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Hmn, will have to check out the way texture packs work now. Previously I was editing the one file by hand (which I'm sure is the stupid way), but just having to paste in a single square for each block seems much more efficient.

Soooo, are the odsidian pillars in the End up for grabs, or...?

 Gitkikka wrote:
Soooo, are the odsidian pillars in the End up for grabs, or...?

AFAIK only the insides of them.

Bucket of water + any old pool of lava = profit...

...And it'd probably be quicker/yield more obsidian.

I need to test out 1.5 before I can (hopefully) make an entirely vanilla CTF server...but i need to find a way to make profit while keeping the server entirely vanilla. (as you have to pay for server hosting) any ideas? (as i cannot use the thing where you pay to get a special class as it is not vanilla) the only idea i got was typing in the text box 'like this server?...well keep it alive by visiting (insert web address here)!'

Vanilla makes that hard. Just do bukkit with a few plugins so you can have a rank system and rollback griefers.

Donate button maybe? Do you need a profit, or just to cover your costs?

Heh, so Quartz in the nether....
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/1314/64/41/-2/1/0


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For location reference, here's JambaYemon's "dangerous bridge"
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/1159/64/167/max/1/0

Oooh, that's a lot of quartz and not much lava... anyone up for a mining trip on Saturday sometime? Preferably finishing by around 10.30pm GMT at latest?

I think there is still all the lava, just you're only seeing the top layer of the nether there. I think the overviewer map renderer hasn't taken into account a new change in 1.5:

"Changed the Nether cave generator to that of the Overworld
Fixed cut off caves"

Basically cave tunnels (not the huge caverns) in the nether now generate like they do in the overworld. Like that warren of tunnels we were in when the zombie pigman turned hostile

You still get the huge caverns, but I think the new tunnel warrens above the caverns are blocking out the map's usual display of the caverns below.

Well I know that you cannot break stuff in adventure mode and with the new scoreboard command you can set teams so no team killing and also I want to make a small profit (I take business studies for GCSE's) as well as covering the costs....I have around £100 to start the server off on a small cheap server hoster (any good ones...tell me) and once the server is slightly popular I could do a couple of "create a map" days where people get to create maps for a small fee (like 99p) and have those maps set into the server forever. I also thought about a donator room where you are able to to post ideas about maps and taunt players in the prison (if the players hack on the server) and if you donate quite alot of money (such as £25) you get to be part of the staff of the server. It will also be team deathmatch not CTF. and some map ideas are...atlantis (underwater battle),illuminati temple(fire and lava everywhere),skyscraper(verticality!) and floating islands (the base server map will be superflat so it shouldnt be hard to make world holes.

 darkinnit wrote:
I think there is still all the lava, just you're only seeing the top layer of the nether there. I think the overviewer map renderer hasn't taken into account a new change in 1.5:

"Changed the Nether cave generator to that of the Overworld
Fixed cut off caves"

Basically cave tunnels (not the huge caverns) in the nether now generate like they do in the overworld. Like that warren of tunnels we were in when the zombie pigman turned hostile

You still get the huge caverns, but I think the new tunnel warrens above the caverns are blocking out the map's usual display of the caverns below.

Cool. Means i have to upgrade my house to be redstoned powered only now
redstone off during the day and redstone on during the night.

I still recommend bukkit
If it's cracked Ill gladly help ingame too.

Does anyone know a good server hoster?
also dark could you tell me who hosts the dakka server please?

orkdestroyer1 wrote:
Does anyone know a good server hoster?
also dark could you tell me who hosts the dakka server please?

The Dakkacraft server is hosted with the same server that hosts the forum IIRC

 Coolyo294 wrote:

orkdestroyer1 wrote:
Does anyone know a good server hoster?
also dark could you tell me who hosts the dakka server please?

The Dakkacraft server is hosted with the same server that hosts the forum IIRC

Exactly.

"Wyrmalla was doomed to fall"

Hmn, these death messages are quite appropriate.

However custom messages like "Wyrmalla went full Lemming" would be fun (silly Tropic Thunder pun).

Jambayemon and I have colonized Paradise Island (-400, -4000 or so), and made a portal there, but it lands us out in the middle of nowhere in the Nether (-60, 85, -496). Does anyone know off-hand which direction we should be building towards in the Nether to join up with the rest of the built, colonised area of Nether?

Doesn't actually look that far from some tunnels in the nether:
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-19/64/-477/-2/1/0

You could take the quick but dangerous option of going via the nether fortress, or go around it to avoid the blazes and wither skeletons etc.

Tip: as you move your mouse over the map, the co-ords in the bottom left show the (rough) co-ords for that spot in-game.

Yeah, I do know that, though I find the nether map really hard to use! Thank you.

Yeah, we ended up heading through the nether fortress. Looks like it's Wyrmalla's?

Wyrmalla, are you OK with us using the fortress as a route to connect the new portal up to the rest of the nether complex? We don't plan to take any netherbrick away, or mess with your blaze spawner (assuming it's yours) -- just head around that area & through the fortress.

I'd suggest building your own tunnel as well- just because when people are travelling in the Nether, they dislike having to go through the Fortresses.

Hmm, OK. Maybe we'll go underneath the the Fortress and use its floor as a roof...

From what I understand the Fortress acts like a biome, so if you go through those chunks you'll still get blazes and wither skeletons even if you're not actually in the fortress. I could be wrong though.

We're lighting it up, so it shouldn't spawn anything in the lit sections. Light + walls + roofs = safety. Hopefully.

Light doesn't affect spawn rates in the nether.... sorry

 darkinnit wrote:
From what I understand the Fortress acts like a biome, so if you go through those chunks you'll still get blazes and wither skeletons even if you're not actually in the fortress. I could be wrong though.

That's my experience with them.

Minecraft wiki (the "nether" entry, and the "wither skeletons" entry, at least) seems to indicate that lighting up the nether does affect spawn rates for everything other than zombie pigmen and slimes.

Ah ok, good to know.

So I made an automatic minecart caller in the new update with hoppers and a dropper, so I don't have to bring a minecart everywhere with me!

Oh my god my freakin' hero!

I MUST have this design!!!