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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #270 on: July 29, 2011, 09:08:49 AM »
So the Endermen are like the Weeping Angels. DON'T BLINK!

Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #271 on: July 29, 2011, 09:54:42 AM »
So what incredibly useless item will this mob drop? My bet is feathers. Can't get enough feathers.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #272 on: July 29, 2011, 10:52:18 AM »
So what incredibly useless item will this mob drop? My bet is feathers. Can't get enough feathers.
Or saddles. :V Though that's unlikely.

I'll assume it's the current block they're holding....
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #273 on: July 29, 2011, 12:29:55 PM »
Or saddles. :V Though that's unlikely.

I'll assume it's the current block they're holding....
I hope that block isn't part of the terrain. I would be PISSED if they were programmed to steal or move blocks that you place. Minecraft does NOT need a mob that can grief at will (creepers excluded)

Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #274 on: July 30, 2011, 09:31:27 AM »
Notch's blog discussing Endermen.

Quote from: Notch
It?s dark, it has long and narrow limbs, moves very slowly, and will pick up blocks and move them around.
DAMMIT

Quote from: Notch
I wanted something a bit more psychological. So to really drive home the point of looking at them being bad, I made the Endermen freeze and turn towards you when you look at them. As long as you look straight at them, they stand perfectly still and look straight at you. As soon as you look away, they will run (very fast) towards you.

And they teleport. If they?re too far away to reach you in a short period of time, they will teleport about once per second.
We are so screwed.

Afterthought EDIT- Spoiler tags were unnecessary...  :derp:
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #275 on: July 30, 2011, 09:39:02 AM »
Goddamn, I hate it already.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #276 on: July 30, 2011, 11:48:20 AM »
Ah shit. Now creepers are the lesser of our major worries.
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #277 on: July 30, 2011, 12:21:29 PM »
I just hope that there's a mod that disables them from picking up blocks. At least destruction from creepers is somewhat avoidable, I don't want to go to my house and find out my roof is missing because Endermen snatched it while I wasn't at my house. Other than that, I kinda like the whole stare at you forever thing. Though I bet there's gonna be a way to get rid of Endermen after looking at them. Just walk backwards while still looking at them and eventually you'll be far away enough that they'll despawn. Let's just hope he programmed them to teleport only when you look away and not when you get too far away while looking at them.


Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #278 on: July 30, 2011, 03:41:21 PM »
i thought minecraft suppose to be a fun playful game...

not a scarry horror game thats gunna give me nightmares  :ohdear:

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #279 on: July 30, 2011, 04:29:42 PM »
Stupid Notch, his fascinations in silly things and downright messed-up ideas. If those enderpeople end up messing up landscapes and my creations by moving the blocks around and never putting them back on their place, I am going to be pissed. And either I will promptly end them by modding them out of my game, bringing their fiddling to an untimely end, or they will end my interest in Minecraft for good. (Hence their name: endermen, people who end things. No, seriously, what does "ender" even mean? I am obsessed with this word.)

Man, I liked this role-playing game, Gothic, with its clearly hostile world, but in Minecraft, everything, hostility is taken to eleven as almost everything is trying to kill you and screw you over in the most malicious way possible. It's getting tiresome. I probably won't be interested in befriending the native tribes of the pigmen, either. I just want to seek out Herobrine, the ruler of Minecraftia, slay him and enslave his minions.

But seriously, what the f**k. Those (sl)endermen sound like they are able to mess up compact mob grinders. Though I don't think they can spawn in 2 blocks tall areas, only 3 blocks tall ones. But still, since they can blink, they could accidentally end up inside the spawning chamber, where they could pick up some vital blocks, misplace them and damage the death factory.


Tl;dr: I am not going to like it if they actually start to move blocks.

Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #280 on: July 30, 2011, 08:33:07 PM »
I can live with Endermen being able to rearrange blocks. I hope Notch puts in a failsafe, making sure that they cannot move blocks that were placed by a player. I don't want to spend another ten days making another Sigma only to find out it now has a sunroof, or the its eye facing another direction. If peoples works get voluntarily disrupted by these creatures, then I'm sure that Notch will have to field MANY complaints from players. Let's hope he considers this before releasing the Endermen into our worlds.

