You know you’re addicted to Minecraft if you’ve screamed any of this before.
Minecraft– the video game that has well and truly taken over YouTube. We’ve all playedSlenderandAmnesia; we’ve all been spooked byFive Nights At Freddy’s; we’ve even playedElsa Goes To The Dentistfor a laugh. But we’re STILL coming back toMinecraft! So, for anybody who thinks they’re the biggestMinecraftfan in the entire world, then here’s a way to prove it – if you’ve ever screamed/shouted/screeched any of the thoughts below, then we’re happy to tell you’re than you’re 100% a hardcore Minecraft player.
Let us know how you do in the comments and don’t forget to tag your friends to let them know you’re a Minecraft MLG.
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Please stop calling it ‘online lego’.
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Why the hell did I just make eye contact with that Enderman?!
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Here’s a fun idea: A literal game of ‘The Floor Is Lava’
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Why can’t I build anything more impressive than a shack of cr*p?
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Don’t worry, I didn’t want to find any diamonds this month anyway…
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Oh god.. did I just hear a SHHHHHHHH?!
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Damn, I went exploring and lost my house… AGAIN.
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Why did I just spend hours making a cool new trap room when I’m playing single player?!
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If I can hold the heaviest objects in the world, why can’t I jump over that fence?!
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Is Minecraft seriously nearly 7 years old?!
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Yup, I totally meant to just fall in lava and lose all my stuff. It’s cool.
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*prints out the Minecraft periodic table to figure out WTF I’m doing*
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Yes, I finally finished building my dream home… OH GOD NO NOT GRIEFERS!!
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Thanks Creeper, I didn’t like my new, hand-crafted and painstakingly-reimagined Hogwarts castle anyway.
Minecraft community’s latest tool randomly connects players to one of over 3,000 servers
Above: Minecraft is getting a new way to help you discover multiplayer servers.
Image Credit: Mojang
Running into a room full of strangers is not something I would advise in the real world, but that’s what video games are for.
Mineboredis a new community-created tool that enables Minecraft players on PC to randomly join one of over 3,000 live multiplayer servers. It is as simple as entering “play.minebored.com” into the block-building survival game’s “Server Address” field and then hitting “Refresh.” Minebored will then quickly return a joinable game. If you don’t like what you find, just go back and hit Refresh once again. This could enable Minecraft players to start discovering fun (but lesser known) servers populated by other people. It’s also an example of how Minecraft’s fans have kept the game fresh with new features that even developer Mojang and publisher Microsoft are not working on. In a gaming market worth $99.3 billion, that kind of community support is what sets apart a forgettable release from a phenomenon like Minecraft.
“The goal [with Minebored] is to be able to discover new servers — small, medium, and big — without ever leaving your launcher,” Reddit user and Minebored creator Unsquarableswrote in a post. “It’s still in early beta, but works pretty well overall.”
Above: An example of searching for a random server using Minebored.
Minebored will move forward by adding new servers to its lists. The project may also even remove some of the more well-known servers to increase the likelihood that people will come across something smaller and new. But that will require a lot of manual work because the team responsible for Minebored has not built any automation tools.
“We don’t currently have any way of submitting new servers to the database,” wrote Unsquarables. “But you can message me any new ones, and it will be added in the next update.”
Finally, Minebored will also get more options in the future. Instead of just any random server, players will have the option to use something like “pvp.minebored.com” or “factions.minebored.com” to only get player-versus-player and faction servers, respectfully. Again, that will require some extra work by the Minebored creators.
“We will need a lot of help curating those and keeping them clean,”wroteUnsquarables.
Everyone’s heard of the LEGO-like world-building game Minecraft and its creator Notch, but how many other games by the famous billionaire developer do you know?
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who’s not heard of the block-building procedurally generated open world game Minecraft, originally created by Swedish developer Markus “Notch” Persson.
With a playable build first publicly available in 2009 and a full version released in 2011, it quickly became both one of the best-selling games of all time as well as one of the most influential, turning the independent developer into a billionaire when he sold the company toMicrosoftin 2014.
ButMinecraftisn’t the only game that Notch has developed. Both before, during and after the release of Minecraft, Notch developed smaller, free indie games, usually for various game-making jams and competitions.
