[Aptorian]

What you do is that you unpack the Painterly Package somewhere, say the desktop for easy access. Then you do a search for appdata. Locate the bin file in the .minecraft folder. Inside the bin folder there's a file called something like minecraft or minecraft jar. Open that file using winrar or winzip. When the file opens use the menu to input the stuff from the painterly packages skin folder.

[Tarcanus]

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

hmmm...minecraft.jar won't open...

Make sure you open it with WinRAR and not just in the explorer window. Then you can copy everything in via the WinRAR window.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

hmmm...minecraft.jar won't open...

Try running it under hot water first.

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

Adjutant Stormy, on 19 September 2010 - 09:30 PM, said:

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

hmmm...minecraft.jar won't open...

Try running it under hot water first.

Tapping it upside down onto a hard surface usually does the trick too. I'll try all of your suggestions!

EDIT: Aye, all sorted now, thanks. Interesting changes, all the colours are more vivid. Not sure about the wood effect - makes my summer house look funny but never mind; as Apt will no doubt point out, it has a brick roof, anyway.

I think I'm going to have to travel about a bit and make some more big stuff. Apt's glass roof and indoor garden thing are great. I can never be bothered with the minor details like using cobblestone and stone together, or wood, to make pretty-looking patterns and stuff, and that's just given me a great idea but I'm not telling until it's complete...

This post has been edited by Green Pig: 19 September 2010 - 10:02 PM

[Aptorian]

Fanmade Minecraft trailer with the Inception soundtrack.



And an even crazier one with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" music:

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 20 September 2010 - 06:26 AM

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

HAHAHA - the creeper at the end of the second one! "WHAT THE SHIT?!"

[champ]

really really really wish i hadn't read this thread... must resist temptation to buy...

[HiddenOne]

Aptorian, on 19 September 2010 - 05:23 PM, said:

Are you playing on the Multiplayer servers?

NO, SIngle player

Maybe try and play offline. Turn off your internet connection. Start up the game and chose offline mode.

Didn't know I could do that.

Have you tried downloading the Minecraft launcher that I linked to above?

Yes, it wouldn't work. I used the second one provided by Notch, it has a "Run" option. The others want to find a program to open it with, which I don't have.

EDIT: Also are you playing on a PC or a Mac?

PC

[Aptorian]

Well, I'm not sure what the hell is going on then, I could probably look around on the Minecraft reddit and see if someone has the same problem, but why don't you take a look yourself?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/

If you can't find anything from the weekend, try and make a new thread (registration takes less than 10 seconds)

I would recommend making a thread on the official minecraft forum, but that place is a cesspool of adolescent idiocy.

Thinking about it one solution comes to mind. At one point the game went black on me too. I had been messing with some of the folders in the .minecraft folders while trying to make the Painterly pack work. Have you been playing around with them? If so, I got the game to work again by just cutting out the bad folder and redownloading the launcher. I have no idea why that worked. I wont recommend doing that though unless it's your last option.

[Aptorian]

Lots of cool stuff on r/minecraft:

They're taking down the old minecraft forum and updating, hiring new people to manage it and adding stuff like lists of multiplayer servers.

http://www.reddit.co...aftnet_website/

funny warning poster



A cool concept idea for windmill powered minecarts:



EDIT: Oh and I've updated the OP with lots of useful links and videos from the thread.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 20 September 2010 - 03:21 PM

[Traveller]

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

Adjutant Stormy, on 19 September 2010 - 09:30 PM, said:

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

hmmm...minecraft.jar won't open...

Try running it under hot water first.

Tapping it upside down onto a hard surface usually does the trick too. I'll try all of your suggestions!

EDIT: Aye, all sorted now, thanks. Interesting changes, all the colours are more vivid. Not sure about the wood effect - makes my summer house look funny but never mind; as Apt will no doubt point out, it has a brick roof, anyway.

Hm, same problem, can't open it. How did you do it eventually - I have no idea what WinRar is!

This post has been edited by Traveller: 20 September 2010 - 03:42 PM

[Tarcanus]

Traveller, on 20 September 2010 - 03:40 PM, said:

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

Adjutant Stormy, on 19 September 2010 - 09:30 PM, said:

Green Pig, on 19 September 2010 - 08:09 PM, said:

hmmm...minecraft.jar won't open...

Try running it under hot water first.

Tapping it upside down onto a hard surface usually does the trick too. I'll try all of your suggestions!

EDIT: Aye, all sorted now, thanks. Interesting changes, all the colours are more vivid. Not sure about the wood effect - makes my summer house look funny but never mind; as Apt will no doubt point out, it has a brick roof, anyway.

Hm, same problem, cant open it. How did you do it eventually - I have no idea what WinRar is!

Are you familiar with Winzip? WinRAR does a similar function - compresses or extracts files from having been compressed. The Painterly Pack comes as a .rar file, which means it's in the WinRAR format. If you don't have WinRAR, I'm sure you can find a download pretty quickly through Google - I'm at work so I can't grab the link for you myself. Once you have WinRAR installed, you should be able to right-click on the mincraft.jar file and select 'Open With' and then select WinRAR from a list of programs on your computer. Once minecraft.jar is open in WinRAR you should be able to just drag and drop the contents of the Skin folder(I think that's what it was called) into the minecraft.jar file within WinRAR.

Hope that helps! I don't think I could go back to what the game looked like before.

This post has been edited by Tarcanus: 20 September 2010 - 04:02 PM

[Aptorian]

Did you read my explanation at the top of the page?

EDIT: Fast Tarcanus is fast.

