Friday 30 December 2011

PvPZone Mini-Guide!

Hi minecraftians!


You may remember my 2nd video being about PvPZone Player vs Player server! Well, here is a mini-guide on how it works!


When you log on to the server, you will start out in a room with glowstone and glass flooring. There should be some obsidian portal-like frames in the room as well. There is a sign next to them. These are lively updated to how many people are on what course (Note: after a game has finished, it may get a little lagged). To enter a warzone, go through an obsidian portal and go through the coloured gate. The coloured gates arrange you randomly into one of the color-coded teams. You will be wearing your team colour's wool on your head. Now you can change your class! Here are the different classes:


Fighter - Iron Sword, Stone Pickaxe, 3x Cooked Porkchop (Armor: Gold Leggings, Gold Boots)


Tank - Stone Sword, Wooden Pickaxe, 3x Golden Apples, 15x Pumpkin Seeds (Armor: Diamond Chestplate, Gold Leggings)


Elemental - Clay Ball, Gold Sword, Cake, Water Bucket, Pumpkin (Armor: None)


Warlock - Iron Bars, Wooden Hoe, Leaves, Book, Shears, Brick, Seeds (Armor: None)


Builder - Diamond Pickaxe, 4s 64x Stone Bricks, Diamond Shovel, 64x Redstone (too many items to continue) (Armor: Iron Chestplate)


Healer - Melon Block, Wheat, Leaves, Rose, 52x Redstone, Sandstone, Stick (Armor: Gold Chestplate)


Spy - 16x Sugar Cane, Feather,  Melon Seeds, Stone Sword, 64x Flint*, 32x Red Mushroom, Wooden Hoe (Armor: Iron Boots)


Anarchist - 8x TNT*, Flint and Steel, 64x Redstone, 32x Lever, 32x Stone Pressure Plate, 10x Dispenser, 64x Arrow, Diamond Shovel (Armor: Iron Boots)


Archer - Bow, 64x Arrow*, 2x Apple, 32x Bone, Wooden Sword, Wooden Pickaxe, Bowl, Cookie (Armor: Chainmail Chestplate)


* = After purchasing a certain spell, this can be regenerated
4s = 4 stacks of 64 stone bricks


But, each item has a certain power (excluding armor and most Builder supplies). I will put up another post about that.


The current courses available are:


Castle
Sand
Island
Nuketown
Neighbor
Exile
Obsidian Hall
Ruins
Crucible
Adrenaline
Fourway
Prisoner
Push Arena
Freeze
Escort


This list is updated each week, and the 'cycle' is chosen by the players of the server. The list that I have done is going to be updated ASAP when the cycle changes. All courses are Capture the Flag except Spleef, in which you are playing Spleef. Also, in Spleef, you do not have the classes, you have the Spleef class, in which you get 5 pieces of white wool to repair your area if it get fully destroyed.


If you win a game you will receive two items: one gold bar (or two depending if the course has been played a lot of times or not) and diamonds. You can sell diamonds for money, each diamond is worth 0.25. You can use money to buy spell upgrades (which will be in another post).


That is just about it! So get on down and start Capturing the Flag!


Ciao,
Mariobros980

Sunday 4 December 2011

ObsidianMiners YouTube Update!

Hi miners and crafters,

Mario here with more updates for ObsidianMiners!

Me, Crazy and Kalo are still getting videos ready, but I still haven't had chance to discuss Mod Spotlight yet! Please be pacient while we get this across, but in the meantime, I will be uploading a lot of content!

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A new playlist will be added, called 'Custom Map Madness'! Yes, the name is self-explanatory. Me, Crazy and Kalo will be playing custom maps that people have created! Here's how you could get yours on YouTube!

1. Make it challenging yet not extremely hard!
2. My favorite type of maps are Adventure and Puzzle! (don't know about the others)
3. Make a forum post with your map download there!

If we haven't commented on your custom map, than comment on THIS POST with the forum link. Also, if I have played your map, I will comment on the forum post again with a Diamond Rating. Here's what each one means:

1 diamond: Not really good in any way at all. There was a slightly good point, but please, you need to improve mega-epic style.

2 diamonds: Not really good. It began to get better near the middle, but then the quality dropped again. Needs improving for definite.

3 diamonds: Bad. The beginning made it sound awesome, but there wasn't a very catchy story. A lot of improving is needed.

4 diamonds: It's ok. Your map has potential, but very VERY little. It was a bumpy car journey of good and bad bits.

5 diamonds: It's definitely decent. There are a lot of bugs and a few things that could be tweaked. Little potential, but if the problems get fixed, than it is promising.

6 diamonds: This is more than decent. This map was pretty good! It had that ZING! of excitement, but needs the element of difficulty balancing out.

7 diamonds: Good! I enjoyed playing this map, it was quite fun.  A promising storyline made this a rather great map. Still needs some tweaking though...

8 diamonds: Great! Almost fantastic, but still some little bugs and ways to cheat that make this map less fun then it should be.

9 diamonds: Fantastic! Only one or two things that are still wrong with this map, but it is a very well thought-out map!

10 diamonds: Unbelievable!!! Just, impeccable! No bugs, fun map, fluent storyline, what else does a map need? Not much! You are worth the diamonds!

BONUSES!!!

1 chest: There were some good hidden secrets in the map!

1 flint & steel: Evidently over 72 hours of work to build this map, and the redstone provided is fantastic!

Waiting List:

1. I'm a Minecrafter, Get Me Out of Here! by tRmz
2. PuzzleCraft 1.3 by AlexGraal

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We will NOT be adding anyone to our channel, but if you put Minecraft videos on YouTube, we are looking to start a MineCraft group/community! We can have around 5-7 people at the start (including us), so that's about 2-4 open spots!

Let us know in the comments on any custom maps or anything else cool!