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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Are there requirements for what constitutes a house, like in Terarria? I dug out a cave and put in a door, bed, and crafting stations along with some candles. When I tried to sleep, a skeleton archer spawned in my house, which shocked me and lead to a series of events that wound up with half the mountain I built my cave into being blown up. When I rebuilt the front wall and some of the ceiling I used crafted wood bricks. Even though half my house is still has some dirt/stone wall, nothing else has spawned in there. Your house had another entrance somewhere or was too dark in some spot. You need to either close off the bedroom with a door or keep every corner of the house well lit. Probably a good idea to light up the outside of the house as much as possible, too. Monsters don't spawn in the light and tend not to wander too close to it either. If you're like me, and dig your mine down straight out of your house, you probably want to door the shaft off from the main house.
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The autosave is ONLY saving leaderboard stats. Not your world or anything in it. You MUST manually save your world before quitting and, ideally, every so often while playing.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 05:51 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, really. Like, 4 stacks of coal will keep you for a LONG time. 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.
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| # ¿ May 13, 2012 17:26 |
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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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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 05:33 |
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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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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 06:34 |
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Smelly posted:That poor sheep was just happy to be in a pen with all the other animals. Fence gates are a couple of updates out, for some reason. No idea why they weren't implemented way earlier.
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im a girl btw posted:Also, a question: does the map item show stuff you've built if it's big enough or does it just display how the surface looked when it was generated? Maps update themselves, so they will show your own structures, but each pixel on the map is an 8x8 space, so your stuff has to be bigger than that to appear, and obviously only surface stuff appears on it.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 06:12 |
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Dirt is one of the few materials I don't really have much of a use for. Keep some of it around in case you decide to make a hill somewhere or want to plant trees on/in something they otherwise wouldn't grow on/in, but most of it can probably be tossed into lava. Gravel is interesting because, unlike most blocks, it is effected by gravity. Sand is like this, too, but sand has better uses (being turned into sandstone or glass). Gravel is fun to grief other players with. Drop two or three on their head and they'll suffocate before they can dig themselves out. If you're not that kind of a guy, you can also use the same method for monsters. Gravel can also be placed and redug to farm for flint, which has a chance of dropping when you break it. Redstone powder has a couple of neat uses, but won't really shine until the next update, with pistons. The best use for it currently is probably for powered rails and dispensers.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 07:29 |
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Player one: default Player two: tennis player Player three: tuxedo Player four: black guy w/ chain Anyone know about the other four skins?
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 00:33 |
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im a girl btw posted:Haha thanks, good to know. I had to exit the game to get the thing off the screen. I messed around with this today, and you can't dye wool blocks directly, it's a crafting recipe requiring white wool. So you can't dye red wool green, for example, but you can dye it back to white, then green. You can due sheep, too, by using the dye on it, and in that case you can dye a sheep red, then die it green, but the result is the same ad if you'd just dyed it green to begin with, no color mixing. You CAN create certain mixed colors by combining dyes on the crafting table. Most primary colors have 2 or 3 shades. Maldraedior posted:is this version far enough along that you can use bonemeal on grass to random grow tall grass and flowers? Yes
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 04:07 |
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Microsoft is issuing refunds on this game to SDTV users. No idea if they can actually tell whether you have an SDTV or not. Not to encourage scamming, but after you get the refund (in the form if MS points), you still have a license to the game and can continue playing/redownload it in the future/etc. Definitely worth looking into for those genuinely affected by the issue at least.
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| # ¿ May 23, 2012 01:01 |
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Re: water pouring issues: You're too close to the map's default spawn point. You can't pour water ir lava there to prevent you from making spawn death-chambers.
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| # ¿ May 26, 2012 05:44 |
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Longbaugh01 posted:Maybe, maybe not, but probably. 4J is cherry-picking what parts of future PC updates they'll include in 360 Edition updates depending on how well (or not) they work with the 360 version. Uh, do you have a source for this? Because the last I heard 4J said they'd be bringing everything over, with the possible exception of "infinite" world size, in incremental patches matching the contents of the patches the PC version had.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2012 04:51 |
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Jervas Dudley posted:Two questions, hopefully this one is answerable now: How is lag? One of the things that killed me (literally and figuratively) playing on the PC was that even with a good connection it was impossible to kite a creeper in multiplayer. Lag isn't bad at all. When playing online I've run into it a handful of times and it usually involves mined blocks reappearing for a second then disappearing again, rather than movement lag that would effect combat. It's always corrected itself with a restart, too, and then gone away for the rest of the session. Texture packs are coming, and at least a few will be free. No ETA on that though.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2012 07:56 |
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Plinko posted:My project has been to build a minecart track around the perimeter of the entire map, a cross in the center that runs north/south east/west to the edges, and then maybe more. I'm pretty close to breaking down and doing the dispenser trick, because I can't put together enough Iron to finish the project. Er, by "experimental" do you mean creative? If so, that'll come out with the adventure update. Which is to say, not the forthcoming update but the following one.
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| # ¿ May 30, 2012 21:37 |
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Is that surface nether manmade, or created by a chunk-generation glitch?
