Minecraft Day Two

Continuing from where they left off last time, its day two in the real life version of Minecraft

Minecraft Day 1

Minecraft Day 1 is a live action version of what Minecraft would be like in real life. Watch as our hero faces his first day and Zombies. Check it out;

Minecraft Golf (And other weird fan golf maps)

A new variation of Minecraft has appeared, created by Tom Scott. Check out his version of Minecraft Golf, and Golf variations of varying other TV shows and games including Portal and Crystal Maze.

More Xbox Minecraft News

Recently more information regarding the release of Minecraft for the Xbox has been released. Features include;

• A guide showing you how to build things within the game
• 'Reminders' of what you currently have and what else is needed before the crafting is complete Will separate items into specific categories, such as “Home” or “Tools”
• The game will automatically craft your items (if you have them) into your desired build and places them in your inventory
• A tutorial will help a player survive the first night of the game
• The game will host 4 play split-screen co-op on one TV
• You’ll be able to connect with up to eight players online in a single world server.

Minecraft wins 2011 'NAViGaTR' game of the year award

Yes, it is indeed 2012 currently however ‘NAViGaTR’ the ‘National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers corp’ have recently announced the winners in 53 different categories. Minecraft was amongst them, Minecraft is the first game to win Game of the Year without winning any other awards. The closest to this feat dates back to the first awards year in 2011, when Grand Theft Auto III won only two awards (Game of the Year, Outstanding Action Game Sequel).

The Awards are voted on by 640 game reviewers and testers, and are meant to represent the opinions of real gamers

Minecraft`s Magic Kingdom

Another map feature today. This time it is a recreation of the Magic kingdom from Disneyland. Be sure to check out the Minecraft version of this stunning location featuring; the Contemporary Resort and Convention Centre, Main Street USA, Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain and Thunder Mountain Railroad, Adventure Land, Jungle Cruise, Tomorrow land, Space Mountain and Fantasyland by clicking Here.

Minecraft - Ending text with narration

If you have not already beaten Minecraft i suggest playing it legit. But for those who have, below is the ending narration with text.

Minecraft; The Novel - Entry 1

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility” – Albert Einstein

The sea rolled slowly, mist had rolled in and the sun was rising slowly as I awoke, gasping for air as I crawled onto the beach. I choked, coughing up the sea water which had been in my lungs. My first thoughts of terror had to be pushed aside quickly; I was lost, trapped on some deserted island. The sun was rising quickly... too quickly. If I was still on earth then the geostationary orbit had certainly been messed up.

“Where am I?” I shouted but only the slow rolling waves responded. There was a rustle in the nearby tree, it was a Spider. A huge spider, my mind was made up instantly, this couldn’t be Earth. The spider was massive compared to regular spiders which I had been so accustomed to seeing back on Earth. It screeched and I lashed at it with my fist, leaving it with a clawed scar.

It leapt forward and i jumped back instinctively between the nearby trees. The spiders glare penetrated my mind, its red eyes staring blankly at me before it turned and scuttled away through the undergrowth. The shock had scared me into thinking more about where I was. If this wasn’t Earth then where was it? From what little I remembered of my life on Earth no planet encountered was like this, even the most recent planets only showed some forms of undeveloped life forms. As I thought about Earth, the less I seemed to be able to remember.

By the time I had finished mussing over my previous life, the sun had reached its optimum height, and it was midday. I scanned the area again; the spider was nowhere to be seen. My stomach grumbled and I reluctantly began searching again for food. I walked until I came to a clearing, a sheep grazed on some grass, a cow plodded slowly along beside it. I felt my stomach groan and my health fade away as I collapsed from malnutrition, the effects of many days of starvation happening in what felt like mere minutes.

I was moments away from starvation; I had no choice... at least that’s what I would keep telling myself after. I had never killed before, at least in my vastly deteriorating knowledge of Earth, I had never killed. Now I had to. I had no weapons, nothing at all; the cow was less than a meter away grazing next to the sheep. I crawled over quickly and using my remaining strength, I pounced. When it was done, my hands were sore and I held several pieces of raw beef. I ate a piece and immediately threw up over the cow carcass that remained lying beside me.

In a last minute choice I quickly stripped the cow of leather. It took me till mid-evening but i had finally finished. I had constructed a make-shift rucksack. I quickly put my remaining piece of raw beef into the pack and continued onwards. I needed a weapon; my experience with the cow was something I didn’t want to have to go through. The blood stained my clothes and the cold was sapping my strength.

I searched for some twigs and quickly gathered some along with some nearby cobblestone. I quickly crafted some weapons. My short time in boy scouts paying off immensely as I looked at my new stone axe, sword and shovel. The sun was setting, the day had gone quickly and the moon was already rising. I needed somewhere to stay. I quickly ran for cover, hiding inside a nearby cave.

