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Dudley posted:The PC version would be a lot better if they got that running in C# too. No, it'd be a lot better if they optimized for performance, which is more that just a language issue.
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True, but when I think efficiency I sure as hell don't think "Java" 
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Dudley posted:True, but when I think efficiency I sure as hell don't think "Java" Probably because you're a bit ignorant of programming?
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Mr.Pacey posted:Just picked this up Gamer Tag is TwirlyDonkey if you fancy coming and griefing me while I get killed repeatedly by exploding zombies That was me that was playing without a mic with you for a while. My brother borrowed it and I haven't got it back yet. If anyone else wants to play my Tag is: HiredGoon121
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| # ? May 13, 2012 23:39 |
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Anyone have a few cool seeds for me to try? i just started my first world and its pretty boring. I haven't even found a cave yet and I've mined pretty deep.
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westcoaster posted:Anyone have a few cool seeds for me to try? I'm using cave story as my seed (tried it on a lark); it has some awesome above ground caves a minute or two south of the spawn area and some great spelunking just south east of that.
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"420 smoke durgs erry day" is the greatest seed I've found. It's a mindfuck if you like extremely maze like caves, falling into huge dark voids, and weird lovecraftian "am I supposed to actually find these things?" moments. Also there are random crosses in the world. poo poo's crazy 
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westcoaster posted:Anyone have a few cool seeds for me to try? I've been dinking around with traintruction and having a blast. It has some seriously amazing above-ground formations and a nice array of exposed caves. Also, there are holes in the ground that could actually lead directly to hell. Most of the tunnels I've found below have underground waterfalls and other cool little features, as well as plenty of iron, coal, redstone, and diamonds. So yeah, do that one!
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So the game hasn't even been out a week and already people have found a glitch to let you dupe items. Pretty cool if you're into building huge things, or just miss creative mode. I'll spoiler in case some of you guys don't want to know how for whatever reason. You need 2 people or 2 controllers, a dispenser and a chest. Put the original item (Not a dupe, it won't work otherwise) you want to dupe in the dispenser, keep the dispenser menu open while the other player/controller destroys the dispenser. You'll notice you now have 64 of that item. Place it in your inventory (Not the hotbar!) and head to a chest, then hold down X to place one repeatedly. At the end of the stack of 64, move one space across and you'll have another 64 of that item. Repeat until satisfied/rich as gently caress.
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Traintruction posted:I've been dinking around with traintruction and having a blast. It has some seriously amazing above-ground formations and a nice array of exposed caves. Also, there are holes in the ground that could actually lead directly to hell. Most of the tunnels I've found below have underground waterfalls and other cool little features, as well as plenty of iron, coal, redstone, and diamonds. I got this one going. Its pretty cool. I built a hobbit hole house on the top of a hill close to the spawn. I was poking around and directly under my house is a cave that appears to go to the depths of hell. I could hear the dead groaning under my house. Soon I'll have to venture down and vanquish them.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 02:30 |
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Anyone want to play around in my world? I just started building for the first time, and I have myself a small-ish cave and I'm making it homey. 
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My save glitched or something... when I loaded my world I was in a dark cave on the other end of the map, not as deep underground as I was digging when I saved and under a friggin ocean. Finally dug my way out but I really hope this doesn't happen regularly.
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Whats the deal with monster's spawning next to me while I'm sleeping. Everything around me is lit up. I don't know what to do.
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What the hell is a dispenser supposed to do anyway? Does it normally duplicate things? The in-game description just says it 'shoots out things'. I made one at some point but the game crashed and I lost about two hours, including the source material for the dispenser.westcoaster posted:Whats the deal with monster's spawning next to me while I'm sleeping. Everything around me is lit up. I don't know what to do. Make sure your bed isn't touching a wall. It's a bug in the old version they ported to XBLA. I've also noticed poo poo goes crazy at night when you build your hut on top of a glass ceiling.  I was attacked by something at night, all my torches had gone out and my inventory was gone. Slugged to death in pitch-black.Funkmaster General posted:It doesn't need to be at once. I got mine at 3 wolves after two had died earlier. It was all in the same world though so I don't know about that part. Wolves die?? 
