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I guess i'll help!

Scratchthatguys wrote:

I'm guessing you also want to be a tester? I've added a 'rolling' system to give the player and zombie a good chance of attacking. It also has 'stats' like speed and hearts.

yes. I would like to be a tester. Cause I still want to play. So how would it work?

Sounds cool, I'll test it when I get back from vacation (should be next Friday). If you can make .bat files play music somehow I can compose ambient-ish MIDI music like the original game's music 

Scratchthatguys wrote:

Can do! I just launch the music in the background in iTunes or Windows Media Player. I only need something to launch music (I don't have iTunes), and I can do it! I do have WMP, though...

So you can just tell write a command to open the .mid file in the batch, and it'll play in the background? Good then, but you'll have to turn the repeat feature manually. 

I wonder how mining is going to work though, multiple layers of terrain would be hard to add. Maybe any stone block has a chance of giving out ore when destroyed with a pickaxe, and better picks let you get better materials, like so:

Wood Pick: 24 uses, %5 chance of finding coal.
Stone Pick: 64 uses, %10 chance of finding coal, %10 of finding Iron.
Iron Pick: 128 uses, %15 chance of finding coal, %15 Iron, %5 Diamond
Diamond Pick: 512 uses, %20 coal, %20 Iron, %10 Diamond

Or there would be entrances to mines in the ground, in which you can mine like this, and also have a chance of finding dungeons or lava pools.

Last edited by technoguyx (2011-01-28 14:53:27)

Where do we start?

Maybe creating a developer server in my thing? All you have to do is give my your I.P. so I can netsend you a message. 
It will be easy, although you need to create the exact same file...
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We can actually set the stone block to a certain ore, or cobblestone, and we set the variable Pick to a rank, and it the rank is high enough you will get that ore. 0 is no pick, which means no ore or cobblestone. Same with axes and shovels, some are for sand, some are for dirt, some are for gravel. Some are for birch, some for pine, some for just... plain wood. 

Maybe each different tree would have a different use. I just looked up pine and birch in Wikipedia for clarification, and apparently birch is only used for musical instruments and the such, and pine for indoor stuff... So maybe regular wood would be the regular construction material, pine for furniture (chairs and beds which heal a little, a table to hold food and maybe workbenches?) and birch for... Erm, some instrument used to tame an special mob? 

Since birch doesn't have much use in a Minecraft-ey world, maybe add another tree whose wood is strong and increases tool durability when making tool with sticks of that tree, and you'd need at least an Iron axe to harvest wood from it. Also a fruit tree, maybe a coconut tree for a tropical biome, or bananas in a rain forest. 

Last edited by technoguyx (2011-01-28 15:05:15)

So would this be a TBG version of MineCraft? or would it start up the real MineCraft?

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

So would this be a TBG version of MineCraft? or would it start up the real MineCraft?

More like an ASCII version I think, kinda like Dwarf Fortress.

@Scratchthatguys: I read oak is good to cook stuff, so maybe you could make charcoal with it? Dunno about the computer idea though, I don't think anyone would be able to build a computer from scratch to survive.    But if it's done make it hard to build, with multiple parts, e.g. a chip made of redstone and Iron, the screen made with a diamond and some glass and then those are connected along with some buttons and levers, and you get a primitive computer. 

I suggest that apart from the coding we start making up the tech tree... Since I'm going on vacation and there's no computers there I'll bring some paper to scribble ideas in, then I'll scan it when I come back. 

Last edited by technoguyx (2011-01-28 15:12:54)

hmm, this seems difficult...
I don't know if this will end up working...

Scratchthatguys wrote:

We should also make graphics!
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Banana? XD
I need to brush up on my ASCII art...
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How about we have a Components bench? You can use it to make Radios, which needs a string, lever, diamond and chip to make. You can send messages with it by typing in /radio, and then press enter. To exit, type exit. 
Also, we might use 3 pieces of gold, 3 pieces of iron, and 1 piece of redstone for a chip?

I think it's better to have 1 character per block like in Dwarf Fortress. Here's a list of them.

So maybe O would be (cobble)stone, ) a banana, ♣ a tree, etc. If you can make colored text in batch then it'll be much less limited 

MS-DOS machines wouldn't run minecraft...