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AmishSamurai wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFrgDPC ... r_embedded

Here's one featured on Notch's site.


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Recently got back into this game with a few friends, here are some pics of our current world.

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We are making a tree village. In the back is the first house (Graham A's). It happends to be the closest to spawn, just to the side of it (out of view) is a second smaller house, now abandoned. You can see Jake working on his house in the fornt here. I am standing on a raised canopy walkway.

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Way in the back left you can see what was originally the central hub. But its not more of a corner of the large village. It still holds some of the easist access to the raised walkways though. The big house on the left is Tylers house. Its a large mansion type building with its own Reed and Wheat farms (the stone and glass buildings below). On the right, is my tiny shack. It is small, but it is isolated from the rest of the wooden village in case of fire. The glass tunnel near by is just the entrace way from the other side of the mountain (includes a storage room). The walkway I am on wraps up and around the mountain to my front door, then on to Tylers front door, then to the location of the last picture, just right of the central hub.

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This is spawn, after I fought off two skeletons. I then was immediately harassed and killed by several Creepers. That was the bigging and the end of spawn. It is under constant attack now at night.

Interesting to note, our village is located above a very dense forest. Meaning that even during the day, there are several enemies lurking below us. Venturing onto the forest floor is always dangerous. The landscape can attest to that, as there are craters everywhere and you will often find arrows/bones littering the ground from various creatures fighting. Every so often an enemy makes it up to us, and all hell usually breaks loose, as we don't care swords around often, as we dont want to risk loosing them if we fall down during construction.
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MrHealthy wrote:[snip] ...
Interesting to note, our village is located above a very dense forest. Meaning that even during the day, there are several enemies lurking below us. Venturing onto the forest floor is always dangerous. The landscape can attest to that, as there are craters everywhere and you will often find arrows/bones littering the ground from various creatures fighting. Every so often an enemy makes it up to us, and all hell usually breaks loose, as we don't care swords around often, as we dont want to risk loosing them if we fall down during construction.


This is what I love about the game. That sort of emergent game play is quite a rare thing. I love how the game sort of becomes almost a meta game of itself when things like that happen.
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City looks cool. I can't access my servers at the moment, but they've been having problems because one guy got banned for killing random people, so he's been getting his friends to wreak havoc on everything they can find. It's not even very inspired trolling, except the guy who re-routed a doorbell to set off the foundation of TNT he set up underneath a guy's house. And Singleplayer isn't as fun, so I've been off minecraft for a bit, or deleting worlds just as fast as I build them.
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AmishSamurai wrote:City looks cool. I can't access my servers at the moment, but they've been having problems because one guy got banned for killing random people, so he's been getting his friends to wreak havoc on everything they can find. It's not even very inspired trolling, except the guy who re-routed a doorbell to set off the foundation of TNT he set up underneath a guy's house. And Singleplayer isn't as fun, so I've been off minecraft for a bit, or deleting worlds just as fast as I build them.



I know it must be irritating, but this is hilarious.
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alienjesus wrote:
AmishSamurai wrote:City looks cool. I can't access my servers at the moment, but they've been having problems because one guy got banned for killing random people, so he's been getting his friends to wreak havoc on everything they can find. It's not even very inspired trolling, except the guy who re-routed a doorbell to set off the foundation of TNT he set up underneath a guy's house. And Singleplayer isn't as fun, so I've been off minecraft for a bit, or deleting worlds just as fast as I build them.



I know it must be irritating, but this is hilarious.


Hence why it's the only inspired trolling. Anybody can just spam arrows on somebody until they die. It takes creativity to do shit like that.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Minecraft

Yahtzee reviews Minecraft. :lol: :cry: (that's crying with laughter btw)
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Niode wrote:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

Yahtzee reviews Minecraft. :lol: :cry: (that's crying with laughter btw)

That was awesome. :lol:
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Through all of the videos we've had so far, I knew Yahtzee was going to love this. Sandbox gaming in the truest sense of the word, with a near-infinite world size? Check. Steep learning curve and real difficulty throughout the whole thing, but not to the point of being unbearable (unless your map really sucks)? Check. Indie? Triple-check.
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The Predator played out through Minecraft

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