Whenever I played Minecraft, i always asked myself "Where did Notch get inspiration for this game?" I now understand. All this time, we haven't been playing a game, we've being reading a message, carefully encrypted. Every aspect of the game is part of the message, if you look close enough, none of it is a game. None of it.
When you start off in the game, you are on a beach, alone. No one is there to help you, no one. In SMP there are people to help, but are they really there to help you survive, or to help you see the suffering, by suffering themselves. What must you do afterwards? Cut down trees with your fists, pain equals the first steps towards success...or does it? Next, you make a work bench, and some tools. Tools represent imaginary aid, things that you think will help you, like drugs, but really you just waste your life trying to get them, and get angry when they are all used up. For example, what do you do to get what you most desire? And what is it that you most desire? Diamonds, you desire diamonds, to help you make more tools, to help you think you are now safe, and to make you angry when they are gone. You spent perhaps weeks down underground, never seeing sunlight, looking fro something that you are only going to have for a short while. EVIL. What do Monsters represent? Hardships and trickery of life. Zombies you will find in caves, thinking you can kill them easily, perhaps you can, but when they swarm you? when you are cornered? When you can't see? Zombies represent problems, no matter how hard you try to destroy them, more keep coming, eventually you will get overwhelmed. But what of the sunlight? The sunlight that saves you from the zombies? This represents theoretical happiness, happiness you would have if you DIDN'T spend all your time away from it, underground, looking diamonds, the drugs of Minecraft. So drugs lead to problems, eh? Simple enough. Skeletons also represent problems, that hurt you when you least expect it. But die when you stop looking for diamonds. But night time, when even if you are above ground, you can be killed. This represents false accusation, and injustice. When you are accused of crimes, more problems come your way, and you can't stop them. You can lessen them, survive for a while, but you can never survive he night outside of your home, like in real life. If you try and be daring, not staying in your house, something bad will happen, even if you didn't deserve it. Now creepers, well, creepers represent you, never being able to accomplish your dreams, no matter how hard you work, a creeper will eventually take all of that away from you. Now one last thing, about diamonds. With diamond tools, what special stuff can you? Mine obsidian, right? And what can you do with obsidian? Make a portal, right? And does this portal go? To heaven, where your problems will be solved and creepers no longer exist? No, you go to hell, with flying things, that look so easy to hit, like problems looking so easy to overcome, but impossible to do so in reality. They also shoot creepers at your work.
June 17, 2011
June 14, 2011
Pictures of the HourGlass
Here are some pictures of the house Thermiteguy and I built, we both live in it and it is our home point (as in we used the server command /sethome there)
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| The house from the outside |
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| The Nether Portal installed near the house |
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| A swimming pool for whenever one might want to take a dip |
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| A bar in the pool |
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| A dock, at the beach near the house |
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| The remains of our dogs (Who both died when they fought each-other due to accidental snowball throwing) |
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| A directional compass |
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| This is the work room, it also is a kennel |
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| Farm room |
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| Complete with a prosperous mushroom farm |
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| My bedroom |
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| Thermiteguy's bedroom |
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| Kitchen |
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| Mmm, bread |
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| It's ready! |
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| Living room |
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| Bathroom |
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| Complete with a far-too-commonly clogged toilet |
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| The upper half of the HourGlass is a giant viewing platform |
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| You can get to the top of the house and see even better |
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| A diving board allows for quick exiting from it |
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| Some minecraft rails extend from the mine into the distance |
June 8, 2011
The Mining Adventure Part II
The day after our first mining adventure, we were pretty excited to make another expedition, or at least I was excited, Thermiteguy was still pretty bummed out about his iron. But after a while, he got back up on his feet, and we went down into the cave. Now, on our first adventure, our greatest challenge was facing Feme Ur, P. Elvis, and Rhea B. Cage. We faced spiders, zombies, and skeletons, but never any creepers. We had thought perhaps we were very lucky at this, and would not have to encounter any at all. We were completely wrong. The first mob we encountered was actually a creeper, behind a wall, we could see him through a one block hole, and he could see us. We were pleasantly picking at him when out of the opening at the side of the hallway we were in, which we somehow managed to not notice, a zombie comes, beating us down out of the hallway, we pulverize him easily, but he was just a distraction.
