If it is anything like a boat you gotta right-click it.
Has anyone built a powered-mine cart and ridden it?
Not yet. Hopefully you can attach powered mine carts to non-powered ones and make a train of sorts. I was talking with one of the guys on the Cryptic server about the idea of, when carts work in MP, using powered + non-powered carts to make a transit system to cover the larger distances between some of the locations on the server. We've got the "OCD Highway" going along the main east / west path for the server, and a looping track system, with off-shoots and "stations", would be perfect for it. :poly124:
Yeah, right clicking on a minecart worked, thanks. you cant get into a minecart that has a furnace in it tho, and i dont know about making trains. when you click on a powered mine cart, it just starts moving... =\
What about putting a powered mine cart behind a standard mine cart and turning on the powered one and jumping into the standard one? I think a transit cart system would be sick! Even more so in multiplayer.
Can you imagine joining a server and there is just a bus stop in front of you. As you look around a train made of carts pulls up in front of you and when you get on it takes you to a magical wonderland of awesome and glory!
I think transit systems would be awesome. But if he is going to add something like that I think it would need corner sections for the track. Not essential of course. But it would make sense. Although adding curved pieces totally goes against everything else in the game. hmmm...dunno. Maybe not then.
btw. When I close my eyes, all I see is cubes. Maybe I need a break.
Also, i kinda managed to make a train. If you put a powered cart behind a regular one, turn it on, and quickly jump into the regular one really quick you have a train! I always have to run a little to catch up tho. and i think you can switch tracks with redstone switches??? not sure about that.
Oh...yeah. there is corners. But I meant spanning over multiple blocks. Not a 90 degree turn within 1 box. So a longer curve. Banked corners would as be cool for the coasters. But this aint theme park world. So never mind.
Gmanx just posted this in the thread of awesomeness. Thought i'd post it here as well.
Minecraft 16 bit ALU!!!...wtf...Is there nothing this game can't do
Soon they'll work out how to play giant pong within minecraft. A game within a game. This could be ground breaking :P
Oh...yeah. there is corners. But I meant spanning over multiple blocks. Not a 90 degree turn within 1 box. So a longer curve. Banked corners would as be cool for the coasters. But this aint theme park world. So never mind.
Gmanx just posted this in the thread of awesomeness. Thought i'd post it here as well.
Minecraft 16 bit ALU!!!...wtf...Is there nothing this game can't do
Soon they'll work out how to play giant pong within minecraft. A game within a game. This could be ground breaking :P
I love how it's setup from the very basics of hardware once it was made possible, it's like in dwarf fortress, however computers in games have been done before :P
done powered minecarts that push you around and switches to change rail direction etc. but upwards pushing is a bit tricky.
i only tried to be pushed by one engine cart, so im not sure if two work better or differently. using them to drive empty carts works great, just when youre in them... not always.
here are my conclusion - they might not be correct! i dont know.
Slick texture mods, eld! It was the first thing I thought of doing when I opened the game last night for the first time. Glad to see it can be done. Looks like I have a new weekend project :P
I haven't really poked around yet with the modding side yet, but where does it store all the data for the game locally? So I can throw in some custom textures myself.
I played for a good portion of last night, I'm already having withdrawls. I just like how everything is so primitive when you start out, build a house out of dirt use wooden tools and weapons. I could see myself enjoying this game even more if the textures were just that little bit prettier.
Emil, they'll be in
\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar <-- open as a zip archive
All the textures are PNGs.
Also, as you've probably noticed from eld's shots, the reskins don't have to be at source resolution (the pack I'm currently using is 512x512, instead of 256x256)
Emil, they'll be in
\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar <-- open as a zip archive
All the textures are PNGs.
Also, as you've probably noticed from eld's shots, the reskins don't have to be at source resolution (the pack I'm currently using is 512x512, instead of 256x256)
Actually, my stuff is at source resolution (256x256) (16x16 tiles) :P
And there are a few problems with using bigger resolutions, because minecraft generates water, lava and fire procedurally at specific pixel locations, they'll be generated over other tiles if you have a bigger tileset, so the game will use static non-moving versions of those that you've made yourself in bigger tilesets.
It's a confirmed issue though and will be fixed some day.
Ah, cheers, didn't know about that glitch (been using the DOKU texture pack, but haven't built any resource stacks yet, so I haven't encountered it). Also, yeah, the auto-resize on your image totally messed with my head, so I thought it was higher res than it actually is. Really nice work on it
I love how it's setup from the very basics of hardware once it was made possible, it's like in dwarf fortress, however computers in games have been done before :P
When I said "It could be ground breaking :P" no one got it eh? Minecraft..... ground breaking.....hmm....nevermind, it was terrible.
