Morning Discussion
I hear you can join the Video Game Voters Network if you enjoy voting as well video games. That might be a good thing to look into.
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replyTuesday Morning Minecraft Thread!
Sleepless Edition!!!
After thinking it over a bit I finally realized that the only way I can guarantee I’m going to get the Minecraft posts up on time is by no longer playing Minecraft.
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : shackeast.sytes.net
- Latest MercFox1 render: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/render.png
AgentPothead : shackcraft.sytes.net
Shadowdane (snow world) : shadowdane.shacknet.nu
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253
m0rfus (PvP/Mobs on) : 173.201.191.198
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com : 9987
I play it all night and then fall asleep an hour before the chatty goes up!
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First Time Playing?
- Check out (and help with) the Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
- Map your levels with Oizomapper, by mroizo40!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24100023#itemanchor_24100023
Video Guides!
- (Series) X's Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff!
http://tinyurl.com/2ah7sex
Lots of useful info in here!
- (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Boosters! Track switches! Et cetera!
http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
Written Guides!
- Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, originally linked by at0micgarden!
(Work in Progress) Guide to Alpha: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17021
How to Survive Your First Night: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
Shacker Help!
- Things I Wish I’d Known, a retrospective by Ebu!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23608826#itemanchor_23608826
- Linkmania! By zuff!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23514788#itemanchor_23514788
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23533536#itemanchor_23533536
- Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
- Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
- Circle guides! More useful than they sound!
http://www.agentpothead.com/minecraft/sphere.html linked/hosted by AgentPothead!
http://www.41370.com/linkedimg/radii_even_to_100.png linked by Hemtroll!
- And some generally useful keys to press!
F11 - full screen!
F3 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
F5 - third person mode!
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I'm going to bed!
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I miss the old penis island :\
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Is that a forest fire in the north corner of the render? I thought we banned Flint and Steel?
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ah, okay that explains it then!
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God hates you for the sinful things you do.
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Does flint + steel not work? I have one in my inventory but I've never used it.
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I started my 1st world 2 days ago, and my 2nd yesterday.
The 1st one didn't really go too far. Spent a lot of time excavating beneath my house, planting crops. Only found a few iron. I started work on a tower outpost thing, but all in all, didn't do too much.
The 2nd spawned in some awesome mountainous terrain, though I guess mountains are kinda pointless since the good stuff only really spawns deep down. So I built a little home in the side of a mountain close to a very promising cave system. Within an hour or so, I was cautious exploring, found a bit of iron down there.
Then I just excavated straight down in a spiral until I hit bedrock, and lo and behold, that huge cave system went allll the way down. Where I mined 10 diamond, a ton of redstone, 30 or so iron, found lava, beat a dungeon, etc. So now I have a diamond pickaxe and sword, and it's time to hunt spiders for a bow. Then...time to build something awesome. =D -
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And help from other shackers!
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Just fired up minecraft for the first time today and I got a snow world. Is that unusual? I've started building a base in this hill that turned out to be swiss-cheesed with caves. Right now I'm stuck inside because there's a creeper and zombie right outside my door.
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Minecraft is crashing like crazy for me. I'm playing on MercFox1's server, it just crashed 3 times in a row:
Minecraft has crashed!
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Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem.
If you wish to report this, please copy this entire text and email it to support@mojang.com.
Please include a description of what you did when the error occured.
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Generated 9/28/10 8:45 AM
Minecraft: Minecraft Alpha v1.1.2_01
OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java: 1.6.0_21, Sun Microsystems Inc.
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.
LWJGL: 2.4.2
OpenGL: GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2 version 3.3.0, NVIDIA Corporation
java.lang.NullPointerException
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at fz.a(SourceFile:54)
at bn.a(SourceFile:152)
at e.a(SourceFile:942)
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Dong Patrol -- My server no longer runs a snow world.
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imma check out your server today Shadow...is it awesome?
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be in ASAP!
