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Generally speaking I would not be AGAINST Hard Mode. Normally I don't get much lag and skrap armor is always handy, but I think that with the amount of casual players on here it's not wise

sirlynchmob wrote:
@Lotet, Thanks for the obsidian, I'll wait til I hear back from darkinnit before I go collect it. It will work once I get just one portal in, each additional portal just makes it work faster.

Thanks for the Diamond, man. I've made six more stacks of Obsidian but you're probably already finished. If you are, then maybe someone else might want to take this stuff off of me, maybe make their own gold farm? All sitting in a chest at the end of North Tunnel.

You can have it for free, as much dirt as you can carry would be good.

 Lotet wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:
@Lotet, Thanks for the obsidian, I'll wait til I hear back from darkinnit before I go collect it. It will work once I get just one portal in, each additional portal just makes it work faster.

Thanks for the Diamond, man. I've made six more stacks of Obsidian but you're probably already finished. If you are, then maybe someone else might want to take this stuff off of me, maybe make their own gold farm? All sitting in a chest at the end of North Tunnel.

You can have it for free, as much dirt as you can carry would be good.

Nope, I took yesterday off, I'm going to finish mining up what I need today. I brought you all the dirt I had and took 3 stacks.

where are you getting all that obsidian?

Thanks again for the obsidian, and stop by my farm anytime and take what you need from it.

sirlynchmob wrote:
Nope, I took yesterday off, I'm going to finish mining up what I need today. I brought you all the dirt I had and took 3 stacks.

where are you getting all that obsidian?

Thanks again for the obsidian, and stop by my farm anytime and take what you need from it.

Pleasure doing business.

I get it all from my underground lava rivers. I thought they'd be very weakened, but all this Obsidian mining has only destroyed a single tendril in my network of lava. I just want to fill in my caves with dirt, but I don't like wasting lava by just destroying it. Which is silly, since I wanted to fill them to get my computer to run faster because caves you can't see still slow you down. But now I have a better computer so it doesn't really matter any more, plus apparently they also made the code more efficient to deal with that problem.

Lotet are you wanting dirt?
"cause of you are feel free to take some from my storage chests

Thank you, though I think you already gave me that permission.

It's somewhat disheartening when my massive stockpile of dirt couldn't even fill a chasm. I thought they were supposed to be rare but I've found at least three beneath and around my town. Though you have way more dirt than I did.

I love chasms! Turn them into homes for dwarves, don't fill them with dirt! :(

Regarding upping the difficulty to Hard, is that something that can be localized?

if we build an arena, could Darkinnit spawn some Mob Spawner blocks that churn out Hard level mobs, but keeping mobs on the rest of the server set at normal? We could then use water channels to funnel the mobs into a central chamber that players can enter to fight them and gain XP in a sort of wave defense game.

A cooperative Mob combat arena would be a far more fun way of earning XP.


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 Lotet wrote:
Thank you, though I think you already gave me that permission.

It's somewhat disheartening when my massive stockpile of dirt couldn't even fill a chasm. I thought they were supposed to be rare but I've found at least three beneath and around my town. Though you have way more dirt than I did.

build big bridges across them, that would look really cool.

I've been all for hard mode for a long time, it makes the game a bit more challenging. It makes mob farms more efficient and XP can be gotten quicker too. The difficulty isn't a big jump between normal and hard anyway. Torches help the casual player if they are building or doing whatever casual players do.

Someone want to dig up the couple of previous discussions on the matter of changing the difficulty or shall we leave Darkinnit to just copy and paste his response?

Dakka's a vanilla server. Everyone should have the same experience, and that should be one which is the most accessible. The regular difficulty level is probably going to have more adherents to it than the other ones, so its up to those who want to have something different (not just in difficulty levels, but in all areas) to just deal with what the vanilla settings are. Darkinnit set up the FtB server for those who wanted to play a Dakka server with mods. I doubt he'd set up a separate one for just Hard mode, let alone change the regular server. As far as having a dedicated area which spawned hard level mobs (if that's even possible), would it actually be used, and if so what would it offer that an area which was full of regular mob spawners wouldn't? Given that that's pretty much just an exp farm, and one which is more bent than one with mobs which gave of less exp, it doesn't seem like something very balanced. I mean there could be rules and such over its use, but it still seems like something which wouldn't be used by many (the previous server was littered with PvP arenas which nobody used).

