Topic: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet) (Read 3465 times)

No set schedule, but we try to keep maps as long as possible.  I hate losing work as much as the rest of the players do.  We're switching two of the maps to new ones soon, but they have been on the server for more than a year.

Do you have and schedule for maps change?

Absolutely!

EDIT:  Updated the OP with new payout information.

Is this still going on?

Do you have a legitimate copy of the game?  Or is it pirated?  If you have a legitimate copy, try googling that error... I haven't come across it before, so I am not sure what the fix is for it.

its was up with 14 players but told me bad login

On to the forum?  We were in migration at that time.  Onto the game server?  Not sure what to tell you... it may have been down for some reason.  It's up right now though!

i tried to log in yesterday and it didnt let me

Well, first off, if you don't already own the game, and plan to buy it to make your money back, I'd have to advise against it!  At 10 satoshis, you'd have to mine and place 10 million blocks to make one Bitcoin (which is admittedly quickly approaching the cost of the game in value).  If you mined snow with the best tool, each snow would take 0.05 second to mine, so you'd theoretically make 200 satoshis per second.  In reality, you'll be much slower - say, 5 snow pieces per second, so 50 satoshis per second.  But, you'd have to maintain your shovel (which requires diamonds to mine at that speed), offload your inventory every so often, and find new places to mine as the resources run out.  All of this takes a significant amount of extra time.  Now you might be down to 20 satoshis a second.  That's 500,000 seconds to make a Bitcoin!  Or, 139 hours.  And that's if you're solely focused on making Bitcoins, and nothing else.

Bottom line:  Don't quite your dayjob to buy the game and try to make money.  This is mainly provided for three reasons: 1) To introduce people to Bitcoin who join the server from other sources.  2) To get people involved with Bitcoin who wouldn't otherwise use it.  3) To provide an additional faucet for those looking for free token amounts of Bitcoin to play with.

Now, to more directly answer your question, yes, it can definitely be addicting.  There is no better sandbox game.  I had to step away from it in 2009 while I was still in college.  I don't play too much anymore, just mainly deal with the administrative side of running the community and providing a place for people who do still play a lot.

Is this game addicting?  I don't want to get sucked into a trap (even if I get paid for it haha)

Just migrated to a new, much faster webhost for the forum.  It should be acting much more nicely now. 

Still going strong.  I'm currently paying for about half of the block activity on this server.  Lots of Bitcoiners here for sure!

Now up to 153 unique users paid out from the Minecraft Faucet!
http://www.minecraftcc.com/mine4btc/

Nope, not at all!  You likely broke one of our rules (griefing, swearing, etc).  PM me with your in-game name and I'll check it out.

10 million blocks.  It's not a side-job level of payments, just an extra little something.  As someone who recently joined the server told me, "I play Minecraft, so why not get paid something while I play?"

I'd love to increase payments to 10x what they are now, but I cannot afford it, and not many people seem to be inclined to donate towards this faucet (13m8dAb16KqWv7v9oEsr97mYMXbynR6CoD if you do want to help!).  I do believe I may be able to double the payments soon though - I was waiting to see what actual payouts would be over a longer period of time, and it is safe to believe that double payments would still be within my budget.

Interesting server concept. How many blocks do I have to mine to earn 1 bitcoin?

It's only everyone who has been paid so far.  So if you recently signed up and have not received a payout, you will not appear in the list until you do!

Is that everyone who signed up? I signed up under kamimatsu and I'm not listed.

130 people have signed up and received payments so far..!

Leaderboard:  http://www.minecraftcc.com/mine4btc/

Hmmm... probably the best is just the Minecraft Wiki:  http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki

It has new player tutorials and the like, so I'd start there..!

Man, is there a "get started with Minecraft" thread somewhere? i am lost!