You can build whatever you want (if you can get the materials). You fight monsters. It's possible to devise your own machines to automatically kill mobs. There's the exploration of a procedurally generated world which can be vast.Basically I knew I was hooked when I was digging directly underneath me (never do this BTW) and fell down the hole into a huge cavern. From there I explored a huge underground cave network, not really knowing where the hell I was, until I came across a vertical shaft. I looked up and saw... daylight! Building a staircase up the shaft, I reached the surface and managed to navigate my way back to my base. It was one of those "wow awesome" moments that games often strive for but rarely deliver.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 28 March 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the fun of building or tunneling out something extravagant, then getting bored and either flooding it or setting it on fire.
I want them to institute muskets and horses next.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
tangentially related at best, but one of the Facebook pages I run for work gets fucking SLAMMED with spam offering free Minecraft accounts to gullible tools who hand over their FB logins/personal info/god only knows what else. like at one point a few months ago we had 18,000 inbound referrals to our page just from ONE scam site, and there are like 5-8 of them active at any given moment.
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The 1.4 beta test vids with the new "wolfies" look amusing.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i understand the concept of this game. what i don't understand is why the graphics are so exaggeratedly crude.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
you know one (1) guy does all the coding right
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
one lone fucktard
oh i thought it was essential to the gameplay or something.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
that guy's also currently a millionaire
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
one lone fucktard millionaire
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Minecraft makes $350k a DAY, dude probably has millionaire butlers by this point
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are the latest stats for purchases et al?
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
1954 players online, in 652 servers.5919511 registered users, of which 1731266 (29.24%) have bought[*] the game.In the last 24 hours, 35859 people registered, and 8466 people bought the game.
In the last 24 hours, 35859 people registered, and 8466 people bought the game.
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA did they all buy it for €14.95 or are there discounts or w/e cause thats like $40m
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
*launches career as indie video game developer*
no dude is a millionaire now and getting courted with a shitton of venture capital cuz there's a perception he's a potential "next zynga"
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
have not played this but it looks p far out, like tapping into some deep down game play realities
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i did download it a couple months ago but couldnt get it to work after like one min so i gave up
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
w/e prob im never going to spent hours chopping trees anyway, but i do like the vibe of this conceptually
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
dwarf fortress is still so much better
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
dwarf fortress is still so much betterman... right? :( i want minecraft to win but :/
― Postmodern Bourbon Development (Will M.), Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
df is great but minecraft is a more fully realized game imo. it's almost unplayably clunky and not even close to completion. don't get me wrong, i've wasted many hours on df, but i always get frustrated and take a long hiatus after the first few fortresses or so
― flow (chilli), Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
by the way, what servers do most of you use? i'm on the reddit one (c.nerd.nu), mainly because i don't know of many others
― flow (chilli), Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
tried this last night, and I think you're right. Maybe he's trying to keep it avaiable to lower spec machines, which is a good move.
Like it, but I only played the free browser version. There didn't seem to be much else to do other than digging and building. Are there enemies? I never came across any.Is there like limited resources, as i was happily building whatever and it didn't seem to limit me.
Will give it another crack soon
― if you wanna gamble, take that shit to vegas (Ste), Thursday, 31 March 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yep Ste, you have to mine for your resources and there are enemies that come out in dark places and at night. Loads of other stuff in the beta proper too. ( and multiplayer of course)
xp to flow, I'm looking for a good straightforward smp server. how is the reddit one? don't want anything with too many rules, cliques, crazy mods, ppl getting butthurt about their precious creations. just vanilla smp
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 31 March 2011 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
xp the enemies/resource limits/crafting/redstone/etc. are only in the full beta version
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i always think its fascinating that the ppl who play this video game are always really super pysched to use it to build replicas of buildings in other video games
― NAME (Lamp), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this was my vote for biggest disappointment of the year (tho I ultimately changed it to FFXIII). just so much promise (esp since it was first introduced to me as a first person dwarf fortress) but in the end it's a really shallow game. i guess exploring all the procedurally generated landscapes is enjoyable but after a few gameplays i really exhausted all the content.
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Mordy, have you played multiplayer? can be really entertaining, particularly if two towns decide to declare war on each other.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't, but I can't see how that could be fun -- is it just a bunch of avatars jumping around hitting each other with swords?
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
New update's out
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Beta 1.5 is out - expand your super anal railway system with the two new track pieces.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
we need ilxor server :/ had a lot of fun playing online mp lego, but my friends's server is no more, and playing in a vacuum doesn't have the same... anything
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ this
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpksyojwqzE
― polyphonic, Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
sidescroller style minecraft terraria released and it is all sorts of fun
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Friday, 20 May 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
1.6 is out! trapdoors:-))
Did anyone get an ILX server going in the end?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 26 May 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Not that I know of. I read somewhere that hosting a Minecraft server really chews up bandwidth, something like a terabyte a month even with only half a dozen users.
Also, I'm off this now. Nothing wrong with the game, in fact it's the most fun I've had playing a videogame in a long time. But I can't justify the amount of time I've pished away. I actually deleted my save files, then not one hour later found out about the upcoming 1.6 update. Must... resist... nnnnrrrrgghhh...
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
trapdoors! lol, no you're better off leaving it, at least until 1.7
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
pfffft... I might check back in when they add pistons.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf6JCpJjdiY
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 June 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
MINECRAFT KINECT
NO, REALLY
― nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Monday, 6 June 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
BIG FISH LITTLE FISH CARDBOARD BOX BLOCK OF STUFF
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Monday, 6 June 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I am weak.(still haven't made any pistons because I don't remember where I left all my iron ingots)
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Saturday, 9 July 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbz9KoF_xX02.13 o_O
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Endermen...http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/2/28/Enderman.png...appeared in a dream I had last night. And the 1.8 update isn't even out yet.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Monday, 1 August 2011 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
notch made this for ludum dare this weekend:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html
Can you beat it?
― bamcquern, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Really cool physics-based game mechanics. Wonder if any of them will find their way into Minecraft.
― lukas, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I like the skating puzzle, as simple as it was, though I didn't figure out how to kill the golden beholder without taking a lot of hits. Maybe by switching between skating and hitting? The ball rolling wasn't at all frustrating - the balls never got stuck in a corner. I haven't beat the game yet. I got killed by a gob-spitting mucus zombie.
― bamcquern, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB684ym3QY4&feature=player_embedded
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link