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Minecraft....I don't get the love? (1 Viewer)
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bentley
Footballguy
Absolutely. Neither of my boys have played online.
My 3 year old plays the pocket version on the iPad and he's a hell of a lot better at it than I am.
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root of all aliai
My kids are way into it. Every time we go to the park my son broaches the subject with random kids down to 2yrs old. At the park they act like they are minecrafting. It never ends.
It is kind of a cool thing when the kids are playing on their tablets in the same world building stuff together. Then my son raids my daughters village and sets all her livestock on fire and I have to take the tablets away.
For the most part I don't get it but I have witnessed a couple of cool things. My daughter built about a 50ft high platform with a single square of water below it on the ground and was trying to dive into it. I was impressed for a 5yo and it was pretty funny.
There's also this rare stuff called Redstone you can dig up that allows you to build time-delayed contraptions like automatic doors. I've seen my son do some cool stuff with that.
It is kind of a cool thing when the kids are playing on their tablets in the same world building stuff together. Then my son raids my daughters village and sets all her livestock on fire and I have to take the tablets away.
For the most part I don't get it but I have witnessed a couple of cool things. My daughter built about a 50ft high platform with a single square of water below it on the ground and was trying to dive into it. I was impressed for a 5yo and it was pretty funny.
There's also this rare stuff called Redstone you can dig up that allows you to build time-delayed contraptions like automatic doors. I've seen my son do some cool stuff with that.
PIK95
Footballguy
My 5y/o daughter is obsessed with Dan the Diamond Mine cart and his pugs. He is cool.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
Remember when we had things like the Official Drunk Thread and we shared stories of the stupid #### we did when we got wasted? Now we're sharing fatherly advice.
It's like we've all taken this journey of life together. It's sort of a sad and proud moment all at the same time.
Psyche! You guys blow. Eat my butt!
It's like we've all taken this journey of life together. It's sort of a sad and proud moment all at the same time.
Psyche! You guys blow. Eat my butt!
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
My son got tired of torches for light so he built lava pillars. Pretty cool and outside the box thinking. I have no problem with Minecraft playing.
Now, the videos... when my kids watch Stampy videos. I ban them to the basement like Sloth from the Goonies. I don't want to here that guys voice again.
El Floppo
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
Ned
Footballguy
MikeIke
Footballguy
This is exactly what I was thinking he other day. I definitely would have watched Zelda videos to get tips and tricks. All we had was Nintendo Power magazine. This is really no different, it's just modern.
snellman
Footballguy
Makes me feel a lot better knowing I am not the only one that does this. We bought our kids bluetooth headphones because of the Stampy videos. If they are watching videos it is either headphones on or to the basement you go.
PIK95
Footballguy
My nine year old son listens to Sundee? every night before bed. He loves it. He is on the soccer field five days a week and is on Minecraft Survival servers with his soccer buddies as soon as they return home from the games/practices. Its pretty funny. They will call each other and put the phones on speaker and scream and yell at each other as they play. It's hilarious to listen too.
Is there a way to do a conference call on a regular phone or iPhone so we only need to tie up one line at a time? Tia.
Is there a way to do a conference call on a regular phone or iPhone so we only need to tie up one line at a time? Tia.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Ok.... (tl;dr - your kids can learn real life lessons with this game and its amazing to see what they can build)
Minecraft controls our house. My oldest has the PC version, XBox 360 and on a tablet. The tablet version is the one least used and more used for long road trips. He also watches, endlessly, the youtube videos from various Minecraft stations. Needless to say, it's everywhere in my house.
This is very much a verison of legos, digital style, for this generation but there is something more to it. If it was just building that is one thing. But what really gets my oldest entertained and what is fun to watch him do, is create something. And the things they can create are almost endless. He is currently working on a massive roller coaster complete with detail that is just amazing. The ability to conceptualize what he is doing on a 3D level to built height and depth to something is pretty amazing. So it definately allows for a significant amount of creativity.
