Org Minecraft Server

[Papewaio]

First I have to find a horse. Will search when I finally log on.

Also going to make three pig houses... First out of straw, second out of wood and the third out of stone.

[TinCow]

WorldBorder and MobCatcher have both been updated now on the server. RebalanceVillagers remains unupdated and thus offline.

[Vladimir]

So I accidentally updated to 1.6.2. When the server isn't showing that it's on version 1.3 it tells me that .2 isn't compatible.

[TinCow]

I should be able to update the server to 1.6.2 pretty soon, possibly this afternoon. However, the new launcher allows you to change your version. On the initial launcher, just select the old 1.6.1 jar and play with that until I get the server up to 1.6.2.

[Nigel]

I am currently stuck in a very strange bug.

I traveled by rail from the Noob Hotel to the Arena.
When I arrived there, I was unable to leave the minecart. I could move the minecart for a few meters by pressing "W", but nothing seemed to be able to get me out of it - even trying to teleport home did not help.

Now I am stuck in the minecart inside the rail system near the Arena station at -101 : 80 (hight 55).
I also tried to destroy the minecart, but that didnt work either.
If anyone could get me out, I would be grateful.

[TinCow]

The server is now running the earliest dev build of 1.6.2. Unfortunately the speed of this update means that a couple more plugins are temporarily offline until they get updated. As of now, RebalanceVillagers, MobCatcher, and SilkSpawners are offline.

[edit] On the positive side, now that 1.6.2 is installed, some odd lag issues (such as during block placement) appear to have been fixed.

I am currently stuck in a very strange bug.

I traveled by rail from the Noob Hotel to the Arena.
When I arrived there, I was unable to leave the minecart. I could move the minecart for a few meters by pressing "W", but nothing seemed to be able to get me out of it - even trying to teleport home did not help.

Now I am stuck in the minecart inside the rail system near the Arena station at -101 : 80 (hight 55).
I also tried to destroy the minecart, but that didnt work either.
If anyone could get me out, I would be grateful.

That's... odd. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do while you're offline, but I may be able to help by teleporting you if we're on at the same time.

[Ishmael]

I am currently stuck in a very strange bug.

I traveled by rail from the Noob Hotel to the Arena.
When I arrived there, I was unable to leave the minecart. I could move the minecart for a few meters by pressing "W", but nothing seemed to be able to get me out of it - even trying to teleport home did not help.

Now I am stuck in the minecart inside the rail system near the Arena station at -101 : 80 (hight 55).
I also tried to destroy the minecart, but that didnt work either.
If anyone could get me out, I would be grateful.

Did you remember that the button to get out of a minecart is now 'left shift'? I missed the little prompt that came up myself, and the fact that I normally get out of minecarts by breaking them got me stuck for a good five minutes.

[Nigel]

Thanks Ishmael, that did the trick.

I must say, I totally overlooked that little note.
Well, I guess rail travel got a lot safer now. Less chance to accidentially fall out.

Still it feels good to be able to sleep in a bed tonight. That minecart was rather a bit uncomfortable.

[Ishmael]

So has anybody managed to get horses to spawn yet? I've spent several hours now systematically slaughtering every animal in my nearby plains biome, but still no luck. I get the feeling that the area is pitted by enough ravines and open caves that I can't quite find and kill enough passive mobs in order to get the number below 10 in the spawning area. I may have to try moving to a slightly...flatter plains biome, but I'd hate to have depopulated the current one in vain.

[Papewaio]

Could you terraform it to a flat plain?

[spankythehippo]

Given the amount of lag I'm getting (which is on my end), I can't start the iron farm until next week. At which point I will be working doubly fast to get it done.

[Sigurd]

So has anybody managed to get horses to spawn yet? I've spent several hours now systematically slaughtering every animal in my nearby plains biome, but still no luck. I get the feeling that the area is pitted by enough ravines and open caves that I can't quite find and kill enough passive mobs in order to get the number below 10 in the spawning area. I may have to try moving to a slightly...flatter plains biome, but I'd hate to have depopulated the current one in vain.

I have been looking for horses all over the world map, to no avail. I also killed the wild life on the plains north of my castle in the hopes that horses will spawn there.. that's two days ago.

edit:
I said all over the map, that's of course an overstatement. However, I did a fairly long walkabout and followed this route in the hopes that there might be horses where no man has ever ventured.

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[Papewaio]

My quartz has disappeared from my manufactorum. As has the chiseled quartz bits that I had put along the green line as rings at two locations. In addition the manufactorums metal funnels have disappeared, but not the ones at my nether gate...

[TinCow]

My quartz has disappeared from my manufactorum. As has the chiseled quartz bits that I had put along the green line as rings at two locations. In addition the manufactorums metal funnels have disappeared, but not the ones at my nether gate...

Could this be due to the map rollback that was caused by the old server going down?

[Vladimir]

My quartz has disappeared from my manufactorum. As has the chiseled quartz bits that I had put along the green line as rings at two locations. In addition the manufactorums metal funnels have disappeared, but not the ones at my nether gate...

Where was it stored before you placed it?

[Vladimir]

So I switched back to 1.6.1 to play on the server for a day and now that the server is updated, my Minecraft launcher appears to be redownloading 1.6.2.

[Ishmael]

It's so cute!

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Forget horses, I want one of these. Is it possible to get name tags on this server, given that (I'd assume) the contents of dungeon chests would have been determined prior to the patch?

[Papewaio]

Could this be due to the map rollback that was caused by the old server going down?

