Fauvist22 sez, "This is as large a pyramid as the current beta version of Minecraft will let you build. I couldn't go any higher or deeper, I tried. I'm sure one day we'll be able to go higher, but for now this is it."
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Booooooooring! Out of all the amazing potential contained in Minecraft, you build the biggest thing possible. Think less big, more interesting! Yeesh.
Looks like a interesting game to just look at. Also, the video clearly states this is the biggest pyramid in mincraft.
Could someone plz build a minecraft ringworld?
;)
Holy f***! That’s too insane!
Anyone else think that Minecraft is just Farmville for people who think Farmville is just for moms and bored housewifes?
no
No.
Disclaimer: I do not or have never player Minecraft.
hbl, I thought that once, but it’s not true. Farmville is just about logging in and clicking. Minecraft is an actual game. There are enemies and weapons and planning and whatnot. It isn’t dependent on time passing. Just what you can do.
Awesome. Although obviously done with the cheats (don’t think you can find that much gold in a Minecraft map without some HEAVY mining, the kind that would take real-time years to complete).
Damn, makes me want to play Minecraft again. Must…resist…
Yeah, when he said how it was all gold, I stopped watching. There are Minecraft apps that’ll tell you how much of what kind of minerals are present in your save files, and 56.7k is a lot more than naturally occurs. Using a cheat tool to fill your bags with gold bricks then just building the largest possible geometric shape with them isn’t really newsworthy; we’re about a year too far into the Minecraft phenomenon, anyone who’s still getting excited about “I made a big one!” videos probably needs to play Minecraft more and watch YouTube less. =P
This sounds like such a great sandbox game. Should I take the plunge? Are there any Boing Boing specific servers? It would be especially fun to see a sandbox world populated by Boingers.
@hbl
Somewhat.
I don’t play Minecraft, don’t really see a point to it all.
A friend who occasionally plays made a good point, it’s a lot like playing with Lego. So I can kind of see how this could be interesting, but I don’t see the long term appeal of it.
At least in Farmville you are more of less just grinding to level up…aka a cheap poor version of any major MMO.
This you just survive…forever. And build things that look neat and then that’s that.
I don’t expect everyone to like Minecraft, but it’s funny to see how often it’s panned by folks who’ve never tried it…
This must mean that Fauvist22 is now Pharaoh of Minecraft.
I was going to get irritated at first, but then I realized that allot of people don’t play this sort of game. Argueably minecraft does have a purpose, to survive, but to people who say that their is no “Leveling up” I would like to point out that the various ores in the game are the equivalent of leveling up your gear. Argueably, changing the game would be destroying the point of the game, which is oddly realistic in a way.
So, even if you think minecraft isn’t that great, I would suggest playing the real version, not the demo, its only like 15$.
Its a fun game, and just looking at it is NOT going to give you a sense of the game. I have had friends say exactly what @bcsizmo and @hcl say. They ended up buying the game before me.
Minecraft is a strange beast. I assume it’s mostly because of the unfinished nature of the game (supposedly a “goal” or “story with an ending” is in the works).
I got into it for a little while, carefully carving out my little place in the world, a simple tower with a massive underground mine to fuel my material needs. After awhile I had a neat network of rail and some cool contraptions including an automatic cart launcher and several fun mob traps that delivered items into my base all hours of the day.
And then, I got bored. I packed up everything I thought I’d need for a long journey. Full diamond gear, a bunch of boats, enough torches to hold me over virtually forever. I set out across the ocean nearby and just kept going. If I hit land I camped until day then hiked across it, and back into the boat. Day, night, day night, I more or less followed the setting sun for the better part of two in-game months. That’s where I found it…
A valley filled with cliffs to the sky, waterfalls dropping hundreds of feet, a beautiful Looking down the valley a spire rose from the ground with near perfect crescents on either side. I stood there for a minute admiring the view, this was where I would build my true base. I would create something incredible to fill this epic valley. Soon my constructions would rise to the heights of the cliffs around me. Soon, I would beco……ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss BOOM.
