I tried my hand at pixel art, and I must say, it was fun!

I think I've found a good use for me on servers. I can't build very good, but this was easy enough. :P

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...ixel_art_1.png

I myself will be starting to experiment with redstone soon. See if I'm any good at it. Lol. I'm not good at building stuff either, so we'll see.

I think I went a tad overboard...

Did all of these except the big back sprite in an hour with the help of a friend.

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...ixel_art_6.png

This one took a tad short of an hour to complete on my own. :P

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Hey guys! Minecraft has now sold 3 million copies! Congrats to Notch and the rest of Mojang!

Alright, so I finally got the TMI Mod to work..... once. I logged on after I had put everything in and all, and it worked perfectly. After I closed it and came back, it wasn't working. Help?

Try pressing the O key.

I did, multiple times. Nothing. I think you kinda misunderstood me. Or I worded it bad. I meant after I closed MINECRAFT and came back.

something odd has happened to my minecraft and I can't get ANY mod to work for some reason guess for now I'm stuck doing everything legit which is fine on my survival world and on the multiplayer server I just joined but on my building only world it's quite annoying.. guess I'll have make a deep mineshaft to get all my supplies

What other mods do you have, PIB? May be a conflict, or something. Also, are you using Winrar or 7zip? :P

Is TMI your only mod? The only conflict I know of to make TMI not work, is installing Zombes Modpack AFTER TMI. If you have Zombes modpack, make sure to install TMI 2nd. If that doesn't work, do you have modloader installed? If you don't, try installing it.

Right now, I only have TMI installed. But I got it to work again somehow. Hopefully it stays there. Lol.

@Dawkta: I use Winrar. Mostly because I've found that most instructions on how to install stuff use it.

Only TMI? Have all of your files been inserted? Also, have you deleted META-INF? Although that would just be a black screen... Maybe just export your saves to somewhere safe, delete .minecraft, and run the .exe again. Then reinstall TMI with your fresh install of MC.

I use 7zip, because it's free, for one, and it has drag-n-drop.

It's alright now. It was just being stupid for the time being :P I just had to reinstall TMI xD

maybe that's what I should do... export my saves and reinstall MC... if I decide to do that though how would I do it? just delete the .minecraft? or would I need to do something else too?

Just delete the bin folder. The next time you login to minecraft, it'll download a new one for you.

Just the Bin? not the whole .minecraft?

If you want you can just open up the launcher hit options, force update, and then just login and it should reset your minecraft.jar

yeah I tired that trick but there is still a bunch of junk in Minecraft.jar so I think it'd be best to just delete it and reinstall ... I'm just gonna for it. I did put my saves files in a safe place but even if I lose them there's nothing important that I can't rebuild.

Your saves should be unaffected by deleting the bin folder. The only way your saves would be unplayable by deleting your bin is if you had mod items still in your world. And yes, just the bin. Deleting your .minecraft will work, but it's more tedious than deleting your bin.

Well I tired deleting just the bin as you said but it was an epic fail the game would not load it didn't download a new bin or anything like that so I wiped the whole .minecraft and then forced an update that worked perfectly then I just drag and dropped my saves into the saves folder from my safe place and loaded up the game again an it works perfectly. in a little bit here I'm going to try and get TMI and SPC back because I really like having those on my building world because it's a pain to build stuff in a downpour with no supplies... and I would like to get planes mod but it seams extreamly complicated to install so I might just forget about that one for the time being.

Does anyone know a good server that I could possibly join? If so, PM me the IP please :D

P.S. How do I backup my worlds and bin folder? Sorry for the noob question :P

To backup your bin and worlds, just copy and paste them.

So I can just copy and paste them into another folder? Sounds easy enough.

Yes, although it wouldn't hurt to put another copy on a file sharing website or a flash drive.

I have a backup folder alongside my mods folder for every game for this kind of thing. Just a little tip for future modding.

The More You Know....

