Talking about projects. I had a day when internet went down, so decided to play some minecraft. Began work on building a calculator in a giant dungeon :)
And boy if I finish it before the next year, I’ll be super happy. Building circuits with giant cubes is hard work. :)

Next on the agenda: It would be awesome to build Tiphares – http://gunnm.sioc.org/images/tiphares.jpg

Oh yeah…
I read this, thought “you heard about that somewhere else, so let’s try” and now…
my eyes feel like sand grinded due to lack of sleep :p
Graphics: none.
Pride on building a house that’s so high up the roof-garden is in the clouds: Endless!

@ Luke Maciak:

Well my project was to first gather every single cube, then build something massive. :D

Hosting a multiplayer game on a home server is nice and fun if you’re doing survival mode. Setting it up on my ubuntu-based file server was pretty quick. Me and my brother play on it while using ventrilo (also hosted on the server). If one of you dies in a dungeon (which seems to happen rather frequently for us) you can enter the console and teleport the dead person back to the living one. It’s kind of like a coop fps, as long as one of you is still alive, you can get back to where you were.

+1 to the “need a project” thing. Once you’ve got yourself secure in your fortress, a nice deep mine, and plenty of the resources, it can get a bit dull unless you’ve got something in mind that you’re trying to achieve aside from the initial goal of those things I just said.

@ Phil:

Yeah, I’m really impressed by some of the stuff other people do in this game. My buildings look a bit pathetic in comparison.

I also wonder if the folks that do the really huge awesome things (like the Enterprise model, or the working computer made out of redstone circuits) actually collect their resources or if they just use a map editor or server admin powers to get them. I would think the later rather than the former. I can’t imagine mining all that redstone.

@ Liudvikas:

I think the trick in this game is to give yourself projects. It can get a bit boring after a while. My last project was to build a huge ass tower. My current one is to connect two of my towers via a working railway.

Oh, and when you get bored it is sometimes a good idea to just roll a new world from scratch. Or try some colab building with a friend. I’m planning to try that with my brother actually – set up a persistent server and then build shit together.

@ Simon:

No, not dOOd. Poop… I was spelling “poop”… Which I guess makes it worse… Sigh…

@ k00pa:

Yes, it does get boring after a while. It is interesting to play it with someone though. I introduced the game to my brother and he had some really cool ideas I have been wanting to replicate. For example he built a working railway with switches to control the cart movement.

Bought it on alpha, played for a while, but now it feels bit boring…

Mining starts to feel like work and I don’t have any “goal” to try and achieve. I am not so creative that I could spend hundreds of hours building stuff on this game, but if they add some kind of goals/challenges to this game, I will definitely try it again.

And I agree, more fun than CoD: Black Ops.

Carving “dOOd” into the ground really ruins that scene.

*career

I wish I could edit my comments. :)

I tried to mine the whole world, but then I got sick of it and thats the end of my minecraft carrier.