I uninstalled the game.
There is a joke in there somewhere…
Hmmm… yeah, I’m pretty sure just about every community Minecraft server has done this. And you can make a bigger one. We used half blocks for the sides on ours, which quadruples the volume compared to this one.
“And build things that look neat and then that’s that.”
I don’t think you’d do well in architecture, engineering, or art school with that attitude.
Interesting as I have a degree in engineering…
I loved playing with Lego/Technic as a kid, but I was always building something that had a function. Not just building for the sake of building.
The same goes for playing games. I’ve always played things that have an ending of some type, whether it was level based FPS or puzzle games, you always were moving forward toward a goal.
(My favorite games are the Star Control series, Half-Life series, and Wipeout XL).
I’ve got no problems with people playing Minecraft for hours on end. I know I waste enough time on projects that others think are pointless as well, so who am I to judge.
Solid gold pyramid!! Minecraft players, Las Vegas Hotel Construction is calling YOU!
The purpose of Minecraft is to play it. I was sceptical about it, until I remembered that being sceptical isn’t much fun and decided to give it a try.
I haven’t touched the multiplayer yet, but I love the single player. It pushes all my gaming buttons – the rough-hewn but beautiful procedurally generated worlds, the scale and scope, the freedom, the creative possibilities, the synergy of many small and simple elements in a greater whole…
In that last respect it reminds me of Halo, where it’s not complex enemy AI but the combination of relatively simple but quite distinct AI that makes the game. In Minecraft a Creeper is a very simple creature. You know what it’s going to do, every time; walk towards you and try to explode. But there’s a high probability that any Creeper encounter will deliver a good story because of the various other factors involved – the environment, the complication of a nearby chicken, or perhaps just the (again, very simple) combat rules.
Similarly, exploring a mine is on the face of it an unsophisticated element of the game. There are a handful of materials and most of them are quite predictable. But once you’re down there, chipping away, getting lost, trying to track down the running water you can hear and losing track of what time it is on the surface… something happens.
It’s given me some of my most memorable gaming experiences of the last twelve months, and I’ve barely made a dent in my world. I played Black Ops – well, probably all of last year’s big hitters, and spectacular as they may have been, it was often a struggle to care. But in Minecraft I care about everything.
And that’s my courageous story.
Minecraft is a game for meticulous OCD people who like making cool things that serve no actual purpose. It falls into the same category of gameplay as legos or model trains, except upgraded in that you have an infinite procedurally generated world to build in (as opposed to just your living room floor or basement) and there are enemies trying to thwart your progress.
Why did I take half an hour to add a skylight to my underground lair? Because when I looked up I wanted to see the sky. Why build a lighthouse on a nearby island when I’m the only person in the world and there are no other boats? Because it looks good there. Why did I explore a dangerous monster filled cave and eventually die in lava when there was nothing I needed inside? Because when you come across a massive pit spiraling into the Earth, you go in.
@Internet Poster Of Awesomness, also:
Minecraft is a game for ADD people who like making cool things that serve no actual purpose. I paid like 15 bucks for it and gave it to my ADD GF and she’s had a blast for 3 months now.
I think it is time to sing the song that we sing on my minecraft server when people are being innoying and trying to irritate us….
TROLLOLOLOLOLOL
But on another note, I would say that the game does say somthing about people. Why did I build it? Because I can. Why did I go in? Because I can. I have a feeling minecraft could end up as a great game. It’s just not going to magicly become one. It will end up working out more like the halo demo. Lots of people making lot of mods and other things = Fun.
awesome pyramid. now fill it with dynamite and see how big the explosion is.
xD HUGE!!!
resistance sounds futile
I played it and it was enjoyable for a while, the spelunking exploring, the progression of your skills..
and then I realized, while fun, it felt like a never ending loss of time. Time that I didn’t really have…
With that kind of time I could be doing much more constructive things: Learn to paint, a language, program, write an article, get healthy, cook, visit friends, fix a house, etc.
