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He was caught short on top of the hill.

I got killed by an enderman while inside my mountain, he teleported in. Someone told me they don't like water. So I insulated my mountain in water (well, it'll be insulated when I finish rebuilding it over the top). Also, its entertaining and distracting.

They can still teleport through it AFAIK, so I don't think sheathing the mountain in it will do much.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
They can still teleport through it AFAIK, so I don't think sheathing the mountain in it will do much.

Someone mentioned that in the ingame chat, I wanted to disbelieve.

I feared someone else would say the same thing, but I'm already dedicated to the build, so I'll finish it and then keep fiddling away at the inside

For the record, Iustis, this is how I'm planning on extending the road.

You said you wanted to connect to it?


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 Melissia wrote:
For those that want to look at the first design I came up with for my fortress walls and corner towers, here it is:
Click the green button that says "Download (179.58 KB)"

Reposting this here since it was near the end of last page.

Please, please PLEASE! Put roadsigns on there. At all the intersections, even. And mile markers, too.

I'm too lazy to do mile markers. But I I will put road signs.

Yeh that's pretty much how I thought it'd be.



Just need to hook up the other end to the manor path and it'll be connected back to spawn. But, making that part is not something I'm looking forward to, quite a bit of mountains and water in the way.

To be honest, I'm actually looking forward to the water portion of mine. It's easier to make bridges than it is to make roads in minecraft-- less mobs to deal with.

Well, to celebrate the combined power of page 500 of the Minecraft thread, and my 1000th post, I present you with THIS:


In case the image there is broken, or you just want to copy/paste the URL, that's tekkit.darkinnit.com (in a Technic Launcher set to Tekkit)

Requirements
You need the Technic Launcher to play. When you run it, set it to "Tekkit" (rather than "Technic") in the top left hand corner of the launcher, before logging in.

Whitelist
I'm just going to have it share the Dakka whitelist. If you're whitelisted for the Dakka Minecraft server, you're whitelisted for the Tekkit server too. Nice and simple (but as this is my server, I'm not ruling out the chance that this will change).

The Dakka Minecraft Server
If you don't want to install the Technic launcher, don't trust it or just have no interest, then don't worry - the regular Dakka Minecraft server is not going away, I will continue to maintain both (and I will still probably spend most of my time in the original server, once the Tekkit spawn is more complete). This Tekkit server is just an alternate for all those who want to try Tekkit.

What's the difference between Technic and Tekkit?
Technic is a large collection of Single Player Mods. Tekkit is a smaller subset of those mods that are compatible with multiplayer.

Map
Here's a live map of the Tekkit server:
http://www.darkinnit.com/tekkitmap/
It shows updates in real time, including player positions. I understand this is even more big brother than the current Dakka map, so if you want to hide from the map, you can type "/dynmap hide" in game (no quotes) and you will not appear on the map (type "/dynmap show" to return to the map).

Teething problems
I've been testing it for a while and it seems ok, but I have little to no experience with Tekkit or Technic, so we may encounter some teething problems at first. Please let me know if anything at all is not right or not working as expected.

What about nukes/(other mass destruction device)?
I'm not disabling nukes or any other component of Tekkit (to begin with). I'd like to see how things go and then only change things if they become a major problem. Nukes and other destructive things will be handled just the same as TNT on the current Dakka Minecraft server. If you set one off on your own area, or out in the middle of nowhere, fine. If you destroy someone else's property, it's a ban, from both servers. If you accidentally destroy your own stuff with a nuke or device etc, you won't get much sympathy from me

Why Tekkit and not mod/gamemode/map x?
I've seen quite a few people say they've stopped playing Vanilla because of Technic, as well as several requests for a Tekkit server get passed around. I'll see how this goes. If interest dwindles, we can always try something different, but I hope to maintain this server to the same level as the Dakka Minecraft server if interest is sustained.


This is how far I've gotten so far, come show me how it's done!

Yay! Thanks Dark!

What's gonna be your rules on quarries? Since they can create huge (64x∞x64), unsightly pits relatively easily.

Found it!

