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nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Holy poo poo, the map I just made has a huge mountain covering THREE ravines stacked ontop of each other. It's so loving epic I have to build something there.

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nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Vinigre posted:

What's the seed and location?

Seed is metalgear, location x8.64 y61.61 z-9.28. You have to break a few blocks to get to it.


This is where you can find it, dig around the left side of the lake, near the cave.

A shot from near the bottom of the intersecting point.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Are there any 1.8 servers around? Wanna spelunk with goons.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Just thought I'd pop in to say that this mod is pretty drat awesome. It doubles the world height and depth. This was what I started nearby.





nightwisher fucked around with this message at Sep 26, 2011 around 05:02

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Lallander posted:

Try this mod on for size.
Cubic Chunks
65504 world height. Multiplayer isn't ready yet, but he's working on it.

Holy poo poo you aren't kidding:

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


im a girl btw posted:

Wow, that's awesome. Does the mod just increase the ceiling or does it increase depth as well? What I mean is - say diamond is normally 100 blocks below the level you start at - does installing that mod mean diamond is now 10000 blocks down?

Apparently it does that, he talks about a lava core so maybe he's reworking how minerals are placed, the mod I'm using for 1.9 increases the depth as well as the height and scales things appropriately. I made a 10 second freefall drop to bedrock from the top of the map.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


A Sassy Dog posted:

Holy poo poo check out this email from a sperglord that Notch just tweeted:



Apparently you can't implement a feature that a modder put in or else it's creative theft. I mean, this isn't new poo poo from modders, but it's hilarious too that they're shipping it off to Notch.

Also, "Snow breaks torches? gently caress!"

Oh minecraft community. One minute you're calling notch a stinkyhole because he won't implement mods, then he goes and implements ideas from mods and that makes him a stinkyhole.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Bicehunter posted:

Just imagine the email that guy is going to send after Notch tweeted it to the whole world to laugh at.

Dude will unironically think that Notch put it up to show everyone how smart and clever this guykid is.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


MaliciousOnion posted:

I wonder how many people will go brandishing those foam swords and pickaxes. Or dressed as Steve?

Given the average creativity shown by the average person, I'd say about 60% will be Steve, 25% creeper, 10% all other mobs, 5% as notch himself.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Go as a small landscape with missing chunks.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Electrical engineers: impressed.

Everyone else: what the gently caress is that poo poo? oh it's supposed to be a 3d image. Oh... ok thats cool I guess?...

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Boat posted:

The guy is working now on making a GPU with automatic occlusion culling...out of redstone.

Yeah all those needlessly rendered polygons are dragging down the frame rate.

Big deal, he made it using redstone which is perfectly suited to imitating computer hardware. The calculator made in Little Big Planet was ten times more impressive due to the ingenuity needed to imitate computing functions. This is an engineer getting his mega-sperg on.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Hadlock posted:

How stable have the 1.9 versions been? Are snow biomes confirmed for the final version?

Why would they not be? The only reason they weren't in 1.8.1 is because notch is a silly forgetful programmer. They've been in every pre-release thus far.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


So are they going to release it during or after MineCon. Looks like it starts in a few hours too.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


So, I can't even go into video settings without it crashing on me.

I should have expected this but I updated anyways.

edit: Is it me or is this thread way too dead for minecraft hitting 1.0?

nightwisher fucked around with this message at Nov 18, 2011 around 23:57

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


^^^ Not particularly, but it is nice to have all the pre-release features in the game now, should make SMP a whole lot more fun again.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Anyone who ordered Alpha or earlier will get all patches and expansions for free. They are definitely planning on still releasing free patches for everyone. I think they're planning on them having some new content and features. They still have to make good on some promises like the unobsfucation of the source and the unification of single and multiplayer. I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like improved NPCs, towns, and quests were added for free for everyone.

From their own wording, it also sounds like there are going to be pay expansions on top of that, which anyone who bought the game during Beta or retail will have to pay extra for.

In other words, us superior, most generous and wonderful alpha-stage buyers don't have to worry about this, we get all the things for free, everything.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


^^^ Wouldn't want it to be halfway decent, that'd cause it to outshine absolutely everything else about MineCon bar the release itself ^^^

Allen Wren posted:

gently caress, bows break now? Goddammit.

AND I'm going to get hosed for cash because I bought it, like the first day of beta? gently caress.

I doubt it's going to end up a massive cash grab. From what Notch has said all game updates themselves are free, they may possibly contain some new gameplay features as part of them. Expanded content (whatever that means at this point) would be paid for, but unless they're a large content addition I can't see the prices getting out of hand.

Count me as one of the people who spoiled themselves with the pre-releases and are just a touch disappointed there's nothing else on top of the pre-releases, content-wise.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


CJacobs posted:

Today is the day I click the "Yes" button to update the game. Finally, after weeks and weeks of dumb optional pre-releases, I click the "Yes" button to download Minecraft 1.0.0.

And almost nothing noteworthy is different. Were this Deus Ex, I'd make a "what a shame" joke.

It's a shame, but what were you expecting? The pre-releases were previews of the new content coming in 1.0. He released five of them, the last one being not very long ago at all. They also said they had a feature freeze in place.

Were people really expecting some grand sweeping changes to the game between pre-release 5 and 1.0?

