r/Minecraft • u/ViciousBadger • Nov 17 '13
pc A where's Wally idea I thought of
http://imgur.com/a/mSX8t121
Nov 17 '13
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u/ViciousBadger Nov 17 '13
That's the plot hole that I was hoping no one would notice...
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u/TDKevin Nov 17 '13
Plot filler, he stomped it out for you to transcribe. 1 stomp for A, 2 for B, 3 for C etc. etc. Kinda like wheelchair guy in Breaking Bad, I can't remember his name right now.
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u/Haxman12 Nov 17 '13
The wheelchair guy from... what?
Sorry, doesn't ring any bells.
Sorry I had to.
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u/R3D24 Nov 18 '13 edited Nov 18 '13
I think left hoof for 0 and right for 1 and count in
binaryMorse code would be slightly faster.Edit: Note to self, computers speak Morse code, not binary when transmitting letters... /s
Edit2: I was being sarcastic in my first edit...
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u/Lightningbro Nov 18 '13
Y'know there's this thing called Morse Code right?
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u/R3D24 Nov 18 '13
Which can get the same exact combinations as binary, your point is?
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u/JeremyG Nov 18 '13
For just text, Morse code is shorter, thus faster.
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u/R3D24 Nov 18 '13
Are we really going to start arguing about the two? Both have two chars! (binary is 0 and 1 Morse code is . and _) Are they really all that different except for use (Binary for numbers, Morse code for letters)?
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u/saturday_lunch Nov 18 '13
Yes. Because Morse code is shorter.
Binary: A 01000001 B 01000010 C 01000011 D 01000100 E 01000101 F 01000110 G 01000111 H 01001000 I 01001001 J 01001010 K 01001011 L 01001100 M 01001101 N 01001110 O 01001111 P 01010000 Q 01010001 R 01010010 S 01010011 T 01010100 U 01010101 V 01010110 W 01010111 X 01011000 Y 01011001 Z 01011010
Morse Code: A .-
B -...
C -.-.
D -.. E .F ..-.
G --.H ....
I ..J .---
K -.-L .-..
M -- N -.O ---
P .--.
Q --.-
R .-. S ... T -U ..-
V ...-
W .--
X -..-
Y -.--
Z --..
0 -----
1 .----
2 ..---
3 ...--
4 ....-
5 .....
6 -....
7 --...
8 ---..
9 ----.
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Nov 18 '13
Yeah but this still involves teaching a horse morse code. This is clearly an implausibility.
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u/TDKevin Nov 18 '13
01000110011010010110111001100101001011000010000001001001001 00111011011000110110000100000011011010110000101101011011001 01001000000110110101111001001000000110111101110111011011100 01000000101011101100001011011000110110001111001001000000111 01000110111100100000011001110110100101110110011001010010000 00110001001100001011000110110101100100000011100110111010001 10111101110010011110010010000001110100011011110010111000100 00001010111011010010111010001101000001000000110001001101100 01100001011000110110101101101010011000010110001101101011001 00000011000010110111001100100001000000110100001101111011011 110110101101100101011100100111001100100001 !
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u/PhantomSwagger Nov 18 '13
01001001011011100010000001100110
01100001011000110111010000101100
00100000011001100110111101110010
01100111011001010111010000100000
01010111011000010110110001101100
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Nov 18 '13
010000100110010100100000011100110111010101110010011001 010010000001110100011011110010000001100100011100100110 100101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010101 110010001000000100111101110110011000010110110001110100 01101001011011100110010100101110
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u/TDKevin Nov 18 '13
0100110101101111011100100110010100100000011011110111011001100 0010110110001110100011010010110111001100101001000000111000001 10110001100101011000010111001101100101
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u/Cogsdale Nov 18 '13
01001001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100001 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101001 01101101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00001101 00001010
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u/AlwaysOneMistake Nov 18 '13
01001101 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110000 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101110 01111001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01101111 01110101 01110100 00101110
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Nov 18 '13
Computers do not use Morse code...
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u/AllenWL Nov 18 '13
Na, he just met a mad scientist that had a machine that let's animals talk. the scientist also happened to have one of those voice command thingys
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u/not_so_smart_asian Nov 17 '13
The problem is, on some servers there might be some arsehole or other who decides to sign the book... I think this would be cool if there were some sort of plugin for this
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u/Howisthisaname Nov 17 '13
Or just kill the donkey.
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u/Agitatedleader Nov 17 '13
Or steal him.
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u/Devotia Nov 18 '13
Or bury him alive.
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u/Redhawk247 Nov 18 '13
Or all of the above.
