Maybe just have spawn time limits, sort of "hardcore light" mode? Like you have to wait out 15-30 minutes before you respawn? Or maybe 1 day to respawn?

^Maybe, dunno how/if I can do multiple maps

11/21/2011 12:40:07 AM

I've seen servers that have "portals" that take you to other maps, not sure if you can connect a smp server to a hardcore server though but there may be a plugin that does it.

11/21/2011 1:56:23 AM

^^The spirit behind hardcore mode is that the work you do is wiped out when you die. It would take a bit of work (plugin/mod), but I think the ideal way to do this (and mitigate the suckiness of waiting it out) would be to change the way chests work. Make it so chests are assigned to a single person and can't be shared. When the person dies, those chests are obliterated. So basically, you have to start from scratch as far as items go. You could, optionally, stop players from dropping (i.e. sharing) items. Anyway, this isn't going to happen; I'm just indulging my imagination here.

11/21/2011 10:30:10 AM

What if you split the map (and corresponding nether area) with an infinite wall of bedrock (using MCEdit or equivalent) such that when you are first spawned in the new map, you're teleported to, say, the west side to engage in the hardcore mode to hunt down the dragon, and everything you do there is isolated from the east side of the map by the bedrock wall.

Then, when you die, you would spawn at the spawn point again, which would be on the east side of the bedrock wall, such that you could play on the server like we typically do until the dragon is killed and everyone can go back to the west side of the wall for another round (assuming the dragon can be killed multiple times.

Of course, this would require some help by the players so we don't have anyone teleporting those who have died back over the wall or sharing goods or anything. I'm trying to come up with a way that the dragon hunt will be hardcore, but the map itself wont be. Any other ideas?

11/21/2011 12:15:56 PM

Only if the bedrock is checkered with 1 block gaps, so the vanquished can witness the epic battle that is raging on the other side.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

11/21/2011 3:10:07 PM

The dragon hunt IS already hardcore, because once you warp to the End, the only way back is to kill the dragon, or die and restart the game.

Maybe that's it. "Normal" mode on the main map, but the End is "Hardcore", so if you die in the End, then you lose everything on the main map as well.

11/22/2011 3:48:40 PM

Found something strange today - wawebste and I built a slime spawn room in a viable chunk near his mineshafts, and I stopped by to see if I could find anything to kill. Unfortunately, the spawn rooms were empty, but on my return to my minecart, a giant slime had spawned in wawebste's minecart "landing room" or whatever you'd call it at the bottom of his mines

According to the applet, that wasn't supposed to be a spawnable chunk, but evidently he got there somehow, so be careful when you're wandering around, because those things hurt

However, I did get 17 slimeballs from it, which was pretty satisfying!

12/5/2011 5:04:57 PM

I've found a large slime in that same spot before....weird. Also you need to be a certain distance from the slime spawner for them to spawn. If you go straight down the hallway from the spawner I built a safe place to stand where you can go afk for a while and let them spawn.

12/5/2011 6:40:29 PM

Bukkit dev builds have been very stable lately, looks like a RB may be in the near future

12/6/2011 11:19:33 PM

Sounds good! Have we settled on a plan for how the new server will be run? i.e. hardcore mode, hunting the dragon, etc?

12/6/2011 11:31:50 PM

hey i just started playing mine craft, I downgraded to 1.6.6 but when i try to connect to the server it is saying "disconnected by server -took too long to long in" i have little mc exp, is there something im missing?

12/7/2011 1:33:52 AM

someone has to whitelist you, and our server is running 1.8.1

so post your in game name here so we can whitelist you and get the 1.8.1 minecraft jar Although honestly as this point you may be better off waiting until we update to 1.0.1 retail release

12/7/2011 1:36:40 AM

Spanky12493 is the name

12/7/2011 1:39:14 AM

can someone whitelist me and send me the jar? i think i have 1.8.1 but im not positive, maduvall@ncsu.edu Spanky12493

12/7/2011 8:21:10 PM

hurry up and upgrade to 1.0

12/8/2011 12:53:21 AM

http://ci.bukkit.org/job/dev-CraftBukkit/1597/

Bukkit RB for 1.0.1 is out. TWW server will be getting upgraded soon (not tonight though)

12/13/2011 9:02:11 PM

Oh for the love of god, finally! No rush for getting it updated, but just glad to hear it's finally here

12/13/2011 9:18:00 PM

I've been waiting for the server upgrade to 1.0 as well. Maybe I will put some hours in over the holiday break. I have this strange urge to heard animals.

12/17/2011 9:06:23 PM

well if you do finally update, white list me:

BazTech

12/17/2011 9:09:33 PM

Please add: mildew

[Edited on December 17, 2011 at 10:48 PM. Reason : just mildew]

12/17/2011 10:47:31 PM

Have we settled on a playstyle for the new server? Hardcore, casual/creative, etc?

12/20/2011 7:29:36 PM

Well dang, went to login and got the "outdated client" error - it appears we have the update! It's so lonely on the server though

12/29/2011 12:46:29 AM

I actually got on earlier to the same message...updated to 1.0 and was able to get on. The plugins don't seem to be set up though so I dunno if its ready or not.

Also, Noen, could you host the old map somewhere...thanks.