I assume its a technical issue but not 100% time based.

Reason being with the funnels (hoppers) they are missing but not the furnace or chests that interconnected them.

With the quartz the chiseled rings I made are missing the underside. I dug out the earth above where the ring was and instead of quartz it was air. Which would mean it is likely to be a technical glitch. The main one now has a shelf of rock hovering over where the underside was. So if someone had mined the first one it would have been difficult as it is above a lava stream and in investigating it I lost some of the earth covering and the grass. So I think it is some sort of database glitch. Other items that I built later are still there.

Luck has it that my lapis floored library is in tact.

[Papewaio]

It's so cute!

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Forget horses, I want one of these. Is it possible to get name tags on this server, given that (I'd assume) the contents of dungeon chests would have been determined prior to the patch?

He pigmen children are cute too.

[TinCow]

I assume its a technical issue but not 100% time based.

Reason being with the funnels (hoppers) they are missing but not the furnace or chests that interconnected them.

With the quartz the chiseled rings I made are missing the underside. I dug out the earth above where the ring was and instead of quartz it was air. Which would mean it is likely to be a technical glitch. The main one now has a shelf of rock hovering over where the underside was. So if someone had mined the first one it would have been difficult as it is above a lava stream and in investigating it I lost some of the earth covering and the grass. So I think it is some sort of database glitch. Other items that I built later are still there.

Luck has it that my lapis floored library is in tact.

When did you do this work and when did you notice that it was screwed up?

[Papewaio]

Did some of it quite awhile ago. Seems to have recently disappeared. I've spent most of my time around there so it was noticeable that the quartz had disappeared

Side view

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Air
Quartz
Earth

The quartz beneath was gone suspended above a lava field so that is why I think it's a technical glitch.

I will repair it all myself. Just be careful when wandering in the nether as bridge pieces may have disappeared.

[TinCow]

Did some of it quite awhile ago.

Between June 13th and June 25th? Earlier than that?

[Papewaio]

Pretty sure well before then as most of it was done three months ago.

Main reason is that I had something always supporting the earth be it nether rock or above a chasm nether brick. In this instance I swapped out the brick for a ring of quartz at the -100m mark. So the earth should not have been there as the supporting surface was gone.

The hoppers where connecting to a large chest and a furnace on top of it with a hopper on top of that with a feeder chest on top again within a chimney. He chimney was built last. The building, chimney, chests and furnace are still there, whilst the connecting hoppers have disappeared.

[TinCow]

That's bizarre. I cannot think of anything that would have caused that, barring someone actually coming out there and removing them. The blocks that you list as missing (hoppers and quartz) were added by the same update, so I guess it's possible that something deleted blocks from that update in a certain area of the map including your place... but I have never heard of such a thing happening and have no idea how it could. Could it possibly be a display error, where you are using some kind of texture pack that doesn't have those items in it, thus making them not visible even though they are still there? Can you place things in the spots where they should be?

If they actually are gone, you are welcome to restore anything that was lost from my supplies; I have plenty of quartz and iron for hoppers. Please let me know if you see anything else that looks wrong.

[Greyblades]

So, there's a japanese castle to the south east of the noob hotel that seem sto have been trashed and infested, who's is it and does anyone know why it looks like somone took a cannon to it?

[TinCow]

So, there's a japanese castle to the south east of the noob hotel that seem sto have been trashed and infested, who's is it and does anyone know why it looks like somone took a cannon to it?

That's spanky's. He wasn't entirely satisfied with it, and IIRC the castle it was based on was heavily damaged in a battle. So, after he decided to move out he blew it up, partially for fun and partially to make it historical. He's currently building a much larger Japanese castle on the island at x=750 z=1750

[TinCow]

FYI, I went exploring for some horse and also failed to find any. However, I've been doing some googling and it appears that they take some work to spawn in existing (pre-1.6) biomes. Apparently you need to just run around a plains area and slaughter every passive mob you see. If you kill enough of the things eventually horses may spawn. I have not tried this yet, but the internet says it is true and when has the internet ever been wrong about anything?

[edit] I ran around some plains biomes slaughtering everything and had no luck. The internet suggests using fence to enclose as large an area of plains as possible, then lighting the entire area with torches and slaughtering everything inside until horses appear. Apparently passive mob spawning rare are very low, and horses are rare even within passive mobs, so it can take a very long time for them to appear even if you've slaughtered the passive mobs to keep it under the spawn cap.

[Vladimir]

So it seems like it's best to just ride pigs.

[Papewaio]

Must... Resist... Dirty... Comment... Lost will to do so:

"So it seems like it's best to just ride pigs." - That's what she said

[Sigurd]

FYI, I went exploring for some horse and also failed to find any. However, I've been doing some googling and it appears that they take some work to spawn in existing (pre-1.6) biomes. Apparently you need to just run around a plains area and slaughter every passive mob you see. If you kill enough of the things eventually horses may spawn. I have not tried this yet, but the internet says it is true and when has the internet ever been wrong about anything?

That's what I have been doing north of my castle with no luck... pigs and chickens seems to spawn back though - there are always pigs and chickens there when I go hunting.

[edit] I ran around some plains biomes slaughtering everything and had no luck. The internet suggests using fence to enclose as large an area of plains as possible, then lighting the entire area with torches and slaughtering everything inside until horses appear. Apparently passive mob spawning rare are very low, and horses are rare even within passive mobs, so it can take a very long time for them to appear even if you've slaughtered the passive mobs to keep it under the spawn cap.

I haven't tried this yet...