Minecraft Games: January 2011

Test World V1.4

Installation Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oqj2hwgz0

Tour Video/Example/Cow statue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUE9bHFfYlg

A few notes
Don't punch stuff with materials in hand, sometimes it "breaks" the material in your hand.
All weapons and armor is indestructible and armor makes you unable to die. (to reset your health, take off armor and eat something)
All item stacks are -about- 255 so you should never run out of materials.

Change log
V1.4 Major Introduction of "Type" worlds, total of 8 added. Minor fixes added as well.(Added brick and fixed a sign)
V1.3 is finished, replaced cobblestone with obsidian to protect chests, added "Ammo Room", fixed cake blocks, removed lava flooring, replaced stars with ladders, Added signs and organized chests more.
v1.2.1 I fixed a few stacks that didn't work right, added stair blocks, added smooth stone.
Work has finished on version 1.2! Adding all the new items (colored wool, dyes, sand stone, etc.) Prettied things up. Removed All grass, replaced it with dirt to prevent annoying farm animals. Organized things a bit better. Added Arrows, snowballs, and eggs and other misc items.
Work has begun on version 1.2 (skipping version 1.1 simply to match the beta)
Version 1.0 released!

Yeye as usual

Bad updating as always. Anyhow!

I've just finished all the bass tracks for the song.

And THIS is one of the coolest things I've seen in a few weeks in minecraft!

Just look at it!

Edit: NO! where's the pic =/

No Minecraft today

There have been no minecrafting today for me, school from 8-14, home and sleep until dinner at 18, I've been sick for a week so 6 hours in school while I am not fully healthy again is not that funny.

As I said earlier, I'll try to finish the song this weekend, I mean I have three days off now.

At school

I'm writing to yo from school!

I'm curratly working on my bachelor exam, going to have to give a short overhaul of it on monday morning.

But until then I'll be off duty so to say and hopefully be able to finish the song, and start working on something else! so tired of all the plings and plongs.

Contest mistake

So yeah...Apparently I wasn't suppose to let people know who I was in the contest, plus the judges felt that me promising my prize to my fans was me trying to get favorable votes. So even IF I do win I won't get a "Trophy" or any prize(Though I will get posted as one of the winners) so yeah...Kind of a stupid mistake on my part, I didn't even think about that at the time.

Good news!

Good news everyone(For once) I got my parts and installed them all correctly.

I'm hoping to have no more problems with recording and that should mean more movies for you guys AND better quality! sorry there hasn't been a video up today, there may not be one up tomorrow either since I still have to install everything again but we can hope!

Cow Statue is up!

I finally finished my cow statue, it took tons of time, efforts, and screw ups but I did it! Its a complete 1:1 ratio, one block per pixel. It didn't come out perfect but it came out really good if I do say so myself, what do you think?

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUE9bHFfYlg

Download Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?uhw7zwk6qpft9f3

I also entered it in a contest, linked here!
http://mlti.worth1000.com/entries/621545/gerudoku-cow

If I win I will give out the prizes(Which are minecraft gift codes) to all of my fans!

Audio Problems

Hmm I've been trying to record a few video's lately but it seems...I have to set my ingame volume down to like...9% just so it doesn't over power my voice while recording. I'm not sure why, I Tried updating my sound cards drivers but it seems to do little good. I -may- have to record a couple of my next video's without ingame sound if this keeps up.

If anyone can help it means continuation of minecraft sounds with my voice!(At a reasonable level at that!)

New computer parts are on their way!

I finally got enough donations to order the parts I needed and they -should- be here monday(tomorrow!) but I don't think i'm going to beable to get a windows 7 OS disk like I wanted... I was going to borrow the money to get it but it turns out its actually 200 dollars, not 100(which is the upgrade version) so i'm not sure if my old OS disk(the one that came with my current prebuilt computer) will work or not..

Sigh, it feels like I'm cursed with computer problems. If none of you see me online for a while it may be because of things not working out.

Sunday sunday sunday

I've been laying in bed for three straight days now. Barly even touched minecraft or a computer at all for that matter. And most of the time I've used my laptop was when I used it to watch movies while laying in bed.

But tomorrow it's the end of that, can't be at home anymore since I have to go back to school. I am going to take my bachelor exam this term. It acually started last friday, but some dumb fuck at school forgot to send in my name so I didn't find out what date I was supposed to start until tuesday... that's five freaking days after I already started for crying out loud! I am on a hunt for the man/woman responsible for that.

But as I said, tomorrow I'll take a few painkillers and head back to school for a lecture about something that I have not yet had time to find out what it is.

