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[Urist McScoopbeard]

I like building buildings. I have no interest in building stuff that are modded-in factories or quarries or anything like that. I like building scenic castles and forts, that kind of thing. If I played survival I might have been interested in tech mods, but I don't take any joy out of optimizing block factory layouts. Now if you wanted to actually build a huge factory structure, I would love that.

Anyways, when I build an epic thing, I lose motivation to keep building because people will never use it. I still like it, but looking at it on a proverbial shelf gets very tedious very quick. I'm not sure of any better way to explain it. When I build a huge castle, I'd like to be a plot point or something, or a common area to where people go, I can't exactly do that with just myself.

[Gabeux]

Hm. I'm not a guy that's a Member of Minecraft's Community - I never even played online with random people or used it's forums - but I'd bet you should look for a server that uses maps and quests or that sort of thing, or even join with someone who makes adventure maps. I'm pretty sure there's a whole community around it.

But now I get what you mean. A loooong time ago I used to make maps for Tibia (yes) back when the Open Tibia servers started becoming a thing.
Then I got demotivated since every big server had dedicated mappers so mine would probably never made it.
I wasn't all that much into it, though, but again..joining up with people who has the same desire would be your best bet, and taking the first step and making an experiment wouldn't hurt anyways.

[Spehss _]

Anyways, when I build an epic thing, I lose motivation to keep building because people will never use it. I still like it, but looking at it on a proverbial shelf gets very tedious very quick. I'm not sure of any better way to explain it. When I build a huge castle, I'd like to be a plot point or something, or a common area to where people go, I can't exactly do that with just myself.

Make custom maps?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

@Gabeux, the only problem with the MC community is that most of it is... prepubescent. Of course, being only 18 there are number of people I get along with who are a number of years younger than I am, that said, there are a lot people are who are just annoying as all hell and frankly it's difficult to sort through the mess of the MC forums.

But that's secondary I guess. You make a good point, there is a community around this kind of thing, and while i've done some light-ish searching around MC forums, I've turned up precious little. I found my last group there, but the project isn't moving along at decent pace, though things might have changed since I last showed up.

@Spehss_, I could, I could, it's not a bad idea really, but when it comes to making whole maps I'd like to have a few buddies to do it with. I'll confess, I DO get tired after a while. The interest comes and goes, but it always returns! So ya, social building is nice too, especially when you have a lot of competent people with great ideas.

EDIT: Maybe MC just isn't the game for me anymore. I just want to build things and see people derive enjoyment or wonder from using/seeing them, which oddly enough, seems to be lacking in a lot of MC stuff. Even the RP servers. Perhaps there is a better game out there?

[Graknorke]

Oddly enough PvP clan servers often have demand for fancy buildings, once you get past the level of desk-chair general basic fortifications and stuff. The mixture of utlilty (storage space, traversability, defensibility) and aesthetics often results in something quite nice to be around. Better than a castle where most of the rooms are useless anyway.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Oddly enough PvP clan servers often have demand for fancy buildings, once you get past the level of desk-chair general basic fortifications and stuff. The mixture of utlilty (storage space, traversability, defensibility) and aesthetics often results in something quite nice to be around. Better than a castle where most of the rooms are useless anyway.

I've thought about that, haven't looked in to it too much though, perhaps I shall.

[FearfulJesuit]

Question about light detector blocks. If you placed a light detector block at the very bottom of an extremely long and opaque shaft, would it only receive enough daylight to power itself for a split second at high noon? Could you use this to set an accurate clock?

[Jiokuy]

Question about light detector blocks. If you placed a light detector block at the very bottom of an extremely long and opaque shaft, would it only receive enough daylight to power itself for a split second at high noon? Could you use this to set an accurate clock?

From what I know, unfortunately Minecraft renders daylight in such a way that noon is no different from any other time past the end of dawn but before dusk begins.

However, and this is a theory, you could likely construct a clock by using two daylight sensors and calculating the time between activation.

Although since outside of server play redstone is infallible, and day length is a constant, that construction would ultimately be redundant.

And since redstone is fallible in SMP, an atomic (accuracy) clock would be nearly impossible.

hmm I sort of want to make a clocktower that uses outward facing pistons to emulate hands now.

Ninjaed

[scrdest]

Question about light detector blocks. If you placed a light detector block at the very bottom of an extremely long and opaque shaft, would it only receive enough daylight to power itself for a split second at high noon? Could you use this to set an accurate clock?

However, and this is a theory, you could likely construct a clock by using two daylight sensors and calculating the time between activation.

Or possibly count ticks of a circuit that is sustained by the light detector versus unsustained ones to compare day and night.

[Dorsidwarf]

I started playing minecraft, uh...


uhh....

about a week before the first version of infdev was released.

I dont even know how long ago that was.

[MarcAFK]

Feburary 2010..... A few months before I discovered DF...

[Elephant Parade]

Sometime in 2012, I think? I, too, discovered DF after Minecraft. I discovered it through the wiki, actually.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Beta 1.3.

[TheBronzePickle]

I got into it probably probably not too long after it first launched. I got to see some of the great monuments of the ancient era first-hand, and even helped build one or two. I was wary of buying it because, while it was certainly fun building things with the blocks, I just couldn't imagine it ever getting really worth the money.

It's coming up on six years now. I'm glad I gave in.

[miauw62]

I bought this just before the halloween update. Don't know when that was, exactly.