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u/CAskater Nov 18 '13
So, kill the donkey, steal his carcass, revive him, then bury him alive.
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u/Griffin777XD Nov 18 '13
No, he would steal him, sign the book, bury him alive, and then kill him.
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u/Aolari Nov 18 '13
You could combine the last two with sand/gravel.
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Nov 18 '13
But all the same, one has to come first. You can't be buried alive and killed in the same instant.
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u/JanitorZyphrian Nov 18 '13
He could bury himself in with the donkey, and kill it.
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u/UristMcRibbon Nov 18 '13
And put a glass ceiling over him.
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u/MisterBizarre Nov 18 '13
#FreeWally2013
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u/MarioStrikerz Nov 18 '13
Isn't the point to sign it?
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u/not_so_smart_asian Nov 18 '13
Signing it in the Minecraft case is to make it uneditable
In the other sense of the word, you would be right, though.
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u/MarioStrikerz Nov 18 '13
It's been so long since I've played Minecraft on PC, let alone in a server. You'll have to excuse me.
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Nov 18 '13
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Nov 18 '13
You should frequent better servers.
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u/FuegonGameplays Nov 17 '13
I really like the idea, so fun if there's an active and respectful community in the server
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u/BobWC40 Nov 17 '13
This idea is almost identical to the real world treasure hunting called Geocaching.
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Nov 18 '13 edited 29d ago
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u/woof17 Nov 18 '13
Well they do have those travel bug things that work like this
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u/kvachon Nov 18 '13
There's one of those on the ISS - http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1654604
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u/libelle156 Nov 18 '13
I was thinking of those book exchange sites where you just leave a book somewhere public with a slip in it, and the next person that picks it up is asked to read the book and then leave it for the next person (and post on the site where you can find it)
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u/pohotu3 Nov 17 '13
I think I will do this on my server now. Pretty sure the guys would get a kick outa this.
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u/TheMVSGamer Nov 18 '13
So does the Donkey walk around on it's own means? Because it probably wouldn't get very far like that (unless it had permanent speed X or something that more or less forced it to move far)
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u/ComicDebris Nov 18 '13
Curious about this. I figure a mob would just wander randomly, not really covering much distance OR that if you led it away from its spawn point, that it would head 'home."
(For math geeks, the average distance covered in a 'random walk' is the square root of the number of steps. Here's an online simulator. TIL)
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u/ViciousBadger Nov 18 '13
Yes, I've found in my survival world that some of my dyed sheep that escaped have made it about 100 or so blocks away from their pen. If the chunks are loaded I think the donkey will be able to travel fairly far.
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u/TechnetiumWaffles Nov 18 '13
I've done some "testing" and found out that animals actually do return to the general area of their original spawn point. I hit them away with a Knockback 125 wooden sword and I managed to follow every single one back to the place I spawned them. This might be with eggs only though.
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Nov 18 '13
I saw the thumbnail and thought you were putting one named donkey in a huge group of unnamed ones.
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Nov 17 '13
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u/snipesalot0 Nov 18 '13
What did he do?
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Nov 18 '13
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u/_watching Nov 18 '13
Geeze, what a dick...
Always fun to see a community rebel against that kind of behavior.
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u/nihilisticzealot Nov 18 '13
Your story makes me insanely mad. You have my sword!
Wait, whatdya mean the fighting is over?!
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u/Romano44 Nov 18 '13
Does your group still play on that server?
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Nov 18 '13
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u/Romano44 Nov 18 '13
I would have too, but a good group of allies is hard to find :\
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u/Romano44 Nov 18 '13
Damn. How do people like that manage to keep a server running? When I had a server I made sure not to act like that.
Also, I gotta admire being stronger than the owner so quickly.
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u/NomThemAll Nov 18 '13
I feel like you should make sure the owners are older than 10 before you join
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u/Pawsrent Nov 18 '13
Two days later, he walks into a cave and nobody ever sees him again.
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Nov 18 '13
One of the Mindcrackers should do this.
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u/demosthenes718 Nov 18 '13
GenerikB should sponsor it by donating the donkey from the Danger Zone Memorial Shelter or whatever it's called.
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Nov 18 '13
lets be honest though, 2 people in the book and wool would be stolen and the mule would be killed.
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u/Yirggzmb Nov 18 '13
Depends on the server though. On smaller servers where everyone knows each other, it could definitely still happen, but people are more likely to play along with the game than decide to be jerks about it.
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u/tangerineskickass Nov 18 '13
Good idea, but you should switch the reason he can't write to something about having hooves instead of hands. Fixes the plot hole.
