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[Minecraft] Don't feed the bees.

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Also, to those who let me know Optifine lets you turn off the sky, stars, sun, and moon, thank you so much. The blackness of the cave in the distance looks perfect.

    It also lets you switch to a previous version of water that was a lot clearer. I'm all for the craziness of the underdark but it's sorta majestic down there and vanilla water won't let you see twenty meters in front of you.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    I moved my chest out of the HQ. I didn't realize things had changed so rapidly!

    Now to find somewhere to build a dwelling.

  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Sorry about that Carcass, I quickly checked the rooms one day and didn't see your chest and thought everyone moved out. I sorta went crazy that night before finishing the general layout of the place.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Also I need advice. I'm not sure about the spaces in the walls on the floor with the Dim Star on it. I want it to be plainly visible from outside but I'm not entirely happy with the half finished direction I've taken it.

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  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2013
    Shortly after drowning in the Undersea, I visited the City of Ember, whereupon I fell into a ravine -- with no pickaxe or torches.

    Survived to make it back home.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWyB447vNjg

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    City of Ember? I've been kind of doing my own thing in the Bellowdim cave (Uberdark? I need a peek at the map again), what have you folks been finding?

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  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    Oh hey it's 6:30 AM.

    I've been in the same cave system for like 4 hours now, was on my way to the exit (I hope) when the server went down for maintenance.

    Jeebus fucking Crust.

    (On the bright side, I'm bringing out the equivalent of two stacks of iron and about a half stack of gold, plus emeralds, lapis, and a fuckton of coal.)

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  • ButtkittensButtkittens Registered User regular
    Oh hey it's 6:30 AM.

    I've been in the same cave system for like 4 hours now, was on my way to the exit (I hope) when the server went down for maintenance.

    Jeebus fucking Crust.

    (On the bright side, I'm bringing out the equivalent of two stacks of iron and about a half stack of gold, plus emeralds, lapis, and a fuckton of coal.)
    So thats who you are! I had no idea who you were when you joined the server at first. Yeah i was lucky enough to be in the world mushroom... Then again, i have been DC'd in the undersea before.

    Still havent drowned in there, i think it deserves an achievement.

  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    A note to any spelunkers in the jungle area: if you spend longer than 20 minutes in a cave system, I'd probably bet $100 you'll run into my exploration. I dropped so many torches down there the creepers are calling me Lightbringer.

    Just because it's torched doesn't mean it's completely or even MOSTLY stripped. I left a lot of ore behind because I was prioritizing the stuff I could get without too much engineering.

    Also I brought back nine buckets of lava for a project.

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  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    I'll testify to that, gandalf.

    The cave system under Bellowdim is probably 70% mined at the north stairs, and as you go further east its about 30% all the way to the lake I believe.
    Its a fucking honeycomb down there. I've tried to cut off tunnels and such, but I'd basically be filling in a 3D space completely at this point.
    I got enough iron ore in one expedition that I think I might permanently upgrade to iron pickaxes for exploration. (city buildings is still stone picks, though)

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  • VicVic Registered User regular
    Server back up, I did some minor edits and fixes. A new merchant has been added too.

  • TakelTakel Registered User regular
    Just reading what you guys are doing is tempting me to apply to join up. It'll be nice to be just a regular player rather than the one who's hosting the server...

    I presume just stock standard clients? Or are you running server/client side mods as well?

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    The client is standard. The server is a bit modified, but only with some restrictions on what players can do.

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  • MackenzierMackenzier Gold Star Police Ninja Lurking... less than usual.Registered User regular
    I'll testify to that, gandalf.

    The cave system under Bellowdim is probably 70% mined at the north stairs, and as you go further east its about 30% all the way to the lake I believe.
    Its a fucking honeycomb down there. I've tried to cut off tunnels and such, but I'd basically be filling in a 3D space completely at this point.
    I got enough iron ore in one expedition that I think I might permanently upgrade to iron pickaxes for exploration. (city buildings is still stone picks, though)

    I've been closing off stripped / resource empty deadends down there as well. If anyone runs into a sloppy cobble cross that has darkness beyond underneath Bellowdim, there's probably nothing worth noting down there.

