The MafiaScum Minecraft Thread - AllTheMods 9!!! - NEW Vanilla?

[Fishythefish]

For me, I used to get some lag in 1.1, and it seems to have gone. Slow down is worse than it was before (but obviously that's not anyone else's problem to deal with). Slow down can be helped by changing graphics settings - particularly viewing distance, in my experience.

[Fishythefish]

Did Izak's maze. Was pretty tough. The reward is something I didn't even know existed.

[Fishythefish]

Well the dirt is just placeholder anyway.
Plus I'm building on top of the trees so that it's both harder to see and does less damage to the biome than building on the ground.

Thing is, it's a pretty ugly placeholder. It's not like we're short of trees to build on - if you wait and build when you can make what you want to make, the jungle will look nicer in the meantime.

[Fishythefish]

If you make the stairs thicker, it goes much faster - more ways to spread.

[Fishythefish]

That was to 1994, obviously.

[Fishythefish]

Bad luck . Have you:

- Set all your video settings to minimum - "fast" graphics, no smooth lighting, etc.
- Decreased your rendering range to "short" or "tiny"
- Installed Optifine - makes things go faster

[Fishythefish]

wow nice town's looking pretty sweet.

Can I make a request though? Can whoever built the bridge across the harbor from my dock create a section in the middle that has at least a 2-block gap above the water surface so I can get boats through?

That would be me - and yes, I'll make it go above the water. Maybe not for a couple of days, though - I won't be on much and I'd like to do it properly. In the meantime, you're welcome to just chop a hole in it if it's urgent.

[Fishythefish]

wow nice town's looking pretty sweet.

Can I make a request though? Can whoever built the bridge across the harbor from my dock create a section in the middle that has at least a 2-block gap above the water surface so I can get boats through?

That would be me - and yes, I'll make it go above the water. Maybe not for a couple of days, though - I won't be on much and I'd like to do it properly. In the meantime, you're welcome to just chop a hole in it if it's urgent.

I've made the bridge arched, so boats can now get underneath.

[Fishythefish]

@Maru: can I get onto your server?

[Fishythefish]

te227. Cheers.

[Fishythefish]

\in for the race.

[Fishythefish]

There's now a nether route to the second jungle - it's past the mushroom biome, and it's signed from the main hub. I've been working on a pyramid near the portal - please be careful near it, as the area isn't secure and it's very vulnerable to creepers. Other than that, come to the jungle! It is a fun place to build, and it has cats.

[Fishythefish]

(((it was me)))

[Fishythefish]

I'm away for MSUH (and indeed the whole of April), so I won't be able to make it. I'd be interested in similar things in the future.

[Fishythefish]

Claus, the #tep function is potentially borked.

Either that or fish and I are morons. Either's possible really. Can you get on and check it with us?

I realised that's it's probably disabled for your race. Claus said it would be - presumably to stop cheating.

[Fishythefish]

DAMMIT FISHY WHERE ARE YOU

I'm really sorry I missed the race - looks awesome. With impeccable timing, I was having computer problems and couldn't get Minecraft to run without crashing.

[Fishythefish]

on the MS server, is there anyone who would be willing to give me:

- a cactus block
- cocoa beans
- sugarcane

as you can imagine, I'm trying to create a sheep compendium for some cool wool projects. I have just found out that there is a nether portal reasonably close to my house :O so if you could just say you'd be willing to give me that I'll pick it up whenever I'm on.

Thanks!
Empress Chevre

I'm pretty much certain I have cocoa beans, and maybe the others. You are welcome to them. My house is near the main town over a bridge, or has a nether portal.

[Fishythefish]

I'll PM fishy. He generally can't make weekends but he was today, and I don't think he's reading this thread any more.

I am from time to time, but thanks for the invite. I'm afraid it's a bit late for me - have fun!

[Fishythefish]

I was using izak's awesome blaze farm (got two picks with Efficiency 4, Unbreaking 3, Fortune 3, one with Silk Touch), and I noticed it says I'm afk when I afk for a while. Does this have any consequences, or is it just for people's information?

