I'd like to request the timber mod plz

9/11/2011 11:40:21 AM

why not just start a creative server and call it a day

9/11/2011 12:09:17 PM

My computer is back! I'll be back on the server very soon.

The previous spawn was made that way so that people would spread out into the rest of the map and still have a structured area to return to, and roads to organize their towns around. I'm not saying it can't be down without a structured spawn, I'd just be worried about the spawn getting super cluttered. However, I do think a free-form survival spawn will be way more fun.

There should definitely be a collaborative, non-planned building of safe areas at the spawn, more like an actual town. We had it set up like a city-state before. You could spawn there, but fuck if you're going to build there.

9/11/2011 1:32:04 PM

Something that might work would be a simple tower or something every 500 or so blocks in a grid - it would provide scattered safe havens for explorers stuck out at night, and would also provide reference points and regions to build around and grow near, but wouldn't be as intrusive as a huge capitol of sorts.

Should we pick out a particular map seed or mod or anything, or just take what vanilla gives us? And do we want to run it on easy, normal, or hard?

9/11/2011 1:48:18 PM

I don't want this server to have any pre-planning. If you get to night while out exploring, you better have enough essentials on you to build a quick hut (or get lucky and find some abandoned house)

There's only one rule I'm going to stick to, and that is no generated blocks. Even for admins/mods, every single block in this world will be mined.

There will be P2P trading, but no server store.

There will be a server map, but I may not turn it on until people actually find each other on the server (thoughts?)

I'm fine with a cluttered, huge spawn/capitol. I'm pretty sure with 1.8, there is no "single spawn" for the server, that each player has their own spawn points.

9/11/2011 1:59:55 PM

Sounds good to me!

9/11/2011 2:16:11 PM

^^Players have separate spawns? That's kind of crazy.

I'd like a huge sprawling free-build city, but if it's all random then we'll just have to see where we end up. I play multiplayer to be in contact with other people, not to just play solo survivor with a chatroom.

9/11/2011 2:21:38 PM

^totally agree, hence why I'm not sure how to handle the google map. Will probably have it start with the server.

I've been running the 1.8 prerel server locally and it has too many issues to put up for everyone. It's crashed with just me using it, and is throwing a lot more errors than it should

9/11/2011 2:26:52 PM

Quote :

"I don't want this server to have any pre-planning. "

I stopped playing with TWWers when that last map with the stupid-ass roads was implemented

Hella lame

9/11/2011 2:37:10 PM

Quote :

"There's only one rule I'm going to stick to, and that is no generated blocks. Even for admins/mods, every single block in this world will be mined. There will be P2P trading, but no server store. "

Actually this would make it pretty cool. Gotta actually earn your golden cock n' balls.

9/11/2011 4:03:58 PM

the most fun I've had in minecraft were temp maps we had where there were no rules and we all banded together to make a fort to survive

9/11/2011 4:54:35 PM

^Yep, this will be truely a survival map... I don't want to give away too much, but I think everyone will have to work together quite often to prosper

9/12/2011 7:17:42 PM

Give too much away? How could there be anything to keep secret?

9/12/2011 10:49:10 PM

9/12/2011 11:49:09 PM

he's going to doom us all

9/13/2011 7:44:52 AM

we're doomed.... DOOOOOOMED

9/13/2011 11:32:17 AM

I love the idea of different spawns for different people. Utilize more of the map.

Fresh start - fuck yeah. Merica.

I've been dying to go nerd out for a few solid.... months?

[Edited on September 13, 2011 at 4:29 PM. Reason : adsf]

9/13/2011 4:24:41 PM

I'm in. It'll be fun having to find each other. So the server randomly sets spawn points for each user? I wonder how spread out they are.

9/13/2011 4:30:35 PM

Forgot to ask, are we going to operate on the leaked/pre-release? Or wait for the official 1.8?

9/13/2011 4:45:38 PM

Sounds awesome... I was wondering about how far the spawn points are apart as well... and if it is configurable? Not sure how it's implemented.

9/13/2011 5:17:16 PM

My experience with spawns on 1.8 has been horrific. First, I spawned 20 ft underwater. It did this several times and I died at least once because I couldn't believe the game was actually spawning me there.

So I get past that and I start building a bunch of neat shit in the coolest set of island mountain ranges I've ever seen... and die. No big deal, right? Except I spawn in a complete different location. As in I spend 20 minutes trying to find that huge mountain range and it's nowhere in sight. I kill myself a dozen times, but the game decides to keep spawning me in the new location.

To give you an idea of how far it was: I later connected the dots using an in-game map. One spawn was in the center of the map. The other was on a corner. That's about 32 chunks away.

[Edited on September 13, 2011 at 5:45 PM. Reason : asdfadsf]

9/13/2011 5:43:31 PM

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"Forgot to ask, are we going to operate on the leaked/pre-release? Or wait for the official 1.8?"

Have to wait for Bukkit. There's a small handful of plugins I want to run, it should make for a VERY fun server at least to tide us all over until 1.9

9/13/2011 8:41:36 PM

oh god he's giving zombies the ability to dig through walls

9/13/2011 9:59:08 PM

^ i would be standing there like

Now im gonna have to make lava walls cuz im worried about it

9/14/2011 12:55:13 PM

I would like to be able to atleast spawn in the same quadrant of the map as other folks, because otherwise there'd be no way of ever finding each other to work together?

