1) DrZhark
2)iChun
3)Spacetoad
4) Xie
All of these gentlemen have made mods that are so original, thought out, and useful that they have become part of my "vanilla" game.
This mod is a resimulation of Conway's Game of Life, where each cell (block) has certain rules for it to live or die.
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
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This is like the game I continually failed at, not knowing what to do and staring blankly at the flashing screen! Now I can see it in Three Dimensions!
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Chickens are spawning in my house! Help! PLEASE!
Your house has been compromised therefore you must blow it to hell.
Wow. iChun, you are the most incredible thing on Earth. First the portal gun mod, and now this. We need to invent a new word to describe your awesomeness.
Genius. Ever since I got a grip on how redstone worked, my first real project was to make a working game of life with it. However, the sheer complexity of the circuitry put me off.
Now thanks for you I can finally impress a couple electronic engineer friends of mine!
Waiting to see who will make a puffer train first =D
As mentioned in the first post, i have plans to tune it up abit, like using an item to place the blocks instead of crafting the blocks directly, and a faster tick rate, somewhat.. but, yea.
Thanks though!
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I used to play around with the game of life A LOT when I was younger, and including it in Minecraft is a brilliant idea.
One thing I'd love to see in this: an option for a full 3D version of the rules. I played around a bit with this idea when I was younger, and I think it would be possible to come up with a set of rules that behave in a similar way to the original Conway version, but in a full 3 dimensions.
I think this would be perfect for inclusion in Minecraft given the way the game works.
Keep up the good work! I suspect only a small fraction of the community will recognize this for what it is, but it's the good portion :wink.gif:
i will attempt to explain it but it is probably a futile attempt, but what this mod does it simulate life through blocks.
depending on its initial state[shape of the original blocks] it will determine how it plays out.
Each block is an organism in a virtual species.
The disappearing blocks represent an organism dieing.
Taken from the wikipedia article:
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Cells = GameOfLife pieces.
Each redstone tick represents another generation, EG: Grandfather ---> Father ----> Son // each a different generation.
This was is extremely sophisticated and is meant to represent life in a virtual world. Start the blocks as an interesting shape in an unused area in your world; power the starter block with redstone, and return every once in a while (possibly adding new blocks) while you check on the status of your virtual species.
Im a 14 year old boy who derived all of this from that wikipedia article, so don't hold it to me if im wrong.
Not to brag, but I was a 12 year old boy when I figured this all out on my own from a computer simulation of this then continued to make art and "moving" designs that move in one direction untill stopped.
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ok i got 3/4 of it.... what do u mean by tick?? do i have to constantly turn on and off the lever or do u mean that every second (when on) the tick (next generation) is produced???? if its the second option, then im building a massive 100 x 100 space to see my population grow ..........or..........die. :biggrin.gif: great mods ichun KEEP IT UP
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Not to brag, but I was a 12 year old boy when I figured this all out on my own from a computer simulation of this then continued to make art and "moving" designs that move in one direction untill stopped.
[COUGH] go die in a hole [COUGH] ThMiningCrafter
@redjericho thanks for telling us... without your explanation, i would have prob disregarded this mod......
@TheMiningCrafter Not to brag, but unlike you he helped us out by sharing what he found out, and unlike you (again) he didnt play the game before and so he learned from wiki and explained it in better words.
Can you put in a video or at least some pictures?
I don't even understand what this mod does. Do I just build blocks?
Also what do you mean by next gen? Are you talking about plants evolving?
no there was a game named the game of life where u putting some cubes and it starting to moving and evolving into other forms and more cubes thats enough? im played that game
Epic.
Your first mod was Portal Gun, and now The Game Of Life!
Congrats!
Diamonds To You!
I just poop diamonds. And gold. Also adminium. and iron. And Redstone . And coal.I poop everything. :dry.gif: :dry.gif: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :ohmy.gif: :ohmy.gif: :ohmy.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif:
OH MY GOD! This seems pretty cool! So, if I were to put like a HUGE blob of those things randomly, I wonder what would happen.... Probably it'll die from overpopulation...
( IT's amazing what you can do w/ that game... Me and my bro played around w/ it for a bit, and it was pretty fun.)
In fact, I had to program a copy of the game of life for a class a few weeks ago
http://www.conwaylife.com/
click on load, popular patterns, and try a few out
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1) DrZhark
2)iChun
3)Spacetoad
4) Xie
All of these gentlemen have made mods that are so original, thought out, and useful that they have become part of my "vanilla" game.
Because you don't get what it means.
Obviously.. All I see are blocks that move..?
This mod is a resimulation of Conway's Game of Life, where each cell (block) has certain rules for it to live or die.
As mentioned in the first post, i have plans to tune it up abit, like using an item to place the blocks instead of crafting the blocks directly, and a faster tick rate, somewhat.. but, yea.
Thanks though!
I just wanted to say: great idea for a mod.
I used to play around with the game of life A LOT when I was younger, and including it in Minecraft is a brilliant idea.
One thing I'd love to see in this: an option for a full 3D version of the rules. I played around a bit with this idea when I was younger, and I think it would be possible to come up with a set of rules that behave in a similar way to the original Conway version, but in a full 3 dimensions.
I think this would be perfect for inclusion in Minecraft given the way the game works.
Keep up the good work! I suspect only a small fraction of the community will recognize this for what it is, but it's the good portion :wink.gif:
Not to brag, but I was a 12 year old boy when I figured this all out on my own from a computer simulation of this then continued to make art and "moving" designs that move in one direction untill stopped.
Click him for
LiesCake!Edit:
[COUGH] go die in a hole [COUGH] ThMiningCrafter
@redjericho thanks for telling us... without your explanation, i would have prob disregarded this mod......
@TheMiningCrafter Not to brag, but unlike you he helped us out by sharing what he found out, and unlike you (again) he didnt play the game before and so he learned from wiki and explained it in better words.
no there was a game named the game of life where u putting some cubes and it starting to moving and evolving into other forms and more cubes thats enough? im played that game
Your first mod was Portal Gun, and now The Game Of Life!
Congrats!
Diamonds To You!
I just poop diamonds. And gold. Also adminium. and iron. And Redstone . And coal.I poop everything. :dry.gif: :dry.gif: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :ohmy.gif: :ohmy.gif: :ohmy.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif: :wink.gif:
( IT's amazing what you can do w/ that game... Me and my bro played around w/ it for a bit, and it was pretty fun.)
Lol, that's a lot of stuff your shyting out...