Talk:Infiniminer

I really think this should instead redirect to the wikipedia article, as this wiki should only have pages on minecraft, not other games. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 07:01, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have to disagree. Notch drew inspiration from Infiniminer (inspiration being used loosely). so, it should deserve a place on here. it's like the alpha-alpha version of Minecraft. --Kizzycocoa 07:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, but this is the minecraft wiki, it should have pages about minecraft, not about other games that notch liked and used ideas from (at the very most those games would be mentioned in the minecraft article, but not have whole pages to themselves), I really don't see how having an article here makes sense. The one on wikipedia has more information anyway. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 07:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Nah, I think I`ll ad a link to the wikipedia page in references. Swpe 08:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * this is the thing. the big question.


 * what are we documenting?


 * are we documenting Minecraft:The game? or Minecraft:The whole?
 * Look at the Jeb_ page. Jeb_ is not related to Minecraft:The game. there is no NPC character called Jeb_, no mob called Jeb_, or anything else.
 * However, in Minecraft:The whole, Jeb_ is notable as a developer.


 * This can be taken further. What do mods have to do with the game? they are not in Minecraft. yet, we want to set up their own namespace. And what of Notch Time? Or the Minecraft Forums? we have pages on all of these.


 * If we choose Minecraft:The game, then all of these will have to go. all of these.--Kizzycocoa 08:53, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Good question, I think the wiki is about all minecraft related things. So this page should stay. Swpe 09:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * They seem like different things really. Jeb is directly related to minecraft, since he actually works on it, where as infiniminer is just inspiration, it's just partially related. I just don't see the point in having pages on partially related things that have perfectly good (better than ours, at least) wikipedia articles already. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 10:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * To be honest, this whole argument falls apart the moment I say this: without infiniminer, Minecraft would never have existed as it is today.
 * Notch only made Minecraft because he was inspired by infiniminer so much, he went and made a clone.
 * It did not come to him in an epiphany. he has even stated it was Infiniminer. It is the first reference in the article, and I quote:
 *  But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do. I played it in multiplayer for a while and had a blast, but found it flawed. Building was fun, but there wasn’t enough variation, and the big red/blue blocks were pretty horrible. I thought a fantasy game in that style would work really really well, so I tried to implement a simple first person engine in that style, reusing some art and code (although not as much as you’d think) from RubyDung, and came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k The response was very positive, and I was blown away at how good the framerate, and how well it ran in a browser, so I decided to go for it. 
 * Without infiniminer, we would not be arguing if it should be kept on the wiki. Without infiniminer, this wiki would not exist. --Kizzycocoa 11:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * That's a good point. I guess because people say notch took inspiration from infiniminer, it makes it sound insignificant. Whereas really minecraft was a direct clone that was expanded to a real game.
 * I now agree that it's certainly an important part of minecraft, however I'm not really sure what extra information we can have to have a whole article on it. If we copy-paste the wikipedia article, we may as well just redirect to it, but if we write our own, it'll either be a stub or just the info in wikipedia rewritten. Do you see what I mean what that? – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 12:14, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can. and we can't go into detail about the mechanics as this is the MCwiki and going into details would be crossing the boundaries.
 * Perhaps this could act as a summary, and we could have at the bottom in semi-big letters "For more information, visit the wikipedia page on Infiniminer". that may just do the trick.
 * That, or get this page rewritten by someone who wants to improve it. --Kizzycocoa 12:31, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Do we have a needs rewriting template laying around somewhere? – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 12:36, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably not. but if made, I vote that the "map" sprite is used as the image in the template! --Kizzycocoa 12:52, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * So I read over some of what was said in this discussion.. If we make small pages for games that gave off inspiration to minecraft.. the wiki will begin to flood with pointless pages. Minecraft was thought up from many games, no? So why not just delete this page and make a page called Minecraft_Influence and list all games there? What happens when he makes a update to the game that was thought from (totally an example, not serious) call of duty? We have to make a new page for that? Make a Influence page! --Throex 22:05, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Anyone down for a game?
I got Infiniminer, anyone want to jump online and play a game? I really love the idea of it and the concept of different classes to do different things for the team. Its like TF2 pix-elated and on crack. Haha, anyway..if anyone is down I can host a server if you can't. We need more than 2 people though. Seems that each team needs at least 5 people (one of each class) for them to function correctly. If we can get enough people we can set up a date/time and get online and have a game. Maybe someone should give Notch a message on twitter, get him and the Mojang team in here with us for one of there game days. --Throex 21:48, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to tell me what your name is and which version of the game you have. It don't matter to me, I have all versions of it. I know right, a little overkill? I like the game and really want to see a good game played on it. Just can't find anyone that wants to play. I can link a download link if anyone replies to this post. --Throex 22:03, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Is it free? --Apocalyptic Builder 19:32, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Article Expansion?
I was thinking, since this game was the supposed primary inspiration for Minecraft, that this article could benefit with a visual list of blocks and classes, for comparison. I know that only direct Minecraft content should be on the wiki, but do you think that this article would benefit from adding isometric renders of the 15 Infiniminer blocks? -- Geraldgeraldgerald 22:40, 1 April 2021 (PST)

Render inaccuracies
The shock block only has the yellow texture on one face (the bottom, by default, for some reason) and reuses the teleporter block's side and bottom textures for its sides and top. The teleporter block also has a green texture on its top face. There’s also the home blocks, which, based on the names of the textures in the files, I think used the same "tex_block_home" texture on each of the sides and the "tex_block_home_top" texture on the top and bottom. AlienAgent124 (talk) 00:42, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I was looking through screenshots of Infiniminer, and the shock block had the yellow texture on all sides, so I don't know why that would be the case. Is it in the game code? With the telliporter block, gameplay videos on YouTube shows it has its bottom texture and top texture swapped for some reason. Though, it might depend on the version of the game.
 * The home block is confusing as I was unable to find any information/images about it except for the texture files and sparse pages on the wiki. The top texture seems to have been edited for the old texture of the bank block so the renders would have to be speculative.
 * There are also two textures which seem to be unused, but may have been at some point: "tex_block_mechanism" and "tex_block_metal". Yekulten (talk) 13:57, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, just found out how to run the game, and what I thought was the telliporter block is actually the shocker block. The yellow texture must be and old version. The texture names are really confusing. So I guess the telliporter block used the same textures as the shocker block. Yekulten (talk) 14:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)