Here we’ve gathered a selection of some of the Minecraft creator’s lesser-known work, and where you can go to play them (if you can still do so).
1. The ‘4k’ Series’
The 4k series of games was Notch s attempts at creating a series of games taking up less than 4kb of space
Starting from 2005 and ending in 2010, Notch created at least one game for theJava 4kgame-making competition almost every year. With an outcome of nine games, most of these games were clones of other games (including Mega Man, Left 4 Dead, Lemmings and Sonic) with the aim of creating a game that took up less than 4kb of space on a hard drive.
Blast Passage was Notch’s fan-game mix of Bomberman and Gauntlet
Originally created in 2008, Blast Passage is an interesting mix of two video game classics – Bomberman and Gauntlet.
Featuring four-player local multiplayer, you must navigate monster-filled dungeons by collecting keys and dropping bombs to exterminate your enemies.
Basically, if you’ve ever played Gauntlet or Bomberman, you know what you’re in for here. You canplay the game in your browser hereif you want to give it a go!
3. Bunny Press
Bunny Press has you running away from advancing walls of doom – and also there’s bunnies
Released in 2009 for the Ludum Dare 14 game jam,Bunny Presswas created within 48 hours by Notch, with the game having to adhere to an ‘advancing wall of death’ theme. As such, this game is a violent puzzle game where you try to get to the end of the level whilst avoiding obstacles. Oh, and of course there’s bunnies.
Unfortunately, this is another case of a game being lost to time, thanks to Mojang’s site wiping all of Notch’s smaller games when the company was sold to Microsoft.
4. The Europa Arcology Incident
The Europa Arcology Incident was Notch s attempt at a sci-fi rogue-like game
The Europa Arcology Incident,was created by Notch for the Ludum Dare 16 competition in 2009 in just 48 hours. The game was a sci-fi rogue-like game and was well received.
Metagun is Notch’s meta game where you shoot guys who try to shoot you
Created for the Ludum Dare 18 competition in 2010,Metagunwas another game created in under 48 hours. You play as a man who fires a gun that fires men who fire guns at you, and you’ll need their bullets to destroy obstacles and enemies in your way.
With a great concept fairly-well executed – especially given the time constraints – this is a good example to prove how skilled of a game developer Notch really is (if Minecraft isn’t enough for you).
Although the original Ludum Dare upload no longer exists, a Reddit user has postedthe game’s source code here.
6. Prelude of the Chambered
Notch’s game ‘Prelude of the Chambered’ is a first-person dungeon crawler game
Created for the Ludum Dare 21 competition in 2011 (the same year that Minecraft saw its initial full release),Prelude of the Chamberedis another game developed by Notch in less than 48 hours.
The game is a short first-person dungeon crawler, where you explore a dungeon for power-ups and keys to navigate further and collect treasure. Also, you can punch bats, which is always a bonus in video games.
Minicraftmay look and sound familiar, and for good reason – this surprisingly complete game was developed for the Ludum Dare 22 competition and borrows several elements from Minecraft.
You roam around a world greatly resembling the original Legend of Zelda game, chopping down tress, mining rocks, fighting zombies and building shelters as you aim to ‘kill the only other sentient being in the world, making sure you’ll be alone forever.
Notch’s game ‘Last Minute Christmas Chopping’ is his Christmas-themed arcade game
Created for the Ludum Dare 28 competition in December 2013, Notch decided to go with a particularly festive themed game for his entryLast Minute Christmas Chopping.
Playing as Santa, you must run through the forest and gather as much wood for your elves as you can within one minute. The game is still playable via your browserhere if you’d like to have a go!
9. Drowning in Problems
Drowning in Problemsis perhaps the weirdest pick of the bunch here, but interesting in its own right. A minimalistic game, you’re first presented with a sentence reading ‘there is nothing’.
A deep game cleverly using the competition’s theme of ‘beneath the surface’, the game sees you growing in age with your list of problems and needs growing larger as the game continues.
Drowning in Problems is more difficult to explain than it is to play, but it’s certainly worthgiving a go in your browser here, if not just to see the diversity of Notch’s games.
