The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft doesn't support dedicated servers, but we've managed to pull together our own simple equivalent. Downloaded the game? Fancy crafting away from home? Simply add 'OXM Minecraft' as a friend on Xbox Live, and pop into our world for a collective adventure.
We'll be doing our best to keep this special account online as regularly as possible for the next few weeks. Xbox Live only allows you 100 friends per account, but we plan to refresh the list once it fills so newcomers have a chance to strut their stuff. Hop in and make something we like, and who knows - we might make a video about it.
If you're looking for inspiration, check out our latest Minecraft video below.
53 comments so far...
Bezza89 on 9 May '12 said:
Haha will hopefully join in at some point.
Grummy on 9 May '12 said:
save me a space dudes, I'll be on sometime tomorrow to build some fancy hidden phalli.
Bezza89 on 9 May '12 said:
Argh I was writing a sign that explained my whole 'structure' and the game crashed, I will pop in tomorrow at some point because at the moment it makes no sense, it was a slightly funny message if you're a forum member, especially a certain thread, ok exclusively a certain thread. Anyways, I need to bury my coffin.
Toots McCleggan on 9 May '12 said:
I'll try and get on this chaps not sure how much help I'll be though I'm still learning the ways of Minecraft.
golliwoza on 9 May '12 said:
Cant wait to join in the fun with some other people, I sent a request along and I will probably be available to join most nights.
OXM ETboy on 9 May '12 said:
We're hoping for a forest of phalli. A regular Amazon basin.
Just don't let me find a Gertrude mention in there. The old girl's on the warpath.
SidTheSloth on 9 May '12 said:
>sigh< You've discovered how to craft pastry and have built a shop haven't you?
Bezza89 on 9 May '12 said:
You're both wrong, anyone who pops into the world can see my structure straight away, well, until it crashed on me is it still there?
Decent_Jam on 9 May '12 said:
This is a fantastic idea - good call.
OXM JamSponge on 10 May '12 said:
Big problems so far, unfortunately! We had lots of trolling last night, with structures getting burnt down. We also had the Xbox crash this morning before we could get in and save the world again - sorry to anyone who's lost anything!
Will work out a better solution today though, will probably involve me taking the Xbox home over the weekend so I can keep hitting save.
Bezza89 on 10 May '12 said:
Oh no! Ah well. Are we allowed to rebuild or has my ticket been up?
OXM JamSponge on 10 May '12 said:
Of course! Rebuild!
Sorry chaps, I only had the idea for this server at about 4pm yesterday, we're still ironing out some of the potential problems. I did spot your creation late last night at home though - good work!
Bezza89 on 10 May '12 said:
It wasn't finished, I was going to transform the hill into a mountain so I could get a hollywood style vibe going on, and then make a treasure hunt. I had no treasure, but I had signs on the go.
Also, looking at twitter, does the game not autosave anyway? Like every five minutes, I'm always seeing a small icon appear top right which looks like a customary autosave icon.
Plamsa wing on 10 May '12 said:
I shall have to pop and show you my awesome Minecraft skills. Which is pretty much trying to build a house and making a giant hole in the ground instead.
OXM JamSponge on 10 May '12 said:
Sadly, I think that's just loading. I saved the game at about 7pm last night, but after that had to leave the office - nothing since then has been saved unfortunately.
Still, I'll work it out!
OXM ETboy on 10 May '12 said:
Gentlemen, ladies - I salute you.
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542019_758420474971_284004027_6673125_1759509266_n.jpg
Bezza89 on 10 May '12 said:
I think I'll readd my touch soon, and get that treasure hunt started*.
*Need donations for treasure.
Clanger67 on 10 May '12 said:
Wow nice house puts my little cottage by the sea to shame,lol.I have restarted twice pretty hard on normal keep getting creepered.
sneakerphile on 10 May '12 said:
I thought that Skyrim was eating my life, I can see that Minecraft is gonna take up a lot of my free time now.
Plamsa wing on 10 May '12 said:
I assume we just join in when a spot is free right?
Grummy on 10 May '12 said:
I just got kicked from the server, I assume that it means one of the chaps has taken it home with him, Fortunately I managed to mostly complete my shenanigans before the server dropped.
When you turn the game back on Mister OXM Minecraft controller, remember, Grummy has just served you good.
Plamsa wing on 10 May '12 said:
Just a heads up my house is the one with the trap door that leads to a sauna. Yea I built a modern Minecraft home.
Grummy on 10 May '12 said:
might have been burned down old son. I hope not, but its possible. some asshat was charging around setting fire to buildings again.
I managed to complete phase 1 of my work today, if I get on tomorrow, phase 2 will begin. The two will be unrelated.
Plamsa wing on 10 May '12 said:
Was that after I Ieft?
Someone better not take my dirt... otherwise I may have to move my house to a hidden location.
@Bezza, I saw your grave, a creeper nearly got it after it blew up on me.
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
This was late last night, after 11 maybe.
Joe Skrebels on 11 May '12 said:
As overseer for the later hours last night, I can say that there was some small measure of conflagatory vandalism, but the real winner was architecture. We now have a mining company, a mysterious trapdoor under the beach chalet and, my own contribution, a huge imposing tower that leads to a glass observation deck. We are watching.
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
Was the tower by any chance anything to do with some dastardly fiend completely surrounding you with blocks while you were afk? The blaggard, I wonder who that could have been........
The mine was my handiwork.
Did you ever find out who was actually setting the fires last night?
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
Is 'OXMWOOD' still there? That's my handiwork, and the start of my treasure hunt (Under M), which leads to my grave, I'll pop in today if possible to keep the hunt better than A-B, C will be in a maze. No point if it's all destroyed though.