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I'm at work now, 8-5...been here over 2 years so I'm waiting for the lull in phonecalls, walk ins etc to hop in :)
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yah i tried running Minecraft at work and it won't run on the systems here
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Yah I'll get a render up later today, didn't have a chance to do it last night.
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Apart from graph paper, are there any programs or tools that would work well for planning a structure? I'm trying to decide how to build the towers on my castle in SP.
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I have heard of some people using Google Sketch with good results.
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MS Paint
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I never said I wouldn't help, just showing you the trick :)
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I... don't know if it's possible, at least not in any way that'll do Minas Tirith any justice. Orthanc hit the skybox way too soon, and it's about 1/4 the size of Minas Tirith. I figured Minas Tirith would have to wait to see if Notch increased the skybox.
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OK. If I were you I would flatten out the plain where it will stand to be a bit below sea level -- maybe 6 blocks or so below sea level. That gives you five rings of walls at 12 blocks high apiece with 10 blocks of grace for the White Tree at the top (can't quite remember the name off the top of my head...). If you want to see how high that will be in-game, stop by Orthanc and check out the oasis level. (You may even want to consider 18-block walls.) Minas Tirith is taller than it is wide, so you'll want the space in between rings to be something like... 8 blocks? So basically, figure out how many rings you'll want in the final product, figure out the size of the top layer, and extrapolate down from there.
You may want to try this out in Google SketchUp to get a feel for it before committing in Minecraft :)
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Here is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7UKLCNYjw
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I just watched it again and I'm blown away all over again. Almost every building inside the walls has an interior with furniture etc. And I like the way it was done almost as a snapshot of the battle.. complete with catapult projectiles frozen in midair and the fell beast in mid-flight. Truly.. amazing.
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I think they drilled down to bedrock and grassed over it
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Holy fucking epic. Impressive attention to detail, including a shadow on the ground for the Nazgul and everything. The Eye of Sauron was a nice touch too :)
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Repost from ER
OizoMapper 9/27 Release
Thanks to m0rfus for hosting!
http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip
- Added ability to change facing on oblique, oblique angle, and textured
Now you can see the other side of renders.
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HAHAH :)
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well there's that...getting paid thing :))
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Five minutes real world time from the second the item leaves your inventory or is "created". Another death doesn't change that time.
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I got into Minecraft last week. I'm going to try to convince my brother to get in on it as well. Post the most amazing thing you've seen in Minecraft so far or anything else you think would convince someone to buy it.
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I always tell people to watch a couple of vids from this guy's Youtube stream: http://www.youtube.com/davidr64yt#p/u/41/4bh4EexJO4I
Or alternately have a read of http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/mine-the-gap/
They'll soon know if it's their kind of game.
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I posted this in it's own thread but guys you really got to see this. http://shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24114575
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I had fun with this game for about a week, just building stuff out of dirt and sand. Enjoying myself. Then I discovered the inventory window and I could actually craft things. This opened my eyes, so I thought. I spent some more time discovering crafting recipes on my own. Having a lot of fun, then I reached two more epiphanies. Water Buckets and Flint and Steel. First I set the world on fire and then I flooded it. I felt like god. I avoided the minecraft threads here because I've never been big on multiplayer and no one really knows me on the shack but yesterday I decided to connect to MercFox server... I realized I haven't even scratched the surface of what this game can do. I'll be tied up with this for a long time.
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Who the hell doesnt know you on the shack?
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IndieGames.com Podcast #2 has Notch talking about Minecraft. Very interesting. He mentions something about "somebody out there has developed a Dwarf fortress conversion tool to import levels into Minecraft.." And that guys a shacker right? (Sorry.. forget your name). Cool stuff. He says he plans on having six employees by December. Good listen.
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Troz is the Shacker you speak of. Since Notch mentions Dwarf Fortress as one of his inspirations in creating Minecraft, I bet he was quite impressed by the converter.
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haha unlikely you'd have to walk in one direction for about a year non-stop to reach the end of the world.
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Yeah IIRC it's 32 million blocks in any direction from spawn
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The game already feels like Nethack in a way.