Just letting you guys know, but if you're looking for a good custom skin, check out SkinnyLegz on the Minecraft forums. His stuff is pretty incredible :D

after cleaning out the corrupted bin and reinstaling it I decided to try out a mod compililation... called Yogsbox. it is simply EPIC it has many many mods inside of it one of the more popular ones being Mo' creatures! I had tried to install Mo' creatures myself before but it was an epic fail.. Yogsbox is VERY easy to install ... simply download it from the yogiverse website extract the zip files and run the installer in the zip pack then run minecraft... easiest mod ever.... my next move on a fresh MC (backed up my version with Yogsbox and got a fresh one) is too get the Aether mod because it looks awesome and I want it lol

Just heard that notch was doing a live stream of minecraft 1.8 at PAX. It said that 1.8 will be adding creative mode, which will have flight, obtainable cobwebs, food eating animation, better lighting and a BUNCH more!!!
I can't wait!

Can someone tell me how to downlod adventure packs and such?

go to the minecraft forums and look it up find one you want and it will give you instructions on how to download them.

Kay, can anyone explain this?

While working on a mountain that I've been tunneling through, I ran out of glass. I wandered out to go get some sand (it had been days since I went out). While heading towards the nearby desert, I came across this:

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http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...utter/omg2.png

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I swear I had no hand in building this. I don't know how this got here. I hadn't built any freestanding structures at all in this world. The structure does look like the windows I had been building in the mountain, very similar in layout to them, at least. Might this be a bug? Or some kind of world-splicing glitch? Or something else? :P

Are you positive that you have never opened your server to other people? It may be very possible that somebody built that, because I doubt that would appear out of nowhere.

Glass is not a naturally occurring block, so I really am clueless as to how this happened without somebody doing this. Notice, however, that there is a cobblestone block on to off the glass - this would have to mean that somebody has been here before.

It could be possible that a glitch arose where part of the data from your structure ended up copied in another place (did you download any maps/packs while doing the mountain project of yours?) but that is unlikely because all of the maps are generated the first time you enter the game, and any changes from there are made by the player. So, it would either have to be faulty data, other players being on your server, or the occasional Herobrine.

:psmiley35:

I saw that on some sorta video once. Except, it was like a whole house underground and all. You know how there's chunk errors loading worlds sometimes, yes? Well, from what I've read about it, it's kinda like that, but it loads from somewhere else. That's all I know. Not completely sure if its true :P

It was on SP, so nobody else came on. This install is all vanilla, even the texture pack, and I have never really downloaded any maps, so I don't think it's spliced in the aforementioned manner.

It is strange, however, that it seems to be a near-duplicate of an overlook in the mountain. Some trees in the surrounding forest (which I planted) also seem to have been spliced (the leaves on one side of the tree are gone) and the hill in the background looks like it was cut in half, essentially.

I also noticed that my achieves were reset for some reason when I logged on, and I had a spot of extreme lag for a few seconds when logging into this world; which is odd, because I rarely lag in SP.

Is this your first map? Sometimes if you delete a map and you've built stuff on it, if you generate another map with the same seed, chunks from the deleted map will be placed on it.

That's weird man maybe its herobrine!!! You better watch your back because Herobrine is out there...

Or maybe the Endermen came early!! Witchdoctor if you see any signs that say Herobrine was here, then please contact the Herobrine Search Squad at 1-800-Herobrine :P

On one of the networking sites Jeb mentioned that he's shooting for September 8th to be the 1.8 update. Unfortunately, there won't be NPCs according to Notch and him because they're still a work in progress, although they plan on releasing NPC villages with the update.

I won't give my hopes up but next weekend will probably be great for those of us that don't have any plans.

Im sure hoping its the 8th, but I'm kind of mad at Notch because he said that the previous worlds wont be compatible because he is adding a new biome and everything :(, so looks like I'll have to delete my world, but I think I'll wait and see...

Wo, wait just a minute. Who told you this or did you see Notch post it himself?

According to Notch and Jeb, the old worlds will be just fine, although the transition going from the 1.7.3 world to the 1.8 world may look very ugly. You can imagine what it may look like for a mountain to just stop halfway and turn into grassland.

