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I have no problems spawning a new ender dragon. I don't think many of us have ever seen one, so it's fine with me. I wish they respawned occasionally. It's not possible to do with vanilla MC, but I'll install a module that will make it possible once 1.3 comes out, since I'm going to need to add some other mods at that time anyway.

I'm good with all the changes put forward.

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Originally Posted by Csargo

I'm good with all the changes put forward.

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Ditto, it all sounds logical.

Agreed, if only I could bring at least one mooshroom with me to the mainland though... Just a question though, what would happen to that nether portal? Would it still exist and be linked with undiscovered regions

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Originally Posted by Memnon

Agreed, if only I could bring at least one mooshroom with me to the mainland though... Just a question though, what would happen to that nether portal? Would it still exist and be linked with undiscovered regions

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I believe so. The deletion wouldn't impact the nether, so that road and portal would still exist in the nether. I assume that the first person to go through it would generate a new portal at the proper corresponding spot in the newly generated terrain. As for mooshrooms, odds are at least one mushroom island will pop up in the newly generated terrain.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

The world has been cloned for testing purposes at 85.10.217.34. That server has a better connection than my home connection, and I'm hoping that it will improve the connection and reduce lag for some people. Please log on there and run around and let me know how it performs. The world it's using is a backup of the main world I made yesterday. Don't bother doing any work on the server though, as it's just a test on a backup and anything you create will be lost. Please just get on and test how it runs and post about it here. At some point I'd like to do a stress test with as many people as we can get on at once.

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I would like to repost this, as most people seem to have missed it.

Please log on to 85.10.217.34, run around for a bit, and post here letting us know how the connection/lag/loading is for you.

Many thanks! :bow:

Looks like I'm missing some good action this weekend.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

I would like to repost this, as most people seem to have missed it.

Please log on to 85.10.217.34, run around for a bit, and post here letting us know how the connection/lag/loading is for you.

Many thanks! :bow:

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I can't even get in. I get stuck on the Washing Spectacles screen. Then I get "Lost yer coordinates".

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Originally Posted by spankythehippo

I can't even get in. I get stuck on the Washing Spectacles screen. Then I get "Lost yer coordinates".

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Washing Spectacles? I'm not sure what error messages you are referring to.

Map updated. I terraformed the area around the Arena. Smoothed over the vertical hills, replaced all stone with grass, and created a ring road around the Arena. I think we can begin building the road network for the city using that as a starting point.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

I would like to repost this, as most people seem to have missed it.

Please log on to 85.10.217.34, run around for a bit, and post here letting us know how the connection/lag/loading is for you.

Many thanks! :bow:

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I got on earlier and I didn't notice any lag did have a unloaded chunk, which I haven't seen in a while. Other than that it was fine.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

Washing Spectacles? I'm not sure what error messages you are referring to.

Map updated. I terraformed the area around the Arena. Smoothed over the vertical hills, replaced all stone with grass, and created a ring road around the Arena. I think we can begin building the road network for the city using that as a starting point.

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Oh yeah, I forgot. I'm using the Pirate Speak language option. I think it's English equivalent is Downloading Terrain.

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Originally Posted by spankythehippo

Oh yeah, I forgot. I'm using the Pirate Speak language option. I think it's English equivalent is Downloading Terrain.

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Give it another try, there's nothing in the settings that should be preventing anyone on the whitelist from connecting.

[edit] Is your java up-to-date?

I've been staring at the map for a while, trying to work out exactly how to start building the city. Spanky and I have talked about it a bit, and it seems like a good place to start is with a broad central avenue with the Arena at one end and some kind of impressive town hall type building at the other end. For that reason, I landscaped the Arena and built a basic road around it. Spanky and I were in agreement that the town hall should go to the north of the Arena, out towards the wooded area, as it had a lot of area for expansion. However, on more careful examination, I think the town hall should be east of the arena, for a few reasons. First, this faces the entrance of the Arena, which makes a lot more sense than the side. Second, it incorporates the statue into the avenue, which would look nice. Third, it places the server spawn point more centrally to the city than it would be if the hall was north. Fourth, while there's not as much space to the east as there is to the north, there's still a ton of space; more than we'll use up in the near future. Plus, it's closer to the ocean, which would make a logical spot for a port at some point. Fifth, it would more readily incorporate the construction that is currently going on to the southeast of the Arena. That's one of the most active areas on the server right now, and it would be nice to get some infrastructure up that makes that area more easily accessible. Finally, running the avenue directly east from the Arena would turn the road that runs through Csargo's incredible gate into another main highway, which would almost bisect the main avenue. Considering how impressive that structure is, it would be nice to incorporate it into the central city design. As a result, I'd like to propose the following sketch of the main road and the placement of the town hall:

