Minecraft - £8 Very well spent

Minecraft - £8 Very well spent

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Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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....and that'll be my laptop over heating again

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Merp said:
....and that'll be my laptop over heating again
Wondered what had happened hehe.

Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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All that jazz said:
Wondered what had happened hehe.
It generally lasts about an hour before it shuts down.
I'm pretty sure minecraft alone shouldn't use 4GB of RAM.
Any tips on my video settings?

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Merp said:
It generally lasts about an hour before it shuts down.
I'm pretty sure minecraft alone shouldn't use 4GB of RAM.
Any tips on my video settings?
No. I'd suggest opening it up and give it a good vacuuming or blast with a can of compressed air. Also elevating the base off the table using one of those laptop stands from the pound shop helps keep the temp down a bit. The RAM is much less likely to be an issue than your GPU I'd say. My Lenovo T500 4GB 2.53 used to play MC just fine in earlier versions but now it's about 10 FPS on the small game window in 1.8 which is completely unplayable, but it's got an on board GPU which is the problem. 4GB RAM with a separate GPU of reasonable quality will work just fine.

Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Sounds like an insular story here then. Fine before the update.
I will have to dig out my laptop stand, it's had a good cleaning, but still no issue.

I will drop the fps down to 30. I'm currently max 50fps on small window.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 2nd February 2015
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I've made a fast AFK squid farm in place of the old lake one in the desert behind spawn (bit further on from Wildcards' maze). Got the basic design from docm's recent video but made a few modifications. Ink sacs are needed to make grey and black dye for glass, hardened clay and wool so rather useful for aesthetic stuff.

In the space of 30 mins the farm produced enough ink sacs to fill up a double chest so it's pretty fast. Still got to polish it and do storage room but it's functional.






Robb F

4,562 posts

170 months

Monday 2nd February 2015
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Any chance of getting the server IP allthatjazz? Would quite like a look around, see what's going on smile

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 2nd February 2015
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Robb F said:
Any chance of getting the server IP allthatjazz? Would quite like a look around, see what's going on smile
You already have it as you've been on but apparently have no interest in building anything.. Stuff is all over the place and most of it isn't signed yet.

Jetblackonetenth

690 posts

208 months

Monday 2nd February 2015
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All that jazz said:
I've made a fast AFK squid farm in place of the old lake one in the desert behind spawn (bit further on from Wildcards' maze). Got the basic design from docm's recent video but made a few modifications. Ink sacs are needed to make grey and black dye for glass, hardened clay and wool so rather useful for aesthetic stuff.

In the space of 30 mins the farm produced enough ink sacs to fill up a double chest so it's pretty fast. Still got to polish it and do storage room but it's functional.
Looks really good, will have to come and have a look around

Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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I might be playing alot more MC over the next 4-6weeks.
I had knee surgery on Wednesday after a ski accident a week before....so now im at home with my legs up!
Nightmare!
Working from home for 6 weeks though. Just depressing sitting here looking out of my window at the clear blue sky, and ALOT of snow on those mountains. Fck

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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Merp said:
I might be playing alot more MC over the next 4-6weeks.
I had knee surgery on Wednesday after a ski accident a week before....so now im at home with my legs up!
Nightmare!
Working from home for 6 weeks though. Just depressing sitting here looking out of my window at the clear blue sky, and ALOT of snow on those mountains. Fck
You replaced that ZX81 you're using yet?

Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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All that jazz said:
Merp said:
I might be playing alot more MC over the next 4-6weeks.
I had knee surgery on Wednesday after a ski accident a week before....so now im at home with my legs up!
Nightmare!
Working from home for 6 weeks though. Just depressing sitting here looking out of my window at the clear blue sky, and ALOT of snow on those mountains. Fck
You replaced that ZX81 you're using yet?
paperbag

I did have to google what that was..

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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I've finally had enough of the stupid hopper minecarts stopping at my mob farm drop floor and ripped the whole lot out in anger mad. I thought at first it was because there wasn't enough powered rail so made about 5000 gold rails and replaced it all which took forever, but then the stupid minecarts didn't stop over the hoppers to deposit the stuff, they just bounced off the wall and went back round again, so I removed some of the gold rail to bring their speed down a bit but now they've getting stuck again. WTF! Stupid fking game! furious

I've now made an old skool flowing water 'tray' under the spawn platforms which funnels them into a 3x2 chute and they die from fall damage. I've also put in a sign supported lava pool in the chute so those that spawn with feather falling boots also get killed. The good thing is that this setup doesn't need any hopper minecarts and I can use normal hoppers with droppers on a redstone clock ejecting into a packed ice water stream which transports the items to my storage. I was expecting the spawn speed to reduce by a lot as they have bob across the water tray which takes time and prevents new mobs from spawning til they die but it's actually still ridiculously fast. thumbup

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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Literally missed you by a minute yesterday Luke and I'd been on all day!

[17:50:46] [Server thread/INFO]: SoCalledPro left the game
[17:51:49] [User Authenticator #3/INFO]: UUID of player LPSN is 5070bc37-abf6-4bc3-aa91-b2a776edd689
[17:51:49] [Server thread/INFO]: LPSN[/XX:65228] logged in with entity id 3774322 at (-518.6587921528168, 91.0, -1420.0766267830065)

By the way, you do know that you're playing Minecraft and not Super Mario, yes?

Merp

2,220 posts

251 months

Thursday 12th February 2015
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I logged out of my work laptop at 17:50!!

I will more than likely be on today. There is only so much trash TV to watch whilst at home.
I did manage to walk down the hill to the Bank yesterday though, I was overtaken by a couple of OAPs which was a low point.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 17th February 2015
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@ Terry, I managed to get 9 skulls in the end spin. But I died about 10 times as one of the baby ZPM picked up my sword and kepy killing me with it. smash I've added some chests in the redstone cubbyhole but needs some slabs to make it spawn proof in there. The ZPM are quite slow to move so it's fairly easy to avoid the hoards but you really need fire resist and strength potions at the minimum if you want to survive.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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Who has helped themselves to 12 stacks of iron from my golem farm? smash

callmedave

2,686 posts

144 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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Whos golem farm???

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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callmedave said:
Whos golem farm???
I said:
my golem farm

Jetblackonetenth

690 posts

208 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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All that jazz said:
Who has helped themselves to 12 stacks of iron from my golem farm? smash
Not me...

I use the one near spawn. It is great because it has been producing Iron whilst we have been working on the shopping center smile