I do like the idea of survival towers gridded out to provide shelter as well as reference points. Can they be systematically numbered with a sign over the door so we know which one we're referencing when trying to find each other?

I'm cool with the "mine it to use it" concept for the server if it is going to be an adventure map.

^Dude, I'm with you on that! Either that, or my walls will be water-filled!

[Edited on September 14, 2011 at 10:51 PM. Reason : ]

9/14/2011 10:50:41 PM

Hey uhhhh.... I just decided to start playing again.

Just waitin on figuring out the bugs before putting the map up eh?

9/15/2011 12:38:54 AM

^yeah basically

^^yeah, we'll have to see how bad the spawn distances are, and whether they are controllable via bukkit. I'm totally with you on spawning on opposite sides of the world, that won't happen if I can help it at all.

9/15/2011 1:05:42 AM

Thanks Noen!

I'll just keep checkin.

9/15/2011 7:09:00 AM

i kinda want to see what this minecraft business is all about, but don't want to spend 15 euros

9/15/2011 7:25:37 AM

^ If you're thinking about buying it but are on the fence you can try minecraft classic at http://www.minecraft.net It doesnt really capture the feel of beta but its better than nothing i suppose. There are also a ton of youtube videos of people playing.

Edit: forgot to mention while the server was down I made a fierce deity skin Hopefully at least some of you know who that is.

[Edited on September 15, 2011 at 7:57 AM. Reason : ']

[Edited on September 15, 2011 at 8:04 AM. Reason : ]

9/15/2011 7:57:03 AM

is it pie yet?

9/18/2011 1:51:09 PM

can we get a minimap onscreen? dynmap was nice but still a pain in fullscreen

9/18/2011 11:08:23 PM

I'm ready to get back into this with a fierceness.

9/19/2011 9:01:16 AM

I've been F5'ing bukkit.org like 200 times a day since 1.8 was released.

Still waiting. I have been tooling around with local servers, MineOS, and some other shit for kicks over the past week. Just learning a bit more about how things work under the covers.

Soon as a RB Bukkit is released, I'll get us up and running again

9/19/2011 9:04:04 AM

Happy Talk like a Piratearrrny Day! I too am ready to punch some newfangled 1.8 trees.

In the meantime could someone whitelist AdrianRWilkinson

9/19/2011 11:59:18 AM

^^dumb question, but couldn't you just a vanilla map for now and then add bukkit later?

9/19/2011 12:00:39 PM

i'd be down for that

some of the dev bukkits are 1.8 compatible supposedly

9/19/2011 1:08:05 PM

if its on a certain page i apologize but what is the overall list of plugins going to look like:
maps
permissions
what else?

9/19/2011 1:16:10 PM

heh, added @craftbukkit to my twitter feed

9/19/2011 5:53:08 PM

Euro: I played with a vanilla server. Its just too damn unstable. Too many serious bugs and without bukkit management, I permanently hosed several maps within a couple if hours just playing by myself.

I'm waiting for bukkit because they fix so many bugs in the vanilla server, not even so much for the plugins.

9/20/2011 12:55:16 AM

i'd like to request the colored glass and/or colored lights mod

9/20/2011 1:03:27 PM

Do we still have access to either of our original maps for download to play on the single-player version of MC? If so where are the links?

9/20/2011 1:34:12 PM

I've been playing single player on 1.8.1 for a while. I played with world seeds and kept creating worlds until I hit one with a town near the spawn point.

Started playing for a while, decided to explore before I really got established/supplied. I made it to a mountain range, kept exploring, then headed "back" to what I thought was my town... actually it was another town. I spent quite some time trying to backpeddle and return to my orginal camp. I wandered a few minutes in another direction and stumbled upon a THIRD town, but this one was different-- instead of small huts and gardens, this one had a tower and some bigger buildings.

I was kinda suprised by how close together 3 towns were. Or did I just get lucky?

9/20/2011 5:06:01 PM

see ive created about 3 worlds and have yet to see a town, i even spawn and immediately put myself on top of a dirt tower and look in all directions

i have spawned directly on top of a stronghold though

9/20/2011 5:11:09 PM

^^ What seed did you use? Press F3 if you're not sure.

9/20/2011 5:22:58 PM

36867603

9/20/2011 5:28:41 PM

Quote :

"Do we still have access to either of our original maps for download to play on the single-player version of MC? If so where are the links?"

No, but that's a good idea. I'll post the old map tonight when I get home and put a link here and on the wiki. Just a warning, it does not like 1.8.1. There are a lot of chunk errors and weird shit that pops up even on the single player because of how old the map is.

9/20/2011 6:36:44 PM

so ive got an extra laptop laying around
C2D 2.0Ghz
4GB RAM
i just don't have a charger for it. if i shamelessly ask for $5 from 6 people (ill put in the last $5) i can order one from amazon and we can have another server.

9/20/2011 7:32:24 PM

^It's going to be a shit server. Minecraft is hard drive limited. An old laptop means a 4200rpm hard drive. Which means laaaaaggg

9/20/2011 9:24:44 PM

actually just installed a brand new hdd in it believe it or not

[Edited on September 20, 2011 at 10:28 PM. Reason : yay]

9/20/2011 10:27:45 PM