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| # ¿ May 30, 2012 23:26 |
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The Midniter posted:So far I have 12 gold ingots but they're so relatively rare that I am hesitant to use them. What is the best use for them? Gold ingots are probably best used on powered rails, although there are alternatives to that, so it isn't absolutely necessary.
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| # ¿ May 31, 2012 01:53 |
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Kinda disappointed that this isn't actually moving up a version yet. 4J were teasing us with how much fun they were having with pistons like two days after the game launched.
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2012 14:35 |
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I'm pretty sure they said they were doing one if the .7 revisions before .8, with pistons being the one big addition. I don't mind it taking so long except that the way they were hyping it suggested a much tighter update schedule. You can't really compare it to the "real" update schedule because these guys are porting existing content rather than implementing entirely new stuff. But really even if they never update again, it was well worth what I paid for it, so no real complaints. I just wish it didn't feel like they were holding out on us based on what they were saying just before/after launch.
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2012 20:06 |
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Smelly posted:Gothmog: Apparently all of the cactus that was supposed to be in your world ended up in mine. Sorry bro. New project idea: cactus hedge maze. Use a soul-sand gateway so once someone goes in, they have to find the exit. Well okay, they could just be ducks and cut their way out.
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2012 02:20 |
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Mordaedil posted:Oh man, you get pistons now? Unless the patch came out today, nope. Not yet.
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| # ¿ Jun 30, 2012 14:35 |
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Doug posted:That won't work because if you're stopped on an unpowered track and then power it, you won't go anywhere if it's open on both sides. Like at the beginning of my track I have to have a block behind the track to propel me forward. Same concept for your stop, then. The powered rail won't start you moving if it's powered while you're on it, but it will stop you moving if it's unpowered. Make a one-block high hill, the minecart goes up the hill and the powered rail leads downward off of it. The cart will stop slanted on the rail until you press a nearby button, which will allow the cart to start moving again for ~5 seconds or so. Quick MSPaint doodle:  Red = powered rail, black = normal rail. Put a button next to the powered rail so you can push it from the cart. Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at Jul 4, 2012 around 08:28 |
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Doug posted:I had the same thought, but that only makes it a one way track. When you back you'll be stopped on an incline that will send you back the way you came. Well, yeah. Have a second track running right next to it to go back the other way, connected in a loop if you like.
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| # ¿ Jul 4, 2012 08:39 |
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Niggard of Oz posted:Question is, is this against the Live ToS, and how likely would they crack down on it? And how to distribute the shared gamertag, would six recoveries be possible? Or could the gamertag be uploaded and downloaded online? Yeah, it's against ToS to share accounts. They'd ban the account immediately if they noticed it, but how likely that would be would depend on how many people bought in to it. Two or three people, it'd probably go unnoticed for quite some time. Four or five would be a bit risky. Any more than that would be disastrous for all involved. You would just download the tag on each box, yeah, you don't need to do anything fancy for that, everyone just needs the microsoft live account info.
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2012 04:31 |
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Pistons are a powered block which pushes the block in front of it forward one block when it receives power.
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| # ¿ Jul 10, 2012 04:11 |
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Smelly posted:What? A self ban? Why not just you know, not join the game? I think the idea is to prevent you from joining the world on accident while joining another friend who is in that world. It's really super unnecessary though. If the world offends you so much that joining it momentarily on accident will cause you distress, you're way too sensitive and should maybe not be playing a game where anyone can build whatever they want and show it to you. What could possibly be that offensive in minecraft, anyway? Giant sand-dicks? Wool-based goatse pixel-art? Nazi flags hanging off a castle?
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| # ¿ Jul 12, 2012 18:12 |
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on the friends list option. No more shitheads yay 
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I used a web app to locate the chunks my slimes were in and carved two of them out completely and there's still no slimes. I need sticky pistons!
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| # ¿ Jul 16, 2012 00:40 |
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Friending parkingtigers. GT is Shiny Pidgey and I will be the fearsome squidman.
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Admin Understudy posted:Is there a main goon map? I just picked this up and have had an ok time dicking around on my own but wouldn't mind lending a hand to the greater good. Patkingtiger X has the largest goon map as far as I know, and easily the coolest world I've played on.
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Vidmaster posted:So what's the trick to actually getting slimeballs from the slimes? I have a big cave where they spawn, but when I kill the bigger ones they just die and don't split, and the little ones hardly ever drop anything. They only split if you kill them with a non-weapon, non-tool item (or your hands). They only drop balls if they would have split but are at minimum size.
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| # ¿ Jul 18, 2012 05:11 |
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dpush posted:Thats what the soul sand is for. For some reason they can get onto it but can't step off. It only has a 7/10 block hight or something. Thats why its good for thresh holds. Another interesting thing about their height is that it can be used to create one-way doors. Make an archway three blocks high and three wide (so that the opening is two high, one wide), then put a line of soul sand across the front of it. The result is that players and mobs can both go through the back side (without the sand) just fine, but will be unable to pass through the side with the sand. And going further with this, because you can put rails on top of soul sand, if you put the soul sand barrier on both sides of the archway, and pass a railway through it, only minecarts and their occupants can pass through it, so you can have a railway going into a secure area/building with no risk of mobs getting in that way unless you have your minecarts exposed at the station and the mob wanders into the cart itself (easily avoided).
