Jun

11

Minecraft, three weeks later

Posted under Zolyx

Humm. I really should be installing Wordpress 2.8 that was released today, but I honestly can’t be bothered til the weekend… :)

Minecraft - The Zolyx Zone!So, for at least some of  the time I wasn’t blogging, I was instead building random stuff out of cubes in Minecraft [link]. It’s ridiculous. Why do I like this game so much? Why is fiddling with a bunch of pixelated blocks so addicitive? I cannot say. But since I’m currently enjoying it so much, it’s possible you might too. Here’s an overview of what’s been added since last month’s mention…

  • Fluids – water (for that island-in-an-ocean feel) and lava
  • Ore veins – coal, iron and gold (purely decorative for now, but will be used for stuff later)
  • New tile types – sand, gravel, foliage, wood
  • Trees generated automatically on new levels
  • Different level sizes
  • Save and load single-player levels to your Minecraft.net account
  • Last but not least: Multiplayer! Huzzah!

I also brushed off the dust on my nearly non-existant PHP skills to create the Minecraft Museum, a place to store various interesting screenshots that anyone – yep, you too! – can contribute to. And as an extra bit of fun, I’m running a public Minecraft server – “The Zolyx Zone” – every weekday evening from about 6pm to 9pm GMT (it isn’t run 24/7 since I and fellow ops PrinceOfFire59 and Lmaoboat like to extend personal greetings to griefers with our trusty bansticks). You can connect to it right here if it’s up, or browse the list of other public servers if it isn’t.

Happy Minecrafting, ’til tomorrow! :D

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