If any of my creations get griefed by the game itself, I will mod those things out so fast..... I want to create, not maintain creations out of paranoia.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #281 on: July 31, 2011, 12:50:47 AM »
Tl;dr: I am not going to like it if they actually start to move blocks.
Knowing Notch-ism, though, the Endermen will be doing this in 1.8 and be patched hours/days later in 1.8_01 after elaborate creations get wrecked by these things. Or better yet he'll remove them entirely.

If any of my creations get griefed by the game itself, I will mod those things out so fast..... I want to create, not maintain creations out of paranoia.
Hell, while we wait for this and a new server if these guys grief the hell out of SSP we're banning this mob entirely on the new server. We already have creepers as building code inspectors, we don't need these guys to do more of that!
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #282 on: July 31, 2011, 12:59:28 AM »
Oh wow exactly as feared, we've got NPC griefers :V
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #283 on: July 31, 2011, 01:00:04 AM »
I say bring it. I am prepared for the Enderman threat. >:(

They probably won't be THAT bad, maybe plucking a block off your house every few days. They probably won't be as common as the other mobs either. I can't see them doing more damage than creepers, which can jump you and knock out the whole front of your house in addition to your lawn.

I think you should be more concerned about them teleporting and murdering the crap out of you!

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #284 on: July 31, 2011, 01:26:15 AM »
They probably won't be THAT bad, maybe plucking a block off your house every few days.

Considering they only seem to be able to hold a single block at a time, probably this.

Alternatively, if you see one messing with your house: Lock eyes with it to keep it from moving, shoot with arrows until dead, go about the rest of your day.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #285 on: July 31, 2011, 02:49:19 AM »
Oh man, I'm going nuts about Endermen now. Creepers were bad enough, we don't need enemies moving stuff around! I hope Notch does make it at least bearable.

You know what this means? No place is safe to sleep anymore. (unless area is WELL lit, like, the whole map) They'll move your wall out of the way and guess what happens after? :ohdear:
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #286 on: July 31, 2011, 02:52:42 AM »
Now... I doubt they'd move crap while you're asleep.

The world, to my knowledge/without the Somnia mod, doesn't actually do anything while you're asleep. Try smelting something at night, then sleep to speed it up.

No dice.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #287 on: July 31, 2011, 01:48:07 PM »
Say, can I use the Millenaire and Biosphere mod at once? Cause apparently, there are no villages close to me in the world I'm currently in.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #288 on: July 31, 2011, 02:27:57 PM »
(Hence their name: endermen, people who end things. No, seriously, what does "ender" even mean? I am obsessed with this word.)

It's based off of the meme "Slenderman," mascot of /x/, x-tan aside. While scary to some, others see past the tall, narrow, tentacle-wielding demon and see this, remembering that it was originally a fictional character made up on the SomethingAwful forums. While some say, "it's scary," others say, "it's getting old." As far as its block-moving capabilities go, what with mentions of it moving slowly and such, I don't foresee any major problems from these things in the future.

Assuming it can only spawn in the same light levels as current hostile mobs can, even better! I'm thinking that after some playtesting, Notch will have figured out a comfortable degree at which to spawn them to keep them an active enough part of the game to look out for, but still controlled enough that spotting a cluster of 2-5 that spawned either off in the distance or somewhat nearby won't be a death sentence for the structures you created. Those teleporting capabilities? It sounds like it'll only do that to stay close to- and attack- the player after the player has made, then broken eye contact, not to move blocks at a rapid pace! As for it getting up on rooftops, don't worry about that, unless you leave your rooftops unlit for some reason.
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #289 on: July 31, 2011, 03:23:10 PM »
I think I broke the world generation...

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #290 on: August 01, 2011, 07:35:15 AM »
Automatic building generator.

Not very efficient, definitely much slower than building things yourself, but still a cool concept :V
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[20:45:39] Hakurei Reimu: ... because it shoots once and then you throw it out?
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #291 on: August 01, 2011, 08:02:54 AM »
Alex - What's that download? A single player world? If so, might be fun!

Haku - Looks neat!

