Meinkraft.

[M1ke]

Woot! 1.6 - definitely going to give it a try with a few of my friends.

[rustypup]

another pistons teaser...

[DJT]

I saw that yesterday. I can't wait to make our castle have hidden doors like that

[DJT]

[rustypup]

[rustypup]

still teasing :/

[rustypup]

so, some twerps leaked the pre-release which led to mojang simply making it available for everyone...

still really buggy, but playable... endermen are suitably creepy, the lighting has certainly improved the atmosphere, (especially in the deep), and the random villages add that something extra...

will be great once they get the NPCs in there...

[rustypup]

1.8 Beta Officially released!

[Anakha56]

Hey rusty! Buying a Android phone now? You can really turn that "disgruntled" into "violent" the next time you have dinner .

https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... _developer

Imagine it, build it. Create worlds on the go with Minecraft - Pocket Edition

This is the demo of Minecraft - Pocket Edition. Minecraft - Pocket Edition allows you to build on the go. Use blocks to create masterpieces as you travel, hangout with friends, sit at the park, the possibilities are endless. Move beyond the limits of your computer and play Minecraft everywhere you go.

Limitations of the demo version
* The world is not saved between sessions
* Multiplayer worlds can not be copied to your phone
* Only 18 of the 36 different blocks are available

No longer tied down to the Xperia...

[Anakha56]

Minecraft gone gold. I wonder if you will get gold monsters now...

http://www.techpowerup.com/155214/Minec ... -Gold.html

Minecraft: 2.5 Year Beta Finally Goes Gold
Yes, after 2.5 years in the making and over 4 million sales, Minecraft has finally gone gold. This is the game with the charmingly blocky graphics where the player builds their cartoon world out of blocks and must hide from monsters at night. It will be officially released at the inaugural MineCon event in Las Vegas this Friday. Developer Markus "Notch" Persson head of studio Mojang announced it had gone gold on Twitter:

So, yes. Minecraft has gone gold.

[Anakha56]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecr ... 15109.html

16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft
6:00 AM - March 25, 2012 by Kevin Parrish - source: YouTube

It's a working graphing calculator inside Minecraft. Doh.

To be honest, some of us barely have enough time to build a pyramid or towering 8-bit video game character in Minecraft much less a gigantic, functional machine that can be used here in the real world. Yet it's amazing to see these massive projects show up in video demonstrations where players build virtual machines brick by brick, especially from those who can't even legally vote.

Case in point: 16-year-old "MaxSGB" has created a working scientific/graphic calculator inside Minecraft. On a virtual scale, the functional device is enormous -- enough so that anyone in the real world would become a red blot of meat and bone staining the road if they fell from the very top. Honestly, his virtual machine looks more like a giant cargo ship ripped from a sci-fi movie than a working calculator. Yet type your problem out on the keypad, and the answer appears on a large white display mounted on the side of the monstrous brick structure. No spaceship can do that... can it?

"The screen and keypad were always meant to be the main feature of this machine," he writes on YouTube. "The main display boasts 25 digits. Square root signs are displayed and can change to accommodate any number of digits. Square root signs, add, minus, multiply and divide signs are displayed at appropriate times, and there is a full fraction display. The 7-segments for the fractions are the smallest possible, being only 3 wide, and stackable vertically and horizontally."

The video itself explains that its overall size is more than 5 million cubic meters -- just over 250 x 250 x 100 blocks. It provides 14 functions, BCD input, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, and 6 rapid BCD adders and subtractors. It also contains floor after floor of live decoders for quick conversions, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing function.

Follow the link for the vid...

[StarBound]

Few steam friends sponsered me a "trial" version. I completely get how the game can be fun but after 30min it was like Sims all over again.

[Monty]

Time for a small necro.

Anyone still spending time on this game?

I'm considering setting up a local server on my NAS (because I can). Might be lots of fun, but i wish the pocket version and desktop version played with each other.

[rustypup]

1.3 Pre-release is up

• The game now runs an internal server in single-player mode
  The single-player server can be shared on LAN, with LAN server detection
  Made it possible to use client-side commands by enabling cheats (this is defaulted as disabled for old worlds)
  Added an optional “bonus chest” to get started quicker
  It’s now possible to trade with villagers. Added emeralds as a currency
  You gain enchantment orbs from other tasks than just destroying monsters. Max enchantment level has been decreased to 30
  Servers can automatically suggest and distribute texture packs
  Added new world map elements (does not need a new map, but they’ll only appear in new areas)
  Added cocoa beans
  Added an Ender chest
  Added tripwire
  Stairs and levers can be placed up-side-down
  Wooden logs can be placed sideways

[Tribble]

What is the fascination with this? My youngest son wants to play so I am investigating. I would personally build with lego but am open to why this is so fascinating....

[rustypup]

What is the fascination with this?

pretty much lego on speed... with zombies, farming,pets,circuitry,traps,mining,architecture,chemistry...

and it all starts with punching a tree...

all this at a fraction of the cost of a starter set of lego...

and the worlds are massive.. and you can share them with your friends...

the nieces/nephews love the different texture packs, (the nieces play with the princess pony abominations mostly)...

[Tribble]

Interesting - will stay clear of the pony stuff.

He wants it on Xbox. Which is better? PC or Xbox?

[rustypup]

PC offers far more versatility and a huge library of texture packs and mods, (including some stunning HD variants). xbox offers "simplified" gameplay, (crafting, etc. would be torture otherwise) and possibly simplified multi-player... but not by a large margin...

[Tribble]

So multiplayer is better on PC?

Any servers you can recommend ? He is determined to play this.

[DJT]

Heya Tribs

Multiplayer is far superior on the PC yes.

As far as servers are concerned, try the KwikSoft SandBox one: 41.185.60.69. Great community, cool plugins, survival, creative, admin hosted events, really cool towns and cities. Give it a look

Shout if you need any help
DJT(za)

[Tribble]

I will do thanks DJT.

[DJT]

Any time

Didn't know you played MC

[Tribble]

I don't. My little boy wants to. I said I would check it out and see if it is ok. Seems to be. I loved lego and this seems to be a really big lego set with "xtras"

[rustypup]

1.4.2 Scaryween is up and running

• witches!
  bats!
  potatoes!

maybe time to let the demons have a cuppa....

[Anakha56]

... Some troll changed the thread title ... Wonder who it could be...