But yeah, I've seen Notch and Jeb repeatedly tell people that their old world will be fine, although it will be a rough transition when loading new chunks.

You can play on old worlds, but you will have to travel away from your spawn point for the new things to generate.

Oh ok... good thing I didn't delete my worlds.

That's actually going to be my biggest problem come 1.8. I traveled fairly far outside of the spawn the first week I started playing and now the original spawn area is covered in buildings, farms, and traps for mobs. I like to keep everything connected so the first thing I'll have to do is pick and choose which direction I'm going in. I guess I'll use creative mod first to work on a path that goes fairly far out.

Or...

I could make a few nether portals to get the job done faster.

Anyways, only two more days before this is supposed to happen!

Just read on the forums that Jeb posted that 1.8 probably won't be released on the 8th because of this reason: "to allow time for more thorough testing and quality assurance"

Yeah, Notch actually posted something earlier today about him working on more minecraft next week for something "secret" in the future.

I just hope that the update comes before October. It's just been a long wait. When they show you content in July, you don't expect to wait three months for the update.

It'll probably come out next week. A weekend is probably all he needs to make sure there are no major bugs before they release it.

Jeb said the next best guess was this coming monday, so the 12th. It's not that I'm upset because I understand that Jeb was the only one for a while working on minecraft.

At least we know it's coming and that the update is going to be huge.

I love 1.8 so far. I made a new world and started testing everything out, and so far I've found a ton of iron and a little diamond. I found an abandoned mineshaft, and got a lot of free minecart tracks :D.

Will update with pics soon.

I'm going to wait until the actual release because I don't want to play a buggy game.

I agree in a sense. I REALLY can't wait for 1.8, but I want to just because I don't want to play a buggy game, and the excitement is really building up :)

The Yogscast did a nice cover of 1.8. Got me pretty excited. :D

All i can say about 1.8 is that it is AMAZING! I already found some diamonds and a bunch of iron and I even found a NPC village which I will probably surround with a castle to stay away from those creepy... endermans. TMI is already updated too so I basically can experiment with all of the new items :)

I'm just blown away by the new lighting effects. It's weird to say that it makes the game beautiful, but it actually does.

Yes.The new lighting effects are brilliant.Massive kudos to notch and jeb.

Well 1.8 is out! So far my single player world is going pretty good, got about 62 steak legit so I'm good on food for a while xD

So do cows still drop leather? I killed one and it just dropped raw beef....

Also, the new lighting is really helpful, I went deep into caverns and didn't even need torches. 1.8 is awesome so far, now I just need to find an NPC Village!

Yes, cows still drop leather. I killed a TON today xD

And I also found an abandoned mine that lead to a ravine. Only got two diamonds though :P

Back during the pre-release there was a bug where if you put something in a crafting table, then dropped it, you would get an infinite stack. So I have about five hundred diamond pickaxes :) Probably won't need diamonds for a while

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Found a Spider Spawner in a Mineshaft. Since I love the creatures, I'll let them and their dungeon live. For now.

I may get it, but I've been playing on some 1.8 servers so... yeah you get the point.

I got it, and so far no bugs for me :D. Though I may just be very lucky....

1.8 is bugged for me,after I play for a while the game goes into hysteria and screen goes white.

Ok Notch really messed up with these exp orb things. So I died on a server with full exp orbs and even more and when i respawned I was getting about 1 FPS a minute because of the crazy amount of orbs in that one area. He needs to do something fast!

I just completed two big projects.

First one is my massive piston theater that is 25 units high and 156 units long on the track. If you saw the digital diamond piston theater at 1.7's release, you understand how this works (for the most part anyway, I had to come up with a somewhat complicated system of bringing back blocks to rid of the audience viewing any pistons). Here it is from the audience's view, and then two views of the wiring behind it:



And then I just completed a huge desert fortress city in a Primordial Desert map. This picture is a little outdated, since the blank spot to the left is now filled with a farm, but am waiting on OptiFine to be updated before getting new pictures and posting a thread on the forums (it really only looks good with dokucraft, or a variation of). It features a minecart station with 22 platforms with piston minecart reset, a library, fallout shelter, residential buildings, shopping district, etc. It is 175 x 175 units.

