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I've been using Imgur with no complaints.I'll give that a shot, thanks.
Those 18 (plus the 3 for the pick you had to make) would last you pretty much forever. The challenge is over already, and now you get to go exploring/building.Eh? Just the set of armor would take 24 diamonds. Throw in a sword and pickaxe, and you're looking at 29. And it's always possible to lose said diamonds to either stupidity or bad luck.
Huh. From the way people discuss Buildcraft or whatever, I had a different image in mind: You throw together your alchemy bench and solar collector (out of wood, of course), turn cobblestone into iron, iron into gold, and coal into uranium, before putting it all together into an infinite food generator and an automatic mining robot, and maybe a self-repairing house made of solid obsidian....and?I'm not sure you understand just how difficult it is to build the 'diamond generator'. By the time you have stuff like that running at and reasonable speed you would already be DONE with everything vanilla minecraft has to offer. Mods like this let you do anything you want in vanilla minecraft, and then when you get bored of YET ANOTHER CAVE/MINESHAFT/RAVINE then you can move on and do something else instead of going "Welp that's the whole game gonna go play TF2 now."
What's the point of any of that stuff? Take no damage from creepers? Kill zombies with one hit instead of two? The only good thing I see in that list is the jetpack; everything else makes an easy game effortless.
The point of Vanilla is exploration: seeing just how huge a random cave goes, discovering an underwater mineshaft, scoring big with your dungeon loot, carefully digging for diamonds on the edge of a lava pit. I know I feel satisfaction when I uncover a mother lode of gold deep in a cave. How much do you feel when you stick dirt into a diamond generator and flip the switch?
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...and?Leaving this gem of a tutorial over here.Yay, a tutorial for something I don't use!The point is to give a payoff for your effort, and a higher endgame.Apparently the actual mining part of Minecraft is. Isn't that the whole point behind infinite energy generators, or whatever the heck those mods do?Nothing about Vanilla is hardFixed it for youOr you could play vanilla. Hardly any crashes at all!But it's so hard...
Vanilla Minecraft: Work hard, build a house, explore a mineshaft. In the end you have diamond armor and diamond tools and... now what? Build a bigger house I guess.
Modded Minecraft: Work hard, build a house, construct machines to do certain tedious tasks for you. Use those machines to tackle objectives in hours which would take you days without the machines, such as building advanced machines or constructing condensers. Use those advanced machines and condensers. Eventually you still top out with endgame items but those endgame items are things like powered armor, jetpacks, laser blasters, rings that let you fly and fire heat-seeking arrows, etc. Making any one of those top tier items takes more effort than anything in vanilla minecraft.
Apparently the actual mining part of Minecraft is. Isn't that the whole point behind infinite energy generators, or whatever the heck those mods do?Nothing about Vanilla is hardFixed it for youOr you could play vanilla. Hardly any crashes at all!But it's so hard...
Fixed it for youOr you could play vanilla. Hardly any crashes at all!But it's so hard...
So.. what's the point of having regular size resolution sensors when you could just use the ones that are really low-res like 1? Does it lower the range or something?Very much so.
I could make a philosopher's stone and fix some of these issues, but...Ah-ah-ah! *finger wag*
40 coal from dirt to diamond.Yes, that's not unbalanced at all
And you can turn coal into mobius fuel for free in an energy collector, 1 mobius fuel will do a diamond and a half or so.
You can just use energy condensers to turn dirt into diamonds. It takes like 3 minutes from dirt block to diamond.*spit-take*
Is that even possible? I don't think you can wipe out invaders, for example. And the game will just run slower and slower the more you find.I do not think that there are goals in this game so much as challenges or restrictions. The closest you can get to a single Megaproject is technically just a special ship, or maybe a world with x amount of x, or such. Since Aurora is generally very 'spread-out', there isn't much mega to concentrate it into, y'know?
I disagree. Eliminating all sentient and semi-intelligent life within the entire available galaxy is an excellent project.
I don't really see the challenge in placing blocks in a line, but alright.I have not yet played them, but supposedly each of the blocks you need are in very hard to access/find areas, perhaps covered in traps. It's basically I Want to be the Guy in Minecraft form.
Then again, my house is a ridiculously complex maze of circuitry, pipes, tubes and machinery which performs highly complex tasks and functions so maybe I'm missing some artistic simplicity here? I never understood art anyway.Spoiler: Random tangent (click to show/hide)
Fake Edit:Completing the Victory Monument is how you win Vech's "I want you to hate me" hard maps.
Oh is that what this is? A map challenge? That is somewhat more interesting then.
