Ho hum. Could someone (if possible) invite me into the steam group. I believe my steam name is The Laughing Man. Either that or send me a PM for Vic's server. I'm missing my offices
I'm confused. When I run the minecraft server and play on there, there aren't monsters at night, but when I play single player there are. Are those both "Survival" modes? Are there no monsters in multiplayer "survival"?
Also, when I'm playing multiplayer, I can't kill animals or take damage. That all normal too?
I'm confused. When I run the minecraft server and play on there, there aren't monsters at night, but when I play single player there are. Are those both "Survival" modes? Are there no monsters in multiplayer "survival"?
Also, when I'm playing multiplayer, I can't kill animals or take damage. That all normal too?
Multiplayer is being implemented currently. What you see what now is a "rough" version of multiplayer. Before, it was even rougher. The way he does things with Single Player is a bit different when you need to account for multiple people who could all potentially pick up that dropped block, say, or all have items and all want to place a block in a certain spot, for instance. He's still working out the kinks.
I have a feeling this comic is going to bring the population seeking a PA server to an all-time-high, however unfunny the actual comic may be.
We had nearly 20 people on Underdark last night. If the IP was open, the server would die, period. It would crash, and crash hard.
When monsters are implimented, I think we'll see a change in how player homes are built - They will be more defense-oriented, and probably up in the air via ladders more often.
When monsters are implimented, I think we'll see a change in how player homes are built - They will be more defense-oriented, and probably up in the air via ladders more often.
Defense is still pretty much a joke in this game. The only change we'll see is the entire landscape dotted with torches, and buildings just covered with them.
The stuff about removing the IPs: don't we need to edit all the posts in the thread to remove IP references, too? There are a bunch of people who asked "What's the IP?" before it hit the OP, especially in the SE++ thread, and a lot of people straight up posted the IP individually.
I had a short chat with gumpy about that too, and we agreed that some town planning is probably going to be in order.
The current thought is that for the next Underdark the majority of Undercore is going to be off limits to buildings. It will be reserved for the forest with only a few public buildings in the middle of the parklands (like the storehouse, town hall, maybe a temple). Building will be allowed along the outer walls of the cave, perhaps giving a designated lot to each player (as long as space allows). These rules will of course not apply to all of Underdark, there will be plenty of huge and impressive caves where people can build entirely freely including the planned truly gargantuan Überdark (trademark). It was just felt that the main cave can too easily be cluttered (the current undercore is suffering rather badly from this) and it seems reasonably to spread out the buildings and projects a bit more to reduce lag.
Edit: I doubt we need to be that paranoid Argus. If anyone was desperate enough to look through the entire threads there are several easier ways for them to get the IP. This is not about making the IP entirely hidden anyway, we just want it to be less accessible to keep the inflow of players at a reasonable level.
So with the influx of players we're going to see after this comic series, I think it's even more important that the server IPs remain private.
Yes, because god forbid new players actually figure out how to play with us!
You don't understand Zek! They will be mining our coal!
I think the fear is that with new players there will be new griefers and more lag on the servers. Both are likely to be true but there is no point getting too paranoid. Besides, we have not truly made the IP's private, they are just a little harder for the casual browser to find.
If monsters and difficulty go in today is anybody planning on starting a Hard mode survival server for manly men? That's what I want, I've had enough of pseudo-Creative.
When monsters are implimented, I think we'll see a change in how player homes are built - They will be more defense-oriented, and probably up in the air via ladders more often.
Defense is still pretty much a joke in this game. The only change we'll see is the entire landscape dotted with torches, and buildings just covered with them.
Yeah, it's not like we're gonna start seeing more buildings stacked with 250mm cannons...
I'll catch up later but I just wanted to say: I did not attack rapture. I logged off because I couldn't figure out how to get anywhere. I saw a tree on fire but couldn't figure out how to get there to put it out. I died twice trying to figure out the pathways.
I'm sorry about your fire in rapture. I'm pretty new to smps. I switched from your server to the underdark to help over there.
If monsters and difficulty go in today is anybody planning on starting a Hard mode survival server for manly men? That's what I want, I've had enough of pseudo-Creative.
What time does the update usually happen? because I can't wait for monster to go live, you're also all very welcome to join me in the bomb shelter I will be creating and never leaving, I'm sure I can expand it from a 1x1x2 space if needed.
