Joben

Back on our server I've renovated the public fort a bit. Trying to make it safer and more user friendly for new players. (ahh yes btw: If any of you have friends or family you trust to behave themselves feel free to invite them, we need population.) I'm taking down the trees on top...mobs seem to be spawning up in trees more frequently lately and they've become a security risk. I've also been cleaning up the debris from when we demolished the train station. If anyone wants to help get the last few levitating bits I'd appreciate it. Manta, i really like how your castle is coming along. I saw the throne room last night and it was SWEET. Have you considered making a bridge from it to your tower? You could alter the tower into a sort of gatehouse.

My third castle type building is much better than the early ones. This one is built on a server owned by a guy on the Serious Sam forums. It's not finished yet, but it's getting close. This is the shack i lived in while digging the foundation for the castle. Yes it has a real foundation down to rock The building extends significantly below ground and has a functioning farm in the basement. Greenstone Tower: The foundation and walls near the ground are 3x thick, stone, gravel in the middle, then stone again. (In accordance with authentic period wall building techniques.) All of the above ground facing is in stone rather than cobble. except the central column of the second floor is done in Mossy Cobblestone. A span of fenced bridge in the front limits aproach to the door to straight on. No ambushes as you step out. The battlements have downward facing arrow slits that allow full coverage of the entire wall span. The island is fenced with cactus, or bordered by ground too steep to climb.

I added a balcony on the side Stone Balcony inside Castle sitting room Castle roof: The courtyard of my first castle, which is now a public fort for newbies and travelers.

start up Minecraft and open the Mods and Texture Packs menu. Click Open Texture Pack folder. Drop the whole archive for the mod (still zipped) into the folder. Viola.

*Sqweee!!!* http://www.moddb.com/games/minecraft/addons/rpg-texture

Image from the devastation that is no longer... Oh Noes! Another awesome hill/cave Soooo much world The current state of above ground construction. Manta and I have been busy.

Mish...I burnt down your train station...don't panic I imported that chunk of the world back in from the last backup i made on the 27th ...really bad misclick when i had the flint and steel out by accident...the whole thing and the forest went up in seconds. major firestorm. The structure of the building and the track is there, but I don't know if you've worked on it in the last few days. If anyone lost work, I'll help rebuild, or replace lost rare materials.

I haven't been on as much myself in a couple days. I got a pile of new games My internet service has been kinda wonky, keeps dropping out and a few people have had trouble getting a smooth connection to the server. Which is a pitty, because i have a very fast connection, when it works. Anyway, if someone else what's to volunteer to host our world for a while that would be fine with me.

It's very tempting to delve too greedily, and too deep in caves far from home...there's always that bit of iron visible in the next chamber down. Cost me my life today, barely got back to recover some of my gear. I salvaged my diamond pick, but a lot of the rest was missing. And they fixed armor degradation, so now you NEED that extra iron to keep from dying...bit of a catch 22. Some neat bits of terrain found in my travels Epic overhang in the distance. Here mountains surround a shallow lake. A hollow hill.

I went exploring the past couple days. I found us some bamboo, and planted a crop of it in Mishaxhi's garden so we'll have as much as we want soon. I also found a little dungeon with a monster spawner...that was pretty brutal. I marked the entrances to a number of interesting caves with torches. Some I investigated resulting in a fairly large amount of iron, a lot of surface caves have 4-5 iron in them clearly visible. ...found someone's nice little tower out in the wilds and spent a night there...and left a thank you gift. Being a wandering explorer and prospector is fun. Updated World Map

Construction Map A: Joben's private castle B: Public fort - feel free to repair/modify (But dont burn the trees on top.) C: Rail Station D: Manta/Pear's house E: Mishaxhi's water-slide F: Mob water trap (currently broken) G: Future site of tree house H: a small sand mine in shallow water I: Natural underwater entrance to deep mines/caves J: Entrance to deep caves

X-Ray vision! Found an illusory world tear aroudn the side of an island. disapeared when i got out of my boat. This was much weirder. I found a HUGE square hole and asked Mish about it, and he said 'What this little ditch?" It wasn't there at all, it diapeared when i put a torch down to mark an edge.

woot new update. Server back up.

Ouch. The fresh Beta update seems to have caused a rather epic server crash. Something strange happened with the TESA1 world, When i got things running again and logged in I'm in unfarmiliar terrain... but don't panic, i have backups... edit Backup restored, it was a fresh one, don't think we lost anything.

A lot, at least 100, depending on server hardware and connection for practical limits. Mine hasn't started lagging yet but we only have 1-4 people online so far. btw Mish, i noticed you tried to log in a few minutes ago and it failed. I updated the server. It should be back now.

Oh the maps are finite in size? I wonder what all that stuff about "Infinite Maps" on the wiki is then....

I'm building another castle right now, but I'm starting to think about going on an expedition south. I'd like to see some other climates, and get some cactus if i can.

Thanks echo. Map of TESA1

Lot of progress in the last days. Here we see my fortress, with it's crown of threes reaching the heavens. Mish's garden, and Mob trap and my tree farms. My castle has multiple seal able zones. the main walls are cobblestone sandwiched with gravel and sand, which falls and fills minor breeches. (I hate creepers!) These were taken from the top of Mishaxhi's waterslide...which I'll let him tell you about.

Echo, you mentioned admin tools. Do you have a list? I'd like to know what's available.

I can understand that, even with the only ~2 days of work i've put into mine. But if you want to come just to hang out a bit or do a little adventuring you are welcome on mine. I'll give you a nice present.

I took some pics of our world...well the console claimed i did. but I can't find them anywhere....