Octopus Overlords

by **McG2k1** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:21 pm

Both of you guys have houses now too.

I refreshed Dynmap and set it to do a fullrender of /world. that should solve the problem with it's chunky display. if it continues to not updated your building let me know.

I installed Courier, seems to be the most up to date.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/chat-g ... 1-0.51599/

I went as far as giving everyone all the permissions but no one is on to test anything else, feel free to play with it.

SudyNym#1476 · by **Sudy Nym** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:31 am

Whose is the mill far to the northwest? I was thinking of tackling some jungle a few hundred metres away. Was wondering if I'd be a welcome neighbour.

Stuie, I didn't see your jungle construction. I presume it's in one of the more southerly or central jungle zones?

by **Stuie** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:30 pm

Sudy Nym wrote:Whose is the mill far to the northwest? I was thinking of tackling some jungle a few hundred metres away. Was wondering if I'd be a welcome neighbour.

Stuie, I didn't see your jungle construction. I presume it's in one of the more southerly or central jungle zones?

-989 +1088 According to the server map. Now that I look at it, there's not much of a jungle there. Regardless, I haven't had a lot of time to play, so don't restrict yourself because of me.

SudyNym#1476 · by **Sudy Nym** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:05 am

Very cool. I can barely see it beneath the leaves on the map. I think there's a fair bit of jungle there.

I was eyeing the bit in the -1100, -100 area. But I'm concerned it might be too out of the way.

by **Debris** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:03 pm

Sudy Nym wrote:Whose is the mill far to the northwest? I was thinking of tackling some jungle a few hundred metres away. Was wondering if I'd be a welcome neighbour.

The mill is Covenant's I believe. I'm pretty sure he moved away from that area and started building elsewhere.

by **McG2k1** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:10 pm

who's building the Empire State Building?

by **Stuie** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:12 pm

Sudy Nym wrote:Very cool. I can barely see it beneath the leaves on the map. I think there's a fair bit of jungle there.

I was eyeing the bit in the -1100, -100 area. But I'm concerned it might be too out of the way.

I was trying to blend in.

by **Debris** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:05 pm

McG2k1 wrote:who's building the Empire State Building?

It's the Chrysler building.

by **Ninyu** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:16 pm

Hello! I've been messing around in single player but it is getting boring. I was hoping I could join your server and build myself a little homestead and mess around with building a castle? I promise to not make your eyes bleed 8-)

.

by **McG2k1** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:36 pm

just post your in game name and I'll give you a starter house.

by **Ninyu** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:28 am

Ninyu is my Minecraft name. Thanks!

SudyNym#1476 · by **Sudy Nym** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:55 am

Welcome Ninyu!

I've been taking a bit of a break, but will be back eventually. Mrs. Nym said if I played Dragon Age (her favourite game right now), she'd finally cave to my constant pestering and try Minecraft. But we'll see. 8-)

by **Debris** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:02 pm

Hey, McG...

Did we lose the boat mod with the latest version? Isaac and I have been sailing around the starting continent (much bigger than I anticipated) and are having a hell of a time between the lily pads and the squid. Even the off shore sea chickens have gotten us a few times.

Just askin is all.

by **McG2k1** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:43 pm

um. . . . I actually totally forgot about the boat mod. let me um, look at that.

by **McG2k1** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:22 pm

I just got an email from our server host. They are having issues with the machine or group of machines our server is sitting on. As such it's been intermittently up and down the past hour. I don't know if there will be any time warp side effects. I'll post when I get an all clear from them.

by **McG2k1** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:43 pm

OK, Ninyu you have a house now! Its near the park.

The server is still a little willy nilly but its been good for about a half hour. Use your personal thresholds to determine if that's enough of a roll back buffer. just in case.

I also reinstalled the boat mod.

McG

by **Cylus Maxii** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:46 pm

What does the boat mod do?

by **McG2k1** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:14 pm

Boats can be picked up when destroyed by a player, instead of breaking.
Boats can be picked up when crashed, instead of breaking.
Boats can be returned to the player's inventory when destroyed/crashed.
Boats can survive crashes.

by **McG2k1** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:13 pm

Sheesh. Where did everyone go?

by **Cylus Maxii** » Fri May 04, 2012 11:42 am

I check in from time-to-time (as you can see from server logs); but nobody has been around lately. I took a walk last night to go look at the big statues. I hadn't seen the Blaze one up close. Its very nice.

by **Debris** » Sat May 05, 2012 1:48 pm

I'm on from time to time. Depends on if I'm in the mood or not. Lots of games, just gotta figure out which to play.

by **McG2k1** » Mon May 07, 2012 3:47 pm

The latest snapshot has their first attempt at unifying SMP and SP. For those who don't know, there's been a pretty big technical divide between single player and multi. They said in the late winter that they want to eliminate the SP mode so that coding and modding efforts could merge. The idea is that when you start a SP game you are hosting a local server that only you are connected to.

Should be interesting to see how that effects the mod community.

by **Stuie** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:41 am

I have a confession to make: I've been playing Minecraft Hunger Games whenever I have the chance (and there's a server open). I feel so dirty.

I've been getting to the last 8 or so most games, and when teaming up with one of my sons we've managed to win a couple in a row. It's actually been fun, though I can see the strategy I'm employing getting old eventually.

First and foremost, Rei's Minimap is almost a must.* You have time before the "game" starts to scout the area, so I'll find the nearest swamp (for mushrooms) and then scout our ravines for coal/iron, using Rei's to waypoint any good locations. Also the "big map" (x key) helps narrow down where the swamps are. If I'm solo, I try to head toward one of the edges so I have time to get myself established. If I'm co-op, we try to establish a rendevous prior to the start so we're not blindly looking for each other in the mass of people at spawn. I always go with the Barbarian kit; starting with a sword is better than a fishing rod or a couple speed potions.

