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**Optio**

Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

**Wyrmalla**

That visit to the End was probably the highest number of people on the server at one time for months. The average you'll see at the moment is three or four, and without drive and communication I wouldn't imagine those numbers could be directed anywhere. Skype has been brought up before, as has there been a few youtube videos made based on the server, but neither are a catch all solutions (the former especially having the fault of not being accessible or agreeable to everyone).

**Lotet**

Wyrmalla wrote:
Well its certainly not Nazi concentration camp level...

Sooo, don't do it? Dang, well, I might just go ahead and build it anyway, minus the dynamite or any signs inviting people to damage it... for now.

Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Is digital presence really that important to a group project? That hadn't crossed my mind. Living in Australia generally means being on the same time as anyone is simply happenstance. I guess that's why I want instructions on the Forum and no one says anything to anyone. Also because they're probably not the management & planning type.

I'll gladly help if you think it's worth the time to know what you want and type it. As long as you're not trying to make a Grey Mesa or Beanland of course.

Unrelated, I found a few Water Temples when I explored the South area. One of them blew up my boat before I noticed it.
1, 2, 3, 4
If anyone wants one. Hmm, that might be a good place to make a Fortress Island.

**Asherian Command**

Anvildude wrote:
Different servers have different feels to them. KFPerin's server (the first I was ever on) had people all spread out, but what kept on happening was one person found a neat spot to build, made their house, constructed an extension of the server-wide pathway/roadway system, then suddenly a whole town would spring up, when everyone went to build their own house there.

Then someone tired of that town would move somewhere else, build a house, build a path, then another town springs up as everyone abandons their previous house.

It was very cyclic and sprawling and nomadic, and it just happened. There was a PVP world (which was pretty cool) as well, where people built more 'dangerous' bases.

Then there's other servers which are more adventerous, and others which are less- for example, MindCrap is all about cooperative building of a single 'city' area- though it's only 3 people, making that a little easier. Direwolf's server (or whoevers) tends to be about people building fancy bases that are designed around resource accumulation/showing off, and the upkeep and progression of personal power- with a network of portals or link books so folks can do occasional tours and bum stuff off other people. Hermitcraft is the most similar to ours, where people find their 'area' and build there, but it has the Hermiton towns (which are essentially showcases of building talent- people don't really live there, I think) which work as a market hub for resource trading, and there's the supermassive community projects like the Iron Foundry. Attack of the B-Team is all about pranking people and making jokes/playing roles.

DakkaDakkaCraft has a dozen people who do megabuilds in Survival. Honestly, a lot of our stuff is super impressive in its own right, even (or especially) compared to what you generally see on YouTube or other servers- we regularly run out of Cobblestone, we build so big. But things like Chasmholm, Ma55sterFett's caverns, Abso's cathedral(s), the (increasingly unsuitably named) Grey Mesa, the Titans, the Manor, Dark's Castle and half a dozen other locations and builds that are easily spotted at max distance on the map are sort of a feature of our server. Builds that get people to go 'Wow' when they see them- and we have the Nether Network for travel when we want to visit others. But I don't think we're a 'teambuild' sort of server.

By all means, go ahead and start on a 'community project' if you want- but I guarantee that, even if there's some early interest, after actual groundbreaking there's only going to be one, or maybe two people actually working on it. That's not a bad thing, but I think it's how our server is.

What we [i]could[/li] do as a 'community' thing, would be to organize a massive tour. Figure out a list of the major sightseeing locations and organize a time/day when a lot of people can be on- then we start at Spawn (loaded up with foodstuffs) and travel as a group from place to place.

Oh I agree!

I just was suggesting it mostly because we did have sururbia and we haven't had any project like that on the new server. We could do a new sururbia or something.

Because right now we have no community interaction as much as we should be having.

I am just suggesting ideas as currently there is very few interaction at spawn. And spawn is rarely used.

We still need to get the enderfarm up. (But thats sky slashers job)

We need to redo parts of spawn and possibly make a new suburbia. That is bigger and better and can accommodate the new players on the server.

We do have pretty big projects and they pretty much make mindcrack go. "Wait what?"

It would be cool to see the server have more impressive builds at spawn and around that area. So the new players know what they are going up to.

Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Yeah I've noticed that. Maybe its because we are all from different countries. Thats why we rarely can all get on at the same time.

I mean we could have long term projects. Everyone seems to be doing personal projects which is fine but we have very little interaction in the community other than in chat.

**Shadow Captain Edithae**

Lotet wrote:
I'm all for being part of a community project. My problem isn't so much enthusiasm (which I never have much of for anything), it's more that no one has neither a plan nor goal.

