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[Populus Romanus]

For some reason noone else is ever online when I am. I'm thinking something might be wrong on my end. Was anyone online from 10:00-11:00 this morning? If so, then I must have a problem.

[Vladimir]

For some reason noone else is ever online when I am. I'm thinking something might be wrong on my end. Was anyone online from 10:00-11:00 this morning? If so, then I must have a problem.

I'm usually on in the evening, Eastern time. Saw Spanky last night. My schedule is kind of random though.

On Villages: No big plan is needed but once I finish the merchant quarter I may start over at a new village, the one close to the Arena, under the railroad tracks, and make a more organized and pleasant looking one.

[spankythehippo]

For some reason noone else is ever online when I am. I'm thinking something might be wrong on my end. Was anyone online from 10:00-11:00 this morning? If so, then I must have a problem.

I'm on in the evenings as well, GMT +10. I'm on quite often, but I don't have a regular schedule. Saw Vlad last night, and diain gave me a guided tour of his castle. And we went on a failed creeper hunt, where I died within 5 minutes. I didn't have a bow. :(


I was planning on building the Pyramid of Saqqara, but I have no idea what the interior will be. So, I might make a monastery. Or Osaka Castle. Most likely, the castle. Still, I need a lot of crap to build that.


By the way, does anyone have a pet? I'm looking for wolves, but haven't found any.

[rajpoot]

By the way, does anyone have a pet? I'm looking for wolves, but haven't found any.

I tamed one once but couldn't even get it back to my castle alive, it fell into the lava.

There should be quite a few in the taiga, if not you can check them out behind theother's place (that's where I tamed mine, there were a lot of them in the woods back there).
JFR it's the place you were about to go yesterday, beyond the lake thing.

[spankythehippo]

So, I did a few calculations for my Osaka Castle replica. The gobouzumi alone will require 6,768 cobblestone. And for leveling the area, I need a 100 x 100 block area. I can either clear away some dirt and stuff, or I can fill a crater up with stone. Using a stone base will require 10,000 cobblestone. I think I'll stick to clearing dirt.

The building itself is 5 stories on the outside, 8 stories on the inside. I'm going to need a lot of birch wood, pine wood and a little normal wood.

I've also decided to use glowstone as my roof, but only because there is no red or cyan blocks, other than wool. I could use Lapis, but only if I get alot of it.

I'm also building the Ote-mon gate, with a wall that encloses the castle complex. If all goes well, I'm going to expand the castle, and make a castle town.

Damn, this is gonna take a while.

[Memnon]

Spanky, is that you with the booby-trapped entrance to a house? You had me seriously worried with the corridor of death if so.

Everything seems great, especially as I can actually use better settings on my new laptop. Now to finally build the grand hallway of my domain, as I intended to do in the beginning, but instead made my castle look like an emu...

[spankythehippo]

Spanky, is that you with the booby-trapped entrance to a house? You had me seriously worried with the corridor of death if so.

Everything seems great, especially as I can actually use better settings on my new laptop. Now to finally build the grand hallway of my domain, as I intended to do in the beginning, but instead made my castle look like an emu...

Nope. My house has no traps at all.

Is the trap a corridor of lava?

[Beskar]

Luckily it still has a dozen or so villagers...I don't know how, probably they haven't faced a zombie siege yet. There aren't any Iron Golems around, but I'm planning to build a couple.
Did have some issues with the portal where I kept ending up in Pestington's place and then twice deep in an underground cavern below the sea, but managed to fix that.
Back to the old mine for now.

It is actually my place after I evicted the Pyramid and Pestington was to help out. Just never got around to building the tavern yet.

[spankythehippo]

I agree. I'd like for this to be just the first of many community projects. That's one of the main reasons for having a MP server in the first place.

So, anyone have any ideas for another community project?

Maybe not something as large as the Arena, but something extravagant. I was thinking a mountain temple on the Extreme Hills biome. Kind of like a pilgrimage.

