Topic: Minecraft

Minecraft

• New Topic: Minecraft
  I'm changing the title to "Minecraft" due to this being such a mainstream game. After all, it deserves its own thread on this site. Ask questions and discuss about the PC indie hit.
• Original Topic: Minecraft Questions
  I've heard of it, and there's even a free-to-play version available from the game's developer, Mojang, too. It's been recommended to me, but I don't know the minimal tech specs/system requirements for it. I know what it is too. Tech specs are the real barrier of entry for me. FYI: I use an Acer Aspire One 532h by the way. Yeah, I know. Terrible for PC gaming, right? Only an Intel Atom N450 w/ 1.66 GHz of processing power. No dedicated GPU.

Just for reference, I've been able to run Angry Birds Chrome on it in HD w/ a little lag. Bastion's a disaster though.

I'm not a big computer wiz, but if you're going to download it to your PC for free, just see how it runs on it on your own. Everyone has trouble with it at some point but since it uses up so much RAM it lags and freezes for the people with older PCs.

Minecraft... Any good pc or laptop will handle it... But it really uses a lot of resources.

If you had played something that wasn't so... meh, I could give you a bit better estimation on your average FPS. (Download Steam, TF2, etc.) Anyways, it should do okay.

Please no trolling.

Vincent, if you have an Xbox there is at least one minecraft-clone game in the Indie games section. My kids have downloaded it to two of our xboxes and they love playing it (and the multiplayer). I'm not sure what features it has in comparison to Minecraft, but it may satisfy your urge. I think it's called Total Miner.

Edit: There are also browser-based minecraft games that you can play that are free and don't require any download, etc. I'll try and remember to get the name of it if you're interested.

Also minecraft is coming to xbox in may.

Are you sure? I've been waiting forever for it.

You can also run Minecraft through your browser.
I doubt it will run very well, but there is really no way of telling how much lag you will actually get without trying it first.

Yeah, I mentioned those. Best of all, they're official ones from the devs themselves. As for clones, I hate them. They're from lousy devs trying to piggyback off others, not to mention they're lazy. I hate copycats like those. I will never support them. I also don't have an Xbox. Thanks for the help. So most laptops can run it? Good, even the weak ones can. Perhaps I'll give it a try one day.

Is the xbox minecraft releasing as a complete game?

I bought the iPad version last year expecting great things and I'm still waiting for them to make it at least sightly like the pc version..

I hope everyone likes the changes I made to the topic. See the new info in the 1st comment.

http://majornelson.com/2012/03/22/announcing-arcade-next/

Arcade Next
Trails Evolution april 18
Bloodforge Apirl 25
Fable Heroes May 2
Minecraft May 9

Almost. It is 1.6.6 I believe. There is crafting, survival mode, multiplayer local and online.

@Shingi

Thanks buddy! ^{I might buy an Xbox Slim for that and a few other titles including Splinter Cell Conviction.}

Check out this topic for a discussion on minecraft as well, VincentV.

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/other_gaming/minecraft_dis...

I've been getting into Minecraft again, after a break, and it's thanks to the Technic pack. On a previous save file (before I deleted it and tried again - I have a very low tolerance for the worlds that are created with the vanilla world generation), I piped lava up from the bottom of the world and powered a trio of geothermal generators to power a quarry. Unfortunately, I didn't plan the piping properly, and decided I'd might aswell start again. I was also playing on peaceful in the middle of a large body of water.

This time, I've been playing on Normal difficulty level (except for when a skeleton shunts me into a dark pit of skeletons with no torches on my hotbar), and am just about ready to start building some machines. I've pretty much stripped the caverns of every mineral I can find (it took long enough to find a good amount of diamonds after I accidentally mined some diamonds, which then dropped into a lava pool - all four of them, because my inventory was full with copper and tin, and I wouldn't grab them before they dropped into the lava), and have ammassed plenty of EXP, so now I think I'll take a trip to the nether, snatch some glowstone dust, and get to work on building up my base.

Oh...how come I never quite noticed that? Well, I'd suggest using that one instead, due to this being a duplicate topic.