Concerning Mining, Crafting, Serving, Fifthfiending

[Fifthfiend]

So, after seeing this (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/building-down-instead-161537141.html), it made me wonder... how hard could it be to do in Minecraft? Especally since TNT is disabled, which would make it a bit of a harder challange...

TBH this is kind of my long-term goal for the community mine.

Just have a straight hugeass undercity thing going on.

[Ryong]

I actually had planned initially to do underground stuff only back in Ness' server, but all the lag, then invisible creepers and, uh, not being crazy enough stopped me.

[Arhra]

We could colonise a ravine!

[Flarecobra]

Damn lava lakes gett'n in mah way....

[Ryong]

I was going to murder a bunch of spiders to make a bunch of fishing rods if anyone ever wanted to fish.

Then Bit gave me nearly two stacks of string and said you can never have enough fishing rods.

We now have a double chest filled with fishing rods. Oh and a few more.

[TDK]

Yeah, you can get string from cobwebs now. Which are found in absurd abundance in abandoned mineshafts.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Yeah, you can get string from cobwebs now. Which are found in absurd abundance in abandoned mineshafts.


Along with cave spiders. Man, fuck cave spiders.

[Thadius]

Along with cave spiders. Man, fuck cave spiders.

Don't actually do this, they will probably still poison you, kill you, and eat your corpse.

Technic Pack 1.8.1 continues to be awesome. I found uranium right off, along with a variety of fruit trees. And rubber trees.

And a pegasus.

I need a troll-face emote.

[Marc v4.0]

You should update your IC2, BC, and the Power Converters.

[Pip Boy]

I need a troll-face emote.

Its a shame we'll probably never have one.

EDIT: I appear to be no longer whitelisted on the main server (Zaggalon) and even with the proper mods, am unable to connect to the test server.

[BitVyper]

Its a shame we'll probably never have one.

EDIT: I appear to be no longer whitelisted on the main server (Zaggalon) and even with the proper mods, am unable to connect to the test server.

I will fix your permissions right now.

[BitVyper]

There, you should be good to go on the main server, Pip Boy.

[Thadius]

Huh.

Is the portal back to Terra broken?

Cause I'm standing in it, and all I seem to be doing is drowning.

[Flarecobra]

Okay so right off the top: I think I have nailed down what is killin people tryin to teleport, basically there are some new features in the multiverse plugin that have some bugs in them that are overwriting the worldspawns to dumb locations. It looks like a lot of the problems people have been having may be related to this.

I WILL AS SUCH BE TAKING DOWN THE MULTIWORLDS FOR NOW, we will again be Infernum-only for the time being, SORRY GUYS

I think I can get around it by downstepping to a slightly older Bukkit build but that'll take a little while. Alternately I'll holler at the plugin author and see if he'll do a bugfix.

Anyone who lost anything as a result of game glitchkillery contact me or another op to have your stuff replaced.

That's the scoop, unless he turned it back on without telling anyone.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/309-19-pre-release-6-is-out/

1.9.6pr is out.

[TDK]

I would recommend turning the sound off when you watch this because they make it into a joke. Which I can't fault them for, its what they do. But I don't feel that it merits mocking. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5sUfTLhCU&feature=feedu)

I have a new level of respect for Mojang. That was absolutely beautiful.

Edit: Aaaaaand everyone in the release thread on the minecraft forums either doesn't understand it or think its stupid. That is incredibly depressing.

[Fifthfiend]

That's the scoop, unless he turned it back on without telling anyone.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/309-19-pre-release-6-is-out/

1.9.6pr is out.

I'll try and get this up on the test server, either vanilla or in heightmod-mode.

Dragons sound pretty dope.

[Aerozord]

do we have a community farm? If not I request an acquisition of a parcel land in town for its creation

[Shyria Dracnoir]

There is a community wheat farm near the windmill/bakery. Nothing on melons or pumpkins though.

[Sithdarth]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20794520/2011-11-15_00.38.06.png

So I built a giant 3D fractal out of flaming Netherrack. It makes a pretty cool center piece. I think I'll add towers and such around it. Maybe some lava and fountains.

[Aerozord]

Oh so THATS what that giant structure out in sea was for.

[Sithdarth]

Yeah pretty much. I built that first and then the fractal on top of it.

I now know who was out there shearing sheep. Assuming it was you that sheared the sheep.

[Aerozord]

Hey guys I was just thinking, since Minecraft 1.0 will be released soon, maybe we should plan something to celebrate. Like a big group build or something

[Melfice]

Yeah.
The town, I think it was agree upon?

Or was that not what we were going to do?

[Aerozord]

I thought the town was unrelated.

granted there was a huge chunk of time I didn't know what was going on because I hadn't updated and thus couldn't get on the server.

maybe we should like go on a massive adventure, we all gear up and just venture out until the last of us falls

[Thadius]

Your idea has merit. Where have I heard that befo-

http://i40.tinypic.com/s5a8w2.jpg

...Huh.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

We build a town as a base first, then go adventuring and keep improving the base/town thingy. Problem solved.

[Doc ock rokc]

Minecraft 1.0.0 is out now YAY!

[Melfice]

Guys, I said no planning for the town/city thing, right?
We all remember that. It's a page or two back, so you can look it up if you forgot.

Now stop.
I've got a plan, but I won't be able to show you until Sunday. We can hold off on that until then, right?
Great.

Don't worry, it's not a pre-planned city, but it's something that'll make the city look very awesome. I think. Hope.

[Fifthfiend]

I'm not in a huge hurry to change anything on the server anyway so take your time.

SPEAKING OF

I realize that I've been pretty AWOL from the server lately. There have been some fairly serious family things I've had to deal with that have been eating into a lot of my time for the last couple of weeks.

Some of that stuff may have calmed down for the time being - although it could flare up again and I'd need to again get involved with it. But tentatively I'm plannin' on getting a lot of these various plans we've got floating around up and running pretty soon.

My tentative plan for 1.0 is to run it off the test server and then keep infy going on the standard server so people can do whatev. Whichever 1.0 map will almost certainly be a trash map so don't get attached or nothin'. Whenever bukkit gets up and running for 1.0 we can have some real fun and see if some of the longer-term plans we've talked about for things can finally start bearing fruit.

[Doc ock rokc]

Yay I can't wait for Test to get up
I really want to try out all the new things

[Arhra]

Hello people, I have been messing around with how to build a cathedral.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f362/Arhra/minecraft_cathedral_draft.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f362/Arhra/minecraft_cathedral_draft_vault.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f362/Arhra/minecraft_cathedral_draft2.jpg

Current structure's 60 blocks long, 60 blocks wide and 32 high.

This is just the core part though - the arches and pillars down the center. I've only laid down a few foundations for the actual exterior walls.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

:aaa: I'm fully convinced Arhra is part dwarf now, given her construction skills.

[BitVyper]

Woah, that looks pretty sweet. Have you built it on our world, or singleplayer?

[Arhra]

Just threw it together in creative singleplayer today as a test to see if it can actually be done for the new town.

[Doc ock rokc]

I did some tests Sandgens are definitely fixed So no more unlimited supplies of sand.

lava generation creates smooth stone now

Actually moving lava on water source creates smooth stone. Moving lava on moving water creates cobble. And you already know how water on lava source works.

[Fifthfiend]

Test server's running 1.0

All survival all the time ultrahardcoreworld DEAL W/IT.

If you get an error about your server key well hey guys it's just a beta version you have to expect these kind of OH WAIT

I can just say Notch is a jerk who writes code via faceroll, THAT IS ALSO A THING YOU ARE JUST GONNA HAVE TO DEAL W/

Anyone who's not on 1.0 yet, the main server is still on Beta 1.8.1 with Infernum.

[Fifthfiend]

I guess now's a good time to talk about this new town people wanna start.

I kind of like Melf's idea about sort of a spiral arrangement, we could work plot sizes out of such a thing.

In fact I think a thing I like about it is that you can do smaller plots at the town center and have them naturally be larger as you expand.