On the PC version you can certainly play by yourself and not worry about online issues. He does this to create stuff. Just create. Some of the stuff he builds is amazing. But I have also recently allowed him to play on a server with other people that is closely monitored and behavior is moderated significantly. There is no destroying other people's stuff, for example, and no inappropriate comments. Just good clean fun within the universe. He enjoys that as well.
Since the PC version is only one player and I'm not about to buy another membership to play with him we play together solely on the XBox. After starting probably 5 or 6 worlds together his gameplay style started to annoy me. He would look for and try to build the coolest stuff as fast as possible without paying attention to things like building a house, growing food, and the like. So for the next game after that I told him we would start on opposite ends of the world. We started and spawned at the southern most point of the right side of the map. I told him to do his thing and I traveled all the way to top left of the map and did mine. He started right away trying to build cool push button doors and fancy things but didn't pay attention to simple supplies. I started by building a small house made of dirt, began a mine, and a farm. One of the most important things to have early is wood so I chopped down trees and replanted them to the point that I basically had an unlimited supply. I also ended up having a rather large farm and almost an endless supply of food.
When I began my mine, I was looking for two things - coal and iron. Coal you need to cook stuff and iron is without question the most important ore in the game. He would find iron and build cool things with it like minetracks that he really didn't need right away. I build iron pickaxes because only iron pickaxes can mine the more advanced stuff. He wasted his wood on abuilding a 4 story house that was really cool. I had a dirt hut. Within about 40 or 50 moves he began to realize that while he had some cool stuff he didn't have all the necessary supplies to play long term and we were playing on the hard level so the bad guys at night really hurt him. I had all the supplies to basically last forever but nothing cool or shiny. He eventually realized that he needed my help and I told him I would be happy to trade him supplies. So he traveled the map came to my house and traded me all his diamonds and advanced stuff that he built and thought was cool and I gave him food and coal and iron that I had an abundance of. And my supplies weren't going to end whereas he would have to either keep trading with me forever or stop what he was doing and play the way I was. I lightbulb went off in his head.
That lesson has had real world implications for my oldest. He fully grasps cause and effect now moreso than his age would allow. MAking sure you have supplies and resources and made him understand the nuace to his history lessons, especially when they talk about wars and civilizations dying off from famine.
So, we started a new game together after that. One of the things that can randomly spawn is a village of minecrafters. You can trade with them. They already have houses built with a small farm and some animals fenced off. Basically everything you need to start. In our new game we began right next to one. So I came up with a gameplan. We built a small house to share, out of dirt, right next to it so that would could trade with them and steal their farm food. But we didn't have to because the first night zombies ended up killing all the villiagers. So the village was empty. New plan. I told him that this should be our "castle." And he understood. We built over several days a 14 block high wall around the village and it has a completely glass ceiling so that spiders can't climb the wall. The entire wall has torches all around it so that it is always very bright inside the wall - meaning no bad guys can spawn at night. It has 3 houses, 4 farms, access to water and complete security from the bad guys. It is a self contained unit. He loves it. We've turned that area into a fortress and it has everything. We have almost unlimited food now and the area is so big that we have several mines within the walls, meaning we can mine without fear of something attacking us at night (save the dark caverns you find). He has worked on making sure we have all the basics in abundance. We just ran out of room for our storage of tools (a chest holds about 42 items in individual blocks of up to 64 pieces) and supplies and built a new storage shed within the walls for all of our supplies. We have a chest completely full of just wheat. One completely full of just coal. And so on. We will almost never run out of the most basic supplies.
Now when we play he spends the first 5 or so minutes farming and getting the supplies that can be easily grabbed - always thinking about the most basic needs. We have about 10 cows, 50 chickens, 20 or so pigs, a whole area full of sheep and enough farming land to never have to leave the walls. Except of course, you have to or where is the fun. So we traveled and found another abandoned villiage and did the same thing. Still working on finishing that one. You can see the second villiage from the top of the wall on the first one, so we are planning on building a skybridge from one to the other that is impenetrable. We also traveled down a river to pretty much the other side of the map and built a little fort to be a stopping area complete with beds and a chest full to the top of everything you need to survive there if you wanted that to be a new start point.
