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MINECRAFT: OH FUCK YOU SPIDER

nukanuka What are circles?Registered User regular
edited February 2011 in Social Entropy++
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IMPORTANT NEWS!

New map folks! PM myself or Ulitmakay for the IP address if you forgot it or want to join us!

It's survival mode now! No more "Can I have X many blocks please?" Everyone is starting from scratch. We're currently playing on Hard mode. You must be wary of monsters now!
Very soon we will have a PVP designated area, but as of right now the only rule is DON'T BE A DICK. YES YOU.

I've changed the OP considerably but all the information you need is still available by simply clicking on the links below. (Currently still a work in progress)

Detailed Server Information and Videos
Tutorials
Modding


QUICK QUESTION!


A number of you have gotten used to playing without mods or any kind of assistance in this game which is rad cause you're all having a blast and I am happy when you are happy.

I would like to ask you guys though what mods you would be up for installing aside from the necessary ones that we run the server with and I use to keep you guys safe. (Pony if someone messes with your stuff again, there's a tool I can use to find out who did it and when.)

It's called Craftbook. Most of what it does is allow you to have more building choices. You can have working gates and drawbridges (The bridge doesn't actually go up it just disappears.) It also has a thing called the cauldron.
It lets you put items into it to get other items in return. We used it in the past for blocks you were otherwise unable to get like stuff from the Nether. You can read up more on the mod here in this link.

In short, we can control what an item is worth. We can make Lightstone cost Obsidian, Gold blocks, Glass and a torch and you get just 1 Lightblock in return or something. We can make stuff quite expensive. I'd like to hear your opinions on all this. Personally I want this for the ability to get flowers for keeping the map at a reasonable level of ridiculous size (rather than an unreasonable level of course.) because people are scouring the place for roses or whatever.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    even the minecraft thread has been plagued by bugs

    nothing is safe anymore

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    Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    these are the end times

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    nukanuka What are circles? Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I miss what I wrote in the old thread but I couldn't seem to find a cached version of it.

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    FlatEricFlatEric Leaves from the vine, Falling so slow Like fragile, tiny shells, Drifting in the foamRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Creeper blew up the last thread

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    creeper blew up the goddamn forum server

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    VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    gotta

    love

    that

    new

    thread

    smell

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Never

    Stop

    Digging

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    CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    minewhat?

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    VicVic Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So yeah, you are all still welcome to check out the Underdark server. It has some lag spike problems, but there are some pretty cool places down there.

    IP is 212.181.174.57

    Some pics!
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    Edit: Removed the huge ones.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    oooo

    pwetty

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    VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    dubh join me in the UNDERunderdark where we are building a hotel/apartment complex next to the lake!

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm taking a game break for the rest of the night

    gonna watch a few shows, then finish some homework

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    CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dubh did you make that Kells thread

    If so I (and the missus) must thank you

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    No, actually! It IS how I managed to find out about the movie, though. It came at a good time, since we just got into early medieval art in my Art History class.

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    DysDys how am I even using this gun Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Man, I need to play this more with you all.

    Kinda weird for me to see how incredibly popular Twixxo's gotten since my showing him minecraft in the first place.

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    theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    BILL YOUR SERVER IS DOWN IM GONNA SHIT MYSELF

    WAAARGH

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    HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Bill, I swear to god, if that server is not back up in one minute, I'm just going to have to keep waiting, but that's okay. I just love playin' on it is all!

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    i enjoy these games.

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    BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator mod
    edited December 2010
    Deja vu thread.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm gonna corner the lava market

    don't fuck with me or I'll encase you in molten rock if you go afk

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    hiartbillhiartbill Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm a huge fan of this: http://mineserver.be/. It's fairly buggy and they're still working on getting all the features in, but it uses less than 1/10th of the resources the official minecraft server (from what I've seen running both at the same time on my machine). I really can't wait until it's in a release-ready state...

    Also, they're planning to implement multithreading. :)

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    theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    bahahaha its in C++

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    you'll have to forgive those of us that don't know programming

    is C++ bad?

