Honest Bender: I bought it a long time ago. Played it pretty solidly for a few weeks, then just sort of ran out of stuff to do.  That was before they started adding pistons and crap.  I understand that there are a lot of cool features that have been added, I just ran out of project ideas.

No project ideas = no desire to play.  That said, I have nothing but good things to say about the game, mahjong, and notch.

Now I'm all up in KSP.

The mods add a lot of content, as well. Some of them are pretty ridiculous.

/also their april fools thing was amusing
//exploding animals!

Just think how much real life stuff could have been made/invented/learned/improved with all the time people waste on minecraft.

Minecraft isn't a game. It's virtual Lego. And that might be fun, but it's not a game.

Most of my Minecraft time these days is on XBox, and involve murdering or being murdered by my friend within five minutes of starting a new world.

We've started five or six new worlds in half as many days, and it's always the same result.

I have to admit, I have not played this.  It looks like I might have to give it a try.

/late to this party just like every other party

I tried it once on XBox.  Turned some rocks into dirt or something and then stood there for a few minutes staring at a blocky tree.  I guess I suck at it.

/crappy story bro

Honest Bender: No project ideas = no desire to play.  No imagination.

FTFY

RevRaven: Minecraft isn't a game. It's virtual Lego. And that might be fun, but it's not a game.

Haven't tried it, I see...

Or you haven't been to any of the survival servers.

Gnaglor: Just think how much real life stuff could have been made/invented/learned/improved with all the time people waste on minecraft.

You do realize that "real life stuff" costs money right? I am sure that if Minecraft was turned off, people wouldn't just start picking up hammers and nails. Or curing cancer as someone else said. Like in the other thread where someone said the same thing about if people spent as much time working on real improvements to their house as they did playing with the game. Well a new roof in minecraft costs about $0. The one on my house will be close to $10k.

/Watched my adult kids playing minecraft last week. Was running around just filling the place with tnt. Can't do that IRL either.

Nekon: I don't usually post in Fark threads.  This is my third post in easily as many or more months.  The time I wasted isn't measurable compared to the hours/days/years that have been collectively put into Minecraft so far.  Not to mentioned, a real world discussion with other real live people is a constructive use of time, taking place during breaks from doing homework while there's no work to be done at my job...

26 minutes to the gym etc...

Do the needful: See my post  http://www.fark.com/comments/7682807/The-most-beautiful-libraries-eve r -builtin-Minecraft-Yep in this forum for greater detail about what I mean.

Do the needful: Gnaglor: Just think how much real life stuff could have been made/invented/learned/improved with all the time people waste on minecraft.

You do realize that "real life stuff" costs money right? I am sure that if Minecraft was turned off, people wouldn't just start picking up hammers and nails. Or curing cancer as someone else said. Like in the other thread where someone said the same thing about if people spent as much time working on real improvements to their house as they did playing with the game. Well a new roof in minecraft costs about $0. The one on my house will be close to $10k.

/Watched my adult kids playing minecraft last week. Was running around just filling the place with tnt. Can't do that IRL either.

my son and i devoted a great deal of time to building some outrageous TNT bombs back when TNT was handled differently by the software. nowadays it feels like big piles are way less destructive than they used to be. we were up to 3-4000 block spheres that were scooping out blocks down to bedrock and annihalating everything for hundreds to thousands of blocks in every direction. turns out dropping a primed TNT charge into the center led to a way more destructive bomb. rigging for 10-15 primer blocks to trigger at once led to even MORE destructive results because the reaction happened that much faster. tended to crash the game faster too.. that's a LOT harder to do now.

you need to play on a pvp server.   minecraft really REALLY changes when you start building bases and traps and airships and bombs and guns

http://minesworn.com

Honest Bender:  Now I'm all up in KSP.

I still play Minecraft, and I freaking love KSP.  Both are awesome games, provided you have ideas.

scottydoesntknow: It would've been 20 million if it weren't for those damn pirates!

I will admit I pirated the game... at first.  I bought a legit copy as soon as I could afford it, and also bought a gift code for a friend that rage-quit the X-Box version because of both a game-breaking bug, and the lack of custom skins.

My small handful of mods really adds nothing to the game, save maybe Rei's Minimap.  Optifine Ultra MC allows my new laptop to push 200FPS (with everything turned down to minimum, and putting my nose in a corner), and it averages about 45 FPS loading a new world on Far render distance.

scottydoesntknow: You've more or less got me there.  My roommate was my friend when I wasn't aware of his living habits or had to see them every single day.  But now that I see what type of person he is, I don't consider him to be a friend, just a roommate.  I am actually doing all I can to get out of the situation (back in school for second degree, looking for better job, might move back with family, etc).  People who play Minecraft is one thing.  I don't expect anybody to be constantly doing something productive at all possible times.  What I'm referring to is examples like my roommate, or the people who spend countless hours building computers in Minecraft, or replicas of real life stuff.  That amount of effort, planning, and talent could be put to so much better use on real world issues...

valar_morghulis: Most of my Minecraft time these days is on XBox, and involve murdering or being murdered by my friend within five minutes of starting a new world.

We've started five or six new worlds in half as many days, and it's always the same result.

