Org Minecraft Server

[Sazak]

Love the country name. It is indeed a nice spot - you should go plant a flag on the top of the central mountains, just to capture that 18th-century imperialistic feel .

That's a great idea! I'll have to build a flag as the centre and build around it.

No one has taken it AFAIK, and I'm glad you are. That mountain section is one of the best in the game IMO. I love mountains by the sea.

Yeah that's the main reason it caught my attention. Unfortunately I don't think anything I build will be as grand as any other project.

As the President of Sazakistan and it's sole inhabitant, I propose to pass the law that the forest remain intact as a protected National Park.

[TinCow]

FYI, I did not repopulate the tiny two-building village nearby. I have a feeling the villagers are probably still alive there, since no one goes out that way, but if they aren't and you want to build up the village a bit, I'd be happy to spawn a few there for you.

[TinCow]

The server now has a domain name. You can connect to it by simply entering orgcraft.org as the server address. If for some reason the IP address ever changes, that domain will get updated to point to the proper location.

[spankythehippo]

I must say, the Tekkit mod is un-****ing-believable. Oh, to be able to run this...

But it is practically a completely different game.

[spankythehippo]

I was playing around with the Technic Pack, and so, I used a nuke. Yep, a nuke.

This is how much damage it did.

[Csargo]

Tekkit looks like a really amazing mod. Like you said, it adds so much to the game.

[Beskar]

Spanky, I am an op on a tekkit server. If you are interested in joining that, let me know via pm and I will see about getting you whitelisted and I will give you a quick and easy mod install .zip (We use Tekkit, Forestry, Mo' Creatures, etc)

Nukes are disabled however, due to griefing reasons.

[spankythehippo]

Spanky, I am an op on a tekkit server. If you are interested in joining that, let me know via pm and I will see about getting you whitelisted and I will give you a quick and easy mod install .zip (We use Tekkit, Forestry, Mo' Creatures, etc)

Nukes are disabled however, due to griefing reasons.

I'll have to understand everything in Tekkit first. And that's going to take me a very long time. Especially with the amount of work I have to do, both in Orgcraft and the real world.

[TinCow]

Tekkit is cool, but I have two issues with it that prevent me from adding it to the server. First, the focus of Tekkit is so heavy on climbing the crafting tech tree that I feel like it actively stifles creativity until players have achieved that. Second, and more importantly, Tekkit would require a world wipe. Our world is nearly a year old now (13 in-game years have elapsed) and I'm very proud of what we've built. A wipe really isn't an option. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in modding, I very much am and it's why I installed Bukkit. However, I want to make sure that any mods we install integrate well into the world we've already created and which simply enhance the basic Minecraft survival experience instead of completely re-writing it.

This is an example of something I am considering:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/pistonchest/

Mo' Creatures is on my list as well, though there doesn't appear to be a version which is compatible with 1.3.1/2 yet, so I haven't installed it.

Suggestions for specific mods would be greatly welcomed. There are so many out there that it's hard to sort through them all.

[Beskar]

I agree with wiping this world would not be worth it. I can allow the opportunity for people to try out tekkit on a nice small community server from elsewhere (with files and whitelist). Though one downside is, Tekkit can spoil you a little, something I always notice when I come back on Orgcraft.

[naut]

I agree with wiping this world would not be worth it. I can allow the opportunity for people to try out tekkit on a nice small community server from elsewhere (with files and whitelist). Though one downside is, Tekkit can spoil you a little, something I always notice when I come back on Orgcraft.

I miss not having a jet-pack. =(

[Vladimir]

Stopped by the noob hotel. Very nice but don't know what's causing the noise in the rooms. Something to do with the lighting.

[TinCow]

Stopped by the noob hotel. Very nice but don't know what's causing the noise in the rooms. Something to do with the lighting.

That's the flickering letter. In order to achieve random flashing, I used a rapid pulser. The mechanism goes so fast that it causes redstone torches to burn out, though they recover and start working again after a second or so. The sound you hear is the torches burning out.

[Ishmael]

Barring some minor changes, my main tower is complete! I think I'll take a break before I build the surrounding NPC city and use the time to run a rail line over from Csargo's place. Csargo, do you have any preferences as to where the line should run in your area?

[Vladimir]

I wish to proclaim the land (-1817, -1062); forest and mountainous region inclusive, as the country Sazakistan! Unless someone else already has taken it then of course I'll move my country.

Finally looked that up. It looks beautiful! Please don't change it too much.

I also see a tiny village close by. Nice.

[Csargo]

Barring some minor changes, my main tower is complete! I think I'll take a break before I build the surrounding NPC city and use the time to run a rail line over from Csargo's place. Csargo, do you have any preferences as to where the line should run in your area?