We have a deadline that is due on friday where we (me and my partnet on the bachelor) need to have done some sort of timeplanning and some other stuff. Hopefully that won't take to much time each day... And hopefully I will be able to finish the song I am working on in Minecraft aswell. I have laid ot all the bass tracks up until the solo of the song and about half of the guitar tracks up until the solo. So in total I've made 1/2 of the bass tracks and 1/4 of the guitar tracks.

Well now I am off to read some papers from the lectures I've missed so I'll be sort of up to date tomorrow.

OaO

Keeping it short

Sick

This is me right now

Minecraft Diary - Episode 4 - Skeletons!

I decide that I should go WEST in my journey, not only because that way I'm more likely to go in a straight line, but also because walking towards the sunset sound cool. After climbing over an all-too-familiar hill or two, I get to a big forest. I'm glad those flint and steel maniacs from my server aren't here.

As far the the eye can see (as far as will render)

Yay! Found some mushrooms. I feel like I've got enough food to last me for my whole journey now, as long as nothing jumps on my head (or more likely , me jump on it's head by accident). After walking for a few minutes in the forest, I come across a clearing with cliff face and ~~water oblong~~ waterfall.

Little waterfall

I don't plan on stopping until I notice a little cave next to the waterfall which I just can't resist exploring.

Fullscreen this and it'll make more sense

Inside I see a couple of rather interesting things, a zombie, and.. cobblestone. You guys should know what this means :D After realizing I've only got 1 torch left, killing the zombie, finding the end of the tunnel, and getting some coal, I'm ready to open up the dungeon. It seems strange how quiet it is, I have no idea what could be in there, maybe it's just lava that's touched some water (I doubt that actually). I carefully mine out of one the cobble blocks and..

~~Stones~~ Skeletons!

*TWANGTWANGTWANGTWANGTWANG* The skeletons go berserk all shooting at each other rather than me. I run around madly anyway hoping that If they do shoot they won't hit me. I haven't jumped like that whilst playing Minecraft for a while. I can see at least 3 skeletons die, and the one closest to me turns around and start shooting. I run around some more than go up to him and give him a little poke and he dies. Like either someone who is quite brave (or more likely, quite stupid, you'll find out why in a second). I knock out another block and go into the dungeon.

Free bones

I hop over all of the "free" arrows and bones, picking them up and filling my inventory completely. When in a dungeon like this, it's best not to destroy the spawner, but surround it with torches so you can make a trap out of it. OH. I'm going to have to make some more torches before.. too late. One last skeleton spawns but I manage to drop what I'm going and hit him in the face several times before he can put too many arrows inside of me. I then stab I and construct a bunch of new torches in record time and run around the spawner placing them on the ground like I'm doing some sort of weird ritual.

Winnings

I drop some stuff down that I don't need then have a look at what's in the chest. Ohh lots of iron, that will come in handy. Actually, I might as well take the chest too.

Yoink!

I don't know why I was hitting that thing with bacon, it made it taste pretty odd. (The bacon not the chest, I'm not some sort of weird chest-eating-machine. A little nibble might be nice sometimes but anyway...) On my way out I notice something above the entrance, maybe they had been shooting at me after all!

Arrows

Having thought I've spent enough time in here, I walk to the cave entrance and notice it's getting dark, I guess I'll stay here tonight then. I board up the entrance with planks and a door, and also put a door on the dungeon, just in case some skeletons come to rape me in my sleep.

Night already, again.

I hope some people are finding this entertaining =] There still aren't enough pretty scenery or building pictures for me personally, but I'll probably take some soon.

Not alot of crafting today I am afraid

Today I won't be able to craft anything really, perhaps a short while after I get home from work if I am not to tired. I'm getting off at 21:30 and I'll be home at about 22:30.

And on the side, the chancery at myc school has fucked up, so my name wasn't on the list for my bachelor exam so now I am behind schedule after only one week of school. Shit faces.

Any way, yesterday I started working on a new song with note blocks. I'm thinking of making the complete song.

Minecraft Diary - Episode 3 - Animal Encounters

Day 3

Determined to go far, far away, I set off. First off in my journey, I see a creeper. "Hello Mr Creeper" I say kindly. He seems saddened by something.. he seems quite up for the idea of me chopping him into little pieces, so I comply.

Jumpy jumpy creepy creepy

After dealing with the creeper, I get over the hill, over some water onto another little hill. I then look back into the water and see some squids! Yay! I then continue to deal with the squids.

More Squids

I find myself in a "swamp" biome, were all the land is sea height, quite nice to walk on but not very exciting. Ohh piggies, they look tasty.