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In that picture, the road is red, and the town hall site (very, very roughly approximated) is in yellow. Once those were completed, a grid could easily expand outwards from there. The area around the proposed hall site is a bit hilly, but it doesn't look too bad and we don't need to level it out to the elevation of the arena. Doing this would also place that random mountain right in the middle of the city, which would be a really interesting building site for some kind of Palatine Hill/Hollywood Hills project. The little square ocean chunk seed irregularlity to the east of the town hall site would also make a nice spot for a port. Opinions?

I think that is a better location, I think that the road should lead out from the entrance of the arena. Plus the surrounding land looks relatively flat and would be less of a pain to terraform than the forested area.

Good idea. A couple questions: Did you happen to move a chest full of sand from by the XP farm? What are your thoughts for restoring the road by the Arena?

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

Good idea. A couple questions: Did you happen to move a chest full of sand from by the XP farm? What are your thoughts for restoring the road by the Arena?

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I moved two chest from near the xp farm while grassing over that area. One is inside the farm and has all the bones in it. The other got incorporated into the chests I placed in my work area nearby. I do not remember any sand with specificity, everything in there seemed like trash. There certainly wasn't a full chest of it. If there were some minor stacks of sand they're either in the misc chest there, or got taken back to my house. You're welcome to take from my place whatever quantity it was you think was in there.

I do intend to rebuild that road, but it's not a priority. There's no construction going on out there at the moment and everyone who lives on that road (Populous, Tiaexz, Scienter, 3 Headed Monkey, and myself) have moved elsewhere or aren't playing anymore.

Can't remember where I placed it then. Oh well.

It's a shame those houses are essentially abandoned. I'm doing some restoration work in the desert until things are sorted out. Did you want me to figure out how to reconfigure that scoreboard? I really hope it works with the larger display.

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

Can't remember where I placed it then. Oh well.

It's a shame those houses are essentially abandoned. I'm doing some restoration work in the desert until things are sorted out. Did you want me to figure out how to reconfigure that scoreboard? I really hope it works with the larger display.

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If you think you're up to it. I get a headache just looking at the video. I enjoy redstone work, but I've got to be in the right mood for super complex stuff like that and at the moment I just want to build roads and buildings.

No problem. I'll have a look at it sometime when I get back from the desert. No portal and that's the way I like it.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

Give it another try, there's nothing in the settings that should be preventing anyone on the whitelist from connecting.

[edit] Is your java up-to-date?

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Yeah, I still can't connect. And my java is up to date.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

I've been staring at the map for a while, trying to work out exactly how to start building the city. Spanky and I have talked about it a bit, and it seems like a good place to start is with a broad central avenue with the Arena at one end and some kind of impressive town hall type building at the other end. For that reason, I landscaped the Arena and built a basic road around it. Spanky and I were in agreement that the town hall should go to the north of the Arena, out towards the wooded area, as it had a lot of area for expansion. However, on more careful examination, I think the town hall should be east of the arena, for a few reasons. First, this faces the entrance of the Arena, which makes a lot more sense than the side. Second, it incorporates the statue into the avenue, which would look nice. Third, it places the server spawn point more centrally to the city than it would be if the hall was north. Fourth, while there's not as much space to the east as there is to the north, there's still a ton of space; more than we'll use up in the near future. Plus, it's closer to the ocean, which would make a logical spot for a port at some point. Fifth, it would more readily incorporate the construction that is currently going on to the southeast of the Arena. That's one of the most active areas on the server right now, and it would be nice to get some infrastructure up that makes that area more easily accessible. Finally, running the avenue directly east from the Arena would turn the road that runs through Csargo's incredible gate into another main highway, which would almost bisect the main avenue. Considering how impressive that structure is, it would be nice to incorporate it into the central city design. As a result, I'd like to propose the following sketch of the main road and the placement of the town hall:

Attachment 6384

In that picture, the road is red, and the town hall site (very, very roughly approximated) is in yellow. Once those were completed, a grid could easily expand outwards from there. The area around the proposed hall site is a bit hilly, but it doesn't look too bad and we don't need to level it out to the elevation of the arena. Doing this would also place that random mountain right in the middle of the city, which would be a really interesting building site for some kind of Palatine Hill/Hollywood Hills project. The little square ocean chunk seed irregularlity to the east of the town hall site would also make a nice spot for a port. Opinions?