Now that all the basics are done and we are ready to conquer the world he is building the Great Lighthouse. This thing is huge. We are going to build them at our castles and at other strategic areas. He is also working on a pathway with light to keep bad guys away if we are outside the walls. All told, he now understands not just the game mechanics but the nessecity of supplies and protection and how with that kind of stuff you can be successful. He has already transfered that basic knowledge into another game - I gave him my old copy of Civ 3. He is devouring that game faster than I did when I first learned it. He already understood the concept of supplies and whatnot and built an empire without me even telling him to really play the game.
Now when we go food shopping, he is tuned into the reasons why mom buys flour and the basics more than just the shiny prepackaged crap. She bakes bread from scratch. He now understands how we can bake several loafs of bread buying the basics of it for the price of the junk food bread that he likes. And so one. He actually asked to try to make cake from scratch instead of just buying the box stuff. The game helped him understand that concept.
And beyond that there is the definate need to understand why 1 block is important to get the next block and so on. At the start of the game you have literally nothing. The first thing you need is wood. To build axes, pickaxes and a crafting table where you are allowed to build higer end stuff. As soon as you do that you need to mine some stone so that you can build stone tools. With the stone tools you can eventually find coal - you need to the coal to build a use a furnace to cook the food you kill and to melt the iron and gold ore you find. Once you have iron tools you can mine anything else in the game, build your minetracks and so on. Without the basic suff in the beginning you aren't doing anything in this game. But once he understood those basic concepts more than just knowing what you have to do win the game, his mind just took off with it.
So in our game we have two castles, enough food to live forever, about 7 mines, two going down the bedrock - the absolute bottom of the game, lava pits for unlimited fire and light, enough weapons to take them into a Call of Duty game and last for a few days, more farms than Kansas has, unlimited supply of animals to grow kill and eat, our own man made forest which gives unlimited wood and now he is basically in create mode. And the stuff he can build is just remarkable. I can't do it. I just don't see the stuff he sees. This lighthouse he is building is round with a spiral staircase, regularly placed defensive openings, floors at regular heights and looks like something out of Game of Thrones. and he is doing it just with his eye and a few buttons. Counting the squares he needs, doing the math, envisioning the finished product, understanding the supplies he needs, even right down to be able to time in his head how many blocks he can place per minute before it gets dark.
I'm just blown away at how such a simple game concept has the unlimited potential for real life lessons. I hate the music. Can't see too much at night because of my eyes, and literally have no idea how he builds some things. Of course, it is all he talks about so that is annoying, but he comes up with stuff in his head that is really amazing.
One funny thing - he build the solar system. Not kidding. He started a PC world that was flat with nothing in it on creative mode, and built this massive structure out of black wool or something that it was entirely black on the inside, and then put torches in spaces all over to make them look like stars, and then just built the solar system inside of it. The thing was huge. And the planets looked cool. And when he was done, he showed me, I was amazed, he said it was no big deal, erased it and moved on to something else.
Minecraft controls our house. My oldest has the PC version, XBox 360 and on a tablet. The tablet version is the one least used and more used for long road trips. He also watches, endlessly, the youtube videos from various Minecraft stations. Needless to say, it's everywhere in my house.
This is very much a verison of legos, digital style, for this generation but there is something more to it. If it was just building that is one thing. But what really gets my oldest entertained and what is fun to watch him do, is create something. And the things they can create are almost endless. He is currently working on a massive roller coaster complete with detail that is just amazing. The ability to conceptualize what he is doing on a 3D level to built height and depth to something is pretty amazing. So it definately allows for a significant amount of creativity.
On the PC version you can certainly play by yourself and not worry about online issues. He does this to create stuff. Just create. Some of the stuff he builds is amazing. But I have also recently allowed him to play on a server with other people that is closely monitored and behavior is moderated significantly. There is no destroying other people's stuff, for example, and no inappropriate comments. Just good clean fun within the universe. He enjoys that as well.
