Minecraft

[Abaddon]

I want it when it has multiplayer survivor mode

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I want this game but ugh. I can't buy it...Yet. I'd totally want to create a giant tree fortress with trees that grow out of it and the trunk is hollow and theres a mine underground and...or maybe a cloud fortress if that's possible. I just wonder if my old Windows 2000 can run it...Probably not.

If W2K can run JDK 6 then yes, it will work just fine. The game has no software requirements other than that.

 

[Macha]

If W2K can run JDK 6 then yes, it will work just fine. The game has no software requirements other than that.

Yes, yes it can [url="http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com], see here[/url]

Windows 7/XP/Vista/2000/2003/2008 Online

Interesting choice of OS ordering on the site.

 

[Karalysia]

I really can't get into this game for some reason, it gets old after a little while.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I really can't get into this game for some reason, it gets old after a little while.

Link to video.
I've gotten too lazy to play myself.

 

[Rub'Rum]

My post from two weeks ago.

I've tried to find YouTube videos of people using it (THE NETHER) for travel in some interesting ways. But mostly it's just videos of people going into the nether, commenting on how scary it is, then getting killed.

And the above video is that yet again.

 

[remake20]

Seananners

 

[!!!!!]

Seananners

 

[cardgame]

back on topic...

some art I found :3

 

[DirtyFinger]

christians have discovered minecraft and now claim it to be Christian Software!

http://objectiveministries.org/zounds/review-minecraft.html

At first glance the game doesn't appear overtly Christian, but the more you play the more it become apparent that the goal of its creator (a programmer named Notch) was to teach Biblical wisdom.

Yes, we heathens are now all being taught valuable christian lessons, apparently.

Many lessons from the Bible are delivered to the player through intuitive immersion: For example, the player learns through trial and error to build his shelter on solid rock instead of falling sand, much as we should build our lives on the rock of Jesus. This is the same lesson taught in Matthew 7:24-27, however by engaging the player in actively experiencing the parable, the game subtly and effectively reaches Secular gamers who might otherwise reject explicit witnessing.

Well, not even the most secular gamer would build a house on 'falling sand' in the scary real world. And you can't build on falling sand in minecraft either. Resting sand, however, is quite acceptable to build on in minecraft and our shelters don't give a flying fack if the sand disappears at a later date.
I wonder what biblical lesson that is? On second thought: scratch that. There loads of interpretations for castles floating in the sky, i bet.

One of the central lessons comes when the player realizes that the most important thing to craft in the game are torches. Demons can spawn anywhere there is darkness, like at night or in caves. Torches keep this from happening, conveying the importance of light in a dark world. This makes the player more receptive to the good news that Jesus is the light: "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness" (John 12:46) and "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12).

Or maybe it's just that the absence of light makes it bloody dark. I admire the attempt to make every instance of flipping a light switch into an acknowledgement of christian teachings.
Christans should patent the act of breathing next, for the holy spirit is the breath of life.

Anyway, they jesusified the torches because of Psalm 27:1 ("Light yadada Lord yadayada salvation [...]"). I wonder how the warm light of lava figures into it.

Another Biblical theme is Spiritual Warfare. Eventually the player is able to craft armor and a sword. This is necessary to survive the scariest of the demons, the creeper, which can silently sneak up on you and explode. Unlike other demons, creepers can survive sunlight without burning, teaching the player the value of putting on the Full Armor of God in order to engage demonic powers (Ephesians 6:10-18).

Surprisingly he stopped short of mentioning muslim suicide bombers. Probably just an oversight until the light of revelation shines on the sacred blogs.

To reach the Secular gamers who would never play an explicitly Christian game, Minecraft needs to be subtle and non-threatening, teaching Christian values without scaring off those whose hearts have been hardened by years of anti-Christian conditioning.

If minecraft was indeed intended to be what the Christian Gaming Zone thinks it is, then it's sublte and ingenious indeed. I still don't believe it and thus I'm snared in the iron grip of the hand of god.

Still, there are clues to the Christian purpose of the game. The most obvious is the name: Minecraft Alpha. This is of course a reference to Jesus' revelation that He is the Alpha and the Omega (Rev. 22:13).

That one got me suspicious: Is this whole article satire?

Also, the only animals in the game you can kill for food are pigs. This emphasizes the New Covenant with Jesus where we can now eat delicious ham -- a common ground we share with most Secularized people.

That was a quite blatant reference to our heathen friends on a muslim persuasion.

On Sunday a new Minecraft version (1.2.0) was released that increases the urgency of the game's message of Salvation by including the ability to witness Hell first-hand.

(The game's creator, Notch, was originally going to call this realm "Hell", but he thought that would make the Biblical origins of the game too obvious to the religion-averse unsaved gamers he's trying to reach, so he used the euphemism "Nether".)

I can think of so many reasons to not call it hell, foremost among them to escape the attention of certain christian ze- ... believers.

The Nether (Hell) is presented as a vast underground cavern composed of brimstone with lakes of fire (Rev. 20:10), without light (Mat. 8:12) except for the fires that burn everywhere.

Makes you kinda wonder if Matthews didn't read Revelations before he wrote 8:12.
No light, expect for the light. Torches=good, but fire=bad?

Minecraft's Biblically accurate vision of Hell is very disturbing and scary and will convince any unsaved person of the necessity of accepting Christ into their hearts before it is too late.

Funny fact: Jesus Christ always preached love and forgiveness and never of hell.
Hell was the favorite topic of the church, for fear creates a market for salvation, which the church happened to have a monopoly on. Hell was also popular in the old testament, as well as feat, punishment, wrath of god, etc., which basically made Jesus preach the exact opposite, because he was a nice guy.

Another new Biblical feature is a fishing minigame (Luke 5:1-11), which adds fish to the already existing loaves of bread as the most reliable sources of sustenance (Mat. 14:13-21, etc.).

Amazing how everything can be twisted into biblicalness ... must be the secret to their success.

Isn't there anything unholy in mincraft apart from being able to rebuild the tower of babel within a few hours? Or griefing the hell out of other players?

 

[Leonel]

It's clearly satire! I hope...

 

[Rub'Rum]

Obvious satire is obvious.

 

[remake20]

That was kinda weird. They can think whatever they want but I'm 99% sure notch didn't create it with that idea in mind. And Notch said he was calling it the nether to avoid upsetting a religion. And that alpha statement I laughed at. Whoever wrote that must not know that much about games.

EDIT: And I don't think the bible said there was anything in hell that was neutral. (in this case pigmen)

 

[Sprig]

oh it is not a christian game?

damm, I wonder if i can get my money back.

 

[DaemonDD]

Minecraft is a debate unto itself it seems.

 

[cardgame]

I want it when it has multiplayer survivor mode

That would be now

SMP Health Update is out

 

[Abaddon]

Really?!?

Tell me there is a server with all you guys on? I'd love to bump into people from CFC on it..

 

[cardgame]

Actually no, health is up but mobs and bows/arrows are still quite buggy.

PvP is workable however!

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Building a railroad!

 

[Newbunkle]

All the livelong day?