Minecraft - Anyone into it?

[MKJ]

rofl

[Κracus]

My crafting shop, at the base of the frost tower :

[lvlshot]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/504695223049180787/9C86F4187E1532B4FEFA18B2E942DC02D5F54D46/[/lvlshot]

Out of shot is a basement panic room, complete with lava traps, teleporter and easy collection of loot from whatever blood moon, pirate invasion, solar eclipse or whatever may bring. Aye, I'm bloody cautious of it, having clocked up 400 odd hours between 1.1 and a while after 1.2 (granted though, that was hosting a server too).

Jesus... I own that game and I might have put 30 minutes of my time into it...

[seremtan]

Looks like a poor mans Minecraft :/

it's basically 2D modded MC (i.e. it has more 'stuff', like modded MC - Feed the Beast, Tekkit, Voltz etc), but Terraria players will insist that it isn't, even though it really is

[Whiskey 7]

I stopped building the underground mine railway (redstone powered) at 7k blocks. Doing a little housework to cleanup those dumps/chests of stuff I left on the way.

My rail in the sky (yet to be extended) is coming on nicely. It should be a good tourist visual when done. Shades of The Rocky Mountaineer,

Just trying to decide whether to go coal or redstone powered. The Redstone option will need lots of accelerator points as you'd appreciate and in the deep ocean it's a risky business adding them

[seremtan]

go redstone

i'm not even sure that coal-powered thing even works. never seen anyone ever use it. ever

[Whiskey 7]

Just went constructed another 500 blocks to get the end of my elevated rail out of the 'deep ocean' and onto dry land. While building I saw a strange Atlantian structure under the water some distance from my rail.



I started my archeological dig by dropping heaps of sand around (then dig it out as you know to displace the water) after a quick (on the water) cobblestone path build.

I have to go back later and really check this place out as I have to do a couple of chores (with a beer in hand)

Question: Anyone else discovered these structures? Hints welcome.

[Don Carlos]

That's really quite cool!

[seremtan]

While building I saw a strange Atlantian structure under the water some distance from my rail.

that's an Ocean Monument: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Ocean_monument

they're full of giant one-eyed squid things that shoot frickin laser beams that fuck you up

you can even farm the Guardians that spawn in them, if you've got a few weeks to spare

[losCHUNK]

My crafting shop, at the base of the frost tower :

[lvlshot]-[lvlshot]

Out of shot is a basement panic room, complete with lava traps, teleporter and easy collection of loot from whatever blood moon, pirate invasion, solar eclipse or whatever may bring. Aye, I'm bloody cautious of it, having clocked up 400 odd hours between 1.1 and a while after 1.2 (granted though, that was hosting a server too).

Jesus... I own that game...

Yea, yea.

[Whiskey 7]

I just found another underwater structure close to the previous Atlantis.
From the looks it has a Roman/Greek temple appearance. Check it out



I marked with a couple of torches on the side of my railway and will come back later to investigate.

[Don Carlos]

Madness - this game constantly boggles my mind

[mrd]

Yeah... Minecraft is weird as fuck. Hence why it is so fucking addictive.

Anyone ever tried this one?
http://game.notch.net/drowning/

A bit existential / depressing.

[Whiskey 7]

that's an Ocean Monument: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Ocean_monument

they're full of giant one-eyed squid things that shoot frickin laser beams that fuck you up

you can even farm the Guardians that spawn in them, if you've got a few weeks to spare

[flash]

Thank you seremtan for the info link and as above I am just appreciating how complex (pun) this game can be. I now have to read up on sponges and figure it's going to take lots & lots of sand to encase the area before digging to reveal the prize.

Googles 'how to uncover minecraft ocean monuments' to discover...

Things you might or will need when entering an ocean monument:

Potion of water breathing (essential, bring at least 4)
Potion of night vision (optional, but very useful; bring at least 2)
Splash potion of healing (optional, but good for quick healing, bring at least 3)
Splash potion of regeneration (optional, but helps a lot while fighting guardians and elder guardians, bring at least 1)
Potion of strength (optional, but very helpful when fighting guardians and elder guardians, bring at least 2)
Enchanted diamond armor (good enchantments include Respiration, Aqua Affinity, Protection, and Depth Strider)
Fairly large amount of food
A diamond sword enchanted with at least Sharpness I
Bow (not really needed, because arrows will slow down when shot underwater)
Iron or diamond pickaxe (essential, if you want to get the blocks of gold in the monument, should be enchanted with at least efficiency II if you plan to mine with mining fatigue)
Milk (optional, but can get rid of the mining fatigue effect for a few seconds)
Sponge (optional, but can create an emergency air pocket)
3 or more doors (optional, but useful for creating an air pocket and a quick shield)

[seremtan]

no mention of the most useful potion in a guardian temple: invisibility

[Don Carlos]

Jesus...I just like digging

[seremtan]

cave exploration's where it's at

[mjrpes]

Code: Select all

Release   Date           Days between release
1          11/8/2011     
1.1        1/12/2012     65
1.2        3/1/2012      49
1.3        8/1/2012      153
1.4        10/25/2012    85
1.5        3/13/2013     139
1.6        7/1/2013      110
1.7        10/25/2013    116
1.8        9/2/2014      312
1.9        ??            ??

Remember in alpha... when Notch released an update every week? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

[Eraser]

I'm sure you can make a list of increasing intervals between updates for every piece of software out there. It's just a natural progress of things. Early on in development, there's relatively many critical bugs that need to be fixed and probably lots of ideas for new features to implement. As time progresses, the bugs get fixed, the obvious new features get implemented and it just takes longer to come to a point where it's useful to put out a new update. Additionally, resources probably get pulled from the project and put on something else to help out there, further slowing down development.

[MKJ]

NO. it's because he fucking SOLD OUT and doesn't care about the community only about the DOLLA DOLLA BILLS cause he's such a SELLOUT.

[seremtan]

Remember in alpha... when Notch released an update every week? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

it isn't the update intervals that count, it's the content that comes with each update - and that content recently has been 50% good, 50% wank

the MC2 hype train starts here

[mjrpes]

Yeah apparently the source code is a big pile of mud....

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/ma ... 124#c43757

Years ago when they became serious about modding should have been the time they seriously refactored or started from scratch. Probably too big to take on now.

[seremtan]

handed noticed that, but then the last time i played MC was a 1.6 FTB pack

[Whiskey 7]

Well I have to report today I mined 4 sponges in that underwater temple after surrounding it with thousands of sand blocks taking days. Mining ever so carefully there and taking brief underwater swims without the aid of potions or enchantments I have seen mentioned.

Off now back home to a furnace to experiment with these sponge things as I have heard they suck up lots of water



Hey, I didn't tell you about those cats and their kittens. They are easily trapped for what?

[MKJ]

For the man going to St Yves

[Don Carlos]

God damn it - I want a moggie