I'm inclined to do larger plot sizes as a default just so people got room to build rad shit.

Maybe like roughly 25x25 or 30x30 as the inner ring plots.

Probably uh, with the very center of the townas some sort of communal area for like community-approved projects and shit. That could be maybe 50x50 or 60x60 or even 100x100

EDIT Ideally any town we do I think should be facing an ocean.

[Arhra]

I do like that plot sizing idea.

There's a large area of plains near spawn on the test server that might be good. No ocean though, in my explorations.

I'd love to find a spot near a stronghold too.

Also whoever built the house, sorry I accidentally let the chickens inside and had to kill them when they started wandering into the abandoned mineshaft.

I have a whole pile of assorted meats now which I was trying to bring back there, but I got lost and am currently cowering in a hole I dug in the middle of nowhere.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Think I'll move the chicken paddock away from the door and make that a bigger wheat garden or something.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Alright, chickens have been moved and we also have some captive cows and sheep. Also got some brick made.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I found a really picturesque lake canyon when filling in the map. A lot of springs pouring out of sheer cliff faces. It looks REALLY impressive. Map orientation has the spawn complex at the center, with the sun rising from the right hand side (east).

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/waterfall_canyon_map.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/waterfall_canyon.png

[Aldurin]

Anybody know if Spoutcraft has a version compatible with 1.0 yet? I'm still getting eventual crashes with the normal client.

[Doc ock rokc]

I tripled the chicken and cow population and i am on the hunt for pigs
However there is a pack of wolves that keep eating them before I can get them to the farm

[Fifthfiend]

Anybody know if Spoutcraft has a version compatible with 1.0 yet? I'm still getting eventual crashes with the normal client.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM yeah Spoutcraft is made to work with bukkit so probably it's not gonna work super-well with 1.0 at least until bukkit itself updates to 1.0. I've been using my standard install for 1.0 and my Spoutcraft to get on Infernum.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Upgraded the cobble walls on the main floor of the base to stone brick and fully planked up the floors. Me and Doc also found a source of obsidian in some caves nearby (I've got two diamonds in my personal chest already).

[Doc ock rokc]

Ok if you want to kill animals for food BE SURE to leave atleast 4
also close the gate after you leave.
Always enter and exit though the gate with the LEAST amount of animals humping it.
and don't walk around holding wheat in front of them.

[Fifthfiend]

Started work on a second floor.

[Aldurin]

There is a pitfall I may or may not get around to exploring, that I have marked with a shitty tower to the northwest of the spawn center. Explore at your leisure.

[Fifthfiend]

base looks funky from outside with the second story, gon' have to work on that, but it's sure mo' roomy. Also I did a bunch of digging out underground, mostly just like, diggin for space.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I've managed to scrape together 4 diamonds. 3 are going into a pick and the last is being saved for the enchanting table. I'm going to start clearing out the lava/obsidian fields me and Doc found.

[Thadius]

I may have poked my head into the testing grounds.

I have learned three things.

First, caves are filled with coal. This would be a boon to anyone but me as I now have more than I would ever need.

Second, creepers are tricky buggers to kill, but easy to lure to where you want some quick mining done.

Third, my mountain is filled with cows.

Anyways, server seems to be down again. Is it Minecraft or just Fiendcraft?

EDIT: It was probably Java. Also, love, I beat you to enchanting things.

http://i40.tinypic.com/1zcg7k1.png

I am considering dabbling in alchemy, but that would involve the Nether. I don't want to do that.

I am willing to pay people in obsidian if they can go to the Nether and bring me back a Blaze Rod. Or twenty.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

You didn't take my diamonds for that did you?

[Aldurin]

Thadius, pay me in diamonds and we have a deal.

[Thadius]

Shyria: No I did not. Struck out on my own and found some.

Aldurin: Let me find some more and direct you to Mt Dairy, then we can make this handoff.

[Flarecobra]

So given my recent... real life issues, that's why I have not been on at all.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Gentlemen, we have gone deeper

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/1-5.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/2-5.png

Through these doors lie things both wondrous and terrible to behold.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/3-5.png

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/4-5.png

The danger is great, but the possible rewards even greater.

I have already made the journey. Who else will join me?

[Melfice]

I assume this is vanilla 1.0 on the test server?
I'll wait until Fifth's got it on the main server.
And until all his favourite mods are installed.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Thadius, I have 10 Blaze Rods and 58 Nether Warts. What will you give me?

[Thadius]

Sorry, I've been playing with something completely different.

I've only nine spare diamond, and I'd like to keep six of those. For future pickage.

I can trade obsidian for some wart and soul sand. I'll be on soon, we can discuss the fine details then.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

We have a decent source of obsidian near the main base. What I'd really appreciate are either iron for armor, arrows or at least feathers and flint.

[Thadius]

I have a surplus of all of that!

So where are ya?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Currently in the base at spawn, although I'm not logged in yet. This will be fixed literally in one minute.

[Thadius]

So I THINK I have the basis for a cave city, guys.

Just need to beef up the library to have, y'know, books.

Feel free to make use of the facilities. Just don't go swimming in lava in the garden.

We're running an experiment in there.

EDIT: It would appear that the portal I made on an obsidian outcropping is somehow linked to the portal already existant in the Nether? Basically if I use my portal, it's a one-way trip to Fiendlandia. Not something I sought when originally making the portal. Is there a reason for this?

[Aldurin]

Awww, but I always loved to clog the lava filter with my charred bones.

[Thadius]

Awww, but I always loved to clog the lava filter with my charred bones.

There's a perfectly good magma-filled chasm for that.

[Doc ock rokc]

I hearded a huge group of sheep into the cow pin...then the creepers destroyed part of it...So we have sheep now.
also Protip:Dieing a sheep before breeding them alows you to spawn sheep of that color. Meaning that we may want to create pins of sheep of a certain color.

[Aerozord]

Meaning that we may want to create pins of sheep of a certain color.

did you just suggest we segregate sheep based on color :argh:

[Thadius]

That is in fact no worse than my Chicken Concentration Coop.

[Fifthfiend]

The like, two group chests upstairs were lookin full so I built a big storage/workshop thing, use at your convenience.

Maybe at some point label the chests to be for particular shit?

THEN I WENT THROUGH THE NETHER PORTAL AND AS SOON AS I POPPED OUT A GHAST FIREBALLED ME WHICH KILLED THE PORTAL AND I DIED, THAT WAS BULLSHIT

[Fifthfiend]

Hey Arhra could you put up a private chest somewhere else, I'm tryin' to have the public storage chests be for everybody.

[Fifthfiend]

SO HEY is there some sort of particular way to get animals to follow you places or do you just have to punch 'em in the direction you want them to go?

[Nikose Tyris]

Hold out wheat in hand, wave it in their face, walk backwards and lead em where you want.

[Thadius]

Sugarcane Cove exists in the shadow of Mt Dairy, which is a part of Thadtopia, thus a free haven from the tax-ridden Fiendlandia. I have also stuck a DF-esque trading post in Sugarcane Cove, but it's still missing something.

I will pay whoever makes a decent pirate ship in Sugarcane Cove anything they desire. Even if I have to mine forever to find it.

[Aldurin]

I'll be building a waterfront by the lake next to the very prosperous Fiendlandia. I've already got some design ideas, all I will need once I get time later tonight is an assload of stone. If anyone wants to work on it I don't mind what you do around the staircases as long as you maintain the current floor level.

Also, does anyone know if Doc's upward waterfall works with boats?

[Fifthfiend]

So basically just to update: did a bit of expansion to the base with a second staircase down to the first basement, some opening up of the main underground, Earl extended off of there to open things up to the waterfront, the main workshop is built out, and I started another level of digging down at diamond level at around like y:10. I'd kind of like to give the whole thing a nice cavernous feel, like you go into the base and go down a level and BAM here's this huge open underground thing.

In the workshop I started building up the public stock of like charcoal and smooth stone / stone brick and there's a bunch of chests marked for various stuff, basically feel free to help yourself to that stuff as needed but then if you're usin' that stuff make sure and replenish it when you get the chance.