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westcoaster posted:Whats the deal with monster's spawning next to me while I'm sleeping. Everything around me is lit up. I don't know what to do. If your bed is next to a 1-block thick wall, monsters can still spawn in your house iirc. Merijn posted:Wolves die?? Yes but you can feed them pork to heal them! Their tail indicates their health, its angle decreases with the wolf's health. \/\/\/\/\/\/ Put a dispenser facing across the door of your house with a button on it and fill it with arrows to get rid of Jehovah's witnesses and annoying creepers that lurk in your doorway! im a girl btw fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 05:29 |
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Put a thing in a dispenser and when it's activated, that thing pops out. Arrows, for example. Those pop out really fast, meaning you've just created an arrow trap. Now make the temple from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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I'm having a major problem with the Nether. I built my portal(s) and entered/exited them just fine 10+ times. Saved and quit, and came back, and can now no longer enter the nether at all. My entire xbox hard locks when I try, and I am forced to actually unplug the power cord to turn it off. This has been going on since day after launch, as I built my portal late that night and was unable to enter after waking up the next day. I'm not the only one having the issue, as a quick search tells me, but most people can enter the nether fine and simply can never exit. There's also a probably-unrelated bug involving saving in the nether and loading the game above the bedrock ceiling. I've tried every solution anyone has posted, even weird and off-the-wall type stuff. I deleted all the worlds except my main world, deleted and redownloaded the game, I deleted some random content to make space on my hard drive, I plugged in a chatpad (hey, someone claimed it worked), I tried in both online and offline mode, connected and disconnected, with and without other players, in splitscreen and out (with my main profile, a guest profile, and a friend's gold-enabled profile) and even on someone else's Xbox (but my hard drive). Crashes every time. I'd chalk it up as a particularly annoying bug and ignore it until we get an update, except nobody else has ever had a problem entering the nether in my world, including people who have the crashing issue in their own world. I do seem to be able to enter and exit just fine in other peoples' worlds, but haven't tested in another of my own worlds yet because finding a source of obsidian and some diamonds is a bit time-consuming and I'd rather spend that time working on the structures I'm building in my main wold. Anyone else having this problem, and/or found a potential workaround that I've not listed? Maybe I should count myself lucky because I've read a lot of people having freezing issues with saving, and problems with worlds being deleted. Compared to that, this is pretty tame I guess. westcoaster posted:Whats the deal with monster's spawning next to me while I'm sleeping. Everything around me is lit up. I don't know what to do. In this version of the game, a bed is not safe unless it's two blocks away from a spot where a monster can spawn (any dark spot) AND in a place where monsters cannot wander into. If monsters are waking you up, either you have a spot somewhere in your house that is too dark and not blocked off entirely with walls and/or doors, you have a hole in your house somewhere, or your bed is against a single-tile thick wall. It's probably the last one, so either make sure all your walls are two tiles thick, or place your beds not touching any external walls. Another solution is to build your bedroom above ground level, either in a second floor or a stilted/floating home. This way, you don't have to worry about the walls and can just make sure the room is lit and doored/walled off.
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Crappy Jack posted:Put a thing in a dispenser and when it's activated, that thing pops out. Arrows, for example. Those pop out really fast, meaning you've just created an arrow trap. Now make the temple from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Connect them to a redstone repeater and you have a wall of pain, assuming you torture chickens for their feathers. Does a dispenser duplicate the items you put in?
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SixtySix posted:Does a dispenser duplicate the items you put in? No. You have to fill them up with tons of ammunition to avoid frequent restocks. Got this for the xbox to play with my brother, and holy poo poo do I miss the sprint on the pc version. I always drink potions of swiftness so moving at normal speed with no sprint makes me feel like a slug.
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SixtySix posted:Does a dispenser duplicate the items you put in? No (although a dispenser is used in the dupe glitch, if you are into that [don't do it, it will ruin the game]), a dispenser doesn't duplicate anything on its own. For most items, a dispenser is pretty much useless except for show. It just shoots out items when it gets a charge. Most of the time, people are just as likely to open the dispenser to take out the items like a chest than to push a button to receive the item. It's mostly useful when combined with arrows, eggs, or snowballs as those items become a projectile that can damage or push back enemies or other players. You can also use a series of dispensers as a sort of automatic preparation system; a hallway lined with dispensers and pressure plates that you walk through and come out on the other end with everything you need to go spelunking or with the essentials for recovering your lost stuff (armor, weapon, pickaxes, torches, etc).
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Funkmaster General posted:
I am so making my house have an iron-man style Kit room.
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Ramagamma posted:I am so making my house have an iron-man style Kit room. Fill them with food ingredients, walk through while singing the Pee Wee's Big Adventure music to yourself.
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westcoaster posted:Anyone have a few cool seeds for me to try? gergamel - started me right on top of a cave system, with above-ground coal and iron nearby. And a shitton of trees.
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Install Gentoo posted:Probably because you're a bit ignorant of programming? If you say so Sparky.
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Funkmaster General posted:You can also use a series of dispensers as a sort of automatic preparation system; a hallway lined with dispensers and pressure plates that you walk through and come out on the other end with everything you need to go spelunking or with the essentials for recovering your lost stuff (armor, weapon, pickaxes, torches, etc). http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...XriPrtpY#t=295s (If this doesn't put you at the correct time from clicking on it, skip to 4:50) EDIT: Ok, for content that's worth a drat, apparently, the first update will be coming soon!, and it'll be skipping right to 1.7.3! Article 4J Studios posted:Pistons. I was wondering about this, whether they'd put multiple updates together or not. Looks like that's the case. Here's hoping that the next update goes all the way to 1.9 or something (that was, I believe, the hunger and land generation update, though I could be mistaken. 1.8 was big, 1.9 was an excellent addition.) Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 10:26 |
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Looking forward to those pistons, I need a super fancy door for my castle wall. It will well with the artificial river and lake I built outside it last night with Aishan. (Thanks dude.) Also had my first cave-diving adventure, came up with enough iron to build three stacks of rail, so I'm 40% of the way towards my achievement railway. Oh, and I rebuilt my stairway in the mountain. I can't think why I ended up only getting to bed at 4 in the morning. Funkmaster General posted:You can also use a series of dispensers as a sort of automatic preparation system; a hallway lined with dispensers and pressure plates that you walk through and come out on the other end with everything you need to go spelunking or with the essentials for recovering your lost stuff (armor, weapon, pickaxes, torches, etc). This is goddamn genius. I need to build a series of these hallways for different occasions.