Assistcraft's been updated for anyone who uses it instead of the default texture pack! This version removes rain/snow/clouds, this version keeps rain/snow/clouds the way they are, and in both, cobblestone and obsidian have been updated!

This is what I meant by "hard to explain" and why I'd do equally well for any time zone!

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For those who couldn't find it: zombe's modpack. Enjoy!
There's no need to demonize and/or ridicule people who do/share something that's publicly available to all which LITERALLY does not have a SINGLE negative effect on anyone else. =P

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #292 on: August 01, 2011, 08:07:07 AM »
This is what I meant by "hard to explain" and why I'd do equally well for any time zone!
Hey it sounds like my vacation schedule! But this'll change come uni.

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There's no need to demonize and/or ridicule people who do/share something that's publicly available to all which LITERALLY does not have a SINGLE negative effect on anyone else. =P
I see. I have no problems with it, personally, other than "you're playing too easily" but then again the use of WE warp compass, Xray packs, etc. contradict that quite a lot. So I'm going for it!
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #293 on: August 01, 2011, 08:29:40 AM »
Alex - What's that download? A single player world? If so, might be fun!
Yes, yes it is. :3

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #294 on: August 01, 2011, 08:58:01 AM »
Alex - Thanks! I'll definitely give it a try sometime!

Theep and HakureiSM - I'd like an apology at some point. Telling someone "why dont you just shut up" when all they're trying to do is help you and everyone else is far from polite.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #295 on: August 01, 2011, 10:06:43 AM »
Theep and HakureiSM - I'd like an apology at some point. Telling someone "why dont you just shut up" when all they're trying to do is help you and everyone else is far from polite.
(shouldn't this be in MC server thread instead?)
...well, I do understand your intent, and that's certainly helpful (until the server crashes). But the way you put it seemed to push Strafe with a bit more pressure than was necessary. So while I'll apologise (maybe that was a bit strong of a response), it'd also be nice for you to give one to Strafe as well for causing a mini-drama episode then. I saw that you were trying to help with trying to OP all of us and with commands utilisation, again, but it started out on a bit of an aggressive footing on your end, causing rash reaction as well.
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #296 on: August 01, 2011, 11:09:25 AM »
[snip snip]

Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion~
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #297 on: August 01, 2011, 07:47:23 PM »
So. Aether. Anyone at all been able to find any dungeons, anywhere? my Aether is barren lol. Took me long enough to find a pig to explore with, and when I did I found some sweet looking islands, but not a single dungeon anywhere. I think I may make some Quicksoil bridges and large towers to identify islands explored so I can span out a bit, but jesus, that'll take some time. Just getting lost would absolutely suck.

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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #298 on: August 01, 2011, 08:27:12 PM »
Theep and HakureiSM - I'd like an apology at some point. Telling someone "why dont you just shut up" when all they're trying to do is help you and everyone else is far from polite.
Like ep said, wrong thread bro. But since you put it here I might as well reply here, and echo ep in that you were pushing too hard on something that wasn't an issue.
Yeah you were trying to help, and having everyone as OP could make things more fun, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be mighty fun even without that. It's just a minor detail.
Strafe stated he wouldn't do it, yet you kept on pushing for it to happen, making it sound like it was his obligation to concede. Meanwhile everyone else had moved on to do their stuff, and had to watch you yap on. That was far from polite, too.

Now back on this thread's topic
[20:45:19] Ciryano: come and behold why they call it the Panzerfaust
[20:45:39] Hakurei Reimu: ... because it shoots once and then you throw it out?
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Re: Minecraft - The block building thread
« Reply #299 on: August 02, 2011, 04:14:45 AM »
So. Aether. Anyone at all been able to find any dungeons, anywhere? my Aether is barren lol. Took me long enough to find a pig to explore with, and when I did I found some sweet looking islands, but not a single dungeon anywhere. I think I may make some Quicksoil bridges and large towers to identify islands explored so I can span out a bit, but jesus, that'll take some time. Just getting lost would absolutely suck.
Can you just delete the region files generated by the Aether and try again? I'm not sure if this Mod structures the region files similar to that of the Nether.. It's worth a shot if you want to try to generate a new landscape.