There's also some rail in a couple places that I pulled out of the abandoned mineshaft for whenever we get around to doin' some cartline construction.

OH, here's a priority project: we gotta fortify the nether end of the netherportal so people (and by people I mean me) can't get Ghast-ganked when they go through the door.

OH speaking of netherportals: THAD you had mentioned you have a portal that routs to the portal at the base, basically if you wanna fix that you gotta build a new portal at the corresponding nether coordinates for either your portal or the community portal. You take the normal-world x/z coordinates of the portal, divide both of those by 8, and then build a portal at those coordinates in the nether and then whichever overworld portal will route to the 'closer' one. I'm not super-sure I'm explaining this as well as humanly possible so if you don't wanna hassle with that I can work it out next time I'm on.

[Thadius]

I think the ghast-ganking you received that destroyed the portal at your place made it possible for MY portal to work properly. At least, that's why Shyria told me when she went through.

Now I just have to fortify the nether end of my portal so I can't get ghast-ganked.

[Doc ock rokc]

Thad is on the No help list from here on out

[Thadius]

Doc I am very sorry.

Thadtopia does not and cannot guarantee you saftey if you go off exploring on your own. I would have showed up to be a helpful cave guide.

I made a salvage attempt for quite a while after you died, but I didn't have the resources to explore an entire fucking cave system. By the time I ran out, anything you dropped would have despawned.

THEN I had to re-secure my section of the cave because somehow it got opened up to danger again.

So once again. I'm terribly sorry. I wanted to help, I would have helped. But do me a favor?

Admit some of the blame is your fault.

Now Fifth. I have a plan to think with portals. Lemme know when you get on so we can do this and do this right.

If it works, you should have access to your bit of the nether and I should have access to my netherwort farm.

[Ryong]

I found an abandoned mineshaft and then a creeper blew up on me. I was in a hallway with no side exits and I didn't see anything in front of me, so either it spawned on me or, as I had seen these bastards do, went into some bizarre noclip bug that causes it to go wherever the fuck it wants if it spawns inside gravel.

Also?

GTHFGHFH INVISIBLE SLIMES!

[Thadius]

This was a triumph.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2nu146h.png

I'm making a note here: Huge success.

Okay to kill the song before it gets out of hand: Shyria and I tested potions today, though not to any extreme. They work wonderfully.

Fifth's place and mine are now connected via the Hellway. Unless you're prepared, do not attempt to deal with the pigmen squatters. It SHOULD be Ghast-proof, unless one starts to no-clip through the ceiling or walls. In which case KILL IT FOR THE DELICIOUS TEARS.

I can make a wide variety of potions, and only in two particular instances will I insist you bring me the reagent for it. Namely, if one desires a fire resistance potion so they can swim in lava, play with ghasts or blazes without fear, or generally not worry about forest fires, I will require slimeballs. The other is a regeneration potion. They are made with Ghast tears.

Good luck.

[Aldurin]

The rough version of the waterfront is finished. Windows, paintings and all the bullshit will come later. VIP spots are reserved for Flare, myself, Shyria and Fifth. The rest of you common rabble will have to use the public spots.

Do keep in mind that boats are still glitchy, and may act up while within two-block wide waterways.

[Fifthfiend]

Hellway rail from base to Thad's place is up and running!

Used gold from some of the community chests for the powered rails and regular rails stripped outta the abandoned mine. Direct, ghastproofed access to Thadtopia! A proud day for hellverse transit.

NOTE: There's a wort farm near the nether side of the base's portal. Is that important to anyone? Thad was askin.

[Thadius]

A combination of teamwork and boredom made a very productive night indeed.

Now, there's a small netherwort farm next to Fifth's nether portal.

Who made it? And would you mind terribly if I ripped it out? I'm pretty sure the flaming 'rack is giving us pig problems. I'd rather they didn't steal the cart when we use the rails.

I also put in an airlock at the tower to keep pigs out from the more civilized areas. Standard dual-switch design, shouldn't be hard to grasp.

[Roland]

Okay, so, recently I bought Minecraft and even more recently I decided that, for some friends on ponychan (and all of /pony/, possibly), I'd try to run a Minecraft server for them during December (and possibly later, if this goes well). A friend and I tested the waters a few days ago with the first party server program and things went well, and today I tried out Bukkit for the first time and that went well.

So I have two questions.

1. The server's IP is, for better or worse, my own public IP Address. This doesn't strike me as a terribly good idea for a public server anyone can access, so is there a way to change that?

2. What would be a good way to stress test the server, beyond simply activating Creative Mode and blowing up a whole ton of TNT going from the surface all the way down to the void?

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

1. The server's IP is, for better or worse, my own public IP Address. This doesn't strike me as a terribly good idea for a public server anyone can access, so is there a way to change that?

2. What would be a good way to stress test the server, beyond simply activating Creative Mode and blowing up a whole ton of TNT going from the surface all the way down to the void?

1: DynamicDNS is your friend. (http://dyn.com/dns/) While you'll still be hosting on your WAN-IP, the users won't see said WAN-IP. They'll see something like this instead: yourservername.dyndns.info or somethin to that extent, if your router supports dynDNS' service that is. There is a free service buried somewhere in that site. You'll have to poke around for it.

2. Try Can I Host a Minecraft Server (http://canihostaminecraftserver.com/). While it isn't exact it should give a general rough estimate of what your box can handle, assuming vanilla build of course.

[Marc v4.0]

I logged on stuck above the Nether.

I demand to speak to your supervisor

edit: God is it ever boring up here

[Roland]

1: DynamicDNS is your friend. (http://dyn.com/dns/) While you'll still be hosting on your WAN-IP, the users won't see said WAN-IP. They'll see something like this instead: yourservername.dyndns.info or somethin to that extent, if your router supports dynDNS' service that is. There is a free service buried somewhere in that site. You'll have to poke around for it.

2. Try Can I Host a Minecraft Server (http://canihostaminecraftserver.com/). While it isn't exact it should give a general rough estimate of what your box can handle, assuming vanilla build of course.

Looked into DynamicDNS, the free service is for 30 Days and I might be planning on using it for longer, so I decided to look into other options. Found another site that's similar, but totally free, but the email they sent to my yahoo mail account never came so...

Ended up checking out Simple Static IP, and found there was an option to Use OpenDNS as my DNS Server, OpenDNS being yet another one of those free services. Upon trying this, though, my Minecraft server became unreachable. Any attempt to connect to it results in it timing out.

So I switched back to my default DNS, and... that solved nothing. So I guess I broke what didn't even need fixing.

EDIT: So, I decdied to use CMD to find out what my DNS Server is right now, just in case. This was from Steam Chat:

Dragon Rage: >Example DNS: 192.168.1.2
Dragon Rage: >My DNS: fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

Yeah, um... I haven't the foggiest what that means, but that does not look like a DNS Server at all.

EDIT EDIT:

Welp, I went and searched and dug up some info, and I found out that my DNS Server is working properly after all. So... I'm back to square one here. No freakin' clue why this won't work.

EDIT EDIT EDIT:

Think I figured out what the problem is, but still have no idea how to fix it. Gonna make a thread on the Help board in a bit.

EDIT ALL THE POSTS:

And now it's fixed! Minecraft server is a-go!

[CitizenZ]

Sorry if this topic has been covered, but I have not been on for a while. Your server, it is OUTDATED!

And how many things (including herself) has flare set on fire?

[Thadius]

I logged on stuck above the Nether.

I demand to speak to your supervisor

edit: God is it ever boring up here

Well then, feel free to explore the Nether-fortress. Thadco cannot guarantee your safety, but we can guarantee it won't be boring!

[Doc ock rokc]

Well then, feel free to explore the Nether-fortress. Thadco cannot guarantee your safety, but we can guarantee it won't be boring!

actually most of the neather fortress is pretty safe Once you step out onto the bridges though You have to deal with Blazes Magmas and Ghasts

[Flarecobra]

And how many things (including herself) has flare set on fire?