If I could get more instructions than:
"I'm sure you know what to do"
or
"build an arena here"
then I might actually start stomping around on build sites and do some construction. Heck, if you don't want to do that, just put some markers down and give me an area you want to level or tell me what resources you you want the most. I've got a cobblestone farm that I use while doing other stuff on the computer so that shouldn't be much of a problem. Any common resource can be requested.

Even just giving me a picture of what someone else made can make a lot of difference for me. Though I guess I should mention I prefer Style over Scale, which makes the jobs seem easier to finish in the long run.

Just, you know, give me confidence that you have a vision or something and I'll do my part.

Hmm, so, yeah, was there anything you had in mind or was this just a passing thought?

Otherwise I might just do what Shadow Captain Edithae made me think and make the White House out of White Clay (even though it's slightly pink) and rig it with dynamite... that's not offensive is it? I don't want to get banned...

Haha. We could blow up the British Houses of Parliament too to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night tomorrow.

**thenoobbomb**

You know, for a group project, making some sort of large city could be pretty cool.

**Asherian Command**

thenoobbomb wrote:
You know, for a group project, making some sort of large city could be pretty cool.

Something similar to sururbia maybe?

**thenoobbomb**

Asherian Command wrote:
thenoobbomb wrote:
You know, for a group project, making some sort of large city could be pretty cool.

Something similar to sururbia maybe?

Perhaps. Or something entirely planned out by the community. Build style, lay-out and such.

**Asherian Command**

thenoobbomb wrote:
Asherian Command wrote:
thenoobbomb wrote:
You know, for a group project, making some sort of large city could be pretty cool.

Something similar to sururbia maybe?

Perhaps. Or something entirely planned out by the community. Build style, lay-out and such.

So basically we should make a city and stay to certain architecture?

Yeah that would be cool. We could ask for prismarine because that would be a cool build.

**Wyrmalla**

This is where Darkinnit steps in and posts links to the various planned groups projects which litter this thread. People tend to be good at coming up with ideas, its the long term implementation which falters. If anything something on a smaller scale like a smattering of buildings would be more plausible, but then again the same conditions apply, and well we already have plenty of those, just far away from each other. If you want to be concise maybe make small additions to the area around the spawn, and well hell, at least then new people could at least find it (the same goes for existing users too. I hate travelling to other people's places as the tunnel system, despite being better than the last one, is inherently difficult for me to bother getting my head around usually).

**Asherian Command**

Wyrmalla wrote:
This is where Darkinnit steps in and posts links to the various planned groups projects which litter this thread. People tend to be good at coming up with ideas, its the long term implementation which falters. If anything something on a smaller scale like a smattering of buildings would be more plausible, but then again the same conditions apply, and well we already have plenty of those, just far away from each other. If you want to be concise maybe make small additions to the area around the spawn, and well hell, at least then new people could at least find it (the same goes for existing users too. I hate travelling to other people's places as the tunnel system, despite being better than the last one, is inherently difficult for me to bother getting my head around usually).

yeah thats why I suggest a sururbia esque place. As it would invite people for just small group project. And basically have people create a place that we can all go to. Because the old sururbia is showing its age. With the addition of new materials it could be interesting to see everyones new styles. We could literally have it next door to sururbia so it could basically be a before and after and showing the progression of skill of our server. I am not asking for a massive group project. Just a project. That people could just do at any time and doesn't take a huge investment.

I mean I plan on using some of my resources to create a redstone museum. As I am quite competent with redstone. As some people here know. As alot of people have copied my designs for my doors XD

**Shadow Captain Edithae**

I started building a sort of communal settlement or hub in the jungle, north of the portal. Anyone is welcome to build there and expand on it.

https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/4431/64/956/max/0/0

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Asherian Command wrote:
Wyrmalla wrote:
This is where Darkinnit steps in and posts links to the various planned groups projects which litter this thread. People tend to be good at coming up with ideas, its the long term implementation which falters. If anything something on a smaller scale like a smattering of buildings would be more plausible, but then again the same conditions apply, and well we already have plenty of those, just far away from each other. If you want to be concise maybe make small additions to the area around the spawn, and well hell, at least then new people could at least find it (the same goes for existing users too. I hate travelling to other people's places as the tunnel system, despite being better than the last one, is inherently difficult for me to bother getting my head around usually).

yeah thats why I suggest a sururbia esque place. As it would invite people for just small group project. And basically have people create a place that we can all go to. Because the old sururbia is showing its age. With the addition of new materials it could be interesting to see everyones new styles. We could literally have it next door to sururbia so it could basically be a before and after and showing the progression of skill of our server. I am not asking for a massive group project. Just a project. That people could just do at any time and doesn't take a huge investment.

