Notte Posted September 18, 2010 Posted September 18, 2010 (edited) Minecraft This is a temporary page.Minecraft got way too popular for this humble server. I've had to disable everything fancy to even get it to run. The following things do not work at the moment: Registering an account Purchasing the game User verification for online servers The following does work:Actually playing the gamePlayer skins Until this all gets sorted out, I'm officially calling a "free-to-play weekend", or however long this will take to fix.If you want to keep track of the latest developments, please follow my blog. I also post stuff on my twitter, but there's a lot of nonsense there as well./ NotchEDIT:The Free stuff aint working for me btw -.- I cant Download Packages Edited September 18, 2010 by Notte Quote
TheGreenGrasshopper Posted September 18, 2010 Posted September 18, 2010 It took a while for me notte, jsut keep trying. Quote
VMR Posted September 18, 2010 Posted September 18, 2010 (edited) I think I was the only one of the few that actually got to play Minecraft Alpha v1.1.1I feel special. edit: My mom just confirmed. I am special. Edited September 18, 2010 by VMR Quote
QTesla Posted September 18, 2010 Posted September 18, 2010 edit: My mom just confirmed. I am special.N'awwwww Quote
Clavus Posted September 19, 2010 Author Posted September 19, 2010 Also a note to everyone who doesn't have Minecraft yet: the Minecraft Alpha is currently free-to-play until Notch fixes his server. You can find the game on minecraft.net. Quote
Dr. Pannenkoek Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 I feel Notch is going to stab someone under this much pressure with people QQ'ing at the game. Quote
TheGreenGrasshopper Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 Minecraft creepy pastaI had a good read, and it's quiet interesting. Quote
Kore Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 Here's another link to the creepypasta: http://i.imgur.com/HIjKl.jpg Quote
Ywa Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 Here's another link to the creepypasta: http://i.imgur.com/HIjKl.jpgDecompile the Java code and check if it's real? Quote
Deluvas Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 Hhahaha, if that's real, Notch probably forgot some left over code from testing mobs in MP xD Quote
EmRA Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 Fuck I love and hate stories like this. Quote
Clavus Posted September 20, 2010 Author Posted September 20, 2010 Probably fake but scary nonetheless Quote
Albzi Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 Don't even own the game but it scared me... Is it the dude next to the pyramid? Quote
EmRA Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 Here is one very similar story written by someone on the Minecraft Forums:Oh there are plenty of stories for plenty of games. They always pop up on open-ended games, and they always get better the more open-ended they are. Some are crafted, created by the player's imagination, a epic spawning from random happenings in the game. Some are based on experiences, things that happen in games, intended or not. My story is of Minecraft, and of one special evening playing it.I had recently started to play Minecraft. An enjoyable game. I had bought it (well, a friend bought it for me) having known of it for a while, and hearing plenty good from it. I started a new map, and it was quite an experience. I didn't think there would be snow, but it was enjoyable, if annoying trying to build a moat. However, my story is not about my first world in the game. This is about the second.I had a feeling that it would be special right as I started. From the spawn, without even turning around, I could see an island. It was small, surrounded by one block deep water. It seemed to be special for one detail: A floating block. A single, floating block, as if signaling "Come here. This is special." Of course I ignore it at first, wanting to fell a tree for wood so I could mine and defend myself. As soon as I had a sword and a pick-axe, both made of wood, I went over to the island. This is how it began.As I made it to the small island's exposed rocky surface, I noticed how far down it went. Far down. Really far down. I don't think I could make out where the bottom was in the cavern. I thought it was neat, special. What I really liked was a few blocks downward, there was coal. A big vein of coal, just exposed to the air. I knew what my first task was.That task was not easy though. The size of the island and the entrance to the cavern left a layer of sand blocks around the edge. After fumbling for a bit and almost throwing myself down the cavern from the water flow, I managed to widen the island JUUUUUST enough to make a small staircase downward and get the coal.After I had mined out all the coal, I noticed it wasn't a lot, but it was just enough to last while I build a more permanent settlement. However, I looked down again into what I now call 'The Shaft'. The bottom was closer. I thought perhaps I could try building down there. So I went back up to my workstation, with just enough sunlight to make some torches and make a new mining pick, as my wooden one had just given out.So thus I began my trek to the bottom. It was a slow process, but I made it to the bottom just fine. Unfortunately, when I got there, I found nothing more of interest than a few blocks of sand I had accidentally let fall. so I cleared out the area and made it look nice while waiting for day. I made the floor more level, more organized, and I had my main crude staircase easily accessible and the whole area well-lit. It was a small cavern, nothing noteworthy about it except for a small corner. It was natural, but it just screamed out to me 'mine me out'. After just mining