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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    yes welcome to the wonderful world of parasitic fungus

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  • TwixxoTwixxo the Lovebot Registered User regular
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

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    EncDonovan Puppyfucker
  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Man that gives me ideas

    What if I made a raid boss.......

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  • ruddehruddeh "Speak softly and carry a big bone." Registered User regular
    Enc wrote: »
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    Aw, he's just as cute as in the game!

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    PassionateLovieDarmakSopaDevlin_Dragonus
  • ElbasunuElbasunu Registered User regular
    Whoever harvested my dead body's leavings and put them a chest inside my home THANK YOU. I was having a hard time finding home again and I never expected that when I did, my stuff would not just be there, but be there neatly placed.

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  • WuShockWuShock Lawful Good South BrownbackistanRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    nuka wrote: »
    Cordyceps is not adorable.


    By any means.

    D:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

    NO I DIDN'T NEED TO SLEEP TONIGHT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT

    Twixxo wrote:
    WuShock is the best
    He is the very bestest
    I wish I was him

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    sarukun
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    David Attenborough, though.

    Taskmanruddeh
  • Firematic.Firematic. Registered User regular
    Twixxo wrote: »
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

    What about those of us who can't venture into spawn due to framerate issues
    How can I experience your love?!

  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Love at Ten Frames Per Second.

    A new album by Twixxo and the Lovebots.

    On vinyl and cassette October 3rd.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Firematic. wrote: »
    Twixxo wrote: »
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

    What about those of us who can't venture into spawn due to framerate issues
    How can I experience your love?!

    how can people be having framerate issues in spawn already? what could possibly be causing that on a vanilla server?

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  • Vrtra TheoryVrtra Theory Registered User regular
    Some comps (my old one, for example) actually have a pretty tough time with default MC w/o Optifine and such. And I believe there's no Optifine for 1.8 yet.

    Are you a Software Engineer living in Seattle? HBO is hiring, message me.
  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    I have a pretty nice computer and Spawn slows down for me a good bit.

  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    Also, is there a map render or screenshot of the map anywhere? I'd love to know where folks are in relation to spawn.

  • Vrtra TheoryVrtra Theory Registered User regular
    Here's a screenshot of the spawn map. However, since I only know where I am, and where spawn is, it doesn't have a lot of detail.

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    EncBahamutZERO
  • CromartyCromarty Danielle Registered User regular
    From what I've read, the lighting engine was changed in 1.8, but it has serious problems with lighting in water, causing the game to just stop rendering in order to catch up. There is a substantial body of water adjacent to spawn..

    I hope there's a fix soon, whether in an update or by Optifine. I want to keep playing Minecraft with everybody, but 10fps is borderline unplayable. ): It's especially frustrating considering the game runs mostly without issue on the prior update.

    Devlin_DragonusVrtra Theory
  • ElbasunuElbasunu Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    I turned on VBO and my framerate drastically improved on my integrated chip computer

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    what's VBO

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  • Ginger MijangoGinger Mijango Don't you open that Trap Door!Registered User regular
    Vertex Buffer Object. Loads stuff on your graphics memory instead of system memory, well that's the jist of it

  • TwixxoTwixxo the Lovebot Registered User regular
    Firematic. wrote: »
    Twixxo wrote: »
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

    What about those of us who can't venture into spawn due to framerate issues
    How can I experience your love?!

    I'll hide some outside spawn as well! I may also have spontaneous contests of some sort when enough people are on.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Can one of the rewards be a sharpness 5 piece of paper

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Vertex Buffer Object. Loads stuff on your graphics memory instead of system memory, well that's the jist of it

    and how do I turn that on?

    I write you a story
    But it loses its thread
  • Ginger MijangoGinger Mijango Don't you open that Trap Door!Registered User regular
    Look under Video Settings.

  • Firematic.Firematic. Registered User regular
    Firematic. wrote: »
    Twixxo wrote: »
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

    What about those of us who can't venture into spawn due to framerate issues
    How can I experience your love?!

    how can people be having framerate issues in spawn already? what could possibly be causing that on a vanilla server?

