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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 16:42:09 Reply

yeah sorry about the wiki + forum being down, we switched to a new server and the hdd died on it, heh, it's being replaced right now. We now have a dedicated database server and a frontend web server, 12GB ram 16 cores baby

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 16:53:06 Reply

At 9/19/10 04:42 PM, citricsquid wrote: yeah sorry about the wiki + forum being down, we switched to a new server and the hdd died on it, heh, it's being replaced right now. We now have a dedicated database server and a frontend web server, 12GB ram 16 cores baby

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 18:14:25 Reply

Seananners made this game popular

The dude who makes this game is now freakin' rich


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 18:20:07 Reply

At 9/19/10 06:14 PM, lpfann2 wrote: Seananners made this game popular

The dude who makes this game is now freakin' rich

Yeah, I think he recently made his millionth dollar from Minecraft.

I'm not sure if I'm confusing it with Dwarf Fortress though.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 18:58:56 Reply

At 9/19/10 03:57 PM, BloodyPingu wrote: Someone start a newgrounds multiplayer server...

i don't want to give out my IP adress.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 20:17:49 Reply

At 9/19/10 06:58 PM, sweet21 wrote:
At 9/19/10 03:57 PM, BloodyPingu wrote: Someone start a newgrounds multiplayer server...
i don't want to give out my IP adress.

We could always just go back to begging Critic for one after he gets the wiki and forum worked out.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 22:10:40 Reply

At 9/19/10 06:14 PM, lpfann2 wrote: Seananners made this game popular

The dude who makes this game is now freakin' rich

No he didn't, he definitely helped increased popularity but it has been popular before him and other things made it popular too. It was featured on the TF2 blog before seananners.

For sales figures: http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/

Also for anyone wonder what Minecraft is like, here's a user made trailer: http://youtu.be/FaMTedT6P0I

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 22:38:22 Reply

At 9/19/10 10:32 PM, Grubby wrote: I like this game, but I'm starting to find it boring because in single player there's nothing much to do.

Time to play multiplayer!

singing: Well thats too baaaaaaad!
Also i found lava, i heard you can use it, how?


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 23:41:46 Reply

At 9/19/10 10:38 PM, sweet21 wrote: Also i found lava, i heard you can use it, how?

Put it in a bucket.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-19 23:47:19 Reply

At 9/19/10 11:41 PM, Smorsh wrote:
At 9/19/10 10:38 PM, sweet21 wrote: Also i found lava, i heard you can use it, how?
Put it in a bucket.

How do i make the bucket, i tried "drawing" one with stone but it isn't developing the bucket....do i need another material?
Also when i put that lava in the bucket what do i do with it?


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 00:43:58 Reply

At 9/19/10 11:47 PM, sweet21 wrote:
At 9/19/10 11:41 PM, Smorsh wrote:
At 9/19/10 10:38 PM, sweet21 wrote: Also i found lava, i heard you can use it, how?
Put it in a bucket.
How do i make the bucket, i tried "drawing" one with stone but it isn't developing the bucket....do i need another material?
Also when i put that lava in the bucket what do i do with it?

Here.

You'll probably want this, too.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 01:23:14 Reply

At 9/19/10 10:32 PM, Grubby wrote: I like this game, but I'm starting to find it boring because in single player there's nothing much to do.

Time to play multiplayer!

Good luck with that.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 01:28:09 Reply

At 9/19/10 11:47 PM, sweet21 wrote: How do i make the bucket, i tried "drawing" one with stone but it isn't developing the bucket....do i need another material?
Also when i put that lava in the bucket what do i do with it?

It needs to be with iron plates while making a shape like in the picture.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 03:51:42 Reply

At 9/18/10 05:19 PM, RobotTaco wrote: Cool.

I wish I had autism so I could enjoy this.

No wait, I enjoy being normal.

Sure is manly tears in here.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 12:45:04 Reply

Nnnngh, curse that guy. I was holding out so far on the temptation to buy the game and felt relatively pleased to have avoided a massive time-waster. Then comes the free weekend and I just had to give in to curiousity and try it. Wantwantwantwant

On another note, has anyone read Rock Paper Shotgun's Mine the Gap series? It's a fun tale of their adventures in Minecraft.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 20:17:03 Reply

At 9/20/10 12:45 PM, Re2deemer wrote: On another note, has anyone read Rock Paper Shotgun's Mine the Gap series? It's a fun tale of their adventures in Minecraft.

