I suppose your "true" veterans would be from 2010/2011 days. I got the game in early 2012 and joined the forum in 2014, though in hindsight I should've waited on joining the forums for a little while. and went inactive on the forums here within the past 2 years or so. Quite frankly I strongly regret not joining the game when I first heard of it in early 2011.
I've been active since I joined in late 2013, about half a year after I started playing.
Not that much has changed since then; I still play on the same version that I was on back then (well, 1.6.2, which is basically the same version as 1.6.4, which I only updated to in early 2014 after I dropped the Forge mods I was using to move to mods entirely of my own making).
Here is the first post I made, which very well could have been made today:
They actually have changed cave generation in the snapshots; I used JAD to decompile 13w39b and found the MapGenCaves class; the first two lines of the recursiveGenerate function (these are the deobfuscated names that Forge uses) are as follows:
int i = this.b.nextInt(this.b.nextInt(this.b.nextInt(15) + 1) + 1);
if (this.b.nextInt(7) != 0) i = 0;
In 1.6.2, these lines read as:
int i1 = this.rand.nextInt(this.rand.nextInt(this.rand.nextInt(40) + 1) + 1);
if (this.rand.nextInt(15) != 0) i1 = 0;
From modding the game myself (basically, making more and more varied caves, as well as ravines), the first line sets the size of individual cave systems and the second is the chance to spawn a cave system per chunk (actually less because the nested random calls produce a output that is biased low to make caves more clustered). The changes are definitely noticable; I noticed almost immediately when playing the new snapshots, using the seed I used in my first (unmodded) main world, which I assume should otherwise be the same underground (I found ravines in the same locations).
Also, why not make it so we can configure how common/dense caves are, like how we can change mineshafts in superflat (those as well, using generatorOptions in level.dat to save the settings)?. So if you entered 100 and 1, you'd get rare but massive cave systems, or 1 and 100 for small caves scattered all over the place, like this (using 0 for either completely disables cave generation, 14 and 14 would be similar to the 13w39b generator and could be the default):
int i1 = this.rand.nextInt(this.rand.nextInt(this.rand.nextInt(caveSize + 1) + 1) + 1);
if (this.rand.nextInt(100) + 1 <= caveFrequency) i1 = 0;
(you'd think that after 6 years they would have added some way to customize the underground in a game named Minecraft - much less made any changes)
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Been with the game since 2012/1.4.5 and not quit since (even though was thinking about it in 1.12.2/2017-2018), only joined the forums in 2016/around 1.11 I think when I was doing YouTube for the first time so it fits what I was doing back then, compared to Forums and YouTube now from 2018+.
Popped back onto this site for the first time in years and saw this thread. Went to log in and it seems all the old accounts are gone? Wouldn't let me log in anyway, had to make a new one.
Used to be quite active in the off topic community years ago here. It's crazy to see that it's still going.
Just curious to see if theres anyone else from the 2012/2013 era or earlier still around
professional minecraft player since 2012
I suppose your "true" veterans would be from 2010/2011 days. I got the game in early 2012 and joined the forum in 2014, though in hindsight I should've waited on joining the forums for a little while. and went inactive on the forums here within the past 2 years or so. Quite frankly I strongly regret not joining the game when I first heard of it in early 2011.
Figured it was time for a change.
I've been active since I joined in late 2013, about half a year after I started playing.
Not that much has changed since then; I still play on the same version that I was on back then (well, 1.6.2, which is basically the same version as 1.6.4, which I only updated to in early 2014 after I dropped the Forge mods I was using to move to mods entirely of my own making).
Here is the first post I made, which very well could have been made today:
(you'd think that after 6 years they would have added some way to customize the underground in a game named Minecraft - much less made any changes)
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
2012-2013 is veteran now, huh? I remember being considered too new to say anything important!
Wooow people still use this?
I wouldn't say veteran...
all the 2011 folks really came in here to flex, huh?
professional minecraft player since 2012
Well you did sort of invite it.
Just wait until 2009-2010 folks come strolling in.
Figured it was time for a change.
The majority of their accounts don't even exist anymore, so we're mostly safe.
I delayed joining MC forums until like two years after I started playing. Sorry vro
its ok vro! it be like that sometimes!
professional minecraft player since 2012
Do we get a discount at our local Sizzler now?
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It's "U.N Owen was her?" not "Death waltz".Touhou is a game not an anime.
I'm still here I suppose.
Aye, I'm still here. Since 2010 or something.
I suppose you could say I'm a veteran. I started playing mid-to-late 2013. I'm still here!
I post pretty rarely nowadays. Gosh, I wish this place weren't so... empty...
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Been with the game since 2012/1.4.5 and not quit since (even though was thinking about it in 1.12.2/2017-2018), only joined the forums in 2016/around 1.11 I think when I was doing YouTube for the first time so it fits what I was doing back then, compared to Forums and YouTube now from 2018+.
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Popped back onto this site for the first time in years and saw this thread. Went to log in and it seems all the old accounts are gone? Wouldn't let me log in anyway, had to make a new one.
Used to be quite active in the off topic community years ago here. It's crazy to see that it's still going.