[PC Game] Minecraft HF server info and game discussion

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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix;454179][QUOTE=FnordBear said:
What have you done to prepare for the coming Monsterocolypse?
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I've been busy building fortifications all over the place as well as sticking torches everywhere I can around my ziggurat. Now I just have to finish my lava defenses...[/QUOTE]

I've constructed a well lit, enclosed underground/underwater compound with trees, wheat and other essentials. Gasbandia itself is... well, let's be realistic. Gasbandia is too large to be defensible in any way shape or form from zombie apocalypse. The castle itself should be pretty secure as it is all well lit and enclosed, but the townspeople had better shutter themselves in at night because even though the town itself is well lit, there's nothing stopping monsters from creeping in from the surrounding areas. Gasbandia will be using offense as its best defense - weapons and armor.

I still need to put more torches on the inside of my giant bean can. It stays rather dark in there, day or night. And there actually is a house in there that I'd like to continue using occasionally.



On an unrelated note... Adammon, I still can't believe the precision and speed with which you built that monstrous sphere... and I WATCHED you do some of it. Crazy. In anything big I build, I have to stop every so often to back off and look at the whole thing to make sure it's all still going correctly... you were just a goddamned machine churning out level after level with no break.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

I'm planning on continuing my elevated wall/parapet back to the spawn point and then to any other locations that people might be interested in. I want to have at least one safe route that doesn't depend on a minecart.

GasBandit... your stuff is way too cool and makes everything I've built thus far look like a giant dump.
 
Adam

Adam

GasBandit said:
On an unrelated note... Adammon, I still can't believe the precision and speed with which you built that monstrous sphere... and I WATCHED you do some of it. Crazy. In anything big I build, I have to stop every so often to back off and look at the whole thing to make sure it's all still going correctly... you were just a goddamned machine churning out level after level with no break.
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I like playing with Orbs :)
 
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najamesk1

Ive got my radio tower walled and fenced with, I hope, more than enough lighting. I wanted to make a tram rail to get closer to the mailbox/pub area, but, i doutb i'll be able to finish that before the zombies come.

on a second note, Hidden treasure hasn't been found yet. Look for it in the Dence forest just north of the great bean can. Its small, but should be helpful when monsters are turned on.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Man looking at those new cartographs makes me realize there is so much cool stuff you guys have built that I have just never seen in-game. Seeing the giant sphere, Fnord's latest bomb site, Fig's giant farm and the dirigible the length of Fnordia Bay is all very impressive. :)

It is also really gratifying to see my lava billboard from space, even if it IS backwards.
 
drifter

drifter

So, I remember reading someone mention the double door glitch. Messed around and figured out a way to get it to work, although it's not a very elegant solution.



So it works, but you'd need a good bit of depth underneath the doors in order to do so. The way I did it, you need a minimum of three blocks of floor depth if you use repeaters to build the circuit far away, or five blocks to build it on the spot.

I did a pretty messy job, so if anyone is interested in refining the layout (please, stienman?), that'd be swell.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
I'm planning on continuing my elevated wall/parapet back to the spawn point and then to any other locations that people might be interested in. I want to have at least one safe route that doesn't depend on a minecart.

GasBandit... your stuff is way too cool and makes everything I've built thus far look like a giant dump.
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You too can build awesome big cool stuff. My advice? COBBLESTONE FIRST. Nothing's more irritating than screwing up in something that takes 5 seconds per block to dig back out and correct. It takes longer to rip out cloth with ANY implement than it does cobblestone with a diamond pickaxe.

najamesk1 said:
Ive got my radio tower walled and fenced with, I hope, more than enough lighting. I wanted to make a tram rail to get closer to the mailbox/pub area, but, i doutb i'll be able to finish that before the zombies come.

on a second note, Hidden treasure hasn't been found yet. Look for it in the Dence forest just north of the great bean can. Its small, but should be helpful when monsters are turned on.
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Heh, maybe that's why nobody's found it... that's where my hermit's hovel is... with big signs all around it saying KEEP OUT :p

Eriol said:
Are minecarts usable in multiplayer? I thought they could only be destroyed by lava, and other weirdness.
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They work to a point, they can only be destroyed by wierdness and the world doesn't load more chunks while you ride them (and riding into an unloaded chunk crashes you and leaves a copy of your player avatar on the server until next reboot).

The patch coming this week is supposed to fix those issues.

In the meantime, if you happen to pay a visit to Gasbandia, there are two minecart tracks just north outside of the Rail Depot. They both are safe to use under current buggy circumstances (though sometimes the one on the right gets stuck and you'll have to walk back). The one on the left just does a lap around gasbandia, sort of a tour of the sights... the one on the right is more of a rollercoaster that goes up down around and underground and back again.

Both of these get around the need to destroy a cart simply by dropping the cart at the end of the line onto a pad in an un-railed space. To start again, you simply nudge the cart onto the rail and get in... and the boosters SHOULD do the rest.
 
figmentPez

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drifter said:
So, I remember reading someone mention the double door glitch. Messed around and figured out a way to get it to work, although it's not a very elegant solution.
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Is that in single player or multi? I could not get doors to respond properly to redstone in SMP. The doors would open on a signal, but they wouldn't shut again afterwards.


