By Quintin Smith on September 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm.
Like the sound of MineCraft? Still too stingy to part with €10? Waiting on a paycheck?
As of an hour ago MineCraft’s account verification servers collapsed under the weight of a sea of new customers. You can’t currently buy the game or log in to MineCraft’s account verification servers. Proving his status as an amazing human being, MineCraft developer Notch has since turned off said account verification, so for as long as it takes him to get some new servers up and running (a few days, by the sounds of things) anybody can download and play the latest version of MineCraft for no money.
Gentlemen? Go and enjoy yourselves.
EDIT: OK, so it looks like the MineCraft auto-update servers are currently being flattened by everybody in the world. It might take you several/many tries to successfully load the game client.
18/09/2010 at 23:12 Snuffy (the Evil) says:
I just wish the RPS server was up. I can’t connect to it. :(
18/09/2010 at 23:15 DMJ says:
Notch for President.
18/09/2010 at 23:18 Inverness says:
Highly recommend that RPS shut down its multiplayer server while this issue is being fixed. You can login as anyone else until it is fixed.
18/09/2010 at 23:22 Rich says:
Agreed. Lots of free-players may well mean we get some griefers.
19/09/2010 at 10:43 BAReFOOt says:
I never understood why some in the gaming development community call them “griefers”. Are they oblivious to the word “troll”?
No, they are not different. They are exactly the same, based on the exact same motivation, and have the exact same effect.
I wonder if you people also call “crackers” “hackers”…
19/09/2010 at 10:50 Harlander says:
English language in “more than one word available to refer to a single discrete concept” shocker!
19/09/2010 at 11:23 tomeoftom says:
Barefoot:
The most likely derivation of the word troll can be found in the phrase “trolling for newbies”, popularized in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU). Commonly, what is meant is a relatively gentle inside joke by veteran users, presenting questions or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond to them earnestly. [Wikipedia]
Trolling/trawling, as in the fishing method. You say something stupid in the hope of luring people into responding such that they expose their own idiocy.
Griefing, on the other hand, is simply causing someone grief – something potentially far more evil. In Minecraft, griefing usually takes the form of vandalism.
So, the words serve different purposes.
19/09/2010 at 14:10 dadioflex says:
“I never understood why some in the gaming development community call them “griefers”. Are they oblivious to the word “troll”?”
Trolling is a passive activity, in general, while griefing is far more active. i suspect you don’t understand what trolling is and have an uninformed opinion of griefing, which is virtually selfless bug-finding in most MMOs.
No offence, I realise English probably isn’t your mother tongue, and I hope my correction has been helpful.
20/09/2010 at 09:27 BAReFOOt says:
@tomeoftom: Yeah well, it’s not the 1980s anymore. The definition has changed. Because trolling has. And you can make up your own definition as much as you want… you don’t seem to get trolling at all. The sole purpose of trolling nowadays, is to cause disruption up to a point where normal usage is impossible. And it’s BAReFOOt, as in FOO and BAR, the dummy variables. Not barefoot.
@dadioflex: LOL. Trolling not active? Do you even know 4chan?? They don’t just send a message and wait. Trolling from 4chan in MineCraft would result in total destruction, flying penises and everyone being at war with everyone. While they, on 4chan laugh their asses off, because they got no life and that’s the only achievement they can manage.
Oh, and: No, English is not my native language. But “trolling” also isn’t defined by British or US people anymore. Look at trolls. They are from all over the world. And they define it, whether you like it or not.
Conclusion: You both can make up definitions as much as you want. You still don’t know what trolling is. I recommend reading up a bit on how 4chan for example actively shuts down whole online communities. (“Pool’s closed!”) It’s basically just anarchy they are doing. “…for the LULZ” as they say. Look that one up too. (Encyclopedia Dramatica is a good place to start. But: Avoid the page “offended” at all cost! You have been warned. :)
18/09/2010 at 23:19 Dominic White says:
Between Penny Arcade and RPS, you’ve gone and killed Minecraft so hard that it immediately bounced back from the dead as some kind of freakish junk-code phoenix to bring light and joy to the whole world. For free!
18/09/2010 at 23:22 SuperNashwan says:
I actually had just gone to the site to purchase it, and it being free for now has only cemented my desire to do so. Classy stuff.