    Also, found my way to the Obsidian creepers last night... we need bigger walls.

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    Is there some reason people seem to be splitting up into the old NAW nations? And more important, why is it working on me? :)

    What is the idea behind Ember? What stile are you guys going for?

    Also, I'm completely winning my internal battle to not pester Vic to read my PM about white listing me.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Ember is basically just an excuse to build with some old fire nation buddies. If more people want to build there great, if not its just me, nair, Writzbitz, and Doc building random shit in our corner of the world

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  • FleebFleeb has all of the fleeb juice Registered User regular
    Nought wrote: »
    Is there some reason people seem to be splitting up into the old NAW nations? And more important, why is it working on me? :)

    Good ole human nature! People have a seeimingly built-in propensity to form factions and sub groups, even among small populations.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_behavior

    You done been edumacated today. You're welcome!

  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    @Vic

    Please may one get a white list

  • EmpiricalEmpirical USARegistered User regular
    edited March 2013
    Nought wrote: »
    Is there some reason people seem to be splitting up into the old NAW nations? And more important, why is it working on me? :)

    What is the idea behind Ember? What stile are you guys going for?

    Also, I'm completely winning my internal battle to not pester Vic to read my PM about white listing me.

    It'd not so much factional splitting or anything like that as much as these are people we know and play games with. In the case Water Nation (I keep scolding them to get a new/proper name) we get along and know each really well. Play lots of other games together and hangout outside of MC.

    That said, UD was plenty present back in NAW too. A lot of people who played in the last UD went Water Nation so we had a lot of nostalgia going on back in Season 1.
    Gumpy wrote: »
    @Vic

    Please may one get a white list

    Whitelisted.

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    Can I just say that every time I hear about Fire Nation or Water Nation I keep thinking of Avatar: The Last Airbender?

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    @empirical any chance you could whitelist me too?

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  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    A tattered piece of parchment, spotted with blood, hangs beside the jobs board at Bellowdim Headquarters...
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    It's located just inside the wall of the mushroom jungle. You can't miss it, it's the building shaped like a bucket. There's a chest on the left full of various liquids, and a chest on the right for empty buckets/donations of other materials.

    Take as many buckets as you want for your projects, but bring them back when you're done and drop them off in the chest on the right if they're empty, the chest on the left if you refilled them yourself. I'll refill any empty ones that get dropped off.

    This is a service, not a store, so I'm not putting a price on using it. If, however, you find the service useful and want to help out, here's some suggestions:

    1) If you have some time and feel like making a bucket-filling run, feel free to grab the empty ones out of the drop-off chest and go fill 'em up.

    2) Got a few extra iron ingots? Make an empty bucket and drop it off. We'll inevitably lose some because people will die with them in distant lands, so it'd help to have some backups.

    3) Every bucket I fill down in the caves is a slot in my inventory that can't hold coal, iron, etc. So if you want to donate raw materials for me to use in my home and other projects, it would be appreciated (but, again, not expected).

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  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    I love that map.

    Reminds me of my 9th grade school vacation to Rome, where everybody in my class was handed McDonalds maps of the city. These maps mostly focused on placing the restaurants of cause, and navigation was helped by the fact that Rome is an ancient city with laws protecting the looks of the city so that the you really couldn't spot even a McDonalds at much more then a shop or twos distance.

    Let's just say the ones with actual maps became very popular.

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  • EmpiricalEmpirical USARegistered User regular
    ArcSyn wrote: »
    Can I just say that every time I hear about Fire Nation or Water Nation I keep thinking of Avatar: The Last Airbender?

    If it makes you feel better, it's merely a coincidence.