Oh yeah, I stumbled upon that just Saturday! Very well written, and a good way to get pumped to play survival mode if it's you're just getting into the game yourself.
I didn't know he had made a new post, either. It's probably the best of the bunch, although he seems to have settled down from his initial giddy, childlike, tongue-in-cheek excitement into pure, unabated awe at the game.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-20 20:58:41 Reply

At 9/19/10 07:49 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:
At 9/19/10 12:59 AM, sweet21 wrote: right now i have this turd colored stone colored crap rock, it looks like rusty metal, what do i do with it?! FFFFFFFFFFFF-
Have fun with your mud.

i just burned that "mud" in the furnace...i think i got iron. it's kick ass.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-21 13:28:41 Reply

thank you for the full version is AWESOME

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-21 16:44:42 Reply

I'm trying to quit MineCraft, already. I don't want to be anymore addicted to this game...

The first day I had it, I played for 10 hours straight.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-21 17:25:22 Reply

At 9/21/10 04:44 PM, Jolly wrote: I'm trying to quit MineCraft, already. I don't want to be anymore addicted to this game...

The first day I had it, I played for 10 hours straight.

It wears off eventually.

I still love this game though.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-21 17:38:29 Reply

At 9/21/10 05:25 PM, ironraven24 wrote:
At 9/21/10 04:44 PM, Jolly wrote: I'm trying to quit MineCraft, already. I don't want to be anymore addicted to this game...

The first day I had it, I played for 10 hours straight.
It wears off eventually.

I still love this game though

The first day i played this game, me and a friend played a 12 hour marathon of building a town in some random server. Good times. Personally though I slightly enjoy Classic more due to me being more creative rather than having to gather the materials.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-21 22:29:52 Reply

Somethings up with Minecraft. i can't log in, the screen stays black and i have to restart the computer just to get it to go away no matter how many times i press "X"
And now i can't even go on Minecraft.net with ANY of my browsers!
Are the servers starting back up again? Man that would suck i just started to like Minecraft now that i built all the pickaxes and obtained Iron and stuff :(


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 00:56:02 Reply

At 9/22/10 12:32 AM, Grubby wrote: Honestly, what's the HUGE deal about this game?

It's a bit fun when you first play, building huge stuff, but honestly, it's just the same old log house or obsidian house with a work bench, a furnace, and a lot of torches that all look the same, and that's as much as you can probably go with customization for your house other than adding pictures.

I mean, I'd rather play The Sims if I wanted to live and decorate. Maybe the appeal of digging and mining is the cool part about this? Idk, what is it?

Dude your missing the point, after i built my fort i built some big ass sky bridge complete with staircase, then got bored and built a roller coaster going around it, then made an island and planted tree's in and made a wall of cactus to keep the monsters away.
Then built an island fort on another island right next to the one i built the sky bridge on, then connected those and shit went crazy.....
Also are there mermaids or something in the game, i thought, when i was building that sky bridge i looked down and saw what looked to be a bunch of houses.
i tried swimming down but it got too dark too see so i went back up.


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 01:01:34 Reply

It didn't say it was going to be free forever. I'm pretty sure you can still play it, at least I can.. But you won't get updates and can't play online until you buy the game. It's pretty cheap, so I might actually do it soon.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 05:23:45 Reply

This game is so weird..

This is my first snow world. It's also my first world with lava above ground.

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 10:14:36 Reply

You can torrent it.

Anybody want me to try and set up a server for NG peoples?


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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 13:32:16 Reply

I used to feel very slow torrent

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 16:18:03 Reply

At 9/22/10 10:14 AM, Air-guitar9 wrote: Anybody want me to try and set up a server for NG peoples?

This game is very cool would really like to play some multiplayer on it

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 16:32:41 Reply

At 9/22/10 10:14 AM, Air-guitar9 wrote: You can torrent it.

Anybody want me to try and set up a server for NG peoples?

Minecraft was made by one guy. It's only like, $10.. SUPPORT THE CREATOR, BUY THE GAME!

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Response to Minecraft Alpha - Free to play! 2010-09-22 22:32:54 Reply

the server is up again, but did manage to play a fair amount before it got back in action again.
I'd buy it if I wasn't broke as hell.