Minecraft... the horror, the horror

[Mute52]

Agreed, walking outside when day hits only to have 2 spiders drop in front of you is scary.

Also the adrenaline of running away from a creeper is insane

 

[Sixcess]

Also the adrenaline of running away from a creeper is insane

I've spent too much time on FPSs recently and now I keep looking looking for the Sprint button.

Or when you're unexpectedly cornered and find yourself flailing away with whatever happens to be in your hand at the time. I once tried to beat a spider to death with a block of wool. It didn't end well.

 

[jack583]

where do i buy minecraft?????

 

[captaincabbage]

Oh dear god.
Unfortunately I don't have a copy of minecraft to call my own, but every time I go to a friend's house we'll play with the two copies he has on two seperate PCs.

My worst encounter was my first day. I was blissfully unaware of ANYTHING dangerous in Minecraft, so I just went on a lengthy stroll. When the sun started going down I looked to my friend's PC and he'd already built himself a two story turret fort out of wood. He saw me and glanced as my screen and proceeded to say "Oh fuck! Dig, man, DIG!!".

I spent my first night in a hole in the sand, the sound of zombies echoing from above eerily.

 

[Baby Eater]

It's surely only a matter of time before Notch introduces the ultimate horror... imagine if there was a monster that could dig...

If you get the Mo' Creatures mod ogres can break through blocks and will dig straight down if you're a few blocks under.

OT:After spending 3 minecraft days building an underwater base, I left to get more materials and returned to see a giant squid sitting in my front room. Granted they don't activley hunt you but it's still horrific.

 

[Mcface]

As many Minecrafters will tell you, this is a surprisingly scary game. The sheer randomness of the world means you have literally no idea of what might be around the next corner, and if you have ever found yourself deep underground with no clear exit and a dwindling supply of torches you'll know just how scary that can be.

Well, it just got a little, or a lot, scarier. As of the latest update spiders can climb up walls.

Yeah, those castle walls you've built? Not so safe now, are they?

For discussion: what's been your scariest moment in Minecraft? I'd say mine would be one of my first nights above ground, when I'd built a little cabin on a hill but made the mistake of not having any torches. The horde of monsters that ammassed around outside the cabin that night, and the noise of them all was quite nerve wracking.

Oh that is NOTHING. Notch will add a zombie siege mode where there is a chance of a zombie invasion during the night which makes the moon turn blood red. Think "no prob"? Well i didn't tell you zombies can BREAK THROUGH WALLS AND DOORS AND INFILTRATE YOUR BASE UNTIL MORNING. You have to survive that hell night if it gets implemented.

I dont see that zombie invasion thing happening.. the world is random, how would the game know which structure was yours? whats stopping me from building a giant 64 block tower? or burrowing into the ground?

Simple, you set the player as way point for zombies to come to you. Players reside mostly in their base, no?

Sure, but again, how would they get to me 50 blocks up?

Depends on what you define as 50 blocks up. Is it on a mountain or just a line of blocks you put under yourself as a tower?

a straight up tower, one block wide, like a beacon tower.

 

[Mcface]

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im all for that, as long as he makes the combat better. it's really the worst part of the game. its fun, but pretty bad atm, you shouldn't force the player into it.

 

[8bitmaster]

I basically turned my main house into a dungeon. Even though its well lit on the bottom, monsters and a lot of them spawn on top and fall. Nothing like going to get new tools and turning around to see multiple creepers and zombies on all sides. Also, the spiders always creep me out because I hear them before I see them.

 

[PrimoThePro]

Every second spent in the natural caverns under my building was a nightmare. Its like those caves were bloody possessed!

I... I have heard rumors... That Notch may do an update... That makes caverns change. The "Earthquake" Factor, that at random points, the whole earth shakes and random bits in the cave that are as weak as crumbled rock or weaker are destroyed, where they land they build themselves up, theoretically making new tunnels.

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm beginning to feel more and more like the only person that isn't scared by this game

...and everyone I know who's scared of it is a complete pansy and acts like a douche whenever I mention it

in short- I don't understand how this is scary, stop trying to convince me it is

I guess it's more a paranoia that get you on as mobs sound knows no bound and makes it troublesome to locate before you died in few hits or one explosion. While in the caves, you lose your sense of direction and gets irritating to find the exit, well that part is probably more frustrating.

and go play amnesia and make sure you don't crap yourself (because if minecraft scares you... dang that's sad)

I've played Amnesia, light closed on a 42 inch TV sounds on. It's thrilling, but I wasn't scared as much as I was annoyed that hiding from enemies in midly black corner in a partially lit room was bad for your mental, you couldn't make sure the enemy was gone cuz looking at it could make discovered, but Daniel is so scared that his teeth could be giving his position and he was expecting himself to kill someone, but not some person-shaped standing there. Even the girl from "Haunting Ground" on PS2 had more balls.

