I think he could use the cascading effect he describes around seven minutes in to produce clock cycles, and end up with a real dynamic computer. But it would be a magnitude larger than what he's already built.
This way lies madness.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:42 pm
by TPRJones
I'm not playing it lately (Civ 5 and L4D2 take up all my time at the moment) but I still enjoy some of the videos popping up.
TPRJones wrote:At minecraft.net, there's a stats page:
930967 registered users, of which 269628 (28.96%) have bought the game.
269,628 x $9.99 = $2,693,583.72
Out of curiosity I just looked again. Up to $4.8 million.
I'm in the wrong business.
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:27 pm
by TheCatt
People really like Solitaire. Just like that Zynga crap.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:27 am
by Troy
Finally bought this.
Totally worth the 14 dollars.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:22 am
by TPRJones
The price has gone up?
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:53 am
by Troy
Dunno, it was converted from Euros.
Apparently he put in a big Halloween update. You can use Obsidian blocks and portal yourself to a new realm, with new monsters and landscapes. Sort of like Hell.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:35 pm
by TPRJones
Yeah, I've been in there. It's interesting, but deadly to hang around in on all but the most easy of modes. It's worth a visit if only to harvest some of the blocks found there that burn forever when you set them on fire. Good sources of light and heat that never go out, which torches won't be for much longer (he's making a future update where torches will last a limited amount of time, and permanent lanterns will take steel to make).
I'm tempted to build a cart system through hell for the fast movement between distant locations, but I haven't yet found a good reason to. It's not like there's not enough digging to do in the area around my spawn point to keep me busy for pretty much ever.
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:26 am
by TPRJones
I've been sucked back in big time. The 1.8 update has some very interesting features, and the upcoming 1.9 update will be off the hook.
I haven't played single-player in months and months, though. It's all about the multiplayer servers. I found two good ones to play on (one because it's a new server with good mods and moderators, the other because it's small for a group I play other games with, and I'm op), and suddenly all my gaming time is gone again.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:28 am
by TheCatt
What exaclty is multiplayer minecraft like? Can you kill people, or everyone's just in the sand box together?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:08 am
by TPRJones
Depends entirely on the server. On one extreme you can't even hurt each other, and on the other it's a viscous PvP slugfest.
The one I joined this weekend (where I'm not op) is a compromise. There's a city around spawn that's about 300 blocks wide where not only can you not hurt another player, but even mobs can't hurt you. The next 300 blocks outside of that is a "safe zone" where mobs act as normal, but you can't hurt other players. Beyond that is the wilderness, where anything goes.
The real thing that can be a problem is griefers, people who destroy crap for fun. But there's a control system in place on that server that lets the moderators lock down a plot of land to a particular builder, which mostly mitigates that problem, although it does bring up others (Like I can't set up a public farm, unless it's so open that someone could freely dump lava on it. Lock it up from that, and no one but me can plant and harvest.)
I'm not sure what the default game is. The other server I'm on is totally vanilla, but I've never tried to hit anyone. I would presume that it's open PvP, though, without any sort of restrictions.
Precious dwindling wood supplies? What? That server must have been completely borked with custom mods, because you can farm trees. Wood is an infinitely renewable resource in Minecraft.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:35 am
by Leisher
A group of Minecraft players were invited onto a server walled off by indestructible bedrock.
Also, grass was apparently limited, so nobody had room to grow anything.