By: Rhaomi
OK, this is awesome: Zero Punctuation reviews MinecraftMy initial experience with Minecraft was, I imagine, similar to many people's. After downloading it to see what all the fuss was about, I was...
View ArticleBy: BigCalm
I hate you all. I have started playing minecraft just because of this video. And now I am irrevocably, unquestionably hooked on the game!
View ArticleBy: Rhaomi
So I loaded up Minecraft yesterday and the pulsating yellow tagline on the main menu couldn't have been more perfect: DRR! DRR! DRR!
View ArticleBy: eriko
Metafilter: Cows are forever accidentally playing the piano I built on the Temporkalypse...
View ArticleBy: crunchland
It's taken 30 years, but we've finally managed to make a game that sounds like it was made on a Commodore 64.
View ArticleBy: restless_nomad
No one knows what the day-to-day business of EA is, including EA employees. /ex-EA employee
View ArticleBy: empath
I'm impressed by the content of the recent update, after I had been badmouthing Mojang recently in another thread. I take some of that back. He let his new hire Jeb start adding stuff to the game,...
View ArticleBy: Jimbob
It's weird that you have to throw your cake on the ground before you can eat it. Well you can't have your cake, and eat it too!
View ArticleBy: quin
at least on my mac... Is there something I should be doing to make Java run better? The Minecraft application crashes constantly on my OSX86 machine, and it ran like crap in the browser so I tried it...
View ArticleBy: Gator
It's weird that you have to throw your cake on the ground before you can eat it.
View ArticleBy: Jimbob
Any world you can build an 8-bit-CPU the size of a luxury hotel in can't be all bad. We're probably only half a dozen updates away from redstone-powered colored lights. RGB display ahoy. Not to mention...
View ArticleBy: Twang
Wow. It'll be interesting to see how this develops. Any world you can build an 8-bit-CPU the size of a luxury hotel in can't be all bad.
View ArticleBy: codacorolla
I'm impressed by the content of the recent update, after I had been badmouthing Mojang recently in another thread. I take some of that back. That rave video is probably one of the neatest things I've...
View ArticleBy: odinsdream
Jesus, am I the only one who turns off "bob while walking" in preferences?
View ArticleBy: DU
...it seems like each successive update makes it more laggy, at least on my mac. Was not happy to see that the trend appears to have continued. No kidding. My minecraft-obsessed son made me run a...
View ArticleBy: roobot
I was so excited to see the squiddies when I jumped back in yesterday. It's been a while since I've played, because it seems like each successive update makes it more laggy, at least on my mac. Was not...
View ArticleBy: empath
A real clock, made out of redstone. You basically just run redstone circuits in a circle. When you add enough delay, they start going off and on in a cycle.
View ArticleBy: DU
1) Build a clock (there are diagrams for that on the wiki). I thought you meant like a "real" clock (moving parts and stuff) and I was pretty excited. 2) From the clock output... Clocks have outputs?...
View ArticleBy: empath
Now I want to built one. I'll draw out a diagram in the redstone sim and memail it to you later.
View ArticleBy: empath
It also wouldn't be that complicated to have multiple banks of outputs to switch instruments on the fly. If you wanted to get really fancy you could add memory and have all the notes programmed with...
View ArticleBy: empath
It would be pretty simple. 1) Build a clock (there are diagrams for that on the wiki). 2) From the clock output, build out a row of, say, 8 repeaters. Each will add 1 'click' of delay to the clock....
View ArticleBy: cortex
Heh. I just popped in to one of my single-player worlds to do a very rough proof-of-concept on the noteblock stuff. It's neat, but I haven't played with redstone enough to really even know how to...
View ArticleBy: adipocere
This might officially count as a "Denial of Cortex" attack against MetaFilter.
View ArticleBy: empath
Now I'm wondering if these note blocks will play themselves when mobs jump on them. With pressure plates, yeah.
View ArticleBy: ZsigE
Now I'm wondering if these note blocks will play themselves when mobs jump on them. Not directly, but because they're driven by redstone it's perfectly possible to trigger them with pressure plates -...
View ArticleBy: DU
Not long ago, the big releases in the software world were the latest from Adobe or Microsoft — now we are seeing a bottom-up trend that's totally disrupting that model. It's always funny reading things...
View ArticleBy: Gator
I didn't even know about this. I stopped playing for several weeks after the disappointment of the Halloween update, but then I tentatively started playing again. Yesterday I discovered by accident...
View ArticleBy: graventy
Minecraft has completely lost me as a player, but man it's still neat to see what people are accomplishing in it.
View ArticleBy: Phantomx
On that rave video I was waiting for a little Minecraft version of Flynn's son and Cora from Tron to come waltzing in as for some reason that was the only thing I could think of.
View ArticleBy: absalom
Yeah, this update has me itching to get back on the 'porkalypse for the first time in awhile. Gotta add spooky music to my dungeon! Free Cake is the best. The first time I watched the video, I kinda...
View ArticleBy: menschlich
Holy crap, that rave was awesome. I love how, when he's looking around, you see pigs and cows jumping in time to the music. Random, certainly, but still a nice touch.
View ArticleMinecraft Rave!
Notch added music blocks to minecraft last week. Predictably, people have been making awesome stuff with it: Minecraft Rave., Deadmau5's I Remember in minecraft. (original, also, Deadmau5 playing...
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