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I'm all for it. But as I mentioned before, Taiga territory is a heritage(?) site. I would request that no construction go on there or near there. I need to finish that area before connecting it to the city.


Also, with that port area. To the north is that long ass ocean chunk seed irregularity. Should that be fixed up, or will the port run along the entire edge?

We can just make that into a large harbor. It's not unreasonable in size.

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Originally Posted by spankythehippo

Also, with that port area. To the north is that long ass ocean chunk seed irregularity. Should that be fixed up, or will the port run along the entire edge?

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Some of it can be easily fixed up, but not all. Specifically, it looks like the bit beyond the first cut-off hill until the far forest could be relatively quickly excavated and connected with the more natural waterways/swamps to the west. Put the port on that cut-off hill and then down and around the square cut-out would take care of that section looking poor as well. I'm just brainstorming, of course. There's nothing to say that we even need to have a port at all, though I'd love to build a few large ships at some point.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

I've been staring at the map for a while, trying to work out exactly how to start building the city. Spanky and I have talked about it a bit, and it seems like a good place to start is with a broad central avenue with the Arena at one end and some kind of impressive town hall type building at the other end. For that reason, I landscaped the Arena and built a basic road around it. Spanky and I were in agreement that the town hall should go to the north of the Arena, out towards the wooded area, as it had a lot of area for expansion. However, on more careful examination, I think the town hall should be east of the arena, for a few reasons. First, this faces the entrance of the Arena, which makes a lot more sense than the side. Second, it incorporates the statue into the avenue, which would look nice. Third, it places the server spawn point more centrally to the city than it would be if the hall was north. Fourth, while there's not as much space to the east as there is to the north, there's still a ton of space; more than we'll use up in the near future. Plus, it's closer to the ocean, which would make a logical spot for a port at some point. Fifth, it would more readily incorporate the construction that is currently going on to the southeast of the Arena. That's one of the most active areas on the server right now, and it would be nice to get some infrastructure up that makes that area more easily accessible. Finally, running the avenue directly east from the Arena would turn the road that runs through Csargo's incredible gate into another main highway, which would almost bisect the main avenue. Considering how impressive that structure is, it would be nice to incorporate it into the central city design. As a result, I'd like to propose the following sketch of the main road and the placement of the town hall:

Attachment 6384

In that picture, the road is red, and the town hall site (very, very roughly approximated) is in yellow. Once those were completed, a grid could easily expand outwards from there. The area around the proposed hall site is a bit hilly, but it doesn't look too bad and we don't need to level it out to the elevation of the arena. Doing this would also place that random mountain right in the middle of the city, which would be a really interesting building site for some kind of Palatine Hill/Hollywood Hills project. The little square ocean chunk seed irregularlity to the east of the town hall site would also make a nice spot for a port. Opinions?

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I like the placement of the town hall.

Modified shaders for Minecraft.

Oh to be able to run this......

1.3 pre-release is out now. I won't be installing it yet, as installing custom jars is a pain for everyone, and the main release should be out in a couple days. The change log is awesome though, and includes a ton of performance and optimization features. Animals might even stay in their pens now!

General

• Improved overall stability and performance
  
  • Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage
  • Accelerated chunk loading
  • Decreased lag spike frequency
  • Made the Nether less laggy
  • Decreased unnecessary world updates
  • Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy
  • Decreased packets sent between client and server
• Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server
  
  • Decreased world saving intervals
• Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds
  
  • Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
  • Most commands from MP are available
• Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
  
  • You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats
• Added demo mode for non-premium users
  
  • Lasts 5 game days per world
• Added Chat Settings
  
  • Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
  • Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
  • Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
• Added Snooper Settings
  
  • Screenshot
  • Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang
  • Shows which data will be sent
• Added video options
  
  • Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now
  • VSync
  • Fullscreen mode
• Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
  
