I can't get it to work. I can never get anything to work. Why must I be so incompetent with technology? WHY?!?!
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I can't get it to work. I can never get anything to work. Why must I be so incompetent with technology? WHY?!?!
I use a batch file so I can play it within my game folder.
So make a folder called "Minecraft" and in notepad, copy the quote, then save it, and change the extension to ".bat" instead of ".txt"Quote:
set APPDATA=%CD%\data
bin\minecraft.exe
Now create two folders, "bin" and "data", place the 'Minecraft.exe' within the "bin" folder. Now doubleclick the batch file.
If it works as I think it will. It will recreate the data files within the data folder and use those files everytime you use the .bat
Thanks Hussar,
That's what I usually do with Vista but couldn't find it for some reason last night. Somehow blackberry witbier and a desire to finish my log cabin distracted me from exploring too much.
Plus, I'm getting lazy. I've used computers for so long I expect everything to be in an executable file that knows and sees all like the mind of God.
On the cabin: It's so expensive to build a roof at a 45 degree angle. It's expensive to build a log cabin in general! It's more expensive then getting blown up and loosing a dozen bars of gold.
And I couldn't find my magical pig producing pond last night!
Be careful about constantly killing wild animals. They only respawn in the wild very rarely, so if you are regularly killing them you will depopulate your part of the world. This will eventually make it difficult for you to find animals when you want to breed them. It took me about 4 game days to get 2 each of sheep, cattle, and pigs, and I already had 1 cow penned up before I started.
Chickens are far easier, as you can hatch them from eggs. Just get about 6-8 eggs and toss them on the ground inside your pen. Odds are that will be enough to produce 2 chickens. That's far easier than leading them around.
Also, at the moment I am desperately in need of slimeballs. I have yet to see a single slime in the entire game, and slimeballs are vital for the testing phase of version 3 of the rail system, as well as a gate system that I have planned for a long time but been unable to construct due to lack of slimeballs. If it helps to get some incentive to hunt for slimes, I will exchange 1 diamond for each slimeball someone brings me, up to a maximum of 20.
Yea, I need to update to start pig farms. I didn't kill any of them previously, just let them sit and jump around while trying to escape. I've been eating a lot of bread and rotten flesh recently. It's almost impossible to find a chicken but I did spot what looked like a black sheep; not a cow. I really want calamari.
For some reason I can't extract seeds from a pumpkin. I need to try and upgrade tonight.
Is there any way to upload saves to compare worlds?
You really shouldn't eat rotten flesh unless you're totally desperate. It almost always gives you food poisoning, which makes your hunger increase rapidly. It's counter-productive in the long-run. If you want an easier to get food source, go fishing. Fish are infinite and all you need is some string and sticks for a fishing rod.
If by, "upload saves" you mean make a SP world visible to other players, yes. You just need to compress the world folder into a file and upload it for someone else to download. They then place it in their minecraft directory and select that world from the in-game list.
So I'm planning to join soon (I've been wanting to since I saw this post, but WoT has been taking up all my time. My current dreams all involve heavy artillery mauling Tigers)...but when I join I was wondering if it might be possible for me to get a few 'extra' resources to err....jumpstart my castle. :sneaky:
If your looking for wool, I spotted a lot of sheep to the north of the noob hotel through a forest towards the outskirts of a desert. I have not seen any other animals apart from the ones at tincows place.
If anyone is in desperate need of food, I don't mind you taking some wheat from my mountainside farm, however I do ask that you plant a seed in its place.
To update it I opened the .exe. On the lower right I clicked on "Options". Then I clicked on the "Game location on disk" hyperlink. That opened up a folder into which I dragged and dropped the new .jar file into. I selected move and replace and now I'm updated.
What a pain.
I hope the full release of minecraft is an automatic update, not a manual install. I think I might never be able to get back on the server if it is a manual install, given the problems I am having with the new patch put on. D:
I finally found some slimes and managed to make six sticky pistons... then I realized I didn't really need sticky pistons to make the railway work. :wall:
Anyway, the first section of the railway from my place to Scienter's is now operational. I've put up signs explaining how it works, but will post it here as well for clarity. All you do is place a minecart on the downward sloping rail in the station you are in. Then, enter the minecart, and hit the button. You will then go to the next station and stop. At that point, if you want to continue to the next station on the line, just hit the button again and you'll keep going. When you reach your final destination, get out of the cart, remove the cart from the track, and place it in the dispenser at whichever station you are at.
It's not the best system in the world, but it works and that's good enough for now. I will be extending the rail line to the pyramid tomorrow, and from there to the noob hotel and then to Csargo's lighthouse. Once we have an operational railway, we can begin looking at more user-friendly systems.
