whitelist please

10/12/2010 9:41:35 PM

I'm thinking about making an attraction called "The Chilean Mining Experience." In a desert-ish area, go 1x1 straight shaft to the bottom, make a small ~600 sq ft bubble at the bottom.

...bad taste?

10/13/2010 10:39:06 AM

^ heh eh half of us do it all the time. I had about 3 or 4 pit shafts all over in my base and some holes at the bottom of them. /home works wonders no waiting 3 months for rescue.

10/13/2010 10:42:00 AM

saturn, are we doing a new map or not?

I stopped building because I thought we were moving soon

10/13/2010 10:51:31 AM

Ive been wondering the same. I have built a freaking sweet recreation complex on the server, but have been holding off finishing it because I dont know if we are getting a new map or not.

10/13/2010 12:13:01 PM

Can you make a waterfall by making an infinite water spring at the top of a cliff, and then punching a hole in one side?

10/13/2010 12:40:05 PM

^ Yes. I did that for my falling water rip-off house that I've been meaning to post pictures of.

[Edited on October 13, 2010 at 1:20 PM. Reason : typing FTL]

10/13/2010 1:20:39 PM

it should be fairly easy to zip up the world from the server if anyone wants a backup of their creation or to copy/paste parts from the world into your own.

10/13/2010 3:14:33 PM

What is the black block? I don't think it is obsidian, I can't mine it with a diamond pickaxe. It doesn't look like bedrock. It has no pattern on it, just solid black. I've even tried lining one with torches on all sides to see if there is some type of pattern, but it just absorbs the light. No light reflection at all, just black.

I hit one area where they're scattered all over the place. I guess it's some sort of bug?

Edit: It's not lag from shadows. I mined into the blocks and they've been there for at least a week's worth of day/night cycles.

[Edited on October 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM. Reason : -]

10/14/2010 10:56:01 AM

I'm guessing a bug..

Where have you seen them? Is it making a noise like you're physically hitting something?

10/14/2010 11:06:37 AM

I just started digging diagonally down. It's 65 to 70 layers deep. I'm also seeing lots of redstone ore in the same area, so at least that far down.

I think I remember it making noise, I know it did the animation where stuff is coming off the block when I try to mine it.





[Edited on October 14, 2010 at 11:19 AM. Reason : -]

10/14/2010 11:15:02 AM

n00bs, it's bedrock aka the bottom of the level rock... you can't mine it

10/14/2010 11:22:04 AM

Quote :

"It has no pattern on it, just solid black. I've even tried lining one with torches on all sides to see if there is some type of pattern, but it just absorbs the light."

Adminium... and... To me it look like it has a pattern to me

10/14/2010 11:31:05 AM

Here's an image of bedrock.



They really don't look the same to me, but I guess my monitor is really, really dim. Guess I was also expecting the bedrock to just be this long, flat surface along the bottom of the map instead of scattered around.

Edit: I just upped the brightness of the image in photoshop, yeah it's bedrock. Man this game really needs a gamma adjuster for those of us stuck with old, dim LCDs.

[Edited on October 14, 2010 at 11:49 AM. Reason : -]

10/14/2010 11:42:14 AM

you're using a different texture pack, which is why it looks different.

10/14/2010 12:13:10 PM

^ this

10/14/2010 1:41:19 PM

I still need to see what you guys are up to...

Can I get on the whitelist? toemoss

10/14/2010 6:52:59 PM

any tips on making a water trap?

10/14/2010 7:00:01 PM

first build the 'infinite springs' using the tips mentioned in this thread, then build you trap on top of that. don't try to build the trap mechanism first then add water underneath, it will be a much bigger pain in the ass.

also check out minecraft traps on youtube, there are some really good examples/tutorials out there.

10/14/2010 7:26:27 PM

Minecraft + Facebook = http://www.minecraftr.com

10/14/2010 10:02:17 PM

Whitelist please

suicidal_ghost

10/15/2010 1:00:57 PM

I know you're playing minecraft 24/7 but I'm guessing there are a bunch of people who would like to get on the whitelist, seriously

xenofurmi

hook up, man

10/15/2010 3:11:48 PM

whitelist please

finge

10/15/2010 6:06:25 PM

saturn hasnt posted in 10 days

10/15/2010 7:59:15 PM

I've been busy. Fuck off.


Whitelist updated. Haven't been many people on it since I mentioned a possible map update. Probably a good thing. I'm planning on starting a new map once the patch comes out IF the changes are substantial enough to warrant doing so (i.e. minecarts, monsters, massive bug fixes, etc.)

Apparently the people I've assigned as mods haven't been online either since there were so many people waiting to be whitelisted. I'll add some new people as mods after the update. No one will have the ability to spawn blocks, and there will be some build restrictions to help foster a community mindset... I hope.

