Minecraft Wiki Mobs Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile"[1] and has been used as a general term referring to any moving entities in games since the first MUDs surfaced. General behavior Mobs are affected by the environment in the same ways as the player: they are subject to physics, and they can be hurt by the same things that harm the player (catching on fire, falling, drowning, attacked by weapons, etc.). Some mobs may be resistant or immune to certain hazards, such as Nether mobs which are immune to fire. Mobs can ride minecarts and other mobs. Mobs come to exist by spawning in various ways. List of mobs Mobs are listed and classified by their nature below. Note: The list below is categorized according to the PC edition. Passive mobs Neutral mobs Hostile mobs Tamable mobs Utility mobs Boss mobs Bosses have more complicated attack patterns and movements. Bosses Unused or removed mobs Unused mobs are found in the source code, but are not being used at this time. Unused mobs
The Trouble with Gender in Larp | Analog Game Studies While representations of gender have received attention for most media, stories, and games, the topic of gender in live action role-playing games (larps) is particularly important because of the degree of embodiment that is uniquely characteristic of the medium. When role-playing a (gendered) character, the player’s own body is at play, a fact that tends to constrain the performance, as both out-of-game and in-game expectations of attributes such as beauty, strength, leadership, and friendliness create restrictions on what is considered an authentic, true, or “real” performance of masculinity or femininity. This standard of believability in larp derives from powerful social norms and thus tends to reify the dominant gender binary of feminine=female and masculine=male as well as heterosexual relationships as the default. First, we will address the theoretical foundations that inform this approach to understanding gender as performance. Promotional image for College of Wizardry.
Tutorials/Construction For new players on Minecraft, fending off monsters and harvesting materials can already be a very painful and confusing job. This tutorial will help you construct some of the most useful as well as some of the most impressive buildings available to Minecraft. Video[edit] Basic House[edit] A basic house is anything from a 3x3 cube to a castle. The Cube[edit] The Cube is the smallest house possible. it only uses about half a stack of material and is just a 3x3x3 cube. The Castle[edit] Essentially the cube, except it has battlements containing (imaginary) snipers and cannons. Free-standing Structure[edit] A basic house that is built on flat land and is completely open. House-In-A-Cave[edit] Instead of having to build a house, use what Minecraft provides you, and build your house in a cave or other naturally-generated structure. Lean-to[edit] A house that is part-free-standing house, and part-cave. Space Needle[edit] These houses are basically a large point leading up to a crazy height. Statue[edit]
Current game modes Everyone Should Play Slam City Oracles Never have I seen a game that is more specific to the Autostraddle community — maybe Gone Home. Maybe. But this game was basically made for us all. You read that right — two beings. As an aside for a moment, the fact that it’s a local multiplayer is one of the things that drew me to Slam City Oracles. The other thing that drew me to Slam City Oracles was the artwork, by Jenny Jiao Hsia. Hsia’s aesthetic lends the slam-em-up a mischievous and nonviolent feel that I find unique to this game, like you’re wandering through an imagined world full of blocks and, like we all did when we were four or five, pretending to Godzilla things over with absolutely no consequences. Upon playing it, Laura called it Super Smash Sisters. And the music, oh the music! This bit had us screaming “HIGH FIVE ALL THE PIZZAS! Slam City Oracles will be available for download on September 1st (that’s this Tuesday) for Mac and PC — but Jane has offered to soft-launch it for Autostraddle readers TODAY.
Tutorials/Navigation In the hunt for new resources or interesting locations to build doom fortresses, many Minecraft players will wander absurd distances. It is quite possible to get lost in these travels, but with a little forethought it is easy to avoid wandering the earth for an eternity in search of your home base. This tutorial will focus on some of the easier ways of navigating Minecraft's landscapes. Video[edit] Spawn Points[edit] Every world has a set spawn point where players are placed near when they first enter the game, and each time they die (see below about beds). Each player can change their individual spawn point by sleeping in a bed, most often in their base. X, Y, and Z coordinates[edit] If you press F3 (Fn+F3 for Mac users), you open up a very useful debug screen of info (press F3 again to close it), which includes your current coordinates in the world. The simplest way to avoid getting totally lost, is to write down the X and Z coordinates of your base. [edit] Directional Guides[edit] [edit]
Brewing Potion brewing chart (excludes splash potions) Brewing (or Alchemy) is the process of creating potions and splash potions by adding various ingredients to water bottles in a brewing stand. [edit] Brewing Potions Brewing "grid" (Ingredients are placed at the top. [edit] Brewing Guide By placing bottles in the lower three slots of the brewing interface and an ingredient in the upper slot, you can distill the ingredient into the bottles and brew potions which may be consumed to grant an effect to the player. Every potion starts with a water bottle, made by filling a glass bottle at a water source or filled cauldron. Brewing can create very useful and lifesaving items. [edit] Tips Start by gathering Nether Wart. [edit] Video [edit] Brewing Equipment [edit] Ingredients [edit] Base Ingredients Base ingredients are the starting point of all potions. [edit] Secondary Ingredients Secondary ingredients imbue an Awkward Potion with a particular effect but do not alter potion duration or intensity. Weakness
Almost No One Sided with #GamerGate: A Research Paper on the Internet’s Reaction to Last Year’s Mob | Superheroes in Racecars Lately I’ve been troubled by the fact that GamerGate’s supporters and I seem to have completely opposite perceptions about what most people think of their movement. I’ve had GamerGaters tell me that most people don’t equate GamerGate with online harassment and that most people (or at least, most gamers) are actually on GamerGate’s side. How is it that our perceptions of “what most people think” are so different? Could it be that we all live inside some social-media echo chamber that makes us oblivious to other points of view? So I decided to start a little research project to settle the question: What did most people think about GamerGate? The results of this project suggest that the vast majority of people do in fact equate GamerGate with online harassment, sexism, and/or misogyny. The following paper goes into great detail about how I conducted this research and why I reached those conclusions. Alexa Rankings fluctuate a lot. This was not a comprehensive study. And that’s it. 1. 2. 3.
Smelting Smelting is a method of producing refined goods in Minecraft, also known as melting, baking, cooking, burning, and producing. It has the same idea as crafting; one must put in acceptable ingredients, and a corresponding output will be given. However, smelting utilizes furnace blocks, which have a unique interface: one "input" field for the object that will be heated, one field for the fuel, and one "output" field for the final smelted product. For example, two saplings (fuel) could be used to smelt one wood (input) into one charcoal (output). To smelt something, an input material and a fuel must be loaded into the furnace. As things smelt, an arrow icon represents the cooking process. If the player leaves a furnace while it is smelting and travels so far that the chunks unload, the smelting process will halt until the player returns. [edit] Recipes [edit] Food [edit] Processing ores and materials [edit] Wasting ores [edit] Other smeltable items [edit] Fuel efficiency [edit] Video [edit] Trivia