Minecraft

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I'm on ts3d (survival rpg economy) every now and then but rather frequent on any one of the mcsg servers (hunger games inspired pvp), they got awesome and challenging maps

[Haljackey 17,310]

I'm not a Minecraft player but I love LAGTV. They have a Minecraft Channel you guys may enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/user/lifesaglitchtv2

  Edited August 25, 2012 by Haljackey  

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you should also check out this channel here, kinda awesome minecraft animations... and funny every now and then

http://www.youtube.com/user/animationcraftpg5

[hotChocolate 95]

There has to be a Minecraft thread on all forums...

Um, well, I play Minecraft. It has some strange bug right now that prevents the game from saving every now and then, making the building of the medieval city I'm trying to make (Unoriginal, I know ) very hard. I'll just wait for 1.4, it looks quite promising so far - witches and bats, skulls, wither boss et al, beacons, carrots, potatoes...

[Durfsurn 539]

The snapshots look really promising for 1.4. When did you guys get the game? i got it in Infdev

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I was sharing it quite a while with a buddy's acc, erryone had his own worlds and stuff, but I got my own copy to mess with multiplayer when 1.3 was released

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I first bought the game during Beta 1.6. I wanted to play the Aether Mod but IndustrialCraft was incompatible because MCForge and ShockAPI are incompatible with each other.

Lately, I have been trying to make custom Norman villages for Millénaire. So far, I was able to rename and change attributes for the core replacement mod for Millenaire to make a custom Gros Bourg.

--Ocram

  Edited September 23, 2012 by OcramSeattle  

[pagenotfound 53]

does anyone have any advice for my games EXTREME LAG? It starts off at 50 fps for a few minutes before plummeting to like 4, especially when im moving around.

[The Avatar 1,089]

Optifine helps lag and FPS issues somewhat for me. Otherwise I'd suggest decreasing your graphics or render distance settings. Allocating more RAM for Minecraft might help, since Minecraft is more RAM dependent and less dependent on graphics, if I'm correct.

I have the same problem. The game is laggy and it has low FPS rates on my laptop.

  Edited September 27, 2012 by MamaLuigi945  

[jdenm8 362]

Minecraft won't use any more than about 512MB of RAM, no matter how much you give it. It's also very dependent on the Graphics card. With Occlusion Culling turned off and the draw distance on high, you can be rendering more polygons than your average scene in any modern AAA game.

That is, unless you're running the server, in which case it'll sleaze itself over all of your RAM.

As for overall bad performance, turn the settings down, enable Occlusion Culling if your graphics card supports it (And is fast enough to derive any benefit at all from having it on, Display Adapters like the newer Intel HDs and modern cards with no dedicated memory should benefit), installing Optifine and making sure you have the 64-Bit version of Java installed are the best ways to go.

  Edited September 27, 2012 by jdenm8  

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does anyone have any advice for my games EXTREME LAG? It starts off at 50 fps for a few minutes before plummeting to like 4, especially when im moving around.

you should definitely try optifine, this really helps both to tune it up and down.

also, may I ask what your system specs are? because even with increased rendering settings, especially distance, the worst fps I get is at about 10, give or take a few.

And I can put my finger down on the CPU being the bottleneck here (non oc q8300 isn't exactly great) as I sport more than enough ram (8gb) and a very decent graphics card (2gb 560ti)

[pagenotfound 53]

lol gmt my specs are very similar, anyway im gonna clean up my computer see if that helps; I haven't dusted in months....also i suspect one of my mods is one of the primary sources of lag...and i got optifine too.

  Edited September 27, 2012 by pagenotfound  

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dusting is always a great way to keep the system in shape, you won't believe how much dust collects in these boxes.

earlier this year I completely disassembled and dusted my pc for the first time in over a year and good lord I wonder how that thing was able to cool itself at all... the heat exchanger of my water cooler was pretty clogged, same for other parts supposed to be in freeflow air. applied some meshes here and there aswell to at least give some shielding against larger stuff like hairs (my cat has hazardous hair).

and of course keep track of your mods, the wrong mod in the wrong place and a smooth game turns into a slideshow. happened to me very often with other games (mostly bethesda's wellknown titles).

always gotta be picky when it comes to graphical mods, many give you only a slight difference in gameplay experience but really bring your hardware to it's knees. things like 50% fps drop for betterlooking clouds or other stuff you barely appreciate in regular gameplay are something to think about a second and third time...

