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You think that's far away? From my normal home, going through the nether, it takes the length of an extended potion of speed to reach Lazuli Bay. That's eight minutes. Multiply that by eight for the travel in realspace

1.7.2 is now out.

The pre-release announcement contains the official changelog:
https://mojang.com/2013/10/minecraft-1-7-the-update-that-changed-the-world/

Unofficial, but much more extremely detailed changelog here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1p6vgg/minecraft_172_has_been_released/

Just manually updated. Annoyingly, it seems I now have two seperate versions of Minecraft on my pc. v1.5 and v1.7.


What are the most interesting things people have built?

I used to play on my university's Gaming Society server, and the very first thing I did was wander off over the horizon over 3km from the spawn point, crossed an ocean and found a large deserted island that I claimed. I then built a huge tower as high as the clouds, a large mountain base complete with crop farms and a mob farm (gave me huge quantities of TNT), and a diving board structure that extended from cloud level all the way down a hold in the ground to bed rock level.

And then I decided I wanted a shortcut back to the spawn point and the rest of civilisation, so I built a secret monorail tunnel that extended from my island underground and under the 3km of ocean at bedrock level all the way back to the spawn zone, to a hidden exit that I built in the basement of a friend's house. Sadly, the monorail depended on exploiting the old minecart collision booster glitch, and the entire monorail system was broken when it was fixed and replaced with rail booster tracks.

I take it we shouldn't update yet if we want to get on the server?


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Also I'd like to claim a Mesa biome for my usage if there is one within a few thousand blocks of spawn.

You can update.

The new launcher supports profiles. So if you start the launcher and click to create a new profile, you can specify which version of Minecraft that profile should run.

I'd go into depth on it but I'm sure there's plenty of tutorials out there, hopefully some aren't all videos with someone wanting to spend more time showing you their fancy desktop...

How are achievements being handled? Announcing them whenever anyone receives one may be annoying considering that, at least in previous versions, they reset with every login.

Ooh, and sound packs. ...finally. Stained glass gets me all giddy too. How often do witches tend to spawn however, as the wording from that link infers they'll do so along with common mobs at night.

Also, being a picky git, who's Dav320K? As I don't remember (not the same as not) giving you permission to move into Janje2's old place. Just saying... =P

 Wyrmalla wrote:
How are achievements being handled? Announcing them whenever anyone receives one may be annoying considering that, at least in previous versions, they reset with every login.

Ooh, and sound packs. ...finally. Stained glass gets me all giddy too. How often do witches tend to spawn however, as the wording from that link infers they'll do so along with common mobs at night.

Also, being a picky git, who's Dav320K? As I don't remember (not the same as not) giving you permission to move into Janje2's old place. Just saying... =P

Acheivements are now stored per world, so they don't get reset every time you so much as glance sideways at the launcher. So yes, the first few days, it's gonna be reeeaal annoying seeing everyone getting "Opened Inventory" and "Got wood" etc, but once the flood has passed, they should be a lot less frequent and might even provoke "Congrats" etc. From what I've heard, you can turn them off, but I haven't yet found out if that's just server side or a personal preference client side.

Who's Dav320K? No idea? Not on the whitelist, unless it's a Dakka name or alt?

And custom ones may be added by server admins on a whim too right? Hmn, some obscure activities could randomly spark achievements if they weren't too difficult to implement...

They've plastered signs all over Janje's place, removed the railway tracks and emptied out all the chests. I did say that the chests were fair game (which every one, bar one brimming with fireworks that Darkinnit added, has been emptied), but nothing else was to be touched, so it does leave me feeling a little prissy. Still its moot now that the server's being wiped.

Still, I might take a look when I get a chance. It is tantamount to griefing if they leave no explanation. Signs with a name nobody knows are a bit redundant.

When are we going to blow up the world just curious?

More "AFK" time is required before that

I can save some of that effort. Dav320K is my mate, who should have got minecraft aeons ago. I said he could have Janje's house after discussing with Wyrm, then placed the sign on Janje's nether Portal.

