Well there goes my evening. Spent it hollowing out a mountain. lol!

I found a lovely shear rock face, probably 200 cubes high, so i decided i wanted to use that as a side wall to my inevitable fortress. Cue lots of falling to my death from makeshift single cube scaffolds/stairs as i cleared the unwanted dirt bricks. lol!

Bound to dream of blocks tonight.

Absolutely brilliant. Badger Lodge is go, but I need to stop getting killed and losing my shit.

The game runs smoothly, and the save system is excellent. I lost connection from Frantic and Mod just as I was picking up some diamonds. I thought I'd have to jump back in without my gear, back at the spawn, but when I got back in I was exactly where I was when I disconnected with all of my items in my inventory.

I know the PC brigade arent happy with the map size, but to me it was fucking massive. There isn't any danger of me hitting the edge of the map any time soon, the furthest I got was the next valley over to get some snowballs to fling at Mod.

Yup, excellent fun. The save seems superb, you can jump back in with all your stuff no problem. 

Was an absolute joy to play it running so smoothly, actually seeing the moon etc!

Can't wait to jump back on and start building.

I wouldn't bother if you have a pc that runs it fine.

It is a hell of a lot more relaxed playing it lay on the sofa than it was hunched over a laptop though!

Brilliant version, just not the full one. I barely played past this version on pc anyway so don't feel I'm missing as much as others would.

So far the smoothness and general quality of it make me want to get it.  I think I might need to think of it as an Animal Crossing-alike, where everyone has their own village, and I can travel around and make a home in each as and when they're available.

I'm trying to convince myself, you can probably see that.  I guess in some ways, a bunch of smaller dwellings to work on almost randomly, plus my own map for when no-one else is on, might be a nice change of pace from the full-up PC version...?

Haha, sounds like you already convinced yourself Elm!

I honestly don't think the persistent thing will be an issue, especially for people that haven't played it that way before. The way they've implemented the multiplayer saves is excellent.

Yeh I went back recently and had no idea what was going on. I feel right at home on this version.

Mod74 wrote:

After losing basically my entire nights worth of collecting diamonds, ore and little red things I learnt a valuable lesson in not jumping around like a dick next to lava.

Ouch! 
Yeah, I've karked it and lost my lovely shiny valuables so often that in my mind Minecraft is actually titled "Minecraft: Dealing with Loss and Regret".

I guess if people are logging in and playing whenever they see their mate is on and hosting their shared world then it's pretty much 90% of the way there. 
Persistent server is pretty essential for everyone to construct insanely huge vanity projects - but every time we'd have a world reset on the Edge server it normally brought a lot of activity back to the game/server so I think it's that first survival instinct part of a fresh world that's my favourite bit -  so maybe the xbox version won't suffer too greatly from not having the offline persistence. I've kinda given up on the PC game for now - built a farm, am no good at designing castles so not that in love with the tower I built, no other projects on the go, got loads of diamond gold and stuff so don't really feel any motivation to do anything, comfort has bred laziness.

Yeah - the most fun bits of Minecraft for me were always the group activities - wandering about seeing people's awesome creations is cool, but I do regret setting up my homestead quite far from the B&B on the Edge server.

It's fun to explore a big map and stumble across different biomes and villages, strongholds and ravines etc., but most fun just messing about with mates, building stuff together and swearing about that fucking creeper that just took out the front wall.

And crouch is a click of the right stick if memory serves. Made building the first natty treehouse a sight easier; handy nightime platform away from any beasties, crafting table, bed. ZZZzzzz
Off to sleep and then PISSING BUGGERING CHRIST… awake halfway through the night as a sodding skeleton has spawned right next to me. 
This particular bug was originally suggested to be explained back in the day as having 'nightmares' but it happens all the bleedin time to me in this version. I'm fairy sure that it had been fixed by 1.8 so hopefully it'll be gone by the time O2 decide to fix their network and allow me back onto Live/PSN. Support have no idea when this will be currently…

edit: She's back?! No idea for how long but just enough time to grab some points and unlock Minecraft so far.. I've got far too much work to do for this shit. Diggy diggy…

edit2: Well Live lasted about 10mins before O2 killed it again. Minecraft lasted a bit longer. Shut. I still need to get plenty of work outta the way. Got lots more iron now, just need a bit more for some snazzy trousers..

I got caught up in the o2 clusterfuck last night so didn't get online.

Still, I do have 9000MSP now so will download this tonight (providing I can get online).

O2/Be are reportage some kind of resolution  to it all but it was still decidedly flakey for me. I should imagine it may have settled down again by this evening. Probably.

SHIT!  Just noticed this.  I wouldn't have had it not been the mother of two next to me informing me that it was out so she could reclaim her work laptop from her son.  I gave up trying to run it on my laptop but missed building portaloos.  I'll wade through this thread later but quick question for the moment:  Can we have private villages like wot we did in Edgeworlds?

By default it's a private village, the shared ones are other peoples you connect to when they're also playing.

It doesn't have the persistent always available worlds of the PC version.

Despite putting 100s of hours into the pc i version, I bought this last night.My laptop didnt run it that well so its nice to play it with no stuttering.My laptop always suffered when it rained so all good now.
At first I was a bit scared about hearing the world is smaller,But I still managed to get lost.Got loads of cool loot but got impatient and landed up dying.

I at one point stood on a hill and on one side it was snowing, And on the other heavy rain with thunder and lightening!
At that point on my laptop it probably would of blown up!