To whom is building those stone walkways, can you please reposition the one going over the lake near my castle. it's kind of an eyesore and also is close to blocking the connecting waterway.
Runer, I'll be on tomorrow about noon East coast time and we can work on the structure
And thanks for the sugar cane plantation Shrike, it'll save me many long explorations and deaths
Doctadeth wrote:To whom is building those stone walkways, can you please reposition the one going over the lake near my castle. it's kind of an eyesore and also is close to blocking the connecting waterway.
Doctadeth wrote:To whom is building those stone walkways, can you please reposition the one going over the lake near my castle. it's kind of an eyesore and also is close to blocking the connecting waterway.
I extended one that was about halfway there to get it close to the new nether room I built. Once you find it, feel free to demolish.
just so everyone stops asking, the giant creeper is getting moved. you should see the feet behind the giant man.
and please erase that screenshot- I intentionally didn't put up WIP pics.
Yeh, when that happens to me I just can't be bothered for a little bit. Then I got Invedit so I just copy my inventory over to a spare world, then copy it back if lava happens.
Doesn't happen too often though, cause closest I get is mining obsidian then I get paranoid I'm going to fall in and lose it all.
I was knocked in the lava while facing off an endless barrage of creepers (I think I had opened the way to a dungeon, but it wasn't in sight so I couldn't tell).
there's some wierd stuff happening in the server.
phail randomly respawns without dying, my boat won't move, I get stuck in a wall, nearly suffocate, and as soon as I place my boat in a calm open stretch of water, it breaks. WTF.
I just quit.
But something wierd is happening with water in the world.
I drowned, despite being near my house, which is barely near water.
So if you are near water watch out.
hm. THE END IS NIGH!
IT'S THE END OF THE [minecraft] WORLD ASWE KNOW IT!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Ah, now it's updating...could that be the source?
oh and yak found a forest fire minutes away from the only other two people online at the time.
So I have finally fully finished my floating lair...totally completely done! Ready to move onto my secret island retreat, which is a nice ways a way from the hustle-bustle of Sanctuary city.
For those not on Dakka's server, here's some pics of my finished lair:
Exterior shots:
Interior top floor:
Interior bottom floor:
And here are some random cool things I've found about the world while exploring.
The Ice Jump (located at 202,86,-1063):
and here's what it looks like from the perilous peak before you jump into the icy waters below:
This is the entrance to the Valley of Death (at 185,72,-261):
I really want to go through and dig out the bottom of that valley to make it a really, really deep and cool looking valley. Maybe I'll get around to it at some point (and put a perilous bridge from one side of the valley to the other).
Here's a super tall canyon with a crazy large overhang (this is somewhere around 291,106,1144):
Here's what it looks like from under the overhang:
Finally, here is the great sand mountain (at -1096,67,-2574):
you should build your retreat i the valley of death, or build a 2 block tall wall, with one double door, plant LOADS of trees in there and knock out all the torches, and have an "induction", where you have to survive the night with nothing but a single torch and a wooden sword. as a reward, you are accepted into the community and are allowed n the sanctuary. that'd be so cool.
Chowderhead wrote:Am I the only one who can't get on?
GRAH!
Did you update to 1.5 already? Because I think you can't log on if you've updated your file to 1.5 but the server is still 1.4.
Also, I was trying out 1.5 in SP and it seems like you can no longer exploit ladders every other square...you now seem to have to have a ladder on every square for them to work right...and you can't seem to place torches on a wall opposite a ladder (one space distance) either.
Anyone else notice that? Its making me have to change all my SP ladders, which is a bummer.
I think it auto updates when you log onto the online function. Also thanks for the heads up. I'd rather not find out I'm locked out of my house as the sun sets.
Added Weather (rain, snow, thunder)
Added Statistics and Achievements
New Items (Detector rail, Power Rail, Birch and Pine/Spruce Saplings)
Holding SHIFT+Click on something in a chest will immediately drag the selected item(s) into your inventory and vice-versa.
