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Fallen Kingdom will be fairly pointless without hardcore mode. I'm really focusing on managing hunger as a gameplay element as you explore and scavenge in the city.

I want to see how you can accomplish non-renewable food (or close to). The concept of Insomniac is also interesting...it leaves open a few choices for the player.

1. Stay in 1x2 dirt hole all night.
2. Bridge to other houses during the night.
3. Scavenge the grounds, however mob-infested.
4. Go into dungeons.
5. Circle the island and explore via boat or stay on shorelines.Also, I love AnotherMinecraftLP's Banner. Me gusta.

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I want to see how you can accomplish non-renewable food (or close to). The concept of Insomniac is also interesting...it leaves open a few choices for the player.

1. Stay in 1x2 dirt hole all night.
2. Bridge to other houses during the night.
3. Scavenge the grounds, however mob-infested.
4. Go into dungeons.
5. Circle the island and explore via boat or stay on shorelines.

Also, I love AnotherMinecraftLP's Banner. Me gusta.

I would either do one, four, or five.
One and five because they don't take hunger.
Four because spawn rates would be lower.

I'd personally do 2 or 4. If I can manage to get resources during the night, then I can explore and find landmarks during the day. Also, I'm extremely good at directions, which should be on my side.

Vechs, can you just tell us when Inferno Mines is coming out? Pretty please?

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Vechs, can you just tell us when Inferno Mines is coming out? Pretty please?

Soon.™

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What is that a pic of? Just wondering.

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Fallen Kingdom will be fairly pointless without hardcore mode. I'm really focusing on managing hunger as a gameplay element as you explore and scavenge in the city.

If Hardcore is too stressful, I might recommend doing a session-backup system. Every time you get done playing, zip up your save game folder. If you die, restore the map from the zip.

You still want to avoid death at all costs, but instead of losing the save file, you lose your progress since your last play session. This is what I did with Unreal World.

From my perspective, session based backups would be easier than wool-claiming based, since (at least for me) obtaining wool is a fairly slow process - I've played Lethamyr for several sessions, yet only have 1 wool. Either way though, I'd still be playing Fallen Kingdom on hardcore, just with backups in place of some type.

Hunger and food conservation should be interesting, though - although making it completely non renewable would be impossible due to zombies and spiders, unless you applied other restrictions (maybe some sort of "Healthy Eater" handicap, where you cannot eat anything that would be poisonous to you?).

I generally rarely die anyway, at least in vanilla minecraft. I'm unsure what to expect from Fallen Kingdom trap wise (I seem to remember you saying at some point you'd be keeping it somewhat light on traps, but I may be wrong), but hopefully I'll have little difficulty keeping myself going. It may be a smart idea for me to get used to taking damage on hard mode, though...


Hm, a general question to everyone - how do you play these maps, control wise? Do you have some sort of fancy mouse or have your keyboard set up to take advantage of hotkeys, or do you just use the scroll wheel on your mouse to select tools on your hotbar?

I personally just use the scroll wheel, but I also have my controls set up focused around the arrow keys for movement (right control is jump, right shift is sneak, etc), so I can't really use number hotkeys due to that, either.

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Fallen Kingdom will be fairly pointless without hardcore mode. I'm really focusing on managing hunger as a gameplay element as you explore and scavenge in the city.

If Hardcore is too stressful, I might recommend doing a session-backup system. Every time you get done playing, zip up your save game folder. If you die, restore the map from the zip.

You still want to avoid death at all costs, but instead of losing the save file, you lose your progress since your last play session. This is what I did with Unreal World.

I like the concept of Hardcore but i rarely ever play things in it (Cue me using NBT edit to turn hardcore off). In fact i normally play in a hardcore like mindset and in most of the super hostile maps I have beat I can count the number of times i have died on my fingers. However about 80% of the times I do die its due to stupid mistakes like opening my inventory while I am crouching over lava.

I think i will see if one of my more code savy friends can figure out a way to write a script to make a backup every 2 hours or so.

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Hm, a general question to everyone - how do you play these maps, control wise? Do you have some sort of fancy mouse or have your keyboard set up to take advantage of hotkeys, or do you just use the scroll wheel on your mouse to select tools on your hotbar?

I personally just use the scroll wheel, but I also have my controls set up focused around the arrow keys for movement (right control is jump, right shift is sneak, etc), so I can't really use number hotkeys due to that, either.

I have my Logitech g700 gaming mouse. I have set up marcos to switch to torch and place one super fast and then switch back to pick/sword. Another marco to switch to sword and then double tap foward and hit really fast (to send a suprise mob flying). I have my fourth key set to open my invetory.
Mostly i use the mouse for the DPI change which is useful when sniping mobs from afar or exploring or building or fighting.

As for my fancy keyboard? I dont really use the marcos at all, i just enjoy the feel of a mechanical keyboard.

If a ladder can become a thing of terror, then what could be made from these?

launchers:
High powered cannons: http://www.youtube.ng/watch?v=hHGAiKNPnlM
cow based trap: http://www.youtube.ng/watch?v=3hbnXDt7xsE

Or there's that one with the boat being lifted by a step on a piston, opening inventory reveals a step, that changes the shape of the step on the piston, letting the switch trigger... That can be anywhere that's loaded, all he'd need to do is let you open a chest, and there's a step in it.

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Cobwebs. Cobwebs everywhere.
I'm still placing my bets on NOCHYS. :3

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Completely off topic, but I just have to mention.
That's a sexy signature banner you have there.

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I think i will see if one of my more code savy friends can figure out a way to write a script to make a backup every 2 hours or so.

I have always wanted a save state mechanism for hardcore minecraft maps. I want it done modders!

I just finished Sunburn Islands. DEATH COUNT 0

Victory monument:


Pics of my base:
This map was by far the easiest one, but unlike The Infernal sky 2 this map was very entertaining and I loved every minute of it.

Btw I was playing Nightmare Realm for a very long time and this map was a great break from all the dying and frustration that Nightmare Realm gave me, so... going back to NR now, wish me luck, I'm half-way done with it.

0 deaths in Sunburn is too easy of a feat

0 deaths in Unconquerable, I'll give you 7 medals

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What is that a pic of? Just wondering.

Hello? Anyone gonna answer?

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0 deaths in Sunburn is too easy of a feat

0 deaths in Unconquerable, I'll give you 7 medals

I don't consider that as an accomplishment or something like that, I didn't die in The Infernal Sky 2 two and I guess many other people didn't too.

I have died in Nightmare Realm more times than in all the SH maps I've player all together and I'm only half-way done with it.

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Hello? Anyone gonna answer?

Get used to it. I'm still waiting for replies on several of my previous posts.

That being said, no one really knows what this is a picture of, except for Vechs, and clearly he doesn't feel like telling us.

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Ghasts and cobwebs, my two least favourite things united, QQ.

Inb4 blaze spawners too!

Who knows, maybe ghasts and cobwebs will be like Sodium and Chlorine, and they cancel eachothers effects out?

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I see ghast spawner and hidden blaze spawners.

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Inb4 blaze spawners too!

WAT.

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Get used to it. I'm still waiting for replies on several of my previous posts.

That being said, no one really knows what this is a picture of, except for Vechs, and clearly he doesn't feel like telling us.

Oh wow.... lol Well thanks for answering to me I guess... and what are the Inferno Mines? Someone said Inferno Mines in the page before this I think and I want to know what they are.