I admin on a Heroes/Factions server. We should be up in a few days, but CraftBukkit is taking forever to update to 1.2. The server is MintyFresh, IP is 67.222.144.216:25580

If you are server master, I demand you change your server name to "ENJOY TO LIVE GAME". Otherwise, request the server operator does so.

Why?

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I really don't understand Minecraft - especially when people say "lego with monsters".

My impression was that Minecraft was just a tabula rasa building block game where you could construct anything you wanted? A bit like The Sims?

Is that incorrect?

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I've never played the Sims, so I can't compare. You can build anything you want, but you have to gather resources, make a shelter, and avoid creepers at all costs. Otherwise, you die, and lose your diamond. Which is always sad.

So it's not a world where the lego bricks are unlimited? Is the world itself something you create or do you get given an island or piece of land to work with?

How do you turn resources into building blocks?

You would be correct Sarg if Minecraft were still in alpha. But ever since beta, actual mining has been a large part of the game, and monsters live in the dark caves you find down there. Also, when night falls, monsters begin to spawn in the darkness, but when the sun rises and it becomes bright again, they tend to despawn in the light when you're far enough away. Also, the undead burn in sunlight.

So essentially, the game is sort of like you said, except to make your house really cool (or grief others really hard, if you prefer) you would need to do some digging to find some really rare stuff you might want. For example, a house made of dirt isn't nearly as impressive as one made of glowstone, gold, lapiz blocks, and colourful wool. Also, bashing holes in someone's house isn't nearly as classy as rewiring their door so they fall into a pit of lava after a 50 metre drop when they try and open it.

The world itself is already in place. But just like in the real world, you get to refine it, or go natural and live in the trees. Or you could make a giant city, inhabited by only you. Single player gets a bit boring after awhile, but SMP is awesome, if you find a good server.

I made a diplomacy map on abge's server, but I don't play anymore.

@Sarq, they added a creative mode where you have unlimited blocks. But survival mode is the normal mode. (And I made my diplomacy map in survival mode, friggen blue wool for France took forever.)

"So it's not a world where the lego bricks are unlimited? Is the world itself something you create or do you get given an island or piece of land to work with?

How do you turn resources into building blocks?"

The world is *infinitely* generated from the seed used to start the game. So the lego blocks are unlimited, but you have to find them first. If you were to say, dig up a cubic metre of dirt (one block), an item will drop that will allow you to place that same block of dirt elsewhere. This generally applies to all blocks, however, there are plenty of exceptions.

Ok thanks guys - you both make the game sound a lot more interesting than I imagined. My impression was a single player universe where you have everything on a plate and nothing else to do apart from build houses, cities and worlds.

So the depth of those extra elements sound more interesting. Is the world you play the same one everyone else plays in and therefore you can interact with millions of other Minecraft players?

Ah ok. So, to dig up blocks - does that require some form of energy or take a certain amount of time? Or could you dig and dig and dig as much as you wanted very quickly?

Haha, I'd assume Germany would've been a total bitch too. Brown is a bloody hard to get...

Sarg, yes. Dirt is easy to get, and you don't need tools to get it. The tools make getting it faster. At first, you have to get logs from trees to make wooden pickaxes and shoveles, so you can get stone pickaxes, so you can get iron/gold pickaxes, so you can get diamond pickaxes. Diamond tools/armor are universally considered the epitome of wealth in Minecraft, as diamond is overall the best. Gold is actually the most effective, but it wears out the quickest. Diamond is only slightly less effective than gold, but lasts much, much longer.

It does take time, depending on what tool you are using, or whether you're doing it by hand. Every item has it's own assigned "tool" which will mine it faster depending on the tool's quality. For example, you can dig dirt by hand, but you can dig a lot faster with a shovel. Then there are ones which are near impossible to dig by hand (like rock), which require the correct tool to dig it in a reasonable time. Also, the item won't drop in some cases unless you are holding the right tool, and really hard stuff won't drop unless the tool is higher quality. (stone doesn't drop unless dug by a pickaxe, diamond can only be mined with an iron or diamond pick)

Some things, like flowers, simply get drop the moment you hit them with anything, while others take about 10 seconds with the best tool possible, like obsidian. Then there is bedrock, which simply cannot be destroyed. (To prevent you from going below y=0, y=64 is sea level, for reference, and they used to prevent placing of blocks above y=128, but it's been extended to y=256 in a recent patch.)

Also, with the semi-recent introduction of hunger (beta 0.8), mining blocks does require a small amount of energy, and will make you hungrier. If you become too hungry, your hp will drop until you either reach the minimum hp hunger can put you on for your difficulty, or die if you're playing on hard. You regenerate hp over time if your food bar is full. However, even if you're running on empty, you can still destroy blocks.

Lol ok. So where do you get food from?

This is all very interesting by the way - thanks for answering my questions. Is full play free or do you have to pay?

But kill some pigs first. Bacon is always good. Lol.

You have to pay a flat rate of about $27 USD, but after that, you get all the updates free.

Gold is actually equal with diamond in mine speed for tools, but wears out at the same rate as wood (unless they've changed it again). Diamond is better. Also, for armour, it is about as effective as leather, despite looking cool.

You don't *have* to pay, there is a dodgy version circulating around the webs, but most servers won't let you in if you're using it, because with it you can impersonate other people, including admins.

"You don't *have* to pay, there is a dodgy version circulating around the webs, but most servers won't let you in if you're using it, because with it you can impersonate other people, including admins."

That sounds like even more fun. Especially in a game all about controlling things.

Actually, with they've removed the respawning (and despawning) of all neutral mobs (except squid) so killing pigs isn't a good idea until you can pen them up and breed them so you never run out of bacon.

I'm not sure about the armor part, but I know the tools are slightly faster than d tools. Especially shovels. The wear out really quickly, so it's only worth it if you have like 3 stacks of gold and a ton of sticks.

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS.

No pigs? RRRRAAAAAAAGGEE!!!!