Org Minecraft Server

[spankythehippo]

Can you build it at a smaller scale? Would that be easier to build/troubleshoot?

It's actually harder to build it smaller. Size isn't an issue. I think I might be mentally retarded and screwed up a part of the redstone or something. I responded to Tango, and I'm just waiting for his reply. If it turns out that it's unfixable, I'll dismantle it and build it somewhere else.

[BSmith]

Found a spider spawner not too far from the surface in mineworld if anyone is interested in getting it. It is all lit up and should be pretty safe to access. coords are:

x: 191
y: 49
Z: -124

I put a cobble tower with torches above the cave entrance for easy spotting. I found a diamond horse armor among other things in the chest! now for some horses...

EDIT: I also made some duplicate maps. If you are exploring please take one and use it. It should copy to all the other duplicates as well. They are in the new chest close to the door and mine entrance.

[Papewaio]

I found a zombie spawned at the bottom of the emerald mine. Where there is one there may be more. Worse would be a creeper blowing a hole into the lava pools below. Do carry water.

Iron doors basically suck if you need to use the button and have high latency. It easily takes over a dozen attempts to walk through. I find it quicker to mine around the door and back fill rather then try and open a door. I've added walls and a glass roof above the safe house main doors. It should stop nasty surprises parachuting in near the gates.

I'm going to light up the main hill next. Horses were east of the portal about five light brown ones when I first entered. I did tame two.

BTW putting a map in a frame is a good way to see it and puts a dot in matching maps.

[Vladimir]

Well. The slaughterhouse works but is very slow. I need to lean the hopper and popper system so I can build an observation deck in the center of the machine to maximize spawn area.

[Nigel]

Hi guys,

I am back from vacation and eventually finished the little tower in the old town.



Also, I am gald to see that BSmith secured the ressources from danhoff's ranch and is making them available to the community.
I myslef took 1 saddle, 17 mossy cobblestones (for the tower) and a pickaxe with SilkTouch enchantment, which I intend to use and return afterwards.

There were actually quite a few good tools in the posession of danhoff. How about placing those in a chest at the communal blacksmith with a sign on it saying that they are for general use, please return when finished? What do people think of that?

[BSmith]

I'm cool with the communal tool idea. I can put them in the blacksmith on Monday. The saddle was one of the items I was hoping to keep. Is there anyone that has an extra one they would be willing to trade for?

[Papewaio]

I have four spare ones at my village. I personally like to have a way of making saddles

With lag I can see people falling in lava and losing saddles.

[Sigurd]

I'm cool with the communal tool idea. I can put them in the blacksmith on Monday. The saddle was one of the items I was hoping to keep. Is there anyone that has an extra one they would be willing to trade for?

I got two saddles recently from the desert temple in mineworld when I scavenged for clay in that area. I am willing to share one...

[Ishmael]

I've finally managed to get Minecraft to work with my internet, and have already fallen in love with Mineworld. It's been ages since I've simply explored the unknown. Just going to the edge of the world and back I found a ridiculous number of saddles, six sets of horse armour and four music discs (although unfortunately all the same one - 'cat'). Only one name tag unfortunately, although I've already used that to name one of my wolves after my RL dog . Deserts seem the easiest to find points of interest in, since they have both villages and temples, and it's easy to spot exposed dungeons where the sand has fallen in.

Anyway, if anybody wants any of the above feel free to drop by my place. All I need is two sets of horse armour and a couple of saddles, so the rest is free for the taking.

[Nigel]

I've finally managed to get Minecraft to work with my internet, and have already fallen in love with Mineworld. It's been ages since I've simply explored the unknown.

Excellent. You can actually follow the course of the Aridhol Expedition on the map of the Mineworld.

[TinCow]

Incidentally, if someone has a better name for the resource world than Mineworld, please let me know. I wasn't exactly channeling a great source of inspiration when I was implementing it, and it might deserve a more interesting name if it's going to be a permanent part of our server.

[Sigurd]

Excellent. You can actually follow the course of the Aridhol Expedition on the map of the Mineworld.

That looks exactly like the map I borrowed from Pape's lair. It even has the section where I forgot to look at the map (east middle).
Does that mean.. every copy of the map in that chest is updated as I move around?

[BSmith]

Yes. That is why I made so many copies. :)

[Sigurd]

Right... so if we want to make a world map of the Mineworld (kinda like the name btw) and place it in Pape's lair, how would we proceed? get to one of the edges of the current map and create a new map... make copies of it and place one next to the other in the lair?

[Nigel]

I guess something like that could be done.

Just to address your previous questions: every map in a world has a number (the one above has #48, I think). There can be several copies of a map, but they all have number #48 and if anyone explores someting new with a map #48, that gets updated on all the copies there are in that world.

We can make new maps of the same scale, or we can make new maps of a larger scale (but I dont think we can simply re-scale map#48 - it would just result in a new blank map).

Not sure if it is worth the effort though, to try and map out the whole Mineworld, as it will - at some point - get deleted. But we can certainly map out the area around Pape's safehouse. That would be helpful.

