Morning Discussion
For $30 (or $40 if you're Canadian), you can grab the original Forza 3 and every downloadable car pack ever released--plus a few exclusive bonuses. Since I didn't have a copy of Forza 3 anymore (gave it to a charity around launch on behalf of my old home, Joystiq) and since I've been playing a lot of racing games lately, I decided it was a good investment. So far, I'm in gorgeous car heaven with these three games.
Oh, and much to my surprise/happiness, I searched "Shacknews" in the auction house and found some great vinyl sets--including the one in the image of this post. I don't know who made the original but whoever you are allow me to say, "Great job, sir/madam!"
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Wednesday Morning Minecraft Thread!
Sleepy Edition!!!
Guh
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : mercfox1.sytes.net / se.shkn.ws / shackeast.shkn.ws
foo1 (PvP/PvE): 216.139.192.52 / foo1.shkn.ws / foo1.sytes.net
Shadowdane (PvE) : shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
m0rfus (PvP) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
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Server Renders!
MercFox1
Angle: http://foo1.shkn.ws/~djr/mc/gmap/
foo1
Angled: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
Bird’s Eye View: http://foo1.shkn.ws/~djr/mc/render.png
Shadowdane
(updated every hour!)
Night-time Oblique: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/ShackDC-Night-Current.png
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Guides and Utilities
- Oizomapper! Map your single player or multiplayer levels! By mroizo40
http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip
- Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
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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About the same as a watervator using a boat
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â– = corner you enter lift from
â– = stone, dirt, containing block, etc.
â– = flowing water
â– = water source
Thats the first (and every odd layer thereafter). The second layer is dirt/stone/whatever to seal it and prepare for next layer. Only limitaiton: only one corner works as an elevator. You simply walk into it and/or hold jump. Going down is an issue as it is just falling. Placing a water block at the bottom will save you.-
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I should have mentioned it was a top down diagram.
This video is a slightly modified version of the one I mentioned, but is better as you could essentially approach it from any side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP79OQamcLg-
Found a better one still :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_309614&v=QDCAw740Zt4&feature=iv
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I recommend digging a 2x1 shaft straight down. This has two advantages. First, it negates the risk of death if you reach a cavern or lava right beneath you. Second, you can place a ladder on every block on one side, and a ladder only on the bottom of the other side. Then from the top you can jump down the side with only 1 ladder on bottom and it will catch you right at the bottom.
I don't think water elevators are worth the hassle. You have to have/build a boat to use it, and if you're like me, you never leave a mine without a full inventory, so you then you have to deal with shuffling your inventory a bit as well. Climbing a latter doesn't take That long.
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I'm really happy with yesterday's patch. Friend and I played on our private server for about an hour last night and the SMP is finally starting to feel like SP does. Animals and monsters all died as quickly as they should, the sounds worked on the creepers/explosions, and arrows actually worked (for the most part).
Still have lots of issues when a player dies, where they usually can't see the items they dropped until someone picks them up for them, and often they can't see the monsters anymore either. A quick disconnect/reconnect fixes it which takes no time at all, but it still sucks. I also have an issue where I can't see the leaves on an underground tree I'm growing, but the server must know they're there because it jerks me back when I try to walk through some areas. Other players can see it and if I disconnect/reconnect I can too... -
Looking out a dirty old window.
Down below the cars in the city go rushing by.
I sit here alone and I wonder why.
Friday night and everyone's moving.
I can feel the heat but it's soothing.
Heading down, I search for the beat in this dirty town.
Down town the young ones are going.
Down town the young ones are growing.
We're the kids in America.
We're the kids in America.
Everybody live for the music-go-round.
Bright ligths the music get faster.
Look boy, don't check on your watch, not another glance.
I'm not leaving now, honey not a chance.
Hot-shot, give me no problems.
Much later baby you'll be saying never mind.
You know life is cruel, life is never kind.
Kind hearts don't make a new story.
Kind hearts don't grab any glory.
We're the kids in America.
We're the kids in America.
Everybody live for the music-go-round.
Come closer, honey that's better.
Got to get a brand new experience.
Feeling right.
Oh don't try to stop baby.
Hold me tight.
Outside a new day is dawning.
Outside Suburbia's sprawling everywhere.
I don't want to go baby.
New York to East California.
There's a new wave coming I warn you.
We're the kids in America.
We're the kids in America.
Everybody live for the music-go-round.
We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America
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Oh god that logic room was epic :(
I think it is acceptable to kite creepers to get past doors but the outright destruction of entire buildings I wouldn't even contemplate.
Now this is just me, but I spent about 40 hours on the prison structure according to the stats page. You kite creepers to get past my doors. Fine. That's maybe a hour or so to fix. Maybe more or less and that doesn't really bother me.
But raising the building completely? Then you are getting to the point of "fuck do I even have the motivation to even fix this?"
I think everyone is different though and are on different pages on what is acceptable conduct for this servers pvp.
I think it should have been made a bit more clear as to what is acceptable when the server started. Some simple web page that is linked to in DP's initial posts every night so we don't have to keep answering the same questions each night on what's acceptable.
No fault of anyone really on the server rules. Just a live and learn situation. -
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Ramasule, leader of Panora nation had this to say about the event: "I am deeply sorry about the loss of one of your country men. In reality Foo member of North Korea was using him as a human shield. Please do not take out your hostilities on Panora and focus on the real problem North Korea... I am not a crook"
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Oh. That sucks. Was a really nice vault, with a super tough password 1234. I told them to have fun trying to get in, I hope they did have fun!
Well I was pretty done with PVP for now anyways.
You tried hard, foo, but can't make everyone happy.
