Minecraft

[Ti-newb]

Has anyone ever played the game.. MINECRAFT!?!?!?!?! Made by Notch?!!

if u havent, go check it out. www.minecraft.net (lol its not a rickroll   ) and maybe post up some screenies or stories lol =)

Btw, Notches development blog is here.. www.notch.tumblr.com

Info: Minecraft is a indie game originally made by 1 person: Notch. but since hes sold so many copies, he gained around.. 6 million dollars US, so he assembled a company named Mojang Specifications along with a team of.. idk 7? anyways, its cool check it out =)

[DJ Omnimaga]

Hey nice to see you around TI-Newb.

I haven't played it yet but I know Cooliojazz, Geekboy1011 and sometimes Juju plays. I think Genolo does, as well. I might give it a try eventually, although I was never in the Blockland/Roblox type of games in general.

[Netham45]

I bought it yesterday. It's quite fun.

[Juju]

I play sometimes with Genolo and a bunch of friends, the multiplayer mode is quite fun.

[DJ Omnimaga]

What is the goal of the game by the way? Is it just some sort of sandbox where you build stuff?

[Geno]

Someone recently bought me minecraft, and I set up a server the other day where me and a few friends (including juju) have been playing.  Our current map can be found here.  Our house/main structure is in the bottom left above the forest fire.  It's the only large stone structure.  I built it up to the max height, and also there is a giant skybridge coming off of it.  If you look closely you can see some other interesting things, like a nature above ground lava pool north east, and in one of the desert areas really far away from spawn me and my friend built an igloo for shelter on night.

[Juju]

What is the goal of the game by the way? Is it just some sort of sandbox where you build stuff?

Yep, something like that, an infinite sandbox where you're supposed to mine stuff and build elaborate things with them. (refer to Geno's screenshot, for instance)

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ah I see. I remember seeing an earth built in Minecraft once. That must have taken a while.

[Ti-newb]

Thanks Omni =). and Geno, maybe il join ur server when i have more time, but at the moment, im doing branch mining for diamonds =]]]]]] lol and im gonna go crazy with it.

And omni, yeah its like basically.. the whole world is editable, and the world is as big as your computer can handle (usually like 7x bigger then the real earth).
and in the game, you can.. for example (in the paid version) Break down a tree and then take the tree and make planks using your crafting square. After that, you can take 4 planks and shape it in a square which would = a tool box. and then u can make more stuff.. like picks for getting through rock faster, or torches so you can see in the dark and other stuff like swords and arrows. and lots of people just go on and do random stuff =) PLUS!! YOU CAN MAKE MINECARTS (basically, you can make rollercoasters lol).

[Eeems]

I play too, but I don't own it, so offline only for me I'll try to buy it soon though.
I can't wait to play online with the most recent update, it allows for survival on servers!

[Ti-newb]

we should make an Omnimaga Server!! lol =) And Eeems, long time no see.

[Runer112]

I stopped playing Minecraft the way it was supposed to be played a long time ago. So here's a to-scale, fully accurate construction of a z80 microprocessor! It doesn't do anything without actual processing units, but all the pinouts are fully wired and would correctly mimic the pins on a physical z80 if they were connected to the right things.

[Juju]

we should make an Omnimaga Server!! lol =) And Eeems, long time no see.

Yep, Netham45 should host a server. Everyone on Lobsterland!

[DJ Omnimaga]

An Omni server would be cool. Maybe on Netham45.org, where the (unused) Starcraft private server is?

Also nice Juju

The only worry I have about Minecraft lately is that its popularity in the TI community is so high that it reminds me the TI community WoW craze of 2005. I hope it is not too addicting because in 2005, WoW had a huge impact on TI community activity, with several ASM/BASIC programmers moving on from calc programming to the realm of Warcraft...

[Juju]

Maybe we could see Minecraft TI programs so people could easily calculate things while playing Minecraft? Or maybe a Minecraft clone for TI calculators, who knows?

Also don't do like some people which I won't name and play 12 hours straight.