Official BG Minecraft Server Thread

**Souj** · 2012-06-24 12:27

well, here's my progress so far.
Here comes a shit load of pictures.
I started improving a lot of stuff.
Replacing all the cobblestone walls with stone is on my to-do list, but that's going slow so there are a lot of walls half stone/cobblestone

Overview of everything;

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The Start!

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**Souj** · 2012-06-24 12:34

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This stuff has had no "refinement".

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**Chrian** · 2012-06-25 03:45

just looks so awsome.

**finalwolf** · 2012-07-02 17:12

Could an admin check if the whitelist is fine? I tried logging into the server today, got a "Failed to verify username" message. There was a problem earlier in the day with people logging into most public servers. http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/ is showing a greenlight all around.

edit: nvm it seems. I'm in now.

**Ragns** · 2012-07-02 17:24

Originally Posted by finalwolf

Could an admin check if the whitelist is fine? I tried logging into the server today, got a "Failed to verify username" message. There was a problem earlier in the day with people logging into most public servers. http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/ is showing a greenlight all around.

edit: nvm it seems. I'm in now.

I see a lot of timeouts in the logs when contacting the Minecraft authentication server today so it sounds like a problem on Mojang side.

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-05 00:47

So I added my name to my profile over 12 hours ago and I'm still apparently not on the whitelist. wat do ; ;

**Ragns** · 2012-07-05 02:04

Originally Posted by Deadgye

So I added my name to my profile over 12 hours ago and I'm still apparently not on the whitelist. wat do ; ;

Something was broken with the hourly white-list refresh. Should work now. At worst it'll take 24 hours.

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-05 07:22

I found a nice big island a couple days due south. I, Deadgye, claim it in the name of Team Teabag! :O

**Chrian** · 2012-07-05 19:30

use the bg map mine.bluegartr.com/map to specify your location along with pressing f3 to make sure it is truly uninhabited.

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-06 01:31

It's not on the map yet, so I'm fairly sure it's uninhabited. :3 My log cabin is at -5266, 65, 3927 -ish.

**Chrian** · 2012-07-06 01:34

oh nice, enjoy your solitude lol

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-06 04:48

Bwahahahaha, lucky-da. Was going down my staircase underneath my cabin to mine and I heard some faint sounds. Fap, slap, fap. Looks like I've got slimes without even looking.

Bwahahaha, and a monster spawner is here too.

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-09 12:04

So I made a portal to the nether, and upon taking it back the game made a different portal that like at least 60 levels lower.. I'm confused as to what happened.

**finalwolf** · 2012-07-09 13:14

could have linked to a closer portal that was in the area. You did say the area was uninhabited until you arrived. destroy the new portal. go to the original portal, get the coordinates, divide by 8. enter nether, destroy the portal inside nether. build a portal at the new coordinates, in the nether. generally at a height in the 127 area if you want to have a path that links with the other nether portals.

**Imitarate** · 2012-07-09 13:16

The game is very touchy about how portals connect; a portal has to fulfill some pretty specific conditions to qualify as a destination. If it doesn't, the game will just make a new one. This is actually an alternative, if not necessarily safer, way to farm obsidian.

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-09 13:49

Originally Posted by finalwolf

could have linked to a closer portal that was in the area. You did say the area was uninhabited until you arrived. destroy the new portal. go to the original portal, get the coordinates, divide by 8. enter nether, destroy the portal inside nether. build a portal at the new coordinates, in the nether. generally at a height in the 127 area if you want to have a path that links with the other nether portals.

I'm sort of confused at your advice. The island I'm on wasn't generated until a few days ago when I got to it. There was only one nether portal in my overworld area and that is the one I entered in. I went into the nether for a few minutes and then used the same portal to go back.. except it made a brand new portal in the overworld that way quite far below the one I made.

Unless someone visited my remote island and went into my basement and followed one of the random paths in my mining shaft to the giant underground chasm and built a portal there when I wasn't looking.

**finalwolf** · 2012-07-09 15:36

Originally Posted by Deadgye

I'm sort of confused at your advice. The island I'm on wasn't generated until a few days ago when I got to it. There was only one nether portal in my overworld area and that is the one I entered in. I went into the nether for a few minutes and then used the same portal to go back.. except it made a brand new portal in the overworld that way quite far below the one I made.

Unless someone visited my remote island and went into my basement and followed one of the random paths in my mining shaft to the giant underground chasm and built a portal there when I wasn't looking.

post above explains better. my post was just a way to resolve the situation, to link a nether portal to your overworld portal

**Deadgye** · 2012-07-10 06:30

Did what you said and it fixed it. Thanks. Still confused as to why it happened though. There was no reason for the nether portal to appear where it did.

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**Necronus** · 2012-07-10 10:40

Originally Posted by Deadgye

Did what you said and it fixed it. Thanks. Still confused as to why it happened though. There was no reason for the nether portal to appear where it did.

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Well, as per how Nether Portals work, the return portals coordinates are indeed closer to the intended exit point of the nether portal. With those coordinates, the Nether portal will look in a 256x256 (+/- 128 each on x and z axis) block around its coordinates * 8 in the overworld. Thus its search for an existing portal would begin at x: -5216, z: 3752 ... But the Z axis of your portal was 3929 which is > 128 blocks away, hence making a new portal in the overworld when you came back.

Why does this happen? Basically, the spot you made your entrance in the overworld computed its exit in the nether and attemped to create the portal as close to that position as possible. What most likely happened was the portal could not find a valid spot at the direct center and pushed the portal out to further into its nether search radius (you can personally check this by examining where the portal should have been created in the nether, -664, 53, 491. Is it solid?). Now, due to the fact that the coordinates are always floored, your nether portal was probably shifted *just enough* to get it outside the 128 block overworld search radius of your original portal, forcing it to create a new one when you went back.

Edit: FYI, some people actually intentionally abuse this math to create 1-way portals just like you accidentally did in order to walk into one portal, then immeditely back into the recieving nether portal as a means of fast overworld travel with 0 nether travel. The other use for this trick is to mine infinite obsidian. If you mine the second overworld portal you listed above, then travel to the nether with the first portal and then return via the nether portal, the second portal will re-create itself. You can infinitely rip down and recreate the second portal as many times as you like.

**goonles** · 2012-07-10 10:43

Is the server down ?

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