
 
Playing the Super Mario world makes me want a licensed Final Fantasy Minecraft addition. Just to hear a variety of classic FF tunes while building FF-themed whatevers. Replace the Ender Dragon with Kefka in an airship or Sephiroth flying around or some such.
 
I think the most mind boggling part of this new thing is the size. As I'm starting to delve into it, we really need some more QoL stuff from this game. Figuring out what map is what (like for instance, since the map can be broken into 9 pieces, the area you start off on can be numbered Map #5 and then you fill in other ones those are numbered too) is a big one. I'd really like some sort of detector so you can find where villages are, or in the least some sort of marker thing you can put on the map for locations. On an infinite world, how would you ever find your way back to camp? A teleporter would be awesome and you could even do it so you can build it after getting materials from the Nether.

Maybe I've been spoiled by BotW since the last time I started a new survival world lol
 
I think the most mind boggling part of this new thing is the size. As I'm starting to delve into it, we really need some more QoL stuff from this game. Figuring out what map is what (like for instance, since the map can be broken into 9 pieces, the area you start off on can be numbered Map #5 and then you fill in other ones those are numbered too) is a big one. I'd really like some sort of detector so you can find where villages are, or in the least some sort of marker thing you can put on the map for locations. On an infinite world, how would you ever find your way back to camp? A teleporter would be awesome and you could even do it so you can build it after getting materials from the Nether.

Maybe I've been spoiled by BotW since the last time I started a new survival world lol

I believe some of that stuff is in the game, you just have to craft it.
 

XaosWolf

Member
Diving into this after all these years (I bought the alpha) and by god is it kinda daunting now. Even the Tutorial area is crazy.

The Super Mario world is neato except for the music which has some questionable track choices. Super jarring when the Metal Mario theme kicks in whilst simply mining some coal or decorating your house. =P

If anyone wants to futz around in some Mines then by all means add me because I don't think I have any Minecraft people on my friends list: SW-2682-1865-4892
 
I believe some of that stuff is in the game, you just have to craft it.
Yeah you can make more maps and then lay them out in picture frames on a wall, but they number them in order of where you go. So for instance, you have 3 empty maps. First one is "Map #0" which is the origin "quadrant" and so far has always been the center block:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

So you always start in the "5". But if you go to the east of that, the next map will be "Map #1". Then if you return and go all the way back to the top left of the world and use the third blank map, it'll be "Map #2". There's no consecutive numbering system unless you manually do it, but since you're exploring a new world you really cant judge where you're at.

Is there anyway to mark things on a map? because that'd be amazing. I've written down coordinates before on a piece of paper but even that seems dumb.



Question. Is there a limit for how many animals you can have inside a pen? Similarly, is there a limit to how many working pens you can have? I'm starting to have quite a few sheep and cows and I thought I'd rather separate them onto two different pens, and eventually the same for pigs and other animals.

There shouldn't be a limit besides size spacing. Usually one animal can fit in one "block" space. Out in the overworld it'll just push them closer so they overlap each other, but sometimes they can glitch through things. I've made pens up against solid walls and sometimes the animals can get pushed into the wall, and they start taking damage from it and die.

When making an animal pen, just for my convenience, its easier to group them by species. You should give them some room (especially length wise) so you can enter and exit their pens easier (especially if you're bringing them in with a lead instead of food). Best thing is to put the gate and have a pressure plate on the outside of it, so it closes behind you. Animals have some sort of AI that if they see an opening they immediately go to it lmao. Make sure too that the area is protected; having pressure plates open with wolves nearby means they can attack the animals at will which has happened to me before.

The only thing you have to worry about for animals is grass for sheep. Sheep wont regrow their coats if you shave them unless they eat grass.


Ok :) Is there no main goal or something, and where should I start?

Your main goal should go in some sort of order like this:

Get Shelter/grab food (killing animals, etc) > Create Bed > Create Tools/Camp/QoL stuff (ie, chests for items, crafting table, furnace, etc) > Obtain/start growing food > Capture animals to start a small farm > Begin mining [As you mine, your garden/animals will grow so you have a constant food source] > Obtain Mats and continue upgrading gear/tools/armor [At this point, you can wander around the world too and try to find overworld resources. If you have another player with you it gets much easier because you can split up and explore/mine/garden but otherwise as a single player this works best] > Eventually make portal to Nether >obtain mats for strongest weapons/enchantments, etc > eventually make End Portal or find it >
Battle Ender Dragon

I've logged hundreds of hours and sometimes don't come anywhere close to getting to The End. And of course you can always come back, just make another world to explore or start over again if you feel sluggish at some point. At any point in there when you have time, you can also choose to "beautify" your camp. For instance, stair pieces look like chairs when you set them out, you could build yourself an actual nice house out of wood or cobblestone, make paintings, etc)
 

XaosWolf

Member
So apparently these pre-created world (like the Super Mario one) have a challenge?
Collecting all the hidden music discs?