Honestly there is not too much difference between playing Farmville and playing this. Both are “drip feeders” of small “rewards” to pull you in further and never really let you go (well, to give Minecraft credit everything is not monetized and decaying on purpose to get your money to make it easier).
It’s just the modern version of the middle-aged man in the basement with a train set that people (esp. young) deride so often in the culture. Is there really any difference? At least with the trainset you are physically building something.
Minecraft is like zombo.com. Anything is possible, etc. etc.
It’s also like a blank canvas. You can sit there and stare at it and say this crap is boring, or you can build something unique and wonderful with it. That fact makes it a little bit more than just a video game. Sure, it’s a waste of time, but it’s not a complete waste of time. It’s not about “leveling up” the way thousands of others before you have done. It’s about leveling up in your own special way, making the “level” or “world” excatly the way you want it to be.
Besides, the music from c418 alone is worth more than the $15.
This would have been about 100 times cooler if it had been built in Dwarf Fortress instead.
I find it so interesting that for some people, there is such a simple line between what is constructive or meaningful or has a “point” and what is just a timesuck … a goal? All games give you artificial goals. That Minecraft does away with that is just being straightforward.
I really enjoy Minecraft because I think it’s a great outlet for creativity … like LEGO, a blank sketchpad, or a hunk of clay, with a little roleplaying thrown in. If you look at that and think “timesuck”, I admit I’ll assume that you have little use for leisure at all. Leisure is about pleasure. That it is or isn’t constructive is down to individual preference.
Considering the kind of pursuits showcased on BB, and the pursuit BB is itself, I admit I’m surprised again and again by the commentators — however many or few — who feel there’s a need to judge leisure activities by their utility.
I’m saying my preference, experiences, and my eventual fallout with the game and why, not judging the people who play it for leisure. IMO, I just feel I could be using my leisure time for a better purpose since I’m older and it’s now more precious then ever. I would like to communicate better visually, etc so why not piggyback onto an activity that’s both leisure and help me with that?
I’m not saying “those danged kids better do somethin’ better with their time”. They have lots more of it, time is not as scare a resource and are welcome to do what they want (like I used to do playing games when I was younger. Ultima IV I’m looking at you).
And no, not all games have artificial goals. A runner makes a game out of beating his last “score” in how fast he runs in a certain time. Now his body is stronger and faster. That’s far from being artificial.
And honestly, why are you so surprised by the commentators that have a different viewpoint? For me, BB itself opens me to different opinions and I know a little bit more about the world. There are all types of people on this site, it’s not homogeneous (thank god), you should know that by now. :)
I AM judging though the people who judge other people who have a different form of leisure from their own (trainsets/flower arranging, etc) and think they are superior because they have something that’s more hip but ultimately is the same sort of thing (minecraft/farmville).
I’m not normally the type to get concerned with epeen, but this isn’t the largest pyramid possible in minecraft. The largest pyramid possible was built by the Gamers With Jobs community, with the help of yours truly, over a period of two weeks last september. Whereas the two pyramids are the same height, ours was larger as we built it with stone half-steps rather than full size blocks, and therefore it had a much larger footprint. The pyramid was so large that it extended further than the game engine’s draw distance, meaning that at any given time you could only view a portion of it. Here are some screen caps:
It is NOT the biggest pyramid possible. Clearly you can build one two blocks taller, because you see him stand on top of it…
Also, +1 for the idea that it doesn’t count if he used any kind of cheat to help build it.
I think the way it works is that there’s a level beyond which you can’t place blocks, not that there’s a level where your player is blocked from moving.
I stand corrected — confirmed by building up a stack of earth blocks under me from the top of the tallest tower of my own castle (it only took eight blocks, too :D )
This is invalid. It’s not a complete pyramid; it’s just layers of gold stacked in a pyramid shape. There’s no top! If you start at the bottom of a pyramid, then there’s no practical limit on it’s size. You can make it ten thousand squares, but if you don’t finish the top it’s not a ‘pyramid’ and has no size restrictions.