Iustis and I have a small shelter set up with some furnaces, a project table, and some chests. I can expand it to fit whoever wants to build a bed there until they go find a place to build their own property.

Getting on right now, thank you Dark! you are awesome!


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Oh, and how can I get my skin to update? MCSkinSearch shows me my new one, but whenever I log onto minecraft it shows either steve or my old one...

Oh, and what version of tekkit?

Final edit, cool map, Dark, I can see what everyone on the server is saying!

Iustis, I'll happily help with the road extension, as long as I'm OK to also extend it the other way through the woods, to the Beanstalk or maybe the Iron Keep (undecided as yet -- I might even just have it go underground quite soon after it gets into the eastern part of the forest).

So, nukes are turned on?
Well, at least their recipe is hidden by default... so only those who know (like myslef) can make them, not that I will.. waste of uranium

and, in the spirit of the forums, I'm using a warhammer

Melissia wrote:Yay! Thanks Dark!

What's gonna be your rules on quarries? Since they can create huge (64x∞x64), unsightly pits relatively easily.

A lot of the stuff in Tekkit creates ugly things. So while I have no immediate issue with them, I'd advise people to use some common sense and don't build them on someone else's front porch. Always remember the world is massive, so if you want a pristine vista view, head out miles away (or play single player ).

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Oh, and what version of tekkit?

Final edit, cool map, Dark, I can see what everyone on the server is saying!

It's Tekkit 3.1.2 (which is Minecraft 1.2.5 underneath all the mods). I'll probably keep it up to date with whatever the latest stable version of Tekkit is.

I wasn't aware the map showed what people are saying (I hadn't tried talking to myself when testing). I'm not sure about it but I'll leave it on for now. If you want to hide from the map you can always type /dynmap hide

I'll probably be able log in to the server later this evening (BST). For now I'll just glance at the map every now and again, see who's not replanting my crops

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
Iustis, I'll happily help with the road extension, as long as I'm OK to also extend it the other way through the woods, to the Beanstalk or maybe the Iron Keep (undecided as yet -- I might even just have it go underground quite soon after it gets into the eastern part of the forest).

Of course.

Oh, Dark, you're currently losing 3-4 eu at the moment in your house, you may want to make a batbox and place it after your macerator.
If I find 5-6 diamonds, I'll probably make you some glass-fibre cable.

Wahey!

i'm going to jump into the tekkit server, just to try it out.

I've never tried it before so...

Now begins the war between the eco-friendly and the fires of industry!


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Oh, and if anybody gets a spare blaze rod or two that they wouldn't mind trading, let me know!

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Oh, Dark, you're currently losing 3-4 eu at the moment in your house, you may want to make a batbox and place it after your macerator.
If I find 5-6 diamonds, I'll probably make you some glass-fibre cable.

I'll take a look later this evening

Feel free to upgrade my quick-n-dirty farm if required though.

Dark, did you do eploring when you started up the map, or does that mean somebody's claimed that island down at the bottom?

lol i was totally going to log in and claim that island too.

 FM Ninja 048 wrote:
Dark, did you do eploring when you started up the map, or does that mean somebody's claimed that island down at the bottom?

No I didn't go exploring. Unlike the Dakka MC Server's 1.0 reset (when I had to explore to find places to put people's buildings), I figured this time it would be more fun for people to explore and get to find interesting land themselves.

 darkinnit wrote:

No I didn't go exploring. Unlike the Dakka MC Server's 1.0 reset (when I had to explore to find places to put people's buildings), I figured this time it would be more fun for people to explore and get to find interesting land themselves.

ahh.

Mel mentioned that somebody claimed it anyway.

Also I claim -9.87, +2496 and the surrounding area.

 FM Ninja 048 wrote:
Also I claim -9.87, +2496 and the surrounding area.

That's a point, from now on I think people will need to specify either the Dakka server or Tekkit server when making land claims, to avoid any confusion.

Iustis and I have managed to make the first non-Darkinnit spawn building that isn't just a cube of a single material

We're working on our second solar panel right now.

Well it was a lot of fun when we got philosopher's stones. Magic everywhere.

Urgh, It's broken already

:/