[Fishythefish]

Couldn't warp to distantland? Other than that, loving the warps.

[Fishythefish]

Wow. I didn't realise how awesome this server is until I tried some of the others. Seriously. An admin just banned me because I complained about someone else spawn camping...

Amen to that. To have a server with a decent playerbase and almost no asshattery is amazing.

After far too many hours' work, I've just finished phase lots of my building project in the jungle you can find through the nether. I hope it's worth a look.

[Fishythefish]

ALSO I know FishytheFish owns some sort of Jungle Temple out to the east- I don't know exactly where but he's spent alot of time on it so don't shrink the server until he gets to mark it.

Thanks! Here's the edited map:



I've also filled in a lot of the route/surroundings because I like the scenery and plan to build a long overground train through it one day.

[Fishythefish]

I've got lots of jungle tree wood and I need lots of oak wood. Anyone want to trade up to 9 stacks?

[Fishythefish]

Oh, and to my shame I don't actually have a clue where skytown is on the map. I assume the surrounding area is protected? I've got a little pyramid in a desert a little way away.

[Fishythefish]

Find every relevant file you can, delete it manually, and install vanilla? Seems the most comprehensive thing you can try.

[Fishythefish]

This zombie spawned on a roof:



I lit it up, but the owner may want to do something prettier.

In other news, gathering the reed for 200 bookcases takes a long time

[Fishythefish]

@Om: could I get my silk touch pick back? I need to move some grass. If I'm not online leave it anywhere sensible (your place, my place, whatever) and post it here. Cheers!

[Fishythefish]

I upgraded town treefarm.


Can an OP kindly deposit some junglesaplings for us? Its the only treetype not self-sufficient

You may know already, but they are self sufficient if you grow the big ones.

[Fishythefish]

I just journeyed to the jungle temple and that thing is *sweet*

Thanks! It's pretty much done now, other than Om's snow room (which needs to wait for 1.3 for ice). I'm now building a railway from it to the mushroom biome (and then possibly on to spawntown - but I'll need to do LOTS mining to get the rails first).

[Fishythefish]

@UT: were you thinking of nether or overworld rails - I'm talking about overworld. The jungle is further out than the mushroom biome, so I meant connected the mushroom land to town.

@Maru: I'm afraid the big railway I've just nearly finished is one track and won't easily go to two while looking ok (it's a one-wide bridge). I'd love to see your station design - there's a couple of places I'd like to add stops on the way if it's easy to stop/start.

[Fishythefish]

Station design is awesome, thanks.

I'm glad there's enthusiasm for ambitious overworld railways . We should make a map of planned/in progress/built railways. I'm having trouble downloading the world map (either from daily or dynamic) - can anyone help?

[Fishythefish]

@UT: very glad to hear you're connecting spawntown to the mushroom biome by railway . I thought the route might look nice if instead of being straight it goes north to somewhere around z=0 first - that way it goes along some nice coast rather than straight across the ocean. What do you think?

The mushroom - jungle railway is complete apart from stations at either end; it goes from very near the mushroom house to just outside the jungle near the temple.

[Fishythefish]

Thanks Rhinox . Pretty sure the temple is the biggest project I'll every do on Minecraft.

I've got 8 stacks of rail going free for communal railways - do you need them, UT?

[Fishythefish]

Thanks Rhinox . Pretty sure the temple is the biggest project I'll every do on Minecraft.

I've got 8 stacks of rail going free for communal railways - do you need them, UT?

yeah, either leave them in the lighthouse somewhere or at the plantation

I'll leave them in the lighthouse.

[Fishythefish]

My understanding is that there aren't imminent plans for condensation - and I imagine we'd get reasonable warning of exactly what was happening.

[Fishythefish]

Tried to connect (to the normal server), got message "Disconnected by Server/Failed to verify username!". Anyone else having this problem and/or know the solution?

[Fishythefish]

Minecraft Login Servers are down, and you hit Play Offline

Nope, login was fine. Anyway, fixed now. Can you whitelist me (te227) on the modded server? I'm going to try to get it running later today.