I mean I plan on using some of my resources to create a redstone museum. As I am quite competent with redstone. As some people here know. As alot of people have copied my designs for my doors XD

A redstone museum sounds like a cool idea. We could dig out some giant chambers underneath the spawn zone.

https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-252/64/-203/max/0/0

**Asherian Command**

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
I started building a sort of communal settlement or hub in the jungle, north of the portal. Anyone is welcome to build there and expand on it.

https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/4431/64/956/max/0/0

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Asherian Command wrote:
Wyrmalla wrote:
This is where Darkinnit steps in and posts links to the various planned groups projects which litter this thread. People tend to be good at coming up with ideas, its the long term implementation which falters. If anything something on a smaller scale like a smattering of buildings would be more plausible, but then again the same conditions apply, and well we already have plenty of those, just far away from each other. If you want to be concise maybe make small additions to the area around the spawn, and well hell, at least then new people could at least find it (the same goes for existing users too. I hate travelling to other people's places as the tunnel system, despite being better than the last one, is inherently difficult for me to bother getting my head around usually).

yeah thats why I suggest a sururbia esque place. As it would invite people for just small group project. And basically have people create a place that we can all go to. Because the old sururbia is showing its age. With the addition of new materials it could be interesting to see everyones new styles. We could literally have it next door to sururbia so it could basically be a before and after and showing the progression of skill of our server. I am not asking for a massive group project. Just a project. That people could just do at any time and doesn't take a huge investment.

I mean I plan on using some of my resources to create a redstone museum. As I am quite competent with redstone. As some people here know. As alot of people have copied my designs for my doors XD

A redstone museum sounds like a cool idea. We could dig out some giant chambers underneath the spawn zone.

https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-252/64/-203/max/0/0

Problem! That jungle is really far away! and nowhere near close to spawn. But I could help with it. Once I complete the wall around my city I will get there because I like building homes within trees.

But I will i use dark wood for that and get my collection cobwebs and make an older area of the jungle.

**Anvildude**

In a way, a lot of what you're having an issue with could be (or could 'have' been) solved if people didn't stick to that 'You can't build within viewing distance of me! Whaa, whaa, I claimed this biome for myself!' thing.

I have, I think, like, 3 or 4 people who have their bases inside the walls of the Mesa- granted, they don't play that much anymore, but I was, and am, perfectly happy building around/over/through other people's projects, and having them do the same to me. It's just that nobody sticks around with that.

And I know Sleit and I (and some others) were talking about linking up all the massive castles/strongholds on the East side of the map, both with a huge underground railway system and simply through continual 'urban sprawl' type expansion.

**Asherian Command**

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/190516/unable-to-locate-sign

So this happened. I recently was working on something and I was cutting down a tree and then tried running away then I disconnected. And I ran into the glitch I am currently having where it spawns a copy of myself. Thinking to myself nothing will happen as the zombies had stopped moving as well. I quite out of the game waiting two minutes. And then I spawn back in and immedately die.

No big deal right? Right. So I start going back to where I died, and then I get that horrible portal glitch. And then I disconnect on purpose because I am stuck in a wall. I then have the same cloning glitch except my clone was stuck in the portal. And I am pulled back and forth. so All my stuff despawns because I spent 8 minutes trying to get on, but I kept getting the same error :/

**thenoobbomb**

Anvildude wrote:
In a way, a lot of what you're having an issue with could be (or could 'have' been) solved if people didn't stick to that 'You can't build within viewing distance of me! Whaa, whaa, I claimed this biome for myself!' thing.

I have, I think, like, 3 or 4 people who have their bases inside the walls of the Mesa- granted, they don't play that much anymore, but I was, and am, perfectly happy building around/over/through other people's projects, and having them do the same to me. It's just that nobody sticks around with that.

And I know Sleit and I (and some others) were talking about linking up all the massive castles/strongholds on the East side of the map, both with a huge underground railway system and simply through continual 'urban sprawl' type expansion.

I've got several people still at my place.

We had some more people at my place on the old map, and while the builds weren't always as nice... it was a bit of a charm, really. You could always run into people!

**Anvildude**

Oh yeah, I remember that. It was pretty crazy going on.

**Asherian Command**

Anvildude wrote:
Oh yeah, I remember that. It was pretty crazy going on.

its really fustrating I walking around with a ton of items too. I was going to some trees cut down.

**darkinnit**

Lotet wrote:
Otherwise I might just do what Shadow Captain Edithae made me think and make the White House out of White Clay (even though it's slightly pink) and rig it with dynamite... that's not offensive is it? I don't want to get banned...

