[Closed] minecraft

are you 12?

Frankie explains all:

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my nephew is 8, he's totally, obsessed with minecraft.

it is literally the only thing he can talk about.

i can *just* about see the appeal, for an 8 year old...

I had a cursory glance at it when it first came out. Far as I can tell, it's like a big box of Lego with no instructions.

Cougar pretty much has it. if you like building things so you can build things, it's great. not much use for anything else. People do build huge worlds in minecraft. My son played it all the time.

I created a minecraft server for him at home until I realised he had given the address out to all and sundry and was getting mine-bullied 🙁

Minecraft is one of my favourite ways to waste time. I've built everything from cliff-side evil lairs to nuclear reactors, from automated quarrying and refining factories to farms and bakeries. My current world has an epic solar-powered treehouse atop a giant redwood tree and a mid-sized farm infested with cats.

J

It's a great time filler just a huge lego game as mentioned.

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Just watched the intro video. Looks to have come a long way since I last looked at it, pretty sure the animals weren't in it for a start.

Are you expected to [s]Google[/s] work out all the 'recipes' yourself by trial and error?

It's come a long way since that video too.

Yeah you're expected to work them out but for simple thing just imagine how you would draw a spade in a 3x3 grid.

Cougar - I play using the Feed-the-beast mod packs. It comes with a modification called "Not Enough Items" which allows you to search for recipes within the game. Very handy.

I asked my nieces why they had the resolution turned down on the Ipad when they showed me the first time...
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Sounds like you all need some "Rust" in your life:

It's Minecraft, but with graphics.

Ruined cathedrals... pfffftt... this guy made a working 16-bit computer model in minecraft:

And then of course this guy made a computer in Minecraft that plays Minecraft:

(or at least has an 8x8 "screen" of flashing torches, some controls and some game logic)

I've been totally avoiding it for years lest I lose my life entirely!

I've been totally avoiding it for years lest I lose my life entirely!

I'm thinking *craft should be made controlled substances.

My kid played it when he was 9/10 ish. Kind of grown out of it now (he's 11). I'll get him to send you some instructions 🙂

Sounds like you all need some "Rust" in your life:

It's not the same as minecraft really though and if you want to go down that route then Day-Z is the better option. It's Rust but with gameplay.

Ruined cathedrals... pfffftt... this guy made a working 16-bit computer model in minecraft:

It's completed now and yeah we made a computer but not that good granted about 3 years back and a replicator device.

my 10yr old is obsessed with it. Although I think he is since he plays it with his mates.

having now watched some of the tutorial videos,i am now beginning to understand what all the fuss is about 🙂

am very much looking forward to getting to grips with the game,and building stuff.also the animals are hilarious 😀

We were skiing over NY and all the kids, from the other families staying in the Chalet were either playing or talking about it 24/7. Apparently they even talked about it when skiing. They all had brand new iPads for xmas, on which they played it...

Lewis and Simon(Yogcasts) can explain it.

My kids thought they were hilarious.
I just thought they were a bit daft 🙂

Flying Ox - isn't Rust the one where you throw rocks and fight naked men?

I have become a Minecraft expert through having a 10-year-old son who talks about little else.

Basically you break tree wood until you have enough to make a crafting table, make some wooden pickaxes, kill a couple of animals for food, dig into a hill and make a room you can seal up, dig up some coal, make some torches, seal the room and wait the long, dark, night of the soul until morning when the zombies and creepers have gone. Then do the same again, gathering stuff, making better tools ad infinitum.

Or just turn on Creative Mode and waste five hours building a castle.

This is an old video, but with a valuable lesson!

My eldest son (10( is obsessed. He plays it on the Mac, PS3, iPhone and his Kindle Fire. Spends loads of time watching youtube tutorials too. We've had to limit the amount of time he can play.

I don't get it though. To me it looks tedious.

Flying Ox - isn't Rust the one where you throw rocks and fight naked men?

Yep. It's largely described as DayZ crossed with Minecraft.

Frankie explains all again:

Still in development but coming along well judging by this later video:

tempted to get a version for the little one to have a go, maybe a bit young at 4.5 but he's picking up computery stuff scarily quick lately. I reckon lego played a big part in developing my 3d/spatial thinking, minecraft looks to be on a whole other level. Was chatting to another dad about it and he said multiplayer can be a bit shit, people going around smashing stuff up, same old thing arseholes everywhere.

You can download Britain built with Ordnance Survey data

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html

My daughter is 11 and she and all her friends play it constantly. Nothing else gets a look in. 95% of her Christmas list consisted of Minecraft related products!

Can't see the appeal myself.