I'm building the opposite I wanna see how high I can goQuote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
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I'm building the opposite I wanna see how high I can goQuote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Grrr...
Didn't get a chance to login except for last night to turn monsters off. (I had thought that they had been updated to act like single player, when it turned out not to be true, I had to restart the server, sorry linoleum.)
Now this morning Minecraft.net is down again, so no connection. :(
I'm glad a few of you got in though. How was the server? insanely overloaded? or was it OK? It's been a long time since I've had anything on that thing. lol
I logged in from work and made a really tall random bunch of dirt stacks :) Only had a few minutes but couldn't get in again last night. It was weird playing with monsters that can't harm you. That's a first ;)
Yeah, I turned them off when I got home, thus kicking linoleum offline for a moment.
The server seemed to run fine with 4 of us. I know one person had an issues with getting booted sometimes. I believe it was due to blocks not disappearing after mining them. I know occasionally when I mined they seemed to not disappear occasionally either, but then the server would catch up so things like sandstone didn't really fall. It just reappeared in the space you cleared with an empty space at the top now.
I had a lot of disconnects at first which apparently is due to my Atheros network card (based on an 8 page forum thread on minecraftforum). They provided a fix which helped a lot although didn't solve it completely.
Basically, I could be mining along and then suddenly blocks would start reappearing where I had just mined, then a few seconds later the whole game would crash (so I always knew when it was about to happen). After the fix, occasionally it would "lag" (I wouldn't see blocks dropping, for example) but if I waited a few seconds it would catch up all at once, or one or two times it still crashed.
Aside from that, there were a few spots of lag but I think they were minecraft related not server related. For example, when you mine a gravel block from the bottom of a stack and the rest drop down, there is a noticeable slowness as they drop.
I guess I got in after the foe-change, because I never saw any.
Oh and I just realized...Adisharr when you say "dirt stacks"...you really mean "super tall dirt stacks covered in torches" don't you? That "structure" became our meeting place, but we never knew who built it. :D
Snakespy and I played some last night at the same time. I didn't get any lag, but like the others I did occasionally run into blocks I couldn't mine.
My IGN is ImpulseX, and if you see a huge dirt "R", that's how I marked the stairway down that I started :cool:
Monroeski has optimized the mining trade. He should post his guidelines to help others out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV0XB-w_yM
One of the greatest videos I've seen for this game.
I got most of the idea from elsewhere, actually. Just youtube "branch mining" and one of the first videos to pop up will basically show you everything you need to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Basically, you go all the way down until you're standing on the top layer of bedrock (which appears only in the bottom 5 levels of the map IIRC). Then you make one long central tunnel and build branches off of it with 3 blocks in between each branch, like so -
X = tunnel
o = untouched stone
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You're basically banking on the very low odds that anything valuable would show up in that middle row of untouched stone without the cluster also having a piece in the other two parts that you CAN see.
I made some pretty long side tunnels yesterday, but Diamonds appear up to 8 or 10 levels above the bedrock IIRC, so we could actually add another floor if we wanted to; with the bottom floor at 2 height plus a ceiling, the second floor would still be digging between 5-6 levels above the bedrock which would be well within the range of diamond generation.
Also, this way helps generate a lot of stone VERY quickly, which I will be needing for my personal spawn point monument. :D
Apparently some 4chan users are causing the DDOS attack. What the hell kind of reasoning is this?
http://kotaku.com/5669766/minecraft-...g-more-updates
It's not 4chan, they just posted that on 4chan.
As for the reason: people in this world are stupid.
:sigh:
I'm nowhere in the same league as you guys on this game. Looking at what you've done, it makes my scratches in the ground look pathetic.
How did you guys set those trees on fire? Lava in a Bucket?
I've never been able to do it with a torch...
Hey glad you found some use for it :D I was just running around seeing what random useless thing I could make in the time I had. It's nice when you don't always have to worry about dying from a fall :pQuote:
Originally Posted by linoleum
Lava or flint & tinder will set trees on fire.
Man what a crappy day for multi to be down. I actually ended up paying attention during my meetings. :(
I've got an idea on an underwater tunnel I want to make that will require a good deal of glass. Could be really cool with the fish update supposedly coming on Halloween. I'll post more once I test to see that it actually works. Not having to worry about drowning will be pretty nice. :D
Flint and steel, probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wurm
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...t-Devs-Account
Paypal - what a big pile of dicks. I do so hate them.
Yeah that does seriously suck.
Hard to fault them for being suspicious when a guy is suddenly racking up nearly a million dollars in international donations to his Paypal account, and for the reason why he shows them a game with worse graphics than a 5 year old could draw. ::shrug::
I wonder what ultimately happened, as that article is dated September 10.
I just noticed the date - I would think he'd be making a big deal out of it if it wasn't resolved by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
You know this game has to be pissing off a lot of developers lol :D
I regularly use flint&steel to clear the leaves after I harvest wood from my floating tree farm. Most times if I let it grow for a few days of game time, i get about 90 wood out of the farm, I then burn off the leaves, replant the saplings and start again.
That's a great idea - all this time I've been whacking the leaves which is time consuming.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
I found the big R (okay, it's hard to miss). :p
Also I made some shovels and started collecting/smelting sand since everyone seems to want glass.
I added a glass-making factory (3 new furnaces together + our original 1) so the smelting will go faster. I'm burning wood not coal, so we need some good tree mining going on soon. A few stacks of glass are already ready for use. :)
Ultra hole has been covered! Moses has spoken!