It's Saturday again already? Wow...this science stuff has me losing track of time. Quantum Physics is hard - more on that in a minute - but first thing's first; the question.
THE QUESTION (YOU MIGHT RECALL MY MENTIONING IT A MOMENT AGO)
A little while ago (relative to me writing this), Markus "Notch" Persson put forth a strangely self-fulfilling question:
As you will soon see, I gave this way too much thought.
Loaded questions have a funny way of guiding us in our thinking. If someone were to ask, "Do you hate it when creepers barge in and blow up your house, which you spent hours working on?", most of us would nod in agreement. Now, what if we took that question, and changed up the wording a little bit? "Don't you hate it when you forget to put down enough torches for lighting, and a monster spawns in your house?" is a very different choice of words for what is essentially the same situation. You still have a creeper-sized hole in the ground where your house used to be, but the tone is completely different. The first question aggressively blames the creeper, and the second one places mild fault on the builder instead. So, I suppose there is some benefit in being able to identify loaded questions to avoid entire articles being extracted from a simple yes or no after all.
No, I'm not putting a link for Google here. We all know where it is already.
QUANTUM MINECRAFT OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE SCIENCE
If you haven't heard recently, Google is seriously considering the current generation of Minecraft players for tomorrow's quantum computer scientists. "How is that even possible," I ask myself, noticing no one else in the room? It goes a little something like this:
SCIENCE. This stuff isn't for the faint of heart, so skip to the next section if you aren't ready to have your MIND BLOWN. I'm not even kidding here.
qCraft is, in short, a mod that brings the principles of quantum physics to the world of Minecraft. One example might include a block that changes what type of block it is, depending on whether you're looking at it or not, whether you're looking at it from a specific angle, or based on seemingly random and arbitrary criteria you have zero control over. MinecraftTeachr gives us a pretty good summary of the mod:
We’ve done our best to create something that we hope will be fun to experiment, build and play with while also introducing players to the fascinating and (in the context of the macro-world we inhabit) counter intuitive way that quantum entities interact.
qCraft is not a simulation of quantum physics ... but it does provide ‘analogies’ that attempt to show how quantum behaviors are different from everyday experience.
In addition to individual players, we hope that parents and educators who want to introduce quantum physics concepts to curious kids will find it useful.
Honestly, all the stuff this mod does cannot possibly be summarized here. If you like exploring new and largely untapped areas of quantum physics, this mod will keep you busy for months, if not more. I've had a chance to mess around in it a bit for the last few days (mostly making really cruel creeper-filled traps that activate when my friends looked at them), and it seems like I trip over new discoveries with increasing frequency, often when I'm not looking for them. (Yes yes, I know...bad joke.)
If you want to know more about the mod, you can check out qCraft on their site, and play it yourself. It can be played either stand-alone, through the FTB Unleashed modpack, through Tekkit, or through Hexxit. Keep in mind, if you want to play it as a stand-alone mod, you will need Forge 1.5.2 installed.
Good luck, and don't break the universe!
THIS WEEK IS ABOUT YOU
It seems like no two people can agree on this; we all love Minecraft, but we don't all love it for the same reasons. Some of us play it heavily modded, treating the game like a foundation for other mediums. Others use it to create vast works of art - architectural, pixelated, and otherwise - and still others dive into the game exactly as Survival gives it to us, with all the First Nights and creeper ambushes that come with that. Even in this respect, not everyone agrees on whether the game is best played alone, with a small group of friends, or with a massive group of players.
There ultimately is no "right" way to play the game, and that is part of the beauty of it. I know how I like to play Minecraft, but what about you? What are your favorite game modes? Do you play alone, or with friends? Vanilla, or modded? Maybe you play in a completely unexpected way that no one considered, coming up with challenges and entertainment that no one else has thought up yet?
I love how this goes from quantum physics to asking how you play Minecraft xD.
I play Minecraft depending on what I feel like If I want to do something in redstone-creative if I feel like building a legitiment world-Survival or I just build in creative and if a mod like Thormod (Not The Thor Mod) ever comes I'll play that.
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I play it pure vanilla because I have to. My old mac can not handle mods or texture packs, and my dad is too protective of the computer to let me get hamachi. But I am not resentful, because I am just thankful that this computer can handle updated minecraft at all. I play a survival world at peaceful at first, just to give me a chance to prepare for monsters. Then after a while I switch to easy, and someday I plan to switch to moderate, maybe even hard some day.
