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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'

yakface wrote:

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...

Hrm. I think I don't like detector rails anymore.

Powered rails sure, but detector rails... maybe if I used them in some form of elaborate door mechanism or something...

is anyone getting End of Stream errors?

Yep

Well Minecraft certainly don't beat around the bush when they said they improved the performance; it runs so smoothly on my Laptop now.

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.

In a fit of madness I decided to add my face to the server.

Need to kill it with fire!

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.

I'm glad Yak's skipping the night at the moment.

Keeps timing out for me.

We need to get an updated picture of the Dakka world!!!

Yak or lego spawn some "30" and have a look at it, it is called web and I am terrified if spiders can make it.

From the wiki:

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.

Also, I just found out that creepers struck by lightning double in explosive power.




...mommy...

Thunder storms also allow hostile mobs to spawn during the day as Yak Face and I found out at the valley of death.

Woo. This is gonna be fun.

Induction area and weather. Hehehehe

Beta 1.5_01 released, so patch notes away.

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.


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The mob attacked with a sword thing though... that's kinda problematic, I don't have nearly enough feather to stick with bows.

I had a creeper get struck just outside my home, it left a massive crater for me to plug up... Almost as big as TNT

Anyone got difficulties logging into multiplayer?

Yep.

Servers got an update, heh.

Requia wrote:This would of course happen while I'm in the middle of making a rail line.


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The mob attacked with a sword thing though... that's kinda problematic, I don't have nearly enough feather to stick with bows.

Zombie pigman? Does lighting spawn them hostile?

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.

I also noticed, either weather isnt global OR its restricted by biome...

When it was raining, I was in the big desert biome northish of the santuary and it was not raining, Once I got out of the desert area tho its started.

Well it could be worse; their could be terrible log in issues...

Oh wait.