Priority items (in my mind)...

1. Mushrooms for stew - stew replenishes health, then the hunger bar. It's like food that doubles as a healing potion. Can't have too many.
2. Wood - obviously. Bowls (for the above), sticks, etc.
3. Iron - again probably obvious. Full iron armor is the first priority, then sword, then lighter, then either bucket or pickaxe. If you're not finding diamonds, the pickaxe might not be necessary if you don't have iron to spare.
4. Flint for the lighter. Set anyone that gets near you on fire.

Nice to haves:
Bow and arrows - I got lucky and found chickens in one game, then killed a skele that dropped a bow. It was archery the rest of the way. If they can't get near you, they can't use a lighter or any other tricks.
Lava - there's all sorts of mean stuff you can do with lava. We burned out the one guy that was hiding from us in the co-op game that I won.

I could go on but I should probably be doing some work. :p

Edit: *Rei's may or may not be allowed on the server you're using - check the rules.

by **McG2k1** » Wed May 23, 2012 5:53 pm

soooo. . . . . anyone still playing? I know diablo 3 just came out, but if theres something we can do to re-energize the server let me know. No sense in paying for it if no one wants to play any more! I kind of feel like minecraft is dieing tho.

by **Cylus Maxii** » Wed May 23, 2012 5:58 pm

I check in occasionally, but have little inspiration to build. You are probably right that MC is passe.

by **McG2k1** » Sun May 27, 2012 3:57 pm

I dropped the player max down to 10 from 30. There's a pretty big drop in memory to go along with it, but since no one is really logging in thats the price we pay, so to speak.

by **Cylus Maxii** » Sun May 27, 2012 4:09 pm

Thanks for keeping it around. It will be nice to have a place if I want to dabble.

by **Debris** » Sun May 27, 2012 4:46 pm

I still jump on from time to time. Mostly just plugging away at the city I'm creating to the NE.

SudyNym#1476 · by **Sudy Nym** » Sun May 27, 2012 5:34 pm

Minecraft is an "in between" game for me that I come back to when I'm feeling creative. I'd be sad to see this server go, but I understand if you're paying out of pocket. I don't think Minecraft is "dying", but a big release like D3 will definitely steal playtime.

by **McG2k1** » Sun May 27, 2012 5:42 pm

when the new versions of the server launch i'll probably think about removing the leveling mods and the other worlds and just leave it at vanilla+.

by **McG2k1** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:58 pm

btw, here's my battletag for those of you playing D3

Thunderball#1386

by **Debris** » Thu May 31, 2012 10:06 am

I've been having issues trying to log on the multiplayer server the last few days. I either get disconnected by server because it takes too long or it says the server is unavailable after I choose it when it's green. Other times I log in with no issues at all. Just a hiccup on server side?

by **McG2k1** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:41 pm

I've been looking at the logs and smurfing the web for anything chronic and I can't find anything. let me know if it continues please.

by **McG2k1** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:03 pm

sheesh the entire MC community is dead. there's been some snapshots released but no excitement at all. Most interesting thing since February has been this week's release of tripwire's to activate stuff, which is actually really cool. but zzzz.

by **Stuie** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:23 pm

McG2k1 wrote:sheesh the entire MC community is dead. there's been some snapshots released but no excitement at all. Most interesting thing since February has been this week's release of tripwire's to activate stuff, which is actually really cool. but zzzz.

Sorry - I have one of my own servers running the snapshot so I've been spending my time there. It's amazing. Can't wait for 1.3 to come out.

by **McG2k1** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:56 am

Zomg a posting!

So the 1.3 update is coming out on august first. My plan is to server wipe back to vanilla. Due to the changes in 1.3 the status of things like bucket are up in the air.

The worlds that exist now will be backed up. If any of you love your above ground structures and would like me to migrate then I'd be happy to do that.

The theme for the new world will be zombie apocalypse. I'm planning on ripping city sized buildings from other maps and starting the player spawn in the heart of the city. You can rebuild the city or run to the wilderness. There will be no zone building/digging limitations so you can rebuild the city in your image or harvest it for parts.

I'm trying to get back into this game so if anyone has thoughts please share!

SudyNym#1476 · by **Sudy Nym** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:59 am

Can't say how active I'll be, but I'll definitely check it out! Had a blast in the weeks or month I played with you guys. Definitely have always planned to return. Would be neat to be a part of day one. Really neat concept, too.

Is it impossible to distribute the server's current iteration as a single-player map, due to how the single and multiplayer games are different (at least till 1.03)? I'm not too attached to what I have, though it would be nice to be able to revisit it someday. But what some of you guys have done, specifically dibree, I'd be really sad to see disappear forever.

by **msduncan** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:04 am

McG2k1 wrote:Zomg a posting!

So the 1.3 update is coming out on august first. My plan is to server wipe back to vanilla. Due to the changes in 1.3 the status of things like bucket are up in the air.

The worlds that exist now will be backed up. If any of you love your above ground structures and would like me to migrate then I'd be happy to do that.

The theme for the new world will be zombie apocalypse. I'm planning on ripping city sized buildings from other maps and starting the player spawn in the heart of the city. You can rebuild the city or run to the wilderness. There will be no zone building/digging limitations so you can rebuild the city in your image or harvest it for parts.

I'm trying to get back into this game so if anyone has thoughts please share!

I might be back in for the Zombie Apocalypse. I've just read the Autumn series and I think that sounds cool.

by **McG2k1** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:39 pm

Yeah things can be distributed. I was thinking about adding some of the stuff on the current map to the new map as museums or sculptures or just themed areas.

by **Debris** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:05 pm

I'll be back. Vanilla/zombie apocalypse sounds like a lot of fun.

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