Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Minecraft Soundtrack


*Bzzzz* goes the buzzsaw of time, slicing possible into actual and a whole lot of not.

The Minecraft Soundtrack Project has morphed! I'm now collecting tracks into a 10-track album. This is a project with limited time and resources (my own), so it will take a while. I've got 19 tracks that I want to boil down to the best 10. Want to listen?

But, how do you put music into the game?

It's a bunch of jibber-jabber, I promise, and only half-worth it for this file.   Instead, you can play the file using winamp, WMP, or whatever you use for playing music.  If you still want to drop it into Minecraft, here's the short tutorial:

1.  Find your minecraft directory (see the start of this thread)
2.  In the "resources" directory you will find all the sounds from minecraft.
3.  Convert them to "ogg vorbis" format and replace them with the sounds you like.

Bored Yet?

How about a giant Minecraft avatar to smack against your retinas!

DERP!

Still with me?  Cool.

A small update on my own little Minecraft projects:  I've made some headway with the sculpture.  I've uncovered enough to carve the head, and realize I need more room.  I don't want my dude to end up looking like this dude:

"W T F"

Here's what I've got so far, from a couple angles:

Looking down from the entrance toward the statue
Looking from the statue toward the entrance.

I've got a long way to go, but my method is to spend around the same time the soundtrack takes to play (45 minutes) each day.  It's gone well so far, as I have over 34,000 bricks of various types stashed in storage, from this dig alone.

On a related note, PC Gamer released this playful jest of a cover recently.  The Minecraft mob lit their torches and demanded it become reality.  Soon?  Perhaps.


Thanks for reading!

13 comments:

  1. Haven't started playing this yet, but I will bookmark this.

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  2. MineCraft, indeed. Nice blog here man, love mine craft. Its just so addicting.
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  3. I love this game. I mean, it takes forever to build something but when you do, it's like you achieved something on a grand scale.

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  4. While I play Minecraft I understand it's not the most productive activity. Nobody will ever see the work I put into it either. The thing about it is more mysterious than anything. Its a very hi-tech game at the simple levels of architecture.

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  5. I still haven't tried out this game. Looks cool and I like the cat!

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  6. How do you make the yellow blocks

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  7. @Anonymous

    There are 2 ways:

    1. Make a gold block by combining 9 gold ore bricks in a crafting table.

    2. 1 dandelion used in a crafting table nets 2 yellow dye. 1 dandelion yellow dye + 1 wool in a crafting table nets 1 yellow wool.

    Those are gold blocks in the picture above.

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  8. Ive been wanting to know how to make them for decorating my house.I have two more questions, how do you make the yellow dye and dandlions

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  9. Dandelions grow randomly in the wild throughout the minecraft world. They are just the yellow flowers.

    Whether you use red or yellow flowers (roses or dandelions), all you need is to put 1 flower in the crafting table station, and you get an output of 2 dyes. It's that simple :)

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