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[Ishmael]

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.

Probably only 4-6 stacks. If it's not in too well hidden a location I can pick it up myself, and drop off a few stacks of redstone blocks or something.

[Vladimir]

Probably only 4-6 stacks. If it's not in too well hidden a location I can pick it up myself, and drop off a few stacks of redstone blocks or something.

Well I only have nine or ten stacks of blocks. I say "only" as if that's a small number. You can grab four from my far east Nether portal. It's in one of the double chests back and to the left of the entrance.

I don't need anything in trade because the grinder is done. What I need is to figure out how TC built his slime ball collector so I can attempt to do the same with the pigman drops.

[TinCow]

What I need is to figure out how TC built his slime ball collector so I can attempt to do the same with the pigman drops.

I'd be happy to give you a tour, but I don't think my system would help you. In summary, I use water to funnel all of the LIVE slimes into a very small area where they are then killed. Since they are in a compact area it is then very easy to use a small number of hoppers to pick up the item drops. I have not actually been out to see the gold farm yet, but if I understand it correctly you can't funnel the pigmen together before they are killed. In addition, water cannot be placed in the nether anyway. As such, the only way to funnel stuff would be by coating the entire killing floor with chained hoppers that all funnel to a single location. Given the size of your farm, that would require absolutely massive quantities of iron.

[Tamur]

Hi everyone, I have started popping on here daily... weekdays GMT evenings for just a little bit of time. It's quite spectacular to see everyone's creations! I'm also glad to have found a server that doesn't have 1) insane amounts of traffic, and 2) severe anti-griefing measures (though the second with good reason on public servers).

Question: I was ingame talking with someone (Nigel?) yesterday, and he mentioned that I should ask here on the forum if it's ok to build in a specific location. I'm happy with a spot in the sheep-infested forest near -260, -380, lake nearby + a canyon not too far to the east.

I'm going to keep my depredations to a minimum for now, just let me know whenever someone can.

Thanks for running this TC!

[Nigel]

If you are online by the name of Gondhammer, then it was indeed me, that you talked to.

Wellcome and glad to have you on the sever.

I looked up the coordinates you gave for your building. It is the area with the red circle around it.
As far as I am concerned, no problem for you to build there. I don't think anyone has any plans there (didnt know it was so sheep rich)

There are a few other areas that we are trying to develop.

The green area is for peoples city houses.
If you want your own small house in the city centre please go ahead and build it there.

The yellow area is the "Old Town".
If you fancy a medieval style building, people will be happy if you build it there.

We are also planning to have a harbour in the pink area. But that is a big project and probably still a long way off.

[Tamur]

Excellent, thank you. Good to know about the build areas nearer the city.

We are also planning to have a harbour in the pink area. But that is a big project and probably still a long way off.

This brings up a question: I assume some (many) of these gigantic buildings have been cooperative projects. Are these handled in an ad-hoc sort of way, or do you have a list of current big projects I could contribute work towards?

BTW, very nice isometric view! Is that a part of the dynamic map?

[TinCow]

This brings up a question: I assume some (many) of these gigantic buildings have been cooperative projects. Are these handled in an ad-hoc sort of way, or do you have a list of current big projects I could contribute work towards?

There is no official list, we just tend to discuss it and wing it. The City is the only 'official' server-wide coop project at the moment, in that it's declared as such and people jump in and do whatever they want. However, in reality, the entire server is a coop project. Many of structures you see were built with at least some help from another person. The only important thing is that you make sure you get permission from whoever is currently working on something before you join in. Sometimes people want to build solo, particularly when they're working on their 'personal domain,' and might be annoyed if you joined in. Most of us have personal 'homes' that we work on, with additional time spent on coop projects whenever it pleases us. Just ask first before working on any existing area (other than the city) and you won't have any problems.

