Gaming Hielor's Minecraft Server

[Pablo49]

Wait, you've collected enough ender pearls and Blaze powder to open the End allready!?! We should all gather together and take the ender dragon on in one big climactic battle.

It's not hard to get the materials. I've been stocked up to go for awhile, too. (4 stacks of blaze rods. )

But anyways, I have a couple double chests full of various potions, setup a proper enchantment table, and you can get easy exp from the blaze grinder. So we are all set for heading off to the end once it's working. Preferably get as many of us as we can to go, set up beds and chests there and such.

 

[Izack]

Sandstone can look good when used with other building items. Looks especially nice with a frame made of logs.

I have no idea if this is still a problem, but it 1.5 and earlier there were "funny trees". Sometimes there was a piece of wood somewhere up the tree that was not straight up the trunk, but kind of hidden in the leaves one or two blocks off. Easy to miss (sometimes even impossible to see). I don't know if this is still an issue.

Oak trees above a certain height have branches, if that's what you mean. As long as there is still wood in the tree somewhere, it won't disappear. Only unsupported (greater than 4 degrees of separation through a chain of other leaf blocks IIRC) leaf blocks decay.

 

[Hielor]

IN OTHER NEWS
I have located the stronghold and activated the End Portal. Unfortunately, the portal took me to the Nether instead. Theoretically the newest build of Multiverse fixes this, and I'll be updating the plugins tomorrow morning when the server pop is low. Just be warned that if you take the End Portal you'll not end up where you expect.

Followup to this.

If you take the end portal, you'll go to the End, but you'll be stuck there and doomed to live out the rest of your days on a small floating island of obsidian.

For some reason, our End only has one island, and it's in the middle of the map (the dynamic map shows this). Given that the stronghold is *not* in the middle of the map...well, you see the problem.

I don't see anything on the internet that would suggest what's causing this problem--anyone have any ideas?

 

[Izack]

Other than the 1/1e9 chance that our End just sucks, no. :shrug:

 

[Hielor]

Followup to this.

If you take the end portal, you'll go to the End, but you'll be stuck there and doomed to live out the rest of your days on a small floating island of obsidian.

For some reason, our End only has one island, and it's in the middle of the map (the dynamic map shows this). Given that the stronghold is *not* in the middle of the map...well, you see the problem.

I don't see anything on the internet that would suggest what's causing this problem--anyone have any ideas?

I've sort-of fixed this by changing the world scaling. If you go through the End portal, you get to the island in the end and the dragon can eat you.

It's not perfect since it still didn't make the obsidian platform or clear out any blocks, but close enough.

 

[Izack]

If you go through the End portal, you get to the island in the end and the dragon can eat you.

Oh, joy. Any plans yet to remove that thing?

(And too bad there's nothing really useful in the End except the inhabitants. Endstone is ugly and obsidian is easy enough to get in our dimension.)

 

[RisingFury]

I have no idea if this is still a problem, but it 1.5 and earlier there were "funny trees".

You want funny trees?

On a more serious note, if you complain about hidden wood inside trees, why are you playing Minecraft at all? It's so full of actual bugs I can't even count them all. The behavior of tree generation you described is indeed a feature. The off center logs represent branches. Leaves around logs do not disappear and it's easy to find them if you break a few leaves, or set the tree on fire.

 

[Hielor]

Oh, joy. Any plans yet to remove that thing?

(And too bad there's nothing really useful in the End except the inhabitants. Endstone is ugly and obsidian is easy enough to get in our dimension.)

Given that the dragon is the "final boss" which you kill to Win The Game, you can remove him yourself by killing him

On that note, I actually kind of don't like how there's only one ender dragon ever and once you kill him that's it. Seems okay for single-player, but for an SMP server notsomuch.

Which gives me an idea--maybe I can just have The End repopulate/get recreated every week or so?

 

[blane]

On a more serious note, if you complain about hidden wood inside trees, why are you playing Minecraft at all?

I wasn't complaining at all. I was just saying that sometimes you can miss a block of wood and thus the treetop will remain.

 

[jangofett287]

Which gives me an idea--maybe I can just have The End repopulate/get recreated every week or so?

Seems ok to me, if you can get it to work correctly. Just one question: How many spaces will be needed in the commune's Enderdragon Egg trophy cabinet? :lol:

 

[Pablo49]

Which gives me an idea--maybe I can just have The End repopulate/get recreated every week or so?

That sounds like the way to do it.

 

[RisingFury]

On that note, I actually kind of don't like how there's only one ender dragon ever and once you kill him that's it. Seems okay for single-player, but for an SMP server notsomuch.

Maybe the egg it drops when killed will be able to spawn a new dragon in a future release. I sure hope so. Lots of experience from that dragon...

 

[Chub777]

Seems ok to me, if you can get it to work correctly. Just one question: How many spaces will be needed in the commune's Enderdragon Egg trophy cabinet? :lol:

I believe that there's a mod out there that's similar to a trophy cabinet.

EDIT: Yup. Go here and scroll down to Shelf Mod.

Lots of experience from that dragon...

200,000 XP to be exact. That's the equivalent of killing 20,000 blaze or 40,000 creepers. Is the XP shared or does it go to the person to deals the final blow?

 

[Pablo49]

200,000 XP to be exact. That's the equivalent of killing 20,000 blaze or 40,000 creepers. Is the XP shared or does it go to the person to deals the final blow?

Exp orbs are just drops. Anyone can pick them up. Though, you lose your exp when you leave, so we'll need to bring an enchantment table and bookcases with us.

 

[Chaser]

I took some pictures around the server tonight. The glorious result (view the full image!):

The town of Winterhold.

In-progress Spleef Arena. Or maybe hard-mode Spleef Arena.

View of the bay/harbor from the world portal.

Pablo's Tower and assorted things.

The Great Snow Golem protects our fair town.

The Hideous Staircase of Anguish (tm)

 

[tl8]

Damn, the harbour is shaping up nicely. Nice work!

 

[blane]

As promised, fixed the sky walk so it looks somewhat appropriate:

 

[Chub777]

The Hideous Staircase of Anguish (tm)

It looked better before I stripped it of it's extra layer.

EDIT: If you look closely at the above picture...

*dun dun dun*

 

[Pablo49]

It looked better before I stripped it of it's extra layer.

Even worse, actually. :thumbup:

 

[Hielor]

I believe that there's a mod out there that's similar to a trophy cabinet.

EDIT: Yup. Go here and scroll down to Shelf Mod.

Well, I'd prefer to keep the server as "no client mods required"--simpler that way.