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darkinnit wrote:
One of the problems is that the sticky pistons occasionally stop being sticky...

that is the purpose of the repeater directly next to the sticky repeater, if it is set to zero delay sometimes the piston will "let go" of the glass block and break it, this is because the cobbler fires faster than 1 tic now with invertors.

Only outputting 1 cobble makes me sad but i guess it beats the alternative (making the ceiling above the cobble contain lava )

I already anti-enderman'd it, using Corpses' suggestion of making the floors only two blocks high.

I also built a new larger underground/hidden one at the spawn area, so we could decomission that old one if people find it ugly.

Honestly putting it so it pushes the cobble downwards instead of side or upwards would make it more tamper resistant.

just another thing to sondier when/if we redo the server.

Grundz wrote:that is the purpose of the repeater directly next to the sticky repeater, if it is set to zero delay sometimes the piston will "let go" of the glass block and break it

Ah, I'll edit that next time I'm on then. I've not seen the glass get broken, just "released".

yeah thats what i ment, "released"
its a function of the cobbler working faster than minecraft understands events should happen

are you still building a big underground mobber or what now? is my melon farm in the start area still working?

I like the way you're thinking, unfortunately if it's pushing the blocks down, it would be more tamper-friendly, as when it breaks down, someone could just "jump and place a block below" up into the mechanism, even if it was just a one block gap.

Currently there is no way to walk through a one block gap horizontally (at least not until Ender Pearls work in SMP...)


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Heh this thread is also running faster than we are replying :-P

The mob trap at the spawn is complete and working. Your melon farm was still a-ok last time I looked.

dark: if you hop up the cobble shaft you will eventually reach the lava which will be closing the gap above your head (making the assumption that the entire thing is padded with obsidium //edit BEDROCK i mean
from there your option is to try and jump through and get suffocated by cobble or burn to death in cobble, the worse someone could do it break the glass block (maybe, if the server is lagging and the cobble doesn't reload fast enough)

Aha, fair point. In that case, we can implement the vertical solution when the Ender Pearls make the current defenses vulnerable.

Yep, i mean if we are a real jerk we could put a side cavern with flowing water that will drop someone into a bedrock box should they be wanting to tamper with things that badly.

When new server is closer, can I make the new start area in Single player creative and have it imported rather than have you do the grunt work for me?

Grundz wrote:can I make the new start area in Single player creative and have it imported rather than have you do the grunt work for me?

Trouble is if I did that I'd then be flooded with requests of other people wanting to bring their SSP creations in "just like that". I appreciate your enthusiasm but I'd like to draw the line at post-build bedrock protection for the spawn point stuff only.

I figured as much, but thought the start area would be an exception, because its the start area.

darkinnit wrote:I already anti-enderman'd it, using Corpses' suggestion of making the floors only two blocks high.

we could decomission that old one if people find it ugly.

That's good, but please don't decomission the old one. I want to improve upon it, make it look good. I shall maintain and look after it for now on; so don't you worry.

New pre-release today

corpsesarefun wrote:New pre-release today

Any new stuff in it?

Potions, sky portals, enchanting tables

corpsesarefun wrote:Potions, sky portals, enchanting tables

Interesting.....

I will have to look into this further.

There's this thread for a more detailed discussion of what's known so far:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/651591-%E2%96%BA-update19-new-features-official-report-on-new-features-part-3-is-released/

[Ahem]
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/122249624407916544

apparently there is gonna be a sky city built soon on the dakka server the idea was started by andyroo9000 (MC:marzipan309) he wants people to help him, any offers?

darkinnit wrote:[Ahem]
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/122249624407916544

OMG! What are those tower-things? They're in the middle of the desert, but they're not cacti since they're so much taller than the endermen. Any ideas?

biccat wrote:

darkinnit wrote:[Ahem]
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/122249624407916544

OMG! What are those tower-things? They're in the middle of the desert, but they're not cacti since they're so much taller than the endermen. Any ideas?

I do believe that's the sky-land (IIRC), and those towers, I have no idea, but I'm guessing they're just decorative pillars, maybe with a similar density as stone.

Heres an idea. How about we get back into a big teamwork project, much like Gooda's hall. We should think of something to do mainly together.

darkinnit wrote:[Ahem]
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/122249624407916544

Tbh it looks like an untextured dragon to me, I will most likely be wrong XD

I thought the docks was a pretty big teamwork project that appears to be largely successful

chompy158 wrote:apparently there is gonna be a sky city built soon on the dakka server the idea was started by andyroo9000 (MC:marzipan309) he wants people to help him, any offers?

Diddleshot, there's your answer.
that or the manor still needs lots of work

Also it's hard to tell from the lighting but the pillars look like either netherbrick or obsidian. Maybe netherbidian? :-D

darkinnit wrote:Also it's hard to tell from the lighting but the pillars look like either netherbrick or obsidian. Maybe netherbidian? :-D

I'd go for obsidian, the texture looks like it, but the colour's not there.

Hmm, anyone have any idea no how to dig a huge, huge hole in the ground quickly? all the way to bedrock, possibly lots of dynomite that will naturally fall when lit (I think?)

Grundz wrote:Hmm, anyone have any idea no how to dig a huge, huge hole in the ground quickly? all the way to bedrock, possibly lots of dynomite that will naturally fall when lit (I think?)

Yeah, if you are far enough away from other people not to blow up their stuff, then explosives work well.

Has the server crashed... again?