As soon as we were finished with the zombie, a creeper self destructed where the zombie had been, allowing the first creeper, who had been pleasantly sitting behind the wall, watching the whole thing, to self destruct. Skeletons, spiders, zombies and creepers ran after us. Unfortunately, we ran the wrong way and got cornered in the cave we had meant to explore. Eventually, we established a secure position in the cave near some water. We mined some iron, exploring more of the cave when we decided to go back.
Thermiteguy went back up into the house and smelted his stuff while I stayed and kept mining. I got caught up mining iron and gold and went into a place that, little did I know, turned out to be a death trap. It was a simple ledge, with water streaming from some cave about ten blocks away and higher up than the ledge. Th water went under the ledge, with enough space for a person to be in. It appeared that monsters kept getting caught up in the water from the cave, which I couldn't see, and would come streaming down under the ledge, which I was standing on. The first three monsters were creepers, and came down under the ledge, I figured out a way to pick them off, but if I moved, I would get killed by them.
The fourth monster was also a creeper, but something happened and he managed to escape the current and crawl onto the ground I was on. I ran away from him as he exploded, not destroying terrain (because the server I was on had a special pluggin to prevent that) but rather my health. The rest of it was blurry, but somehow I was caught in a position where the creepers who I was picking off earlier cornered me, but could not quite attack me. Eventually, I called for Thermiteguy, who came down after some time.
We killed off the creepers down there, but in our pride, a skeleton and a zombie started attacking Thermiteguy. I came to his rescue, demolishing the zombie, and most of the skeleton's health, before dieing. At that point, I had thought I was pretty deep in the cave, so I asked for Thermiteguy to stay there and help me get to my stuff, but as it turns out, he had already used /home and teleported to the house. I was very angry at him, seeing as to how he abandoned my stuff without caring at all. Luckily, it was actually really near to the entrance of the cave system(The actual one, not the dinky monster-less caves that lead up to it. A creeper was there, but I killed him. I picked up all my stuff and breathed a sigh of relief. I also saw, what appeared to be a huge amount of monsters in a small group, through a wall a bit higher than my position (f3) I came up to it and dug as close as possble. I hit some water, so I probably found the source of the monsters streaming down the hole into the ledge. I covered the water and took out a sign that I happened to have in my inventory and dubbed the place "Monster Partay". I then left.
In the end, I made a whole lot of iron from that trip, of which Thermiteguy was thoroughly jealous of. I don't blame him though. I get easily jealous of other peoples materials, too. In that mining trip, for instance, Thermiteguy had found some diamonds, he mined them, but I managed to swipe one off the wall before he got them all. He had three diamonds and I had one. I kind of thought back on my two diamond pickaxes I had lost, the first one very unjustly(Everyone's inventories got rolled back, but terrain stayed the same, meaning that my diamond pickax had simply turned into dust, and I couldn't have done a thing about it at all.).
I forgot a lot of the trip, but I do remember going to the Monster Partay place with Thermiteguy and discovering a new cavern from which the water was coming from.
Everything else is a bit muddled up, though here are a few points to sum it all up
-Our first encounters with creepers down there
-Found more iron and gold
-We died less
-We had packed food
-I had made some markers with redstone
-We found diamonds
-Lit up a lot of the area
NEXT: The Nether Adventure
As soon as we were finished with the zombie, a creeper self destructed where the zombie had been, allowing the first creeper, who had been pleasantly sitting behind the wall, watching the whole thing, to self destruct. Skeletons, spiders, zombies and creepers ran after us. Unfortunately, we ran the wrong way and got cornered in the cave we had meant to explore. Eventually, we established a secure position in the cave near some water. We mined some iron, exploring more of the cave when we decided to go back.
