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Re:Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks by lotharbot on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @02:01PM (#1740384)
> "this guy who is using the game in an unexpected and novel way."

MineCraft Alpha was built with logic-circuit design in mind [1]. This guy built a pretty extreme example, but it's not any more "unexpected and novel" than, say, making a very large castle.

[1] http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_Circuits

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Re:Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks by wlievens on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @07:12AM (#1759267)
And the base concept is probably based on Dwarf Fortress, where logic does come from an unexpected and novel aspect: hydraulics.
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