So with the influx of players we're going to see after this comic series, I think it's even more important that the server IPs remain private.
Yes, because god forbid new players actually figure out how to play with us!
You don't understand Zek! They will be mining our coal!
I think the fear is that with new players there will be new griefers and more lag on the servers. Both are likely to be true but there is no point getting too paranoid. Besides, we have not truly made the IP's private, they are just a little harder for the casual browser to find.
Yeah, there are thousands of servers for people to play on.
First they have to pull the trigger on buying a game. After they get that far, they have to choose a server. If they know there are some PA ones, they'll look into it... or enjoy it and make their own.
We have 2-3 PA servers right now, maybe 10-20 people on at a time, on a busy day. More servers will spring up, some will overtake Underdark/Rapture in popularity... it's just going to happen.
My biggest concern is stability. I don't want to have to stop playing on Underdark because 30 newbies show up tonight, making it unplayable. There are a lot of really neat things going on in that server, and those of us that have put the most time into it should be able to enjoy it.
I know I keep bringing this up, but this comic is going to put extra stress on it - We really need to consider removing interaction permissions for brand new players. With population comes more anonymity, and if we follow Gabe's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, we're going to see more griefing. So far, at least once per day for the past week, something preventable has happened due to someone's dickishness.
Places like Underdark and Rapture are amazing feats in creativity and time. The amount of time invested in these creations is what's important here, and I don't know about you guys, but I value my time. Yes, I know it's just a game. I know it's only in Alpha and it will all be lost eventually. God knows those hours/days/months of time spent in past MMO's hasn't really net me anything today.
I enjoy Underdark. I greatly appreciate Vic for hosting it for us, and I like the idea of this being a private, small group of people playing it. I don't want Rapture/Underdark to be considered "Official PA servers" by any means. If PA wants that, they can do that. Maybe someone will invest in a server and call it "Official", that's fine. With that, comes responsibility and administration. Obviously what we have right now is very lax and enjoyable
So after lots of experimenting with my first world, I've started a new one and my goal, before any spelunking, was to set up a decent home base. It's nothing insane, but I'm proud of it. It will serve as a good workshop to plan grand constructions from.
I've built it into a decent sized hill to give me room to expand, there's a spiral staircase running down the middle that connects to a cave at the bottom.
I think my next goal is to have a waterfall come out from below the balcony there.
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There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
So I've been lurking this thread off and on a while. These crazy things I keep seeing....people play with cheats? RIGHT?
I played a pretty long amount of time and I've got a very, very modest dwelling built, and I don't even have any fancy tools made because I've yet to see the right minerals. The hardest part is making things to climb so I can make taller structures. I'm going to assume people are using noclip and jive, yes?
I wish there was a faster non-cheaty way to get obsidian I spent about a half hour this morning to get 25 blocks I also want a good way to map LARGE HUGE cave systems.
Private server, Fort Fucklaw is mine, I don't have any 1st person views.
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Do I look like the sort of man who'd go and find unsuspecting Japanese schoolgirls in short skirts and white panties and ask them if they want to see my "Cthulu Special"?
Though I only use mine for large scale landscaping. It's not fun digging up over 100000 blocks worth of dirt and stone to build your self a natural lake moat around your mountain fortress. And then having to fill that moat with water.
I've been playing on the Underdark and the Zetx server for the past few days as ccuddigan, mostly wandering around and helping out with what I can before I start building anything of my own. Logged into Rapture yesterday into a flooding dome, what happened sucked but being part of the repair effort was certainly interesting.
Anyone have any info on what's running these servers? From what I gather they're running on personal desktop boxes.
I wish there was a faster non-cheaty way to get obsidian I spent about a half hour this morning to get 25 blocks I also want a good way to map LARGE HUGE cave systems.
Private server, Fort Fucklaw is mine, I don't have any 1st person views.
Have you tried casting your constructions out of obsidian? an inventory full of buckets would make for some fast construction, someone who's done this should chime in.
! That is an amazing idea, but buckets don't work right in SMP you dump out of the water/lava and it dosen't work right. My lava tower was only possible because the admin spawned me some lava.
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Do I look like the sort of man who'd go and find unsuspecting Japanese schoolgirls in short skirts and white panties and ask them if they want to see my "Cthulu Special"?