    My computer had a bit of a meltdown and I am running off an on-board graphics controller, so it's pretty much just me being awful, nothing to do with spawn itself.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    @Twixxo‌

    can your shrine make it rain roses

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    I play on a laptop with a built in graphics card. But it's like, and 8800 or something, it should be good enough for minecraft. Runs like a turd in spawn though since we changed maps.

    I write you a story
    But it loses its thread
  • TwixxoTwixxo the Lovebot Registered User regular
    Clarification on finding and redeeming Twixxo Heads

    Twixxo Heads will be hidden around the map, not in chests, but placed like a block. Harvest these heads and save them until you have enough for something you fancy at the Shrine of the Lovebot! Let me know when you would like to redeem the heads.

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  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Completed maps on wall:

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    Spawnington in the middle, mushroom biome (Island of Lemooia?) in the north-center of the NW map, mega taiga in the far northwest corner (Cascadia?), flower biome in the far northeast near the eastern border, and jungle just south of the flower biome. There be zappy fish in that one spot in the eastern sea that I missed, which is why I avoided it. Ice spires are almost directly east of Spawnington in the snowy areas. The light blue-and-green mottled area to the west of the snow is swamps.

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  • WuShockWuShock Lawful Good South BrownbackistanRegistered User regular
    How do you know you've been on the server too long?
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    Shock Airships first production craft:
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    Twixxo wrote:
    WuShock is the best
    He is the very bestest
    I wish I was him

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Completed maps on wall:

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    Spawnington in the middle, mushroom biome (Island of Lemooia?) in the north-center of the NW map, mega taiga in the far northwest corner (Cascadia?), flower biome in the far northeast near the eastern border, and jungle just south of the flower biome. There be zappy fish in that one spot in the eastern sea that I missed, which is why I avoided it. Ice spires are almost directly east of Spawnington in the snowy areas. The light blue-and-green mottled area to the west of the snow is swamps.

    Fucking awesome.

    WuShockruddehSkeithEnc
  • Dr. FlamingoDr. Flamingo 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    So how far to the borders of the map were you able to get? I know there's tiny strips of land on the south side, and possibly the east, between the edge of those maps and the border.

  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    WuShock wrote: »
    How do you know you've been on the server too long?
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    Shock Airships first production craft:
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    This looks awesome from my house!

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    So how far to the borders of the map were you able to get? I know there's tiny strips of land on the south side, and possibly the east, between the edge of those maps and the border.

    Yeah, south and east is missing a little bit of land and when I went along the border my white marker icon was technically off the map. North and west I also went along the border and you can see that the edges aren't quite filled. Still, it's just a tiny bit missing. Thanks for making all those maps, by the way.

    Enc
  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Don't delay from lack of hardened clay! The Donation Station of Spawnington has been stocked for your Victorian-style building needs. Currently there is one row of stacks of red stained clay, two and a bit rows of stacks of orange stained clay, and two and a half rows of unstained* hardened clay. Go forth and craft!

    *dyes not included

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Firematic. wrote: »
    Firematic. wrote: »
    Twixxo wrote: »
    The Shrine of the Lovebot is open!

    The Shrine of the Lovebot is located next to the Map Hall, behind the Office of Herald's Registrar. In the Shrine you can view super cool items you can get for finding and earning Twixxo Heads! Every so often I'll hide some Twixxo Heads around, and award them for various things!

    What about those of us who can't venture into spawn due to framerate issues
    How can I experience your love?!

    how can people be having framerate issues in spawn already? what could possibly be causing that on a vanilla server?

    My computer had a bit of a meltdown and I am running off an on-board graphics controller, so it's pretty much just me being awful, nothing to do with spawn itself.

    There is a dude selling GTX670s in the Moes Technology Tavern computer build thread for $150 each.

    Going from integrated graphics to a 670 would be like going from listening to Pink Floyd over a telephone handset speaker as hold music, to sitting front row at their concert.

    toloveistorebel Skeith
  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    There is a skelleton grinder at spawn now, way down is presently a waterfall marked by a sign

    Please turn it off when you are done using it !

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  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    I used to know villagers and their trading ways. No longer, it seems. I have apparently ruined the Cool Beans Farmer of East Village, having locked out wheat, carrots, potatoes, and also cake and pumpkin pie while trying to reopen the other trades. If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know. I kinda wanted to load up on emeralds.