Good work on the rail system! I'll have a go when I get back from work.
Is it easy to get animals to follow you over water? I found a lot of animals north of my home across the water. Was considering making an underground animal farm.
Did you need any items for the noob hotel since the problems yesterday? I have a lot of spare resources.
Tried to make it so the Pyramid had a multi-junction which one goes to the hotel and the other goes to Csargo since it is inbetween them, then have those two linked (creating a loop). Didn't go exactly to plan, having some redstone troubles.
They move a lot slower. If it's a long distance over water, it might be a very annoying trip.
It was fine last I checked. We restocked it with most of the essentials and we don't get new players too frequently so they don't get depleted rapidly. Actually, until yesterday it seemed like people actually put more stuff into the place than they took out.
I do need to do another expansion on the spawn building though. I respawned there a day or two ago after a death and still fell in the water. On reading up, it seems spawning can occur in a 20x20 box around the center point, so the building needs to be larger to accommodate that area.
Good luck with that, multi-destination railway stations for use on multiplayer servers have been about the most complex constructions I've seen yet in minecraft. If you get a system working, you can teach the rest of us so we can implement it in our various stops.
I think it would also be a decent idea to eventually extend the railways out into the wilderness, to make it easier for people to expand. It's not a coincidence that most of the construction has occurred along the main highway from the noob hotel to Scienter's place, and along the extension to my place. People want to build near transport networks, so putting out rail lines to currently undeveloped biomes might get people building out there as well. Plus, it will make exploration a bit easier as well. That's something to consider after we've hooked up all the main areas though.
For the record, I think we should try and always have the railway line be elevated or underground for security purposes. As you can see from the main road, lighting doesn't guarantee safety on flat ground because the mobs will spawn in the dark area and then walk into the lighted area. The last thing anyone wants while riding in a minecart is to see a creeper on the tracks ahead of them, with no way to stop the cart. If we keep the line elevated at least a few squares, then nothing will be able to wander onto it. The same would work for underground rails that are in completely confined tunnels.
I saw a video on how to do a two-way switch on youtube which was very similar to my own, but the problem with mine is that the track piece is surrounded on 4 sides and even putting redstone underneath the block doesn't seem to be working, which is causing the problems.
Post the video you're looking at, I'm curious to see which one you're working off of. This is the one I was following for version 2 of the station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zbxlnyILU
I liked the idea of it automatically shuffling the carts around so that no picking up/placing of carts was required. However, that led to the issue where we would have needed an ungodly amount of gold to create enough powered rails to propel an empty cart up our hills. I didn't see that as feasible.
I'm starting to enjoy this little game. Obsidian mining takes a while but is beautiful and can make a tidy little fortress.
Seems like the server went down. Ended up distracted with other things with it on in the background. Now I can no longer find the server.
Sorry about that, I'll get it back up when I get home in a few hours. The housekeeper should be there about now, so it's possible she hit the power cord or something.
Worth noting as well that Scienter and I will both be pre-loading Skyrim tonight, so there might be a bit of lag if Steam eats up too much of the bandwidth.
There is an easy way to fix it if you have the ability to transfer within your network. Only one of you preloads it and then send a copy of the preload to the other.
Might be faster.
If you guys ever need obsidian let me know. I'm getting really good at this.
The only side effect is the infinite amount of water generated.
It wasn't a server problem, my router lost connection for some reason. I've reset it and my connection appears to be working again, so the server should be reachable again.
NOTE: I just realized that my home IP address has changed. The new IP for the server is 74.96.163.86
Both? I found a mulch-chambered lava source in a deep mine and have been cooling it to make obsidian.
I'm doing some single player experiments. Since water moves faster than lava I'm using it to counter lava flows when mining. Depending on the distribution of bedrock, I seem to generate extra water. I had to waste some of it because I ran out of buckets. I would dump one bucket in an area and easily recover two after a lot of digging. Maybe it's a bug. :shrug:
Water can produce infinite water. A water block becomes 'harvestable' when the water is at the maximum height in the block. If there are multiple 'source' water blocks next to a single block, they will fill it to the max height and thus make that block a source as well.
More info here:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Wa...ng_Duplication
For me, I prefer to farm obsidian because of the hazards of multi-layer lava sources, where the obsidian block drops into the lava level below it and burns up before it can be grabbed. Let's just say I had some bad accidents in a previous world...
Okay, two questions:
When I download 1.9.5, I get a .zip. Am I supposed to extract these files before I replace the originals with them, or leave them as a .zip?
