Org Minecraft Server

[TinCow]

I can't speak for anyone else, but progress is being made in the 'new world.' therother and I are both a long, long away from finishing our new homes, but they're coming along.

FYI, I will be out of town from April 3rd through April 19th. If something happens to the server while I am gone (such as a power outage shutting it off), you'll have to wait until I get back to be able to fix it. Hopefully all will be well though.

[TinCow]

I am going to manually update the server to Pre-release 1.2.5 this evening. This will require everyone to do a manual update of their client. I am doing this because 1.2.5 will become a general release on Wednesday, at which time I will be out of the country and unable to update the server. So, if I didn't do the update now, you wouldn't be able to play on the server for a few weeks until I got home (or you'd have to avoid updating your own client). Apologies for any inconvenience this causes. If you don't like manual updating, you should be able to just wait until Wednesday and get the auto-update then.

[Vladimir]

Sounds good to me. I actually came to apologize for taking even more time off to play around with FoTS.

Are there any projects I should prioritize? I'll work on the scoreboard and have the first 7-segment display done. It's bigger and I need to work on the wiring.

[TinCow]

Are there any projects I should prioritize? I'll work on the scoreboard and have the first 7-segment display done. It's bigger and I need to work on the wiring.

No, I think the only people who have been on regularly recently have been therother, Snowstorm, and I, and all of us have been doing our own things.

[Vladimir]

Do multi-piston extenders work on servers? I think I remember that they don't. I'm thinking of what to do with this portcullis: .

If not and if 1.2.5 fixes villagers, I may start a new single player map and look for a village. Sim Minecraft.

[Vladimir]

Six days in and the maid strikes again.

[TinCow]

Six days in and the maid strikes again.

Is the server offline?

[Vladimir]

It was last night and may still be. No biggie. Just trying to make some village improvements to impress y'all. Found a new switch type that allows for automated farms.

[TinCow]

Must have been a power outage, no one has been at the house for a week. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about it for another week. Sorry about this situation.

[TinCow]

It was indeed a power outage. The server is back online now.

[Vladimir]

Minecraft!

I randomly found a seed in a hardcore game that spawns a medium sized village right in front of you. I'm using that for ideas for the server; my current village is pretty large and it looks like villager bugs are fixed. Villages are the current focus of the new updates.

Snow golem turrets with iron golem sentries seem to work well but the iron ones don't like to react in less a villager is getting pasted.

[TinCow]

Tectonicus has been updated, and I am running a new map for it. It has to be redone from scratch though due to the map file, and the world is now significantly larger due to the new lands we generated, so it will probably take many hours to complete and upload.

[Vladimir]

Awesome!!!

I need to find a Dummies guide so I can map out my single player worlds. Anything beyond point and click is a bit much for me.

[TinCow]

The map has been updated.

[Vladimir]

So that's at least four new villages I see. I may make a rail system to connect them all. One is so tiny and I think there still only one with a church. The arena looks amazing and the creeper face is in the perfect spot.

Working on village construction ideas. Birch makes excellent flooring and jungle wood has a nice red color.

[Vladimir]

Minecraft biome editors:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...-retro-biomes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sATuT9h_

I came across these after looking at my former desert biome north of my village. Half of it is covered in snow due to biome changing. I don’t know how difficult these tools are but hopefully they can be used to solve the problem.

[TinCow]

My IP seems to have changed for no good reason. You'll need to use 108.28.80.203 to access the server now. Apologies.

[TinCow]

I've updated Tectonicus to the latest version, and installed Minetographer as well. Minetographer is essentially a GUI for Tectonicus, and makes it super easy to create renderings with many more options than previously. It also seems to be a lot faster than raw Tectonicus, and the file sizes I am getting are significantly smaller. I'm still playing around with it, but I plan on uploading new maps for the server later today, with overworld rendering in day, night, and with caves, and a nether map as well.

[Vladimir]

I've updated Tectonicus to the latest version, and installed Minetographer as well. Minetographer is essentially a GUI for Tectonicus, and makes it super easy to create renderings with many more options than previously. It also seems to be a lot faster than raw Tectonicus, and the file sizes I am getting are significantly smaller. I'm still playing around with it, but I plan on uploading new maps for the server later today, with overworld rendering in day, night, and with caves, and a nether map as well.