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| # ¿ Jul 18, 2012 06:54 |
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15 more free skins are out now as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion: Paladin (hybrid) Variant (hybrid) Randall Wayne (deadlight) Stella Patterson (deadlight) Skinny Zombie (deadlight) Female Zombie (deadlight) Wreck (wreckateer) Knight (wreckateer) Hot Goblin (wreckateer) Bunny Suit Goblin (wreckateer) [notably not wearing anything vaugely resembling a bunny suit] Dust (dust) Fidget (dust) Tony Hawk (THPSHD) Ollie the Magical Bum (THPSHD) Officer Dick (THPSHD) As far as I can tell, these are not available as regular DLC, so when the promotional period is over, it's likely that you won't have a chance to grab them anymore. There's a big Tony Hawk ad on the front page with a Summer of Arcade logo on it. Select it and you'll be taken to a scren with all the SoA games listed, in the bottom right corner there's a button that says "Minecraft offer." Click it and hit "get skins" and you're set. edit: Oh, the Bunny Suit Goblin's bunny suit is... on top of his head, where you can't see it in the skin selector. Okay. Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at Jul 18, 2012 around 18:42 |
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Welp. Joined your guys' server the other day and thought it was rad so I started building myself a little home in an empty spot. Came back tonight to fix it up some more and found that someone had apparently reserved the area after I built my house there, and put up signs in front of my doors demanding that I blow it up. Come on, guys ):
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2012 02:40 |
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Is it possible to use a pressure plate like a one-way switch? I want to create an underwater walkway that raises up to meet you as you approach, then slides back down underwater again only when you're on the other side. If I use a pressure plate to sense you're coming it's just going to sink again with you on it still.
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Parkingtigers posted:We seem to have a SERIOUS creeper infestation at the moment. I'm wondering if the game is bugged, and is accidentally putting us on hard or something. Difficulty doesn't effect monster spawn rates (other than peaceful not spawning monsters), so this isn't quite it. The 360 version of the game has always had way more creepers spawning than the PC version, or seemed to. Your best bet is to make a wall or large fence around the perimeter of the town and then become a light-nazi, making sure everyone's buildings are up to code and not spawning monsters inside/underneath them.
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2012 17:54 |
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Joined a friend's game earlier and he was playing with one of his other friends. Dude had clearly been using an inventory editor (not just duping) because he had otherwise impossible stuff like nether portal blocks outside of a nether portal. That's not the interesting part, though. What was interesting was that he had a bunch of eyes of ender. He tossed them around a bit, and they seemed to function like they should (which is to say, they pointed to a particular spot on the map but of course there was nothing there). Interesting to see that stuff like this is in the code already, hope it means that the next update won't be too long.
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| # ¿ Jul 20, 2012 05:50 |
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I'm pretty well familiar with gamesave sharing, so I can happily answer any questions you might have or even do most of the work in distributing the things, send me a message on XBL or ask on here. I'd love a copy of the world myself. It is, technically, against ToS to share gamesaves but as far as I know nobody has ever been banned or suspended for it except in cases where it effects multiplayer progression stuff (a host of people got suspended for using someone's completed RDR multiplayer save, for example) and even then it tends to be up to the developers to do something about it. The process involves ripping the file from a USB stick (or xbox HDD via transfer kit), changing the console/profile ID on it, and then resigning it and putting it onto a new USB/HDD. It's not daunting as it sounds and programs like modio or xstaf are actually fairly innocent except for what they allow you to do if you have the will (specifically, gamesave modding/cheating/editing and in some cases marketplace theft). It would be the people who downloaded/used your copy that were taking the risk, not you (and hardly any risk there anyway), but if you were super paranoid I can help you clear out the console/profile ID before you upload it anywhere so that it couldn't be easily traced back to you anyway. Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at Jul 21, 2012 around 23:41 |
| # ¿ Jul 21, 2012 23:38 |
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:I didn't see this in the op, but I was wondering if it was possible to make private Minecraft games, or to kick people from them on demand if you're hosting? My ten year old little brother plays pretty excessively but not a day goes by without some other kid getting into his game and deciding to burn down all the houses, steal from all the chests and kill everyone as much as possible before forcing everyone to quit. It's incredibly obnoxious, but I don't own the game myself and without it in front of me I can't really tell him what to do about it. He can choose to limit his world to friends only, friends and friends of friends, or make it invite only. If someone unsavory does get in, the host (presumably him) has the option to kick them, although if the world is not invite only they can just come back.
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| # ¿ Jul 24, 2012 03:12 |
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Empire State posted:I guess there's zero chance we'll ever get permanent servers that don't involve someone running their XBox 24/7? 4 J said they were looking into it, but what that actually means is kind of up in the air (they were "looking into" player-made skins, texture packs, larger worlds, mods...). It would probably work something like it does with battlefield.
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I want in on this for sure.
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