I'm not going to state that I know exactly what I'm doing, but it works quite well for me. I tend to spend the first day getting enough wood for the first night and murder everything in my area. Make my home at night in the side of a hill to start collecting stone and cooking food. The next few days...

From games of yesteryear, Thief and Thief II are probably some of my favorites. So naturally seeing a new installment in the series excited me. But that was quickly tempered by remembering the most game studios seem to have neglected to capture the core elements of older games in new releases. And t...

Story in games serves to fill in the blanks where it is impossible to accommodate a sufficient degree of player interaction, and/or to provide initial context for the player's in game actions. Perfect. So if I understand you correctly... Story (in it's traditional sense) should be used to to supple...

Maybe narrative is too close to story, and is a poor word choice on my part. I'm not sure what a better word would be though. What I mean is that the game medium has a unique advantage over traditional movies in that it's interactive. You don't show the player something, they can do something. What ...

I would make the argument that you should strive to build narrative using gameplay. Gameplay mechanics do a better job of building game aesthetic and narrative than any amount of cut scenes, rendered segments or pages of well written dialog can. Those are useful tools to be sure, but in the end the ...

odranoel wrote:

odemarken wrote: And the higgs theory gets extra points for being batshit insane

Ahh, good to know i havnt lost my touch :D

Congrats on coupling "batshit insane" with actual modern physics.
Well, at least I enjoyed it. :P

Everytime I have thought about using the stakes the distance has been short enough to block count. I keep trying to use them for nether portal linkups but the terrain is too rough and in the process of flattening I get my count. Were the stakes available from the outset of MC they would get frequen...

That seems like a really poor justification not putting probes first. Torque and power management? I have a hard time seeing how either of those even play a major role in a sub-orbital launches... But that brings up another point, I usually play with IonCross crew support so manned missions are cons...

I have to pop in a say a few things. :P I have been programming for a very long time now. I do everything I can to be as proficient and professional in my craft as possible. I think that like a lot a programmers, I learned my chosen profession in a desire to "make" video games. Being at th...

It's these wonderful little things I will miss most when BTW is wrapped up. :(

Thanks for (yet another) update FC!

I get my first iron pick and use that to spelunk my way down to get me diamonds. After I get a diamond pick made most of my iron from that point forward goes into a two saws. One for me and one for the mob trap. I start out with 2-3 levels that are maybe 16x16 and that will start to get you the occa...

Last I remembered, pigmen spawned on EVERYTHING. (except slabs)
Did FC make a change to this? Everyone keeps talking about paving the floor for spawning reasons.

Yeppers, and to add on to what kat said you can make suicide bombers. Quite simple. First find a group of zomberts of the pigman type around the victims portal. step two prepare a staircase to nowhere. Step three smack one of them buggers and run up the staircase, removing the first block so you ar...

They were so close with jungles too... Silly Mojang, don't you know big trees are supposed to be at least 3x3 wide so I can tunnel up the middle to hide the entrance to my tree-top jungle canopy base. I swear... Oh but good news, Dinnerbone made portals able to be any size. so, someone whant a porta...

FlowerChild wrote:

DaveYanakov wrote:I was assuming by settle we were discussing later stages of development when you could bring saplings along. Lack of trees is one of the easier issues to overcome.

Well...until next release ;)

Why... Why must you do this to us...

Mine is usually nether fortresses. The number of times that I go hunting for blaze rods and then have blazes spawn in the previously "secured" passages back to base is really annoying. I've made it past that point once or twice with out death, but I've never made it to Beacons. Prior to ge...

Yeah, I don't really have much love for them either. Unfortunately I have to hunt them down for potions... so...
I'll eventually make a trap or something.

FaceFoiled wrote:And updated to v4.8911

Poor Face... updates the server and FC releases a new update 4 1/2 hours later... :)

-Changed a small thing about mob behavior in jungles. Nothing to worry about. It's all good. Honest. Great. I'm waiting for something like creepers spawning in leaf blocks or something... wonderful. I love jungle biomes, but have always had a hard time getting food. (Apparently opposite to every el...

Guess I'm just odd but anything by PopCap is pretty much with in the grasp of six year old. Peggle, Plants vs Zombies....

I'm just waiting for RemoteTech 2.0 to release, I've been kinda messing around until it does. I absolutely love how the mod give purpose to geostationary satellites. And gives the game a manner of progression. As it currently stands I can just build a rocket, put it in orbit and hurl it out to Eeloo...

Oooo....

This is the best kinda of thread necro.
I love seen peoples work, thanks for the pictures!

Yeah those gold changes actually sent my packing down into my ravine to get some, die, then go get some again. So all in all it looks pretty nice at the moment. :) Can't wait to see how you finish everything else up. Yeah Lapis, first vein is exciting, after that you tend to have enough from random ...

... When my base can support me, I plan on building a university, where I can do research and store this information. There are many easy ngame solutions to support you! It's this sort of in-game gameplay mechanics that I wish more games did. And to a good extent what I love about Better than Wolve...

Kezza wrote:Updated to BTW 4.89

Have Fun!

Today I love you second most, right behind FC.