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mondo80 wrote:I saw something weird on my new 1.8 map, a skely was shooting at me and hit a zombie, then the zombie attacked the skely. the skely died ant then I finished off the zombie with my axe.

that's normal. When a skeleton shoots another hostile mob, the mob attacks it. That's one way of getting a old disc- getting a skeleton to kill a creeper.

Deathklaat wrote:anyone having issues connecting to the server? i did not update and i cannot join the server.

It's been fairly dodgy recently. My minecraft lagged out and then froze on the black screen of death upon attempting to reconnect.
I also cannot change skin or go onto minecraft.net via the favorites link on my toolbar.

I tested 1.8 some more on a backup of the Dakka world again last night. Land is generated correctly and apart from sheer cliffs at the boundary and the 1 block drop in ocean level, it's all fine. When a large ocean biome is generated, they can be around 2000 blocks wide (that's about the same size as the current map of the Dakka world! - but not as big as the Dakka world itself of course) and sometimes even larger if two ocean biomes join up. But there is land at the other end, it is not an infinite ocean.

I also saw villages, abandoned mines, canyons and rivers being generated on the Dakka world so it definitely is all working fine.

There is also one negative or positive bug (depending on your viewpoint). The Endermen do not attack if you look at them and then look away. This seems to be a SMP bug only, but is not a major one, just makes the Endermen less scary. They still attack and chase you if you hurt them though.

However, if an Endermen picks up a block, it is not dropped when they are killed. So if an Enderman picks up a precious blue wool, iron or diamond block etc, you've pretty much lost it. I've not seen an Enderman place a block down again yet, but haven't really had the patience to hang about waiting. This sounds annoying, but I don't think it will be more of an issue than creepers blowing up your stuff, at least it's only one block this time, and the chance of them choosing one of the thousands of dirt blocks instead is much higher.

notch wrote:Minecraft 1.8.1 is up, fixing a shift click bug!

If this fix stops the game crashing when you overfill a chest or your inventory, then I might, *might*, update the server this evening.

Who else wants to make a pirate ship in one of the ocean biomes?

Could even use dirt blocks to trade.

I'm more interested in this "easier to increase maximum height" note in the patch notes


... wat?

Clouds are now at the invisible ceiling rather than below it and cutting through the floor of whatever tall building may be there. Though I think it would have just been better if they gave servers the option to change the height of the clouds in a config file.

Grundz wrote:I'm more interested in this "easier to increase maximum height" note in the patch notes


... wat?

It's for modders who want to make the game taller than 128.

mondo80 wrote:I saw something weird on my new 1.8 map, a skely was shooting at me and hit a zombie, then the zombie attacked the skely. the skely died ant then I finished off the zombie with my axe.

That happens a lot.

Found a village at my spawn in my new world (wanted to see how the "Dakka" seed had changed). Kind of sucks how there are no NPCs in them, but after the first night wouldn't blame them. This is basically the back yard of the house I claimed.



On the other side of the house was another Ender and two creepers.

Don't you realize? Those villages are built by the Endermen! They're ancient biological building devices, pre-programmed with specific instructions for paths, blacksmith shops, and houses. The rest of the Minecraftia civilization died out centuries ago to a zombie plague, and these 'Ender-men' (named so because they were meant to 'end' manual labor) continued with their pre-programmed duties. However, over the centuries, the biological code has deteriorated a bit. If they are interrupted in their work (looking at them interrupts them, because that was their signal to stop for new instructions) they go berserk, and attempt to 'remove the obstacle' keeping them from doing their job.

biccat wrote:

Grundz wrote:I'm more interested in this "easier to increase maximum height" note in the patch notes


... wat?

It's for modders who want to make the game taller than 128.

DO WANT

I have one question for you guys: What's that giant, floating white ball supposed to be?

I've been reading this thread to learn more about the game, and I came across the world map....and noticed the giant ball...Is it just a huge decoration or is it a floating home/evil lair?

The giant ball near the sanctuary? If it's the one I think it is it's a sun Lego made out of glowstone. No idea if it actually has a house in it as an OP could quite easily have a house like that using the teleport command.