10/15/2010 9:32:47 PM

Those traps on the minecraft wiki place look awesome, especially the water+lava loot retrieval trap. Seems like it would be a good bet to put a bunch of fingers out to capture mobs and funnel them all into one place.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Traps , Lava Retrieval Trap

10/15/2010 10:58:46 PM

I've found the traps work best when you just make a huge hole flowing to a central kill zone. Making it as foolproof and unattended as possible (even if it nets fewer rewards for equal time) is the best way to go. Wasting time tending to a trap when you could be building gets old quick.

10/15/2010 11:02:21 PM

holy crap multiplayer does actually have clay

10/16/2010 2:56:19 AM

so now that I'm on the whitelist, how the fuck do I actually do anything?

I tried walking far out into the wilderness, but I still cant so much as chop down a tree.

10/16/2010 4:03:29 AM

i think you have to get on another list which i would like to be on too, MoneyJones

10/16/2010 4:08:37 AM

Yeah, You have to be on the 'build list' or whatever.

Who are the mods? If you have a mod list then people can bug those guys too

10/16/2010 10:21:07 AM

I just tried to add a few of you but all I get is 'player not found' and 'unknown command'.

is this still valid?

/modify [playername] groups builder
/whitelist playername

10/16/2010 11:03:34 AM

hey, sorry to whoever that was trying to ask me about the whitelist in-game, I had stepped away and forgot I left the game up

10/16/2010 11:52:24 AM

Okay, been playing with carts

If saturn ever starts the new map and carts are fixed, I'm building an damn subway

10/17/2010 7:43:57 AM

Yeah, I wish the carts worked, I have stuff all over the place, and its kinda hard to get to.

I built tunnels with tracks, but the damn carts dont work

10/17/2010 8:13:30 AM

Does anyone know of a good screen capturing program I could use for Minecraft?

I'm using cam studio, but the output is choppy as hell and full of artifacts.

10/17/2010 9:00:18 AM

Fraps works.
http://www.fraps.com/

10/17/2010 10:58:59 AM

anyone interested in being the guinea pig for my maze project? Finally got it in what I think to be working order, shoot me a PM

10/17/2010 11:31:12 AM

I was thinking about making levels where you're stuck in a room filled with TNT and there is a redstone timer which is set to blow automatically. CUT THE REDWIRE

10/17/2010 12:07:02 PM

Kinda got bored building castles. Now the plan is to make a bunch of old school video game characters and have a mine cart take you on a guided tour. The only problem is that there aren't many colors to work with.



Next up a mario fish over the ocean and a full underground dig-dug scene.

[Edited on October 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM. Reason : -]

10/17/2010 2:29:46 PM

Actually, I'm just going to go ahead and open up my maze, if someone runs into a problem I can fix on the fly.

The Tree Maze
go to /spawn and look to the big tree just right of the lighthouse, you should see the lighted entrance at the bottom from here.

It's fairly large, takes me about 8 min to run all the way through knowing exactly how to go, so I'm curious how long it will take you guys.

Please don't place or destroy any blocks, or place any torches. Enjoy!

10/17/2010 3:20:37 PM

The maze is great, until I fell all the way back to the bottom and didnt feel like starting over again.

Loved the water/lava trap at the very bottom, and get a clue lookout was neat, helped a lot.

10/17/2010 4:13:59 PM

you only made it about halfway through then, the top of the tree isn't even close to the end

Gracias for the notes though, are the jumps at the top too tough?

[Edited on October 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM. Reason : pow]

10/17/2010 4:17:52 PM

fucking awesome job with the maze. Just got out, took like half an hour. Got lost as hell underground

10/17/2010 4:49:04 PM

I went and looked at the maze, pretty awesome stuff.

I'll stay on and do more work as a mod if you guys start staying in the server for more than five minutes. I go and hang out to see if people come, and I'll be the only person online for hours.

And from what me and Saturn have talked about I'm looking forward to a restart.

10/17/2010 6:35:39 PM

They probably arent too hard for most people. I am not that coordinated at it though, so I had a hard time. Spent most of my time falling off them, but I typically only fell one level and could find my way back up.

The last jump where i fell all the way to the bottom was too disheartening

10/17/2010 7:19:56 PM

I dunno if this has been posted before nor do I care, because it's awesome.

10/18/2010 12:34:06 AM

Quote :

"The last jump where i fell all the way to the bottom was too disheartening"

if it matters, I went back and added a few blocks at the top to make the jumps a touch easier

per another complaint, I also added a torch to make a too-dark passageway a little less difficult to find

10/18/2010 9:16:43 AM

Cool, ill give it another go tonight

10/18/2010 11:42:22 AM

If somebody could please whitelist me I'd be much obliged

wawebste

10/18/2010 2:45:18 PM