• Improved F3 mode:
  
  • Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
  • The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level
  • Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left)
  • Added 3 values:
    ws: Walking speed (constant)
    fs: Flying speed (constant)
    g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
• Updated language files
  
  • Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
  • Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks
  • Localized server commands
  • Added missing commands-related strings
  • Added missing double chest GUI caption
• Fixed many bugs
  
  • Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
  • Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
  • Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X

Gameplay

• Added Adventure mode
  
  • Only playable using commands
  • Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
  • Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
• Added trading
  
  • Screenshots
  • Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
  • There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
  • As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something
  • After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed
  • Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
• Improved Creative mode inventory
  
  • Screenshots
  • There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks
  • Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
  • Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot and armor slots including a preview of your character
  • Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them
  • Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions
  • Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival
• Improved experience collection
  
  • Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items
  • Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives small amounts of experience now
  • Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
  • Adjusted experience level progression:
    Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
    Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
    Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
• Improved enchanting
  
  • The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
  • 15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
  • The 3rd slot shows the highest possible enchantment more often
  • Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once
  • Adjusted enchantments to go with the new maximum level and balance gameplay
• Added writing in books
  
  • Right-click with a Book and Quill to write on or read up to 50 pages
  • Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
  • Screenshots
• Improved Multiplayer
  
  • Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks - Comparison: before and after
  • Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
  • Made server commands more descriptive
  • Added reason parameter to /ban
  • Added /seed command to show the map seed
  • Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
  • Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling
  • /kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line
  • Blocks other players are mining now show cracks - Screenshot
  • /tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
  • Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers
  • Server list now scans for LAN servers - Screenshot
  • Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death
  • Added SRV Record Lookup Support - Explanation - Service name should be "minecraft"; ie "_minecraft._tcp.example.com"
• Added & changed many minor things
  
  • Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack
  • Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
  • Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
  • Made the stars smaller and brighter - Screenshot
  • Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession now
  • Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
  • Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage - Screenshot
  • You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode
  • The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now
  • The sky color in the End changed - Comparison
• Improved the Pick Block key
  
  • You now get the actual block
  • You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
  • Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
  • You can no longer pick portal blocks
• Fixed many bugs
  
  • Fixed liquids slowing down flying players
  • Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
  • Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
  • Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
  • Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
  • Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
  • Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks
  • Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
  • Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
  • Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet
  • Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
  • Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail
  • Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides
  • Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode
  • Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game
  • Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory
  • Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes
  • Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether
  • Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game
  • Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world
• Fixed many Multiplayer-specific bugs
  
  • Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on
  • Fixed endermen not opening their jaws
  • Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect
  • Fixed many sounds not playing
  • Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
  • Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky
  • Fixed weather not fading in or out
  • Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
  • Fixed explosions not pushing players back
  • Fixed TNT not knocking back players
  • Fixed pistons not pushing back players
  • Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location
  • Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in
  • Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times
  • Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions
  • Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under yourself and jumping

World Generation

• Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller - Screenshot
  
• Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees - Screenshot
  
• Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
  
  • Screenshot
  • Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
• Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely
  
• Added desert-specific villages
  
  • Screenshot
• Added desert temples
  
  • Screenshots
  • Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool
  • Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds
• Added jungle temples
  
  • Screenshots
  • Built out of various kinds of cobblestone
  • Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows
  • Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds
• Added emerald ore
  
  • Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes
  • Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1
  • Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive

Blocks & Items

• Emerald Ore
  
  • Screenshot
  • Drops Emerald
• Emerald
  
  • Screenshot
  • Is used to trade with villagers
• Block of Emerald
  
  • Screenshot
  • Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
• Ender Chest
  
  • Screenshot
  • Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
  • Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
  • Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
  • Explosion-resistant
  • Emits light and purple particles
  • Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian
• Tripwire Hook
  
  • Screenshots
  • String in between needs to be placed manually
  • Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't
  • Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal
  • String can be up to 40 blocks long
  • Crafting recipe: Iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank
• String
  
  • Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
• Wooden logs
  
  • Screenshot
  • Can now be placed in 3 different directions
  • Placement works like similar to piston placement
• Furnaces
  
  • Can be fueled by wooden tools now
  • Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
• Ice
  
  • No longer creates water in the Nether
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
• Glass Panes
  
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
• Nether portal
  
  • Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
• Slabs
  
  • Added all wood types
  • Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
• Stairs
  
