Minecraft General

[Furah]

How do you get the hookshot?

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=83644

[LinkOlaran]

Be careful with the hookshot, though. It does absorb some fall damage sometimes, but it can and will throw you up high enough to hit the sky limit and kill you if you're not careful with where you hook onto >.>

 

Useful for high up build projects, though. Makes getting up/down a bit faster if you're good at aiming and hooking onto the right areas.

[Napalm]

I just realized some sounds in my minecraft aren't working. Basically, I get the steps and mining sounds, but any sounds made by monsters doesn't work. Any reason this is happening?

 

I'm playing the free alpha offline version.

[LinkOlaran]

I noticed with my own version that my sounds don't load up instantly/at all when I first open Minecraft. Sometimes I have to restart it a few times to get the sound to work, other times I just have to play for a few minutes and they slowly load on their own (also noting that they don't always come in at once, I got steps to load, then mob noises, then finally block breaking sounds the last time this happened).

 

I'm not entirely sure what version you're using, though. If you have the files for Minecraft installed on your comp, then maybe it just didn't download something correctly. If the sounds won't play at all, try redownloading it and see what happens?

 

I'm no tech geek, so I'm a bit clueless here, sorry.

[Napalm]

I'm playing Alpha v1.1.2.

 

I've been playing for a week, redownloaded 3 times, and in all my playing The only sounds I get are the ones you get when you place blocks, mine blocks and step on certain surfaces.

[LinkOlaran]

I don't have much information on this problem atm, but I'm looking at the support section of the Minecraft forums (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewforum.php?f=17) to see if it's a common issue. So far, all I've turned up is that with the 11/11 update a few days back, one person had their sound disabled in the ingame options menu, and trying to set it up made it crash. A post further down recommended that he go into the options.txt and set the volumes up that way (in the options.txt, the max volume, 100% is equal to 1.0). Seeing that you're playing an older version, though... hm. I'll keep looking, I'm sure there's a topic for this issue somewhere on the forum.

 

I'll edit this post/post again if I find anything else. Oh, and if you look into your resources folder, how many .ogg and .mus files do you have in each folder inside? I backed up the old version (same as your version number), and mine has...

 

[spoiler=List of Files]

- 3 files in the resources/music directory

 

- 3 files in the resources/newmusic directory

 

- 13 files in the resources/newsound/ambient/caves directory

- 6 files in the resources/newsound/damage directory

- 2 files in the resources/newsound/fire directory

- 4 files in the resources/newsound/liquid directory

- 51 files in the resources/newsound/mob directory (this one here could be the one that has the missing files)

- 16 files in the resources/newsound/random directory

- 28 files in the resources/newsound/step directory

- 8 files in the resources/newsound/vehicle directory

 

- 16 files in the resources/sound/step directory

 

- 14 files in the resources/streaming directory

 

 

Check and see if your files match mine in numbers? I know for a fact all my sounds worked back when I played using this version, so if you have missing files, that's the problem.

 

Hope I helped somewhat. Like I said, I'm no tech dude >.>

[Peregrine]

I used to have those sound problems too. I found that pressing SHIFT-F3 ingame resets (something, the sound engine perhaps?) and you should be good. It wasn't a permanent fix; I kept having the problem - although I haven't had it since the Hallowe'en update. However, it is pretty easy to use the SHIFT-F3, and you don't even have to reload your world.

 

Press SHIFT-F3 a few times just to make sure it works, I guess. If it doesn't, then I'd suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the Minecraft .jar files. You might have something corrupted up there, or who knows what. Make sure you backup/copy your save files to a separate location first, though.

[LinkOlaran]

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=51345

 

This is all I got so far, which is typical -.- exact same issue, but it just says to delete the resources folder and Minecraft will redownload everything next startup. Supposedly.

 

What Pere just said seems to be a common thing to try with sound issues, though - from what I read it forces Minecraft to debug everything, and resets sound in the process. Worth a shot (and something I'll be remembering the next time my sound stops working as well).

 

Really hope something helps. I know how annoying it is to have sound not work.

[Napalm]

I don't have much information on this problem atm, but I'm looking at the support section of the Minecraft forums (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewforum.php?f=17) to see if it's a common issue. So far, all I've turned up is that with the 11/11 update a few days back, one person had their sound disabled in the ingame options menu, and trying to set it up made it crash. A post further down recommended that he go into the options.txt and set the volumes up that way (in the options.txt, the max volume, 100% is equal to 1.0). Seeing that you're playing an older version, though... hm. I'll keep looking, I'm sure there's a topic for this issue somewhere on the forum.

 

I'll edit this post/post again if I find anything else. Oh, and if you look into your resources folder, how many .ogg and .mus files do you have in each folder inside? I backed up the old version (same as your version number), and mine has...