How do you start minecraft? I ask because there is no "Play Minecraft" option anywhere I can see, which has been forceing me to start minecraft by redownloading it everytime I want to play it (From this page: http://www.minecraft.net/download). That means that the minecraft I have installed on my computer isn't actually being used, if my interpretation is correct. What am I missing?
You are using the wrong version, 1.9.5 only comes in .jar format, so if you're getting an .exe that's the wrong download. Follow the instructions in this post. All you have to do is replace a single file (minecraft.jar) from the original installation, then it will run as normal. You should not be re-downloading the file each time. Download it once, put it in a folder, and run it. Then just click the exe, or a shortcut to the exe, each time you want to play.
All right I managed to log in. My nick is diain.
Edit:
Tincow can you please send me the map file? I want to look around a bit in peaceful mode first.
Yea, but this is from a single bucket. I've been burned on numerous occasions but the fact that water flows faster than lava helps mitigate the risk. It occasionally helps flush some deposits from tight spots.
It's a handy building material and the most reliable exotic. Now I need to find a way to predict gold deposits to help you guys with your powered rails.
I do get an odd message when I attempt to open minecraft.jar:
Failed to load Main-Class attribute manifest
Any clue what that means? I noticed all the other .jars have the same message.
===EDIT===
Would simply deleting the old minecraft.jar and then moving the new into the same place, then renaming it minecraft.jar work?
You probably did what I did. Tried to replace the .exe with the .jar
What you do is simply replace one of the sub files with that.
YES! It worked. Thank for the help!:yes:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N5SUSIFY
For those of you not busy slaying dragons, above is a link to my most recent Minecraft save file. I'm dedicating my work to Tincow and all the others that helped get me involved in the game. It should spawn you at X -272, Z 442.5. Please let me know if you experience any problems.
I wanted to spend most of my time in single player to ensure I had a copy of the file. Mostly though, I fell in love with the map. My intent is to figure out redstone circuitry as it's taking up a lot of storage space.
I encourage any comments or critiques.
Where is everybody? Server seems strangely empty now.
I'm playing Skyrim at the moment, seems Tincow is too!
Just for the record, I'll be borrowing a bed from the noob hotel for a little while, because my base is still under construction and I lost my wool in a creeper attack. More importantly I'm tired or running around looking for sheep at the moment.
Rajpoot, take some wool from my storage area. I have plenty so feel free to take some for a new bed.
Like Tincow, I love Bethseda games so I will be playing Skyrim for the next week and then I shall return to complete the three towers!
I had a lot of fun building the highway because it let me see all the naked sheep running around. I guess wool doesn't grow back very quickly.
The server has been upgrade to the latest version, which is the 'final' (yeah, right) release version. It is, quite oddly, listed as version 1.0.0.
I just logged in to mine a bit. Collected rock for sometime but when I went back to deposit in my box I realised that all my gold, diamonds, and my iron are missing. Is this a bug due to the new update? Because I disconnected and reconnected and they still weren't there.
Another heist? That's why my golden castle is in single player.
I'm also missing my armour which I'd stored in my chest to prevent for later use.
If it's a heist then it's no fun.
I can't imagine why anyone would steal stuff when everyone I've met on the server yet, are so generous anyway. I was saving the diamonds for later when I might've needed to mine Obsidian but I wouldn't have refused anyone who might've needed them for some current project.
I'll look into it when I get home, I have a feeling it's another thief. I'll see if there's a way to restrict access to only forum members. If so, I'll require people to get on the forums and register so that we know who they are before they can even connect.
[edit]Yeah, there's a whitelist command. I'll enable that this evening and put all Org members on the list. I will then only add new people to the list once they've posted in this thread or contacted me personally in some other way.
The minecraft server's been pretty deserted these past few days (AFAIK), so can't you just look at the server log and find out the IPs of who all logged in? That might narrow stuff down.
Yep. I usually look at it every a couple times a day (while Skyrim is loading up :creep:). There's definitely been at least one new name on there in the last day or two, and that's probably our culprit. Since there hasn't been any posts in this thread about someone else joining, it's probably a non-Orgah.
Turning on the whitelist should take care of the problem from now on. As you noted, it's not an issue with Org members. If you need some supplies in the meantime, you're welcome to take some stuff from my place, including some diamond. Just don't take it all. If you find the location of some structure that looks like this new person has created it, please post the coordinates so I can go take a look at it.
I'll look around to see, if I find something new. At present what I really need is rock and I have enough of that. Might need some armour later on but hopefully I'll manage that too. Thanks though.
It's just that those diamonds were so shiny. :laugh: I got lucky and hit six veins in two days in the same mine.
Might I suggest that if you do manage to narrow it down to some IP address, put it in the banned players list.....
