Alright, so I paid $10 for the year benefit. Guess I'll be getting an e-mail sometime asking what my name is? I'm gonna go ahead and check it out though and see what all has already been done to it, it anything.
Don't see a edit button anymore... Hmmm... But anyways I am all hooked up now and getting ready to adventure, but sadly it is night time so I am a little stuck. Already killed by a spider too, woohoo.
I think I'll donate sometime in this next week. I can't wait to kill some creepers with you guys! ^.^
Ooh, welcome! I haven't had a lot of time to play (what with working on GTG and having a kid), but it looks like things are developing pretty quickly! There are already some stores and things that have been created near the spawn point!
For anyone here that is on the server, what are your usernames? Trying to fit names to people here, some are obvious, but others aren't.
Mine is KogaWolfe.
I am alataristarion when I'm on. Also, I'm liking all the stores and stuff that are beginning to develop!
Oh, had no idea you were alataristarion, I was wondering which one you were.
I'm Ronway by the way (probably one of the obvious ones.)
I do not yet have a MineCraft client, so yeah.
Darn it, I bought minecraft and a year. Waiting to be accepted
Just noticed that Amazon is not processing payments for the account. I am looking into it right now to see if I can clear this up...
It looks like your payment is pending while Amazon approves various things about the Amazon payments account. In the mean time, send minesofproduction@gmail.com an email with your user name, and I'll get you set up - I trust that the payment will go through, and the more people on the server the better :)
It's my forum name haha'
@Singlog
You should be set up now it looks like!
Sorry that I haven't been on too much lately. Recently got addicted to Disgaea 3. May only be on for a little bit here and there since I picked up Resident Evil 6 tonight aswell.
What happened to the server?
People stopped playing, and then the server files got corrupted and it got shut down. However, if there is still some interest, I would love to set it up again. I actually just got access to some several year old but quite powerful servers that I have very little use for. Once I get a bit of time, I will probably set one up in the GTG warehouse and put Minecraft on it...
If someone here sets up a server, I might check it out - I've not played on someone else's server before. Normally I just play single player, or on my own server (hosted by a company called Kerplunc, aka Treepuncher). Haven't played too much since the last big patch went in, so haven't encountered any horses yet (but seen 'em when the Yogscast covered them in a snapshot vid before the patch was released).
I still don't really understand what Minecraft is. I've read about it, checked out the Wikipedia page, seen screenshots, etc, and can't work it out.
What do you actually do apart from moving bits of stuff around to build things for the fun of it? Where's the game? Is it one of these things you have to play to "get"?
Just wondering if it's the kind of thing I'd like.
Basically, it's a game in which you can do whatever you want. There are two moeds in which you can play - Survival and Creative. In Creative Mode, you have access to (just about) all blocks and items, to place at will in whatever quantities you like. You also can't be killed by monsters or whatever. This is the mode for people who want to just mess around building uber stuff (when gathering the resources in Survival Mode would be too much hard work, etc) and generally be cretive (as the name implies). It can also be for people who want to experiment building something that would require a lot of resources in Survival Mode and they want to test it out in Cretive first before they commit to it in their "proper" game. There's also a third mode, Adventure Mode, to which you can set yourself via a typed command in-game. In this one you can't break or place blocks - it's intended for people playing through custom maps made by other people (so it feels a bit more like an RPG and you're not tempted to cheat by breaking walls, etc(
Survival Mode is the "proper" game. You spawn in a randomly-generated world with nothing and must gather resources etc to survive, build yourself a house (or dig a cave, or otherwise construct for yourself some kind of base/shelter), and generally live in the world. Everything is made of blocks - the ground, the trees, the water, etc. You acquire these blocks by punching them or hitting them with the right kind of tool - you need a pickaxe to mine stone, for example. You will start by punching trees to get the wood blocks, which you can then craft into a very important block called a crafting table. You can then place this on the ground and access it - to craft stuff, you place blocks in the grid in the right configuration. You have a crafting grid in your inventory but it's only 2x2 squares and there are many things you can't craft in a grid that small. The grid on a crafting table is 3x3, enough space to craft anything. A good early step is to grab some wood to make a crafting table and create a wooden pickaxe - this is enough to mine stone, which you can then do in order to make yourself a stronger stone pickaxe. This is strong enough to mine iron ore, which can be smelted in a furnace (crafted from stone) to make an iron pickaxe. There are other tools you can make - shovel (for dirt, sand, etc), axe (for wood), and hoe (for tilling dirt to convert it in to farmland to plant crops), and swords (though they're obviously weapons rather than tools). Anyway, you'll be wanting to find some coal in order to mine that and use it with wooden sticks to create torches, which you can place to light up the area.
You have about ten minutes before it gets dark (when you load into a new map it's always dawn). Monsters (such as zombies, spiders, and the iconic creeper) spawn in the dark, so you need to get yourself somewhere safe before then, even if all you do is dig a little hole and hide in it (your character is two blocks high). It's possible to craft a bed (from wood and wool, the latter most commonly acquired from sheep) in order to rest in it and skip to morning - note that you can only do this in multiplayer if everyone sleeps at the same time. Using a bed (even if you're in multiplayer) will reset your spawn point to that bed's location, so if you die you'll respawn there rather than at the point where you first entered the world.
That's pretty much the basics, really. Once you've got yourself some kind of base set up, you can set about enhancing it (you know, making it look a bit better than a dirt shack/hole in the ground, etc), planting crops/breeding creatures for food, going underground mining and exploring (there are randomly-generated cave systems and abandoned mines and stuff which can have chests of stuff in them), building a portal to the Nether (a world of fire and lava and stuff with lots of ways to die horribly…more so than the surface world, but also containing plenty of handy items/resources that you'll probably want for stuff), killing monsters to get exp to spend on enchanting your gear (tools/weapons/armour) with cool properties (once you've built an enchanting table)…ah, there is so much stuff you can do!
I did actually write a newbie guide to Minecraft a while back. It's at minecrafttips.com if you wanted to have a more detailed look - it has screenshots and everything :). It was done before the last big patch, though, so some of the most recent stuff (such as horses) isn't mentioned in it. It's enough to give you an idea, though. There's also a video series on YouTube by a group called the Yogscast - I was rewatching it recently, actually…it started back when Minecraft was still in Alpha so there's loads of stuff that isn't in the game yet at that point. What else…oh yeah, there's a free version to download somewhere (I think there's a link from the Minecraft Wiki), called "Minecraft Classic", I believe. It's an older version of Minecraft so lacks many of the features of the current version, but it's enough to give oyu an idea - playing this after watching the first few Yogscast vids was enough to convince me to get the game. I've had it since Beta 1.8, a couple of years ago. Good stuff!
Whee, long post, and probably more than you wanted to know! Oh well ;).
Thanks Ameena, that's really helpful and now I understand it a lot better. Starting to think I really should look out for this, sounds like fun. :)