Talk:Demo Mode

Demo not working...help please?
Anyone know why the demo mode isn't working? I'm liking what I've seen of the game in videos and thinking about buying it, but would just like to try it to see if it plays as cool as it looks.

I did all 3 steps outlined on the minecraft site, created an account, downloaded the (very small) .exe file, and logged into it, clicking "Play Demo" when it came back with the "Not Premium Member" message (because, naturally, I'm not a paying customer yet).

I'm doing this on a PC, and my system meets all the specifications listed for running this game.

Right when I click "Play Demo" another popup window appears saying "Updating Minecraft" and below that immediately "Done loading" with a progress bar that right from the getgo shows about 95% complete/green, but never goes that last 5% or so to 100% full. And nothing happens from there, ever. On repeated attempts.

It looks like from this actual page on the wiki that this demo might be very new and just implemented as of August 1st, 2012. If anyone knows how to contact or notify the creators/distributors of the game itself of this bug, that'd be appreciated on both ends I'm sure (I can't find any contact info on the site or any way of reporting problems.)

And otherwise any tips anyone might have to help get the demo actually working would be much appreciated. Thanks!

(I posted about this on the minecraft forums, under the Support section, in the Minecraft Game Client subsection. But there are so many posts there about so many topics far beyond the demo stage, plus at least one other post I saw about problems with the demo, which had no responses, so I'm guessing it might get lost in the shuffle.) 97.120.64.157 18:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC) AviKyz (also my user/display name on the minecraft forums and, whenever I actually get to play it, in the game itself)


 * You may report such bugs in the Known bugs page. Talk pages should be only used to discuss changes pertaining to its associated article. A quick Google search came up with the solution of erasing your .minecraft folder. Hope that helps. Hower64 06:58, 6 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I have created a section specifically for reporting bugs with the Demo version at Known bugs/Version 1.3.1 and have moved an existing report there. -Aurelius 20:12, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

The demo's one piece of trivia is flawed
The trivia for the demo has only one line and its claim is flawed. By using a payed account it defeats the entire purpose of this "glitch", and serves only as a filler. If no real trivia can be provided, it should be omitted. (Just reviewed what it said. It's just a way to make the demo last forever if for no other purpose. Still seems pointless though.)


 * I agree, and have removed that section. -Aurelius 20:21, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Cycloneblaze re-added it since it seems like Jeb acknowledged this "exploit". --M0rphzone(talk) (*How to remove sidebar*) 22:21, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Something seems to be wrong with the Restrictions section, I found an abandoned mineshaft and a dungeon.
I loaded up a demo game (I haven't bought Minecraft yet, but I love the game anyways) and started searching around and I found a ravine, and started exploring. Even though the Restrictions section of the article says "Generated Structures" is turned off, I found some abandoned mineshafts and a dungeon in a few cave systems. Is the article wrong, or is it a glitch?


 * It means you can't choose whether they're on or off. They're always on. HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 02:45, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Infinite demo time glitch?
I started my demo in browser and everything went as it should with the timer counting down from 100 minutes. But I then downloaded the demo (to see if I could get a better frame rate) and I have found I can now play without the time limit and create multiple different worlds of any seed and in creative or hardcore mode. I stumbled across this when I entered my password wrong when logging in on the downloaded demo, the game told me the password was not recognized and gave me the option to play offline. I can do this every time, and it seems to be giving me access to far more than the demo is meant to.

Is this a known glitch? 89.168.181.145 19:50, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

The trivia section is full of garbage
The trivia section has 9 entries and 5 of them are about the coordinates of pointless landmarks and structures. I can understand why someone would give the coordinates to a Stronghold, but to underwater caves and emerald ore, seriously? This trend has been going on for too long now and must stop. People should not submit things under the trivia category if it's not trivia. Valvetine 20:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I noticed it was getting a little crazy there too. I think that it should all go on another page - maybe a sub-page of this one perhaps. Firebastard 00:15, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I somewhat disagree. While it is getting a bit disorganized, I feel that documenting the landscape of a world that does not change is worthy enough. We should remove them from the trivia, but perhaps we shift such info into it's own section, or maybe even a tutorial?  00:18, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, I just moved all of the coordinates from the trivia section into its own section where users can post locations of landmarks. Hopefully the section won't get removed any time soon. Valvetine 01:33, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Landscape?
This section may grow infinitely, it is possible that we need to restrict what may be added and remove all bad entries (there are 43 at the moment). Suggestions:


 * Only notable markers (villages, rare biomes, dungeons and strongholds; I may have missed something).
 * Only within certain distance from (0; 0).

--GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 19:50, 22 August 2013 (UTC)


 * That right there is my bad, I completely forgot to add guidelines when I created that category. I just removed some of the unnecessary posts and added a small set of rules to hamper the size of that section. Valvetine 17:22, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm inclined to limit it to features within 1000 blocks of the spawn point, excpeting only strongholds (since there are just three) and mushroom islands (since there aren't any that close to spawn). Dungeons are fairly common, we don't need 25 of them listed. -- Orthotope talk 02:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Organizing
Shall we organize the landscape section (eg. villages: mineshafts: strongholds: dungeons: temples: wells and huts: other: Aleksi2000 (talk) 15:27, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * How about putting them in Tutorials? This is supposed to be an article, not just a place to show off map structures. ExtremeHeat11 (talk) 02:49, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Check out a guide that I started at User:Synco123/Demo structures. Feel free to expand/improve it. Maybe it can be moved to tutorials after it has been developed a bit more. User:Synco123 "Synco" (talk) 19:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC)