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I just found one of the roguelike dungeons, first couple of floors are being ransacked, ....all I can say is WOW.

All but the main room of the bottom floor are ransacked. Please do not loot this. I will be organising an expedition of various players to have a bit of fun down there. Feel free to take some bits and pieces from the chests, there are plenty of Staves of travelling (I believe 4 or 5 at last count).

Dark, Do we have display cases or somesuch things, I have some unusual items for display.

Yeah those dungeons are cool, thinking of grabbing some of the spawners from the one I found at some point.

Take a look at bibliocraft, it has display cases.

I also got 4 wither skulls, so I'm all good.

I am horrendously saddened that Dark did not include the Ziggurat of Kur in his list of shinies.

Anvildude wrote:
I am horrendously saddened that Dark did not include the Ziggurat of Kur in his list of shinies.

I never said I was finished

I assume you mean this?


The shaders go a bit wierd in the deep dark, or around certain mod blocks. I had to take this one using Sildur's shaders (the previous ones were using Sonic Ether's).

If you have a decent enough machine, try it out (mine can just about handle it for screenshots, but I couldn't play the game like this):
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1286604-shaders-mod-v2-3-18-updated-by-karyonix
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1280299-sonic-ethers-unbelievable-shaders-v10-1
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1291396-sildurs-shaders-pc-mac-intel-huge-update-2

I did adjust the Sonic Ether's ones to be less "everythingisbrightorange" using the instructions here:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1280299-sonic-ethers-unbelievable-shaders-v10-1?page=837#c16920
Sildurs shaders are even more orange...

Hehe. Gonna need to get that finished up.

Oh, as I'm starting on the surrounding temple city, I'd like to open an invitation to everybody on the server to come down and build a house. All I ask is that you keep an inward slant and make it out of basalty material (there's plenty available). Don't care about where or how big- I'm gonna have the whole place be rather haphazard and labyrinthine.

I've taken the Monster server offline for the time being as there's a problem with it. Once I've finished upgrading the vanilla server to 1.8, I'll take a look at it.

Server's back up while I investigate the issue. It doesn't seem to be causing any problems except spamming the logs

Hi all

I'd like to make a request to everyone to turn off any machines, systems and chunkloaders that aren't needed to run 24/7. Some of you are building amazing things that stockpile massive quantities of items and it's all very impressive, but it's causing quite a lot of lag on the server. There's no one culprit, this is a cumulative effect of so many systems all running at the same time.

It can be very offputting to play on a server with such lag, and I'm willing to suspect these massive stockpiles of items will never be used.

Systems that are particularly stressful on the server are anything that repeatedly spawns entities (both mobs and items). So things like mob farms and crop farms (magic crops in particular due to the amount of drops and them usually needing convoluted systems to gather them).

Things that are not stressful on the server and can keep running are things with "no moving parts", like passive big reactors, MFR mining lasers, ender quarries and enderpumps.

Please set up systems to gather items on-demand or to keep a reasonable amount in stock, turning off when "full", rather than stockpiling all the things.

Many thanks

The only chunk loaders I have are for my quarry, which isn't running. Those should be fine, right

I've already removed any buildcraft quarries that were finished and sitting idle in the mining age and placed them in a chest at the quarries' respective locations.

But these are small compared to the various systems people have running to gather various resources.

Should I disable my two Straw Golems doing the Essence Harvesting thing?

Actually, are items that force tic updates an issue? I've got a bunch of lilypads of fertility going all over the place...

My main issue is with systems that are running constantly, consuming server time, to increase some resource count from so-many-thousand to even-more-thousand, when the person will only possibly use a couple of hundred of that resource in their entire playtime on the server.

If you're gathering/harvesting resources and actually using them, it's fine by me.

I was thinking of using a straw golem to harvest stuff for myself, but I think I'll stick to doing it manually now lol

Also final reminder to everyone, that the old Monster server will be "shut down" tomorrow evening UK time. Shut down in that I'll no longer allow transferring items between the servers. So if you haven't got your stuff yet, hurry up.

I'll leave it running but remove the link between the servers and put it into creative mode and re-enable nukes etc so that people can vent on it all they want

I won't be keeping backups of it past that point so if it gets completely broken I'll just take it offline or otherwise take it offline at the end of the weekend, whichever happens first.

Understood. I'll work on OFF switches for all my systems and take them offline when I take elongated breaks.

Aw man, back after a two week vacation, go for my minecraft fix, and no server...the gods are punishing me for abandoning minecraft for so long...

 foto69man wrote:
Aw man, back after a two week vacation, go for my minecraft fix, and no server...the gods are punishing me for abandoning minecraft for so long...

You know it's the old Monster server that's closing right? Not the current one... Actually you were whitelisted after the current server started, you've never been on the old server


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Ok, so the OLD Monster server will be in creative mode in about 10 minutes time.

Those of you wanting to connect can add the server:
old.darkinnit.com:25585

I've retrofitted the current whitelist to the old server so even those who've never played on the old server can join in.

The current Monster server is still in survival mode and isn't going away any time soon.


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Oh almost forgot

DONT use the search TAB in the creative menu, for whatever reason in Monster 1.1.2 it crashes your client and you'll have to start it up again.

Set NEI to "Cheat" mode using the "Options" button in the bottom left and then the "Inventory" button and then use NEI's search to find and give yourself items, rather than the normal vanilla creative search tab.

I'm not near enough to spawn that I'm forced loaded, am I? If I am, I'll do some demolitions.

I already turned off the MFFS system at those coke ovens. If you have a chunk loader covering that area, disabling it or shrinking the area to not cover the coke ovens would be beneficial if you're not using them. No need to demolish them if they're not loaded.

Any tips on how to make linking books?

 mondo80 wrote:
Any tips on how to make linking books?

They're pretty straightfoward. What's the problem?

You can't link within the same dimension using linking books unless you add gold to the ink solution. If you're willing to just save on costs, just link across dimensions for the time being.

To add to that, be careful when you add gold as it flashes between 3 states. Adding more gold increases the time the 'Intra-Linking' state (green) appears. The other types you can get are disarming (bad) and platform generating (never seen that ever make a platform, though).

I have "disarm" disabled in the server config and the platform only applies to creating new ages I believe. So it's just the gamble whether it's intra-linking or not.

Did I leave the MFFS on? Whoops. Nothing there is chunkloaded, so hopefully I'm not contributing much to the problems. Do let me know if there is anything I can do to help you out with them.

 darkinnit wrote:

 foto69man wrote:
Aw man, back after a two week vacation, go for my minecraft fix, and no server...the gods are punishing me for abandoning minecraft for so long...

You know it's the old Monster server that's closing right? Not the current one... Actually you were whitelisted after the current server started, you've never been on the old server

Tried to get on the new server. Isn't that the one you have down while working the lag issues?

No, I posted that it was back up back then, but Dakka collapsed my subsequent post together into the original. I don't like that it does that and doesn't mark the thread as having a new post :/

Today the server had crashed, I've restarted it.

 darkinnit wrote:
No, I posted that it was back up back then, but Dakka collapsed my subsequent post together into the original. I don't like that it does that and doesn't mark the thread as having a new post :/

Today the server had crashed, I've restarted it.

Must have been my internet...but got back on today and almost finished making my hole in the ground less of an eyesore took me a bit longer, but said I would. Now just need to make more hardened glass and it'll be complete!

Someone's mining age big reactor has blown up.

I didn't even know Big Reactors could explode.

Well, when I went past, coolant was streaming everywhere and there were a couple of blocks inside lying on the floor.