Zero, because I do not have internet access where I live, and have been focusing on not becoming homeless come December 1st.

[Fifthfiend]

GUYS

DON'T KILL ALL THE PIGS/COWS DOWN TO ONE ADULT AND ONE BABY

LITERALLY THE ENTIRE POINT OF PENNING COWS/PIGS IS TO NOT HAVE TO REGROW AN ENTIRE STOCK OF COWS/PIGS FROM ONE ADULT AND ONE BABY

THIS IS TOTALLY OBVIOUS

[Fifthfiend]

OH LOOK TWO ENTIRE PIGS ESCAPED

WHICH IS TO SAY OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF PIGS

NOW WE GOT NO PIGS

OH

WELL

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Ok, rules for the herd animals are to leave AT LEAST 4 ADULTS ALIVE to make re-breeding easier and try not to kill the babies (its pointless since they don't drop resources or xp). Violators WILL be made to march into the wilds to bring back replacements.

[Doc ock rokc]

Violators WILL make doc march into the wilds to bring back replacements.
Fixed for the truth
*Sigh*

[Marc v4.0]

Except I totally marched out and got two pigs back to the pen myself

edit:

We had a good sized herd of animals, and I had growns a fair bit of wheat and had some coal sitting around and decided to build us a meat stock. The idea was I would cull the herds down to an adult and a baby, cook all the food, put it in the public chests, and then bred the herds back up to their previous numbers. (Using my resources)

Fifth showed up halfway through the process, before I could get to the 'breed them back up' part, and got mad.

Then he let out the last two pigs and that was apparently my fault as well?

Anyway, I found some new pigs and dragged them to the pen and fed the livestock that was there and logged off cause I was pretty miffed by the whole deal.

What meat I cooked is in the house.

[Thadius]

Hey, I know I'd be mad if someone showed up and let all of my chickens out of my coop.

Gettin' bored now. I've got a wonderful library, a cool cave setup, a Hellway Rail, a farm, chickens, and even a wolf companion. Exploration tends to kick my ass, so that's out.

Ah well. I guess I'll stick around for the potions.

[Arhra]

When in doubt, build!

Unleash your inner architect!

[Aerozord]

hey anyone know a way to get SMP for 1.8? The technicpack has a multiplayer version and I wanted to try it

[Thadius]

OKAY SO since I seem to be the only one who has FOUND any Endermen on the server, I will divulge how I did it.

First: Bring your iron gear and a pumpkin.

Second: Turn your brightness ALL THE WAY UP.

Third: Go to the desert that is north of spawn. It's fucking huge, can't miss it.

Fourth: When night falls run around killing dudes until an Enderman spawns. DON'T LOOK AT IT OR ANYWHERE NEAR IT, open your inventory, and put your pumpkin on. Melle it to your heart's content, it will not melle you back.

This method worked for me. When I got hungry, I killed zombies and ate their flesh. When creepers ran at me, I ran the other way. Eventually two Endermen spawned, I killed both and got a pearl. I now own a singular Eye of Ender.

[Doc ock rokc]

Intresting thing i found online. Apparently Snowballs Hurt Blazes MASSIVELY meaning that the best companion to have on a blaze run is a couple of snowmen. However I don't think any of us have found a snowy area yet. however I have started a Pumpkin farm.

[Arhra]

OKAY SO since I seem to be the only one who has FOUND any Endermen on the server, I will divulge how I did it.

First: Bring your iron gear and a pumpkin.

Second: Turn your brightness ALL THE WAY UP.

Third: Go to the desert that is north of spawn. It's fucking huge, can't miss it.

Fourth: When night falls run around killing dudes until an Enderman spawns. DON'T LOOK AT IT OR ANYWHERE NEAR IT, open your inventory, and put your pumpkin on. Melle it to your heart's content, it will not melle you back.

This method worked for me. When I got hungry, I killed zombies and ate their flesh. When creepers ran at me, I ran the other way. Eventually two Endermen spawned, I killed both and got a pearl. I now own a singular Eye of Ender.

Really?

I've sworded two to death myself. Tried for a third but he teleported away somewhere and I couldn't find him again.

Thanks for the tip about the pumpkin though!

We really should start stockpiling Enderman Pearls and Blaze Powder so we can find a stronghold.

[Flarecobra]

I got 12 ender pearls. Any questions?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I've got 10 blaze powders in my storage.

[Thadius]

Diaries of a Mad Alchemist, Volume One

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I am beginning to suspect that Nether Brick and all things made from it carry a rare, never before seen plant spore deep within their pores. This plant provides no useful material when destroyed, and can only be successfully transplanted using shears. Perhaps the ancient ones who built the ruins of which the Nether Brick is made from had some means of controlling this plant, but I do not. Already it has taken root in sheer obsidian, and is rapidly growing over my portal. I shall have to conduct some research into the nature of this plant.

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I am afraid I have little time. Already my cavern home is being taken over by this plant. If it grows much further, I know not what will happen. I only noticed this after having returned from a successful expedition into the Nether to obtain more Blaze Rods for my highly-prized potions of fire resistance. I attempted to gather tears from a Ghast, but was unsuccessful. I did train my skill with a bow greatly, so it was not a total loss. Glowstone was also obtained, and afterwards I returned to the sight before me. Heaven preserve me if this plant is as harmful as the rest of the life forms in the Nether are.

[Fifthfiend]

Given the continued sperginess of fences I'm considering just turning the animal pens into 3-high walls of stone or glass or something.

[Aldurin]

I was actually digging out an underground chamber to store animals in, just so that our need to expose ourselves to harmful sunlight would be further reduced.

[Melfice]

I realize this doesn't have much huge on Fiendcraft, but damn. RailCraft looks very interesting.

It's got working signals for the minecart system! =D
SIGNALS, guys!
And points! (Switches)
And diamond crossings!

The fun I could have with that... oh, yes.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I've reorganized all the animal pens. They're now sunk two levels below the surface with one layer of cobble and one layer of fence for the railing around them. Hopefully this will cut down on the derpage. Unfortunately some of the chickens made a break for it and I'm currently still rounding up replacements.

[Doc ock rokc]

Outa all of the animals chickens are quickest to replace. Dont worry about it to much.

[Thadius]

You all stole that idea from me and my Chicken Concentration Coop. I know it.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

As it stands, the remaining animal count should be 2 adult cows, 4 adult sheep (2 green 2 dark gray) and three pigs (2 adults 1 baby).

[Thadius]

Diaries of a Mad Alchemist, Volume Two

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Today I explored the ruins and found many a portal.

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Some were clearly faulty, landing me on the tops of trees.

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Others were more amicable, placing me in lush woodlands.

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Some placed me on scenic beachfronts.

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A few led only to swampy land.

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One led me to a stone outpost.

At first the number of portals was a marvel to me. So many places that the ancient ones could go. Only vague unease led me to examine the portals again. All of them bore the Vine. This troubled me greatly. Did the Vine originate in our world or the Nether? Was it an otherwordly evil, or merely an ancient one?

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Until I found these tomes of the ancient's history, I was puzzled. They made it clear, but I could only decipher so much.

They were as us once. Human, forced to scratch the surface of the earth to survive, and many a warrior fell to the monsters of the night. One day, one of their wise men discovered the secret of portalcraft, and many a brave soul entered this new world to make it safe for them. In time, this they did, and all of their kind fled our world to live in what we call the Nether.

From here, the stories diverge. Some claim it was an accident in an alchemy lab, others say the gods punished them for their hubris. Whatever the cause, the Vine came. It grew on any surface, and drew no nutrients from it. It's true food was the food the Portalseekers grew, and the Portalseekers themselves. It sought only their end.

The density of portals I found leads me to believe that they fought for a time until they could fight no more, and then they evacuated to our world once more. But the Vine was tenacious. It grew through the portals after the Portalseekers, and they nearly did not find a way to fight back in time. Pruning segments of the Vine and throwing them into a bonfire was the only way to destroy it.