18/09/2010 at 23:23 Butterbumps says:
Best time to do it. What with all the extra attention from Penny Arcade (and RPS, of course) more people are interested than ever. May as well give them a few free days to get them hooked.
If this hadn’t happened by accident, he should have done it on purpose.
18/09/2010 at 23:28 Butterbumps says:
Er, also, Quinns, that screenshot…. were you trying to set the spider on fire?
18/09/2010 at 23:57 somedude says:
I think that’s just the modified spider texture from the custom texture pack he’s using for that screenshot.
19/09/2010 at 00:08 Butterbumps says:
Oh yeah, I know about the textures, I was referring to the fact that he’s holding a flint and steel, rather than you know, a weapon. And you can’t set mobs on fire.
Or so I thought until just now, when I conducted some experiments in-game. It turns out you can set them on fire, just not by using the flint and steel on them directly. You have to set fire to a patch of ground, and then have them walk over it. I’ve just burned a few cows and pigs to death, I assume it works with hostile mobs too.
Man, I love this game, every time I think I have it figured out, I keep learning new stuff.
19/09/2010 at 01:24 somedude says:
Ah – I guess I missed that when I first looked at the screenshot (and that texture does make the spider look a bit like a burn victim, at least to me).
I can confirm that setting the ground on fire does work on hostile mobs as well, to occasionally horrifying effect – seeing a spider come charging at me, not caring in the slightest that it was on fire, was one of the more panicked moments I’ve had in the game so far.
I definitely have to agree with you about the game – I’ve already spent a fair bit of time in it, but I’m regularly learning new things, and given that it’s still in alpha, I can’t even imagine what you’ll be able to do by the time it’s fully released.
18/09/2010 at 23:29 mordac says:
coupled with the recent abuse of the PAX2010 code on D2D…its gonna be a fun weekend!
18/09/2010 at 23:35 Heliocentric says:
hell.. d2d stopped me buying games off them for the day.
18/09/2010 at 23:30 Supertonic says:
Notch has been wonderfully professional in the face of internet wankerism. I salute thee notch.
18/09/2010 at 23:34 Supertonic says:
Btw some people are being real arseholes.
18/09/2010 at 23:37 Butterbumps says:
Yeah, his blog comments are a regular hive of scum and villainy. It’s almost as bad as the WoW forums over there.
19/09/2010 at 00:20 David says:
The level of entitlement on the blog by ungrateful little s**t’s is simply astounding. I really hope Notch doesn’t take it to heart
19/09/2010 at 01:03 Mundus says:
Wow, you weren’t kidding. The comments make Youtube look civil by comparison. :/
18/09/2010 at 23:36 MadTinkerer says:
You bastards! Curse you all! I tried to resist as best I could! If Penny Arcade is to be believed, I will never have free time again! CURSE YOU ALL!
(Captcha: “WHYY” How appropriate.)
18/09/2010 at 23:37 Colant says:
Thanks
18/09/2010 at 23:42 Toby says:
I somehow feel like it’s thanks to RPS that the servers have died. Well done though, the game is super popular. I’ve had it since July or something. Wonderful game!
18/09/2010 at 23:43 Heliocentric says:
This will make him another $100,000
19/09/2010 at 02:16 omicron says:
Small change compared to his OVER $2,000,000!
18/09/2010 at 23:43 Navagon says:
Let’s hope that with his new found riches Notch will be able to afford a less computarded server. It’s just completely dead at the moment. Oh well.
18/09/2010 at 23:46 Butterbumps says:
According to his blog, he’s already ordered a better one. And is going to hire someone to write a better website. So that’ll be nice.
18/09/2010 at 23:51 Navagon says:
Good news. But in the meantime it makes me wonder if this free weekend will have a positive effect or not. It seems to me like it will only increase the number of people unable to play the game.
18/09/2010 at 23:54 Rich says:
At least this way everyone suffers a bit, instead of only those who’ve actually paid being left in the cold.
19/09/2010 at 00:03 Dominic White says:
The issue was with his authentication server. The free weekend bypasses that, so there should be no problems once you grab the new-version EXE from minecraft.net. I can start up the game fine.
