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That was a loooong time ago. I don't 'remember my exact beef. But I do feel RF, as it is implemented, is too "magical" and not techy enough. It's not a REAL tech mod. It's a magitek mod.

Speaking of magic mods, I'm actually getting into Ars Magicka on my let's play world- and it's pretty much awesome. Takes quite a while to level up, but I could see a focused foray down certain paths (Utility or Defense especially) could be very strong in the early game regardless.

Magic Crops is getting a bit annoying, though, since there's no proper guide to which type of essence seed requires which level of essence.

This is so awesome, no more mobs spawning in your redstone contraptions While I'm posting who owns the stronghold with the end portal? If the owner is still around would you mind if I put a nether portal in the room next to the end portal? and a few beds?

That transparency would be cool to fix up hair for a change.
I'd still like stuff like glow maps tho.

Worry not friends, for I am still alive!

Don't know if any of you noticed my absence from the server this past week, but I've just had the worst bout of flu that I've ever had the displeasure to meet- 102 degree fever, constantly, for a solid 5 days.

However, the fever has gone down, and I am back to being human again (fever dreams can be really, really weird).

So hello again! Also, sorry if anybody was disrupted by the temporary rail line I put up through the Nether hub- I'm going to work on getting that put somewhere a little nicer.

That sucks man! Glad you're getting better, though!

Glad to hear you're over it. I've only been on for about 20 min in the last two or three weeks myself.

Still want that suit of armour Ian?

Well, next time you pass through spawn the armour with a chest of loot is here:
https://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-274/64/260/-1/0/0

In case you want to know what it is before making the trip, it's full diamond with Unbreaking 3, Protection 4 across all pieces. Helmet with Respiration 3 and Aqua Affinity, the Boots with Depth Strider 3 and Feather Fall 4. Plus a Sword of Unbreaking 3, Sharpness 5 and Looting 3 and some other loot.

There's five sets in the entrance. They're all made with the services of Villager Librarians and Blacksmiths (at sirlynchmob's, Storm Lord's, Cantium's and Spawn) so they're all the same when it comes to the cost of repairing suits and such. You can also take a pair of blank suits from the chest next to the furnaces for repairs or enchanting, as you please.

For some reason, people don't really seem to keen on taking these :/
Anyone else want a set? Anyone on this page can take a set for themselves. If they run out or people lose them to lava (I prefer to have a Fire Resist potion on hand) I'll make more.

Hell yes please!



Will get on later today if I can.

I've been grabbing stuff as I come through every so often. But I don't really need much armour-wise- mostly I've been snagging up Bane of Arthropod books for use with my spider grinders.

I'm glad someone is getting use out of those books. They were mostly made with the excess exp given by villagers as I was getting emeralds from them that I use to make the suits.

Want a maxed Bane of Anthropods, Unbreaking and Looting Diamond Sword? There's enough books left to do that.

You'd think there would be plenty of people who'd want a super suit. Though I guess I'd personally refuse such an offer if it was given to me so I guess other people have their own reasons as well.

Oh well, maybe when the server is updated and the Ender Dragon comes back some people might want the sets, which comes with an Unbreaking 3, Power 5 Bow, to make the fight a bit easier.

If you set it aside, I'll take it in a while. I need to make a more permanent grinder setup- spiders are tricky to grind in some ways.

Pixelmon can be pretty fun.





And it's only small, they can get much bigger than this.

Hmn, I haven't been clued into this game in ages. I looked at that whale and thought "huh, Minecraft's came along a bit since I last played".

Hey guys, just wondering if Osh is still on? I've got a proposition to make to him,

 Doctadeth wrote:
Hey guys, just wondering if Osh is still on? I've got a proposition to make to him,

It has been 9 months since you last asked that, 22 months since Oshunai posted on Dakka, 25 months since he last posted on this thread.
Also, didn't you message him about this 9 months ago?

I'd almost recommend building that path you want, you can just remove it later, especially if you screen cap the affected area before you muck with it. It's mostly flat land, water and a simple farm between, you just need to avoid going past the wall foundation.