By the way the game reverts to old textures after every friday update

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 20 September 2010 - 03:49 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

@apt

Is that mechanical windmill thing actually buildable yet?

If they incorporated mechanical moving parts into the crafting list so that you could add gears, control levers, piping & pumps for water, etc... It would be fucking incredible.

Imagine the Apt Tower...now imagine a slowly rotating observation tower on top....now imagine the entire apt tower slowly rotating on its own with a non-rotating central staircase to provide access to the observation floor.

They NEED to put that in minecraft. Just by incorporating a means of moving water from one place to the other, powering vehicles, and rotating solid objects, the game (and the things the addicts would build in-game) would achieve an awesomeness level never-before reached by any human creation.

[Gothos]

I only just started and I'm having trouble finding Iron... the area I settled is pretty barren, though one thing there's plenty of is Coal.
I've been hollowing out a mountain and I'm hoping I won't end up flooding my little fort... building up stone and wood supplies to build a castle of sorts on the top of that mountain come next morning.

[Aptorian]

No it's not available, it's fan made, probably just as a concept that they wanted to show Notch,

There does exist a gear box though, but it was not brought over into Minecraft Alpha.

According to what I read in the thread I got it in, actually adding things like windmills, gears, etc. might be a problem at the current level of the graphics engine. Something about the world being very static and having something these gears would mean all kinds of more complicated parameters would have to be programmed.

But I agree, adding simple Leonardo Da Vinci type contraptions to the world would be very awesome. You could build elevators, catapults, water mills, mechanised tower defenses, etc.

Seeing as Notch will probably never stop adding stuff before he makes a sequel I guess anything is possible. I wish he'd hire some help to make all the ideas into reality.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Aptorian, on 20 September 2010 - 04:30 PM, said:

No it's not available, it's fan made, probably just as a concept that they wanted to show Notch,

There does exist a gear box though, but it was not brought over into Minecraft Alpha.

According to what I read in the thread I got it in, actually adding things like windmills, gears, etc. might be a problem at the current level of the graphics engine. Something about the world being very static and having something these gears would mean all kinds of more complicated parameters would have to be programmed.

But I agree, adding simple Leonardo Da Vinci type contraptions to the world would be very awesome. You could build elevators, catapults, water mills, mechanised tower defenses, etc.

Seeing as Notch will probably never stop adding stuff before he makes a sequel I guess anything is possible. I wish he'd hire some help to make all the ideas into reality.

Did you read his blog and to-do list? I think stability and multiplayer are the current massive priorities.

If he gets online MP working we absolutely need to make a malazan server so we can all participate in the same world and visit each others' forts.

Imagine the one-uppmanship (and occasional sabotage) that would ensue. Ridiculous.

Plus cooperative dungeoning.

[Tarcanus]

cerveza_fiesta, on 20 September 2010 - 04:34 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 20 September 2010 - 04:30 PM, said:

No it's not available, it's fan made, probably just as a concept that they wanted to show Notch,

There does exist a gear box though, but it was not brought over into Minecraft Alpha.

According to what I read in the thread I got it in, actually adding things like windmills, gears, etc. might be a problem at the current level of the graphics engine. Something about the world being very static and having something these gears would mean all kinds of more complicated parameters would have to be programmed.

But I agree, adding simple Leonardo Da Vinci type contraptions to the world would be very awesome. You could build elevators, catapults, water mills, mechanised tower defenses, etc.

Seeing as Notch will probably never stop adding stuff before he makes a sequel I guess anything is possible. I wish he'd hire some help to make all the ideas into reality.

Did you read his blog and to-do list? I think stability and multiplayer are the current massive priorities.

If he gets online MP working we absolutely need to make a malazan server so we can all participate in the same world and visit each others' forts.

Imagine the one-uppmanship (and occasional sabotage) that would ensue. Ridiculous.

Plus cooperative dungeoning.

That would be awesome. An MMO I can finally play and with people that wouldn't be ridiculous d-bags all of the time!

[cerveza_fiesta]

@Tarc

For real man. I think a malazan MP server would be the only MMO I could actually bring myself to play again.

Cooperative building projects would get unreal too.

Like sky-bridges and underground tunnels connecting forts on separate continents. Muwahahahahahaha

After multiplayer, the game really needs a rounding out of the enemy types to enhance the non-building aspects of the game. They have a couple melee, one ranged and one explosive enemy now (not sure what slimes do) but could definitely do with some other stuff. Maybe even sparse daytime enemies like bears and wolves and stuff like that. Maybe even something that flies to make you think harder about wall and fort building.

[Tarcanus]

cerveza_fiesta, on 20 September 2010 - 04:48 PM, said:

@Tarc

For real man. I think a malazan MP server would be the only MMO I could actually bring myself to play again.

Cooperative building projects would get unreal too.

Like sky-bridges and underground tunnels connecting forts on separate continents. Muwahahahahahaha

After multiplayer, the game really needs a rounding out of the enemy types to enhance the non-building aspects of the game. They have a couple melee, one ranged and one explosive enemy now (not sure what slimes do) but could definitely do with some other stuff. Maybe even sparse daytime enemies like bears and wolves and stuff like that. Maybe even something that flies to make you think harder about wall and fort building.

Yeah, I could see a need for more enemy types. Flying ones would be ridiculous, though. Every shelter would be surrounded by glass to combat the fliers, lol. Unless, of course, they made the fliers explosive - in which case we'd better practice building roofs out of obsidian. I'm currently starting to set up obsidian gatehouses around the two bridges that connect my compound to the dangerous, dark wilderness. It takes a while to lug that much magma out of the caves and into my gatehouses.