[Ocram's Razr 964]

The Millénaire mod certainly lags Minecraft a lot.

[The Avatar 1,089]

I'm having some Minecraft troubles myself. On the family desktop, Minecraft runs smoothly, even on the highest graphical settings, but after five minutes or so, it causes the computer to crash. It doesn't turn off, but the screen goes black and the only way to fix it is to turn it off. It didn't used to do this; it just started happening recently. I don't know if it is due to one of the recent patches. I think it started doing this around when I updated to 1.3.2, but I could be wrong. Minecraft always worked fine back in 1.8 through 1.0, which is when I used the desktop computer. My dad dusted everything inside the computer and moved it to an area where it could circulate air better, but the computer still crashes after five minutes of running Minecraft. I've tried deleting all traces of Minecraft and re-downloading it, but that did nothing, I tried changing to a 64 bit Java installation, but I still get the "64 bit Java is recommended for far render distance" message. Any ideas of what might be causing the problem and how I can fix it? Thanks.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

You must have made a mistake with Java. There was a vulnerability that was not patched until almost a month after publicized so it could be a virus, or worse.

--Ocram

[The Avatar 1,089]

Sorry for the double post.

It's fixed. After all this time of not playing, the solution was as simple as changing the Advanced OpenGL settings. Go figure...

  Edited October 1, 2012 by MamaLuigi945  

[Durfsurn 539]

Does anyone have YouTube channels featuring Minecraft? I'd be more than happy to sub if ur good

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Talking about Java, I just upgraded to Java 7 yesterday. I probably should have done that earlier. Have any of you tried the new snapshot released today?

Inquisitively,

--Ocram

[Durfsurn 539]

The Anvil is bit buggy and stupid but really cool. The ability to name and combine enchants to get say Sharpness V or Power V is awesome! Looking good though!

[The Avatar 1,089]

I didn't know you could combine enchants to get higher tier ones. Now that is a feature I like. Is it possible to get higher than five tier enchants or is five the highest tier you can get by combining enchants? I'd love to have a Efficiency VI pick.

[Durfsurn 539]

I know Jeb is planning to add higher level enchants on SOME things but I don't know what. for now Efficiency V is the best tier along with Sharpness V and like Power V or something. In creative using the enchants and anvil I got a:

Sharpness V

Fire Aspect II

Looting III

Knockback II

Its like the best possible Sword and i called it the "Sword of Destiny" it probably cost like 150 levels all up too!

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the whole build a city thing got me to a whole new idea a few weeks back, haven't really worked on it due to rl, but today I made a good step forward finishing this guy here:

I bet there's some knowing ppl out there that can Identify this still incomplete attempt at a scale-accurate construction

[The Avatar 1,089]

GMT: I'm making a stab in the dark here, but I'm guessing it's either the Great Lighthouse or the Hagia Sophia. I'm probably so wrong it's not even funny.

Found this while I was caving in my SSP world:

It's a spider dungeon connected to a zombie dungeon. I don't know if that's rare, but I think it's pretty kewl. There are so many dungeons in this world; I've found at least six in a small area. There are a lot of caves, too.

[Charlie_Zane 963]

An update to my Minecraft city, if anyone is interested

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GMT: I'm making a stab in the dark here, but I'm guessing it's either the Great Lighthouse or the Hagia Sophia. I'm probably so wrong it's not even funny.

no and no, but still funny.

I I had some progress, not much but the time-consuming devil lies in the details and scaling everything correctly...

EDIT: nevermind the interior of glowstone blocks... couldn't think of anything good yet but wanted to block bats from spawning anyways... and see something in the dark as the shaders I use are really awesome but darkness really means darkness

I might add this is a VERY ambitious project, considering that this is but a tidbit of a tidbit of the final thing...

[Ocram's Razr 964]

What, is it an airport tower?

--Ocram

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jep

[The Avatar 1,089]

Yup, I was so wrong lol. Looks like it will be quite the huge undertaking.

[hamsterTK 93]

I wish anvils didnt take damage when being moved. Then I'd be more content to build a comedic anvil dropping machine