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Don't worry about blocking up the tunnel, I think I only opened up the wall to make sure I was using the correct height to match your system. I think you were planning on using coal carts so they push multiple carts at once?

I was thinking of maybe having some kind of junction (there are various systems possible), or we could just have the track turn there and follow alongside your track. Whichever.

I mainly ran that path all the way out there without doing anything else to it to wait and see if anyone had any objections. It's been there for a few weeks now, so I'd say it's safe to start making it look more like your rail system. (Unless anyone does have any objections?)

One of the neat new features in the latest snapshot is that if you log out or disconnect while in a minecart, when you login again, you'll still be in the minecart (in the same spot though). So that's a nice touch if we're putting together such a large system, less runaway or lost carts.

Dark, is the vanilla server back up yet? I cant get on, and accordint to isminecraftdown, MC isnt down

Yep, in case you missed the announcement a few posts back, the server address got changed to:
mc.dakkadakka.com
So update your entry in the Multiplayer list if you haven't done so already.

ok, cheers.

Sucks. With the various medical bills amongst family and pets I've helped pay for, I haven't really been able to upgrade my computer this year. And with my processor seeming to be really showing its age (lots of CPU usage leaks and the like), I haven't been able to play minecraft without incredible CPU lag.

Just gonna have to wait. Ah, that's life

@Melissia, sorry if you already know this, but if you close *everything* else on the PC, and then select the javaw process in Task Manager and assign it High priority, MC runs a lot more smoothly (it's the most reliable way I can get mine to run without CPU lag).


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(You need to have MC running before you can select javaw, natch)

And would logging off whilst in a minecart remove the cart as well, or would it carry on going down the track? Just wondering how it would work, and perhaps if someone could say come along and redirect the rail into a hole full of clowns or the like...

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
@Melissia, sorry if you already know this, but if you close *everything* else on the PC, and then select the javaw process in Task Manager and assign it High priority, MC runs a lot more smoothly (it's the most reliable way I can get mine to run without CPU lag).


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(You need to have MC running before you can select javaw, natch)

I know what JavaW is.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
And would logging off whilst in a minecart remove the cart as well, or would it carry on going down the track? Just wondering how it would work, and perhaps if someone could say come along and redirect the rail into a hole full of clowns or the like...

Apparently you "take the cart with you". As for redirecting the track, they can already do that.

Meh.

This new?

It's not too new, I started building it some time ago but have been on a forced break from Minecraft due to University deadlines and dissertations. Not to mention how long it is taking me to collect enough nether Brick to keep going with it. (my ign is storm_lord92) It's not in the way of anything is it? I was pretty sure everything in the immediate area was mine

Whoa. Also, rememeber that in a coming update, you can smelt Netherwrack to Netherbrick. Lots more available.

I kinda want (when we get Quartz) to find an unexplored chunk of the Nether and just start a full-on strip mine.

Oh no its not in the way or anything. I was just surfing about the map during some downtime in class today and came across it. Just hadn't noticed it before is all. =)

The 1.5 update is scheduled for next week ;-)

Hurrah! Maybe it'll prompt me to start playing minecraft again. I hate these pre releases that take ages to come out then I can never remember what is in the game and what isn't.

I hope it'll drag me back into it too...

Christ knows i need to finish off the Railway soonish

My goal will be to cook all the netherrack I have!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
My goal will be to cook all the netherrack I have!

your going to have a shortage of coal

Haha, I think so!

That's what Charcoal is for!

Anvildude wrote:
That's what Charcoal is for!

Its vanillia trees take a long freaking time to cut down. :/ I actually dislike vanillia now because of trees.....

That's because nobody ever bothers to make enchanted diamond axes.

Also, it's rather fun to make Oak-tree cubes. You can plant Oak saplings right next to each other and they'll all grow into each other and through the leaves of the one next to/above it.

Anvildude wrote:
That's because nobody ever bothers to make enchanted diamond axes.

Also, it's rather fun to make Oak-tree cubes. You can plant Oak saplings right next to each other and they'll all grow into each other and through the leaves of the one next to/above it.

Hey I played skyblock and skyblock advanced, i know most of the tricks. Cobblestone generators, easy ways to build stuff with little trouble. Also mob spawners (Effective) and a few other hundred tricks i learned from it.

But yeah, diamond axes are quite useless as fortune does nothing to help the axes.
Pick axes yes.
And swords.

Minecraft 1.5 is out:
http://mojang.com/2013/03/minecraft-1-5-is-published/



Server is updated

Yay! Now to begin a long and boring journey across the Nether to try and find Quartz ore

I'll help on the journey. I'm planning on finding a new chunk, and just strip-mining the thing up to bedrock and down to Void. If I can, I'd love to be able to actually re-name the Grey Mesa to the White Mesa. Or at least the inner Keep. Just sheathe it in Quartz.

Or use the pillar blocks, that'd be neat too.


Also, we'll need to see what can be done with pressure plates, chest carts, detector plates, signal thingummies, and all that. I'm getting some ideas...



What do you think- could we use a Comparator to determine how many carts are on the track, and so only push that many rails aside? I'll have to do some testing, I think...

Well, having been out on a trip, I was able to return with just over three stacks of Quartz, so I was pretty satisfied with it. Just remember to take a Fortune pick with you, helps no end with the collecting

So, I have either discovered a weird glitch or someone nicked several paintings from my house... Anyone else have paintings go missing after the update?

Edit: Just looked it up. Appears to be a bug. Can be fixed by logging in and out.

Thanks for the update, will keep it in mind.