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    101101 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I think C++ isn't much used for networking?

    Probably wrong though, I don't know jack about anything but java

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    theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Bzzt.

    Of course for the commercial sector it takes less time to use a language more human friendly, but I doubt mine craft uses XML files to transmit information or something.

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    HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    C++ is good. Very good. Java is bad. Very bad. I look forward to our new C++ Mineserver overlords.

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    SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    NUKACRAFT THREAD FOR NUKAS ONLY

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    HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Haha Nuka, I just noticed the modified avatar. That's spiffy as spiff!

    I should get a Holiday avatar. (Holitar? No, no that's stupid!)

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    AlsoDAlsoD Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Not sure if it's been posted before, but http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos#p/c/F60520313D07F366/0/4UdEFmxRmNE
    is a series of vids of a beginner and an experienced player starting an SMP world. 3:00 really sums it up for me.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    AlsoD wrote: »
    Not sure if it's been posted before, but http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos#p/c/F60520313D07F366/0/4UdEFmxRmNE
    is a series of vids of a beginner and an experienced player starting an SMP world. 3:00 really sums it up for me.

    ha! he matches my avatar!

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    ultimakayultimakay Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So I finally decided to try the Ambient Occlusion mod to see what it was about, and holy shit its amazing. Ive only tried it with tronic so far but it makes tronic look so much better. It does break the HD texture fix, but it can be reapplied once AO is installed.

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    HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    btw Nuka, that wool recipe is wrong. Right now it's 4 Grass + 2 Red Flower + 2 yellow Flower = 4 Wool
    Got that from trial and error

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Think I might have to minecraft a bit tonight. Want to get my subway to the court house.

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    SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rfilyaw wrote: »
    C++ is good. Very good. Java is bad. Very bad. I look forward to our new C++ Mineserver overlords.

    It's difficult to make concrete comparisons due to various language differences, but generally c++ and java have roughly the same performance.

    The performance problems in minecraft and the server are due to it being written terribly rather than any language issues. There's no way a paltry 1000 cacti farm should make some people drop to 1 fps. Really you should be able to have the whole map be cacti and still have good performance.

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    Shock GShock G Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hey guys, check this out

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Lost connection while the server was preparing to backup several minutes ago. Can't get back in.

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    ultimakayultimakay Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Aneurhythmia wrote: »
    Lost connection while the server was preparing to backup several minutes ago. Can't get back in.

    If this happens wait maybe 5 minutes then try again. What happens is the server lags everyone out then no one is able to get back on till it recovers, which usually takes a few minutes.

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    HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Smasher wrote: »
    rfilyaw wrote: »
    C++ is good. Very good. Java is bad. Very bad. I look forward to our new C++ Mineserver overlords.

    It's difficult to make concrete comparisons due to various language differences, but generally c++ and java have roughly the same performance.

    The performance problems in minecraft and the server are due to it being written terribly rather than any language issues. There's no way a paltry 1000 cacti farm should make some people drop to 1 fps. Really you should be able to have the whole map be cacti and still have good performance.

    While I agree he is probably a terrible programmer (I'm no better, but I also don't mind saying Kanye West is a terrible musician, even though I can't even write music) I do think C++ will innately offer a good boost in performance. While the programming is essentially the same, the C++ goes straight to the operating system for which it's designed (which means no cross-compatibility) whereas Java has to use the JRE middleman significantly increasing clutter causing performance loss.

    I might be completely wrong on this, but that's the impression I've gotten since Java was introduced, and how consistently every Java-based game I've played has been significantly outperformed by games written in pretty much any other language.

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    hiartbillhiartbill Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Think I might have to minecraft a bit tonight. Want to get my subway to the court house.

    CraftBook 1.4 has even more features for minecarts! Dispensers, Stations, Message emitters! Also, I can now adjust the rate at which carts slowdown (I have it set to -50%), so you have to use less gold ore/blocks.

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    nukanuka What are circles? Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I fixed the wool recipe.

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