Just went exploring the Mario world and found a nether portal inside the massive recreation of the Valley of Bowser entrance. =D
 

sugarless

Member
Minecraft beginner-- what should I do first? Tutorial? Then adventure or survival or? What's a good way to learn?

Haven't played adventure as I tend to prefer either tinkering in creative or exploring in survival. When I first started the game there was no tutorial yet, or at least not a decent one. I just got started in survival on Easy. I think the tutorial shows you the basics of the fact that once you load a survival world you need to build a shelter before dark so you'll be safe from the monsters that spawn. It will show you how to gather basic resources with just your fists, then how to construct tools to make resource-gathering easier and faster.

Good luck!
 
Minecraft beginner-- what should I do first? Tutorial? Then adventure or survival or? What's a good way to learn?

If you've never played before, I'd suggest the tutorial. If you don't use it the game literally drops you in the middle of nowhere and tells you nothing so you'll have to figure it out on your own, and a lot of people seem to get overwhelmed or confused.
 

Fliesen

Member
is there any way to turn off that weird ... uhm ... cursor movement. The way the cursor keeps trying to always align with a certain cell in your inventory?

i'd prefer 1:1 cursor movement :/
 

nubbe

Member
If you've never played before, I'd suggest the tutorial. If you don't use it the game literally drops you in the middle of nowhere and tells you nothing so you'll have to figure it out on your own, and a lot of people seem to get overwhelmed or confused.

The tutorial helped me, but it sucks
Watching some Youtuber would probably be much more helpful
 

kubus

Member
is there any way to turn off that weird ... uhm ... cursor movement. The way the cursor keeps trying to always align with a certain cell in your inventory?

i'd prefer 1:1 cursor movement :/
Hated this as well until I found out the Dpad doesn't have this issue and works much better.
 

SCB3

Member
Alright, this is the last time I'm buying this damned game (I seriusly have it on ever platform it's ever been released on)

Now I'm actually gone a make an effor to actually play through the survival mode, being portable helps
 

molnizzle

Member
Minecraft beginner-- what should I do first? Tutorial? Then adventure or survival or? What's a good way to learn?

Do the initial area of the tutorial then drop into Survival. After a while in Survival you might get curious about other stuff—head back to the tutorial and access the expanded parts of the castle as needed. It's too big of an info dump to digest all it once, it's better to come back to it over time to expand your knowledge.
 
Just spent a good 6 hours straight playing this with a bud. So much fun.

My only gripe: B is cancel. The default resting position of your thumb is "throw away". WHHHYYYY?
 

greenmind

Banned
Minecraft beginner-- what should I do first? Tutorial? Then adventure or survival or? What's a good way to learn?

find a side of a mountain, and dig into it and create a room in survival mode... wait for the monsters to dissappear when the sun comes up and start collecting and crafting...

google how to make stuff and its much easier
 

XaosWolf

Member
I need some gaf friends to help me out...I'm so lost
FD 7448-4537-9586

Added you. Need to head home now but I'd be happy to drop into your world or vice versa whenever you're on.

My only gripe: B is cancel. The default resting position of your thumb is "throw away". WHHHYYYY?

Then A is throw shit away, just as dumb.

I agree that they're both dumb. I switched mine so that jump was where it should be on B and drop is further away on A.

Unfortunately this means that when Tutorial dialogue pops up I sometimes just drop my pickaxe off a cliff trying to advance through the text. =/
 

Ninja Dom

Member
So what's the deally with internet 2 player or more mode??

Different folk on your Friends List just come in and adventure with you at the same time?? Can they fuck your shit up if they like? How do you communicate?
 

Robin64

Member
So what's the deally with internet 2 player or more mode??

Different folk on your Friends List just come in and adventure with you at the same time?? Can they fuck your shit up if they like? How do you communicate?

There are some settings that stop people being able to just fuck shit up. You can make it so you are required to manually trust them, and can set it so fire doesn't spread too.