- You have to fight enemies 1v1 or risk getting overwhelmed.
- Even with the strongest weapons/armor, you can die in stupid ways.
- If you die, you lose all your items and restart.
- Random levels, hidden rooms, "traps" (if digging straight down, you land in lava...)
If you adds an "Amulet of Yondor", more monsters, and 4 astral planes, well, we'll have a cool first person Nethack.-
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Well, for me, the exciting part about adventure mode in Minecraft would be that people can basically build 'levels' where you have an environment and possibly a goal to achieve etc. It could be a dungeon with mobs and some treasure at the end.. or a treasure hunt with waypoints... or just a cool area to explore. I'd imagine with the amount of people creating stuff in this game, people will come up with some really cool places to run through.
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I don't even know if he received my job application. :O I've seen his ad looking for an office though and he put a deadline on moving in for December 1st.
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fount it
Oh, that the converter is at: http://github.com/TroZ/DF2MC/downloads-
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Ugh! About 22 minutes in he mentions changing the save format. It currently isn't that good (a lot of tiny files), but it took me almost two weeks to get writing the save files out correct. Hopefully it won't be too different, just something like put all the small files in to one zip file.
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Maybe he's been reading about octrees
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Props on making that converter and becoming famous. :)
I admit that I am curious about Dwarf Fortress but the research I've done on it make it sound like the most difficult game in the world just to learn how to play! (And then an even more difficult one to master). I don't have time for that type of game anymore... but it does sound like a cool idea.-
yeah, it has a steep (some would say cliff like) learning curve, as there are multiple things that you have to take care of at the beginning of the game, and if you don't (or don't know how), you will end up loosing (but loosing is fun ). The 'nice' thing is you never lose quickly. One dwarf will get sad, and throw a tantrum, during which he will start a fight injuring another dwarf. That other dwarf will need to rest to heal his injury, but that was the dwarf running your farm (if you figured out how to grow food). Soon, you run out of food, and everyone begins to starve. The same initial dwarf will tantrum again (or another one will) a a big fight will breakout between all your dwarfs, and a few will end up dead. One will go crazy and throw themselves off of the tallest cliff they can find. Eventually you'll have one dwarf left, attempting to survive on bugs and vermin, only to die just after a trade caravan arrives as he doesn't have anything of value to trade for the food that they have.
However, one you get the hang of it, figure out what you have to do and how to do it, it becomes rather easy to get a fortress going and to make it to about year 3. That is about the point that you start getting attacked by goblins, and if you don't have a good trap system or a decent military by then, you'll have other problems. There are also MegaBeasts that will attack randomly, and occasionally you may also get a dragon to attack, so there are still dangers of losing if you make it past the first few years, to speak nothing of keeping the nobles happy.
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Possibly the most exciting thing he mentioned (at least for me) is that he eventually plans to make the single player and multiplayer exactly the same game. I knew he was planning on making them PLAY the same but he literally wants them to run the exact same way.. so you can invite a friend(s) into your single player game. That would be awesome! Adventure mode where you can't actually alter blocks (except probably by explosions from found TNT or Creepers) sounds like a lot of fun too.
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Couple days. Put a bunch of torches around the saplings to speed things up.
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Don't put them too close though as they may impede growth. Put em at least 1 or 2 blocks away from the sapling to ensure no problems.
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I have a couple in a mine with a shit-ton of torches that grow like every fortnight (ingame). I then built a tree farm on a man-made island in my ocean, and those fuckers grow damned-near instantly (maybe two days max, but I have seen some sprout before I finished planting the other 10 or so I had to do.
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What would be a good way to make a 'beacon light'? Something at the top of a cliff/mountain to help it stand out. So far I just put 4 torches, that's pretty weak though. Should I use lava or fire (haven't used either of them before)?
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I go straight down with a 7x7 square to bedrock and then find the highest point of bedrock. That highest point is where my floor will be.
