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I'm with Gangsta -- we spent a LOT of time on those tunnels! I pretty much made the Great North Tunnel myself and it is very aesthetic.

I don't think #3 would be a huge hassle because we have the tunnels, and the rail system beneath that goes pretty much to the end of each tunnel. Head another few blocks through the Nether and you should be in new chunks...

is option 2 like you did with the oceans? keep our stuff and delete everything else?

if yes, I like that option and you can cut the west tunnel off at about 3k and reset everything after that.

else just leave it as it,

I'd be fine for 1 or 2.

I was the architect (pretty much singularly, I think) of the East Tunnel, and honestly, I'd be fine with it getting deleted. Of course, for me, designing and building massive biome-spanning structures is sot of my bread-and-butter.

I understand wanting to keep the other big builds in the Nether, though. The pig farm especially, as I know that was a massive, MASSIVE undertaking (even if it needs a slight update).

1 or 2.

I am fine with a revamp of the environment especially because of all the new biomes. And the fact it really doesn't take too long now with a beacon or a pickaxe to reset the nether.

I think we only need to keep spawn nether and thats about it. we can rebuild the nether tunnels, as most of it is renewable resource anyway.

Minecraft 1.16 is now out for the Java edition:
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/nether-update-java

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hee603/welcome_to_the_nether_minecraft_java_edition_116/

I'm going to try to use the MCASelector tool to keep the inhabited sections of the nether while trimming sections that people have only briefly passed through. I recommend you do not log off in the nether, particularly if you are in a remote area. You can use the Minecraft launcher to select version 1.15.2 of Minecraft if you want to log back on to the server.

I don't plan to update the server today, I want to wait and see if any particularly bad bugs are reported.

all things considered though, if we're considering a complete nether reset, then let's go the whole 9 yards and start over

I mean honestly it doesn't take too long to redo tunnels anyway... So its not that big of a deal if it is reset.

Hopefully it should be fairly easy to keep the tunnels - especially the main four - and they will allow for quick and easy traversal to get to all the new biomes.

mcaselector will allow selecting all chunks with specific blocks in them (for example stone bricks, obsidian, etc) which should make it trivial to keep player-made structures as long as you haven't made your tunnels/bridges entirely out of netherrack or netherbrick...

I do have quite extensive and reasonably fancy 3x3 tunnels off the Great North Tunnel too... don't much mind remaking them as long as I can have a bunch of resources to do so (mostly netherbrick fence, torches, polished granite slabs and polished andesite I think, plus stuff to make powered railway lines)

I just think the new Nether is really, _really_ neat. Such that, were we to do a full reset, we might actually want to do entirely new tunnel designs to work with the given environment.

Just an idle thought, though. And again, I'm coming at this as someone who's very much about the designing and building of megaprojects as my fun part.


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Hm... Think we're ever going to get any of the Minecraftungeons weapons and stuff in the base game? I kinda would love to be able to Glaive or Hammer.

I'm sort of curious if anyone's built a Dungeons-style dungeon in the game, yet.

I would love some minecraft dungeon cross over stuff. It would be a ton of fun.

The Soul mechanic would be an interesting one, for sure.

I also figure they could add in dual-wielding if they really wanted to. Wouldn't even have to be full-on Dw.

Make it so that there's a knife (and maybe a sickle), and they do their attack action with a right-click, and nothing with a left-click. Then give them low damage, and high attack recharge. And I think it'd work where you could attack with, say, a sword or axe in your main hand, then while the attack meter is recharging, if you attack with an off-hand weapon, the recharge gets reset and replaced with the much quicker cooldown of the dagger or sickle.

Anvil -- yeah I quite like big transit projects too... but it's more about some of the lengthy and often tricky smaller transit projects where it'd be a faff even to figure out the route again. It's not a dealbreaker though and if we have to start from scratch I'm broadly OK with it. Be nice to get a bunch of materials if we do though (i used up a huge amount of glowstone in the Great North Tunnel, frex).

Here's a preview of how close I've managed to get the new biomes to existing tunnels:



Not too shabby!

As there's not been many bugs reported on 1.16 (and we're already onto 1.16.1 for a Realms patch), I'm going to take the server offline and do the upgrade. Give me some time to redo the chunk stitching with the current latest copy of the server and I'll let you all know when it's up and ready to play with

you are the man

The Dakka Minecraft Server has been updated to 1.16.1!

Enjoy!

2 sounded good to me, I invested a fair bit of effort into the Ulm nether hub and the Ulm-Jungle ruins line

You're some kind of superstar, Dark -- thank you!

How many people are actually on the server these days?

I've been waiting for the Nether Update before jumping back into Minecraft and joining the server. So, I'll be on this weekend to scout out a homestead for me.

I guess I can poke my head back in sometime over the weekend, too. I've been doing so much OT at work I really don't have the energy for any of my usual gaming. Minecraft seems like it's at about the right pace.

I got on for a bit last night - pretty seamless work, Dark! I lost my old, wild paths to my far-away places, but I expected that.

Is this server map from Darkinnit's signature accurate?
https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-192/64/256/-9/Dakka%20-%20overworld/Regular

I've been studying it for nearly 10 minutes, and every time I think I've found somewhere I'd like to call "home", someone is already there or they're too close for me to be willing to risk encroaching on their space as time goes on.

Yea, the main area has pretty much been explored. If you want a fresh start with access to the main spawn, you can take the teleporter in the subway. There's been some modest work at the other side of the teleporter but most of the "new" area is still unexplored.

I have found a little place to call home. A small island not too far from the jungle the teleporter connects to. For being a fairly small island, it actually incorporates two separate biomes: flower forest and sunflower plains. Snagged some bamboo from the jungle, so I can grow that for furnace fuel and got some carrots I picked up at spawn to grow as food. No animals on the island, so once I mine out some iron for armor and can safely explore more, I'll try to find some animals to bring back.

Any ideas as to where I can easily find an unlooted end city in the End? Trying to find an elytra and some shulker shells. Spent an hour exploring islands the slow way and just ended up finding two other portals back to the central island. Or should I just build a piston flying machine and let it take me in one direction for as long as it takes?

The "north" section of The End seemed to be the least explored according to the online map before it was partially reset. If it's an elytra you need, I probably have a spare I don't need that you can have. Slap unbreaking and mending on it and it will last forever.

Actually, I don't think elytra disappear when their durability runs out anyway, so yeah. I know where your base is near NuSpawn, I'll drop it there if I find an extra.

Wow, thanks! Looks like today's project will be to build a mob farm to stock up on gunpowder to make rockets for flying.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Wow, thanks! Looks like today's project will be to build a mob farm to stock up on gunpowder to make rockets for flying.

I keep meaning to do that near my base...what design are you going with?

I'll build the one that's a series of stacked platforms that use linked observers and dispensers to use water to push them of the edge of the platforms. I'll build mine in the ocean by my base rather than in the sky.