As far as the city goes, the official policy is that anyone is free to claim a plot of land and build whatever they wish, though we'd appreciate it if you kept within the general themes outlined by Nigel above (modern city area, old town area, harbor). You are also free to expand on existing buildings, though you might want to get permission from people who did/are working on them before doing so. For example, the four buildings between the Noob Hotel and the Town Hall/Space Needle were built by Sigurd and he might not like you altering the exterior. However, he specifically left the interiors empty for anyone to decorate/modify as they wish. As such, you could claim one or more parts of the interiors of those buildings and work on them if you wanted. Similarly, the interior of the Town Hall was never really finished and I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to spruce it up. The Noob Hotel was also built before there was any concept of a city and as such its exterior isn't quite up to snuff with the rest of the buildings. Efforts to improve/expand the Noob Hotel would thus be welcome.

BTW, very nice isometric view! Is that a part of the dynamic map?

Yes. If you didn't notice, if you mouseover the far right edge of the map there is a control panel that will pop out. That panel allows you to select from the 7 existing maps (3 for the main world, 2 for nether, 2 for end), and it also lets you see who is online and lock the map to their position. The HD maps are the second map in for each of the three worlds. Note that Mineworld is intentionally mapless, though people in Mineworld will still show up as online on the Dynmap, just without an icon on any of the maps.

[TinCow]

As a heads-up, the 1.7 update will have new items in it that cannot be obtained in the main world. This includes Packed Ice and Podzol. As such, Mineworld will be wiped and re-generated (with a new seed) once 1.7 has been released.

[edit] I have finished the line to the Mob Grinder. That is the end of my immediate plans to add new lines to the system, though I'm more than happy to help out if other people want additional lines or stations. I've updated the rail map in the OP to show the new system, and also differentiated between stations based on size/importance, and have indicated those that lack the more sophisticated multi-destination redstone station.

[spankythehippo]

Whoa, fishing has improved a lot. You can now fish for saddles and name tags. That is awesome.

Full list is here:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Ve...ersions#13w36a

I'm still in my Minecraft depression stage and I'm busy with Rome II. It might take me some time to muster the energy and disassemble the Iron Farm. Apologies, in advance.

[Vladimir]

I'd be happy to give you a tour, but I don't think my system would help you. In summary, I use water to funnel all of the LIVE slimes into a very small area where they are then killed. Since they are in a compact area it is then very easy to use a small number of hoppers to pick up the item drops. I have not actually been out to see the gold farm yet, but if I understand it correctly you can't funnel the pigmen together before they are killed. In addition, water cannot be placed in the nether anyway. As such, the only way to funnel stuff would be by coating the entire killing floor with chained hoppers that all funnel to a single location. Given the size of your farm, that would require absolutely massive quantities of iron.

The reason for the large amount of resources was to funnel them down into a single point. I've finished that but there are a couple problems with the drops landing in a 3x3 area instead of one or two. The other issue is that some die before making it to the bottom. I can fix that by making some alterations at the top of the funnel.

Production is slow but if the player positions himself in the central part of the machine the spawn area would increase and more spawns would happen; there then would be no way to collect the drops at the bottom. The center also needs to be filled in a bit to prevent the possibility of a ghast spawn.

I'm assuming there are a lot of examples on YouTube. I haven't looked at the collection point in your slime farm yet.

[Nigel]

As a heads-up, the 1.7 update will have new items in it that cannot be obtained in the main world. This includes Packed Ice and Podzol. As such, Mineworld will be wiped and re-generated (with a new seed) once 1.7 has been released.

Thanks for the early warning. I went there and took my loot out - also because I will be afk next week.

There are some more people, who have chests with valuables (tools, iron) in the savehouse. @BSmith
You may want to check with them, before you do the wipe (or someone could just get those chests out and place them somewhere on Orgcraft for them).

[TinCow]

The reason for the large amount of resources was to funnel them down into a single point.

If they're all landing in a small area, having it auto-collect the drops will be very easy. I'll help you add that kind of system next time we're both on.

