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What do you guys mean when you keep saying seed?

eheheheh....

Well when a mummy creeper and a daddy creeper love eachother very much...

They blow up together and from the ashes comes a seed?
But seriously, what do you mean

It's the number/string that's used to seed the random number generator the worldgen uses; saves with identical seeds will have identical geography, at least to start with. I'm not sure if later chunks are generated the same, or just the initial area.

corpsesarefun wrote:Well when a mummy creeper and a daddy creeper love eachother very much...

they get certain urges...

blackadder's a classic.

I've finished the giant mob trap surrounding the sanctuary, so if you're there you're safe.

Go to create a new singleplayer world, under the box for typing in a name is a box labelled seed.

If you type in something in the seed box then anyone who types the same thing in will get the same world.

ghosty wrote:I'm just going to raise a concern on our multiplayer world. I'm not really a fan of the massive tower we have at the sanc. I was going to ask other peoples views on it. Eyesore, or Eyecandy?

Definitely an eyesore, from my point of view, but the purpose of it was to help people find their way back to the sanctuary if they go exploring and for that its pretty good.

I personally have a lot of OCD restrictions I place on myself when creating stuff in minecraft...for example in my own world I'm very careful that everything I build on the surface kind of fits into the look of the world...my main house is basically a hollowed out mountain rather than building a structure up from the ground. I also try to stay away from using cobblestone unless I'm building something that I want to look out of place since cobblestone is not found in the natural environment. I also like wide tunnels and tall rooms, so I tend to stay away from ever building a path or hallway that is less than 2 blocks wide and 3 blocks tall.

But in dakka-land we have to accept that there are a lot of differing personalities working there and they all have different cares and desires about what to build...that's just the name of the multiplayer game. While I personally don't care for all the random giant structures that are being built around my floating castle, so be it. I chose to make my lair close to the spawn point so I knew it would get like this.

Once I'm satisfied with my floating castle, I will look towards making myself something much more far flung and away from the rest of the peeps...a country home so to speak!

How odd, Unknown host.

Anyway chaps it's late so I'm calling it a night anyway.

yakface wrote:Once I'm satisfied with my floating castle, I will look towards making myself something much more far flung and away from the rest of the peeps...a country home so to speak!

Its amazing the natural beauty i've found in traveling. I'm currently making myself a kingdom in that rightmost section of the map, found a U shaped valley that works quite nicely.

Is there any chance we could get runecraft on the server?

I understand that some of the runes have nasty griefing potential, but even just turning waypoints and teleporters on would be a huge advantage when it comes to staking out territory away from the main crowd.

Cyporiean wrote:

yakface wrote:Once I'm satisfied with my floating castle, I will look towards making myself something much more far flung and away from the rest of the peeps...a country home so to speak!

Its amazing the natural beauty i've found in traveling. I'm currently making myself a kingdom in that rightmost section of the map, found a U shaped valley that works quite nicely.

that one that you said "this looks amazing"?

I'm gonna make my house out of obsidian...FOUR CREEPERS IN ONE DAY have blown the front off...

shrike wrote:

Cyporiean wrote:

yakface wrote:Once I'm satisfied with my floating castle, I will look towards making myself something much more far flung and away from the rest of the peeps...a country home so to speak!

Its amazing the natural beauty i've found in traveling. I'm currently making myself a kingdom in that rightmost section of the map, found a U shaped valley that works quite nicely.

that one that you said "this looks amazing"?

I'm gonna make my house out of obsidian...FOUR CREEPERS IN ONE DAY have blown the front off...

yeah.

Obsidian is awesome, we found a desert on the OTL server and made Mumra's pyramid out of Obsidian in it.

On the eyesore issue, my house is sporting a large wood tower (wood, not planks) that i'm slowly but surely trying to surround with actual trees (I think tree, dirt on the top piece of wood, sapling in that, rinse repeat should work), it's quite far from the spawn, but just need to see if people have noticed it/don't like it.

As it stands i've spent most of my time on it and lost a forest to a pyromaniac *cough*shrike*cough* that was supposed to fuel the wood for it, so I really don't want to tear it down unless I must.

Also getting this error:

Failed to connect to the server

Connection refused: connect

Minecraft servers seem to be fine, but this happened on the last MP world I played and I never managed to get back onto it, there was nothing that was visibly wrong on my side or their side, and the mc servers could not have been down every time I attempted (it would be very unlikely, I tried at different times of the day most days for about a month with no success). Might just be nothing, but i'd really like to get back to my projects.

