Nice line Gas. I didn't expect underground, but it works great. And thanks for keeping the "format" of the station. That's why we notched out the wood! We'll be glassing it in shortly as well to keep away skeleton arrows (still a danger on the 2nd floor), as well as making the staircase to the 3rd floor so there's room for further expansion.
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GasBandit
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Yeah, I didn't want the rail line obscuring the view from my monument to opulence, so pretty much had to be underground. of course, that meant spawn concerns, but I think between the fencing and the floor lighting, that's dealt with.
I might consider it. I usually play a whole lot of single player when I can since I don't trust online minecraft servers too much. I like what people have been going on this server but the fact no mobs are enabled turned me off completely.
BTW is 1.9 stable? I tried 1.8 a month back or so but the 2 sec lag pulses ruined it for me and have been playing 1.7.3 since.
BTW is 1.9 stable? I tried 1.8 a month back or so but the 2 sec lag pulses ruined it for me and have been playing 1.7.3 since.
There's multiple "worlds" on the server Jay. What we used to play (and you went wandering around on) is now called "Ragnar." "Caprica" is the new world that first came in with 1.8. Because of a mod, we can play on the server with both worlds up at once with different settings. The old Ragnar has monsters disabled, whereas the new Caprica has them on. There is also Adventureland which will be wiped periodically which has monsters on it, and "Skyworld" which is a series of floating islands which has monsters disabled. And of course the Nether off of Caprica which has the normal nether monsters (Ghasts, zombie pigmen).
So if you want monsters in order to play, go for it on Caprica.
So if you want monsters in order to play, go for it on Caprica.
If the lag spike of death is a deal breaker to play 1.8, check out the Optifine mod.
GasBandit
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Honestly, lag hasn't been much of a factor lately that I've seen. If you're having 2 second lag spikes, I suspect the problem is on your end.
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Also, if you go wandering in a straight line again on caprica or ragnar, I swear by the rancid teats of shub-niggurath I will END YOU.
The latest maps of Caprica and Ragnar are a little stale (about 10 days old), but here they are:
Caprica 32 meg png
Ragnar 52 meg png
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Also, if you go wandering in a straight line again on caprica or ragnar, I swear by the rancid teats of shub-niggurath I will END YOU.
The latest maps of Caprica and Ragnar are a little stale (about 10 days old), but here they are:
Caprica 32 meg png
Ragnar 52 meg png
GasBandit
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If your 1.8 was lagging in single player, I don't know what to tell you. Didn't lag for me. Still doesn't.You didn't read.
1.8 played locally = lagging hard
1.7.3 no problemo.
And I already researched the issue and there were fixes for it but I went back to 1.7.3... didn't want to lose my previous Maple Leaf towers.
So... is 1.9 stable?
1.9 is not stable, it's not even released. Server is on 1.8.1, which is the latest "released" built.
On the other hand, Notch told us we won't have any stable releases until the ''official'' release, just weekly prereleases:
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/11309884313/pre-releases-and-adventure-updates
So at least we can stay with 1.8 for a while.
EDIT: Wanted to check out the giant golem / wood&dirt robot, saw a destroyed house:
http://i.imgur.com/Jpw1n.png
http://i.imgur.com/sCvvl.png
Whoever's house this is, I found it this way - looks like a bunch of tnt went off.
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/11309884313/pre-releases-and-adventure-updates
So at least we can stay with 1.8 for a while.
EDIT: Wanted to check out the giant golem / wood&dirt robot, saw a destroyed house:
http://i.imgur.com/Jpw1n.png
http://i.imgur.com/sCvvl.png
Whoever's house this is, I found it this way - looks like a bunch of tnt went off.
This village angered me and I sent my troll to deal with them.
In a different realm the wizard FnordBear is much more ruthless and does not eschew the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
GasBandit
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Nuclear bombs: devastating to everything except wooden boxes.