Swamp pigs and zebra tree

After dealing with those pigs, I found some cows. (Actually like 10 of them)

Cows

I bet you can't guess what I did with those cows.. I'll give you a clue, I'm now wearing them!

Wearing the cows

That picture also shows all the things I've got in my inventory, I'm really going to need to set up a base with a chest to put everything in soon. Time to continue my journey and go as far as possi... argh night time again, already. And whats that noise? AHH the chicken's back! I decide it's probably best to hide somewhere tonight, as I don't know how many hundreds of monsters there will be. I run to the closest heap of dirt and set up a little shelter in it.

Night 3

Cooking time

Day 4

With my little cave full of the delightful smell of cooked bacon - note that I eat bacon, not porkchop because I am a man - and a scented whiff of smelted iron, I head off into the day with my shiny new killing stick, confident that today I'm going to find a cool place to build by castle. I come across a cliff face which looks very tall, "maybe I'll get a good view from up there" I think to myself. I start to go through an archway and see a... what is that? Is it stone?

Surprise skeleton!

Strangely, it doesn't shoot me, maybe it actually thinks it's some stone? Anyway, on I go exploring in this wonderful new pla..

Bugger.

Going to continue the story next episode, hopefully I'm not going to manage being so stupid again.

Dinner at grandmas

I am off to eat dinner and my grandma and grandpa's house along with my sister today.

But I'll be back later tonight uploading one of the three videos I got in stock.

And I am working on a new song as well.

Minecraft Diary - Episode 2 - Hostage sheep

Night 1

I run back to the beach as quick as my little squarish legs will carry me, to a nice flat spot I want to build my shelter. I haven't got that many materials so I'm forced to build quite a small, building, made up of an assortment of blocks. I'm determined to get it to look better that a square box.

Pretty moon

For some reason I don't take a picture of the completed shelter *shrugs*. Just after finishing it off, I hear a startling growl, up to this point I hadn't seen any monsters in this world, I had absolutely no idea where it was coming from. I got out of my shelter to have a quick look and..

What scares me most about this is the chicken and sheep.

Well this is.. actually not that bad, the zombie isn't running at me or anything, he looks angry though, I would be too if I'd made that much of a mess of my top. The zombie starts to chase me and I run around the shelter a bit before going inside. "I wonder where that chicken has gone" I think to myself, looking through the back window. I turn around and AHH!

Another zombie!

Obviously the chicken has called for backup! I knew I should have killed it. That sheep is still scaring me, it looks kind of sad, maybe the zombies are holding it hostage. I decide to open my door, cautiously poking the zombies with my crappy sword. I saved the sheep yay! It's starting to get light now, that was a pretty uneventful night to be honest, barely any monsters.

Day 2

Sheep and his friends go for a swim.

The sheep and his cow friends go for a swim when I get out of my house. They all look pretty grumpy. Now I needed something to do, some sort of objective. I decide upon getting lots of sandstone, because I want to build a sandstone castle. That sounds cool, and what could possibly be more fun that collecting heaps of sand?..

Collecting sand

I start out quite positive with this, but it gets ~~really~~ quite boring after a while.. I keep going anyway. Bored of collecting sand, I start to take down my shelter, I don't think it's really necessary due to the apparent lack of danger around here.

Night 2

I dig some more, through the night, then all of a sudden I turn round and there are a couple of zombies chasing me again, and they've already killed the sheep.

More zombies!

Whilst running, I notice I've uncovered some iron, yay! I have no idea what I'm going to use it on, but I'm sure it will be helpful. After running around a bit and killing the zombies, I get back to sand collecting.

BOOM!

WTF?! I didn't see that coming, how on earth did I only lose half a heart? Ah well, free sand. Time to dig some more.

Hole

As the sun starts to rise, I look back on what I've done during the night. I'm still surprised by the lack of monsters, but obviously I don't mind it. Four stacks (64) of sandstone, that should be enough. Now I just need somewhere to build my sand castle.. Time to go exploring!

Episode 3 coming soon, there will be a lot more pretty pictures in it I promise.

Tyken:Origins

I'm sure alot of you have wondered where the name "Tyken" comes from and I Don't think I ever explained it.

Well its a funny and kind of interesting story, if not a short one. I started playing World of Warcraft a few years ago and I was always bad thinking of names that I like. One day while getting frustrated while making a new character, all of the names I liked were "Taken". After seeing that a few times I thought...."Wait a moment...Thats it! its name is Taken!" Of course that'd be a silly name so I decided to make it sound cooler, Hence the name "Tyken" was born.

Like I said its a bit of a silly story but the results were amazing. The name is cool and has a bit of an exotic yet catchy ring to it. Inspiration comes from weird sources, huh?