Is there an easy way to edit existing maps?
I'd like to import my project into the org server. It should be as simple as a sort of copy and paste using the grid system.
Ok, the server is now running on a whitelist, which means people cannot join unless they have been pre-approved. The whitelist currently consists of:
*TinCow
*Scienter
*Tiaexz
*IonizedExistence
3_Headed_Monkey
Csargp
Chuchip
ORGVladimir
PopulusRomanus
pestmeesters
diain
* = People with ops. Anyone with ops can add a name to the whitelist, and all have my permission to add any names to the list according to their own best judgment.
People who have played on the server before but who I have not added to the whitelist because I do not know who they are (apologies if you are on this list, it's hard for me to keep track of Orgahs who have different names in minecraft):
Angelecticea
@lateraldeath
magnias
MathewC
#Mojopin
#Ninja_Tom
wuzie69
# = banned for previous actions, will not be added regardless.
@ = people who have logged on since the 1.0.0 upgrade. One or more of them is likely responsible for the theft of rajpoot's stuff.
If anyone knows who any of the people on the second list are, or can otherwise vouch for them being respectful players, let me know and I will add them.
I have no idea.
I think I found something:
http://davidvierra.com/mcedit.html
I'll keep looking.
http://www.sk89q.com/projects/worldedit/
I'll play with these two.
Sorry about that. You're whitelisted now.
Thanks.
BTW I ran around for a bit today, and couldn't find anything new (did run into some neat stock of sugarcane a bit way away from my WIP castle). Then I noticed quite a few of the 'field' blocks near the noob hotel where I'd planted wheat had been harvested, so I'm assuming that this player did plan to settle in. Anyway point is if anyone else runs across any stuff he might've dropped/stored (unless he's was carrying everything), I'd be grateful if they'll inform. I lost around 8 blocks of iron, 20 pieces of diamond and some 12 pieces of gold if I remember rightly.
If anyone would like to explore and/or work in The Nether, I now have a portal at my house which leads to a secure outpost in the Nether. There are some basic items for work in the outpost, including a crafting table, furnace, and bed. I've coated the exterior of the tunnel leading to the main cavern with cobblestone to make it a bit more Ghast-resistant, but as always The Nether is pretty dangerous when Ghasts are around, so be careful (the bed is there for a reason).
I am now bored of Skyrim and will be returning to minecraft this week. Hope to see some of you on there!
:edit: Just noticed I've been registered on this forum for 10 years! Woah!
Is it a sad state of affairs when you miss your computer for want of a game? I should really get a laptop.
Does the version 1 game have all the functionality of the 1.9 beta?
Anyone building anything new?
This is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfsPdhekTVA&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
Version 1 has everything that the latest 1.9.X version did, plus some bug fixes and final features like a fully implemented End dimension (with Ender Dragon).
I've added a fair bit to my house. A new second floor hallway which leads to a rear overlook and a portal room to the Nether. I also improved my workshop with a piston-driven Obsidian farm and a piston-driven garbage disposal. I've been gathering a fair amount of glowstone from the Nether as well, so I constructed a safehouse in the Nether on the other side from my portal. This evening I also started work on the next leg of the railway, leading to Csargo's place. I completed the cobblestone route to lay the tracks on, but I haven't finished laying track or lighting it. It's a really, really long run and it's going to take a lot more resources than I currently have to lay all that track. I put down 9.5 stacks of railroad tracks and I don't think I even got halfway. I'm now out of iron, so if anyone wants to contribute some iron or tracks to the project, it would certainly help.
Thanks, in part, to some generous soul who laid down a lot of track, the railroad extension to Csargo's lighthouse is now complete. It could use some more powered rails in a few spots, but it still works as it stands. Csargo, I've taken the liberty of creating a very rough station at the entrance to your place. Please feel free to move the station, and the railway leading into it, anywhere you want. I just placed the simple station where I did because I didn't want to create it inside your area without your permission. I'd also like to run the next leg from your place down your roadway/tunnel to the noob hotel, but since it would involve laying track on your existing road, I don't want to do it without your permission.
FYI, I do intend to keep extending the railway. Everyone is free to alter the 'stations' at their houses however they see fit. You can move them wherever you want and design them however you want, just make sure the system still works when you're done.
Glass walled railway? Sounds cool.
Yeah, security is an issue. The pyramid station isn't incredibly safe either, but I don't want to mess with the current setup without Tiaexz's input. For now, I've just lighted most of the flat plain around the station (and the buried areas under it) which has reduced a lot of the spawns. Security, and the view, is the reason I prefer an elevated rail line. It's not a big deal for roads to be a bit more dangerous, but I feel like the rail line should be pretty much guaranteed safe, which generally means elevated when it's not in a station. Perhaps I'll cut a new tunnel from the lighthouse to the noob hotel that's parallel to the existing road but a bit higher on the mountain. It's a long-term project in any case, as I think we're all about out of iron anyway.