Birch and Pine/Spruce trees now drop Birch and Pine/Spruce saplings, respectively
Performance improvements
Crafting a ladder now produces 2 ladders
If lightning strikes a pig, it becomes a Zombie Pigman
A pig set on fire will drop cooked porkchops.
New settings in options:
Ability to change GUI size (Small, Normal, Large, Auto)
Advanced OpenGL (For higher-end graphics cards)
New large painting (in kz.png)
New Power armor that looks like electricity (in /armor)
Bug Fixes:
Climbing a ladder with gaps will not work anymore, but moving downwards is still possible.
On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
You can now move through flowing water at previous speed.
Wolves have a better understanding of doors. (Wolves now have a small chance going through single door and can go through double doors most of the time.)
The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed (previously had triangles on the blocks) when using Smooth Lighting.
New Bugs:
Achievements only work in SMP if you have already completed first achievement in Single Player
Crash when Detector Rails are placed beside normal rails.
Blocks can't be placed on snow.
If you change Advanced OpenGL to on and then back again, giant holes will appear that you can see through.
Jumping off a fence in SMP triggers an anti-flight kick.
Rain will fall through glass, acting as if there is no block there.
When hitting a grass block the destroying animation is darker on the side than the animation on top of the grass block, though only on fancy graphics.
Flowing water no longer pushes empty minecarts that fall into it
GUI: create new world input boxes misaligned under small and normal settings
Ugh, going to have to re-design my tree-tower, the single-block ladder up won't work anymore, and if what yak says about the torches opposite ladders is true it means the tower will have to go completely unlit if I want the minimum of fuss =|
I'm gonna build a railroad through to the other side of it with the new powered rails, so try to leave me a path.
(incidentally, anybody have iron for sale?).
Also, wiki lists a crash bug for the detector rail (a combination pressure plate/rail). Is there some way we can get that item locked out of the server for the time being?
Lorna wrote:We need an induction. We should have a round table with the current members waiting there, waiting for the new guys to escape.
shrike wrote:in the valley of death, you should build a 2 block tall wall, with one double door, plant LOADS of trees in there and knock out all the torches, and have an "induction", where you have to survive the night with nothing but a single torch and a wooden sword. as a reward, you are accepted into the community and are allowed in the sanctuary. that'd be so cool.
this?
but with a room in front of the double doors where the other dakkanaughts sit?
Requia wrote:I'm gonna build a railroad through to the other side of it with the new powered rails, so try to leave me a path.
(incidentally, anybody have iron for sale?).
Also, wiki lists a crash bug for the detector rail (a combination pressure plate/rail). Is there some way we can get that item locked out of the server for the time being?
The crash is from having a detector and a regular rail next to eachother.
Requia wrote:I'm gonna build a railroad through to the other side of it with the new powered rails, so try to leave me a path.
(incidentally, anybody have iron for sale?).
Also, wiki lists a crash bug for the detector rail (a combination pressure plate/rail). Is there some way we can get that item locked out of the server for the time being?
I have some, and will trade an ingot for every three brown or black wool.
Hmm... Weather in MP... I wonder if this means that I will be able to steal away by the cover of rainfall and night to allow my assassinations (just kidding)...
Anyway, I will be setting the pigs around my hideout on fire from now on: WOOOOT!!!
Footsloggin wrote:Hmm... Weather in MP... I wonder if this means that I will be able to steal away by the cover of rainfall and night to allow my assassinations (just kidding)...
Anyway, I will be setting the pigs around my hideout on fire from now on: WOOOOT!!!
What is this about power armor now?!
There is a power armour skin in the armour files.
I suspect it is for iron armour conducting lightning like a Faraday cage.
Melissia wrote:The crash is from having a detector and a regular rail next to eachother.
Which kinda ruins the whole detector rail thing.
No it doesn't.
This works:
R_R
R_R
P_R
D_R
R_R
R_R
This does not work:
RR RR PR
DR
RR RR
R = rail
P = power
D = detector
_ = block with no rail on it.
Automatically Appended Next Post: By the way, power rails don't actually give that much of a boost. You'll want to string several of them along to go up a hill.