Unfortunately this isn’t the biggest pyramid I have seen in minecraft because the server I play on built a half step pyramid that started at 2 layers below the first layer of bedrock (the hole created for the pyramid was map edited and the person who made the hole screwd up.)and went right to the top of the world build limit. The only part of the pyramid not done manually was the interior floor. Although we did use the /give command for all materials needed. It was posted on redit a couple of months ago, and since than we have archived that particular world.
whats the song playing on this ?
in newer versions of minecraft there’s gonna be battles in multiplayer and what-not
In games ranging anywhere between Farmville to WOW, one is mainly just grinding to a higher level, with the motivation being the higher level (though someone could argue raids, but phooey)
In games like Black Ops or Halo one plays multiplayer, arguably, to improve their skills, and likely because they enjoy it.
Minecraft, currently, says screw that and lets you run around doing whatever the hell you want. It’s different, and people are being critical of the lack of end goal or purpose, but what’s the purpose of games like Black Ops or WOW? What’s the purpose of playing a board game? Of a sport? It’s a crap argument.
That being said, Minecraft is the most intriguing game I have played for sure, but I played too much of it. However, I’ve played a ton of it, wasn’t on multiplayer, and it’s still in beta, for goodness sake. And this pyramid is ruined by the fact they just kinda cheated (IMO) to make it; just make it out of sand after completely flattening a couple of deserts.
I was a late joiner to MC. I find it a relaxing way to spend a few hours. I have played a number of ‘grinder’ games and got bored within a few minutes.
This IS more like legos or erector (hehe) sets or lincoln logs. It is up to the individual how the ‘game’ should proceed.
Even though it is a game, when I am exploring a deep cave, I get anxious…every world is randomly generated so there are no maps.
When I make a very tall structure, I get the sensation of height, and the real fact that if I fall the character will die, and everything he was carrying will disappear. So you have to have caution.
But then again, when I play FPS, I get frustrated that I can’t go exploring an area not on the linear script.
Booooooooring! Out of all the amazing potential contained in Minecraft, you build the biggest thing possible. Think less big, more interesting! Yeesh.
Looks like a interesting game to just look at. Also, the video clearly states this is the biggest pyramid in mincraft.
Could someone plz build a minecraft ringworld?
;)
Holy f***! That’s too insane!
Anyone else think that Minecraft is just Farmville for people who think Farmville is just for moms and bored housewifes?
no
No.
Disclaimer: I do not or have never player Minecraft.
hbl, I thought that once, but it’s not true. Farmville is just about logging in and clicking. Minecraft is an actual game. There are enemies and weapons and planning and whatnot. It isn’t dependent on time passing. Just what you can do.
When Farmville can let you do this, let us know.
Awesome. Although obviously done with the cheats (don’t think you can find that much gold in a Minecraft map without some HEAVY mining, the kind that would take real-time years to complete).
Damn, makes me want to play Minecraft again. Must…resist…
Yeah, when he said how it was all gold, I stopped watching. There are Minecraft apps that’ll tell you how much of what kind of minerals are present in your save files, and 56.7k is a lot more than naturally occurs. Using a cheat tool to fill your bags with gold bricks then just building the largest possible geometric shape with them isn’t really newsworthy; we’re about a year too far into the Minecraft phenomenon, anyone who’s still getting excited about “I made a big one!” videos probably needs to play Minecraft more and watch YouTube less. =P
This sounds like such a great sandbox game. Should I take the plunge? Are there any Boing Boing specific servers? It would be especially fun to see a sandbox world populated by Boingers.
@hbl
Somewhat.
I don’t play Minecraft, don’t really see a point to it all.
A friend who occasionally plays made a good point, it’s a lot like playing with Lego. So I can kind of see how this could be interesting, but I don’t see the long term appeal of it.
At least in Farmville you are more of less just grinding to level up…aka a cheap poor version of any major MMO.