Then, I build my workshop which usually consists of one workbench, a few large chests, and an array of 6-9 furnaces for quick smelting. I then extend 2 of the walls, so that I have a section that is 4 high and 16 across. Each time I clear the wall deeper, since it is 4x16 that's one stack of stone.
I usually use this method to gather stone for construction, but I end up with quite a bit of iron, coal, and redstone. There is also some diamond and gold. Using this method, I was able to create a full suit of diamond armor and a diamond sword in about 3 hours of work. I also was able to nearly complete my castle which I am using a lot of stone for.
I haven't had much of a problem with lava or water, but the few problems I have had were easily resolved by some of the excess dirt and gravel that I've found.
Another positive note, since I have the ceiling of my downward mineshaft opened, when I am at the bottom, animals fall in ALL THE TME. This makes it rain leather and pork. during the day and the torches I have surrounding the shaft seem to scare off the skeletons, zombies, or creepers.
Today, I intend to build Minecart tracks so I can quickly travel between the surface, my workshop, and the mining area using some of the ideas presented in the Minecart tutorials.
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keep us informed. i'm interested to hear what you do.
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I wondered why your shaft was so huge
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This is how I roll, down to bedrock then up 16 blocks: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115
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I don't regurlarly mine for the sake of mining. I usually dig straight into a mountain to create a 'main hall' with a tight entrance (to keep the bad guys out at night). Then I dig hallways off of that and dig nice tunnels down in various directions. I guess I move slowly this way because I dig nice clean hallways with half-block steps and nicely placed torches (instead of straight normal mineshafts) but after while I have a huge network of nicely crafted hallways which go on forever out in all directions. Eventually I hit a natural cavern and just make a clean entrance into that area and explore. Other times I decide I've made a long enough tunnel and create another large hall with rooms and more tunnels coming out of it. I'd imagine this is how the dwarves would have done it. :)
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Holy crap! This is going to be INSANE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn2-d5a3r94-
Repost, but it's still awesome!
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Just joined MercFox1 and:
Minecraft has crashed!
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Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem.
If you wish to report this, please copy this entire text and email it to support@mojang.com.
Please include a description of what you did when the error occured.
--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT a1dce528 --------
Generated 28.09.10 18:34
Minecraft: Minecraft Alpha v1.1.2_01
OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java: 1.6.0_21, Sun Microsystems Inc.
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.
LWJGL: 2.4.2
OpenGL: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series version 4.0.10151 Compatibility Profile Context, ATI Technologies Inc.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at fz.b(SourceFile:58)
at fz.a(SourceFile:54)
at bn.a(SourceFile:152)
at e.a(SourceFile:942)
at iq.c(SourceFile:342)
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infinite water how does it work?
after watching this youtube video I was trying to build my own infinite water source, but it doesn't work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tfmt1z-Lr8
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I tried filling my bucket from the ocean but whenever i empty the bucket on to an empty block it just disappears after a second or two.
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It's a little weird in MP, I guess due to lag. The basics are (like the above vid):
Create a 2x2 hole. Fill it like such:
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Sparkly's tutorial on water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEONgCJS-Ck
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If you guys wait a couple days I'm going to make a video on filling large bodies of water quickly (better than using the checkerboard pattern). Will let you know when I get it done.
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It's easy when you know how :)
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e.g. me and dnagenome filled the moat around Isengard in, I don't know, an hour maybe? It was super fast.
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I'll try not to build my town right under it then when you expand it north.
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Wel, someone burned down my Zen Garden. Thanks, Asshole. I really appreciate you destroying several days worth of work.
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That's funny, you sure sound like one
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it's not snobbish to be respectful of other's projects and, you know, not set stuff on fire near them.
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Dude, you're kicking the guy when he's down. Regardless of whether he's been a douche to you or not (I have no idea of what precipitated this), THAT'S an asshole thing to do.
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Not sure, it needs to be though
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The jails only a temporary thing, I know that Merc and foo are trying out some other solutions. They just have lives, and jobs.
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re: hey0's, did you see this post yesterday? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24109300
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If it works like I think it does, that's pretty much as close to a bulletproof solution as we can get at this stage.
