Weekend Discussion
One of my favorite, action-based shows--as a fan of all things military--was The Unit. Sadly, the show was canceled after its fourth season and it didn't get a proper send off. To compensate, I'm reading Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney. The series was based on the book. Although it won't tell me what happens to Snake Doc and his team, it will help fill that void left by the real urgency of a series that will never see an ending.
- Alice O'Connor: 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby).
- Brian Leahy: [Battling the flu. The flu is winning.]
- Garnett Lee: After being talked back into World of Warcraft, I'll be playing my Worgen warrior some more. I also will be continuing my effort to see Red Dead Redemption through to the end before the New Year arrives and maybe a little Bad Company 2 or Black Ops online here or there.
- Xav de Matos: After a week that involved either being in bed due to illness or sitting in front of my computer due to employment-ness (not a real word), I'm spending my free time either outside with loved ones or with a few books that have been collecting dust on my desk.
- Jeff Mattas: I'll be playing some Epic Mickey and Donkey Kong Country, while scanning the sky for flying pigs because I can't believe there are actually TWO new Wii games I'm interested in checking out.
- Ozzie Mejia: [Finals.]
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If anyone is bored (yeah, right?!?), come check this out: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1014&t=94090
No Rules Survival!
No Rules, No Mods, No Kits, No Ops, No Cheating, just ... SURVIVAL! Animals, Monsters, PVP, Fire , Lava, Water. Everything is enabled. The only thing protected on this server is the spawn chunk, and the only command you have is /home, which takes you back there. It's up to you to decide where to live or die. Griefing is just part of the gameplay, so if you live near spawn you'd better be fortified, booby trapped, or hidden! If you live further out, be prepared for a long trip past roving murderers and night-time hordes of the undead. It's a rough world out there. Just what will you do to survive?
We could go kill people, set traps, raid their houses, etc. I've got a base started, not exactly sure where, somewhere NW of spawn.-
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ramasule making friends already!
http://www.shackpics.com/files/friends1_ouc3bjdoq7xawupq8mby.jpg
http://www.shackpics.com/files/friends2_exbhf7n8rwvyxjb91vw7.jpg
That blindninja guy is kinda stupid, he build a dirt "house" close to spawn and whines when someone breaks into it ("griefs it").
I feel like destroying it, heh. -
/getpos is disabled, but I guess there is a map mod that has coordinates on it. Kinda lame that a client mod gets around the server setting, but I saw other people using coordinates, so guess we need to.
I gotta go for awhile, later I'll get the coordinates of my cave and we can meet up. I've got a stack of iron, so we can make armor and tools. Started doing some branch mining, not much luck on diamonds yet, just found enough for a pick. -
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Ooooh yeah! http://www.shackpics.com/files/posse1_uhpul09s6p0m127fx189.jpg
We were building a mob spawner, but decided to go kill people instead! -
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UPDATE -- So yeah, the shack has pretty much invaded this server. We have created a group called the Creeper Mafia and have pillaged and destroyed over 9 houses this night. Most of the residents now pay us dayly dues of 5 pork in order for their safety.
In short, this is hella fun and you should join us. -
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MrMMods v1.5 - Introducing: BetterLight http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=55700
Rewrite of the Ambient Occlusion mod. Now with smooth lighting.-
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there's plenty of minimap mods, this is my favourite: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=77497
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i don't get how it's already going into beta, but there still isn't a game there yet. i think notch has some great ideas but too little focus. the boo update was a waste of effort and most of that shit still doesn't even work but he's forging ahead with other grand ideas.
99% of the fun is really just seeing a newly generated world after that it gets stale so fast.-
yah I can't believe he is putting it into Beta already either... yah I have the most fun right at the beginning when you start a new world and explore and try to survive the first few days.
After that I just don't have a huge desire to build big stuff anymore. I thought about trying to start a town or city but with so few people on it would be a chore to try to build it myself.
Also its just isn't very challenging after you get Armor and good weapons... I think it needs another ~2-3 months before I'd put it into Beta. -
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Shadowdane's Server - Great terrain, come explore!
http://i.imgur.com/17N0I.jpg
Here's some examples of how neat the terrain on this server is due to the Biome mod.