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Also, this could be intriguing:
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Also, this could be intriguing:
Sooo.. pre-release versions might actually be an option... but if I had to guess, only in vanilla mode (no multiverse, no ragnar, no adventureland/creativeland/skyworld)
IMO stay with 1.8.1 until the REAL 1.9 comes around. I don't have a problem with losing the "special" features, but I would guess that we'll have to "chop up" our map and such for some of the new stuff (mushroom islands for example) and I wouldn't want to have to have us do that multiple times when "that new feature" comes in that requires map generation. We already know that we're nuking the nether for nether fortresses, but what if another tweak comes? And another? And another? I'm already slightly wary to know if our fortresses (generated with 1.8) will have the portal blocks for travel to The End (Ender dimension) or not. Hopefully they already do, but if not, then those chunks will need re-generation (or mod placement of the blocks) as well.
So because of the danger of having to re-generate a LOT, I'd say stick with what we have until official. Yes a lot of the new features seem super-sweet (/drool at enchanting), I'd say wait.
GasBandit
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So some of you folks have probably already seen it, but I am posting it for the threadlurkers who won't come and play: The palace the little woman and I've been building in Caprica, design influenced by Belvedere Palace in Austria, but taken a lot of liberties with (and of course, the interior is entirely original/unrelated. It's not finished, the roof garden is barely started, and only the first floor's interiors are finished (out of 3), but hey, may as well have a look -
Front view:
Various indoor shots from the first floor:
Front view:
front
Various indoor shots from the first floor:
ballroom
indoor pool area
billiards room
library
indoor pool area
billiards room
library
GasBandit
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Mostly legit. Most of the cloth is from CreativeLand due to 1.8 version animal shortages, and to get the grass on the roof I went and got a "grass square" from there as well instead of building a 3-story dirt staircase. Also, there's some blocks on the second floor that I got from storage on ragnar (like some "unmined" lapis, and because snow biomes were buggedly removed in 1.8, the snow blocks). But every. damn. cubic. meter. of that sandstone, wood, stone and glass is hand-dug in caprica (or adventureland). Look back at the last cartograph - see that immense flat area where the palace and rail station is? That used to be a giant sand dune. That's why we've been working on this for close to 5 weeks and it *still* isn't finished.
GasBandit
Staff member
Credit where it's due, the little woman did most of the sand digging. Almost none of my "grand works" would have ever come to fruition if it wasn't for her - that includes old Castle Gasbandia, the Blimp, the Playa mansion... none of it.
Dave
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Bummer. My wife is...disinterested. I'd love to have her get into it. She'd be much better at it than I ever have been. I like the exploring/adventure part and she'd like the building/creating. So it would be her wanting materials and me getting them for her. It really would be the perfect partnership. (Pretty much like the rest of our marriage - we compliment each other very well.)
GasBandit
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Should work now, sorry.
I've constructed a few things in the nether around the portals. Every one there should be completely enclosed now (except one over the lava, it's in-progress). Not every one has a sign saying where they go, but a number of them do. I'll admit to have "hacked" a bit of the materials (creativeland) but given we're nuking it in 1.9, I'm OK with that for "this" nether.
Btw, to whomever constructed the sandstone enclosure (I presume Gas given the co-ordinates), know that sandstone doesn't resist ghast blasts. It's better than sand, but not by much. Now neither does glass (I've used that a bit deliberately) but if you thought it'd be as good as cobblestone, it isn't, so be aware. It will still break line-of-sight so they won't fire on you (even glass does that), but it will go "poof" when a ghast blast comes near.
Btw, to whomever constructed the sandstone enclosure (I presume Gas given the co-ordinates), know that sandstone doesn't resist ghast blasts. It's better than sand, but not by much. Now neither does glass (I've used that a bit deliberately) but if you thought it'd be as good as cobblestone, it isn't, so be aware. It will still break line-of-sight so they won't fire on you (even glass does that), but it will go "poof" when a ghast blast comes near.
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