A popular sandbox indie game made by Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch. The gameplay revolves around collecting materials and building shelters in survival, or simply making intriguing structures in the creative mode of the game.
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How could I implement something like Minecraft's crafting grid?
The crafting system in Minecraft uses a 2x2 or 3x3 grid. You place ingredients on the grid, and if you put the right ingredients in the right pattern, it will activate the recipe.
Some interesting ...
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How do you make Minecraft mods? [closed]
I'm new to making minecraft mods and I'm wondering what I need to do to get started.
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How is a 3d perlin noise function used to generate terrain?
I can wrap my head around using a 2d perlin noise function to generate the height value but I don't understand why a 3d perlin noise function would be used. In Notch's blog, ...
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Voxel heightmap terrain editor
I've recently been experimenting with a simple Voxel-based 3d engine (think Minecraft) which uses heightmaps to define terrain in the following format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heightmap
Does ...
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How to generate caves like minecraft?
I've been working on a 3D procedural world for a while now and am wanting to start adding cave systems. I'm currently using 2D/3D Perlin Noise for the terrain generation in combination with Marching ...
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Minecraft-style player-gound collision detection
The title pretty much says it all... (Minecraft is a game consisting of evenly-spaced cubes for terrain, like voxels)
Note: I am using C# XNA.
I am pretty sure AABB is the way to go, yet I don't know ...
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Mods for Minecraft Server - how does it work?
Minecraft server comes as a single jar. How are mods developed? How do they interact with the original jar? What is there under the hood?
What technologies are involved there? I'm mostly a C++/Python ...
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Bukkit shoot tnt & help with vectors
I want to shoot a piece of tnt from the players face and then let it explode when it hits the target block.
if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("cannon")) {
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How can I generate floating land masses for a Minecraft-like engine?
I am creating a Minecraft-like engine in XNA. What I want to do is create floating islands similar to the one shown in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqHVOEPQK5g&feature=related
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Random seed function for map generation?
I am looking for a function to generate a random tile-based map as the visual boundaries of the map change (by going through the map). I want the map to be infinitely large, and have maze-like ...
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Is a voxel engine appropriate for a Minecraft-like game?
Why does Minecraft use polygons to draw the world terrain instead of voxels? Would a voxel based rendering engine be appropriate for a fully destructible game world built out of cubes like Minecraft? ...
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How can I implement voxel-based lighting with occlusion in a Minecraft-style game?
I am using C# and XNA. My current algorithm for lighting is a recursive method. However, it is expensive, to the point where one 8x128x8 chunk calculated every 5 seconds.
Are there other lighting ...
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How to insert and remove blocks quickly in a Minecraftian world?
I currently have volume data for the world stored as an array of booleans. I then check each empty block and if it has non-empty neighbors the faces get drawn. This prevents me from sending a bunch ...
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How do I add a custom mob to Minecraft?
Basically decided to make my own mob, I have:
Created my mob's entity class
Created my mobs model class
Drawn the model
Added the function call for addMapping within the EntityList class
I'm stuck ...
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How does Minecraft render its sunset and sky?
In Minecraft, the sunset looks really beautiful and I've always wanted to know how they do it.
Do they use several skyboxes rendered over eachother? That is, one for the sky (which can turn dark and ...
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How to get the blocks seen by the player?
I'm writing a Minecraft-like game using Ogre engine and I have a problem. I must optimize my game, because when I try draw 10000 blocks, I have 2 FPS... So, I got the idea that blocks display of the ...
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Cave generation with Perlin worms
I'm currently trying to generate a Minecraft like voxel terrain with 3D Simplex Noise and also want to implement caves.
I found the method of Perlin Worms in this thread, which generates really nice ...
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How to handle a Block World like Minecraft
I want to write a simple game with a block world like in Minecraft. My theoretical question is what is the best way to handle this block informations during playing. My first Idea was a huge array but ...
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Collision Detection problems in Voxel Engine (XNA)
I am creating a minecraft like terrain engine in XNA and have had some collision problems for quite some time. I have checked and changed my code based on other peoples collision code and I still have ...
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How do i make a minecraft server mod? [duplicate]
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Mods for Minecraft Server - how does it work?
I have made some minecraft client mods, but i've started a server a mounth ago and i want to make a mod for it, but i cant ...
