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[Emily]

@merlinus12 - Its actually possible to solve the redstone room using only one of the two.

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near the door if you place a single piece in the right spot, you can get the torch to short itself out, which will result in the door opening

[ultrudeus]

Emily said:

@merlinus12 - Its actually possible to solve the redstone room using only one of the two.

Spoiler

near the door if you place a single piece in the right spot, you can get the torch to short itself out, which will result in the door opening

This is true. I didn't read the spoilers until now, but back tracking the circuit that is what I did because it made perfect sense and obviously worked.

[merlinus12]

ultrudeus said:

merlinus12 said:

As a teaser - I'm reading through every post I can on cannon construction. I suggest you do the same =)

As long as your future puzzles don't require use to understand how an ALU works, I bet we can fumble through it.

It will probably just require you to operate it. I'm debating whether that would entail you just activating it or would require placing a block or two to complete it. Obviously, constructing a cannon from scratch would be too big a task (I'm still figuring the damn things out), as would any sort of "aiming."

I definitely want the next installment to give a little more freedom in solving puzzles - including more construction. After all, building is the bleeding heart of the game. I just need to come up with some clever ways to give you a little more material to play with without making every challenge too easy. With sufficient supplies, you can do just about anything in this game - which is awesome, but it makes puzzle-creation tricky.

Emily said:

@merlinus12 - Its actually possible to solve the redstone room using only one of the two.

Spoiler

near the door if you place a single piece in the right spot, you can get the torch to short itself out, which will result in the door opening

Didn't foresee that. Kudos. Doesn't bother me much though - after all, you really have to know your redstone to know you can do that. Glad to see I unintentionally gave you a few extra options =)

[yowto]

Also, in the tnt room, it was easier to

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break the glass and waterfall down

[merlinus12]

yowto said:

Also, in the tnt room, it was easier to

Spoiler

break the glass and waterfall down

Well yeah, but that's cheating. See rule 1. All the challenges are pretty trivial once you start smashing things (although, without a pickax it'll take you a while. Note to self - use more obsidian next time).

I'm really looking forward to Notch coming out with some kind of "Adventure Mode" that will let me hard-code in various permissions (like no breaking blocks) and implement a "save and reload" feature. That would make this feel much more polished and much less irritating to play.

[Klem]

Detroitsoldier said:

I still can't figure out the second test and I got past everything else, wtf!

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Use the coal to make the 2 cobblestone into rock via the furnace. Then in ur inventory make a button. place the button either side of the door and click it.

I cant get past the room with all the pressure plates and Tnt =(

[Uberubert]

@creator, the technical details :

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The tnt-room: You placed everything correctly, and I hit the correct tnt. The way things were set up, it should've hit the water but missed by just a tiny tiny itsy bitsy bit. I managed to jump down into the (now) coloumn of water and caught a cobblestone from the debris which I proceeded to build a platform with for an easy escape. Sadly I died when I noticed the chest, and tried to reach it past the hole in the ground everything.

[yowto]

merlinus12 said:

yowto said:

Also, in the tnt room, it was easier to

Spoiler

break the glass and waterfall down

Well yeah, but that's cheating. See rule 1. All the challenges are pretty trivial once you start smashing things (although, without a pickax it'll take you a while. Note to self - use more obsidian next time).

Ah, yeah, my bad lol. I was focusing on the fact that you could destroy the TNT that I forgot you weren't allowed to destroy the glass.

It'd be awesome if you could craft tempered glass with the lava or something. Or even so that if they tried to break the glass it'd explode due to high pressures and kill them

[Blade_N]

Awesome

[rosedragon]

This reminds me of the room escape flash games I used to create :3 . Good job!

[Tackers]

Too hard, I'm impaantient...

[karterkun]

the room with the tnt on the roof, i dont get the "clue" i walked in a backwards c and got blowed up
whats going on? ive tryied about 12 times i dont get it


Edit: nevermind i got it lol

[baumaxx1]

Ugh, the up elevator part was pretty annoying. ALmost died because I couldn't see where I was going and fell out.

[aegix drakan]

gonna give this one a shot....sounds promising.

[The K-man]

This is one of the most fun things ive done in MC. Still havent beaten it yet because ive only put in one attempt and ended up blowing myself to bits, but this is fantastic work and i would love to see a sequel.

[Bali123]

I'm trying to get the spawn point in the first room.

Maybe you should add a puzzle in the nether in the next chapter?

[CX gamer]

Finished it. Quite good.

Though I had a ton of items which I didn't know what to do with them.

[merlinus12]

Version 1.01 now available - fixed room 9 by increasing target size. Let me know if you have more problems.

[merlinus12]

Bali123 said:

I'm trying to get the spawn point in the first room.

Maybe you should add a puzzle in the nether in the next chapter?

I'm strongly considering it. Of course, that means I have to spend some time there and figure it out.

Thanks for working on the spawn problem. I appreciate it!

[meshunderlay]

The elevator room.... I don't get what I was supposed to do. I'm just guessing that whatever it was, I didn't do it....

I just built a pick axe then, paying close attention to the "only destroy what you put down" rule, made some cobble and used that to get up.....