Thermiteguy went back up into the house and smelted his stuff while I stayed and kept mining. I got caught up mining iron and gold and went into a place that, little did I know, turned out to be a death trap. It was a simple ledge, with water streaming from some cave about ten blocks away and higher up than the ledge. Th water went under the ledge, with enough space for a person to be in. It appeared that monsters kept getting caught up in the water from the cave, which I couldn't see, and would come streaming down under the ledge, which I was standing on. The first three monsters were creepers, and came down under the ledge, I figured out a way to pick them off, but if I moved, I would get killed by them.
The fourth monster was also a creeper, but something happened and he managed to escape the current and crawl onto the ground I was on. I ran away from him as he exploded, not destroying terrain (because the server I was on had a special pluggin to prevent that) but rather my health. The rest of it was blurry, but somehow I was caught in a position where the creepers who I was picking off earlier cornered me, but could not quite attack me. Eventually, I called for Thermiteguy, who came down after some time.
We killed off the creepers down there, but in our pride, a skeleton and a zombie started attacking Thermiteguy. I came to his rescue, demolishing the zombie, and most of the skeleton's health, before dieing. At that point, I had thought I was pretty deep in the cave, so I asked for Thermiteguy to stay there and help me get to my stuff, but as it turns out, he had already used /home and teleported to the house. I was very angry at him, seeing as to how he abandoned my stuff without caring at all. Luckily, it was actually really near to the entrance of the cave system(The actual one, not the dinky monster-less caves that lead up to it. A creeper was there, but I killed him. I picked up all my stuff and breathed a sigh of relief. I also saw, what appeared to be a huge amount of monsters in a small group, through a wall a bit higher than my position (f3) I came up to it and dug as close as possble. I hit some water, so I probably found the source of the monsters streaming down the hole into the ledge. I covered the water and took out a sign that I happened to have in my inventory and dubbed the place "Monster Partay". I then left.
In the end, I made a whole lot of iron from that trip, of which Thermiteguy was thoroughly jealous of. I don't blame him though. I get easily jealous of other peoples materials, too. In that mining trip, for instance, Thermiteguy had found some diamonds, he mined them, but I managed to swipe one off the wall before he got them all. He had three diamonds and I had one. I kind of thought back on my two diamond pickaxes I had lost, the first one very unjustly(Everyone's inventories got rolled back, but terrain stayed the same, meaning that my diamond pickax had simply turned into dust, and I couldn't have done a thing about it at all.).
I forgot a lot of the trip, but I do remember going to the Monster Partay place with Thermiteguy and discovering a new cavern from which the water was coming from.
Everything else is a bit muddled up, though here are a few points to sum it all up
-Our first encounters with creepers down there
-Found more iron and gold
-We died less
-We had packed food
-I had made some markers with redstone
-We found diamonds
-Lit up a lot of the area
NEXT: The Nether Adventure
June 7, 2011
The Mining Adventure Part I
[I advise reading the previous post for info on what is going on here]
So there we were, walking down the staircase, pretending to bump our heads on the low ceiling. Thermiteguy was first, but had to go back while I was going down. I waited until he came back down. At the bottom was a rather low area, where we only needed to dig a few blocks to find bedrock and start a branch mine. Did we do so? Of course not. We had our "f3s on" (A bunch of numbers showing frame-rate, coordinates and numbers above mobs, activated by pressing f3) and saw some mob a few blocks above the bottom of the staircase. We listened, and realized it was a skeleton, this was gonna be hard.
I busted a hole in the wall to where I thought the cave would be, a skeleton leaps out, I dodge its first arrow. Me and Thermiteguy charge in, dealing blows to the skeleton, me with a stone sword, him with an iron one. We managed to kill the skeleton, and magically only had about one heart depleted on each of us, suddenly another one of those idiots popped out of nowhere and shoots Thermiteguy, he gets knocked into an alcove for about half a second, the skeleton hits the wall in an attempt t attack my friend again, I sneak up on him and hit him with my sword, Thermiteguy pops out and helps me crush him to dust.
