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What is minecraft
Topic Started: Nov 14 2010, 02:05 PM (129 Views)
Tuxedo

Can someone elaborate on what it is?

I've seen a few vids on it, but is it free? Is it a sim citish sort of game just first person instead?

It has peaked my interest but even on minecraft's site, it does not really give me a good understanding on the idea behind it.
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An awesome game. Honestly you can turn it into what ever type of game you want. Basically its a sandbox game. Your focus can be survival or creation building places for the looks or go out mining shit and make armor and awesome defenses. Really hard to understand until you play it a bit.
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Obvious Assassin

I'll go into detail, thank you Rice.

On www.minecraft.net there are 2 versions. A free version, Minecraft Classic, where you can break blocks in 1 hit, and your inventory is full of blocks that you use to make stuff. Like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn2-d5a3r94

The other version is Minecraft Survival, or Infedit. It's known as Infedit, because once you start your world, the game uses coded algorithms to create an absolutely unique and randomly generated world, with randomly generated caves to explore. As well, it's not limited, if you go to the edge of the current visible world, the game will create more, thus having a larger surface area than the earth, thus known as INFedit. This is unlike Classic, where there is a limited space to work in. Here, there is a day/night cycle, and biomes (areas which have varying temperatures that give different weathers and worldly behaviors). You have to physically mine materials such as dirt, wood, rocks, diamond, coal, etc. And use those things to craft items such as pickaxes, armor, swords, sign posts, etc. At night or wherever it's really dark, like in the randomly generated caves, there are monsters that spawn, which you may kill and take their lewt. As well, you have the ability, as of the latest update, to create a 4x5x1 frame of obsidian and have a portal to the Nether, or hell. This world is completely unique where there are different baddies, it's underground only, so no sky, has different blocks, lots of lava, and movement there is transcribed into the real world. Thusly: I build portal A in the real world and portal B 80 blocks away from portal A in the real world. If you use any of these portals to enter the nether, their counterparts in the nether will only be 10 blocks away. Basically: 1 block moved in the nether equals 8 in the real world. This all costs 10E. Or about $13.70.

Here, this is the world and canon I made for my own world that chunky wants to use in his server:

http://s4.zetaboards.com/TeamKilla_Homepage/topic/8152841/1/#new

All in all, if you give yourself something to do in Minecraft, you will NOT stop playing. I played almost everyday for hours since about the beginning of september. I've been slowing down recently, because I've been all up in the New Vegas, Black Ops, and soon to be Assassins Creed Brotherhood tip.
Edited by Obvious Assassin, Nov 14 2010, 07:40 PM.
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