Perhaps power rails one after another with redstone torches next to them to save iron (instead of repeated detector/power duos).
well that was interesting updating, but the server is now up to 1.5 and you should be able to get on without any problems. Just added the two users who had requested in this thread and off to the sticky to add the rest now...
Well, now that I'm on my way to having summer classes paid for by the government as well as my fall classes, I should be able to afford this a bit sooner. Still dunno when though, depends on FAFSA...
corpsesarefun wrote:Damnit Melissa I'm tempted to buy the game for you to stop with the procrastinating
Meh. Even if I had the money, my bank account was closed because the bank decided they wanted to change my account plan so that they could charge me monthly without my consent, and I wasn't giving them a dime of my money when they pull a stunt like that.
Chowderhead wrote:Then do it, Melissia! I want to get you on the server.
I do too.
oh and chowder (I think), avatar, requia and lego left us in the valley of death, and we didn't have a clue how to get home. I finished the bridge and made an igloo with foot. It slowl got rennovated and is now a small wooden house on a mountain peak with a farm on top. We were stuck there 4 nights- thanks for ditching us, guys. but we had a good time, had cake, bacon sandwiches and a bit of inter-web minecraft male bonding.
Chowderhead wrote:Then do it, Melissia! I want to get you on the server.
I do too.
oh and chowder (I think), avatar, requia and lego left us in the valley of death, and we didn't have a clue how to get home. I finished the bridge and made an igloo with foot. It slowl got rennovated and is now a small wooden house on a mountain peak with a farm on top. We were stuck there 4 nights- thanks for ditching us, guys. but we had a good time, had cake, bacon sandwiches and a bit of inter-web minecraft male bonding.
Easy way out? Go to the sign you warped in at and head in the opposite direction from the valley of death until you see a wooden house (it's almost visible from the valley). Enter it, take the tunnel on the ground floor to my treebase, then the tunnel there to the Sanctuary.
Slighty harder way? Do the same but whilst facing the valley, head left and down until my treetower comes into view, walk over to it and look around for the entrance to my base, then take the tunnel there to the sanc.
This is what you should've done.
This is Captain Hindsight signing off, although I should've done this hours ago.
Chowderhead wrote:I think my house killed Yakface again...
No, just that one time...but I thought I should put up a sign warning others about your house's mean streak.
Although I probably just should have put a sign up on the exact block that shouldn't be removed. Saying something like: 'if you remove this block you will die!...seriously'
Chowderhead wrote:I think my house killed Yakface again...
No, just that one time...but I thought I should put up a sign warning others about your house's mean streak.
Although I probably just should have put a sign up on the exact block that shouldn't be removed. Saying something like: 'if you remove this block you will die!...seriously'
Well, There are about 40 of those, and the fact that I just put up a 36 block lava fall may not help the visitor's chances of living...
If anyone's still having the blackscreen crashes, reducing the memory allocated to java counter intuitively seems to fix the issue, at least for me. Raising the memory it could allocate caused it to crash after about ten seconds, leaving it at the default (1026 MB) has it crashing every couple of minutes, and reducing the default by 256 MB with a .bat script (java -Xms512m -Xmx768m -jar Minecraft.exe) has it not crashing at all, while doing things that generally caused crashes before (namely, moving around a lot, which was hardly a requirement for a crash, but it did exacerbate it quite a bit). I've only been playing for about ten minutes, but that's about five times as long as I could after this last patch (which was itself twice as long as I could play after the April Fools patch...).
That's the one fix I found looking around the Minecraft forums that worked for me, since I'd reinstalled minecraft in the past to no avail, as well as trying different draw distances, and the aforementioned increasing the memory allocated to java. Considering that all of those fixes listed helped some people, but not others, I'm willing to bet that it's not just one problem causing it, but a number of potential problems that all end in the same result.
The new patch did greatly improve graphic performance, though, as I can run smooth lighting without issue.
Nick Ellingworth wrote:In a fit of madness I descided to add my face to the server.
dude, my entire BODY'S on it. I win.
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Avatar 720 wrote:This is what you should've done.
This is Captain Hindsight signing off, although I should've done this hours ago.