I merely did not get around to taking it down upon hearing he hasn't got Minecraft yet.

Also, I thought the Railways were fair game as well. If required they can be returned in the 1.7 server, as I still have them and as of yet no use for them.

So its basically my fault for it all, and I humbly apologise.

Ah right, forgetfulness. I read a name I didn't know and it didn't cross my mind that you said your friend was wanting to live there. Meh, just no blowing anything up was the guideline I think.=P

So wait, why has someone built three fething GIGANTIC SWASTIKAS in one of the villages Iustis and I claimed and near the other? Is this some fething troll doing this?

And there's a goddamned death camp, too?

I hope someone gets banned over this. What the actual feth is wrong with you people?

The house next to it appears to be the spawn and last known location of Trenchraider... who seems to be wearing an SS uniform...
Oh wait no. It's just Hitler.

Um.

Yay history?


I mean, I think, as long as people do understand just how serious tragedies like the Holocaust were, making fun and joking about horrors is the best way to help the memories of them heal.

 Melissia wrote:
So wait, why has someone built three fething GIGANTIC SWASTIKAS in one of the villages Iustis and I claimed and near the other? Is this some fething troll doing this?

And there's a goddamned death camp, too?

I hope someone gets banned over this. What the actual feth is wrong with you people?

I was waiting for someone else to notice. Dark already knows; I PMed him about it a few hours ago. Thought it best not to make it public.

I don't agree.

But even if that were true, that's not excuse for trying to take over one of the villages we've claimed and TURNING IT IN TO A fething NAZI DEATHCAMP. Gas chamber included.


Sleitusmithr: If you need any help just ask. Though I doubt I can help much. I'm doing much the same as you, myself.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
I was waiting for someone else to notice. Dark already knows; I PMed him about it a few hours ago. Thought it best not to make it public.

I also PMed Dark.

You missed the SS symbol too...

Really, can we quit with the nazi imagery (those are at least the third instance of me seeing a swastika on the server)and gratuitous German. Even if its meant as some kind of humour, its just crass.

Oh wow, it even has a furnace... That's... yeah...

Jesus....

well then

Thats not cool, and thats coming from someone who was actually born in Bavaria.

There's having a bit of a laugh at the holocaust, and there's glorification of it. This is the latter.

Well.... That is...

I have no words.

At first i laughed then. I realized that was on our server.... And someone actually spent the time to build that... That eriely looks like the camp in band of brothers. And Now I have to throw up.

Anyone wanna join me in TNT the crap out of it?

First place to nuke.... Damn thats just.... Sick. Even in a game.....

Thats just glorification of the regime.....

Well. That makes me sick.

I'm kind of interested in what the signs say.... I kind of wanna grief it as soon as possible. (you know when we are allowed to)

Lets take the iron bars down first before we tnt it

Trenchraider is banned for anti-semitic imagery. Trenchraider's vouched accounts are also banned as per the vouching rules.

Okay... time to dismantle it... sure the server is going down soon, but meh.

Wow. Amazing the kinda horrors that can pop up on a big server and fly unannounced.

~Tim?

OK, everyone please make sure their structures are ready for copying by midnight (London) tonight. (Just over 9 hours from now) Here's a quick way to check what time that is where you are:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20131026&p1=16&p2=136&p3=179&p4=75&p5=224&p6=152&p7=196

Make sure you have all your inventories/chests consolidated, animals moved within requested areas etc.

I will still accept structure copy requests after that point, but they will be copied from that point in time.

I'll then be enabling creative mode for all players with the following rules:

* Don't destroy other people's stuff without their permission - some people are still doing farewell screenshots/videos etc - it's not nice to interrupt them when there's not been a lot of notice on this.
* Don't go flying off generating massive amounts of new terrain, it'll just lag the server and all that terrain is getting reset anyway.

Meanwhile, in 1.7.2, terrain generation is absolutely beautiful. Another reason to live in the Savanna. This is my Hardcore World that I made sometime last year and never really played a whole lot.