Since the PC version is only one player and I'm not about to buy another membership to play with him we play together solely on the XBox. After starting probably 5 or 6 worlds together his gameplay style started to annoy me. He would look for and try to build the coolest stuff as fast as possible without paying attention to things like building a house, growing food, and the like. So for the next game after that I told him we would start on opposite ends of the world. We started and spawned at the southern most point of the right side of the map. I told him to do his thing and I traveled all the way to top left of the map and did mine. He started right away trying to build cool push button doors and fancy things but didn't pay attention to simple supplies. I started by building a small house made of dirt, began a mine, and a farm. One of the most important things to have early is wood so I chopped down trees and replanted them to the point that I basically had an unlimited supply. I also ended up having a rather large farm and almost an endless supply of food.
When I began my mine, I was looking for two things - coal and iron. Coal you need to cook stuff and iron is without question the most important ore in the game. He would find iron and build cool things with it like minetracks that he really didn't need right away. I build iron pickaxes because only iron pickaxes can mine the more advanced stuff. He wasted his wood on abuilding a 4 story house that was really cool. I had a dirt hut. Within about 40 or 50 moves he began to realize that while he had some cool stuff he didn't have all the necessary supplies to play long term and we were playing on the hard level so the bad guys at night really hurt him. I had all the supplies to basically last forever but nothing cool or shiny. He eventually realized that he needed my help and I told him I would be happy to trade him supplies. So he traveled the map came to my house and traded me all his diamonds and advanced stuff that he built and thought was cool and I gave him food and coal and iron that I had an abundance of. And my supplies weren't going to end whereas he would have to either keep trading with me forever or stop what he was doing and play the way I was. I lightbulb went off in his head.
That lesson has had real world implications for my oldest. He fully grasps cause and effect now moreso than his age would allow. MAking sure you have supplies and resources and made him understand the nuace to his history lessons, especially when they talk about wars and civilizations dying off from famine.
So, we started a new game together after that. One of the things that can randomly spawn is a village of minecrafters. You can trade with them. They already have houses built with a small farm and some animals fenced off. Basically everything you need to start. In our new game we began right next to one. So I came up with a gameplan. We built a small house to share, out of dirt, right next to it so that would could trade with them and steal their farm food. But we didn't have to because the first night zombies ended up killing all the villiagers. So the village was empty. New plan. I told him that this should be our "castle." And he understood. We built over several days a 14 block high wall around the village and it has a completely glass ceiling so that spiders can't climb the wall. The entire wall has torches all around it so that it is always very bright inside the wall - meaning no bad guys can spawn at night. It has 3 houses, 4 farms, access to water and complete security from the bad guys. It is a self contained unit. He loves it. We've turned that area into a fortress and it has everything. We have almost unlimited food now and the area is so big that we have several mines within the walls, meaning we can mine without fear of something attacking us at night (save the dark caverns you find). He has worked on making sure we have all the basics in abundance. We just ran out of room for our storage of tools (a chest holds about 42 items in individual blocks of up to 64 pieces) and supplies and built a new storage shed within the walls for all of our supplies. We have a chest completely full of just wheat. One completely full of just coal. And so on. We will almost never run out of the most basic supplies.
Now when we play he spends the first 5 or so minutes farming and getting the supplies that can be easily grabbed - always thinking about the most basic needs. We have about 10 cows, 50 chickens, 20 or so pigs, a whole area full of sheep and enough farming land to never have to leave the walls. Except of course, you have to or where is the fun. So we traveled and found another abandoned villiage and did the same thing. Still working on finishing that one. You can see the second villiage from the top of the wall on the first one, so we are planning on building a skybridge from one to the other that is impenetrable. We also traveled down a river to pretty much the other side of the map and built a little fort to be a stopping area complete with beds and a chest full to the top of everything you need to survive there if you wanted that to be a new start point.
Now that all the basics are done and we are ready to conquer the world he is building the Great Lighthouse. This thing is huge. We are going to build them at our castles and at other strategic areas. He is also working on a pathway with light to keep bad guys away if we are outside the walls. All told, he now understands not just the game mechanics but the nessecity of supplies and protection and how with that kind of stuff you can be successful. He has already transfered that basic knowledge into another game - I gave him my old copy of Civ 3. He is devouring that game faster than I did when I first learned it. He already understood the concept of supplies and whatnot and built an empire without me even telling him to really play the game.