Is anyone on ms.seion.us:25565 because whenever I get on, noone is there, Am I using the wrong server?

At the moment I expect everyone is distracted by the shiny new modded server. I'm sure they'll come back to the normal one soonish.

[Fishythefish]

Unfortunately those mods seem to push my minecraft into unplayability, looks like I'll have to stick to the normal server. Have fun!

[Fishythefish]

No, I got the mods loaded fine - the first method worked. But the mods make minecraft painfully slow on even very low graphics settings.

[Fishythefish]

Might just be a bad day, I'll give it another go tomorrow. Actually, come to think of it, starting a new world is a silly way to test things - that's when you generate the most terrain.

What's the address for the modded server?

[Fishythefish]

Yay! It works! I stupidly forgot Optifine in all the modding excitement. I'm going to live on my own for a while while I get going and discover new stuff, then I'll come and find you guys.

[Fishythefish]

Extra Biomes is AWESOME. Extreme Jungle is my favourite so far. But also everything.

[Fishythefish]

I don't really mind much one way or the other. I suppose at some stage teleporting would be nice, but atm I'm very happy to walk around the cool new biomes

[Fishythefish]

I'd be down.

Also does anyone have a shitload of cobble they'd like to donate to the "Build Andy A Wall" foundation?
Cobble will be smelted into Stone Bricks and turned into a beautiful wall.

I have 8 full double chests, and you can have anything up to 4 of them if you need that much. Building a huge underground base means you aren't short on cobble. I probably won't be on much for a few days - it's in my jungle temple basement, which these days you can get to directly via the nether (on from mushroom biome portal, then through the normal jungle portal and down a ladder).

[Fishythefish]

Made some ender chests. Crossed a 10,000 block ocean finding only a weird group of mushroom islands I might build on. Walked forever. Found a desert temple.

Good first evening back on the server

[Fishythefish]

Made some ender chests. Crossed a 10,000 block ocean finding only a weird group of mushroom islands I might build on. Walked forever. Found a desert temple.

Good first evening back on the server

YOU

SPLEEF TOURNAMENT

JOIN IT

I've never spleefed, and my availability at the moment is rather unpredictable. /in, but if anyone else wants the slot instead they should definitely have it.

[Fishythefish]

Just actually explored that temple. Chests contained bones, zombie flesh and 1 emerald. Whoop dee doo.

[Fishythefish]

how necessary is a witness for spleefing?

Preferred, why?

UT and I spleefed yesterday - I won 2-1. I'm afraid we forgot about the witness/recording rule - is it ok, or do we need to play again?

[Fishythefish]

Haha what?

Also:
1. Fishy or whoever: sorry for sucking major balls when I was expanding y/our Nether Path. I semi-rage quit after dying because of the abomination which you then fixed...
2. Checking the path again now. Anybody down for some PvE on the server in a previously unexplored location? (If Fishy doesn't mind...?)
3. ...plague...dude...you make me sad inside.

1. Hah, that's fine. I did exactly the same on the other lava flow that goes over the path - if anything, rather worse.
2. Go for it .

[Fishythefish]

Agh, I love having an established base and just going somewhere totally untouched.

Also, dunno why, but I followed the Cobble path as far as it went from the Hub, but it just dropped off onto Netherrack.
How do I get to the portal to the surface from there? And do you have a base set up by your exit portal Fishy?

P.S. jmj3000 and I held an exhibition spleef match last night. Fun stuff, but that guy's a little too liberal with his shovel...
I believe it was an even 1-1 when you had to leave, right jmj? I'd be down for that kind of thing some other time too.

^ General invite to people who follow this thread at all.

The cobble path wasn't finished, should get you there now. IIRC the exit portal is by a desert tomb that's lit and has a bed, but I haven't set up a proper base in that part of the world.

[Fishythefish]

(ignore this post)

[Fishythefish]

Maestro defeated me 2-1 in the Clash of the Incompatible Timezones. Because we fail, we didn't have recording set up, so I grabbed the screens at the key moments. Because I fail even more, I only grabbed two of the three, but in the other one I died. Somewhat pathetically.

