Minecraft, awesome one man game project

[monroeski]

Or one forest and a single strike of the flint and steel.

I hate you so much.

[James]

lol

Gotta say it seems creepers are a bit easier to kill without them insta-exploding. Or maybe I'm just getting better. Before if you hit them with a sword, they exploded. No time to recoil and wait for them to cool down before hitting them a second time. Now you can.

Also, after the intial anger wore off (and until my last diamond shovel breaks) I'm not as upset as I once was about the no-autorepair bug. Once I'm reduced to stone shovels that break after 64 blocks though, I might whack out.

[James]

[monroeski]

**** you, creeper, I make farms and forests too. You add NOTHING to the ecology!

[linoleum]

You add NOTHING to the ecology!

Texture.

[linoleum]

At least stone tools are basically free: you can replant trees for more wood, and there's always an excess of cobblestone around. Slow and short-lived, but easy to make. Just carry around a stack of wood, a stack of cobblestone, and a workbench from now on, until tool health gets re-broken.

Wood is much easier (IMO) to get after the latest updates...leaf decay finally works, so no need to clear out every last leaf by hand or worry about burning down a forest to get rid of them that way. And as the leaves decay, they still drop saplings quite frequently. I harvested about 10 trees, replanted them back in the same place, and ended up with about 50 extra saplings besides (some of which I planted as well to make the forest bigger for next time).

The tricky part is: now on the big trees with the branches, when you start to clear the branches, the leaves start to decay around it, so you can't just safely stand on the upper leaves to clear the top.

[monroeski]

If I'm messing with a big tree I usually just make my own dirt stack to get up there anyway, so the leaves decaying now wouldn't bother me at all.

[linoleum]

I will confirm that standing near lava is enough to catch you on fire now. Luckily I was not AFK and was near a water source also, but I still lost half my health.

The wiki has also changed (since monroeski's lava trauma) to say that the flying embers "appear to have a chance of igniting nearby flammable blocks like Leaves." And also: "When lava is present in diagonally adjacent block to the player, the player will occasionally catch fire while running into that corner."

[Kamakazie]

I will confirm that standing near lava is enough to catch you on fire now. Luckily I was not AFK and was near a water source also, but I still lost half my health.

The wiki has also changed (since monroeski's lava trauma) to say that the flying embers "appear to have a chance of igniting nearby flammable blocks like Leaves." And also: "When lava is present in diagonally adjacent block to the player, the player will occasionally catch fire while running into that corner."

In real life, I believe you would burst into flames a few blocks away from red hot lava. Realism!

[monroeski]

I will confirm that standing near lava is enough to catch you on fire now. Luckily I was not AFK and was near a water source also, but I still lost half my health.

The wiki has also changed (since monroeski's lava trauma) to say that the flying embers "appear to have a chance of igniting nearby flammable blocks like Leaves." And also: "When lava is present in diagonally adjacent block to the player, the player will occasionally catch fire while running into that corner."

My entire lava farm is blocks adjacent to lava sources. lol

Looks like I'll be adding a few more water troughs to the area in addition to the one right by the door.

[linoleum]

Nothing like glitches in the "far" view to make it look like monroeski has done a ton of work on our server.

[James]

Now that's a fortress wall!

[linoleum]

I saw one new person and one old person online yesterday, but it's starting to feel like a ghost town.

[monroeski]

My wrist has been hurting a bit from the way I was sitting with my laptop for months on end while doing classwork last semester. I'm trying to stay away from FPS style controls for a little while, at least for long stretches of time. I still log on to the Minecraft server here and there, but generally not for very long.

Now that the holidays are over I'm sure I'll be on a bit more often.

[Adisharr]

I'll probably be on later tonight - we should think about laying out some track eventually. It would be nice to take a tour of the whole place.