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Multiplayer, along with single player, comprise the two modes that The Blockheads can be played in. Multiplayer allows players to play with other players on worlds. On iOS, there are two ways to play with others: Local Network and Online Server. On Android, only Online Server is available.
Local Network[edit]
Download minecraftserver.1.16.4.jar and run it with the following command: java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraftserver.1.16.4.jar nogui. The Blockheads is a mobile game that involves exploration, building, crafting, and survival. It is set in a massive evolving procedurally-generated 2D world with an equator, poles, seasons, oceans, mountain ranges, deserts and vast underground cave networks.
In version 1.3 and later, Local Network can be used to allow up to five other players to play with other players on single-player worlds on the same network connection. It also allows devices to join locally hosted server worlds. It does not support voice chat, but does support text chat. The devices may use the same Game Center account, but must specify different nicknames when hosting and joining. Local network multiplayer is not available on Android, but locally-hosted worlds may be joined on an Android device using Online Server.
Online Server[edit]
- See also: Server
In version 1.3 and later, Online Server can be used to connect to any Blockheads server. It allows up to 32 players (16 on cloud servers and most Blockserver servers) to play at once. It requires the server's IP or domain and server port to connect. Nicknames and avatars can be chosen at the server connect menu. The connection option may be used to connect to locally-hosted worlds as well. Starting in version 1.5, cloud servers can also be created from a device and are hosted in the cloud.
Servers can be hosted using the Mac server app.
Trivia[edit]
- Before version 1.5, a third-party service known as BlockServer could also be used to allow players to host servers.
- BlockServer was discontinued after version 1.6, and all existing worlds were either deleted or manually migrated to the cloud by the owner.
- Android devices with the same version of The Blockheads as an iOS device could join a locally hosted world run by iOS by using the local IP of the iOS device and the default port. They could connect to the server by using the IP/Port section in the Advanced... section of the Multiplayer menu.
| The Blockheads | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Majic Jungle Software; Android version ported by Noodlecake Studios |
| Composer(s) | Kevin MacLeod |
| Platform(s) | iOS, Android |
| Release | iOS: January 15, 2013 Android: September 24, 2013 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure, survival |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The Blockheads is a survivalsandboxindependent video game created by Dave 'majicDave' Frampton, an indie developer and owner of Majic Jungle Software, a studio based in New Zealand.
Gameplay[edit]
The Blockheads is a 2.5Dsurvival game. Players control an avatar dubbed a 'Blockhead', which can explore their surroundings, navigate the sky in a search for floating islands, navigate the entire world map, harvest materials to create buildings, structures, or create farms and make crafting benches that enable the Blockhead to avail of advanced options in the game.
Aggressive and non-aggressive creatures also exist on land, underground, and in bodies of water, including sharks, dodos, scorpions, dropbears, and fellow Blockheads.[1] The game features a PvP (player versus player) option that enables players to attack one another in Multiplayer mode.
Multiplayer can be accessed over WiFi internet, with worlds hosted over LAN, Game Center, or Cloud Servers. Cloud servers are indirectly created servers hosted by Linode. Since v1.7, servers will have to be paid for with In App Purchases[2].
The game can also be hosted via an app for Mac users, although availability of the world solely depends on the online status of the host.[3] The player can 'warp' a Blockhead through a portal, randomly generating a finite world of multiple sizes ranging from 1/16-16x that loops back to the portal. There is a choice between male or female, with various unique features such as different hairstyles,facial hair and shirt color. There are no differences aside from the randomly generated name and appearance(which can both be changed).
The Blockhead has six statistics which can be accessed from the ingame mini-menu: Health, happiness, hunger, energy, and environment. The hunger and energy bar will constantly decrease, and the Blockhead must eat food to prevent the hunger bar from entirely depleting, which depletes the health bar. The energy bar, when depleted, will result in the Blockhead walking slowly and 'collapsing from exhaustion' (sleeping on the spot). This can be gradually filled by sleeping in a bed, on the ground, or can be filled instantly by consuming caffeinated items like coffee.
The player must craft items to progress in the game. Crafting takes a certain amount of time, but this waiting process can be bypassed by using time crystals, which can be gained by watching short video ads, mining them in caves, or through in-app purchases. Players can also purchase double-time, a feature speeding up crafting times by twice the speed (hence the name, double-time).
The player can choose to join online servers, and play with other players. They can be hosted in several ways. On an iOS device, the player can set up a Local Area Network LAN world. Game center can be used to play before iOS 10 since the application was disabled after that version. It has been confirmed that Game Center worlds will no longer be used as an option in v1.7.
Due to a new update to the game, players can now create single player worlds or servers with custom options, such as custom health values, how the world is generated, custom sun colors, and even customizing the items blockheads spawn with. In the most recent updates, it has included a new gamemode called 'expert mode.'
The Blockheads contains in-app purchases including the aforementioned double-time and time crystals, which can be used to craft items and do actions faster in the game. HD graphics used to be paid and added in hand drawn icons and an interface. However, prior to the 1.7 update, it is now free but it can be turned off in settings.[4]
Reception[edit]
Rickey Ainsworth of Toucharcade gives the game a rating of 5 stars, saying that it is another one of many two dimensional versions of Minecraft, although it features many twists and turns that make the game exciting.[5] Metacritic, based on 5 reviews and 7 ratings, gives the game a 4/5 score.[6]
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Other[edit]
The Blockheads has an official website and a forum run on Discourse and previously vBulletin. Its community is large and widely approved by the community on both platforms. It has received over 10 million official downloads. It has been noted that the game has largely been overrun by script kiddies. A small portion of the playerbase has been overtaken by roleplay, online dating, and sexual content.[citation needed]
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References[edit]
- ^'Retrieved from the unofficial The Blockheads wiki. Can be noted as trustworthy and has largely been trusted'.
- ^'Retrieved from official The Blockheads forums. Stated by MajicDave, or Dave Frampton'.
- ^'Exploration, mining, crafting, and building sandbox game'. The Blockheads. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ^'Retrieved from the official forums, which is noted as trustworthy due to the fact David Frampton, the creator, stated this fact himself'.
- ^'The Blockheads Review'. Toucharcade.com. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ^'The Blockheads for iPhone/iPad Reviews - Metacritic'. Metacritic.com. Retrieved November 29, 2015.