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GasBandit
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Sigh, never mind. Back to the drawing board.
I believe they need the exact name you use to log in to minecraft.
Eriol, I started a walkway to my area following your design for the others, don't mean to steal your project away from you but I needed an easier way back to civilization. 2-bit, I can probably connect it to your place as well eventually.
I was also wondering if we could get an updated cartograph.
Eriol, I started a walkway to my area following your design for the others, don't mean to steal your project away from you but I needed an easier way back to civilization. 2-bit, I can probably connect it to your place as well eventually.
I was also wondering if we could get an updated cartograph.
GasBandit
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you are added to the whitelist.
Sounds good. I'm more than willing to let other people do the highway-building!
My only suggestion is if you want to exactly follow the design, the "torch pillars" are every 10. I fudge it when going up/down slopes, but other than that, every 10 like clockwork. Made figuring out distances from the cartograph easier before somebody showed me the F3 stuff! (Thanks hon!) Also, use the slabs for going up/down, since if you use the "stairs" you can't maintain sprint. But with the slabs, you can go up/down and keep on sprinting.
Why didn't you just make a mold and cast form the obsidian? Would have saved you a ton of Diamond picks.
I believe I put lamps up so that there are 10 slabs between each and also did the inclines with the slabs and full bricks so you could maintain a sprint. But check it out if you like and make any changes you feel necessary.
Dave
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How the hell do you do that?
Casting was an option, but honestly it takes more time to go from where the lava is to where you're going to cast it, that it's not worth it. Casting only works well when your final place is not far from your initial spot, otherwise it's actually not worth it, except for the pick cost, but diamond picks are so resilient that one will last you through most needs. May as well make it in a certain place, and then mine it, then run stacks at a time (one trip) to your final location, versus how ever many blocks you need, divided by the number of buckets you have, which uses up a lot of iron.
At least that's my view on it. If others like casting, go for it.
And Dave, there's water "source blocks" and lava "source blocks" and the "flows" that they create. When water runs over a lava source block, it makes obsidian. When the "flows" collide, they just make cobblestone. There's nothing "natural" about when/where things occur.
At least that's my view on it. If others like casting, go for it.
And Dave, there's water "source blocks" and lava "source blocks" and the "flows" that they create. When water runs over a lava source block, it makes obsidian. When the "flows" collide, they just make cobblestone. There's nothing "natural" about when/where things occur.
If you like that, you may want to check out obsidian scaffolding.
GasBandit
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Fnord's sent a request my way for a couple mods, and I wanted to get youse guys's opinions on them:
xLevel
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/xlevel/
Lets players pick classes and level up. Gives players a some unique skills.
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/multiarrow/
Adds arrow types. -
edit : doh fnord beat me to the punch heh.
xLevel
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/xlevel/
Lets players pick classes and level up. Gives players a some unique skills.
- 4 classes: Archer, Warrior, Magician, Priest
- 5 awesome skills each class which are constantly getting more effective
- leveling system
- gain exp by destroying/building blocks
- gain exp by killing mobs/players
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/multiarrow/
Adds arrow types. -
- Explosive - Small explosion at the destination
- Lightning - Lightning strikes the destination
- Drill - Creates a hole under block/entity, great for catching animals
- Water - Creates small patch of water at the destination
- Torch - Places a torch at the destination or lights an entity on fire
- Animal - Spawns (randomly) a pig, cow, sheep, or chicken at the destination
- Teleport - Teleports you to the destination or a hit entity to a random destination
edit : doh fnord beat me to the punch heh.
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najamesk1
I want
GasBandit
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I'm more favorably inclined toward multiarrow. Probably would be invoking the part of it that uses up other stuff, like to fire an explosive arrow would use both an arrow AND a tnt block... torch arrow would take both an arrow and a torch, etc.
I'm just somewhat concerned about what happens with xLevel when updates hit and the guts gets pulled out.
I'm just somewhat concerned about what happens with xLevel when updates hit and the guts gets pulled out.
GasBandit
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What I meant was, I'm concerned about how it stores that information, and whether it will make the transition intact... also the phrase "fire arrow" gives me fits.
GasBandit
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Also, for those who didn't hear me say it in game - for some reason, the automatic backups feature only does backups of CAPRICA. I recommend not making any further massive projects in ragnar, as it will only be backed up when I remember to do so and even then only after I can figure out HOW to make it do a backup without me FTPing the entire folder to myself. Skyworld and Hellworld are similarly not backed up, at all. ever.
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Bukkit? 3rd party addon (to manage other addons)
Bukkit needed a permissions addon just to grant permission to other addons.
Magic Carpet is also a 3rd party addon.
As is multiverse, which lets us use multiple maps at once.
The warps are a separate addon too.
The good thing about this multiplay server, is that multiplay vets their addons. It doesn't always work out (like we saw with craftbook and worldguard this weekend) but in general, they check their addons to make sure they won't do anything destructive before making them available, an dthen in the Clanforge interface the addons are pretty much drop-in-drop-out. Both the addons under discussion are already available in clanforge, which means at some point multiplay decided they were kosher. Now, that may have been 6 patches ago...
So long as we add in the addons one at a time and check for issues betwixt (and remove the addons if they DO cause issues) I don't think they'll be a big problem administratively. With the RPG addon, I worry that if it goes away it might kill interest in the game (how do you get them back on the farm once they've seen the big city, ya know?). Kinda like what losing minecart mania did to me for a while.
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The very nature of our server is it is inundated with 3rd party addons.
Bukkit? 3rd party addon (to manage other addons)
Bukkit needed a permissions addon just to grant permission to other addons.
Magic Carpet is also a 3rd party addon.
As is multiverse, which lets us use multiple maps at once.
The warps are a separate addon too.
The good thing about this multiplay server, is that multiplay vets their addons. It doesn't always work out (like we saw with craftbook and worldguard this weekend) but in general, they check their addons to make sure they won't do anything destructive before making them available, an dthen in the Clanforge interface the addons are pretty much drop-in-drop-out. Both the addons under discussion are already available in clanforge, which means at some point multiplay decided they were kosher. Now, that may have been 6 patches ago...
So long as we add in the addons one at a time and check for issues betwixt (and remove the addons if they DO cause issues) I don't think they'll be a big problem administratively. With the RPG addon, I worry that if it goes away it might kill interest in the game (how do you get them back on the farm once they've seen the big city, ya know?). Kinda like what losing minecart mania did to me for a while.
BTW, Caprica is PVP, as my wife and I found out. She hit me with a block. I was wielding a diamond sword. Gasbandit struck me down with lightning.
I like the idea of this world allowing PVP. I don't plan on attacking other players, but it seems more interesting to have that possibility.
I like the idea of this world allowing PVP. I don't plan on attacking other players, but it seems more interesting to have that possibility.
GasBandit
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Historically, the server has always been pvp enabled except for during the 1.8.1 vanilla phase where I guess the default is now "off." But I don't actually remember anybody ever really taking advantage of that, other than that one time bones rushed at me with a diamond sword when I wasn't wearing my armor.
If accidental hits are a common problem for people who routinely pair up (Stienman and raefrog, eriol and dirona, myself and chikii, etc), there's an addon I can put on called "buddyup" which basically lets you form a 2-person MMO group by "buddying up" and it makes you do no damage to each other, be able to teleport to each other, and also splits loot and such.
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Raidrinn
Also agree to not have monsters on Ragnar.
GasBandit
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I don't know if there's any specifically for minecraft... but you never know.
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