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**CatalystiCam** · 10-17-2010, 08:00 PM

I don't know where to begin with this, this game rules. My brothers friend showed it to him, he showed it to me. I guess it's rapidly growing popularity all over the internet it'll be a major hit within no time. The good news is it is really fun right now as it is and it isn't even finished.

To summarize this is a game that is about survival and adventure. When you download the game it gives you a randomly generated world 3 times the size of earth (or so I heard). Never the less, the world is huge and it is all made of these sort of building blocks so to speak.

There is no real goal and that is the beauty of it, you set your own goals whether it's establishing a base weaving through tunnels, in the air, in mountains you name it. You can do this or you can try to travel through the world making an essential camp every night to hide from the night enemies such as skeletons that shoot arrows, spiders that can jump at you and kill you easily and exploding green things called creepers and god I hate these things so much. They will destroy everything near where they explode and take away most of your health. It provides challenge and you can turn enemies off or make them easier but what's the fun in that?

Tools can be made... Many tools to help you dig, mine, etc. All well finding better materials to build better tools by digging deep. everything is essentially made out of cubes too so you can build houses and bridges gravity not being an issue for any of the types of blocks with the exception of sand and gravel.

This game has an entire wikia dedicated to it and I will post some of the main pages in it for help...

For starters, the types of blocks you can come across:

Blocks - Minepedia - The Minecraft Wiki!

All the things you can build so far (The game is in alpha and much more is to come!):

Crafting - Minepedia - The Minecraft Wiki!

gameplay and account limitations:

Gameplay - Minepedia - The Minecraft Wiki!

I suggest reading those before you play otherwise you won't know how to make anything and the crafting page is extremely helpful.

Enjoy, I can provide you with the survival mode if you want which is essentially single-player mode (which is where it's all at). But other than that multi-player is not legal for free download.

I don't think I can attach the zip file here since it is 31 mb but I'm hoping kong can get back to me on that. For now just pm me if you want to try the game or you can try the classic version on their site.

gameplay and starting instructions (not mine):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVtj-1Ccgg"]YouTube - Your First Shelter in Minecraft (Tutorial Machinima)[/ame]

Enjoy and feel free to discuss everything related to the game here and feel free to ask questions.

Edit: Thanks to SFF for the help, you can download my file here: http://rapidshare.com/files/425696454/mc11201.zip\

Edit- Once you download extract the files then throw the .minecraft folder in application data which can be found by using run then typing in %appdata% ... If this folder does not go there then you will not be able to play, when it does you will get a preset login and password. All you have to do is hit log in then hit play offline. You have 5 worlds open to use.

We now have a social group for Minecraft if anyone is interested.
http://retrouprising.com/groups/minecraft/

**Slime Slayer** · 10-17-2010, 08:26 PM

I saw a video where a guy made a working computer in mincraft, in theory he could make minecraft in minecraft.

**Dudebro** · 10-17-2010, 08:26 PM

I've been hearing about this but I wasn't sure if it was safe to download or worth the bother. From watching the video it seems I'd probably enjoy it. Besides the top of the line N64 graphics(

) it seems like a cool sandbox game.

So the single player is free and fine to download but you'd have to pay for multiplayer? I don't even get what you'd be playing multiplayer for but ok I guess.

**DrunkN** · 10-17-2010, 08:29 PM

The game looks amazing. Not visually, but that looks very neat. I wonder if there are oceans or deserts.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-17-2010, 08:33 PM

the building block style is awesome. It would be lame trying to dig and mine if the graphics were proper... Not to mention confusing.

edit: can you add this to my first post at the end?:

Once you download extract the files then throw the .minecraft folder in application data which can be found by using run then typing in %appdata% ... If this folder does not go there then you will not be able to play, when it does you will get a preset login and password. All you have to do is hit log in then hit play offline. You have 5 worlds open to use.

**Dudebro** · 10-17-2010, 08:46 PM

Is that really needed cam? It sounds like some weird work around to me.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-17-2010, 08:51 PM

what is? I don't know how to make your own account, that is how the download is intended to be used. You won't be able to login and I've had trouble making an account before.

**Dudebro** · 10-17-2010, 09:04 PM

That part you wanted me to add sounds strange. Either way I'll try this soon and get back to you about how epic it is.

**StarfoxFan2009** · 10-17-2010, 09:10 PM

Can you disable sound for it, and is it full screen or mid size?

**CatalystiCam** · 10-19-2010, 01:23 AM

@SFF, it's all customizable in options, so is render distance and stuff.

