Morning Discussion
What I'm trying to say is that I had a traumatic experience this morning and you're jolly lucky that I lived to tell the tale and provide you with a new Morning Discussion.
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Wednesday Morning Minecraft Thread!
House DJs Edition!!!
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1409584546/some-work-on-biomes
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
http://twitter.com/notch/status/28881206351 YES.-
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!
F5 - third person mode! -
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this would be great fun: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=64642 I doubt it does anything in multiplayer though :( We need more stuff to do with redstone
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Ghasts are going to be a pain :x
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I would go with 3 deep.. I tried 1 and 2 at the bottom of a chute from my castle to my mine (in SP) and both 1 and 2 resulted in all my inventory being neatly collected into a watery grave and me back at the spawn point. 3 works like a charm though. Luckily I have one more block to dig down before I hit bedrock.
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http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1409584546/some-work-on-biomes
Note that the biomes are much smaller in that screenie than they will be in the final -
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Attention Grabbing Text
There's a chance that when the Boo update hits, the server won't start (due to the Llamacraft mods conflicting).
Over the next few days everyone needs to log in, and check their lava. Make sure it's safe, and not going to burn everything down if I have to disable the lava flowing/fire starting nerfs.
e.g. This is good: http://www.shackpics.com/files/LavaLightPNG_ps03gfgns8qb76szt8mi.png
This is bad: http://www.shackpics.com/files/lavanono_n9wdl8lfj2oragt81bqv.jpg
If we have to disable the nerfs and this results in your home/city/castle burning to the ground, it's your own fault. Consider this your warning.
Tell your friends.
We will make this exact same thread in every chatty until the Boo update hits.-
To the owners of the water slide near spawn, leading to the North canal: http://www.shackpics.com/files/failhorn_yzr4pojfwhxdbghj2lbr.jpg
This is going to be a big bucket of fail if we unnerf lava. The lava will flow into the water and destroy your slide. It'll probably be easier for you to fix now, rather than later. -
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I think that ambient noises would nicely compliment biomes. For instance, you can hear birds chirping in forests, in the deserts you can hear the wind blowing, when you locate reeds you can hear sounds of frogs chirping and croaking. Useless features but would add a little enjoyment, hopefully more so than an annoyance.
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If he added the 6 simple machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine ) + gears it would be incredible
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This is now possible
http://216.139.192.52/~djr/mc/gmap/index.html?lng=0.45703125&lat=0.412078857421875&zoom=8
Signs will show the lat and lng when you mouse over. No you can't cut and paste yet so it's a pain in the ass, and no these coordinates have nothing to do with in game coordinates yet. They're strictly google map coordinates. 0,0 is top left, 1,1 is bottom right of the black area.
You guys were also right that it wasn't showing as much as it should have ; the actual reason was tied to why FF was broken. I had adjusted the tile sizes to 512x512 but the index.html was set to 256x256. Every browser except FF was resizing the tiles to 256x256. That's fixed.
Water is fixed too, but you'll have to wait til foo updates the server.
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The actual check is to see if there's a block up one block height and southeast one block - a block there would cover that location in the render so I skip rendering it. If I skip rendering the block, I don't bother parsing the sign.
You should still be able to bury your sign, just leave a single block of air one block up and southeast of the sign.
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It's up at the usual location. http://www.digitize-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip
I'm still changing things pretty quickly which is why I haven't made any release announcements recently.
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Mine... I call it Smooth Grid
http://dumb.ca/minecraft/smoothgrid/terrain.png
It's incomplete atm, I figure I'll wait until 31st update since there will probably be a ton more tiles to come.-
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Some of these are dated, since I've changed the cobblestone and tweaked some colors, but here ya go:
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Damnit! I want one of these on my desk at work! Anyone have a better link?
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2010/10/afa19e3e5152ed64de1e01251876bfaf/340x.jpg
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I just found this. maybe you can make it work
http://degenerate.shackspace.com/Shack/games/minecraft/Creeper.png-
here's a slightly different one
http://degenerate.shackspace.com/Shack/games/minecraft/minecraftcreeper.png
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I am listening to this. and it's perfect minecraft music! rejoice! WOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1mLIeXwsQ&ob=av2e
(Deadmau5 - I remember [feat Kaskade])
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This mod looks pretty awesome. Sorry if it's been posted somewhere.
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Someone already spawned a world with Biomes?? Found via SA:
http://img.waffleimages.com/aa86d7ba60ca306747c1588b3ac73346a75a58d2/derp.jpg
http://img.waffleimages.com/123ce0a2873c53a2e3cfe7a58f90ea041db82ee4/herp.jpg-
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That's the names of all 10 biomes, see the first pic here: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1409584546/some-work-on-biomes
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Does anybody use my canal very much?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60983391@N00/5120675757/ -
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I guess it would be something like this: http://www.shackpics.com/files/logo_2vw6gynq3etfnjgmk946.png
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The main thing going for Shadowdanes server is the availability of near-spawn real estate, but yeah, can't expect people to pull up stakes from one server and move to another, simply due to time invested. If someone is starting up Minecraft new, then it'd be nice if they checked out SD's server though :)
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Video of Biomes from Notch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953XeQ3qwMM
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I hope the snow becomes seasonal to some degree. I don't think I would want permasnow. Also, has there been word on if this will overwrite the areas already discovered to some degree? for that matter what about the new blocks? Will those overwrite any blocks already in the world? or will we have to explore new areas to find them?
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right back atcha http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/28926773500
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so, is notch ever gonna find a place for the floating islands biome?
I don't think it'd be possible to make it its own terrain type, since height restrictions are gonna limit it a whole lot. Maybe it could be its own area that you have to teleport to like Hell (Heaven?)
ooh! Instead of obsidian you could make gates to heaven by constructing them out of gold or diamond blocks, and then... I dunno what you'd do to activate them, but fire doesn't seem appropriate. -
Wow that's gonna be pretty awesome. I bet notch is gonna have a ton of fun creating stuff for the different environments. I know I would anyways.. I would start by adding a unique piece of vegetation for each environment, some unique monsters, like scorpions for deserts that would maybe drop poison stingers, or monkeys for sub tropical rainforests or whatever environment they would fit best in.. Also maybe some unique passive creatures (like the chickens, cows, pigs). Hope he really gets into it and gives us some good reasons to really go out and explore and build bases in the different environments
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New video of biomes:
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1417193203/biomes-theyre-not-final-yet-but-this-is-about
This caught my eye during the video, natural lava above ground (volcano?):
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