Of course, I wouldn't actually recommend that. Maybe you should ask Darkinnit if it turns out no one has seen him.

So finally finished terraforming (flattening) the back of my base, starting renovations on the front of my castle, with 2 turrets on my rooms and some other random bits and pieces.

Going to start on my secondary stronghold after christmas, which will be an unbreachable castle only reachable from underground, with lava stream lighting for the tunnel underneath. Planning to have both my wizard tower and stronghold linked together.

To whoever played santa and dropped of a chest full of goodies at my tower, thanks a bunch it was really appreciated.

To whomever dropped that awesome gift to me, thank you!

Dakka Claus didn't visit me, but I've found the awesomeness that is the LotR mod (1.7.10)

Its freaking amazing, and highly suggested. I might even host a server for it down the road.

DakkaClaus came by the Mesa, and I got my very first Beacon!

Sweet dude. I've been woefully neglectful of my Dakka village, so I'm surprised Dakka Krampus didn't chain me to a comp and force me to improve the place.

Hey, we missed the 5th anniversary of this thread starting, earlier this month!

I am guessing that the 5th birthday of the server is also coming up this year? WILL THERE BE FIREWORKS

I've been utterly neglectful of the MC server. I don't think I can even remember what I was doing when I last stopped playing...

has anyone else been getting really bad block lag the last few days? I have destroyed some blocks 7 times before they finally went away and I can't even go hunting mobs.

I've been fine -- unusually lag-free in fact!

Witness a View from the Top!




Way up there at the world height limit, from the peak of the now-finished Ice Spire on the now completely mis-named Grey Mesa!

Awe-inspiring work, Anvil!

I went to visit the mesa, still as haphazardly lit as ever leaving me always concerned a creeper is going to fall from above and blast me off an extreme fall. When I got to the ice I was worried for a second that I was going to have to walk through a maze of ice, what with the weird ice wall graphics, but I'm glad it was straight forward. Nice view from the top, you might want to take that picture again but in third person view so the shot is less obscured by the ice block, maybe tilt the camera as well so your avatar doesn't cover much by looking down at an angle. I'm not sure if that'd work out well.

So, is the Grey Mesa... finished??

Good idea on the 3rd person thing. Hadn't thought of that.

The Mesa's far from finished- I still need to complete the outer walls, for one thing (they're getting their own covering of ice spires, just much smaller, and maybe with an ice web going over the courtyards)

The courtyards are going to be fully terraformed and landscaped- I'm thinking kinda White Witch for them, with a smooth snow or ice plain with little ice spires sticking up from it, though I might reverse it and make it an ice sheet with boulders embedded.

And then of course there's the underground part of it. The main basement area is all excavated, but I'm still working on the storage section- there's gonna be a huge Village above that (for trading and so I can practice making places that look like people live there, as opposed to massive monuments), and below the Basement will be another chamber where I'm going to have some farms and a mushroom garden in the middle.

The Tunnel is still being excavated, and that'll be an interesting build- then I need to make the connection to the Mesa nice and pretty and make the station work right- I'll be putting chambers with things like tree farms and stuff around somewhere- I have a skeleton spawner I'm going to convert into a grinder eventually... might make a foundry that'll have a massive Charcoal-o-matic in it...

The outside of the Mesa needs more work too- gotta tear down a couple mountains, and I think I'll make a road connecting to Orthanc eventually- we're so close by, might as well be neighborly, right?

And I kinda want to over-snow the whole landscape outside- blocks and slabs to give it a softer, undulating appearance and reduce the mob spawns all around.

Gonna have to figure out some gates, too.


And after all that, I still have the Nether side of things to work on.



Lotet, there shouldn't be too much issue with creepers- I know the staircases are a little dark (have to fight off mobs every so often on them- they're getting replaced and fixed) but ice is a no-spawn zone, so the whole top of the Mesa should be safe. In the Dome is another issue, of course.