Even then, they knew that they could not destroy it forever. The Vine was in command of the Nether, and it would seek them out no matter where they fled. Or so some though. One of them struck upon an idea.

Harvesting a pearl from an otherworldly creature, and imbuing it with the powder of one of their servants, the Blazes, they created a device that would seek the plane of existence this creature came from. They reasoned that in a completely different plane, they would be safe, especially if one of them deactivated the portal after all others had gone through.

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I have created just such a device, but am wary of using it. They write that the pearl itself was fragile to begin with, and to use it too often is to risk its destruction. I would seek the Portalseekers, but I have not nearly enough devices, not nearly enough Eyes. The Portalseekers write of a pumpkin being protection against they that hold the pearls, and I have begun growing some. I must proceed quickly, the vine seems to have awoken from dormancy within the Nether.

[Arhra]

Hey people, I've discovered a small ravine just beneath the surface of the desert near base camp.

I'm debating whether to leave it as it is or blow (dig) the top off to make it open to the sky.

[Fifthfiend]

So as of now the underground facilities include the workshop, a chicken pen, a cow pen, a wheat field, a melon patch, a sugar plantation, and the beginnings of the tree farm.

Gonna get going on the monster masher properly soon as I get the spawn point moved.

[Aldurin]

Finished the pumpkin patch next to the melon patch. Whenever you're harvesting either please be sure to re-hoe the patch of dirt you pulled it off of. The melons are especially useful since they produce quickly and are an excellent food source for when you're building (the meats seem best for when you're out fighting shit like there's no tomorrow).

[Aldurin]

Doc and I located and secured a couple blue spider spawns not too far from the main base, so we can set up an experience farmer soon. I think doc already has designs in mind.

[Melfice]

And then the game crashed beyond repair.
(Or was that not Doc who managed to create server-crashing Redstone contraptions?)

At any rate, that was a joke, of course.
Still... *knocks on wood*

[Aerozord]

ok I dont have any screens or anything, but I still wanted to share this odd glitch

You know those squids by the town square? Well apparently they got sick of hanging around, and flew away

[Thadius]

My word these splash potions look dangerous. Am I correct in thinking these could be an easy way to slaughter chickens en masse? Because I could use a load of feathers.

Basically what happened was I got sick of all the gravel clogging up my cave system and hiding delicious resources from me. So I picked it all up. I might turn it all into flint for arrows one day.

On an unrelated note, Doc, any design you have can always be made better with a turret that more closely resembles a minigun. Or several of them.

[Arhra]

I found a spider spawner dungeon in the base camp mines. Follow the sand block breadcrumb trail near the bottom of the stairs to get there.

The weird thing is someone else got there first and set up a spot to kill the spiders. I'm not sure how they got there though, since I found it by digging towards spider noises while in a section of mine someone else had dug and I couldn't find any other ways out.

On that note, someone's been really careless with the torches. There were some big stretches without them. I started poking around the mines because I heard a zombie while on the stairs and knew that he had to die.

[Doc ock rokc]

I found a spider spawner dungeon in the base camp mines. Follow the sand block breadcrumb trail near the bottom of the stairs to get there.

The weird thing is someone else got there first and set up a spot to kill the spiders. I'm not sure how they got there though, since I found it by digging towards spider noises while in a section of mine someone else had dug and I couldn't find any other ways out.

On that note, someone's been really careless with the torches. There were some big stretches without them. I started poking around the mines because I heard a zombie while on the stairs and knew that he had to die.

that's shyras spawner we found it ages ago and I set up the kill spot. you can get out by going thought the kill spot going up the slant behind it and taking a left. The lack of torches are due to creepers destroying them with their explosions which is why I hardly go in their these days (also iron)

[Nikose Tyris]

Little Sister wonders if there is a way she can get on Terra right now? Is the map available for download?

[Thadius]

Diaries of a Mad Alchemist, Volume Three.

It is done.

Yesterday I gathered up my Eyes, all five of them, and proceeded to follow them.

They led me north-east out of Sugarcane Cove, past the desolate desert and the ghost town. I lost two to mysterious causes, and two more to them pointing out where to dig.

I dug like a madman, carving out a spiral stair straight down, hoping against hope that this was the correct location to be digging, that on the other side I would find the Portalseekers themselves.

What a fool I was.

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Only this old and ruined portal remained, guarded by a device of theirs that generated an infinite supply of guardians. I removed the device after luring the guardians into lava. I placed my remaining Eye within one of the sockets in the portal, and I heard a faint humming noise. Some life yet remains within the portal, but I have far to go yet.

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I have marked the location on my map with the co-ordinates -789, 39, -286. I have also placed a small marker on the surface so that I will ne'er lose track of where the stairs I dug are. To help myself find it again, should I ever lose track of it, I crafted a map at this very location, so that it would be centered over the portal.

Eleven more Eyes to make. I have come so far, and I have so far yet to go.

[Doc ock rokc]

oh, so you found one.

[Thadius]

Not only that, I found one that wasn't generated inside another terrain feature like a chasm or an abandoned mineshaft. PLUS I got rid of the silverfish WITHOUT spawning an infinite supply of backups. I also blocked off the door, got rid of the spawner, plugged my remaining eye into the portal, and edited the map so people might have a better idea of where to go.

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Something I couldn't cram into it is that there is probably a swamp near where I dug my stairs as well.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Perused the map, plotted my way over, planted my Eye in the portal and poked around the stronghold for a bit. The portal room is intact but I did see parts where a ravine cut through some of the rooms and for some reason one of the large libraries had abandoned mineshaft tunnels leading from it (both of them dead ended almost right away though.)

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EDIT: I reblocked up the door after I was done exploring.

[TDK]

So I been streaming minecraft videos, among other things. Mainly technic pack on my friend's server. nnnnnngh technic pack is amazing.

Link for anyone who wants to watch my channel. Cats and science and minecraft abound. (http://www.twitch.tv/tdk0333)

[Thadius]

List of things that got done today:

Stronghold was added to the Helloverse transit system.

Arhra is a madman for wanting to play with the silverfish.

Aldurin moved in on the other side of the magma fissure.

Aldurin is the best fucking interior cave decorator I have ever seen.

Aldurin is also a madman for aiding the Vine in it's growth.

Infinite cobblestone generator was set up.

Automatic Chicken Torture Machine was set up.

My dogs are homicidal maniacs, but I have learned how to control them.

We are halfway to The End. We'd better get our supplies straightened out.

[Flarecobra]

Helloverse? Is it a world where Hello Kitty rules with an iron fist?

[Arhra]

No, it's just a subway that was built in hell because it would be eight times as fast as one built in the same dimension as the destination.

We should really think about retrofitting some windows onto the tunnels. Would make the whole thing much more scenic.

Relatedly, today Thadius and I were discussing how my escape plan in case of rampaging silverfish involved ensuring I had a clear line of retreat to the hell-portal.

He was a little taken aback by the fact he had started thinking of the Nether as the safer of the two places.

[Flarecobra]

That's the joke.

[Melfice]

No, it's just a subway that was built in hell because it would be eight times as fast as one built in the same dimension as the destination.

Literally taking subways to a new level.
Well done!

[Flarecobra]

Wonder if this'll end up being Terra 2.0.

[Aldurin]

Letter of Defection
Date Unknown

To the commissioner/president/king/leader/whatever of Fiendlandia,

This is a formal farewell on my part as I leave to settle the future. I know you may be surprised, why would anyone want to leave such a prosperous land. I give you one answer.

Advancement.

While the relentless slave labor used to produce the industrial wonders of your subterranean home are unmatched in output, you don't look higher, only forward. The plans for technological implementation are pitiful at best, with so much effort put into expansion instead. The only reason you have a secure means of interdimensional transport is the current relations with smaller, yet far more advanced, settlements.

I personally refuse to remain in the past of a dying nation. While many citizens do leave to create colonies, more and more are declaring independence from you, in favor of reasonable labor practices and a complete removal of taxing.

The colony that I moved to has already shown great advancement from my contribution, and cooperation with foreign entities has been significantly improved with my current association to the driving leader of potion production and dimensional travel.