Minecraft Diary - Episode 1

I've been inspired by Tom Francis' "Minecraft Experiment" on PC Gamer and my new texture pack, to do a sort of "lets play" with pictures. This will be much more pretty than PC Gamers version (especially if you view the pictures full screen), and I'm hoping the commentary will be just as interesting.

I'm a lot more experienced than Tom Francis was when he did his Minecraft Experiment (so will act like less of an idiot, lol), and will be playing the same "hardcore mode" that if you die, you delete that map. I am not planning on dying. I don't have an overall objective yet, maybe someone could suggest one? Oh also, each "episode" will be about one day and night, depending on how many pictures I take.

Everybody knows by now that default Minecraft isn't particularly stunning to look at, although a lot of people enjoy the "style" and/or get used to it. Somehow after a while your brain adapts and you think it is "normal" for the world to be made out of blocks (or maybe I've just been playing for too long). With my new texture pack/mods, my 1920x1200 screen and a tiny bit of image editing, I'll be persuading you that really, Minecraft can look awesome.

Day 1

Although I could keep generating new ones until I get some great scenery, I'm just going to stick with the first one I get, turns out it doesn't look too bad.

Spawn

As you can see, I've got a custom sun, sand, cacti, water, and health bar. These things aren't in the usual squarish Minecraft style, but I think they fit together with everything quite well. "This place looks quite nice" I think to myself as I look around, then I catch something in the corner of my eye. Now any Minecraft survival player with a big screen will tell you how exciting and/or important seeing something out of the corner of your eye can be, this was no exception. I'm pretty sure that pig has seen whatever it is too.

Something in the sea

I run towards the water, hoping to get a better look.. but nothing. Quite disappointed, I think about leaving it, but I was sure I saw something. Time for a swim! *Splosh*

Squids!

View this fullscreen and stand up if you can't see them. I was tempted to punch the swimming tarantulas in the face to get some ~~poo~~ ink, but they were too deep, I'd drown before half killing one. Maybe I'll come back when I've got a sword. And besides, their eyes were beginning to creep me out.

Scenery

After nearly hurting myself staring at the squids, getting out then walking around for a minute on the beach, I come across this. Pretty cool cliff right? Having the view distance on full is nice.. I figure out that I'm spending too long prating around and decide I need to get myself some tools.

Supplies - Wood

As any experienced Minecraftian knows, you gotta punch trees first. Now I've got wood, I'm going to make a wooden pickaxe, get some stone, then make stone tools. Although you can now make charcoal out of wood, It would still be nice to find some coal before night time too.

Supplies - Coal

Found loads of coal. Thats good. Made two stone axes by accident. Not really bad, but considerably frustrating for somebody as OCD as me. Click the picture to see the incredibly helpful advise the cow gave me, seriously I know, I was going to get it anyway. Obnoxious cow. You can see in the picture the comparison between the shiny 128x128 "painted" textures, and the default 16x16 workbench. I personally think it all looks nice. *Squeezes in another picture here - this one would make a good desktop background*

Scenery 2

I get some more wood and start thinking about where I can plonk down a little cabin, but then realise I can't see the sun. "Do I have enough time to make a cabin"? I scramble over a hill to figure out where that white blob in the sky is, and then:

Sunset

Well that's quite pretty, I do love how the sun goes orange when it sets. This isn't the best looking Minecraft world I've ever seen, but I think its close. Obviously I've only seen one billionth (or something) of the world so far, so I hope I see some more awesome things again tomorrow... wait a second.. tomorrow! It's nearly night time! No house! No food! I haven't even made any torches yet! I refuse to sit in a hole at night and cry like a petrified worm hiding from the outside world, tonight will be fun.

More coming soon!

Breaking The Law

I did spend a few hours today making this.

Minecraft.net down

Minecraft.net has been offline bigger part of the day, Dunno why. Whe have not gotten any explaining by Notch on his twitter either... something about kinds not eating greens and that we have to be patient.

I'm guessing they don't know what the problem is either, they probably would have told us otherwise.

Update

Just a quick update I wanted to let all my fans know. I decided to take the weekend off to do some things i've been meaning to do such as work on my texture pack, work on my test world, as well as work on my cow statue and a few other things. I've gotten alot done ("as you can see here") but my sleep cycle got totally wrecked. Been falling asleep at like 5pm and waiting up at like 12am. Kinda messes things up and makes it hard to do videos.

