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Succession or community forts tend to have a set of rules or role-play style objectives, you may have more fun joining/starting one of those. We started one on another forum and it became an unwritten rule that each ruler would make an obsidian tower tomb before his year was up, in addition to whatever other projects they had in mind. The random stories that come from these forts are absolutely priceless, and one of my favorite things about this game. There's so much detail waiting to be found if you just look for it.

It sounds like you just need some structure to give you a goal, if you can't come up with something yourself (due to lack of creativity or lack of knowledge about the game) this is a pretty fun way to do so. However, it is possible this just isn't the game for you, and that would be unfortunate, but there's a lot to love here and hope you find a way to enjoy it.

I think you want the tile magic thread actually.

Cool, re-installing would have been my next suggestion. Glad you got it working, it's definitely worth the price. I would also recommend trying multiplayer once you really get used to the game. I never play anything online because of the sheer amount of jerks there usually are (and amount I know that like to brag about being one) but on a good server, this is possibly the best thing ever. Try to get a skin before that though, too many default skins online, have fun!

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Kind of surprised the call for screenshots hasn't produced some amazing works yet. 

Well it appears FRAPS doesn't like DF anymore, but I took a couple with the in-game tool. They are severely cropped, and kind of hard to see (damn FRAPS) but do show off some of the different tiles.

in the new fort


Some wilderness


Use them if you like, until some good ones come along anyway.

No, the smallest ones move toward you and push you around, but don't hurt. They're great pets

...I don't think that would even be possible, considering that a Minecraft world isn't flat. Well, I guess it would be possible, but it would require one heck of a huge amount of sea!

Depending on what your view distance is set to.
-(yeah, ninja, I know)-

Regarding land claims, what happens if someone decides to surround your land with a ten-foot wall, then claim that? Though, I think generally they are a good idea, they need to be worked out quite a bit. Maybe limit the number that can be placed dependent on the number of players. Or allowing the number/possibility to be set by the person running the server?

Oooh...will probably start a new world tonight to take advantage of the new fun stuff.

By the by is there a way to use the custom textures WITHOUT using the hacked client?  I'd imagine we won't be able to login to multiplayer with a client that allows you to speedhack, fly, etc.

To use custom textures, open the minecraft.jar file and replace those inside. It should be in your %temp% folder. Check here for details. (old but still same process, pretty sure same thing for MP)

Also, besides the realistic texture pack Taels texture pack is pretty nice too.

And make a backup of the textures you use, they will be overwritten when Notch updates.