[Papewaio]

Mounting maps also puts green dots on the map. Good for marking interesting places. I tend to put red wool crosses on my Single player games...Red wool is easy to make and red shows up on most maps.

[Nigel]

Interestingly, when I take one of those maps out of the box, the white marker always stays over the green marker.
Even in I walk away for some distance, the white marker does not follow me.

Does that have something to do with the fact, that those maps are "owned" by BSmith and the white marker always shows BSmith's position?

[BSmith]

No, it was doing the same thing for me last week when I was exploring. I wonder if there is a "master" map, but that wouldn't make sense as they all have the same number and are stackable.

I probably can't play for at least another week or so, but what happens if you unmount the map on the wall and then try to move around with one?

[Vinitharya]

Hey dudes, back after a bit of a sabbatical, I won't be on near as often as I was before, but I'm back. I'm taking up TinCow's suggestion for a new name for MineWorld. I'd just call it The Outback. It's open, it's dangerous, it's hostile, it's unknown, and it's full of neat things to find. It seemed right to me.

[TinCow]

RebalanceVillagers is back online again.

[TinCow]

I have completed the redstone work for the new train station in the city. I would like for it to be the main rail hub on the server, so I have given it an initial capacity for 12 lines and a unique design with built-in automated cart storage. I would now like to start linking it up to the rail network, including adding lines to every other station in the immediate vicinity. As such, I need a lot of rails and powered rails. If anyone has any to donate, please drop it off in one of the chests inside the train station. Many thanks!

[Vladimir]

Just when I was wondering what to do with my surplus. How many stacks do you need? Can you have too much?

[BSmith]

I have close to a stack of rails as well. I wont be able to play for at least a week so if you need them feel free to take them. I think they are in the basement storeroom of the lodge.

[TinCow]

How many stacks do you need? Can you have too much?

I'll use what I can get. I've already run new lines from the new station to the Arena and Noob Hotel, and I've also diverted the old line from the Southern Stronghold to the train station instead of to the Noob Hotel. I also plan on adding lines to Csargo's Lighthouse/Gate and Aridhol City. That said, I would like for the City Train Station to be a general world hub with direct access to a lot of areas. As such, if there's enough rail sitting around, I'd consider running a new line to Sigurd's Castle, which at the moment is a lot of stops from the main area, and also the Mob Grinder (which currently has no means of access other than the Nether). I'd also like to reconfigure the rails around the Southern Stronghold. The line from Aridhol City to the Statue Gardens goes right over the place but doesn't stop. That makes it a much longer trip to access the Statue Gardens from the main area. By re-routing that line to add a stopover at the Southern Stronghold station, it would be much easier to commute to and from the Statue Gardens, which would in turn make that area a good expansion hub for lines out into that continent.

For reference, the line from the Arena to the City Train Station alone took about 6 stacks of rail. As such, completing all of the above could easily use up a full double chest, if not more.

[Nigel]

For reference, the line from the Arena to the City Train Station alone took about 6 stacks of rail. As such, completing all of the above could easily use up a full double chest, if not more.

I keep beeing amazed at the amount of resouces some things take.
So I wont even dare to offer a share of the 20 rails (not stacks) that I own.

But if we do want to save some, do we think we still need a station at the Noob hotel at all, when the City Station is just one block of houses around the corner?
Just a thought.

[BSmith]

Yeah. I'm cool with simplifying things and eliminating the Noob station.

[TinCow]

While we're re-configuring this stuff, I'd like to propose completely eliminating the spawn island. It's only there because that's where the server's default spawn spot was. However, I could manually move it inside the Noob Hotel, which would be a sensible starting place for new players. Alternatively, if someone would like to knock down the existing spawn island structure and create something more attractive, please be my guest.

[Nigel]

No, it was doing the same thing for me last week when I was exploring. I wonder if there is a "master" map, but that wouldn't make sense as they all have the same number and are stackable.

I probably can't play for at least another week or so, but what happens if you unmount the map on the wall and then try to move around with one?

I just tried it.
The effect is the same even if I un-mount the map. I just see the white and green marker at the centre - no matter where I go.

[Ishmael]

Thanks to whoever redirected my line to the Stronghold station; it definitely improves connectivity in that part of the network. I'm hoping to get around to running a direct line from my city to Central in the next couple of weeks (it depends largely on when Rome II arrives), but in the interim I've dumped my rail supply at the City station.

@Vladimir, would you still have a surplus of nether quartz? I'm far too lazy to collect it myself, and I have a fair amount of redstone and slimeballs lying around if you need circuitry materials.

[Vladimir]

Thanks to whoever redirected my line to the Stronghold station; it definitely improves connectivity in that part of the network. I'm hoping to get around to running a direct line from my city to Central in the next couple of weeks (it depends largely on when Rome II arrives), but in the interim I've dumped my rail supply at the City station.

@Vladimir, would you still have a surplus of nether quartz? I'm far too lazy to collect it myself, and I have a fair amount of redstone and slimeballs lying around if you need circuitry materials.

How much would you need? I'll be very busy with work for the next couple weeks and may not be able to drop it off myself.