It was midnight with creepers and skellies everywhere- we had to build a shelter. then it was raining, then night again, then raining, then night, then me and foot had a day f cake and bacon sarnies, then night.
The "Web" is a new item introduced in Beta 1.5. It was previously found in the Terrain.png file, but had no block ID assigned to it. It is not generated or crafted in any way, although it is speculated that it will be properly added in Beta 1.6. Current thoughts are that spiders will nest in it, shoot the web at you to slow you down, or drop it as loot.
Moving into a web limits your movement abilities. When you are "inside" the web, you will move at a speed equal to about 15% of the normal walking speed. Additionally, jumping will vibrate the player, akin to jumping in a 2 block high space. Unlike water, however, falling into a web will not prevent fall damage, although it will be delayed until you make contact with the ground.
It can be placed in and under water.
You can put a web on reeds.
Jumping from high above into a web doesn't kill you, but the moment you hit the "bottom" of the web you take fall damage.
You can put webs on webs in-game.
Items thrown on the web will fall down after about 20 seconds
Animals that walk into the web will slow down, even spiders.
Minecarts treat it as regualer block, like glass or dirt.
those webs sound bloody terrifying. I hope they MAKE them in caves, not shoot them at you. I'm terrible at dealing with spiders, and now they might be able to slow you to 15%? ouch.
and I keep getting "end of stream" error.
On the plus side I can already see its use in making traps.
Could have used some not long ago when I killed a Creeper with my mind. As it chased me I dumped a wall around it and trapped it inside, then it blew up but I was fine.
n0t_u wrote:On the plus side I can already see its use in making traps.
Could have used some not long ago when I killed a Creeper with my mind. As it chased me I dumped a wall around it and trapped it inside, then it blew up but I was fine.
Soulsand can do that for you. I have some if you need it.
Bug Fixes:
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Game no longer crashes when Detector Rails are placed
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New Bugs:
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The game (SMP) will crash with "internal server error" if Power Rails are placed! Seems to happen with normal rails too?!
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The game will crash if a Mob is attacked with a sword.
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Clients will disconnect from Server if they mine Rails in SMP.
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Like I mentioned earlier in game, might be best to just leave the minecarts alone for a bit.
Also to add cause of the lightning all wooden houses should have a base and roof of stone, just in case. It struck about 3 blocks away from me. Besides the cool effect it looks exactly the same as using a flint and steel.
This would of course happen while I'm in the middle of making a rail line.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The mob attacked with a sword thing though... that's kinda problematic, I don't have nearly enough feather to stick with bows.
Requia wrote:This would of course happen while I'm in the middle of making a rail line.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The mob attacked with a sword thing though... that's kinda problematic, I don't have nearly enough feather to stick with bows.
Not sure, I don't think any pigs were struck during the last storm. I guess next time it happens everyone run around following a pig to see what happens.
Just making sure it wasn't a character
Also, a Sister of Battle. Frankly, I'm suprised you didn't
Also, lol@ your photobucket name
(although mine is pretty bad too, so ymmv)
Automatically Appended Next Post: Btw why do so many in our server have default skin
Its so boring
Looking forward to seeing your creations in game melissia, and don't worry, once you get out away from the spawn point, the world is actually pretty nice.
ghosty wrote:Looking forward to seeing your creations in game melissia, and don't worry, once you get out away from the spawn point, the world is actually pretty nice.
It's just getting away from there that's tricky, it's really starting to get difficult to navigate.
Server updated and melissia added. Melissia, no moaning though (as you already did about netherrack earlier in the thread ), this server is an amusing diversion rather than anything I intend to support, so if anyone moans too much about server operations to the point it feels like a chore, I'll just block access to those people. Nothing personal though!
Chowderhead wrote:Creepers murdered my house. Alot.
A creeper almost murdered me, would have done it too if it weren't for my iron armor lol... got close to death before I lagged off.
I need to turn off steam before playing this.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Anyone else getting connection refused: connect?
I don't think you understand. Half of my house is gone because a creeper entered it, and the other half is now ashes because the incinerator got opened up by the blast.
