Minecraft

[Bootaaay]

MINECRAFT

http://www.minecraft.net

Anyone here playing this gem? I've been addicted to this the whole past week - it's an open world sandbox game that combines elements of building, resource management, roguelike & RPG gameplay. You start a game, it randomly generates a huge world and from there on you're left to survive in the wild by crafting items, digging mines to search for valuable materials and building whatever the hell your imagination can come up with. There are a ton of things to craft and mobs of monsters spawn at night to make things a little challenging.

The developer (notch) updates the game regularly every Friday with fixes and new features - there are two versions of the game; creative mode, which is a free-to-play enviroment that lets you try the building aspect of the game, and the Alpha, which is the single-player survival experience I described.

Currently the Alpha costs €9.95, but once notch adds full multiplayer support for the Survival side of things the game will go into beta and cost €14.95, and when fully completed will sell for €20.00 - purchasing the game in the Alpha entitles you to play the game for life and there are two ways to play; via the browser or via a stand-alone client.

This game's really picking up steam at the moment as even the Team Fortress developers at Valve blogged about being totally addicted and now notch is currently selling 1000 copies per day!

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4130&p=1

Here's some guides to the gameplay;

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic ... 35&t=17013

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic ... 35&t=17021

And here's the Crafting guide at the official wiki;

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

The Cartographer (creates maps of your levels);

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic ... 25&t=13134

Texture packs;

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic ... 25&t=12352

Guide to installing texture packs;

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic ... 25&t=15786

And here's a few screenshots from my adventures in Minecraft;

[weasels]

this game looks totally awesome. i really want to get it. has such a retro appeal too!

[CaptainWeasel]

I bought it and it's a HUGE timesink. And that's only in the current alpha state. Multiplayer is coming out in weeks, which I can't wait for. If you have an imagination and time, this might be your downtime killer. This is a small portion of what you can do:

Planet Earth in a multiplayer server:


Binary Single-digit Display:


Minecraft Rollercoaster:


I can't get enough of this game ;_;

[alienjesus]

Some friends of mine are so addicted to this they've started making all of the pokemon worldsin 3D. They've done Kanto and Hoenn completely so far from what I understand.

[AmishSamurai]

It looks like a 3D Dwarf Fortress.

[Bootaaay]

It looks like a 3D Dwarf Fortress.

It's nowhere near as complex yet, but yeah, it's pretty much Dwarf Fortress with 3d Dot Game Heroes style graphics - still, Notch updates the game with new features every Friday, adding more depth to the gameplay.

Speaking of which, todays update added;

. Powered Mine Carts (they use coal)
. Chickens! (now zombies aren't the only source of feathers)
. More ambient music

[Niode]

I've just got this game after a few friends were raving about it. I'm absolutely addicted to it. I've made my own cave fortress so far. Currently I'm making a fucking huge phallus to sit on top of the mountain that I built my cave fortress into. By huge, I mean to the point where it will kill you instantly if you fall off the top of it. It's like 30 blocks high or something like that. Takes a couple of minutes to scale the sodding thing.

I love the crafting mechanic. Very intuitive (well, once you figure out the recipe).

[weasels]

huge question. how would i be able to pay for it with USD? can i even do that? i really want to get this game.

[Niode]

It's Paypal, so they will just do the conversion for you.

[weasels]

awesome!. im set to buy this in two to three days. since i just opened a paypal account. for now i am playing the free browser version.

edit.
i got it finally and this game is simply pure crack. it's fucking awesome but it can full on destroy your time.