I wonder if a computer within a computer game or other software could ever exceed the processing power of the computer its running on....Twilight zone shit that.
Sweet texture mod btw eld. Can't wait to see it finished.
I don't like the new water.
I mean, it's cool that it flows and stuff, but it's impossible to flood anything. I'm trying to flood part of the massive island i'm building on (Trying to make a massive castle in the mountains, completely surrounded by water) But it just can't be done with the water system currently in place.
Meh
Yeah. I think some of the block like the cobbles, should be impermeable so you can create pools with just one water block. Another way might be to create a huge waterfall that breaks the water up into a larger flow around your castle.
So, I wonder when Activision and EA will be taking some of their thousands of individual, skilled programmers and setting them up to experiment and incubate new game ideas in-house, with the hope that 1/100 of them can produce something awesome. . . . yep, never. Rock on, indies.
@doc rob - I wish more companies would try that. When I got pulled in at Disney Interactive it was on a cool project created by my boss Chris Takami(Creative Director). The project was called, 'Blue Sky Think Tank.' We would brainstorm tons of ideas and have pitch meetings every other Thursday. My crew actually came up with the original Epic Mickey concept years before Warren Specter's studio picked it up. We also had a few other titles that were pretty well received and I am hoping to hear that they are in development somewhere!
Either way, Notch is doing any amazing job and even where the game is, its addicting! I can't wait to see what else he adds. It can only make it better! Wish Notch could see this thread and know how other artists and designers felt about what he has done!!
I'm pretty sure he was praised at both bungie and valve during his invitations there.
I'm guessing he'll move even more towards the accessable first person dwarf fortress route he has been taking now, so imagine features from dwarf fortress, and then imagine them in minecraft.
@eld - man, i hope so. the one problem i forsee... the better minecraft gets... the less productive the rest of the world is going to become!! Oh, I got your item textures in the game with DOKU's RPG tile set... Has completely changed how the game feels for me! I dig it! Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see your finished terrain tiles!
I started to dick about with custom textures last night and wanted to up-res my textures as a test, but it would crash Minecraft if I used a terrain.png file that was larger than 512x512 (I tried a 1024x1024 - initially just re-sizing the original texture sheet as a test).
Has anyone had any success bringing in a bigger texture sheet?
I don't have the link handy right now, but there was a discussion on the minecraft forums about that. Seems at the moment you need to futz around with some settings in the one of the files inside minecraft.jar. Bit of a pain in the ass, and doesn't get around the problem of water and fire tiles showing up in the corners of some of the resized tiles.
HOW?!? there is a really deep spot right next to my island fortress that I want to mine out but I cant stay down long enough to finish. If I could build an air system, that would be sick!
I really hate that I'm only playing singleplayer, want to be able to have people visiting my world and all, but I also want to be sure that when I log back in that my buildings isn't like sponge, full of holes. Hope the proper multi-survival mode is soon finished, so I can play around in a world as a proper new-world pioneer.
Started a new game/world, and got a completely different type of terrain, this time with large mountains and huge half caves. Thought it was cool, until I got lost and tried to climb a mountain to see where my base was and couldn't see anything because off the mountain tops Ended up creating a fire ring around my valley, on the top of the mountain range.
Oh and man did I have a scare, was deep underground and digging a tunnel upwards and suddenly broke though into a pocket...of lava. Damn I ran like made downwards, with the hot stuff right on my tail. Now I make sure to only dig holes in the ceiling in front of me and never just above.
Warning!...was digging my may back to surface. Found a cave of sand (with sand suspended to make aroof). So I thought "ah. that must be a way out" so dug one of the sand blocks above me....big mistake.....Caused a huge chain reaction and the whole beach came down on my head, crushing me to death!. Frantically ran back to where I was with a shovel to try and dig my stuff up. but it was gone. I didn't realise sand worked like that. i thought the sand only effected the sand above it not surrounding it as well. Lesson learned. Maybe gravel works like that as well.
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Has anyone built a powered-mine cart and ridden it?
[ame]
Not yet. Hopefully you can attach powered mine carts to non-powered ones and make a train of sorts. I was talking with one of the guys on the Cryptic server about the idea of, when carts work in MP, using powered + non-powered carts to make a transit system to cover the larger distances between some of the locations on the server. We've got the "OCD Highway" going along the main east / west path for the server, and a looping track system, with off-shoots and "stations", would be perfect for it. :poly124:
Can you imagine joining a server and there is just a bus stop in front of you. As you look around a train made of carts pulls up in front of you and when you get on it takes you to a magical wonderland of awesome and glory!
btw. When I close my eyes, all I see is cubes. Maybe I need a break.