  • Added Sandstone Stairs - Screenshot
  • Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood - Screenshot
  • Adjusted hitbox - Screenshots
• Slabs and Stairs
  
  • Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side
  • When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
• Leaves
  
  • Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
• Cauldrons
  
  • Slowly fill up when it's raining
• Dispensers
  
  • Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
  • Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
• Gravel
  
  • Changed texture - Screenshot
• Jungle leaves
  
  • Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
• Lever
  
  • Can be placed on the ceiling now - Screenshot
• Wooden pressure plates
  
  • Are triggered by arrows now
• Pistons
  
  • Now take 0.05 seconds longer to expand
• TNT
  
  • Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
    Peaceful: no damage
    Easy: ~50% less damage
    Normal: same damage as before
    Hard: 33.3…% more damage
• Cocoa beans
  
  • Retextured item - Screenshot
  • Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Cookies
  
  • Give a full hunger point now
• Nether Warts
  
  • Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
• Book
  
  • Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
• Book and Quill
  
  • Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
• Written Book
  
  • Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill
  • Can be sold to villagers
• Empty buckets
  
  • Stack up to 16 now
  • Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do
• Signs
  
  • Stack up to 16 now
  • Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
• Golden Apple
  
  • Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
  • Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
  • Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
• Spawners
  
  • Added NBT tags to further customize spawned entities
  • Only changeable using map editors or mods
• Boats
  
  • Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
  • Are less glitchy and more responsive now
  • Increased maximum speed
  • When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
  • When broken by a player, they drop a boat now
• Minecarts
  
  • When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
  • When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart

Mobs

• Pigs
  
  • Drop 1-3 meat now
• Slimes
  
  • Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
• Silverfish
  
  • When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
• Creepers
  
  • Increased knockback effect
  • Depending on difficulty, they do different amounts of damage now:
    Easy: ~50% less damage
    Normal: same damage as before
    Hard: 33.3…% more damage
• Creepers & Spiders
  
  • Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now
• Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
  
  • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative

Well. There goes my slab countermeasures.

Goddamn. Books need paper AND leather? Grrrrrr.

Well now leather actually has a use since nobody seems to use leather armor these days. All the more reason to have cows!

Well, because of the lava bucket thing being added in 1.3 (which I am very excited about), I built a path to a lava ocean in the Nether. Here, you can access premium Nether lava for all your furnacing needs.

https://img341.imageshack.us/img341/...0729150147.png

Here is the dirt arch that leads to the lava ocean. You can see it in the distance. This arch is near the sign for the Mushroom Island (as can be seen) and the Nether Fortress(?) sign.

WOOT! Someone used my Nether Lava Gathering Spot! I feel like I contributed something to this server. *glows with pride*

Map updated.

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WOOT! Someone used my Nether Lava Gathering Spot! I feel like I contributed something to this server. *glows with pride*

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Yeah, it was me. It definitely helped me with my coal shortage, luckily I have an excess of buckets.

I used rajpoot's linked mod, and itis actually running better on my machine (i got the multicore support).

It isn't fully working yet, perhaps because my card cannot support it all (the water looks bad still)

Here is the townhall with my texture pack and shaders combo.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

https://i.imgur.com/QlM9T.jpg

Spanky contemplates his existence.

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https://i.imgur.com/jOgha.png

Quick downstairs tour of the townhall (will get removed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzoj8lumooY

Info since I was asked:

Texture Pack:
128x128 version
http://bdcraft.net/download-purebdcr...-for-minecraft

Interior decoration isn't finished in any room. The dirt is just various things sketched out for placement purposes. Also, it appears that the assembly hall fake clock gets stuck every once in a while. I need to add an easy restart mechanism to it.

1.3 is out.
I think it might be an idea to backup the server, do that big snip, then change to 1.3 due to new ores/etc.

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1.3 is out.
I think it might be an idea to backup the server, do that big snip, then change to 1.3 due to new ores/etc.

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That's exactly my plan. I'm not sure if I'll get around to the snip and re-generation of the outlying areas tonight, but it will certainly be very soon. The addition of emerald ore, jungle temples, and desert temples was why I didn't do the edit before now.

Server will be updated when I get home, which should be in about 8 hours.

Did anybody else see this in the 1.3 fixes?

-Removed Herobrine

I... I knew I was seeing something... :on_scared:

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Did anybody else see this in the 1.3 fixes?