This you just survive…forever. And build things that look neat and then that’s that.
I don’t expect everyone to like Minecraft, but it’s funny to see how often it’s panned by folks who’ve never tried it…
This must mean that Fauvist22 is now Pharaoh of Minecraft.
I was going to get irritated at first, but then I realized that allot of people don’t play this sort of game. Argueably minecraft does have a purpose, to survive, but to people who say that their is no “Leveling up” I would like to point out that the various ores in the game are the equivalent of leveling up your gear. Argueably, changing the game would be destroying the point of the game, which is oddly realistic in a way.
So, even if you think minecraft isn’t that great, I would suggest playing the real version, not the demo, its only like 15$.
Its a fun game, and just looking at it is NOT going to give you a sense of the game. I have had friends say exactly what @bcsizmo and @hcl say. They ended up buying the game before me.
Minecraft is a strange beast. I assume it’s mostly because of the unfinished nature of the game (supposedly a “goal” or “story with an ending” is in the works).
I got into it for a little while, carefully carving out my little place in the world, a simple tower with a massive underground mine to fuel my material needs. After awhile I had a neat network of rail and some cool contraptions including an automatic cart launcher and several fun mob traps that delivered items into my base all hours of the day.
And then, I got bored. I packed up everything I thought I’d need for a long journey. Full diamond gear, a bunch of boats, enough torches to hold me over virtually forever. I set out across the ocean nearby and just kept going. If I hit land I camped until day then hiked across it, and back into the boat. Day, night, day night, I more or less followed the setting sun for the better part of two in-game months. That’s where I found it…
A valley filled with cliffs to the sky, waterfalls dropping hundreds of feet, a beautiful Looking down the valley a spire rose from the ground with near perfect crescents on either side. I stood there for a minute admiring the view, this was where I would build my true base. I would create something incredible to fill this epic valley. Soon my constructions would rise to the heights of the cliffs around me. Soon, I would beco……ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss BOOM.
I uninstalled the game.
There is a joke in there somewhere…
Hmmm… yeah, I’m pretty sure just about every community Minecraft server has done this. And you can make a bigger one. We used half blocks for the sides on ours, which quadruples the volume compared to this one.
“And build things that look neat and then that’s that.”
I don’t think you’d do well in architecture, engineering, or art school with that attitude.
Interesting as I have a degree in engineering…
I loved playing with Lego/Technic as a kid, but I was always building something that had a function. Not just building for the sake of building.
The same goes for playing games. I’ve always played things that have an ending of some type, whether it was level based FPS or puzzle games, you always were moving forward toward a goal.
(My favorite games are the Star Control series, Half-Life series, and Wipeout XL).
I’ve got no problems with people playing Minecraft for hours on end. I know I waste enough time on projects that others think are pointless as well, so who am I to judge.
Solid gold pyramid!! Minecraft players, Las Vegas Hotel Construction is calling YOU!
The purpose of Minecraft is to play it. I was sceptical about it, until I remembered that being sceptical isn’t much fun and decided to give it a try.
I haven’t touched the multiplayer yet, but I love the single player. It pushes all my gaming buttons – the rough-hewn but beautiful procedurally generated worlds, the scale and scope, the freedom, the creative possibilities, the synergy of many small and simple elements in a greater whole…
In that last respect it reminds me of Halo, where it’s not complex enemy AI but the combination of relatively simple but quite distinct AI that makes the game. In Minecraft a Creeper is a very simple creature. You know what it’s going to do, every time; walk towards you and try to explode. But there’s a high probability that any Creeper encounter will deliver a good story because of the various other factors involved – the environment, the complication of a nearby chicken, or perhaps just the (again, very simple) combat rules.
Similarly, exploring a mine is on the face of it an unsophisticated element of the game. There are a handful of materials and most of them are quite predictable. But once you’re down there, chipping away, getting lost, trying to track down the running water you can hear and losing track of what time it is on the surface… something happens.