Edit: Night two


Ender Pearls could probably be used as currency I guess since we don't really seem to have one on the Dakka server and they kind of look nice.

Anvildude wrote:...They're ancient biological building devices, pre-programmed with specific instructions for paths, blacksmith shops, and houses... ...However, over the centuries, the biological code has deteriorated a bit. If they are interrupted in their work (looking at them interrupts them... ...they go berserk, and attempt to 'remove the obstacle' keeping them from doing their job.

Trimmed your quote, because this way it just sounds like you're describing an average Minecraft player :-P

mega_bassist wrote:I have one question for you guys: What's that giant, floating white ball supposed to be?

The small yellow ball is Lego's sun, the giant floating white ball is Biccat's evil lair (don't know if it's actually evil). I actually walk past it 3 mins into this video, but my computer was acting up and it didn't get fully loaded/rendered so you can only see a few small bits of it there.

Any 'ETA' for the server to be up? (For the 1.8 update)

darkinnit wrote:

mega_bassist wrote:I have one question for you guys: What's that giant, floating white ball supposed to be?

The small yellow ball is Lego's sun, the giant floating white ball is Biccat's evil lair (don't know if it's actually evil). I actually walk past it 3 mins into this video, but my computer was acting up and it didn't get fully loaded/rendered so you can only see a few small bits of it there.

It very well could be evil.

You'll have to go there and find out, MUHAHAHAHA!

I need to test 1.8 on the live server before I let you all connect (make sure chests and inventory don't crash it and that the world generation still works correctly on the live server's slightly different setup), and I can't play Minecraft at work...

Assuming everything is ok, I'd say in about 3 hours time perhaps?


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biccat wrote:It very well could be evil.

You'll have to go there and find out, MUHAHAHAHA!

Obviously the cloaking device was powerful enough to stop it being recorded on video :-P

Horray!

Thanks for doing all this testing Dark!

Had a few days with not much more than a lot of skeletons and zombies. Being bored I removed all light sources in the village besides my house.

Then the Enders showed up with a bunch of creepers, spawning in the top floor of the church and leveling it.




Also Enders seem to be annoying if they remember they can teleport multiple times. One I was fighting would warp away before my sword would hit it and kept darting around the place before I filled it with arrows.

I haven't really tried survival 1.8 yet, the time I have spent on it has mostly been on creative.

I LOVE TNT EXPLOSIONS!


I have been mining a huge cavern underground with a few hundered pieces of TNT. I have a world just for TNT now.

Creepers are infinitely easier to kill now, just sprint, smack it with the sword of your choosing, and walk backwards, then repeat. the sprint smack knocks it back past its fuse range

n0t_u wrote:Who else wants to make a pirate ship in one of the ocean biomes?

Could even use dirt blocks to trade.

already made a pirate ship, near to iffymoo's tower, bag end and felsistan.

shrike wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Who else wants to make a pirate ship in one of the ocean biomes?

Could even use dirt blocks to trade.

already made a pirate ship, near to iffymoo's tower, bag end and felsistan.

Make another one!

Make a whole fleet!

RaptorsTallon wrote:

shrike wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Who else wants to make a pirate ship in one of the ocean biomes?

Could even use dirt blocks to trade.

already made a pirate ship, near to iffymoo's tower, bag end and felsistan.

Make another one!

Make a whole fleet!

okay. I will make a very british ship for the fleet, and maybe we should make an aircraft carrier too? that'd be awesome.

shrike wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:

shrike wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Who else wants to make a pirate ship in one of the ocean biomes?

Could even use dirt blocks to trade.

already made a pirate ship, near to iffymoo's tower, bag end and felsistan.

Make another one!

Make a whole fleet!

okay. I will make a very british ship for the fleet, and maybe we should make an aircraft carrier too? that'd be awesome.

I want to be the captian of the Aircraft Carrier!

Prehaps if we get a group together, we can each have our own ship?

I get the Airship!

I get the Spaceship!

If it comes to that, I also want the Time Ship

Only one ship per! However, you could have that Aircraft carrier that travels back in time, from that one movie.

There we go then. Time Traveling Aircraft Carrier!

And i want a passport so i can ride on a boat back into the server because I'm feeling really nostalgic.