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The lava at spawn refills itself if people don't abuse it by taking stacks and stacks of obsidian.

I'll be online shortly.


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Also portal gun portals frequently place you one block too low. It's always a good idea to place portals one block higher on the wall.

Anvildude wrote:
If you're making a Fire Lord's castle... Shouldn't it be in the Nether?

...I was planning a Cave Age fortress/temple/tower/castle... :(

/bed explodes in said nether. :/ I would if i could sleep there. And then pigmen spawn no matter what. :/

has the server crashed? I can't get on

Crashed fixing....


fixed.

Yeah I put the exit to my portal 1 block above ground level and I got teleported a few blocks below in the dirt. Good thing I dug out in time lol. I think the portal guns just have an evil AI or something.

I really hope that joke was intentional.

Iv never played portal so not really.

The main antagonist of portal is an evil AI...

Aww man I lost my bacon gun in lava. =(

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Aww man I lost my bacon gun in lava. =(

Tis a sad day.... Also everyone, we must make a wither farm.warded blocks plus soul sand producer!
I need a nether star to make my castle underground's aura node visible. And then I will combine it with a pure node.
If anyone has 10 silverwood saplings, i will give you 30 diamonds and 15 air shards.

I have a wither farm, and several stacks of skulls, come to mine if you want them

Do whither heads give Praecantio and Animus? Because that'd be awesome. And where's your farm?

my base

Which is...?

People kindly erect a giant effigy of your avatar's near your homes for ease of locating them during travel until signs are implemented.

Or youknow get some swastikas in there.

linkbook in the shared machine room

I would advise you don't summon the wither unless you have full quantum armour and an mffs to contain it.

Warded stone also contains it iirc

It's just that there's no off switch to insta-kill it

Warded stone does, it's just not as good.

Warded Stone is awesome. And you can have Warded Glass, to look at it, and Warded Doors, to poke your head in at it.

I actually wonder how well a Potency III Wand of Lightning can damage it? Hmm... Or a Wand of Ice, might be able to lob ice chunks over a wall and hit it without it being able to see you.

I'm thinking warded stone with warded glass window to soot wand or fire and lightining at him, as their effects go through most transparent blocks (hoping warded glass is the same).


Then I'll be smug and not wear any armour... before finding out my plan failed.


Also, started work on my book for the tower, "Bees, Magic & Trees: Volume 1"

Wait. Wands can shoot through glass? 0_o ~=i||||)_0

my fire wand did the other day... at least I'm sure it did

EDIT: Must have been lag that caused the damage the other day, isn't working


Oh well, I'll just have to have a hole that I shoot it through

I died while mining and crashed seconds after spawning and wasn't able to get back on server for another like fifteen minutes, got alot of error messages and time outs. So eventually I managed to get back on the server and blown up by a creeper before getting to my gear, which crashed me again and prevented me getting on for another five minutes.

Would it possible for my stuff to be returned? I would have been able to get to my items easily without all the crashing and server connection issues. I lost some iron, gold ore and a few gems but I don't mind about that stuff. I was wearing my power armour with all the really expensive upgrades on it.

Helmet modules: Night vision and biggest battery.
Chest modules: Biggest battery, glider and energy armour.
Leg modules: Biggest battery, sprint assist and energy armour.
Boot modules: Shock absorbers, jet boots and biggest battery.
Power claw modules: Multi-tool upgrade, pickaxe upgrade, diamond pickaxe upgrade, plasma cannon and melee assist.

Normally I'd say "If your armor's so great, how'd you manage to die to a skeleton?" and "Your connection issues are not my problem".

However, in this case, you're saved by some Mojang Tweets:

mollstam wrote:Sessions seems to be not responding, checking it out.
https://twitter.com/mollstam/status/321504278902620160

mollstam wrote:It seems to be going up and down a bit on it’s own, still poking at it, from bed, without pants.
https://twitter.com/mollstam/status/321508748784959488

So in this case, it was Mojang's servers' fault you couldn't connect, so I've rolled you back to shortly before you died to the first skeleton. If you were in a dangerous place then, be prepared when you log in...


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So it turns out the reason spawn's lava kept running out is because ChickenChunks' Chunk Loaders can be disabled with a redstone signal.

What was happening was, as soon as the lava ran out, the redstone would activate the pump, but also disable the chunk loader... so, no lava.

However, I guess that's good to know, it could be used for some interesting mechanics. Like you could leave your redstone energy cell or mfsu charging and then when it's full, disable the chunk loader. Or you could have a spot loader to keep just one chunk loaded so that you can "jump start" a larger range chunk loader when needed.

that may explain why my farms stop working randomly, I'm pretty sure I do have it in the way of a redstone signal

My PC is finally working again!

I'll be hopping back on the server to catch up ASAP!

I'm looking for a block that's entirely invisible (or really close). Its for a lava puzzle I'm considering. Youknow that one scene from the third Indiana Jones movie where he has to cross the canyon on the "invisible" bridge? Well this would kind of be the same, but with lava...

MFFS with the camo upgrade?

Well I'm sure that I'm not currently capable of making such things, so I'd need to trade someone for them at some point if anyone was willing. Right now that's just a future plan. I've decided to make a climbing puzzle now. I'll make a large tower with an entrance at the top. To get in you need to climb the tower (via small ledges only obvious when you get up close) and push a button that opens the entrance. The entrance opening would be timed of course. Once you're in there'd probably be another puzzle before you reach the bottom, where you need to find a hidden entrance. Inside the hidden entrance would be the lava puzzle.

....And after the lava puzzle?

...

Where I keep my thaumology stuff.

...Yeah, I am feeling just that contrived right now. But hell it would suit quite well for a wizard's tower right? A bit tower of the Undying-ish. =)


* Also another puzzle

You enter a room with three portals, with four pillars with fire at the top of each either side. Entering one of these portals take you to an identical room, but with a fourth portal this come where the entrance was. The player is required to enter the portals in a certain order (each time entering an "identical" room) in order to find the exit (which would be visually similar to the entrance room, just to mess with people so they'd think they'd gone back to the start). In actuality the entrance and exit rooms would be right next to each other in the other, above and below. The portal rooms would be located in another age and spread far apart to prevent cheating by just digging to the other rooms.

There'd be a tell of course as to which portal was the right one. Whether it remains consistent however... Ie the fire to the right of a correct portal might be off as to direct you to it. When you get to the fourth room however it actuality swaps to the left one instead, taking the portal with the fire off to its right would just lead back to the entrance.

The use of portals and ages could also mean that I could indefinitely add in puzzle rooms of course. Though whether I can be bothered making any more (like an underwater maze with very little visibility/ fewer breathing areas as you progress) is probably a foregone conclusion right now. =)