Thanks for the early warning. I went there and took my loot out - also because I will be afk next week.

There are some more people, who have chests with valuables (tools, iron) in the savehouse. @BSmith
You may want to check with them, before you do the wipe (or someone could just get those chests out and place them somewhere on Orgcraft for them).

It's not a problem, I expect it will be a while, likely in excess of a month, before the Mineworld actually gets wiped. 1.7 hasn't even been released by Mojang yet, and even when it does we don't upgrade until Bukkit is ready. If there are still some chest in the Mineworld at that point I will manually move them back to the main world before wiping it. At least, any chests around the spawn that I can easily find.

[Tamur]

After attempting to establish a house out in the boonies and spending a lot of time on the commute, I'm realising the wisdom of building in town. How does an early medieval longhouse at 160 X, 180 Z sound?

Also, apologies to Kaiser on Saturday. I should never attempt playing on weekends -- got pulled away IRL (and died too, lost a lot of stuff), so I wasn't ignoring you.

[TinCow]

After attempting to establish a house out in the boonies and spending a lot of time on the commute, I'm realising the wisdom of building in town. How does an early medieval longhouse at 160 X, 180 Z sound?

Sounds great! Since you're actually adding on to the city, feel free to make use of the various chests of city-construction supplies as well. They're sitting in front of the town hall, and there are some more assorted chests of stuff in the boiler room on the town hall (accessed via the ladder in the floor under the left side stairs in the town hall entryway). All that stuff is for public use in city-based constructions.

[Tamur]

Ah! Great, that's good to know. I'll make sure to replace (most of) the stone brick I used for the bridge and road, as I was able to manufacture some.. takes a lot of coal. I must get myself one of those handy silktouch enchantments sometime.

Thanks! This will help out a lot.

[BSmith]

Work on the Cathedral is progressing. I probably wont be able to play for a few days though. Tamur, feel free to keep helping build if you like. You can finish the second tower and get the roof on the rest of the building. The exterior grounds could be improved as well.

[Tamur]

It's looking very impressive, nicely designed! I'll work on the tower first and might ask a question or two if I get to the nave.

[Tamur]

@BSmith, second tower complete (though I'm unsure I got the floors and ceilings quite right). I won't be on tomorrow, but may get a bit of time Monday and will work on the nave. It's looking great, very nice architectural plan.

[BSmith]

Awesome. Thanks for your help with it!

[Nigel]

I had my first encounter with the Nether today.
Well, not quite my first one, I have occasionally gone through Nether before, but this time it got serious.

I used the new Nether portal at Ivan's village intending to get to the City.
After a few steps in, a Ghast started firing at me. After the initial shock I realized that the fireballs are moving quite slowly and figured that I could probably dodge them. So the next time he fired, I ran foreward and indeed, I managed to run under the shot.

But when I turned around, I saw that the fireball had hit the portal and had damaged and deactivated it.

So now I was stuck in the unknown and with no chance of a way back.
I ran forward and fortunately found the portal to Scienters Resort. What a close call.

Anything I can do to repair the portal, or is that gone forever now?

[Ishmael]

Anything I can do to repair the portal, or is that gone forever now?

Just lighting it with flint and steel will reactivate it. Or you can try and get another ghast to hit it with a fireball, if you're feeling daring .

[BSmith]

Anyone else having trouble logging into the server today?

EDIT: It won't even let me attempt to connect from the game. Says the server is out of date. I was on earlier today.

[BSmith]

I figured it out. My client updated to 1.6.4 without me realizing it. I just needed to change profiles back to 1.6.2.

[BSmith]

Alright… the cathedral is continuing to progress nicely. Thanks to Tamur and Nigel for their continued help on this large project! I probably won’t be able to play for a few days, but there are some projects that can be worked on in the meantime:

1.) I need help finishing the west side. It can be an exact copy of the east side that is complete

2.) The floor has started to go in. I am making a layer of oak planks under sandstone for the floor. The oak will be the ceiling to the future basement of the cathedral.