After this encounter, our healths are about seven and a half hearts. We go through a series of caves and such, facing zombies, and to a lesser extent, more skeletons. After this, we have aquired roughly 20 iron each, I have 10 gold, and Thermiteguy has about 20 lapis. At this point we should have gone back and dropped our stuff off, but no, we didn't learn anything from the Ghast incident. We came to a dead end, where Thermiteguy went and started a long hallway. I went away and mined some coal, I found some more iron, too. When I came back, my friend had finished up the hallway and was about to start a branch mine. I saw a multitude of numbers, though, which meant a cave.
We were chattering on while I dug a staircase towards the numbers until I came to a cave and a skeleton promptly shot me in the face, backing up with about five hearts left, I called for Thermiteguy to come and back me up with this skeleton. It couldn't shoot me where I was, because it was about three or four blocks below me. It was very close though, and moving would cause it to be able to see me. Thermiteguy came rushing down and, rather recklessly, fell down the ledge, to be met by Feme Ur, the friendly, face shooting skeleton. Turns out that Feme Ur had two friends, P. Elvis(P being Presley, of course), and Rhea B. Cage. Thermiteguy was quickly demolished.
The area of this place was not friendly to items. So these skeletons were fighting with this current that lead straight into two lava pools. I didn't watch where Thermiteguy's items went, but they seemed to go near the smaller lava pool before being cut of of sight. As I surveyed the landscape, Thermiteguy pleaded for me to get his stuff. Honestly, I tried really hard.
So, when three skeletons are right below you, there is a forceful current going towards lava, and who knows what to your right (It was covered by stone, but I could tell it was hollow) you are faced with a more than difficult task. First, I tried getting the skeletons to get picked off, one by one. No success, one heart lost. Second, I tried getting them to shoot eachother. It appeared to work to an extent, but none seemed to die. one and a half hearts gone. After this, I noticed a large amount of arrows that had stuck to the ceiling above them as a result of their failed attempts at shooting me. Perhaps I could use this to my advantage? I cleared some of the stone the arrows were attached to, but I had to get a bit closer. I took about a heart of damage while trying to get close. Some of the skeletons actually got hit by these arrows, but the arrows were all gone. There was only one thing left to do. With about one and a half hearts left, I grabbed up my sword, and charged at the unholy things, hoping to kill as many as possible.
I don't even think I touched the ground.
With both our inventories emptied, Thermiteguy was getting really sad(He was whining that entire time about getting his stuff) Apparently, a couple seconds before I died, Thermiteguy had attempted to get his stuff, and succeeded for around a millisecond. To Thermiteguy, it was beyond doubt that all of his items had despawned. I assured him that wasn't so, since he had picked it up, therefore resetting the despawning timer. When I got there, it appeared that the skeletons had despawned instead of our items. They were nowhere to be seen. I jumped in and collected my and Thermiteguy's items. I called for him to get down, but for some reason, he took EXTREMELY long. I said I was actually going to keep his stuff if he didn't come down. In the end, I think my ten gold had flown into the lava, this really bummed me out, but, oh well.
I got killed another time somehow, I think it was some sneaky zombie. At this point, I was frightened my stuff had gone into lava. It survived, magically, but I blocked the path for the water to go into the lava. In the end, Thermiteguy went back up, smelted his iron, made a set of iron armor, came back down, fell into lava, respawned, refused to come down when I had found a new cave system, complained until I gave him some iron, complained that he got ripped off, and eventually he had to go.
I, on the other hand, found 2 gold, about 25 iron, and about 40 lapis.
Tomorrow, we are going to explore that new stretch of cave, hopefully I can get a lot more resources, and perhaps diamonds.
So there we were, walking down the staircase, pretending to bump our heads on the low ceiling. Thermiteguy was first, but had to go back while I was going down. I waited until he came back down. At the bottom was a rather low area, where we only needed to dig a few blocks to find bedrock and start a branch mine. Did we do so? Of course not. We had our "f3s on" (A bunch of numbers showing frame-rate, coordinates and numbers above mobs, activated by pressing f3) and saw some mob a few blocks above the bottom of the staircase. We listened, and realized it was a skeleton, this was gonna be hard.
