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[mcmonkey]

(Note that this isn't actually the official logo... Sadly)

Minecraft is a sandbox/survival game; it involves mining, crafting, building, surviving, adventuring, and enchanting, and is exceedingly popular. Minecraft was created by Markus "Notch" Persson from Sweden and is now being primarily developed by Jens Bergensten(AKA Jeb).

Links

Offical Website - To buy the game, look at merchandise and other links, see Jeb's twitter updates, watch the advertisement video thingy, play it in browser, or do whatever.
Minecraft Wiki - To answer almost any question you could think of as to how to play, how things work, and where to find basically everything.
Offical Minecraft Forums - If you'd like to talk about exclusively minecraft things to a bigger community of players.
Original Soundtrack. - For those of you that like the music.

Downloadable Maps

Snail Man's jumping/obstacle course

Yokcos' Hunger Games

Great Gamer's generic adventure map

Servers
WhiteList Only
-- Post here or PM the owner of a whitelisted server to get yourself whitelisted.
Don't forget to include your Minecraft username!

Geemili's Awesome Floating Island server
IP: minesofgeemili.no-ip.org
Description: A newly created server with loads of crazy plugins to make things interesting!
Uptime: 24/7
Owner: Geemili

MinellaCraft Private Survival
IP: 24.51.148.146:25566
Description: A Vanilla minecraft server just for close friends and people who I trust. It is whitelisted, so only people I choose can play. Currently very unpopulated. It is only a survival server, so no creative/spawning.
Uptime: As much as possible, or when my computer is on. Not 24/7 all of the time.
Owner: Fyort AKA PixelKing

Public Open Access

Eclipse Craft
IP: 24.56.188.106
Description: SMP PvE survival server,
Uptime: 90%
Owner: Terrified Virus

Great Gamer's Server
IP: 108.233.150.216
Description: A survival server with an admin shop and player shops. It also has grief and stealing protection (although stealing is allowed if the victim's chest is unlocked)
Uptime: When my computer is on.
Owner: YoYoGreatGamer

mcmonkey's Survival Server
IP: mcmcss.us.to
Description: A survival server which has a sometimes high, sometimes low popularity. Depends on the season. And it has grief protection. Oh and other cool stuff too. Teleporting allowed but limited.
Uptime: 24/7
WebPage: http :// mcmonkey4eva . dyndns . org/mcserver
Owner: mcmonkey

FableCube
IP: 198.8.93.89
Description: Towny, PvP, War server with economy and donor perks. See site for completely plugin list. Donate to enhance experience!
Uptime: 24/7
WebPage: http://fablecube.ucoz.net/
Owner: Brawl AKA Brawlitall/SilverKnight

If you have a server you want added to this list, PM me or post the IP and I'll post it here soon. You can also give a short description and tell me what the uptime is so people will have a better idea of what goes on around there and when they can get on.



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(WhiteList)
Debel's Server
IP: debelsmc.servegame.com
Description: A new survival server with many worlds and plugins.
Uptime: Almost all the time.
Owner: Debels

(WhiteList)
NearlyNonexistent's generally MSPA server
IP: nearlynonexistent.no-ip.org
Description:
*An economy legit survival server (economy is barely used though; mainly just so we can brag about boonbucks)
*COMPLETELY UNGRIEFABLE (!!!)
*No x-ray hacks
*Send Kaleb/nN a message to get whitelisted.
Uptime: 20:00 to 04:00 GMT
Owner: nearlyNonexistent

Edited by mcmonkey, 15 April 2013 - 01:12 AM.

[11clock]

11clock, did you try building something out of the blocks instead of just hacking at them? Like a castle or a lake or a cannon?

I've tried that, but I found it to be very boring. Building isn't really my thing. I bought Minecraft because exploring a destructible world sounded like fun. I learned the hard way that Minecraft is not much of an exploration game.

Terraria, on the other hand, focuses more on exploration than Minecraft does, which is why I've stuck to it for much longer. My least favorite parts of the game are mining and building, but fortunately there are some things to keep mining interesting. However, despite liking this game more than Minecraft, it's starting to wear out on me. All games get old after playing them for a long time, and this game is no exception. Yes, the world is randomly generated, but all worlds have roughly the same layout and the same loot, so each playthrough feels about the same.

So Minecraft didn't have the exploration feel that I was looking for, and Terraria lacks the variety needed to keep me interested. Now my eyes are set on Starbound, what looks like will become Terraria's successor and is lead by the ex-spriter for Terraria, Tiy. What makes me interested in this game is that it's designed so that each planet you explore will be ENTIRELY different. Pretty much everything will be procedurally generated in this game and will not pick things from a list like Terraria did. It also looks like it will have a focus on exploration. From what I've seen, Starbound looks just like the sandbox game I've been looking for since my departure from Minecraft. It will most likely have the exploration aspect and variety that I want.

[Super Guy]

The new update looks awesome, judging by the update list.

*downloads and tries*

[Micro]

I'm surprised I didn't notice all of those errors when I copy-pasted the description onto here well, anyway, they're fixed now. Also, all of the servers that were specifically requested by their owners have been added.

Edited by Jumbo Gamer, 01 June 2012 - 01:00 PM.

[PixelKing]

Starbound looks like my type of game. I'm happy that I will be for Linux because then my brother and I will be able to play with each other!
I liked Terraria a lot, but I have stuck with Minecraft since the late alpha.

Ooh, and a new Minecraft Softie Survival episode is coming soon, once I figure out how to fix my video editor. XD

Edited by PixelKing, 01 June 2012 - 04:08 PM.

[commander of games]

Today is Notch's birthday!

Happy birthday notch!

