The Unofficial Minecraft Thread

[the-manta]

Ah thanks I'll try it out. By the way, I've been having trouble connecting to the server, is there something up with it?

[Joben]

Ahhh apparently the computer auto-restarted for some update during the night. Sever is back up now.

[the-manta]

It was back up, now it is back down

[Joben]

Grrrrrrrr...

There's some sort of problem with my net connection, might be the router is dying. Gonna get my brother out here to help troubleshoot soon. But there will be downtime if I'm not home to reset it when it drops out.

[the-manta]

I'm sorry to hear that, hope it gets fixed Anyway, the connection's been very good today so I have been trekking around building safehouses here there and everywhere whilst looking for a good spot for a new project

[Joben]

Interesting, The burglar trap in my castle basement went off.

[the-manta]

Weird... I haven't been in your castle for ages, and I never brave the basement. Maybe you have a lighting problem spooky. Once on single player I excavated some stone from under my house and just covered over the hole. When I broke it open again it was full of skellies

[Joben]

Heh it was one of the new guys. He seems fairly contrite and lost a diamond in the blast...having a little chat with him about paying attention to Keep Out signs...

[the-manta]

I guess for some people a warning is just an invitation. Seriously though, a castle of that size, a spooky downwards passage with a warning sign- alarm bells should ring

[the-manta]

Woah, just found this:

In a chest in a safehouse. Its made partially of sandstone and is located on the forested island across the water from the back side of my farm. Anyone know who it belongs to? That's a lot of stuff.

[Joben]

I Think that's Chocolates, I've seen him in there a few times, and his castle and a mineshaft he made are near-bye.

I'm suprised he hasn't moved what i assume is his main stash into his castle yet though.

Edited February 17, 2011 by Joben

[the-manta]

Ah yes you must be right, I'll remind him of it when he gets home

[_echo]

New update with beds and 5 new half blocks.

Somehow i dont think beds are useful outside of aesthetics in multiplayer...

[ub3rman123]

New update with beds and 5 new half blocks.

Somehow i dont think beds are useful outside of aesthetics in multiplayer...

Unless you're the only one on a server and hate working in darkness.

Is your server working with Beta 1.3?

[the-manta]

Yay update in addition to the beds and half blocks, does anyone else think the lighting looks better now?

EDIT: Yes, this is definitely a new feature; there's a new option for "smooth lighting" which does exactly what it says on the tin

Edited February 22, 2011 by the-manta

[Joben]

server is updated and running.

the update says beds work if all players in the world use them.

Seems like it could work on small servers like mine.

Also we have a new player, her name is Lynrae

[ub3rman123]

What server mods are you running? Any of them working with 1.3?

[Joben]

No mods yet, I've been looking at various ones.

I think i'd like to add death notifications, and lockable storage boxes.

But if I'm under the impression I'll have to wait until craftbukit is updated.

[_echo]

Bored so i redid my bedroom. I moved it from a small 4x3x3 room into my old 4x8x3 work room with tower access (Formerly on saile for 40 Diamond. No offers) Used to just be cobble walls with double-stone half block floors and 2 "lava-lamps" (Wall lava falls for light), but that was boring.

The new awesome-ified bedroom!

And in other super-happy-fun-time news, I updated the first post with a better description of Minecraft, the most recent update notes, a few more "Useful Links" (different editors), oh, and a freakin cool picture from some randomly generated world specifically for that picture. Naturally I don't remember the seed I used for it.

[the-manta]

Looks awesome Echo, cosy and stylish at the same time

And now for some breaking news:

THE SLIMES HAVE RETURNED

Joben and I, towards the end of a very profitable mining expedition, discovered a colony of the adorable translucent cubic beasties hopping around in a lava pool! Eventually they were all freed and must have taken a liking to us, as they followed us as far as they could (not very far, they seem to have trouble with corners and low ceilings). For all I know they're still hopping around down there on an obsidian lake (serious amounts of obsidian for anyone interested in mining it). I realize as I write this post that I completely forgot to take a screenshot of the moment

[_echo]

slimes are evil. They cause lag spikes, and the tiny slimes are bugged into spawning 3 big slimes when killed. I lost a diamond pick, sword and shovel as well as my last 8 diamonds because of them.

[the-manta]

but they're soooooo cool...

[_echo]

doesnt remove their evilness.

[the-manta]

at least we can agree on the appeal of chickens and squid?

[the-manta]

Thought I'd give y'all a quick update of what I've been up to

- I went back to the deeeeeep mine Joben and I explored with a diamond pick, and grabbed 45 obsidian (yeah, it took a while)- initially neither Joben nor I had bothered with mining it, but the other day I decided I might as well use that diamond pick I have, so I did.

-I have begun work on a new castle It's on top of a big hill which is now too steep to climb, and the walls are/will be built on good foundations. I plan to make this castle very defensible, so I'll have cactus walls, aforementioned steep hillside, and entry across a bridge, with a small obsidian gatehouse. The floorplan for the castle is quite small, as the hill turned out to be considerably less expansive than I initially believed, but that's fine by me- Castle Pear is really to large, I have no use for about 75% of the space in it.

-I have found out why I keep finding spiders in the garden of Castle Pear: they can climb vertical walls now :facepalm: so I will get to work on an overhang at the top of the wall.

-I found a small patch of brown mushrooms, which, along with a few of the many red mushrooms I had gathered, has made some tasty stew, one of the best foods in the game- swing by the restaurant in Castle Pear if you want some

EDIT: I have finished the "foundations" of the new castle, and the limitations of the hill mean that there is a great distance between the planned "floor level" of the castle (as marked by the cobblestone foundations) and the actual ground. I had an idea which I though I'd run past you guys: would it work to pour water and lava into the gap from opposite sides to fill it with cobblestone?

Edited February 25, 2011 by the-manta