3.) Chandeliers. I have space for 4 more chandeliers. If anyone is up for this, I have marked where they go on the ceiling with a fence post. Just copy the smaller of the two that are already complete for all the remaining ones. I think most, if not all, of the materials are in the chests, with the exception of torches. Once these are up I think we can safely take down all of the scaffolding.

Speaking of resources, I am starting to run low on my stocks. We still need the following:

- Sandstone/sand (rough estimate of 10-15 stacks of sandstone)
- Stone Brick (maybe 20-30 stacks)
- A little more glowstone (no more than a stack)

I should have enough coal for cooking 30 stacks of items in my old town house basement furnaces. It would be great if anyone has any on hand that they could lend to the effort. If not, we’ll need to spend some time gathering them.

[TinCow]

As a heads-up, I may be a bit slow on updates and server maintenance for a while. My wife gave birth yesterday and the result will, obviously, complicate my schedule somewhat. If there is an issue that needs to be dealt with or an update that needs to be installed, you can help out by emailing me at tincow@gmail.com. I check that account regularly, even if I'm not otherwise reading the web.

[Ishmael]

As a heads-up, I may be a bit slow on updates and server maintenance for a while. My wife gave birth yesterday and the result will, obviously, complicate my schedule somewhat. If there is an issue that needs to be dealt with or an update that needs to be installed, you can help out by emailing me at tincow@gmail.com. I check that account regularly, even if I'm not otherwise reading the web.

Congratulations! My best wishes for the three of you.

BSmith, I'd be happy to supply the sandstone, especially as I feel slack about not working on the cathedral itself. I'd previously stockpiled a double chest's worth for a project I later scrapped, so it's a good excuse to clean out my stores. I should also have some stone bricks lying about which I'll drop off too.

[BSmith]

As a heads-up, I may be a bit slow on updates and server maintenance for a while. My wife gave birth yesterday and the result will, obviously, complicate my schedule somewhat. If there is an issue that needs to be dealt with or an update that needs to be installed, you can help out by emailing me at tincow@gmail.com. I check that account regularly, even if I'm not otherwise reading the web.

Congrats! To steal the Peace Corps’ slogan, it is the hardest job you’ll ever love. Hope it all went well and everyone is healthy.

Congratulations! My best wishes for the three of you.

BSmith, I'd be happy to supply the sandstone, especially as I feel slack about not working on the cathedral itself. I'd previously stockpiled a double chest's worth for a project I later scrapped, so it's a good excuse to clean out my stores. I should also have some stone bricks lying about which I'll drop off too.

That would rock. (Excuse the pun!)

There are some chests inside that it should all fit in one way or another.

Thanks!

[Vladimir]

As a heads-up, I may be a bit slow on updates and server maintenance for a while. My wife gave birth yesterday and the result will, obviously, complicate my schedule somewhat. If there is an issue that needs to be dealt with or an update that needs to be installed, you can help out by emailing me at tincow@gmail.com. I check that account regularly, even if I'm not otherwise reading the web.

Outstanding. From your tone it seems like there were no major problems. A little TinCalf running around the stable.

[Vladimir]

weird

[Nigel]

As a heads-up, I may be a bit slow on updates and server maintenance for a while. My wife gave birth yesterday and the result will, obviously, complicate my schedule somewhat. If there is an issue that needs to be dealt with or an update that needs to be installed, you can help out by emailing me at tincow@gmail.com. I check that account regularly, even if I'm not otherwise reading the web.

Congratulations on this fabulous news, Scienter and TinCow.
All the best to you and Little TinCalf for the busy and exciting years, that are now ahead of you.

When you get home and your lives approach a somewhat regular rythm again, check out the map and City of Orgcraft.
Different patrons have left little surprises and good wishes for you there.