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**Mynameisalie**

I'm already on 1.4 (12w32a)...
I'm trying to make something awesome on Minecraft, but my parents made me delete Hamachi as they thought it kept spreading to all the computers in the house and messing up our connection to the router. What they forgot was that they gave me permission to install it on all the computers beforehand...
Is this how everyone' parents are?
And the relation to Hamachi meant I could connect to my English friend's servers... now I can't anymore :(

**4oursword**

My Parents are usually blindingly stupid in regards to technology too. You aren't alone.

**djones520**

What do Monster Spawners do specifically. I play primarily on Peaceful mode and I've found a couple of these while digging through caverns. I'd say the name is obvious, they spawn monsters, but special types? Will there be no monsters period if I find and destroy them all? Etc...

**Wyrmalla**

What do Monster....spawners do? Inside the cage is a specific monster that you'll usually find in the world. They spawn them continuously, whereas typical mobs spawn randomly. Destroying them just stops the mobs spawning at a high rate from them , you'll still find mobs in areas where they can normally spawn.

^^ Read the wiki.

**4oursword**

If you play on Easy/Normal/Hard, they spawn monsters at at an accelerated rate in a small radius around them. Monsters will continue to appear in other areas though as normal/

**Tyranid Horde**

Never destroy a spawner! No matter the type, you can always set up a decent XP farm for you enchanting needs! Each spawner spawns a different type of mob, natural spawners are zombie, skeleton, cave spider, blaze, spider and I think that's it. There are others that can be MC edited in to the game but they are the only ones you'll encounter in vanilla minecraft. If you are within 16 blocks the spawner activates, releasing a number of a specific type of mob every fifteen seconds or so. If you are on peaceful, the spawners don't spawn anything.

**Wyrmalla**

Mynameisalie wrote:I'm already on 1.4 (12w32a)...
I'm trying to make something awesome on Minecraft, but my parents made me delete Hamachi as they thought it kept spreading to all the computers in the house and messing up our connection to the router. What they forgot was that they gave me permission to install it on all the computers beforehand...
Is this how everyone' parents are?
And the relation to Hamachi meant I could connect to my English friend's servers... now I can't anymore :(

Uh...reinstall it on your own computer and just remove it from the start menu. If they don't have a clue about computers I doubt they would bother going out of their way to find such a naughty, naughty program.

=/ Mine used to be thick as mince...well they still are, but I've just given up trying to educate them and tell them to shut up while I work really. The veto card that sitting a few courses on the subject gives you. =P

**Matt.Kingsley**

Tyranid Horde wrote:
Matt.Kingsley wrote:K, it's ETomb here, I would like to ask Sky if I'm still able to lay claim the the 3rd village he found, the one near the temple
So, am I
And thanks for trying to help me get my stuff!

You can have Village Number Three, did you find it in the end? Also, I tried to get your stuff but I couldn't find it anywhere, so it might have despawned while I was searching. What did you have and I can get you back your stuff?

The only 2 things that I had that are replaceable & precious were a diamond sword and a diamond helmet.

**thenoobbomb**

Mynameisalie wrote:I'm already on 1.4 (12w32a)...
I'm trying to make something awesome on Minecraft, but my parents made me delete Hamachi as they thought it kept spreading to all the computers in the house and messing up our connection to the router. What they forgot was that they gave me permission to install it on all the computers beforehand...
Is this how everyone' parents are?
And the relation to Hamachi meant I could connect to my English friend's servers... now I can't anymore :(

Parents are that. also, youre not on 1.4, youre on 1.3.2

**Corpsesarefun**

And hamachi is trash, don't use it.

**Mynameisalie**

It's the only way I can connect to my friends in England. It's actually a pretty neat little program too. I mean, how many other programs do you know of create VPN's protected by the same encryption method used in banks? 256 digit prime number transfer encryption ftw!

**Corpsesarefun**

It's a terrible program; there are infinitely better systems out there...

**Bloodhorror**

Such as....?

Naming some better alternatives MIGHT be helpful to him...

**Melissia**

Dunno, but it IS a terrible program.

Buggy as all hell, with gak-tons of compatibility issues.