It’s given me some of my most memorable gaming experiences of the last twelve months, and I’ve barely made a dent in my world. I played Black Ops – well, probably all of last year’s big hitters, and spectacular as they may have been, it was often a struggle to care. But in Minecraft I care about everything.
And that’s my courageous story.
Minecraft is a game for meticulous OCD people who like making cool things that serve no actual purpose. It falls into the same category of gameplay as legos or model trains, except upgraded in that you have an infinite procedurally generated world to build in (as opposed to just your living room floor or basement) and there are enemies trying to thwart your progress.
Why did I take half an hour to add a skylight to my underground lair? Because when I looked up I wanted to see the sky. Why build a lighthouse on a nearby island when I’m the only person in the world and there are no other boats? Because it looks good there. Why did I explore a dangerous monster filled cave and eventually die in lava when there was nothing I needed inside? Because when you come across a massive pit spiraling into the Earth, you go in.
@Internet Poster Of Awesomness, also:
Minecraft is a game for ADD people who like making cool things that serve no actual purpose. I paid like 15 bucks for it and gave it to my ADD GF and she’s had a blast for 3 months now.
I think it is time to sing the song that we sing on my minecraft server when people are being innoying and trying to irritate us….
TROLLOLOLOLOLOL
But on another note, I would say that the game does say somthing about people. Why did I build it? Because I can. Why did I go in? Because I can. I have a feeling minecraft could end up as a great game. It’s just not going to magicly become one. It will end up working out more like the halo demo. Lots of people making lot of mods and other things = Fun.
awesome pyramid. now fill it with dynamite and see how big the explosion is.
xD HUGE!!!
resistance sounds futile
I played it and it was enjoyable for a while, the spelunking exploring, the progression of your skills..
and then I realized, while fun, it felt like a never ending loss of time. Time that I didn’t really have…
With that kind of time I could be doing much more constructive things: Learn to paint, a language, program, write an article, get healthy, cook, visit friends, fix a house, etc.
Honestly there is not too much difference between playing Farmville and playing this. Both are “drip feeders” of small “rewards” to pull you in further and never really let you go (well, to give Minecraft credit everything is not monetized and decaying on purpose to get your money to make it easier).
It’s just the modern version of the middle-aged man in the basement with a train set that people (esp. young) deride so often in the culture. Is there really any difference? At least with the trainset you are physically building something.
Minecraft is like zombo.com. Anything is possible, etc. etc.
It’s also like a blank canvas. You can sit there and stare at it and say this crap is boring, or you can build something unique and wonderful with it. That fact makes it a little bit more than just a video game. Sure, it’s a waste of time, but it’s not a complete waste of time. It’s not about “leveling up” the way thousands of others before you have done. It’s about leveling up in your own special way, making the “level” or “world” excatly the way you want it to be.
Besides, the music from c418 alone is worth more than the $15.
This would have been about 100 times cooler if it had been built in Dwarf Fortress instead.
I find it so interesting that for some people, there is such a simple line between what is constructive or meaningful or has a “point” and what is just a timesuck … a goal? All games give you artificial goals. That Minecraft does away with that is just being straightforward.
I really enjoy Minecraft because I think it’s a great outlet for creativity … like LEGO, a blank sketchpad, or a hunk of clay, with a little roleplaying thrown in. If you look at that and think “timesuck”, I admit I’ll assume that you have little use for leisure at all. Leisure is about pleasure. That it is or isn’t constructive is down to individual preference.
Considering the kind of pursuits showcased on BB, and the pursuit BB is itself, I admit I’m surprised again and again by the commentators — however many or few — who feel there’s a need to judge leisure activities by their utility.
I’m saying my preference, experiences, and my eventual fallout with the game and why, not judging the people who play it for leisure. IMO, I just feel I could be using my leisure time for a better purpose since I’m older and it’s now more precious then ever. I would like to communicate better visually, etc so why not piggyback onto an activity that’s both leisure and help me with that?