I only ask that you do not brand me a traitor, or take any rash action that may provoke war with any other colonies, as some are on the verge of weapons that break reality itself.

Sincerely,
Aldurin

[Fifthfiend]

What the sweet fuck are you talking about

[Aldurin]

Oh, ignoring the issue, I see. THIS MEANS WAR.

[Doc ock rokc]

fifth, it's best to just nod your head and say "got it" when he stops for breath

[Fifthfiend]

Oh, ignoring the issue, I see. THIS MEANS WAR.

My grandmother just died.

[Melfice]

I'm almost certain Aldurin was just trying to be funny while saying that he's moving out of FifthFiendia (or whatever) and into another player's town/realm/whatever.

My condolences regarding your grandmother.

[Fifthfiend]

Haha no yeah I was totally saying that because it just seemed like the most perfectly terrible response.

I mean Im not ever gonna get another chance to drop that one on someone so I figured I just had to go for it.

I feel grandma would have approved.

(there is no way she would have approved, she would totally have slapped me and told me to say Im sorry)

(and then taken me to a restaurant and made me help her steal the silverware)

Sorry Earl that wasnt really appropriate.

WHATEVER MAN, IM GRIEVIN, ITS ALLOWED

[Thadius]

Yes, yes it is. I'm sorry for your loss, Fifth.

But in other news.

THE END PORTAL IS ACTIVE. GET YOUR SHIT STRAIGHTENED OUT.

[Marc v4.0]

(there is no way she would have approved, she would totally have slapped me and told me to say Im sorry)

(and then taken me to a restaurant and made me help her steal the silverware)


I miss my Grandfather now.

[Aldurin]

Fifth, like, that whole entire post of a quote and four words was by far the most confusing thing you had ever said. Ever.

[Aldurin]

Like, that literally fits both categories of the worst response or the "legitimate slap to reality" response, with equal likely-hood to either reason when used by you.

[Thadius]

Diaries of a Mad Alchemist, Volume Four.

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After so much hunting and so much praying, the portal is operational again.

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Sadly, it appears to be slightly off-kilter. I shall need some sort of building material to reach this new mainland.

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I am not quite prepared for the trials ahead, but I feel as though one day I might be.

[Aldurin]

Tell those chickens to get of their asses and get back to dying!

[Doc ock rokc]

Im gathering wood
since I live next to a forest I should produce enough sticks

[Thadius]

We're going to need only a half-stack of obsidian when the time comes to repair my stairs.

Turns out I grossly overestimated the distance.

And the damage to the stairs that spawning would do.

But if I so desired I could run willy-nilly through The End.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I've been hoarding iron like a motherfucker and diamonds like an auntcuddler (though the diamonds are down to only about 12 from 18 due to me needing to replace tools). I have nearly five full stacks of iron and nearly full on another, and the mines near Shyburg are quite expansive. I can provide armor if need be.

[Aldurin]

I'll provide the melons!

[Aldurin]

So thad wants me to let you guys know to stay away from his place right now if your computer is of questionable performance. The madman already burned 6 stacks of grain from breeding chickens in a tight environment.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Do I need to bring over the potions of instant harm?

[Aldurin]

Thad managed to cull them, and now we're making bigger plans.

The server is safe again . . . for now.

[Thadius]

Honestly the server is never safe for as long as I'm on it.

We've got wood, plenty of it. It's a renewable resource. What we need are more feathers. I can only supply so much! In fact I can only supply >100 before the local space-time continumm wears down to a crawl.

Gentlemen, start your mad science!

[Marc v4.0]

You are going about it all wrong. You need a mass of chickens to produce a constant stream of eggs to feed a seperate slaughter house.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

did someone say mad chicken science? (www.youtube.com/watch?v=re5rRO9yJ8s)

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I still say we should be allowed to shave chickens and get feathers from them. If it works for dumb ol sheep, why can't we make it work here?

[Thadius]

I am perfectly willing to supply an assload of eggs to anyone who is willing to set up a more efficient chicken butchery than what I have.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Its called "give me a ton of potions of harm and a sword and point me at them"

[Ryong]

All I can provide are sugarcanes, unfortunately.

[Thadius]

The chicken singularity inducer works far better than it has any reason to.

Please, if you value your computer, stay away from Thadtopia. We tend to get chickens in the high 90's. That many chickens in one small spot can kill some computers.

Also, seeing as how torching up the place has led to an increase in the slime population, I now no longer require people to bring me slimeballs in exchange for fire resistance potions.

[Fifthfiend]

I still say we should be allowed to shave chickens and get feathers from them. If it works for dumb ol sheep, why can't we make it work here?

It won't even matter once I get the monster masher up and running.

Related: did a junkload of excavation last night.

[Doc ock rokc]

okay about your monster masher. I don't think it will particularly work mostly because you're putting the monsters right underneath your house. Monsters can't spawn within 32 blocks of a player unless they are coming out of a spawner. Meaning that if anybody other than you was at the house then you wouldn't be getting any monsters.

[Flarecobra]

There must be no players and no player spawn points within a 24 block distance (spherical) of the spawning block

That's for all mobs.

And for hostiles...


* the light level of the spawning block must be 7 or darker and more light increases the chance that the spawn will fail

* sunlight falling on the spawning block further increases the chance that the spawn will fail, by up to 50%

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah I'm basically plannin' to get around the proximity cutoff by make the whole thing stupidballs huge.

As presently designed it should be far off enough from base that it shouldn't be an issue although this is gonna be basically an intermediate step so I can get together enough tnt to knock out enough space for the eventual full design without trashing like a trillion picks.

[Thadius]

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Thadtopia is proud to announce the opening of a new dance hall!

Sadly we are lacking in any musical discs at this time, but it's the principle of the thing.

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With the leftover dyes, I made the sheep pen 20% cooler. You're welcome.

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I have also opened a fine art hall, with wall-to-wall paintings!

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Despite what this picture would have you believe, there are three words that should come to mind when you see it.

NEED MORE DAKKA!

[Fifthfiend]

Finished the murderbox

Camping the shit out of it

[Arhra]

Today I was struck with the idea of building the biggest door in the whole server!

I don't think my initial plan was workable, seeing it would need a minimum of 24 sticky pistons and powering some of them unobstrusively is a pain.

On the bright side, I think I'm well on the way to an elegant solution for a 3 x 3 piston operated door. I guess I'm going to need to actually, you know, build something to stick the door on.

[Flarecobra]

Man, what the fuck is up with the lag?

[Ryong]

I agree, I can't even finish my underground ( tiny for the moment ) forest!

[Melfice]

Today I was struck with the idea of building the biggest door in the whole server!

I don't think my initial plan was workable, seeing it would need a minimum of 24 sticky pistons and powering some of them unobstrusively is a pain.

On the bright side, I think I'm well on the way to an elegant solution for a 3 x 3 piston operated door. I guess I'm going to need to actually, you know, build something to stick the door on.

Man, what the fuck is up with the lag?

Correlation?
Probably not.

Perhaps it'd be wise to look into Thaum'sThad's chicken holocauster. Maybe it's overloading stuff?

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah a trillion active chickens actually could have something to do with that.

Alternately it could be my mobkiller. Depends where people are located. Possibly a combination of the two, especially if people are hangin' out near both spawnbase and thad's palce.

[Flarecobra]

Yeah, and I was working on my little base, and couldn't do much of anything at all, as it kept disappearing.

[Aldurin]

Don't worry, I'm making a more automated version of Thadius' chicken grinder. If the server gets too laggy you just have to press a button near it and all of the chickens will die.

[Melfice]

Haha, holy shit.
Thaum? Haven't seen that guy around here for ages.

I meant Thad, of course.

[Fifthfiend]

On review it looks like there were like 90 chickens in thad's place and both flare and ryong were out towards that direction so i'm leaning towards saying it was that.

Thad i've authorized ryong and doc to reduce you down to like 40 chickens, let's see if that clears things up a bit.