[Fishythefish]

Lots of recent building (ie. route to desert temple) in the nether seems to have vanished? Overworld stuff done at the same time still around. Could this be something to do with bukkit update?

[Fishythefish]

*ahem* @Fishy: What do you think of the Desert Tomb Base?

Er... I can't get there at the moment. The nether route is gone. I'll tp to you if you're there and we're both on together. Sounds awesome, though.

[Fishythefish]

ya while you're filming get coords for all these places so we have a sort of tourist guide.

I'm planning to write a tourist guide in a book, with attractions sorted by area, with coordinates, how to get there, builder, and a description.

The only thing of mine that I like and doesn't appear on Xalxe's current list is the railway which runs (for now) between the jungle temple and the mushroom house/creeper church.

@maestro: For the ones I built; creeper church is near the mushroom house. You can get to them by walking through the nether towards my base, but taking the "mushroom biome" portal. It's then a short railway ride to the mushroom house. Alternatively, take the railway from the portal above my base. The floating castle is near town, above the sea.

Dunno about the others, not sure I've seen them.

[Fishythefish]

@izak: I'm probably being an idiot, but I can't find your base through the nether. How do you get there?

[Fishythefish]

Fishy: You on now? You could tp to me and set your home for easy access...?

In other news my laptop got FedExed back to me today!
izak vs. Maestro might occur as early as tonight, BST.

Hmmm... \home is quite important to me atm; home is far away. But I am on now, and I'd love to come and see what you've done.

The only thing of mine that I like and doesn't appear on Xalxe's current list is the railway which runs (for now) between the jungle temple and the mushroom house/creeper church.

This is the "mushroom rail" referred to in the list.

Oh, cool.

[Fishythefish]

Pizza hasn't showed up as yet . I'm probably going to go to bed very soon if he doesn't.

[Fishythefish]

Pizza was sucked into one of those "Real life problems". Sorry Fishy, my bad.

No worries, it happens.

[Fishythefish]

gaize halp where are slimes

Pretty sure they're all in my jungle temple, trampling on my wheat. That's what they're usually up to.

[Fishythefish]

I still can't seem to place lava.

[Fishythefish]

So, I've finally finished my railway connected the jungle temple and mushroom house to spawntown. It's well over 1k if anyone needs that achievement. Currently leaves from my house in spawntown - the one in the hill with mushrooms on. But proper spawntown station should definitely be a project - I'd happily use that house, or help build one elsewhere.

[Fishythefish]

someone made a cool pumpkin at the end of the railroad tracks.

Oh, that would be me. Meant to enter it, but was away for most of October. It's not a patch on that creeper though

[Fishythefish]

Can't connect to server. We haven't updated to 1.4 or anything, have we?

[Fishythefish]

Ooooh, so it is. Not that I've done any actual scumming for a while... this is about the only place I ever post these days.

[Fishythefish]

Time to mess around with 1.4 on single player then .

[Fishythefish]

Could we set up some actual marked-off areas for building, just for the sake of knowing where to put people? Or is that too organized and the OP should shut his face?

me and tbone chsoe to put it over in the creepered blown up edge of town by SkyFarms. COBBLESTONE DONATIONS FOR THE WALL ARE APPRECIATED!

I have 10 or so double chests of cobblestone - where should I leave it?

[Fishythefish]

And thanks for hosting us!

[Fishythefish]

Finished the wall; now the inside needs clearing and lighting. Also, I have CARROTS AND POTATOES!

[Fishythefish]

I've planted a few each of carrots and potatoes in spawntown - feel free to take some and replant. They are near the big wheat farm, at the end of a row of melons/pumpkins. If you want a serious number you'll need bonemeal.

[Fishythefish]

It is for me. While I'm here, I couldn't care less if mods fly a bit. As long as everyone's on the same footing for getting items and building stuff.

[Fishythefish]

That happened to me the other day. Then I came back and it was better.

[Fishythefish]

Reverse auction!