-Removed Herobrine

I... I knew I was seeing something... :on_scared:

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Doesn't matter. He always finds his way back. Always. :stare:

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Did anybody else see this in the 1.3 fixes?

-Removed Herobrine

I... I knew I was seeing something... :on_scared:

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He's been removed multiple times, like Vlad said. He haunts the minecraft world.

Completely unrelated to TinCow's server, just a picture of an airship I am working on in another server.

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https://i.imgur.com/hIaHh.jpg

Unfortunately, that server is having issues and might be going down, so trying to get them to install world edit at least first so I can get a copy of it. It took me a couple of weeks of very intense playing just to get it to that point.

That's a really amazing piece of work Tiaexz.

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Unfortunately, that server is having issues and might be going down, so trying to get them to install world edit at least first so I can get a copy of it. It took me a couple of weeks of very intense playing just to get it to that point.

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If that was made in survival mode and you can get a copy of the proper file, I will import it into the server.

In other news, the server is now running 1.3.1. I have not done any of the map editing, as the only spherical terrain generator I have found requires bukkit and bukkit hasnt been released yet for 1.3.1. Instead of using a non-optimal terrain generator, I shall simply be patient and wait for the bukkit update. Once that is release, I will prune the terrain appendages, generate the new terrain, and then add a mod or two.

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If that was made in survival mode and you can get a copy of the proper file, I will import it into the server.

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Well, it is Tekkit-Survival, which uses buildcraft and forestry (so quarries, tree-farms, etc) so a lot of industry related stuff to get the resources. Plus a few of the things on there is not in vanilla minecraft, so I would have to get a copy of it, I would then remove everything which is not in the vanilla minecraft off it, then attempt it on a private server to see if it comes out okay.

Mostly after a copy for private because well, it is basically Arena size in terms of scale, but if I can get the copy of it, I will host it on a private server, then I will allow you to inspect it for approval and decide whether or not you want to have it in this world.

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Did anybody else see this in the 1.3 fixes?

-Removed Herobrine

I... I knew I was seeing something... :on_scared:

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I believe that is part of a running gag with Mojang. They say that with every update, which gives the impression that Herobrine is removed, but he always sneaks in anyway. Like a ghost.

I must say, leveling up with this update has become a breeze. I leveled up 12 times in 5 minutes. Just from mining and smelting.

While building my slime farm, I stumbled across an abandoned mine. So I mined quite a bit of random ores, but I need to complete the farm. If anyone wants gold, I'll be glad to get rid of it. I don't have a lot, but for me, 14 is a huge amount of gold.

All of the signs in the Nether appear to be blank, as well as some in the actual world.

Edit: It might just be me though because I just walked into my storage area and half of those signs were blank, when I logged out and logged back in they were back.

Interesting, maybe it's an issue with the client not receiving the text from the server. The 1.3.1 patch included a lot of networking and server changes, and others have reported some oddness on logging in and such. Next time you see a blank sign, try reloading the chunks to see if it fixes it. You can do that by pressing and holding F3 and A.

I've spawned about 10 villagers each at the villages near my new place, diain's place, and snowstorm/csargo. I spawned 20 at Vlad's village, since it's significantly larger. I also added 2 iron golems at the snowstorm/csargo village, since it didnt look very well lit or protected. If the villages get depopulated again, I will do another round of spawning.

SAND!

I just finished building a sand generator. I just did a production speed test, and in 60 seconds it produced 875 sand (about 13 2/3 stacks), which works out to just under 3.5 stacks of sandstone every minute. This makes it much, much easier to produce buildings out of sand, sandstone, and glass. It is also more ecologically friendly, as it doesn't require strip-mining of the deserts. The machine is available for public use and can be found in the Industrial Sector/Workshop room of my new house. Be aware that it does produce a bit of lag while it is turned on. The amount of lag is only slightly noticeable for me, but I have a very good connection to the server. If you're using the machine while others are online, please notify them before you turn it on just in case they are in an inconvenient location and the lag is enough to impact them.

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SAND!