away one block... I found another coal vein. Excited, as it was still night, I mined it all out.I hadn't realized until I had finished mining it out that I had exposed another cavern, directly below my current one. It was very curious, as I could see even more coal in the distance, and the floor was deep enough from where I was to hurt me. I was starting to get a little freaked out. I postponed exploration until I could get more torches.When it was day again, I got some more wood for trees. However, on the way back... there was a creeper. Normally I would just flee, but this puzzled me. Why would a creeper spawn in the day? It was in the water so it wouldn't catch fire, but still, how had it spawned? I put it out of my mind and went back to the cave exploration.As I ventured downward, I found more minerals. Coal and Iron. I mined them out as I explored, not noticing anything unusual other than it seemed to be leading to me to a single point in the cavern. A staircase. It wasn't a constructed staircase, just made of stone seemingly naturally, but this seemed too odd to be true. It was just too perfectly formed. Three wide, plus raised one block on the side like handrails. It led me to a diagonal hallway. Perfectly flat. Perfectly formed. It was not a dungeon. This was player made. It was constructed. It was a constructed pathway beneath my feet.This freaked me out. So I set down one rock block to get out, headed back to my adopted place at the bottom of The Shaft, and unloaded some stuff, smelted the iron, prepared myself for another venture downwards. I made a better pick as I had found gold, though I was after it more to distract myself from the cavern and staircase.When I returned, I had found twoblocks where I had only placed one, and my torch had moved. This... it was really starting to freak me out. But I pressed onward. This time, I vowed to see what was going on with all of this. It just kept going on this time. No minerals past where I had found the gold originally. No coal. No Iron. Nothing but pure stone. I had eventually reached a split in the path. The sound of running water had started here. I never got a chance to figure out it's source though.The cave kept winding deeper. Deeper. I followed it, ignoring every hint of anything notable, ignoring even diamond. I wanted to get to the bottom of this, literally and figuratively. After a few minutes of going forward, laying down torches, I heard whispering. It was the strange whispering, almost intelligible. Then an arrow fired.It missed, luckily. I turned around only to be faced with what I see as the source of all the trouble here. It's a player model. I'm on single player, disconnected from the internet for the past hour. I have a custom skin. However, it's the default player model, only with whited out eyes. It fires another arrow at me and I die. I get one last, red, bloody look at it before I choose to respawn. I rush down to my cavern to try and retrieve my stuff and find out what the hell just happened. Arrow by the time I get to the bottom of The Shaft.From then on, I couldn't spawn. I still can't. As soon as I do, I die. Every time I die... the landscape only looks slightly more demonic. Sky just slightly redder. Trees slightly more like fire. The whispering slightly louder, slightly deeper. I try and avoid that file.It still remains though. I've since stored and encrypted the file, and hidden it deep within the recesses of my HDD. Something like that couldn't be kept in the open, but it couldn't' be destroyed either.I managed to take a few screen shots of my experience, thinking they might be a neat log of my exploration, for anyone that's curious, but I don't have much interesting to show other than the initial island.The island from spawn:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/acidasprin/javaw2010-08-2321-49-52-99.jpgEntrance of The Shaft (after I had started to descend):http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/acidasprin/javaw2010-08-2320-21-49-64.jpgOdd corner at the bottom of The Shaft:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/acidasprin/javaw2010-08-2321-17-27-44.jpgThe second cavern:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/acidasprin/javaw2010-08-2321-17-36-89.jpgThe 'Natural' staircase:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/acidasprin/javaw2010-08-2321-17-50-49.jpg Quote
VMR Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 Here is one very similar story written by someone on the Minecraft Forums:*long-ass story*Ooooh creepy I like digital ghost stories Quote
MiF Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 *minecraft trailer*oh damn... i was just planing something like that with my friend Pretty cool.Just you to know. If (IF) i dot it, there will be way more effects, but still short and gots anything about minecraft in it. Quote
VMR Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 Amazing. Makes me want to play minecraft 24/7... xD Quote
TheGreenGrasshopper Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 I have seen official gametrailers that sucked more, I mean that was just awesome, epic ending "you are not alone" *GRRRr*. We need to built stuff like that Quote
Dr. Pannenkoek Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 My face before - :|My face after i saw all the glass and stuff at the arena thing - D: (IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!) Quote
MiF Posted September 20, 2010 Posted September 20, 2010 (edited) Edited September 20, 2010 by MiF Quote
xeim Posted September 21, 2010 Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) I want the Left4Green Minecraft server again Lol trailer is nice btw^^ Edited September 21, 2010 by xeim Quote
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