His file servers aren’t at risk – apparently he has an Amazon cloud-server setup, so effectively has infinite bandwidth. Anyway, the game is only a couple of MB.
18/09/2010 at 23:47 Andy_Panthro says:
I have to say, I was sceptical about Minecraft.
But playing today on the RPS server was absolutely fantastic, and the single-player is solid too.
Anyone who hasn’t played this yet, should do so as soon as possible!
Also they should buy it as soon as they can. I mean, it’s a lot of entertainment for less than a tenner.
18/09/2010 at 23:49 LionsPhil says:
@Heliocentric: By the time PayPal and European taxes have been at it, he might even have enough left to buy a pint!
19/09/2010 at 00:09 Sigma Draconis says:
Ah, that explains the weirdness hours ago. This will definitely sell some more copies.
19/09/2010 at 00:12 Dominic White says:
Beautiful irony – selling too many copies caused things to explode in such a way that will likely sell many more copies.
19/09/2010 at 00:15 Kali says:
Please don’t play the free weekend, then buy the game and think you’re entitled to regular, bug-free updates.
This game is in ALPHA, that’s when features get added. Beta they squash the bugs. Release is when you get what you paid for.
You are buying early access to the game. If you think you deserve anything else, then fuck off. Seriously. Reading the comments on Notch’s blog makes me want to stab people in the face for being dicks. Don’t make me want to stab you.
19/09/2010 at 00:20 Rich says:
I think most people hear get that. Even if they don’t seem to get it on Notch’s blog.
19/09/2010 at 01:14 MWoody says:
Wait, aren’t comments off at his blog?
*looks closer*
Holy crap, it turns out if noScript stops “disqus.com,” it looks like there are just no comments, without an error.
And reading said comments… I may be doing you all a disservice mentioning this fix. Jeeesus.
19/09/2010 at 00:15 xaphoo says:
Is there a list of public servers somewhere, now that the main website is down? I’ve tried both the official RPS server (can’t connect), and the unofficial (often full), but know of no others.
19/09/2010 at 00:32 Dzamir says:
http://servers.minecraftforum.net/
btw you can join my awesome server with a custom mod I made with a currency system. Use “dzamir.is-a-geek.com” as IP :-)
19/09/2010 at 00:24 Tei says:
the problem is.. this can be abused by griefers to attack servers (i will not give details) and destroy some delicate game-eco-systems.
arguabily, the game is just alpha, so we have to expect it to burn in flames every weekend, but anyway, the game feel soo fun and complete, than we are not ready for things like this.
19/09/2010 at 00:28 Tei says:
video related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs
19/09/2010 at 01:02 Harlander says:
The events obliquely referred to by the esteemed Mr. Tei were some of the most terrifying and epic scenes I’ve seen in gaming, made all the more potent by the fact that they emerged out of the games’s simple rules.
19/09/2010 at 07:10 sexyresults says:
I couldn’t help but laugh as he tried and failed to stop the fire that was clearly out of control
19/09/2010 at 15:38 sfury says:
And that’s why I’ll make my house fro mossy cobblestone….
That video was fuckin EPIC, I couldn’t stop laughing and crying, poor guy! :]
19/09/2010 at 18:55 Lightbulb says:
He had about 2 or 3 seconds where he coulda stopped than but he went for a bucket of water…
Rookie move.
Beat out the flames with your axe like a real man!
19/09/2010 at 00:27 Dominic White says:
Here’s something that isn’t the free weekend that is also pretty great.
http://skylands.goonygoon.com/
Want something different for your Minecraft? Try Skylands. Rather than being a randomly generated, infinite world, it’s a hand-crafted, finite world of floating islands, dungeons and treasures. Be careful you don’t dig too deep – it’s a looooong way down.
19/09/2010 at 00:58 Casimir's Blake says:
Early proof that Adventure mode is going to be utterly amazing. Thanks for posting this!
19/09/2010 at 02:57 Tei says:
:-OOOO
19/09/2010 at 00:28 Witek says:
I hate you Quintin, simply hate you. Got the game after a series of your articles and have spent waaay too many hours on it over the past few days. Should be studying human rights and classical sociological theory. Thanks ;)
19/09/2010 at 00:34 Gulag says:
Notch, you magnificent mother-humper! I’ve been pimping this to my mates for the last few days, and now they can find out for themselves. Legend move. Keep up the good work. Never let the meetings break you.