I've hopped on Underdark a few times, but haven't made anything for fear of messing up people's cool shit. I'm more afraid of messing with people than I am creepers :-p
! That is an amazing idea, but buckets don't work right in SMP you dump out of the water/lava and it dosen't work right. My lava tower was only possible because the admin spawned me some lava.
Ahh I assumed you were in single player.
I spent a good half hour finding sources and buckets and such in vics server before I remembered that it wurnt wurkin yet.
I've been playing the single player a bit over the last week, loads of fun. I think the game was taunting me when after creating several worlds in which I could find no coal, it put the closest coal deposit up in the middle of a sheer cliff. Like a smiley face.
Anyways, kind of curious, how big are the maps? Like is there a limit or does it just generate it on and on if I keep walking? I kind of want to do a perpetual dig. Mine council if you will.
As one of these aformentioned newbies, I'm going to chime in:
i'm totaly cool with not having the ability to modify things. When I come to your server, I'm a tourist. At most I just want to help, like with Nuka and the Science center.
As long as you guys keep posting pictures and stuff of all the great things you're doing over on those servers, then that's cool, too. It sucks when you get into something after a group has already been created about it: you just feel left out.
I logged into rapture twice yesterday. I couldn't get the hang of boats so by the time I got to the main entrance, it didn't make any sense to me because I kept going under water. I tried to get to where there was fire, but I died. I didn't say anything because I didn't know how to talk on the MP server. I looked it up for when I switched to underdark.
If you want to ban me, though, I totally get that. I probably won't ask for the ips for the PA servers because I just lag them down.
I've been playing the single player a bit over the last week, loads of fun. I think the game was taunting me when after creating several worlds in which I could find no coal, it put the closest coal deposit up in the middle of a sheer cliff. Like a smiley face.
Anyways, kind of curious, how big are the maps? Like is there a limit or does it just generate it on and on if I keep walking? I kind of want to do a perpetual dig. Mine council if you will.
It will keep generating.
Technically it will go up to 8 times the surface of the earth total play area. Might as well be infinite as far as we're concerned.
EDIT: Steam invite would be much appreciated too
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Also, when I'm playing multiplayer, I can't kill animals or take damage. That all normal too?
Welcome aboard Gabe.
Multiplayer is being implemented currently. What you see what now is a "rough" version of multiplayer. Before, it was even rougher. The way he does things with Single Player is a bit different when you need to account for multiple people who could all potentially pick up that dropped block, say, or all have items and all want to place a block in a certain spot, for instance. He's still working out the kinks.
My project in Underdark must be completed or we'll all feel the wrath of the Under Gods!
edit: the Underdark address may actually be still on my clipboard on my home laptop, still need that invite though.
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I have a feeling this comic is going to bring the population seeking a PA server to an all-time-high, however unfunny the actual comic may be.
We had nearly 20 people on Underdark last night. If the IP was open, the server would die, period. It would crash, and crash hard.
When monsters are implimented, I think we'll see a change in how player homes are built - They will be more defense-oriented, and probably up in the air via ladders more often.
Defense is still pretty much a joke in this game. The only change we'll see is the entire landscape dotted with torches, and buildings just covered with them.
The current thought is that for the next Underdark the majority of Undercore is going to be off limits to buildings. It will be reserved for the forest with only a few public buildings in the middle of the parklands (like the storehouse, town hall, maybe a temple). Building will be allowed along the outer walls of the cave, perhaps giving a designated lot to each player (as long as space allows). These rules will of course not apply to all of Underdark, there will be plenty of huge and impressive caves where people can build entirely freely including the planned truly gargantuan Überdark (trademark). It was just felt that the main cave can too easily be cluttered (the current undercore is suffering rather badly from this) and it seems reasonably to spread out the buildings and projects a bit more to reduce lag.
Edit: I doubt we need to be that paranoid Argus. If anyone was desperate enough to look through the entire threads there are several easier ways for them to get the IP. This is not about making the IP entirely hidden anyway, we just want it to be less accessible to keep the inflow of players at a reasonable level.
Yes, because god forbid new players actually figure out how to play with us!
You don't understand Zek! They will be mining our coal!
I think the fear is that with new players there will be new griefers and more lag on the servers. Both are likely to be true but there is no point getting too paranoid. Besides, we have not truly made the IP's private, they are just a little harder for the casual browser to find.
Yeah, it's not like we're gonna start seeing more buildings stacked with 250mm cannons...
I'm sorry about your fire in rapture. I'm pretty new to smps. I switched from your server to the underdark to help over there.
