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Minecraft - Why so unpopular on here?
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There's no story; it's a sandbox game so go and do what you like but there is an end game. There's 3 dimensions in MC, the overworld (green, trees, planets etc. the one most people know), the nether (basically MC's version of hell) and the end (kinda like space). You have to gather certain resources in the overworld which allows you get to the nether, certain resources in the nether mean you can spawn the Wither boss. Other resources from the overworld allow you to find a stronghold (they spawn at random in each world) and go through the portal to fight the Ender dragon boss; once killed the game credits roll and you get put back in the overworld. Generally speaking, the things you need to get to both bosses are from fighting some of the 'random creatures in the world'. Some of the things you need for the Wither and Ender Dragon (especially if you want to fight it more than once) take some hard to get things hence a lot of people build farms for things.
It's a bit of a simplification but I guessed you wouldn't want a wall of text explaining all the things you need to fight the bosses and how to obtain it all
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Oh that does sound alright actually. Thanks for taking the time to articulate that for me.There's no story; it's a sandbox game so go and do what you like but there is an end game. There's 3 dimensions in MC, the overworld (green, trees, planets etc. the one most people know), the nether (basically MC's version of hell) and the end (kinda like space). You have to gather certain resources in the overworld which allows you get to the nether, certain resources in the nether mean you can spawn the Wither boss. Other resources from the overworld allow you to find a stronghold (they spawn at random in each world) and go through the portal to fight the Ender dragon boss; once killed the game credits roll and you get put back in the overworld. Generally speaking, the things you need to get to both bosses are from fighting some of the 'random creatures in the world'. Some of the things you need for the Wither and Ender Dragon (especially if you want to fight it more than once) take some hard to get things hence a lot of people build farms for things.
It's a bit of a simplification but I guessed you wouldn't want a wall of text explaining all the things you need to fight the bosses and how to obtain it all
I would likely never have known...
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Many versions back when someone was running a server for us on these forums, I was well into it. Great fun! Now it seems like there’s quite a lot going on, and I feel like I’ve got my time out of the game.
I imagine it’s similar for many.
I imagine it’s similar for many.
Back in 2009 we had a healthy player load from these forums - I ran a bunch of servers for it - I think most of us from back then are played out on it though - personally I'm thoroughly bored with it and have no intention of touching it again. Scary to think that is nearly 12 years ago - only seems the other day I was posting in the old thread.
I remember having to spend a few evenings coming up with a way to defeat the inevitable griefing that would happen on public servers as well :s when the game was in a more basic form back then.
I remember having to spend a few evenings coming up with a way to defeat the inevitable griefing that would happen on public servers as well :s when the game was in a more basic form back then.
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Yoooo, not fair! I've not even finished my morning coffee and I'm reading how that was TWELVE years ago!?!!?! Why does time go so fast
It's basically computer lego without the fear of stepping on a piece during the night.
My friends and I when we were playing a lot managed to build a train, on a survival sever so it wasn't creative mode, and the journey from start to finish took about 9 minutes. We were about to try and build it going through a underwater glass tunnel but that was the part which really stretched our patience and we gave up. Took us so many hours both building it and also trying to get the resources to make the tracks and powered parts of the track and that's not even including the other parts like bricks etc.
My friends and I when we were playing a lot managed to build a train, on a survival sever so it wasn't creative mode, and the journey from start to finish took about 9 minutes. We were about to try and build it going through a underwater glass tunnel but that was the part which really stretched our patience and we gave up. Took us so many hours both building it and also trying to get the resources to make the tracks and powered parts of the track and that's not even including the other parts like bricks etc.
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Ah, the glass tunnel! I too hated this, until I realised, I just needed to take a quick dive under a lake, record the layer number and the block number, go out of the lake, dig down to a couple of layers lower, and dig to where I swam too, only a few layers deep and build the tunnel out of glass. Then, start removing all the soil and what have you around the tunnel to allow the water to fall in around it. Time consuming, but much easier than trying to displace the water.
Bugger.... Might jump in again tonight.
That's a more clever way of doing it! We started by just putting loads of mud under water (a 7x7 square) and would then hollow that out and build the tunnel and remove all the mud after. Was very time consuming and I think caused us to burn out. Good times though. also built a floating city with, at the time, really cool automated farms for various resources. What a brilliant game
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Because I'm not 8.
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I used to love building castles with huge libraries lol. So silly, agreed, brilliant game.
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If GTA and Minecraft was merged into a new game, would you all play it? I think that would be epic, I can only imagine that as MC progresses it will get closer to that sort of combination.
I find as they introduce new biomes, new animals and monsters it keeps it interesting, huge mountain ranges, now also wind to the game in the future, brilliant, some of these creations such as "iron farms" the scale of them, it all seems interesting. Building large structures, huge bridges and tunnels with railways linking people's bases together, stuff like that interests me.
I find it weirdly therapeutic hacking away and creating a massive cavern underground and nicely evening it out.
It's a game that I find you need to think a lot in some respects, but in others you can just go in, play it without even thinking, just walk around, hack at stuff, create simple stuff, no thought, games with storylines just make me fall asleep unless I find the storyline especially gripping.
I find as they introduce new biomes, new animals and monsters it keeps it interesting, huge mountain ranges, now also wind to the game in the future, brilliant, some of these creations such as "iron farms" the scale of them, it all seems interesting. Building large structures, huge bridges and tunnels with railways linking people's bases together, stuff like that interests me.
I find it weirdly therapeutic hacking away and creating a massive cavern underground and nicely evening it out.
It's a game that I find you need to think a lot in some respects, but in others you can just go in, play it without even thinking, just walk around, hack at stuff, create simple stuff, no thought, games with storylines just make me fall asleep unless I find the storyline especially gripping.
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I'm at least 12.
Unfortunately, I've also got a broken elbow from the scooter that reminds me on a daily basis I'm no longer a child.
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I'm at least 12.
Unfortunately, I've also got a broken elbow from the scooter that reminds me on a daily basis I'm no longer a child.
Hahahahaha, brilliant
I bought a One Wheel whilst I was living in San Francisco... I fell off once and sold it, far too old for that stuff now!
Is it an open server how many people on it?
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It’s a white list server for our gaming group (www.forevergaming.co.uk if you want to check it out
) but I’m happy to whitelist you if you send me your username There’s quite a few people white listed, maybe 9 or 10, but really there’s only 3 or 4 that actually play it. We’re mostly finished with Sky Factory 3 so will probably be changing modpack sometime quite soon.
I don’t know what pack we’ll be changing to yet though. Tempted to go with something like Enigmatica 2 Expert but think it might be too grindy so open to suggestions.
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i think most people here would have stopped playing it years ago. these days it's more popular with the kids. I still check it out form time to time, just to see what's changed etc but fundamentally nothing really has. been there, done that ect. Now my son plays it 