Official BG Minecraft Server Thread

[Not Kuno]

Sweet you can see my giant Kuno sign.

I approve.

[Karbuncle]

Began lagging had to log out. I blame running FFXI in the background on my nearly 10 year old computer D:

[Doombear]

Aww, I am not on the list? =( Guess it has been a while.

[Chrian]

is someones house at spawn glitched because on every render distance I disconnect at spawn but at my base I'm fine and all the outlying bases

[Atreides]

does the fact that my mob spawner works better during the day mean I haven't lit up the surrounding area enough?

Honestly these things are more trouble than they're worth. They're a complete pain if you have tons of caves underneath them, since you have to go and light up every single cave you come across. I'd much rather use an editor program and place mob spawner blocks if that's even possible.

Actually... can you make a passive mob spawner with grass and light, using the same setup? I guess you'd run out of space with all the pork you get, but it'd be an easy way to get wool and leather.

[Pyro]

It also depends on how many people are on the server but if it's working better during the day, I'd say that you have a bunch of caves within 144 blocks that are not lit up. The passive mob spawner should work the same way with grass and torches but I'm not 100% as I haven't seen one in operation.

[Atreides]

soooo, I don't really have any mods for this game, does anyone have a few favorite ones they want to recommend? Also, can you get that minimap thingy in single player? I've been quitting and launchin minecraft xray every time I want to find something underground which gets annoying, anything better out there?

[Pyro]

So, apparently when Notch adds the weather update, if pigs get hit by lightning they will turn into a zombie pigmen.

[Mots]

Where did you hear that?

[Pyro]

http://twitter.com/notch/status/57426954093211648

also this

http://twitter.com/notch/status/57363403102105600

[Kaisha]

Just a shame animals/monsters in the local vicinity don't have their status saved when you stop playing. Those will be a rare sight indeed.

Speaking of which, I wonder what happens if you get hit by lightning. ;/

[Chrian]

lol helm I think most people online go afk and stuff.

[Atreides]

oh hot, my mob spawner works really well now that it's almost done, although I had kinda hoped that more squid would get spawn in the water and give me some ink sacs.

Interestingly enough, however, the water in my collection room seems to attract a LOT of ducks, so AFKing to collect gunpowder/bones/arrows leads to a shitload of eggs too.

I'm running out of shit to build now, besides finally starting my branch mine to look for diamond (and create a place for slimes to spawn) the only thing I still need to build is one of those fast harvesting cactus/reed farms. I really hope they add pistons in the 1.5 patch

[Pyro]

Can almost guarantee pistons won't show up in 1.5 unless they have been pulling a Christopher Nolan on us and have been working on them secretly. Will probably be this coming week when 1.5 comes out and there is no way they can recode the piston mod in time.

[Atreides]

ah okay, so supposedly this update is going to change minecarts somehow? I seem to remember hating minecarts the last time I tried to install a system, because I could never get the hang of filling the shit up with fuel and then quickly hopping in before it took off, or having to refill the fuel and having the cart zip off in another direction, or some other annoying shit

[Kaisha]

They should jsut be self-powered carts you can fuel up, and then you hop in it and press in the general direction you want to make it start rolling in. Anything else is just too laggy for server purposes to do reliably.

[Pyro]

Stats/achievements, weather, self contained minecart track boosters, saplings for specific trees, and fixing the water flow glitch. Probably some other small things as well.

[Atreides]

I'd love to see rain make flowers/pumpkins grow, and mushrooms spawn randomly in darkened areas too

oh, and another way to get apples/cocoa beans would be nice... maybe they should grow rarely on regular trees after a rainstorm? Hmm...

[miokomioko]

I'm regretting choosing brown as my carpet color. I was seeing a lot of brown sheep at first, but now all I have are the two cocoa beans I found in a dungeon. ;/


Also, super easy to do, they could add so many more color wools as mixes of two different dyes. Specifically dark colors. E.G. Rose Red + Ink Sac = Dark Red or Cactus Green + Ink Sac = Dark Green. et cetera.

Flowers definitely need to re-grow and/or cross-breed (a la Animal Crossing). Same with Mushrooms.

Pumpkins could use a reworking now that it's not Halloween anymore. They should start off solid, without faces carved into them. Crafting a Jack-O-Lantern with the torch should put the face on it. Also, I would like: 1 Pumpkin > 1 Pumpkin Seed. Plant a Pumpkin Seed in tilled soil and each of the 8 empty spaces around it will have a 25% chance of growing another pumpkin.


It's so easy to come up with and get excited about simple little things to wish Minecraft had.

[Atreides]

It's so easy to come up with and get excited about simple little things to wish Minecraft had.

Ugh this is so true, I was thinking you could add more light sources to the game like Lamps (glass + glow dust + iron ingot, yields 4) that have a bigger light radius or luminance value, or (I got this idea from fortresscraft) a blue light made with lapis and glass. I'd love to see slabs of sandstone (or slabs of colored wool, omfg) and the ability to craft ice blocks (which essentially are another transparent/translucent option, like glass).

I really like that pumpkin idea, maybe for mushrooms they could make it so putting a mushroom on smooth stone in a low-light area can make the surrounding blocks grow more mushrooms, like the way grass grows.

The industrialcraft mod looks really interesting, but I think it's a little overly complicated. Maybe I'll try it one day

More furnishings would be sweet, maybe a faucet (fills buckets with water) or more storage options like vertical chests/wardrobes, or mannequins to display armor, or chairs/sofas...