Actually, as long as you have direct access to the surface via a straight vertical line, you will get day/night cycles regardless of how deep you go. In one day cycle on a new world, I kept digging straight down and never used a single torch, despite plowing through several biomes. One of those indestructible horizontal metallic things stopped me, so I couldn't get any further down without circling it. I thought that too, but I like to poke my nose everywhere, hehe. It's why I like beta testing - I can find almost anything.
No I mean that once you dig below the surface you get those black background blocks (instead of hills and sky) that you can't remove. So it still looks your building is underground.
The light is good in this game, I have built a huge bridge from my castle and it's pitch black underneath. I had to put tiki torches down there to show it off.
damn,i'm so jealous of you guys being able to play this game i've downloaded it days ago but i have a 2nd gen touch...just can't wait for 1.0.3 to be out and the crashes be fixed
My house This game is awesome I took advantage of using the feature that all of your inventory will be intermingled with each world and built a large house. Can't stop playing because it is so much fun.
Downloading it right now. My 2nd gen is at home so I can't try that yet... Oh yeah, and Minecraft 1.0 is out! Gonna be a busy weekend!
WARNING CAUTION !!!!!!!!!!!! I just upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 and lost my inventory. I restored from backup, but no luck. It's gone. My chests and other placed items are fine. I just, apparently, lost my backpack. So if you're doing the same upgrade, make sure to put all your stuff in boxes and things BEFORE UPGRADING!! I lost 300 torches and over 2000 wood and 400 stone blocks.
It sounds wise to empty your packs into a chest before you upgrade. Mine was fine, but ya never know! I have a question, can someone tell me what I can do with gold bars? I stupidly created a bunch when making a chest and, well, they're fairly pointless, as making it rain with gold bars.... Bad idea =\
Make gold chests, make gold tools, etc. All the stuff you can do with wood, you can do with gold and it will be better. All the more reason to create gold chests now - they have a larger capacity!
No, bars. I made them from ingots INTO bars. You can't do much with bars. So unless I can reverse bars back into ingots, I'm sol