Now when we go food shopping, he is tuned into the reasons why mom buys flour and the basics more than just the shiny prepackaged crap. She bakes bread from scratch. He now understands how we can bake several loafs of bread buying the basics of it for the price of the junk food bread that he likes. And so one. He actually asked to try to make cake from scratch instead of just buying the box stuff. The game helped him understand that concept.
And beyond that there is the definate need to understand why 1 block is important to get the next block and so on. At the start of the game you have literally nothing. The first thing you need is wood. To build axes, pickaxes and a crafting table where you are allowed to build higer end stuff. As soon as you do that you need to mine some stone so that you can build stone tools. With the stone tools you can eventually find coal - you need to the coal to build a use a furnace to cook the food you kill and to melt the iron and gold ore you find. Once you have iron tools you can mine anything else in the game, build your minetracks and so on. Without the basic suff in the beginning you aren't doing anything in this game. But once he understood those basic concepts more than just knowing what you have to do win the game, his mind just took off with it.
So in our game we have two castles, enough food to live forever, about 7 mines, two going down the bedrock - the absolute bottom of the game, lava pits for unlimited fire and light, enough weapons to take them into a Call of Duty game and last for a few days, more farms than Kansas has, unlimited supply of animals to grow kill and eat, our own man made forest which gives unlimited wood and now he is basically in create mode. And the stuff he can build is just remarkable. I can't do it. I just don't see the stuff he sees. This lighthouse he is building is round with a spiral staircase, regularly placed defensive openings, floors at regular heights and looks like something out of Game of Thrones. and he is doing it just with his eye and a few buttons. Counting the squares he needs, doing the math, envisioning the finished product, understanding the supplies he needs, even right down to be able to time in his head how many blocks he can place per minute before it gets dark.
I'm just blown away at how such a simple game concept has the unlimited potential for real life lessons. I hate the music. Can't see too much at night because of my eyes, and literally have no idea how he builds some things. Of course, it is all he talks about so that is annoying, but he comes up with stuff in his head that is really amazing.
One funny thing - he build the solar system. Not kidding. He started a PC world that was flat with nothing in it on creative mode, and built this massive structure out of black wool or something that it was entirely black on the inside, and then put torches in spaces all over to make them look like stars, and then just built the solar system inside of it. The thing was huge. And the planets looked cool. And when he was done, he showed me, I was amazed, he said it was no big deal, erased it and moved on to something else.
PIK95
Footballguy
My daughter used ten gigs of data in five days this month watching Stampy videos on my phones in the car. I thought I had unlimited data with my Verizon plan, but apparently its $15 for every gig over ten. My wife and I both got messages about it when she hit ten so now my wife is mad. Its still cheaper then a sitter and she loves it. This is gonna be an ugly cell bill.
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comfortably numb
Footballguy
This could have sent to the confession thread.Ok.... (tl;dr - your kids can learn real life lessons with this game and its amazing to see what they can build)
Minecraft controls our house. My oldest has the PC version, XBox 360 and on a tablet. The tablet version is the one least used and more used for long road trips. He also watches, endlessly, the youtube videos from various Minecraft stations. Needless to say, it's everywhere in my house.
This is very much a verison of legos, digital style, for this generation but there is something more to it. If it was just building that is one thing. But what really gets my oldest entertained and what is fun to watch him do, is create something. And the things they can create are almost endless. He is currently working on a massive roller coaster complete with detail that is just amazing. The ability to conceptualize what he is doing on a 3D level to built height and depth to something is pretty amazing. So it definately allows for a significant amount of creativity.
On the PC version you can certainly play by yourself and not worry about online issues. He does this to create stuff. Just create. Some of the stuff he builds is amazing. But I have also recently allowed him to play on a server with other people that is closely monitored and behavior is moderated significantly. There is no destroying other people's stuff, for example, and no inappropriate comments. Just good clean fun within the universe. He enjoys that as well.
