Minecraft - £8 Very well spent

Minecraft - £8 Very well spent

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All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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If 1.8 is out before teatime tonight I'll try to get the server upgraded to it before I leave for work, but it largely depends on whether the host has uploaded it to the 'game updates' section by that time. If he hasn't then you'll have to play single player until tomorrow morning.

WildCards

4,061 posts

216 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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1.8!

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Can't do owt Steve. As suspected, no 1.8 game server on the portal yet. I've sent a ticket but won't be able to do anything til the morning as I'm away to work shortly. I've also just realised that the "1.8" tunnel we've done is going to put us in the middle of a huge snow area frown and the new portal may link up with one of the existing ones. It might be best to extend the tunnel to reach 6k overworld rather than 5k to ensure we get the new terrain gen.

WildCards

4,061 posts

216 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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All that jazz said:
Can't do owt Steve. As suspected, no 1.8 game server on the portal yet. I've sent a ticket but won't be able to do anything til the morning as I'm away to work shortly. I've also just realised that the "1.8" tunnel we've done is going to put us in the middle of a huge snow area frown and the new portal may link up with one of the existing ones. It might be best to extend the tunnel to reach 6k overworld rather than 5k to ensure we get the new terrain gen.
So we need to make it at least another 125 blocks longer right?

WildCards

4,061 posts

216 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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I've started 8 new worlds trying to get landed somewhere decent and this seed will put you on an island with an Ocean Temple just off the coast.

Seed: -2408209062446072932


All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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WildCards said:
All that jazz said:
Can't do owt Steve. As suspected, no 1.8 game server on the portal yet. I've sent a ticket but won't be able to do anything til the morning as I'm away to work shortly. I've also just realised that the "1.8" tunnel we've done is going to put us in the middle of a huge snow area frown and the new portal may link up with one of the existing ones. It might be best to extend the tunnel to reach 6k overworld rather than 5k to ensure we get the new terrain gen.
So we need to make it at least another 125 blocks longer right?
1.8 server online. spin

I've dug a tunnel from -600 to -750 in nether and set up a portal but it needs floor and track extending if you or Tom (or anyone else) fancies it. I've set up a reciprocate portal on the other side and it is in a snow biome (with ice spikes nearby) as expected. It is new terrain gen too, there's diorite, andesite and granite everywhere - it's about as common as gravel and dirt in caves, probably even more so. The polished andesite looks really nice and quite liking the polished granite too but not keen on the polished diorite but it does blend well with the snow. I've knocked up a small safe house for the portal with the new blocks collected so you can see them together.

For those wanting to visit the new terrain gen for all the stuff added in 1.8 you'll need to go minimum 5000 blocks from 0,0. Me, Steve and Tom dug a nether tunnel with a rail track for easy access between current builds and new terrain gen. You can access it by going into nether via main spawn portal then following the sandstone round where the pictures are and up the minecart elevator - remember to take a minecart with you. When you get to a gap around Y120, jump out of minecart (hold forwards key and press left shift at same time). You'll see tunnel and rail track. Follow that to the end and there's a portal there at -750 0 which takes you to new terrain.

Too knackered to play today and working tonight frown . I wonder who will be first to find the new ocean fortresses?!

Oh, and is anyone else's crosshair fked up with 3 rainbow coloured lines or just mine? confusedirked

Edited by All that jazz on Wednesday 3rd September 08:27

WildCards

4,061 posts

216 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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All that jazz said:
Oh, and is anyone else's crosshair fked up with 3 rainbow coloured lines or just mine? confusedirked
Only in F3. It looks like it's showing the corner of the chunk to me. ?.

WildCards

4,061 posts

216 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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There is a water fortress to the north in the new chunks following Rob's instructions above. I've completely gutted it today, however, there is another which remains untouched just a little further north of that. They're fairly huge structures, take plenty of ladders and torches with you.

