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I'm going to assume it's a problem with your keyboard. I've switched Zoom-In with "x" for me, and it works fine.
Try cleaning out your keyboard, and if it's still problematic, then try uninstalling and reinstalling Optifine.

More Challenges here:

Vampiric: No sunlight (after the first day, of course)
Lycanthrope: Check the moon. Every full one, KILLING SPREEEEEEE!
Viking: Use only axes for dealing damage.
Johnny Appleseed: You can only eat apples, and only use oak wood. You also have to plant all your saplings, ever.
You broke the Gravity: Live in a house that's upside-down.
MCGamer: Mine ALL the Lapis. No, seriously. All of it.
Mass Murderer: In Multiplayer, kill as many people in five minutes as you can. You can't be seen by your victims.
Art Enthusiast: Have a room in your base entirely devoted to Paintings.
Lonely: Make a city. Be it's only inhabitant.
Crazy Cat Lady: Get as many cats as you can.
Triskaidekaphobia: You can never have anything to do with the number 13. You can't have thirteen of one item, you can't have thirteen stacks of items, you can't have 13 levels, etc.
The Land Before Time (and Direction): No clocks, no compass, no map.
Trapped in Hell: Once you enter the Nether, there's no leaving. Bring everything you'll ever need.
It's Very Dark: You have to always be on the lowest Brightness setting.
DAFUQ?: Quake Pro FOV forever!
Exercising: Walk a thousand blocks daily.
Simpleton: No books, no enchanting, nothing of the sort.
Magic Wire-less: No redstone, ever. And nothing related to redstone, like a button.
Third Person: Play in third person.
I Love You, Bedrock: Live at Bedrock level!
Highly Flammable: Live in a wool house.
Pollutant: Use only coal for smelting.

I have more of these, if anyone wants to hear 'em.

I once covered a friend's house in traps that had no purpose other than to constantly barrage him with weakness and slowness potions.
Then he paid me back by stealing all my sheep.
Then I got him back by re-arranging all the stuff in his chests.
And this cycle went on and on until an admin got really annoyed by it and banned us both.

It's coming out on October 17, 1995.

Air. Without it, you cannot live.

• Other than the first day, he can never go out in sunlight (There's no way to avoid that)

• After that, he either has to live underground or only come out at night, and seeing the sun means you lose the Challenge.

• Every night, he has to kill something to "feed" on it. This does not include undead monsters such as zombies and skeletons, and you can "feed" off your pets. Not feeding for a night also means you lose the Challenge.

• You also cannot eat anything that is a plant, or comes from a plant, like bread or mushroom stew. Your vampiric digestive system means you have to eat meat only. However, you can use plant products for other means, like using wheat to lure and breed animals. And you guessed it, eating plants means you lose the Challenge.

• Oh, forgot to add this at first. You are allowed to play on Peaceful. It's perfectly possible to complete all the parts of the Challenge without Hostile Mobs.

I honestly don't like the changes, but yeah, it was rather necessary, at least for the no-eye-of-ender drop part. I think it should be One Chest Inventory per Server, instead of per person, but it was an easily abusable system, and Jeb did the right thing about changing it. It was a bit of a dissapoint for me, but it was the right decision and I support Jeb for changing it, even if it did go against what I wanted. Besides, no matter what he does someone will complain, and I would rather have complainers than an unbalanced system.

True the above.

The main reason is to keep the game interesting, in my opinion: It's still fun when everyone goes caving and finds some diamonds by chance. But if Fred from above comes along with his Xray, and finds amazingly large amounts of diamonds, it ruins the fun of the caving and adventuring because when you have crap tons of basically the best thing in the game, there's really no challenge in it anymore.

Yeah, it's totally legitimate. I've seen it all the time!

Ghosts on the internet? Guess they got bored with scaring people in their own houses they have taken to VR housing games. I can just imagine the poor Sims 3 toons wondering if they are next to be haunted.

It could be that you are the chosen one and have the special version of the game. This version of the game is actually a test to fully see if you remember your past life as the hero and to help in your process of reawakening. What you need to do is go to the nearest park to your house and find the biggest tree. There will be a hooded man there and he will ask you if the bird flies on tuesdays. Tell him that iggy sent you and he will procede to hand you a package. Do not open the package but instead take it to the local corner store. Go behind it and find a little kid. Give him the package in exchange for a crayon. Take the crayon back to your house and clear out a 5' x 5' area on the ground. Draw a circle with the crayon and then 5 lines to make a pentagon in the middle. in the middle of the pentagon, put a glass of milk and cookies and then chant the incantations listed on the crayon. A beam of light will appear and shoot up into the sky. Wait for a while and then the beam of light will expand into a portal. Take a knife and some extra clothes with you into the portal, incase it gets cold. Upon entering the portal, you will see a girl dressed in a tuxedo. Give here the knife and your hat in exchange for two refined metals. Bundle the metal in your extra clothes so they won't get too cold. Find the volcano and climb up it, taking a break every 15 minutes, even if you feel like you don't need it. At the top, there will be a dragon. Kindly negotiate with the dragon and he will grant you your powers back in exchange for the two refined metals. Et Voila, you have awakened as the chosen one, the one chosen to lead Iceland into an age of prosperous growth.