I'm looking to buy 100 blocks of lapis (= 900 lapis ore). I have diamonds, coal, iron and redstone to trade for it. If you want to bid to sell me some or all of it, bid in here - lowest bidder wins.

[Fishythefish]

Unfortunately, I also need thousands of sandstone at the moment, so that deal's not as attractive as it would normally be. The winning bid is currently 63 diamonds from T-Bone. Bidding closes when we go 24 hours without a lower bid.

I'll buy Xalxe's 30 in addition to the 100, at whatever price we end up at (rounded to the nearest diamond).

Xalxe: my skytown house would be easy (it's the wooden one near the warp).

[Fishythefish]

Fishy: what is your value on other things? Sandstone was a random one I wouldn't've guessed...
What other things would make appealing trade currency given your situation?

I'll value coal, redstone, iron bars, diamonds at 1:1:10:200. Gold I have essentially none of. I've got a fair bit of obsidian I could part with, lets value it at 40 (but only 3 stacks available). I've no real wish to do anything particularly time consuming - 9 wither skulls are probably out (and wouldn't beat the diamonds anyway - in the points scale I'd have 1 wither skull = 2000 or so, given how long they take me to acquire compared with diamonds). I can't think of anything else valuable, but if there's anything else you'd like ask.

So, current best bid is still 63 diamonds = 12600 (unless Klaz's 50 diamond bid stands), plus 30 at the lowest price from Xalxe.

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I may be able to make some of window B, but quite likely I won't be on at all .

[Fishythefish]

6 wither skulls and 2 diamonds. (12400)

If you'd prefer not, the 50 diamond bid will stand.

Having tried to hunt wither skulls, their points value was badly underrated, and I'm not going to be hunting any more soon. So 50 diamonds = 10000 points is our lowest bid.

[Fishythefish]

Yep, with 24 hours elapsed the lapis is bought from Klazam for 50 diamonds. Xalxe's lapis is bought for 0.3*50 = 15 diamonds.

Thanks all. I hope to be buying much more at some future date, so do mine any lapis you see lying around.

[Fishythefish]

I STILL HAVE SEVEN FREE FOR YOU

WHERE DO YOU WANT THEM?

Oh, I thought that was a joke . Anywhere you like - an easy place is my skytown house, which is the wooden one very near the skytown warp.

[Fishythefish]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! While making an arrow farm, I lagged and broke my skelly spawner.

[Fishythefish]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! While making an arrow farm, I lagged and broke my skelly spawner.

Well, you have 2.

It seems now that 2 is actually better than 1.

Yes, when you're as incompetent as me . Set up a farm in the other, with optional XP as well as arrows. Thanks again for finding them!

[Fishythefish]

Firstly, I'll just say that the Op abuse that's made it into the thread doesn't upset me. People with powers are always going to be tempted to use them, and this doesn't look a particularly bad example of that.

I actually think Maru's fifth point is by far the most important. Up to this point, boundaries have simply not been a thing. Hell, until a few weeks ago nobody even cared about Ops flying regardless of whether we had a reason or not. I am completely happy to abide by whatever restrictions the community thinks are necessary; the problem is that such restrictions have never existed.

When Claus made myself and Xalxe Ops, I believe he used the words "cool op powers to use at your discretion". And, no offence Claus, but I think that's played a significant part in this issue.

Without going into detail (at least now), what I feel about this is that if I find something a challenge/time-consuming/dangerous activity, I want the ops to as well. So, I don't want people to be:
a) Getting or enchanting anything unnaturally
b) Teleporting as a means of travel
c) Flying for travel or construction
d) Making any activity safer or quicker
e) Using creative mode for building or breaking
Where all of these have exceptions for ops doing whatever it is that ops have to do. And also, to some extent, for frivolous, passing fun (for which I will make no attempt to offer a decent definition). If Xalxe and izak want to have a flying fight, that doesn't affect me and I really don't mind.