Also, I play survival, for I think half the fun is the gathering of materials, and exploring the world around you. A quarter of it is the building and planning of the game, and the last is of course the satisfaction upon completion of a build.
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QCRAFT is nuts(awesome and crazy)! I spend my time on Minecraft by experimenting with my favorite mods and making them work together.
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I always love to play with a small group of friends, but not too many. I love to build and make redstone, but nothing too huge. I always try to invent new things in the game. I usually play only vanilla so that I can share what I make with everyone else.
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Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door is by far the world's best Nintendo game ever made.
Do you want a cookie? Yes:
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I play mostly unmoded and in default textures. I make a land of redstone technology along with MCedit. I don't play singleplayer survival, but I do play survival on servers. I watch people like Mindcrack. I do also make some designs.
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Cheese door, iron sky, happy Iceland. I just said random words. The reason of this: complete random, but the question is, why are you reading this?
I mostly play survival on Multiplayer servers (with plugins). If I'm bored I will play survival in Singleplayer. I also have a creative world called "Lab" in each version that I do experiments in. I don't use any mods.
I think it's quite important to be able to identify a loaded question, as well as all the other logical fallacies:
Otherwise, I find it likely that 90% of decisions would be made based off of reasoning that is invalid. And I believe our society is still leaning towards the later, unfortunately...
I love hardcore mode the most. Its the thrill of surviving against the odds and knowing that when you die, its forever! It puts a new edge on things, but I like that edge. Sometimes it makes you appreciate things more.
Still, when I'm not playing hardcore, I've got my own 'easy' server where I can kick back and relax in my castle...
i've got my own small server running for me and five friends (never had that many on at once though lol.) and it's on creative mode ATM, we've been building things like a hospital, a floating sponge castle, I have a hotel, and even underground bedrock bunkers.
one day we will switch to survival mode, but for now the aspect of building is what we like.
that and hoping some of our suggestions get brought in to vanilla.
I usually play Vanilla - Use to be addicted to FTB, but for now just waiting for DW20 and Launcher Update - On Vanilla, I start and play normal like all of you. I go through my daily routine then, when I hit redstone, it all changes. After I hit that one redstone, it is time to automate. I don't mean just a couple things, I mean my entire house. Bed pops out of the ground so I can sleep, potion dispensers to move quickly around my base, Auto-Wheat farm, Auto-Reed farm, monster spawner, cow farm, etc. Everything I use gets automated one way or another other than daily activities. Keeps me going and it forces me to make things from items I normally wouldn't use. Everyone should try this, it really is quite fun.Also, with the new launcher - Thanks for that by the way - I find it easy to make multiple modded and unmodded profiles.
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Besides of server play modes (pvp and his variants, creative, minigames, etc), I play mostly tecnical-arquitectonical survival, making traps an mechanisms for getting items in massive quantities. And in creative I like to make architectonical experimets and redtsone/commands mess. From a device wich displays with redstone lamps a countdown form nine to zero from a menger sponge made with sponge block as big as the 256 blocks height allows me.
There ultimately is no "right" way to play the game, and that is part of the beauty of it. I know how I like to play Minecraft, but what about you? What are your favorite game modes? Do you play alone, or with friends? Vanilla, or modded? Maybe you play in a completely unexpected way that no one considered, coming up with challenges and entertainment that no one else has thought up yet?
I play both alone and with other people, oddly, on the same server.
I play both for my own enjoyment, and to (try to) entertain others.
I don't play to watch my computer play.
But I do like exploration. I play with Mystcraft, so I can see new landscapes, new features, new things. I play with Twilight forest, so I can see new landscapes, new features, new things. I play with EBXL for the same reason.
But I keep the basic gameplay the same. I don't play with things that take over the game play. Not that things like Terra-Firma-Craft, or Thaumcraft are not good mods to play with, it's that they are different games.
I guess, ultimately, it's taken me a long time to put that issue in such a simple description for me. And this is why I play with the mods I play with.
I do like decorations. I have many different decoration blocks available. But I have vanilla game play in new environments.