Also, I could really use some help with my contest videos. Sifting through them all requires alot of time and effort and I'd really like it if someone wouldn't mind helping me out.

basically I plan to link all the dl links on a word pad, number them, then ask people to check out the worlds, rate them, leave a few notes, then send it back to me so I have a good idea where to start. It will be hard work but if you don't mind helping me out i'll give you a shout out during my contest videos. The only catch is you can't be in the contest if you want to judge.

RS NOR Latch

So here is the RS NOR Latch tutorial, it's the simplest memory array aviable in minecraft. Use it!

My Texture Pack

I've decided to share my Minecraft texture pack/mods. It requires a half decent computer to pull off, so hold down F3 in Minecraft and if your not getting 60+FPS then this isn't for you.

*Updates*

- New tree (beta-snowy) leaves now work.
- Snow matches sides without snow on much better.
- Snow "tiles" much better.
- Little fixes around the edges of some blocks.

This pack contains:

- The pack is mostly the BroPaint texture pack made by Rofrere. It also contains the HD texture fix by xau, and the awesome MrMMods (BetterLight/BetterGrass) by MrMessiah. Full credits are included in the pack.

- Full set of lovely new textures, or the option to keep most of the defaults so only the scenery (and a few other things) look nice, whilst the blocks you craft keep the original "feel" of Minecraft

- New Sun and Moon from the BroPaint pack, these look great when rising/setting.
- New hearts/health meter from the BroPaint pack.
- Scarier spiders, zombies and ghasts. Also less clean looking sheep.
- New water, unfortunately it's not animated when still, but I think it still looks good.
- Lovely sand and sandstone from Dante80s ALBION 64x Texture pack.

Does all that sound good? Well it looks even better! Get the pack here.

Screenshots (will update with more soon, also pigs don't look this crazy anymore. Click for full screen. Actually click. Especially if you have a 1920x1080 monitor so you can view full size.)

Installation Instructions:

- Extract the archive into C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft This may be slightly different depending on your operating system. "AppData" is a hidden file, so you will have to enable seeing them if you haven't already.

- Run mcpatcher (the HD texture fix).
- Set the Original file to \bin\minecraft-1.2_02.jar(correct at time of writing) & Output file to \bin\minecraft.jar
- Set the Texture pack to a .zip file & check the Tile Size has changed to 128x128
- Press Patch and after completion, close the Minecraft Patcher.
- Run MrMPatcher.
- Set Original and Output files like in the other patcher.
- Highlight the Better Light and Better Grass boxes and press Patch.
- After completion, close the patcher and play Minecraft!

- To switch to the other texture pack included, do exactly the same again but select the other texture pack, it's really that simple!

- To uninstall everything, delete your C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin folder, then start up Minecraft and it will re-download it for you. You will not lose your save files. As you can see these are very safe mods to install.

I would like to update the pack with a few more things sometime, comments and suggestions are appreciated.

My poor body!

Jeeeeesus christ (I'm not a beliver) my body is acing (is that the correct word?). I've been to my first Judo practice for ages... My plan is to take 1DAN now, I should have done that like 4-5 years ago but it never happend, I were too lazy.

Anyway!

The what ever number video about the RS NOR latch is currantly uploading, it should be ready for all of you to see withing a few minutes. Check it out! RS NOR latches is the best!

Texture Update

I decided to mess around with the texture pack again, trying to see if I could do any better. I ended up making alot of changes that I liked. Tell me what you think.

IMPORTANT: Make sure to use the HD patcher link here or you'll have problems.

Installation Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKGebwGv4Y

http://www.mediafire.com/?230ae9nl479fdpq

Showcase - My Log house and Stone house

As you can probably tell by those lower pictures, I've started using a new texture pack. If anybody wants details on it then just ask, it's a bit complicated to install and requires a bit more computing power to run.

1kk sold

This is old news since a few days back, but for those of you who have missed it, Mojang and Notch have now sold over One Million(1kk) copies of Minecraft!

Let's do some fast calculations...

Let's say the first 900,000 copies that were sold were Alpha accounts which you had to pay ~10 euro to get.
900,000 * 10 = 9,000,000
That is Nine million euro.

That would then leave us with 100,000 Beta accounts sold for ~15 euro each.
100,000 * 15 = 1,500,000
That is One point five million euro.

Add those together and we see that Mojang has made over 10 million euro on Minecraft!

Gerudoku Texture

Since Tombones is unable to update his texture pack at the moment I decided to do my own mix using mostly his a few from other updated packs.

http://www.mediafire.com/?230ae9nl479fdpq

You'll also need this
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=46173

And if you don't know how to install it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKGebwGv4Y

All credit goes to tombones (And to the people he's credited) I just copied and pasted a few images around.

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