We had some basic problems from early on. Panisia started with a lot of people, so we went big with our defenses, expecting that there would be people helping. It didn't quite work out that way, some people didn't log on for a few days, others left for different towns, others built their own things, others explored instead of building a lot (that's me).
So we have this large, partly finished tower that we are working on, then foo leaves us. Now Korea has advantages that we don't, their base can be made in a couple minutes by foo, while we have to spend hours building ours up, and it still ends up being infiltrated very easily.
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What happened sounds (to me) like what should happen.
I mean really, if it's just players attacking players, there is literally no point to it. The only reward you get is the satisfaction of winning (not much, since the combat sucks), or the loot (not much, since most people are smart enough not to engage in PvP, given the rules we have, while carrying important items).
It just seems pointless to me for our PvP to be literally just players fighting other players until and unless there's big changes to combat and a real reward for engaging in it.-
Well there might have been some bugs involved, so that's not cool. Apparently our town protection was off, when it was set to on by us. So they were able to build and/or destroy (not sure exactly how much they could do).
Everything is still a work in progress, once Towny is complete there will be a reason to fight, it will let you claim other towns land.
Also, like I said above, it's a complicated situation. Even if our protection hadn't messed up we hadn't completed construction on our base, it had too many holes to enter by.-
The protection is weird. Something changed as of last night, since you can now open doors in protected towns.
It still gives the message that you can't, but you certainly can. Also, you can definitely build in protected towns. Again, it gives the message that you can't, but it builds anyway.
Your new defenses seem pretty good though. A single block in the way of every door makes entry pretty much impossible as best I can tell. And I did a test last night with TNT, it won't work at all in protected towns. You can lay it, but not detonate it.
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Never mind.
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I tried nuking from orbit and it STILL didn't work.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_103826_bjd5rm2wqcr5groyicnk.png
http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_103832_iwuc6glmq7amx24d2ttg.png
http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_104118_ev6p2xf9ue9aov8hhpnd.png
http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_104137_5dcahnwym3lb8igajrwg.png
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_104632_7oht9t1kj5jubr17yzhe.png
http://www.shackpics.com/files/20101201_104658_vzwx6dio7f15o1jyvpoo.png
They've been burning for a few minutes now.
We're doomed!
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Some people are fucking morons.
This was yesterday, when most people were waiting for Hey0 to get updated, because they feel it's required.
http://twitter.com/warlordv1/status/9804385441808384
@notch instead of being an ass why don't you downgrade the server so we can play on smp you jeesh we're not your fing beta testers
http://twitter.com/notch/status/9875253249445888
@warlordv1 actually, you're alpha testers..
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I wonder if he will be establishing some kind of Beta Testers group once he hits beta. Once he moves to Beta it will become more and more difficult to use the general public as his testers. I know Beta testers are still working on unfinished code... but you would think at that stage there is SOME kind of screening before it hits even the beta testers.
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I think you're missing my point. I understand there will be lots of bugs. It's the *type* of bugs that I have a problem with. What we're getting is far closer to a nightly snapshot in terms of quality than an actual alpha. Any release meant for public consumption, alpha or otherwise, should have a bare minimum of testing/quality control that just isn't there. I just believe notch is abusing his player's good will and it won't last forever.
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/retardednotch_0ares6jva8xiz5z6xby7.jpg
Did the same thing with monsters and players, too. Lots of 'ghosts'.-
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
Do you get a paycheck from Lucas?
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ATTN: People with coal:
I am building a skyscraper city called Edo. It requires immense quantities of cooked stone and sand. The stone and sand is easy to come by, but I can't find enough coal to keep up (need 192-256 coal per tower.
Does anyone have extra coal they want to donate or trade?
Here is what you'll be contributing to:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4384/edox0.jpg-
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This is my main reservation with using wood. With coal it is a very efficient, assembly-line style process. I load 8 stacks of cobblestone in one row of my inventory, and 8 stacks of cobblestone in the next.
Then across the top row I can quickly halve two stacks of coal repeatedly into 8 stacks of 16.
Then I can open a furnace, right click a stack of coal and put it in, then left click a stack of cobblestone, and put it in. I repeat this rapidly (switching to left clicking on stacks of coal once they're all 8-unit stacks) and have all the furnaces loaded in no time. -
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agreed. Suggest it to notch! http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang
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Shadowdanezors...
Can we just reset already =(
Logged in today to actually take shots and a vid of my place before the deletion, found someone had put a load of lava in the deep road path section and blocked off that route to my place. To top it off, some tosser has run around smashing half of my lava lights glass screens... flooding the whole damn underground sections with lava and ruining the ziggurat =( -
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It's hard to explain in game.
Read up on Towny some.
http://sites.google.com/site/townymod/home/features
http://sites.google.com/site/townymod/walkthrough (in red isn't done yet)
http://sites.google.com/site/townymod/home/commands
How to read the Towny map: http://www.shackpics.com/files/TownyMap1_c79s3frgfs0co95qy9j3.jpg
I am the orange dash in center.
Unclaimed land is a grey dash.
My home town is light green pluses.
Other towns in my nation are dark green pluses.
Unknown/neutral (?) towns are white pluses.
So, using that map you can find where it's OK for you to build and/or found your own town. That's pretty much the basics. Of course how you want to play decides where you build/who you join.
If you want other players to leave your stuff alone (but maybe attack while you are out in the wilderness), join Switzerland.
If you want to do PVP against bases, we'll talk.
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Try joining foo1 (PvP/PvE): 216.139.192.52 / foo1.shkn.ws / foo1.sytes.net
Also, read up on the towny mod.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24663675-
Whoops, wrong link for the towny mod:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24663707#itemanchor_24663707
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