Cheesepie wrote:All we really need is a creeper proofing system.
Any ideas?
a sanctuary- style wall?
lava moat?
Lorna wrote:Both Melissia and James will have to take part in the induction.
yak doesn't like the death valley induction idea, so we're making a duelling arena just outside.
buuut...
has anyone got ideas to have an unofficial "induction", where they're perfectly allowed to build what they want, but we all decide not to trade/give them stuff/help them until they survive something?
or a voluntary kind of daredevil thing...
Doctadeth wrote:Can we get an cartographed view of our world as it stands?
The link to the most up to date version of this image is always the same link, so please bookmark it, because when Leog updates it, the link is the same.
Note that the file is GIGANTIC, so it will take your browser a long time to display:
That giant loop in the upper right I think was caused by me. I was actually trying to find that giant fortress that's being built in the very lower right (is that you Lego?) and somehow got lost and ended up looping all the way around up to the north. You can see the great sand mountain that I stumbled upon in the upper right corner of the map during that journey.
Doctadeth wrote:Can we get an cartographed view of our world as it stands?
The link to the most up to date version of this image is always the same link, so please bookmark it, because when Leog updates it, the link is the same.
Note that the file is GIGANTIC, so it will take your browser a long time to display:
That giant loop in the upper right I think was caused by me. I was actually trying to find that giant fortress that's being built in the very lower right (is that you Lego?) and somehow got lost and ended up looping all the way around up to the north. You can see the great sand mountain that I stumbled upon in the upper right corner of the map during that journey.
Cheesepie wrote:All we really need is a creeper proofing system.
Any ideas?
Killer moat, plus the buildings in the area need to be spawn proofed (either light up everything, or cover it with slabs).
If we're talking about the sanctuary I think it could use something like some cacti in the moat to stop all those skeletons from massing from time to time.
hrm, I found the location of my base on the map, but it's not there. Guess it hasn't been updated since I started, heh.
Automatically Appended Next Post: If someone doesn't fess up and give me back my fething iron door I'm going to gather buckets of lava and start griefing everbody indiscriminately
Automatically Appended Next Post: right who took Melissias door ma boat house is nearly complete would help if i stopped dying to creepers
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Automatically Appended Next Post: If someone doesn't fess up and give me back my fething iron door I'm going to gather buckets of lava and start griefing everbody indiscriminately
nooooooooooooooooo my boat house is made of wood :(
Automatically Appended Next Post: oh and lorna i did lol at yeh when i saw mount nickmore oh and ur house has been forbed
Wait, that changes your spawn?
I just slept in corpses bed to make it turn to day
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh man, I hope the server doesn't reset my position, I just had so much iron and was about to go mine gold and diamonds :/
I didn't take the door, I swear! I don't even know where Melissia's house is!
Then again, nobody knows where my house is so...
That's besides the point, I said I would MOVE it, not take it... I also havent left my house since my expedition to the Valley of Death, and since then have been mining to amass my 19 diamonds.
same here.
BTW the meetings room is complete...and so's a secwet woom I built...no I won't tell you where. I'll show you if you ask me. And I'll only show you if you go "psst!" before you ask to make it a secwet.
shrike wrote:same here.
BTW the meetings room is complete...and so's a secwet woom I built...no I won't tell you where. I'll show you if you ask me. And I'll only show you if you go "psst!" before you ask to make it a secwet.
guys- don't tell anyone where it is if you know. just tell them to quietly ask me. thanks.
ok stuff is missing out the the chests in my house, and someone took the glowstone i had in my house... Also the disc from the jukebox was taken... Seriously not cool.
ShivanAngel wrote:ok stuff is missing out the the chests in my house, and someone took the glowstone i had in my house... Also the disc from the jukebox was taken... Seriously not cool.
Hide ur chests with precious stuff, thats what i do.
ShivanAngel wrote:ok stuff is missing out the the chests in my house, and someone took the glowstone i had in my house... Also the disc from the jukebox was taken... Seriously not cool.
Hide ur chests with precious stuff, thats what i do.
Yup all my stuff is trapped now, hope you dont lose anything valuable when trying to take crap.
