Official BG Minecraft Server Thread

[miokomioko]

Server issues aside...

I'm feeling very motivated. Minecraft Beta 1.7 wil be the Adventure Update (or similar).

That sounds like a fun update finally...


Unfortunately:

1.7 will take a while, though. First 1.6.6 this week to fix a few more things, then I'm going to E3. Then there are summer vacations.

Him and his vacations. Summer vacations? What, is he a gradeschool teacher? >:[

[Ragns]

Shut down the server since it's just unusable.

[Mots]

That is disheartening but completely understandable given the circumstances. I hope Notch can get things fixed soon because Minecraft is starting to excite me again.

[Moosey]

bummer, just when i decided to start playing again lol

[Chrian]

can you put the map up for download?

[Atreides]

So I got bored before my memorial day party and built a mushroom farm in my single player world:

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Front:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ared/Mush2.png

Side:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ared/Mush1.png

Inside, there are 4 farming floors. I'm not sure I really like the setup here but eh, it works for now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ared/Mush3.png

And since it's part of my new city/town dealy, the top floor has an apartment like my reed farm:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ared/Mush4.png

[Psion]

Alright, in the meantime waiting for the server to come back up, I got ideas on my giant tower with bonus cavern underneath... it will be a giant birch tree!

But wait, aren't tree's vulnerable to fire? Reminded of this, i pursue the ultimate in sprinkler systems to stop any would be griefers or potential lightning strikes. Here are the results of my experiments:

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Let's start with the setup!



Here we see a simple TNT system that's built so that a flip of a switch will start detonating the first TNT, which detonates the next, that causes a chain, blowing out the top of the log dam holding back water source blocks, which flow down to stop any fires, all at the flip of a switch in case of emergency!



A close up of the (very) simple setup <.< this was testing, give me a break.



The TNT in action!



And the final result! bullseye!



So wait, why is my log wall 3 blocks thick anyways?



And why are there blocks of white wool mixed in?



And what happens if a fire starts when I'm not there? Let's test by setting the wall on fire near the base... <_<; and it went out without spreading. (I had to try three times before fire decided to spread before eating a wood block lol.



Oh look, a surprise TNT block in case griefers decide to try tearing things down instead. (they're scattered in there randomly, but the water prevents them from destroying wall when they blow up, just cause damage)



And so the fire (finally) begins!



The fire spreading out...



And the final damage. Not too painful, just a few holes to fill in! And since the water won't stop flowing till I fill the holes in, it makes further fires difficult to start. The wool mixed in burns out quicker so water is released faster which helps slow down fire spreads, but it isn't really necessary, without it there's only slightly more damage.



So what happens if the fire manages to reach the top or occurs high up, with both systems in place?



Why, fun and excitement of course! (I hid the TNT sprinklers to a more final form of what it would look like while the fire cooked)



Kaboom~

And the end result, one very quickly put out fire and any further ones made impossible.


Basically, the inside of the tree is pure water source blocks, except for TNT sprinkled inside randomly as surprises. Because each water block is a source block, no matter where a fire starts the water flows out of any holes, resulting in a contained fire. I'm still not sure if I'll bother with the wool, as it doesn't give much added protection. You guys think the birch wall looks better with or without random wool sprinkled in? I'm also not sure if I'll bother with TNT either, since it didn't seem to damage me very much, but I suppose it does make a nice deterrent for walls being hacked up manually.

I'll probably figure out a way for water to fall from the roof so that the floor gets put out, but that's only if the floor is even flammable, lol. As it is water falling from the walls puts out any nearby fires on the floor, so it's not a big deal unless the tree's really wide. This would be even easier if there was a piston mod in the vanilla game, but since there isn't I gotta make do with one time setups.

[Khamsin]

I've been a bit busy and neglecting Minecraft lately, so I haven't been following the mod updates. Is there a current version of Zan's minimap, or something similar? (In-game, lets you set waypoints, zoomable, circular instead of square if possible)

EDIT: Nevermind, found the thread for the updated Zan mod (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...colored-cloth/), but it's only been updated to 1.6.4.