 

[spoiler=List of Files]

- 3 files in the resources/music directory

 

- 3 files in the resources/newmusic directory

 

- 13 files in the resources/newsound/ambient/caves directory

- 6 files in the resources/newsound/damage directory

- 2 files in the resources/newsound/fire directory

- 4 files in the resources/newsound/liquid directory

- 51 files in the resources/newsound/mob directory (this one here could be the one that has the missing files)

- 16 files in the resources/newsound/random directory

- 28 files in the resources/newsound/step directory

- 8 files in the resources/newsound/vehicle directory

 

- 16 files in the resources/sound/step directory

 

- 14 files in the resources/streaming directory

 

 

Check and see if your files match mine in numbers? I know for a fact all my sounds worked back when I played using this version, so if you have missing files, that's the problem.

 

Hope I helped somewhat. Like I said, I'm no tech dude >.>

 

I'm missing the resources/newsound folder, as well as the resources/streaming directory. I only have the steps folder inside the sounds folder, and 3 music tracks.

 

Gonna try what Pere said tomrrow.

 

EDIT: Okay, I think I'll just delete the resources folder. I'll check on the results tomorrow.

 

Thanks alot for the help guys!

[LinkOlaran]

Glad that something may have worked :)

 

Well, the hookshot made me all nostalgic, so I dl'ed some LttP soundtracks, and installed a zelda texture pack. Cave delving + hookshot + zelda textures and listening to the dark world dungeon theme = extremely nostalgic. And epic. (at least to me)

 

Trying to locate some more diamonds now. I have 23 back at base, but I want more >.>

 

EDIT: And yes, the hookshot does come in handy for some of the areas I'd normally have to use ladders/dig out stairs in. Makes things faster :P I still don't trust my aim enough to hookshot over lava, though.

[Zilla]

When Notch adds the Dungeons and Levers/Adventure Mode, I hope he creates a hook shot, would be pretty fun/interesting.

[oreocookie987]

So I tried out my Nether Portal today.. it comes out at a ledge right over a massive lava pool, which I'm guessing is above the bedrock so I must be near the bottom. I tried to acquire some of that "Lightstone" and managed to gloriously fall into aforementioned lava pool to my death. Bye bye Diamond Pick and Shovel... but its ok, 14 more Diamonds at home : D

 

Also replicated

with great success today, if anyone wants to try or needs a quick elevator system.

[Aeon_]

So I tried out my Nether Portal today.. it comes out at a ledge right over a massive lava pool, which I'm guessing is above the bedrock so I must be near the bottom. I tried to acquire some of that "Lightstone" and managed to gloriously fall into aforementioned lava pool to my death. Bye bye Diamond Pick and Shovel... but its ok, 14 more Diamonds at home : D

 

Also replicated

with great success today, if anyone wants to try or needs a quick elevator system.

Do you need a lake to do that? I just want to make an air one! D;

[oreocookie987]

So I tried out my Nether Portal today.. it comes out at a ledge right over a massive lava pool, which I'm guessing is above the bedrock so I must be near the bottom. I tried to acquire some of that "Lightstone" and managed to gloriously fall into aforementioned lava pool to my death. Bye bye Diamond Pick and Shovel... but its ok, 14 more Diamonds at home : D

 

Also replicated

with great success today, if anyone wants to try or needs a quick elevator system.

Do you need a lake to do that? I just want to make an air one! D;

No you don't, you just need the waterfall and the directed flow at the bottom, as shown in the video. It can easily be made in a 4x4 shaft or space with the waterfall running down one side, that's what I did for mine.. it replaced my ladders for my mine shaft.

[Flodder450]

Who of you guys was today in the Specialattack.net Freebuild server?

[LinkOlaran]

I can't access multiplayer since I'm on dialup (it might work, but it'd lag like hell, so no point :P)

 

Decided to start building a castle. Traveled fairly far away from my spawn point, found a fairly flat island that I'm slowly terraforming into a fairly good place to build on. Using a web based inventory editor (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=65093) to give myself the cobblestone/dirt/sand/etc, but I'm building it by hand. Well, once I finish the beach, anyway >.>

 

Also dl'ed the elemental arrows mod. The explosive arrows helped a bit with the destroying of rock in some places, but I (stupidly) spammed the egg arrows all over the place and now I have a chicken infestation >_>

 

Trying not to dl too many mods, since if I start I probably won't stop (considering I have literally a thousand mods for Morrowind, most likely), but it's difficult... >.<

 

Probably going to put in an underground minecart station with tracks going to and from the castle and spawn point. Eventually. I do have a stack of iron blocks, after all...

 

EDIT: Gave into temptation. Glad I did:

 

 

This is Risugami's floodgate mod. While it's originally intended for trapdoors and floodgates, I figured... why not drawbridges/larger doors? And here's my best attempt at wiring a door roughly the size of a portal (ooh, maybe I could hide a portal behind a floodgate wall... >.>). I'm not particularly good at wiring stuff, but this was my best effort :P

 

And yes, I can right click on the main floodgate block (you can see it, it looks like the crafting bench texture in my pic) to bring up a screen to make the two blocks look like other blocks via placing the wanted block in it.

