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people who play minecraft, how do you actually add a document to a map? and how do players read it? i.e. what is the physical experience of doing this, from bot
by zem 7y ago
people who play minecraft, how do you actually add a document to a map? and how do players read it? i.e. what is the physical experience of doing this, from both the upload and the reading end.
- mceachen 7y agoYou can create paper, books, and signposts with the crafting table. Books contain text that can be viewed and edited. Edit: FWIW, MC books display a tiny amount of text at a time, and it's pretty laborious to read even a couple sentences. This really isn't an effort to provide access to censored content as much as it is a beautiful MC build.
- aquova 7y agoThere are books that can be placed on pedestals and read. Unless something has changed, the upload still requires manual entry, and according to the Minecraft wiki, you are limited to 12,800 characters (still quite a lot). As for reading, everyone is reading the same "page" at a time, so if someone turns the page, everyone is forced to change the page (pages being about 300 characters).
- dmix 7y agoThat sounds like a less than ideal UI, to put it politely. It obviously wasn’t designed for this sort of thing so I’m not pointing at Minecraft or expect them to support downloading random ebooks in a game interface. I’m also guessing this is hosted on a 3rd party server? Could the hosts be individually blocked?
- aquova 7y agoIt's not ideal. I looked around on this server a few days ago, and almost always had to share a book with someone else who was flipping through pages. The server was limited to 100 users at a time, so it wasn't chaos, but I do think downloading the map and reading the documents offline is definitely ideal if you're just there for the content (although it does lose some of the appeal of being a "library" this way).
- catalogia 7y agoIf you 'take' the book it gives you a copy.
- dependenttypes 7y agoIn addition to what the other posters said, there are mods that let you place images (so you could place an image of NYT) or even fully programmable computers (so you could just run $ cat on a file that contains a news article, or even request it from the internet - using the MC server as a proxy).