Since the PC version is only one player and I'm not about to buy another membership to play with him we play together solely on the XBox. After starting probably 5 or 6 worlds together his gameplay style started to annoy me. He would look for and try to build the coolest stuff as fast as possible without paying attention to things like building a house, growing food, and the like. So for the next game after that I told him we would start on opposite ends of the world. We started and spawned at the southern most point of the right side of the map. I told him to do his thing and I traveled all the way to top left of the map and did mine. He started right away trying to build cool push button doors and fancy things but didn't pay attention to simple supplies. I started by building a small house made of dirt, began a mine, and a farm. One of the most important things to have early is wood so I chopped down trees and replanted them to the point that I basically had an unlimited supply. I also ended up having a rather large farm and almost an endless supply of food.
When I began my mine, I was looking for two things - coal and iron. Coal you need to cook stuff and iron is without question the most important ore in the game. He would find iron and build cool things with it like minetracks that he really didn't need right away. I build iron pickaxes because only iron pickaxes can mine the more advanced stuff. He wasted his wood on abuilding a 4 story house that was really cool. I had a dirt hut. Within about 40 or 50 moves he began to realize that while he had some cool stuff he didn't have all the necessary supplies to play long term and we were playing on the hard level so the bad guys at night really hurt him. I had all the supplies to basically last forever but nothing cool or shiny. He eventually realized that he needed my help and I told him I would be happy to trade him supplies. So he traveled the map came to my house and traded me all his diamonds and advanced stuff that he built and thought was cool and I gave him food and coal and iron that I had an abundance of. And my supplies weren't going to end whereas he would have to either keep trading with me forever or stop what he was doing and play the way I was. I lightbulb went off in his head.
That lesson has had real world implications for my oldest. He fully grasps cause and effect now moreso than his age would allow. MAking sure you have supplies and resources and made him understand the nuace to his history lessons, especially when they talk about wars and civilizations dying off from famine.
So, we started a new game together after that. One of the things that can randomly spawn is a village of minecrafters. You can trade with them. They already have houses built with a small farm and some animals fenced off. Basically everything you need to start. In our new game we began right next to one. So I came up with a gameplan. We built a small house to share, out of dirt, right next to it so that would could trade with them and steal their farm food. But we didn't have to because the first night zombies ended up killing all the villiagers. So the village was empty. New plan. I told him that this should be our "castle." And he understood. We built over several days a 14 block high wall around the village and it has a completely glass ceiling so that spiders can't climb the wall. The entire wall has torches all around it so that it is always very bright inside the wall - meaning no bad guys can spawn at night. It has 3 houses, 4 farms, access to water and complete security from the bad guys. It is a self contained unit. He loves it. We've turned that area into a fortress and it has everything. We have almost unlimited food now and the area is so big that we have several mines within the walls, meaning we can mine without fear of something attacking us at night (save the dark caverns you find). He has worked on making sure we have all the basics in abundance. We just ran out of room for our storage of tools (a chest holds about 42 items in individual blocks of up to 64 pieces) and supplies and built a new storage shed within the walls for all of our supplies. We have a chest completely full of just wheat. One completely full of just coal. And so on. We will almost never run out of the most basic supplies.
Now when we play he spends the first 5 or so minutes farming and getting the supplies that can be easily grabbed - always thinking about the most basic needs. We have about 10 cows, 50 chickens, 20 or so pigs, a whole area full of sheep and enough farming land to never have to leave the walls. Except of course, you have to or where is the fun. So we traveled and found another abandoned villiage and did the same thing. Still working on finishing that one. You can see the second villiage from the top of the wall on the first one, so we are planning on building a skybridge from one to the other that is impenetrable. We also traveled down a river to pretty much the other side of the map and built a little fort to be a stopping area complete with beds and a chest full to the top of everything you need to survive there if you wanted that to be a new start point.