  • SnerkySnerky call me trick the c is silentRegistered User regular
    anybody on the FTB server who has the Lightning page, I will pay a high price for a copy
    it's the Final Page I need...

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  • Vrtra TheoryVrtra Theory Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    I used to know villagers and their trading ways. No longer, it seems. I have apparently ruined the Cool Beans Farmer of East Village, having locked out wheat, carrots, potatoes, and also cake and pumpkin pie while trying to reopen the other trades. If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know. I kinda wanted to load up on emeralds.

    Was going to fix it for you, but it looks like it's already fixed! All trades were open on the cool beans farmer when I just visited.

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  • Vrtra TheoryVrtra Theory Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    Hey all, after all the talk of trading yesterday, I thought I would do some more research on trading in 1.8 and I realized it didn't work exactly like I thought it did. I put together a guide for anyone interested in maximizing their trading, hopefully it help some of you out as well.

    Goal

    This guide shows how to turn raw materials (wheat, carrots, paper, etc.) into emeralds, as quickly as possible.

    Mechanics

    Every time you make a trade with a villager, there is a chance that that particular trade becomes deactivated ("locked"). Once locked, you need to "unlock" the villager to use that trade again. Note that while each trade becomes locked individually (through use), a villager unlocks all possible trades at once.

    Here's the important thing to know about unlocking: every time you make a trade, there is a 20% chance that the villager is "marked for unlocking". This is an invisible, internal flag that means: "two seconds after the trade window is closed, this villager will unlock". When a villager "unlocks", all trades are useable again, and green and purple swirls pop out of the villager.

    Note that this flag can be set even if you only traded one thing. For example, if you walk up to a lone villager and make a single trade, and this single trade locks, there is a 20% chance that if you simply close the window and wait 2 seconds, the villager will unlock it for you.

    (In 1.8, the minimum number of times a trade can be used before locking is 2, and the maximum is 12.)

    Based on these mechanics, I give you:

    The Step-by-Step Guide

    For this guide, I'm going to use the Farmer villager as an example, and I'll assume the villager trades for Wheat, Carrot, and Potatoes, which you've brought with you. Let's say you've got 15 stacks of carrots and 4 stacks of potatoes, and you're interested in turning all of them into emeralds.
    1. Right-click the villager and click to the Carrot trade.
    2. Insert a stack of carrots to the left and shift-click the emerald to the right.
    3. Repeat step 2 until the trade is locked.
    4. Immediately close the trade window and wait 2-5 seconds.
      a. Did green and purple swirls pop out of the villager? Return to step 1!
      b. If not, continue:
    5. Right-click the villager and click to the Potatoes trade.
    6. Insert a stack of potatoes and click the emerald to the right, dropping ONE emerald into your inventory.
    7. Close the trade window and wait 2-5 seconds.
      a. Did green and purple swirls pop out of the villager? Return to step 1!
      b. If not, return to step 5.
      c. Did the potatoes trade lock? Continue:
    8. Attempt to make another trade, such as: wheat for emerald, or: emerald for cake. Make only 1 trade, then close the window and wait 2-5 seconds.
      a. Did green and purple swirls pop out of the villager? Return to step 1!
      b. If not, repeat step 8.

    A summary of this strategy in English would be: trade your primary resource as much as possible, hoping for it to unlock itself in a loop. When that fails, use your secondary resource in tiny increments, hoping to unlock and start the process over. If all your resources lock, slowly work through other available trades (even if they use up emeralds), until you get the unlock and can start over once again.

    Dangers

    I have now read several reports that if you are very, very unlucky, it actually is possible to completely lock up a villager, permanently. As far as I have read, there is not a mechanism in 1.8 that will unlock a villager based on time or any other means, please let me know if you've noticed otherwise! (Or if you've got any other strategies I should add!)

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    Its easier just to cram all the villagers in a hole and kill them once they've outlived their usefulness, this frees up space for other villagers to breed. Their children will either offer useful trades, or be culled for the greater good of capitalism.

    Bonus points if you play a modded server, as useless villagers can be put into a TiCo smeltery and melted into emerald juice. 8 villagers iirc make enough juice for one emerald.

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