(In regard to a mod that gives realistic animal genetics):
Would you really rather have bees that make diamonds and oil with magical genetic blocks?
... did I really ask that?
The only mind-blowing experience I've ever had, is the realisation of how amazingly non-mindblowing these socalled "mindblowing" fact and experiences are.
I don't care about the latest releases. I automate EVERYTHING, my goal is to be able to have a logistics pipes system avalible everywhere (AE just doesn't cut it) and request something, I try cramping in as many mods as I can at once, it used to be easy with 1.5 but for some reason although I only have 1 jarmod (forge) my game crashes when I add mods, when I modify already made modpacks, it's fine though O_o
I got about 160 mods running and I want more, more and more. I currently play only on singleplayer because I like adding mods whenever I want, instead of offering an admin, even if the server uses a private pack. (I play on 1.6 but in the near future I may start playing on servers again, especially if I could contribute to a private pack server's pack).
Last time I played unmodded was in 1.1, when I was freshly after my noob era (since beta 1.4 - when I started playing, but during the 1.9 prereleases my noob era was done) I do remember using some sort of modpack for beta 1.5, with portalgun, mo' creatures, airship and some other mods...
I play Vanilla survival, Vanilla with Resource Packs, Hardcore, FTB and Tekkit modpacks... I play on servers and on LAN, I work on adventure maps and purely aesthetic builds, play with different combinations of my favorite mods, and sometimes dabble in some utterly terrible redstone engineering.
There are so many things to do in Minecraft... why commit yourself to only trying one of them?
I love to play Minecraft with mods, because Minecraft cannot honestly go anywhere without mods for me! Although, I went about two years playing with vanilla. Eventually when I got to installing mods for Minecraft, I just couldn't live without em'.
THE QUESTION (YOU MIGHT RECALL MY MENTIONING IT A MOMENT AGO)
A little while ago (relative to me writing this), Markus "Notch" Persson put forth a strangely self-fulfilling question:
As you will soon see, I gave this way too much thought.
Loaded questions have a funny way of guiding us in our thinking. If someone were to ask, "Do you hate it when creepers barge in and blow up your house, which you spent hours working on?", most of us would nod in agreement. Now, what if we took that question, and changed up the wording a little bit? "Don't you hate it when you forget to put down enough torches for lighting, and a monster spawns in your house?" is a very different choice of words for what is essentially the same situation. You still have a creeper-sized hole in the ground where your house used to be, but the tone is completely different. The first question aggressively blames the creeper, and the second one places mild fault on the builder instead. So, I suppose there is some benefit in being able to identify loaded questions to avoid entire articles being extracted from a simple yes or no after all.
Of course, we're not done here. Let's do some science, courtesy of MinecraftTeachr, Dan200, E-Line Media, the California Institute of Technology, and last but not least, some avid supporters at Google!
No, I'm not putting a link for Google here. We all know where it is already.
QUANTUM MINECRAFT OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE SCIENCE
If you haven't heard recently, Google is seriously considering the current generation of Minecraft players for tomorrow's quantum computer scientists. "How is that even possible," I ask myself, noticing no one else in the room? It goes a little something like this:
SCIENCE. This stuff isn't for the faint of heart, so skip to the next section if you aren't ready to have your MIND BLOWN. I'm not even kidding here.
qCraft is, in short, a mod that brings the principles of quantum physics to the world of Minecraft. One example might include a block that changes what type of block it is, depending on whether you're looking at it or not, whether you're looking at it from a specific angle, or based on seemingly random and arbitrary criteria you have zero control over. MinecraftTeachr gives us a pretty good summary of the mod:
Honestly, all the stuff this mod does cannot possibly be summarized here. If you like exploring new and largely untapped areas of quantum physics, this mod will keep you busy for months, if not more. I've had a chance to mess around in it a bit for the last few days (mostly making really cruel creeper-filled traps that activate when my friends looked at them), and it seems like I trip over new discoveries with increasing frequency, often when I'm not looking for them. (Yes yes, I know...bad joke.)
If you want to know more about the mod, you can check out qCraft on their site, and play it yourself. It can be played either stand-alone, through the FTB Unleashed modpack, through Tekkit, or through Hexxit. Keep in mind, if you want to play it as a stand-alone mod, you will need Forge 1.5.2 installed.
