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[TwilightVulpine]

Having coal/gold/diamond to appear on the surface. Since it's randomly generated and not too common, I don't see any problem.

When infinite multiplayer is implemented, the surface ores will not last long, so the players will have to dig sooner or later. Even now, as far as I played, they don't appear too often.

Hmm, one problem I can forsee from multiplayer survival is players extracting rare resources and disappearing with them, but this would be worse in limited size survival There could be something like magma eruptions replenishing ores. That would make lava areas more interesting, but since they are very dangerous in survival it would create an interesting balance.

[Guillaume]

I would just love to see random things popping out, old ruins, abandoned houses, huge chunks of rocks sticking out (instead of always dirt), stuff like that. Also, Neutral Goblin Villages to trade goods. The sky is the limit.

I believe Notch has planned this, through a function he calls "terrain features". Right now the only thing terrain features adds is trees, but he seems to join your ideas on it

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/464021044/caves-and-features

[kyn]

Right now the only thing terrain features adds is trees, but he seems to join your ideas on it

Speaking of trees, we got to have HUGE GODDAMN TREES like that tree generator they have in the forums.



I just love building my fort on a huge goddamn tree.

[Curseman]

Players need to be constantly losing their resources through death or something so that not everyone in a given server has diamond armor after the its 5th day.

[Guillaume]

You lose your inventory when you die, iirc.

kYn: That would be sweet! Although I personally prefer to have my bases underground 

[kyn]

That's actually just a cover up, I also have a huge underground base below my tree fort.

[TwilightVulpine]

But those resources are not renewable and every equipment has limited durability. Eventually a limited server would be depleted. Infinite servers would have depleted areas as well. Everyone might have a diamond armor after the 5th day, but eventually nobody will have much more than stone. Even stone can be nearly depleted with enough time.

(Is Minecraft promoting environmental consciousness? )

[Curseman]

But it would be cool if resources became super rare and players murdered each other over them.

[Guillaume]

Or if cities expanded, spanning over several kilometers, regions connected by bridges and secret underground passages, players working day and night to reach gold veins before the other cities...


OH THE AWESOMENESS 

[Guillaume]

“Perhaps all floating chunks of blocks should fall down, except for a special block (obsidian?) that can be used to make floating things. Floating islands would need obsidian veins to stay afloat.”

~ Notch on To-do list

Oh man imagine that- a team raiding another team's floating island, mining all the obsidian, leading to the crash of the floating island.  

So much can be done with Minecraft...Notch, you're our god now.

[Inanimate]

I just wish I could play it. 

[Guillaume]

Step 1: Get wallet

Step 2: Buy game

Step 3: Have your mind blown

It's not that hard...and 10 euros is a steal, too.

[Inanimate]

Step 1: Get wallet

Step 2: Buy game

Step 3: Have your mind blown

It's not that hard...and 10 euros is a steal, too.

It doesn't work, is what I'm saying. It crashes whenever it finishes loading.

[Guillaume]

Oh, my mistake.

Booh What kind of crash do you get?

[Inanimate]

Oh, my mistake.

Booh What kind of crash do you get?

Nope, Windows 7. Just updated Java. I don't know how much; the second the loading bars are done, the entire applet just kinda disappears, like it was never there. Here's the pic. It's just... gone.

It'd be nice if there was an offline version or something.

[Guillaume]

Aah, sorry for not having read the whole topic. I should think twice before posting. 

Mmh, on Windows 7 x64 here, no problem whatsoever. I'm using the Sun release of the Java VM.

However on my netbook (Windows 7,  32 bits) it doesn't work because the graphics chipset doesn't support the version of OpenGL version used by lwjgl (damn you, GMA500!). I get an exception in a popup though. Maybe for some reason your VM doesn't handle exceptions the same way? What's your config like?

[Inanimate]

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Aah, sorry for not having read the whole topic. I should think twice before posting. 

Mmh, on Windows 7 x64 here, no problem whatsoever. I'm using the Sun release of the Java VM.

However on my netbook (Windows 7,  32 bits) it doesn't work because the graphics chipset doesn't support the version of OpenGL version used by lwjgl (damn you, GMA500!). I get an exception in a popup though. Maybe for some reason your VM doesn't handle exceptions the same way? What's your config like?

First off, it's fine. Was just quoting for ease.

I'm not a computer guy, really, so I'm not sure how it's handling the graphics.

[Guillaume]

If you press the Windows key + pause key (or go in Control Panel\System and Security\System ), and then in "Device Manager", what does it say under "Display Adapters"?

[Inanimate]

If you press the Windows key + pause key (or go in Control Panel\System and Security\System ), and then in "Device Manager", what does it say under "Display Adapters"?

NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

[Guillaume]

That's a pretty old graphics card...if I had to take a guess, I'd say Minecraft uses an OpenGL extension (or potentially the whole OpenGL system) that is incompatible with it. Unfortunately, if that's the case, you'll have to wait for your next computer to play minecraft

As a last recourse, have you tried updating your graphics drivers (here if you have a 32 bit system)? If you use Windows 7's native ones, it could explain why it crashes.