Minecraft [1.7.2/4?]

[Deep Thought]

Count me in... This I've got to see

[HalcyonSpirit]

Earlier, I mentioned that I had found a huge cavern while digging down in Mineshaft 2. A huge cavern.

That was when I was a young, naive little man.

Tonight I dug outward from the bottom of MS2, just above the bedrock, searching for resources. I dug my way into the bottom of a network of caves. I had over 128 torches going in; it wasn't enough. I had to craft new ones in the field. I mean, seriously, I just spent the past two hours going through this one single network of caverns. It kept on going and looping and branching! And then, finally, FINALLY, I came to the end. The end, as it so happens, is the surface. That's right. I dug into the bottom of a cave and made my way up to the surface, rather than the other way around. And the entrance is HUGE! It's this giant, gaping hole in the side of a hill! How I didn't notice it before is beyond me; it's within sight of my base. Exploring that cavern was awesome. Very atmospheric. I'm glad I decided to make that trip relaxing before starting by kicking the difficulty down to Peaceful. I'm going to go back to it later to mine some more and get some obsidian before mining again in a different location with the difficulty back to Normal.

At the end of it all, I had this to haul back:

304 Coal

91 Iron

78 Redstone

30 Gold

5 Diamond

And countless Stone

Yes.

[Darklink42]

Many public servers have that option. But griefers and bots tend to wait until everyone's gone before bombing a server, so you can't always rely on an admin being around. Password-protection or account-limitations seems to the safest bet, though I'm not sure if that capability's implemented yet...

In that case, you can do what my fav server does, and place an adminium cage around the spawn for the night when no one is left.

[Brithor]

I'll play in the OCR server if it's set up

[Doulifée]

same here.

trying to link my 2 mineshaft with a railroad.

Step one: CObblestone Bridge

Step 2: Iron

Step 3: More Iron

Step 4: Railroad!

[JadeAuto]

Count me in as well. The white tower might be a fun project.

[noTuX]

Is it going to be a public server, or like a member's only type thing?

Either way, I'm down. We will probably need mods if its public.

[prophetik music]

i think it should be a private server, like mentioned before, and that it should be a password-protected thing. we can pass out passwords through PM. all upstanding members of the community should be mods, so that we don't have to worry about not having a mod around to boot a griefer.

last night, i cleaned off the top of my mountain to be flat (except for an awesome tall pinnacle thing) and am in the process of boxing it in with cobblestone and refined stone. looks pretty sweet so far.

does anyone know how to make redstone switches? i'd like to make doors that mobs can't operate, and i'm assuming the only way to do that is to make a controlled door.

[Schwaltzvald]

Does anyone know how to make redstone switches? i'd like to make doors that mobs can't operate, and i'm assuming the only way to do that is to make a controlled door.

First read this article about doors (in particularly about "iron doors") then read up on the Lever, next being the Stone Button, and finally the Redstone section with the subsections on Redstone Wire, Redstone Circuitry, and finally Mechanism

Placing Redstone on a block creates a wire. Every "wired" block has two possible states: 1 (powered) or 0 (unpowered). A wire can be powered by any lever, pressure plate, stone button, or Redstone torch. Placing Redstone on top of a block that is adjacent to a powered block causes the newly wired block to become powered as well. Powered Redstone will always glow red, and will cease to flow after moving 15 blocks from its source. However, the range can be extended without limit by chaining Redstone torches (but will result in a delay).

If all wires adjacent to a torch are unpowered, the torch will provide power to them. However, if a wire connected to its block is powered by another source, the torch itself will cease to generate power and its flame will go out.

Edited October 8, 2010 by Schwaltzvald

[The Author]

I think I just like starting too much, I just feel I can get the early stages much better and I feel like redoing them again and again until I get it perfected.

[FireSlash]

206.217.135.90:25565

Vanilla install right now. Looking for someone with a bit of linux console experience who'd be willing to maintain the server (Update server binary, manage admins, install mods etc), since I don't play.

Edited October 8, 2010 by FireSlash

[prophetik music]

can monsters operate or destroy wooden doors or levers?

edit: fireslash, can you close that and make it password only? check your PMs in a second.

[Gollgagh]

oh fireslash, there's actually a different binary for the alpha server

I'll PM it to you in a sec since you don't have a full account

edit: wait, it's available to non-paid accounts as well on the site, never mind http://www.minecraft.net/download.jsp

Edited October 8, 2010 by Gollgagh

[FireSlash]

ok, updated binary.

Also there's no support for passwords in the client yet. so no on password protection.

[Gollgagh]

can monsters operate or destroy wooden doors or levers?

creepers can destroy anything, nothing else can destroy anything

also levers and wooden doors are inoperable by mobs

although pressure plates are obviously still triggered by mobs

[prophetik music]

ok, updated binary.

Also there's no support for passwords in the client yet. so no on password protection.

can you make the page that is the redirect only accessible through a password? or, at least, can we keep that redirect 'silent' to keep trollers out?

[Schwaltzvald]

.

Sadly I won't be coming on for a little while.

Castlevania:LoS & Atelier Rorona consuming my time for a bit

[Capa Langley]

This game is addicting. I spent 5 hours straight just mining and building my home.

[Gollgagh]

what we could do until some kind of privacy thing is implemented is adopt a "last one out lock the door" policy where the last op to leave the server uses the /save-off command so that any changes can be reverted

I'll start reading up on the linux console stuff so I can help run it in the future

[The Damned]

I saw a video on making powered mining carts. When I get the game, I would like to plan some sort of OCR Light Rail system between areas, like bases and mining operations.

It would really help with people trying to find diamonds and getting back to their homes.

That's right. I want to implement public transportation in a video game to mimic real life.

[The Author]

I have a hard time seeing pre-boo multiplayer as something permanent, it seems like a great experimentation playground though.

[HalcyonSpirit]

I've been wanting to do the same thing, Damned. Set up a community and such, rather than just have each person go off to wherever to do their own thing all the time. (Of course you can still go do that, but then you may as well just play single-player if everyone does it.) This may be especially important when the update with the new enemies comes out.

[Schwaltzvald]

Soon as everyone joins they may have to go off on their own for a while as they would need to set up bases for themselves, safe houses especially if the difficulty setting is set to the highest one.

two would take on guard duty/escort missioning while the rest build/mine/craft ect.

What would be the server's building projects be anyways?

[The Mutericator]

I would be exploring the caves, personally. Just running down with several pickaxes and a shitton of torches, lighting the way and exploring like crazy.

[Capa Langley]

Sir Thomas More would be thrilled to see our Utopia. I say everyone establish what they can first before we move on to assisting each other. I hope the difficulty is on Normal. I like the challenge of the baddies.