Is it legal to use the Minecraft basis to create something and claim it your own? (Honestly wondering.)

Look at Xbox Live Indie Section. :l There are like a million minecraft clones.

Think minecraft clones are whacky?

The entire genre of FPS looks like the same stolen crap, to me. 8| Just sayin!

Minecraft ITSELF isn't original. In fact, the look and feel is pretty much a copy of "Infiniminer" http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Infiniminer

I'm not going to argue with each commenter, because, as I put in my comment, I was genuinely asking; I know shit about Minecraft copyright or lack of thereof. : ) I have no clearly cut opinion on this, other than surprise. I'm largely unaware if "clones" are or aren't problematic for the indie game industrie.

Well... It seems it's not a big problem for minecraft at least, considering that, going by their statistics, 4.200.000 People bought their game. Most likely most bought it when it was 10 bucks (it costs 20 now).
So, that would make a measly sum of 42 Million dollars, if we assume everyone paid 10 bucks. (It's most likely more.)

The only danger at least THAT indie team is in, is never again having a success that comes even close to that. ;)

Really, my only question was the original one in my first comment, and mostly what I was asking was "is the game open source?". ^^ Thank you for your replies!

Oh, NOW I see.
No, the game isn't open source, I programmed this from scratch. ;)

Wow, that must be a lot of work! ^^

(It wouldn't have surprised me that the game be open source otherwise though! Because indie dev are sometimes like that. ^^)

Notch himself does not make any claim at being original and actually encourages others to make games inspired by Minecraft because he likes playing those types of games :)

Hmm it looks just like MC with a bit fancier GFX, that's not a bad thing, but something you could do to stand out is allow for half cube blocks (triangles) to smooth the land out a bit. So overall the gameplay would not be effected, but visually people would instantly see "well that's not like other MC clones"

Just tried it out, it's a great start. I'm impressed with how far you have come so fast.

I might mention, I'm red/green color blind so it can be hard for me to see the red selection box and what type of block I have selected in the hot bar.

I'll take that into consideration. :) And thanks!

NP

Another thing you could do is have it so that corners or edged get rounded off of the blocks that are exposed.

I'm interested in this project, it seems to be coming along nicely.

When you said things have slown down is there an awkward loop to the water flow? Possibly repeating a command insufficantly or graphics draw? Transparency could be something too unless it's doing some AA with a Nvidia graphics option and your drawing distance. I dunno.

AA on the transparent textures I should say... Is there no way to edit posts >.>? Or am I blind?

No, there were several issues, due to technical reasons I had to split every chunk mesh into 3 meshes, trippling drawcalls. By now I managed to get back down to two meshes.
There was a pretty costly loop for liquid calculation, but I trimmed that one down again, too.
Most of the overhead was rebuilding the mesh when the water flows, now I only rebuild the water mesh instead of the whole chunk. That is why I have two meshes.

Awww I see well least it's coming around nicely.

Will there be dragon mobs in Dragoncraft ?

Drachen Mobs und NPCs!

und was it mit den wütenden Mobs ? :P

Die gibts nach dem abfackeln von Dörfern. :P