Eldron on 21/8/2010 at 19:40

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I'm on the 900, the one with the 4gb fast ssd, and 16gb slow ssd, I recall it has a different gpu from the newer ones.


BTW!

Notch creating game live in some event thing he is at: currently 30 hours left.

(http://mojang.com/live/) http://mojang.com/live/

And the compo games progress:

(http://www.mojang.com/compo/metagun/) http://www.mojang.com/compo/metagun/

Mr.Duck on 22/8/2010 at 03:09

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Got any swords or bow + arrows, Xenith?, you can always fight it through :)

Though, yeah, hidding is probably best...

Also, me and Gunny started sharing my save file, so a succession game may perhaps beggin' ;););)

Jusal on 22/8/2010 at 09:00

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Here's a few shots of my single player game in the meanwhile.

http://i33.tinypic.com/bi3x8j.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2i2beix.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/25hjq7a.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/4s1wew.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/24w5bh4.jpg

I like to think it looks pretty cozy.

The texture pack I'm using is SMP's realistic. The few last shots use the defaults.

gunsmoke on 22/8/2010 at 13:06

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Damn, you guys are smarter than me. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this game. I love it, but it has a steep learning curve. Glad I bought it now, instead of waiting until Beta hits and the price doubles, though.

june gloom on 22/8/2010 at 14:00

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Here, gunny, since my foot's bothering me like a motherfucker (dunno why, podiatrist had no fucking clue either) I can't sleep, so I'll just write you up a quick getting-started guide:

Your primary objective to start is going to be crafting and gathering materials.

Use (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting) this for a list of crafting recipes.

First things first- break down a few trees (with your bare hands) until you have enough to make a workbench. You can ignore the leaf blocks- they'll eventually fall apart and possibly drop saplings to form new trees with. You can gather these saplings and plant them at your leisure, but that's decorative stuff you can worry about later.

I suggest you also find a suitable cavern, especially if you're playing on anything but Peaceful. (You can adjust the difficulty on the fly, though.) You'll want a secure place to keep the monsters out. Caverns up a hill are a good choice.

To make a workbench, open the inventory, left-click the wooden logs you've collected and drop the whole lot into your 4x4 craft box. Make sure they're stacked, rather than spread out. You'll know you're doing it right when you can see the results in the solitary box to the right. They should look like a crate. These are plank cubes. Remove the planks one by one until you run out of logs. Then place 4 crates, one for each square, in the crafting box. Take the resulting workbench out of the results box, and put it in your toolbelt- the inventory boxes along the bottom. It's a little like Deus Ex in that matter, except that anything in your toolbelt does not take up space in the rest of your inventory.

Select your workbench using the scrollwheel or a number key. Right click to place it. Tada! You've made a workbench! When using the workbench, you now have 9x9 squares to work with instead of the usual 4x4.

Your next task is to make yourself some tools. Right now, you can get away with just one tool- a wooden pickaxe. To make this, simply take two planks and put them in the craft box, in vertical order. Remove the sticks from the results square. You can have any number of planks in a given box, and as you remove the results, the number will decrease by one. So, for example, if I put 25 planks in one box and 25 in a box below it, I could remove the grouping of 4 sticks from the results box and both plank groupings will decrease by one.

As a side note, learn how to split your craftables. Rightclicking on a stack of, let's say planks, in your inventory will cut the stack in half- so 64 planks will be 32 planks in the inventory, and 32 that you're currently dragging dragging around on your mouse, which you can then place anywhere. If you want to drop a plank or other stacked craftable, one by one, then when holding a stack in your cursor, rightclick. If you have multiple stacks of a given material, let's say planks as an example, and they're all different amounts less than 64, a great way to clear up space is to click on a stack and then click another stack- they'll be added together, up to 64.

Anyway. Once you have a nice little bundle of sticks, take two and put them in vertical order, in the middle, on the bottom, on your workbench. Then take three planks and line them up along the top. Together they should form a capital T. Take the wooden pickaxe.

Equip your wooden pickaxe. Go find some stone- grey blocks. Pickaxe the fucking shit out of them. Collect the cobblestone blocks that result. Your wooden pickaxe will last about as long as CCCToad's first sexual experience, so once it breaks, take the cobblestone cubes you've collected and head back to your workshop. To make a stone pickaxe, place a couple of sticks down, then line up three cobblestone cubes along the top. Make a bunch of these so you don't have to make multiple trips back and forth if you're on a digging project. There are other tools you can make- and stone tools will be your go-to variant, because they last reasonably long and there's plenty of stone, whereas wooden variants break fast and higher-quality variants are harder to replace.

As for those other tools: shovels are great for digging through dirt (brown, maybe with some grass), sand (yellow) and gravel (reddish brown.) Dirt won't fall down on you, but be careful with sand and gravel- if two blocks land on you, you could suffocate. Hoes are meant for turning dirt blocks into farmable land, but they have to be within 4 blocks of water. And swords? They're pointy things, and you use them to murder those fucking cows that just fucking trampled all over your garden.

Hope this helps.