Also, i kinda managed to make a train. If you put a powered cart behind a regular one, turn it on, and quickly jump into the regular one really quick you have a train! I always have to run a little to catch up tho. and i think you can switch tracks with redstone switches??? not sure about that.
Gmanx just posted this in the thread of awesomeness. Thought i'd post it here as well.
Minecraft 16 bit ALU!!!...wtf...Is there nothing this game can't do
Soon they'll work out how to play giant pong within minecraft. A game within a game. This could be ground breaking :P
[ame]
I love how it's setup from the very basics of hardware once it was made possible, it's like in dwarf fortress, however computers in games have been done before :P
[ame]
i only tried to be pushed by one engine cart, so im not sure if two work better or differently. using them to drive empty carts works great, just when youre in them... not always.
here are my conclusion - they might not be correct! i dont know.
I haven't really poked around yet with the modding side yet, but where does it store all the data for the game locally? So I can throw in some custom textures myself.
I played for a good portion of last night, I'm already having withdrawls. I just like how everything is so primitive when you start out, build a house out of dirt use wooden tools and weapons. I could see myself enjoying this game even more if the textures were just that little bit prettier.
http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=deanmalus
\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar <-- open as a zip archive
All the textures are PNGs.
Also, as you've probably noticed from eld's shots, the reskins don't have to be at source resolution (the pack I'm currently using is 512x512, instead of 256x256)
http://www.wimp.com/minecraftenterprise/
Texture time!
I wonder how easy it would be to import new weapons/player/creature models.
Actually, my stuff is at source resolution (256x256) (16x16 tiles) :P
And there are a few problems with using bigger resolutions, because minecraft generates water, lava and fire procedurally at specific pixel locations, they'll be generated over other tiles if you have a bigger tileset, so the game will use static non-moving versions of those that you've made yourself in bigger tilesets.
It's a confirmed issue though and will be fixed some day.
issue:
When I said "It could be ground breaking :P" no one got it eh? Minecraft..... ground breaking.....hmm....nevermind, it was terrible.
I wonder if a computer within a computer game or other software could ever exceed the processing power of the computer its running on....Twilight zone shit that.
Sweet texture mod btw eld. Can't wait to see it finished.
:poly142::poly142::poly142::poly142:
crazy
I'm liking the texture pack eld, definitely gonna download it!
[ame]
I mean, it's cool that it flows and stuff, but it's impossible to flood anything. I'm trying to flood part of the massive island i'm building on (Trying to make a massive castle in the mountains, completely surrounded by water) But it just can't be done with the water system currently in place.
Meh
funny when you think about it, for a triple-A title it would be a complete failure, but for an indie game it is a giant success.
Either way, Notch is doing any amazing job and even where the game is, its addicting! I can't wait to see what else he adds. It can only make it better! Wish Notch could see this thread and know how other artists and designers felt about what he has done!!
Enough from me.
-bair
I'm guessing he'll move even more towards the accessable first person dwarf fortress route he has been taking now, so imagine features from dwarf fortress, and then imagine them in minecraft.
-bair
Has anyone had any success bringing in a bigger texture sheet?
I figured out a way to make water lights or bubbles to use for air
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Here's the area generated so far.
it says "HI MOM" and "TAll"
btw, here is a podcast with notch talking about minecraft of course.
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/09/indiegamescom_podcast_2_minecr.html
Started a new game/world, and got a completely different type of terrain, this time with large mountains and huge half caves. Thought it was cool, until I got lost and tried to climb a mountain to see where my base was and couldn't see anything because off the mountain tops
Oh and man did I have a scare, was deep underground and digging a tunnel upwards and suddenly broke though into a pocket...of lava. Damn I ran like made downwards, with the hot stuff right on my tail. Now I make sure to only dig holes in the ceiling in front of me and never just above.
"I should work on that model..."
Looks at Minecraft folder*
double click*
"Wonder if I can make this tree connect to another tree..."
Warning!...was digging my may back to surface. Found a cave of sand (with sand suspended to make aroof). So I thought "ah. that must be a way out" so dug one of the sand blocks above me....big mistake.....Caused a huge chain reaction and the whole beach came down on my head, crushing me to death!. Frantically ran back to where I was with a shovel to try and dig my stuff up. but it was gone. I didn't realise sand worked like that. i thought the sand only effected the sand above it not surrounding it as well. Lesson learned. Maybe gravel works like that as well.