Minecraft

[Ragns]

Minecraft Apparently Under Siege By Angry Addicts Demanding More Updates

[Syntex]

Thought this was cool

[Qalbert]

[Atreides]

the worst part about having a house on stilts is that if a spider gets under there all you hear is SLUURRRRRRRRRRP all night long, combined with zombie grunting it sounds like some sort of retard orgy

[Shiznicle]

[Mots]

This whole situation with Java crashing on me is starting to get infuriating.

[Miraun]

Ironically, the DDOS attacks resulted in increased publicity, and an additional 7000 subscriptions to forums, and 3000 sales in the 24 hours following the attack...

[Qalbert]

lol

[Qalbert]

bunch of pretty well done gaming related skins (mario, Link, etc):
http://www.bytejacker.com/blog/army-...inecraft-skins

[Kiarax]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/22/mi...et-the-ghasts/
Hell is a horrible place to be.

[Shiznicle]

At least the portals don't seem to be too hard to build, just make a frame out of Obsidian and set it on fire. Hopefully SMP damage works with the patch, or else Hell will be pretty boring in Multiplayer lol.

[Qalbert]

if hellrock is mineable I am going to make a giant bonfire in the sky

[Syntex]

Qalbert riding a pig...

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/549...ridingapig.png

Too bad you can't see it unless your him.

[Qalbert]

[Cayos]

Oh god, epic.

Edit: I was so excited I forgot to check and see if anyone had posted it already. Fail.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/22/mi...et-the-ghasts/


Oh God. As if Minecraft wasn’t terrifying enough, its creator Notch has just sent us screens and info about a new monster type he’s adding in the Minecraft Halloween Update on October 31st. The Ghasts are flying cuboid jellyfish that shoot fireballs at you, blowing chunks out of the world around you and setting it on fire. Luckily, they’re only found in hell. And Notch has told us exactly how to get there, why you’d want to go, and how portals to this new dimension are built. Here are the details, along with two exclusive shots.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/...-1-590x409.jpg

'When there are this many Ghasts,' says Notch, 'you don't survive for long.'

Welcome to hell. Or rather, welcome to the fiery dimension that Notch is thinking of renaming to avoid offending anyone’s religious sensibilities. It’s another world that doesn’t exist in the same space as the beautiful randomly generated landscapes we’ve been exploring and building on. The red rock it’s made from can burn forever when ignited (though the player can douse them), so with a few Ghasts around it can get hot. But if you can get there, any distance you travel will take you 16 times further in the real world. It’s essentially a quick but dangerous travel system, and to use it you’ll have to build a portal.

That’s what the black doorway with the purple swirls is in the screenshot above. You make one by building a frame out of obsidian – a hard and rare block type already in the game – then setting fire to the hole you’ve created; an awesome way to get anywhere. When you step inside, an identical portal will be created at the equivalent spot in the hell dimension, unless there’s already one somewhere near. You pop out of that, and hope there aren’t any Ghasts around.

To get back to the real world, you’ll have to create another portal – or use the one you came through. Make one 10 meters away, and you’ll find yourself 160 meters ahead in the real world when you get back. It ends up as a way to bookmark and travel between hugely distant places in Minecraft’s sprawling worlds. When a landscape can be up to eight times the surface of the Earth, it’s handy to have a quicker way to traverse it. The fast-travel aspect may tie into traditional notions of hell being beneath us – if hell was nearer the center of the Earth, moving a short distance down there would translate to a big distance on the surface if you came straight back up.

Well, he warned us.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/...-2-590x412.jpg

The Halloween Update will also add six new block types – there’s a gold-coloured one we’re nicknaming Australium in these shots – and all but one of them will have some new function. The surface world will also get a lot more interesting: the game will now generate snowy stretches, desert areas, forests and other climate regions all in the same world. It should make exploration even more exciting than in the uniform worlds we have right now.

Notch is kindly working on a preview version of the update for us, and we’ll have much more info and impressions of it here on the blog once we get hold of that – subscribe to our feed to be the first to know. Minecraft is free to play in Classic mode, or €10 to buy the full game with Survival mode and all future updates. Already profoundly worth it, and the game is only in alpha. It may end the world when it’s done. Notch’s development blog is also a great read.

[Shenrien]

Hell mode looks pretty interesting, cant wait! 9 more days

[Zetanio]

I like the use of the new dimension as a means of transportation. He finally noticed that running 2000 blocks is fucking annoying. Those ghasts look like a pain in the balls. I'm really excited for the different biomes within 1 world.

Should be a great update all around, although I hope you can disable fall damage for servers seperately instead of as a part of all damage.

[Atreides]

yeah but I'd really like him to fix the fucking minecart physics too, so we'd have more options.

I'm betting there will be more crafting recipes too, which will definitely be exciting to see.

[tyven]

I JUST WANT TO BUILD A FUCKING GIANT BUD LIGHT CAN BUT THERE ARE NO BLUE BLOCKS I WANT SOME BLUE BLOCKS

[tyven]

also someone bug ragns for an updated pic of BG server plx