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This script seems to do most of the automation you are talking about and it does work with the Hey0 mod.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40202&start=30
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Awesome :D
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Why? It's a one-shot thing, once you're approved and promoted you never have to worry about it again and you can do what you like. If anything it's more inconvenient to the admins.
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Yeah, let's just nerf everything potentially griefable, fuck this open world emergent gameplay shit
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There's still numerous ways you can grief without those. e.g. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24105413 . Or someone could take a few buckets of water and destroy all the lava near your place. And so on.
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No shit Sherlock. Read my post below. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24117969
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I guarantee that if you nerf fire people are just going to grief in other ways. I can personally think of a bunch of ways of doing damage without fire, that I won't share here, because I don't want to give the fuckers ideas. One trivial example is the disappearance of several people's gear from chests.
The real answer is clearly better server logging tools, giving accountability to the griefers. I'm just trying to suggest a solution right now so that we can all build in peace in the meantime.-
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My opinion on what would be a good start, from a server admin's point of view http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24077633
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I think the fire on forest thing is too easy to grief, its one action that would takes 10000x work to fix. at least with the other griefing methods its somewhat 1 for 1 in terms of grief work vs fix work. water on lava would suck I guess, but the forest fire is the most annoying
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also you're never going to be able to nerf everything that is griefable. Lava, fire, TNT, they all have very useful practical applications.
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Depends what you're building. I'd pretty much require both fire and lava to do Evil Isengard any justice whatsoever.
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What if you're a griefer checking it out when no admin is online? I'm not saying it's optimal, I'm saying it's the best we can do at this point, where there are no server logging tools, password protection, or anything else. Yes, it's probably a little too strong, but this is about the 4th griefing incident in the space of a week.
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The fire nerf in Llama is spliced together with the Furnace fixes and the Lighter changes. Changed lighters also allow the removal of Adminium, something I am NOT a fan of as it's an irreversible change. It's not documented among the Llamacraft thread how nicely these obsolete changes play, but if Llama were to post the source like many are asking, we could just pull out a fire nerf.
I am not introducing the fire nerf from Llama until it is ONLY the fire nerf.
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The hey0 plugin actually supports both MYSQL or flat text files. There's a conf file setting for it.
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:( I feel your pain man
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oddly that's not the first sexualization of creepers i've seen this week.
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Has anyone had an issue where you lose stuff you created in survival SP? Last night Minecraft crashed on me and I lost a huge aerial walkway I'd been building for 15-20 minutes. When I reloaded the game I was where I was when I crashed, had the same stuff in my inventory, but like 3/4 of the walkway I'd built was no longer there.
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This is why I have a single-player game where I can try out wacky shit like rollercoasters and cannons :D
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how that Enterprise from last night was made:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/the-true-story-behind-the-amazing-minecraft-enterprise-d.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss-
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Minas Tirith, on the other hand...
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How long until I come crawling back to the surface, if I take this stuff down with me?
http://www.shackpics.com/files/load1_7z3fn5iq0d9pulfagpp8.jpg
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also if you want MEGATREES try planting saplings in a 2x2 or 3x3 grid :)
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I don't know if lava light allows trees to grow. It seems to be treated somewhat different in the game.
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hahaha.
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What are the requirements like for servers? I can't play off the same computer I'm running a server on, can I?
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Why not?
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I'm asking if that's possible for 2-3 players.
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Pretty sure 2-3 players can't play on the same physical computer. I mean, think of all the hands on the keyboard. :p
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I don't completely understand the question, but you should be fine. The 2 biggest parts of minecraft serving are disk io and bandwidth. Running a server + 1 client from the same pc shouldn't matter.
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I am so glad I am mostly avoiding the shack multi servers.
I look forward to there being more 'game' to the multi, and I admire some of the crazy stuff shackers have built (I'd probably enjoy the cooperative builds, but haven't come across any) but the drama and griefing...and having a hard time finding a little niche area to build in just makes me kinda glad.