I busted a hole in the wall to where I thought the cave would be, a skeleton leaps out, I dodge its first arrow. Me and Thermiteguy charge in, dealing blows to the skeleton, me with a stone sword, him with an iron one. We managed to kill the skeleton, and magically only had about one heart depleted on each of us, suddenly another one of those idiots popped out of nowhere and shoots Thermiteguy, he gets knocked into an alcove for about half a second, the skeleton hits the wall in an attempt t attack my friend again, I sneak up on him and hit him with my sword, Thermiteguy pops out and helps me crush him to dust.
After this encounter, our healths are about seven and a half hearts. We go through a series of caves and such, facing zombies, and to a lesser extent, more skeletons. After this, we have aquired roughly 20 iron each, I have 10 gold, and Thermiteguy has about 20 lapis. At this point we should have gone back and dropped our stuff off, but no, we didn't learn anything from the Ghast incident. We came to a dead end, where Thermiteguy went and started a long hallway. I went away and mined some coal, I found some more iron, too. When I came back, my friend had finished up the hallway and was about to start a branch mine. I saw a multitude of numbers, though, which meant a cave.
We were chattering on while I dug a staircase towards the numbers until I came to a cave and a skeleton promptly shot me in the face, backing up with about five hearts left, I called for Thermiteguy to come and back me up with this skeleton. It couldn't shoot me where I was, because it was about three or four blocks below me. It was very close though, and moving would cause it to be able to see me. Thermiteguy came rushing down and, rather recklessly, fell down the ledge, to be met by Feme Ur, the friendly, face shooting skeleton. Turns out that Feme Ur had two friends, P. Elvis(P being Presley, of course), and Rhea B. Cage. Thermiteguy was quickly demolished.
The area of this place was not friendly to items. So these skeletons were fighting with this current that lead straight into two lava pools. I didn't watch where Thermiteguy's items went, but they seemed to go near the smaller lava pool before being cut of of sight. As I surveyed the landscape, Thermiteguy pleaded for me to get his stuff. Honestly, I tried really hard.
So, when three skeletons are right below you, there is a forceful current going towards lava, and who knows what to your right (It was covered by stone, but I could tell it was hollow) you are faced with a more than difficult task. First, I tried getting the skeletons to get picked off, one by one. No success, one heart lost. Second, I tried getting them to shoot eachother. It appeared to work to an extent, but none seemed to die. one and a half hearts gone. After this, I noticed a large amount of arrows that had stuck to the ceiling above them as a result of their failed attempts at shooting me. Perhaps I could use this to my advantage? I cleared some of the stone the arrows were attached to, but I had to get a bit closer. I took about a heart of damage while trying to get close. Some of the skeletons actually got hit by these arrows, but the arrows were all gone. There was only one thing left to do. With about one and a half hearts left, I grabbed up my sword, and charged at the unholy things, hoping to kill as many as possible.
I don't even think I touched the ground.
With both our inventories emptied, Thermiteguy was getting really sad(He was whining that entire time about getting his stuff) Apparently, a couple seconds before I died, Thermiteguy had attempted to get his stuff, and succeeded for around a millisecond. To Thermiteguy, it was beyond doubt that all of his items had despawned. I assured him that wasn't so, since he had picked it up, therefore resetting the despawning timer. When I got there, it appeared that the skeletons had despawned instead of our items. They were nowhere to be seen. I jumped in and collected my and Thermiteguy's items. I called for him to get down, but for some reason, he took EXTREMELY long. I said I was actually going to keep his stuff if he didn't come down. In the end, I think my ten gold had flown into the lava, this really bummed me out, but, oh well.
I got killed another time somehow, I think it was some sneaky zombie. At this point, I was frightened my stuff had gone into lava. It survived, magically, but I blocked the path for the water to go into the lava. In the end, Thermiteguy went back up, smelted his iron, made a set of iron armor, came back down, fell into lava, respawned, refused to come down when I had found a new cave system, complained until I gave him some iron, complained that he got ripped off, and eventually he had to go.
