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Vic

I don't remember the size of the last underdark but I am pretty sure this one is at least 10 times larger. It should last a while, especially with creeps in. Also goddamn BotP.

Raneados

oh god you're putting enemies in

we're all fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED

yours can be the hardcore survival server, where death has an actual penalty, like a respawn timer or something

people making outposts and working together to slowly extend their reach

Vic

That is exactly the plan Rane, except for the respawn timer!

Edit: Because of the BotP

Just trust me when I say these do not make the place justice, it will look so much more impressive in-game.

Spoiler:

The great pillars of the Uberdark


The Uberdark lake


The Grand Cave, over 80 z-levels high

Campion

That shit is tough when you're being bombarded on all sides. You'd need to move in a pack, fighting off all the spiders and creepers.

Dang that reminds me, I had a minecraft dream last night. I had to hole up in some dirt because it was night time. Weird blue, round looking skeletons parading around the perimeter.

Depressperado

is the IP for underdark in the G&T thread?

Raneados

mmmm, I think death needs a greater penalty than just losing items, especially if there are kits and free stuff

and if there AREN'T kits, you have to be careful of iron+ diamond becoming extremely scarce as time goes on

Vic

Depressperado wrote: »

is the IP for underdark in the G&T thread?

It is not up yet, but looking at my progress I might be finished with it at least for a trial run within a couple of hours. Something like 80-90% of the basic framework is done, by now it is mostly a matter of cosmetics IE adding waterfalls, magmafalls, mushroom trees etc.

Edit: Death penalties are cool in theory, but I expect the underdark to be so deadly that they would be more of a nuisance than they are worth.

Depressperado

I am excited

T4CT

that excites me a lot

Baidol

Ug, paintings are frustrating in multiplayer.

Gumpy

How big is the undercore

peterdevore

One rather evil thing someone could do in that grand cave is make some little platforms with holes in them near the ceiling, which would allow monsters to spawn there in the darkness and drop down on us unsuspecting folk.

Raneados

aren't SMP painting still broken?

Baidol

Raneados wrote: »

aren't SMP painting still broken?

Very much so.

Put a painting up, destroy it and you have to relog for it to actually go away. You also lose the painting.

sarukun

Vic wrote: »

Crossposting from G&T because I desperately crave approval:

Just trust me when I say these do not make the place justice, it will look so much more impressive in-game.

Spoiler:

The great pillars of the Uberdark


The Uberdark lake


The Grand Cave, over 80 z-levels high

HO

LEE

SHIT


It's motherfucking Khazad Dum up in this bitch.

sarukun

Baidol wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

aren't SMP painting still broken?

Very much so.

Put a painting up, destroy it and you have to relog for it to actually go away. You also lose the painting.

Yeah, I learned this lesson the hard way the other day.

sarukun

Vic wrote: »

Depressperado wrote: »

is the IP for underdark in the G&T thread?

It is not up yet, but looking at my progress I might be finished with it at least for a trial run within a couple of hours. Something like 80-90% of the basic framework is done, by now it is mostly a matter of cosmetics IE adding waterfalls, magmafalls, mushroom trees etc.

Edit: Death penalties are cool in theory, but I expect the underdark to be so deadly that they would be more of a nuisance than they are worth.

I'm getting in on the ground floor!

Vic

Going to create trees for an hour or so, best case scenario I might have the trial run up within an hour.

Newtron

That is too awesome, Vic. Wow.

You look like you're using MCEdit. How do you manage with the selection tool?

I always find it to be super unwieldy, and usually get sick of MCEdit because of it.

Vic

I am doing almost all the work in NBT forge, especially since MCedit is really bugged for me. The only thing I use MCedit for is copying trees and stuff.

I hit a few technical setbacks, but hope is not lost.

Edit: Also, my craftmanship is a bit shoddy, but the scale is just insane. I could spend days of work filing on the details if I had the time.

Raneados

right, vic if your server's up this weekend I'll give it a looky loo

and I'll be on the SE++ server a bit later, but right now my toilet needs a new flapper

Vic

God damn the uberdark is so LARGE. Adding mushrooms to it is a nightmare

Vic

So many stupid mushrooms.

Vic

The map is ready, but I am having some problems with the server program. I am trying to learn hMod (hey0 mod) and it is not going so well at the moment. Could anyone hop on and help?

IP for the trial run is: 212.181.174.57

Edit: I am so clueless about this program, I just wish to know how to make warps work and to load up the game using more memory.

Virgil_Leads_You

I don't know anything about servers but I'll pop on

Raneados

ahahaha pparently there's PVP

and when I killed vic the server crashed

L
O
L


edit: now i can't get back in

in my defense i really wanted that diamond sword

VALVEjunkie

haha dammit rane

sarukun

I'd like to hop on too, but if it's down, I'll have to wait until tonight.

Going out to git mah KARAOKE on!

There will be girls!

Edit: So I hopped in just to take a look, and I loaded, and fell forever into infinity, relogged and didn't get in.


Science!

sarukun

Yeah, I can totally log in, but there is only the sky box.

Raneados

timing out every time

gotta do other stuff, so I'll be back later

Stew_Stick

Vic is there still that 1 massive cave in the New Underdark that is entirely redstone?

sarukun

Vic, don't despair, the Underdark is a massive project that will need a lot of tweaking. You'll get it working right, and you've got a bunch of people willing to help out.

Vic

Thanks Sarukun!

It is a shame that right now the limiting factor seems to be the game code. Quite simply the Underdark is huge and unwieldy and the game does not deal well with light sources underground and millions of mobs spawning.

Edit: I checked, and the Underdark lags even in single player. Shame.

sarukun

You may want to scale it back a little bit, and throw down tiny bastions of light to ease up on the mob spawns. Mobs can't spawn in mid air, right? Take down some of the light blocks you got up top and put down little veins or orbs of light blocks on the ground. You could also lower the roof in the starting area a teeny bit, I think walking out into huge underground caverns from a spot where the roof is a little closer to you might be neat instead of falling down into it and seeing that vista immediately.

I really think decreasing the number of mobs spawning around players will help a lot for that initial starting area.

Edit: I know you really want to do the Underdark in all its glory NOW, but you might want to scale back your ambitions slightly until the game code can support your vision.

Vic

That would help difficulty-wise but it would not make the server playable in its current form. The problem is that the map is so tall. Rather than having to load monsters on a flat plane around the player the game is forced to take all the depths into consideration.

It might be that the map I made will never be playable. Nevertheless I would not mind putting it up for play for a while without mobs, assuming we can figure out how to do that. Anyone got an idea how to turn a surver into peaceful mode?

Raneados

yeah vic, the se++ server is like 2000x2000

how big is the underdark?

Vic

768x768x100

Mizuumi

it's all because rane killed the server owner obviously

vic is a load-bearing boss. destroy him, destroy the WORLD

sarukun

Vic wrote: »

768x768x100

That doesn't seem too outrageous.

I really think it's the number of monsters that are spawning.

Edit: Could also be that the server needs beefing up?

Vic

sarukun wrote: »

Vic wrote: »

768x768x100

That doesn't seem too outrageous.

I really think it's the number of monsters that are spawning.

Edit: Could also be that the server needs beefing up?

Ein just informed me about the Lighting bug over in the G&T thread, and that might very possibly be the cause. I am looking into a temporary fix for it right now, the server may yet go up tonight!

Edit: That is, assuming the lighting but does not prevent me from saving the edited map...