19/09/2010 at 00:34 Xytal says:
I was so excited when I saw this (been waiting to buy it once my money shows up… stupid banks being closed on the weekend)…. but, I ran into a small problem.. I haven’t made an account yet….
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
19/09/2010 at 00:52 Dominic White says:
That shouldn’t be an issue. The authentication servers are bypassed entirely right now – no matter what you enter as your username/password, it’ll just wave you right on through.
19/09/2010 at 00:54 Xytal says:
Holy crap I didn’t even think about that. You sir, are a life saver and I shall give you an intarwebz high five.
/highfive
19/09/2010 at 00:47 Tacroy says:
God damn it Notch, I’d manged to avoid buying the game so far through sheer willpower. Now you go and do something like this? I’ll have no way to resist once the purchase servers come back online.
19/09/2010 at 00:56 YogSo says:
You know what they say, “the first taste is free…” :)
19/09/2010 at 01:13 Fillem says:
Tei’s house burning down was a youtube video of EPIC, Michael BAY proportions. Made all the more funny by his comments :).
Oh crap…uh oh….[laughs]…crap, this was not supposed to happen.
19/09/2010 at 02:59 Tei says:
Nuh…Nuh… I posted the link, but the dude was not me. But yea, something like that is souldestroying.
19/09/2010 at 01:22 MWoody says:
So what’s up with the official server, exactly? I was on it earlier – for enough time to build an underground home and start strip mining for mats – but got booted off during a crash. Since then, I can’t get back on at all, getting the error “Failed to connect to the server / Connection failed: connect”. Is this a sign that it’s full, that’s it’s crashed, or something else? Others’ comments seem to indicate it’s up.
19/09/2010 at 01:23 roBurky says:
In honour of Quinns and Rock Paper Shotgun:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roburky/5002882856/in/set-72157624860157707/
19/09/2010 at 01:35 DiamondDog says:
Alright I’ll add another voice to the cacophony.
Late to the party. Read Quinn’s articles. Now hopelessly, utterly addicted.
19/09/2010 at 01:42 Fwiffo says:
One hour of play from me and kerching! – Another sale for Mr. Notch.
19/09/2010 at 01:47 jeremypeel says:
This could not be better timed for me.
Quinns, does it not scare you that you personally (to some extent) can mould the world in this way? GREAT POWER GREAT RESPONSIBILITY YIKES
19/09/2010 at 01:52 PureUncut says:
According to the forums there are some naughty things people can do on servers since some services were taken down, It’s probably best the RPS server stays offline for a few days (or at least gets a backup) lest it gets hijacked.
This sucks because I’m craving more multiplayer right now.
19/09/2010 at 02:24 El_MUERkO says:
/\ IMPORTANT /\
19/09/2010 at 01:52 Pani says:
Thats crazy timing, I’ve been trying to buy this now for a couple of days but have been waiting for paypal to transfer some money from my bank account with an eta of the 22nd. Now I can play until the money goes through and I can properly buy it!
Yah!
19/09/2010 at 02:34 Dozer says:
Sodding Creeper blew me up when I was about to complete my spawn-to-house booster-driven railway line. Now I can’t find the forty track pieces I’d painstakingly amassed to finish the job. I suppose that means I Have Arrived as a Minecraft player!
19/09/2010 at 02:52 Shodan says:
Oh for fucks sake. I bought this LAST NIGHT. Ah well. he deserves the money because I haven’t been able to stop playing since. This is amazing.
19/09/2010 at 02:56 Mattressi says:
It’s all Quinns’ fault! You and your series on Minecraft forced me to buy Minecraft so I could enjoy its awesomeness too. And now look what you’ve done! I hope you’re happy!
19/09/2010 at 03:28 rmlrmb says:
A little help please i cant seem to get it ! . :(
can anyone help me ??
19/09/2010 at 03:48 Tycho says:
This is great – all it needs are NPC humans (hostile or not or both).
And, someone PLEASE make an Ultima Underworld total conversion (because I don’t have the time, skill, or dedication)!
