Minecraft!

[Invader Z]

Woah, you guys are good builders! I played on peaceful mode and fell in love, I then learned what the difficulties were about, and i'm more than in love! This is too addicting. Two games I've played for a very long period of time with no break (on computer anyway) This and TEW, thing is, TEW can get boring. I'll upload pictures soon, I have an underground house/shelter (currently in construction), and a huge tower right beside my spawn.

[Rocky]

Finally trapped the Mob Spawner... Might set a water trap for it or something..

Followed the caving system. finding a tonne of coal and a lot of iron. Going left right up and down, down several alternate routes.

I can honestly say that I am now officially lost in the depths of hell. (As I have found lava... I have plans for lava )

Haven't had to do much digging to get places so I'll continue to follow the tunnels to the end.

[Sousa]

That estate is pretty excellent, Rocky; is there an interior to it, or is it all underground?

[Rocky]

At the moment it is all underground. I'll look to build on an interior in the future. Maybe even an easily accessible entrance/front door

[Mountainous Cleavage]

Decided to start out fresh again. Decided to start building out of a small sized mountain right next to my spawn point. After a lot of leveling off the sides of the mountain to make it a straight drop, I began to work on the foundation of my house. After all the hard work, here's what I came up with for now.

(Pictures in spoilers)

A shot from the outside

Outside shot again

A view from the roof. In this direction, I've got plenty of land to explore when I choose to.

And when I turn around, I've got plenty of sea to cross and explore, with a mountain and cave to the right that I plan to explore soon.

Now that brings me to the inside of the house. Here we have the top floor, looking pretty empty at the moment. Under my player is my storage chest and crafting bench. The ladder to the right leads up to the roof, while the ladder to the left brings us down to the second floor.

The second floor at the moment house only an empty chest, and my kidnapped Sheep that I've beaten bald. This motherfucker ain't goin nowhere. Left ladder leads back upstairs, while the right heads down to the basement/furnace room.

Ah, the furnace room. Ready to go for whenever I decided to want to make an assload of glass or turn ore to bars. The chest is for storage of all smelted materials.

It's slightly plain at the moment, but a good base to work with for now. Tomorrow, I plan to head to the mountain + cave seen in one of the pictures and see what's up over there, and probably do some more building.

[Rocky]

Kinda sticks out like a sore thumb, but then... Most of them do

OK I'm about to head back into the game... see if I can get unlost

Tried going back.. took a wrong turn continued on a bit and YAAAYY!! Red Stone ^_^

Thought to myself "Hmmm. only one block, I'll see what's around here in case there's more..

:wacko:

Diamond!! But only 2 blocks.

Edited October 18, 2010 by Rocky Feller

[Rocky]

OK... I couldn't find my way back and I was semi surrounded by lava.

So I dug my way out to see where I was positioned and I took picture to show my new location in relation to the home-fort

You can just make out the giant wall I built. to give an indication of my travels.

Also towards the wall you can see a couple of lights to the left.

That was a hole in the ground just a bit south of the Mob Spawner. So I use that as an alternate doorway to the cave system.

At the bottom of the pic you can see down the stairwell (Now dubbed "Stairway to Hell") straight into the lava flow... About 30 odd steps I think.

I ran out of picks so I had to dig out by hand. Caused a slight problem when I hit the water

Ahhh... Feng Shui.

I used the lava from "Hell" to build a nice little "water" feature.

I might try to incorporate it into the Estate as a way of connecting everything.

Edited October 18, 2010 by Rocky Feller

[Herr Matzat]

So whoa opening an EWB Server?

[Meacon Keaton]

I was just coming in here to ask how we assemble an EWB world or game or whatever. I'd attempt it, but someone more familiar with the game should give it a go, instead.

[Herr Matzat]

Setting up a server issent that hart, it will just eat away of your ram and bandwith while you always have to be online. Rootservers that suport java don´t seem to be cheap... but we always could invade one of the nummerus free or payed servers listed on the mindecraft hp.

[Rocky]

Do an EWB take-over, you think?

I'd offer to host, but my gf will cry about constant "Latency issues" while playing WoW.

But I'm all up for a group thing, I've only been playing for about 4-5 days, I think... Maybe a week.

Sousa may know a good route to take.

[Sousa]

Sousa knows fuckall about starting servers on anything, and I have a relatively slow (though still high-speed) connection anyway.

[Rocky]

I just figured you were the most experienced MineCrafter out of us, is all.

I have no idea about how to do servers and such either.

Must be the take-over option then.

[Sousa]

Have you tried the Wiki? It's pretty thorough; there's bound to be something there.

[Herr Matzat]

if we can get a cheap java/jcm enabled rootserver it should not be a problem getting it to run 24/7 without abuesing anyones ping o bandwith. We could just set up a paypal acound and collect the money.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorial/Setting_up_a_server

Servers + the were to host topic on the Minecraft Forums.

http://www.servminecraft.com/

2,70$ - 4$ per player slot.

http://www.multiplaygameservers.com/game-servers/minecraft/

0,91 - 0,94 Euro Cent per Slot.

http://mcservers.us/plans.html

A bit more than 1$ per player slot.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=44902

I have no idea wich one is good and wich one issent, how much it matters if they are in the US or Europe and so one.

Edited October 19, 2010 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Rocky]

The first one draws me the most... I don't know why. I have no idea what any of the offers mean.

Except 'X Concurrent players'

I'm sure we'd be able to find 5 people who'd be willing to pay $4/per month.

Because I'm in the southern Hemisphere, I'd probably suffer some sort of lag but I'd still be keen on it.

It'll only cost me about $5 AUS monthly. I'm sure I can spare that

[Herr Matzat]

The first one draws me the most... I don't know why. I have no idea what any of the offers mean.

Except 'X Concurrent players'

I'm sure we'd be able to find 5 people who'd be willing to pay $4/per month.

Because I'm in the southern Hemisphere, I'd probably suffer some sort of lag but I'd still be keen on it.

It'll only cost me about $5 AUS monthly. I'm sure I can spare that

The Ozzy $ is almost on par with the US $. Today it is more like $4,08 AUS. ;-)

Concurrent players = players at a time without creating lag du to to little bandwith or ram.

Edited October 20, 2010 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Mountainous Cleavage]

So I've built a boat launch off the back of my house (as seen on page 3).

Debating making a mob trap into a basement in my house, to collect items.

[Rocky]

I thought about something similar for my boat...

My son got onto MineCraft and managed to overwrite my game so I'm having to start from scratch.

Should be alright though, depending on the landscape thrust before me.

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm not really making anything. I'm just going around and breaking rocks left and right.