So the argument that others will adapt to the harder difficulty isn't a strong one to me. Rather it'd be up to the minority who want the change to just deal with the status quo instead. =P

Lotet, have you finished getting all the dirt from my place? I still have a few double chests worth I think.

Too bad this isn't from the previous world- I had a storage room specifically for dirt there, with about 12 double chests full of it.

I got my gold/mob farm functioning. It's working good, in passive mode I got 1142 drops, including 19.3 gold bars.

In active it will fill up a double chest in under a 1/2 hour.

Now the fun part, to design a decorative shell around it, Is anyone good at making giant statues? I'm thinking it's shape would blend well with a giant creeper, but the portals and afk room could make for a person with glowing glasses. I could really use some artistic pointers as I've never made a giant statue before.

It's at -1847 723 to see what I'm working with.

I need to make a shell next so I can then design the storage room around it.

Cool! So is this a communal thing? Or will you be selling the Gold?

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Cool! So is this a communal thing? Or will you be selling the Gold?

Take what you camp, and once it's complete anything in the storage room will be fair game.

Awesome. I'll have to use it some day to get enough gold for the Grand Temple of the Holy Kiip!

Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier. It's a no to hard mode.

I think it's plainly clear that enough people have expressed dislike at the idea. Also zombies break doors on hard mode, which would break some people's existing builds.

For those of you who want the challenge, play it singleplayer or just knock out a few torches around your place

Btw is it possible to turn an specific chunk area into peaceful?

i think i still have some zombie egg outbreak left over from way back.

Put down a ton of torches.

 Desubot wrote:
Btw is it possible to turn an specific chunk area into peaceful?

i think i still have some zombie egg outbreak left over from way back.

Not really. Let me know where it is and I can go in with a splash potions of harming minigun

 Melissia wrote:
Put down a ton of torches.

Well that wasn't the issue.

Iv had loading issues where iv seen a TON of zombies in non explored caves with eggs. (kinda haxors but not really anything i can do :/)

id eventually need to find them all.

Edit: It is 3300 x -5100 z

Not much that can be done without X rays

It's the chickens - you have to kill the chickens



The bug is leftover from when baby zombie chicken jockies would despawn but leave the chicken behind, which doesn't despawn. The chicken grows up and starts to lay eggs. Zombies spawn in the dark and pick up the eggs. Zombies carrying items don't despawn. Eventually zombie singularity occurs.

Now they've changed it so that baby zombie chicken jockies despawn including the chicken and the chicken doesn't lay eggs either (I think). But any zombies carrying (or still picking up) eggs from 1.7 remain.

Killing the chickens helps to prevent the issue from recurring.

Sorry Darkinnit. Much lag. such delay Wow


They where spotted in an unmarked cave to the west IIRC. very deep down.

Found some of them:
http://imgur.com/SvCphnx,4bCUTWl,zoP41Kd,0OLOD6C,XhgERp9

 darkinnit wrote:
Found some of them:
http://imgur.com/SvCphnx,4bCUTWl,zoP41Kd,0OLOD6C,XhgERp9

That picture is incredibly hard to see

Found an underground pool party:

Wow that's a lot of zombies.
I would not want to fall in there.

Yeah those aren't very people friendly :(

but the drops are nice occasionally

 darkinnit wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Btw is it possible to turn an specific chunk area into peaceful?

i think i still have some zombie egg outbreak left over from way back.

Not really. Let me know where it is and I can go in with a splash potions of harming minigun

You need healing potions for zombies

Darkinnit's all about presentation first He'll go in there, flying about shooting rainbows out of his arse and throwing potions everywhere, only to quietly just enter in a console command out of sight to actually deal with the issue. He could have just done the last bit, but he's a mod who likes to go the extra mile (and exercising his mod powers is truly one of the highlights of his day. I mean I know bearing witness to me is at least that to me).

I did actually fling a fair amount of splash potions of harming at the first lot for a while before noticing that nothing was happening

Then I remembered it was healing potions.

Commands are no fun, it's all about the thrill of the hunt.

I've reduced the entity count in Desubot's area from 500 to around 200. About 80 of that is in the sheep pen and the rest is villagers, cows, pigs and misc cave monsters.

It should be a bit better there.