I’m not saying “those danged kids better do somethin’ better with their time”. They have lots more of it, time is not as scare a resource and are welcome to do what they want (like I used to do playing games when I was younger. Ultima IV I’m looking at you).
And no, not all games have artificial goals. A runner makes a game out of beating his last “score” in how fast he runs in a certain time. Now his body is stronger and faster. That’s far from being artificial.
And honestly, why are you so surprised by the commentators that have a different viewpoint? For me, BB itself opens me to different opinions and I know a little bit more about the world. There are all types of people on this site, it’s not homogeneous (thank god), you should know that by now. :)
I AM judging though the people who judge other people who have a different form of leisure from their own (trainsets/flower arranging, etc) and think they are superior because they have something that’s more hip but ultimately is the same sort of thing (minecraft/farmville).
I’m not normally the type to get concerned with epeen, but this isn’t the largest pyramid possible in minecraft. The largest pyramid possible was built by the Gamers With Jobs community, with the help of yours truly, over a period of two weeks last september. Whereas the two pyramids are the same height, ours was larger as we built it with stone half-steps rather than full size blocks, and therefore it had a much larger footprint. The pyramid was so large that it extended further than the game engine’s draw distance, meaning that at any given time you could only view a portion of it. Here are some screen caps:
http://imgur.com/a/KRvqx
It is NOT the biggest pyramid possible. Clearly you can build one two blocks taller, because you see him stand on top of it…
Also, +1 for the idea that it doesn’t count if he used any kind of cheat to help build it.
I think the way it works is that there’s a level beyond which you can’t place blocks, not that there’s a level where your player is blocked from moving.
I stand corrected — confirmed by building up a stack of earth blocks under me from the top of the tallest tower of my own castle (it only took eight blocks, too :D )
This is invalid. It’s not a complete pyramid; it’s just layers of gold stacked in a pyramid shape. There’s no top! If you start at the bottom of a pyramid, then there’s no practical limit on it’s size. You can make it ten thousand squares, but if you don’t finish the top it’s not a ‘pyramid’ and has no size restrictions.
Unfortunately this isn’t the biggest pyramid I have seen in minecraft because the server I play on built a half step pyramid that started at 2 layers below the first layer of bedrock (the hole created for the pyramid was map edited and the person who made the hole screwd up.)and went right to the top of the world build limit. The only part of the pyramid not done manually was the interior floor. Although we did use the /give command for all materials needed. It was posted on redit a couple of months ago, and since than we have archived that particular world.
whats the song playing on this ?
in newer versions of minecraft there’s gonna be battles in multiplayer and what-not
In games ranging anywhere between Farmville to WOW, one is mainly just grinding to a higher level, with the motivation being the higher level (though someone could argue raids, but phooey)
In games like Black Ops or Halo one plays multiplayer, arguably, to improve their skills, and likely because they enjoy it.
Minecraft, currently, says screw that and lets you run around doing whatever the hell you want. It’s different, and people are being critical of the lack of end goal or purpose, but what’s the purpose of games like Black Ops or WOW? What’s the purpose of playing a board game? Of a sport? It’s a crap argument.
That being said, Minecraft is the most intriguing game I have played for sure, but I played too much of it. However, I’ve played a ton of it, wasn’t on multiplayer, and it’s still in beta, for goodness sake. And this pyramid is ruined by the fact they just kinda cheated (IMO) to make it; just make it out of sand after completely flattening a couple of deserts.
I was a late joiner to MC. I find it a relaxing way to spend a few hours. I have played a number of ‘grinder’ games and got bored within a few minutes.
This IS more like legos or erector (hehe) sets or lincoln logs. It is up to the individual how the ‘game’ should proceed.
Even though it is a game, when I am exploring a deep cave, I get anxious…every world is randomly generated so there are no maps.
When I make a very tall structure, I get the sensation of height, and the real fact that if I fall the character will die, and everything he was carrying will disappear. So you have to have caution.
But then again, when I play FPS, I get frustrated that I can’t go exploring an area not on the linear script.