19/09/2010 at 03:56 sebmojo says:
The Fire
The polypoids were burning in the wood
A stone caught fire
The castle caught fire
The forest caught fire
The men caught fire
The women caught fire
The birds caught fire
The fish caught fire
The water caught fire
The sky caught fire
The ashes caught fire
The smoke caught fire
The fire caught fire
Everything caught fire
19/09/2010 at 04:27 Midnight says:
The sound isn’t working for me at all (OSX) so I’ve been playing with movie soundtracks playing in the background.
I strayed too far, got lost, and the Sun started setting. I spotted a beacon tower I had built over my house, but it was miles away. Clambering over rough mountainous terrain as the Sun finally said goodbye, I began to panic, and then this song came on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtbOXargBRY
Jesus Christ.
19/09/2010 at 04:41 Matthew Miles-Watson says:
Honestly, i don’t get it :/ All i seem to be bale to do is run around and pick up sticks and flowers. Whilst this is nice, I can pretty mcuh do it IRL :p
After looking at some videos on Youtube, I tried punching stuff to break it, but it remained unbroken :/
Can anyone help?
Cheers,
Matthew
19/09/2010 at 06:18 Matzerath says:
Protip, and my first derp moment playing Minecraft:
Hold the hit button down for continuous hitting.
19/09/2010 at 04:42 Falcon says:
Yeah, just had something similar happen. Had dug to the center of the earth and back up. Collected a stack and a half of red dust, half a stack of gold, stack of iron, etc. Coffers were full, tunneled up, hit the air ready to go to Sky Castle(tm) and BAM I come up under a creeper. Sadness, all loot lost. Note to self, build chest and LEAVE LOOT THERe before surfacing
19/09/2010 at 05:11 sacred_flame101 says:
@Matthew Miles-Watson
in order to dig you need to hold down the left mouse button
19/09/2010 at 05:51 FernandoDante says:
Ehhhh no audio in this game =(
19/09/2010 at 06:22 Matzerath says:
With this game’s great success combined with the general populace’s lack of understanding that it’s still in Alpha, I fear the day that Notch must do a save-breaking update.
19/09/2010 at 06:25 Vinraith says:
Yeah, people will go completely apeshit.
Still, I’m kind of looking forward to that. Being forced to start over has a certain appeal in a game like this…
19/09/2010 at 19:07 Tei says:
yea, I think most stable servers will stablise a cycle where a new map replace the old one, and the old one put on a special download folder.
lets see. in a way Minecraft is the MUD community, the origin of the MMORPG genre, so maybe Minecraft has reinvented the MUD and the MMORPG from his core: small communities living “editable” worlds. user made areas was the endgame in some muds, and now is the game in minecraft. I wonder what we will see in the future, and how the “adventure” mode will shape. Guys, this is BIG.
19/09/2010 at 06:38 Lipwig says:
good points, well argued
19/09/2010 at 07:26 tomeoftom says:
I think by this stage Minecraft has become the most universally loved game ever. The percentage of people who have tried it that completely fall for it is almost bizarrely anomalous. I swear, if there was ever a game analogous to Citizen Kane insofar as demonstrating the artistic potential of a medium, this is it. Thousands of people constantly having their breath stolen from them by the works of other players – Minecraft has basically perfected art-through-interaction.
19/09/2010 at 07:42 Dominic White says:
I think it’s less ‘Citizen Kane’ (which isn’t a universally loved film), and more ‘Lego’. Notch has inadvertently stumbled upon the magic formula for designing a toy for all ages. It tickles that primal ‘put stuff together to make better stuff’ instinct that all us curious little monkeys seem to be born with.
19/09/2010 at 07:58 tomeoftom says:
“insofar as demonstrating the artistic potential of a medium”
As in, games are basically a system that contains both a set of rules and a means of using those rules. What makes games unique is interaction – it’s all they’ve got going for them. All games – as games, not necessarily spaces or stories, (and that’s not to degrade the power videogames have at communicating those things) – are nothing without a player, but Minecraft makes that fact more obvious and beautiful than basically anything else out there. And it’s multiplayer, too! (Lego multiplayer is shit until we all become capable of telekinesis.)