[Fishythefish]

(I also agree with Rhinox that more vanilla transport was more fun, but don't feel as strongly as he does)

[Fishythefish]

It's not. The 3 pre-/in's I anticipated were you, Xalxe, and Klazam, if you want them.
Anybody else? WOTC is accepted and shit, Special Mechanic will be explained if desired.

I won't pre-/in now, but I'd love to know when it's near the top - if it's at a time I think I can fit a game of mafia into my life I'd be very keen to play.

[Fishythefish]

A map reset?! But we have lots of shiny things! If we want new chunks for biomes/new blocks/whatever, shouldn't we just delete anything nobody wants to keep?

[Fishythefish]

Slightly late to the party, but I've thought about map regeneration. For me, pros:
1) Whatever biomey changes happen before we regenerate are in our map.
2) We would build a new awesome community town/city/something else. Spawntown for me feels like it wasn't built by the playerbase we have now, and also like it's rather deserted.
3) The bit of the game where you don't have everything set up for you is really fun. I haven't tried to achieve this by going off as a hermit - I don't think I have the willpower not to teleport back - but anyway it would definitely be more fun if everyone else was doing it.
Con:
1) We have built lots of shiny things. On a personal level, my jungle temple is the best thing I have ever built or will ever build in survival (and probably also in creative).

In my perfect world, at some point (probably after some sensible update) we'd mostly reset the map. Anything anyone feels is special enough to them that they'd not be happy playing on the server without it we would keep, within reason. Then we regenerate everything else, and have a mostly-empty map with the occasional monument from ancient times. If necessary, we move spawn so it's not too near anything from the old world. From the point of view of the community, the map would feel fresh, but without needing to destroy buildings people don't want destroyed.

Whether that would work would depend entirely on how much people feel they would need kept to be happy in the new world. For me personally, out of my 8 or so major building projects that would only be the jungle temple, and I wouldn't mind if it was far away from the new centre of activity and everything personal in it vanished.

[Fishythefish]

So... I can't be bothered to read the whole thread since I've been gone - is there a new vanilla server and/or renewed action on the old one? If so I might have to have a minecraft binge when I get some spare time...

[Fishythefish]

...and you'd need to rewhitelisted and I'm telling you now so you don't come whining about it later

MC username plz, Fishy - I know yours isn't your MS UN or else I wouldn't ask

te227. Not sure when I'll be back, but probably within a month.

[Fishythefish]

Quite right too. And cheers.

[Fishythefish]

Playing a bit on the vanilla server... currently in the "trying not to starve to death" phase. Where do most people build things?

[Fishythefish]

Cool, found that lot but was just wondering if there were more far-flung things I didn't know about. I actually quite like the semi-difficult beginning bit of a game, so I won't be using any of the town facilities for a while .

[Fishythefish]

Cheers. I'll probably come and build a first house in/near town when I've gathered some resources from the hole I'm living in at the moment.

[Fishythefish]

Also, you should know that it is mandatory for you to quest for a horse once you are settled. First, you must acquire a saddle.

Haven't found a saddle, but a zombie dungeon did yield golden horse armour. No idea what that is, I haven't played in months. I'd forgotten how fragile I am without my armour, though... got killed by a mere three zombies and a skellie

[Fishythefish]

Lucky me then - I'd travelled a total of about 50 blocks underground when I found one. If I find any more you can have it .

[Fishythefish]

For vanilla people: we now have an arrow/bones farm. Go down the water shaft at -273, 195 (in water very near spawntown). At some point I'll make the farm itself more beautiful, and add a proper entrance.

[Fishythefish]

Thanks! At some point I might get around to trying out FTB. BTW, does vanilla still have dynmap or is that gone?

[Fishythefish]

:/

Who started building a giant house in the water in the Vanilla server to the west of my house/North of the lighthouse?

I know I haven't been active on the server over the past month, but the beauty of that bay was that it didn't have anything in it, now there is the beginning of a construction that is blocky and right in the middle of the water landscape, and has a Nether portal that breaks the previous Nether path between me and Klaz...

Pretty sure that is fishy's base that he started working on.