Good luck, and don't break the universe!
THIS WEEK IS ABOUT YOU
It seems like no two people can agree on this; we all love Minecraft, but we don't all love it for the same reasons. Some of us play it heavily modded, treating the game like a foundation for other mediums. Others use it to create vast works of art - architectural, pixelated, and otherwise - and still others dive into the game exactly as Survival gives it to us, with all the First Nights and creeper ambushes that come with that. Even in this respect, not everyone agrees on whether the game is best played alone, with a small group of friends, or with a massive group of players.
There ultimately is no "right" way to play the game, and that is part of the beauty of it. I know how I like to play Minecraft, but what about you? What are your favorite game modes? Do you play alone, or with friends? Vanilla, or modded? Maybe you play in a completely unexpected way that no one considered, coming up with challenges and entertainment that no one else has thought up yet?
Let's hear about how you play the game!
I play Minecraft depending on what I feel like If I want to do something in redstone-creative if I feel like building a legitiment world-Survival or I just build in creative and if a mod like Thormod (Not The Thor Mod) ever comes I'll play that.
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Also, I play survival, for I think half the fun is the gathering of materials, and exploring the world around you. A quarter of it is the building and planning of the game, and the last is of course the satisfaction upon completion of a build.
Click the above image for science! Some people think it's a scam. But it's not. Why else would I put this in my sig?
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door is by far the world's best Nintendo game ever made.
Do you want a cookie? Yes:
Yes the moon can be orange, you'll see it when the moon has just risen.
Cheese door, iron sky, happy Iceland. I just said random words. The reason of this: complete random, but the question is, why are you reading this?
Otherwise, I find it likely that 90% of decisions would be made based off of reasoning that is invalid. And I believe our society is still leaning towards the later, unfortunately...
I usually have a neutral/undecided standpoint on things. And yes, I am part Swiss.
Still, when I'm not playing hardcore, I've got my own 'easy' server where I can kick back and relax in my castle...
one day we will switch to survival mode, but for now the aspect of building is what we like.
that and hoping some of our suggestions get brought in to vanilla.
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Tee hee. That question is a big one for me -- http://binarymage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1043 -- where I started a 5 page discussion on "what is playing the game". Some people like automation. Not me.
I play both alone and with other people, oddly, on the same server.
I play both for my own enjoyment, and to (try to) entertain others.
I don't play to watch my computer play.
But I do like exploration. I play with Mystcraft, so I can see new landscapes, new features, new things. I play with Twilight forest, so I can see new landscapes, new features, new things. I play with EBXL for the same reason.
But I keep the basic gameplay the same. I don't play with things that take over the game play. Not that things like Terra-Firma-Craft, or Thaumcraft are not good mods to play with, it's that they are different games.
I guess, ultimately, it's taken me a long time to put that issue in such a simple description for me. And this is why I play with the mods I play with.
I do like decorations. I have many different decoration blocks available. But I have vanilla game play in new environments.
* Promoting this week: Captive Minecraft 4, Winter Realm. Aka: Vertical Vanilla Viewing. Clicky!
* My channel with Mystcraft, and general Minecraft Let's Plays: http://www.youtube.com/user/Keybounce.
* See all my video series: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-editions/minecraft-editions-show-your/2865421-keybounces-list-of-creation-threads
(In regard to a mod that gives realistic animal genetics):
Would you really rather have bees that make diamonds and oil with magical genetic blocks?
... did I really ask that?
May the force be without you.
I got about 160 mods running and I want more, more and more. I currently play only on singleplayer because I like adding mods whenever I want, instead of offering an admin, even if the server uses a private pack. (I play on 1.6 but in the near future I may start playing on servers again, especially if I could contribute to a private pack server's pack).
Last time I played unmodded was in 1.1, when I was freshly after my noob era (since beta 1.4 - when I started playing, but during the 1.9 prereleases my noob era was done) I do remember using some sort of modpack for beta 1.5, with portalgun, mo' creatures, airship and some other mods...
More Mods = Better
More (close) Friends = Better
If you don't believe me, read this: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1963748-minecraft-the-mod-update/#entry24175475
And be convinced.
If you do believe me, watch this:
And be confused.
There are so many things to do in Minecraft... why commit yourself to only trying one of them?