I love the Dakka SMP world...only thing is that my place is so out of the way that I get pounced on by mobs.

Doctadeth wrote:I love the Dakka SMP world...only thing is that my place is so out of the way that I get pounced on by mobs.

build an underground tunnel to the sanctuary.


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Avatar 720 wrote:On the eyesore issue, my house is sporting a large wood tower (wood, not planks) that i'm slowly but surely trying to surround with actual trees (I think tree, dirt on the top piece of wood, sapling in that, rinse repeat should work), it's quite far from the spawn, but just need to see if people have noticed it/don't like it.

As it stands i've spent most of my time on it and lost a forest to a pyromaniac *cough*shrike*cough* that was supposed to fuel the wood for it, so I really don't want to tear it down unless I must.

Also getting this error:

Failed to connect to the server

Connection refused: connect

Minecraft servers seem to be fine, but this happened on the last MP world I played and I never managed to get back onto it, there was nothing that was visibly wrong on my side or their side, and the mc servers could not have been down every time I attempted (it would be very unlikely, I tried at different times of the day most days for about a month with no success). Might just be nothing, but i'd really like to get back to my projects.

creepers were climbing it and getting through our defences! it had to be done! I've given you loads of saplings and wood, and it wasn't JUST me...
the treehouse is too tower-like- have it similar to the tower above the sanctuary. (no corners)
I'm also getting that connection error.

Avatar 720 wrote:On the eyesore issue, my house is sporting a large wood tower (wood, not planks) that i'm slowly but surely trying to surround with actual trees (I think tree, dirt on the top piece of wood, sapling in that, rinse repeat should work), it's quite far from the spawn, but just need to see if people have noticed it/don't like it.

As it stands i've spent most of my time on it and lost a forest to a pyromaniac *cough*shrike*cough* that was supposed to fuel the wood for it, so I really don't want to tear it down unless I must.

Also getting this error:

Failed to connect to the server

Connection refused: connect

Minecraft servers seem to be fine, but this happened on the last MP world I played and I never managed to get back onto it, there was nothing that was visibly wrong on my side or their side, and the mc servers could not have been down every time I attempted (it would be very unlikely, I tried at different times of the day most days for about a month with no success). Might just be nothing, but i'd really like to get back to my projects.

As Lego has mentioned, the Beta code for multiplayer is very buggy and constantly crashes. He has the server set to reboot quite a few times during the day to hopefully prevent it from being down for long, but I'm sure its possible for something else to go wrong as well if its been down for a significant amount of time.

Doctadeth wrote:I love the Dakka SMP world...only thing is that my place is so out of the way that I get pounced on by mobs.

Yep, build an underground tunnel to it from the spawn, that's what everyone else has done...just use one of their tunnels that goes in your general direction and then split off when needed and create your own tunnel.

Also, if you're online when I'm online I tend to skip the nights using a command code unless I'm underground digging away. So if I'm online and night comes and you want to skip past it just send type me a message and I'll skip the night for you. Conversely, if anyone is online when I am and WANTS the nighttime (to get some string or gunpowder, etc), just let me know and I'll let night happen when requested.

the treehouse is too tower-like- have it similar to the tower above the sanctuary. (no corners)

All we can use are square blocks, having no corners is impossible

Been getting 'connection refused: connect' for about half an hour now :/

Working on the escape tunnel....sea is kinda annoying though.


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Refused connection again....lawl this is irritating.

I'm loving this. When i actually manage to get on you'll see deep mining at it's finest. Maybe.

looks like the server crashed last night, but the automated rebooter saved it, (automatically resets the server every 6 hours).

Nice to finally get on this morning, built a nice little tree house east (i think) of the sancturary and explored the area around it. Already fallen into a rather large cave, still I can't complain too much I did get 30 coal and 26 iron out of it.

world map updated:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/new/world.png

LOL take a look at the LHS corner....I set a fire going....lol.

legoburner wrote:world map updated:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/new/world.png

I can see my shack from up there!

I still haven't got this game yet. I will though...

If you want to play offline though, ask someone who has an account and you can download the game through them.

Melissia wrote:If you want to play offline though, ask someone who has an account and you can download the game through them.

I didn't know you could do that. What's the advantages of playing online?

Multiplayer, easier access to patches.