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Okay, so I joined the server and took some screenshots and scale for the warlord titan

problem: this is going to require over 1000 stacks of stone and colored wool at the scale he is using, and i'd have to dig my whole ocean area down to bedrock O_O
so i'm going to start planning out my own, about 25% layers shorter, however I'm going to ask that everyone scale up their sheep farms and start mass donating wool, I'll start a donation area near the stormraven that drops you off near the statue.

The other issue is this thing will have to be lit up like a christmas tree, half slabs or other stupid tricks won't work, but I think that'll make it look stupid :-/

Not scaling up my sheep farm.

My farm is technically just a patch of ground with a bit of a fence around it and random animals shoved in.

Thanks for the land Dem/Khaos.

The libary is partly done. The main libary is up and the farm will become a records office/underground archives.

If anyone has wood/paper/books/bookshelves, they would be really appreciated.

RaptorsTallon wrote:If anyone has wood/paper/books/bookshelves, they would be really appreciated.

I've got a reed farm, help yourself.

Just be sure to know that books will soon require leather as well, so we should get a cattle ranch up and running.

Hey Biccat

I know this is from ages ago now, but yesterday I came across another possible explanation for the "melon stalks destroyed but not the melons" problem you were having.

Light levels.

Plant some melons in a low light place and the stalks soon pop back out (the ground remains tilled). Only with enough light do they stay planted.

Were there enough/had somebody taken the torches from your farm? (or did it just go to night? etc)

Dem/Khaos, I assume you don't want what's left of the stuff in your farm. (In the chests)

This is what I meant:

darkinnit wrote:I know this is from ages ago now, but yesterday I came across another possible explanation for the "melon stalks destroyed but not the melons" problem you were having.

Light levels.

Plant some melons in a low light place and the stalks soon pop back out (the ground remains tilled). Only with enough light do they stay planted.

Were there enough/had somebody taken the torches from your farm? (or did it just go to night? etc)

Interesting, but unlikely. The stalks were outdoors and when I noticed the issue it was daytime (IIRC). Plus, the farm had been around for a long time, these weren't young stalks.

Note that I didn't see any seeds lying on the ground, just tilled earth.

Yep, but entities only hang around for 5 minutes and the day/night cycle does continue when you're not online. Example: someone takes the torches, it becomes night, stalks pop off, entities expired, it becomes day, you log in.


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Ooh, scratch that theory:

MinecraftWiki wrote:Crops will only grow in light level 9 or higher. Crops in light level of lower than 9 will uproot unless they are exposed to direct moonlight.

(emphasis mine)

Unless someone covered up your melon farm it shouldn't have happened, my mistake.

Instead of/in addition to the poster/leaflet thingy that was being planned about 9 months ago, how about I, with the help of other oldies and significant members of the community, compile "a history of dakkacraft", including the most memorable, notable and fun times had on the server and stick it in a book when they're released?

Just out of curiosity, how often does the map update? And is it regularly or just whenever you've got time for it?

shrike wrote:Instead of/in addition to the poster/leaflet thingy that was being planned about 9 months ago, how about I, with the help of other oldies and significant members of the community, compile "a history of dakkacraft", including the most memorable, notable and fun times had on the server and stick it in a book when they're released?

Sounds like a great idea.
I would be willing to help.

RaptorsTallon wrote:

shrike wrote:Instead of/in addition to the poster/leaflet thingy that was being planned about 9 months ago, how about I, with the help of other oldies and significant members of the community, compile "a history of dakkacraft", including the most memorable, notable and fun times had on the server and stick it in a book when they're released?

Sounds like a great idea.
I would be willing to help.

aye, you can do the section on the museum
the original tome can go live in the museum if you want

...also, I still have the first melon seeds on the server from when abandoned mines were added. Next time I'm on, I'll head to the museum with them.

shrike wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:

shrike wrote:Instead of/in addition to the poster/leaflet thingy that was being planned about 9 months ago, how about I, with the help of other oldies and significant members of the community, compile "a history of dakkacraft", including the most memorable, notable and fun times had on the server and stick it in a book when they're released?

Sounds like a great idea.
I would be willing to help.

aye, you can do the section on the museum
the original tome can go live in the museum if you want

...also, I still have the first melon seeds on the server from when abandoned mines were added. Next time I'm on, I'll head to the museum with them.

Put them in a chest in the wildlife area.

Also, the Public Records Office and surface level of the Archives is now built next to the libary.
The archives themselves need a huge amount of bookshelves and a large proportion of it is currently a tree farm.

also, maybe a "guide to minecraft", talking about the landmarks, must-sees and dakka-memes (I blame shrike, CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT, Dwhitey's racism, chaos is begin to grow...)

darkdm wrote:Just out of curiosity, how often does the map update? And is it regularly or just whenever you've got time for it?

It's whenever I have time (but I usually try to stick to "every two days"), however, my big desktop machine I use for rendering the map is currently in a major huff and refusing to cooperate with anything, so until I get it fixed, the map won't be updated. However, if it continues to be in a huff for too long I may just nuke it from orbit and re-install everything.

darkinnit wrote:It's whenever I have time (but I usually try to stick to "every two days"), however, my big desktop machine I use for rendering the map is currently in a major huff and refusing to cooperate with anything, so until I get it fixed, the map won't be updated. However, if it continues to be in a huff for too long I may just nuke it from orbit and re-install everything.

No worries, I was just curious. Thanks!

I am pleased to say that after scouting all the locations, I'm picking the mountains next to the Elf city to be the home of the Dakka Dwarves~

Well fine then, I'll just build a bigger city myself with booze and blackjack and hookers!

You know what forget the city!

Good call, those mountain do look epic.

Ma55ter_fett's got it right! How many pacthes until we can expect that booze is a craftable item? Potion o' Experience and Fun.

darkdm wrote:Ma55ter_fett's got it right! How many pacthes until we can expect that booze is a craftable item? Potion o' Experience and Fun.

back in my day, we had to make soup and pretend it was beer!


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also, this place might be cool for the entrance of the dwarf hall:
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-389/64/-2060/-1/0/0

though that may be a bit too far, if you are going to connect the two in some way...

darkdm wrote:Ma55ter_fett's got it right! How many pacthes until we can expect that booze is a craftable item? Potion o' Experience and Fun.

IndustrialCraft 2 has booze, I don't think it will be added to vanilla though.

And I THINK I have some supplies in my suburbia home that the library and SCDF can use, have at it because I haven't been on in a while

shrike wrote:

darkdm wrote:Ma55ter_fett's got it right! How many pacthes until we can expect that booze is a craftable item? Potion o' Experience and Fun.

back in my day, we had to make soup and pretend it was beer!

Back in my day, we had to craft water and like it!

in pirate speech one of the potions is called ale from memory, or was it grog, can't remember

Back in my day we didn't have Dwarves.

I could write a tome of the brave minecrafters who slew the EnderDragon. I was the one who got the killing blow, that might be worth writing a story about.

Where is the portal to the end? (coords or map link would be great)