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The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

You might be looking for a kind of deliberate planned game design that just isn't really there in Minecraft. The world is destructible so why not have a block to blow it up? TNT takes gunpowder to create because why wouldn't it? Gunpowder comes from creepers because they're around and they explode. Minecarts are for riding in, but the first thing Notch demonstrated for them was a rollercoaster. Horses weren't added u…

I never knew what those did.

I remember wondering so many times, yet it makes so much sense.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Strike the Earth!

Like almost everything else, Dwarf Fortress's geology is in a class of its own. There are about two dozen stone types that form layers, divided quasi-realistically into sedimentary, igneous intrusive, igneous extrusive, and metamorphic [1]. Then there are forty other types of stone that occur as veins and pockets [2]… and then there are about twenty types of metal ore and 130 different types of gem! [1] http://dwarff…

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