IF you are not the chosen one, disregard this message. I can't think of any other reasons why it won't work.

No.

It was Mr. Green with a rope in the Library.

Want to know why I have no interest in PvP? You can spend weeks and months building the most beautiful whatever, and then some spoiled 10 year old comes and blows it up and thinks he's awesome. This is not my idea of fun - not at all.

Sooner or later I'll join a server, but it will be a friendly one where kids with temper problems are banned - or maybe not even invited.

Why do people say "its so awesome"? I dont get why people like it. All your doing is killing people. I prefer survival over pvp. Also, whenever I ask for a survival server, People give me a PVP. I dont mind PVP arena, those are actually quite fun. But whole servers arent.
I'll go on one if you guys can prove a valid point of why they are better then survival server.

PS: Minecraft was NOT meant to be PVP! It is a SURVIVAL/CREATIVE game! NOT PVP.

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I use xray

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i dont use xray

Make up your mind.

(Note for future reference: Satan likes the plains.)

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Finally the whole idea on the mob system is based on minecraft being a fighting game. It isn't.

I'm not sure you went with the right genre there. Minecraft will never be a fighting game. Action RPG or something, sure, even FPS. Never a fighting game. Ever.

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Usually such games as these are described as fighting games with mining elements. This is the reverse of the norm. That is why the mobs are so dumb and can actually be shut off by setting to peaceful mode. It was never about the mobs, it was about the sand box. Players can do/be whatever they want in the game, especially on servers. If I want mob items I don't even need to kill mobs, i can just make a mob grinder and be done with it. Fighting is only nescessary when the situation forces it, such as a few skeletons coming at you and you can't escape, or getting exp for enchanting. Thus this all renders any major changes to mobs, which may happen or not, kinda at the back of the line. Mojang still has other things to fix such as lighting glitches, crappy looking biomes, and other such nonesense. We can talk about it all we want but it won't happen no matter how much some of us may want it to.

Here's where any discussion on improvements in mobs gets a little shakey:

If the purpose was to be solely creative, you're really playing the wrong game. Minecraft itself is so basic it's nearly laughable when compared to any number of newer products (and older products - Source SDK, anyone?). This isn't a jab at Minecraft - this is the way the industry works. Doom is better than Wolfenstein, Quake is better than Doom, etc. The early adopters generally have fewer features, were designed at a time when many things were inferior (development team ability, time, computer requirements, etc), and may not exactly have had the clearest of goals set initially. This, again, isn't a jab at Minecraft - this is any game.

Notch himself (this is paraphrased, of course) has stated he wanted to create a game with an end, traditional goals, etc. That's the opposite of a completely open sandbox game. You can see achievements and The End as obvious proof of implementation on these design goals. Anyone that states that Minecraft was meant to be a simple voxel building environment is absolutely wrong and is most definitely using the wrong game for the goal they imply.

Mob grinders, as mentioned, are another topic that is clearly "not as designed" - since there is an effort to prevent this from happening. While mob grinders are fun from an engineering perspective, it was never intended to allow players to achieve ridiculous amounts of XP by abusing the mob AI and spawning mechanics. Improved AI, reduced wander rates, Endermen teleporting on contact of water (a traditional canal trap), etc have all set back grinder builds but only momentarily. Hopefully, when we have 1.3 and XP gain from normal tasks, we can move away from this very terrible player created mechanic of grinders.

Peaceful mode and Creative were features requested through feedback. Not in the original design.

The improvements to AI may sound more challenging, but I doubt you would be very impacted if mobs suddenly learned they can't walk on signs or opened trap doors. More aggressive mobs with better AI would only increase the immersion of the world as a visitor surviving in this foreign world. Many of the suggestions that Insurrection and others have made could drastically improve the game as a whole, adding to the adventure and survival aspects while still allowing players to express their creativity and problem solving abilities.

There is little compromise - if you want no risk and full reward.... that's not a game. If you want nothing but risk with only the reward of knowing you could "out click it" - that's not necessarily a game, either. At least, certainly not great ones, anyway.