19/09/2010 at 07:41 Gamerdude says:
Do we still get more tales from the life of Iron Quinn?
Enjoying them immensely so far and bought minecraft on the back of them, which I’m obviously enjoying :D
19/09/2010 at 07:52 Danny says:
RPS server down, by any chance?
19/09/2010 at 08:08 Danny says:
Or was this – as discussed in this thread – a precaution because of the play-for-free days? ;)
19/09/2010 at 08:53 nakul says:
do you still gets more tales from the life of iron Quinn?
19/09/2010 at 08:55 baseball cap says:
Ehhhh no audio in this game =(
19/09/2010 at 09:04 Bob says:
From the minecraft site:
The following things do not work at the moment:
* Registering an account
* Purchasing the game
* User verification for online servers
* Sounds and music for new players
When all this stuff with the server is over sounds will work again
19/09/2010 at 19:13 Lightbulb says:
Fear not RPS readers Lightbulb has fixed audio. Go to the forum to find out how:
http://rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum/topic.php?id=3376&page=7
19/09/2010 at 09:25 duncanthrax says:
I have opened a server at 89.31.1.165. Central Europe hosted location.
19/09/2010 at 09:31 Cheese says:
Bah, I bought this a couple days ago. Now my special feeling of being premium is gone :P
19/09/2010 at 09:32 Wulf says:
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but… if you’ve downloaded Minecraft recently, you won’t have sound. This is because of the dead server, where Resources is normally pulled from, which your Minecraft installation will be lacking if you have no sound.
Here’s the fix:
http://www.mediafire.com/?udhujcl72xy6cbx
Download and open that in your favourite decompression program.
Extract it to: %AppData%\.minecraft\Resources
If your decompression program says that’s invalid, extract it to: C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\Resources
Replace YOURNAME with your Win 7 account name.
Tadaa, you now have sound!
Information sourced from: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=38111
19/09/2010 at 10:38 Alex Bakke says:
Wulf, I’m pretty sure it’s fixed now. I just downloaded the .exe, and I have sound.
19/09/2010 at 16:44 Wulf says:
Huh, really? I started out with a fresh .minecraft directory only an hour before I posted that and I had no sound. I guess it was fixed within that space of time. Either that, or you had a previous .minecraft directory? The thing is, if you already had a Resources dir then you’d have sound, from a previous version of Minecraft, that is. You only see this problem if you’re starting out with a new .minecraft directory in %AppData%.
19/09/2010 at 16:47 Wulf says:
http://www.minecraft.net/Resources – is still giving a 404, the main minecraft.net page is still temporary. Bakke, are you 100% sure that you’ve never played Minecraft before today (so you wouldn’t have had a .minecraft directory already)?
19/09/2010 at 16:59 Wulf says:
I just tested with a new .minecraft directory.
For all you doubtful people, Bakke is incorrect, the resources are still not downloading. As of right now, when I start Minecraft and it creates a new .minecraft directory, it leaves the Resources directory empty, this is because the Resources directory that it usually pulls from on the Minecraft server is empty (404). Again, I just verified this just moments ago.
If you’re having sound problems… well, now you can’t say that there wasn’t any help, I tried.
19/09/2010 at 10:54 Tickle says:
So, how successful do you guys think will LEGO (c) (TM) (BIGLEGOBLOCKOFDETH) allow him to get before suing him to shreds for some perverted misinterpretation of IP infringement?
19/09/2010 at 12:21 Tom o'bedlam says:
I had a thought along these lines, but not about lawsuits, more “huh, so co-op building multiplayer works (in a controlled environment that can deal with griefers), why will anyone want to buy Lego universe?”
19/09/2010 at 12:56 Bob says:
The patent (sp) has run out on lego, that’s why you get them crappy mega blocks now, which fit lego but not made by them.
wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Brands#Lego_lawsuits
So I doubt they could do anything tbh
19/09/2010 at 14:16 Mark O'Brien says:
I installed it for the first time just now and had no sound until I followed Wulf’s instructions.
Now, a problem I’m having: I took some damage, so I killed a pig and took some pork (at least I think it’s pork).
Now, I can’t figure out how to eat it. I selected it so it’s in my hand as one forum seemed to suggest, but right clicking does nothing. Am I missing something or is it bugged?