Doesn't Hollywood do that at least once a year? Go for it

Asherian Command wrote:
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/190516/unable-to-locate-sign
So this happened.

This is interesting. I'll look into it. If anyone else is getting strange error messages like this, do let me know.

**Optio**

Asherian Command wrote:

Yeah I've noticed that. Maybe its because we are all from different countries. Thats why we rarely can all get on at the same time.

I mean we could have long term projects. Everyone seems to be doing personal projects which is fine but we have very little interaction in the community other than in chat.

I dont think time zones are such an issue from a uk perspective if your playing late evening as generally were around level with the American/Canadian guys late afternoon then. However I only see Lotet when I log in during the day as im guessing its evening for him.

**sirlynchmob**

Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Thanks for putting me up in your place.

I need another big project to dump my stone into. it's starting to pile up now that the wall is done

**Asherian Command**

sirlynchmob wrote:
Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Thanks for putting me up in your place.

I need another big project to dump my stone into. it's starting to pile up now that the wall is done

depending on where you guys live you could connect it to spawn and or the vault. (my pet project)

**sirlynchmob**

Asherian Command wrote:
sirlynchmob wrote:
Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Thanks for putting me up in your place.

I need another big project to dump my stone into. it's starting to pile up now that the wall is done
depending on where you guys live you could connect it to spawn and or the vault. (my pet project)

You want to connect up the wall to the spawn?

There's some people living between us & spawn that might object.

Where is your vault?

**Optio**

sirlynchmob wrote:
Asherian Command wrote:
sirlynchmob wrote:
Optio wrote:
Up until Sir Ralphy moved in with me and then built close buy, I dont think I had seen another player physically for a month. It is just the way of the server. You might get a couple of people working together every so often like mel and lustis and me and Ralphy a bit but the term Group Project seems to get used a lot and never happens.

Thanks for putting me up in your place.

I need another big project to dump my stone into. it's starting to pile up now that the wall is done
depending on where you guys live you could connect it to spawn and or the vault. (my pet project)

You want to connect up the wall to the spawn?

There's some people living between us & spawn that might object.

Where is your vault?

Were other here: https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-627/64/-1621/-4/0/0
so we are not that far from spawn compared to some. It would not be too big a job to build a road to spawn as well, Might be worth building it from the gatehouse this time?

**Binidj**

I'm quite keen on the idea of a spawn town but I fear that if we were to create one now it would swiftly become a ghost town unless we used it for trading purposes ... but there doesn't seem to be a particularly active trade culture on the server. That's fine but it does mean that a "Commercial District" is pretty much doomed to failure.

What tended to happen on both Mindrack and Hermitcraft was that a new town would be set up when new content became available in the game. A communal hub where everyone would build a mini-base and then move out from there to a main base location. We don't seem to have that culture here but it makes more sense to me than building at spawn.

**Leigen_Zero**

Binidj wrote:
I'm quite keen on the idea of a spawn town but I fear that if we were to create one now it would swiftly become a ghost town unless we used it for trading purposes ... but there doesn't seem to be a particularly active trade culture on the server. That's fine but it does mean that a "Commercial District" is pretty much doomed to failure.

(Note, I don't play on the server due to time constraints, used to play monster but not much anymore)
I find that's a problem with Minecraft in general, because everyone is able to build a super-efficient means of getting something they require (e.g. food, cobble, sugar cane) and after a certain point (diamond enchanted armour and tools) or using 'ultra efficient' techniques, even mining becomes a trivial task, multiplayer minecraft is essentially 'single player minecraft with a chat function'

If multiplayer had a job system, and spelunking was actually a thing, it would be a lot more entertaining, can you imagine getting a party together to explore a cave system together, splitting the loot at the end, having well-armed players on guard, while less-equipped folks with picks (but more inventory space) collect the ores/plug lava flows/etc, while a designated minecarter lays track and sends carts to the surface.

It wouldn't happen, as everyone can go 1000m from spawn, dig down to y-level 10, start a mine using the efficient techniques found on google, then spend the rest of the game building with impunity.

**Asherian Command**

There's some people living between us & spawn that might object.

Where is your vault?

https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/1447/64/3268/-2/0/0
Its completely underground its a pet project of mine.

Its called 'The Vault' Mostly because its a giant prison I am working on.

**Optio**

Lol thats only around 4-5000 blocks between us.

**Asherian Command**

Optio wrote:
Lol thats only around 4-5000 blocks between us.

basically

Ever since the map is messed up. I don't know where the helk you guys are.

So I didn't know if it was feasible or not.

**thenoobbomb**

Alright, Normy and I are going to try to clear an underwater fortress.

We'll probably die horribly, but eh!