Sorry.
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Not sure which one will work for you.
What time does the update usually happen? because I can't wait for monster to go live, you're also all very welcome to join me in the bomb shelter I will be creating and never leaving, I'm sure I can expand it from a 1x1x2 space if needed.
Yeah, there are thousands of servers for people to play on.
First they have to pull the trigger on buying a game. After they get that far, they have to choose a server. If they know there are some PA ones, they'll look into it... or enjoy it and make their own.
We have 2-3 PA servers right now, maybe 10-20 people on at a time, on a busy day. More servers will spring up, some will overtake Underdark/Rapture in popularity... it's just going to happen.
My biggest concern is stability. I don't want to have to stop playing on Underdark because 30 newbies show up tonight, making it unplayable. There are a lot of really neat things going on in that server, and those of us that have put the most time into it should be able to enjoy it.
I know I keep bringing this up, but this comic is going to put extra stress on it - We really need to consider removing interaction permissions for brand new players. With population comes more anonymity, and if we follow Gabe's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, we're going to see more griefing. So far, at least once per day for the past week, something preventable has happened due to someone's dickishness.
Places like Underdark and Rapture are amazing feats in creativity and time. The amount of time invested in these creations is what's important here, and I don't know about you guys, but I value my time. Yes, I know it's just a game. I know it's only in Alpha and it will all be lost eventually. God knows those hours/days/months of time spent in past MMO's hasn't really net me anything today.
I enjoy Underdark. I greatly appreciate Vic for hosting it for us, and I like the idea of this being a private, small group of people playing it. I don't want Rapture/Underdark to be considered "Official PA servers" by any means. If PA wants that, they can do that. Maybe someone will invest in a server and call it "Official", that's fine. With that, comes responsibility and administration. Obviously what we have right now is very lax and enjoyable
I've built it into a decent sized hill to give me room to expand, there's a spiral staircase running down the middle that connects to a cave at the bottom.
I think my next goal is to have a waterfall come out from below the balcony there.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I played a pretty long amount of time and I've got a very, very modest dwelling built, and I don't even have any fancy tools made because I've yet to see the right minerals. The hardest part is making things to climb so I can make taller structures. I'm going to assume people are using noclip and jive, yes?
Though I only use mine for large scale landscaping. It's not fun digging up over 100000 blocks worth of dirt and stone to build your self a natural lake moat around your mountain fortress. And then having to fill that moat with water.
Anyone have any info on what's running these servers? From what I gather they're running on personal desktop boxes.
My first night ended with me being killed by a spider.
My next first night ended up with me being chased all over the island.
At that point I'd through trial and error worked my way up to making picks and found some coal.
I have now carved out a niche of my own in the mountain and are creating a home. 3 nights and going strong.
The point where I decided I was going to get addicted was when it clicked that I should try putting sand in my oven and I got glass.
Have you tried casting your constructions out of obsidian? an inventory full of buckets would make for some fast construction, someone who's done this should chime in.
does this mean the updates out or am i getting an old one? havent played in a few days
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Ahh I assumed you were in single player.
I spent a good half hour finding sources and buckets and such in vics server before I remembered that it wurnt wurkin yet.
Gonna cast me some shit once its implemented.
There's a Steam group? Invite plox. Weegian.
Anyways, kind of curious, how big are the maps? Like is there a limit or does it just generate it on and on if I keep walking? I kind of want to do a perpetual dig. Mine council if you will.
i'm totaly cool with not having the ability to modify things. When I come to your server, I'm a tourist. At most I just want to help, like with Nuka and the Science center.
As long as you guys keep posting pictures and stuff of all the great things you're doing over on those servers, then that's cool, too. It sucks when you get into something after a group has already been created about it: you just feel left out.
I logged into rapture twice yesterday. I couldn't get the hang of boats so by the time I got to the main entrance, it didn't make any sense to me because I kept going under water. I tried to get to where there was fire, but I died. I didn't say anything because I didn't know how to talk on the MP server. I looked it up for when I switched to underdark.
If you want to ban me, though, I totally get that. I probably won't ask for the ips for the PA servers because I just lag them down.
It will keep generating.
Technically it will go up to 8 times the surface of the earth total play area. Might as well be infinite as far as we're concerned.
EDIT: Steam invite would be much appreciated too
It is pitch black. You are likely to be exploded by a creeper.