Something like this (even though it's not real):

[Populus Romanus]

Spanky, is that you with the booby-trapped entrance to a house? You had me seriously worried with the corridor of death if so.

Thats actually my house, and I have no idea how the booby trap got there. It nearly killed me as I walked out my own front door.

[spankythehippo]

So, I did a few calculations for my Osaka Castle replica. The gobouzumi alone will require 6,768 cobblestone. And for leveling the area, I need a 100 x 100 block area. I can either clear away some dirt and stuff, or I can fill a crater up with stone. Using a stone base will require 10,000 cobblestone. I think I'll stick to clearing dirt.

The building itself is 5 stories on the outside, 8 stories on the inside. I'm going to need a lot of birch wood, pine wood and a little normal wood.

I've also decided to use glowstone as my roof, but only because there is no red or cyan blocks, other than wool. I could use Lapis, but only if I get alot of it.

I'm also building the Ote-mon gate, with a wall that encloses the castle complex. If all goes well, I'm going to expand the castle, and make a castle town.

Damn, this is gonna take a while.

Well, 100 x 100 doesn't seem like a lot. But after laying the foundations, I learnt otherwise. Now, I'm just using 50 x 50. Which is a massive relief, because I don't have to use 6,768 cobblestone. I just use 3,312 cobblestone. That's around 50 full stacks. Which, doesn't seem like a lot.

But I need lot's of birch. What biome is it endemic to?

[TinCow]

I have about 25 full double chests of cobblestone in my new place. You're welcome to take up to 20 chests worth if you need it.

[spankythehippo]

I have about 25 full double chests of cobblestone in my new place. You're welcome to take up to 20 chests worth if you need it.

Well, thanks to your guided tour of your place and therother's place, I might help myself. But I only need about 30 more stacks. So I'll leave the rest. Thanks for the stuff.

[rajpoot]

It is actually my place after I evicted the Pyramid and Pestington was to help out. Just never got around to building the tavern yet.

Ohh...ok...well I might've pilfered three diamonds and some cobble to deal with the Nether portals, but I'll reimburse them.

[Vladimir]

On the birch trees: I have a chest of saplings and use bonemeal to harvest them. You only need to find one.

My library is finished and used birch wood construction.

[rajpoot]

OK, an Iron Golem has finally spawned in my village (yay!)

I wanted to check one little thing though. Currently I'm making houses with this floor design.

##D#
#_ _#
#_ _#
#D##

# = Cobblestone
D = Door.
_ = dirt floor

height is 3 blocks with the third level being a cobblestone roof. According to the guides I read this will probably count as two doors, i.e 70 % of a villager, but if anyone here can confirm it (Vladimir?) I'll be very grateful.

[Vladimir]

OK, an Iron Golem has finally spawned in my village (yay!)

I wanted to check one little thing though. Currently I'm making houses with this floor design.

##D#
#_ _#
#_ _#
#D##

# = Cobblestone
D = Door.
_ = dirt floor

height is 3 blocks with the third level being a cobblestone roof. According to the guides I read this will probably count as two doors, i.e 70 % of a villager, but if anyone here can confirm it (Vladimir?) I'll be very grateful.

I remember reading something about a 3x3 being necessary. I don't build anything smaller than that. There is also a computation from the village center, but there is no way to determine where that is in SMP. You may want to consider duplexes as well. Make sure sunlight can reach both "roofs". I'll eventually build them, maybe in another village, to boost population. I recommend slabbed flooring if you want a cheap way to eliminate spawning.

That door configuration looks good and you can add one to both sides if you want that population boost. Congratulations on the golem spawn. I've used a lot of iron making them myself.

[Csargo]

Thats actually my house, and I have no idea how the booby trap got there. It nearly killed me as I walked out my own front door.

I went to the bottom of the trap and it has music blocks connected to pressure plates. There's also a cave with a lost and found chest.

[Memnon]

It killed me twice... There go my dreams of a grand obsidian hall within the next week. Time to gather more iron, diamond, and lava!!

[Beskar]

Ohh...ok...well I might've pilfered three diamonds and some cobble to deal with the Nether portals, but I'll reimburse them.