Got a nice pic at sunset on my farm.
 
Wahad

Wahad

I have entered, and project VASE*, phase one, is already complete. Project VASE can be found just past the ''Megatree'', which in itself is just past the post office in the eastern direction. Anyone that can spare glass, sand, coal or buckets, please leave it in my post box. Much obliged!

*Virtual Aquatic See-through Edifice.
 
drifter

drifter

figmentPez said:
Is that in single player or multi?
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That video is in single player. However, I noticed in SMP today that someone built double doors around the post office, and I built in a slightly modified version of my workaround. There's some lag, but otherwise they seem to work perfectly fine in Ragnar.

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Also, while checking out twitchmoss' new underwater colony, I also checked out Adammon's Death Star. That shit is nuts.
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

Damn it, now I need to change the name of my place! "Epicot" doesn't seem so epic now that someone made the FREAKIN' DEATH STAR!! :(
 
figmentPez

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Gusto said:
Why does it say ELAN above your field?
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Because Dave is my next door neighbor.

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drifter said:
That video is in single player. However, I noticed in SMP today that someone built double doors around the post office, and I built in a slightly modified version of my workaround. There's some lag, but otherwise they seem to work perfectly fine in Ragnar.
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I couldn't get them to work from the inside. The outside switch opened and closed them, but the inside switch did nothing.
 
drifter

drifter

figmentPez said:
I couldn't get them to work from the inside. The outside switch opened and closed them, but the inside switch did nothing.
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I'm guessing the circuit path for the inside switch needs a repeater (a single inverter works fine). Redstone doesn't work past around 15 blocks. If that's not the case, I could take a look around when next I'm playing.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

The zombie apocalypse begins soon then! Good thing I'm woefully underprepared lol ;).

I'll just hide in GasBandits castle...

So are we finally going to be able to harvest cloth, pork and leather?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
The zombie apocalypse begins soon then! Good thing I'm woefully underprepared lol ;).

I'll just hide in GasBandits castle...

So are we finally going to be able to harvest cloth, pork and leather?
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Allegedly.

Also, bear in mind that the change will not be instantaneous. Noax will have to shut down the server, redownload the new server version, and start it back up.

If past big update days have been any indication, minecraft.net will go down like a stewardess on a chartered flight full of celebrity athletes, at least for a while, and that will impede both the downloading of updates and make it impossible to log into a multiplayer server.
 
GasBandit

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Notch also just said on his twitter that this does not signify the beginning of beta, he still wants to fix some inventory bugs and such first.
 
Wahad

Wahad

Health update is out

There are a couple of new settings for the server:
pvp. True by default. If this is set to false, players can’t hurt other players.
spawn-monsters. True by default. Set to false to remove all monsters.
spawn-animals. Also true by default. Set to false to remove all animals.
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Personally, I would like to make a formal request to the admins to either remove monsters from the game or make a ''safe zone'' where monsters won't spawn - regardless of light. I can think of a few instances where monsters will spawn despite being in a settlement and I prefer to play Minecraft as a glorified lego box without having to quit construction every ten minutes because night sets in and I have to watch out for monsters. I will abide by the admin's decision, however, so do what you will.
 
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noaxark

Wahad said:
Health update is out

There are a couple of new settings for the server:
pvp. True by default. If this is set to false, players can’t hurt other players.
spawn-monsters. True by default. Set to false to remove all monsters.
spawn-animals. Also true by default. Set to false to remove all animals.
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Personally, I would like to make a formal request to the admins to either remove monsters from the game or make a ''safe zone'' where monsters won't spawn - regardless of light. I can think of a few instances where monsters will spawn despite being in a settlement and I prefer to play Minecraft as a glorified lego box without having to quit construction every ten minutes because night sets in and I have to watch out for monsters. I will abide by the admin's decision, however, so do what you will.
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I don't think it's possible to set up something like that. Besides, this is an alpha-soon-to-be-beta server. If you're looking for a lego box, you should find a classic server. Once they are available and functioning, I will enable PvP, monsters, the lot. It'll be on a trial basis to begin with, though, since the damn lighting bug of laggy doom still isn't crushed.

Speaking of which, the update will be applied when I get home this evening at around 17:00 GMT. I'm considering some remote update options for the future, but I'm not sure if there's much point to it, since every update needs several rounds of additional patching before working properly. Notch works the same hours as I, so I'll always get the last update of the day, which is probably the only one worth getting anyway.
 
Eriol

Eriol

As long as it works reasonably well, I'm willing to wait for an update. No rush man. I'd rather have it relatively stable than "OMG I need my fix NOW!!!!!$#@$$@#!!!!"
 
Dave

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I can't get in right now. I get an error of "Outdated Client". I went to the Minecraft website and downloaded the "latest" but I still get the error.
 
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noaxark

Dave said:
I can't get in right now. I get an error of "Outdated Client". I went to the Minecraft website and downloaded the "latest" but I still get the error.
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I assume you get this when attempting to connect to the server? It's actually the server that's outdated atm. Same message though. Singleplayer should work for you.
 
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