**johnscott10**

Iv never had any issues with Hamachi tbh. Granted I wouldn't need it if my router actually kept the ports I forward open...

**4oursword**

A lot of my friends do have problems with it, Bloodhorror inclusive, so if you know any alternatives, please, enlighten us.

**Corpsesarefun**

Forward your ports and run it off your own IP?

**4oursword**

Funnily enough, not everyone will know how to do that (or what it means). Or not have the permission- If Wrym can't have Hamachi, I doubt his parents will allow him to do much else in that vein.

**Avatar 720**

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Port+Forwarding

**4oursword**

Wikipedia via Avatar's Unnecessarily Dickish LMGTFY wrote:
The technique is used to permit communications by external hosts with services provided within a private local area network.

And to establish the other pc's in a LAN, you need..? Hamachi. As far as I know. An actual explanation would be easier than a pathetic link.

**Corpsesarefun**

Oh wow.

If you want someone to help you with something it's best to be polite.

**Melissia**

You don't need hamachi.

I certainly don't. Hamachi isa buggy piece of crap with compatibility problems. It was so bad on my computer that I had to go in to safe mode to remove the fething thing because of its buggy gakfest nature.

**4oursword**

Corpsesarefun wrote:Oh wow.

If you want someone to help you with something it's best to be polite.

I don't really think that using LMGTFY is terribly polite, and I responded in kind. It implies I don't have the intelligence to type, which clearly I do. I was really after a proper explanation, as most entries about t are laden with Jargon which I am unable to decipher, seeing as I don't know that much about the physical workings of a computer.

**Corpsesarefun**

If you don't know much about computers then you need to learn, there is no shortcut.

**GangstaMuffin24**

So anyway...

Is anyone working on something they'd like to share?

**4oursword**

Corpsesarefun wrote:If you don't know much about computers then you need to learn, there is no shortcut.

You are right, I apologise whole-heartedly.

**Avatar 720**

4oursword wrote:
Wikipedia via Avatar's Unnecessarily Dickish LMGTFY wrote:

It was completely necessary. You couldn't be bothered to check for yourself, choosing instead to make snarky and sarcastic comments.

It implies I don't have the intelligence to type

I do apologise, I meant for it to do more than simply imply.

**Wyrmalla**

4oursword wrote:Funnily enough, not everyone will know how to do that (or what it means). Or not have the permission- If Wrym can't have Hamachi, I doubt his parents will allow him to do much else in that vein.

Hah! Sorry, but I live with a flatmate and don't even know what Hamachi is. Don't know how that was misinterpreted. =)

0.o ....And my parents didn't give a damn about what I did on my computer, even with its one character password....

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Just logged in to find that my skin's reverted to Steve for some reason. I've tried changing it, but its displaying as the default in both single and multiplayer. Anyone have any ideas why or how to fix it? I mean I'm being told that my skin's successfully changed when I upload one (tried my current one, and just random ones), its just not displaying. =/

**Mynameisalie**

Melissia wrote:You don't need hamachi.

I certainly don't. Hamachi isa buggy piece of crap with compatibility problems. It was so bad on my computer that I had to go in to safe mode to remove the fething thing because of its buggy gakfest nature.

And your computer was? What make? What was it running on? Windows? Linux? (It's meant to hate Linux, from my experience)
It says on the website it has several compatibility issues with certain makes and/or OS'. My Acer has 64bit Windows 7 Home Premium; works absolutely fine. Used Hackintosh to change the OS to Linux temporarily. It spazzed up my computer horribly. Changed it back to Windows, worked perfectly fine.
It's a neat, small little piece of software if you plan on going on your friend's servers when you happen to have moved to another country. Like me. It doesn't take up much HDD space, and you can run it alongside nearly any other program and won't affect it's performance. Like Minecraft. Or Starcraft 2. Plus, it's one of the safest VPN programs on this planet. It is renowned for it's security. I love it. It's a shame my parents made me delete it though...

**4oursword**

Avatar 720 wrote:

It implies I don't have the intelligence to type

I do apologise, I meant for it to do more than simply imply.

You didn't state it explicitly, therefore it was an implication.