Working on my highway, and had to take up shelter in someone's house during a storm.
Its a castle-like place near a river, and it needs alot of fortifty. The doors were on backwards, but I fixed that. Biggest issue is that the basement is completely open to the outside, allowing monsters to enter.
Ahh dammit its to laggy for me to play, maybe its coz Im an australian :/
They said they would fix the MP lag in the actual release of the game, so either it may be my internet which isnt bad, or Ill just have to wait. Thanks for letting me in either way guys
Oh and I probably looked like a proper idiot infront of yakface
Okay, first off. Who the hell keeps taking the buckets out the public lava resevoir? I've made eighteen buckets now, and every one has been taken despite a sign nicely asking everyone to please return the buckets they take. Stop being greedy!
Second, I finished the beautification project of the Valley of Death, and I'm almost done building a raised roadway from sanctuary out there.
Just reminder, here's what it used to look like before we bottomed it out and added a river:
And here's what it looks like after (note where the stone/dirt line runs along the canyon wall...that's how high the ground used to be!):
And here's what it looks like from the other side of the valley:
While I love how it looks, I'm now thinking perhaps I should change the water into lava to make it a REAL valley of death? I know of a lava pool nearby I could use to make it. So what say you? Go to lava or leave the valley of death lovely looking?
Jaon wrote:Ahh dammit its to laggy for me to play, maybe its coz Im an australian :/
They said they would fix the MP lag in the actual release of the game, so either it may be my internet which isnt bad, or Ill just have to wait. Thanks for letting me in either way guys
Oh and I probably looked like a proper idiot infront of yakface
Y'know the server is in Germany and I'm in Los Angeles...I can't imagine your connection speed based on sheer geography should be THAT much worse (although I could be totally wrong). Perhaps it is just a slow connection speed you're actually getting to your house?
hm. what were you planning to do there? It depends.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I have three seecwet wooms for dakka to find in the sanctuary- only those who haven't seen any of them can participate.
here are the clues:
room number 1 is forged of iron,
room numbers 2 and 3 meet often.
So that's what the valley looks like, might have seen me before Yak when I was exploring for coal. I saw the bridges and decided to take a closer look at them.
shrike wrote:
shrike wrote:same here.
BTW the meetings room is complete...and so's a secwet woom I built...no I won't tell you where. I'll show you if you ask me. And I'll only show you if you go "psst!" before you ask to make it a secwet.
guys- don't tell anyone where it is if you know. just tell them to quietly ask me. thanks.
I was going to build a big table in that large room in my house for that. Meh looks like I'll throw in a couch or something to go with the pool on the roof.
@Jaon: You'll get used to it after a while, although the connection for me seems better at night for some reason despite having no on or off peak in the plan. Stuff like you'll destroy a block and it will show up again. So just stand there and it will vanish again in a bit and add itself to the inventory a little later when it is lagging.
Also when you place blocks they may vanish again, just wait and they'll reappear.
Building houses is fun, place a whole lot down, they vanish then you can pretend you made it appear with your mind. Though it's not always like that I do get a decent amount of time when it runs just fine.
The highway I'm building between my Fortress and DakkaVille is nearly complete.. if the server could stay up and not rain, I should be done in a Minecraft Day or so.
yakface wrote:Okay, first off. Who the hell keeps taking the buckets out the public lava resevoir? I've made eighteen buckets now, and every one has been taken despite a sign nicely asking everyone to please return the buckets they take. Stop being greedy!
They won't listen to signs. When I made the notice wall in the Sanc there was a chest that contained a few signs and a sign above it asking people to put them back afterwards or to at least put a replacement in if it's going to be up for a while.
The chest was emptied in a day, someone even stole the sign asking people to put the signs back.
I have a small 5x1x3 secret room/closet/thing, so what do you think I should put in it? So far the only reccommendation is a chaos shrine, but I have no idea how to do that in such a small space. I might have to make another secret room with a shrine in, once my mine has gone to a decent size.
(just kidding)...
ma boat house is nearly complete would help if i stopped dying to creepers