Communication though is not there in any form.
 

nubbe

Member
There are some settings that stop people being able to just fuck shit up. You can make it so you are required to manually trust them, and can set it so fire doesn't spread too.

Communication though is not there in any form.

communicate with the Nintendo Voice Chat app
 

13ruce

Banned
Game is cool so far, i just need to learn some of the build combinations out of my head there are alot:p

Edit: slightly off topic:
Bought Dragon Quest Builders on Ps4 tried the demo and that one feels like a dragon quest + 2D top down Zelda + Minecraft also pretty fun so far.
 

jariw

Member
I feel like Zelda would be a better fit for Minecraft skins.

The Mario skins and world were included in the game like half a year after the initial Wii U release. Zelda skins with a Hyrule world appearing before the holiday season for the Switch version would be fantastic.

Is the PS4 demo a good demo for the Switch version as well?

Probably not if you want to play it in portable mode.
 
So I don't know if anyone explored the options for the game from the Switch home menu and this seems to be the first time I've seen anyone talk about it. (If some reviewer did point them to me pls)

First off, the game grants no Gold Coins for my Nintendo. You can only get them from the "Game Card version". There's also an option to update via the Internet, or "Via Local Users" which is the first game I've ever heard of doing this. It says "You can exchange update data with local users. This feature will be added in a future system update"

So that seems to be something Nintendo plans to do at some point. Kinda interesting.

There's also an option to "archive software", basically it looks like you can wipe the info data for your game and just have save stuff and the home menu icon. You can download the actual game data again. Looks like this would be if you were transferring the system stuff maybe?
 

molnizzle

Member
Ugh, I found a ridiculous bug.

When playing with the Pro controller undocked (like with the Switch kickstanded on a table) the "switch B and A" option does nothing. No matter which selection you make, B on the Pro controller drops your current item. The swap command only work on the joy-cons.

Fucking game ruining for me, honestly.
 

Plum

Member
Ugh, I found a ridiculous bug.

When playing with the Pro controller undocked (like with the Switch kickstanded on a table) the "switch B and A" option does nothing. No matter which selection you make, B on the Pro controller drops your current item. The swap command only work on the joy-cons.

Fucking game ruining for me, honestly.

Yeah, it's infuriating having my muscle memory messed up so often because that's how I like to play a lot of the time. Someone with a Twitter account definitely needs to report the issue ASAP because it seems like it could be an easy fix.
 
Ugh, I found a ridiculous bug.

When playing with the Pro controller undocked (like with the Switch kickstanded on a table) the "switch B and A" option does nothing. No matter which selection you make, B on the Pro controller drops your current item. The swap command only work on the joy-cons.

Fucking game ruining for me, honestly.
......why are you playing with the pro controller undocked?
 

Schnozberry

Member
Hands cramp and go numb when playing with the joy-cons connected. Really bad ergonomics, IMO. I'd much rather just throw a controller in my bag.

If you're hands are cramping and going numb, you might have some carpal tunnel issues. I would look at some exercises.
 

Blizzard

Banned
If you're hands are cramping and going numb, you might have some carpal tunnel issues. I would look at some exercises.
Exercises are good, but bad ergonomics can still cause this. I have massive hands and using the 3DS XL without a grip would cause my hands to go numb / cramp.

I added an ergonomic grip and it was good.
 

molnizzle

Member
If you're hands are cramping and going numb, you might have some carpal tunnel issues. I would look at some exercises.

Don't have carpel tunnel, just big hands. Handhelds have always felt like shit to me. Absolutely hate them.

Switch works in handheld mode if the game doesn't require the triggers, but there's no way to hold it comfortably in games like Minecraft or Mario Kart.
 

Ninja Dom

Member
Ugh, I found a ridiculous bug.

When playing with the Pro controller undocked (like with the Switch kickstanded on a table) the "switch B and A" option does nothing. No matter which selection you make, B on the Pro controller drops your current item. The swap command only work on the joy-cons.

Fucking game ruining for me, honestly.

Try and contact 4J Studios about it. Try Twitter or email.
 

mrklaw

MrArseFace
Ugh, I found a ridiculous bug.

When playing with the Pro controller undocked (like with the Switch kickstanded on a table) the "switch B and A" option does nothing. No matter which selection you make, B on the Pro controller drops your current item. The swap command only work on the joy-cons.

Fucking game ruining for me, honestly.

Pro controller only undocked, or also pro controller docked?
 
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