Joe Skrebels on 11 May '12 said:
No-one has dared touch OXMWOOD yet. Haha, the tower was actually always a plan we had, but the stone coffin was pretty funny - I angrily tweeted Matt as I thought he'd done it on purpose for when I took over!
golliwoza on 11 May '12 said:
I popped in today, surprisingly lively in the mornings and some great creations allready. I have set about making my own living/mining area which I have kept hidden and secret to avoid any burnings with clues so dastardly I have allready forgotton where it is. Still I will be back on later to do some more digging and I will find more Iron. I saw the stuff Bezza had made and I started the hunt before realising that my map had disappeared and got as far as the grave.
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
Dissention in the ranks! My nefarious scheme is coming together nicely. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Mine is an evil laugh.
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
I just need an hour later to finish the hunt, I have a maze nearly complete, just need treasure. And some torches, it's a pretty dark maze .
It's kind of half arsed after everything got destroyed first day, it would have been more elaborate and further apart with some more time.
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
Awwww, I had plans to build a mega maze
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
We can always pool resources and make my maze an uber mega maze, with actual treasure in it if you have treasure.
CunningSmile on 11 May '12 said:
You could build one around Bezza's. People would have to solve your maze in order to find his to solve
golliwoza on 11 May '12 said:
How about one with monsters? Zombies around the bend even though it would be hard getting them in there.But I have an endless zombie hole which I found deep down, imagine the chaos. Kinda reminds me of that one with the minotaur.
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
Takeshis castle style maze with bottomless pits hidden by well placed torch lighting.
PS screw you cunning, don't give him ideas
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
Only way to get real treasure old chum would be to head to an unused part of the world (where no-one has started digging yet) and dig down, you need to get pretty deep under ground and start finding blocks of redstone, gold and diamond. which can then be made into gold bars and diamonds to use as treasure.
As for your maze, adjust it, put it somewhere untouched then build it so the 'treasure' is a stair case leading downwards (about 4 blocks down) then I can build my maze after that so we can have a nice tiered effect going on. OR I can build mine first then let you build underneath so the treasure can be the absolute goal of our two tiered maze.
Problem with having one with monsters in it, Golli, is that your first enemy would probably be a creeper who would then blow up your lovingly created maze, ruining all that effort, so well lit is essential really.
Also, I think it's pretty important to keep the maze well hidden so the mutants can't come and hack it up. The last thing we need is for for X5n1p3dovak1nlulzX to find the maze then just start hacking through the walls.
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
It's sort of already underground, behind OXMwood, but nearer my grave. I can't get into the server but I'm aiming for bottomless pits. Try again in a bit. Shadow moses is coming along nicely though, just need some snow though...
Plamsa wing on 11 May '12 said:
The prize should be cake, lie filled cake,with liecing sugar, just like my birthday cake.
golliwoza on 11 May '12 said:
Thats your big hole under there?
I tripped up and fell down the ladder killing myself earlier. If I can get in later I will join you all and donate some resources if needed I have gone pretty deep allready and I still have some more of my caves to fully explore.
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
Are we going to make a concerted effort this evening to hunt out gold and diamonds? If so, I believe the oxm dudes should make sure to give us some space on the server so we can all get on and go treasure mining.
Plamsa wing on 11 May '12 said:
My pickaxe is ready.
Sidenote: I just played on my world, found a mine with around 25 gold, 100 iron and 5 diamonds. I fell in lava and died. I didn't save my progress.
Bezza89 on 11 May '12 said:
Just finished my maze, it is pretty easy because it's really hard to make. The prize is amazing though. No mining allowed. But I bet people will mine. Grums I've left a tree on a pedestal above my mine to let you know where to build your centre... and consequently let people know where the centre of mine is.. doh!
Grummy on 11 May '12 said:
A nice busy day in OXMWOOD, phase 2 of my plan has been completed, a nice giant sky sign, but one with a difference. It's right next to Joe's mega tower. I also successfully upped my boxing in of the oxm avatar. not satisfied with just a few blocks around him, I completely filled the house he was in with sand.
Other news, some guy made a badass pirate ship, which some tosser then burnt down, I located Bezza's maze, by tunneling into it (sorry dude, it was an accident) some bugger ruined my mine, so I tidied it up, and there have been, in general, a load of impressive structures being built.
Plamsa wing on 11 May '12 said:
I only managed to get in for 5 minutes until I was kicked or disconnected.
Any chance it'll be up during the weekend?
Plamsa wing on 12 May '12 said:
Well I answered my own question there.
Is there a reason as to why the all houses, even the supply warehouse look like they have been hit by the apocalypse?
Grummy on 12 May '12 said:
Probably because some people are arseholes and deliberately try to f**k things up. Hence why some guys ship was burnt down.
Amerterasu16 on 13 May '12 said:
Will probably join soon, getting bored of my home already. Although I got it on PC I still bought it on Xbox live anyway!
GHOSTY05 on 13 May '12 said:
Wow, i have just discovered this game!!
Fantastic fun, was on it for the best part of 10 hours last night!!
Ribzy on 15 May '12 said:
Hallo, i have JUST made a simple forum that will let people easily post their gamertags and time that they are playing with? the hopes of getting a small community going since there are no servers. go to customparties360.hostzi.com if your interested . Only made it like 10 minutes ago.
GHOSTY05 on 15 May '12 said:
Good idea rizby, i have tried in vain to get on this OXM server, however there is no hope.
So i will invite anyone who wants to play (nicely) onto mine.
Add me GHOSTY05
Usually on anytime from 2pm-4am, currently have a massive stone castle built
SidTheSloth on 15 May '12 said:
We've starting something similar across in the OXM Nights (Gaming Discussion Board) thread too for anyone interested...!