1. Lava Bucket
2. Spawn point
3. problem solved

I don't have the kind of time I would need for Minecraft. How about getting Mindrover: The Europa Project working on iOS?

Gnaglor: scottydoesntknow: You've more or less got me there.  My roommate was my friend when I wasn't aware of his living habits or had to see them every single day.  But now that I see what type of person he is, I don't consider him to be a friend, just a roommate.  I am actually doing all I can to get out of the situation (back in school for second degree, looking for better job, might move back with family, etc).  People who play Minecraft is one thing.  I don't expect anybody to be constantly doing something productive at all possible times.  What I'm referring to is examples like my roommate, or the people who spend countless hours building computers in Minecraft, or replicas of real life stuff.  That amount of effort, planning, and talent could be put to so much better use on real world issues...

Go fark yourself, seriously.

Honest Bender: Saberus Terras: I still play Minecraft, and I freaking love KSP.  Both are awesome games, provided you have ideas.

Last night, I ran my first Apollo style mission.  Ended up shorting myself on fuel.  I managed to land on the moon successfully, but the lander didn't have enough fuel to get back into Mun orbit and rendezvous with the return craft.

Back in LKO, I've almost finished my first mothership, the Sulaco.  It's a beast meant to shuttle other craft around the solar system.  Though, now that I've assembled it all in orbit, I've already got about a dozen ways to make it better.

So, tonight after work I'm either going to go for another apollo mission (with more fuel this time) or start construction of mothership 2.0: Manifest Destiny.

If you're on the KSP forums, you can try taking a look at my crazy jet boosters, flown right they make solid and liquid rocket booster stages seem terribly inadequate.

As far as Minecraft, try poking about with the new updates at least, you might get some inspiration just futzing about.

Mike_LowELL: You live in a world of 'eh, that's good enough.'

Who?

Gnaglor: Mike_LowELL: You live in a world of 'eh, that's good enough.'

I can't tell if you are a troll or not.  If not, again, go fark yourself.  The productive people will be productive regardless of the distractions of the world.  The people who are going to spend their time pursuing personal hobbies are going to do that, regardless of the hobby or century in which they do it.  It is a wash.

I play and tend to get a board. When this happens small mountains tend to suffer.

I started a server so I could mess around with large spheres of tnt and not have the game crash on me. I was surprised by the lack of destruction a sphere of 100 radius caused. I was rather more annoyed by the time it took the server to processes 93 million blocks.Better destruction occurs when you uses a flat cylinder of tnt. The reaction spreads out rather than spending most of the energy consuming the sphere.

Honest Bender: Saberus Terras: I still play Minecraft, and I freaking love KSP.  Both are awesome games, provided you have ideas.

Last night, I ran my first Apollo style mission.  Ended up shorting myself on fuel.  I managed to land on the moon successfully, but the lander didn't have enough fuel to get back into Mun orbit and rendezvous with the return craft.

Back in LKO, I've almost finished my first mothership, the Sulaco.  It's a beast meant to shuttle other craft around the solar system.  Though, now that I've assembled it all in orbit, I've already got about a dozen ways to make it better.

So, tonight after work I'm either going to go for another apollo mission (with more fuel this time) or start construction of mothership 2.0: Manifest Destiny.

That makes me feel incredibly inadequate, I'm still trying to figure out how to use the tools to properly rendevouz and dock....the forum posts are not entirely...clear.

Honest Bender: Now I'm all up in KSP.

KSP is the awesome.  I know it's really early build, and no story mode, but I can't wait for story mode.  I want more than self-imposed limitations (and physics, damn physics) for what I can build.

With all the tools in the Sandbox, and extra old school NASA bits from a mod, building rockets is more about how biglargehuge I can make something without causing a disaster on the launch pad. I can't wait until I have a budget.

Treygreen13: Speaking of survival building games, anyone else playing Don't Starve?

I'm all over Don't Starve right now, having put KSP aside for the moment.

I love the permadeath.  The graphics work for me in an "almost annoyed by the quirk" kind of way. The laughably emo characters also almost annoy me (the girl with the dead twin sister? o k thx), but it works just well enough.

I hate berries because turkeys. F*** them.  Turkeys annoy the shiat out of me.

I just discovered farming & why it's great, so now I'm all about manure. Piles and piles of manure.

Can't get into the Strongman guy. Don't really like Wilson because the beard is cheating.  I like the girl with the dead sister, but it spooks my kids to no end ("Why is her sister a ghost?!"). So I think I'll use the Automaton next.

Voiceofreason01: Minecraft is pretty fantastic

OK, then maybe you can answer this.

What do you DO in Minecraft? I don't get it, what's it all about, Alfie?

/Also don't really get World of Warcraft
//Or Everquest

Rev.K: Voiceofreason01: Minecraft is pretty fantastic

I still don't understand it.

I get that it's open world and you build sh*t, but it doesn't play at all like what I would expect.

Keep in mind, I only know about Minecraft what I learned from Christopher Walken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMyz2IiOSM

WTF, let's try this again...

You are NEVER, EVER , EVER allowed to post a link like that during work hours. I was almost crying at my desk, that shiat was so funny...