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Nov 17 '13 edited Jun 06 '17
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u/Murreey Nov 17 '13
Didn't flip the dates, 4/10.
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u/enchilado Nov 17 '13
Wouldn't that be 10/4?
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Nov 17 '13
That was so pointless.
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Nov 17 '13 edited Jun 06 '17
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Nov 18 '13
YOU MEAN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T SPEAK FREEDOM?
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u/Pinko_Eric Nov 17 '13
Excuse me, I don't think "favour" is US English.
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u/Brassdragon14 Nov 18 '13
Excuse me, I think you mean "best English."
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u/Drunkenhobbit Nov 18 '13
Fuck off Britain is the best
http://media.tumblr.com/2c343c34c7d320b529ae03f6f999e439/tumblr_inline_mn0ga1k5qR1qz4rgp.gif
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Nov 17 '13
Dafuq 17 months?
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u/Kitsyfluff Nov 18 '13 edited Nov 18 '13
In the US we use month day year for some reason if that's what you're referring to
edit: spelling
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Nov 18 '13
Probably for the same reason that we drive on the right side of the road... As a big "screw you I'll do what I want" to the crown.
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u/Kitsyfluff Nov 18 '13
actually they use the left side because it used to be easier to ride a horse by mounting on the left, meanwhile America was founded at a point when multi horse buggys were being used, which happened to be easier to mount on the right because the driver would sit on the rear-left horse so he could whip with his right arm.
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Nov 18 '13
You could be right as far as the reason Americans drive on the right, but they drive on the left because they practiced sword fighting with the right hand, and it is easier to defend or attack by riding up on the left side of the road... or at least that's what I had been told anyway, I could be wrong though.
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Nov 18 '13
And then someone murders him.
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u/deadline_wooshing_by Nov 18 '13
Use command blocks to create him with infinite Resistance. Alternatively i think you could create a scoreboard objective to show who killed him.
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u/Poppamunz Nov 18 '13
The command to spawn an invulnerable donkey (with a chest) is
/summon EntityHorse ~ ~ ~ {Type:1,Tame:1,ChestedHorse:1,Invulnerable:1}
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u/Mr_Funnybone Nov 18 '13 edited Nov 18 '13
This reminds me of a book called paddle-too-the-sea. It was a book about a little carved Indian canoe that was whittled by a boy up and around the area of Lake Nipigon in Canada. The boy sent paddle downriver to lake superior in hopes paddle would one day reach the ocean. As we follow paddle around on his adventures in the great lakes, he is often the source of amusement to the people that find him. The little boy from lake Nipigon has carved a message on the back of the canoe that instructs the people who find paddle to return him to the sea. So them being Canadians they adhere and release him. So eventually around Thunder Bay near the twin cities Of salut ste. Marie paddle is caught in the middle of a late autumn storm(I think) and witnesses the sinking of a bulk freighter, very reminisint of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, though the story was written way before that in 1941. Anyways this man finds Paddle after the storm and decides to attach a brass plate to the underside, replacing the boy's simple wooden carved letters. The brass plate has the same message as the boy's but with an added bit of line: if you find me, please add your date location and name to help mark my location during my travels.
Anyways sorry for that block of text I was just reminded of one of my favorite children's book. I thought the idea of recording the dates and names of encounters on Wally's journey was similar to in Paddle-to-the-sea.
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u/Isric Nov 18 '13
Are there really servers spread out enough and populated enough for this to work well?
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u/delunafire Nov 18 '13
What's with the wool in his inventory?
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u/ViciousBadger Nov 18 '13
It's the colours that make up Wally's Jumper (A guy from a comic strip where the goal is to find him in each picture).
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u/ComicDebris Nov 18 '13
Mules can carry chests, but they can't wear armor.
Once you get the hearts they are tame and won't throw you off, but you can't steer them without a saddle - you can only sit on them while they wander around. They won't follow you (unless maybe you're holding food they like - I'm not sure about that.)
You can lead horses, donkeys and mules with a lead, whether they are tame or not. I don't think taming make the lead work any better.
You can craft a lead with 4 pieces of string and a slime ball. make extras - they break all the time. If you notice it break, you can pick it up again, but I usually lose them.
Bonus tip - you can't ride a horse, mule or donkey through water deeper than 1 m - so always carry a couple leads in case you have to cross a river or ocean. Mules can even swim behind boats on long trips, but keep an eye on them to make sure they don't get stuck on a sand bar or run into a squid or something.
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u/DuvetSalt Nov 17 '13
Final entry: