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I think 1.8 is the update we reset for. The other updates have never been a problem.

We had a reset already due to the "new" generation which probably led to those problems you're talking about.

I mean 1.3 full version. No reset could well mean you will find your house under several layers of dirt or bedrock. Which is pretty damn annoying. Any updates that adds new blocks will spazz out world gen as the two different world gens conflict. It tries to generate another map on top of the existing map. Hence all of the errors.

The new chunk gereration has only ever affected newly explored areas. The most we ever found was some vertical cliffs at the edge of the explored world. After that it was fine.

We have only reset once, which thinking about it was probably the full release, and have never had those problems.

This server started up around beta 1.3 wasn't it?

I started with 1.2 and I don't think the server came far after that.

Yeah, it started april last year AFAIK, so probably 1.2

12th of April last year if someone feels like looking it up.

Seems it was 1.4. That came out 31st March 2011.

Mynameisalie wrote:Mostly new blocks. That and updating tends to spazz out maps pretty bad.
I went on a server I knew well after the 1.8 update, which they hadn't reset. World holes absolutely everywhere. Missing chunks, misgenerated caves, no bedrock (which caused my death several times). The list is endless.

That sounds more like a combination of the server having corrupted world files and severe lag.

Mynameisalie wrote:I mean 1.3 full version. No reset could well mean you will find your house under several layers of dirt or bedrock. Which is pretty damn annoying. Any updates that adds new blocks will spazz out world gen as the two different world gens conflict. It tries to generate another map on top of the existing map. Hence all of the errors.

Even going from 1.8 Beta to 1.0 release, the generator never generates "over" existing chunks. Not in vanilla Minecraft anyway. Although there was the issue going from 1.7 to 1.8 where biomes were changed, so deserts became snow etc, but no new blocks, holes or "houses under several layers of dirt". Poorly written mods may do strange things with world generation, but we don't use any. Sounds like you've had a bad experience on a previous server with a bad config or mischievous admins.

They've smoothed out the world generating updates a lot recently. Biomes are now stored with the chunk so the Beta 1.7 to 1.8 issue won't happen again. The worst you get are the sudden lines, like here http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/1561/64/-814/-1/0/0 and even they're not horrendously bad.

I've said it already a couple of times, but I'm not resetting the world for 1.3 (it's too short notice now for copying structures etc anyway).

If that's true, I hate the admins that ran the server I went on. My house was under 2 layers of bedrock. I raged for 2 hours. I had DIAMONDS in there!

What is this structure?
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-256/64/43/-2/0/0
The big grey one in the middle.

Sky_slasher's cover for Janje's maze (as people complained it was ugly).

I went inside it earlier to have a look and it was just a space with furnaces in the wall. Has the maze been taken down?

How often does the map update?

The map normally updates every two days or so, but for the past few days I've been busy and I'm also upgrading the machine I use to generate the map, so it might be another day or two before I get another update out.

Ah right.
Just wondering

RaptorsTallon wrote:I went inside it earlier to have a look and it was just a space with furnaces in the wall. Has the maze been taken down?

Yeah... i can see that the Contents of that cover have gone :(


My Maze has been destroyed... Farethee well Maze... I Loved you so...


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And i notice there is a hole in the Roof of The Woodamid :(...

Wait, so they put it up then removed the maze underneath?

May I join?

If you post in the server joining thread, probably...

Where is that?

It's the thread you already posted in and were whitelisted.... -_-

Oh, thank you.

Have fun on it

Corpsesarefun wrote:Mel is now using Dredmor-tech (TM) random word generation software.

No, I'm using MeliTek (TM)(R)(C)(Ptt)(LLC) Apathy-Based Insult Generator for Lazy Insolent Endermen.

Filed the patent papers last week.

Another example of the random word generator working well!

You will be buried inside a vat of pig feces and Tabasco sauce.

Alive.

He would probably enjoy that...

N'aw, you love me really Mel :3

RaptorsTallon wrote:I went inside it earlier to have a look and it was just a space with furnaces in the wall. Has the maze been taken down?

God-dammit! My secret is out! I am making a temple or something along those lines now...