[Ragns]

1.6.6 is supposed to come out in a few hours, let's hope it'll fix everything.

[Ragns]

1.6.6 is up.

[Atreides]

Oh fuck yes.

Minecraft Beta 1.6.6

Unless there are any emergency things to fix, I won’t do any more updates before 1.7. Going to E3 on Saturday.

I will be bringing my laptop to do some development, but I won’t be able to do much testing.

ONWARDS TO THE ADVENTURE UPDATE! *holds up sword, poses dramatically*

1.6.6:

+ Added a new use for bonemeal
* Changed the material of glowstone from “glass” to “stone”. This means you need a pickaxe to get resources from it
* Made glowstone drop more loot
* Made the recipe sizes for creating cloth blocks and glowstone blocks smaller (2x2 instead of 3x3)
* Re-introduced unlimited FPS, renamed the option again
* Fixed beds not working very well at all in SMP
* Fixed destroying a boat spawning the player too low, causing them to sometimes fall through the ground
* Boats float up to the surface quicker
* Boats falling down into water lose their vertical momentum very fast
* Removed Herobrine

I *think* bonemeal now grows bushes/flowers...

Fucking awesome about glowstone too, you get 4 from breaking 1 so it's now 1:1

edit: yeah, this is from the wiki:

Grass: When applied one bone meal is consumed and tall grass forms around on grass around the area, occasionally containing some flowers.

[Talragan]

lol. As server hasnt been up ive gone back to singleplayer and created an epic project that i stopped like 4 months ago :D

might post screenies here when i finish it tommorow

[miokomioko]

Fucking awesome about glowstone too, you get 4 from breaking 1 so it's now 1:1

Yeah, now I'm waiting for a reason that Glowstone drops powder instead of just a Glowstone block.

[Priran]

* Removed Herobrine

Then who was phone!!!

[Chrian]

hmm minecrafts not loading for me for some reason on the old loader should I probably get the new one?
WOO SERVERS UP time to build and create
creeper view



also if you want to build map in the "aether or sky dimension"
use this link
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...sion-on-earth/

[JigglyJam]

Does the map auto-update now or something?

[Mots]

I found an amazingly cool landscape in single player that I want to build in the other day. It makes me angry though because its single player.

I think I may do it though.

Also as far as the BG server is concerned I was thinking about making a building contest of sorts. If anyone is interested we can talk about drawing out guide lines and ideas for what type of contest it would be.

[Viena]

Does the map auto-update now or something?

I think Ragns changed it so it does every few hours.

Also, I've run into the following issue:

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http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/3...0602184938.png

By the looks of it I'm standing on top of the Nether, with no way out nor a way to get myself killed. No more minecraft for me until we get /spawn /home back, I guess. :/

I've have noticed minecraft placing you at an arbitrary vertical position upon login while in the Nether once prior to this, I know Groundchan has also experienced this, but always ending up "inside the box". I haven't used any mod, although I'll probably try to install flymod to get out of this (hoping it allows someone to get through walls).

PS: In an amusing situation, ragns logged in while I was writing this post, ported Lurkakitty somewhere and logged off. He apparently got the two of us mixed up.

[Psion]

Im not sure but there's normally chunk errors or the like that result in holes in the bedrock, though uncommon. if you find one though you can hop down,ooooor...

take advantage of speed hacking with zombe's modpack flying mod, go faster than the game can load new terrain, and slam yourself down repeatedly into the ground, trying to trigger suffacation as the game loads the terrain around you and your momentarily caught in the rock. Heavens know I wind up damaging myself a lot as is that way with the new update, and you probably could as well.

Or maybe ragns can hack some flint and tinder in your inventory or something so you can set yourself on fire or something, i dunno.

[Mots]

I got her out.