Is it simple enough for non-Java dummies to use? I really want to get maps of my single player games.

[TinCow]

Is it simple enough for non-Java dummies to use? I really want to get maps of my single player games.

Definitely, I'm really kind of in love with this thing. I'm a GUI addict and this interface is a lot more pleasant to use than Tectonicus' config file. Just make sure you have the latest version of Tectonicus, since I don't think the one that is in the Minetographer download is up to date. You can get the latest version of Tectonicus (2.14 as of today) here. Just download that, rename it to Tectonicus.jar, and overwrite the file of the same name in the Minetographer folder. You should be good to go from there.

[Vladimir]

Definitely, I'm really kind of in love with this thing. I'm a GUI addict and this interface is a lot more pleasant to use than Tectonicus' config file. Just make sure you have the latest version of Tectonicus, since I don't think the one that is in the Minetographer download is up to date. You can get the latest version of Tectonicus (2.14 as of today) here. Just download that, rename it to Tectonicus.jar, and overwrite the file of the same name in the Minetographer folder. You should be good to go from there.

Thanks. I'll play around with it now. The last thing I want to see after work is code.

I hope the new project is going well.

Awesome. I can see the huge snow biome where I was lost for hours and two vacant 1.8 villages.

[TinCow]

Ok, the new map is online. There are buttons on the top right to flip between day, night and cave (underground) views. Cave views are interesting, but not particularly useful because it's just a mess of stuff. For that reason, I haven't bothered uploading the Nether map. It's even more of a mess to look at than the overworld Cave map and it totally useless for navigation. Even so, I really like this new map system. That three-part map only took up 1gb of space, in contrast to the previous one which took up 6gb and had only a single render instead of 3.

[Vladimir]

Awesome! It has my little village with the watermelon farm and new houses! I need to expand that sucker some more. 1.2.5 reduced the village radius so that the single family homes are unused.

That cave complex under the town is insane. Something definitely went wrong there.

[TinCow]

That cave complex under the town is insane. Something definitely went wrong there.

The cave view can be really hard to read at times. The map program just strips away the top layers of dirt until it hits open space, then renders what's below it. It keeps stripping dirt until it finds a cave or hits the bottom of the map. So, it shows many layers of cave overlapping on top of one another, even when they're at significantly different depths, and it's often hard to see where one cave starts and the other ends. For the caves below the town near my new house, I see a ravine intersecting with an abandoned mine, both overlayed on top of an existing cave structure.

One of the things I find most interesting about the cave view is that it shows something I've suspected for a while: that abandoned mines are really common. If you zoom way out on the cave view, you'll notice that the map shows a lot of dense areas with squiggles coming out them. Pretty much every one of those is an abandoned mine. Ravines are also easy to spot; they look like solid black slugs or smudges. If you find a map area without the abandoned mines or ravines, you'll see that the 'normal' state of caving is actually pretty reasonable.

[Vladimir]

Yes, it looked reasonable in the other places I saw, but the one under the village is at least two separate cave systems spawned together. I saw two generation points when I discovered it a few months ago.

I need to go hunting for rails.

[Vladimir]

They're dead. They're dead and I killed them all.

I left one cactus trap open and now all but two out of twenty are dead. I rescued one from the cactus trap and (ironically) one from the suicide booth (Futurama: It doesn't work) and now I'm down to two...

[TinCow]

Villagers?

[Vladimir]

Yes. That and I have a house that acts like a mob spawner when the light sensor doesn't work properly. I found some iron bars by the entrance.

The only two left are either gay or have no interest in reproducing.

[TinCow]

Well, considering how hard it is to deal with villagers and the fact that I wanted that village to be alive for future expansion, I am willing to spawn some more to replace the dead ones. We'll call them immigrants and so no more of it.

[Vladimir]

Jeb needs to add beer brewing in the next snapshot to encourage villager breeding.

That's another reason why I'm looking into a rail system. It can be done in creative but transporting them via rail to work camps other villages is more satisfying.