To Daniel's credit, if YOU had tasked yourself to kill someone, would you automatically man up enough to put your hands anywhere NEAR this thing?!

http://www.alexhilhorst.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Amnesia-screenshot-1-590x368.jpg

I wouldn't.

 

[lacktheknack]

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im all for that, as long as he makes the combat better. it's really the worst part of the game. its fun, but pretty bad atm, you shouldn't force the player into it.

I think it works fine.

Get close enough to hit it, then do so before it smacks/shoots/pounces/asplodes you. Really, the combat isn't anything close to the focus, and it does its job just fine as is.

If you don't think so, there's gonna be a mod for that soon, mark my words.

 

[lacktheknack]

when will you people learn.. build hole into side of mountain - you win minecraft.

You also get bored.

You also cease to win when this happens:

Oh that is NOTHING. Notch will add a zombie siege mode where there is a chance of a zombie invasion during the night which makes the moon turn blood red. Think "no prob"? Well i didn't tell you zombies can BREAK THROUGH WALLS AND DOORS AND INFILTRATE YOUR BASE UNTIL MORNING. You have to survive that hell night if it gets implemented.

The correct answer, of course, is to offer them cake...

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[blankedboy]

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16:35 is where the hilarity begins.

what are those birch looking trees?

Probably birches, if that LP was made after 1.2.

 

[lacktheknack]

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16:35 is where the hilarity begins.

what are those birch looking trees?

Probably birches, if that LP was made after 1.2.

It was made two days ago, so yes. They are birches.

 

[Mr Companion]

Every second spent in the natural caverns under my building was a nightmare. Its like those caves were bloody possessed!

I... I have heard rumors... That Notch may do an update... That makes caverns change. The "Earthquake" Factor, that at random points, the whole earth shakes and random bits in the cave that are as weak as crumbled rock or weaker are destroyed, where they land they build themselves up, theoretically making new tunnels.

Oh good that should have EVEN MORE people becoming lost for hours at a time. Thankfully I have an excellent sense of direction so thats not a problem. The problem is that the caves under my building seem to spawn about 3 times more monsters than any other cave I have ever seen. Like, there were so many creepers it was like a river of them, I had to hack my way through. Every block of ground covered in light was a victory.

And then even worse was the mindfuckery, I swear I saw movement down an unlit passage, my friend next to me confirmed it, but when I lit the room it was empty....

And now the caves are full of torches, yet it remains untamed. Even in full light the caves spawn enemies. It spawns creepers behind me all the time. I seldom go down there anymore, because I know I probably wont come back out alive. There is something wrong with that place, gives me the creeps.

 

[Kalahee]

To Daniel's credit, if YOU had tasked yourself to kill someone, would you automatically man up enough to put your hands anywhere NEAR this thing?!

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I wouldn't.

That's the thing... you've met two shadows in the beginning (from the point I've reached), he doesn't even know they look like that. And seriously, at the level of insaness he has when hiding, I'd be throwng the shelves itself if I met something like that. And at that degree of fear, if you weren't to kill those and fear the darkness... you'd have broken throught a window and ran already. I'm not saying the game isn't good, I like the originality and the challenge not to fight enemies, it's just that Daniel pass all the time at the edge of going brain dead at every step makes it hard on my lamp oil.

 

[Zorg Machine]

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my pet creeper (his name was Creepy, R.I.P)

what do you mean, "pet Creeper"?

a creeper that I kept in a hole as a pet. zombies and skeletons burn, spiders make annoying noises, I'll just end up eating the pig or killing the cow and I'm deeply suspicious of sheep.

 

[Nick Angelici]

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my pet creeper (his name was Creepy, R.I.P)

what do you mean, "pet Creeper"?

a creeper that I kept in a hole as a pet. zombies and skeletons burn, spiders make annoying noises, I'll just end up eating the pig or killing the cow and I'm deeply suspicious of sheep.

I see, I have to ask this but did you make a youtube video with your Pet Creeper?

I found one while scanning youtube and this guy had a Creeper in a hole named Creepy as well. Just wondering, I found it too similar to not ask

 

[Zorg Machine]

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my pet creeper (his name was Creepy, R.I.P)

what do you mean, "pet Creeper"?

a creeper that I kept in a hole as a pet. zombies and skeletons burn, spiders make annoying noises, I'll just end up eating the pig or killing the cow and I'm deeply suspicious of sheep.

I see, I have to ask this but did you make a youtube video with your Pet Creeper?

I found one while scanning youtube and this guy had a Creeper in a hole named Creepy as well. Just wondering, I found it too similar to not ask

That wasn't me but "Creepy the creeper" is a very unimaginative name.

 

[Sixcess]

important note, spiders cannot climb sand or sandstone.

They can now.

Apparently Notch made an adjustment. Sandstone walls are now no defence against our new spider overlords.