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Patch Day Edition!!!
It’s patch day! I know a lot of you are disappointed that health and damage haven’t been implemented yet, but I’m happy for the small things are being fixed or added in.
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : shackeast.sytes.net / se.shkn.ws / shackeast.shkn.ws
Shadowdane : shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253 / cf.shkn.ws / chickenfur.shkn.ws
m0rfus (PvP/Mobs on) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
I’d rather have everything else in the game working properly before putting danger back in the mix.
Probably because I am a cowardly player who is terrified of the enemies!
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I remember going on a five-minute boat ride in a straight line over the horizon; my spawn-area house is on a little island near a huge mainland, but I wanted to see what was out over the ocean. It turns out it was mostly little islands, but I caught sight of a small cave in one of them, which was where I stopped. I knew that I was far as hell from my house, but I set up a little shelter and started exploring. Bear in mind this was pre-compasses, so I had had to place torchlit "buoys" made of dirt and stone in the ocean so that I could find my way home.
I spent the next week, realtime, exploring this "little" cave network. It was so ungodly massive that I'd spend several hours each night exploring new branches and mining them out, and I just kept finding more. There were so many intricately interlaced, unlit tunnels and caverns there that the flow of monsters was almost unlimited; I had to retreat to the surface at least once a night to slaughter and cook up some pigs, and I went through six (!) suits of iron armour due to replacing low-durability pieces for fear of getting killed (this proved to be a good call since I dropped to one heart many times).
I broke through to the surface three times during this thrilling adventure. Once was on another island; the other two placed me beneath the ocean, flooding small sections of the cave. I decided to leave these areas open so that I could swim up to the surface if I was pursued by too many monsters, and hole up on a nearby island. In all three cases, I took a look around and recognized nothing - I was in completely uncharted territory.
The thing that really staggered me about this cave network was that easily half of it was along the lava level. Using buckets of water, I turned the lava to obsidian as I explored around. The area was such a vast abyss of inky blackness that I'd be mobbed by literally dozens of slimes of various sizes just about every time I turned around, and tons of monsters of other kinds attacked me as well.
It all came to a head when a Creeper snuck up on me while I was preparing to solidify some lava in a particularly deep part of the cave. Hearing the telltale SSSSSS, I dodged to one side and narrowly avoided being hurled into the lava, only to hear the blood-freezing TWANG of a skeleton's arrows. At this point I had three hearts left and no food, and I knew that goddamn skeleton would knock me into the lava if I fought him. I decided to forge through a dark, upwardly-angled tunnel and try to rush to the surface.
What followed was two hours of the tensest exploration I've experienced. I walled off several tunnels for fear of the monsters in them, used up all of my torches and coal, ran out of arrows, and was down to one heart. Playing well past a reasonable bedtime - by this point it was about midnight - I reached the top of a long, upwardly-angled tunnel, and realized that I could hear water. Thinking I was under the ocean, I excitedly began digging upward, but my heart sank when I reached cobblestone. I was clearly under a dungeon.
Well, there was nothing for it. I steeled myself for a glorious final battle, checked to make sure no monsters were behind me in case I needed to fall back, and readied my pick. I broke through the cobblestone and immediately drew my sword, leaping through the hole to face my doom like a man.
I had tunneled through the bottom floor of my lighthouse, not fifteen blocks away from the cozy shelter next to my spawn.
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