[Doc ock rokc]

It did I put all the drops in your chests Thad and You donated 4 levels to the make weapons and armor against the Ender dragon fund

[Thadius]

...

The entire point behind the Bawk Hole was to gain feathers for my seemingly non-shrinking pile of flint. Along with eggs for the next induction sequence.

Doc, you did not donate the feathers or eggs you must have picked up during the chicken slaughter to any of my chests.

MY RAGE IS NEVER ENDING. I WILL DESTROY YOU AND ALL YOU HOLD DEAR UNLESS YOU REMEDY THIS SITUATION.

[Ryong]

I've began some expansion of my underground forest to make it actually be an underground forest.

It's going to be 33x23x11, I believe.

[Aldurin]

I've finished the automated version of the chicken grinder, for now only Thadius and I should operate it until we're done fully stress-testing it.

But if too many chickens build up I will authorize emergency use of the killswitch, simply load an AoE harm potion into the killswitch dispenser and hit the button from the proper location. If you end up doing this then please load drops into the output chest and eggs back into the egg supply.

[Flarecobra]

What if no one is online that can make it?

[Aldurin]

We'll be monitoring reloads so that we don't reach critical proportions. Assuming thad and I only throw in 3 stacks of eggs at a time then we should be able to pace the population and keep it under control.

[Thadius]

Guys.

I've got a chest full of arrows, a stand full of potions, and a head full of crazy.

Who wants to help me take down the dragon? Tonight?

Anyone who does will be welcome to equip themselves from the Guard Post in Thadtopia, which currently consists of arrows, arrows, arrows, potions, arrows, arrows, and possibly iron armor.

[Marc v4.0]

You guys have to go about every problem with the most resource-intensive solutions.

[Doc ock rokc]

Ok I rush built a Cave spider xp farm for us
I may adjust it later to make it better but so far it works ok
you just need to idle infront of it for a few minutes and spiders will fall and take enough damage to be punched out
Then once you kill them all idle infront of the glass again

[Thadius]

Doc has convinced me to wait until the weekend to do this crazy thing.

Now I'm bored again.

[Aldurin]

Thadius, I just logged in to find one chicken in the chamber and 3 running around outside of it. I recommend we cease operations until we find a more secure way to run it. Inverters work through sealed cliffs, so that is a possibility to look into.

Nevermind, I modified the dispenser to prevent glitchthroughs and added a maintenance hatch so that we don't have to tear down a wall whenever we make an internal modification.

[Flarecobra]

In need of string/wool, and red dye.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Found the great grandaddy of all caverns looking for snow. Coordinates x=-221.71, y=65.6, z=2515.81 (means walking reaaally far south of spawn).

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/2011-12-10_213247.png

[Aldurin]

I think we've located the site of our global-scale chicken masher.

[Doc ock rokc]

We have two jolly old snow men in fifth's place that Will creat a endless suply of snow for you to pick up. Have fun

[Arhra]

While I think of it, thanks for showing me the plains area, Doc.

I've finally started building something there.

[Doc ock rokc]

Ok I found out something cool today

Endermen for some reason LOVE fifth's basement when it's raining.
There was 4 of them down there just chilling

[Grimpond]

Ok I found out something cool today

Endermen for some reason LOVE fifth's basement when it's raining.
There was 4 of them down there just chilling


How is this in any way a surprise?

[Aerozord]

ok I learned something odd. So I fell from an insanely high height, like 50 blocks, and was suddenly slowed because of a spiderweb. Since I know it would take a few seconds to fall through I hit E and did something else. Only to find that apparently upon exiting the spiderweb I got all my momentum back and slammed into the ground.

[Doc ock rokc]

Yeah Spiderweb isn't a safety net like in terriara

[Thadius]

How is this in any way a surprise?

Not-so-surprising twist: Fifth was an enderman ALL ALONG.

[Doc ock rokc]

Not-so-surprising twist: Fifth was an enderman ALL ALONG.

What!!! I just though hew was a block taller and had purple eyes!

[Thadius]

What!!! I just though hew was a block taller and had purple eyes!

Why else did he get along well with the Enderdragon? He's one of them.

Why else are endermen frequently gathered in his basement? He's throwing sweet endermen raves.

Our plans are compromised, he knows the details. Only one thing to do.

Prepare the drowning chamber.

[Doc ock rokc]

Why else did he get along well with the Enderdragon? He's one of them.

Why else are endermen frequently gathered in his basement? He's throwing sweet endermen raves.

Our plans are compromised, he knows the details. Only one thing to do.

Prepare the drowning chamber.

But won't he just teleport?

[Thadius]

But won't he just teleport?

Exactly.

Then we set up the snowman sentinels around his place.

[Flarecobra]

Why not just light him on fire?

[Doc ock rokc]

Why not just light him on fire?

Thats your solution to everything

[Fifthfiend]

BRB banning everybody >(

[Thadius]

SEE?! He's taking our permissions and relocating them to The End!

Totally an Enderman!

Kill him with water! Throw him into the pond!

[Aldurin]

I say we still burn fifth when this blows over, just to be safe.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Now we know why he was so reluctant to get the expedition to The End off the ground. He's trying to protect his lord and master the Enderdragon!

[Thadius]

Quickly everyone! Put a pumpkin on your head! Then he can't see you!

And if he can't see you, he can't ban you!

I think it works like that.

[Flarecobra]

Thats your solution to everything

And it works better then drowning, as endermen can escape drowning by teleporting... but not by being set on fire. And even if they DO teleport, they'll STILL be on fire. And still taking damage.

Thus, why fire is a better solution for this then water.

[Melfice]

Actually, don't Endermen immediately die if they come into contact with water?
Or did Notch change this again?

[Marc v4.0]

They teleport away

[Melfice]

Huh... I could've sworn...

Oh well.

[Doc ock rokc]

Huh... I could've sworn...

Oh well.

They take about 3 hearts of damage and teleport away. In rain they take a half a heart. If you hit a ender and somehow get him to take water damage he will forget all about you.

[Marc v4.0]

In rain they are nothing but a constantly shifting stream of purple particle effects due to never-ending teleportation

[Doc ock rokc]

In rain they are nothing but a constantly shifting stream of purple particle effects due to never-ending teleportation

They sometimes Teleport down into nearby caves and Basement's
Fifth's Large ass basement is obviously a good spot for them.

[Fifthfiend]

A fair amount of them should also be spawning from the murderbox itself. Granted for the most part they're just going to be porting around within the murderbox but I could carve some lighted tunnels out around it if people wanna roam that looking for endermens to kill.

[Aerozord]

endermen are abit unnerving but I have never even taken a single hit from any I have encountered.

on a related note, are there enderman mob spawners?

[Flarecobra]

No, there isn't.

And on another note... who built that thing in the Lamian swamp, right in the middle of the sunken village I've been working on?

Man, stop building for a while to take care of RL stuff/gather more supplies....

[Doc ock rokc]

fifth you're going to need to talk to flare about both how you build her swamp and where we're going to place the spawner. As we kind of have a conflict of interests. As if we seek to use the spawner then we have to be within 15 blocks of it to activate it. However, it's in the middle of all her projects. So, yeah, good luck.

[Fifthfiend]

unsurprising

IN OTHER NEWS

BUKKIT 1.01 IS RELEASED

also it looks like SPOUTCRAT FOR MINECRAFT 1.01 IS RELEASED

Gonna move the current map over to the main minecraft server, then gonna start testing plugins and things on the test server.

[Fifthfiend]

edit: AFTER I DELETE LIKE A TRILLION MAP CHUNKS CAUSE WE HUGEBALLSED THE MAP

[Fifthfiend]

No, there isn't.

And on another note... who built that thing in the Lamian swamp, right in the middle of the sunken village I've been working on?

Man, stop building for a while to take care of RL stuff/gather more supplies....

fifth you're going to need to talk to flare about both how you build her swamp and where we're going to place the spawner. As we kind of have a conflict of interests. As if we seek to use the spawner then we have to be within 15 blocks of it to activate it. However, it's in the middle of all her projects. So, yeah, good luck.

