Weekend Discussion
I'd love to sit here and chat, but I have a lot of games on Steam to install.
- Alice O'Connor: I am playing nothing, nothing at all, as I shall be engaged in a 31-hour marathon viewing of all of Twin Peaks. If I even hear anyone mention video games, I am going to break down and weep..
- Brian Leahy: StarCraft 2, WoW: Cataclysm and Diablo III. Recognize.
- Garnett Lee: I'll be hunkering down this weekend for a Fable 3 review run and for a break here and there playing some Costume Quest.
- Jeff Mattas: Super Meat Boy, punctuated by some bouts of Costume Quest when my fingers start to bleed. Kirby's Epic Yarn and Castlevania:LoS will round things out, nicely.
- Xav de Matos: Installing everything Steam has to offer to benchmark and tweak my new rig.
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Weekend Minecraft Thread!
Preparations Edition!!!
8 more days until the Halloween Update hits! Is anyone here doing something special to prepare for it?
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : shackeast.sytes.net
Shadowdane : shadowdane.shacknet.nu
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253
m0rfus (PvP/Mobs on) : morfus.dyndns.org
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
I’ve been building like mad while also mentally preparing myself for a “health/minecarts still broken†scenario. I’m all set no matter what happens!
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Server Renders!
MercFox1
Bird's Eye View: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/render.png
Angled: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
Shadowdane
(updated every 2 hours)
Bird's Eye View: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-current.png
Oblique: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-oblique-current.png
Angle: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-angle-current.png -
Gameplay Guides and Help
- 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
- Water Physics Tutorial by Arctic Fox!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24127669#itemanchor_24127669
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.shackpics.com/files/radii_even_to_100_pgzh2n77iabkgcmee93q.png hosted by Arctic Fox!
- Beginner’s Guide to Redstone, links by The Grolar Bear!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24044649#itemanchor_24044649
- 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!
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1,025 blocks, if I'm reading this right?
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
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Someone posted this earlier, got a good laugh for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWyBVO_LkT0
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This deserves a repost from last night's thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV0XB-w_yM
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this is built into Oizo AFAIK. Here's an older one: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/grid.png
I'm thinking that I might take a poll of where everyone has settled, then overlay it on one of these renders. This would be useful both in the situation where you want to find someone's work, and as a rough way for newbies to determine 'population density' so they can figure out where to build. -
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I've tried at least 10, and my favourite so far is the Brown & Bloom HD Texture Pack: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=21302
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huh, odd. You know about this, yeah? http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=46173
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Shoosh, I'm having fun.
Pics!
Random visitor with a funny comment, and behind you can kinda see some of the progress: http://www.shackpics.com/files/randomvisitor_wcedvzhm55t1jdu9zeq0.jpg
Later, getting down to bedrock. That upper patch is the level it started at: http://www.shackpics.com/files/obsidian1_p2dx0d8y9okobr33abyl.jpg
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http://forum.hey0.net/viewtopic.php?id=170
If there is ever a real need--griefing has gone markedly gone down since installing hey0--for it. -
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I made a cool floating tower of doom:
http://dumb.ca/minecraft/tower.html
It's just northeast of Duke City if you want to check it out and/or steal my stuff.-
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My own.
It's incomplete but you can nab the latest here if you want to check it out:
http://dumb.ca/minecraft/smoothgrid/terrain.png
You need to patch Minecraft because it's an HD texture:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=46173
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shit shit shit shit shit SHIT.
http://twitter.com/notch/status/28442542287
Notch: @jakeyyyboyy if you've got a gate, they can (rarely) spawn there.
In response to: @notch will the ghasts only be in hell, or will they be in the normal dimension as well?
So, ghasts spawning--rarely--in normal dimension near gates? Does not sound like fun!
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No way, I love Merc's server the way it is.
For me, if there's no way to keep damage off, tools with refreshable durability, etc, then I want to see the entire server wiped and reset.
I don't see any appeal in the middle ground of leaving everything as it is once biomes and mobs and all that shit show up.
Ideally, we'd get a total reset and the ability to download the old world for private use.
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Halloween Update FACTS: What we know about the update so far: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1016&t=56584
One of these new mobs will be called "Ghast", and it will be VERY unfair. Ghasts are floating jellyfish-like creatures, about 4x4x4 blocks large, inhabiting the Hell dimension. They can break blocks and throw fireballs at you which set the landscape on fire.
Ghasts need a space of 5x5x5 to spawn. They will rarely spawn near portals in the normal world.
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this post here, it started these rumors -- http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24225240#itemanchor_24225240
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In this PC Gamer screenshot though, the top left Ghast is passing right through a cluster of blocks, so it looks like Arctic was right!
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/10/Minecraft-Halloween-Update-1.jpg -
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Whoa, this is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5haSWXZ0aI
~6 hours on pepe server with 1 minute intervals. Thanks to all that helped in the creation! Lots of little animations and things to watch for! Yeah, there was some griefing (nazis?), but not too bad.
Somehow they made it look like a car was driving, and a rollercoaster, and a swastika. -
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What type of render is this? i want... OZIO??? http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9045/1287866522004.png
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Yay, the render for bird's eye view on MercFox1's server is working again:
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You teleported out to somewhere around chunk 2,000,000: 2,000,000 .I allocate an array that lists all the chunk files to load for each chunk that exists (I use an array instead of a map or something to improve lookup times - no check for key existence) With a 2 million x 2 million map, that's 3.7 tb of ram required.
The tool to remove chunks at a certain radius should've worked, except it probably overflowed trying to calculate the distance for those chunks so it didn't delete them. I added a radius check tool to oizomapper and foo used that to delete the chunks.
I'm going to change up the code to only hold cells to be rendered so this won't happen in the future. -
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As of right now, the angled render hasn't kicked in with a new refresh or the +lbl feature.
http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
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Nice 3D render of Ghast: http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=5&q=minecraft#/d31eu5h
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I'll post this here just for the hell of it. I released an "Astronomical Anomalies" pack with new moons and suns. It's meant to make the skies different from you average minecraft game. Some of you will hate some of the suns as they use lens flare for effect, while others don't. So be it.
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So I'm off exploring the depths of this massive cave complex on mercfox1. I dropped a couple of redstone torches as waypoints, then went afk to take a shit. When I come back, this is what I see:
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http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
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Sadness has struck my base. http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2092/minecraftsadness.png I will morn the passing of my flower garden and tree.
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vx2o posted this pic a few days ago. http://www.abload.de/img/minecraft_artmd4z.jpg
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New blog entry is up!
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1390641415/weekend-activities -
I've got a big problem. Yesterday I had minecraft running (surveying my crops) while I was making something to eat. Suddenly my laptop lost power. When I started it back up, to my horror, I found that my save slot was empty.
However, when I look in my saves folder, the folder that held my save is still there and still over 9 MB. So my guess is that my information is still there, but I can't minecraft to actually recognize it.
Anyone have possible ideas on how to solve this? I put so much time into this save... :c -
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The textures? It's painterly pack, however, I used their customiser to select alternative textures.
http://painterlypack.net/customizer.php
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have you guys seen this water elevator system? its awesome and faster than ladders
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I love the stargate idea and may have to borrow the idea for my space port. But, like I said in game, I'm going to wait until the update before I build a portal so we know a little better how they work and how the ghasts work.
Also, aren't portals supposed to have 2x3 empty blocks in the middle? http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1016&t=56584
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Hey - being spanish, I thought on creating my own community website possibly with a dedicated game server. What do you guys use to host the game? I am certain about the web requirements, and its almost ready to launch, but on the server side for the game I have no idea. Any cheap solutions out there?
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