Minecraft

[ByzantineKnight]

I was wondering when someone would make a post on this. A buddy of mine and myself are admin-ing a server in its beta stages, figuring what we can do. When I get the green light for it, I'll post the ip on here.

Sounds good man! The rest of your post didn't show up but it was in the quote when I quoted your post and it looks pretty sweet!!

EDIT: Its there lol i guess you edited before I refreshed anyways, lookin' forward to it!

[Whacker]

Our giant abomination cannon managed to get some pretty good range, in the order of 100+ bricks or so, but it was sporadic and when the server code was even buggier. I don't think it we copied it over to the new maps. The logic gates were also a huge pain to work out, we had to hollow out a huge area underneath the cannon to make it all work, it was about 30x30x15. Right now I'm just waiting on the damn minecarts to work server-side.

[Veho Nex]

The server I'm admin-ing on is going live the day the October update goes live. Here are some screens from the world we created.

I'll add some screenshots later. I was going to add some of this forest we had going but an accident caused a massive fire that destroyed most... all of it.

[TinCow]

I've been playing this a great deal lately, and I'm enjoying it. There's something that's very relaxing about exploring and building in a pure sandbox world. My current project is a massive multi-tier castle which I've been working on sporatically for a couple weeks now. Hopefully I'll finish it before the Halloween update, because I'll definitely want to rebuild the world when that comes out so that I can make use of the biomes.

[TinCow]

It just occurred to me, if anyone is interested, I could host an Org minecraft server on my home fileserver. It's a dedicated machine that is only used for storage, bit torrent, and streaming media to other devices around my house. It used to be built out of spare parts, but I recently upgraded it to a 2.5ghz dual-core with 2gbs ram, so it's probably good enough to handle a decent load. I'm also on a FiOS line, which would hopefully produce decent connection speeds. I can't imagine that minecraft puts too much strain on a computer...

[Whacker]

If you do, make sure you install one of the better server admin tools.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...f=1012&t=23483 Llama mod

or

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...f=1012&t=24629 MCAdmin

Edit - You'll also want to greatly expand the server world map by exploring so that it pre-generates the chunks. If people go beyond already explored boundaries, the server will generate the new land and this can really bog it down big time. Lastly you can use stuff like MCEdit to import your existing structures, etc.

[LeftEyeNine]

I got absolutely no idea whatever Minecraft is supposed to be and how it is supposed to be enjoyed.

[TinCow]

If you do, make sure you install one of the better server admin tools.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...f=1012&t=23483 Llama mod

or

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...f=1012&t=24629 MCAdmin

Edit - You'll also want to greatly expand the server world map by exploring so that it pre-generates the chunks. If people go beyond already explored boundaries, the server will generate the new land and this can really bog it down big time. Lastly you can use stuff like MCEdit to import your existing structures, etc.

Thanks, I'll probably put a server up after the Halloween update. The addition of biomes should make the maps a lot more interesting, and I'd hate to have the world locked into the old style due to stuff being built everywhere. I've also heard that mob damage will be fixed with the upcoming patch, which is great. Multiplayer is interesting at the moment, but nowhere near as fun as SP (IMHO) due to the lack of the survival aspect. Large community developments will be far more interesting when the players risk death and loss of supplies while working. I think that will add a bit more cooperation than exists now.