I, on the other hand, found 2 gold, about 25 iron, and about 40 lapis.
Tomorrow, we are going to explore that new stretch of cave, hopefully I can get a lot more resources, and perhaps diamonds.
Loss can lead to happiness?
While losing your stuff in Minecraft can be quite a pain, when in Multiplayer, its always better especially with your best friend, I mean, it really helps ease your nerves. For example, just today (look at the date of this post for reference) I was in Nether SMP when some terrible events occured.
1. Ghast comes.
2. Ghast shoots exploding fireballs at me and Thermiteguy (My best friend who shall not be named, unless he requests to do so) .
3. Ghast blows up half the Glowstone dust on the floor I was just about to mine.
Now while this seems lame, and as if I am complaining about nothing, I am not complaining, and this is actually nothing compared to what happened next
4. Ghast leaves.
Yes, it left. At this, we should have left and dropped off our important stuff. But no, we were too cocky.
5. Ghast comes back.
We really should have run at this point.
6. We attack ghast
But we were too stupid.
7. Ghast destroys soulsand under my feet causing me to fall into lava.
And I payed the price.
List of stuff I lost:
96 glowstone dust, four stacks of cobblestone, a clock, a map, 10 bones, 48 wheat, some other important stuff, and a Diamond pickaxe with 3/5 of its health left.
Yay.
At this point I had to eat some dinner(meatloaf, and some broccoli) and contemplated all that I lost. When I went back up, I was already pretty happy. Happy enough to try go mining with Thermiteguy in a guy called Demmo12's little mine....
I do quite think skeletons and zombies should have less health after what occurred in there.
1. Ghast comes.
2. Ghast shoots exploding fireballs at me and Thermiteguy (My best friend who shall not be named, unless he requests to do so) .
3. Ghast blows up half the Glowstone dust on the floor I was just about to mine.
Now while this seems lame, and as if I am complaining about nothing, I am not complaining, and this is actually nothing compared to what happened next
4. Ghast leaves.
Yes, it left. At this, we should have left and dropped off our important stuff. But no, we were too cocky.
5. Ghast comes back.
We really should have run at this point.
6. We attack ghast
But we were too stupid.
7. Ghast destroys soulsand under my feet causing me to fall into lava.
And I payed the price.
List of stuff I lost:
96 glowstone dust, four stacks of cobblestone, a clock, a map, 10 bones, 48 wheat, some other important stuff, and a Diamond pickaxe with 3/5 of its health left.
Yay.
At this point I had to eat some dinner(meatloaf, and some broccoli) and contemplated all that I lost. When I went back up, I was already pretty happy. Happy enough to try go mining with Thermiteguy in a guy called Demmo12's little mine....
I do quite think skeletons and zombies should have less health after what occurred in there.
June 5, 2011
Opinions
Huh, seems like my opinion isn't always true. A long time ago, I used to despise of any Minecraft modifications, now I'm making one. I also used to not like the Yogscast. I think i may give it a shot. There are still things I know I will never like, (ahem, Mo' Creatures) but for the most part there are things you just really need to try out before saying you don't like them. Heck, I even said I wouldn't like minecraft when my friend showed me creative. I'm so glad I was wrong.
June 2, 2011
Amazing
Things people make with Minecraft are impossibly impressive. Check out this video on some guys who built a city. Simply awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfReRe1fzPo&feature=youtu.be&hd=1&t=1m30s
Sorry for the shortness of the post, but there's nothing much else to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfReRe1fzPo&feature=youtu.be&hd=1&t=1m30s
Sorry for the shortness of the post, but there's nothing much else to say.
June 1, 2011
Growth
Minecraft is all about growth, growth of trees, growth of wheat, growth of your mine, growth of your buildings, growth of the intricateness of chicken conspiracies against you, growth of the world, and growth of the game. The fifth to seventh ones being especially interesting. But we'll focus on the last two for now, you'll have to find the chicken base on your own.