[Brawl]

AscendedCraft
IP: AscendedCraft.us16.creeperhost.net
Description: MMO server with anti-grief, anti-mod, anti-cheat precautions. Includes Factions mod, Chest Shops, iConomy, and more. PvP and Raiding is allowed, so you are advised to either join, or create a faction in order to protect your land from others.
Uptime: 24/7
Owner: Trippinonice (Non-YYG) and Brawlitall
Popularity: High

I'd like that added to the OP as well.

[icymx]

There have been numerous times in the past few months where I have said to myself, "I haven't played Minecraft for a while, a 15-minute session can't hurt."

What usually happens is that three hours later, I'm still playing, and I have accomplished nothing else in that time. This continues for about a week, before I finally manage to pull myself together and get some work done. Minecraft is a serial time-waster for me, and its addictive pull is extremely strong.

Which made me wonder - just why is it so strong? After all, it's just a game. I did some research, and stumbled upon this article: http://www.overthink...-life/?page=all

As a game developer, this gives me lots of ideas and inspiration. Although, it is quite creepy how addictive it is.

icymx now lives a normal life in Melbourne, Australia, and is able to continue with his school work and game design. He has been clean for 3 months now, and shows no signs of addiction.

Edited by icymx, 02 June 2012 - 12:12 PM.

[Hepolite]

EDIT: I heard that Hepolite lurks here, so @Hepolite: Ice no longer melts.

Ah, nice! Anyway, that's not much of a concern right now. It seems to be that the server is attacked by a greifer. Many buildings on my island has been burned down, and loads of glowstone/ores has been stolen. Check out this image, or just go to the server yourself and see what has happened there. Roy's island has been attacked as well. Requesting a rollback to fix those issues. I have a local copy on my own computer which I can send to you if you for some unimaginable reason don't have anything to roll back to.

By the way, could you see if you can figure out who did this? I'd love to have a chat with said person. Just curious, I want to why only my place was burned down, while the others were simply attacked with an axe, by the look of it.

Edited by Hepolite, 02 June 2012 - 10:56 PM.

[yokcos700]

I think it was Sigma Omega who watched it burn. Might be relevant.

Know that when/if I do roll it back to the last backup (About a week ago), my city's gone.

However, I can give you WorldGuard protection (Hence the ice doesn't melt) when that happens.

[Hepolite]

Instead of rolling back the entire server, can't you just use WorldEdit to import parts of the backup? That way, you don't have to roll back everything.
Or you could just backup your city, then roll back everything, and add your city back in. That way might be best, because then everything will be fixed, and not only some areas. Still sucks for those who have been building a lot since your backup though...

There's one thing I can suggest, and that is disabling fire burning wood globally on the server. That way giant fires won't be a problem again. That, or you could give permission to create regions with WorldGuard and protect these regions against fire and other things.

Edited by Hepolite, 02 June 2012 - 11:58 PM.

[2Create]

I love how I'm one of the richest people on RC's server after playing two days.
Yokcos is doing fine as well, he has records already I believe.

He might pose a threat for me later...

Our living areas couldn't differ more.
We live on opposite directions of the spawn in completely different biomes.
:-P

Anyway, I was being busy with extinguishing forest fires during yesterday's thunderstorm. Quite frightening in a jungle... *shivers*

Edited by 2Create, 03 June 2012 - 06:39 AM.

[commander of games]

How come all the bukkit plugins seem to be outdated/broken?

We need LogBlock!

[Silverton]

Well, I'm back. LOL

[yokcos700]

@Hepolite: Great idea! I'll copy/paste a bit in MCEdit on my comp and re-upload the file.
Btw, this might not get done for a while, my internet's been unconscious a lot lately.

[Brawl]

Started playing Hardcore. Had a pretty big scare when I fell off of my tree house and was caught by a vine one block above the ground. The fall would have killed me if I didn't get so lucky. Hardcore is really easy as long as you go to bed on time and sneak everywhere. xD

I've got almost everything I need in my tree house now. I just need a tree farm and a cobblestone generator and I'm set to live up there for life.

[Pixel8ed72]

A new episode is coming out today.
:D

@Brawl

Treehouse in Hardcore....
Why didn't I think of that...

Ive living in little holes in the ground
>.<

Edited by TerraCrafter, 04 June 2012 - 12:36 AM.

[Micro]

Started playing Hardcore. Had a pretty big scare when I fell off of my tree house and was caught by a vine one block above the ground. The fall would have killed me if I didn't get so lucky. Hardcore is really easy as long as you go to bed on time and sneak everywhere. xD

I've got almost everything I need in my tree house now. I just need a tree farm and a cobblestone generator and I'm set to live up there for life.

My first hardcore world:

1. get farther than I have ever gotten in Minecraft before
2. notice that there is a weird ledge of floating gravel in the nether and try to investigate.
3. suffocate, burn, and die.

Edited by Jumbo Gamer, 04 June 2012 - 01:01 AM.

[PixelKing]

A new episode is coming out today.
:D

@Brawl

Treehouse in Hardcore....
Why didn't I think of that...

Ive living in little holes in the ground
>.<

Ooh, yay! Are you having any Quality issues with YouTube lately? My newest video is terrible looking. :/

[mcmonkey]

Started playing Hardcore. Had a pretty big scare when I fell off of my tree house and was caught by a vine one block above the ground. The fall would have killed me if I didn't get so lucky. Hardcore is really easy as long as you go to bed on time and sneak everywhere. xD

I've got almost everything I need in my tree house now. I just need a tree farm and a cobblestone generator and I'm set to live up there for life.

My first hardcore world:

1. get farther than I have ever gotten in Minecraft before
2. notice that there is a weird ledge of floating gravel in the nether and try to investigate.
3. suffocate, burn, and die.

When you die in hardcore: click the red X, restart minecraft. At worst, you lose some progress. Not much more than dying in lava in survival.