I just finished building a sand generator. I just did a production speed test, and in 60 seconds it produced 875 sand (about 13 2/3 stacks), which works out to just under 3.5 stacks of sandstone every minute. This makes it much, much easier to produce buildings out of sand, sandstone, and glass. It is also more ecologically friendly, as it doesn't require strip-mining of the deserts. The machine is available for public use and can be found in the Industrial Sector/Workshop room of my new house. Be aware that it does produce a bit of lag while it is turned on. The amount of lag is only slightly noticeable for me, but I have a very good connection to the server. If you're using the machine while others are online, please notify them before you turn it on just in case they are in an inconvenient location and the lag is enough to impact them.

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TinCow, you are a champion :bow:. I had been dreading the prospect of mining all the sand for my main sandstone building, and with impeccable timing you come along and make this. No more cutting down on the size of my tower now!

I've built a wall around the village between my house and snowstorm's house. There's only one entrance at the moment, but I plan on adding at least one more gate. I also lit up the inside of the village pretty well, but the outside is still pretty dark. Added 2 more iron golems for extra protection.

Grrr. I'm so pissed with my slime farm. I've been excavating the wrong chunks. I think I was using the wrong seed.

So, I rechecked the slime finder thing. Luckily, there is a slime chunk nearby. With my old and wrong farm, I had 4 chunks in a 3x3 square that would spawn slimes. With my new one, it is also the same. And it just so happens that the chunks that overlap is where my entrance is located. So that saves me a bit of trouble.

https://img72.imageshack.us/img72/55...0805135132.jpg

I've excavated quite a lot of the old farm. Now I have to excavate the other direction. Luckily, the chunks overlap.

(Yes, I know my handwriting is childish.)

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Grrr. I'm so pissed with my slime farm. I've been excavating the wrong chunks. I think I was using the wrong seed.

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The server seed is 6168998067453653590. I've put it in the OP for easy reference, as it was just buried in a random post.

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https://img72.imageshack.us/img72/55...0805135132.jpg

I've excavated quite a lot of the old farm. Now I have to excavate the other direction. Luckily, the chunks overlap.

(Yes, I know my handwriting is childish.)

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That's it, I want you to draw the architectural plans for my house. :grin:

I have a query as to how view-signs work - if I place a sign with #view whilst facing an object, will the view on the map be of the object, or directly behind me (where the sign is 'facing')? I would assume the former, but I just want to double-check.

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I have a query as to how view-signs work - if I place a sign with #view whilst facing an object, will the view on the map be of the object, or directly behind me (where the sign is 'facing')? I would assume the former, but I just want to double-check.

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I'm pretty sure it will be in the direction you are facing when you place it. That said, I'm not 100% sure because I haven't done it myself. I'll generate a new map tomorrow, so if you want to put up a few signs to test things out, now would be a good time to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrtcJ4c_6oQ&feature=plcp

Would it be okay if I built something like this at the blaze spawner in the Nether fortress?

That would be very cool. I can't think of a single reason why it would be bad to build one of those... other than the sheer difficulty of making a complex contraption like that in the nether.

The map has been updated. It appears that the map program is not displaying the new blocks added in 1.3.1, most notably sandstone stairs and the new kinds of wood stairs. This makes some structures which use them look odd. I'll try and find a solution for this.

I know I haven't been on much but it looks like someone took a huge chunk out of my desert.

I logged in and apparently my skin was changed to this...
https://i.imgur.com/xw6zd.png

What the... so I disconnected from the server and relogged in.
https://i.imgur.com/u7ypz.png

I am getting seriously trolled.

Edit: The skins are from here, http://bdcraft.net/forum/bdcraft-skins it seems to be overriding my current chosen skin. It fixed itself.. but that was weird.

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I know I haven't been on much but it looks like someone took a huge chunk out of my desert.

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Sorry, that was probably me. Now that TinCow's sand generator is up I'm more than happy to fix that up again (initial plans were to mine to the bottom of the sand, then put one layer of sand on top again. Now I can just use straight sand the whole way).

EDIT: Looks like the view-sign is working well.

Blaze XP farm is complete besides some redstone wiring.

Bukkit was released for 1.3.1 a few days ago. Yesterday I did some testing on the various map editing programs requires to implement the crop and regenerate plan for the outer world. I've still got some fiddling to do with them, but I believe the programs I have will work just fine for what we want. Unfortunately, two of the three programs required to complete the process also take a long time to run (the ones that generate new terrain, and then blend the borders of the new stuff into the old stuff). Based on the tests I was running yesterday, completing the process could take anywhere from several hours to a full day, and I will have to take the server offline when I do this. At the moment, I plan on doing this on Friday, as I have the day off and can babysit it the whole time in case problems arise. So, apologies in advance, but the server will likely be down for a significant portion of Friday.