Purely personal opinion - plenty of people are obviously having fun with it.-
This is why we need passworded servers.
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My area was empty when I started building... look at it now, lol
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Co-operative builds are THE point of multi at present, and they're by far the best bit of the game so far. When we had 5 or so people a night working on Isengard it was inspiring.
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Are there any Shack servers that are low-population? I'd like to get in on one but don't want to be constantly infringing on someone's "turf".
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Seriously, just come onto Merc's server, check out the render before you develop anywhere, and you'll be fine. If they're real worried about their turf they'll build a damn wall around it
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Yeah.. and hope that somebody doesn't plan an international highway straight through your shit when you aren't looking. :) But seriously.. it's fun on Merc's server. Even if you don't build.. just walk around and check stuff out.. it's pretty impressive what people have come up with.
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lol seriously?
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lol OK it's sad that I find this program so awesome. Server admins, this even has a list of the block IDs if you need to spawn blocks en masse.
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Down exploring my cave, and I find a little waterfall.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/waterfall1_dk8fpt7t66pc6ichhj1p.jpg
Looking at it, something seems weird.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/waterfall2_hw2q5kn5r8ncux9o20ds.jpg
Cool, a secret passage!-
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They're everywhere!
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Yeah really. If you wanna "cheat" to find them you can run a cave oizo render.
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Everytime I think "god this mining is getting boring" I end up stumbling on a cave. I figured randomly generated caves would get boring awfully quick. No. Even on peaceful mode I shit my pants within a few minutes. I get lost. Second guess how to get out. Wonder if I'm ever going to get out. Then I find the torches I put on the floor to signal my way out and feel relief.
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It's a trap!
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always check behind waterfalls in games.
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That made me laugh on Giantbomb's Halo Reach quicklook. Jeff goes behind a waterfall, just a rock wall. "You always check behind waterfalls!"
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You know how I was saying I bet that some geek, somewhere, is making a computer in Minecraft? Welllll they've gotten up to finishing the ALU (Arithmatic Logic Unit): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug
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attention grabbing colours
seriously guys, this is cool.-
Welcome to an hour ago Arctic! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24118075#itemanchor_24118075
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pffffft like I read the Shack now that we have Minecraft threads.
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hahaha no shit.
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why why why why why why
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I submit nemoo's testicle for a default name
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Say everybody have you seen my balls
They are big and salty and brown
If you ever need a quick pick me up
Just stick my balls in your mouth
Suck on my chocolate salty balls
Stick em in your mouth and suck em
Suck on my chocolate salty balls
They are packed full of vitamins and good for you
So suck on my balls
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That was a long fucking walk.
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hahah, I found a zombie spawner so I built a zoo around it:. I think I'm up to 12 zombies now :D
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http://sparklyfresh.com/minecraft/zombies2.png hahah they just keep coming :D
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I have planted my one sapling: http://www.shackpics.com/files/minehome_jzssap69kz88530ownhp.jpg
Starting to look OK, but I need to clean up the waterfall area so it's easier to see.-
Wasn't expecting this!
http://www.shackpics.com/files/surfaced_s10av7dbkynmnzckfja7.jpg
Swam up the huge waterfall (it must be ~10 stories total), followed the cave around, did a little digging, and popped out here! In sight of my beacon, and right near the big N I made. -
I would suggest moving those torches further from the sapling. I had trouble growing mine till I had them at least 1 block away from it.
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** Attention Getting Text **
Started a new world on my server and we need builders, its pretty much a blank slate at this point! Jump on and start exploring!
I'll get a render up later if I can... Oizomapper seems to have trouble with it giving me a blank output. :(-
Current Renders
Birds-Eye (with Labels): http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-current.png
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it'd be kind of neat to try doing a planned settlement with a street grid, all of the main thoroughfares built to a high standard (block layout + materials) with lanes for foot traffic, boat traffic, and the eventual rail traffic. work out the grid but then combine some plots to do interesting shapes so that all of the city blocks aren't square.
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yah that could be a cool project
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