- As an album: http://imgur.com/a/YKYyp/shadowdanes_minecraft_server__terrain
There are big and different trees:
- Pine trees: http://i.imgur.com/DHnKI.jpg
- Big redwoods: http://i.imgur.com/0EjQM.jpg
- Forests so dense that one fire burns them all down: http://i.imgur.com/FSUw3.jpg
There is exotic and fascinating terrain:
- Gentle rising buttes into the clouds: http://i.imgur.com/WUy1K.jpg
- Large overhangs: http://i.imgur.com/gccgZ.jpg
- More large overhangs: http://i.imgur.com/DtQlh.jpg
- Bridges and hidden waterfalls: http://i.imgur.com/uzyJN.jpg
- Large mountains: http://i.imgur.com/HfyVL.jpg
- Creepy formations: http://i.imgur.com/osXh6.jpg
- Deep holes: http://i.imgur.com/fYYZp.jpg
There are big caves and underground lakes:
- Big above ground caves: http://i.imgur.com/5X1QW.jpg
- Diverse undergrounds: http://i.imgur.com/PhiVl.jpg
- Huge above ground caves: http://i.imgur.com/bMHul.jpg
- Dense and exciting cave networks (image taken before surface chunks loaded): http://i.imgur.com/lZxUk.jpg
There is lush grassland to build upon:
- Sweeping brushlands: http://i.imgur.com/WKswp.jpg
- Verdant forests: http://i.imgur.com/IgRkA.jpg
- Pumpkins (sadly, I've harvested most existing pumpkins for my metapumpkin): http://i.imgur.com/WSbFv.jpg
But my very favorite is something I call The Dragon and The Pig:
http://i.imgur.com/Ty4jQ.jpg
Join up, explore, find your favorite plot of land, and start building!
shadowdane.shacknet.nu
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Works for me: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/ShackDC-Gmap/
Right corner.
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Completed my base on Shadowdane's server (shadowdane.shacknet.nu)
View on the gmap render here:
- http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/ShackDC-Gmap/index.html?x=-256&y=78&z=560&zoom=7
Albums here:
- 1 of 3: http://imgur.com/a/XMFA6/all
- 2 of 3: http://imgur.com/a/cz1Tz/all
- 3 of 3: http://imgur.com/a/QDh24/all
First, there was lots of flattening of mountains and forests:
- Getting there: http://i.imgur.com/hP4o6.jpg
- The cleared center: http://i.imgur.com/NNTFE.jpg
Then, a series of four lines of defense against creepers, and any tourists dragging creepers behind them accidentally:
- Double inner walls: http://i.imgur.com/H5LaK.jpg
- Moats to push away foes: http://i.imgur.com/KaU7H.jpg http://i.imgur.com/s1zuX.jpg
- A fully lit perimeter: http://i.imgur.com/Bc3tO.jpg
- A perimeter fence: http://i.imgur.com/xKIyj.jpg
Eight structures occupy the protected interior.
- Overview shot: http://i.imgur.com/T5NMT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/elULv.jpg
The Spiral Minaret:
- Day view: http://i.imgur.com/6T85R.jpg
- Climb to the top and you can claim one of 10 kinds of prize from the chest, including some great ones for new server citizens: http://i.imgur.com/AbVZz.jpg
- View from further out: http://i.imgur.com/8BbMU.jpg
My plantation estate:
- Entrance: http://i.imgur.com/dyggx.jpg
- Exterior view: http://i.imgur.com/lSG6D.jpg
- Living room: http://i.imgur.com/Z63bj.jpg
- Bedroom: http://i.imgur.com/Doay4.jpg
Visitor cabin:
- Entrance: http://i.imgur.com/ccsQ8.jpg
- Exterior: http://i.imgur.com/voSXf.jpg
- Interior: http://i.imgur.com/xFx5q.jpg
The Metapumpkin:
- Exterior: http://i.imgur.com/xFx5q.jpg
- Interior: http://i.imgur.com/JyEmg.jpg
The Greenhouse:
- http://i.imgur.com/3BWIe.jpg
- http://i.imgur.com/bCQk1.jpg
The Sphere:
- http://i.imgur.com/RtNxo.jpg
The Keep:
- Exterior (lower): http://i.imgur.com/lhydA.jpg
- Exterior (complete): http://i.imgur.com/Dv2Ar.jpg
- Mine access: http://i.imgur.com/qLqEG.jpg
- 1st floor, the Forges: http://i.imgur.com/m5WX0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6jNxs.jpg
- 2nd floor, the Library: http://i.imgur.com/WCa5K.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FCB8c.jpg
- 3rd floor, the Conference Room: http://i.imgur.com/fcmzW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/I1GpR.jpg
- 4th floor, the Garden: http://i.imgur.com/x9Lj0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cu63d.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QZnVI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YXvK3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Vk8rf.jpg
- 5th floor, the Throne Room: http://i.imgur.com/ppWSp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pCXtT.jpg
Some other shots:
- NW tower: http://i.imgur.com/3sL1a.jpg
- Northside: http://i.imgur.com/Xhnqr.jpg
- North entrance: http://i.imgur.com/aQivk.jpg
- The north mountain/wall: http://i.imgur.com/DmjJy.jpg
How to visit:
- Take the Stargate network to Volatris: http://i.imgur.com/OgZ2w.jpg
or
- Take the NW Road from spawn: http://i.imgur.com/FOHxM.jpg
Newcomers to the server are welcome! The protected land within my walls are free of the threat of monsters. Climb the Minaret and claim a prize. Descend into the mines for easy access to the depths and get yourself some good ores to get started!
