Looking for an oddly specific game (Or, the Minecraft Thread)

GasBandit · Oct 23, 2013

... I miss it.

Dave · Oct 24, 2013

Yeah I always felt very inadequate with Gas on that server with me. Here I'm still building cube houses and that fucker has a palace and a ship.

GasBandit · Oct 24, 2013

Dave said:
Yeah I always felt very inadequate with Gas on that server with me. Here I'm still building cube houses and that fucker has a palace and a ship.

Do we even need to bring up the stuff DRIFTER built? He didn't even have slave labo... er, spousal help!

PatrThom · Oct 24, 2013

Dave said:
Yeah I always felt very inadequate with Gas on that server with me. Here I'm still building cube houses and that fucker has a palace and a ship.

I feel ya, Dave. Here's what I have to put up with other people building on my server.

That was all done by one person.
Meanwhile I'm building a dirt and stone hovel on the river.

Sure, it has an attached boat launch around the side, but I still feel...inadequate.

--Patrick

Ravenpoe · Oct 24, 2013

... I built a wooden box, and hid inside it. One day I added a window and felt like I had accomplished something.

drifter · Oct 24, 2013

GasBandit said:
Do we even need to bring up the stuff DRIFTER built? He didn't even have slave labo... er, spousal help!

I don't think I'll ever top that railway station. So satisfying.

GasBandit · Oct 24, 2013

drifter said:
I don't think I'll ever top that railway station. So satisfying.

Cerberus Station was a work of art no doubt, but the flying chinese dragon palace ship that you built next to it is the only structure that was visible from orbit on Ragnar.

Shakey · Nov 5, 2013

Been playing quite a bit. I was a bit curious about what you could make with redstone, and some of the contraptions people have built are simply amazing.

Also, I found the videos from this guy great. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELrEaSFdKWSGs. They cover just about everything you need to know to get started, and lots of neat tips and tricks.

Raemon777 · Nov 5, 2013

Is there any *good* Minecraft music?

I have found the game hauntingly beautiful, and am disappointed that all I can find are silly pop parodies.

GasBandit · Nov 5, 2013

Raemon777 said:
Is there any *good* Minecraft music?

I have found the game hauntingly beautiful, and am disappointed that all I can find are silly pop parodies.

No, they're pretty much all silly pop parodies and/or cheesy folk tunes.

Raemon777 · Nov 5, 2013

I may have to fix this.

PatrThom · Nov 6, 2013

Raemon777 said:
I may have to fix this.

More power to you.

I assume you mean ambient music? Or do you mean music inspired by Minecraft?

--Patrick

GasBandit · Nov 6, 2013

I assumed he meant inspired by Minecraft, because the music IN minecraft is all very ambient and haunting, and not at all silly pop parodies.

PatrThom · Nov 6, 2013

I suppose it all depends on what you call "good."

--Patrick

GasBandit · Nov 6, 2013

Holy.. is that a direct sequel to Fallen Kingdom?

I mean, the music is still a goofy pop parody, but that (and by extension, this) is one of the best written and executed minecraft videos ever made.

Also, those are some uncommonly pissed off zombie pigmen.

PatrThom · Nov 6, 2013

I got a really Knights of Cydonia vibe off it, except a bit less goofy.
As to the pigmen, have you ever annoyed one?
The pig ogre and lava boss were nice touches, and I wasn't expecting the end boss.

--Patrick

Raemon777 · Nov 7, 2013

Yeah, I meant music-with-vocals, that made me feel the way the music in the game does.

I like the idea behind Take Back the Night - and people with different aesthetic senses than mine may find it genuinely poignant in the way I'm looking for. I found the music style a little too bland-pop and the lyrics not quite as good as they wanted them to be.[DOUBLEPOST=1383840855,1383840650][/DOUBLEPOST](Listening to "take back the night" again, I think I like the musical style just fine, but I was looking for something that felt like it blended seamlessly into the style of Minecraft's original soundtrack.)

PatrThom · Nov 7, 2013

First thing that came to mind. No vocals, though.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Nov 7, 2013

Huh, so the latest patch (1.7.2 now) added a whole bunch of new stuff. I might get back into playing minecraft again.

Shakey · Nov 8, 2013

I started my first "big" project, which is a floating tower. The only way up right now is to swim the waterfall I made. The way down is just as fun, it's over a lake so you can just dive down. It also made for a forgiving construction. I only fell twice, and landed in the water both times.

I still have a lot to do, roof on the secondary towers, maybe some supports for the secondary towers going diagonally to the main tower, adding a bottom to the upper tower, and cleaning some mistakes I see now up. The hardest part for me is interior decorating.

Shakey · Nov 8, 2013

Oh, and it may be hard to tell in the picture, but the secondary towers point pretty close to the compass points.

GasBandit · Nov 8, 2013

Shakey said:
Oh, and it may be hard to tell in the picture, but the secondary towers point pretty close to the compass points.

Given that their mountings/balconies are straight, don't they pretty much have to?

Shakey · Nov 8, 2013

GasBandit said:
Given that their mountings/balconies are straight, don't they pretty much have to?

I ... Guess I didn't even think about that. No wonder why it was so easy to get right.

Eriol · Nov 9, 2013

Just a quick reminder for construction: hold shift. If you're holding shift you "can't" fall off of blocks. It'll let you kind of "hover" to let you perpetually build "outward" if you want to.

Caveat: you CAN fall, but you usually have to really REALLY try.

And I agree. Pair building projects are great fun for couples.

Shakey · Nov 25, 2013

Ugh. Started in on a server, built a bunch of stuff with people, and I think they may have quit. Now I'm all alone and I don't know who to trust not to bash my pretty house to rubble... :foreveralone:

strawman · Nov 25, 2013

Embrace the chaos and opportunities to start over! You've learned a lot, and while the places you've built are neat and you feel some connection to them, you must keep looking forward. Embrace the future, and let the dead servers bury their dead buildings.

Shakey · Nov 25, 2013

I've learned not to step on the pressure plate next to the chests in the desert temples!

I'll probably start over somewhere else soon. Building is the funnest part anyways.

Shakey · Dec 3, 2013

Would there be much interest in starting a new halforums server?

PatrThom · Dec 3, 2013

I've debated opening mine up to the group, or at least setting up a secondary server on my server (so there's no overlap), but I don't install any mods, so it'd have to be a vanilla server.

--Patrick

Shakey · Dec 3, 2013

That's what I prefer actually. There are a couple people I'd like to invite from off the boards that I've met on other servers too. If you don't want to, I wouldn't mind doing it either. Never run one before though.

PatrThom · Dec 3, 2013

It's not that hard to set one up, really. So long as you know how to open the ports to the outside world, the server portion is pretty easy. You just have to watch your bandwidth if a lot of people end up playing.

--Patrick

drifter · Dec 3, 2013

I kinda burned out on building in Minecraft, but it'd be fun to check out another server

Shakey · Dec 3, 2013

My problem is I doubt my ISP will give me a static IP if I'm not on a business plan. :-/

figmentPez · Dec 3, 2013

Shakey said:
My problem is I doubt my ISP will give me a static IP if I'm not on a business plan. :-/

Check out No-IP. You run their little program on your computer and it checks your dynamic IP address, and then they redirect your ____.no-ip.biz address to your current IP address.

PatrThom · Dec 4, 2013

There are a number of ways to manage Dynamic DNS (DDNS), and No-IP is one of them. DynDNS used to pretty much be the standard until they started charging money for it. There's a (2yr-old) list of providers here.

--Patrick