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 Somedude593 wrote:
The icon on your desktop is still linked to the 1.5.3 version ..... on your computer is a new one that is to the 1.6 version, you have to delete the 1.5.3 icon and paste the 1.6 one on your desktop (this confused me as well) Just look up minecraft in your start menu and two (or more if you downloaded multiple times) minecraft icons should appear.. look at the download dates on them and delete the older one(s)

Cool, thanks! I'll try it and see if it works.

I also need to finish designing a new skin for my Steve. I'm trying to make him look like Jeff Bridges character The Dude, from The Big Lebowski.

~Tim?

By the way... buying glowstone if anyone has some

 Somedude593 wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Somedude593 wrote:
I mean MY house is pretty nice........ *cries realizing ineptitude*

Awh, come over to the Kingdom of Kiip! Everything looms better beneath the Kiip's gaze.

Perhaps......though i sill like my house....... perhaps i shall construct a kingdom of kiip railway station?

An underground railway would be good. For an example, you can go to the one here http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-1985/64/1075/max/0/0 . Also, keeping them in a straight line as much as possible helps. I don't make mine that deep so it's not much of an issue, but when I come to a cave I continue through it and just build up cobblestone around the tunnel where it goes through the cave. The depth I have it at is pretty good, though you'll want it deeper if you start a station on a mountain. It would also be cool to have above ground stations at the entrances.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:

 Somedude593 wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Somedude593 wrote:
I mean MY house is pretty nice........ *cries realizing ineptitude*

Awh, come over to the Kingdom of Kiip! Everything looms better beneath the Kiip's gaze.

Perhaps......though i sill like my house....... perhaps i shall construct a kingdom of kiip railway station?

An underground railway would be good. For an example, you can go to the one here http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-1985/64/1075/max/0/0 . Also, keeping them in a straight line as much as possible helps. I don't make mine that deep so it's not much of an issue, but when I come to a cave I continue through it and just build up cobblestone around the tunnel where it goes through the cave. The depth I have it at is pretty good, though you'll want it deeper if you start a station on a mountain. It would also be cool to have above ground stations at the entrances.

Pfft...

Please, if your going to do a Railway, do it in full view so it can see the Landscape!

Start:
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-1355/64/-481/max/0/0

So Far:
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-1474/64/1358/-1/0/0

dats a lott of cobble... and rail

Yeah. We tend to build big on this server, with lots of cobble.

That rail only had one rail in one direction... My subway is in both directions. Or will be.

Well I still can't get it to work. I searched my drive for Minecraft as suggested and came up with just one result, which opened the previous version...Gah. This is really annoying.

~Tim?

Check your browser's Downloads history, and do an 'open containing folder' on the 1.6.2 thingummy.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
That rail only had one rail in one direction... My subway is in both directions. Or will be.

You can go both ways on a single rail.... as long as no one is coming the other way

I'm working on a dual rail system to buckland now. My terraforming has stopped for the moment (due to the very ugly look of the cobble tower next to my land...)

It's just that the amount of iron for even a one-way rail is incredible, when you're talking about the distances we're doing. I once tried a 2-way system on another server- it was essentially impossible.

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:
Well I still can't get it to work. I searched my drive for Minecraft as suggested and came up with just one result, which opened the previous version...Gah. This is really annoying.

~Tim?

Just uninstall minecraft and download the new version? That'll get rid of any issues your having with previous launcher versions.

 IHateNids wrote:

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
That rail only had one rail in one direction... My subway is in both directions. Or will be.

You can go both ways on a single rail.... as long as no one is coming the other way

That's exactly the problem.


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Anvildude wrote:
It's just that the amount of iron for even a one-way rail is incredible, when you're talking about the distances we're doing. I once tried a 2-way system on another server- it was essentially impossible.

If we also have a collaborative mining project, it should be fine. A few people with iron pick axes can clear out a large area very quickly.

I don't think I've ever seen someone going the opposite way to someone on the same rail, its not like many people use railways anyway but for their own use.

Hey dark, do you think you could spawn a few horses here?

http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-952/64/-2988/-3/0/0

It's a real pain trying to move them across bodies of water.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen someone going the opposite way to someone on the same rail, its not like many people use railways anyway but for their own use.

This one is supposed to be public.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen someone going the opposite way to someone on the same rail, its not like many people use railways anyway but for their own use.

This one is supposed to be public.

We has nether for that.

Now, using railways for mass transport of goods via chest carts- that's something. That's actually what the one major one-line railway is for- because a lot of us need hundreds of stacks of cobble or charcoal or whatnot, while others of us are mining that much out and need a way to get rid of it. A single train of chest carts with a powered cart pushing could move 10 times what a person with an enderchest can, considering vanilla enderchest mechanics.

Tyranid Horde wrote:

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen someone going the opposite way to someone on the same rail, its not like many people use railways anyway but for their own use.

This one is supposed to be public.

We has nether for that.

Yeah, but it can still be hard to navigate, and long distances can still be fairly long.

Anvildude wrote:Now, using railways for mass transport of goods via chest carts- that's something. That's actually what the one major one-line railway is for- because a lot of us need hundreds of stacks of cobble or charcoal or whatnot, while others of us are mining that much out and need a way to get rid of it. A single train of chest carts with a powered cart pushing could move 10 times what a person with an enderchest can, considering vanilla enderchest mechanics.

This, I think would be a great reason.

I wonder if we could possibly pay train operators with resources.

Longer in the overworld mate.

Eight times longer precisely. I once journeyed for several hours in the overworld and punched into the nether on a whim. I found myself in the tunnels made at spawn, resulting in hours of wasted time.

if you took a peek in the nether you would see that there are already quite a few rail systems going to different places.

Deathklaat wrote:
if you took a peek in the nether

Hehehehehe.

Continue.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Longer in the overworld mate.

Yeah, it would take a long time to make the railway.

I think it would be fun to make a subway system, just as a creative project.

The old server had a full-fledged Nether subway going on- cart dispenseries, and powered rail loading/unloading stations- the whole deal. But the new Nether is less enclosed, and so making the tunnels and bridges over lava is much more difficult- before it was just a matter of tunneling around.

Edit: ack, wrong thread.

Oh, but on topic. Anyone want to through out a rough estimate of just how many rail systems we've got going on the server right now? Nobody ever uses them. If you want to travel use the nether. You can move a few thousand blocks in the matter of minutes there, which would take much longer even on rails in the overoworld. If you really want, go make a nether rail system, but mind that though more lax, user's right to ownership still carries over to their tunnels. By that I mean you can peg your own tunnels onto an existing one, but don't edit anything else (and try and have the extension blend in). =P

actually a NEW nether rail system would be really nice as the current network of nether rails and paths are horribly inefficient as as many player tunnes are branched off of one another.

an example of this is trying to get to Wyrmalla's place from mine, to get there i have to go up to the spawn and then i get taken over towards Mondo's area and then i have to head way south. I make a giant U shaped trip when i could go straight across and be done with it.

If a rail system was started from the spawn portal's location and went out North, South, East and West those could be the "main line". Players could then connect up to whichever direction is closest to them. In areas with a few portals in close proximity a branch line could be made that goes from the main line to the cluster of portals and the players could connect to that rather than each have their own branch.

Heavily used areas could have double rails.

Or, instead of making the U shaped trip, you could carve a path through the Nether and bust through

Just make sure you keep it relatively neat and tidy.

Has anyone ever considered looking into making a mob trap? A bunch of us could work together to make it...Could be a good addition to the kingdom of Kiip!

~Tim?