The Minecraft Thread

Today, a whole desert mountain had to give its life and be filed down so that I could make a clock tower out of its sandstone.

I'm so eco-conscious.

If you left the bare stone showing and didn't cover it up with a thin layer of sand you're a monster.

I actually didn't need to go downward enough to hit stone. I wound up harvesting just enough, I think. It's basically now a sheet of sandstone, some of which has been picked at, that's level with the desert floor, though.

I've got memories of removing(most) of a normal mountain on a friend's server to make room for a town. Tedious would be putting it lightly(We only had stone tools...)

Then he spawned a bunch of ender dragons and de-construction sped up immensely!

TNT mining is fun.

Well then, it appears that the great and terrible MC-40275 End Credits bug has been resolved! At last, no more worrying about the glorious music not playing during the much desired End Credits Sequence.

Also, the End Portal in my singleplayer world has been completed. I can now enter The End at my own discretion. Good luck Edwardos.

edited 26th Feb '15 2:19:21 AM by Pyrarson

Long time, no contact: Real life (and Kerbal Space Program) have conspired to keep me away from Minecraft for quite some time. Just checked and our server is still up and running (at least, I could access it via LAN). Red has discovered Archeage and is having fun playing that for now (EVE meets fantasy MMO, is the nutshell description I equated it to).

Doesn't anybody else see the first page of this thread and find it simultaneously bizarre, nostalgic, terrifying and hilarious? There's real archived text back there from 2010 where people are honest to god asking "What the hell is Minecraft?" and saying "Hey, I've played Minecraft Infdev before!". There's even a guy explaining that you can press tab to fire an arrow. They're discussing versions of Minecraft that we can no longer access, but 4 years ago when they were actually just coming out. The whole thing amazes me.

What is our server?

He mean New Ravendel, the (mostly) vanilla server.

edited 27th Feb '15 8:15:49 PM by KnightMiner

Well then. I've gone to The End and killed the Ender Dragon. That was a nightmare; much more difficult than I expected it to be.

But, surprise surprise, after I killed that scaley flying bastard I went through the portal with the music turned on and the end poem music still didn't play. That means that the "Resolved" status on MC-40275 is bullshit and whoever is responsible for putting it there is a fool. So I went through all that, waiting for the glorious moment where I'd get to relive the credits with renewed appeal, getting killed several times by a cheaty dragon, just to be let down. I'm pretty furious about that, if one would want to exaggerate my feelings about the whole ordeal.

edited 27th Feb '15 10:12:30 PM by Pyrarson

Oh man, let's not even get into what's been preoccupying my attention recently—the fact that I've went to see it three times already is bad enough. It's making me feel like I'm fifteen and found my second Inception.

What I find especially hilarious about those first comments is that the first guy that went "What the hell's Minecraft?" was the same one that ended up originally running our vanilla server.

edited 27th Feb '15 10:17:11 PM by BlackRevolver

Yea that first page brought a great laugh in the Arcan era.

We had some great servers with him. When EXP first came out we had to quarantine the main town several times because of the lag storms. Then he went and built a creeper tower which was drooling lava. People would make sure to regularly sacrifice themselves to it so the mighty creeper would destroy our EX Ps and protect our world from them.

Quite a cult developed for a while

In the comments of the issue, there are three users stating it is not fixed. Likely not fixed yet then.

that moment when your first Nether Portal puts you right next to a Nether Fortress and it's great but you used up all the Nether Wart it got you and you have to make the neverending trek to find a new fortress

edited 1st Mar '15 2:01:50 PM by Wicked223

Wait, why didn't you plant some?

didn't know that I could or how to do so at the time.

You just plant Nether Warts on Soul Sand by right-clicking, and then they'll grow, though I think they might have some kind of dimness requirement?

Nope there's no dimness requirement. On the new ravendel server I put nether wart in one of the top layers of my large windowed farm tower and it's growing just as fast as the other crops.

In fact, Netherwart used to have a dimension requirement - before Minecraft 1.3, it had to be in The Nether or else it wouldn't grow at all. That made things incredibly difficult...

So, I've killed the Ender Dragon and gone home. I've collected 40 diamonds and enchanted a full suit of diamond armour. But what do I do now? I created Danny^note the name of my singleplayer world with minor intentions, and then I decided it would be a good idea to go to The End again. But that's done now, and Minecraft 1.8 is no longer new to me now. Inside my world, life is now meaningless... There is no longer any reason to live...

edited 1st Mar '15 3:53:08 PM by Pyrarson

I kind of miss that little detail, actually. Actually gave me something of a motivation to build stuff here.

I think I'm going to build a sheep farm at some point and then create a giant bookshelf, Colin Thompson Style◊. That will be satisfying to have in my world...

When I run out of ideas, I tend to find inspiration from Minecraft LPs.

I also then keep a wall filled with signs for all the ideas I come up with, which I may do if I run out of other ideas.

edited 1st Mar '15 5:53:02 PM by KnightMiner

Now there's an interesting build idea. Bookshelf city in the face of a mountainside.

I wish I could make a city out of bookshelves. It would be full of librarians and you could put books in all the walls.

...CAN you put books on bookshelves? I don't remember if they ever implemented that.

Does anybody here watch Mindcrack? I'd probably start a thread for it but the Media section doesn't have a Let's Play subforum.