Comments on: The Cub Report – DeGei Corrupts the Innocent

By: Langalore

Langalore — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:30:32 +0000

BBB, our 10 year old plays and I play a little with her. You said that you have 2 accounts… You can open up Alex’s world to LAN and you can both be in the same world!

Addons, some of them you have to modify the minecraft.jar file which isn’t too hard and then drop a file into the mods folder. It’s a huge pain when they update (1.4.7 now but generally minecraft has updates every 2-3 months). The addon that we always update and have on is Dr. Zharks Mo’ Creatures. It took me about 10 min to figure out how to put it on but it’s amazing once you get it in there. Wooly mammoths!! Elephants! Tigers! Sharks with freakin’ laser beams attached to their heads!!!! Wait a minute… :( just sharks, no laser beams unfortunately.

I also second Paul Soares Jr. I let Rebecca watch them on her own without supervision because when I did watch them, they were always kid friendly.

By: Azwing

Azwing — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:29:58 +0000

I found Minecraft a little under a year ago during a slow WoW period. It’s been a fun diversion ever since.

As you said, the game is as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. The Lego analogy is great. Although I hadn’t really thought of it, I can see Minecraft being a big pull for kids in particular. It’s a creative outlet, a thinking challenge, and a game all in one.

I’d recommend checking out some of Monkeyfarm’s videos on Youtube. He has several different LP (Let’s Play) series that are entertaining and informative. As far as I recall, they’re all kid-safe.

By: Sprowt

Sprowt — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:53:45 +0000

Haha … my youngest son (he’s 10) plays Minecraft constantly .. his older brother (by two years) got him into it at the same time you originally bought it, I think … he basically used his brother as an excuse to buy it “its on sale, we can get two for one!” … Eldest is now into futuristic soldier type games, but the youngest spends HOURS on Minecraft. He’s currently in the process of making his own texture pack, but he’s made houses, towns, factories that produce building materials – he even made a sign that lit up “I love mum & dad” when he flicked a switch, which was both cute and awesome :-)

He used to play on LAN, but I think most of the time he’s playing on a school-friends server, where a bunch of them hang out.

If he’s going to play a game for hours, I think Minecraft is the one to go for ..

By: Matty

Matty — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:18:08 +0000

Minecraft rocks.

By: DeGei

DeGei — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:49:30 +0000

Mechanical things are only sort of possible in basic minecraft. There is Redstone which is a combination electrical source and wiring that has been used for amazing things in some creations.

More fully realized devices are in mod packs that take machining to the next level, Buildcraft, Industrialcraft, and Redpower being examples, (all of which are in Feed The Beast with other additional mods).

By: Gameldar

Gameldar — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:45:21 +0000

When I was a lad *creak*… There was this game called SimCity. Now I used to play it the proper way – by building some stuff and then getting swayed by public opinion. One day my brother found the cheat that gave infinite gold… And that was it he played it for day’s and days just designing his perfect city. He went on to become a town planner…

But I’ll have to try out mine raft with my son. We love our lego so it would be a natural progression, particularly if he can build mechanical things!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:35:38 +0000

Thanks for the info! I’ll poke around and get him “something” . He wants “TooManyItems” and ZombieCraft, which are both already on my computer but I have no clue lol

By: DeGei

DeGei — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:49:40 +0000

Some mods have to be installed manually, which I don’t know how to do, however there are several mod packs that can be downloaded as an executable file that handle everything on their own.

Feed The Beast (FTB for short) is the one rising in popularity right now. Jeff mentioned it above, http://feed-the-beast.com/ is it’s site. It has several different subsets within it with different assortments of mods in each. The “Direwolf20″ set is popular (named after the youtuber who worked on it), also Mindcrack, Voxel, and Magic World are high on the list.

Direwolf20 has the widest assortment, including things like The Portal Gun, Thaumcraft (magic), and Mystcraft (Dimensional creation and travel).

By: DeGei

DeGei — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:44:07 +0000

I regret NOTHING!

Another fun tip for wolves, if you right click on one youve tamed with a colored dye, it will change the color of their collar.

That’s a tip not many seem to remember, so it should get you plenty of cred and he can share that with others.

I’m so glad this has steamrolled the way it has, and Direwolf20 is a great source for mod information.

Side note: I wound up in someone else’s let’s play video of Minecraft FTB series today.
Warning, there is some cursing by the host in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUnyGd1vYV0

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:31:39 +0000

Yeah, my oldest found it in alpha, we bought it then for super cheap. He’s done tons with it now, and has his own youtube channel (not kid friendly, but amusing). Now my 8 year old is pulled in, he wants the mods (we have most of them already, but I have no clue how to make them work). He also wants to play on a server with someone, but I’ve not let him yet. It’s a cool game, not one I could play but I love seeing what people build :)