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Man Air Nation could not die fast enough

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    Sorry about that Carcass, I quickly checked the rooms one day and didn't see your chest and thought everyone moved out. I sorta went crazy that night before finishing the general layout of the place.

    Not a problem. I didn't know that building was going to become an HQ. It just kind of seemed like a "claim a room dormitory", so I found an empty room and stuck my stuff in there, just to have somewhere to put it, and didn't log on again until last night. I didn't have much, just some wood I had salvaged from a nearby ruin. I put most of that stuff in the public storage chests since I have no idea what I'm going to do at the moment.

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Now that people are mentioning the alliances thing... Is there even any air nation people on the server? Or are they just keeping quiet to hide themselves from the fire and pitchforks

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  • TakelTakel Registered User regular
    Ok, I'm convinced now that I certainly don't have too much to do with my time. Could I please get a whitelist @Vic or @Empirical?

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  • KandenKanden Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    I'm a man without a nation, anyone want to adopt me and my diamond fists?

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  • ButtkittensButtkittens Registered User regular
    Kanden wrote: »
    I'm a man without a nation, anyone want to adopt me and my diamond fists?
    Now that people are mentioning the alliances thing... Is there even any air nation people on the server? Or are they just keeping quiet to hide themselves from the fire and pitchforks

    The only reason we're really going with the nations was because it was a server before and more people started to know eachother from that. Its not actually a "nation" thing, more of a small group of people we just play games with.

    Like emp said, im sure we're going to change the name soon.

  • TheKoolEagleTheKoolEagle Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    So, I got whitelisted for Underdark, but I don't have the address, its not the titanium url still is it? because that one isn't working for me D=

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  • Writzbitz 1.1Writzbitz 1.1 Registered User regular
    If any none fire nation members would like to live in ember, feel free. We are just basing our buildings and names around a somewhat fiery theme.

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Writzbitz your avatar is horrifying

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  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    So, I got whitelisted for Underdark, but I don't have the address, its not the titanium url still is it? because that one isn't working for me D=

    make sure to type out the name of the server. if you copy/pasted it, minecraft likes to put spaces in front and behind the server address

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  • EmpiricalEmpirical USARegistered User regular
    Takel wrote: »
    Ok, I'm convinced now that I certainly don't have too much to do with my time. Could I please get a whitelist @Vic or @Empirical?

    Done.

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  • IanatorIanator Gaze upon my works, ye mighty and facepalm.Registered User regular
    So I decided to check out the Dim Star. Was marked as someone's place, but with something like that floating overhead you've gotta expect some foot traffic.

    Naturally, I wasn't the first one there.
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  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    OK, so let's talk about things we need to do that require not just resource sharing, but actual coordination:

    1. There are huge deposits of sand near the Obsidian Creepers. Like, we'd have enough glass to live forever if we harvested that shit. But the problem is, that's a long way to go, through what basically amounts to one large mob farm. I propose that we either mount an expedition where several of us go together and haul back the sand, or several of us can build a lit, fenced pathway that direction so that people can go visit whenever they want.

    2. The Undersea needs to be tamed. I have no idea what resources this would require or how to proceed, but it seems like the sort of thing a group could/should do together.

    3. There are still traders to be found. How should we do that? Are there any suspicions about their locations?

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  • Gandalf_the_CrazedGandalf_the_Crazed Vigilo ConfidoRegistered User regular
    Also, today I found a crafting table and furnace in a cave, with no torches within several tunnels of them.

    Who is the crazy cavedweller with nightvision?

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  • ButtkittensButtkittens Registered User regular
    Also, today I found a crafting table and furnace in a cave, with no torches within several tunnels of them.

    Who is the crazy cavedweller with nightvision?

    With a bright enough screen anything is possible!

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  • HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    Man Air Nation could not die fast enough

    Comments like this nourish us.

    Don't worry, we'll be back soon enough. Ain't no-one else damn sneaky enough to deal with the redstoners!

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