The sun disappeared and I waited for my eyes to adjust to the darkness that now enveloped me. I heard a scuttling noise behind me. It was a spider, the same spider in fact, its red eyes glaring. The small cut i had made earlier was still there. It seemed to be savouring the moment as it scuttled forwards, then it jumped. I slid back but the beast landed on one of my legs causing me to scream.

I felt my head hit against the stone behind me. I was cornered, and I felt dizzy; I felt the world spinning as the spider prepared to jump again. It jumped. I was frozen in shock. “Don’t move” I turned briefly seeing a slender figure standing behind me, a thin tunnel behind. WOOSH an arrow shoot past my hair caught briefly in the breeze generated as the arrow hit its target. The spider fell dead as my saviour`s shadow fell over me. “Sarah, it’s just another zombie, leave it” a male voice rang out from the tunnel.

“Give me a second” a female voice rang out as my saviour stepped forward. Her long blond hair rolled down her back like an anime character. Her diamond armour sparkled in the faint moonlight, the bow slung across her arm as she walked forward and yanked her arrow out of the spider. Turning round with a small grin she pointed her diamond sword towards me. “You going to get up or am I going to have to put you down like that spider?”

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Disclaimer; I do not own Minecraft, Mojang or any of that stuff. This was made solely for Minecraft Fan`s enjoyment

Profile - Nether Portal

One of the most difficult objects to build in Minecraft is the Nether Portal. Requiring the use of Obsidian to be built, the Nether portal is made using 14 or 10 Obsidian blocks. They are lit using flint and steel. The Nether portal is used to travel to The Nether.

Profile - The Nether

The Nether is essentially Minecraft`s version of an underworld or ‘Hell’ as some players refer to ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift. The Nether is a dark underground dimension with terrifying mobs that shoot fire and cause explosions. Along with the dangerous mobs there are lava flows, lava lakes and strange Nether fortresses.

Trivia; to enter the Nether you need to light a Nether portal (Made from Obsidian) using flint and steel and travel through the portal which that creates.

Profile - Far Lands

There is a place in Minecraft, far from the normal Minecraft landscape that most players see in their journeys. This place is the Far Lands. The Far Lands were an area of Minecraft that was in Minecraft versions before Beta 1.8 which was distorted beyond normal Minecraft levels. The Far Lands are situated around 12,550,820 meters from the centre of the Minecraft map – which would take players approximately 820 hours to walk to the Far Lands.Upon reaching the Far Lands the game becomes almost completely unplayable due to glitches and lag.

Trivia; A few players believe that the Endermen should be renamed Far Landers due to their slender tall appearance (one of the glitches that occurs near the Far Lands)

Minecraft 1.2.5 released

Given all the issues with the previous update, 1.2.5 has now been released. It includes the following fixes;

•Added shift clicking support in furnaces
•Added method to easily acquire blocks you have selected in the world in Creative mode using the ‘pick block’ key
•Made the Direct Connect dialog remember the last IP for the current session
•Fixed issues detected certain links in chat
•Fixed wild ocelots behaving like tamed cats
•Fixed various chat crashes
•Made cats less eager to sit on things
•Made cats less patient
•Fixed world generation failing under certain circumstances
•Fixed issues turning off sound under certain circumstances
•Removed all ghost entities under the command of Lord Herobrine
•Fixed crash when pasting certain characters in chat
•Fixed slash ‘/’ key not behaving correctly in certain environments
•Fixed command matching being too greedy (for example: typing ‘/stophammertime’ no longer stops your server)
•Fixed not being able to click coloured links
•Fixed potential issue with village door detection (which could cause too many villagers)
•Made using a stack of bowls on Mooshrooms not consume the whole stack of bowls
•Made punching a TNT block with flint and steel in hand destroy and drop a TNT block (right-clicking will activate the TNT)

Notch`s new game '0x10c'

Notch`s follow up to Minecraft, '0x10c', now has an official website. The synopsis of the game is as follows;

"0x10c is set in a parallel reality, where the space race never ended and space travel was gaining popularity among the rich and powerful. The year 1988 saw the release of a deep sleep cell whose unique programming caused a strange glitch: "a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years."

"Now, in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD, people are waking up to a universe verging on destruction, "with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy."

The game features many different aspects including;

• Hard science fiction.
• Lots of engineering.
• Fully working computer system.
• Space battles against the AI or other players.
• Abandoned ships full of loot.
• Duct tape!
• Seamlessly landing on planets.
• Advanced economy system.
• Random encounters.
• Mining, trading, and looting.
• Single and multi player connected via the multiverse.

Notch`s April fools - Mars Effect

Notch`s new game for April 1st is Mars Effect an April fool’s joke - which is a blatant parody of Mass Effect. Check it out for a laugh... if you have the same humour as Notch.