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**Baron von Felixton**

Anyone know how to fix the crashes when I am lgging into the game?

**Corpsesarefun**

Baron von Felixton wrote:Anyone know how to fix the crashes when I am lgging into the game?

Restarting my pc fixes it for me.

**Baron von Felixton**

I've had crashes since the update and my PC has been switched on and off multiple times during that period but it still doesn't work

**Requia**

Baron von Felixton wrote:Anyone know how to fix the crashes when I am lgging into the game?

Start it up from the console (command prompt) so you can get an error message. Google the error message.

**EagleArk**

When you create a new world now, whats the "seed"?

**ghosty**

That's a point. Do you think there'd be any way all us Dakka Community could make a server and Minecraft together?

**Melissia**

Sure we could, but the SMP code is buggy as all hell.

**Melkhiordarkblade**

To be fair I want to stay away from mega builds.

My castle is a fair size.

When my Cathedrael is done it will propably be only a tat bigger than the castle and it's walls.

Mega builds are cool and everything,but
1.Even my fair sized castle is a ton of work.
2.I would seriously have nothing to do with all the interior space of a mega build,it would drive me mad looking at it.
And 3. I like my land looking humble. I actually have only a very small area built up.

**Corpsesarefun**

Another shot

Will eventually be a downloadable adventure world for you guys to play though.

**Footsloggin**

I cannot wait for that adventure.

**Runer60000**

Although I was really doubting this games potential for fun when I first saw it, Minecraft has easily become one of the best games I have ever played in my life, probably THE best. I am currently working on a huge smooth stone "Temple"(I call it a temple because it kinda reminds me of one, it looks like the Acropolis, since I love Greek and Roman architecture

), and it is a pain to build, especially the stone slap roof(I dont want the steep angles i get from normal blocks), but its gonna be pretty impressive, in my opinion, especially once i finish the inside. It wont really have a purpose, except to look cool.

I hate how the multiplayer servers are down a lot, though.

**Requia**

EagleArk wrote:When you create a new world now, whats the "seed"?

I'll ditch the long involved number theory post and just say this: each seed should create the world the same way each time. So if you took my seed (Hail to the King) and plugged that in, it would generate the exact same world (in theory).

**johnscott10**

Requia wrote:
EagleArk wrote:When you create a new world now, whats the "seed"?

I'll ditch the long involved number theory post and just say this: each seed should create the world the same way each time. So if you took my seed (Hail to the King) and plugged that in, it would generate the exact same world (in theory).

I think thats mostly the gist of it however people have been reporting they get something different when they use the same seed as somebody else, so it may be that it depends locally what world is generated and not globally. So having the code "Hail to the King" would create 2 very different worlds globally but would create the same world over and over locally. I havnt tested this however.

**Corpsesarefun**

If I recall correctly the seed value you imput is not the seed for all the variables, some remain based on the seeds used to previously create worlds.

Also I need your help, minecrafting dakkanauts, to fill my pyramid with puzzles and traps. Does anyone know or have good idea's for player traps that are challenging or subtle?

**Melissia**

Simplest trap is a one way entrance with an iron door and a pressure plate in front of it.

Another one is four doors surrounding a pressure plate, position the doors so that they're open normally but once you step on that plate, the doors shut trapping you inside.

Another one is to have a pressure plate ontop of TNT, and a pitfall below the tnt so they then fall to their death after it explodes. This one obviously has to be manually rebuilt.

Arrow traps are simple, a dispenser with arrows in them linked to a pressure plate, fires arrows at the victim. Doesnt' do much damage but can be used to knock players off of a ledge. You have to keep them with a supply of arrows though.

It's also possible to use the way liquid physics works to make lava traps, but they have to be manually reset.

**Tyyr**

I've read up on the seeds on the minecraft forums and there are several threads of people all using the same seed and exploring the world together for a weird hybrid SSP/SMP kind of thing. So far they are apparently all getting pretty much the same worlds to explore. I don't think I've seen anyone confirming it chunk by chunk but they've been finding caves and ore deposits in the same places.

The nice thing about seeds is that you can use them to get roughly the kind of world you want. For instance using my minecraft name, Tyyrlym, you get a vast Tundra/Taiga starting area. If that's what you're after you can use my name as your seed and be sure that's what you'll get. Same for highly mountainous, flat, oceans, etc. I want to find a rainforest seed with lots of mountains.

**Melissia**

Let's all create a new world called Dakka using the seed "DAKKA" then and see what we each make of it.

**Tyyr**

Works for me. While I'm enjoying the castle I've got the itch to explore and do other things. However I want to put up my castle save for others to look at so I don't want it getting huge.

Oh, and with seeds capitalization matters. For a seed dakka =/= DAKKA so get it right.

**Melissia**

Yeah. And seriously, DAKKA is a nice starting place. Lots of wood, a good amount of cacti, a starting source of sugar, and some iron and coal within quick reach via caves. I started at the border of a desert and a forest region. It should be interesting to see what people make out of this.

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Found eighteen iron ore on the first day without digging deeper than ten spaces down... heh...

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Second day on DAKKA seed, I've amassd more than a full stack of iron ingots.

**Tyyr**

Wow, sounds nice. I'll definitely be giving it a try. If there's a desert it's time to build my sandstone fort.

**Melissia**

Dunno how large it is but yeah, there's a desert nearby.

Also, I just downloaded an update apparently.

From the wiki:

1.3_01 February 23, 2011
Bugfixes:
Dependencies on Java 1.6 are gone
Fixed the recent issues on some Macs in which the game would crash when "Singleplayer" button was clicked on
Able to connect Client to Minecraft Server 1.3

**Tyyr**

Yeah, I got that a few days ago.

What kind of water do you start off next to? Pond, lake, ocean?

**Melissia**

Looks like a river or a long lake, but I haven't explored much in that direction.

**Tyyr**

Ohhh, definitely going to have to check this out. Time to give my cell phone's tethering ability a work out and try out a new world on my laptop.

**Melissia**

Ech, now I see why people get different results. Actually seeds provide the same world but spawn points are random...

**Requia**

Yeah, was just gonna say I generated the world a couple times (decided not to destroy a big tree, and save it for later) and I got the same world but spawned in a totally different spot.

**Tyyr**

Are coords based off spawn location or can we use them to plot where everyone is spawning and build a usable map?

**EagleArk**

Anybody know of a seed that gives a relitivley flat world? I get bored of leveling mountains...

**Corpsesarefun**

Used DAKKA seed, my spawn is x=76.5 y=66.6 z=-148.5

**EagleArk**

corpsesarefun wrote:Used DAKKA seed, my spawn is x=76.5 y=66.6 z=-148.5

Mine is x=-51 y=64.6 z=-44.

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Gone to those coordinates, did you spawn in a small desert biome with a pool?