Notch Pumping Air Into Minecraft's Sky Dimension
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Whoa, at least watch the trailer, Terraria is it's own game.Thumper17 said:
Infact the only elements similar are digging and building, and I think there's a game called "Real Life" that invented them.
Terraria is better, IMHO. Minecraft doesn't have:
Magic
Bosses
2D sprites
Goblins
Hookshot
Health that can be increased by finding crystal hearts underground
NPCs
Vines that can obstruct light in caves
Underground jungle biome
Proper dungeons
Corrupted parts of the world
I'm not going to go on because I'm taking up too much space here. Just research the damn game next time.
All I can say is.
Great way to directly copy Terraria.
Edit: I love how the only post mentioning Terraria is the one above mine, and everyone else didn't even think of the game Terraria.
Great way to directly copy Terraria.
Edit: I love how the only post mentioning Terraria is the one above mine, and everyone else didn't even think of the game Terraria.
How about "Doesn't use the mod and instead makes his own version better than the mod?Mantonio said:
I think that'd go over pretty well.
I love how you didn't notice the post above yours is quoting two posts before it - one from the front page - that also mentioned Terraria.Grufflenark said:
Besides, Minecraft's always had the potential for floating islands. There's one right near the origin point in the Glacier seed, for instance. They're just random rather than planned.
Terraria and Minecraft are really pretty different. Minecraft is a pure sandbox building playset. Terraria is more Zelda 2/Metroidvania with some building options tacked on as a perk. If you just started with a town of NPCs in Terraria and removed the building tools it wouldn't change the game all that much; the building tools ARE Minecraft, by comparison.
The easy way to make this look good is to create a new block type, i.e. a cloud block, then simply have all the "floating islands" sitting on/in clouds.
Eh, that's probably just end up looking like it was a never-ending snow biome with green hills all over it. Kinda weird.Continuity said:
I think it'd need fog, personally. Have the lower levels gradually more faded out so it's not just a stark shift from ground to absolutely nothing. Some kind of vertical-plane-specific clipping range.
Not to be a contrarian, but I've kinda made my own sky dimension in FortressCraft already. I had to build it all myself, of course. Once I got the jetpack though, the sky was literally the limit.
I see what you mean but i'm not sure about the fog either, not being able to see much would get old quickly.Shjade said:
Although i didn't mean the cloud would have to be continuous, otherwise that would look exactly like a snow field, I just meant literally around the base of the island... like the island was sitting on a free floating cloud.
Hm. That's not a bad idea. I think the Aether mod has the right idea of kinda lightening up all the colors involved to give it a less dense appearance, more airy in general (and a couple of the screenshots in the Aether thread are what had me thinking about fog, but he probably just has his clipping distance pulled in pretty short). Otherwise you still end up with that pretty sharp contrast between ground and then sky everywhere else. Different texture packs would likely work better/worse with the general theme, of course.
Exactly. People always seem to forget that he doesn't actually owe us anything. We already bought the game. He could just stop development, or charge us for extra stuff. But no, we get everything FOR FREE. And frankly, he's the genius that made the game in the first place. Let him do whatever he wants to it, I'm sure it will be awesome. Just be happy it exists in the first place.Mantonio said:
No thanks, I think I've fallen to my death more than enough.
This is one dimension I won't be exploring to much.
This is one dimension I won't be exploring to much.