10. Shambles
Notch’s game ‘Shambles’ is a first-person shooter with zombies
One of the more recent smaller projects from Notch was Shambles, a short first-person shooter game released in 2013.
In Shambles, you roam through zombie-ridden streets, firing away at the undead intruders whilst attempting to avoid police and spare innocent civillians.
Created for the 7DFPS game jam, this game’s graphics are fairly reminiscent of Duke Nukem 3D – though the game is fairly less complete than that, as your aim here is simply to survive for as long as possible.
If your kids are going to play video games anyway, then you may want to make sure they’rereallygood at it. Why? Well, take for example this group of grade and middle school kids from Maryland who got a $15,000 shared college scholarship for winning the second Super League GamingWorld ChampionshipinMinecraft.Super League Gamingis a four-week league wherein participants play games in theaters. The 10- to 14-year-old players calling themselves Live2Craft bested 450 other groups of all ages (mostly grade- to high school-aged, though) from 68 cities across the US.
While the 5-person team won the scholarship prize, the top-scoring player in the league is from another team in California: a 10-year-old kid named Julien Wiltshire. He wasalsothe first season’s top scoring player and even took home a $5,000 scholarship prize. This time, he defeated almost 2,000 other gamers — twice the number of the first season’s participants — earning him the right to brag that he’s now a two-timeMinecraftchamp. He might also be gearing up for the third season starting on April 30th, so if your younglings want to join, it may be wise to start training them pronto.
Minecraft: Wii U Editionproved to be a download success when it arrived on the eShop late last year, albeit Nintendo gamers have had to wait for some key updates, while the Nintendo-exclusive content announced with the launch is still a mystery. Nevertheless, developer 4J Studios is still improving the Wii U version, and has released a new patch to step it up another gear.
It’s a notable update as it adds Achievements, Wii Classic Controller Support, a Story Mode skin pack and more besides. The full changelog is below.
Added Story Mode skin pack.
Added achievements.
Added support for Wii Classic Controllers.
Added new “Minecart Sounds” option to Audio Settings.
Added Huge Mushroom Blocks to the Creative and Superflat menus.
Improved sprint control.
Fix for issue where the Ender Dragon would be immune to attacks.
Fix for Slimes not spawning in certain Swamps and Slime Chunks.
Fix for Potion of Swiftness, Potion of Slowness and Speed bonus of Beacon having no effect on the player.
Fix for teleporting a player while they are sleeping in a Bed not working properly.
Fix for some chunks in the Overworld not generating for clients of a multiplayer game.
Fix for issue where Experience Orbs could not be obtained by some trades with Villagers.
Fix for Thorns enchantment not affecting players.
Fix for MCCE #747 – TNT cannon not working.
Fix for MCCE #659 – Doors have a weird texture on top when open (And other sides).
Fix for MCCE #1854 – Grass positioning is perfect.
Fix for MCCE #1826 – White tulip description incorrect.
Fix for MCCE #1756 – Witch Hut Bounding Box Too Small.
Fix for MCCE #1260 – Submerged Witch Huts.
Fix for MCCE #483 – Camera jitter and player unable to move when looking at chest you are standing on.
Fix for MCCE #863 – The map does not work as it should (unless “View Hand” is turned on).
Fix for MCCE #1757 – Slimes spawning in witch huts.
Fix for MCCE #1739 – No icon in item frame map.
Fix for MCCE #1803 – Item frames vanishing in very strange draw distance.
It appears to be a decent update, all told. If you’re in the Wii U Minecraft crew check it out and let us know what you think.
For a limited time on Google Play, you can pick upMinecraft: Story Mode, published and created by Telltale Games, for only $0.49. Typically priced at $4.99, this is quite a deal for fans of Minecraft and Telltale.
In this game, you play as a team of Minecraft realm dwellers, tasked with saving your world from dark, magical powers. You will travel across the land all of the way to the Nether in your quest to make your home safe again from the Ender Dragon. All five parts of this episodic series are available for multiple platforms, and your $0.49 purchase unlocks the first chapter. Once you are completed with that, you can purchase a season pass or each chapter individually via an IAP.
The game is playable on basically any device, but most notably, is compatible with Android TV and supported controllers, such as SHIELD TV with the SHIELD Controller.