Regarding the nether portal, I guess you didn't manually place your nether portal at x/8, y, z/8 when you originally built it? thats the only way to ensure a link and to keep it no matter who builds nether portals nearby. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Nethe ... and_Nether

Engh.

Yeah, I don't much like that base. Obviously it's not up to me and there isn't any such thing as laying claim to a piece of land, but I wish that whoever it is had asked first. I picked that spot specifically because I loved the view--now my "sea view" is that build instead. Thinking of relocating my whole house elsewhere, but argh.

Klaz fixed my portal when I built it, iirc. I'm not in the area to check it right now, and would have to go to Klaz's place through the overworld to see where his portal leads to now.

Yep, it is mine - wasn't going to be so blocky all the way up (and I thought I hadn't broken the nether... the portals I could find didn't change where they went). Sorry, didn't realise I'd be treading on any toes. I'm probably not going to finish it now - it was pretty ambitious, and I pretty much gave up because noone was ever on the server. I'll destroy it some time.

[Fishythefish]

I made my way back to Spawntown by myself and saw...a massive cube of Spruce Wood Planks.

And it's. Um. Quite ugly. (Sorry Fishy...)

If you plan on not playing anymore could I ask you to or receive permission to tear it down? I apologize for the harshness but I agree with Tierce on its presence being quite the eyesore... If you'd been around to finish it up (whatever it was going to be) or if you had other ideas for how to lessen the stark-ness of it (and not in a Winterfell way), I apologize, but otherwise...I kinda feel like something should be done about it.

Wait what? I tore it down a week ago. It was quite fun, since you can burn most of it. If it's somehow still there, feel free to tear it down again, and if not I'll do it myself some time this weekend probably. Please relocate anything valuable-ish in the chests somewhere sensible.

I probably will play again, but I'll start with a much less ambitious house. And then maybe I'll try to recreate that one, I was pretty happy with my rough design (though I totally agree the state I left it in was ugly as fuck).

[Fishythefish]

Public service announcement: we have a skellie farm for arrows/bones. It's just in the water at the north-west corner of spawntown.

[Fishythefish]

/inned for minecraft mafia. Haven't played a game in a while, time to dabble with coming out of retirement.

This.

[Fishythefish]

Spent a good half hour in the legacy server, going round spawntown (great town!) and taking the railway out to my jungle temple. Made me kinda sad - I'll probably never have the time or energy to build anything like that ever again. That build made me feel like I'd "finished" minecraft.

Does anyone know how to get to skytown without the nether?

[Fishythefish]

Can't log in to vanilla (or legacy) - the error I'm getting is "Failed to login: Bad login". Possibly I'm not whitelisted? But I was yesterday.

[Fishythefish]

I'm now back in the world of having a computer that can cope with minecraft, so hopping on the vanilla server now and hopefully a fair bit from now on.

EDIT: do I need to be re-whitelisted or something? I just get "Connection Lost - End of Stream" when I try to connect.

[Fishythefish]

I'm now back in the world of having a computer that can cope with minecraft, so hopping on the vanilla server now and hopefully a fair bit from now on.

EDIT: do I need to be re-whitelisted or something? I just get "Connection Lost - End of Stream" when I try to connect.

Hooray, I can connect now!

I'm slightly nervous from recent pages about building something cool and then having the server disappear from under me. If we do discontinue because of lack of interest, presumably whoever's running this show will pull out the world file and could send it around?

Speaking of which, does anyone know if the world file from the last vanilla server I played lots on is kicking around? It would be nice to do a trip round going "oooh, I had a lot of time on my hands in those days".

[Fishythefish]

Cheers Klaz.

Hooray, Minecraft. Sweet town you spawn in on the vanilla server. I'm going to be exploring/building a rudimentary shelter/planning my first real project (something underwater? never done much underwater) this weekend.

[Fishythefish]

Also any thoughts from peeps on the current state of the Vanilla Server? She's quite inactive nowadays, as usual...I wonder when 1.8 is coming out...

"Gamemeister08"
"jonahhavenjared"
MME
UT
Fishy
Osota

That's who's logged in since the beginning of April. Osota's the only one who's been on in May so far...mass pilgrimage anybody?

