A few Minecraft questions on multiplayer, videos and sheep.

The Game Room
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First question: How does multiplayer work? Does it involve finding your own server space (like I’d know the first thing on how to do this) and calling up your friends? Does everyone have to be on the same mode? What is the interaction like? Can you access each other’s inventory or have a big centralized one?

I ask this because I play peaceful. I like to build things and having those explosive penises is very annoying. Plus exploring caves for rare minerals is far too hard for me. Nothing like finding diamonds, getting killed and losing all your stuff to piss you off. Also, I’m not good at killing. However, 2/3rds of the people I could play with play survival because that’s the way the game is supposed to be played, as I’ve been told.
How do people make videos to put on youtube? Is there special software involved? Something already on most computers like screen capture?

I ask this because I thought of a thread asking people to show their modest (or not so modest) Minecraft creations and realized I have no idea how to do this myself. Please note that my creations are super modest. I have yet to master switches or railways, for example. My biggest challenge so far is getting my place carpeted.

Which brings me to my last question: Will sheep re-grow wool? I played before the switch to beta and only just started a new world and I see that I can now make colored wool for a lovely fuchsia-deep pile carpet. Only I would need a whole lotta wool. If I could trap a sheep or two (they spawn in the basement which still has a grass and dirt floor) and harvest the wool every other day or so, that would be most helpful.
I do turn off peaceful every now and again when I need string and bones. I will have to get much better at both fighting and trap making if I ever want to get a record.

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I can’t answer all your questions as I don’t play it but my son does. I set up the server for his friends and it was quite easy. Youtube has a number of tutorials on how to do it. This one for example.

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I don’t do Peaceful. The world of Minecraft is a brutal, yet tough world. It’s mildly losing steam for me, because I don’t have a goal. I’m building lots of shit, exploring, and trying new thins, but that’ll be losing its luster soon.

Yes. Sheep regrow wool.

Playing on a server is the same as playing offline except you do it with multiple people. People can specialize or build their thing or you can all team up to build one very large, intricate thing. People can also come in and grief your stuff to hell, so there’s that too.

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I believe most people use FRAPS.

I don’t think this works for a variety or reasons. First, I’m pretty sure individual sheep do not regrow their wool. Sheep with an intact coat have merely respawned. Which brings us to the second reason, mobs despawn once you are a given number of squares away. So even if you were able to get a sheep into a pen, as soon as you went out of range they’d vanish.