Notch has just updated the file storage format, I gave it a quick go last night for the first time in months and it seems to perform a lot better now. The old format was pretty inefficient, being made up of thousands of tiny files.
I was intrigued and purchased the game a few months ago after seeing one of SeaNanner's videos on YT. If anyone is wondering what Minecraft is, his videos are a good start.
I hardly play it at all now. At the time though, US$10 for a lifetime license was too good an offer to pass up!
my Son plays it and hosts a server for all his mates to join in they can spend hours on it, just word of mouth and he sold nearly a million copies at $10 , who needs big companies.
b0untypure1: i have heard so much about this game, but never tried it. ill look up some youtube vids tonight :)
You should definitely watch the SeaNanners videos that Kraven linked to above. I'm watching them now. They are friggen' hilarious, but also very informative.
b0untypure1: i have heard so much about this game, but never tried it. ill look up some youtube vids tonight :)
You should definitely watch the SeaNanners videos that Kraven linked to above. I'm watching them now. They are friggen' hilarious, but also very informative.
wow after those videos im actually considering buying this game :D
I hate that noise specially when you are on the surface during the day.
I have found it runs way better on my iMac then it does in bootcamp. But it would be nice if it went away from being java I always have issues with java apps
merve0o0: But it would be nice if it went away from being java I always have issues with java apps
+1 to that.
1.3_01 is giving me nothing but issues. Anywhere between 1 minute to 10 minutes, and the javaw.exe process is up around the 900MB~ mark, and it seems that when it hits that magic 900MB mark it just crashes. Having to get into the habit of saving very frequently now.
oh wow, such a fantastic litle game. I have wasted far to many hours digging up my empire. I am still on the original map I first spawned when I started -walked away from the spawn point and explored a huge area before finding a lovely lake side cave to make my home. Then when I died i had trouble find ing my way back to the lake house for ages, until the update with the compass -then discovered I was always walking 90 degrees the wrong way ha.
now I have a straight line tunnel running all the way from the spawn point to my house. Took me a long time to dig but got alot of ore from it. Am thinking of laying a railway through the entire length, but that would require a massive amount of iron and I have always found the whole 'light the fire then jump into the cart' thing hard to do.
Very successful game, however the creater did run into a bit of a problem selling over a million copies and using paypal for the transfer.
"The creator of MineCraft has run into a bit of a snag with PayPal, which has frozen his account with over $763,000 in it and refuses to let him touch it."
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