Don't worry, I will be making multiple backups of everything before I start modifying things.

I'm excited about the Bukkit thing.


Also, TC, another friend of mine want's to join. Lacrimas is his name.

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I added your friend to the whitelist.

Blaze Farm is completed and works great. Just some aesthetic changes to finish then I'll be done with it.

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Blaze Farm is completed and works great. Just some aesthetic changes to finish then I'll be done with it.

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Which fortress is it at?

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Which fortress is it at?

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I believe Sazak and I saw it on the way to your underground palace. It's pretty visible from the path.

Also, TC, Sazak and I "borrowed" a bit of cobblestone from your place. He's getting his dice set up. I'll mine some more and give it back. It's pretty obvious that cobblestone will be crucial for the city.

I'm planning on demolishing my base that's by the arena (the walled enclosure with a red brick house in it), so when you start plotting out the grids for the city that area can be included in it.

@Vladimir: Do you mind if I connect the road in your desert to my dock? I want to build a road there so I can have easier access from my island to the main area of the server.

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Which fortress is it at?

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spanky is right. I believe it's on the way to your new house.

Needing leather for books is proving a real pain, if only because I feel so guilty slaughtering the mothers of the calves in front of them :sweatdrop:.

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I'm planning on demolishing my base that's by the arena (the walled enclosure with a red brick house in it), so when you start plotting out the grids for the city that area can be included in it.

@Vladimir: Do you mind if I connect the road in your desert to my dock? I want to build a road there so I can have easier access from my island to the main area of the server.

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Building roads isn't such a big deal. Massive quarrying is. If something can be build without destroying the terrain features I'll all for it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...y-to-Minecraft

YES, PLEASE!

I have finished testing the deletion, regeneration, and merging tools and have gotten them all to work on test runs. As such, I'm going to jump the gun a bit and start work on the map now. The server is now offline, with luck it will be back up this evening.

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Building roads isn't such a big deal. Massive quarrying is. If something can be build without destroying the terrain features I'll all for it.

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haha don't worry, I won't dig a massive hole in your desert.

I have completed the terrain modifications and the server is online now. In addition to cropping the world and regenerating it, I used a tool that 'merges' terrain from different versions of the game. What it does is put a river along the edge of all chunks that I just generated, and blends in the terrain on both sides. So, no more vertical cliffs. This was done to all new areas, and I also made it apply to some areas of the existing world by deleting and re-generating chunks where the cliffs already existed, but which were far away from developed areas. This has not fixed all of the cliffs, as I did not want to touch some sections that were generated a long time ago, but it's fixed a few.

Please double-check anything you consider important for any errors. I have back-ups and can restore them, but the farther we get away from them, the harder it will be to restore them without disrupting other things. That said, I do not think there should be any problems.

I will begin generating a new map now, but the world is now MUCH larger than it used to be (formerly 800mb, now 2.3gb) so it will take a while for the initial render to complete. I think you'll be pleased with the result though. I've looked at some of it with MCEdit and while it's hard to see the world as a whole with that program, the sections I've checked have looked nice.

Whoever built the giant floating box to the east of the town hall, stop making me feel so inadequate about my slow construction speed. It took me several weeks to lay the foundations for my compund (even with some help from spanky), and now you've roughly tripled my efforts in a matter of days! :beam:

My bad. If it's any consolation, I also received help from Spanky.

EDIT: First Post :) I'd like to thank my family for lagging my Minecraft to give me enough time to create this forum account.
I'd also like to thank spankythehippo for referring me to this server and finally TinCow for adding me and lending me your cobblestone.

Ok, I think I'm going to have to find a new map program. I started a fresh render before I went to bed, about 8 hours ago. The render is now about 1/3 of the way done with the normal world view, and hasn't even started on night or caves yet. By my estimations, it's going to take 3 days to finish. While I don't expect anything but a fraction of that area to require updating on any particular date, that seems slow enough for an initial render to be a serious issue.

I'm going to fiddle with some quality settings and see if that helps a bit. If not, I may have to ditch the program altogether.