My official ruling on this matter is tough noogiecakes

[Aldurin]

Put a gavel in your avatar's hand.

Also FUCK YES BEGIN THE HEIGHTMODDING.

[EVILNess]

tough noogiecakes

You should be on the Supreme Court.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

My official ruling on this matter is tough noogiecakes

And my official ruling to come when Flare torches your citadel in retribution will be "phooey to you, poopyhead"

[Thadius]

edit: AFTER I DELETE LIKE A TRILLION MAP CHUNKS CAUSE WE HUGEBALLSED THE MAP

AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND BLOCKS
AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND MORE
JUST TO FIND THE SNOW THAT WE ENJOY
AND BRING IT BACK TO YOUR FRONT DOOR

[Arhra]

Wheee, I have discovered that the issues I've had with pistons in the past are because they take 1.5 ticks to extend or retract, not 2 ticks. What the crap?!

[Flarecobra]

AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND BLOCKS
AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND MORE
JUST TO FIND THE SNOW THAT WE ENJOY
AND BRING IT BACK TO YOUR FRONT DOOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tNylJr7Z4

There ya go.

*Goes back to plotting*

EDIT: Regarding how some were saying it was "Unclaimed", well...

http://sadpanda.us/images/775048-GM71VHB.jpg You can see two of the buildings I've put up there, along with a number of torches in around the water, as well as my workstation. And the sign. I stopped building for a while, as I ran out of logs, and had to get more.

BUT I'm willing to do a little workaround for this. One of the terrain features I'm building around is a small sinkhole in the water. I can set up an access point to the tunnel leading to this spawner through said sinkhole.

[Aldurin]

Yeah, it should be pretty clear from the surface that Flare is occupying that area. The only reason it took so long for me to notice is that I found her cavern when I was digging at diamond level.

[Melfice]

AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND BLOCKS
AND I WOULD WALK TEN THOUSAND MORE
JUST TO FIND THE SNOW THAT WE ENJOY
AND BRING IT BACK TO YOUR FRONT DOOR

I think we've got a hit here.
Anybody still in contact with Cheshire Thief? Or do we have some new artist around NPF?

We'll need to work on the lyrics, but we can make it work.

[Flarecobra]

I talk to him sometimes.

[Doc ock rokc]

if it's lyrics you want I can probably help you out for I have this hobby where I rewrite songs. I'm not a good singer and I can't make music but I can help you out in the lyrics department.

[Melfice]

Disclaimer: I was joking.
If this actually happens, however, I claim the rights.
And I guess Thadius can be listed as a co-owner.

[Flarecobra]

Fuckit. We're moving the entry. Still have access to it though. Hell, you got two entrys actually.

[Fifthfiend]

Fuckit. We're moving the entry. Still have access to it though. Hell, you got two entrys actually.

My official ruling on this matter is tough noogiecakes

Yeah, no

BUT I'm willing to do a little workaround for this. One of the terrain features I'm building around is a small sinkhole in the water. I can set up an access point to the tunnel leading to this spawner through said sinkhole.

Here's my workaround - you respect my decision that a short 7x7 tower that is somewhat close to and also indistinguishible from the other stuff that you've built in the entire biome you've apparently claimed for yourself, all of which maybe a couple of hundred blocks away from spawn, is a reasonable imposition for the purpose of access to a planned facility for public use. You generously and in the spirit of of the server community agree to adjust your plans around this trivial easement against your significantly vast parcel of lands.

You maybe consider that this small tower which happened because I found a skeleton spawner, dug my way up from the surface, and then put a marker there for access is not actually some hugely critical ruination of whatever it is you're doing or some major issue that must be correctified at your immediate demand.

Nobody else makes any threats about burning things down or whatever.

Everybody takes half a second out of their days to remember the work and money I put into this server on behalf of all of you and maybe considers that they owe me the tiniest shred of respect on account of that.

I get back to my job and then this evening spend my precious allotment of minecraft minutes worrying about things like getting multiworld back up and running and fun things like that instead of extremely minor issues like this one.

OR: you do whatever it is you feel like doing because you've decided my decisions don't count when you don't like them, and, you know, I guess we'll see how that goes.

[Thadius]

Yeah, no

OR: you do whatever it is you feel like doing because you've decided my decisions don't count when you don't like them, and, you know, I guess we'll see how that goes.

...

She is doing a landscaping PROJECT there. You built too close to a place where she had planned to build another part of her project.

Your entryway was sacrificed for her swamp town, but it was moved, and even now blends in.

If you continue to argue on this matter, I will use the quoted reason to bring RUIN upon you.

I WILL stand with her on this matter against you. Come hell or high water.

Because Flare is more amicable than you, politer than you, and, most importantly: willing to admit she can be wrong sometimes.

Accept the new entryway, or I shall undertake some landscaping projects of my own.

EDIT: Banning me. How mature. Yup, landscaping will be done when I get back.

[Fifthfiend]

...

She is doing a landscaping PROJECT there. You built too close to a place where she had planned to build another part of her project.

Your entryway was sacrificed for her swamp town, but it was moved, and even now blends in.

If you continue to argue on this matter, I will use the quoted reason to bring RUIN upon you.

I WILL stand with her on this matter against you. Come hell or high water.

Because Flare is more amicable than you, politer than you, and, most importantly: willing to admit she can be wrong sometimes.

Accept the new entryway, or I shall undertake some landscaping projects of my own.

Guess asking for that tiny modicum of respect really was too much. Enjoy your ban.

If I really have to spend time explaining to anyone else what's wrong with the above then honestly ID even K.

Sorry I stepped on your one wheat that one time on accident, that was totally a dick move on my part.

[BitVyper]

I can't really say anything here that won't just be repeating what Fifth has said. It's a tiny tower, it's built with the same texture as everything else in the area (which is so close to spawn I found it without even trying), and it's not interfering with any of the other buildings. If that drives you guys to threaten griefing, he is 100% right in permabanning you.

[Fifthfiend]

Accept the new entryway, or I shall undertake some landscaping projects of my own.

EDIT: Banning me. How mature. Yup, landscaping will be done when I get back.

Yes Thad, banning is generally the practice for dealing with people who announce their plans to grief the server.

[Thadius]

Maybe, perhaps, I could have worded the whole of that post better.

Maybe, possibly, we could have checked with you before moving the thing that flare said she was going to move.

Did we remove total access from the spawner? Nope.

Did we cease to make access to the spawner noticeable? Nope.

Do I think you need to be slightly more mature about this little incident? Yes.

Do I think I need to be slightly more mature about this little incident? Yes.

Do I apologize for any of it at all? You'd see ice in the Nether first.

[Ryong]

Draaaaaaama.

In another subject: Multiworld's back up, but where are the portals on 1.0.0 world?

[Thadius]

On that subject: Fifth was supposed to be doing testing today, but DRAMA.

In drama subject: Goddamn fifth it was only going to be the 2001 space odyssey monolith somewhere on your property telling you to grow the fuck up.

[Fifthfiend]

Draaaaaaama.

In another subject: Multiworld's back up, but where are the portals on 1.0.0 world?

It's not back up yet.

It will be once I do plugin testing and the such which ideally will take place this evening

[Ryong]

Oh okay.

By the way: There a name for the until-very-recently test world yet?

[Betty Elms]

Accept the new entryway, or I shall undertake some landscaping projects of my own.

EDIT: Banning me. How mature.
hahaha

[Fifthfiend]

Oh okay.

By the way: There a name for the until-very-recently test world yet?

Dramarcanos

hahaha

Hey Betty you should try Homeowner's Association Council: The Videogame

It's a real fun game I bet you'd enjoy

[Flarecobra]

I moved what it was I was going to build. It's not worth the headache.

[BitVyper]

Maybe, possibly, we could have checked with you before moving the thing that flare said she was going to move.

Woah wait, you guys actually took down the tower? Exactly who all was involved in this?

[Marc v4.0]

One Server admin to another: I feel your pain, Fifth.