I'm planning to play a fair bit this weekend on vanilla - and probably ongoingly in a sporadic sort of way if the server hangs around. I might convert to modded, but it seems a lot of effort to learn a new game - it would only be because that's where other people play .

[Fishythefish]

I started playing on vanilla. Found a sweet canyon, so I'm building a canyon home.

There are some nice builds near spawn - is there anywhere else in particular that people have built cool things for me to visit?

[Fishythefish]

Nice! Hoping to see you over the weekend. Boats are indeed cool... I'm now on the boat network (a little jetty on the lake south of spawn has a path leading to my canyon).

[Fishythefish]

I'm now nicely set up in my canyon:


Anyone know if we have a skellie spawner on vanilla? I'm happy to set up an arrow/xp farm on one, but can't find one anywhere.

[Fishythefish]

Cool - if you are happy for me to grinderise the one near you (and therefore me I think... going by the nether, we're close), could you check the coords or show me some time? I may get infinity bows and farm blazes one day, but I could use the bones as well and rather liked making the farm

[Fishythefish]

Thanks guys, I'm equally happy to modify an existing farm, build access to one or build a new one

I'm on most UK evenings if you have time to hop on and show me. I'm also planning to have a bit of a binge this coming weekend (maybe build something shiny; I'm just getting to the "I have everything I really need" stage). Would be great to see some of you around!

[Fishythefish]

Anything from 19:00-23:00 GMT (this post was made just before 20:00). Tonight, I'll be on in maybe half an hour, on and off for a couple of hours.

[Fishythefish]

I struck out in a random direction in the nether, and bumbled straight into the fortress with the blaze grinder. Very nice blaze grinder!

I'll be on and off all today and tomorrow (GMT)

[Fishythefish]

I found an undersea fortress thingy! My first one. Wow, they're a pain to explore. OTOH, sponges are cool.

[Fishythefish]

I'm doing it with sponges and milk to counteract the anti-mining; haven't got to potions in this world yet.

I found it while filling a full-scale map, right in the furthest corner. It's around (1800,1800); there's a (very rudimentary) nether route.

[Fishythefish]

I found an undersea fortress thingy! My first one. Wow, they're a pain to explore. OTOH, sponges are cool.

Hollowed it out Not sure what to do with it now, out of building some kind of grinder/gutting the innards for shinies/building something cool

[Fishythefish]

I found an undersea fortress thingy! My first one. Wow, they're a pain to explore. OTOH, sponges are cool.

Hollowed it out Not sure what to do with it now, out of building some kind of grinder/gutting the innards for shinies/building something cool

In the end, I went for a bit of each. I've built a base in some of the bottom floor of the monument (this thing is huge!) and built an OK guardian grinder - but certainly don't want to ruin the whole area making an efficient one. Visitors welcome - though I'm not done with this place yet

[Fishythefish]

Oh, I should really give directions... my spawntown nether portal is near Rhinox's, follow the fish. Right by my portal is a nether railway.

Also, if anyone plays vanilla again and fancies building a base in the other half of the monument - you're very welcome.

[Fishythefish]

Over in Vanilla, I've finished exploring the area in the positive directions from spawn. The highlight is the ocean monument I've now converted into a base:


Another highlight was this cute flower biome which I've not seen before. I might have to build a house there.


One thing I didn't find was a mushroom biome. Anyone know of one?

[Fishythefish]

Can't connect to the new server... is that expected?

[Fishythefish]

While the new vanilla server is down, hop on the old one! I decided to do the whole end thing - I got very close to the stronghold, but lost my last pearl. Help appreciated.

[Fishythefish]

On the main vanilla - I had a go at finding a fortress. I got to a point where I lost an ender eye because is went straight down in the middle of an ocean, but never found it. Might resume the quest some time

[Fishythefish]

Ah, ok. I'd be up for slaying a dragon some time. Maybe this weekend if it's still alive and anyone else is interested?

[Fishythefish]

Is there a vanilla server these days?