12/29/2011 1:21:35 AM

I just adventured around a bit until I found a decent little area a good ways from spawn, but then got totally owned by the ridiculous number of hostile mobs that appear to be all over. Strangely enough, they didn't despawn during the day (maybe the neverending thunderstorms while I was logged in?) and so I continued to get owned trying to get back to my crafting table until I finally pulled a classic ragequit

12/29/2011 3:14:16 AM

The old map will be making a temporary return before truly switching to a new 1.0 map.

I'd been working on a big "final quest" for the existing map as a challenge to everyone on the server. It's not ready quite yet, but it will be soon.

Unfortunately I won't be able to finish the map challenge until after the holidays (I get back to Seattle on 1/4), so I figured in the mean time it would be fun to just run essentially a vanilla 1.0 map.

I can turn on Planes and Vehicles if you guys want to (again will be temporary, but could be fun). Just lemme know.

12/29/2011 2:00:43 PM

i know it takes away some of the fun but i just found out how to import vehicles, buildings, and creatures from Spore into Minecraft. they are huge which works well for the buildings mostly because you can make an instant giant castle especially when you make them hollow.

12/29/2011 2:36:47 PM

^^ That could be fun - I'm all for trying out some mods while we get the full server set up.

12/29/2011 4:04:44 PM

Ghost found an npc village pretty close to spawn. I'm really missing the /home and /back commands, guess I relied on them too much.

1/2/2012 11:35:04 PM

Yeah, I stumbled through that village (the one by the desert?), and I've been through there plenty of times when I've died at my base and had to walk back

[Edited on January 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM. Reason : ]

1/3/2012 12:27:34 PM

yea thats the one, ive got a ladder going all the way down to the bed rock in a building by the wheat if anyone wants to get down there and mine

1/3/2012 1:29:10 PM

The server crashed while I was on tonight. I was placing some bookshelves around the enchanter i set up in the npc village (in the big stone building) when it started to lag pretty bad. It did that for about 20 sec or so then i got a software error. Came back on after a while.

1/4/2012 7:28:45 PM

Anyone use any particular texture packs on the server that look nice? I've been frustrated with the default pack looking so plain, but I don't necessarily want to pounce on a texture pack that looks nice in itself but makes my creations look absurd to others without it.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM. Reason : ]

1/5/2012 11:39:58 PM

I like trying them out but I've never really found one I liked, but I haven't looked into them in a while

1/5/2012 11:49:07 PM

Thought I had killed the server with my epic mining, but turns out my roommate was dicking around with the router Found an epic ravine though, and I'm looking forward to exploring it if anyone wants to join in!

1/8/2012 6:28:56 PM

Ugh, the portal merging bug really drives me nuts - I'm something like 800 blocks from spawn, and I went into the nether, got some blocks, and got back in my portal to the overworld, only to come back out at the top of ghost's treehouse right by spawn. So now I have to walk the 600-800 blocks back to my base and try and figure out what's going on with my portal.

In better news, I've built a 5-rail minecart station at my base, so when you're ready to develop a minecart system, let me know as I've got points to connect into all set to go.

1/13/2012 7:50:55 PM

Ugh sorry bout that, ill go cut that thing off unless im using it hopefully that will stop it.

[Edited on January 14, 2012 at 12:19 AM. Reason : actually i cant till i find some more diamonds since my pick dissapeared]

1/14/2012 12:10:52 AM

If you do, you may have to kill it from within the nether to ensure my portal builds its own copy within the nether rather than staying linked to yours.

1/14/2012 12:52:08 AM

from the other thread:

Quote :

"can someone whitelist me? Spanky12493"

1/14/2012 7:35:05 PM

can someone please white list me??? "Spanky12493"

1/16/2012 5:37:46 PM

i think noen is the only one that can do that for you on the current server

1/17/2012 7:57:26 AM

Added Spanky, updated bukkit to the experimental 1.1 build.

Sorry guys I've been really sick

1/18/2012 4:47:41 AM

Hey, could you guys whitelist me if you'd please.
My username is MechaRocks

1/20/2012 7:22:13 PM

Hey there, I was wondering if you could whitelist fishypoo123.

1/26/2012 10:41:20 PM

jcdomini and I killed the dragon earlier tonight.



[Edited on January 31, 2012 at 2:24 AM. Reason : .]

1/31/2012 2:24:18 AM

nice

does that dragon egg do anything yet?

2/3/2012 8:28:23 AM

nope, it doesn't do anything....however we have hidden it somewhere. Gonna make some kind of shrine for it.

2/3/2012 9:28:05 AM

I was working on the Redstone laboratory building smoothstone walls by using a smoothstone generator and pistons to lay out the stone, and a misclick combined with a burst of lag resulted in my death by lava from the generator, and all my items PLUS my 58 levels of experience fell into the resulting lava flow.

Damnit.

/ragequit

2/4/2012 6:25:09 PM

damnnnn dude that really sucks. I've had my fair share of glitchy deaths too(remember when my own wolf killed me ) Sucks you lost all that exp though.

2/4/2012 7:06:21 PM

can i get pirategal527 (my girlfriend) white listed please

2/11/2012 4:05:15 PM

You guys may want to consider loading lwc, which allows people to lock chests (some secure private property)

2/14/2012 6:06:12 PM