Oh, don't be fooled. I myself haven't played it, because for some reason it won't load in the browser. But still I'm amazed.

Planescape Torment I have a copy somewhere. There was a brief time I've played it, but generally I'm not a big fan of DnD rules (they look much more like a tactical combat simulator than anything else) and I don't quite like aesthetics of Baldur's Gate - the environment kinda irritated me. However Planescape fascinated me with the premise, but then came something else and the game was forgotten.

Black Isle started on 1996 and was closed on 2003. Mmm... I wonder what's your favourite game company Verthex Still, as much as I love PST(Chris Avellone is a kickass lead designer), I must insist that you stop trying to derail the thread about Minecraft.

How curious. I always had one save in FF games. I don't know if there was enough C&C(Choices & consequences) around to play the game differently. I tend to do far more saves in CRPGs.

@Neil: Is gold too hard to find? I think some gold walls would look great if you can get enough blocks. Otherwise, I second the idea of putting two step blocks for filling the hole.

I was fooling around yesterday with the free version, and I had made a cool base for a tower, like walls with a pit between them. Sadly, when I entered the base, a horde of spiders spawned inside, and killed me really fast.

It has been for me. In the video tour you'll see me open up a chest at one point, and if you look closely you'll see that it has eleven gold bars in it. That's all the gold I've found.

But mining gold without steel takes ages

I haven't been using metals to craft tools thus far (well, I've been using steel for arrows and swords, but I avoid confrontation). I have a LOT of stone so I just make 5 pickaxes out of stone at a time. The time to make new tools is negligible compared to the time it takes to find metal ore. Gold and diamond take a while to mine with stone, but everything else I've encountered are almost as fast as steel in my experience.

The slots don't work in Windows either, at least not for me. If you click on the button at the bottom of the save screen though (something relating to files) then it prompts you with a file dialog to save to a file under your own control. This does work in Windows, but I can't speak for Mac.

Are you sure it's not just a browser thing? I can't see why a Java applet would care unless it was written with platform dependence. The host operating system or browser might restrict access though.

I have tried the game in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari with no luck. Probably not a browser thing. And I'm using the latest version of Java as far as I know. The save slots don't work. I save but when I look again I see nothing really gets saved. When I try to save as a file, the button doesn't do anything, no dialog box shows up.

So no bugs == mainstream?? And it could still be a fault of the implementation of the application.

Heh, that's pretty cool you all are playing notch/Markus Perrsons game. I've been remarking on that guys genius for years now:

http://www.javagaming.org/index.php/topic,14995.msg119142.html#msg119142

He's a great guy, no one deserves accolades and success more than him!

Does anyone know why my pigs arent dropping mushrooms or anything that can heal me? Do you have to kill them in a special way?

Well, the site says:

Each at 10€. That means he made 51190 EUR or 69070 USD.

EDIT: One more idiot just bought the game!