Now that all the basics are done and we are ready to conquer the world he is building the Great Lighthouse. This thing is huge. We are going to build them at our castles and at other strategic areas. He is also working on a pathway with light to keep bad guys away if we are outside the walls. All told, he now understands not just the game mechanics but the nessecity of supplies and protection and how with that kind of stuff you can be successful. He has already transfered that basic knowledge into another game - I gave him my old copy of Civ 3. He is devouring that game faster than I did when I first learned it. He already understood the concept of supplies and whatnot and built an empire without me even telling him to really play the game.
Now when we go food shopping, he is tuned into the reasons why mom buys flour and the basics more than just the shiny prepackaged crap. She bakes bread from scratch. He now understands how we can bake several loafs of bread buying the basics of it for the price of the junk food bread that he likes. And so one. He actually asked to try to make cake from scratch instead of just buying the box stuff. The game helped him understand that concept.
And beyond that there is the definate need to understand why 1 block is important to get the next block and so on. At the start of the game you have literally nothing. The first thing you need is wood. To build axes, pickaxes and a crafting table where you are allowed to build higer end stuff. As soon as you do that you need to mine some stone so that you can build stone tools. With the stone tools you can eventually find coal - you need to the coal to build a use a furnace to cook the food you kill and to melt the iron and gold ore you find. Once you have iron tools you can mine anything else in the game, build your minetracks and so on. Without the basic suff in the beginning you aren't doing anything in this game. But once he understood those basic concepts more than just knowing what you have to do win the game, his mind just took off with it.
So in our game we have two castles, enough food to live forever, about 7 mines, two going down the bedrock - the absolute bottom of the game, lava pits for unlimited fire and light, enough weapons to take them into a Call of Duty game and last for a few days, more farms than Kansas has, unlimited supply of animals to grow kill and eat, our own man made forest which gives unlimited wood and now he is basically in create mode. And the stuff he can build is just remarkable. I can't do it. I just don't see the stuff he sees. This lighthouse he is building is round with a spiral staircase, regularly placed defensive openings, floors at regular heights and looks like something out of Game of Thrones. and he is doing it just with his eye and a few buttons. Counting the squares he needs, doing the math, envisioning the finished product, understanding the supplies he needs, even right down to be able to time in his head how many blocks he can place per minute before it gets dark.
I'm just blown away at how such a simple game concept has the unlimited potential for real life lessons. I hate the music. Can't see too much at night because of my eyes, and literally have no idea how he builds some things. Of course, it is all he talks about so that is annoying, but he comes up with stuff in his head that is really amazing.
One funny thing - he build the solar system. Not kidding. He started a PC world that was flat with nothing in it on creative mode, and built this massive structure out of black wool or something that it was entirely black on the inside, and then put torches in spaces all over to make them look like stars, and then just built the solar system inside of it. The thing was huge. And the planets looked cool. And when he was done, he showed me, I was amazed, he said it was no big deal, erased it and moved on to something else.
MikeIke
Footballguy
Really? I love the Stampy videos. He always seems like such a happy, jolly guy. I picture him dressed in a silly, colorful tuxedo with a big top hat.
Yankee23Fan
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Yeah, like I said. It runs my house. I had playdough and legos when I was his age.
Oh, and for anyone that hates/loves/hates this game.... did you see the Microsfot version of goggle glass online? 3D virtual Minecraft. God help us all.
Oh, and for anyone that hates/loves/hates this game.... did you see the Microsfot version of goggle glass online? 3D virtual Minecraft. God help us all.
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
He is better than the dad from TheEngineeringFamily.Really? I love the Stampy videos. He always seems like such a happy, jolly guy. I picture him dressed in a silly, colorful tuxedo with a big top hat.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Really? I love the Stampy videos. He always seems like such a happy, jolly guy. I picture him dressed in a silly, colorful tuxedo with a big top hat.
my picture is dirty boxers and wifebeater, laying in a mountain of cash.
Yankee23Fan
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Don't think I've heard of Stampy. My little guy's go to is Popular MMO's. It's a guy and a girl that play together and comment as they play. But frankly I've lost track of everything on the PC.