- Please: no fires, creepers, or modifying any buildings.
- Please don't chop down my perimeter forest.
Thanks!
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My kid and I were just wandering around someone's castle on Shadowdane and he described my places as "living like a filthy peasant"
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If you haven't heard of the 3 way automatic switch track, check this out:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24744371
Tonight I improved the Station in my town, specifically the arrival part. The track now ends in a section of water 1 block wise and 7 blocks long. This allows you time to get out and prevent your getting out from pushing the cart around, as could happen with my previous design. The water will push the cart forward slowly, eventually onto a track where two boosters will push it up to the cart stack of carts waiting to be used to leave.
Also, tonight I made a simple Y where the track coming north from PanoraMajor meats the East-West track going to Penis Island 2. If you are traveling East toward Penis Island 2, you will continue going East, and be boosted. If coming West, from Penis Island, you will be directed South to PanoraMajor, being boosted in the process. If coming North from PanoraMajor, you well be boosted and directed West, toward Brickton Ruins, Lamperia, WatchWorld, and the Three Way Automatic switch. There are also now stairs to get up to the track at this point.
The result looks like this: http://se.shkn.ws/~djr/mc/gmap/index.html?x=150&y=91&z=-475&zoom=9 -
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Just found this really nifty Minecraft music video, "In Search of Diamonds":
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Found this skin, don't think it's quite the one I like though: http://minecraftskins.com/view/18151
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today i learned that monsters are not afraid of the water
http://img.electroly.com/ZZ2B9D6826.jpg
you can't see it but i'm out of arrows. oh god run!!!-
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Yup. I switch it to Peaceful at night when I'm mining or building, until I have the resources to actually fight off creepers. Then I occasionally switch it from Normal to Peaceful and then back to clear the creepers off my doorstep and the spiders off my roof.
If you play on Peaceful, you'd better be straight-up building or harvesting. Playing the whole game on Peaceful is like beating Super Mario Bros. while you're GameSharked for invincibility.
tl;dr - Peaceful keeps 'em from spawning, but also deletes any hostiles.
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That would make sense, but whenever I think about shit in Minecraft I come back to "it's in alpha..."
Who knows what the final game will look like, but when it's done, I sure as hell would hope he leaves the difficulty options present.
Actually, what'd be really awesome is if he gave you a fuckton of options when making a new world (or even playing normally, since it generates new stuff as you explore), like the old game "Dungeon Hack", which featured just a whole shitload of cool options to randomly generate the kind of dungeons you wanted.
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The sales figures are again in the 10K/24h range: http://www.shackpics.com/files/minecraft_10k_sales_ov5n21dv7ogiqecfmq7f.png
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Since that other server I posted is full, and maybe not enough of a challenge, look at these crazy rules!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=1538064#p1538064
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1014&t=23642
In summary:
You don't have access to any teleports.
-New map: Desert Heat!
The map is entirely desert. Dirt is very rare, trees even moreso. But they do exist! Can you survive in this harsh wasteland?
New feature: Starvation!
Animals disabled to make finding food hard, monsters disabled because I dislike monsters after all. You can still get string from dungeons to make bows!
Wow. I don't know, might be too damn hard! We'd really need to team up.-
Meh, this one kinda sucks.