Petrolhead95

7,043 posts

153 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Out of interest, will anyone be getting this on the Xbox One? Out this Friday.

http://news.xbox.com/2014/09/games-minecraft-launc...

Devilstreak

8,088 posts

180 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Petrolhead95 said:
Out of interest, will anyone be getting this on the Xbox One? Out this Friday.

http://news.xbox.com/2014/09/games-minecraft-launc...
Just noticed it has gone live on Ps4, think I'll get it later. Must have been a year or so since I last played on PC.

Devilstreak

8,088 posts

180 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Shinobi said:
I'll be picking this up on PS4 aswell. Anyone up for a game pop your tag up and I'll add you.
I got it this afternoon, name is same as on here thumbup

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Is anyone else getting noticeable lag on the PC server? I've raised the issue with the host as there was a spell yesterday night when it was generating "can't keep up!" errors in the server log for about 30 mins between 2115-2145 too, but I'm getting about 1 second lag in the 1.8 terrain now as well (nothing in server log this time). grumpy

Edit: Just rebooted server and is okay now. Also, one nice change I've noticed is that packed ice can now be mined at the same speed as ice blocks with silk touch pick. Packed ice used to take forever to mine but now you can rip through a full stack of it in seconds. spin

Edited by All that jazz on Thursday 4th September 19:44

paolow

3,208 posts

257 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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All that jazz said:
Is anyone else getting noticeable lag on the PC server? I've raised the issue with the host as there was a spell yesterday night when it was generating "can't keep up!" errors in the server log for about 30 mins between 2115-2145 too, but I'm getting about 1 second lag in the 1.8 terrain now as well (nothing in server log this time). grumpy
Just updated to 1.8 - lets see what gives.......

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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1.8 additions/changes

Wiki said:
Improvements to mobs' behavior and AI :

Most mobs can now swim; notably, Slimes
Most mobs can now pathfind as zombies have; notably, angry Zombie Pigmen
Skeletons flee from wolves
Spiders no longer see players through solid blocks
Iron Golems attack Creepers
Babies' growth can be accelerated by feeding them
Most mobs will flee from a Creeper about to explode
Creepers, Skeletons, Wither Skeletons and Zombies drop their heads when killed by charged Creepers
Don't know if that one will affect your slime farm, Tom?

Edited by All that jazz on Thursday 4th September 20:09

callmedave

2,686 posts

144 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Yeah, the farm works by drowning the slimes.

I think I can re work it to crush the slimes with a piston facing downwards, but I will have to experiment.

Another solution is lava, but this kills a lot instead of reducing them.

Floor Tom

406 posts

184 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Tried to play on the previous server but the lag was too much. Can I have another go on the new one please? Username GTB_Tom

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Floor Tom said:
Tried to play on the previous server but the lag was too much. Can I have another go on the new one please? Username GTB_Tom
Unless you've moved from the other side of the world you will have the exact same problem.

VeeDubBigBird

440 posts

128 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Most mobs can now path-find as zombies.
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This explains how a fecking creeper managed to work its way around my fecking roof yesterday and drop on my head.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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VeeDubBigBird said:
Most mobs can now path-find as zombies.
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This explains how a fecking creeper managed to work its way around my fecking roof yesterday and drop on my head.
Normal mobs have been able to do that for a long time, but the ZPM can now do it too, instead of YOLOing off the edges of netherack cliffs trying to get you.

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Ocean monument finder for our world : http://chunkbase.com/apps/ocean-monument-finder#-8...

There probably won't be any monument within 5k of 0,0 but the guardians will be spawning. I have this at my island base, loads of guardians but no monument. I loaded the world in a 1.8 single player game and the monument was there so it must be because our server world was started in 1.6 and the monuments don't generate in already explored chunks. Handy as I can make a guardian mob trap for shards right next to my base. smile

Floor Tom

406 posts

184 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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All that jazz said:
Unless you've moved from the other side of the world you will have the exact same problem.
Na, I haven't frown