GasBandit
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Well, there's not much to take pictures on in the new map.
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heh, if anything is missing, it hasn't been important enough for me to notice it yet.
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figmentPez
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Sorry about that. I was on top of a wall shooting my bow at the creeper so I could look around, and the damn creeper blew up anyway. They're so much more sensitive now. It totally slipped my mind to mention it in the thread. I would have repaired the mushroom house as well as the wall, but I had no idea how to do that. I did repair the ground and wall it blew up (and fixed some of your other wall that wasn't tall enough to keep things out.)
On a similar note: Wooden blocks do not replace fencing. Someone blew up a creeper on the edge of my farm, and just filled in the gap in the fence with 1-high wooden planks. I don't mind that my stuff got blown up by a creeper, but if you're going to bother to replace a wall, actually replace it with a functional equivalent.
Can someone provide a visual example of how to make a wall spider-proof?
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Pics. Boring stupid pics:
Tree grew with invisible leaves. I knew they were there because I couldn't walk through them.
I didn't kill this enderman. It was just lying there and didn't fade away.
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Well, I'm out until animals are back. The game is still playable, but it's such a damn stupid decision on Notch's part that I just don't want to play the game until it's fixed. Maybe it works in single player, but in SMP it's just mean to players.
Anyone can take whatever they want from my house/farm.
Highway projects are now "done" via Dirona and I. They go from Gas's place to our collective one, which isn't that far north of Gas's, and from there to WAY east (more than an in-game map east) to Dirona's tropical hidaway. They're lit highways, but not enclosed, so while mobs won't spawn ON them, they can spawn near. Still fairly safe traveling on them at night, as they're mostly raised up too.
Too bad to hear about waiting until the next update to play because of the animals. Not that big a deal, as most of us have farming operations good (no food worries) and the only other thing animals give you is the feathers for arrows, which arrows aren't as big a deal IMO as they could be. But I can still understand the frustration of not having them around. There also seems to be a complete lack of wolves of any kind (I've seen ZERO with a lot of wandering in the right biomes). So I'm not too happy either, but it's interesting doing everything by-the-book for surviving with monsters. I still find it fun, but I understand not finding it fun.
Any new cartographs of the map? I'm wondering how much the world has "expanded" and/or just plain changed with the added population!
Too bad to hear about waiting until the next update to play because of the animals. Not that big a deal, as most of us have farming operations good (no food worries) and the only other thing animals give you is the feathers for arrows, which arrows aren't as big a deal IMO as they could be. But I can still understand the frustration of not having them around. There also seems to be a complete lack of wolves of any kind (I've seen ZERO with a lot of wandering in the right biomes). So I'm not too happy either, but it's interesting doing everything by-the-book for surviving with monsters. I still find it fun, but I understand not finding it fun.
Any new cartographs of the map? I'm wondering how much the world has "expanded" and/or just plain changed with the added population!
GasBandit
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Bah, ye nancies, I'll have you know I'm at a 50% success rate killing creepers with a sword! 
Anyway, eriol wanted another cartograph at the end of the night, soooo.. here it is. (big png, annotated)
Anyway, eriol wanted another cartograph at the end of the night, soooo.. here it is. (big png, annotated)
Thanks Gas. The only thing to mention is that where you have "Eriol" it's both me and my wife (Dirona) together. The far one marked Dirona is mostly her though. It is interesting to see how far we've gone, and what we've done. In-game is interesting too, but this is even more "big picture."
So, anybody found a stronghold yet? I've found towns (3 of them, and I see at least 2 more on the map I haven't been to), and even an abandoned mine shaft (total fluke there), but no ruins/strongholds. Anybody else?
GasBandit
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That's mostly because after you and I logged in, the spawn point mysterioulsy relocated to be over on the other side of where Bones is now. Everybody just grabbed somewhere close to where they spawned. Odd server behavior....
Isn't that what whitelisting is for? Seems to work OK on my (vanilla 1.8.1) server.
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figmentPez
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I laughed.
It's also possible to keep a population of chickens, but it would be a pain to gather the eggs (which only have a 1 in 8 chance of spawning a new chicken when thrown).
Oh, and cake would be sustainable as well, if you keep the cows alive for milking.
New nether-travel network started!
Seriously. Dirona and I have a gate up at our place, and it connects to a 2nd gate in the nether, and there's a straight-shot passage between the two gates. Fast-travel for all!
So the 1st gate is right between Gas and Bones, and the 2nd is right at Dirona and I's place. So quick north-south travel. If anybody else wants advice on how to connect their own gate to the network (it's likely it'll be one-way to one of the existing gates right now), let me know and I can probably help you out, but only if it's far enough away from an existing gate. So Bones/Fnord, probably not, Ed maybe, Drifter not a big problem.
Eventually I'll hook up the far outpost of Dirona's (it's long enough to be more than justified), and probably an NPC town or two, but for now, enjoy all.
Seriously. Dirona and I have a gate up at our place, and it connects to a 2nd gate in the nether, and there's a straight-shot passage between the two gates. Fast-travel for all!
So the 1st gate is right between Gas and Bones, and the 2nd is right at Dirona and I's place. So quick north-south travel. If anybody else wants advice on how to connect their own gate to the network (it's likely it'll be one-way to one of the existing gates right now), let me know and I can probably help you out, but only if it's far enough away from an existing gate. So Bones/Fnord, probably not, Ed maybe, Drifter not a big problem.
Eventually I'll hook up the far outpost of Dirona's (it's long enough to be more than justified), and probably an NPC town or two, but for now, enjoy all.
GasBandit
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.... oh yeah. That would work.
GasBandit
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Pretty easy. Just need to know the username, and then they can be added (and then the server has to be rebooted)
GasBandit
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yes.
GasBandit
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Multiplay is subtly begging its users to turn animals and monsters off.
That first huge 110% peak was the initial generation of the new world when I switched the server to 1.8. Since then, it's been higher than previous, but I wouldn't say "too" high. And memory usage has been pretty stable IMO.
I say screw em. Our CPU usage is higher than previously but we're not exactly pegging it out:Multiplay said:
That first huge 110% peak was the initial generation of the new world when I switched the server to 1.8. Since then, it's been higher than previous, but I wouldn't say "too" high. And memory usage has been pretty stable IMO.
GasBandit
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I agree, however I hope that the next version of worldguard has an option to disallow endermen from moving blocks around, or I fear for the integrity of our old map in the multiverse. Maybe the new map should be the only one with monsters.
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Raidrinn
I hope I can get some time to go stake a claim in the unexplored new world. Busy busy with work and let's play making....
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