Not so much for all the rules, but because they won't add Death Notify, so I can't tell when PVP is happening. Makes it boring, and I like to know who is a 'PKer' and who is a 'victim' heh.
I found a cave and got some diamonds and gold, but I don't think I'll continue.
Other server is hard to get into, though.
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My Spidey sense is tingling...
You may say 'griefing', but it's not like they weren't fighting back. The only reason their bases get blown up or burned is because they build them close to spawn, or made out of wood. If they were smarter then they wouldn't get 'griefed'.
It is a fun PVP server, because it's active, and everyone is fair game. If we had a Shack server full of PVPers then I'd play, but I don't think we can get that many right now. Maybe once the game is more complete then more people will be interested in PVP?-
It wasn't griefing, it was actual war. We went to towns, demanded payment (5 food) or we killed them. Then we watched spawn for a while, and killed a few jerks that were REALLY griefing. We looted, and set traps. Hell, we had to avoid everyone else's traps, which was the fun part! Perhaps when the game is more complete, people will come back to mercfox. I know I've spent a LOT of time on both servers, so you know how much I love it, but I haven't killed anyone on there in weeks. I just want to kill people sometimes! or attack and defend! ya know? can't blame a guy! It's easier to kill a non-shacker anyways I guess, but when the rules are finanlized I'll come back to merc again! :)
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Of course it won't, because everyone already has a bunch of buildings and is attached to them.
If we had a real "no rules" server (not m0rfus', as it has towny), no one would have time to get attached to things, and people wouldn't be building these sprawling, insane constructions, because they'd know what was coming. -
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This has nothing to do with the running of the server and everything to do with a buggy as fuck game. I was and still am more than happy just building shit and seeing other people's creations. Unfortunately, multiple crashes and reloads, griefing and failed new features were enough to put me off it for a while, as well as many others, apparently.
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Creeper Gang: Ramasule, Goblin, Nixx, Hemotoxin, et al. I paid 6 diamonds for the location of Grizdale. I paid the informant double, because his gang are allies with Griz and the rest. He said we could do anything we liked, as long as we don't mention his name. I gave him my word we would not destroy anything that wasn't necessary. He said they are "fucking loaded" at their city, and it's ready for loot! Let me know if you guys can get on tonight, otherwise, in a few hours, I'm gonna assassinate Griz in his own town and bring some goods back home!
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http://forum.hey0.net/showthread.php?tid=799
You can specify (and create) your own network on the third line of the sign when making a new gate. You can leave this blank for the default network.
Yea, helps to read the documentation.
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After trying a few other servers, I've decided/learned some things.
We'll never make everyone happy with one server.
PVP is the most fun with few rules/mods. Having things like Towny, iConomy, quests, and so on are kinda neat, but they get in the way of the action.
PVP server should be only PVP, nobody safe from attack.
Everyone really needs to be on Teamspeak for PVP. Typing is too slow heh.-
It really got my adrenaline flowing sometimes! When it's pure PVP you really risk it all sometimes! Reminds me a LOT of Defcon (one of my favorite games.) We used to play diplomatic mode, and I'd talk everyone into killing each other and win the game never firing a nuke! We shackers can do anything as long as we keep moving and stick together. So much fun! Looks like our roving gang of marauders is about up to 10 people...
I'm gonna try and post a rough map of the area... I don't have much to go on, but at least we'll know where they've been keeping their loot.
We have a new group of enemies though. I was ambushed earlier today :/
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I worked on the track on foo1 tonight. The track now extends to the viewing area of penis island and there is a station at the base of the glass stairs of the viewing area.
Vividvoid added some boosters at the Lamperia station, but I think they need to be redesigned a bit so that you slope down to the booster like the ones at brickton station, instead of having a hill before the booster.
The path coming back from Penis Island currently takes you to PanoraMajor, which is a bit of an issue as there isn't a station there yet. The track just ends. I'd build a station but I don't have build rights, and I'm basically out of track (I'll have to dig up some more iron).
The Station at penis island is a rather simple one (I like trying out different designs), but it will always stop you, re-starting again just requires pressing a button (but that make take more than one try due to timing), and starting from there initially just requires and empty cart (there isn't a cart stack or anything like that). If people want, I can make it a more complex setup, or add something like waiting carts that you can dispense by pressing a button. Hmm.... I think I just thought of a way to make the button to launch you more reliable (by adding a delay into the circuit so the circuit is on longer when the button is pressed).