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Parkingtigers posted:I'm 40% of the way towards my achievement railway. I am so stealing a ride on that railway when it's done. Was quite looking forward to hopping into your world at lunchtime and finishing my floating house since I've not really had time to minecraft over the weekend. Had a uni friend up on Sunday visiting and my girlfriend has decided to start her own little world so we are both fighting with each other for xbox control. I'm off for a week tomorrow though so gotta stay in at work and get things up to date before Diablo 3 hits :'( I'm sure I'll have a few Diablo breaks just to play some minecraft though.
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I have converted my friend to this game! He wasn't sure at first, because he was messing around in the tutorial, but I guess he's one of those guys who prefers that people show him stuff, rather than read a bunch of text (and he's an avid reader, too, so I don't know). Anyway, showed him my now-puny world, explained how crafting generally works (make this from this, but first you need this and this...), and he's all-aboard now. One of the complaints he originally had was that this game shoves in his face how uncreative he is (his words). That, apparently, doesn't come in to play when all you REALLY want to do is build a shack and be safe at night from monsters.
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Ramagamma posted:I am so stealing a ride on that railway when it's done.
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Ramagamma posted:I am so stealing a ride on that railway when it's done. Do you want the good news, or the bad news? The bad? Well your giant house of creeper spawning death had to be relocated due to the need to put in a river and a lake. The good news? I've got a goddamn river and a motherfucking lake up in this bitch. I have reserved you a prime, PRIME I say, spot of land at the top of my staircase. You want your own floating island connected with a skybridge to the mainland? You bet you do. Oh yeah baby. Also, I have to say that building natural looking watercourses is wonderful. I had never even thought of it until last night and then it became an addiction. Going to extend the river along and flood the giant sand pit. But first, I need to a glass dome under where the water is going to go. This valley is going to be pure sex when I'm done with it. Parkingtigers fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 13:23 |
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Has anyone made a metatag yet? Edit: If I destroy a chest that has items in it, do the items get destroyed? Pop out? Stay in the chest?
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Parkingtigers posted:Also, I have to say that building natural looking watercourses is wonderful. I had never even thought of it until last night and then it became an addiction. Going to extend the river along and flood the giant sand pit. But first, I need to a glass dome under where the water is going to go. This valley is going to be pure sex when I'm done with it. You mean, like, terraforming, but... with rivers? River-forming? I am all over this!  You know, for the amount that we BOTH (and the OP) talk about MC, I have yet to visit your world. Gotta fix that soon!
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Capsaicin posted:Has anyone made a metatag yet? They pop out, you won't lose anything.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:You mean, like, terraforming, but... with rivers? River-forming? Yeah baby. All of the water in this picture (apart from the waterfall hiding on the very right of the picture was placed by me.  Here's how it looks from up on one of my observation decks:  Made it so it looks like the river split in two flowing around a small islet, before forming a lake at the base of a giant waterfall. I think it looks super cool.
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Went in GameStop this morning to buy a Steam Wallet card. Ended up getting Minecraft Xbox since the Steam cards don't work yet... GT: Zedo P Mann
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I will be weeding out my friends list an adding you all today... Or the ones I haven't added yet. I like my world but there is something more fun about building stuff on others worlds.
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Guess I'll add my GT too: New Red Comet. I've got a bunch of obsidian now, how do you build a portal?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Guess I'll add my GT too: New Red Comet. Make a vertical O shape. The hole in the middle needs to be two spaces wide, and three spaces high. Once you have built it, use flint and steel to set it on fire and activate the portal.
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Parkingtigers posted:Make a vertical O shape. The hole in the middle needs to be two spaces wide, and three spaces high. Once you have built it, use flint and steel to set it on fire and activate the portal. Easiest way to do it is to create the mould via placing lava one block at a time, rather than actually picking and placing obsidian (this is assuming you don't have a diamond pickaxe yet). If you have two metal buckets (can be done with one, though obviously it'd take longer) and access to water and lava, you can create the outline of the portal. To make obsidian where you want it, put cobble around a 1x1 space, pour lava in so it's a 'source' block (not flowing) and then drop water in one of the blocks near it. The water will flow onto the lava, creating obsidian. Chip away the cobble, and repeat for the rest of them.
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