Not particularly.

[Ishmael]

Okay, I've laid a rail line from Csargo's station to my place - now how big does the station have to be (at minimum)? I'm thinking I'll dig it out, now, and then beg help off a more redstone-savvy person when they're online at the same time .

[spankythehippo]

Okay, I've laid a rail line from Csargo's station to my place - now how big does the station have to be (at minimum)? I'm thinking I'll dig it out, now, and then beg help off a more redstone-savvy person when they're online at the same time .

Minimum is a 3 line railway. So a Destination Reset and 3 lines. It's exactly the way CNBMinecraft did his video.

[TinCow]

Okay, I've laid a rail line from Csargo's station to my place - now how big does the station have to be (at minimum)? I'm thinking I'll dig it out, now, and then beg help off a more redstone-savvy person when they're online at the same time .

If you want, I'll build it for you. I've done so many of them I don't even need to watch the video anymore. If so, just mark out a 13x13 area for it so I know where to put it.

[Ishmael]

If you want, I'll build it for you. I've done so many of them I don't even need to watch the video anymore. If so, just mark out a 13x13 area for it so I know where to put it.

If it's not too much hassle, that would be great. I'll dig out a roughly 13 x 13 x 6 area soon, and I've got stacks of unused redstone around to compensate you for the wiring.

[TinCow]

There is some awesome stuff coming with 1.4. Check it out:

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Item_Frame
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Cobblestone_Wall
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Flower_pot
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Armor#Dyed_Armor
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Carrots
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Potato
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Wither
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Beacon_Block

[spankythehippo]

If anyone has any gunpowder they want to trade, I'll be willing to part with my emeralds for it. I need several stacks of TNT.

[rajpoot]

I need several stacks of TNT.

I doubt anyone had several stacks!
In my best days when I had been actively hunting for Creepers I had one full stack. Blew it all up trying to make a trench around my village though.

[Beskar]

From experience, TNT isn't actually good for much, except for griefing. Then it is very good.

[TinCow]

I agree that TNT isn't good for very much. It seems to take as long to get the stuff set up as it does to just mine the area out normally. The fastest excavation can be done with an enchanted diamond pick. Those are what I use.

That said, I'm currently working on a solution to the global gunpowder shortage.

[Vladimir]

I agree that TNT isn't good for very much. It seems to take as long to get the stuff set up as it does to just mine the area out normally. The fastest excavation can be done with an enchanted diamond pick. Those are what I use.

That said, I'm currently working on a solution to the global gunpowder shortage.

I think I know what you're doing. It will be interesting to see how it works.

[TinCow]

I think I know what you're doing. It will be interesting to see how it works.

It's not going so well so far. I built one version and the spawns were very slow, so I scrapped it and built a completely new one which is much larger and more complex. I still need to do some testing on it, but in my initial tests version two doesn't seem to be doing much better than version one. The problem could be that, because it's in my underground lair, there's just too many nearby areas (caves, surface at night, etc.) available for spawning. If my in-house version doesn't work out, I'll probably just give up on the idea of hiding the visual blight of the thing (they are pretty ugly) and make it above ground. The best spots are in the ocean due to the inability of mobs to spawn in any water or air square, so I'd probably build the thing on a tiny off-shore island and build a portal to it. There are some suitable islands to the northeast of the main spawn.

[Vladimir]

I also discovered a zombie spawner last night. If you check the chat logs you'll find the coordinates.

Does anyone have any ideas for small desert villages? I'm running out of ideas for the quaint but fairly cosmopolitan city I'd like to build in the south part of my desert. I'd like to make the houses as small as possible while retaining functionality but I'm not adverse to abstraction.

[Ishmael]

It's not going so well so far. I built one version and the spawns were very slow, so I scrapped it and built a completely new one which is much larger and more complex. I still need to do some testing on it, but in my initial tests version two doesn't seem to be doing much better than version one. The problem could be that, because it's in my underground lair, there's just too many nearby areas (caves, surface at night, etc.) available for spawning. If my in-house version doesn't work out, I'll probably just give up on the idea of hiding the visual blight of the thing (they are pretty ugly) and make it above ground. The best spots are in the ocean due to the inability of mobs to spawn in any water or air square, so I'd probably build the thing on a tiny off-shore island and build a portal to it. There are some suitable islands to the northeast of the main spawn.

Building it in the ocean also reduces the visual impact, seeing as you won't be seeing it unless you're actually using it. And you could always pretty it up with a waterfall or something .

[Vladimir]

Building it in the ocean also reduces the visual impact, seeing as you won't be seeing it unless you're actually using it. And you could always pretty it up with a waterfall or something .

Very true. I'm sure you could pretty it up to resemble an extinct volcano or something.