Org Minecraft Server

[Csargo]

x:17
y:64
z:-22

[Populus Romanus]

Sorry - I just realized that, in my minecraft noobiness, I had selected singleplayer instead of multiplayer.

[Vladimir]

Safety? My first spawn was over the water, at night! I had no idea what was going on. I also nearly blew a hole in the side of the fort.

Still, it was fun. I have some ideas for tonight.

[TinCow]

Safety? My first spawn was over the water, at night! I had no idea what was going on. I also nearly blew a hole in the side of the fort.

Still, it was fun. I have some ideas for tonight.

Hmmm... I suppose I could create a bit of a safe area on the exact spawn point, with a path to the noob hotel. Is the spawn point at 0,0,0?

[Vladimir]

The spawn point seemed to change a little and I didn't always land in the water. I don't know the exact coordinates. I'll have to check them when I get home.

Once I learned how to swim it wasn't that bad.

[Csargo]

Hmmm... I suppose I could create a bit of a safe area on the exact spawn point, with a path to the noob hotel. Is the spawn point at 0,0,0?

There is a spawn area I think. It is around that little island by the noob hotel.

[TinCow]

There is a spawn area I think. It is around that little island by the noob hotel.

I'll expand that island a little bit and encase the entire thing in glass, with a nice path leading to the hotel. If anyone spawns outside of the area, we can just expand it further until people always spawn inside. In any case, there are beds in the hotel, so spawning at that island shouldn't have to happen more than once. There's also a bed in the workshop near Scienter's Castle, and we'll eventually have several beds in the castle itself.

[Vladimir]

All this talk of glass boxes, hotels, beds, and spawning is getting me excited.

[Divine Wind]

Awesome, I'm known as the 3_Headed_Monkey and I wear a very cheap looking suit.

[TinCow]

We hit 7 people online simultaneously tonight, and I think we started feeling a bit of slowdowns as a result. More testing will be required, but it's possible that I might need to drop the cap down to 10 or 8.

[Populus Romanus]

If anyone sees a random pile of gear at the bottom of a cliff next to a bomb crater, could they please save it? Lag + creepers + precipitous drops = 1 dead Populus.

[Tuuvi]

So here are some screenshots I took while playing tonight



The first one is in a pretty cool ravine I found while mining that I've been able to gather a lot of resources from, I'll post the coordinates for it tomorrow. The second one was a glitch, I tried to jump in and I got stuck, so I had to exit the server and then when I got back in it was gone.

[Csargo]

Server down for me

[Populus Romanus]

Me too.

[Csargo]

I also found a spider spawner in the abandoned mine TinCow found. I put torches and a sign at the beginning of the tunnel that leads there in case anyone wanted to do anything with it.

[TinCow]

Sorry about it being down. It had some kind of overflow error and died. I've restarted it.

[Divine Wind]

I died and lost all my stuff in my very own swimming pool! Bad times.

[Vladimir]

I died and lost all my stuff in my very own swimming pool! Bad times.

That was hilarious, yet a little sad. Got a little lost last night. Now I have about 100 torches to make sure that doesn't happen again.

It's a shame water doesn't flow more than seven spaces. I really wanted to make that aqueduct.

[TinCow]

It's a shame water doesn't flow more than seven spaces. I really wanted to make that aqueduct.

You can make an aqueduct, but you need to start it from a high place. I've used aqueducts for farming purposes before and it's not too difficult to get the water to go where you want, you just need to start with sufficient altitude at the source. If you built the aqueduct from the top of a nearby mountain, I bet you'd have enough of a vertical drop to get it where you want it to go.

Another option is just to cheat. A single water source will only propagate 7 squares, but you could use many water sources to make it look like a level aqueduct, even if the water isn't actually flowing via in-game mechanics.

A third option would be to use pistons. If you set up an automated circuit, you could use pistons to raise the water level on individual squares for a few moments, which would result in further propagation down the aqueduct. If you timed the piston sequence properly, you could use it to send small spurts of water down the aqueduct even if it was totally level. That would be a lot of work though.

[naut]

If you find any of the new-fangled NPC villages or abandoned mines, post coordinates to them. I've never actually found one in-game and would like to see it.

There are plenty on my actual server. If you're ever online I can PM you the IP and teleport you to some. I'll have a look for some tonight.

Edit: Found one. My personal lag (due to connection from Aus) means often chunks load too slow, so what's around underneath is visible.

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Also, anyone want stuff built with redstone/logic gates/pistons let me know and I can help out.

[Vladimir]

Using a piston is interesting. I'm not that advanced in my gameplay yet but I'll have to come up with some ideas. It's difficult to find a source of water that's high enough up.

Can you use buckets to create an artificial lake? I may have to try that.

Flowing water would be amazing though.

[naut]

Can you use buckets to create an artificial lake? I may have to try that.

Yep.

[TinCow]

I've ordered more RAM for the server, to bring it up to 4gb. I think that will help performance a bit. It should arrive this weekend or early next week. I'll see how it performs with that upgrade and if it would help I'll also get a small SSD just for the game.

[Vladimir]

Yep.

This is exciting. Maybe I can cheat to create the optical effect I want. Dump water every six tiles to fill up the aqueduct.

Lava waterfalls would be nice too.

I'm going to transform TC's server into Dante's Inferno.

[TinCow]

Lava waterfalls would be nice too.

I built one last night. It's coming out of the glass-topped turret that's near Scienter's castle. I was planning on making a really deep shaft for the lava to pour into, but got distracted by another project, so it's currently just scorching the grass on the fields far below.

[Vladimir]

Excellent! I'll have to look at it tonight.

This is something I'd do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs

[Populus Romanus]

Ouch, just lost it again.

[Vladimir]

Yep. Just after I mined some cobalt.

[TinCow]

Same error as last time. I'll investigate. Server is back up now.

[edit] This is apparently a bug in the current version of Minecraft. It occurs when someone uses shift-click to put things into, or take things out of, a chest when the place they are being moved to does not have enough room for the entire stack. So... don't do that.

[Populus Romanus]

I shall found a new Roma...or die in the attempt.