New release? Nice! :D

"Optimal" depends on what you're trying to optimize for. In the early game, something like DiamondArms' cross is unbeatable - it returns the best yield per seed possible, when you're usually short on seeds. However, as the farm expands, it gets kinda clumsy and spacious, you're using 5 spa...

If anything the colour genes are recessive, meaning if you are reliably getting coloured lambs, the dominant white gene has been entirely bred out or it would have already expressed within a few generations. I did some tests; while they weren't as extensive as needed, I think this isn't the case. R...

There are three castes: farmer blacksmith+butcher librarian+priest. It doesn't really matter which caste is above the other, as long as you see them as distinct. To start a "complete" village (provided you have enough diamonds) you'll need one Testificate from each caste; breeding a blacks...

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chaoticneutral wrote: I don't know if the fact that I'm working off the updated version of transmission.mp3 makes any difference, but I tried one of the things you tried and did meet with success... at least I think so.. haven't gotten a response yet.. EDIT: Now I have.

Time to retry it, then! :D

Knowing German is not a significant advantage. Well, then I guess there's no harm translating it, right? jorgebonafe , here's the translation: "beginning transmission 5-2-3-8-7 [3x] ending transmission" List of stuff I tried to no success: Checking the file in a hex editor. Checking for M...

derevik , how much are you digging in the Nether between each portal? As dawnraider mentioned, oceans in Minecraft can be really large; I usually bet ~10km each. So it's usually worth digging through 20 stacks of netherrack (640m in the Nether) between each portal attempt. (And yes, you'll use a lo...

Librarian/Priest + Blacksmith/Butcher = Only limited to one of the parents, or can they be the alternate of each side? I'm not sure, but I think it's possible to get, say, a priest from butcher vs. librarian hot action. However, since the odds should be smaller (since you'll get butchers 1/2 of the...

Since I was ninja'd by pretty much everyone, FC included, I'll just comment about some things. I personally think BTW is turning into more of a survival game then the cognitive challenge [...] But the survival game isn't replacing the cognitive challenges - it's adding more and justifying the ones i...

Annum faustum uobis, a... a... machina temporum romana? :D

I used to focus first on defending a huge territory... but then I realized it was a waste of time, torches and stone. Nowadays, my main focus is a road network in a half day perimeter around The Capital (main base), with some markings (2 planks in angle + torch) pointing to the roads. If I create ne...

Wouldn't they flood pretty easily when it rains? I checked climate tables for some Scandi cities; in the wettest capital in the wettest month (Oslo, September), it usually rains 9cm through the whole month. With the natural drainage of the soil, this means flooding is the least concern, at most the...

Since I'm greedy and lazy, if I find "troll diamonds" near the lava I make sure I'll grab them instead of looking for more in another place. You don't need to dredge the whole lava lake, just the blocks around the diamonds in question. Then mine one block of sand [to make sure the diamond ...

Honestly, I still need to try KSP, but my personal life has been busy lately... so when I have time to play, I end playing always the same games: Minecraft [both with and without BTW], Binding of Isaac, Nethack and sometimes Spacechem. But you can be quite sure that if I buy KSP, I'll dive straight ...

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Well, after playing with it a bit, some feedback: I'll definitively want to use Ender Blocks as a building material for details, but then I guess I'll need an ender farm for that. :)

Gravel and sand slabs, ender pearl storage blocks: you know, even if you focus mainly in gameplay, some of the blocks you add are really fun for aesthetic purposes. Assuming the ender storage blocks are the same colour as the ender pearls, I bet they'll combo nicely with sandstone. HC caste system c...

[...]Kurt Vonnergut Since you are mentioning him with Orwell, then I'll accept it as a reading suggestion... [Huxley's Brave New World, Zamjatin's We, Moore's V for Vendetta, anyone?] [-snip-] This "paperclip maximizer" thing goes side-with-side with Dawkins' concept of memes... a corpora...

Eh, it's probably all of the above [...] Quite insightful... a multiple approach makes lots of sense. It really depends who you talk to though as some people willingly accept the chip implants and adopt a "We are owned by Microsoft. We have always been owned by Microsoft" mindset very qui...

Guys. What if Microsoft buying Mojang has to do with phones?

I mean, Windows Phone is practically ignored by the masses; maybe they bought Mojang to port Minecraft to their phone OS, as a way to boost its market share...

Adenine wrote:I wonder how they'll handle mixed recipes. Or are they going to make you use one type of wood only?

By the snapshots, one type of wood only.

I didn't notice Miss_Kat already posted about the doors. Sorry - my fault. Well, at least they didn't just make the doors palette swaps. I'm sure vMC players will be happy to have some variety in styles. I like the model variations myself. If you're stuck in a jungle or pine forest, you can always a...

After the new fences, they decided for new doors, too... http://i.imgur.com/lyi5qDw.png Source, https://twitter.com/TheMogMiner/status/497751889102905344 I like the idea of colourful variation. I don't like the fact they did different models - they're ugly, and there's gameplay impact in the kind of...

Épisode 43 gold farm or not ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8-Xw2XYsU 0A8-Xw2XYsU Ouch. You got really lucky at 57:20... and at 59:10... When exploring jungles, one or two buckets of milk can be a huge life saver. You can replenish them by groping some cow tits from "freelancer" cows ...

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That mask and those culinary tastes tell me he might be a psychiatrist...

... A Kraken seems a bit big, that's more of like a boss type thing, plus it's very similar to a squid and I am thinking they will at least add something with a bit more variety. Well, as Rob said, they did endermites from silverfish. They also did witches from Testificates and added staple mobs as...