It's fine. I had quite a few diamonds if I remember correctly.

edit:

Inspected the deathtrap, by the looks of it, it is connected to note blocks which record how many items people fall to it. Also there is a "Lost and Found" chest, and a ladder way so people can reclaim their goods and items. It is rather well made!

[Vladimir]

I have to check it out.

[Populus Romanus]

Well if everyone is going to check out the deathtrap at my front door, would they mind reporting if there is a big dirt spire in front of it? I'm still not sure if I am having connection issues or if I am just online at the wrong time, so I put a dirt pillar in front, if I am not connected correctly then it won't be there. If I am connected, it will be there. A foolproof solution.

[Beskar]

It's there.

[Populus Romanus]

It's there.

Okay, so I must just be logging in at the wrong times.

Oh, and now I have to take that abomination down...

[TinCow]

So, anyone have any ideas for another community project?

Maybe not something as large as the Arena, but something extravagant. I was thinking a mountain temple on the Extreme Hills biome. Kind of like a pilgrimage.

Ok, I'm up for another one. I'm done with Diablo 3 and ready to return to building. I still need to do a lot of work on my new home, but that will kind of be a project with no end and I don't mind doing other things in the meantime.

I don't have any specific ideas for a mega-project like the Arena, but it's been my intention to significantly improve the rail network for a long time. That could certainly be a group effort.

Currently, there are two issues with the network. First, its layout means that it only works in a loop format, which makes it very difficult to add new stops that aren't on a direct course. Second, the station stopping and starting mechanisms do not work well, and there are frequent minecart shortages at many stations. I would like to rebuild the network in a way that would solve these problems.

My current idea is to revamp the system by using this design at all stations:


With this fix applied as well:


Using stations like that instead of our current ones achieves two things. First, it looks a lot nicer. Second, it completely eliminates the need for a looped network because it can handle 4 destinations from each station. That means that each station can then have 4 different rail lines leading into it, which allows for a modular web network which is extremely easy to expand. If you want to add another station to the network, all you need to do is (1) build one of these stations at the new location and (2) run a single track to the the nearest station with an unused rail line slot. This also halves the amount of rail needed for the network, as each link only requires a single track instead of a double. While this imposes a risk of a collision if two people are traveling in opposite directions on the same line, our server population is not really high enough to make this a common occurrence.

However, doing this will require a lot of work. First, we will need to build new stations in the above format at all existing stops. Second, we'll need to replace all the existing double tracks with a single track that is powered in a manner that keeps minecarts moving at full speed regardless of direction. Third, we will need to add new rail lines to places that have previously been omitted due to the looped nature of the network.

In addition, these stations don't solve the minecart supply problem. I don't have any ideas about how to deal with that. The designs I've seen for automated minecart storage systems are all extremely complex and look like more of a pain than they are worth.

[Vladimir]

For the supply problem each person can easily carry their own cart. It only takes up one inventory slot. You have plenty of cobblestone for construction which should go quick.

Do we have enough gold? Halving the number of lines should recover enough powered rail but I would love to build a coal station or two. I still haven't determined the maximum range on coal-powered carts.

[spankythehippo]

For the supply problem each person can easily carry their own cart. It only takes up one inventory slot. You have plenty of cobblestone for construction which should go quick.

Do we have enough gold? Halving the number of lines should recover enough powered rail but I would love to build a coal station or two. I still haven't determined the maximum range on coal-powered carts.

The gold could be a problem. In my travels, I've seen everyone's supply of stuff, and it doesn't seem like enough gold for powered rails. I don't know what the yield will be if the lines are halved, but it could be enough, depending on the spacing of the powered rails. I don't know.

[TinCow]

Well, according to the map there are 711,902 blocks of gold ore in the generated world. I guess we'll just have to do a bit of mining/spelunking.

[Vladimir]

We could also farm or slaughter zombie pigmen to our delight.

[Beskar]

9 nuggets to a bar though, which isn't that great.