Ninja, I just made a similar thread. I agree completely, and regret not getting in the release thread before it was locked.

I've tried to get my brother, who plays minecraft occasionally to play btw with me, but never really pushed it. Btw never really felt like a co-op style mod. The one time I played with someone else felt like cheating in a small way. Having two people work together really cheapens the experience if t...

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Updated the OP with two new episodes, sorry I haven't updated the OP in a couple of days. :P

Your blood will belong to the bark!

Something I do when I head out to a far distance is make a "breadcrumb trail" of artificial blocks (cobble, planks, etc) with torches on them to lead me back. Make sure you can see each landmark from the last and you'll be golden. It also helps to have them oriented in such a way as to poi...

Nice video, I liked it a lot. From your OT thread, I thought you were kind of a reckless player, but you demonstrate you keep your head cool most of the time and have some great insights on how to play MC and the mod. I consider myself a fairly advanced player regarding the mod's early game, but I ...

Thanks to flowerchild posting that sesame street vid, youtube is showering me with suggested videos from them, and I love it.
This one reminds me of a certain voxel building community.

I apologize if this has been posted before.

Blazara wrote:Might want to un-private the video buddy ;P.

Sorry about that, I thought I changed it already.

EDIT: I'm uploading part 2 now, and it says that the privacy settings are "Public" by default, so I'm curious to see if it starts out as private again.

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I believe he means vertical choke points. instead of leaving multiple paths that can be traversed by mobs mine extra stone so there is a two high wall with a single way to get up. You can also halfslab an edge to make a 1 1/2 wall mobs can't jump up. That's genius, and I'm stupid for never thinking...

Thanks for all the help guys, this stuff is gold. Especially that stuff about doorways being deathtraps, I guess I never really thought about not using them before. If it intrests you guys, I'm currently uploading a video of me playing BTW from the beginning, and if you want to see how I play, you c...

Stormweaver wrote:Need stone in a cave? turn slopes into easily-watched bottlenecks.

This intrigues me, but I don't fully understand what it means. I know what a bottleneck is, but can you elaborate on how to make them artificially?

As with all other difficult games, the more frustrated you are, the more likely you are to make a mistake and die horribly. You need to be relaxed, focused and most of all: careful. Don't take unneeded risks, know when to cut your losses and retreat, and never go out at night unless you absolutely ...

I haven't played a mod other than btw since last year, so I have no idea about challenge relative to other mods, but I do believe the mod is very, very, very difficult. Like, maybe too dificult. Just a little.

For the last two weeks, I've been playing this mod almost everyday for several hours at a time, and even marathoned it a couple of times, and I just die over and over and fucking over again. It used to be stupid mistakes getting me killed, so I just tried again. And again. Now it is getting ridiculo...

Jesus that sword suggestion I made was terrible. I genuinely thought it was a good idea, and even had a slew of reasons to back it up. Then after the topic was locked, all my reasons failed me. In fact, I now see that the idea was just... godly terrible. If some other newbie had made the same sugges...

There is no need for an iron axe for combat because an iron sword uses less material and provides the invaluable ability to block. I believe the ability to block is so valuable that you should have to tame a wolf and tan leather to earn it.

FlowerChild wrote:
Gloom? :)

Yes, that describes it quite nicely. What's also nice is that I've started collecting coal more often, and noting where I find it. It is my only defense against the gloom!

Jesus man, I had no idea that the entrance to my hidey-hole was so poorly lit. You can say that this prospect fills me with some sort of negative feeling. Like a kind of bad feeling looms over me when I'm standing there.

Yes, this game lacks building and farming, which seems to defeat the purpose, but the appeal of infinitely generating and personally unique feel voxel based world generation can provide can translate well to other genres as well. Games like Wow are fun, but imagine if the world was YOUR world and th...

For 20 bucks, I do find it worth it, if only to dick around in. I'm lucky enough to have been able to throw my money at wollay and get my new toy. I'm kinda worried about how the infinite progression will work, and how balancing it will go. I don't understand why RPG developers haven't found an alte...

This thread is making me seriously excited for the next release. It seems like such a simple thing to just make it darker, but the way it's being done...I might have to move out of the woods because of this. :D

So I'm playing BTW again after a few months absence, and decide to not be a pussy and deal with the hardcore spawn. After all, if I play right, I won't have to deal with it anyway, right? So I'm down in this abandoned mine shaft with leather boots and a wool hat, and I come to a four way intersectio...

I'm still trying to get enough stone to satisfy my need for food, wood, and more tools, I ain't got time for all this coal. I love the hardcore resources just for stuff like this.

I just downloaded the new launcher so I can be up to date, and I thought that installing BTW with Flowerchild's instructions above would be very simple. Somehow, I managed to fuck it up three times, with his instructions right next to me. I hate vanilla's shit so much that I just named the version &...