19/09/2010 at 14:22 Mark O'Brien says:
Awesome game.
I think I had hide or leather or something, not pork.
That explains it.
19/09/2010 at 14:52 Spooner says:
It is pork, but you need to cook it before you can eat it! You don’t want to get sick, do you? Ack, pixelated, blocky sick…*waits for a food poisoning mod*
You’ll need to build a stone forge to do some cooking (which doubles as an oven). Hmm, or it could be an oven that doubles as a forge. Up to you!
19/09/2010 at 18:29 Mark O'Brien says:
Nope, it was leather, hence inedible! I did make a nice tunic for myself though.
You can indeed eat raw pork. Cooked pork gives you more health back, though, I think.
19/09/2010 at 20:56 Lightbulb says:
It does indeed give you more health back. :)
19/09/2010 at 20:50 Okami says:
Awesome game. But what really worries me is, that I can’t seem to change my spawnpoint. According to some quick websearch ENTER places a new spawnpoint and R takes you there. The problem is, this doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve played a few hours, building a nice little cave and mine, crafting stuff and generally having a good time, but when a zombie killed me, I got teleported back to the starting point and had no idea of how to go to my cave. This seriously killed all the fun for me…
19/09/2010 at 21:22 Lightbulb says:
Never heard of that before. If you want to edit your spawn pointyou must use this link
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19493
The forum is down right now but when its back up follow that link. :)
19/09/2010 at 22:29 Lightbulb says:
Also best to make a line of lights to your base so you can find it again.
19/09/2010 at 22:07 Laneford says:
I download the exe, double click, the thing updates, I click ‘login’ (with no details as I have no account) and then… nothing.
Blackness. Darkness.
I feel uninvited to the party all the cool kids are going to.
19/09/2010 at 22:25 Lightbulb says:
Make up a user name and password…. You MUST have a user name.
19/09/2010 at 23:23 Davie says:
I visited the ModDB page before the free weekend was properly announced, saw the client download, and thought it had gone freeware. I guess that would be too awesome to be true.
20/09/2010 at 08:34 Lightbulb says:
No it wouldn’t what would be awesome is if Notch gets the money he deserves and makes the second game he wants to make.
This is one dev who’s second game I will give chance even though I have no idea what its about! :)
20/09/2010 at 02:26 segueable says:
hm. I can get into this game in Linux, but can’t move around at all. the keyboard stops working after I’ve “logged in”. It’s a pretty little single player world, though. I wasn’t expecting there to be snow.
20/09/2010 at 08:40 Tei says:
have you installed the propietary drivers or these stuff?
also, wen the forums are online, check for the linux thread about compatibility.
20/09/2010 at 05:24 Tacroy says:
Hehe I like how the Minecraft Wiki and the Minecraft Forums are also down – they were working earlier today, but I think the number of people playing the free weekend and looking for information has crushed them.
20/09/2010 at 05:28 psyk says:
What a game even better online, will be buying this when everything is sorted. Oh and thanks to the person who gave out the un-un-official server addy and thanks to the un-un-official server admin
ADMIN READ THE NOTICEBOARD IM SORRY AND YOU GUYS RULE
20/09/2010 at 22:00 AcidFlux says:
BAReFOOt, just because you don’t see the different meaning in the words doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. ‘Griefers’ is a term that is more specific than ‘troll’. Therefore, it has a particular, appropriate usage.
Just like a ‘hacker’ is similar, but different, from a ‘cracker’. Each word has it’s place.
Your inability to understand the nuanced difference doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
22/09/2010 at 20:06 minecraftaddict says:
notch is a god. i mean, he goes through the shit with the server, he has update troubles, everhyone is like NOTCH MAKE A NEW UPDAET !!!1!!!!! and he is still nice enough to give us a free weekend. hes awesome.
23/09/2010 at 03:51 fuck says:
This is bull shit. I couldn’t register an account when it was free because the site was down. Fuck this gay game.
26/09/2010 at 19:07 Monkey says:
cloudcry is always playing with entertaining you know, stuff on the cool game ROBLOX
It’s a nice replacement.
14/12/2012 at 19:35 makkko says:
Minecraft is a such an awesome game.