GenuineTexan

How have I never thought of this??? Wonderful idea, and seemingly makes a good use for the sluice. Since I'm so picky about my housing location, I would often travel pretty far in the early game giving me a lot of time to collect ore chunks while walking, and as such, I never really used the sluice. Sluices work with all types of ore, correct?

Don't forget: Different blocks affected by gravityHealth and thirst systemDifferent armor system (though this is likely to change)Items involving vanilla iron aren't available, unless explicitly changed to allow themSounds like a helpful idea for a wiki page, but be careful about being too divulgent. Wouldn't want to make it too easy for the newbies

Hello there, lovely Off-topic Crusaders! I know most of you will probably not remember me (I used to hang out in some of those codebreaker and indie-game threads, if you remember ), so I thought it might be nice to make my first post back into a bit of an introduction. My first year of college is about to come to a close and I've got an itch to rejoin the TFC community. With a tad more free time in the summer, I'm looking to start playing again too. Importantly, I've also made the decision to switch my major from physics to computer science and, since it has been almost a year since I've done any real, heavy coding, I think I might delve into learning the minecraft code base as a good refresher exercise. Not too much else going on in my life, but just thought I'd share that much with you all. So, as the post implies, I really haven't been watching TFC too closely since about November. I've read all of the front-page business and the new stickied "Beta 3" post, but otherwise I don't know too much. I also heard about the indefinate postponement of TFC2, but this did not come as too much of a surprise to me. Did I miss much else? Also, as a sidenote, I'm looking to join a TFC server soon, if such a thing still exists. Anyone know of good ones with fun people and reasaonable uptimes? (I'm aware of the specific sub-forum) Thank you all for reading, see you back on the forums! -GenuineTexan

Yeah, the anvils seem to be pretty fragile (you know, since a huge hunk of iron is fragile, right?). I had my iron anvil blown up on two separate occasions by creepers. Needless to say, I moved it inside after the second attack.

So much butthurt in this thread now. Like Treyflix said, please don't derail this topic. Move over to Off Topic forum and have a nice discussion there if you choose to continue this. Edit: I tried uploading a picture of a house i'm working on, but i can't link to png files? Do i have to save it as jpg for it to be allowed (too lazy to try right now)?

Kudos on a topic that actually got Dunk's attention before all the trolls got here. I would love to see some more development in the drawing/planning region too.

Well, thanks for the suggestions guys. I think I'm going to start playing World of Tanks again and I might start a new Morrowind save on the side. If I do end up finding a good MMORPG I'll let you all know!

I did some looking around and found a game called Drakensang Online. It seems pretty close to what I'm looking for and most importantly it doesn't have ridiculous anime-based graphics. Anyone ever played this game or know someone who plays it? Very interested to know more about it... Here's some gameplay footage:

Well, I'm not opposed to playing Runescape 2 (is that what its called?) since there were only like 30 people on each Runescape Classic server (the game I grew up with). Just not sure how active/balanced the "new" Runescape is. I tried playing realm of the mad god for about 20 minutes, but it seemed almost too simplistic. I have Planetside 2 which is really fun, but you need a good squad of people to have fun and its not quite RPG-ish enough for what I'm currently looking for. Great suggestions so far, though I'm still going to see if anyone else wanders in here with another suggestion before I try out Runescape again.

Hey all, I've been reminiscing about the times I played Runescape back in school with my friends (like 10 years ago) and it made me miss that style of game. So I ask you: do you know of any games that are along these lines? -Online, multiplayer -RPG-style elements -Subscription not required, though i'm not against games that have optional subscriptions -Browser-based -Relatively active community -Preferably very modest graphics with third-person view, I'm looking for a game that won't be too strenuous to concentrate on -Runescape-esque (if such a thing exists...) Thanks for any suggestions, guys! If my guidelines are too perfectionist then feel free to throw alternate ideas out there, I'm just looking for some sort of multiplayer experience.

Sorry, found it for real this time: minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history/Development_versions

Try this: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history

Use the website minecraftwiki.com for all the vanilla recipes. It also has a nifty vanilla change-log so you can keep track of all the silly things Mojang adds to Minecraft.

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Um... yeah, this has been talked about a lot. I think Dunk has even stopped by to talk about the possibility of gunpowder as a TNT block substitute in the future on a couple of occasions. They have these three minerals in the game for a reason...