Oh my.... afgjaiegjlafk. When you post it on the forums, could you post a download link to it? xD The whole thing is just AWESOME. It made me poo my pants.

Sure (I usually do anyway, especially since there are a lot of small details).

I'm trying to think of stuff I could build on a server I play on. Anyone got any ideas?

A giant 3d statue of the admin?

Hollow out a mountain?

A block museum?

A community forge/crafting hall?

A city filled with mob spawners and loot chests?

A mushroom apartment complex?

Lots o' pixel art?

An underwater complex?

Modcave?

Giant computer playing Minecraft?
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There ya go. Like any?

That.... is so AWESOME xD They need to retexture the villagers to be that.

Sweet pics everyone, I haven't played Minecraft since 1.7. Waiting for all the updates to come till 1.9, then I'll be back for good.

You could just grab the 1.9 prerelease and be back for good now. :P

I don't even know whats the current version, 1.8 is a bit buggy. I'm waiting for full releases :P.

1.8.1 is the current version but 1.9 pre-release 3 is out right now. the full update should be out fairly soon.. they are working hard on it.

The 1.9 prerelease isn't too buggy on single player. From what I've seen, everything is spawning correctly and there aren't too many visual errors (stone brick stairs cast a weird shadow on stone brick blocks), nor have I crashed any, so I would recommend you download it. It's quite fun.

NOT FAIR! I BUILT A AWESOME HOUSE IN MINE CRAFT BUT IT WAS ON FREE MODE. why me? :P

So if i have an account, i can play Minecraft Classic and my worlds will be saved?

If you have an account you can save your map as a file, but you have to purchase Minecraft to actually be able to save it the fast way, at least that's what I think...

Yeah, I'm a newbie to Minecraft...started playing today. Hey, does anyone have a multiplayer server they have that they would be willing to let me into? I need help with the basics and I can sure use some backup in trouble. By the way, PM it if you want it to be private information. Put Server Name and Server Address, and label it because I get confused easily...sorry. :P My beta version is 1.8.1 if I said it correctly.

I'm thinking of getting it, it sounds good.

So 1.0 has been out for a while, what do you guys think of it. I really like the enchanting, I think it added a lot of sweet things to the game. What about you guys? Do you like it?

I would have liked minecraft to take a more technical route (like more attention to redstone and opeations), rather than fantasy one, but it's fine to me either way.

I now have version 1.0.0. Yay.

I heard 1.1.0 is supposed to focus on making sheep better and will translate the game to many other languages. Also it will have a lot of bug fixes.

Yeah I don't think 1.1.0 is going to change a whole lot besides the language settings, which I personally think is a good idea, but besides that not much is being added, in my opinion.

I agree. I don't think it will add much. I think what I want to change now is modding. I understand its not supposed to be easy, but Jeb said it would be his focus when he's taken over. I think that would make life so much easier. And I would like server stuff for Mac easier. Everything is getting hard for Mac these days. Needs to change...

Actually in my experience, making a server on Mac is much easier than making one on Windows. Mostly because of the port forwarding.

I agree that modding should definitely be addressed because currently it is a real hassle. Also I think he should work on the default server, to add more things and make it plugin compatible, instead of bukkit.

Well, relatively yes it is. But it was frustrating the first time around. Mine still kinda messed up due to the port forwarding. It was easy a bit, but still sort of frustrating. There should just be able to just find out IP and give it to someone. That simple. That probably won't happen, but its a hope. Hey, its Christmas. Everyone has hopes :xlaugh:

Anyways, still, they need to work on mods. Because has anyone noticed it isn't possible just to drag and drop a mod? We have to change things. I tried to install a mod yesterday, and with the one mod, I had to get 5 others. It gets a bit hectic. Like really hectic with Too Many Items and Single Player Commands.

I borrowed my friend's account, because he said he didn't want it anymore but he wants it back now after I played a while. My father is letting me get my own account soon, though.