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


^^^ I see the release as a token thing really. It's still going to be worked on, hopefully with the same or similar level of activity as we've seen lately.^^^

I'd agree that I wouldn't really call 1.0 a "full" release as such but that's the consequences of Notch's developmental quirks. What makes this game complete is so wildy different based on who you talk to that I really don't envy his position in all this.

nightwisher fucked around with this message at Nov 19, 2011 around 04:19

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Dbhjed posted:

Answer the question if you got 1 billion dollars what would you do with it? Don't blame the man for having fun He at least earned it.

The lovely thing is, there's a minority of minecraft players out there who don't even believe that. I always see red when I read people whining about how notch has hosed them over by not giving them explicit sex scenes between breeding animals or whatever, despite having played the goddamn game for the 2 years or so.

The amount of gameplay I've gotten out of my minecraft purchase is loving phenomenal. Blows away any other game I've bought, price:longevity-of-fun wise.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Yeah I'm suprised that there's practically no discussion going on.

Skyrim is probably not helping, or Saints Row 3, Modern Warfare 3 etc.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


redmercer posted:

BEWARE OF PORTAL-EATING TREE

Big stupid picture
edit: nice ninja

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Depths posted:

Welp, if they are serious about that brony thing then i will have to hit that unsub button.

Bronies are terrible but I think you're worse.

Ugh Miley Cyrus is on cable GOD THAT'S IT I'M loving CANCELLING THE CABLE

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

This is the type of stuff I think should stay as a mod forever. Glad there's a mod for it, also glad it's not in vanilla.

Really? You prefer the retarded, no animation at all current look?

Aside from the flying (obviously), what about that mod is so bad that it shouldn't ever even be CONSIDERED as an addition to the game?

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


The amount of derision, hostility and flat-out minecraft white-knighting in those comments is just loving incredible.

You can almost hear them seethe with pure rage that someone, SOMEONE would ever dare mock Notch or Minecraft.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Coleman posted:

I can't actually completely agree with this. Given the cube nature of the game, the recipees make as much sense given the creation method used in the game. Most things (not all, but most) do take their basic shape. I grant that it's not something a complete beginner could just come in and be like "oh I get it", but with a little push most things should be pretty understandable to craft.

Now that's not to say this uses the best possible crafting method, the way Terraria does it with just having items in your inventory is probably the most user friendly, but I don't think Minecrafts is so bad given that they're TRYING for a slightly more "difficult" crafting formula.

But if you have no idea what items are possible to craft how can you guess what the recipe would look like?

There's "difficult" wherein the recipes would be scattered through a world, and be recoverable by various means, then there's just plain difficult where there's no hints or anything beyond the woeful tutorial.

Minecraft's crafting sucks balls.

edit: The whole "recipe looks like the item" thing is cute for about 2 seconds, then you wish it was as simple as Terraria.

nightwisher fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2012 around 23:53

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


So codewarrior went back and crossed a few things out...

quote:

That may have been a bad decision and the time would have been better spent making a list of the known defects in the application. Or applying for work.

"Yeah yeah, but can you release the source code so someone can keep working on it?" That's the topic I was getting to. MCEdit and its source code reflect the work I've done on it over the past year and a half. For a lot of that time I had no primary occupation so MCEdit became my full-time job. I was sagely advised to keep all of the source code private. However, I felt a bit obliged to the OSS community for all of the tools I was (and am still) using, so I shared the level-loading code on github under the name pymclevel.

I intend to share MCEdit's source code, but I also intend to get paid for my work. Here is the deal. We'll raise a modest sum through a crowd-funding site like Kickstarter. Once the money is raised, I'll upload MCEdit's full source code to github, licensed under the GPL. If the project is overfunded at all, the surplus will go toward paying my salary for another year of development on MCEdit. I think I will set the price of the source code at $10,000.


The source code isn't pretty. It's by no means the work of a master programmer - I consider myself below average at best. The LevelEditor class is bloated, the MCEdit class has unclear responsibilities, and the Brush tool still doesn't have a plugin system. If you read the code for pymclevel, you will have a good idea of what quality of code to expect. When you get down to it though, the code works for many of its intended purposes and also embodies solutions to problems or hangups that I fixed and later forgot.

I will update the OP with a big fat link to the crowd-funding site as soon as I get it set up.

nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Mastiff posted:

Thanks for the recommendation, but I checked and it's not overriding application settings.

For your troubles, here's a fun little story. A kid came into my library just a few days ago and asked if we had a book on Minecraft. We didn't, but I grabbed him a couple books on architecture and cool-looking buildings instead, then we talked for a while about good ways to gather up supplies. After that he felt comfortable enough to ask me for recommendations for a few chapter books to read at home.

EDIT: Oh hey, you know what? I reset the card to the factory defaults and now it's working fine. I guess I had to jiggle the anistropic fhingie or whatever. Anyway, thanks! We can go ahead and ignore the picture attached to this post.



Anisotropic filtering can also cause this effect. Make sure it's forced off in your video control panel.

Also transparency AA and supersampling.

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nightwisher
Dec 24, 2004


Is McEdit still around? Or anything intuitive to use for world editing? I want to make a massive underground cavern custom map, so I need to fill the entire 256-height with stone and begin carving it out with TNT.

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