Monkey wants to be hooked up as well, and the simplest option would be to just run a short line from his place to Scienter's station. However, since we don't have any method of switching lines, it would have to be a dedicated loop and changing trains at Scienter's station would be required to continue further. Another option would be to just turn the entire system into a loop. We've already kind of taken part of a looping route by going out to the lighthouse from the pyramid before turning in to the noob hotel. We could then continue that rail, running somewhat parallel to the main road, but off in the forest a bit. If we had the rail line that way follow the main road, it could stop at Populus' place and Monkey's place, and then link into my station to form a completed loop. diain's castle could probably be incorporated into it somehow as well. That would be kind of cool, but it would require a TON more iron. I also like the idea of running rail lines out into the wilderness, to encourage expansion in the 'suburbs.' There's a snow biome a ways out from my own house which I would like to hook up (ski resort!) but it seems wrong to spend resources on that when the main 'commuter' rail line remains unfinished.
If anyone has seen any videos about creating a simple switching station for multiple destinations, please post it. This whole thing would be a lot easier if we could just link single lines in anywhere with a standardized switching station, but I haven't been able to find any that aren't exceptionally complex. Our current station format could also use some improvement. They work, but they're certainly not ideal and can sometimes be buggy.
Has anyone tried enchanting, btw?
[edit]NM about the track switch, I found a good video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWl_is9hdF4
I didn't realize it could be that simple. I'll do some testing with that kind of setup this evening. If it works properly, we can just link in individual legs of railway anywhere.
I did a test of that switching system last night, with buried circuitry, and it works perfectly fine. Amazingly elegant, actually. Incorporating it into our double-line network (which is still required to prevent collisions) will be a bit more complex and stations which have destination switches will have to be a fair bit larger than they are right now. The first station this will have to be implemented at will be Scienter's, to hook up Monkey's house. Given where she built her station, it shouldn't be too difficult to expand it. However, for anyone else building stations to be hooked up later, it would be a pretty good idea to make sure that you've got room to expand the size of the place. I think something like an area of 10x10 would probably be a good size to start with, and make sure that we can dig down two squares below the surface without causing problems as well. I consider the actual construction of the rail lines to be a public project, but the specific placement of stations should be left up to the person whose property they are stopping at. Signage will also have to increase a lot as well, to make clear exactly which switches do what and which lines go where.
Monkey's a her?!
I mean I thought there were no girls on the Internet :clown:
I finished my chicken farm tonight which I like very much. Tincow completed the railway from my house to the noob hotel. I built an enchantment table and enchanted my sword and pickaxe. It is really weird how they've done it since you pick from three random numbers and get a random attribute on the item you enchant. My sword's enchantment makes spiders, zombies, and skeletons easier to kill and using my pickaxe has a chance of not losing durability after a use.
Does anyone still get on the server? The only person who I have seen on the last few time is Tincow.
I think many are still playing Skyrim. Despite putting in 70+ hours, I haven't even finished the main quest line. I intend to go back and finish it up eventually, but I'm more eager to play Minecraft each night. It's a pretty awesome situation when the choice about which game to play is between two superb open world games like these.
So, yeah, the first significant phase of development on the railroad is now complete. It needs a fair bit of polish: more signage at the noob hotel explaining the system for anyone new to the server, the rails in Csargo's station are a total mess, and the elevated areas need 'support' columns in many, many places as it looks weird just levitating everywhere. However, I am now done with this as my main project. I am happy to help anyone else who wants to be hooked up to the network, but I will not be building further extensions to other players' buildings on my own initiative. I have several projects I want to complete in my own house first.
Gah who changed the landscaping of the wheat farm!
Ah, sorry, that was me. I didn't think that had been used for a long time and it was blocking the area I wanted to use for the noob hotel train station. I'll rebuild it for you nearby.
No no...no problem. I got enough wheat/seeds/bread stored away.
Just saw the station. Very nice job :yes:
Monkey gave me some iron a few days back but I don't require all of it right now. You're welcome to take some of that from my chest if you require it to extend the railway line.
No, I'm fine. It doesn't take too long to get iron. I'll still happily take any slimeballs anyone doesn't want though. I am a sticky piston addict.
Three slimeballs at the noob hotel. :beam:
My old mine has quite a few monsters. More than I like actually....but I ran into a few large slimes in it.