I played the original mod. It's very entertaining. It's not much of a game, but it's definitely funny and thought-provoking, and only takes a few minutes to get through.

I wonder if they've done marathon sessions with this controller yet -- i imagine the friction on your thumb will get painful after a while.

Make phone calls? On a phone? I mostly use my phone to read blogs while I'm on the shitter.

This would work perfectly well if you don't mind a phone that's a foot wide on each side, and uses 4 or 5 year old technology.

Considering that they're currently sitting on something like half a billion dollars in cash (after taxes), I'm wondering what they're doing with all the money if it's not hiring programmers.

Well, I think it's important to separate Minecraft: The Engine, from Minecraft: The Game. The appeal of the minecraft engine is indeed 'freedom'. It gives players and modders a tremendous amount of leeway to play the game however they want to play it -- anything from legos, to RPG:like experiences w...

My (SMP) world seems to have no ocelots anywhere near spawn. Is there something that would cause them all to be killed? Do zombies or skeletons hunt them or something? I've never really bothered to go looking for them before, so I haven't paid attention much to mob behavior wrt to the cats before.

Played this with my GF, each of us controlling one stick of the controller. Interesting experience. She was really upset near the end of the game.

Yeah, it's really amazing, especially to listen to as your going to sleep. I've never managed to make it through an entire episode without dosing off, and I don't really mean that as an insult. It's weird, clever, and often beautiful. The one thing I can do without is the 'weather' music, though.

i almost always make a hoe first when i first make a world since it's so essential to get sustainable food going near spawn before the animals all die. After a death I always make a pick, because food is plentiful if you're just wandering around and i'm mainly just trying to get redstone for a compa...

Finding a virgin jungle temple after a respawn is pretty much the best thing in life.

However long it takes, it's not entirely lost time. I usually come back with extra iron and lots of food, which can be nice when you have no animals left at spawn.

This is removing something that's one of the few skill mechanics that has to do with swimming. I never used it myself and it's obviously exploit-y, so I'm not complaining about it being removed, just an observation. Dude, that's not skill. That's just being aware of how to exploit MC's physics. Wel...

-Added a slight delay in recovering your air supply upon surfacing to prevent exploits involving placing temporary blocks like torches to create air pockets. This is removing something that's one of the few skill mechanics that has to do with swimming. I never used it myself and it's obviously expl...

I was cleaning out some old boxes and found some old magic cards and issue #1 of the Duelist....

How do they work? When I right click, they seem to just make a noise but don't point me in any particular direction. Any tips?

You can go out while the sun is coming up. You just have to look around carefully, make sure the coast is clear, then as soon as you get out, turn around and run backwards for open ground, so you don't get random spiders and creepers jumping on you from above, etc.

Episode 10 is like the #1 reason that people die in BTW, and it's kind of a dumb one. Don't go outside at night. You will die. Maybe you'll get lucky one night. You probably won't. If you get caught when the sun is going down, dig a hole. Don't try to run home unless you can make it in a few seconds.

If you want the rotation to be faster, why not just make the rotation faster?

Don't forget bookshelves. The buildings are also convenient for storing animals.

To be honest, I find HS to be LESS annoying on co-op servers. You have a lot more chance to find SOMETHING even if it's not your stuff, and you can still chit-chat about what you're doing while you're rebuilding, and people can help you get home. On single player, if you haven't gotten a base going ...

Suggestion for people who don't want HC Spawn and don't want to use teleport: Give yourself a stack of soulsand when you start the server and plop it down on spawn. You can come up with any reason you want for doing it. As long as you both don't die simultaneously, you'll be fine.

not to get greedy, but can i get some screenshots?

edit: nm, there are screenshots here:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/149 ... ub-biomes/

If you have only a few friends on the server, you're going to playing alone alot anyway-- every time you die you're going to end up in your own area.

I actually kinda like the idea of starting a player with a book and quill. That way A) They can kill time during the night by writing a journal and B) other players can find it when they find their items. Hell it might even be cool to automatically generate it (Day 15: Collected x iron, killed x cre...