 

All in all, it's very fascinating, and hopefully something I'll be able to use in this castle I've spend the night flattening out an area for :P

 

Oh, before I forget again, link to the mod in case someone's interested: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80246

Edited November 17, 2010 by LinkOlaran

[oreocookie987]

Thought I'd throw up a few screenshots, see if anyone has any suggestions, comments, or opinions. I mapped out the entire cave system I found, apparently it connects to the same one directly below my house. Still a ton of resources to collect down there but I'm bored of it, may work on my minecart or water slides.

 

[spoiler=Show]

Lava skylight connecting to my garbage disposal.

 

 

 

[spoiler=Show]

The entire base from outside. All the waterfalls are man-made, as is the river in the front. I carved off most of the front face of the mountain. Picture taken from my spawn point. I may farm Lava in the Nether and turn the waterfalls into lavafalls (is that a word?)

 

 

 

[Dax]

I don't know if it is or not, but I use it all the time. My lavafall was recently changed so it's five spots, then it drops from the cliff, instead of doing one little fall, ten spots, then a corner and another ten spots. Something I never liked.

 

Got my Painterly skin back, too. :thumbup:

[Zilla]

I died on one of my saves, I lost all my stuff from a lava pit. I headed after the incident to my last base which was far from my spawn, I collected some tools from my base near spawn. I got back and went down into the basement to get some supplies. I didn't notice the Creeper in there. I had a shaft in it heading down to the bed rock. Hearing the sizzle and then the Boom, and then plummeting to the very bottom. Next time I will close my doors.

[Shiny]

Made one of those waterfalls right down into bedrock. Pics? Or nah?

[LinkOlaran]

Zilla, to avoid that happening again, put a dive pool at the bottom of the shaft - 2 (maybe 3 to be safe) blocks deep of water. That should nullify all the damage, assuming it's deep enough. Other than that, I'd be covering over the shaft with something when not in use >.< still, sucks when stuff like that happens. I've had several fall deaths since I got my hookshot, heh >.>

 

And Shiny, feel free to post pics :P I'm always interested in others' constructions.

 

Trying to get some snow to make a freezer in my basement atm. I thought about using ice (which is far more plentiful since I have the elemental arrows mod in), but there's no way I can light a room made of ice, it melts >.< after that, going to the Nether to get some lava to do a glass floor/lava underneath thing for my furnace room for kicks. Not sure what else to do after this castle is done, though...

[Zilla]

Actually the shaft was more to say a decorative shaft, I was planning to eventually add a lava pit at the bottom, forgot to cover it with glass. <_<

 

EDIT: Started a new save, found this withen minutes.

 

 

 

Biggest amount of pumpkins I've found at once. Also, this was moments before a skeleton which survived the day hiding in a cave came out and surprised me. Gave me a freight. It died and I collected the pumpkins.

[Zilla]

Night came, and my Creeper phobia has went up. There are 7 in the picture. 10 in total, 3 of them are hidden behind the hill. FML. I hope I can make the night, they come in numbers...

 

[Giordano]

feel free to post pics :P I'm always interested in others' constructions.

Same. I want ideas/inspiration/better methods for my own.

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This game will be impossible if Notch monsters worked together. Creeps the first in, bombing the outside of your house, spiders as shock troopers pouring in, zombies as regular soldiers, and skeletons providing covering fire.

 

Yeah me and a friend discussed the possibility. :oops:

 

But yeah. I hope they make another method of acquiring gunpowder. TNT is so useful but so rare.

[LinkOlaran]

I decided to look into how gunpowder is made in reality. It appears that it's made using a combination of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (assuming wikipedia is right). Charcoal and sulfur are easy to match up to stuff we could make in Minecraft as it is (the lightstone in the Nether is also called brimstone, which is also another name for sulfur, but that could be a problem to get... hm... charcoal is easy enough, just toss wood into a furnace and 'smelt' it - charcoal is made by removing the water and other materials from animal/vegetation substances, so this could work). Potassium nitrate is the problem, I don't really know how we could create that or something similar enough in Minecraft. Since it's also called stone salt, maybe... make it as a new item that could be obtained from either existing or a new stone block similar to gravel producing flint? I'm unsure, maybe I'm over-thinking this a bit... >.>

 

Doesn't really seem like a crafting recipe for gunpowder using similar materials to real life gunpowder will work too well, lol >.< the materials would still be annoyingly difficult to obtain, but I suppose two methods are always better than one... plus Notch could end up adding in sulfur deposits or something :P

 

Oh, and the thought of mobs working together and using tactics? That probably wouldn't end too well for me >_>

 

 

I guess I'll edit this post once I get back to my castle and screenie it to post here.