Minecraft is a game wherein everywhere you look, you see something different. Minecraft's world generation is the most amazing thing ever. Everyone's world is different (provided you didn't use the same seed). There is no "Lame" or "Dull" when it comes to the creation of your world. Maybe you spawn on a beach, ok that's normal, but don't be disheartened, walk around, explore. You WILL find something of interest.
This is what makes Minecraft awesome.
Minecraft is also a game wherein every day, there is the chance of a new update, some amazing new feature, some relaxing bug fix, something new, that everyone was looking forward to. Minecraft is a game wherein the creators work hard to give us what we want in Minecraft. Windows? Here's glass. Sleep? Here are beds. A whole new dimension in which deadly floating heads attempt to blow you up by shooting fireballs from their mouths and lava makes up the entire ocean? Here's the Nether. Minecraft is always improving, be it by fans, or by the makers. It always is.
This is what makes Mojang and its fans awesome.
Minecraft is a game wherein everywhere you look, you see something different. Minecraft's world generation is the most amazing thing ever. Everyone's world is different (provided you didn't use the same seed). There is no "Lame" or "Dull" when it comes to the creation of your world. Maybe you spawn on a beach, ok that's normal, but don't be disheartened, walk around, explore. You WILL find something of interest.
This is what makes Minecraft awesome.
Minecraft is also a game wherein every day, there is the chance of a new update, some amazing new feature, some relaxing bug fix, something new, that everyone was looking forward to. Minecraft is a game wherein the creators work hard to give us what we want in Minecraft. Windows? Here's glass. Sleep? Here are beds. A whole new dimension in which deadly floating heads attempt to blow you up by shooting fireballs from their mouths and lava makes up the entire ocean? Here's the Nether. Minecraft is always improving, be it by fans, or by the makers. It always is.
This is what makes Mojang and its fans awesome.
Minecraft
Such a great game, such potential, and such simplicity. Minecraft is one of the few great games out there. One where you decide what happens. You see, there are a lot of games with fancy graphics, and violence, but honestly, Minecraft completely, and utterly destroys them. Minecraft is made so perfectly, in that while its graphics are not eight bit, its textures are. It really gives you the impression of being in a pixel-ated world, without the stress of moving, or seeing in pixels.
I say, Minecraft has perhaps what is the largest gain to loss ratio, cash-wise. The point here not being how much money Notch (Markus Persson) is making, but rather how easy it was to code Minecraft. It just goes to show, you don't need high tech, expensive game making software to make a good game, you just need an idea, determination, and support. Those were the ingredients to Minecraft, those are the ingredients to any success.
All in all, Minecraft really can't be topped. Minecraft has eight people working on it EIGHT, not one hundred and fifty, not fifty, not twenty five, eight. Eight people who have ideas, determination, and support. Sure there are a few dumb things in Minecraft, sure there are a few flaws, but hey, no game is perfect. The best thing about this game is how it is practically infinite. Sure there is a finite number of patterns, but the number for this is so big, it probably isn't registered yet. This is the beauty of Minecraft.
Don't worry, in the next posts, I won't be so sappy.
I say, Minecraft has perhaps what is the largest gain to loss ratio, cash-wise. The point here not being how much money Notch (Markus Persson) is making, but rather how easy it was to code Minecraft. It just goes to show, you don't need high tech, expensive game making software to make a good game, you just need an idea, determination, and support. Those were the ingredients to Minecraft, those are the ingredients to any success.
All in all, Minecraft really can't be topped. Minecraft has eight people working on it EIGHT, not one hundred and fifty, not fifty, not twenty five, eight. Eight people who have ideas, determination, and support. Sure there are a few dumb things in Minecraft, sure there are a few flaws, but hey, no game is perfect. The best thing about this game is how it is practically infinite. Sure there is a finite number of patterns, but the number for this is so big, it probably isn't registered yet. This is the beauty of Minecraft.
Don't worry, in the next posts, I won't be so sappy.
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