---------- Post added 10-18-2010 at 11:23 PM ---------- Previous post was 10-17-2010 at 07:13 PM ----------

Wow, Just got off from playing one type of online. I think it was creative mode? You and a bunch of people just build and go through the wrold like normal. But the goal is to build cool things. Because of this you can type in resources and get them. A friend of mine on skype sent me a downloadable server exe and I joined. The server is 8 hours old... Maybe 9 now so it's new. These guys got quite a bit accomplished, man.

I simply came up with an idea to fill part of the shallow ocean with wood and then surround it with glass. Then dig down. It was a simple idea and my buddy from skype started helping. Seahawk joined if he doesn't mind me mentioning him and started helping out. Eventually it was built to the shallow-ish ocean floor and seahawk suggested calling it atlantis... I'm not big on name making so I called it that. We started building tunnels which was hard and then interest peaked and people were all over atlantis helping. A bunch of them built a wide bridge to it and made a glass wall and roof at the top above the water.

All-in-all it was really fun and it all saves so I can come back to it tomorrow. It was a bit glitchy but that's alright, nothing major. I was amazed to see how amazed everyone else was over my underwater base and I really shouldn't call it "mine" We did start making tunnels underwater but they don't go much of anywhere right now. They promoted me two ranks.

It was a blast, get this game guys! Don't hold off!

Edit: oh yeah, and the server admin mentioned that he would be making a youtube video of all our creations after the server has been up for 24 hrs. So expect to see that here soon :P

**Dudebro** · 10-19-2010, 02:24 AM

Can you take screenshots?

**CatalystiCam** · 10-19-2010, 09:51 AM

I can't but there should be a video like I said.

**Demon-Mask** · 10-19-2010, 05:21 PM

What are the system requirements?
I've downloaded games before, just to realize that my computer can hardly run them at the minimum settings. {like Portal}

**CatalystiCam** · 10-19-2010, 05:33 PM

very low, I think this game has even been run on windows 98. It's pretty good and turning down the render distance helps a lot. Be aware that this game will lag a bit in the start and when you explore where you have not been past before. It's just the game generating the world.

**Demon-Mask** · 10-20-2010, 06:57 PM

Okay, I'll download it sometime.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-20-2010, 10:40 PM

please do give it a shot, it's really fun

**Demon-Mask** · 10-21-2010, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

I saw a video where a guy made a working computer in mincraft, in theory he could make minecraft in minecraft.

"Yo dawg, we heard you like minecraft, so we made a minecraft in your minecraft, so you can mine while you mine."

Comments

**DrunkN** · 10-21-2010, 06:42 PM

I like it, but I just cannot find any coal.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-21-2010, 07:58 PM

Coal is easy. I find too much of it eventually but early on it can be tough. I reccomend just turning enemies off until you do find coal.

Oh, if anyone wants the online launcher exe then just let me know.

**StarfoxFan2009** · 10-21-2010, 07:59 PM

I'd like it if possible cam

**CatalystiCam** · 10-21-2010, 11:59 PM

Actually, I think the files are small enough for here. The exe will not work unless you have downloaded the other one I put on rapid share. Basically it's just a quick launcher meant for online.

I also will provide a servers list I have up to this point. I have 2 servers on there. One is 24 hours and you are meant to play the game like normal online with others... Gather stuff and build stuff, etc. (lower server)

The next is not 24 hour, it is up whenever the server owner is online. You have unlimited supplies for this server and you can build crazy things with others. The people on this server are pretty cool, that is why I prefer this server. The people on the other server can be childish and spam the chats, but I usually just ignore that which isn't hard to do. This is the server I described earlier.

Enjoy everybody. And you may want to add these downloads to the first post, maybe?

Edit: Oh I should also mention that not all servers work unless you bought the game. If you find more that work then add them to the notepad. I just find it useful since ips are quite a few digits to remember :P

**Mareeps** · 10-23-2010, 01:38 PM

The minecraft_FastLoader file is "corrupt or invalid" and won't work for me.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-23-2010, 07:18 PM

Have you tried using 7zip or winrar and extracting files?

**Kong** · 10-23-2010, 10:23 PM

The zip file is corrupt. Either it did not upload 100% or there was an error when you created it or when you downloaded it.

Can't you just download it from the author's website?

So there is no goal in this game - just exploration and building?

**Wolf** · 10-24-2010, 12:00 AM

it happened to me too for some reason I cant download anything on retrouprising.com anymore you can have cam send it to you via email.