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Yankee23Fan
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There are bad guys that come out at night that attack you. Zombies, skeletons with crossbows, Creepers (which are just green menaces that blow up when you are too close to them and they take out anything around them, spiders and if you have the upgrades there are also witches and different kinds of the other bad guys, including ones that are wearing armor. If you kill them you get experience points and most of them will drop stuff that you can use in other ways. You can also built a portal to the underworld, the Nether - which is basically hell. There are other badguys there as well. That place sucks.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Is stampy part of the male/female duo that say "Oh my god!" a lot? On infinite loop at Chez WDC.
I used love playing with those. We had a big Oak tree in our yard, and we would dig out tunnels, and fortifications around the roots, then stand back and fire acorns at the other kids army men. Good times. (Also doubled as an awesome place to play with match box cars). Life was simple then.
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
You have no idea how much better I feel after reading this thread
El Floppo
Footballguy
there's an american version who says "OH. MY. GOD." all the time...
El Floppo
Footballguy
we did the exact same thing.
my house was on a steep slope, built on stilts. we would play under the house taking turns digging out forts for the army men and then having the other guys try to find them and chuck rocks at them.
I'm sure there are still undiscovered caves with tiny, lonely, hungry, scared green army men waiting to cry freedom... like those japanese guys still hiding out on small pacific islands after ww2.
eta: and we did so much digging, we compromised the foundations- I had to go back later and pour reinforcing ones.
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PIK95
Footballguy
Stampy has Amie Lee, Sqiud, and Lee that play with him. Hit the Target did at one time also but they broke up. My sons character appeared in one of those vids one time and that was a huge deal to him and his friends. So funny.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
I wish there was a google image for what I'm imagining. Cows mooing while they're walking around on fire.that got me too
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
How can you have them build together? Right now my son's play on seperate devises...is it just something in the settings?
That is pretty much how it works.I wish there was a google image for what I'm imagining. Cows mooing while they're walking around on fire.that got me too
timschochet
Footballguy
My daughters play it nonstop when they don't have homework or dance.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
my daughter loves the stampy videos as well.
As for the infatuation despite poor graphics, I read something about the minimalist graphics being perfect for younger kids because their brains can understand them better than more complex graphics. So it may be hitting some sweet spot of giving just enough to give meaning, but too much to overwhelm.
(HULK)
(Smash)
My dad, when he was a kid, had these wooden bricks that were basically lego precursors. He and his brothers would build castles out of them, and then build cannons. Either spring loaded or powered via a firecracker. They shot marbles and blew their creations to bits. Their dad was an engineer and they had all sort of cool tools to use.
Upon hearing this as a child and actually seeing the set and some old cannons, I immediately refused to build legos anymore, since we had a silly "no explosives in the house" rule that prevented me from using cannons to rain destruction down upon them.
Now its all virtual and sanitized. Sad.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
That is pretty much how it works.I wish there was a google image for what I'm imagining. Cows mooing while they're walking around on fire.that got me too
snellman
Footballguy
My 7 yr old son plays that as well, but not as much as minecraft. Minecraft has taken a back seat for a bit though because he has been into clash of clans lately.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Yankee23Fan
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Jayrod
Footballguy
That is pretty much how it works.I wish there was a google image for what I'm imagining. Cows mooing while they're walking around on fire.that got me too
Like this.
Yankee23Fan
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When you buy the game on the PC you can access it from any other PC because you have to sign into the main Minecraft server to play it. It doesn't download to your computer.
But certain files do, like the savegame files and any mods you download. So you can play it on more than one machine but you wont have the same game on every machine. You also have to remember that the PC minecraft world is infinite. There is no end to it at all. No final wall that you hit. There is a bottom floor - the bedrock - that you can dig to and I'm sure there is a limit to the height in the sky at some point, but east and west there is simply no end. On one of those websites that shows the size of planets and atoms and people and how everything relates to each other, the PC minecraft "world" is bigger than the planet Neptune in terms of quantifying the size of its data. So obviously you are't downloading that.
The XBox game is finite and has outer walls, but it is still so big with so much to do that you will never ever get to its end there either.
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comfortably numb
Footballguy
igbomb
Footballguy
I buy all my games off steam. Clearly this one isn't on there. You just go to their site and plunk down your coin?
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